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Revenge of the Wolf
Chapter 29 – Waterloo
No One's POV
Jade looked at the shiny ball in Tori's hand with a fierce scowl. "Now is not the time for Jokes."
"It's something that Victoria gave to me before we left. I just forgot to mention it, with all the stuff going on. It was supposed to be for our daughter Fiona, but his could help us."
"How?"
"Just what is that, thing?" Asked Una, looking even less impressed than Jade.
"Jadelyn and Victoria, plus the other Jade and Tori pair they usually hang with go from universe to universe helping all the Jade's and Tori's get together. They said some universes were odd, like one where woman rule the world and all men are slaves."
Una smirked. "Sound's nice, I may want to retire there."
Tori continued. "She told me there was one where the whole world is obsessed with Disco, music and culture. Their whole civilization is based on disco."
Jade rolled her eyes. "Jadleyn told me about that…not much of a help, Vega."
Again Tori held up the ball, "But this could be. Victoria brought this back from that universe. Not only are they obsessed with Disco, they rarely have wars and are much more technologically advanced than us. This is the latest, in Disco Technology."
"Disco Technology?" Said the group, nearly in unison with very doubting looks.
"I told Victoria that Fiona likes disco music so she gave this to me, for her to have. It's essentially portable disco."
Jade looked at the ball with a dubious expression. "What?"
"It's for parties and people who want their own home disco experience. I was going to use it for Fiona's next birthday."
Jade, though she wasn't convinced, decided to bite as she knew that she needed to trust her mate. "Ok, I'll bite, what does it do and how can it help us?
You program it with the remote, that's in the box and when you start it, the device, fly's out to the top center of the room and splits apart. The various parts do different things, but it plays music, which sounds like a awesome sound system, it projects all kinds of disco lights and even projects holographic disco dancers. Super advanced technology. She showed me, when you were out. It works."
Julia who thought for a moment, suddenly snapped her fingers. "Oh my god, it would work."
"How?" Asked Jade.
Taking the ball from Tori's hands, Julia held it out. "Remember that party where you met Claudia, there were all these fantastic illusions, they had It took days for them to cast all the spells needed. We turn this thing on and all this happens out of nowhere, not only will they freak out; they'll assume their magical illusions and will try to dispel them, with counter magic spells. It's advanced technology, so it won't have any effect. Right now, it's orderly but with this, it will be utter chaos. With all the confusion, we could do some serious damage, before they even knew what hit them."
Jade studied the object for a moment. It seemed like such an absurd thing. But then again traveling back in time to 1942 seemed equally absurd. Between that thought and the knowledge that Tori would not steer her wrong, she nodded.
"It's crazy, but let's do it. But we need to make sure no one escapes."
Julia raised her hand. "Ill stay up here and guard the exit. I can cast offensive spells from the balcony and make sure no one leaves."
Una studied the ball and smiled. "Just like Studio 54."
"Studio 54?" Asked Valentine with a puzzled look.
"Famous New York Disco in the 70's, Steve Rubell ran the place, great guy, rest his soul. He would only let in the most fantastic, interesting and famous people. Literally one of the hottest night spots in the country at the time. Mix great music, fantastic people, booze and a shitload of cocaine and that's what you get, Disneyland for Adults. I just hypnotized him, to always let me in. I once fed on a woman on the dance floor, in front of 200 people and no one gave me a second look. Fun times…. "
Meanwhile, Jade had taken the remote for the instant disco out of the box and started to fool with the remote.
Tori pointed the screen. "This is where you program the songs, they even have different options for extras."
Jade scrolled down the list. "Hmmm…..Let's see….Boogie Wonderland with optional Caddyshack option."
"You get Rodney Dangerfield, as his character from Caddyshack with that one."
"We'll let's give him some respect and send him in."
Jade hit another button and Tori explained what she was seeing.
"This is the setting for the holographic dancers. You can customize them to your liking, from anywhere from generic dancers to full on 70's pre aids, mega flaming, gay disco. You can even add specific individuals such as Tony Manero from Saturday Night Fever."
Jade peered down at the very serious ceremony, with contempt. Then she returned her attention to he remote. "70's pre-aid's gay disco, check, Tony Manero, Check…The universe that made this thing is extremely messed up….but might as well pull out all the stops. Let's throw in some drag queens and the Village People too. Really liven up the place. Ok, I think I have this thing programmed. Is everyone ready to do some damage. I picked the first song specifically for our dear Claudia."
Una, Dawn, Valentina and Julia nodded.
Jade took Tori's hand. "Ready Vega!"
Tori smiled and gently caressed Jade's cheek. "Yes, my Queen."
