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Be Not Echoes	By : Isabelle_Jennings Category: DC Verse Comics > Justice League Views: 3674 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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PART 6: GODS OF DARKNESS AND FIRE
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--- J'ONN (continued) ---
"So... oh!" Lois exclaimed as she was swept off her feet and carried through the air in Kal's arms to a nearby rooftop. He sat her down, but she was actually happy to keep her hands around his neck. "Do that anytime." She offered a little flirtingly.
He actually blushed a little and she kissed him, passionately. Privately thinking to herself that this must be why she felt such a strong connection with this man--he was one of the last of his people, not unlike her. No wonder she'd been drawn to him. Two souls, cast adrift from everything they'd known. It was practically fate they'd found one another.
The kiss ended, Kal pushing her back gently. "How'd you know it was me?" He asked softly.
Lois laughed lightly. "Smallville, please. How could I not know the second I got a look at you?" She kissed him again, and this time he didn't resist her any.
"I'm just glad I found out." She spoke after the long kissing session ended, or at least was put on pause. "You were being so frustrating, you know? Now I know at least it wasn't me. You were just a space alien. What a relief." She told him playfully, kissing him again.
He started laughing a little and sat down. "You really are full of surprises, you know?" He answered as she sat down beside him and leaned against him, laying her head on his shoulder. "This is not at all how I thought this conversation would go, you know."
"So you -were- planning on telling me at some point then? That's good to know." She moved and got onto his lap. "I guess there're some things I need to tell you too though..." She admitted. She was a little hesitant, but seeing him as he really was at last, feeling his full presence, it was completely obvious to her that he couldn't possibly be involved in the real Lois's disappearance. He had so much goodness, caring, and compassion in him, he'd probably pass out from shock if he even considered doing something like that.
"What's that?" He asked.
Just then "BBBOOOOMMMM!!!" a blast of heavy air, stinking of fire, blew over them, and Lois got a feeling of dread in her stomach at the smell and feel of it.
"Fuck..." She swore piteously. "Fuck." She got off him and stood with him to face it. "As if these jack-asses haven't done enough damage today."
Two women and two metallic hounds stepped through the swirling portal before them. Lashina was in the lead, the other woman hanging back a little. She was smiling. "If it isn't the trickster of green, playing at hiding? I see you!" Lashina accused as she struck out at Lois with one of her lashes; the lash flared with energy as it was about to strike.
Kal caught it in one hand. "Who are you people?" He demanded.
"Your betters!" Lashina told, sending a blast of energy through the lash that felled Kal to his knees. Lois stepped forward and blasted the woman with beams of fire from her eyes, she then took hold of the lash holding Kal and pulled Lashina forward, decking her hard enough to send her flying. The other woman caught her. Lashina just laughed. "Such spunk!" She exalted. "I missed the feel of your fire! Lovely!" She charged forwards at Lois, even though Lois kept blasting her with her fire beams; and Lois could tell the beams hurt her opponent, just not enough to stop her apparently... She actually seemed to be enjoying the pain.
Kal tackled her before she could get to her though, and was set upon by the two mettle dogs. Lois was going to help, when the second woman grabbed her roughly by the hair, seemingly out of nowhere, and kissed her. Lois felt like her will was being dominated by that firm, hot kiss. Her lips were soft and so sweet to kiss, but the kiss itself felt like a force of nature. Like her heart wasn't quite hers anymore, like something inside of her was running, being hunted, but... secretly, wanted to be caught. She lashed out with as powerful a psychic assault as she could muster though, and the woman staggered away from her. "Very good, J'ann." The woman complemented, having learned her true name during the kiss apparently. J'ann had actually been her birth name, as the first gender she'd chose as a child had been female. She hadn't heard it in a very, very long time. In the Martian language, J'onn was the male version of that name; she'd adopted it later on when she'd chosen to become male. Now that she was female again, it really was more appropriate to be called that actually; though the thought that that was true hadn't occurred to her before now. "I do like pray who doesn't know to act like pray yet." She took out a sword. "I'm Artemiz, the hunter." She told. "And I find I'm very pleased to meet you, lover."
Lois felt a shiver go through her. It was so wrong, but she was definitely turned on by this woman. She was just so fierce and wild looking, but so completely beautiful and strong. She swallowed and looked at Kal as he threw off the dogs and was kicked in the face by Lashina who could move nearly as fast as he. Lois made the decision then, and launched herself at Lashina. "Trade you!" She called to Clark, to Kal.
