"Mining The Emerald..." [Act IV, Scene I]

Scene I of I – “Mining The Emerald…”

We open up at night to the sounds of grasshoppers and other various insects going ‘creep’ in the night. The camera looks to be outside a mineshaft, with gates on each side of the entrance that are closed with a chain and pad lock. All of a sudden, all of the small mining lights on the upper left and upper right sides of the mine flicker on to a dim setting almost in unison. The camera begins to move in, past the gate without breaking the chain and pad lock, entering the mine and as the camera passes by each mining light, it flickers out until the camera comes to a small, old looking, narrow elevator with all of the mining lights that were passed by to get to this point no longer lit, leaving the only remaining light over the elevator.

Our view is now in the elevator, as it begins to screech and then suddenly jerks as it begins its descent down, deeper into the mining shaft. On both sides of the elevator as it heads down, all we can see is rock, until the elevator finally jerks again suddenly and comes to a stop, some forty meters down. The light of the camera now leads our way, until once again as it comes out of the shaft, the lights flickering on as the camera passes under it phenomenon begins again, with the said lights flickering out behind the camera as it completely passes by. After heading down a few feet further, we see a dark figure standing over what looks to be a large amount of rubble.

The camera finally reaches the figure and we see a shirtless Nemesis with black jeans and black boots on but looking ever so intimidating with an almost smoky mist coming up off of his shoulders due to the heat down where we currently are in the shaft. Nemesis is donning his usual outer display of the darkness that resides in his soul from the chest up, covering his face with his black and red headpiece.

“This is where it all begins…the mining of an emerald”, Nemesis says as he extends his arms out to show off the mining shaft that surrounds him before lowering his arms back down

“But that’s not how I mined the prized ‘Emerald’ I seek…oh no, in fact, I laid the subconscious seed in your mind Drew when I first arrived by making mention of you during my first televised appearance for the eyes of Union Battleground competitors and viewers…this is destiny unfolding before your eyes Drew…your destiny”, Nemesis says as he walks over to the rocky wall on his right hand side as the camera follows him

The light on the camera shows us a small little patch of three raw, small sized emerald stones protruding out of the rocky wall, which is chest level for Nemesis. Instead of using the required pickaxe to gets the emeralds out, Nemesis reaches out and with his bare hands and pure, utter strength, yanks them out of the wall with no struggle at all. Nemesis then turns back to the camera holding the emerald stones out in his hand for the camera’s view as he continues talking.

“The emerald, such a sought after prize, even used as what you humanoids call a ‘birthstone’ but it’s significance runs far deeper and can be seen in your movies, as well as your socially accepted religious doctrines. Whether it is the substance the mystical Emerald Tablets of Thoth bare their words on, the mythical Emerald City you mortals so desperately seek out, even in your movies or the legends of the breastplate of Aaron, spoken of in Exodus that included emerald, it’s significance and symbolism have been consistent through out time…but you Drew, you are neither mystical or legendary…no…you are but a myth”, Nemesis with one squeeze of his right hand crushes the emerald stones with ease, then opens his hand and flips it over as the dust that were once the emeralds, falls down towards the ground

“Why do I say that Drew? It’s quite simple really, even for the feeble, arrogant mind that you possess; you have shown me absolutely nothing except mere idle threats and hollow words. But your simplistic mind may try and make the argument of your current reign as World Wrestling Headquarters International Championship being proof of your self-proclaimed ‘greatness’ and my rebuttal to that is this; I’ve already defeated one man from World Wrestling Headquarters during his Hardcore Championship reign and look what happened to him, his championship run came to an almost immediate demise after his loss by my hands, so what exactly makes this situation any different Drew? I tell you what makes it different…you were chosen upon my arrival to be the beginning of the end here in Union Battleground…”, Nemesis now walks back to the rubble and proceeds to squat down over it

“You see…you have allowed your presumptuous words and actions to put you in this position, while unknowingly setting your whole world up to cave in all around you, just like what this very mine’s ceiling did to what lies beneath this pile of rock before me”, Nemesis outstretches his right hand, gives it a waving motion and suddenly the rocks begin to slid away one by one with each corresponding waving motion his hand makes revealing the arm and hand of a man clutching a massive raw emerald stone

“Drew, you had the audacity to step in front of a camera and claim that you were going to show every single being in Union Battleground ‘how it’s done’, yet after I stood in the ring behind you, smelling the fear seep out of your pores as you knew your destructor had answered your challenge, you fell back into the realm of obscurity that you had become so accustomed to in retirement, but why? Is it because you finally realized that I do not want that proverbial torch you spoke of to be handed to me? Or maybe, is it because you know that I may just snatch it from your grasp and instead of running with it, I may just light you and this whole damned place on fire and thus have the final triumph in my blaze of glory?”, He snatches the large sized raw emerald from the clutches of the deceased man who lies under the rubble and stands back upright parallel with the camera

“Like I spoke of before Drew, this is your destiny and the significance of the ‘Emerald’ in this specific situation holds far more weight then you or anyone in this company could even comprehend. The souls I have already laid waste to so far during my existence in Union Battleground were merely for fun but you Drew, you are the final piece of the puzzle to fall in place and I will make sure that nothing you can do will offset the path of destruction I have laid out and the even bigger one I intend to set out beginning with Fallout”, Nemesis wipes off the dust and dirt from the raw emerald stone showing us somewhat of a dim glisten off of the stone caused by the camera’s light

“I know you have the arrogance to believe that I am but another blip on your radar Drew, but I suggest you spend less time in the tanning salon and at the hair salon gossiping over your latest, worthless accomplishments outside of Union Battleground, where might I remind you; you have accomplished nothing, and more time preparing for what awaits you this Sunday, which won’t be the Sabbath for Christians, no, what awaits you is far more unholy then you ever thought your mind could perceive and as much shine as you, the ‘Emerald’ Drew Stevenson think you have…I will dull all of your shine in the blink of an eye”, Nemesis tosses the emerald stone onto the rubble next to the now exposed limp arm of the deceased man under it

“Drew…if you don’t know by now, then you will come this Sunday; I am Nemesis…I will be your downfall”, Nemesis says with the sternest of looks we’ve ever seen painted across his face while gritting his teeth and snarling

After a moment, Nemesis turns around and walks into the darkness behind him, disappearing almost immediately due to the utter blackness in the mineshaft. The camera zooms in on the limp dead arm next to the emerald as the mineshaft light overtop flickers out and we fade to black.