Jennifer Portman: alternate ending: SM Halloween, In another universe, yet the same time and place that Jennifer Portman was in the prime world, our heroine had refused Mina's offer and launched her own investigation. This is an alternate version of the next chapter. The Slave Market Halloween special. Jennifer was going off of her memory of the car ride that she had been on with Mina as she was bound and gagged in the passanger seat/ It was dark with only the lights of the city illuminating the streets in a hazy sea of light brown and peach like colors. Jennifer's heart beat in her chest and about like it would burst from the strain. She was getting closer to the area that Mina had driven her from. She had walked the streets for a few hours, cars whip by and no one stops to check on her well being. No one cares. The cold og the night air bites into her sleeveless arms and pantless legs. That blue tank and those tan cargo shorts, don't seem like a good idea to her anymore. The buildings that she passes cast eerie and demonic shaped shadows along them.Jennifer was never one to believe in the boogey man. Even as a child she would face down anything that she would have thought to be some form of monster. off in the distance, she sees the slave market where she was sold at. The red carpeting and velvet ropes atop brass poles await her as she nears the VIP exit that she was carried out of. She can feel the tape sticking to her skin once more as the memory enters her mind. She loathed being in that state of helplessness. Jennifer was very strong willed and her temper is as fiery as the red tint of the hair on her head. She shakes the thoughts from her mind as she moves between the brass poles and starts to enter the area where the she was being sold in that auction. Anger seazes her kind and she grits her teeth to stop from screaming out her frustrations at that memory. The place seemed eerily deserted. No one was around, and no sounds could be heard. Jennifer steps as quietly as she can, while moving through the auctioning room. The auction block, where many men, women, boys, and girls have been sold to the highest bidder, stands empty and devoid of life. She thought that it was odd there there were no sounds at all around the complex. The night sky is clear and the stars brightly light the sky. The moon is full and thankfully provided enough light for her to see. Her next plan of action is to find a way into the main beuilding. The building is made of red brick and grey cementholds them together. Jennifer climbs up onto the auction block, the red curtain hanging above her. She knew that there had to be a door that the "merchandise" was brought through to the block. She was right, at the far right corner at the back of the stage stands a single grey door. A silver, round knob sits at the center of the door, on the left side. She reaches for the knob, her heart pounding and feeling like it is in her throat, with her left hand and curls her fingers and thumb around the cool metal of the knob. She prays that iit isn't locked. Her prayers are answered, the knob turns and the door cracks open a bit. The sound of the door creaking open was a bit louder than it should have been dur to the almost unnatural silence that has befallen this terrible place. As she opens the door, ever so slowly, she swallows and readies herself for what she might see. Inside was darker than any place that she has seen. She wants to call out for someone to see if anyone is around, but she knows that she must be as quiet as she can if someone is around. Jennifer moves as slowly as she can, with her hands straight in front of her. She has to find a light switch, or other source of light. She moves straight ahead until he hands touch a wall. Her breathing is heavy from fear. Her heavy panting is unusually loud in the place that is so devoid of sound. She moves along the wall until she feels something smoother than the brick wall that she has been slding her hands across. A smooth surface with two small, square like protrusions, and indentations that are small and feel like lettering. A light switch mounted on the wall. She flips one knob up and the lights for the action block buzz and light up with life. She curses herself silently as she sees the room light up a little through the door that she had left open, so that a little moon light could help her see in the room. If anyone was out there, they would now know that she was in there and she could be caught again if their were more then one. If there was only one she could over power him or her with her martial arts. She was a brown belt in Shotokan after all. She quickly moves her finger to the other switch and flips it, the room lights up and what she sees frightens her. Cages. Cages are lining the walls on the sides of the small room, as if it were storage for the items to be sold. Ropes, tapes, and other devices hang on hooks that are embedded into the walls, and on shelves that are affixed to the walls. She had to wonder if she was held here while she was inconscious. The horror of what she is seeing made her forget about switching the action blick lights off. At least there was no one in the cages. A grey door stands by the light switches mounted on the wall. Jennifer swallows as the fear and anticipatrion of what could be on the pther side siezes her mind. She reaches out for the silver door knob with her right hand, then turns it slowly. The door creaks open and another darkened room reveals itself. A few desks could be seen in the little light that passes into the room from the previous. Desks mean that there could be documents, and documents mean that there could be clues, or at least there could be a flashlight inside or on one of them. She looks around for a light switch in this new room and finds one right by her at the entrance to the room The light blinks on and the room comes into full view. There were indeed desks lined in rows. Many had family portraits of the employees that worked at them. The thought that they might be the ones in charge of the paper work makes Jennifer's heart skip a beat. She may find out what she wants to know here. The first desk she moves to has a computer on