LV:TR - 14 Show of the Century

Launa Viander: Trickster's Retribution
October 18th: The Performance of a Century
by Xenny Diemes

It was a typical rainy night out in the city, it became a terrible downpour even that most people would rather stay inside than endure that kind of weather. This is of course unless you're the fan of one of the most talented singer/actresses in the world. Lana LaRouche. Winner of numerous kudos. the one who can make a low-budget production get showered with academy awards. Her works in always referenced first hand in countless academic text. Studios go into all-out bidding wars to have her in their next pictures. She is a woman who had everything made out to her. That is if she wasn't such a terrible bitch. What the world doesn't know that Lana has gotten her way to the impossible top not by hard work, great skill and years and years of practice to form a style on her own. No. She came from a long line of actors, who like her got their way through hard-line family connections, massive amounts of money and the tendency to act like total assholes with their fingers on the button.

What that means that anyone, from lowly assistant to the most powerful studio executives will be put out on the street of she or any of the LaRouches don't get their way. Anything from career-crushing scandals to circumventing all morals to blacklist anyone that even so much as give them ice in their tea. They think that everyone is worthy of being disposed of except them. That is until one night at this performance the truth will be told and all that is needed is a lone female usher to do it and a certain trickster needing to get out of the heavy rain. As the rain poured down and the line was still unmoving, a wandering very impatient Launa can already feel the water seeping through her clothes and onto her fur. As if dogs already had a bad time smelling bad after getting wet, she didn't want to take chances smelling up in the presence of water. Porting herself into the theater Launa quickly uses her magic to blow off the water, rendering herself dry.

Looking around in the theater her magics are the only thing preventing her from standing out in the crowd and causing a panic. They would think that a giant woman like her would make it easy in this modern world. There she caught the small aspirations of a theater usher named Christie who from her movements and attitude really wanted to come into the big time like her idol Lana. Launa has heard the stories and the victims of Lana's little tantrums and it's a real tragedy to see someone looking up to such a heartless bitch like her. Launa leaves Christie and takes form to blend in with the audience. The every thought of it all in her mind makes Launa sick and thought that in the name of all those people who were just doing their jobs it was time for someone more powerful than her to teach her a lesson and Christie will help her do it.

Launa was already in her seat and kindly ask the man next to her to hold her seat and by that, she pressed her massive and firm breasts up against his face while asking and he happily obliges just in time before he got a stiffy in his pants. Launa loves to do that to get her way as long as its in good fun and looks for the usher. She searched high and low around the theater only in time to discover the poor girl getting ratted out by her idol just by simply bumping into her. An innocent mistake that earned her the cold stare and wrath of the most powerful actress around. Lana dropped her prized jewelry on the floor caused by Christie's bumping into her and what really pisses her off was that her peasant hands touched the delicate surface of her half-million dollar possession.

Smacking her off, Lana violently screams at Christie then demands to see the manager of the theater right now. When the manager arrives, Christie can feel the whole weight of the world crashing down on her when Lana threatens that his theater will be destroyed and will never have another performance ever again if he doesn't fire her from the theater at once. Sadly Launa is in shock when the manager does so. The manager wasn't doing this because of Christie's innocent mistake, but it was out of outright fear. The last venue to feel Lana's sting fell into bankruptcy in hours following her last performance and still suffer from lawsuits that ruined a once multi-billion dollar enterprise. All because they didn't fed her dog the right kind of kibble. They tried to counter-sue her for the frivolous charges but the public backlash was so great they had little choice but to yield and suffer the consequences.

This is what's going on right now and Christie had to leave trying to hold back her tears. That is the moment Launa came around and comforts her while they aren't looking. Christie was curious even hesitant to go with her but Launa can help her achieve her dreams on this night. When the usher asks her why all Launa needs to do is to trust her. As the theater goes dark and the curtains roll back. The audience explodes in a standing ovation as they see their goddess of an actress arrive on scene. Taking a full fifteen minutes before Launa can do anything which is really starting to drive her patience to the limit and with her powers a simple wave of her hands forces the audience to sit down so she can go on with this tripe of a show. Tonight's performance is nothing short of a demonstration of Lana's dramatic expertise of dealing with one-two punch of a break-up resulting from a lover who will be leaving and never returning ever again for a better life.

