At the hospital in London, we see Esmeralda von Krauss walking down the hallway. She draws all eyes on her as she is in a shimmering emerald gown that’s cut up the sides and down the front nearly to the navel. If that didn’t draw the eyes, then the fact that she is smoking an Egyptian cigarette in an emerald and black foot long holder. She glances at the room numbers as she walks until she finds the number that she’s looking for and walks in. She finds Hehehe and Hahaha resting in beds, their wounds that have been inflicted by Cyan Komar (during the Wrestle: UK show) have been stitched up. Armand von Krauss is sitting in a chair between the two. He has a book in his hands that he appears to be engrossed in reading and doesn’t notice his wife walking into the room.
Esmeralda von Krauss: Armand, was um alles in der Welt geht hier vor? Wo sind die anderen? Wie hast du das zugelassen? (Armand, what on Earth is going on? Where are the others? How did you let this happen?)
Armand closes the book and looks up at Esmeralda. He looks tired.
Armand von Krauss: Sir Monocle and Tarrasque are in the next room. I’ve been going back and forth every few hours. How are D and Minerva?
Esmeralda looks at Armand with a cruel grin, sensing that he is trying to turn things around on her. She flicks ashes onto the floor.
Esmeralda von Krauss: They are fine, dahling. They are due to be released in a few days. How is it that you did not kill this ninja? Where is Sticky?
Armand looks down at the floor for a moment before looking up at Esmeralda with a sigh.
Armand von Krauss: I sent Sticky to kill Alexis Logan and capture this Isabella von Krauss so I can kill her myself. Clean up your problems for you. Alexis defeated Sticky and they left him in Las Vegas before coming to London to try to finish me once Cyan has tried. If it wasn’t for Zolothach, I might have been killed.
Esmeralda coughs on a drag of her cigarette, taking a moment to compose herself.
Esmeralda von Krauss: Zolothach lives? I guess I should not be too shocked that she survived being thrown off of the airship. How did she help?
Armand von Krauss: She banished the ninja to Hell and forced Alexis and Isabella to retreat.
Esmeralda von Krauss: Banished the ninja to Hell…
She drops her cigarette to the floor and crushes it out with the toe of her shoe. She is silent for a moment, remembering a time where Zolothach had tried to banish both her and herself to Hell.
Esmeralda von Krauss: Well, now I’m here, dahling. You can go to the hotel and rest a bit. When is Tarrasque due to be released?
Armand von Krauss: In a few days. His wounds were not as bad as the twins or Sir Monocle.
Armand sets the book to the side and stands up while Esmeralda puts away her foot long holder in her clutch. She smiles and brings Armand in for a gentle hug and a kiss.
Esmeralda von Krauss: Well, dahling. I am glad that you were not killed.
Armand von Krauss: Thank you, beloved.
Armand leaves the room and Esmeralda takes his seat. She looks over at the twins, first to Hehehe and then to Hahaha with a quizzical expression.
Esmeralda von Krauss: What?
Hehehe: We didn’t know-
Hahaha: That you cared.
Esmeralda von Krauss: At the end of the day, he is my husband. Of course I care about him.
Hehehe: No, we mean-
Hahaha: That you care for us.
Esmeralda von Krauss: Was ist das? Of course I care for you. You are mine children. Oh my goodness, I would be sad if I lost my husband, but I would be lost without mine children!
She places a hands on the arms of Hehehe and Hahaha in a comforting way.
Esmeralda von Krauss: When we found you at that hole in the wall circus so many years ago, it was atrocious the way they treated you both. I mean you are both imbeciles. There is no getting around that, but you are mine.
Hehehe: Aww, we love you-
Hahaha: Like a mother.
The twins seem to take in the sudden motherly love well, but then they look concerned.
Hehehe: Shouldn’t you be training-
Hahaha: For your match to come at REIGN?
Esmeralda just smiles.
Esmeralda von Krauss: I take on Sinclair Godfrey and Blaze Freya for the Hardcore and North American plates. Sinclair has defeated me once before so I will be ready for her. Blaze Freya is a special case. I have not forgotten her showing her goodies to my husband before he knocked her out to make sure that she lost her match with…whomever it was that she was wrestling at the time. I will break her for trying to seduce my husband.
Hehehe: That sounds like-
Hahaha: A good time! Can we come?
Esmeralda looks from one ghastly twin to the other. One had been run through by a sword and the other disemboweled. They are in pain, but they still want to go with her to the Reign match. She gives them a genuine smile.
Esmeralda von Krauss: If the Doctors clear you.
Hehehe: You could-
Hahaha: Speed that up.
Esmeralda beams with pride. Of course she could speed up the healing process as could have Armand, but he has never done this that she knows of. Except for her. Esmeralda takes both of their ice water cups and brings out an ornate silver dagger from somewhere. She slowly cuts her wrist like she were going to commit suicide and lets the dark blood stream into the ice water cups. The wound quickly seals itself up and she passes the nearly black ice water cups to the twins.
Esmeralda von Krauss: Drink, my dahlings. It is good for you.
Hehehe and Hahaha drain their cups and lay their with their eyes closed in some pain as their stitches pop out of their bodies as their wounds close.
Esmeralda von Krauss: There. Now what Doctor would see that you cannot help but to join me in going to the next REIGN show?
Hehehe and Hahaha: Thank you
Esmeralda von Krauss: You are most welcome. Now for a few moments I will need top speak to the camera.
Esmeralda gets out her foot long holder and lights a fresh Egyptian cigarette. She takes a drag from it and blows the smoke into the air with a laugh.
Esmeralda von Krauss: Sinclair, your defeating me was something of a fluke. You think that I would let you defeat me for a second time? No. No. I don’t care what your upbringing is. It will not save you from me. I was royalty long before you were even alive, kleines Mädchen. I was placed into a position where I had to earn my way into imperial positions of power. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I was born with a silver dagger in my hand. Defeating you will be most rewarding to me. I never liked you when our groups were aligned with the KGB. You are too big for your pants, dahling. Too wild to be controlled, too cowardly to make sure that Donzig knows your true feelings for him. You are a mess, but that is not surprising from a Baroness? You are almost a peasant in the eyes of other royalty. Perhaps that is why you were following Donzig in the first place. To get a better self sense of worth. No, I will defeat you and claim the plates for mine own.
Blaze Freya. It seemed that every single match I saw you in during your time at SWAT that your bottoms were not around your ankles. I’m surprised that Eddie D didn’t, how do the kids put this, fingerbang you in the middle of the ring when he had the chance. I know I would have given it due consideration. It’s one thing to expose yourself every week, but to expose yourself to my husband. That will not go unpunished, of course. I will make you bleed, Freya, and you will wish that you had stapled those bottoms to your two lips to ensure that they did not come into the air to be seen.
About this time, a security guard walks into the room with his eyes on Esmeralda.
Guard: You can’t be smoking in here.
Esmeralda von Krauss: And?
To be continued…