"Ok then….." Jade pressed the activate button. "Let's boogie."
The mirrored ball quickly started to levitate and suddenly zipped off into the room, stopping in the center of the room near the ceiling. After scanning the room, the ball suddenly spit into parts. The various parts took up positions about the room and activated.
Below, Claudia was in the middle of a sentence about recruiting new members to the organization, when her voice was completely drowned out by the opening notes of Abba's 1974 dance hit, Waterloo.
"My my
At Waterloo Napoleon did surrender
Oh yeah
And I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
The history book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself
Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war"
As if that wasn't enough, as second later the whole room lit up with red, blue and purple lights along with the hundreds of lights that reflected off the disco ball, rotating all around the room.
Up above Jade and the rest as watched with glee, as moments later at least 30 holographic dancers appeared all over the room. As Jade had programmed them, most of them were very stereotypical gay men, with tight t-shirts, tight pants, the works. There were about 5 drag queens, dressed as various female celebs and of course Tony Manero himself, dancing like a champ.
The results were even better than Jade had hoped for.
Every wizard in the room was nearly sent into a state of total shock as their very serious meeting and suddenly been transformed into a full on disco. Getting up they looked at each other and ultimately to Claudia with shock and confusion.
Just as surprised herself, Claudia had no idea what was going on. She was a person who always wanted to be in control at all times and suddenly she had lost it completely. This sudden loss of control had already seriously unnerved her. At the same time, it sent her temper off the charts.
Just then, a holographic drag queen, dressed as Elizabeth Taylor started to dance with her. "WHAT THE FUCK! WHO IN THE HELL IS DOING THIS!" Roared, Claudia with fury as she turned away from the holographic dancer. But with the music being as loud as it was, no one could hear her.
Up above, Jade was laughing hysterically, as Claudia completely blew her top and attempting to yell instructions to her followers, to no avail.
"Holy fuck, she's going totally nuts. And better yet, they can't hear her. I turned up the music as loud as it would go."
Una chucked, "All we need is a few lines of blow and it will really be like old times. Jade, somewhere out there, Steve Rubell is smiling."'
Within moments the place was sheer pandemonium. Some wizards looked at each other with confusion, some wizards attempted to vanquish the holographic dancers and some just stood there with dumb looks on their faces.
Jade was about to order them to attack, when she suddenly had idea.
"Julia, can you do one of those super quick and cheap illusion spells? That and I need you do one more thing."
Realizing where Jade was going, she nodded. "They'll last about 2 minutes or until you touch someone."
"Great, start casting the spells on Tori and the rest, I'll be back in less than a minute." Jade said as she ran back up the corridor.
Down on the floor, Claudia finally managed to yell loud enough to be heard a short distance and was desperately barking orders to try and bring the situation under control. Her inability to do so, caused her to become even further unglued.
About this time, the first song ended and any hopes of the music were crushed as the large room was soon filled with the song, Boogie Wonderland, by Earth Wind and Fire.
Claudia even tried to dispel the music, lights and dancers, but her magic did nothing. She could only wonder just what wizard could pull this off. All she knew is that she wanted to flay their hides for making a mockery of her and her organization.
As confusion reigned on the floor, no one noticed that all of a sudden 5 more dancers had slipped into the fray. They looked like the others, with 70's clothes and hairstyles. Claudia and the others simply though they were more illusions.
"How can this be How come I can't dispel these illusions, stop this infernal music" Ranted Claudia, who's sense of desperation was increasing steadily.
After shouting an order her Emmy her daughter who happened to be near enough to be heard, she noticed something.
One of the dancers, a blonde, with a 70's Farah Fawcett hairstyle with a green dress, didn't seem to be dancing very well. It was only when the dancer suddenly stopped and made a beeline for her daughter Eva, who was on the other side of the room, did she realize something was wrong.
She moved forward and attempted to shout a warning, but Eva could not hear. She was trying to cast a different anti-magic spell to disrupt the dancers.
Like Magda, Eva never saw Jade coming.
Claudia, her desperation quickly turning into terror, did and started to run but, it was too late.
The powerful wizard could only watch helplessly as the blond looked at her and winked. Then the blonde reached out and casually grabbed Eva's head and turned it a full 180 degrees.
The look of total surprise on Eva's face lasted only about half a second before she fell to the floor, dead.
Up above, Julia, waiting for the right moment, tossed something out onto the floor.
Though deeply in shock over Eva's death, she did managed to notice the flying object which landed on the ground about 5 feet from her.
It was the head of a young woman, who's now only had been decapitated, but written in blood on her cheeks were the words.
"HI MOM!"
