Hour of Dawn, after the Bark at the Moon

[~The Wolf~ Dolphus Dresden]

From the Apex! Moon Craving Pt.2
Bark at the Moon by Ozzy Osbourne


Dresden started laughing and rolled off the bed, he crawled around the floor and pulled himself up from the night stand. He looked around and pushed himself up, the moon light was what shined through the dark from his window. Dresden stood up only wearing his boxers.

This Revelation, he is indeed one to keep an eye on, what is in it for Dresden to win this match? I could say to Mister Clark, I beat a superhero single handed. Yet the rest of the world would say, no you beat a wrestling opponent. He thinks and begins to speak out loud.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Revelation has not beaten any champion yet,... Well God damn look at that resume a mile fucking long! Paper isn't shit, but something to wipe my ass with. What matters is the IWS, sure he is undefeated but at one point so was I. I've been the UK Champion, a title now known as the eXtinction title, and something Mister Juarez has not claimed. I have been a tag team champion and never lost my title."

Dresden can feel his heart racing faster as he thinks about it. Revelation was a older fool like Trent Brown. Yet the more he made himself look bigger the hungrier Dresden can feel himself grow, Revelation could be a delicious meal to add into his win. Of course Trent Brown made his blood boil the same way Shane Trudex used to, but Dresden has beaten Trent, that chapter is cleared to him. People forgot Dresden was attacked by Shane during his debut in IWS, people also forget that Dresden was named number one contender and then management conveniently forgot about him and Mister Ryder conveniently happen to be around while Dresden was sidelined.

Dresden sat in his chair by the window and looked out at the night. The creatures of the night have to have higher senses, they can be undetected to anyone out of their element. To a point Dresden has liked the way his former tag partner Katherine Brock is evolving. He smirked a little, he had hoped she would somewhat. Trent claims he has a dark side, but Katherine has more honor then Trent could ever have inside Dresden's head.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Walking in the light, and taking a stroll at night. It's a great concept something I'm familiar with. How eager people are to toss their experience around when obviously if I had been born earlier then Mister Juarez wouldn't be able to claim all these marvelous accomplishments. No in fact all Revelation would be able to say is I had a great career, till I got in The Wolf's way. Inside that ring I am a wolf, just like at night I am a true animal. Revelation he is like a rooster, he crows at the rising sun, while the moon falls to the new day. In that one moment, the sun and the moon are equals. It would be that moment that Revelation would fall under my bite. The sun would never rise and I could be an animal every hour of my life. The only thing that maters is that I am the Apex Predator, the very top of the food chain. Revelation, you are just another link that leads to me, welcome to the Apex."

The scene fades to black Dresden's voice had a smirk in it that rolled off his cocky accent.


Because I'm Scottish...
... in case you forgot, let me remind you stupid American.

Dresden smirks as he leans up against the brick wall of the apartment building in the alley. This revelation is a funny guy, he assumes that I do Dax Clark's bidding. Mister Clark does not own me. He just has an eye on me, which he should, I am the fucking Apex Predator. Dresden chuckled as he thought this.

Down the way The Sandman was walking towards Dresden. Last time he saw him Dresden stabbed him in the rib for even questioning his fortitude.

Sandman smirked he still wore this mask, it was his tribe's oath to have to do this in public. Dresden didn't quite understood it, nor does he really care either.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"Mister Dresden, and good evening to you."


He held his hands together and slightly bowed. Dresden pushed himself off the wall and paced in front of The Sandman.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"What am I Mister Sandman? I was not raised to be some serial number, I was born to be chosen and rise above everyone, including Revelation. He is the Master of the Final Chapter? I am the Author of the 'Good' Book, I am here to show them... words..."


Sandman held up his hand and slightly chuckled as he shook his head. He had his hood of his robe up and over his head. He paced shortly in front of Dresden and then spoke.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"The time for words is over, if any are spoken they are but filtered truth. I told you Mister Dresden you are The Apex Predator. I could also call you The Angel of Revelation, or The Spirit of Truth... but what does it really matter, it's all just a name. What people remember is the message. In fact Mister Revelation even reminded you of what was written."


