Jumanji's Creed Welcome to the Jungle
Season 2
Episode 9 Rise of the Jum-Cats
22 June year unknown
City of Tethyr
Jumanji
Mayoral Palace
Noon
Spike watched as the Jumcat ambled through the gate easily as if nothing was wrong, going right up to a guard as Spike wondered what the cat was planning. "Ah great, more of those things" Said a guard.
"Its what you get for taking over a city like this, lots of weird wildlife" Said the other as the Jumcat sat down and meowed at the two men cutely. "I'm surprised the boss doesnt care for it"
"Heh, think it can fly ?" Asked the first guard as he readied his gun
"I'd like to see if it could" Replied the second.
The first lowered his gun and pulled the trigger, the cat sensed the shot before the bullet was fired and jumped. And started growling. "Nope, cant fly" Said the guard that fired at the cat. The cat growled and sprang at the guards face with a sharp "RAWR!" noise and started clawing at the guy crazily. "Whioa, get it off, get it off!"
The first guard swung his fist and ended up cold cocking his fellow before the cat jumped on his face and allowed Spike to simply stare as the man tripped over his fellow and the cat prompty clocked him cold as well. Spike smirked. Already loving the cats of this world. They were cute, helpful, and soft. Maybe she could take one home ?
The jumcat turned and after using his hind legs to scatter diurt onto the two fallen guards saw that Spike was still outside the gate, thinking a moment the cat turned and ambled for the gatehouse. Hopping onto a chair the cat span like a top briefly before getting onto the countertop and hitting the control button to open the gate and allow Spike to come in with a happy meow.
Spike had to smile, the cats were indeed useful. As Spike went to the guard house she saw the Jumcat sitting on a cold clocked guard that the cat had clobbered easily. Cats were smart. Taking the cat with her the two entered the mayoral palace quietly. The cat of course walked with Spike rather diligently and alert for trouble all around them. Their target was in that building somewhere, and they were going to find and kill it.
Within the massive manor two men stood in the study of what had at one point been the study of the Warden of the jail. As he had at one point been the mayor over the entire city and lived there using that very room. Matthew didnt much like where he was, nor did his brother. But it didnt matter, Hidra, the Vampire Lord who had control over everything had promnised to make all their problems go away, all he had to do was do the dirty work.
In this case was take out Spike who was looking for Hidra even then. "So you're saying that the target is in jail right now ? That supermodel woman ?" Matt asked
"Yes, the one and the same, no doubt she will try to get out of jaiul and begin the hunt here. Its possible that she even planned on getting caught in order to get closer to us here." Hidra replied calmly
"Unless she is close already. It may be possible she has broken out. Some of the guards reported seeing a few cats on the grounds" Matt replied
This area always has cats on the grounds" Hidra replied dismissing the mere thought that such creatures could be a threat, they were more an annoyance over threat quite honestly. "let us worry of other things now, the warden for one needs to be eleminated, I will elt you handle that. Your brothers did so well in removing the Overwatch Guard. Have you heard from them ?"
"Yeah, they were watching the gate. Why ?" Matt replied, if those two were able to keep an eye on things and keep them secured they'd be alright, but with the cats around and Travis allergic to cats it only made things harder, but only slightly so.
"Best you check on them then. Off with you Matthew Oxford. Guard us well. Or you and yours will be left to the wolves" Hidra said simply. Matthew rolled his eyes and left the study in silence, elaving the vampire lord alone as a servant appeared. "What is it ?" Hidra barked to the servant
"Sir, gate guards reported an attack sir." Came the reply
"What kind of attack ?" came the question
"Cats sir, a cat attacked the gate guards, knocked them both out." the servant replied "When they woke they search for it briefly before returning to their post, the gate was active when they woke up, but that was because when they were knocked out they hit the gate controls when hitting the ground or desk"
"Fine, inform Matthew that he and his brothers are to search the grounds. Dismissed" Hidra barked, he went back to stared out the window in thought. Of the few vampires able to roam in dsaylight, Hidra had plans, plans to overtake Malkev and rule the vampires himself. But it left him little else to do other then wait and plot and bide his time. Spike was a new thorn in his side, but he had her safely locked up in jail. Or did he ? It didnt matter, Hidra was ready for her. He was skilled with a sword and defensive magic.
