An: This chapter is very graphic as Darcy takes's control of Yusuke and then goes after Jade. You also see that Darcy has some issues with her mother and she has some new powers.
Jones exited Jade's tent with a vial containing something blue. Finding Jade with her mouth open and staring at something was not what she had planned to see, glancing at to her left Jones nearly passed out. "You didn't have to get me a present of this magnitude I'd have forgiven you eventually."
"Don't flatter yourself," Jade said with a growl, grabbing the vial and downing it within seconds, "take a look at that," Jade said pointing to where Yusuke and Darcy stood watching the Orc's come close, to the camp.
Jones frowned at the sight, and focused her eyes on the two, "Yusuke's in love with her," Jones concluded, "and she's using him she's got a pretty powerful spell on him one that can't be broken, Jade you might have to kill him to free him." Jones pointed out.
"Remy, get the Renegade's ready to fight and if I lose to Yusuke, then get Bloom out of here they can't have more than one power, and think of it as a tactical retreat," Jade muttered to Remy who nodded to the Renegade's who quickly got ready. Jade walked in front them, and nodded once her face was emotionless, as she looked at the men who stood behind her, she gave a small smile and a quick nod to the Renegades, "Go," was the one word she as they rushed passed her.
Remy stood beside her as the last man bustled beside her, "Keep them safe Billy," Jade said with a grin before disappearing into thin air. Remy nodded before throwing himself into the fray.
Jade moved like lightning knowing that Darcy and Yusuke weren't in the middle of the fray. "Look my queen as I have predicted she found us," Yusuke said taking a fighting stance.
"So you went with the bitch, just when I was going to come running to your arms," Jade said raising an eyebrow.
"You had your chance pixie," Darcy sneered.
Jade shrugged and turned to Yusuke, "Don't worry you'll get your chance with me too Darcy. And Yusuke you know I can't fight you, you've been there to much for me to kill you."
"You've never beaten me in a fight," Yusuke said.
"Don't flatter yourself, I've always held back when we sparred against each other don't force my hand," Jade sighed.
"You couldn't do it even if you tried you won't kill me, you love me to much for that and you I know I thought I felt the Yusuke way about you but then I met Darcy…"
"You're flattering yourself again," Jade pointed out, "I knew you never loved me it's great when your demon is an empath, lust and love are two totally different things for your information." Jade said with another shrug, "And besides I loved Jem but he never showed any interest in me and I couldn't just ask him out, and I regret that now."
Yusuke roared and lunged at Jade, who made no attempt to move, "Die," he snarled.
Jade realizing now that Yusuke was nothing more than an empty shell in which Darcy controlled dodged. "Darcy get out of him," she snarled her eye's flicked to Darcy who had disappeared.
Jade had gotten a glimpse over the years but looking at Yusuke, a boy she cared as deeply about as much as she cared for Jones, in Darcy's grasp, Darcy warping his features so that it looked at Jade with so much vile, venom, and sadistic joy.
Jade clenched her hands trying to go Winx…
"Ah, ah, ah." Darcy said, waving one finger in a chastising manner. "You don't want to be doing that."
"Shut up you monster!" Jade said.
"You start changing, I roast this vessel to ash."
That stopped Jade dead. "…W-what?" she asked in a small voice.
"My unique taking of this boy has more then the advantage that it let me fly in under your radar." Darcy said, as she walked forward, slowly circling her hands at the wrists in the way some people do when they're explaining something. "Long story short…you turn into your Winx form, and I'll leave your boyfriend here in such a way he'll be cooked through and through before you can do anything. And he'll feel all of it, I can assure you." Darcy said. "You so badly wanted to fight me, Jade Halva. Well, go ahead. Change. You can get to witness the first ever case of assisted spontaneous human combustion."
Jade's gut filled with ice again.
"Go ahead. I'm waiting." Darcy said, smirking.
A million things ran through Jade's head…and what kept coming up was that nothing was worth this fight. If she turned her back on Yusuke, and Darcy left the host as she promised, Jade wouldn't be able to go on. Not with the memory of Yusuke igniting before her, his screams ringing in her ears and her nostrils filling with the stench of burning human flesh…
Jade's arms fell limp at his side.