Dresden paused. Sandman told him at a young age he hold all the keys inside his mind. Revelation is only the final chapter, but how is holding the book?Dresden smirked and lightly licked his dry lips as he took a deep breath.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Am I suppose to be afraid of a chapter? What I am afraid of looks back at me in the mirror. Perhaps I do see a revelation there, but who knows. Either way if he is the final chapter then I guess that makes it my job to shut the bloody book now isn't it?"


Dresden was starting to get worked up and pulled out with switchblade, he smirked and looked at Sandman.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"Please save that aggression for the ring."


Dresden paused and then put away his weapon, he circled around The Sandman, and spoke out loud.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Ye are right, this Revelation he is just a messenger to the messenger. I do not follow Mister Clark, I do not really even look up to him. Revelation and him are the same thing to me. All that Dax and I discussed was being on the same page. That means we don't interfere with one another, it's war right?"


The Sandman nodded at Dresden, he didn't move as he was circled, but stood still and tall. Dresden laughed loudly.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"I have heard you called Lord LB am I right?"


The Sandman took a deep breath and also nodded. Dresden laughed even harder and stood looking at the cloaked man in front of him. He smirked and nodded.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"I see then, well this Lunar Madness I am the Wolf, and Revelation will not prevent me from advancing on my path to the end, that doesn't mean the group I am talking about the same thing he is. I seem to remember, Isaiah 11:6... I don't have to recite it for you. "What am I Mister Sandman?"


Dresden nearly growled as a question for The Sandman to answer. The Sandman took a moment and smirked.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"You are the Wolf, Mister Dresden."

Dresden sighed, this answer seems acceptably enough for him. The Sandman had after all been the one that brought him and Jerrick Hadrian together. The gifted One and The Apex Predator. Dresden smirked before he responded.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"That is bloody right, and Revelation is only the summery of what has already been told. What I wonder would happen if the book was re-written. Then Mister Sandman the child would never lead would he? He was tested and he was given many trails, including an ultimate battle in which he was the one to lead them. I do believe I am younger then this Revelation, and some old story book is not going to tell me my own fucking story. I am destined for Greatness, all Revelation is destined for is to be black and white. Just like words in the stone, his commandments will weather away. Now if he would have said... superman, perhaps I could have been quivering in my boots, but a little whinny boy that cringes because of bats. Please... I have wet myself over much scarier things."


The Sandman smirks listening to Dresden, but does not let himself laugh.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"Mister Hadrian is a fine addition to this team, he will want to certainly make a statement against Trueblood."

Dresden paused. Indeed, the only thing that made Sandman worth keeping around was his eye for talent. Mister Clark has this same eye, but Dresden already knows how great his is. Only The Trademark Shane Trudex has stood in his way.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"I should have made a statement against Trudex, but he ducks me week after week. Now Revelation thinks he is batman, Shane thinks he is batman... well then... I guess I am Harvey Dent and Hurriclark is the Joker. I'm not about Dax Clark or his crew, I am not about who can play cops or robbers better. I am about keeping balance, everything centers around me. That should be the balance of things. To take down one Alpha one must have started as an omega. I am the beginning and the end, I am the creator of good and evil, giver of life and taker of death. Which brings me to my point of why I called you here Sandman."


Dresden took out an urn and handed it to The Sandman. The name engraved onto it read 'Blake Archer '1994~2007' The Sandman looked up at Dresden.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"What is this?"

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"That is Blake Archer's ashes, forensics confirmed it, and just like Revelation thinks he is saying. ashes to ashes and dust to dust I am afraid."


Dresden tried to keep from smirking, but had a shit eating gin imprinted on his face.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"I see shouldn't his wife have this?"

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Eh screw her, Revelation tazed his so called buddy, Mister Freddy. The old man was hoping and preying for redemption so I shot it back at Revelation. It seems he hates to eat his just deserts. As for Mister Clark, Dax Clark, Hurriclark... I have a boss named Hurriclark, a co worker named Dax Clark, and an ally for the time being named Mister Clark. I treat all three men separately. These ashes right here are the death of the old. Once legend, and now just ashes named Blake Archer. Why should his wife keep these ashes? I seen the tapes she threw away his key of life and so be it then. I can turn this page when I feel like it, nothing is everlasting but me. I am forever."