Spike of course halted in the hallway on the first floor. When Matthew rounded the corner Spike stood their, wings and all, white dress seeming to glow in the light of the manor. "Ah shit, I know I dotted my i's and crossed my t's, left you all, so what gives, why would you be trying to give me a migrane showing up here" Spike said simply seeing Matthew before her
Matt looked up at the voice. Stopping dead in his tracks he stared at Spike, she was... bigger than he remembered. Well, Spike had always been well endowed as a young woman, but then she was also quite tall. So was a few others like himself. Spike however was infact much... bigger than Matthew remembered. P0lus she had beautiful wings with bits of black. "Tamara ?"
"It's Spike, Tamara was a name I used to try and avoid my true name" Spike replied, crossing her arms as the cat bared his teeth at Matthew. "Tell me, Matt, how is the skank ?"
"You mean Billie ?" Matthew replied "She's not a skank, shes my girlfriend"
"You dumped me, for a skank" Spike replied pointedly crossing her arms over her chest she stared him down. Clearly unhappy. However a evil smirk on her face "I bet she is here too, your brothers as well. In Jumanji, out of your element, and in mine, how did you get in here ? Video game, or gemstone or did you wander here sheer chance ?"
"Jumanji ?" Matthew asked her, "The hell are you talking about, Tamara ?" Matthew had no idea what Spike was speaking about, and that meant he had no clue whatsoever of her plans for him, his brothers, his girlfriend and sister in law. "What is Jumanji ?" Matthew pressed for answers.
Spike smirked again. "That is for me to know, and you to find out" She said, "And when I come for each of you, yes, your brothers, sister in law, and the damn skank... each of you will die, a very painful death." Spike smirked then and started to walk past Matthew, stoopping level with him she didnt turn his way. "You have a week. If Jumanji does not kill you, I will" The Jumcat regarded Matthew briefly before growling at him and then trotting beside Spike as the two headed for the stairs. A servant and soldier stepped into view, Spike easily silently destroyed them both. Vampire thralls were targets.
One of the lower ranked vampires made the mistake of trying to use his whip and strike at Spike, but it left him wide open and Spike easily caught the whip in her hand, yanking him off his feet and into her sword, fading into a pile of ash on the floor as Spike coiled the weapon and hooked it to her belt. Turning to go up the stairs she turned and saw Matthew still watching her. "Like what you see ?" She asked him, Matthew just looked at her horrified at how deadly she had become, "You're too late, even if you were to try to come back to me, I'd reject you" She turned towards him directly, letting him see her as she withdrew a sword, her wings briefly stretching to their full length.
"I suggest you warn your skank of a girl, and your brothers, and your sister in law, that I am coming. And when I find them alone. I will not hold back my anger." With that the cat jumped from the grount onto her foot and climbed up her body quickly and gently to rest upon her shoulder and Spike headed upstairs with a powerful thrust of her wings.
Leaving Matt alone in the hallway confused. "When did Tamara grow wings ?" he wondered aloud before heading down the hall to where he had left his brothers in their room. Travis was staying indoors due to his allergies going haywire, and Bobby was somewhere else.
"About time you showed up" Travis muttered sitting on the bed, he didnt look too good, mainly due to the allergies.
"Are you sure you should be sitting up ?" Matt asked
"I'll be fine, if I lay down it makes it worse." Travis replied to the question
"Whatever." Matt said in reply while waving his brother off
"Whats going on bro, you dont look hot yourself" Travis said, so much for avoiding that question
Matt thought a long moment on how to reply. Then said "You remember the girl I had for a girlfriend before meeting Billie ?"
