Jack's Revenge - Part 1

Part 1

Jack:

I am on my father's ship, I am eight years old, it had been a calm night and day, and then out of nowhere a powerful storm appears, it is so very loud and powerful and it spins the ship around making the ship groan and creak as it is being tossed around like a leaf on the wind. Then I hear the most amazing singing I have ever heard in my life, and I see a beautiful winged woman, naked, dancing on the waves and making them spin around the ship, she moves so very fast, her golden skin shimmering in the light it gives off and her long red hair whipping in the wind, her wings are of the feathered kind, blue green shifting and they seem to shimmer in the light she gives off, she has a tail as well that whip behind her as she churns the storm, her song is totally enrapturing and her beauty is burned into my young mind, I start crawling towards the edge of the ship, I want to swim out to her, I barely notice the sailors leaping into the water, wanting to do the same thing, then I feel a thump against my head and I awaken with a scream.

This dream again I have had it every night since the day my father died forty two years ago, had it not been for my mother knocking me out and hiding me away on the ship I would have died like all the other men, she could never hear anything due to her deafness. The ship was barely floating, its masts snapped like twigs when we got back on deck and everything in ruin, we lived off the supplies that were still intact as we drifted, and luckily a pirate ship found us, the ship was beyond repair and almost right after we left it it groaned one last time as it sank. I say luckily as I did not die, but my life was hell, for ten years, my mother's life was worse I think, it was after ten years that I managed to escape while we were landed in a huge trading hub selling slaves, caught from several small islands and raided ships on the sea, I decided I wanted to be free.

Now I have a small ship of my own, Jack's Revenge, I have been searching the seas for this woman, this winged siren, chasing after her, following rumours of her. I managed to acquire several magical items that are supposed to protect me from her singing. From what I have been able to find out she sank a few more ships and then seemed to stop doing that, instead she joined up with some adventurers for a time, and then as they split up like most adventurers eventually do she travelled the lands and cities, as a singer, the elves gave her a name Coraera the legendary singer, and she is quite legendary indeed, it is said none rival her in singing and dancing. It makes little sense to me why she would visit taverns and sing and dance, even ramshackle taverns like the one I am currently in, apparently the only requirement for anyone to get her to perform is good food, and a rare type of mulled wine that she likes, and that people treat her with respect, she is to perform here tonight. My long chase finally at an end, I check my magical items, I intend to kill her sometime during her performance, I have a special poisoned and magical throwing dagger, that supposedly never misses its mark. I feel my earring of siren protection.

A gnome plops into the chair next to me "hey, I have a deal for you, I will give you this magical deck of cards if you buy me dinner." he is dressed in crazy patchwork clothes in a myriad of mismatched colours and his eyes are eerily intense and insane looking.

"Why would you give away magical cards for dinner?" I ask and look into the crazy eyes.

"I have no more need of them, and they want me to give them to someone else, and they said you specifically, but I want dinner first." The gnome says and giggles.

I quirk an eyebrow and I decide that I want this gnome out of my hair and I think the easiest way to get him to go away is to buy him dinner and get the deck of supposedly magical cards, it is not like I am likely to need my money after tonight, as I doubt people will take the assassination of this Coraera very well. "Sure here" I say and place a gold coin next to the deck of cards.

The gnome giggles and takes the coin and bites it "deal!" he says and giggles all the way to the bar.

I pick up the cards and put them in my coat pocket and sip my now warm ale and watch the people moving about the place, the room is intense with expectation, and then in through the door comes Coraera and a halfling carrying a violin case and a large ogre carrying a whole set of percussion instruments. They are both dressed in really expensive looking suits. Coraera herself is dressed in a seashell bra, with pearl decoration and the shells are polished to reveal mother of pearl, pearls connect the two shells to each other and two loops of pearls connect the bra around her, they seem to cross twice from what I can see, once above and between her breasts and they loop around her neck twice before crossing behind her back and between her wings and connecting to the sides opposite side of the bra. She wears a pearl skirt with small bells that tinkle as she moves and I can see pearl panties under her skirt. The pearls in her clothing alone would be enough to make a man be able to retire and live comfortably.

Her blue green wings stretch out as she inhales the atmosphere of the room and she leaps up onto the stage and lands perfectly on her tiptoes and spins around her wild long hair swirling around and then her wings start to shift colours a rainbow pattern that moves from the tips of her wings and in towards her and her golden skin starts to glow softly as her intense purple eyes glow as she starts singing and then I get completely lost, her voice, her eyes, her alluring exotic dance that combines many dance styles, including belly dancing, into her own style, I lose all thought of why I am here. The halfling and ogre are not all that bad at playing their instruments, but her voice dominates completely. As she sings all my bad memories come to the front of my mind and they all lessen in intensity after I feel all the emotions from them, and removing guilt and sadness and making them fade properly into the past, and then my few good memories surface and intensify, and I am filled with hope and inspiration and joy.