The Sandman nodded and looked at the giant urn in his hands. His eyes got smaller slightly and he looked over at Dresden.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"So then it is true, the deranged prophet has finally been taken care of. Now then this Revelation, he thinks he knows the story, but the story of the son is yet to be written. Dresden, you are not to win this match."

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Excuse me?"


Dresden couldn't believe what he was hearing right now. An order not to win from the Master of Dreams, this is a load of crap. The Sandman continued before Dresden was able to get a word out.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"I would like 'The Gifted One' to shine a little in his moment of youth. The suffering of the meek will not be because of some Revelation, but from truth, no matter how horrible of a truth it is. The Glory of the young shine brighter then the tales of the old. Remember you are the Wolf Dresden. The earth's heartbeat is a drum in your ear. You follow it like a star in the sky. If The Gifted one should fail you must carry him. It is a request that I was given by an angel upon my shoulder."


Dresden took a deep breath he knew that Sandman was ready to get stabbed again in the gut like before. For some reason giving Dresden this message was important though, and something inside him felt like listening to him. Dresden instead slowly smiles.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"You are right, in their sleep is better Mister Sandman. Revelation needs to realize the end, even in the final chapter it spoke of the rapture to come. That is our orders, our Natural Order."


Sandman smirks slightly and shook his head.

The Pope of Truth| The Dreamweaver
The Sandman
"You speak in a backwards way, so the dead can hear you it's fascinating. I wonder which Revelation hears?"


Dresden grows a wider smirk and crossed his arms.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Revelation... I believe he is alive, because in the End, we're all dead. I mean come on, he is the final chapter why am I explaining this?"


Dresden was insulted that Revelation thinks The Wolf follows anyone. The Sandman advised him, but most of the time Dresden didn't agree and did whatever he liked, it was why Malory Yassky quit as his manager. He didn't need her, he did great on his own. All until he teamed with Katherine Brock. Suddenly a thought strikes him and Dresden looked over at Sandman.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"I haven't got a lot of time, but thank you Mister Sandman. I am prepared for this match, a Super Mind versus the Apex Predator. Interesting match up, The Anti Christ versus The Gifted One... this tales almost should be written in time you know. One that none shall forget, least I bloody won't."


He took off and got in his car, before he started it Dresden got on his phone and looked at his recent calls, Mikalah had called him several times, but he liked to prowl the streets at night. He put the phone up to his ear and listen to it ring.

(Click)

Mikalah Lewis
"Hello?"

Dresden paused and slowly smirked. She sounded like she had been expecting him to call her.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Mikalah, what you been calling about?"

Dresden smirked and it seemed to travel in the sound of his voice.


Mikalah Lewis
"Just wondered if you were still training for your match?"


She also sounded like she was smirking. Dresden started up his car and replied to her.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"I'm done for now, I can come over."


Mikalah Lewis
"Alright sounds good to me."


Dresden hung up the phone and sat for a second in his lime green barracuda. He loves this car more then life it seemed. He was not cold hearted he had befriended Katherine only to become a victim. Never again, he had to lose everything to realize where he needs to be in this company, Revelation is forgetting a primary law about the predators of the night. "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer."

He hit the gas and sped off on his way to meet Mikalah maybe she might prove valuable after all.

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Eve of Lunar Madness

The Morning Moon
Morning Moon by Hopeku

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The Night is almost over, and I am going to be the best.


Dresden woke up and felt blinded by the sun, he got up and shut the curtains quickly. he looked around the room he didn't recognize it at all, but it looked very nice. There was a note by the bed and he picked it up to read it.


Dresden,

I think I have information, but I don't want you mad at me. (He raised his brow this was foreshadowing already) I can help you in the order, I should have stopped anyone from attacking you, please forgive me for that. I will make things up to you if you let me. I will see you at Lunar Madness, I know you'll really kill Revelation and that pathetic Trueblood.

