"I am here my love." She shouted, then heard two, no, three sets of footfalls racing her way. A moment later Jake burst into her room with the doctor, both wearing looks of concern. "My love is something wrong?" She asked her own concern growing.
"I'm not sure Amira I just received a message from Tanaya. None of the other children have heard from your baby." Jake stated looking at Amira closely.
Tears started to fall from her eyes, "I haven't felt the baby move in almost two days." Turning toward Jake the tears started more freely. "I am afraid that the baby may not survive, as I may not either. I wanted so badly to have your child Master Jake. Now I fear I may no longer see you either. I wanted to make you proud of me, now I fear that you will despise me."
Jake shook his head as he gently held Amira's face kissing her tenderly. "I will always be proud of you. Now lay back let the doctor try and save the both of you."
A surprised Amira nodded as she lay back staring at Jake the whole time. "Thank you my love though, I am afraid."
"I'll stay with you the whole time Amira, I'm not going anywhere." Jake told her as the doctor stretched his hand over her. He stayed like that for a while then he passed over her again. A sad look came to his face as he started to shake his head.
[Father?] Came a very weak voice. [I am here though; I am so weak I am so glad that you are here now.]
Shocked a moment Jake reached out grabbing the doctor, and then he placed another hand on Amira's stomach. Almost immediately he felt the baby sigh. The doctor's eyes got wide as he started to pass his hand a third time over Amira.
"Yes, I can feel the baby now. Whatever you're doing Master Jake keep it up. The baby is growing stronger by the moment." Hime said as he kept his hand unmoving for a few minutes. "It feels that the baby will make it now, I..."
Amira's eyes were large as she looked at her belly, then Grabbed Jake. "My love I think that it is time. Doctor I am so afraid the baby feels so weak still, will she make it?"
Hime smiled as he also felt the soon to be emergence. "I believe as long as Master Jake is here all will be fine."
"I feel that way also. Thank you for coming to me today my love." Amira said kissing Jake.
[I thank you also father.] The thoughts of the baby said.
With that a head appeared from Amira's vagina, then the rest of the girl as she arose from Amira. With a prideful smile as the baby settled in her arms Amira looked to Jake.
A huge smile lit up Jake's face as he stated. "She is as beautiful as her mother." Here Jake leaned down kissing the both of them. A loud booming then a huge fanfare sounded. With that the council appeared smiles on all their faces.
"So it appears that the royal prophecy has come to pass." Rasmir stated as he and the rest of the council bowed to Jake.
"So the next generation of Royalty has appeared." King Al-Mazhab proclaimed with a loud clapping of his hands. Amira smiled then kissed Jake back thanking him.
Jake nodded then walked out to talk to the king. "So have you given any thought to my plan?"
The king was taken aback a moment lost in the happiness of the moment. "I will always have doubts Master Jake. Not so much for the plan as I do for the one we gave the power to. They were already weak when we started; I hope that they can hold out that long to reach Zahra. Unfortunately with the amount of power we know I had to give them, meeting her, is the only thing that will save them."
"Shit!" Jake suddenly shouted. "I hadn't thought that it would take that much power. I know that she WAS an elite Jinn at one time though, I thought her power had weakened."
King Al-Mazhab sadly shook his head. "I had tried a few times to remove her power. At one time I had actually removed a portion of it, though as you saw she has other ways of gaining power. No, your plan is sound though we haven't a lot of time to implement it. With the full maximum power of a Jinn in a human body that wasn't prepared as it should be? I fear the end is very close."
Jake nodded his head as he was deep in thought a few moments. "As powerful as you are, you haven't found them either I take it?"
A small smile crossed the king's lips, "I didn't say that now did I?"
Jake's eyes and mouth opened wide as he stared at the king. "What!? From everything I was told no one knew where they were!"
The king nodded his head, "no one else, no, I have located them. The only problem is they are well within the human dimension. As you well remember there are conditions that we cannot go against. You remember that even an elite Jinn only has so much power. Therefore revealing ourselves still isn't allowed to non-masters."
Jake let out a sigh of near defeat, "So pretty much when we do this it's mostly on me." Jake nodded to the king, "'bout like most of my life. Then again I didn't have the love and support that I do now."
King Al-Mazhab could only stare at Jake after these words. How could no one not want to follow as wise and generous human as Master Jake. It had indeed been a very long time since he had viewed the human dimension. Had the humans really declined to the point that they really were no better than beasts? If that was true why was Master Jake really willing to true?
"So tell me King Al-Mazhab, you said you hoped that the one you gave the power lasts 'til they meet Zahra. It's already been two weeks now since you powered them. How much longer can they last before they succumb?" Jake asked really afraid that he already knew the answer to the question.