Clauida started to shake, when she recognized the head as belonging to her youngest daughter, Magda.
Looking back at the blonde who had just broken Eva's neck, Claudia watched as the image distort and vanish, revealing who it actually was.
It was Jade!
On cue, Valentina and Tori promptly transformed into wolves and attacked the wizards nearest to them.
Julia on the balcony stepped forward and glared at her former friend. For a moment their eyes met and Julia hoped that her friend would at least for a second show an hint of remorse, for essentially betraying her and their friendship But Rebecca simply glared back, her eyes full contempt.
Already had a spell prepared, Julia launched a bolt of orange light that hit Rebecca squarely in the chest, with such force she stumbled backwards. But what Rebecca realized just a moment too late was that the fire pit in the center of the room was directly behind her.
Falling into the fire pit, Rebecca began to scream as the magical flames quickly began to consume her, but no one could hear it.
For another moment more, Julia watched as her former friend attempted to both put out the flames and escape the fire pit. Rebecca accomplished none of those things and was quickly reduced to ash.
Una grabbed a nearby male wizard and just as quickly, sank her fangs into his neck, while Dawn, grabbed another, threw him to the floor and started to break his limbs.
Clauida had prided herself on always being in control and ahead of any opponents. After Jade had gotten the drop on her mother, she vowed two things. The first was to never let anyone get ahead of her and second to destroy Jade. But in the span of less than 10 minutes, the Wizards, her entire world had suddenly started to come apart, all due to Jade.
"How could it! You're dead!" Sputtered Claudia, so focused on Jade that she failed to notice that several of her followers were already dead.
With an evil smile, Jade stepped on the body of Eva and started towards her and as she did, she looked up to the picture of Liva and imitated the last moments of her death.
The blow of seeing Jade alive was bad enough, but the additional blows of knowing that two of her daughters were dead, sent her mind and sanity reeling "How! How! No…you're dead! No….My daughters…..You killed my mother! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!"
Not wasting any more time on speech, Jade leaped forward and in midair, transformed into huge black wolf. Then she charged.
Her mind half paralyzed, Claudia almost wasn't able to defend herself. In fact Jade got within about 10 feet, before, she got up a quick force field spell.
It was then she saw the others, two wolves, shredding her followers, Julia up on the balcony blasting wizards with bolds of red light and even more improbable, another set of Tori and Jade, only they were both vampires.
While Clauidia's sanity was rapidly disintegrating, her last surviving daughter, Emmy realizing what was going on quickly got the others in groups, so they could more easily defend themselves.
By the time, the wizards had started to mount their first defense, 6 of their number were already dead and 2 more lying on the ground with broken limbs, courtesy of Dawn.
Claudia cowered in terror, as Jade in wolf form, pounded at the force field that kept her alive.
"You're supposed to be dead….dead….dead…."
Looking to her left, she looked on as Michael, the wizard she had inducted that very night, was brought down by Valentina who was in wolf form. Knocking him to the ground, she quickly put his head into her powerful jaws and with a sickening crunch, crushed his skull.
Of course there was still hope as Emmy, her most powerful and loyal daughter, who was already mounting a defense. Claudia watched as the vampire Tori and Jade attacked a group of wizards but with the aid of magic, driven back.
Now she watched as another group managed to drive both wolves back. Seeing a glimpse of hope, she started to come back mentally and began to think of how best to destroy these intruders once and for all. This force field spell wouldn't last long and she immediately started to cast a more effective one.
Emmy seeing her mother under attack by Jade the wolf, rushed to her mother's aid, But as soon as she left the safety of the small group she was in, saw a blur out of the corner of her eye.
Before she knew it she was flung up against a wall and holding her to it was none other than Una.
"You're a werewolf….how? You won't hurt me, a vampire helped raise me."
"You're grandma was a chump compared to me…say goodnight Gracie."
The sting of two fangs sinking into her neck came next as Una went to work, gorging on her blood.
"Colder than I thought." Eva mused helplessly, just before she expired.
Again Claudia moved to aid her daughter ,only to witness, the vampire Jade, grab Emmy and quickly feed on her. She loved vampires and now to see one feed on her daughter was even more strain on her sanity.
It was over in a matter of seconds, as the vampire quickly drained Emmy of blood. Then to add insult to injury, Una took Emmy like a rag doll and danced along to the current song which, ironically was, Staying alive by the Bee Gee's. after a few seconds, more the vampire, shrugged and tossed Emmy's body right into the magical flames.
"NOOOO!" Screamed Claudia,
Her sanity, already badly cracked by the events of the last few minutes, shattered the moment she washed her last part of her world, her daughter Emmy die.