She really didn't want to fight Artemiz. What was frightening was she wanted her to kiss her again. But Artemiz clearly was only attracted to other women, it would have been impossible to miss that fact while she'd struck out at her, mind-to-mind. Kal was probably a lot more likely to win against her without all that intense sex-appeal directed at him. Fuck, even as she was grappling with Lashina, she was still way too turned on for it to be a good thing at a time like this.
--- KAL ---
He was a little bewildered, more than a little really, by what was going on here. Who were these women? They were at least as powerful as he was and there was just some quality to them that made it a little hard to even -look- at them; as though his eyes couldn't quite believe they were as small as they were, like his eyes should be seeing... giants... As little sense as that made. Where had they come from? What did they want? And, for the big money, how was Lois fighting back against them as well as he? And she had heat vision?! She couldn't be Kryptonian, he was almost sure he would have known. When he was around his cousin, there was always this energy there that was unmistakably recognizable to him. Also, Lois seemed to know these two, and she definitely didn't want to fight the one who was looking at him like... He felt a little of a shiver go through him. Those eyes were so completely predatory, and that slight smile.
"She thinks it will save you, you being male, you know. It won't." She told, her metal dogs barking at him as she planted her sword in the ground and advanced on him, a few steps.
"What are you trying to gain here? What do you even want out of this?" He asked, narrowing his eyes at her.
"Isn't amusement enough of a reason, Kryptonian?" She asked, and just like that, she was at him, moving at speeds matching his.
He fought her, but she was clearly the better fighter and soon he was on his back, a bloody lip, and some already healing bruises. He chanced a look at Lois then, just for a fraction of a second, and saw she was holding her own. Trading blows with the other one. He got to his feet and blasted Artemiz with his heat vision. It struck her shoulder a little, but she mostly dodged it and punched him in the face. The sound of it was like a thunderclap and the impact sent him through the floor of the building. He landed in rolls of old carpeting in a room full of dust that looked like an vacant old studio apartment in need of renovations.
He was getting up when he saw her jumping down after him. She landed light as a feather; but the impact of it, none-the-less, sent out a concussive wave of shimmering golden energy that smelt of flames. The blast blew apart the side of the building in a perfect sphere; like someone just tore a chunk off of it. He was dazed and when he looked at her, all he could see was a complex matrix of energy in the vague form of a woman, and that energy was washing over him in waves. He shook his head and closed his eyes, telling his senses to make sense of the world around him again. He opened his eyes when his wrists were pinned to the floor by Artemiz's two dogs. At least he could see half-way right again, and he was sure he could break free of the dogs. She threw something attached to a cord at him though, before he could get his wits about him enough to act. It camped around his neck; energy and fire flooded though him, he screamed, back arching against the carpets, eyes wide open and just seeing energy.
Slowly, his senses cleared and the world started to make sense again. The pressure was gone from his wrists, the dogs had let him go. He brought his hands together and rubbed one of his wrists, catching sight of his hands as he did, noticing the longer fingernails. Shock flared in him at what he saw. He looked up at Artemiz and she was smiling, holding a... he followed it to him, to his neck... a leash. She walked towards him and got down, crawling over him, holding his wrists down... He was... he'd been turned into a woman, and he... she, she was naked...
Artemiz kissed her and Kal gasped at the feelings of it. Dominating, playful, alien, and somehow... beautiful... The fire, the energy inside her, it was making her feel things. Intellectually, she knew she should be resisting, but as Artemiz's breasts slid against hers and the goddess over her pressed her thigh into her sex, Kal just moaned in pleasure, arching her back and opening herself to the woman who seemed to just take her over. "See?" She spoke softly to her. "You're mine now, just the same."
And she was kissing her again. Kal felt like she was on fire, burning, and she didn't want it to stop. She wrapped her arms around the woman over her and just let the feelings come to her. And when Artemiz's fingers slid into her and played her like music, she felt so lost... in good ways, and in bad ways too... Either way, it didn't matter; she felt helpless and overwhelmed. Artemiz was the one in control, not her. As she climaxed the second time, she felt tears come, and she held onto her lover for the only comfort she could find.
--- J'ANN ---
Lois had taken the fight with Lashina into the air, but Lashina had followed her, and she felt the energy as one of her enemy's lashes wrapped around her and burned her and she was thrown back to the roof just as part of that roof was blown away by Artemiz in her battle with Kal. Kal was losing, Lois could tell, but she couldn't do anything about that now. She was off balance inside; in the mood for love not war, and even as Lashina laughed at her and kicked her in the side on the ground, she couldn't help but think how stupid this was to fight, when it would be so much more fun to touch... She moaned a little and grit her teeth, using her mind and her strength to break free of the lash. Breathing a little harder and hurting some, she stared into Lashina's eyes. "Fuck..." She muttered.
