Shelby Loses Big

I woke up one morning to a call from my sister. The fight with Maya Fecner the night before was crazy easy and I got so many views. I made a tidy sum of money. Training with Jac for the past couple of years had prepared me to become the youngest champion in CFC history.

"You rocked it last night. It was such a short fight." Tori said

"Yeah, I know," I said with a smile and a yawn. I stretched and said, "What's up buttercup."

"I sent you a link, make sure you watch it, please. I think you need to respond."

I looked at the text and it was a link to an iCarly episode. They mentioned me and then played a clip of me whooping Maya's ass. "Okay, Shelby is one seriously tough chick," Carly said in the video after the clip.

"Oh I don't know Carls I think you can take her," Sam said.

"Ha! Yeah right," Carly said and she turned to the camera and joked. "Hear that Shelby Marx? I can kick your butt. Any time, anywhere. Let's go, Shelby."

"She's just kidding," Sam said and they continued on the show.

I talked to my sister. "That's hilarious," I said.

"But someone re-edited that show and made it look like she actually made the threat," Tori said.

"Ah, Thus I must react?" I said and sighed." Interesting. I could make a little exhibition match with her. Take it really easy on her and have a little fun with her audience." I pondered out loud. "Gotta go train Tori, I'll talk to you later. For Birth week."

I then talked to Juan and Ron later at the gym and they agreed that we should approach the web stars with the Idea. so there we were ringing Carly's doorbell, and the very girl opened up. "Carly, hi," I said matter-of-factly. "I'm Shelby Marks." She looked scared, so I decided to intimidate her a little. It was amusing to me. "I saw your video about me?'

"Oh you did?" she said nervously. "Wow, that's so cool cause… AHHHHHHHHHHH!" she ran all the way up the stairs screaming.

I walked into the apartment and waited for the girl's brother to go fetch her. We stayed in the living room with Sam silently staring off. "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea,'' I said.

"No, no… this is the best Idea ever!" Sam said, calling for the brother to hurry down with Carly. He could not find her.

The other kid, the boy Freddy, made me some raisin bread toast. "What?" I asked.

Sam teased him. "Oh, this is pathetic.."

"Thanks but, raisins kind of creep me out," I said, and he proceeded to bite all over the toast to get rid of the raisins. Then he handed them back to me. "You, also creep me out," I said to him.

Then there was a scream. "Oh, I think Spencer found Carly." He brought her down and she launched into a spaz attack explaining what had happened. "Relax, Shelby's not mad at you," Sam said shutting her best friend up.

"She's not?" she said looking at me hopefully.

"No, I'm not mad at you," I said with a chuckle.

"Oh good, whoo!" she said in relief.

"But I do want to fight you," I said stepping toward her. And she ran again. When we finally got her calmed down, it must have been about half an hour later. She asked me why "Actually it was my manager Rod's Idea."

"Oh," She said, looking at Rod like she could kill him. "Well, thanks a lot Rod."

He explained that we would just be doing an exhibition and not an actual fight.

"See I wouldn't actually be hurting you or anything, think of it as a fun fight," I stated. I introduced Juan to Carly, then Rod launched into his speech about getting me more recognition, and more fame. And having two famous teen girls in the ring and having millions of people paying to watch both Shelby and Carly and giving exposure to both of us at the same time.

"But I won't get hurt right?" Carly asked.

"And I know I can get this booked on primetime.'' All of the iCarly camp was excited about that except for Carly.

"But I won't get hurt right?"

"And the fight will make a bunch of money which we can donate to Charity," I stated and my manager was on board with that.

"Everybody wins," Freddy stated.

"But I won't get hurt… right?" she repeated. "Someone say right!"

"Right," I said along with Rod's assurance that Carly would not get hurt. Sam also explained my form. I got to admit that yes I would pull punches, but she just looked like she wanted to beat the snot out of Freddy. That girl is mean for no reason.

Then It was my turn to demonstrate. I called her over and as she stood in front of me I smiled and said "Ready?"

She said, "No,"

"Yeah, you are," I said and waited for Juan to tell me to go.

"Lista? Vamonos!" he said and I threw a series of kicks and punches that didn't come close to touching her.

"See? Nothing to worry about."

So we convinced her and the promos went out almost immediately. For Saturday. Next was getting the preliminary press junkets done and over with.

Tori: You are fighting Carly from iCarly!

Me: Heard about that, did you?

