"Yana,
Yana wake up, girl!" Kitty called as she pulled on her jeans.
"The guys'll be here any minute."
"What, oh yeah," Ilyana got out of the bed and looked at the
clock. "I had the strangest dream last night."
"Oh yeah, what about?" Kitty replied as she combed her hair.
"I dreamed we were superheroes," Ilyana began as she washed
her face. "can you believe it?"
"No way! Us?" Kitty replied as she applied her makeup.
"Cool, so what were our powers?"
"You were like a ghost or something, able to walk through walls n
stuff, and I was this all powerful sorceress with this magical
sword," Ilyana explained as the doorbell rang. "The guys were
there too."
"I'll get it," Kitty interupted as she rushed to the door.
(Strange, the dream seemed so real. But we're just college students,
that dream was just that...right?) Ilyana pondered as she pulled on a
pink dress and tied her hair back.
"Hi Bobby! Yana'll a be out in a sec," Kitty greeted her
friend as she drew Piotr into her arms. "Come here you!"
"Bobby! Bring your cute little Brazilian butt over here!"
Ilyana called to her hotheaded boytoy.
"Snowflake! Have you no love for your brother?" Piotr beckoned
affectionately.
"You mean my overprotective, shadow who followed me across the
globe? Come here you!" Ilyana replied
"So where are we going today, ladies?" Roberto questioned.
"Somewhere expensive I hope," Kitty replied.
"Katya!" Piotr responded. "I am a starving artist,
darling."
"Don't worry big guy this one's on me," Bobby answered as the
foursome made their way to the street.
"Let's walk through that park," Ilyana suggested as the four
made their way across the street.
"Look at that," Kitty stated as she noticed a slim dark-haired
man with red glasses, the attractive red-head with him, and the baby in
her arms. "I wanna be like that some day Peter."
"As do I, my love," he replied as the two embraced each other.
"That is so cute you two after all these years, AIEEEEEEE!"
Ilyana began to joke as her mind was hit with a hundred images at once,
images of a life once lived.
That
Ole Black Magik
(Part
2)
by JT
Bobby rushed Ilyana's unconscious body into Kitty's Volkswagen, "We
need to get her to the hospital!" Piotr squeezed his massive
Siberian frame into the tiny foreign car and began to tear at the
thought of the loss of his Snowflake. Kitty was driving, with Piotr in
the back and Ilyana cradled in Bobby's arms in the passenger seat.
"If you die on me Yana I...I don't know what I'll do."
"Hang in there Yana," Kitty demanded as she drove down the
streets of New York like a crazed woman. The car pulled into the white
zone at Our Mother of Mercy, and immediately unloaded their patient.
Piotr climbed from the car and ran into handle the paper work while
Bobby cradled the still unconscious Ilyana and carried her into the
doctor.
"What happened to her?" Dr. Reyes requested.
"We were walking past this park, she screamed, and passed
out," Bobby responded with fear and panic in his eyes.
"Okay, I'm going to need you to leave so we can do our work,"
Dr. Reyes took charge of the situation and immediately started giving
orders ending with "stat." Bobby slowly backed out of the ER
as he watched the doctors, and nurses examine his girlfriend.
A short time later Dr. Reyes came out and said to Kitty, Piotr, and
Bobby, "She's all right but I want to keep her here overnight for
observation. She's in room 327 and you're welcome to visit her."
The trio stepped slowly into Ilyana's room. She was lying on the bed
with an IV in her arm. "Hi Yana!" Kitty said in a syrupy
voice.
"Snowflake, you had us worried," Piotr replied.
"This is all my fault!" Bobby groaned as he punched his fist
through the wall.
"Bobby, how on earth can you blame his on yourself?" Kitty
replied after rolling her eyes.
"Kitty? I never finished telling you about my dream," Ilyana
mumbled as the sedative dripping from the IV began to take effect.
"Bobby, you were like a dark angel. You could fly and your skin was
black, and Piotr, you were a towering colossus with shining metal
skin,"
Kitty, Piotr, and Bobby shared a knowing glance as they soothed their
sleepy friend. "Sure, Yana go to sleep now."
"I don't belong here, Kat," Ilyana announced suddenly.
"Okay, Yana, just go to sleep," Kitty replied.
"So she's receiving images of her life is she, this could prove to
be very.....inconvenient," a shadowy one armed figure observed
Ilyana through a glowing disk of light.
The next day the fab four were driving home in Kitty car. "That was
scary Yana. Do the doctors know what caused the seizure?" Kitty
pondered. As they pulled into a secluded back street a pool of light
open before them. "Ahhh," Kitty screamed.
"Bohze moi!" Piotr exclaimed with disbelief while Ilyana and
Bobby stared also with disbelief.
