Glory vs Jasmine
Summary: Set in the Glory-ous verse. It should be epic...it's really not.
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Everything was going according to plan for the being who allowed herself to be called Jasmine. No-one knew her real name. No-one could be allowed to as she came from a time when names had power and if hers was spoken she would lose her power and her hold over humanity.
Ok Jasmine might have to amend that everything going to plan comment. Fred had found that if Cordelia's blood was mixed with someone's Jasmine's hold over them was broken but it would not matter soon. Fred and those she freed, Gunn, Wesley and Lorne, were locked up in the basement of the hotel. As for the ensouled vampire called Angel he would not survive the world he had travelled to in an attempt to stop her.
Nothing could stop her. She already had effective control over LA. Wolfram and Hart had been neutralised and when she speaks on a world-wide broadcast effectively this world will be hers and its people will worship her.
Jasmine steps out onto the walkway above the lobby in the hotel and smiles down at her followers. Time for her début. She addresses the world. "Please. Please stand," she tells the people who are bowing down in her presence. "This is a moment to cherish, and I want everyone to share it with me, heads held high. Welcome. And to all those people of this remarkable world who are meeting me for the first time..." She blows a kiss to the crowd. "mmwah. I want to thank you for allowing me to speak with you. I come to you not as a leader or divinity, but as your partner in a venture to make this the best of all possible worlds, without borders, without hunger, war, or misery. A world built on love, respect, understanding, and, well, just enjoying one another. Doesn't that sound nice?" she asks with a smile.
"I think it sounds terrible!" a voice interrupts, sounding disgusted.
Jasmine brow drops and anger comes to her features. "Who dares?"
A blond woman in a hot to drop red dress wanders amongst the crowds below. There is an air of absolute power radiating from her. "You know it's a pretty pathetic deity that has to resort to mind-control to get people to worship her."
"Glorificus!" Jasmine hisses as her beyond human abilities see this 'woman' for what she really is.
Glory smirks. "Hey there!" she says with a goofy wave. "How long has it been...Jasmine?" she asks with a quirky smile at saying that false name...and Glory knows it to be false. "So it's been what? 3...4 million years since we last saw each other?"
"What are you doing here?" Jasmine demands to know, the mask of the benevolent deity slipping in her anger.
Glory laughs. "And there ladies and gents and pathetic meatsacks is your great all knowing deity," she mocks Jasmine for not knowing.
"You cannot dissuade us of the true beauty of Jasmine's benevolence," one foolish mind-controlled man says to Glory.
Glory's response is to snap his neck like a twig. "And you won't be getting back up because I cut you off from her the second I touched you," she says to the now lifeless corpse, referring to the fact everyone connected to Jasmine can't die until Jasmine decides so...unless you're an amazingly powerful and Glory would add gorgeous Hell God like she is.
Glory dusts her hands off and looks back up at Jasmine "Now where were we? Oh I know. You wanted to know what I'm doing here. Well kind of a long story but my brothers and I had a teensy tiny disagreement about the fact it is my right to rule without question or equal. Long story short they kicked me out and dumped me on this little mudball of a world. Now what happened next is a really, really long story I don't want to retell but essentially I decided that this world is mine and no pretend deity like you, hon, will have it...which is why I'm here right now. I'm going to kill you," she says in a far too cheery tone.
Jasmine's face darkens. "You are nothing!"
Glory laughs some more. "Oh please," she scoffs. "You are not even in my league," she says dismissing Jasmine. "And unlike you I don't need to resort to eating people to sustain myself. You are the most pathetic deity I have ever had the pleasure...no wait displeasure of having to lower myself to talking to. By the way have you met my Consort?"
Jasmine frowns before a gust of wind blows her hair about and she finds standing next to her a tall man with dark curly hair and cerulean blue eyes.
"Don't bother trying your little mind control on him. He's under my protection," Glory tells Jasmine. "And oh he has really big muscles. Show her honey!"
Before Jasmine can react she is punched hard sending her smashing through the railing and down to the floor at Glory's feet.
"Ooh. That had to hurt," Glory comments with a smile.
Jasmine holds the side of her face as she stands up, in shock at how much that hurt! "You will pay for this!" she spits out, furious.
Glory has her fingers curled and is looking at her nails with a frown. "Hmm...sorry what? I didn't hear you. I was thinking I was needing a manicure."
"Glorificus!" Jasmine yells.
"That's Glory hon," Glory corrects Jasmine. "Now at this point everyone is probably expecting some epic battle between 2 Gods...well 1 God and a wannabe 'Higher Power'," she mocks, going as far as making air-quotes with her fingers. She rolls her eyes. "Higher Power, really?" she questions that. "The fact is I can wipe the floor with the lot of ya with one hand tied behind my back. Doesn't that make me the Higher Power?"
