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The Way to Eden	By : Esquirella Category: WWF/WWE > General Views: 3514 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. I do not know the celebrities of WWE/WWF. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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“Surprised to see me?” Rio taunted the other fighter as she slowly paced around the small ring. “You look like you are seeing a ghost.”

Serpentina stared back at her through her eerie contact lenses, but Rio could sense the fear she emitted. It was quite different from the rage she was used to feeling from her opponents back when she fought in the Series, and she almost felt sorry for the poor woman. Almost.

“I think I am,” the snakelike fighter finally replied. “What are YOU doing here?”

“You said you wanted to avenge your sister by fighting Sin’s sister,” Rio replied through her trademark golden grin. “I am sensing disappointment, though. Were you hoping for someone else?”

“I’m jus-s-s-st s-s-s-surpris-s-s-sed at who her s-s-s-sister is-s-s-s,” Serpentina growled trying to recover her cool demeanor . . . and failing. “Sh-sh-she fights-s-s-s-s nothing like you.”

“No kidding,” the silver fighter said dryly. “We have not yet trained her.”

“You haven’t WHAT?”

“She fights very well for one I have not worked with yet, hmm?”

“S-s-s-someone trained her.”

“Yes, but he was sloppy,” Rio shrugged. “Our fathers will correct this, though.”

“Fathers-s-s-s-s?”

“The surprises never cease, do they?” Rio shot back.

“H-how many of you are there?”

“Of me?” Rio was amused and stopped pacing. “Just one. Imagine how exhausted my husband would be if there were more!”

“I meant, how many FAMILY members are out there?”

“Why, Serpentina, you have dropped your hiss,” Rio grinned.

The snakelike fighter scowled in consternation at losing her focus.

“Besides me and Sin? Out there are our two fathers, our brother and all of our extended family.”

“Extended family?”

“Jeff, as you know, is with my sister. Then there is his brother Matt, my husband and my brother’s new . . . um, let us call her a friend for now. I will keep you posted on any developments there, if you wish.”

Serpentina jerked back as if Rio had slapped her. This wasn’t at all how she pictured the small silver fighter.

“You’re a s-s-s-s-strange woman.”

“Ah, back to the hissing,” Rio sighed beginning to pace again. “And here I was hoping we had made some progress.”

“Progress-s-s-s-s-s?” Serpentina spat, suddenly summoning up all of her rage. The crowd around them began cheering and calling for the fight to begin, and she was trying to draw some nerve from them as well. “How can we when your s-s-s-sis-s-s-ster ruined my s-s-s-sis-s-s-ster’s-s-s-s career?”

“Yes, there is that,” Rio mused. “I see you are drawing upon your rage and the crowd’s energy for the fight. While I admit this is useful for a fighter, it will not help you.”

“Oh, really now?”

Rio stopped pacing again and drew closer to her. “Have you ever seen any of my fights?” she asked curiously.

Serpentina pulled back warily still unsure of what to do. Though she’d heard the rumors of the woman’s talents, she’d only seen her fight once and it wasn’t that big of a deal to her.

“I s-s-s-saw you take on two fighters-s-s-s-s at a wres-s-s-s-stling sh-sh-show in Atlanta onc-s-s-se.”

“I see,” Rio smiled and looked away. “You think the reports are exaggerated and that while I am considered a talented fighter, you still have a chance of taking me down. Am I right?”

Serpentina’s scowl deepened. How did the woman do that?

“I am very perceptive, Serpentina,” Rio grinned maliciously. “There is no part of the war you are waging that I do not know how to excel in and very well.” Her smile turned rueful as she added, “And there has been no opponent too large for me, despite my diminutive size. There has been none too cunning, none too vicious, none too smart that I could not prevail.”

“Really?” the snake shot back coldly. “You almos-s-s-st died onc-s-s-se.”

“I did?” Rio asked benignly. “Perhaps the nick in my thigh was a slight problem.”

“S-s-s-slight?” Serpentina smiled. “Reports-s-s-s had you s-s-s-s-stumbling out of that arena.”

Rio walked up close her, backing her into the corner. The silver fighter smirked then pushed the snake down to a squatting position. The crowd erupted in a roar.

“Do I have to disrobe to show you the absence of a scar?” she asked, her Russian accent getting colder by the minute. “Or am I proof enough? I am quite alive and my opponent was repaid for his stupidity. Faking my death was easy,” she shrugged. “As I said, no opponent has been too cunning. Not even Henry Bender.” She back away some to five the snake some room.