"Oh you poor fuck." Darcy said. "Don't you wish you'd been a good girl and died back when I sent Flair after you? But no…you had to be a hero. Well my dear girl, being a hero has a very, VERY high price." Darcy said. And then she was suddenly right up in Jade's face. "Time to pay up."
The punch broke Jade's nose, sending her flying off her feet and flat onto his back. She wasn't sure what hurt worse: the dull crunch of her cartilage breaking or the feeling of the back of her skull slamming against the rather hard ground.
Darcy lowered her arm…revealing a strange sight. While the arm lowered in the way of a contented person, the facial features of Yusuke were alight in shocked horror. And if she looked closely, she could see that the bluish blackish haze surrounding Yusuke seemed to have increased, mostly above him, faintly forming the upper part of a torso and a head. A head with faint facial features of its own, these ones showing content.
"No…" Yusuke whispered, in his own voice. Yusuke Manson still existed, and could still see and react in a form visible to others.
Which was exactly what Darcy wanted. She'd waited too long for this: she was going to make it memorable.
"No…!" Yusuke said, as he suddenly found himself walking forward, his legs disobeying her every command to stop, as his hands raised, the fingers cracking, as Jade, blood running down his face, tried to get up. She looked up with a shock and horror that mirrored Yusuke's.
Yusuke's fist slammed into her gut, doubling her over.
"NO!" Yusuke screamed, as his hand reached down and grabbed Jade's hair. "NO! STOP IT! STOP IT!"
His body didn't obey, as it snapped up its knee and slammed into Jade's face. Yusuke felt the impact, felt the strike run up his leg, felt Jade's features contort under the blow, felt blood splash on the limb…but he had absolutely no say so in what it was doing. As Jade reeled back from the blow, his arm lashed out in a vicious backhand, smacking Jade across the face and sending her flying a few more feet.
"Oh god, NO!" Yusuke screamed, as he realized he wasn't just a host, he was a puppet in every sense of the word. "STOP IT! STOP IT!"
"Stop it?" Spoke Darcy's voice above her. "Boy, I loathe this fucking child with every ounce of my being. I told her once to die, and she kept refusing. If she'd just been a good girl at the beginning, I'd have the phoenix force and I would be too concerned with other vendettas to spend more then a few minutes cooking her. But she had to be a hero. And what do heroes get? They get this. And what way to drive the cost of it home then to be beaten to death by the man they care about?"
"No…stop it…!" Yusuke screamed, as he started walking forward again, as she reached out and tried to once again reclaim his body, pouring all his willpower into it, as Jade got to her knees, moaning, blood dripping from her face, as Darcy drew back the leg for a kick…
And stopped.
"Well, well, what have we here?" Darcy said, as the bluish fiery haze twisted and flowed down, until it was facing Yusuke, the puppet master examining her toy. "Resisting are we?"
"I WON'T…LET YOU HURT Her…" Yusuke snarled. "WON'T…WON'T…"
"Ah, my dear boy…you must understand…she deserves this."
"NO SHE DOESN'T! YOU'RE SICK! YOU'RE COMPLETELY INSANE!"
"Actually, you are. You let yourself fall for the girl. And you actually think you're resisting my control. I'm just pretending you are." Darcy said.
Yusuke's eyes widened, and then his leg set down and swung back, not affected by his attempt to claim it at all, and swung forward to bury itself deep in Jade's ribs, flipping her over with a gasping scream. Yusuke screamed himself, but he couldn't stop his body from stomping on Jade's stomach and then kicking her in the face when she reared up from that blow, thudding her head back against the ground again.
"Oh, this is more fun then I thought." Darcy said, ignoring Yusuke's screams of rage and horror. They were almost as good as the girl's pain; as she tried to get up, coughing, blood spilling from her mouth. Too red though: probably from his lips rather then inside him. She'd see to that though. "All those years of betraying males and then killing them, I was missing out." Darcy said noting that Jade's healing wasn't working
Jade was trying to get to her feet: Darcy grabbed her by the hair, slammed two more fists into her gut, and then viciously elbowed her in the face. Yusuke felt something crack from that blow, and his yell was tinged with a sob because of it…
"Stop it…" he begged.