it as well as a few personal bobbles of the person that sits at it. She first lookes in one of the left side desk drawers, the top one, to search for something useful to her. She wants to put these people away, so she needs evidence. She thinks, "Jackpot!" as she finds some expense reports for numerous supplies that includes rope, tape, different gags, including ball, panel, muzzle, ring, and spider gags, and other bondage related items. This would not prove that something was going on illegally here. Bondage after all, wasn't an illegal activity, but the paper may help prove her case once she finds more evidence. Suddenly she hears a noise. A door creaks open in the background and she swallows hard and her breath becomes quicker and deeper as she turns. Before she can fully turn she hears something that scares her. "Don't move. If you do then I'll fire." She hears foot steps getting closer to her and she clenches her eyes shut tightly. If only it was a bad dream she could wake up but this is reality. The person walks into her view and she sees a woman with brown hair, pointing a gun at her. The woman looked to be of Asian decent. Her accent was more middle American so she was probably born in the US. The woman had nice shapely legs, accented by nude colored pantyhose, that becomes hidden by a black miniskirt that ends at her thighs and begins at her waist. A white buttoned up blouse with short sleeves adorns the woman's torso. On her feet are black heels and her brown hair is tied into a tight bun at the back of her head. "You're the little snoop that turned on the outside lights? Looks like we have a little volunteer for our sacrifice tonight." The woman stood there holding a gun to jennifer who had been caught. She cursed herself as she puts her hands into the air in surrender. She didn't know what the woman had meant by her being a sacrifice, but that didn't sound like it was the ideal situation. She doesn't say a word and just looks at the woman with a look of hatred. She keeps her eyes on Jennifer and lowers her left hand to a small radio, in a hosler on her waist, and brings it up to her lips. Her thumb presses the button and a burst of static is heard before silence. The woman began to speak. "An intruder has been caught in the east wing office by the holding pens. I have her at gun point. Bring restraints. We'll keep her alive for the sake of our Lord and Master." The woman grins as she holsters the radio and steps closer to Jennifer. Jennifer remains silent. In her mind, her captor isn't worthy of the sound of insults that she may concider compliments. The question on who this Lord and Master person may be at away at Jennifer's mind however. Her thoughs were broken by the sound of the woman's voice. "Don't be scared. Being a sacrifice for Lord Drekavac is an honor of the highest regard." The woman grins and stops a few feet from Jennifer. Drekavac? She had never heard that name before. A laugh is invoked by the Asian woman after the she sees the obvious look of question on Jennifer's face. "I see that you are curious about him. Lord Drekavac was born from the souls of unbaptised children that were slain, wheter by natural, or unnatural causes. He was sealed away quite some time ago. This little slave market, is a front to mask his resurrection back into the human realm." The woman explains. Her explination is cut a little short as a man comes in wearing what looks to be a black suit and red tie. A mask on his head, that looks to be made of latex, was a flesh color that had no distingushable features. "Ahh. Here's one of his worshipers now." The woman said as the man approaches Jennifer holding a roll of silver duct tape in his hand. "Be a good girl and strip for him, before we can truss you up, you need to look more like a sacrifice." The woman grins a bit and holds the gun closer to get her point across to Jennifer that she better not think about doing anything foolish. Heaving a defeated sigh< Jennifer nods and slowly crosses her arms at her belly and grips the hem of her blue tank top that left her navel visible. She slowly pulls it up. Soon it is off and thrown to the floor. Jennifer's arms cross over her white bra to hide it from the two. The white bra was strapless and had a smalk pink bow between the cups. "Is this good or do you want me to strip fully?" Jennifer asked with a hiss of anger. The woman with the gun shakes her head. "Your shorts." She saud and motions with her free hand for Jennifer to remove her tan cargo shorts as well. Another defeated sigh and Jennifer moves her hands down slowly. "This is my chance." Jennifer thinks to herself and suddenly shifts her weight onto her left foot. Her right swings up in a round kick to knock the gun from the woman's hand. She yelps in surprise as the gun falls to the ground and a shot fires on impact. Another curse runs through Jennifer's mind at her bad luck. Her right foot touches the grouns and she pivots on it, then turns a full circle. he back of the heel on her left foot hits the woman's cheek as she Jennifer throws up a back' kick. The woman falls to the floor and grabs her face in pain. Those Shotokan lessons sure have paid off. Jennifer turns to the strange masked man, in a front stance with her hands balled into fists at chest level. She didn't care that her small b-cupped bra was in full view. She had bigger problems than that right now. "If you let me go, I'll just walk away and won't tell anyone about this." She pleads with the man. She knew that the gun shot would draw more attention that she didn't want to get. The man just shakes his headand steps closer. The woman writhing on the ground shouts for the man to get her and to not let her get away. "Well if that's how you want it." The redhead locks her green eyes onto the man and throws a straight punch for his face. Her left fist hits but seems that her strike had no effect on him. In fact, he didn't even budge from her hit. Instead he grabs her wrist and pushes it away. "What the hell?" She asks and grows fearful. What kind of man is he? Any normal man would have been bleeding, or shouting in pain at the very least. "Lord Drekavac has given him power. You can't hope to beat him as a mere