“I hear he got out of jail,” Serpentina replied as she slowly rose to her feet.

“He is back again,” Rio smiled casually. “And this time he will not get out.”

“S-s-s-so sh-sh-sh-sure?”

“My fathers have many connections,” Rio grinned. “I am absolutely positive.”

Serpentina frowned again still not sure she could take Rio in a real fight. There had to be something to the legend for the crowd to be this into her. But her pride hung in the balance here. She would never get another chance like this, and she’d get a lot more offers if she fought Rio Angele.

“Do not be stupid,” Rio warned silkily. “Those two men you saw me fight underestimated me as well.”

“They were wres-s-s-stlers-s-s-s-s, not fighters-s-s-s-s-s!”

“They were from the Warrior Series,” the small woman corrected her. “They had even seen me cripple opponents before. Learn from their mistakes. Do not repeat them.”

“Alina!” a female voice screeched from the back row.

Serpentina looked sharply over to see Marina and Shane watching her. Marina’s eyes shone with fear while Shane sat in morbid fascination.

“Don’t be an idiot!”

“S-s-s-sit DOWN!” she hissed back.

Rio, meanwhile, had crept up behind her and flipped her to the ground then held her there with her body weight pressing on top of the snakelike fighter’s hips.

“It only takes a few seconds to lose a fight, Alina,” the little silver woman hissed in her ear. “Now, are you going to be smart about this, or do we have to do this the hard way.”

“Aaaah!” Serpentina grunted as she tried to pry the smaller woman off her to no avail.

Rio was strong, and though she hadn’t been in action in over a year, she showed no sign of “ring rust” at all. She pressed harder so that the green fighter’s hips touched the mat and the pressure stung like hell.

“I do not wish to hurt you,” Rio whispered. “Let us depart this ring intact, okay.”

Serpentina’s head began to swim with the pain as the official circled the outside of the ring and waited for one of the fighters to give in - well, for Serpentina to anyway.

“Bitch!” Serpentina hissed.

“I will take that as a compliment,” Rio sighed. “Please just let us stop this now.”

“Your sister . . .”

“Didn’t belong here,” Rio became Tara and said in her New England accent. “Neither did yours. And neither do you. Did it feel good to hurt someone innocent who had nothing to do with what happened?”

“What the fuck?” Alina screeched. “How did you know?”

“Shane’s my husband’s friend,” Tara went on. “I know him as well as I know Matt and Jeff. They’re all like brothers to me. Now answer the question. Did it feel good?”

Tara pressed down further to emphasize her point.

“No, damn it!” Alina growled. “But I had no choice!”

“There’s ALWAYS a choice,” Tara grunted back. “You’re at a crossroads and the time to choose is still here. Are you willing to become a monster just to make the world pay for your loss?”

“WHAT?!”

“Don’t play dumb, Alina. I know you better than you can imagine! Are you willing to lose your sister over this? Are you willing to become subhuman in order to make someone pay for losing your parents? Stop pretending this is for what happened to your sister, because we both know it isn’t. You can fool her, you may eventually fool yourself but you’ll never, ever fool me! Is this what you want?”

“Damn it!” Alina squeaked, tears forming in her eyes. “Damn it,” she whispered so low only Tara could hear her.

“I know you, because I was you,” Tara said sadly, easing her weight just a fraction to keep from really hurting Alina but not enough to let her go. “I was you, but I didn’t belong there either.”

“Damn.”

“Now, will you let us help you?” Tara asked hopefully. “Or do I have to break you first?”

Alina let some of the tears fall down her cheeks as she gently pressed her face to the mat. She was suddenly so very tired of the anger, of the rage that had gripped her since her parents died. It wasn’t fair, she wailed to herself. It wasn’t. She looked back up to the back row of the audience and saw Marina silently pleading with her eyes, and shook her head before pulling out one arm and banging it on the mat. Rio immediately got off of her and pulled her up to her feet. The crowd, though obviously hoping for actual bloodshed, rose to its collective feet again and clapped in respect for both of them.

Rio flipped out of the ring then waited for Serpentina to follow her. They waved to the crowd around the arena then walked backstage together.

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“So, you’re back in the ring,” the man muttered to himself.

Cold eyes watched the bout from a discreet area in the back then rested once again on Eden, sitting comfortably next to Jeff Hardy and beside a blonde man. He stared at her coldly, angry that his years of training her had been cast aside so easily.

“You will pay the price of failure, child,” he muttered under his breath. There would be no mercy.
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