"No." Darcy said, "You're going to learn, boy, that the price for loving a hero is a high as the price for being one. When I'm done with this kid, she'll be cursing your name for the rest of her very short life!"
"Don't beg Yusuke it's unbecoming," Jade muttered spitting out blood.
"NO! NO!" Yusuke screamed as he tried to resist again, and found once more he couldn't control his limbs, he couldn't turn his head, and he couldn't even close his eyes. All he could do was watch…and feel…and listen to Darcy's delight as he beat Jade to a pulp.
"YOU MAY DO THIS WITH MY BODY, BUT IT WILL NOT BE ME! SHE'LL KNOW THAT IT'S NOT ME!" Yusuke screamed as Darcy approached Jade again, as she looked up in a daze, one of her eyes starting to swell shut.
"Yusuke…" Jade said.
Yusuke went dead silent, as he looked at Jade, trying to stand again, even so badly battered. "Fight back Jade! Please Fight back!"
"Won't do any good boyfriend. My seed possession has many bonuses! Another is that while I have total control of your motor system not to mention your body as a vessel to focus my new improved powers…but I'm not linked to your nervous system. Go ahead Jade! Hit him! You'll just hurt him!"
Darcy smashed her across the face, fully breaking her cheekbone and sending her flying again.
"No…NO STOP! STOP!" Yusuke wept.
"You still haven't learned Yusuke. This is my world now. And all the begging won't stop me. I take what I want. And I want to show her death's door. After a lengthy detour through hell." Darcy said, as she started after Jade again.
Jade was in utter agony, and not just in her battered, bleeding body. She was tormented in her heart and soul as well, as she listened to Yusuke's screams and cries as his body did the dirty work. She had thought she had finally managed to grasp Darcy's cruelty and hatred for her, but now she realized she hadn't even been close. And she never could have been. She was beyond all his intellectual capacity. She wasn't a hurting victim or even crazy. She was evil, and she revelled in it.
As she was now, as she violently kicked her in the kneecap, and then when she doubled over she slammed an elbow into her spine. Jade crumpled to the ground, her vision a blur, her eyes stinging with blood. She got up, trying to get away, and she heard Darcy laughing behind him, her sadistic joy rent with the undertone of Yusuke's sobs. In part of her, a great rage stirred, not at what was happening to her but the anguish Yusuke was going through. Why did Darcy have to do this, forcing such suffering on not just her but him? What had he ever done…
…Except care for her. Deeply. And in Darcy's mind, that was enough reason to punish him as well. She probably saw it as a betrayal on top of how much he wanted to kill Jade.
Jade could make out a vague shadow to her side, but her sight wasn't gone enough to confuse it for a Renegade. Where were they, she wondered? Were they dead? Dying? Injured?
"Oh look, a tool shed!" Darcy said. "I wonder how good the structure is."
Darcy tested this by picking up Jade and throwing her into the side of the small wood building, hard. Unfortunately, it was of good construction, as Jade's body took all the impact, as she crumpled to the ground, whimpering. She had tried to be strong, tried not to scream for help or beg for mercy that would not come, but she was not invincible, while she had trained to resist great amounts of pain, this was too much and every part of her body was in sheer torture.
"Wow, good assembly there." Darcy said, as she walked up to the shed. "Wonder how well equipped it is."
Jade's mind was fading into murk again, as she rolled over and tried getting up, trying to get away. She couldn't hear Darcy rummaging through the shed.
"No, too life threatening, too life threatening, too life threatening. Ah, perfect!"
"WHAT!" Yusuke screamed as Darcy stepped out, wielding a rake, the kind used to sweep up leaves in the fall. "NO! NO!"
"You are terribly stubborn Brother." Darcy said as she approached. "You don't have a say, except to hear her SUFFER!"
And Darcy brought the rake down, the spines slashing across Jade's back, and she finally screamed out loud as all the nerve endings ignited at once, rearing up, as Darcy swung the rake back and slashed/struck her across the side, ripping open more flesh wounds on her left arm as she rolled from the impact.
"Ho boy, are we having fun yet?" Darcy asked.
"YOU'RE A MONSTER! A MONSTER!" Yusuke was screaming.
"I am what they made me." Darcy said as she walked up. "You consider that."