"Yeah, black hiared girl, brown eyes, tall and a looker" Travis said in reply
"Yeah, Tamara was her name. You remember how mad she was ?" Matt mused, recalling hoew pissed off Spike had gotten when Matthew had revealed that he was breaking up with her and going with Witwer.
"Oh yeah, she was pissed for sure I remember that. We left her in the dumps when Billie showed for dinner that night, and you had to show her the door, but she smashed her fist into your face." Travis cracked a brief bark of laughter remembering Matt getting slugged, by a girl of all things.
"Well, she's here, in this house, and she has wings, and she is pissed off still. She never forgot her promise it seemed and she wanted me to warn you and the others, she wont hold back" Matt said
"Wont hold back ?" Travis asked
"Yeah, she said that should she find any of us alone, she wont hold back. I think she aims to kill us" Matt told him
"So why tell you that to warn us ?" Travis asked, "It doesnt make sense, if Tamara is here, then where are we ?"
"Tamara said her name is Spike, and she called Billie a skank" Matt replied, Travis just stared at his brother, nobody called Billie a skank and got away with it. They were normally sent to the ER with broken bones.
But it was the note of wings that had Travis new attention. He raised his hands. "Hold it, back up, did you just say that Tamara has wings ?" Matt nodded. "Holy fuck. Where the hell are we ?"
"Spike called this place Jumanji, I think shes right, Hidra is a weird guy too, but he hired us as his security team. Im going to go find Bobby, stay put and keep the door locked." Matt said getting to his feet from the bed next to his brothers and heading out of the room. Travis stared at the now shut door and stumbled to his feet to lock it. But as he did so his ears picked up the sounds of shooting following by screaming directly above. The sounds of something dripping to the floor also caught his attention and he looked up art the vent that connected to the room above. The room directly above was Hidras study.
"I knew I'd find you here, bloodsucker!" Spike hissed as she kicked the study door in with a pistol ready for use, the two guards that were present were both shot and the chair Hidra threw was dodged easily as it broke against the wall. Spike slid her gun back into its place on her hip and draw a sword.
Hidra drew his own blade. "You dare to come against me!" He screamed at her his own wicked blade ready. Spike smirked, she could take injury, but couldnt die or lose any more lives. She had to thank Spyder next chance she had for the idea.
"Yup" Spike replied, she sprang at him, sword ready, No Name glittered with a sickly green energy in her hand The vampire screamed and sprang at her, their swords met with a clash of explosive energy. The two danced all over the study before Spike struck and Hidra blocked
"Amazing" He said, giving her a vile look. "this is the first time for me to defend"
"And it will be your last time to attack" Spike retorted, spinning rapidly she struck and nailed the vampire in the back with her other sword, Nameless seared in to the undead skin like a hot knife through melted butter. Hidra screamed and jerked from the pain.
Spike span again and sliced across the vampires stomach, the vampire gasped in shock a piercing shriek rending the windows broken as he went to his knees. Pits of fire and ash flaking off his body from the cuts. He looked up at Spike and started cursing at her. Spike smirked. "Oh shut up." She brought up No Name and Nameless to his neck, and a swift single motion, the vampire turned to ash as his head was removed from his body.
But the head remained intact.
The blood dripped from it to the vent and straight down, Spike saw someone she never expected, but possibly wanted dead. Maybe. An evil grin graced her face. "James!" Spike called out, the Jumcat sprang from the desk, which was unharmed during the fight and scampered back to Spike who deftly reached down and allowed the Jumcat to climb up her arm to her shoulders before going through the ruined door. She had an enemy to find. She projected a mental image to the Jumcat that she had named James, the cat nodded and took off into a vent, easily unlocking a door or two allowing Spike to pass through cleanly.
Bodies fell and thralls died, a few mnior vampires also lost their unlives. Finally Spike came to a door, behind which she knew Travis hid. She knocked on it. Travis had to stare, where did the cat come from ? The Jumcat barred his teeth at Travis and the man backed up, his allergies going haywire he collapsed on the bed briefly but the cat was more focused on the door.
