Cepheus: “Mr. Delmonty, are you available at the moment?”
| Lonnie looks at his phone and then responds back. |
Lonnie: "I'm currently at a meeting. Come to the Enterprise."
| While Cepheus is reading the first text, another one follows the previous. |
Lonnie: "And it's Dr. Delmonty, stop calling me mister!"
| Cepheus smiles at his phone knowing that it’s doctor. He then responds to the message |
Cepheus: “Yes sir, please excuse my ignorance. I’ll meet you at the Enterprise tomorrow..”
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 || 7:19am EST
| Cepheus knocks on the door of Lonnie Delmonty's office. He speaks up after knocking. |
Cepheus: "Dr. Delmonty? I got your text, I'm here. Are you in there? I’d like to discuss with you my most recent business move”
| Lonnie taking a sip of his coffee, eyes darted towards the door and then he sits the cup down |
Lonnie: "Come in, the door is open."
| Cepheus walks in to Lonnie’s office and takes a seat in front of him |
Cepheus: “I’ll keep this brief because I know you’re as busy as I am. I promised you that I’d make business for you and I when you took me under your wing and here I am. I’d like to tell you of a business move I made recently.”
| Lonnie with a interested expression growing over his face, sits down his coffee cup. He turns his seat a little more straightforward to look at his client and then he folds his hands on the desk in a diamond shape. Something ran across his mind quickly. |
Lonnie: "Hold on. Before you enlighten me on the business move you made. I've had a few artisans work on the Atlantic Championship and they have put together a beautiful masterpiece."
| He scoots his seat back so that he could reach down underneath his desk and pull out a briefcase. He opens the briefcase and shows Cepheus the newly made AWC Atlantic Championship. He looks at him with enthusiasm, curious to know what Cepheus thinks of the title. |
Lonnie: "What do you think?"
| Cepheus nearly hops out of his seat in excitement, the expression on his face shows pure interest |
Cepheus: “I love it sir, it’s a beautiful championship.”
| Lonnie closes the briefcase and pushes it towards Cepheus. He would then lean back in his seat and with this intrigued gaze at Cepheus, kicking his legs up on his desk across one another, and folding his hands in his lap. |
Lonnie: "Now about this business move. Elaborate if you will. I would like to hear this because one thing I noticed about you, you are full of surprises."
| Cepheus takes the briefcase into his possession and puts it on the floor beside him, he then continues what he was saying long. |
Cepheus: “I’ve recently booked a motivational speaking event at a local high school. We need the youth on our side to obtain all of our goals because our goals last far more than one lifetime. With the youth on our side; we will have limitless powers and range. I’m sure you know that Dr. Delmonty.”
| Lonnie's eyebrow raises as this optimistic expression grows on his face, seeing that he is interested in the move Cepheus made. With the youth on their side, they know how far this will take them, and Lonnie is all for doing what's best for business. |
Lonnie: "Now that is what you call a business move. We need the youth on our side because the youth is our future. One step at a time, you never fail to amaze me. I can see the vision and I surely see the light shining at the end of the tunnel. This is something that no other is actually doing but you have put your foot on the gas and went the full 100 on the pathway to success. This move is best for business, guaranteed."
| Cepheus smiles arrogantly back at Lonnie, because he’d made another big business move and his head is getting bigger |
Cepheus: “I’d like to invite you backstage to the show to see how it goes.”
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 || 8:53am EST
| Cepheus St. Claire’s face is shown on a close up. The only thing visible is his head and upper shoulder area, but it’s obvious that he’s wearing a suit and tie, as per usual. His hair is slicked back in a professional fashion. He looks on at something forward with a smile on his face. The audio is completely silent but eventually as the screen slowly zooms out, the audio becomes louder as well. It soon becomes evident that Cepheus is standing in an auditorium, the audio is the muffled conversations of the audience attending. The camera angle turns to the back of his head and reveals the audience of an auditorium full of high schoolers. They’re all gathering in the auditorium, presumably talking about their summers and adventures as of late. Catching up after a long, summers break, considering this is nearing the beginning of school. Cepheus still stands at the podium with a smile on his face. He takes the microphone off of it’s stand and taps it a few times to silence the crowd and get their attention. |
Cepheus: “Now I know that you’re all hyped up, it’s the beginning of the first day of school. Some of you are just entering high school, others this is their last first day. Now, I’m not going to hold you long because I remember these speeches in high school. I remember how boring it was to sit in front of some random person that I didn’t know talk and talk about endless things that nobody was really interested in. I’m only twenty-eight years young and that may seem like a long ways for you, but trust me, high school was not that long ago, for me. You’re going to blink and it’s going to be over. Especially you seniors. Have fun your senior year. You made it, don’t waste it away and give up this close to finally exiting this shit hole.”
