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Revenge of the wolf
Chapter 24 – Sympathy For the Devil
No One's POV
Feeling confident as she was in top shape, perhaps a bit over confident, Jade charged her vampire doppelganger.
Looking rather unimpressed, the vampire, stood fast and punched her in the face. It was a punch, so hard, that the werewolf for a brief second, wondered if she had accidently run unto a brick wall. Dazed and seeing stars, the werewolf staggered backwards.
As she watched Jade crumple to the floor, Jade the Vampire began to sing.
"Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guessed my name,
oh yeah, but what's confusing you
is the nature of my game."
No sooner had she hit the ground and regained her bearings, she transformed into a wolf and snarled at the vampire.
Not liking seeing her mate punched in the face, Tori growled and moved got ready to charge as the tension in the room abruptly rose about a 1000%
It was vamp Tori that acted first, by rushing out in front of vamp Jade. "She's good, please don't hurt her."
"No danger of that!" Snickered Jadelyn.
A microsecond before Tori was about to charge, she spotted something that caused her to freeze.
The vampire version of herself was wearing a gold cross. From everything she knew about vampires, what she was seeing was utterly impossible.
Tori cautiously pointed to the cross around her doubles neck. "How can you wear that?"
"I still have my soul. Jade…er…my Jade saved my soul. I had been turned into a vampire that hated her. Not by Jade, that was the last thing on earth she wanted. She destroyed those vampires that betrayed her and in a act of love and devotion, went into a church to pray for my soul. In those moments she suffered such torture and agony it drove her mad. But it worked, out of love she saved me. I know she's rude and frequently disagreeable, but she does want to help. She wants to be a good person. So she can regain her full soul and be human again. She's retained a small portion of hers and now she has a chance to earn the rest of it back. I know you don't trust vampires. But we do want to help."
Stepping forward, Tori put her hand on Jade's head and stroked her fur. That was both a sign to now do anything and something she knew would calm Jade down.
"But you're a vampire, they kill."
"I don't kill. I've never killed anyone. Father Ramirez our friend, told me that my gift was having myself held between two worlds. I'm not quite a vampire, but I'm not human either. But that will only last as long as I don't take a life. You see, my Jade and I, our fates are intertwined. If she stays good, she gets her soul back and can become human, then I'll become human again. But if either one of us fails, both her and I will be lost. She wants to be human again so she can go to heaven…."
Vampire Jade put a hand on Vamp Tori's shoulder. "Look at the cross yourself Jade. I can't, I still can't. Normally she doesn't wear it, because it has a nasty habit of burning me when I touch it. But she wore it today, as she thought it may help convince you. If she was a true evil vampire, she would not be able to wear that. She can even go into a church. Take her to one, she can go in. I feed her blood from animals. She's never killed a person, nor will I allow her to kill anyone." She then grinned. "You see, I'm one of the good guys now!"
Jade transformed back into human form, but stood ready to charge. "We don't need your help, Vampire!"
Vamp Jade laughed. "Famous last words and I've heard them before. From what I've been told about the situation, you are a bit short on firepower. You need us. Look, I'll be straight. I hate you and you hate me. I'm a egomaniacal, cold blooded killer and a fiend who has ended the lives of more people, than you can count. But I can kick ass and you need me. I know you hate the thought, but that doesn't make it any less true. Be smart….I'm offering my help. I don't do that often."
The ugly snarl on Jade's face grew even more distinct. "Get out!"
In response Vamp Jade sneered back. "I knew it. Can't reason with Lycans. Never could, just stupid animals."
"Lycan?" Asked Juila.
"That's what us vampires used to call them in the old days."
"What do you call them now?"
"Nothing! They're dead." Retorted Vamp Jade with a voice full of contempt.
"What?" Roared Jade as she took a step towards her vampire counterpart.
"You see in my universe, like in yours now, there was once Vampires, Werewolves and Wizards. Only the vampires in my world were not solitary creates, like in yours. We were very organized and stuck together. We saw the werewolves as bloodthirsty, mindless beasts and the wizards as greedy, power-hungry assholes that kept messing with forces they shouldn't. Either way, we saw them as a threat. More than a thousand, years ago the clan chiefs, myself included, voted to eliminate the completion once and for all and we did. "
Vamp Jade smiled with pride. " The world was our playground after that. At least until the other vampires betrayed me. Now the vampire council is gone and the remaining clans, are scattered and in disarray. They're being actively hunted now. Soon, they'll join the wizards and the werewolves in oblivion, but that's a good thing. So sad, the Lycans in this universe are just as stupid!"
With a pained expression, Valentina asked. "You've killed werewolves?"
Her face going from a look of pride to a look of deadly seriousness, vamp Jade answered. "Two or three hundred, at least. Once upon a time, they feared me, more than any of the rest of my kind. But that's ancient history. Fine, go ahead, just walk into that wizard's fortress, you'll wind up just as dead as the others. "
"GET OUT!" Screamed Jade.
Vamp Jade shook her head. "Come on Baby, let's get out of here..." She then looked to Jadelyn. "Take me home and don't bother me again. If you do, I'll turn you into a vampire and bury you under a slab of concrete. You won't die, but not being able to feed, will be pretty much everlasting agony. You can join the other people who bugged me one too many times."
