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"The Jungle Book of Jane Porter: Part 3"
By TwilightSparkle3562
Part 1: A Curse on You All
Chapter 1
"From one enemy to another"
"A Curse on You All!"
Those were the last words that Queen La ever spoke in her earthly form as it disintegrated into dust. Ever since Tarzan and Jane had destroyed her life on Earth, La had been nothing more than a wandering spirit and although she had attempted to take control of Jane for a short period of time, her spirit eventually ended up in Tarzan and finally a rat, before she was imprisoned by her former tribe, the Wazaris. When she seized the opportunity to escape while no one was looking, it was like a new way of life was in store for her. Now as a ghost, La could see that she needed foot soldiers to do her bidding. The humanoid forms of hyenas Shenzi, Banzai and Ed were a start, but they weren't what La had in mind as she wanted soldiers much like her leopard men that she had admired greatly.
Standing in the ruins of Cape Doom prison, La floated over the dead soldiers as she looked down at the mutilated body of Colonel Staquait, the former leader. La smiled at the rotting corpse of the former French Foreign Legion officer. Following Staquait's death, La had her hyenas scout the prison for any soldiers who were still alive. To the minds of the hyenas, they thought that La was letting them find food.
"Hey, La!" called Shenzi as she found a French Foreign Legion soldier. "Can't we just have a little something to eat? We're still hungry!"
"No, you idiots!" she cried, raising her arms in frustration. "You had your meal, now you must find me soldiers to place under my ranks! Now, do as I command!"
La could see that the hyenas still had Staquait's blood on their muzzles and doing as they were told, they went back to the task at hand. La then floated away from Staquait's body and as she wandered around the prison, her mind began to fill with revenge and hate for Tarzan and Jane. La wanted nothing more than to make Tarzan her own, king of Opar. To do this, she would need a body and she had figured out just the one to take control of. La then looked up at the moon and smiled evilly.
"Enjoy your time with Tarzan, Jane," she hissed to herself. "You will see that even though I am gone physically, I can still control anyone I please and that someone I am looking to control is you."
She then looked down at her ghostly hands and snarled to herself. Had it not been for Jane, she would still be alive and ruling Opar with her Leopard men. Now, she was a ghost and ruling over humanoid Hyenas.
"In due time," she thought. "I will finish what I had started and rid myself of that meddlesome Jane. But, to accomplish that, I will need some help from an outside source and any of these soldiers would help me do just that."
La then looked back towards Shenzi and her hyena cohorts as they rounded up several more alive French Foreign Legion officers. She floated over to them and the soldiers, feeling vulnerable and weak for the first time in their lives as they stared helplessly at the ghost who was now their superior, or at least in La's mind.
"Do you fear death?" she asked her captives. "Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds lay bare and all your sins punished?"
One bloodied officer began to silently chant the "Our Father," as La looked out among her captives with an evil grin.
"I can offer all of you an escape," she said to her captives, but the bloodied soldier disagreed with her.
"Don't listen to her!" he cried and La looked down to the soldier who had pulled out a set of rosaries and La floated over to the man and placed her ghostly hands on his throat trying to choke him.
"Do you not fear death?" she asked to him and the soldier dropped his rosaries to the ground as he was raised to his feet. Now feeling that this was the end, the soldier turned his eyes towards La.
"I'll take my chances, ma'am," he gasped and La turned her attention over to Ed, who although was usually dopey, came over to La like an obedient child.
"Time for desert," she chuckled and threw the soldier at Ed who then laid him down and dipped his jaws at the soldier's throat, killing him and after he was killed, Ed dragged his body away to feast on it. Shenzi and Banzai didn't like that and wanted to feast on him as well, but La pointed her staff at them and were ordered to stay put.
"Cruel blaggard!" shouted one soldier and La smacked the soldier across the face and silenced him.
"Life is cruel," she replied to the defiant soldier. "Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you all a choice: join my ranks and postpone the judgment. "
The captured soldiers looked around and wondered exactly what La was talking about. But, La wanted her captives to become soldiers of Opar and nothing more.
"Join my ranks in the kingdom of Opar," she commanded to her captives. "Will you all serve under the command of me, Queen La, or face the consequences?"
The command in her voice made the soldiers tremble with fear and another soldier picked up the dead soldier's rosaries and began to say the Stations of the Cross. Nevertheless, in fear for their lives, they all quickly agreed to obey her.
"I will serve," cried the soldiers and after they had sworn their loyalty to her, the soldiers then bowed down to La and the Queen of Opar was very much satisfied at her conquest.
With her freshly loyal foot soldiers, La and her hyena forces left Cape Doom forever and their war against Tarzan and Jane would soon begin…