Chapter 5 - Intermission

Demetrius opens the door and begins to speed walk as the trainers try to catch up to him. As this is happening more people begin to look into the cage as Tyson is getting helped. Tyson is looking like a man that got beaten in the bar. Trainers over him trying to clean him up. Wiping down his body off the blood, sweat liquid bandaid for his bloody mouth and giving nose plugs for his even worse bloody nose. Tyson begins to get himself up as the managers along with Tony and Scoot continue to wipe him down. Tyson stands up allowing anyone and everyone to get a look at his bruised body. Huge marks across his abs, chest, arms. Including a black marking appearing near his left eye. Everyone was shocked that Demetrius caused that much damage with so much speed. Tyson begins to look at everyone giving a concerned look towards him. He begins to hyperventilate as he begins to speed walk to the gym locker room. Adrian and Martin begin to follow him as Jeremy was trying to calm the situation down. They heard the sounds of Jeremy and the two trainers begin to tell the crowd that it will be fine. Martin and Adrian see Tyson open the locker room door as they got to the thin hallway that leads to it. When Martin and Adrian got to the locker room door, they see Tyson staring into the mirror of one of the sinks with tears beginning to form in his eyes.

"Tyson, you okay buddy?" Martin asked approaching Tyson as Adrian stayed guard at the door wanting this to be more of a private moment between the three teammates.

"WHY THE FUCK WOULD MR. SYVONE DID NOT END THE FIGHT EARLIER!" Tyson yells with frustration and agony in his voice due to the pain.

"Tyson, everything will be okay," Martin said with a voice trying to calm down Tyson. Adrian heard some knocking on the door.

"Occupied, man" Adrian replied the moment he began to hear the knocking.

"Adrian, it is me, Jeremy," Jeremy said through the door as he continue to knock on the door. "Something happened to Demetrius."

Adrian opened the door to see it was in fact Jeremy, he let him into the locker room and closed the door again. "This is the only door right?" Adrian asked.

"Yeah, it is," Jeremy said with a shocked look on his face.

"More importantly," Began Martin. "What happened to Demetrius?" Martin returned back to attempting to help his teammate.

"The trainers returned back carrying Demetrius, his face was all bloody and scratched up," Jeremy said as he looks at the people with his one good eye. "Especially around his right eye."

"Did anyone ask the trainers, what happened to him?" Adrian asked as shudders of the thought that the people might have seen.

"They said he hit his head on one of the bricks on the stairs and they were bringing him back to call an ambulance to check on his head," Jeremy said with confusion in his voice.

"Yeah that seems weird, especially the fact that they brought him back into the gym," Martin said as he begins to focus back on the other conversation as he is calming down Tyson. Tyson begins to splash water on his face to clean himself up.

"Another man asked that and Greg's answer was it was to show Mr. Syvone to hopefully spend some money to get the stairs fixed up more," Jeremy replied to martin as he leans on one of the lockers. "You ready Tyson?"

"I am feeling a little better, just give me a couple of minutes," Tyson said as he continues to splash water on his face. "Does my eye looks better?"

Tyson showed his eye clearer to the group and all of them looked shocked at how it looked. It looked like his left eye balloon up, the skin around his eyes looked like it was pushed forward by half an inch. "Well it could be worse," Adrian said bluntly as Jeremy and Martin gave him a look for what he said. "The fuck, yall staring at me for, you got anything better to say?"

"He does have a point," Jeremy respond looking other towards Martin.

Martin gave out a sign. "Look the important thing is that it looks like Demetrius got some fair treatment if I would say so myself."

"True, but still we should probably go check on him," Jeremy said as he walked to the door. Adrian moved out the way allowing the man to walk through.

"I am going with him," Adrian said following Jeremy. Tyson and Martin looked at each other as they begin to move forward.

"Wait for us," the both of them said as they walk out of the locker room turning off the lights in the process.

They began to walk through the skinny hallway as they return to the main area. They see Mr. Syvone walking out of the building with Adam and Greg following behind them. Tony and Scoot are still on the ring cleaning the blood dripped all over it. Martin walked away from the group to follow the men out of the building. Adrian saw him doing this but he did not question or brought attention to it. Martin walked out to see the men walking up the stairs. Feeling the cooler hair hitting his body as he realized it was getting later into the day. He tipped toed out to see what was happening. He saw Adam and Greg show the brick that Demetrius got hurt on but he noticed something weird about it other than the blood on it. It was how it was a looser brick like it can be removed. Mr. Syvone shrugged his shoulders but martin could not tell what was being said between the men, then he heard the ambulance siren in the distance. Martin decided to walk back inside the gym before anything could happen to him. Martin quietly opens the door to still see confusion across most of the people that were more focused on themselves and the trainers. He notices the group looks at him confused except for Adrian who just gave him a nod as he expected him to do this. Martin walked up to them.