Take Care,

Mik


Dresden scratched his head. So this must be Mikalah's flat? It looked nice, he thinks to himself. Well however or why ever he is here is not important anymore. The words 'Really Kill Revelation" leaped out and bit his head off with surprise. He rubbed his neck and shook his head slightly chuckling.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"That girl kills me...Like i would really kill anybody,... silly women."


The Scene fades as Dresden got ready and left the flat. He went to the CWA (Climax Wrestling Academy) when he started in IWS he had just graduated from here. The place barely looks alive, it fills Dresden with a slight frown.

He entered the doors and everything seems like dust of a memory long ago. They had basket ball courts in the gym and boxing bags, speed bags. Jump ropes littered the floor as did weights and dumbells. Dresden walked over to the ring and rang his hand along the edge of it. He and the two owners of the gym had built this ring. It made him smile to be able to touch it again, it made him feel the same way his car does. He built his car from the ground up, just like he had this ring when younger.

It was clear what was happening, people were trying to compare him to the thirty year old Barbarians, yet Dresden is a modern day warrior.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"I do not forget my roots either, just because they were not that long ago does not mean I do not see them crumbling at the back of my mind. This new generation, my future... it thinks that time is just a rush. See I am your future Revelation, I am Dax Clark's future, I am Josie Pleasure's future. Even The Trademark Shane Trudex knows I am the future. When you are all at some retirement home hitting on middle aged nurses. I will be the one that is ruling over your domain."


Dresden pulled his arm away from the ring and looked around. What happen to this place, it looked condemned. How does this happen within one year? The question is often asked of people where do you see yourself in ten years?

Dresden thinks where will I be tomorrow, and the next day, he plans things out perfectly day to day for a year at a time. So when people actually ask him where do you see yourself in ten years, Dresden is able to answer. Following regulations, following the laws of nature, that was how he was raised. So people are trying to crowd him out, not without feeling the Wolf Bite on their way past him. Mister Clark has made one promise to Dresden.

'You'll get the match."

He remembers the agreement of Hurriclark.

"Yep sounds good."

Then to the day he first met Dax Clark. The guy walked up to him, he had been watching Dresden for awhile and wanted him to team against Shane Trudex... Shane Trudex? Of course The Apex Predator would love to take on the Trademark of professional wrestling. Dresden smirked to himself as he remembered all these things in the past year, it was like his first year of being alive. Some guy ten years down the road will have to fight him for the same reason Revelation and he are meeting in the ring this pay per view.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"I'm not stupid, I see Mister Clark as must of a threat as I do Paroxysm, or Hurriclark... hey if you think you are more then one person they are all a different factor to be calculated. I once called myself The Analytical Killer in another federation, and I am The Apex Predator, so of course I am naturally The best Analytical Killer. I told Jerrick that he and The Sandman and I we are like a pack of raptors. Hehe, yes a small joke to myself about my nick name. Sooner or later Revelation, you'll need to lift yourself from sleep and that is when I will bite. Only one man has ever gotten past me and that man was Shane Trudex, never again Revelation."


Dresden drifted off thinking about how his mother was ripped limb from limb by wolves. She was so weak, not like Dresden he could defy anything that he saw fit even himself. He thought about how Jerrick had told him the IWS needs cleansing. How did Mister Riot put things he was cleansing the IWS of Blake Archer...if not then he should have. The man that follows Dax Clark is powerful, but still a man I once beat. Dresden chuckles as he thinks this. He had in his match after meeting Dax Clark defeated Shane and Blake.

(Rewind moment)
Feb. 3rd, 2011 Injection
Blake pulls Dresden up by his hair, Dresden counters by poking Blake in the eye. He backs up and hits Blake with his WolfBite!

Take that you son of a bitch, and now Dax is your master? Well whatever fella.

Dresden opened his eyes. Dax Clark might not be a good guy, but does that matter in the big picture of things.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"In case people don't follow things I hate Scythe Bloodline. Mister Clark assures me that he will never be recruited by him, and Hurriclark proclaims he doesn't plan to sign him. If Mister Clark ever helps Scythe plot against me then I will deal with him, till then Revelation. Why would I not help a team mate? Dax Clark is not in my team, but he asked for Sandman's assistance. He represents that e have a common goal of a unity in IWS. What do you want to represent?"