And she broke the handle of the rake over Jade's back, and when he reared up from THAT blow she slashed her, hard, across the face, ripping apart her features in a line of bloody wounds as she was flung back onto the ground.
"Bored now." Darcy said, as she tossed the rake aside…and spied something behind the tool shed. Stacked cordwood, put aside for the winter. Though human eyes could not really see it, Darcy's fiery optics seemed to fade a bit, as if she was forgetting where she was. And then her eyes grew furious.
"No. No more. NO FUCKING MORE!" Darcy screamed as she stomped forward and snatched up a piece of wood, as Yusuke screamed again and begged her to stop, but Darcy didn't hear Yusuke, didn't even enjoy his suffering any more, because she was utterly lost in rage, as she strode back over to Jade.
"Here's a little something for you Mother!" Darcy screamed as she brought the cordwood down on Jade's back, carefully aiming for the muscles: she didn't want a broken back robbing her of any of her well deserved pain. Jade screamed as the powerful club slammed against her, reverting through her form, as she tried to get away. Darcy screamed as she smashed Jade's kneecap with the log, shattering it. Darcy bellowed as she slammed blow after blow into Jade's body, not hearing her cries or Yusuke's, just feeling her overwhelming need to prove them all wrong.
The log, slick with blood, finally slipped from her hands, but it didn't matter, as she kicked Jade onto her back and climbed onto her, no longer making any noise at all, as she raised a fist and brought it down on Jade. A dull crunch rang through the air.
"I'm sorry Jade." Yusuke sobbed as his fists went up and down, up and down, blood coating the knuckles. "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"
WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!
"I'M SORRRRRRRYYYYY!"
WHAM! Darcy brought her hands together, raised them up, and brought them down full force on Jade's face. The impact made Jade's whole body spasm, and then it went limp.
Darcy finally regained control of herself, blinking, and then looked down on Jade's broken body, her face an utter mess. But she apparently hadn't broken any ribs, somehow, as her chest was still rising and falling, slightly. She smirked to herself.
"Well…all good things must come to an end…" Darcy said, as she flexed her aching hands. She was amazed she hadn't broken any of her host's fingers. The boy must drink his calcium.
"No…" Yusuke whimpered.
"Oh yes. Take a good look Yusuke. Remember it. Because you'll be seeing this sight for the rest of your life." Darcy said, as she leaned in close to Jade's swollen, battered, bloody face. "You're all scum Jade. All of you and your stinking Pixie Breed."
A speck of fire ignited on the tip of Darcy's finger, as she slowly raised it up, and then brought it before Jade's face.
"But before you go…breath in deep Jade." Darcy whispered. "I want you to feel ME inside YOU."
And then Jade, her brain fogged by pain beyond any faerie should endure, did indeed take that breath.
And sucked Darcy's flame in, down through her throat and into her lungs…where it ignited inside her.
Jade's body jerked violently upward as fire exploded within her lungs…and then she slumped down, her head wilting to the side, all light fading from her swollen eyes.
"………………………………..No." Yusuke whispered, as the phoenix force rose from Jade's corpse and flew into Darcy causing her to laugh madly.
Somewhere else…Remy watched as Jones slumped to the ground unconscious, snarling he hacked his way through the Orc army till he reached her, "Retreat, Pete get Bloom out of here Jade's fallen.
Following Remy's orders the Renegades did indeed retreat, before Darcy/Yusuke could come and kill them all.
Later far away…
Remy stood pacing in front of the Renegades, his face emotionless, "Okay, we have a new mission now we've got to protect Bloom with our lives, Darcy's an insane psycho bitch and will take the dragon-fire, and possibly use that to kill us and then take over the universe."
"How can she be dead though," Stella said still not understanding how Jade who had seemed invincible in the past could be killed.
The room went deadly quiet, Jade had studied with some of the deadliest fighters in all the realms since she was 5 years old, but against Yusuke who had only learned kickboxing and done quite of street boxing she had lost her life.
"We're going to make Darcy pay for this if it's the last thing we do," Remy snarled.
"Don't worry it will be," the Renegade's and the Winx club turned to see Darcy/ Yusuke standing in the entranceway.
Bloom was then afraid as the gravity of the situation was realized, Darcy had gone psycho with Jade's powers…