We are in the locker room of Zasalamel. He is sitting with his back to the camera. His mask on the floor next to him as he has his painting tools in front of him as he is painting his makeup on. Keeping his back to the camera so that his face remains unseen he seems to be at complete ease. Music can be heard softly flowing through the room, the sounds of Fur Elise which is known to be a soft soothing sound as opposed to his actual theme of Moonlight Sonata which is what he listens to before each match he is to be in.
He appears to have all of his make up on as he reaches down to his side and picks up his mask. He holds it in front of his face first and stares at it looking to really engage to what it is he becomes once he wears it. He takes a deep breath before putting the mask on over his head. Still keeping his back to the camera he starts to chuckle to himself. The chuckling stops as he begins to speak.
Zasalamel: Some call me crazy, some call me sadistic, come even call me straight loony. But there is one that calls me just a clown looking to get over. To all I am merely just a clown… the psychotic clown that is not to be messed with. The psychotic clown not to be messed with. But I urge you… I plead with you to not be disturbed, not to be troubled, not to be the least bit worried about anything. Because in the end… all I am doing is giving you what you want. Giving you exactly what it is that you desire. For anybody that is set to endure any amount of time in the ring against me is only looking for pain. Only looking for suffering… only looking to find a way to legally look to be euthanized without the feds or anybody saying anything because it would be purely accidental when I go too far. Or is that allowed? But I would say that whether it was allowed or not… would not matter to me in the least bit because in the end… all that will matter is whether I feel like allowing you to breathe enough to beg for mercy or just leave you lying there gasping and grasping at another chance at life.
But since it is my choice… since it is being left in my very capable hands… I’m electing to say that… depending on how well you can take abuse I’ll let you stick around. Merely for the joy of being able to abuse you another time…
He freezes as Moonlight Sonata begins to play. And then he begins again.
Understand me and understand this very clearly Vance. I could careless about getting over. For me it has never been about getting over. And being that I never knew of your name and even now I could careless about who you are or what your past stands for… you can remove the delusional thought that this is all an attempt to get me over by destroying you in this fight that we will be encountering. But instead this will be more about seeing what is your pain threshold. This is about seeing how long I can beat on someone before I decide that enough is enough and I can tell you that there is never enough. NEVER is there enough that can be done. But instead all there is is that there can always be more done. Always more pain. Always more blood. Because as far as I’m concerned… you don’t have a rep. You are just another body being cast into the lake of fire known as Hell… and clowns like me deserve to burn there as I’ve been told more than a few times… and I cannot say that I disagree.
I’ve left more bodies scarred but the problem there is that… those always heal. That is why I wear this mask. That is why I paint my face. Because then it is no longer just the physical memories but instead it is the mental image of that clown that just had that… smile on his face as he made sure you remembered how he looked as he made sure you were grimacing in pain with each and every single move that you would make. With each breath that you would take… just make it so painful that you would pray to your god that he would prevent you from breathing, that he could just pluck your eyes out, that he could erase the images of this face from your memory so that you no longer have those nightmares of the evil clown as he tortures you beyond anything that you’ve ever experienced in your life. And the bad thing about it… whenever you think about it… you will always see a smile.
He slowly turns around to show his face, half of it smiling and happy, the other half upset and sad.
But for you Abram… for you I decided to do things differently. Because I can see the remorse, I can hear it as you are not looking forward to this encounter. But instead you wish for it to pass you over. You are wishing that this does not have to happen but I an very pleased to inform you that this must happen. That this will happen. If anything it is to show you where you are coming up short. Where it is that you must improve. Where it is that you must dig deep down inside of you and pull out all the stops. Because remember all your pains, all your scars on your body… only temporary. It is the ones that are embedded deep in your memory, deep in your mind will be the life changing ones. Those are the ones that will torment you and turn you into something as evil as me.
Scars are nothing to me. I have plenty and I look forward each and every day to new ones that will one day grace me. Whether it be you or whoever that decides to inflict them upon me. Because when you look at life there is only one constant before you die and that is pain. So I’ve learned already to embrace that pain. I’ve learned to love it and long for it. So I want you to try… I want you to dream about it, I want you to envision it. I WANT YOU to give it to me. I want you to make me bleed. Make me bleed profusely. Make me spit blood on the canvas… knock a tooth out if you so desire. Allow me to be able to spit blood in your face as we continue to fight inside of that ring and paint the canvas red. And understand… that there is nobody in your past as sick as the one that you are about to face.
He turns back around in his chair and looks up towards the ceiling.
I’ve heard all the claims before and I’ve seen these people and they do not understand what it is. They do not understand what it is that they speak of. They don’t understand what this lifestyle is truly all about. All they see is garbage. They see a trickle of blood fall and believe that is hardcore. They see someone pull out a random weapon and swing it and believe he is hardcore. They see a body covered in scars and they believe he is hardcore. Everything that is out of ordinary is hardcore but I implore you to think otherwise. The ones with the scars are the normal ones for they do not know how to escape the trap that they have been in all this time. They are the truly hardcore ones as the ones that have the scars, the ones that bleed…
We know what it is like to let go and truly live and soon… we will truly live. Soon we will truly embrace life. Abram… the time is coming where we will… live.
He lets out a long breath and says nothing more as the scene fades to black.