"We're being pulled in!" Bobby announced as their tiny vehicle
was drawn into the great unknown. As they emerged on the other end of
the vortex their lives were forever changed.
That
Ole Black Magik
(Part
3)
by JT
Enjoy...
The
beat-up old Volkswagen emerged from the glowing light. "Are we
dead?" Kitty was the first to emerge from the car.
"Madre
de dios!?" Bobby and Ilyana were next.
"I
think it would be best if we just stayed in the car, comrades,"
Piotr suggested as eight foot purple skinned demon snuck up behind the
car.
"The
boss wants to see you, Blondie," the large demon announced causing
Bobby to wet his expensive pants and scaring the hell out of the ladies.
When
blue boy hefted Kitty's car above her head with him still inside Piotr
followed Bobby's example and wet his pants. "And any minute I'll
wake up...Nyet!"
"Put
him down.....please," Ilyana responded timidly. Demonboy just
laughed causing Piotr to jostle about in the car. Ilyana was pissed
cause she really, really didn't like people who laughed at her.
"Why
don't you pick on someone your own species, you purple tub of
lard!" Kitty cried as she became annoyed at the crappie week she
was having. The purple demon dropped the car and moved towards her.
"Back off! You stay away from me!"
The
demon just laughed as he moved closer and closer. Bobby was cowering
uselessly behind a tree while Piotr climbed from the ruined vehicle.
Ilyana moved towards a fallen branch while the demon closed in on Kitty.
THWACK
"Take
that, you purple cock sucker!" Ilyana thwacked S'ym upside the head
and unfortunately it had no effect but to make him really mad.
"You
little ^#$!&! I'm gonna kick your @$$, and take your lifeless husk
to that one-armed loser in the tower!" S'ym replied with a
throbbing headache. At that the foursome broke into a run. S'ym tried to
give chase but being the big dumb shlub that he is he couldn't keep up
with the terrified kids. They ran for what seemed like hours until
finally collapsing in a freakishly distorted forest.
"That
was...interesting," Kitty stated as she gasped for breath.
"Where
are we?" Piotr pondered as he stared at the moonlit sky.
"Don't
you remember Ilyana?" a mysterious voices requested from the
shadows. Bobby wet his pants once again as he started to mumble
incoherently.
"Show
yourself demon!" Ilyana ordered as her eyes took on a yellow glow.
Belasco
stepped from the obsidian shadows causing Piotr to wet his pants as he
looked upon the red skinned ghoul. "Hi honey, you're home..."
Belasco
discharged a mystical psi-blast that overwhelmed the foursome. They fell
to the ground and one arm had his freakish minions carry them off to his
palace. Ilyana woke up, she was chained to the wall. Her dress was
tattered and torn, filthy with dirt and sweat. She was just a little
upset. Belasco sat on his throne with the unconscious bodies of
Piotr, Kitty, and Bobby at his feet. Bobby was bleeding from what seemed
to be a thousand little cuts as if he'd been tortured, Piotr looked like
a rag doll someone brutally mistreated with several broken bones and
misshapen limbs. Kitty's spirit had been broken for she cowered at
Belasco's feet in a skimpy little chain mail bikini kissing the inside
of the demon lord's thigh.
"BELASCOOOOO!!!"
Ilyana surveyed the destruction around her and was definitely pissed.
"What the hell have you done to my friends you one-armed spawn of
Satan!"
"You're
finally awake, good!" Belasco kicked Kitty out of the way and
walked to stand face to face with Ilyana. "I just had a little fun
with them, Katya is especially good at giving a blow job."
Ilyana
spit in his face. "What's a matter, don't have the balls to take me
on!?"
"On
the contrary my dear! I have no need to take you on because like your
friends you are absolutely, powerless!" Belasco wiped the saliva
from his face and began the gratuitous 'villain reveals diabolical plan
to hero' speech. "You see, your reality is but one of many.
Likewise you are but one Ilyana among a countless number of Ilyana's.
Limbo, your current locale, exists outside of normal time/space which is
why your friends here look a little older. Meaning there's only one of
me to go around. Now! My original dealings were with the Ilyana of my
parent dimension if you will but she and her annoying X-Friends proved
to powerful for even my magics to defeat. That when I saw you, no
special abilities to speak of, no friends with special abilities, demon
jackpot, so I brought you here. Your friends were just along for the
ride."
"And
what do you plan to do to me, you foul-smelling hell spawn?" Ilyana
was listening attentively while she planned her escape. Her eyes would
glow every now and then just escaping horn head's glance.
"Oh,
just corrupt your soul and use it to open a portal that would allow
demons to permanently invade the multiverse," Belasco replied as he
conjured the Beatrice medallion. "One down, four to go!"
