The Mind Games begin

[Darkness]

{The lights go out in the arena. Thunder rolls across the sky. A dim light turns on as a bell begins to chime. A shadowy figure is seen walking to the ring. When the figure gets to the center of the ramp he raises his hands into the air. a light rain begins inside the arena. The figure resumes his way to the ring. As he steps into the ring a loud boom of thunder sounds and a flash of lightning strikes the center of the ring. The figure walks to the center of the ring, unfazed by the lighting. Again he brings his arms into the air. The lights go up just enough to see that the man is Darkness. The rain continues to gently fall, and the thunder quiets down to let Darkness speak.}

Darkness: Zero, you want in this faction of hardcore legends? Well then you are going to go up against me, the Hardcore monster, the three time Carnage Hardcore Champion, and the longest reigning Carnage Hardcore Champion. Do you know how much blood is on my hands? Do you know how many people I have beat without remorse? I even have the blood of my own faction members on my hands. It doesn't matter if you're with me or against me in the long run, because when we're on opposite sides of the ring you're my enemy. I don't let people by me without a fight. A match with me takes years off a persons life. Ar you sure you want to go through with this? Are you sure you want to risk all that just for a shot to be with the elite hardcore faction? If so you better be prepared because a Last Man Standing match is no joke. If you think you can run with the big boys. Prove to me that you're not just a Zero like your name suggests.

There will be blood when I'm done with you. There will be blood.

{Darkness brings his arms into the air one last time. A bolt of lightning strikes where he was standing. A cloud of smoke fills the air. When the smoke clears away Darkness is gone, the rain has stopped, and somehow the arena is completely dry. It's as if Darkness was never there.}

[Zero]

(Zero slowly walks down the entrance ramp with his aviators, he walks down the ramp trying to act like what he had just seen hadn't affected him, he rolls in the ring and grabs a microphone)

Zero:Look Darkness, you may have beaten others in the past, you may have made others shed blood, but you've never faced me have you? You see Darkness, I'm not like everyone else. I'm different. I will do whatever it takes to get in Bloodbath. So if it takes facing you in a last man standing match then so be it. And once I win--let me repeat that, once I win, not only will it send a message to Bloodbath, it will show everyone in the CRF that I belong.


(Zero takes off the aviators and looks much more confident than he did when he first came out, Zero lets a smirk cross his face)

Zero:And your right, there will be blood...but it won't be mine.

[Darkness]

{As Zero stands in the ring the lights go out. Lightning strikes the titon tron sending sparks a flames flying. When the screen settles down words appear on the screen}

The Age of Darkness is apon us.

{Lighning strikes the screen again making the glass shatter and sparks shooting out. A fire starts on the screen. It's in the shape of the eyes of Darkness}

[Zero]

[shadow=red,left,300](Zero stands speechless in the middle of the ring and slowly walks out of the ring and starts walking back up the ramp but stops,turns around,and looks at the sign that says Mayhem up at the top of the building, then turns around and continues to walk up the ramp,while stepping around the shattered glass)[/shadow]