Chaos Reborn

However, before Carnivore could slam down the chair on the back of Rampage’s head. Music blasted out of the speakers causing the whole arena to erupt in cheers as a wrestler ran down the ramp towards the ring. Twilights Jaw dropped as she saw Iron Will slide into the ring to save Rampage.

Carnivore swung the chair at Iron Will, but he was able to duck underneath the chair. Carnivore turned around to swing again, but before he could try a second time. Iron Will performed a dropkick causing the chair Carnivore was holding to slam into his face. Carnivore fell to the ground as Iron Will checked on Rampage and helped him up. The crowd cheered as Iron Will helped Rampage to his hooves. Gnel Squealed in delight before he began shaking her and yelling, “They’re back! The Bull Force is back together!”

“The Bull Force?” Twilight asked.

“It was the name of their Tag Team,” Gnel said before he added, “Before Iron Will was Injured by Carnivore.” The crowd cheered again causing the two to turn to the ring.

Iron Will had raised Rampage’s arm and began clapping trying to get the crowd to cheer louder. Iron Will helped Carnivore back to his feet and placed him at one of the Turnbuckles and Rampage stood at the opposite Turnbuckle. Iron Will pointed towards Rampage who let out a war cry before Iron Will flung Carnivore toward Rampage who in turn ran towards Carnivore and delivered a spear. Carnivore lay on the mat as Rampage jumped up and let out a loud, “Oh yeah!” which caused the crowd to cheer even louder.

While Rampage hyped up the crowd. Iron Will dragged the limp body of Carnivore and placed him face down on the chair on the mat before he grabbed the second chair. He yelled for Rampage who turned to see Iron Will hand him the second chair to perform the same move Carnivore was going to do to him. Rampage Shook his head and told Iron Will to do it since Carnivore was the one that put him on the Shelf. Iron Will Nodded before he looked down at Carnivore and lifted the chair over his head. Rampage hyped up the crowd as he did this before he walked over to him.

However, as he did Iron Will Spun and slammed the chair into Rampage’s head causing him to slam to the mat. The Crowd was shocked at the sudden event and started to boo as Iron Will began to clean up the scene in the ring. He took Carnivore and placed him laying an arm across Rampage’s chest and then he took both chairs and left the ring as the crowd boo’s escalated. At that moment, the referee finally came too and climbed back into the ring. He saw Carnivore on top of Rampage and began his count. Hit hoof came down once, twice, and just inches away from his hoof hitting the mat a third time. Rampage kicked out causing the whole arena to explode in cheers.

Twilight cheered along with Gnel as the crowd began to chant either Rampage’s name or Carnivore’s. Discord stuffed popcorn into his mouth before offering the popcorn box to Tirek who also took a handful and stuffed it into his mouth, Sombra tried to get Sheik to chant with the crowd. She sighed and started to chant with the crowd to appease her friend, Aeolus simply marveled at the sheer passion the two presented as they entertained the fans in the arena, and as for Ahuizotl, he had fallen asleep in his chair in the first hour of the show.

As the crowd continued to chant the two combatants started to stir. Carnivore and Rampage got to one knee before Carnivore threw a punch. It connected and Rampage wavered back before he responded with his own punch. The two did this as they began to get to their feet. Their punches started sluggish, slow, and sloppy. However, as they started to rise and get to their feet their blows began to steady, sped up, and become deliberate. Once to their feet, their punches became forearms to their opponent’s chin.

Carnivore started to get the upper hand as he slowly pushed Rampage closer to the ropes with each forearm shot. Once Rampage was at the ropes, Carnivore Irish whipped him towards the opposite side of the ring. Rampage ricocheted from the ropes towards Carnivore who lifted him and slammed him down onto the mat with a spine buster. Carnivore jumped back up and roared before he backed up to one of the corners and crouched down demanding Rampage to get up. It took a while for Rampage to stir and start to get to his feet. Once he stumbled and turned towards Carnivore, Carnivore charged and speared Rampage before once again getting back up and lifting Rampage. Carnivore lifted Rampage into what looked like a suplex before performing a jackhammer maneuver and pinning him.