human." The woman on the floor chimes in and Picks up the gun. More masked men show up and Jennifer knows no that she should surrender. There was no way that she could take them all on, and avoid what ever bullet may be fired at her. Jennifer moves her hands to her shorts, and they fall to the floor shortly after. Her white cotton panties are revealed. They match her bra with that cute little pink bow. Jennfer's shoes and socks go next and she turns. Her wrists cross behind her, at the small of her back as the woman had ordered her to do. Jennifer closes her eyes as she hears the ripping of the tape from the roll, and feels the sticky adhesive of the tape as it winds around her wrists several times before it is broken and smoothed. She hears more of the ripping and feels her albows hetting clutched and forced to touch, She groans in discomfort as more of the tape is wound just above her elbows to keep them in the touching, and uncomfortable, position. Next her arms are pinned to her back as the tape winds around her body, below her breasts. Then the tape is switched to wrapping above them. After the tape is broken and smoothed, her wrists are pinned to her back as the tape winds around her body, over her navel. she hated the feeling of helplessness. "Bind her legs too." The woman tells the masked men. Hands are placed on her shoulders' to help her balance as her legs are forced together. More of the silvery tape revolves around her ankles. Several winds and then the tape is broken. Next her knees are trussed. Tape wraps above and belo her knees. The her thighs. A few inches below the crotch of her white panties, the tape winds round and round. Jennifer was quite immobile now. "let's not forget the gag." The woman said as she approaches Jennifer from behind. "I want this woman's mouth packed as full as it can be before the tape is wrapped around her head." The woman orders the masked men. There were many of them and each produced a white wadded up ball of cloth from their pockets. Jennifer closes her mouth tightly and starts to thrash in her bonds. She refuses to let them gag her. Tey would have to force her to do it. The woman laughs and pinches Jennifer's nose. Jennifer laughs to herself and cracks her lips slightly to take in air. She wasn't stupid enough to hold her breath until she gasped for air, but it seems that the little crack was all that was needed. She feels fingers getting pushed into her mouth. Before she could bite down on them, her mouth was pried open. The first wad gets pushed in, and worked between her teeth and left cheek. The next gets worked in by that one. Her left cheek looks severely swollen now. The next few get packed into her right cheek and it takes on a bulg of its own. The last two wads are placed int he center, behind her teeth and over her tongue. Sje can't close her mouth and any speech she tried, would be severely muffled and distorted my the massave packing that her gag used. She would have trouble spitting it out as well. The tape winds about her head and over her forced open lips several times. "Now yo9u are ready to be taken to the alter." The woman said with an evil grin. Jennifer is being carried over one of the masked men's shoulder. Her rear was nicely presented in the air. She struggles in her bonds as they walk down a dark corridor. She feels fear as she hears chanting echoing through the hallway. The chanting was in a language that she had never heard before. "Ahh the Slavic prayer of Drekavac. Such a lovely sound." The woman said. The chanting becomes louder as they draw closer. Soon Jennifer finds herself in a giant dome made of grey stones. Everyone is wearing a black robe that covers any and all features. The woman's voice can be heard over the chanting. "You'll be the final sacrifice for Lord Drekavac's resurrection. He was born of children's souls and will be revived by that of a young, pure maiden." Wait. How did they know that Jennifer was still a virgin? Did they check her the first time she was brought here? Te thought infuriates her and she begins her thrashes anew, but to no avail. Jennifer is laid onto a stone alter, ontop her back and bound arms. Small white straps are pulled tightly over her shoulders, chest, waist, thighs, and ankles to ensure that she can't roll off of the alter. Red candles that burned with black flames circled the alter and the air was thick, hard to breathe. The onr leading the chant silences and turns to face Jennifer. "Our sacrifice had graciously come." He shouts as a blade is pulled from his sleeve. The handle is gripped tightly. The blade is golden in color. "Fear not, child. You will not die. You will live on for eternity as part of Lord Drekavac. Fear seizes Jennifer and her breath quickens She thrashes in her bonds but it seems that there will be no last second rescue, or knight in shining armor. A tear rolls down Jennifer's cheek as she goves a pleading look at the man as he holds the blade high above his head, in both hands. Her please is ignored and she feels the blade bury into her left breast. Blood begins to flow and she shrieks in pain. She can feel her life draining from her body. As she fades, a figure starts to appear before her. The figure was tall and lanky. His head was slightly larger than it should be and he was bald with no facial features. He seemd to be wearing a black suit and red tie, the same as the men that had caught her. She heard a voice in her mind. The voice calmed and soothed her. "You will be as a part of me." She watches as his bony hand moves to her chest, over the dagger. Suddenly she sees her own body and her hand... That wasn't her hand. It was the bony one, the hand of Drekavac. She knew now that she was part of the children's souls that made up his body. She watches as her vision turns from her own body to the crowd that worshiped him. Screams and cries erupt from the crowd as the lot of them burst into flames. They run and scream as they bash into one another, and all Jennifer can do is watch. The world was indeed in for dark times now, and Jennifer had no choice but to be a witness, with no control over the destruction that will soon swallow the Earth, now that Drekavac has been reborn,