"I
can't allow you to do that," Ilyana's eyes were glowing with the
intensity of the sun as her voice changed from that of a pissed of young
woman to a really pissed off Darkchilde!
"Oh
sh*t..." Belasco wasn't prepared for this so he conjured away the
medallion and summoned the Soulsword!
"That
puny blade won't help you now, loudmouth," Ilyana's skin turned a
deep blood red as she broke the chain on her left arm.
"No,
you will not interfere!" Belasco did some macho posturing as Ilyana
broke her right arm free and grew a lovely red horn over her left eye.
"Ilyana...!?"
Kitty looked up with a tinge of fear that was quickly replaced with the
spark of hope. As Ilyana transformed so did her soul as one more
Bloodstone was added to the medallion.
As
Piotr drew his last breath Darkchilde broke free. She was pissed before
but now she was spitting hellfire. "You killed my brother...,"
She jumped at Belasco claws beared only to fly over his head and
performmed a perfect triple somersault landed near the dying body of her
lover.
"I....I...love..you,
Yana..." Bobby passed to the next life as the delirium allowed him
to see through the demon and view his beloved one final time.
"You
killed my boyfriend...," Darkchilde rose from the ground and stared
down Belasco who had foolishly done nothing while she mourned. Belasco
rushed at Darkchilde blade beared. She stood her ground until the
moment...the air crackled around her feeling her power, the Eldritch
armor appeared and when Belasco slashed with his sword...
CRACK
TINKTINK TINK TINK TINK TINK
His
Soulsword shattered into shiny metal shards that fell to the ground with
a clatter as if in slow motion. One of these shards found a target,
however, in the lung of Katherine Pryde. Belasco looking on in
bewilderment as Darkchilde drew THE Soulsword with a crash of thunder
and a bolt of mystic lightning, "Accept no imitation..."
Belasco
summoned the Beatrice medallion which had filled with three and a half
Bloodstones, "I've still won!" He fired some petty mystic
bolts of all shapes and colors as the Eldritch armor shugged them off
with ease.
"Yawn!
Is that your best?" Darkchilde stood at the base of Belasco throne
situated on a circular pedestal raised three feet above the ground.
Belasco was at the top surrounded by Piotr's, Kitty's, and Bobby's
bodies.
"Give
it back..." Darkchilde demanded as she ascended the staircase
toward Belasco, observing her fallen friends. "Give it, back!"
she cried with a bit emphasis.
"Or
you'll what girl? Threaten me? Mere threats do not dissuade the lord of
a thousand thousand demons, child!" Belasco screamed from atop his
throne as he concealed the urge to wet his pants.
"Your soul is mine!"
"No
demon, the Darkchilde belongs to no one," Darkchilde's features
momentarily gave way to those of Ilyana. "And neither does Illyana
Nikolievna Rasputina, shall we end this Darkchilde?"
"Let's..."
"No,
no, noooooooooo!!" Belasco screamed as Darkchilde swiped through
his midsection with the Soulsword. His magic was absorbed into
Darkchilde while his body and mind were dissected on the molecular level
and scattered across time and space.
"Now,
the Beatrice Medallion," Darkchilde announced. The medallion had
consumed four fifths of her soul. She had no idea how to reverse the
spell and had to think quickly or the multiverse was doomed.
"Damn!"
"Yana...?"
Kitty was dying behind the throne from the fluid buildup in her lungs
caused by the shards of Belasco's Soulsword. Darkchilde transformed into
Ilyana and rushed to her friends aid. "I'm dying, Yana..."
came out with spurts of blood. "But I want you to have this,"
Kitty died but when Ilyana clutched her hand she found a pure white
gemstone.
"This..
it's her part of her soul!" Ilyana placed the stone into the
medallion which caused the fourth bloodstone to purify itself becoming
good and wholesome once again. Now that two fifths of her soul was pure
again, thanks to Kitty's gift, Ilyana was able to will another portion
of her soul back to goodness. She was in balance as all people should
be. "Thank you Kitty."
Ilyana
then opened a portal to her earth where she carried her friends and
buried them with lovely grave markers. She then preceded to open another
portal which opened somewhere over Europe on yet another Earth.
"Amanda Sefton?"
"Who
are you!?" the woman was taken by surprised and immediately went on
the defensive.
"Do
you practice sorcery, Ms. Sefton?" Ilyana replied.
"How
did you know..!?" Amanda replied as Ilyana, who had used a brand
new dress on, jerked her into another stepping disk. On the way back to
Limbo, Ilyana explained how she had deposed Belasco, cleansed her soul,
and needed someone to keep the goblins in line. Amanda excepted and with
all the loose ends tied up preceded to open a stepping disk to Earth.
"I'm
finally going home..." Ilyana stepped into the pool of light and
vanished. |