As Vamp Jade move to the door, Vamp Tori and Wolf Tori looked at each other with dismay. Neither liked how it was turning out and both each seemed to know the other felt the same way.
Instinctively sensing she could trust her counterpart, Tori turned to Jade and took her hand. "Jade. You felt bad for ignoring my advice before. You wanted to listen and take me seriously. I know you don't like this. But I think we do need her help. You want to make things better between us, than you can start by trusting me and my judgment."
At the same time, vamp Tori did the same with her vamp Jade. "Let's not be so hasty. You need to learn some patience. You've done very well, today. But please stay and see if we can work this out."
For a moment Jade seemed to waiver. "She's a vampire Tori!"
"Jade, know I can trust her. The question is, can you trust me? Do you trust me?"
Jade looked into Tori's eyes for a moment and realizing she needed to change, quickly relented.
"Fine."
"Good, tell Vampire Jade that you accept her offer of help and thank her."
Jade quickly pouted. "Do I have too?"
Tori nodded.
Not looking all too happy about it, Jade rolled her eyes, turned to Vampire Jade and mumbled. "I accept your offer of help, thank you."
Vampire Jade grinned in triumph and was about to say something both smug and insulting when Vamp tori poked her in the ribs.
"My dear immortal darling. The appropriate reply is you're welcome. Am I being clear?'
Vamp Jade huffed, but likewise relented. "You're welcome."
It was then Victoria stepped forward. "I think we first need to decide what to call everyone. To avoid confusion"
Vamp Jade raised her hand. "I have an idea. How about we call the vampire version of Tori, my Tori, Dawn, which is her middle name. And you can call me, Una. It's my birth name. I haven't used it since I was alive, but it will avoid confusion."
"Now that we've all made nice, now. Una and Jade, kiss and make up, preferably with lots of tongue." Quipped Jadelyn with a smirk.
Una walked over to Jadelyn and gazed intently into her eyes. "Ok, miss comedian. How about this. For the next week, whenever Victoria wants sex, you'll instantly be mega horny. No matter what you're doing. You won't be able to get into the bedroom and strip fast enough. With all the post sex cuddling she wants, plus you'll allow her to pick whatever TV's shows and movies she wants, including, The notebook. Do you understand?"
No sure what was happening, Jade, Tori, Valentina ,Julia and even Victoria looked on with confusion.
That same confusion only intensified, when Jadelyn's eyes suddenly glassed over.
"Yes"
Victora looked to Una, looking rather perplexed. "Uh…what did you just do to my Jadelyn? She won't actually do all that?"
"I'm an ancient vampire and thus my powers are a bit more expansive than your garden variety vampire. That includes hypnotism. Little miss smart mouth needs to remember to keep her trap shut on occasion, so I taught her a little lesson. Give her a spin."
Jadelyn who seemed to have recovered, quickly scoffed. "Yeah right. You didn't do anything? Hypnotism, what a load of crock. Come on, that's only from the movies. You can't do that to me?"
Suddenly looking annoyed at Jadelyn's attitude, Victoria then casually said. "Jadelyn. I know we have company, but I want to have sex."
Much to everyone's shock, except Una who was smirking and Dawn who simply looked embarrassed, Jadelyn without saying a single word, took Victoria's hand and rushed her into their bedroom. They could hear the door slam shut a second later.
Una walked over to the fridge and from pulled out a beer. On it was a post it note saying, "Jadelyn's beer, do not touch."
Una tori off the note, chucked it in the trash and popped it open. "Well, that will keep her busy for an hour or two. "
"You can't just do that to her. That…that's…that's wrong?" Protested Tori.
Una took a drink of her beer. "Wrong is me killing a rich socialite because I found her voice to be irritating. Or torturing to death a homeless person who told Dawn, her singing was horrible caterwauling. She has the voice of an angel. The poor bastard was begging for me to kill him, after half an hour. He lasted about 11 hours of agonizing torture, before he finally died, I actually made him eat his own…. but I digress. What I did just now, that was just funny. Maybe I'll make it permanent. I'd do it for your Jade, but it does work on Lycan's. Sorry."
Dawn cringed. "Una, I thought we'd discussed you wouldn't talk about that anymore."
Una smiled and kissed Dawn on the cheek. "You're so pretty. He said your singing wasn't perfect, so he had to die in the most horrible manner I could think of. My love for you is boundless."
"Later on, I think we need to talk about the concept of limits and how sometimes they can be quite productive."
Jade who looked mildly amused by Jadelyn's fate, quickly grew serious. "Ok, I'll make this work but you so much as breath on my Tori, I'll dust you so fast, it will make your head spin."
"Fine, but if you so much as lay a finger on my beautiful, dawn, I'll have you stuffed and mounted."
Off in the corner, Julia whispered to Valentina. "I wonder if it's too late to join up with Claudia. Probably a lot safer."
Valentina laughed. "I'd say you're right."
So the titans have agreed to work together, but it won't be smooth sailing.
Jadelyn got a bit of sweet revenge served up by Una, AKA Jade the Vamprie, for being a smartass. What do you think? Funny?
The chapter title, "Sympathy for the Devil" is from the Rolling Stones of the same name. Though the song is about the devil, the lyrics closely align with Jade the vampire. Lyrics used without permission.