The ref slid close and began his count. His hoof came down once, the crowd cheered trying to get rampage to get up. His hoof came down a second time and the crowd grew louder. In a split second, the ref's hoof hit the mat for the third time and the bell rang as the crowd roared with a combination of cheers and boos.

“Here is your winner and NEW! LCW champion,” Jukebox announced before he finished, “Car-ni-vore!” The referee took the belt from the timekeeper and handed it to Carnivore before raising his arm in victory. The celebration lasted for several more minutes before Carnivore rolled out of the ring with the belt resting around his shoulder. Rampage stayed in the ring a little bit longer waving to the crowd who cheered and clapped before he too rolled out the ring. As the Crowd started to leave the arena, Canvas came to take the group to the back to meet Rampage.

“This is so Cool,” Gnel raved as he continued, “I can’t believe I’m meeting Rampage in person!”

“Pro tip kid,” Ahuizotl said as he yawned and added, “Never meet your idols.”

“Can it Ahuizotl,” Sheik snapped.

“Geez, just trying to help,” Ahuizotl said before he added, “Don’t need to bite my head off”

When they walked into the backstage area, they saw all sorts of creatures mingling and breaking down part of the stage while many of the wrestlers seemed to be conversing with one another even though many had faced one another that very night. Twilight looked around before she asked Canvas, “Can we make a detour? I was hoping to meet” Twilight stopped herself since uttering his name felt wrong, but Discord finished for her.

“Death, she wants to meet Death,” Discord finished.

“We’re walking by the dressing room, so We can make a pit stop. Rampage is probably still with his agent being begged to not leave,” Canvas stated before he continued, “We’re all sad to see him go when he’s at the peak of his prime as a wrestler, but we all know if he didn’t. who would watch the program?”

“First sound thing I’ve heard,” Ahuizotl said which got him a nasty look from Sheik. “What? I’m not Lying, am I?”

“No, you got a point,” Aeolus said before he added, “can’t broadcast to fans when all of them are dead.”

“Glad we’re all not doom and gloom,” Butterfly said.

“The world's gone to shit Butterfly, we all can’t be happy and holding hands,” Ahuizotl said.

“Being a little cheery once in a blue moon wouldn’t kill you,” Sheik said.

“Do they always Bicker like this?” Canvas asked Gnel, Sombra, and Twilight

“Pretty much whenever they are around each other,” Sombra said.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen either one of them say a nice thing about the other,” Gnel added.

“There's just some,” Discord said before he snickered and added, “tension between them. You’ll learn about it when your older Gnel”

“CAN IT!!!” Sheik and Ahuizotl simultaneously yelled.

After a while, the group stopped at the dressing room and knocked on the door. T-bone opened it with a duffle bag around his shoulder.
“Oh, hey Canvas, what brings you here?” T-bone said.

“Is Skyline available?” Canvas asked.

T-bone cracked a smile and nodded before he turned into the dressing room and yelled, “Yo Skyline, Canvas is here looking for you!”

“For the love of! What the hell did I do now!?” a voice yelled within the dressing room. A few seconds later Death walked up to the door. The right half of his face still dawned the black and red paint with the glowing blood-red eye with the emerald slanted pupil while the left side of his face was a light shade of grey with a Crystal blue eye. He looked at Canvas and asked, “Please don’t tell me someone else is mad at me? How many times do I need to tell parents, it’s just a gimmick?”

“Not an angry mother this time,” Canvas said before he moved to the side to let Twilight walk forward.

“Princess Twilight!” Skyline yelped before he bowed and added, “It’s an honor to meet you.”

“It’s a greater honor to meet another Alicorn,” Twilight said before she added, “Celestia never told me about any other Alicorns in the world.” Skyline looked up in confusion before realizing what she meant.