It feels like the performance goes on forever, and yet as it ends it feels like it was only a brief moment of joy, and way too short. I find myself queue up with everyone else and she hands out feathers from her wings, still shifting through rainbow colours, and we all give her a gift, most of us money, I gave her three large sapphires and put the treasured feather away. It feels like the most important object in my life, and feeling it near fills me with happiness, inspiration and hope.

I awaken out of a wonderful dream, I had brought a chest of treasure to Cora as she likes to be called for short, and she had sung for me while riding my cock till I came, and I notice that I have soiled the bed, I sigh and dry myself off on the sheets and get dressed, I only then snap out of my trance, that bitch she made me forget how much I hate her, yet my hate is tainted now by really intense lust. As I check my pockets I notice the gems are gone, and also find the deck of cards and I examine them and they start speaking into my mind, explaining how they work. A greater deck of many things, it explains that it can cause weal or woe and its effects are not minor in any way.

I feel like I am fucked anyway as I am sure Cora is gone, as she tends to leave after her performance, never staying in one place very long. So in a moment of insanity I decide to start drawing cards.

The first card I draw, Ruin, teleports me with only the deck, no clothing or items to a small isle and I see my ship appear in the distance and explode into a shower of burning fragments that sink into the water.

I stare in disbelief. The only thing that remains of my possessions is the deck and in my other hand the slowly rainbow shifting feather, and I put the feather behind my ear and then I laugh out loud and draw another card.

Throne, suddenly the island changes as a small but beautiful castle rises up out of a cliff face and a small harbour appears with a new ship in it and I am dressed in silk velvet and wear a small crown on my head as I stand on the balcony overlooking the castle.

I consider stopping drawing cards, but I have a huge insane urge to keep drawing cards.

Fool, I feel myself weaken a whole lot and I am compelled to draw another card. Jester the weakness vanishes and I feel the compulsion to draw two more cards.

Gem, several chests of treasure appear around me.

Star, I feel better in every way, healthier, stronger, more agile, smarter, wiser, and I can see myself in the mirror on the wall that I am a lot more beautiful, my gaze much more intense than ever. I strongly consider stopping drawing cards, but so far it seems to have been nice to me. So I draw another card.

Fates, the deck explains that I can change my fate, in the future, once.

Moon, a ring appears on my finger with a moonstone with four sparks of light inside, and I am told they each will grant a wish, but to be careful, wishes are tricky things. I suppress the urge to quickly wish something stupid, I draw again five stars in a row, I feel like a god, at least compared to my old self, concepts I could not even have dreamed to grasp I understand easily now.

Two knight cards, and appearing next to me are two really powerful looking warriors in full plate and they kneel in front of me "milord!"

I look at them "rise." I say and they do, the deck tells me that these two men are absolutely loyal to me. I draw another card, Vizier, the deck tells me it can help me figure out a solution to one of my problems.

I manage to resist drawing another card, for now. "Leave me and go find something to eat and drink" I say to the two men and smile and "as you say milord" they say leave and I look at the deck of cards. "Do you know about Coraera? How I have spent my life chasing her, to take my revenge?"

"I am aware, is that still your desire?" the deck asks me.

"My motivations have changed, I still want her to pay for what she did to my father and his crew and the other ships she sunk. But... I want her, I desire her." I truthfully tell the deck.

"You may not be aware, but she is no normal weak siren, she is a paragon winged siren, and the only reason she has not ascended into goddess hood is that she is too whimsical to concern herself with that, she has enough people worshipping her, and enough individual power to do that. I may still help make your desire happen though, if you let me guide you in how you use your four wishes." The deck responds. "It will also expend my obligation to solve a problem for you though."

"Deal" I say perhaps a little too quickly.

"First of all you need to be a powerful sorcerer, second you need to have a powerful summoning circle and a summoning spell that lets you summon any creature you know the name of and perhaps have a part of, third you need a way to bind her to your will, you can't make her love you with wish magic though, but you can control her and force her to do what you want."

I consider this and pull the feather from behind my ear and look at it and smile and then I say "I wish that I am and will be the most powerful sorcerer in the world, that no spell is or ever will be out of the reach of my power." my eyes flare with blue light and I float off the ground and I feel the brimming power surge through me.

"I wish that I have and will forever have a powerful sorcerer's tower with all the books I could ever need, all the equipment I could ever use, and a powerful warded magical summoning circle where I can summon and contain any creature." a tower grows out off the castle, towering over it and I am transported to it with the deck.

