Post by Adrien | Adam on Oct 9, 2017 17:41:18 GMT -5
People you’ve known
With lives and friends and families of their own
Choices you’ve made
Moments that stopped by and never stayed
The clamoring of thousands of people, stuffed inside of a lobby, grows louder. It was the fickle mixture of patience and impatience from the diverse set of fans that have come out for today’s special event. Everyone is showing their love for wrestling with the attire they are wearing. There’s even a fan or two dressed up as a cosplay of their favorite superstar, most notably, a fan running around in a replica pair of the Jew Blazer tights, normally donned by the Five Lakes Champion, Joshua Goldstein.
Music is playing, of course, to try to keep the fans from hearing nothing more than the commotion they were causing. Mostly mainstream music such as Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran, but it’s more or less background noise for the waiting fans.
The fans start to hush as the music suddenly stops playing. You could almost hear a pin drop if it happened in this lobby filled with over a thousand people.
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls...welcome to the New Generation Wrestling...First Annual...Squared Circle Convention!!”
The voice of a familiar superstar fills the loudspeakers. The fans start to cheer as one of the fan favorites in New Generation Wrestling is visible standing on top of a table behind the barricade so that everyone can see him. He’s wearing his usual out-of-ring attire, a pair of jeans and a shirt. With the sunlight still coming into the Moscone Center, he’s got a pair of sunglasses on and a hat, but it is still extremely obvious the identity of the man addressing everyone in the lobby. He has a paper in hand that he is reading from.
“My name is Adrien Cochrane, some of you know me as the Dropkick King, some of you know me the guy on Twitter who puts song lyrics in all caps. For that, sorry not sorry. But welcome to the convention, nonetheless! All of us here thank you all so much for showing up this morning, some of you going as far as waiting outside late last night...yes, that was me that walked by incognito last night and I’m pretty sure a few of you figured it out. Anyway, I was volunteered to give all of you the formal address. Probably something to do with my manager though my fellow Guardians might have had something to do with it today.
“So let’s go over a few things. You guys all went through security checks at the doors of this venue. Please understand that it is not only for our safety but for yours as well. We’ve had enough tragedies at gatherings of fans and entertainers to last us a lifetime. We hope all of you understand that, in light of those events, we can’t be allowing people with sharp metal objects or firearms into this event.
“But let’s talk more about the fun stuff. I’m going to give you a quick rundown of what today’s event has to offer for you! We are going to have a booth for every wrestler scheduled to appear today. For those of you who have forgotten who will be here today, it is...in alphabetical order...well, me, Tag Champ numero uno Alechs Aurelio, the third Avery Miles, my good friend Jazmyn Rain, other Tag Team Champ Honey, newcomer Hope Cassidy, our Spotlight Champion Mason Moore, other newcomer Sapphire, my manager’s other client Mr. Scotty Latimer, and finally, the future Mrs. Scott, Trixie. Each of us will have our own individual booths for you to hop in line, take some pictures...we have a photographer at each station but phone selfies are okay too...chat with us for a little bit, sign a few things...wait, what’s this?"
Adrien looks down at the paper and turns back at some of the event staff.
“You guys have a maximum two items to be signed limit? Seriously? That’s lame. Okay, I will not be enforcing that two item thing. Please ask the staff at each table what that wrestler has their signing limit because I think a lot of us will disagree with that policy. Anyway, back to the cool things going on today.
“There will be a lot of other people who aren’t running booths of their own from our company, I know former NGW Five Lakes Champion Kenzie Rydell will be hanging around, Jonathan Drake is scheduled to have his booth tomorrow but he’s running around, my manager Eddie Walker will be bouncing between my booth and Scotty’s booth. I think Devlin Scott might even be lurking in the shadows somewhere if you want to try to make him sign something for you. We have a special little booth where you can actually do commentary with Michael West on a few matches from our catalog. The MacIntosh father and son referee team will be around to give a seminar about what it’s like to be a wrestling referee. I think someone mentioned something about a costume contest, but they will be announcing that winner on Friday so if you just came in regular clothes today, you are welcome to try again tomorrow or all four days remaining.
“SPEAKING OF...if you only got a pass for the Monday portion of this event, there’s a box office upstairs, go ahead and get a pass the whole event. You get a better deal on the tickets to the actual matches on Saturday and Sunday if you have a pass for the whole C2 Convention. And you don’t want to miss the action we have slated not only in NGW but also in West Coast Genesis. The matches start off with my protege Adam Sanders taking on Shawn Young, the two champions there showing their talents as Ruby Lance faces Donovan Basch to show why she’s got that championship of hers. And for those wanting to see Julianna DiMaria be silenced, Melina Garrison nee Wilson is prepared to do what she can to stop the loud mouth from tweeting by breaking all ten fingers. It’s going to be a great show.
“Of course, the very next day, we’ve got Jew Blazer defending his title. Mason Moore is defending his title. Rebel Ink is united once more. Champion versus Champion with a Guardian and a Destroyer facing off against one another. And best of all, we are going to find out who will be facing Kayla Richards for her championship as Matthew Shields…”
The fans boo as soon as Adrien mentions the name of the former champion. The reactions get a bit more positive as he continues naming everyone, almost becoming deafening with cheers when he mentions the last one. A “WE LOVE YOU, ADRIEN!” was yelled loud enough for the cameras to pick it up.
“...Alex Jones, Johnny Maverick, and yours truly, Adrien Cochrane. This week is going to be an absolute blast for everyone involved, not just you the fans, but for us as well. We’ve got so much to get to and we’re going to be here all day to do it. Don’t be afraid by the long lines, I have nowhere else to be today and none of us plan on leaving until every fan has been taken care of and given everything they want. So go ahead, try to get all nine autographs. Visit with all of us, not just one of us. Make today a day you will always remember. And without any further adieu, I hereby signal the beginning of C2 Convention!!”
Cochrane hops off the table as the doors behind him open. He quickly starts to jog to his assigned table as the fans begin to allowed through the barricade in an orderly fashion. The convention has officially begun!
Now we’re falling back to the sun, to the sun
I know it could have been any one of us
Now we’re flying back to the light, to the light
I know it could have been
