Post by lucasbalkan on Nov 30, 2020 14:38:32 GMT -5
“Excuse me buddy, we’re on a date, so if you could just…”
“I’m not your buddy. It doesn’t matter if you’re on a date. Rules are rules. Get out.”
He pushed me as he got up, unsteadily, from his seat in the bar. I rolled my eyes and twisted his arm behind his back as I marched him towards the front door. His potential new romantic conquest trailing behind us and following after him as I tossed him through the door.
“What the hell are you doing man?”
“Just what I have to do.”
He looked flustered, embarrassed in front of this woman that he seemed so keen to impress. She pawed at his arm, checking he was okay, and in a futile attempt to come across like an alpha, he threw a drunken haymaker at me.
He missed but did strike the other security guard. Neither of us missed.
The things people do for love…
"LOVE is a way of feeling
LOVE is a way of feeling less alone
So what's all the fuss about?
FUCK IT
LOVE: the paradox of needing
OH, LOVE"
Well, well, well…
Jack Jones in the main event of Tuesday Night Titans 98. It doesn’t quite seem to fit but maybe I’m being too harsh. You are a former World Champion, after all. In fact, you’ve won all of SFT’s belts in your time. A true champion…
…reduced to a lovesick puppy dog by my colleague, Candace.
I don’t blame you, Jack. We all lust. We all fall for others. Many people fall for those who they work with, who they spend time around.
It has been a long time since I felt the way that you feel about Candace, about anyone. In fact, it was a different time. Over 7 years ago, thousands of miles away on a different continent and a different Lucas.
Love? What did I know of it? I could see it in the eyes of my mother as she warned me to flee all those years ago, I could see love and pity in equal measure as my cousin instructed me to leave the country only a few years ago but I did not know it. When you run the gauntlet of fears, injustices, confrontations and pains that I have done, you start to lose track of what each emotion feels like, preferring to numb yourself.
There was no denying though, we had a connection. We railed against the same corrupt influences in the world, fought the same battles, found some comfort in the same small pleasures.
Of course, I did not realise at the time that I was in love, less that it was something that I should fear rather than embrace.
"This love, it's about CONTROL
OH, YOU FUCKER!
ALL IN THE NAME OF LOVE"
Tell me, Jack, have you heard the story of the Lion in Love?
A lion once fell in love with a beautiful maiden and proposed marriage to her parents. The old people did not know what to say. They did not like to give their daughter to the Lion, yet they did not wish to enrage the King of Beasts.
At last the father said: “We feel highly honoured by your Majesty’s proposal, but you see our daughter is a tender young thing, and we fear that in the frenzy of your affection you might possibly do her some injury. Might I venture to suggest that your Majesty should have your claws removed, and your teeth extracted, then we would gladly consider your proposal again.”
The Lion was so much in love that he had his claws trimmed and his big teeth taken out. But when he came again to the parents of the young girl they simply laughed in his face, and bade him do his worst.
"GIVE IT TO ME! GIVE IT TO ME!
I know what I stand for:
I STAND FOR ME!"
There is hope and love in you, it's not truly been beaten out of you quite yet. The sun shines in your world and you see yourself holding the world title alongside the woman that you love to reflect the light back into the world.
There is no love in my life, my friend, not anymore. Where once there was light, there is nothing now. Not darkness, just nothing. While the sun shines on your world, dark clouds have long gathered in mine and I aim to be the wind that helps those clouds cross our paths. You see, I have taken the SFT World Championship, not because I want to be the light or be a hero, I don't care about setting an example or impressing a girl. No, I took that belt because I wanted it. I wanted it because I could have it and because it gives some recompense for the losses and injustices which I have suffered in the past.
I fight to win, I fight to earn and I fight to hurt. I do not fight to impress, nor be a role model, and I do not fight for love.
Love blunted my claws once, a long time ago, and I have regretted it since.
"OH WHAT A FEEDING!
KNOW THE CHOSEN ONES... ARE HERE!
ALL HAIL!"
It’s time for you to know your place, Jack.
Your place may or may not be at Candace’s side. Your place may or may not be with the Flock.
Your actions will guide how these two outcomes come to pass. What you do on a day to day, show to show, match to match basis, will impact upon on what you achieve and where you end up.
I am intrigued to see where you end up, Jack.
However, your place is not my place. Your place is not at the top of the tree in SFT. Your place is not to be the one who takes my title and becomes the SFT World Champion.
You say that I should be more of a fighting champion but there is no-one in SFT who I have not defeated. There are few who I have not defended this prize against. In fact, I have offered every single person on the roster the opportunity to take my place at the top of the tree on Titans 99 through Gold Rush. I am not here to build you all up like some professional wrestling camp counsellor… I enjoy the challenge, I enjoy proving others wrong and showing them that it is me that deserves to be sitting at the top of the hill, not them.
But still, everyone and anyone can come to try and take my place next time out, assuming you don’t get there first. Something tells me that come Titans 99 it will still be Lucas Balkan’s World Championship that the rest of the roster are chasing.
I am in my place and the Flock as a whole are in theirs because we do what we say and we back up our claims. We are sure in ourselves and sure in our abilities. We know what we are going to do before it happens, we are sure of it.
You do not appear to be confident that you can take the SFT World Championship from me. Well, at least that’s one thing that we agree on.
You can’t and you won’t.
No amount of love or romance, blind faith in God or boyish optimism can help you overcome Lucas Balkan.
Good luck, Jack. You’re going to need it.
"For I'm not the man you know...
This love, it's about CONTROL
OH, YOU FUCKER!
ALL IN THE NAME OF LOVE"