"I wish that my life is and will forever be eternal, that I will regain my youth and keep it, while retaining all the benefits of my age, and that my mind will easily grasp all I need to learn any magical spell I desire." I feel my body change, the last few old aches in it vanishing, feeling the intense energy of youth, and my mind brims with ideas and concepts and inspiration and I read through several tomes with great speed and I figure out the summoning spell, and then I find out that I will need to create a magical artefact to bind Cora and control her, as she is extremely powerful.

I consider for only a few moments and then I say "I wish I have the knowledge and resources to create magical artefacts of any kind I desire." There is another rumble deep under the tower as it pushes itself into the ground and I feel the planar gates opening up and drawing materials from all over the planes and the magical ring vanishes as I used up the last wish and I feel my mind sharpen slightly more as the knowledge of artefact creation fills my mind.

I gather resources and start refining them, creating a collar, ankle and wrist cuffs and a ring, magically connected together, the all six have a powerful blue anti magical gem set inside them, the ring is enchanted so it controls the collars and cuffs, and protects the wearer, me, from the blue anti magical gems, they drain magic and hurt to just be around and were very hard to work with, but they will make the collar and cuffs able to restrain even a goddess' or god's power. I make the collar and cuffs look like jewellery and the ring as well. I also craft a dagger with a dagger made out of the blue gem, it would hurt or even kill a magical creature easily, and the magic of the blade makes the holder gain the drained magic, and power of the creature hurt by it, and if killed it will give the wielder all the life and power of the creature killed.

I summon an incubus to the summoning circle and before he has time to react I stab the dagger into his heart and I feel the surge of his powers and life drain into me and I laugh manically from how great I feel. I slowly work through the bestiary picking creatures out that sound like they have useful abilities and consume them using the dagger.

It takes a year for me to feel confident Cora will stand no chance against me, and I draw upon the power of the circle and my own mind, and I draw out the weave of magic needed to summon Coraera to the circle and contain her there, the feather she gave me in my left hand and the dagger in my right, the ring to control the collar on my right ring finger. In the circle lays the collar, and inside it magically contained is the cuffs, I had added more powers to the collar and cuffs and ring as I thought up new things. The collar is open ready to be put on. I chant out the last part of the spell "Coraera I summon thee!"

There is a loud thud as Coraera appears kneeling in the circle and I move swiftly up and hold the dagger up against her throat and I can see she is wearing the same clothing she did during her dancing and singing and she looks really surprised to be in a completely different place, her wings are even doing their rainbow shifting magic, she cries out as the anti magical dagger starts glowing intense blue and she collapses on the ground before me "please stop hurting me!" she cries out and cries tears of blood and she has a nose bleed and her teeth are bloody, her wing magic winks out and her glow fades.

I pull back a little bit stunned at how much she is hurt by the dagger just being near her, it is worse the more powerful a magical being you are, so after thinking a moment it makes sense. "Strip for me or I will move this closer to you." I say and walk back behind the binding ward of the circle.

Coraera looks at me with really hurt and angry eyes, but she can still feel the dagger's power. She pulls a small pin away from between her shell cups on her bra and then pulls the single long string of pearls out of the cups and then drops the pearls and cups on the ground and she unlatches pulls another pin from the front of her skirt and lets it drop to the ground and then pulls two pins from her pearl panties and they drop to the ground and she is kneeling before me "please put that away, I will behave." she says and gazes into my eyes and I can feel the weak remnants of an attempted charm spell, but all that remains is her beautiful voice, she sounds a bit hurt though, slightly raspy voice.

"Put that chocker on and I will put the dagger away." I say and she looks down at the collar, I am controlling its gem to be inert.

She picks it up with trembling hands and looks at it and I can sense her trying to sense if it has magic, but even if the dagger did not disrupt her magic the collar is deviously made to seem non magical. She frowns a little bit and puts the tight chocker collar on and as it clicks shut the collar becomes a seamless circlet of metal.

I laugh manically, I had thought I would have to force her to put it on somehow, maybe hurt her badly with the dagger before she would comply, but she just did it like that.

She looks at me and raises an eyebrow, she does not really seem at all bothered about being naked, but she is seems worried about my sanity and confused, and the dagger of course.

I hover the dagger over my right hand and then make it vanish into the magical storage inside my ring and smile "is that better?" I ask and caress my lips with the feather she gave me.

"Yes, thank you" Cora says with a smile "what is it you want of me?"

"My name is Jack Wade, and I am your master. Crawl over to me and suck my cock" I say and smile.

Continued in Part 2

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