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Revenge of the Wolf

Chapter 13 – Used to Love her.

We've reached the climax of the 1st half of the story. Where we finally learn just how Jade wound up shattered and alone.

NO one's POV.

Time: 12 days ago

Tori, who's fur was brown, charged at Jade with all her speed, catching her off guard. In fact Tori went for the kill, snapping her jaws at an exposed part of Jades neck, but missed as Jade managed to back off. Tori however did manage to claw Jade on the side, causing Jade to yelp in pain. It wasn't a very deep wound, in fact it was rather superficial, but it did cause Jade pain.

Jade then retreated and for almost a full minute the two wolves circled each other. Neither Tori nor Jade, took their eyes off each other as they looked for a weakness or an opening to strike.

Jade was both stronger and faster, but not too much. Tori did have one advantage. That she was born a werewolf and Jade was not. As a child Tori would visit her werewolf cousins and as young wolves frequently do, they would play fight. It was play but at the same time, practice. As a fighter, Tori was far more experienced. So Tori realized she needed to keep Jade off balance.

Jade was the first to attack this time, but Tori dodged. Tori also decided to switch back into a human and changed tactics.

Seeing Tori turn back into a human, Jade barked and charged, only to have Tori leap to the side and land a devastating punch to Jade's ribs. The black wolf groaned and quickly retreated as Tori had managed to crack one of her ribs.

Tori then turned back into a wolf and the process started again. For several minutes it continued. They'd circle each other, one would attack and the other would try and dodge it. Tori got off a few hits and Jade even managed to bite Tori, though at this point the injuries on either side were not very bad. But they were starting to bloody each other.

Then just as Tori turned back into a human Jade did. Tori looked into Jade's eyes, to see if there was a hint of Jade, but saw nothing by emptiness. It was during that moment of weakness, that Jade landed a punch to Tori's jaw, sending her flying backwards.

Jade then turned back into a wolf and pounced and managed to bite her in the left shoulder. Tori managed to throw Jade off, before she managed to do serious damage.

Tori then with her good arm, landed several punches on Jade, before she could recover. The fight continued in both human and wolf from, with each getting bloodier and bloodier.

At the 15 minute mark, Tori became aware her shoulder was hurting more and more as Jade kept attacking it. She had managed to keep up, but knew she would not be able to hold out for too long.

Again Jade pounced but in human form and this time, the Goth managed to straddle her and quickly wrapped her hands around Tori's neck.

With a murderous look, Jade then proceeded to begin to choke the life out of Tori. The Latina struggled but couldn't break Jade's grip. Harder and harder, Jade choked Tori. Coughing and gasping for breath, Tori begin to fade away. She couldn't break Jade's grip, but as her hand moved away from Jade's hands, she brushed up against something.

Tori realized she could reach the pair of scissors in Jade's boot. Before she no longer could, Tori grabbed them and jammed them deep into Jade's midsection.

Jade howled in pain, let go and jumped off. The wound was quite severe and put sent agonizing waves of pain through her body. The scissors were not silver and Tori knew it would heal in less than a minute. While Jade was busy extracting the scissors from her site, Tori attacked, punching Jade several times in the face.

Jade, whose nose was now gushing blood, snarled and returned to wolf form.

Jade soon attacked again and after a few more rounds, managed to bite on shoulder again. It was now bleeding profusely and in wolf form, her injury was causing her to slow down. Tori had managed to hold Jade off, but Tori was now injured far more than jade was. She knew it was only a matter of time, before Jade finished her off.

For her children, for her people, Tori knew she needed to win, she needed something. Then, out of the corner of her eye she spied the various metal supports holding up the ceiling in a nearby corner of the building. All the normal support pillars but one in that section of the building had all crumpled away. The one that remained was half crumbled away and badly cracked. Very little was holding up that section of the building.

In pain, heartbroken and near defeat, Tori came up with a plan. She continued to fight her losing battle, but managed to lure Jade into the corner. Turning into a human she managed to pick up Jade's wolf form at one of the metal supports, knocking it lose.

For a brief moment, Tori could feel a brief tremor in the building. Margo and Claudia who were cheering Jade on, were too focused on the fight to notice just what Tori was doing. Twice more she managed throw Jade at a support. The second time, came at the cost of a nasty near crippling wound to one of her legs.

Now in intense pain, both physical and emotional, Tori grabbed Jade, who was currently in human form. She then bodily picked her up and with all her might, threw her at the one remaining cement pillar.

As Jade smashed into the pillar, it exploded in cloud of cement dust. Suddenly, the air was filled with a rather ominous l cracking sound could be heard from above . A second later, that cracking sound turned into a loud rumbling and as Tori predicted, that whole corner of the building suddenly started to collapse.