“Oh right, that,” Skyline said before he reached up and fiddled with his chin before his horn fell to the ground. Twilight gasped and backpaddled before Skyline explained, “I’m not a real Alicorn. I wear a Styrofoam horn to make myself look like one. All Unicorns you see are fake”

“Wait, but then how did Famine make all the food taste nasty?” Gnel interjected.

“We have Unicorns in the crowd that mask their magic use and cause that. They’re like the fans you see antagonizing wrestlers. We plant actors there to make the show more entertaining. It works and then it works a little too well and we get real fans trying to antagonize wrestlers,” Skyline explained.

“Oh,” Twilight said defeated.

“I’m sorry I dashed your hopes,” Skyline said before returning to the dressing room.

Discord clapped his hands together and said, “Alright, let’s get to Rampage, shall we?” Sheik glared at Discord who sheepishly said, “Sorry”

The group continued down the hallway until they reached a golden door with what looked like an outline of a star that had been taken off on the wood. On the right of the door, leaning against the wall was a platinum star with Rampage on it, and on the left side of the door was another platinum star with Carnivore on it. Canvas knocked on the door and from the other side came a gravelly voice that yelled, “OOOOOOOOH YYYYYYYEAH! Come on in!”

Canvas opened the door and ushered the group into the large dressing room. Near the back, Rampage spun around in his chair and yelled, “OOOOOOOH YYYYYEAH!” before he noticed who it was and let out a relieved sigh and added, “Oh, it’s just y’all, thank the gods. My throat was starting to sting with all the yelling.” His exaggerating gravely tone was replaced with a southern drawl accent.

“Told you so,” Ahuizotl whispered to Gnel causing Sheik to smack him on the back of the head.

“I’ll leave you all to catch up,” Canvas said before he left the group.

“It’s nice to see you again Rampage,” Sombra said.

“Yeah, it’s nice to see y’all. It’s been a coons age since we’ve seen each other,” Rampage said before he sighed and added, “Wish it was on better terms though.”

“We need to catch up when all this is over,” Discord said.

“Whoa…whoa…WHAO!” Gnel said making the group stared at him before he added, “You all know each other!”

“Well yeah,” Butterfly said before adding, “We all just don’t meet up to save the world. We sometimes get together to play cards and shoot the shit.”

“When we can actually meet with one another,” Sombra said as he looked back at Tirek.

“Or wanted to join,” Ahuizotl scoffed.

“Oh stop,” Butterfly argued before she added, “You’ve shown up once or twice.”

“Did your dad ever tell you where he went every couple of months?” Sheik asked.

“He would just say he was visiting some friends,” Gnel said before it hit him and he yelled, “My Gods, you all were the friends!”

“Is he Gerard’s son?” Rampage asked. Sheik nodded and Rampage stood up and extended his hand before adding, “It’s an honor to meet you.” Gnel trotted in place in excitement before shaking Rampage’s hand.

“I’m a huge fan,” Gnel said.

“I hate to break up this touching moment, but we should get in touch with Tempest before Gnel dies of excitement,” Ahuizotl said before he added, “Or wets himself.”

“Hey!” Gnel yelled.

“No, No, it’s alright,” Rampage chuckled before he added, “I have time before I can leave so contacting Tempest will be no problem.” Rampage stood up and let out a long breath before holding his hand out in front of him. A dark grey orb with streaking blue zig-zags sparking through it appeared in his hand.

“I call to the God of Storms. Whose winds can topple buildings and thunderous roars can strike fear into the bravest of mortals. Allow us into your realm and bring down the thunder!” Rampage chanted. The smell of ozone filled the dressing room as the orb started to violently vibrate before the group was engulfed in white blinding light as the sound of roaring thunder erupted around them.

When the blinding light dissipated the group found themselves in another grassy plain with dark grey clouds in the sky. Twilight looked up into the rolling dark clouds and quickly jumped as a boom of thunder erupted from the clouds as a crackle of lightning skated through the sky and slammed into the ground. The wind started to pick up as though a tornado had just touched down. The group clutched at the ground as the wind roared around them. Clouds started to slowly descend towards the ground as they took the shape of long tendrils, 12 in total. Connected to the tendrils was a large group of clouds that rolled as though they were trapped within an invisible dome making the cluster of clouds look like a large 40-foot jellyfish.