Jasmine's eye twitches. "4 million years and you're still as vain and egotistical as ever," she grumbles
"Uh, no. That implies I'm exaggerating my awesomeness which I most surely never do. I am everything I say I am...which is more than you can say because I can see the real you under that Glamour spell, honey. Seriously you need to moisturise," Glory advises. "You see that's the difference between me and you. I make this taking human form look good!" she declares with complete arrogance and self-belief in herself.
"Glorificus I swear..." Jasmine starts to say before she is cut off by a simple, hand raise by Glory.
"Again. It's Glory. It's short, simple and reflects everything I am. Now before we get down to the whole 'epic' fight thing that will level this city and kill several hundred thousand worthless meatsacks let me explain a few things to your brainwashed minions here. One of which is that you and I come from different eras defined by different laws. In the era you come from words, names in particular, have the power to reshape reality. In fact all it takes to render you to nothing is to know your name but there is no-one on this world that knows it is there?" Glory's smiles grows huge and cocky. "Well except me of course."
Jasmine prepares to silence Glory but it is too late as a strange inhuman sound escapes Glory's lips. Jasmine cries out in pain as white light consumes her before the spell hiding her true form collapses to reveal a maggot infested corpse.
"Ugh," Glory says making a disgusted face. "No wonder you used that glamour spell because seriously that is making my stomach lurch and considering I'm a Hell God from a dimension whose horrors are beyond comprehension and compare that is saying something."
At seeing her true form the people scream and leave in panic. Jasmine's hold over them is broken.
Jasmine's form takes on a less horrendous form but her flesh is still rotting in places. "No! Please don't go," she pleads to them.
Glory smiles cruelly. "Well now, that was easy wasn't it?"
"You will pay for this!" Jasmines screams.
Glory rolls her eyes. "You sound like a child. Wah, wah, wah," she mocks.
Jasmine, in her anger, strides forward, ready to fight Glory, only to stop a few steps away, a pain in her chest. She looks down to see a fist has been punched right through her from behind and in the fist is her own heart. "That's..." is all she manages as she falls down to the ground dead.
Glory looks up and smiles salaciously at her beloved Kal, Jasmine's heart in his hand. God he was magnificent. She even has to congratulate herself on the job she has done turning him into her perfect Consort. She gets a pleasant thrill just from the sight of him.
Glory steps up to him and kisses him deeply. "Hmm, we should go home so I can screw you senseless."
"Ugh, my work is never done," Kal jokily complains.
Glory chuckles, something she never use to do very much, but she's been on Earth a long time now and yeah, it has affected her a bit but it's worth it as long as she has Kal and their children.
Glory looks down at Jasmine. She lip curls in disgust. "What a pathetic joke!" she insults the dead higher power.
"So is she truly gone?" Kal asks.
"Yep. She sacrificed everything to take a corporeal form. Besides I would never let her ascend herself back in any case." Glory snaps her fingers and the corpse turns to ash. Glory wraps her arms around her muscular Consort. "Now we should get back to Sunnydale before the others sight returns. Jasmine had cut them off but with her gone they'll be back and we're not quite ready to dominate this world so need to keep on the down low a little longer."
After all this is why she came. If Jasmine had been allowed to succeed even Glory would have had a hard time taking this world from her. Luckily Jasmine's entrance into this world hadn't exactly been subtle. Glory means really, fire from the sky. Who is going to miss that? And if anyone is going to make a showy entrance it's going to be her!
"But soon we will be," Kal prophesies about the plans he and Glory have for the world.
"Very soon," Glory says with a devious smile of delight. The conquest, the battle, the slaughter, oh dear Her, the mere thoughts of what is to come makes her panties wet. "Bed, now," she growls lustfully as she snaps her fingers and she and Kal vanish back home.
Moments after they're gone lightning erupts as a portal is torn into the very fabric of reality and out steps Angel, who had gone to a literal Hell to find the way to defeat Jasmine. The severed head is in his hand of the one who knows Jasmine's true name. He looks around...to find everyone gone, a dead body and a pile of ash on the ground.
Ok. What did he miss now?!
The End.
Author's Note: On paper Glory vs Jasmine should be epic except for that little catch where knowing Jasmine's true name takes away her power. It was a nice quirk for the story but it kinda puts Jasmine at a disadvantage against another powerful deity who happens to know her name. I've had this sitting around for awhile wondering if I should finish it and I decided in the end why not? Thanks to everyone who has previously written reviews.