Backing off out of the way of the collapsing ceiling, Tori for a moment saw Jade get up and begin to stagger off to the side, before vanishing into a cloud of dust, as giant chunks of cement started to rain down from above on top of her.

Tori backed off even further as looked like the whole building was going to come down. But the collapse was limited about 1/3rd of the building. But when the noise and the dust subsided, all she could see was a massive pile of rubble, steel and concrete. Jade was nowhere to be seen. In fact the direction she stumbled, was about where the pile was its highest.

Knowing what she'd done, Tori had let out a primal scream.

Several feet away, Claudia quickly raged at the ruin of her plans. Furious, she shoved Margo towards Tori. "KILL HER!"

Too disgusted and angry over Jade's defeat to stay, Claudia stormed off and left.

Margo approached the injured Tori and bellowed. "She was supposed to be mine! You'll pay for that!"

Not even bothering to turn change out of her clothes, Margo turned into a wolf and charged Tori.

Above, Beck had felt the building collapse and for a moment, worried the half he was in would come down too.

But for the moment he had other worries. Though Tori was stronger and faster than Margo, Tori was now badly hurt; Margo was fresh and uninjured. Tori didn't stand a chance and he knew it.

With that wizard there, Beck dared not move or make a sound. He knew that if the Claudia or Margo knew he was there, he was dead meat. He hated not being able to do anything. But since Claudia had stormed off in disgust, he knew he might be able to help this time.

Getting up to move, towards what remained of the catwalk, he spotted a pile of masonry and cement. On top of that pile, was a chunk of cement about the size of a softball and that gave him an idea.

Beck scooped up the chunk of cement and rushed out onto the catwalk, not bothering to pay attention to that fact that it swayed slightly as he moved along it. In fact half of it was torn off and lying on top of the pile of debris. Looking down he could see, Margo in wolf form, lunge at Tori, only for her to barely move out of the way in time. Next time Tori may not be so quick.

In Canada he had played little league and on his team he had been the pitcher. Hurrying along the catwalk, he got to closest point he could and waited for the right moment. Finally Margo stopped for a moment in a standoff with Tori.

After saying a silent prayer, Beck took aim and threw his best fastball, straight at Margo's head.

The chunk of cement flew like a rocket and much to Beck's amazement, nailed Margo right in the face.

Ecstatic that he hit the mark, Beck triumphantly pumped his fist in the air. "EAT THAT, BITCH!"

Margo, whose attention was solely focused on Tori, never saw it coming. The chunk of cement hit the right side of her face with such force it knocked her backwards. Besides stunning her briefly and causing her immense pain the missile did one other thing.

Looking down Beck could see, that the right side of Margo's face was now covered in blood and from the looks of it; the rock had put out her right eye.

Margo who was stunned, half blind and in horrible pain, instinctivly looked up to see where the rock came from. She knew since it wasn't silver it would heal in a matter of moments, but for the time she was blind on that side. That wasn't her concern, but where it came from did."

When she did look up, she could see a grinning Beck. He also happened to be flipping her off.

It was at that moment; Margo realized to her horror, that she'd made a fatal mistake.

The moment of distraction, blindness and pain was all that was needed. Tori, using the last of her strength dashed to the Margo's blind side and charged. In a state of utter animalistic rage and grief, Tori went straight for Margo's neck. Once on top of Margo, the enraged wolf, sank her fangs deeply into the Margo's neck and bit down hard. The result was a fountain of blood and a sickening, crunching sound of Tori's jaws crushing the bones in her neck.

Only then did Beck begin to notice that the metal catwalk was starting to sway more and more. Realizing he was in danger, he quickly ran back to the office hoping to reach Tori.

However on his way back down he found that the stairway he came up, had collapsed, forcing him to go to the other side of the building to get down. That took him several additional minutes.

"Tori" he called out, as he ran out into the open area.

Only Tori wasn't there.

Lying at the foot of the rubble was a large pool of blood about 8 feet across. Scattered around the pool, was the shredded and unrecognizable remains of a werewolf, that was once Margo. It was such a gruesome sight, that Beck was forced to quickly avert his eyes. Margo had not just been merely killed. In the time he had spent getting down from above; Tori had savagely torn Margo apart, then mutilated and partially eaten her.

His one thought, besides utter revulsion was oddly, a humorous one. He made a mental note to never piss off his own werewolf girlfriend, let alone even consider cheating on her.

Leading off, he could see a faint trail of blood, that headed away from Margo and out the a open garage door.

