Vengeance is Mine Chapter Two
"What is your business for coming here? To torment me some more?"
Papa Legba tips his hat.
"It seems your protégé has passed. You are out of successors."
"What!" Marie Laveau rises from her seat. "No, not Queenie…anyone but Queenie…"
"I'm afraid, my dear, it is indeed her. A Ghost and a Vampire seems to have done her in."
"…I want their blood spilt. I want their souls. I want redemption and vengeance!" she pounds her fist, eyes burning with a rage that Papa Legba drinks from like wine.
"That's where I come in, mon Cherie." He sits across from her.
"The Hotel Cortez has been quite popular with their…spirits. Spirits that I want to collect. You come to the land of the living and you bring me their souls. Destroy the Hotel Cortez, bring me the spirits, and you can walk the Earth once more. Consider it…payment for all the babes you haven't given me."
"There's a catch, isn't it?"
"Only… you will need to take a body; your spirit is futile without a willing vessel to take form. You'll need to be summoned, and you'll only act as a guide until the body spell has been cast. You know how this goes. Make sure you carry it out swiftly and accordingly before Devil's Night. On Devil's Night, if you're not in a body, you'll be brought back to hell and all of your efforts will be futile."
He holds his hand out for her to take.
"Do we have a deal?"
Marie looks at him wearily, but takes his hand. She doesn't want to be locked into another one of his deals, but she wants justice more.
"Don't disappoint me, Cherie. I have big plans that I want you to follow through."
"Where's Queenie?"
"There's another problem; Queenie can't be your vessel. You have to take whomever summons you, and right now Queenie is out of commission."
"And who will summon me?"
"Another girl who's discovered her Voodoo roots."