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Revenge of the Wolf
Chapter 8 – Another one Bites the Dust.
Author's note. The next few chapters, will probably be all flashback chapters. If we have a scene in the present where Jade is still recovering from her grievous injuries, I will make note of it. Soon, we will find out exactly what disaster left Jade shattered, both physically and emotionally.
Time: About 2 and a half weeks ago.
No One's POV
Walking down the hallway, Jade pulled open the first door she encountered. Inside, was a small operating theatre and a door inside that lead to a room filled with medical supplies.
Walking further down the hall, Jade was about to open the second door she had passed earlier, when a man carrying an Uzi, walked out of it. Before he could react, Jade grabbed him and slammed him into the wall. Then she grabbed his head and simply snapped his neck, all the while humming the Queen song, "Another one bites the dust."
Searching his body, she found a set of keys, which she slipped into the one pocket of the gown she was wearing. The Uzi, she slung around her shoulder.
Looking inside the room he had come out of, she could see it appeared to be a small lounge. Inside was a table, some chairs a couch and a television. It didn't look terribly fancy, so she guessed it was a break area for the guards.
The next door Jade encountered was the door to the cells. Taking the keys, Jade went inside and made sure all the cells were empty. She found no one.
Leaving the cell area, Jade went to her left, which was the direction Nikita had been taken earlier.
Further down she encountered yet another door. Walking in cautiously, she could see it appeared to be a small theatrical dressing room. In fact it looked very similar to the one behind the black box theatre at Hollywood arts.
Stepping in, Jade walked over to a rack of dresses along a wall, opposite the makeup tables. They were all evening gowns and sexy lingerie. Seeing a door, Jade walked though and as she suspected, found herself in a backstage area with two doors. There was also a curtain in front of a stage. All was quiet so she walked forward onstage.
She found herself in a very small theatre, with about 20 plush leather seats. The stage itself was small with a small catwalk that lead out onto the area with the seats. On the stage itself, to the left was a small podium with a auctioneers gavel.
"So this is where the girls are sold." Muttered Jade.
Curious about the doors backstage, she found one lead into the main hallway and the other one was locked. Opening it, she found it was a small storage room, with boxes which appeared to be weapons.
She found a long box, marked Stinger missiles, Another marked Law Rockets. She found many types of weapons, but only one box of each. Finally she found a stack of papers, printed in the different languages. They appeared to be brochures for the weapons, listing information about them, plus delivery options. She crammed one in her pocket.
"Fuck me, these are samples. Whoever is behind this is not only selling girls, but is an arm's dealer to boot. They're really into some nasty shit."
Jade left that room and went out into the audience area of the theatre. In the back was a door, which she planned to go through. However as she walked, she spotted a piece of paper, stuck in the folds of one of the seats.
It was written in what appeared to be Chinese, but was a brochure for a young blonde girl complete with pictures. Disgusted, Jade threw down the brochure and went through the rear door. Inside was another lounge, but this one looked very expensive. It had leather furniture and even a bar. On one wall was another door.
Not missing a beat, Jade walked to the bar and poured herself a glass of single malt scotch. After slamming it down, she exited through the side door and once again found herself in the hallway.
Further down the hallway were more doors, the first of which led to a small restaurant type kitchen. She could see it was set up to serve a number of people. Watching from the doorway, Jade could see an older woman finishing preparing what appeared to be lunch for a number of people. Jade counted 14 plates of food on a table in the kitchen. As she watched, Jade saw the woman, go to a cabinet, unlock it and from it remove a small vial. She then poured drops of some clear liquid on the food of four of the plates. She then put those four on a cart.
At first Jade wondered if it was some sort of spice, but then spotted a large spice rack on a nearby table. This was no spice, this was something different.
Wanting to know more, she walked up behind the woman and twisted her arm behind her back.
"Those four plates, who are they to go to?"
"How did you get out of your cell?" The woman hissed.
"Wrong answer. Give me another one, and I'll break your arm."
A look of fright came to the woman's face and she quickly answered. "Those are supposed to be for you and the other 3 girls they are keeping down here."
"The girls upstairs in the brothel don't get it?"
"No."
"What is it?"
"I don't know. I'm just given the vial and instructions to put it in their food twice a week."
"Who gives these instructions?"
"The boss. Mr. Arno. He supplies the vials twice a week. Look, I don't know anything else. I'm just doing a job and following orders. I have myself and a husband to feed. I'm just the cook."