He followed the trail and outside and spotted the form of Tori the wolf limping away towards some woods. She was about 200 yards away, near the old perimeter fence. Beyond that was trees and bushes.

Running out the door he shouted. "TORI!"

Off in the distance, Beck could see Tori stop briefly. A second later, Tori turned and vanished into some bushes.

Once Tori was gone, he noticed something else a few feet away.

It was a pile of clothes, Tori's clothes in fact.

In addition to that, in the clothes was the magical wolf's head necklace, that allowed her to change into a wolf without removing clothes. It was also designated her as a member of the royal family, something that Jade had given her.

Looking at the clothes and necklace, they appeared that they'd been torn off. As if Tori had turned back into a human, pulled off her necklace, then transformed back into a wolf, causing her clothes to tear off. He didn't understand.

Beck found himself with an agonizing dilemma. He either could go after Tori or see if Jade was still alive. He quickly decided to forget Tori and see if he could locate Jade.

No sooner as she ran into the building, she could see, Valentina and Julia appear in a cloud of mist.

Simply by the look on Becks face, Julia realized they were too late.

"We're too late?"

Valentina, who looked quite angry stepped forward "Where is that traitor, Margo."

Beck pointed to the corpse, a few feet away. "The bitch is dead! But Jade, She's buried under the rubble. Tori dropped half the building on her. I think she's dead."

Valentina ran to the pile, but quickly broke down in tears.

Julia then walked to the pile and sat down. Then she pulled out some dust, tossed it on the floor and said an incantation.

The dust then formed an arrow that pointed straight into the rubble.

With a shout, Julia popped up. "She's alive!"

"How?" Asked Valentina. "She's buried under tons of concrete and steel. Not even a werewolf could survive that!"

Beck, who was checking out the pile debris, walked around the side and noticed something. He quickly pointed to something on the floor. "Hey look!"

Coming over to him, they could see the was pointing towards a small trench about 5 feet deep and 2 feet wide. At one end, a few feet from the pile, was a stairway leading down into the pit which then ran and disappeared under the rubble. He didn't recall noticing the trench at first as in several places it was covered with boards.

"That's one of those pits, you see in garages. You drive a car over it and the mechanic can walk down into the pit and do work under the car. So they don't have to lift it up.

"Maybe she fell into it." Beck said excitedly. "Perhaps there's an air pocket."

So with hope and Jade still alive, the group quickly started their rescue effort. Using magic and muscle, they managed to clear out the trench, making a tunnel under the massive pile of debris. Finally after 20 some feet, they found Jade.

She had indeed staggered and fell into the trench as the building collapsed. That protected her from the larger chunks of concrete and steel that rained down. In fact, almost directly above her was a massive chunk of concrete and steel that looks like it weighed several tons. Only being in the trench prevented it landing on her. Still, she had been buried under a large amount cement chunks. They were all small enough to fall into the trench. Regardless, she'd she had been spared the worst.

Pulling her carefully out, Beck and Valentina moved Jade out and onto the floor. However what they saw horrified them. Jade was alive, but little more than a bloody heap of flesh, dust and concrete.

As they began to clean her off and stop the bleeding, Beck then told them the story of what happened, from Margo's betrayal too Tori fleeing into the woods."

It was when the name Claudia was mentioned did Julia grow pale. "Claudia, you're sure they said Claudia?"

Beck pulled out his phone and showed Julia the picture. "Is this Claudia?"

Julia nodded and lowered her head. "Shit!"

"Is that bad?" Asked Valentina.

"Yes. She's one of the most powerful wizards around, not to mention a respected and influential member of the wizard's council for 28 years. It's obviously all a front."

Thinking quickly, Beck suddenly had an idea. "Wait! Julia, your apprentice Sara, she once told me that you wizards have a special security force. To deal with emergencies and to enforce the laws set by the Wizard's council. We need to contact them."

With a look of resignation, Julia shook her head. "Yes, we have a special security force and it's headed by a member by our head of security; a member of the wizard council. Take a wild guess who that happens to be."

Beck suddenly deflated. "Claudia."

Julia pulled a small chunk of cement out of Jade's let as she answered. "Bingo! It seems that our head of security, the wizard who picks and trains our security force as well as vets our people to make sure they are both qualified and trustworthy, is an evil, utterly corrupt, criminal mastermind. That pretty much fucks us and also means we can't trust anyone. Lord only knows who's on her payroll. No wonder we never had an inkling that evil wizard cult had been resurrected. Our security force is probably part of it. Even better, if Claudia even suspects we know her identity, she'll not only kill us, but pretty much everyone we know. Plus all we have is one picture; she'll spin that and make us look like the bad guys."

