The video begins and we see the ocean lapping up against the sand from a considerable height above. The beach in the view of the camera is almost completely empty, save for one morning jogger running along it. As we continue to focus on the beach and the scenic ocean shot we hear a voice behind the camera. “You know sometimes waking up to a sight like this can make even the worst of things feel that much better,” Zoe says softly before letting out a contented sigh. “And some mornings, when I do wake up and I see this unbelievable sight in front of me, I have to pinch myself a little to remind myself that it’s real. I mean I grew up with some pretty amazing sights – say what you want about Los Angeles but I still say it’s one of the best cities in the world – and growing up I may have dreamed about moments like this but I never thought I’d really get to live them. When you’re growing up you dream about a lot of different things after all, right? And realistically speaking you never think those dreams will really come true. So many of my dreams have though. So many impossible things that I dreamt about happening to me really have happened to me, and it’s incredible when I think about it. Sometimes I just have to stop and think how far I’ve come in such a short time, how much I’ve really accomplished, and it makes even the darker moments a little brighter.”

She turns the camera around on herself and looks into it proudly. “One of those darker moments occurred a few weeks ago at Taking Hold of the Flame. I entered the Battle Royal this year with no other choice. I didn’t have a contract I could spring on anyone this year. I had a rematch that I won but still ended up screwed over. I had no choice but to go Columbus, enter the impossible thirty to one odds, and overcome them. And I said before the match that that’s what I needed to do. I said before the match that it was DO or DIE. And the odds were not in my favour. I mean ok, I didn’t enter as one of the first two, which put them up a little, but I still had to contend with a certain arrogant backstabbing bitch at ringside doing all she could to eliminate me from the match and cost me the opportunity I wanted,” she says angrily. “I like to think that I dealt with that pretty though. She did everything she could to eliminate me early but I kept going. If you hadn’t noticed I’m like the fucking SCW Energizer Bunny. It doesn’t matter how many of you bitches try and knock me down, I just keep going and going and going! But last Sunday I didn’t get all the way to the end. Well, I did. I was one of the final two. I made it to the final two in the match. And then I turned around and… Well, we all remember what happened, don’t we? Ravyn Taylor, the other half of Dark Fantasy, the love of my life and my soul mate, knocked me out and eliminated me.”

Surprisingly, in spite of saying that, she starts to laugh. “Yah, who saw that coming? I know I didn’t. That isn’t to say that I overlooked her, god knows I’m like one of the few around here who don’t overlook her and have always considered her one of the best in this company, even when others have told me so many times that I’m wrong. But I’ll be totally honest I didn’t see what happened coming. It was DO or DIE, and I didn’t do… but I won’t die,” she says passionately. “For anyone hoping I will, sorry guys, you’ve still got a wait remaining. But as hard as it was to accept what happened last week, as hard as it was to accept the fact that it was Ravyn who ultimately eliminated me and ended up chance of main eventing the biggest show of the year, despite the fact that it was Ravyn who ended up with the legacy defining moment that I wanted so badly, I’m not mad at her. I know a bunch of you think I should be. I’ve seen the Internet posts. I’ve read the tweets. I know you all thought there was some kind of Dark Fantasy implosion coming. And why wouldn’t you, I mean most tag teams break up over a lot less than that, and Ravyn and me have been married for almost five years now which is infinitely longer than almost any other relationship around here, so why wouldn’t you predict the end? But it’s not the end. There won’t be an end!”

“As hard as it is for me to accept that I won’t get what I want now, that I won’t get the opportunity to main event on the biggest stage once again, there’s one thing that I can promise you and that’s that everything Ravyn does from now until then I’ll be completely in support of because I know what she’s got ahead of her. She’s got Kelcey Wallace, now sponsored by the Monarchy, which I guess is more royal than perfect, and she’s got Kennedy Street and a small army to deal with. Totally been there, totally done that, totally overcame the Silas-inspired army before and walked out of Rise to Greatness with the SCW World Championship over my shoulder, and this year I’m walking out arm in arm with the woman carrying that belt, believe me,” she says happily. “But while focus number one is on making sure Ravyn gets her fair shot, on fighting by her side to make sure that all the bullshit that I’VE had to deal with over the past few months doesn’t get the best of HER like it got the best of me, focus number two is where it’s always been, and that’s on getting back what I should never have lost. But right now there’s no tournament ahead of me, there’s no Battle Royal to obsess over, and there’s no Trios Contract to cash in, so you’re probably thinking that that’s an impossible dream, that it’s over for me, that I’m way back at the back of the line again. Wrong. I’ll say it again, just so we’re perfectly clear: the line STARTS with me!”