| The crowd whomst watching Cepheus looks shocked at the profane language. In high school everyone’s still coddled and even though they’ve heard and known explicit language, they’re not allowed to use it, nor is anyone else allowed to on school grounds. They’re even more shocked when they look back and see their teachers and staff sitting in the back of the auditorium, not rushing up to get Cepheus off the stage after using condemned language and especially for talking about the high school in such a manner. |
Cepheus: “See, now that got a rise out of all of you. Hopefully I have your attention now, if I didn’t before. My name is Cepheus St. Claire and I’ve come here to talk to the youth and future of America about success and how to obtain it. Now, I’m not going to be subtle with any of you. I’m not going to bite my tongue, I’m not going to hold anything back. I know that you guys are adults and want to be treated as adults and I respect that. You’re going to be treated as adults when I speak towards you and I hope that we can have a mutual relationship where all of you act like adults as well. Are we on the same page?”
| Cepheus hushes for a moment and everyone collectively nods and discusses a few things to themselves during the break moment of the speech. Once everyone silences once more, Cepheus continues on with what he was saying. |
Cepheus: “Okay, as I was saying, I come to you as a very wealthy and successful man, taking time out of my day to talk to all of you here at Larish County High School about success. Success is something we all seek, no? No matter who you are, what you want to be and who you want to be there with, we all want to be successful. Whether it be a successful relationship, job success or all around successful, we all want to do something that we’re proud of. We all deserve success. May I ask something of you? Can you all please raise your hands if you’d like three simple ways to guarantee yourself success.”
| Cepheus looks around to scan who all has their hands raised. A little under half of the auditorium has their hands raised. Cepheus raises his eyebrows at the less-than-enthusiastic crowd of high schoolers. He laughs in the microphone a little bit and speaks again. |
Cepheus: “Let me tell you, in the mindset that you’re all at right now, in the mindset you’re all at before this speech… Everyone who raised their hands it’s going to be more successful than those who didn’t. This is showing enthusiasm, this is showing initiative. Everyone who raised their hands strives to be great and those who didn’t show that they could care less or are too worried about what others might think if they show that they care. Here’s my current tip of advice to those of you who didn’t raise your hand and way number one to be guaranteed success.. Never let people’s image of you get in the way of what’s best for you. Don’t allow peoples thoughts of you to affect what you do, how you do things and so-on, because I can assure you that the only person responsible for what you get done or do in life is in fact, you. You can go through your life making excuses, blaming someone else for your shortcomings but I’m telling you right now that it is nobody’s fault except yours. You control your own destiny.”
| Cepheus stops for a second and checks his phone for a second after a buzz is heard, the background noise is muted out and all that was heard was his phone. He looks down at his screen and the only thing decipherable by camera is that the text came from a contact in his phone as “Dr. D” It’s not known what the message had said though. Cepheus puts his phone down and continues on with his speech. |
Cepheus: “Now here’s tip number two, stay motivated. Never give up. Don’t forget your goals and don’t forget why you want to be where you are. There’s going to be people who want to knock you down but if you don’t get up, that shows signs of a true coward. Let me tell you my journey of how I got to where I am. I grew up brilliant. I strived for success and people failed me time after time again. Nobody was on the level I was on in school and I’m not saying this to boast or to brag I’m being one hundred percent with you. Everything I did, I did it immaculately. Sports, education, involvement, I did it all and at the time, I was cocky. I did boast about it. Why wouldn’t I, right? I knew that I was top dog and I wasn’t afraid to show it. I’d hope you can all understand where I’m coming there. Never shy away from your greatness within. Know who you are. Know what makes you great and use it to your best ability. Anyways, after high school, I was torn on what I wanted to do with my life. I was getting offers from school after school but I didn’t want the offers. I didn’t want to sit in school for another two-to-eight years and study more shit. I knew more than what most of my professors would have anyways, I wanted to join the workforce and make something of myself. I wanted a lot of things. Then one day, my older brother, Ramondo… He introduced me to this man that he’d been hanging out with for a while. Now, I knew my brother Ramondo was rich at the time, and it’s easy to say that Ramonda was successful. I didn’t ever fully understand why he was successful. It wasn’t to my knowledge that he’d been working a job, anytime I’d ask him what he was doing all the time during working hours and late hours and usually his response was simply chilling with Eriequen. I’d never met Eriequen until upon graduation. After I’d decided not to pursue college, Ramondo introduced me to Eriequen and Eriequen was decked out in expensive clothing, jewelry, all of it. Eriequen was SUCCESSFUL. He’d approached me about the life he lived and how he got to where he’s at now and I’d bought into it. He’d told me of all of these jobs he’d worked and he offered to allow me to work with him. I’d fully accepted the offer and that’s when he gave me a box. He gave me the box and an address and he told me that if I’d looked into the box he’d shoot me on the spot. He showed me his gun and he waved it around threatening my life. I did what I had to do and I delivered the box where it had to be-- almost. I stood there at the location with the unopened box that could contain anything and I waited, and I waited then I waited some more. Right as I was about to take the box and leave, I felt something press against the back of my head. A voice repeated over and over, it said ‘Don’t move.’ I obeyed, realizing that this had been the second time I’ve had a gun aimed at my head with in a week. ‘Drop to your knees’ they told me and once again, I obeyed feeling my hands being cuffed together. ‘You’re under arrest for possession and intent to tell deadly firearm. You have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you can not afford one, one will be appointed for you.’ I rejected the appointed attorney and defended myself in the case. I fared well against a professional attorney, pleading innocent, obviously. I got what would have been a twenty-five-year-or-more sentence for trafficking 5-or-more deadly fire arms down to a eight year sentence. I sat in prison for eight whole years, fresh out of high school and I was locked in prison for something that I was held at gunpoint to do. I came up with one conclusion while I was in the slammer. Ramondo and Eriequen were intending to sell those weapons, but they may have gotten tipped that the cops were aware of the trafficking, but they were still trying to get their money, so instead of taking the risk themselves, the had hired me to do their dirty work and take no risks in the process. My theory pretty much proved to be right when I learned while I was in prison by some people who were ‘in with’ Eriequen and Ramondo had alerted me that the two flee’d the country to Eriequen’s home country of Ecuador. I haven’t heard from the two since then.
| Cepheus laughs and takes the microphone off of the podium. He walks away from the podium and grabs a chair. He puts the chair backwards and sits on it, facing the crowd with his legs straddling the back of the chair. He begins to talk again to the crowd after getting comfortable. |
Cepheus: “I got out of prison eight-years-later, nearly a year ago and with everything I’ve taught myself in my time in prison, with my time in school, everything I know, I became a businessman. An entrepreneur if you will. I’ve been dappling in professional wrestling, competing in Elite Answers Wrestling and I even own an establishment in Canada, maybe some of you have heard of Atlantic Wrestling Corporation? It’s one of the top companies based-in Canada. It’s been the center of much controversy as of late. Everyone asks me ‘Cepheus, how did you do it?’ and you’re sitting here listening to my speak today and I’m giving you all the keys that I’ve obtained to be successful and you’re getting the answer to a million questions here today for free. Which brings me to my third and final key to success. Never be afraid to be the bad guy if it means success for yourself. Too often do I see people who strive for greatness fail to provide because in the end they’d put other people first. They’re too afraid of ruining their ‘good guy’ image to see the bigger picture and truly succeed and be the greatest form of themselves that they can be. I made the purchase of Atlantic Wrestling Corporation straight out of my wallet and it upset a lot of proud people. It made proud people, proud citizens and proud Canadians angry, but in the end, it was a big investment in my part. It helped me and my co-worker, Lonnie Delmonty, Dr. Delmonty, it made us even more successful than we already were. That’s because I put success before pride. I put success above arrogance and ignorance and I made myself a successful man! Not even a year removed from a state penitentiary and I am a SUCCESSFUL MAN. You better believe when I tell you that nobody saw it coming.. NOBODY. Not only did I make a recherché business acquisition, but in the process, I’m now in the head of make my Elite Answers Wrestling debut in a triple threat match against El Landerson and Korey Gaines. I haven’t even publicly spoken a word about either of the two yet, but I know that I’m already in their heads. They know that not only am I winning the business field, I’ll be winning come Sunday Night Voltage. I know what it takes to be successful, and I want the youth and all of the people in this school to be as successful as I am.. That’s why I took some more money out of my wallet and I purchased Larish County High School and it’s being rebranded to St. Claire High School, effective immediately. Thank you to all of you tremendous listeners and I hope that you’re all as successful one day as you strive to be today.”
| Cepheus St. Claire puts the microphone back up onto the podium as the crowd roars at the powerful speech. Tears are seen in the crowd and everyone's on their feet for a standing ovation, completely moved by the speech before them. Cepheus fixes his tie under his suit jacket and waves as he walks backstage. As soon as he passes by the curtains, Lonnie Delmonty is standing backstage waiting for Cepheus |
Cepheus: “Do you think they bought the sob story about Eriquen and Ramondo?”
| The two laugh arrogantly as if the question was rhetorical |
Cepheus: “Little do they know what really happened the day I was arrested...”
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