Valentina thought for a moment as she attended to Jade's arm. "Our immediate concern is Jade. We need a place where she can recover. We need to hide her. Cause I'd guess, this Claudia would stop at nothing to either capture or kill Jade, if she discovers she's alive."

"We've got a problem." Muttered Julia.

"What?" Asked Beck.

"A year or so ago, Claudia was giving a seminar and she mentioned she recently found ancient spell she had rediscovered in an old tome. It was called the Molis spell. While the ingredients were exceedingly rare, she said it could have positive uses. The spell summons some sort of shadow spirit. This spirit can literally sense a person's life force, anywhere. I mean anywhere. It can't locate where they are, but if the person is alive anywhere on the planet, this spirit will sense them. The spell I used to see if Jade was alive has a range of about 25 meters. The Molis, spell has unlimited range. She said this spell could be used to aid in the recovery of kidnap victims or missing children, that kind of thing. The searchers could know if the person they were looking for is even alive. But if she knows that spell, we could hide her in submarine at the bottom of the Pacific and she'd still know Jades alive. Right now she thinks Jade is dead. But she's a very methodical person, that I know, she will cast that spell and soon. Just to be 100% sure."

Beck suddenly snapped his fingers. "What about the other worlds? You know we went to that party at Jades, where we met Jadelyn, Victoria and the other Tori and Jade. The Jades all got into a fight over which Tori was the best. You told me that you alone can breach the barriers between worlds with magic. That normally the barriers between universe are utterly impenetrable with magic, but you have an object from that universe which allows you and you alone to breach them."

Julia reached in her bag and pulled out a small red envelope. From it she pulled out a rather mundane looking quarter.

"Great idea. We can hide Jade there until she heals. Claudia will think for sure Jade's dead and the Molis spell won't be able reach her in another universe."

Beck found himself wondering. "Why did Tori run off?"

Valentina answered. "I think I can explain that Beck. My father was a werewolf and many years ago, a friend of his, had married a human woman and had two boys. They both turned out to be human, but he loved them dearly. One day his wife and children were killed in a terrible car crash. Afterward, he sort of went a little crazy. He was so traumatized and grief stricken, that one day he shed his clothes, turned into a wolf and ran off. He never returned to the town. My father when he was out hunting would see his friend, in wolf form in the distance. But his friend didn't seem to even recognize him. He let the wolf take over and the human part of him just went to sleep. He couldn't bare the pain. It's been known to happen. The wolf in us is very powerful and sometimes it can overpower our human side. I think Tori was so grief stricken and traumatized by the act of killing Jade, she sort of had mental breakdown. She shed her clothes and human identity to hide from the pain. Right now, she only exists as a wolf."

Beck looked off to the bushes to where Tori vanished and back to Julia. "What about the children, Fiona and the twins. Won't they be in danger, with both Tori and Jade gone?"

Claudia shook her head. "I think as long as Tori and Jade are dead, they're in any danger. There's no immediate reason to go after them. With them both out of the way, Claudia would know they'd be well protected by other werewolves any and if she was smart, she'd play the long game and instead of taking them out, she'd try to befriend them. So she could gain influence over them. But for now, everyone, including Claudia needs to believe that Jade killed Tori. Then we'll tell everyone Tori and Margo were both killed when the rest of the building collapsed on them. Officially, Valentina and I arrived too late to help anyone and we have no idea who is behind this. As soon as we leave, we're going to bring the rest of this building down. No one will bother to look for them under a hundred tons of rubble."

"But won't Claudia cast that life detection spell again and verify that Tori is alive?" Asked Beck.

"She won't be able to. I remember her in the seminar, saying that the spell, for reasons not important, can only be cast once every 30 days. So here's our plan. We take Jade to the other universe, get her patched up and leave her there to recover. Claudia will cast the life detection spell, probably within a day or so. That will give Valentina about 30 days to track down where ever Tori has fled, before Claudia can recast the spell. Then bring her back to Jadelyn."

"What about me?" Asked Beck.

"Valentina and I will take care of Jade. You go back to your film set and act like nothing has happened. You're obviously saddened to hear of their deaths but you don't know what happened. You don't know jack shit."

"We're almost done shooting. I go home next Saturday."

"I'll need you there. Everyone will be upset and think Tori and Jade are dead. You can't tell anyone the truth, not even Claire. If you can, be stay close to Fiona and the twins. If Claudia shows up or does anything, you need to contact me instantly. But she can't suspect you know anything. If she does, you're dead. I'll return home and other than pretending to mourn, I'll act like nothing else is wrong. I can't let on to Claudia that I know anything. I just need to try and figure out our next move. We all set then."