“Now if you want to believe that’s an arrogant claim from my ego, rather than anything else, then I’m fine with that. Believe that. Think that all you want. But I’m going to do what I’ve done every single day for the last two years and that’s prove myself against the BIGGEST challenges week in and week out. I’m going to STAND TALL against ANYONE and EVERYONE who stands between me and what I want, because believe me guys I’m coming for that title and eventually I’m going to run out of roadblocks standing between me and it,” she says with determination. “There is, however, one guy that doesn’t have a roadblock between him and that goal. Well, technically there are two. They’re both former allies of mine. They’re both guys I know really well and guys I have a ton of history with. But there’s only one of them who’ll be standing on the other side of the ring to me this week, and that’s Lucas Knight. And oh boy has it been a while since we’ve done this, am I right? It feels like it’s been forever! But you guys know that this isn’t the first time that Lucas and I have stood in the ring together, and it’s not the first time we’ve stood on opposing sides either. It’s been a while since we did though and a lot has changed since then for both of us. In fact I’d even go as far as to say that neither one of us is quite the same person we were when we last danced this dance.”

“I’m not going to give you the long, drawn out history of Lucas Knight and Syren. That would take a while, and besides it’s also available in a book already, for anyone who hasn’t read it already. Of course that book is a little bit biased given that he wrote it, and it detailed so many intimate moments between the two of us that I never thought would come to light. Then again when you’re that close with someone, when you’re in love with someone like I was in love with Lucas, you don’t stop and imagine that a few years later you’ll be reading a recounting of some of the most private moments of your life for the entire world to read and judge, do you? It’s not something that even enters your mind. Just like it’s not something that enters your mind that you could come across in it the way that I came across. How did I come across, you ask? Well, I got made into the villain,” she says before beginning to laugh. “The truth couldn’t be further from that however. See while you may have read those stories and you may have judged me for so many of them – Lucas even going so far as to buy a hotel so that the two of us had somewhere to run away to together, oh and that time that I actually almost shot him in the face, which was a total accident by the way – what it doesn’t tell you, what HE doesn’t tell you, is all the times that he hurt me in one way or another.”

“Now I’m not crazy about talking about my sex life – although so, so, so many of you are completely obsessed with my sex life, and it’s really not as interesting as you guys think it is, even with Alexander and Ravyn in it. Seriously, you’d probably be disappointed if you could see the reality – I’ll make an exception here and say something to the world that I’ve told a few people already, including Lucas himself, and including David Helms. At a certain point in my life, including the time I was with David, there was nobody in the entire world who could make me feel like Lucas Knight made me feel. So if you guys wonder why I had an affair with him – twice – and was the ‘other woman’ in his relationship – twice – then it’s because Lucas was like a drug that I couldn’t get out of my system. And I’m sure that there are a lot of girls who’ll tell you that even when Lucas touched me it triggered something deep and primal in me. It was honestly like I couldn’t control myself around him sometimes. Now maybe that was because he was the older guy and I was the lost little girl. Maybe it was because he had a lifetime of experience of being a man and I was used to little boys. I’m not sure what it was, but Lucas Knight drove me crazy for the longest time,” she says, actually smiling a little in embarrassment. “And ladies, it’s true, he was by far the best I’d ever had!”

She laughs again in embarrassment, even going a little red, before letting out a little sigh. “But as wild as Lucas made me, as crazy as I was about him, as much as he was a drug that I wanted more and more of, he was also something else. He was an asshole,” she says, her embarrassment turning to a completely stern tone. “That’s right guys, Lucas may have been hurt, he may want you to think that I was some monster who broke his heart, and if he really tried to do what he said he tried to do after our relationship ended and I got with David – which, by the way, it had ended when I got with David, it wasn’t like I cheated on him, it was officially over before then – then he already knows how sorry I was about that, but make no mistake about it, Lucas Knight was, and still is, an asshole. And as many great moments as I had with him there were also some dark ones, one that even left me in the hospital the day after my wedding because we got into a fight in a hotel room and he pushed me and I fell through a glass table. As many amazing moments as we had I can categorically tell you that Lucas was NOT healthy for me. That relationship was not healthy at all. And as much as I wanted him he wanted me just as much. Since then I’ve moved on to two new relationships and one continuing one, and I’ve had my heart broken again, and I look back with a lot of great memories, but with a lot of regret as well.”