Easily scampering up it James broke the lock and let Spike in. Seeing Travis, Spike smiled a rather wicked smile. "So, it comes to pass the middle child dies first, and here I was hoping to kill the skank first, oh well. You will have to to I guess." Spikew removed from her belt, a whip. A crack of the whip and James darted safely onto her shoulder and glared at Travis. Spike's wing then unfolded, allowing James to hide in safety in the hallway unharmed. The Jumcat watched from the hallway as Spike, his new friend and in many ways, savior and protector, was toying with another predator.
"Tamara, what are you doing here ?" Travis asked her as he struggled to his feet. "Matt said you were here, but not where you were, did you follow him here ?" He didnt know that Spike had warned Matt then killed a vampire.
"Your brother was a fool to dump me. But, if it wasnt for him, I would have never become what I am now. I would have become something I hated the most." Spike growled out as she stalked closer to Travis, he was cornered. "I originally thought about just shooting you through the heart and laving your dead body for your brothers to find. But how would your sister in law react ? Hmmm ? Or maybe that skank of a witwer. Who thought herself better than me to take Matthew from me ? I guess I have her to thank for it."
Another crack of the whip and Travis screamed as his leg was cut, the barbs on the whip tore into his jeans and skin, leaving trails of torn skin in its wake. "But I think instead I will have some fun. Dont you enjoy it ?" She cracked the whip again, Travis found him,self scrambling on bleeding legs to get away from the madwoman now torturing him "You did if you recall, how in my own agony you laughed at me, and then at your own brother when I smashed his jaw. I had hoped to break it."
Travis scrambled for something to defend himself with, grabbing up a coat hangar he stood on shaky legs. Spike smirked and raised the whip in her hand slightly. "What do you want ?" Travis asked her
"Easy, cant you see it ? I want to play!" That said, she cracked the whip a third time, it coiled on the coat hangar and she easily wrenched it from his hands, in doing so she flicked the thing away, kicking it so it wouldnt smash into James or go out into the hallway directly. She flicked the whip again, this time nailing and wrapping on Travis' leg and yanking him closer to her, he slammed into the bloodied floor in a heap and was dragged closer to the woman.
Spike at that moment was an angel of death, Now that Travis was up close and personal he saw exactly what she had in mind as she withdrew something from her belt. A gun. Travis kicked off the whip and scrambled for safety. Spike opened fire, missing, either intentionally or not, as Travis dove for his own weapon. "The hell woman what do you really want ?" Travis screamed at her as a bullet connected and he fell back. A hand to the wound.
Spike stalked forwards, using her wrist she flicked the sofa aside, it fliped end over end against the wall with a crash as she smiled darkly at the man. The gun put away her need for it done, she was happy. "What do I want ?" She repeated, Travis stared at her, hoping she would let him go. He was wrong. "I want you to remember my pain!" She cracked her whip, it nailed him in the right knee, he screamed.
"Remember the pain inflicted when your brother dumped me for that skank, how you cheered when he pushed me out the door" She cracked the whip against his left knee. Travis collapsed and struggled to get away. A third crack of the whip and he painfully hit the floor. His left arm useless below the elbow. Blood was everywhere. A last crack of the whip, and Travis was flat on his back, staring up at her as she stood over him as the whip glowed a energetic blue and green hue as electrical power danced on it.
Spike smiled, she breathed a bit of hair from her face and looked down at him from where she stood over him, her stance straddling the man. She withdrew a pistol again, then thought better of it and put it away. Travis thought she was going to let him go. Again he was wrong as Spike turned and spotted the fireplace equipment. An evil smile graced the womans face as she flicked the whip and pulled the fire poker to her hand.