Beck nodded. "Yeah. I don't know anything. But once I'm home, I'll watch over the girls and keep an eye on them."

Valentina nodded as well. "As soon as I help you get Jade to this other universe, I'll begin my effort to track Tori down."

"Good, let's move!"

Time: The present;

Jade's POV

If you're wondering, I was fully aware of what happened. I couldn't control my actions, but was all too aware of them. I saw, felt and heard everything. It was like watching a horror movie ,with you as the killer and your closest loved one as the victim. I think Claudia wanted it that way, to make me suffer.

Normally I'm a fan of horror films. This one, I wanted to look away so badly. But I couldn't, I had to experience, every horrible moment, every blow I landed on Tori. Outside I was trying to kill Tori, inside I was screaming. I can barely think of the events of that day and not want to simply die.

I made Tori kill me. My poor girl is traumatized and all alone. I can't help her. I can't hold her. I can't tell her how sorry I am. Worst yet, it's all my fault.

But back to the story. I was painfully aware of everything until Tori dropped a building on me. Jadelyn filled me on the rest, as it was told to her by Julia. They moved me out of the building, collapsed the rest of it. Then after Beck returned to his film set, Claudia and Valentina took me to the universe where Jadelyn and Victoria live.

They patched me up, purged me of that substance that Claudia used to control me, placed me in a body cast and departed. Valentina set out to Track down Tori. I'm told by Jadleyn that before returning home, Julia made a more thorough search of Margo's house. I don't know if she found anything.

Julia came to visit while I was unconscious, to check on me. She told Jadelyn that using her own magic, she was able to detect Claudia checking to see if I was alive. Claudia cast the Molis spell, the day after I was supposedly killed. So now, Claudia thinks beyond a shadow of a doubt that I'm dead. I wish that were the case.

Julia also told Jadelyn, that my friends and family were devastated to hear of our deaths. In fact the entire werewolf community is in mourning. Many attended our funerals, I'm told. The twins are too young, but I hear that Fiona is taking it kind of hard. I want to go to her right, now, tell her that her momies are ok. But I can't. I have to hide. I feel so helpless, so lost. Everyone was told that we went chasing after the wizard that kidnapped me and were led into a trap and killed.

All these people depended on me, Tori, My daughters, the people of the werewolf community around the world and I let them down. I let all of them down. It's humiliating, devastating and heartbreaking, all at the same time.

They kept Margo's betrayal a secret for now. I'm not sure why. At least I have the satisfaction of knowing that that Margo's rotting in hell. My perfect, beautiful and vicious Tori, shredded Margo good and ate her fucking heart. I'm so proud of you.

Once here, I lay unconscious for 9 days. I woke up 3 days ago. I have nightmares now. Every night, I go back to the fight and relive it. Only in my nightmares, I win and tear Tori apart. All the while, I hear Claudia's mocking laughter in my head. Just because she can't control me anymore, doesn't mean she's not in my head.

Jadelyn has been keeping me company, since I woke up. Actually, that bitch has been mocking and tormenting me since I woke up. I want to kill her; right now it's my only reason to live.

Victoria has stayed away from me since I woke up. Jadelyn says, since she looks exactly like my Tori, it may upset me. That I wasn't ready to see her yet. I'm told she watched over me while I was asleep for many hours.

I had a visit from a Jade from yet another universe, last night. She was babysitting me while Victoria and Jade were out. She told me a story of how she and her Tori were separated. How she was grievously wounded saving her. But now she's all better and their together. It's a nice story and I'd like to think that someday I'll be with her, but for now.

I'm broken in mind, body and spirit. I'm alone and I'm not sure if that's ever going to change.

Well, that was the climax of the first half of the story. Now you all know what happened. Tor was forced to crush Jade under a pile of concrete and steel. Distraught and not realizing Jade was still alive, Tori assumed wolf form and fled. Everyone back home, other than Beck, Claudia and Valentina think they're dead.

But a cheer for Beck, who with a well aimed pitch, distracted Margo long enough for Tori to kill her.

But remember the title of the story. "Revenge of the wolf"

How can Jade come back, find Tori and will she get her revenge and destroy Claudia for good. Keep reading.

As always, thanks for reading and please review.

The song title, "Used to love her" Is from the Guns N' Roses song of the same name. It's a song about murdering a lover so it seemed more that appropriate.

Oh, for those interested, I actually depicted Valentina and Julia arriving at Jadleyn & Tori's doorstep with the badly injured Jade. You won't find it here, but actually it is the very last chapter of "Double Trouble" It's called, Postscript. I did it as a teaser for this story, but those interested can go back and read it. It's only about 1200 words.