Lashina laughed. "Pretty little plaything, I'm starting to like your spirit." She complemented her.
Then Lois felt it through her telepathic senses as Clark, as Kal, was held down and assaulted.
"Mmm, my lover is having fun with your lover; should we be jealous?" She laughed, jumping on her and pinning her to the ground. Lois looked up into her opponent's eyes and tried very hard not to think about having sex with her. "Or maybe we should have our own fun, hmm? I have to warn you though, I like it violent... You'll scream for me, won't you plaything?"
Lois heard Clark's scream and that did it for her, snapped her out of whatever Artemiz had done to her enough to think again. Enough to feel rage boiling in her. "Plaything this, 'pretty'." She answered defiantly in a low soft voice as she forced her way into Lashina's mind. It was blackness full of fire and lust and cruelty and all manner of terror, and it was so big... The mind of a goddess, a dynamo; vast and full of blunt, tactless power and fury. Lois didn't let it stop her though; she struck and forced herself into the heart of her enemy's mind, ravaged it without mercy. Clark needed her; she wasn't going to leave him to face her horrors alone. Physically, Lashina was almost certainly more than her match; more than she could handle with any shred of certainty (she'd beaten her last time with Joan's help, but without a partner with that extreme level of raw power on her side now, her chances were bad and she knew it). Lois just hoped she really would have the advantage she needed here in the realm of minds and hearts. She saw then, Lashina hadn't been joking when she'd said Artemiz was her lover. It was an understatement. They'd been lovers, mates, for longer than Lois could measure, thousands of years surely. Oh, they'd broken up and gotten back together a few times in that time, but Artemiz was Lashina's anchor, the touchstone for everything in her. Not even her mistress... Maitresse... Lois locked down the memories that had to do with her, locked them from her mind's sight. She shuddered at the glimpse she'd gotten. Determining she never wanted to meet that... being, not ever if she could help it. She just had to deal with Lashina now. The battle of wills was fierce, but in this arena, Lashina was proving the weaker. Still, her blunt power was proving difficult to restrain. She was like a raging river, and the feel of flames that was everywhere didn't help. She finally decided if she couldn't stop the river, she'd redirect it. She used what Artemiz had pushed on her and let it fill her, let her become it like she became Lois, and then she flooded Lashina's mind with it, wrapping it around the heart of her, using it like a door to use her feelings for Artemiz, make herself into those feelings, shape them, so Lashina, in her very heart, couldn't tell her from Artemiz; and just like that, Lois won. Lashina was hers. She made her believe it, made her believe that she was her lover and not Artemiz. Made her believe, remember, feel, abandoning Apokolips to be with her. And now, Apokolips was coming back for her, for them. The hunter was after her. To take her away from the love of her life.
"Lois? J'ann?" Lashina asked softly. "What's, what's going on? Are you hurt?"
Lois kissed her. "Maybe just a little." She smirked, making her eyes and smile and all her signals like Artemiz's. "But you protect me, Lasha. You're the only one I let do that. Now, come on; let's hunt the witch, while she's playing with her toys."
Lashina just looked into her eyes, like something just wasn't quite.... Then she shook her head as Lois tightened her hold on her mind and heart that much more, seeping into her thoughts and spreading everywhere she could. It was working. "Fine... but after this is done, you and I... I feel like..." She growled and kissed her. "Fuck, like if I don't touch you soon, I'll go mad like our... like my sister Harriet..." She shook her head and got up, helping Lois to her feet and smiling to her with love in her eyes. "We'll... we'll have our freedom, my love. If we have to kill armies for it." She smiled wickedly. "In fact, that might just be a bonus. Let's go cause pain."
"Mm, you say the sweetest things." Lois flirted. It was weird. She wasn't quite being Artemiz, just a mix of Artemiz and Lois and herself, not that there was a whole lot of difference between her Lois persona and her real self anymore. She'd... she'd done what she was doing now, she'd made that role hers, made it fit her soul. She couldn't be Artemiz, just like she couldn't really be Lois, she could just be herself through them. Let those feelings and emotions, that nameless force from Artemiz, become part of her. Because she needed it to be; this wouldn't work if she just pretended, she had to go all the way with it or Lashina wouldn't believe, would see right through her.