Annoyed by the response, Jade slammed her head onto the metal table, knocking her out.
"That was a bullshit excuse 70 years ago, when the Nazi's gave it, and it's a bullshit excuse now."
Seeing a walk in freezer, Jade with a smirk, dragged the unconscious woman into the freezer and then jammed it shut with a screwdriver she found in a nearby toolbox. Jade, then turned the freezer down to its lowest setting and broke off the knob.
Walking off, Jade sang a few lines from, Another one Bites the dust.
"And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust."
On her way out, Jade as shoved the empty vial in her pocket; hoping that any residue found could be analyzed.
Emerging into the hallway, she could hear the sounds of people working out and that was coming from a door just up ahead. The door was locked, but once unlocked, Jade peered in.
It was a workout room, with exercise and weightlifting equipment. On an opposite wall, she spotted what appeared to be a shower area. Working out, Jade spotted Nikita and another young blonde woman, both being watched over by the other man who had taken her earlier. He was standing with his back to the door, just inside the room.
Casually walking in, Jade grabbed the man and rammed his head straight into a stack of weights on one of the exercise machines. The man's head split open and he fell to the floor.
"Ok Ladies, work out time's finished."
Nikita smiled, ran up and hugged Jade. "My God, you did it. What about the doctor and the other guards. "
"Doctor, the cook and two of the other guards are history. Where is the third girl?"
Just then Jade, with her superior sense of smell, became aware of Tori's scent nearby.
"Vega!" Jade called out.
"Where are you?"
"In here, just follow my voice."
A second later, Tori appeared in the door, holding a duffle bag. She quickly tossed it to Jade. "Thought you'd want some clothes. I see you've already managed to break out and start your trail of corpses without me."
Jade immediately started to dress. "Glad you found me. Where in the hell is this place."
"This is a mansion on some estate, outside of town. I followed the truck onto the estate and into an underground garage. Some guard in the parking garage tried to stop me from seeing you. He's dead now. I see you've made some friends."
"Yes, this is Nikita and…."
The blonde girl smiled. "I'm Elise. Thank god you've come. We're really getting out of here."
Jade turned to Nikita. "You said there was a third girl, where is she?"
Elise answered. "They took her from her cell the same time as me. But I saw the guard take her in the direction of the stairs going down. She's been here the longest of the three of us. I think they were going to sell her in a day or so."
"Nikita, where are the stairs?" Asked Jade.
"Just down the hallway, it comes to a T. Left will take you to the elevators that lead to the parking garage and the brothel. The right branch leads to some stairs going down. I've never been down there."
Now dressed, Jade took her cellphone, the Uzi and handed it to Nikita. "I need your help."
"What do you need?"
"You're going to stage a mass escape. You take Elise upstairs to the brothel. Once there, you call the local cops and the fire department, even the local news if you'd like. Then you announce to all the girls that this place is going out to business and order everyone to leave the building, immediately. If you find a fire alarm, pull it. If anyone objects, that's where the UZI comes in, you shoot them. Can you handle that?"
Nikita, who was more than looking to get a little payback, grinned. "Happily."
"My girl and I are going downstairs to find this other girl. What's her name?"
"Maria."
"Good, now you two go. Tori and I will find Maria and shut this place down for good."
As, Elise and Nikita dashed out the door, Jade nudged Tori. "Come on beautiful, smart mate of mine. Let's free this other girl. I think we may be dealing with a wizard in charge of this place."
Tori momentarily narrowed her eyes as she headed out the door with Jade. "You're going to need a lot more than kissing up to smooth things out with me. But for the record, don't stop. You need all the help you can get. Is the wizard the big bad guy."
"No, just another soon to be dead flunky. But hopefully, one that can lead us to the big bad."
Running down the hallway, they came to the T, headed right and found the stairs.
The lower level had a long corridor, with one door at the very beginning. They opened it to find what appeared to be some sort of drug lab, under construction. Jade had watched enough "Breaking bad" to recognize one.
But no one was present and the lab was only about halfway completed. However she spotted some papers on a stack of boxes and shoved them in her pocket. They could have searched more, but Jade felt a sense of urgency, so she nudged Tori on further down the corridor.
A little ways down, they found two doors, one on the left side of the hallway and another at the end. They were about to try the door on the left, when they heard a woman a man loudly talking to himself from behind the other door.
"Time for the final preparations, my dear."
Jade smiled. "Sounds like's that our cue. Let's rush em."