"We got to head back to the locker room," Martin whispered in a strong tone. This gave the group a confused look on their face.

"For what reason, Martin?" Jeremy said skeptically at what he was hearing.

"Look trust me," Martin whispered back walking past them, giving a nod. Adrian followed martin. The other two gave a shrug and proceeded to follow the two new guys. They head past the people being quiet as they can with their steps. This time Tyson noticed Scott was staring at them with that same blank emotionless look on his face as he just calmly smokes his cigar. The group heads back into the locker, Adrian posted at the door keeping it closed, and the three just around him.

"What happened out there," Jeremy said with concern and curiosity noticeable in his voice. Adrian then puts a finger to his lip signaling them to be quiet. Then they immediately went silent as they heard knocking on the door.

"What are y'all doing in there and why is the door locked," said a voice, it was noticeable rough sounding, it kept hitting the door. Adrian signals gave them a look and signal with his hands for them to act like they were doing something. Jeremy went to his locker, Tyson to a stall, Martin by the sink, and Adrian walked out of the door quickly to be by a towel dispenser drying his hands. The banging continues.

"The door ain't lock, man, you can come in," Adrian yelled as he was drying his already dried hands. The door flew open and there was Scott still with his cigar in his mouth.

"What the fuck are you guys doing? Scott asked as he blows the smoke out of his mouth.

"Who is taking a shit?"

"I am," Tyson yelled from his stall, indeed taking a shit.

"Ah ok, just checking on you guys," Scott says as he walks out of the locker room. Adrian kept his usual position at the door and waited for everyone to stop what they were pretending to do, unlike Tyson who just kept going.

"Tyson, not going to lie, that shit actually worked," Adrian said before he thought to himself. "No pun intended, of course."

"Of course," Tyson said as he glances over to Martin. "So what is so important to say, huh."

"Well," Martin said as he rubs his hand on his neck. "a brick caused that damage, but I think there is more to that."

"What do you mean," Adrian replied. "Are you saying there is more to this?"

"I am thinking that Adam and Greg, that is their names right, Jeremy?" Martin asked looking towards the man.

"The two big guys, yeah, that is their names," Jeremy said to the group. "Greg is the younger of the two, and Adam is the older," he then added.

"Yeah, I am guessing they, this is just a theory, of course," Martin emphasized. "That they beat him with a brick, the brick outside with blood on it looks too loose for it not to be used to hit someone with it."

"Are you sure, they were the one to hit him?" Jeremy asked being even more confused.

"Well, I did not see i…" Martin before getting interrupted by Jeremy.

"Exactly, you did not see them at all, so you can not make that assumption," Jeremy said interrupting Jeremy. "He probably tripped or something like that."

"Well I don't know, I was just thinking," Martin began to ramble on. Adrian slapped Martin in the chest causing Martin to flinch. "My bad."

"It is fine, all I am saying is that you should think logically before you make wild claims like that," Jeremy said in a typical dad tone.

"Yeah, you are right, Jeremy," Martin said still confused that he let himself think of that conclusion.

"Are you guys going to stand around or are we going to go back out," Adrian said as he opens the door. "It seems like Scott was suspicious so let's leave before he comes back and questions us again."

"Alright I'm head out of this shitter," Tyson says as he walks past Adrian with his shoulders broadening and deepening his voice.

"Come on, Martin," Jeremy said as he walks out of the room.

"Wait for me, guys," Martin said as he walks out of the room, forgetting that Adrian was there.

"Ladies first," Adrian said jokingly. Martin gave him a look of completely being flummoxed like why would this man even make that joke. The group heads back to the main part to see everyone looking at the ring, where Mr. Syvone was standing in the middle.

"I am sorry for the delays that have been happening, but due to time, we are just going to conclude the first rounds which will be our Light Heavyweights," Mr. Syvone was saying. "After it, we will still be open for people for them wanting to workout." Mr. Syvone looks across the crowd and notices the four wrestlers. "Tyson, are you feeling better?"

"Yeah, I am thanking you for checking on me," Tyson replied to the question.

"Okay, so back to the fights that will be happening," Mr. Syvone said changing the topics. "Next up, for the lightweight class, it is Darren Odom and Casey War." The group sees the two men in hoodies walk up and are warming up for a bit, both are looking about average size guys. "You guys have five minutes to warm up and prepare for the fight." The two men walk to opposite sides and started to get ready for their fight. The crowd likes it might return to being excited after waiting for the next fight to happen.