Dresden nearly started to lose it laughing, but he held himself back.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come and see!" I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest. — Revelation 6:1-2˄ NIV

Oh I know your book, The Archer I have killed, well... nature has killed. What Dax Clark has is but a shadow of a man. Then there was Miss Pleasure doing us all a favor.

When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come and see!" Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.
— Revelation 6:3-4˄ NIV

She did put a stop to Riot's involvement for awhile didn't she? Yet she is your ally, so shame on Dax Clark for kidnapping a man, God bless you Miss Pleasure for murdering your family! Revelation needs to step into my world not think I am entering his. heh. It was a good try though, but you are as natural as a little kid's dreams Mister Revelation. I am reality, and the reality is that I am above you on the food chain, I am on the Apex, you are just lost in my shadow."

He grunted and then slowly smirked as he walked out and then re-entered with a girl over his shoulder. He placed her in a chair and tied her down with nots he learned in the Boy Scouts. He was glad his family moved to America when he was younger, but he went back all the time to visit his mother's grave. That was how he met Mikalah, she had been walking from a friends house and he noticed her.

Now he had some angel giving him orders?

He walked away from this girl she has a bag covering her head hiding her identity from us and the location of where she is at to her. Dresden enters again and has a can of gasoline. He starts to pour it around the place and then in a perfect circle around the girl. He leaned close to her and whispered in her ear.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Alright now love, I want you to understand, you have two choices. Do you believe in Revelation... or do you believe in the Natural Order... I am... I am not some book. So you make your choice then."

He kissed her lightly on the side of the cheek and put a red rose in her lap before he exited the building leaving the door hanging open. He reached in his car and pulled out a flare gun. He pointed it at the building.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"This time she better make the right fucking choice, because if I was Revelation. I would feel like a damn saint with all the lives my false words claim... but hey... who am I right, just some Dax Clark lackey am I right?"

Dresden pointed the gun at the building and pulled back the hammer, he placed his finger on the trigger.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"I'm not holding back this time around. It will all be game over when we have decided the Judgement. I decide with the scales, it's an image that has haunted my dreams. Just like that so called role model Mister Wayne, I seen the wolves in my dreams. I grew to hate them I evolved into being a wolf, that alpha of all wolves, and became the Apex Predator. I might only have been on this showcasing level with people like Revelation for a year, but I have been in the making since the beginning of time."

He shot the gun off and the fire was engulfed by the gasoline. The entire building became a black cloud. Dresden started to laugh, he calmly paced around the outside of the building and listen to the symphony of screams fill the air. The girl was starting to feel heat of the flames, her skin must really be in pain. Revelation wants to get some attention, very well.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"Can you hear me lovely? Shane hasn't saved you has he? Well how about Revelation? Nah... um well who is it then I wonder? Do you serve your master? No master that's unheard of, so you must be a lady, then who is your Lord?"

The woman decided to stop screaming Dresden rolled his eyes and pulled off his jacked no wearing his white tank and blue jeans. He ran into the building and then withing a few minuets jumped through a window with her in his arms.

Dresden looked at her, the woman's eyes were wide, and blue like a scared little girl. He chuckled as he held her shaking body, he had given her a good scare, a trip to visit death.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"You serve the Order, you understand? You serve nature. The Sandman put you to sleep, The Gifted one brought you to life, and I will lead you to glory. You understand it all in the end right?"

The girl slowly nodded, Dresden smirked and patted her lightly on the head.

The Wolf | The Apex Predator
Dolphus Dresden
"That is a good girl, you work for us. In fact I will bind you to the gift like you wish, and you can thank this hero Mister Revelation. He will decide the first of the fallen. and Revelation is going to be caught in the Forevermore Figure Four. You better serve your purpose."

Dresden stood up he decided she could just stay there with her singed clothes and hair. Her perfection was taken away, because nothing is as perfect as The Apex Predator. He chuckled and got into his car and sped off, as the cameras fade away.