Tori wanted to at least consider another plan of attack, but before she could open her mouth, Jade was charging the door. All Tori could do was follow.
Bursting through the door, she found herself in a square room with black walls. Each wall had a single banner on it, that showed a picture of a snake coiled around a fist. In each corner was a large candle on a tall candle stick. Along one wall was a workbench covered with bottles, and other type magical ingredients.
In the center of the room was a table with a brown haired girl lying on it. She was tied to a table and appeared to be drugged.
Next to the table was a tall older man in a black robe, with greying hair, long nose and buggy eyes. Seeing the two girls he quickly hissed. "Who are you?"
Standing fast, Jade crossed her arms as Tori walked up behind her. "Jade West, Queen of the werewolves. You must be Mr. Arno, the one in charge here. Now do me a huge favor, surrender and kindly tell me who in the hell your boss is? I'll even let you live."
Knowing he was facing not one, but two werewolves, one of them being the biggest of them all, Mr. Arno, realized his options were quite limited. He knew that even if he got an offensive spell off and disabled one, the other would smash his skull. He also knew that if he actually considered Jade's offer, his boss, would literally boil him alive and that was after, peeling his skin off first. His boss had no tolerance, for failure or disloyalty.
As far as options went, he knew he only had one left.
With a few quick words and a wave of his hand, a shimmering see through wall of blue light cut the room in half; him and the workbench on one side, Jade, Tori and Maria on the other.
Turning into a wolf, Jade charged the wall of light but quickly bounced off it. Watching carefully, Tori observed Arno run to the wall and press a hidden switch. Just then a small panel swung open to reveal a switch which he hit. He then dashed towards the workbench.
Just then, Tori also noted the wall was beginning to fade. She guessed it was a very short lived force field spell of some kind. The wizard, when he reached the bench, grabbed a grey flask and quickly drank it's contents, just as the last of the light faded away.
Transforming back into a human, Jade ran up and grabbed the wizard .
"Who do you work for? Tell me now!" Screamed Jade.
With a look of defiance he smiled at Jade, moments before he started to convulse. Soon after that, foul smelling, black foam began to ooze out of nose and mouth. A second later he went limp, now dead.
"Fuck!" Cursed Jade in rage.
"Uh…Jade. We have a problem." Announced Tori, who was standing by the panel.
"Damn right we do, this fucker killed himself. Just once, I'd like to get some answers."
"No Jade we have another problem." Tori then pointed to the panel. Inside was a switch and a timer which had just counted down from 72 seconds to 71 seconds.
"Do you remember what happened, the last time. We need to grab the girl and run."
Jade did remember, when she got kidnapped, Gerda, the woman in charge, set a bomb which destroyed the building and all the evidence within.
"Not again!" Groaned the Goth, as she ran to pick up Maria.
Like their lives depended on it, because it did, the pair ran as fast they could out the door, down the hall and up the stairs. Then the ran down past the T intersection to what appeared to be an elevator with a set stairs next to it.
Both hit the stairs and in record time, ran up 3 flights, emerging into the now deserted brothel. It looked like stereotypical brothel, but they hardly had time to take in any details, other than the corpse of an older woman sprawled out on the floor. Not having any idea of the way out, they ran to where the thought the door may be. Luck being with them, the found the still open front door and ran out the door.
Outside of the building, standing on the lawn were Nikita and a large group of scared looking woman. Off in the distance, Jade could hear the welcome sounds of police sirens. Seeing the women Jade screamed.
"Run!"
No sooner as they all started to run, a low rumbling could be heard beneath them and 2 seconds later the whole large mansion behind them, blew up, knocking everyone briefly off their feet.
Brushing herself off, Tori looked to Jade, who was still holding Maria. "Is she ok?"
Jade lay Maria on the ground and checked her out. "She looks fine and appears to be coming out of it."
"You did it. Thank you ever so much." Squealed Nikita.
Jade turned for a moment to the mansion, which was both ruined and engulfed in flames. "You get everyone out?"
"Yes, the madam of the place objected rather strenuously to me setting her girl's free, so as they say…I plugged her. You should have heard the girls cheer when I did that. They really hated her. Rotten wench. Oh, here's your phone. " Said a grateful looking Nikita as she handed her phone to Jade.
Tori at this point nudged Jade. "I don't think we should be here when the cop's arrive. Too many questions and that would only attract more attention than we've already gotten."
"Good point Vega!"