Turning to him she asked "Last words... Fuck you, asshole" Spike smiled darkly as Travis started screaming in horror and she stabbed with both hands the fire poker into Travis face, nailing dead into the brain with such force that his head broke apart. As the brain matter exploded. Spike stabbed a few more times, even using her sword across and over his body, mutilating it extensively. She was happy, Travis was dead, one down, four to go. Spike smiled. "I never did like your family, Travis Oxford. You never were the wizard either. Rest in pieces asshole." With that she turned and left the area, then using her magic she used his blood and wrote on the wall for Matt to find. "He missed, he never was a wizard" and left the manor, James swiftly went along with her, for once Spike was happy. She had what she wanted done for that day.
It was time to head back to camp.
A good hour later and Matt returned to the manor, the place was filled with dead, blood soaked the floor. And when Matt got to the room his brother was in he stared at his brothers mutilated body. He stared then at the words on the wall, Spikes handwriting for sure, she had always joked he wasnt a good wizard. Failed at it infact. He was even a worse shot when he thought about it.
But the mere fact that Spike got to him first. Matt sat back on the broken sofa, his face in his hands as he cried. Jumanji wasnt just a game, it was their deathbed! "I'll get her back bro, you can count on it" Matt said leaving the house, setting the place on fire as he left, better to let nobody have the place instead of some other bunch taking it over.
Back in the camp as Spike flew into the area from above, James hopped down and started sniffing around, finding a nice cozy place near to the fire but well out of reach of any sparks, but he saw where Spike had her cabin in the fortifed campsite and when Spike opened the door the cat darted inside with her and hopped onto the cot bed and curled up watching her calmly
Spike herself was oddly calm of the whole ordeal. Being jailed, then helping the warden get his job as mayor back, then to top it all off, finding some old enemies to kill all in Jumanji. "Is something wrong ?" Mark asked
"Might say that" Spike replied as she sat next to James on her bed, absetly petting the Jumcat she explained how she took down Hidra. "And he wasnt the only one there, you remember that I once had a boyfriend before I met Talak ?" Mark nodded at the question. "Well, he, his brothers, and his skank of a girlfriend, and then also his sister in law, are all here in Jumanji with us. Which means I have four enemies left to take care of."
"Four more enemies ?" Mark asked
"Yes, four more, one of them is now dead. A man named Travis Oxford, nothing should be left, as the house was burning when I left the city of Tyther at the time" Spike said.
"So one is dead, and the rest are alive. Anything I should know about them ?" Mark asked.
"Only that the Skank is to not be killed, same for the others, I do the deed, they wronged me so long ago, so I will return the favor and end their lives, they wont wake up from this, Jumanji is their deathbed now. They made the mistake of becoming my enemy" Spike said, she detailed what each woman looked like, then both of the remaining brothers. Mark smirked.
"One of those men remind me of someone I worked with in the CIA in Langley" He said.
"Good, then maybe you can tell me their weakness, then again, Robert always had a weakness. Tomorrow morning I want you and Diamond to go to Zoist again and look into where a woman named Isabel Oxford would be hiding. When found, tell me right away. Do not engage whatsoever, put a tail on her if you must." Spike said. Take out Izzy as the men called her, and she had Roberts weakness in hand nicely
"Sounds like a plan. Sometimes I too am good for vengence, but this is a lovers quarrel, and not something I am normally part of" Mark told her with a shrug of his shoulders
"You have Elsa to worry about, but for now, I want to worry on the Oxfords, and witwere skank. Just tell me where they are hiding in Zoist, and I will do the rest." Spike said simply.
"Fair enough" Mark replied, he then took notice of the Jumcat. "I see you made a friend." The cat had a large head, beautiful fur coat, and floofy tail, and a huge mouth with beautiful eyes and long pointed ears.
"Yes, I named him James, he seems to answer to it rather well. And is very helpful at taking down low ranking soldiers easily" Spike smiled as James yawned and stretched, it was time for bed. "I will see you in the morning" Spike said to Mark, the man nodded and left the cabin
