Chapter 8:
The crowd booed and hissed at the sound of badly recorded pop music hit the titantron. Blonde and fake, Jillian Hall appeared on stage beside a sneering, raven haired Victoria. The two women ignored the crowd and strutted down to the ring as though they were better than everyone else.
"The following Diva's tag team contest is scheduled for one fall, introducing first, the team of Victoria and Jillian Hall." Lilian Garcia announced the two women's entrance with forced enthusiasm. She didn't like the other two women anymore than the crowd did.
Holla, Holla
The jeering immediately switched to cheers as they recognized the music of the young, pretty blonde ECW Diva. They grew louder when she appeared on stage in her bubblegum pink ensemble.
"Introducing their opponents, first from Jacksonville, Florida, Kelly Kelly!"
So all my girls in the club say hooo
Cause they know just how we do
Side to side, front to back
If you ain't taking that
Holla, Holla
For satisfaction
You really need to get your own things happening
Kelly Kelly exchanged a glare with Victoria as she entered the ring and played to the Monday Night RAW crowd. She still had yet to overcome her dark haired foe, but she refused to just let Victoria bully her. Besides, tonight she had some serious back up.
So many people gonna say that they want you
Try to get you thinking they really care
But there's nothing like the warmth of the one
Who has put in the time and you know he's gonna be there
Back your boarder when she knows someone's crossed
Don't let nobody take you down, who you with
Take the pain from protecting your name
From the crutch to the cane, to the high wire
The crowd exploded as Gavin DeGraw hit the airwaves and a pretty brunette accompanied it. They were six days away from Judgment Day and this Diva's contest was looking better and better.
"And her tag team partner, from Boston, Massachusetts, she is the WWE Women's Champion, Haley Mariano!" Lilian's enthusiasm was genuine as she announced her friend's entrance before leaving the ring.
I'm in love with a girl who knows me better
Fell for the woman just when I met her
Took my sweet time when I was bitter
Someone understand
And she knows how to treat a fella right
Give me that feeling every night
Wants to make love when I wanna fight
Now someone understand me
I'm in love with a girl (I'm in love with)
I'm in love with a girl (I'm in love with)
Haley and Kelly exchanged high fives, before Haley took her place on the apron so that Kelly could begin the match by seeking some revenge on Victoria. Meanwhile, Jillian tried to taunt the Women's Champion from the opposite corner.
"Get her, Kels!" Haley cheered on her partner, as the two legal competitors locked up in the center of the ring.
Victoria's experience allowed her to get the upper hand by power slamming Kelly Kelly into the unforgiving canvas. Feeling cocky, the former two time Women's Champion set herself for a standing moonsault. At the last second, Kelly brought her knees up to counter Victoria's assault.
Kelly ran to the ropes for extra momentum and leapt up into a hurricanrana turned roll up on Victoria, but the black widow kicked out at two.
"That's it Kelly, stay on her." Haley advised, as the two women circled each other. "You can do this."
Victoria once again got the upper hand when they locked up in the center of the ring with a headlock takeover. But this time Kelly was thinking on her feet and used a head scissors to release Victoria's hold. Victoria flipped over in an attempt to pin Kelly's shoulders to the mat, but the blonde Diva bridged upwards, twisted around and brought Victoria over into a backslide.
Again Victoria kicked out at two, but Kelly went for a second Hurricanrana roll up since it had almost been successful the first time. But again, the raven haired woman powered out of it, and deemed it necessary to punish Kelly with a harsh clothesline that took the blonde right off her feet.
Thoroughly exasperated, Victoria stalked over to her corner to tag in her partner. With an exaggerated hair flip, Jillian took her time entering the ring, while Kelly crawled to her own corner.
"Come on Kels, just a few more feet!" Haley urged, her hand outstretched for the tag. She was dying to get in the ring and unleash her own skills.
"I don't think so!" Jillian's nauseating voice replied, as she grabbed the ECW Diva by the ankle to drag her back into the middle of the ring away from Haley.
"Ah!" Kelly struggled to get her ankle free.
With resilency, Kelly managed to plant both boots into Jillian's sternum and show the wannabe singer off of her. She turned and dove into her own corner, her hand making a hasty tag with Haley's.
The crowd roared as the current WWE Women's Champion erupted through the ropes, taking Jillian off her feet in a bench press. She connected a couple of forearm shots to the blonde's skull, before Haley rose and ran to knock Victoria off the apron for trying to distract the referee.
Haley took her place behind a rising Jillian Hall, holding her thumbs up. The crowd cheered at a deafening level once she frowned and threw them downwards. Unfortunately, she wouldn't get the chance to take Jillian all the way out, as they were interrupted by the instrumental theme of William Regal's titantron.
"Thank you, Ladies, that will be all." He informed them before the arena plunged into darkness.
The crowd began to jeer loudly in protest and Haley just barely made out the forms of Jillian and Victoria as they made their escape backstage. She heard Kelly make a sound of disapproval, before the ECW blonde hopped off the apron as well.
Haley; however, was furious. She moved to the edge of the ring and called for Lilian to hand her a microphone, just as the lights went back on.
"I mean it, Ms. Mariano, you're finished for the night." Regal ordered rather gruffly once he realized Haley had remained in the ring.
"I don't think so, Mr. Regal." Haley crossed to lean on the ropes closest to the ramp. "You see, you're preventing me from doing my job and that just plain pisses me off."
"I'm your boss, Haley, you're superior and I say you're done for the night." He cut her off with a note of finalty.
"No." Haley stated back just as firmly. "I came out here to wrestle and you cut off my match. Just like Triple H, I'm not someone you want to go to war with, Mr. Regal. I want my match, and I want it now."
"You're not in the position to make demands, Haley. Would you like to be stripped of that title belt?" Regal sneered.
"No, but the belt means nothing if I can't wrestle for it. I want my match and I'm not going anywhere until I get it." She crossed her arms over her chest.
"Very well." Regal smile turned sadistic. "Then, you'll be given a match right now. A no disqualifications match…against this man!"