Jade then turned to Nikita. "Nikita, It was a pleasure meeting you. From the sounds of all the sirens, the police and fire should be her in less than a minute. You'll all be safe. Tori and I, think it's best if we not stick around. You know…questions that we really don't want to answer, that sort of thing."
"Got it. Thank you ever so much. How can I repay you?" Said Nikita, as she hugged Jade.
"Just…live your life, watch The Scissoring, the best movie ever and if anyone asks, say we never gave our names."
Nikita nodded. "Will do, thank you Tori and Jade."
Their goodbyes said, Jade and Tori ran and hid in the bushes just as the first police cars and fire trucks arrived on scene. The confused police and firemen were immediately greeted by more than a dozen women, all of which were saying how they'd been held prisoner, in that horrible place.
Seeing things were under control, Tori and Jade snuck off. A few minutes later, the pair was walking along the side of the road, watching all the fire and police cars rush by. They even spotted a 2 news trucks, heading to the mansion.
But for several minutes as they walked, neither of them said a thing. Jade could sense the tension between them.
Looking back, Jade observed pillar of black smoke coming from the burning mansion, which rose into the sky.
Glancing at it, Tori huffed. "So much for subtlety. You can see that pillar of black smoke all across Prague."
"Look Vega. I know you're upset about all this, but look at what we did. We saved Nikita and all the rest of those girls. They were doing some nasty stuff there. No more. You and Me Vega. They're going home now, not off to some place as a slave. Imagine what would happen if we hadn't acted. Please, at least feel good about that. "
Tori nodded in agreement.
For a time more, the pair walked in silence until Tori asked. "Now what?"
"Well, since we've stirred things up a bit. I'll contact the local pack leader. Perhaps he can give us some info or has contacts who can tell us who owned that mansion or the building that Mrs. Janda lived in."
Tori nodded. "I almost forgot, Just before I arrived, Julia texted me. She's arrived in town, but wants to rest a bit to get over her jet lag. She'd like to meet us tonight. Discuss strategy."
"Fine, I think I know of a place where we can meet. I'll text her the place. That and I want to show her this vial. I think that wizard was using the substance in it on the girls for some sort of mind control to make them passive and docile for their new owners. There's a few drops left in it and maybe Julia can give me some info on it. Plus we have these papers, they look like shipping documents for the drug lab equipment. We've got some more leads."
Tori was tempted to say, she wasn't sure she wanted to go where this lead, but kept her mouth shut.
They walked for a few more minutes, before finally seeing and waving down a taxi. Arriving at the hotel, just after 2 in the afternoon, Tori and Jade started to clean up. But through all of this a lot of tension remained. When she concentrated, she could sense just how hurt Tori felt. But Jade still was convinced she did the right thing.
Coming out of the bathroom, she found Tori in bed. Not sure what Tori wanted, Jade hesitated.
Tori patted the empty space on the bed next to her. "Jade, no matter what happens. Your place is with me. I still love you. Please lay with me, sleep next to me for a few hours. Hold me like a lover."
With a nod, Jade stripped down and pressed herself up against the naked form of Tori.
"Tori….."
Tori however put a finger to Jade's lips. "No talking. Just hold me, make me feel loved." All the Latina wanted was a quiet and hopefully tender couple of hours with Jade. Where for at least a short time she could forget all the dark clouds that hovered over them. With each passing day, she felt a sense those clouds were only getting darker. What distressed and angered her most was Jade's unwillingness to see the same dark clouds she did.
Feeing a horrible pang of guilt, Jade nodded and pulled Tori in tight. Jade then with her free hand, began to gently caress Tori's naked form, not in a sexual way, but in tender way.
Feeling the warm embrace of her lover, Tori already tired from the long day, fell quickly asleep.
Jade on the other hand, remained troubled by all she had seen and how things sat with Tori. She felt guilt, but at the same time was convinced she was on the right path. She was convinced all this drama would soon be over and they'd be fine. Regardless, all this weighed on her mind.
Eventually the feeling of Tori pressed up against her was enough to relax her and quietly drifted into sleep.
So Jade and Tori rescued the girls, shut down the operation and possibly found some clues to lead them to the main villain they're after.
They're having a quiet moment and Tori worries about the dark clouds she sees all around her. Jade is confident in her mission and believes that things will be alright. We know, considering where Jade ended up, Tori's worries were more than valid.
I'll probably write another chapter of "Unfairly Judged." Next. But in the meantime, thanks for reading and please review.
The chapter title, Another one bites the Dust is a reference to the Queen song of the name. Lyrics used without the permission.