"As you asked I have been watching them constantly. At first there was really no change, now it appears that the power is starting to stress the body for more and faster than we at first thought. Two perhaps three more of your weeks if the stress continues as it has. If we could reduce it somehow they might have a better chance."
Jake started to think with a worried look on his face. Could they really reduce all the stress? That seemed almost impossible in the human dimension. Shaking his head Jake decided he had to find a way 'til they found a way into Marie's sanctum. He was sure that Marie had it guarded as closely as she could. He'd have to have a look before they did anything to provoke the bitch wife of Juno.
It was two weeks later Jake was starting to become frustrated. So far nothing was able to even get close to her place. He'd sent both magical and human like visions there only to have them destroyed well before they got close. Finally he got a message, though brief, from the mirror Zahra.
[I am now in more than half control. I have been weakening the protection; you must come soon before Mistress Marie discovers me.] Then it was gone.
Jake went to all his Jinns to discuss what he was going to have to do. He also stressed the fact that it had to very soon or they would lose their chance. Though they really didn't like it they all agreed that they really had no choice.
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The next day deep within Marie's building Nuha was lounging around after an hour pleasantly pleasing Marie. Still unable to admit that she was a prisoner Nuha flexed her power feeling something strange right before she was rapidly shut down. What in the name of the great Jinn had that been? It had felt like the power of an extremely powerful Jinn, a Jinn that Zahra paled next to.
Shaking her head she could swear the power was familiar, the thing is she'd not felt power like that since the ex-queen had been alive. Was it possible that the bitch queen was still alive? No, there was no way that was possible. She and her sisters had felt the queen snuffed out in seconds. Then who was this? The amount of anger behind it was also familiar; she just put her finger on it.
A plain looking man had walked to the building with every disguise that Jake's Jinns could put around him. Stopping at the front he asked to see the owner as he was an old friend. How in the hell had he made it past? He was certain that a fight would have ensued as soon as he was close enough.
He'd had to wait an hour before a thin woman appeared from the elevators. Jake took a deep breath as he thought well here we go. As the thin woman moved toward Jake he hoped that all the preparation they all had done paid off.
The woman stopped right before the man looking him up and down. The she sneered at him, "my boss says that she doesn't know you from Adam. I suggest you leave here while you still can. Trespassers tend to get violated." As the woman started to turn the man started to laugh. The woman whirled back staring at Jake like he was crazy. "Well, I warned you."
"My, my, my, Marie," The man stated freezing the woman in place. "Still trying to be something you aren't. Yet inside you're still an ugly, homily, unlovable bitch! Still thinking you are a thin, sexy bitch, when in fact you're just a bitch!"
The woman smiled as she waved her hand, "Goodbye ass wipe it wasn't nice to know you." Suddenly the woman was frozen in place, and then she found that she couldn't talk either. Then the worst thing of all she couldn't 'hear nor talk with her mind.'
She was suddenly turned to stare at the man she'd just been talking to. "Yeah, I know, it sucks. After all this is done we'll decide what to do with your ass."
It was at that moment that Zahra appeared firing several bolts of energy at the man. Her mouth dropped open as they not only stopped several feet from the man, more than a few were returned one hitting her catching her by surprise. She started to reach for her mistress when several bolts struck her protection driving her to the wall behind her.
Growling she lashed out only to be pinned back against the wall even tighter. Who in the name of the great Jinn was this? He felt like a Jinn an extremely powerful Jinn. A thin smile crossed her face as she continued to struggle to release herself. It was at that moment she felt the Jinn power siphoning. There was no way that King Al-Mazhab could gotten past all her precautions.
Screaming louder she felt the blocking spell snap up as her power drain started to slow then finally stop. A few moments later she felt then slowly, very slowly start to return.
Not that far inside the mirror Zahra watched in horror as the siphoning effect was reversed. This was the end she could feel it even with her control there was no way she could stop it. The amount of power that the man contained would make Zahra unstoppable. Crying out Mirror Zahra reached out trying to disrupt the siphoning effect.
She suddenly felt Master Jake nearby, how? She nor Zahra had felt anyone like him approaching except for... With almost all of her being she clawed to the surface pushing a screaming, thoroughly pissed off Zahra out of the way.
The man saw that Zahra had stopped firing, "so you are in control, good." Walking up to her he grabbed her.
"NO! You have to get away; now that it has started this body will take all your power. With us this close it will be accelerated. Please go before you fall victim to her." Mirror Zahra told the man.
The man stood still a moment then he shimmered as Jake replaced him. I was counting on her trying to siphon the power from me. You'll see why soon, now I suggest you kiss me. That should hasten it, don't you think?"
Mirror Zahra couldn't speak as Jake started to kiss her, then her eyes wide she started to return the kiss hungrily.