She lets out a sigh. “Ok, so I said I wasn’t going to talk about our relationship and then I totally ended up talking about our relationship, but there’s also another relationship that I wanted to talk about when it came to Lucas and that was our professional one. See Lucas is the only guy in six years in this company who’s ever OFFERED me anything. He told me that if he won the United States Championship that he’d make sure I was first in line. That really meant something. He also tried to break my neck just a few months later though, knowing better than anyone the problems I’ve had with that over the course of my career. So, like I said, not exactly healthy, you know?” she says before laughing again. “But just like Lucas once offered me something I once did the same for him. He stepped up and issued me a challenge right after I became Interim World Champion. I accepted. And that wasn’t our first match, but it was certainly one of our most memorable. I knew before then, and definitely afterwards, how good Lucas was in the ring. It’s no accident that he’s a Triple Crown winner in SCW. It’s also no accident that he’s one half of the current reigning World Tag Team Champions. From the earliest days that I knew him, when I trained with his sister, when I learned from him even, I knew Lucas was one of the best in the world. On Wednesday night however I go out to prove that I’m better!”

“Lucas has that one thing that I don’t though, the same thing that CHBK has, and that’s the golden ticket. That’s the guaranteed chance. That’s the sure fire opportunity at anything he wants, and something tells me that that thing that he wants, and that CHBK wants, is probably the very damn same thing that I’ve already said that I’m at the front of the line for. And I know that either one of them could cash in their golden ticket and jump right ahead of me. And I know that chances are either one of them is likely to do what Trinity Street did for Kelcey Wallace and give that opportunity to someone else. Then again even if one of them offered me that, I know damn well that I wouldn’t do what she was willing to do to get that. I wouldn’t turn my back on what I stand for. I wouldn’t betray a friend. I wouldn’t stab anyone in the back, and yet that’s what the Monarchy seems to be all about just recently, huh?” she asks before shaking her head. “Seriously, Lucas did it to Chris Cannon. I don’t know what was going on there if I’m honest but I know one moment Lucas is buddies with him, the next he’s holding everything over his head. But that’s the kind of guy Lucas is. It’s the kind of guy Lucas ha always been. For him, in life and in wrestling, the ends justify the means. That’s what defines him. He’ll do anything and everything to get what he wants, with no limits to it. And I couldn’t be more different to that.”

“As much as I love Lucas still, in my own way, even to this day, as much as I respect the hell out of him, and as much as I owe him for everything he and his sister have done for me, I can categorically tell you that once we may have stood side by side as two members of the Infamous but today we’re very different people. Today he’s still a snake, and even back then I’ve always been proud to say that I stood for something. I stand for something today, as well. I stand for competition. I stand for doing the right thing. I stand for proving yourself in the middle of the ring, not backstabbing and politicking your way to the things you want. And that’s what defines Lucas Knight today. That’s what defines the Monarchy today. And that’s why this Wednesday night I’m going to RISE ABOVE all that bullshit and drop Lucas straight down on his face,” she promises with passion. “You see you can say what you want about Lucas but you can’t deny that, even with the absence in his career and the incredible recovery from honestly what so many of us feared was a career ending injury, Lucas Knight remains one of the BEST in this company today. Lucas Knight remains one of the biggest names in this sport. Lucas Knight remains an icon in this business. Infamous and Legendary, right? Totally sums him up. And totally sums up my motivation this week.”

“See this week could break down as two ex-lovers scrapping in the ring. This week could break down as an angry ex-girlfriend upset that he told intimate stories about her and exaggerated truths about her to the world. This week could break down as a personal nightmare that we’re settling in the ring. But the fact is that what this week is really about that Infamous and Legendary figure going one on one with the BEST FEMALE WRESTLER IN THE WORLD! What this week really breaks down to is that iconic name in this business going up against the woman with EVERYTHING to prove YET AGAIN! What this week really comes down to is the guy you all know and most of you love to hate going one on one with the chick who’s proving this week that she IS at the front of the line and that NOTHING is going to stop her from getting back to the top,” she says determinedly. “Lucas, I know you’re listening, so I want you to know something. I don’t know if we’re friends. I don’t know if we’re enemies. Outside of this business I don’t know how you feel about me anymore but I want you to know that I respect you and I’ll always love you. But inside that ring, inside this business, I respect you for everything you’ve done and everything you’ve overcome but I don’t respect you for everything you are. You’re a snake. You’ve always been a snake. You slither around and you strike when you get your moment. This week I’m cutting the head of the snake. You can handle that, or you can BE TOTALLY JEALOUS!”

She kisses the tips of her fingers before pressing her fingers against the lens of the camera. With that the video fades out to black before ending as the replay button flashes up on the screen.