Tori: It's my favorite web show. Don't hurt her, please!

Me: I won't, Tori, think of it as advanced-stage fighting.

Tori: Did I tell you she framed me?

Me: She who? Jade?

Tori: yup, she faked an injury and I ended up in detention the whole week.

Me: Why didn't you tell?

Tori: Because one day I want in her pants and I can't have that hanging over my head.

Me: You won't be getting in those pants unless you start laying the Mac down Tor.

Tori: You can give me lessons, can't you?

Me: Mac is not a learned thing, girl, you got to be born with it.

Tori: I guess I am doomed to a sexless eternity.

Me: Not if you straighten out. Boys are way easier.

'Shelby, it's time for the Press conference," Grandma Marks said. I had just picked her up from the Hospital the day before, I just kind of hoped she could handle the commotion. I loved when she could come to fights since Mom and Dad couldn't always make it to my away matches.

"Coming!" I said and sent a final text to Tori.

Me: Got a press conference. Talk to you soon.

Tori: Later.

Then I walked toward the ballroom in the Beverly Hotel. Carly and the rest of them are sitting on the left side of the table.

Rod stood up and talked first, and they had Grandma Edith sitting next to me. Then the trash-talking begins and I can't believe it. Does that chick think she can knock me down in the first thirty seconds of the fight? Sure I see that Sam is doing most of the talking and Carly looks hella scared. But I have a rep to maintain.

When Sam talked back to Grandma Marx, I was too through. No one talks to my grandma like that. I am going to whoop Sam's ass. "Okay if Carly's so tough, let's go right now," I said

"Bring it," Sam said, and a scuffle began. Then my Grandma and Carly fell off the stage. I saw red. My grandma was not well. And now she was on the floor with that girl. I leaped off the stage and picked Carly up off the floor and brought her to me with her shirt. "I was going to take it easy on you, but now I'm taking you down hard."

"Hard?" She questions and I walked away, taking my grandmother right back to the hospital. I had to call mom.

"Mommy, Grandma is back in the hospital," I said to her.

"Wait, what?"

" She fell at the press conference and she isn't doing great," I said sitting in the waiting room.

"I'll be there soon baby, hang in there." Mom said.

And stayed with her all night.

The next day I was at the gym conditioning I was going to kill Carly and then they told me the fight was off. I did a Splash Face interview to see if I could get the fight back on so I could kill her the right way. "Yeah, I can't believe that Carly is backing out of the fight." I said, "First she challenges me, then she body slams my grandma and then she chickens out."

"Pretty Lame Huh?" The dude said.

"Yeah, she is disappointing all my fans, all her iCarly fans, oh and the fight was gonna raise a lot of money for a good charity."

"To help animals?'

"Uh-huh," I said "Was gonna help unwanted bunnies find good loving homes.'' I shrugged and tried to get the empathy factor up. "But now because Carly backed out," I said and lifted a picture of a cute bunny to the camera. " This little baby has nowhere to go."

"So sad…"

I know that got her because the fight was on again. She came to me and explained what had happened. So it was okay I will just do what we had planned. Though My gram is still in the hospital.

Then posted a video with some truths to drop. "So what should I do?" Carly asked Sam at the press conference.

"Push her grandmother down" Sam answered her

"I'll do it." Carly agreed, and I knew that little bitch was lying to me. I wasn't going to give her a chance to back out.

I was cheesed and I stared that girl down and was ready to knock her down and that stupid two-faced invitation to get smoothies. I punched her in the face, hard. She called a time-out.

She dodged my punches and my kick and then she grabbed onto my leg. I couldn't do anything. Then the round was over and she ran away.

I found them backstage and her brother smacked my face. So I kicked him.

"What happened tonight? You said you were going to go easy on me," she asked

"You promised it was an accident when you tackled my grandmother. " I countered.

"It was!" she said

Then I told her that Nevil had shown me what she had really been saying at the conference. They said it was fake they explained his history with them and so they devised a plan to get the truth out of him.

And I had a blast kicking his ass.

Me: Make sure you watch iCarly tonight, and see you tomorrow for Birthweek.

Tori: Okay, are you in it?

Me: I am

Tori: I can't wait!

I came out and hugged all three of them. And we did the spit-take with grape juice and a little random dancing. They were my best friends in Seattle especially since Jac moved to New York.

But I really miss home, and after losing to Carly, Pink Bull dropped me. So My money is drying up. Maybe I need a break and just wait til Gran gets better.