--- KAL ---
Artemiz was holding her by her now long hair, looking down into her eyes. "What a pretty pet you'll make. Tell me you're mine, pet. Tell me you just want to make me smile, hmm?" She purred.
"I..." Kal looked into her eyes and wanted to say that, even though she felt disgusted with herself for wanting that. "I..." She was going to say it; she had to right?
"Quit playing, fight me so I can make you scream!" Lashina was telling Artemiz, Lois picking the completely surprised and disbelieving Artemiz up by the hair and smiling to her.
"You heard her, she wants a fight. Better give it to her before I hurt you." Lois tossed Artemiz on the floor.
Artemiz sat up. "My Lasha, what has she done to you?" She turned and looked at Lois, fury in her voice. "I'll rip you apart for this!" She roared at her, but Lashina struck and wrapped her up with both of her lashes, causing Artemiz to cry out when Lashina sent the full force of her power through them.
"Oh, I'm going to enjoy this." Lashina said, kicking the kneeling Artemiz in the face again.
Artemiz screamed in rage. Her dogs attacked Lashina and Artemiz broke free. She looked at Lois. "I'm going to take -years- in killing you, world-orphan; only my own death can stop me. You think you've known suffering? You have yet to start!" She screamed, coldness and fury in her voice. She turned on Lashina and charged her, a box at her belt making 'Ping' noises. That blast of fiery air, sucking inward this time, appeared, and Artemiz wrestled her (perhaps now former) lover into the portal.
Lois charged at them, but Artemiz blasted her back with a sweeping ark of energy. "You're never touching her again, mind whore." She cursed at her.
And they were gone, the dogs barking as they followed their mistress; the portal collapsing with another loud 'BOOM'.
Kal looked at Lois who had gotten up and only missed the portal by seconds. She fell to her knees and was... crying. Kal was finding it hard to process what had been done to her... to him, he was supposed to be a him, she remembered. She did know that she loved Lois, or had been starting to. She got up, bringing a hand to her collar and tugging at it absently. She realized of course she'd no doubt have to try a lot harder to get it off, but for now the symbolic attempts made her feel better at least. She walked over to the crying Lois, meaning to comfort her.
Lois let out a frustrated growl and clenched her fists, getting up a pacing a little, until her eyes caught on Kal's. Kal felt startled and exposed and shy of her.
"Clark?" Lois asked softly. "Wow... She really did a number on you, didn't she Smallville?" She smiled softly to her, snapping out of her anger at seeing her.
"Yeah, um, yeah..." She trailed off, looking at the ground and holding one arm with her hand. "I... She really did." Kal met Lois's eyes and felt tears begin to fall, even as she tried to smile a little.
"Oh, Clark..." Lois rushed over to her and hugged her. Kal hugged her back gratefully and let herself cry too.
"What's wrong with me?" Kal asked softly. "What... what did I do...?"
There was a rush of air and the sound of someone landing.
"...Kal? ...That, that is you, isn't it Kal?" Kara's voice came. Lois let her go and Kal stepped back from her, finding her cousin's eyes and feeling more than a little exposed, naked as she was. "What happened to you?"
"I..." Kal looked to her cousin and then to Helena who Kara had brought with her, then down at the floor. "There... um..." Kara went over to her and wrapped her in her arms.
"Shh... it's, it's going to be okay." Kara soothed, obviously not having been expecting anything like this when she arrived.
--- J'ANN ---
Kara looked over to her, Lois's clothes were in tatters from the battle she realized. "You're Lois Lane, the reporter? What happened to him?" She asked.
"We were attacked." Lois told. "This, one of them did that to him. Um, to her I mean. She... she was raped. I.... I tried to get to her, but..." Lois looked over at Huntress. "How are you here?" She asked.
"We were in Paris." Helena answered. "Kara heard Kal's scream..." She looked to her wife, walking over to be closer to her, putting her hand on her shoulder.
Kara was silent. "Who was it? The rapist; who was it? Where did they go?" She asked Lois. "Also, while we're at it, what's your story Ms. Lane? You're obviously not just a reporter if you survived against whatever did this to my cousin." She observed a little accusingly.