Tears of rage already forming in her eyes, Claudia screamed, Magda, Eva, Emmy! You killed my daughters…you killed my mother….now you will all die. ALL DIE!"
Caring only for vengeance, Claudia stepped back, not paying attention to the Jade who was still trying to penetrate the force field. Then she Claudia, faced her mothers picture, pulled out Morivion, held it high and began to chant.
"Oh….great one….with your powers of darkness….I command you…..come and defend me…crush them…kill them all…I pledge them to you….take this sacrafice…and come to me….come….Uhthaekanakeas and destroy ALL!"
Suddenly the gold ringlet grew bright green in Claudia's hands. After a second, the light from the artifact seemed to shoot out in all directions around the room.
Of course the odd thing is that, the entire time, the holographic dancers just kept going, to the beat of the music, oblivious to the chaos around them..
At this point Claudia had 18 followers up and able to fight. 12 of her number were dead and 3 badly injured by dawn.
The remaining 19, who had begun mount an effective defense, suddenly began to glow green themselves. At first they thought Claudia was using the Morivion to enhance their powers.
"Soon we shall feel its power and then we will crush them." Boasted one wizard.
He and the others really thought they were about to be saved by the artifacts power. They thought that up to the moment, the pain started.
For a split second, the fight halted, as every evil wizard, other than Claudia began to writhe and scream in agony. All of them, their skin began to bubble and crack as if it was being burned by some invisible fire.
The screams grew louder and louder, until finally, all the evil wizards, even the injured, turned to dust.
Now, it was just the 6 of them and Claudia.
Hurrying down the stairs to where Jade was, Julia mumbled to herself. "I have a bad feeling about this."
Turning back into a human, Jade looked to Julia as Claudia seemed to be in some sort of trance. While she had seen Claudia use the circlet, she had not been able to hear the chant.
"What just happened? Did we win?"
Julia shook her head, a sense of worry quickly growing in her gut. "I don't think so."
"But it's just us and her, that's good right. We got her outnumbered."
It was then, Una remembered the other half of the story, that Serapis had told her long ago about the Moaivion. "But those who follow it, will forever be bound, body and spirit to the whim of whomever wields it. For whatever purpose they wish."
Una hurried over to Jade so she could be heard over the music. "That's not good at all. You see those who join the circle, let their blood be absorbed by that thing, would eventually get to share in its power, but at the same time, they are bound to Claudia; Mind, Body and soul. "
Still not sure what was happening, Jade replied. "What happened to them? I can't see how it would help her, killing them. Those are her allies."
"I'm sure, Julia will agree, but those old artifacts of power, a lot of the time, they needed human sacrifices to work properly or do certain things. And she just sacrificed every one of her remaining followers, all 21 of them."
Julia looked to Jade and nodded. "She's right, it was a mass human sacrifice."
"For what purpose?" Asked Jade.
All of a sudden, the entire room began to rumble and shake. The noise soon became so loud it drowned out the music.
Their attention suddenly turned to the fires in the center part of the room, which both grew in height and turned pitch black.
As the rumbling reached a crescendo, they noticed something had begun to crawl out of the flames themselves. It appeared to be a long, greenish-yellow colored tendril, but that was only the proverbial, tip of the iceberg.
Una pointed to whatever was emerging from the flames. "Um…that crazy bitch wants us dead so badly, she just sacrificed all her followers and their souls, to give her enough power to summon that! I don't know what it is, but it's a safe bet, it's really nasty. Get ready folks, cause all fucking hell is about to break loose. And I mean HELL!
So, with the aid of the instant disco, they plunged the meeting into chaos and delivered a staggering defeat on Claudia.
But the evil wizard, now insane, has sacrificed the last of her followers to summon something in the hopes it will destroy Jade and company. Will they prevail?
So the fight isn't over. Round 2 will be in the next chapter.
Studio 54 was during it's heyday in the late 70's the most famous disco in the country. It was owned by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager Night after night, tons of people would line up, hoping that Steve Rubell, the owner would let them in. He wanted a certain atmosphere and in addition to famous people, looked for people he thought interesting. If you weren't interesting enough, you didn't get in. From what I learned, it was anything goes type of place. I exaggerated a bit about the cocaine, but it's safe to say that drugs were not in short supply there. After al it was the 70's. It's most wild days ended in 1980 when the owners were sent to jail on tax evasion. That happened after Steve Rubell, boasted in an interview, only the Mafia made more money. Naturally a comment like that, attracted the attention of the IRS.
The chapter Title, Waterloo, is from the ABBA song of the same name. Lyrics used without permission.
