Consolation Prize (El Vainillo RP #1)
Oct 24, 2015 8:57:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2015 8:57:26 GMT
I told them. I told everyone. No one believed me – why do people always think someone that's actually been through something doesn't know what they're talking about? - but I knew. I knew how it would end. Well, not exactly how it would end, but I knew the outcome. And sure enough, El Vainillo walked out of Pollo Hall on Wednesday having been handed his first defeat. The specifics are fuzzy – I remember most of the match, but not the final stretch, for some reason – but the truth is undeniable: Vainillo's undefeated streak is over, and my curse with multi-man matches continues.
This isn't the first time an undefeated streak ends for me, either. In fact, I still remember the first one ending – on a multi-person match, of course (that's how curses work). That time, the loss came on the eighth match of my run; this time, it was on the ninth. Maybe next time I'll make it to ten.
All sarcasm aside, though, at least this defeat didn't take place in front of thousands of people, and at least it wasn't directly my fault (I think). On the flipside, that time I didn't get pinned with fifteen seconds on the clock and let a title opportunity that was well within my grasp slip away. Swings and roundabouts. Either way, the outcome was the same: I wasn't good enough to hang, and I let my fans down.
Which is why what happened next was so surprising to me. I fully expected to be left off the next card, or at best be part of the pre-show special. I would have deserved it, too, for being a goober. But instead...I'm in the main event. Teaming with Grin to take on my old friends, Tigre de Jengibre and Mr. Crazy. Why Tigre picked Crazy to be his partner is obvious – that title around his waist (the one that would have been around my waist, if I wasn't a chump) tells the whole story. What stumps me is why Grin would choose a goober like me to be his partner. I would have almost said he wanted to even the odds for Tigre, but that makes no sense – why would you give away your advantage in a match against your blood rival?
Either way, I guess I'll have to make the best of this consolation prize - though if last show is anything to go by, my best isn't good enough anymore. Still, I owe it to Grin to at least try, and I owe it to the Vainillos to not lose again. Right now, their hero may look like a disappointment - losing a title match in one company and getting wrecked in a count-out win on the other - but the mark of a real role model is the ability to bounce back and remind his fans of why they admire him in the first place.
And on November 4th, that's just what I plan to do.
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