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Date Posted: 17:14:19 01/30/02 Wed
Caelius walks into the ring
and asks his slaves to come down with him. They line up and he looks over
them. He grabs the one that DQ'd the matched. He dismisses the rest.
Caelius: Tell me your name and
where you are from.
Slave: My name is Luke. I
came to this world in Spain, but have lived in America for many years.
Claudius picked me up outside a local jail in Texas.
Caelius: Funny, you don't
look Spainish.
Luke: I never said I was.
I am not from any nationality, nor race.
Caelius: How do explain
what you did Tuesday?
Luke: I could not stand to see
you hurt. You have been like a father to me in the past year.
Caelius: For actions Luke, I
have decided to free you from slavery. I will even make you a citizen and
give you $100,000 dollars as a last year's salary. If you continue to work
for me, I shall give you $150,000 for this year of service. Of course
there will be a large raise every year.
Luke: How could I turn down
such a great deal.
Caelius: Great! However,
that name is awful barbaric for such a noble man. I shall rename you Lucius
Caelius Nobilitas
Luke: I would love to accept
such an honor, but Luke is a name I have chosen for a special reason. I
would prefer to be called Luke.
Caelius: Very well. Your
job will be to be my arms. You will accompany me to Italy on my next
trip. You will be with me in all of my meetings. You will be the the
only person, besides myself to have access to some classified information.
Claudius, I hope you are listening. You will be taking care of my North American
affairs. I am leaving for Italy tonight. Remember to send all
documents to me for my approval. You will also be wrestling any matches
that I am scheduled for.
Now, Luke, do you have anything
you would like to say.
Luke: Caelius, I would like to
address the fans and wrestlers of the HWA.
Four years and several months
ago, our friend brought fourth on this country a new federation: conceived in
entertainment, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are hardcore.
Now we are engaged in a great war called Wrestling... testing whether this
federation, or any federation so conceived and so dedicated... can long
endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have not come to dedicate
that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that
this federation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that I
should continue to wage war. But in a larger sense, we should dedicate...
we should consecrate... we should hallow this ground. The once brave men,
still in this federation, who struggled here have failed to consecrate it.
The world will little note, nor long remember them, but it will never forget
what I said here.
It is for me, the greatest,
rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus far hardly began. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to
the great task remaining before us... that from these honored men, who knew when
their time was up, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they
wrestled so greatly and gave the last full measure of devotion... that we here
highly resolve that these men shall not have retired in vain... that this
federation shall have a new birth of hardcore... and that the wrestlers who
should have retired... for the people... shall retire or perish from this Earth.
You see... I have been gone for
awhile... I come back to see a bunch of has-beens and a few never-will-be's.
It is enough to make me cry. I watch you over the hill wrestlers talk
trash like you did four years ago. Making claims the same you did four
years ago. Well, fans of the HWA stand back as I have also not
changed! Pimp, Big Rig, John... look out! I am back, and being the
kind of being that I am... I am as powerful as ever...
Caelius: I don't think I
understand.
Luke: Let me make this a little
clearer... I, The Drifter, have returned to the HWA to follow you Caelius.
Caelius' eyes enlarge and he
smiles. He shakes The Drifter's hand and gives him a hug.
Caelius: I don't know what to
say... I had no idea.
The Drifter: It is my
pleasure... I saw what you were doing and I wanted to be part of it...
The scene fades
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