Lightning sparked around the tendrils as they quickly zipped around each tendril until finally resting on the dome and creating 6 eyes made out of lightning. The wind started to die down as the jellyfish made of dark grey clouds floated in front of the group.

“Is that,” Twilight said before she added, “Tempest?” in a flash one of the tendrils shot towards the group and wrapped around Rampage before it took him towards the dome with the 6 eyes.

“What were you thinking!!!!!” a female voice boomed as thunder exploded around them and lightning scattered between Tempest's remaining tendrils before she continued, “Why him? Why not Falcon! Hell, I’d take that idiot Rachet over Carnivore!!!” another boom of thunder echoed.

“Is she mad about Carnivore winning the title?” Gnel said a little shocked.

“And you’re not!” Tempest roared as another tendril pointed towards him as more thunder boomed.

“It makes for great Television Tempest. Viewers will toon in to see who is going to try and take the title from the heel,” Rampage explained. Tempest sighed before she placed Rampage back on the ground next to the group.

“I just can’t stand the guy,” Tempest admitted.

“Are we done talking about wrestling? Can we get back on topic please?” Ahuizotl asked.

“Right,” Rampage said before asking, “You wouldn't happen to know why Chaotic was corrupted?”

“I’m pretty sure you’ve heard this from the other Gods, but I have no inkling as to why he was corrupted,” Tempest admitted.

“Of course, you wouldn’t know! Why the hell are we even wasting our time with this!” Ahuizotl raged before continuing, “How many times have we had some flashy entrance for a God to only have them not have the answer to our question. The only one who could give us the answer refuses to even be contacted!”

“I see you are as hot-headed as Inferno,” Tempest said before adding, “However, there is a reason for all this. An epitaph must invoke the Rite to access all the abilities their Gods have blessed them with.”

“The Rite?” Twilight asked.

“First I’d ever heard of this,” Aeolus said.

“Every epitaph has access to some of the Gods powers they represent, however, to get the full power the Gods have blessed you with. You must invoke the Rite. Which is to call to your respective God and have them judge if you are worthy of the full God’s blessing,” Tempest explained.

“Was there ever someone who was judged and refused God's blessing?” Gnel asked.

“There was one, who invoked the Rite and was refused not only the full scope of the Gods Blessing but also stripped of what little Gods power they had,” Tempest said before adding, “Isn’t that right Tirek?”

“By the Gods yes, alright! Yes, I went to Void and asked for more power to take over the world and he refused and stripped me of my powers,” Tirek ranted before he continued, “He went on to say I’ll get it back when I earn it.”

“So that’s why you’ve been all buddy-buddy with us,” Discord said.

“That’s one reason,” Tirek said.

“Wait, what’s the other?” Discord said before adding, “Oh right, that.”

“So, we’ll need to speak with every God before finally confronting Chaotic?” Twilight stated.

“Indeed,” Tempest said before adding, “However, you might be seeing him sooner than you think” thunder boomed around them before a flash of lightning appeared between the group and Tempest. When the bright light disappeared, the group found themselves back in Rampage’s dressing room.

“What do you think she meant when she said, we’ll see him sooner than we think?” Twilight asked just as the door to the dressing room swung open as Canvas stood in the doorway breathing heavily.

“We have a slight problem,” Canvas said after catching his breath.

Inside the ring, smoldering ash was left on the mat as the outlines of Ponies, Griffins, and Minotaur scorched the mat. The ring ropes had been taken and all there was left was a single turnbuckle and sitting atop it was a young Jackal with pearl white fur with what looked like golden highlights in parts of it and amethyst eyes that had slanted pupils. The young jackal had a smile on his face showing off his yellow dagger-like teeth. The jackal chuckled, “Well, time to let them know I’m here.” A reddish black aura started to seep out of his body, as his smile widened.