"No, obviously not. I'm alien to this world, a survivor of a doomed people... Much like you..." She told. "Amazing that Clark and I met, and neither of us knew about the other..." She spoke softly. "Her name is Artemiz the Hunter. The one who did this to him, to her, the one who raped her. Her name was Artemiz." Lois told them, trying not to feel torn up inside at loosing Lashina. The feelings had to be real for her to do what she did, and feelings like that didn't go away easily. She knew rationally that she should move on and forget it, but she also knew rationally that she was incapable of doing that. That she'd just have to suffer through it. It had been worth it though, right? Fuck, she wished she knew some way to, she didn't know, save her. It was actually hard to resist the urge to try to find a way to Apokolips to rescue her. Rescue Lasha. She knew that really, Artemiz was the one who Lasha was meant for, but that didn't stop her from feeling like it should be her. "She and her, she and her partner went the way they came. They're goddesses, Power Woman, dark ones, from a place called Apokolips. It was all I could do to... to drive them away. And the cost for how I did that, I will be paying for it for a long, long time I think..." She told, a shiver of fear running through her, both for her the state of her own heart and at Artemiz's words and the terrifying look in her eyes directed at her when she'd said them. She honestly hadn't known that malice that -intense- could even exist... It shook her.
"Well, thank you then. For whatever it was you did." Kara answered.
She smiled a half-smile at that, walking over to them and looking at Clark's collar. "Yeah, well, you might want to hold off on that. Artemiz will be back; for me definitely after what I did, but I would in no way discount the possibility of her coming after Clark again to hurt me. And believe me, if she gets into your system, you won't even want to fight her... You'll... you'll want her to take you." She sighed. "Here, I think I see how to take this off." Clark stepped back from her cousin a little and complied with Lois's intention, even though Lois could tell part of her didn't want to have the collar taken off. There was a small wave of energy that released when she unclasped the collar, and Clark fell against her cousin in seeming exhaustion when she was freed.
"Kal?" Kara looked to Lois with a question in her eyes.
"I'm okay." Clark answered softly. "Thanks..." She offered to Los rather meekly.
"Of course." Lois answered with obvious compassion in her voice.
"I'll want that." Kara told, referring to the collar. "I might be able to figure out how it works, how to reverse whatever was done to him; even how to fight this Artemiz woman if she comes back."
Helena came over to Lois. "Here, I'll take it." She offered, Lois gladly giving the thing away.
"Lois's right you know, about her, about, um, about Artemiz..." Clark told, Kara pulling back a little, sensing her cousin had a little of her strength back now, looking into her eyes at her speaking. "I mean, I still... I don't want to, but I still..."
Kara hugged her cousin to her again and ran her hand through her hair comfortingly. "It's okay; it's going to be okay..." She looked up at Lois. "There are people who need my help, the building-"
"I'll take care of them. You just..." She sensed that Clark didn't want to be around her right now, that he, that she, needed family, and time alone. "Just take her home, take care of her. Leave this to me." Lois offered. "Clark, I'll... I'll come see you later, okay? Right now... right now it's not me you need I think." She told, becoming intangible and dropping through the floor.
She very quickly made her way to the victim who needed her most, using her telekinesis to dig him out of fallen rubble and keep him safe. People had died, been blasted to dust, when Artemiz had taken a chunk out of the building. And the rest of the building, the shockwaves from the blast, it looked like the place had been through an earthquake. The building next door had also been structurally damaged, and two people on the street had been struck by debris. One was almost dead, no hope of saving her. The other was getting medical attention from paramedics. She was the only one besides Power Woman or Clark who could get to many of the victims inside the building in time though. It was better for her to do it though, it gave her something to focus on and it gave Clark the distance she needed, and the comfort of family. She sensed Clark, Power Woman, and Huntress leaving, Clark holding her cousin's hand, wrapped in Huntress's cape.
She continued to do rescue work. Of course she was concerned about blowing her cover, but really, she had to figure, if whoever was behind Lois's death had been watching her today, her fighting the Furies, her secret was already out and there was no harm in doing what she was doing. No harm, and much good.
After this was over though, she was going home. She was going to see Cat, or maybe Erica... She considered that, and the strong feelings she was developing for the woman seemed just what she needed right now. Unfortunately, Erica wasn't due back until tomorrow. "Fuck." Lois grumbled. She was so messed up and wound up inside, she just wanted to make love to someone; to not be alone.
Fleetingly, she imagined asking Cat and Lori if they would be interested in a three way, but knew that would probably ruin things with them even if they said yes (which wasn't likely). It was so wrong. She was in love with four women, or, really five, Erica, Cat, Lasha, and Clark, and she still loved her dead wife so much it still hurt to think of her at times like this, and she couldn't be with any of them tonight. Of them though, the only one for whom the reason wasn't tragic in some way was Erica. For that reason alone, Lois thought she'd probably just say yes right now if Erica actually did ask her to marry her. She was just so... so tired of hurting, of pain. She wanted someone to take it away.
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