La Arquitecta

Chapter 27

It seemed that being summoned to Hunter's office was becoming a regular thing for Seth and Zelina. This time, the summons had at least applied to all of the members of The Vega Cartel.

"Come in, guys," Hunter said in a friendly manner as Zelina led them into the office, using the invite as a greeting.

"We might as well start changing in here," Seth said as a joke. "Seems like we're in here every show."

Hunter smiled his appreciation of the humour, then said, "It won't take long this time. I just have a few things I wanted to show you all. Thanks to the guys over at WWE Shop, The Vega Cartel now have merchandise. And I think you're going to like what they've come up with."

"Awesome!" Bayley said excitedly. "I was hoping we were going to get merch soon."

"I bet you were," Bobby said with a laugh. "Your heel turn must have cost you a fortune."

Hunter smiled again, and there was some brief laughter from the others. "You know that's not what I meant," Bayley said, rolling her eyes.

"With a bit of luck, you'll all make a bit from these," Hunter said, picking up the first of a stack of four shirts from his desk.

All Zelina see by looking at the pile was that three of them were black, the other one dark grey. With the way that had been folded and placed on the desk, she couldn't see the designs.

"What do you think?" Hunter asked as he unfurled the shirt he had picked up and held it up to show them all.

Zelina was stunned for a second. Sometimes the quality of WWE merchandise wasn't exactly the best, but she thought this one looked very good. The Vega Cartel was written on the chest area of the shirt in the familiar gold lettering, all in capitals. Below that, there was a picture consisting of the four wrestlers on the team standing behind Zelina, in the pose that they adopted at the top of the entrance ramp as part of their entrance routine.

"That's sick," Bobby said, using one of his favourite expressions.

"I love it," Bayley said next.

"Me too," Zelina added.

As Joe and Seth also expressed their happiness with the shirt, Hunter turned it around to show them the back. It had the word Vega in the gold lettering near the top, then further down was the simple catchphrase she had coined: Watch us.

"Very nice," Seth said, nodding.

"What are the others?" Joe asked.

Hunter put the first shirt untidily back on the desk and picked up the grey one. "This is the same design, but on a grey shirt." He held it up to show them.

"I like the black one more," Bobby said, to general agreement.

"It's good to give people the option, though," Seth said. "Not everyone likes wearing black."

"The main thing is the design work is good," Joe said.

Once he was happy that they had all had a look, Hunter put the second shirt back on the desk. "Now, the other two are a different design." He picked up the third shirt from the desk and held it up.

"Woah!" Zelina exclaimed, taken by surprise. As a background image, the shirt had a picture of her face, wearing a stern expression befitting her character. Over the top of the image, in the same gold lettering, again in capitals, were the words: I'm a Zelina Vega guy.

"Oh, Zelina, I love that!" Bayley said, putting an arm around her and giving her a squeeze.

"I agree. That's amazing," Seth said.