Lana, the victim who will be loosing her lover has to make the call through and give out her last lines before finally saying goodbye. Lana gives out her lines in what Launa can describe is the most atrocious and over-the-top act that she has ever seen. The actors who muffle Shakespeare's lines acted better than her and they were at a time where plumbing was only just a bucket. Then came Launa's cue to mess up her lines through the phone. At first Lana asks of why her lover was leaving and the voice in the phone responded if because she's too damn ugly. The audience laughed and Lana tells the actor on the line to stay in character. As she continued the phone went on making fun of Lana's weight again, then her attitude. Grabbing the phone in anger she warned the actor to stay on his lines or he's fired. But Launa upped the ante and got the voice on the phone to back talk her.

The audience at first were laughing at this display and thought that this was all a comedic performance but it wasn't at all. Lana at this point really has lost it and has spouted off into a violent tirade that has brought the entire audience in anger over her loss of professionalism. This act was just a taste what their goddess of the stage is really like and abruptly leaves giving her ungrateful audience the double finger as she leaves. This is when Launa tells Christy to take her place. Launa seriously tells her to just do it and let her wishes do the rest and magically ports her onto the stage on to face the departing audience. Looking into the audience, Christy picks up the phone and tries to pretend with all her might to continue where she left off. As she talks in character something happened that made most of the audience come back into their seats.

As Christy calmed herself down she can feel those hidden aspirations rise up to unlock a part of her that never had once showed itself until this night. The audience became enthralled by the usher's sudden performance as she makes the act of being broken up look like a true art. Backstage, Lana still peeved at what happened is making her move to sue this theater to the ground when she starts hearing the audience making their cheers. In her sense of delusion, Lana believes that it's the audience is wanting to see her again even to show their apologies to her. She mustered up all the strength to get back on stage only to see the usher was the one that the audience was rooting for. Infuriated Lana tries to rush her off the stage but Launa catches her just in time to magically pull her sorry ass off the stage crashing into a nearby equipment closet.

Christy can feel the true emotions flowing through as she suffers the harsh truth of her character's revelation and of why he had to leave. But the acceptance came through and in her own words, she finally told his lover her final goodbye and hangs up. One person stood up and clapped, followed by another and another until the entire audience erupts in total applause. Christy never had this sensation before and takes it all in as everyone threw their roses that had planned for Lana for her instead.

A week after the whole ordeal, Christy returned to her normal life, still unemployed and without a job until a agent showed up at her door asking if she can take a few offers for new movie roles. Christy can feel her dreams come true but then realized that after her tiff with Lana who until that night hasn't heard from her since that night might fear that she might end up like her years from now. So for now she tells the agent that she'll think about it and call him when she's ready to make a decision. The moment she turned around, Launa is right there sitting in her couch with her thick legs crossed wondering why she needed to think it over. Christy screamed at first and demanded to know what is she doing in her apartment. Launa aptly told her that she's a trickster goddess her powers make it that way.

Trying to hold back her fear, Launa convinces her that her act last week was special, very special and all she ever did was to make her wish come true, and her bravery did the rest. Christy still needs to think about it but Launa really pushes her to go for it to be the star that she wants to be. But then the matter of what her idol Lana is and Launa just scoffs at it. She doesn't need her and if Christy thinks she will end up like her, that would be impossible because she's from humble beginnings and not a rich bitch like Lana. Christy not one to take Launa's form of confidence but she was right in considering to take a chance in on this. Launa is happy that she's considering and aptly leaves with some encouraging words to see her in the next picture.

Thirty years later, after winning numerous awards and accolades, Christy Miroles has taken some time off to enter a discussion panel at an arts center being interviewed by aspiring acting and film scholars. When asked about what happened in her most pivotal role in her life thirty years earlier. All she can say really that a strange, "feline fatale" was the cause of her coming to be as a well renowned actress. But she alone can't take all the credit and mentions Lana LaRouche. Even stopped by to drop her flowers and get well cards to her room at the mental institution. It was really sad of how her incredible career came to a horrific end. But Launa does. For the years after that disastrous performance. Launa has made it her personal mission to make Lana's star-studded life a living hell from sabotaging performances to making rumors that effectively made her box-office poison for years.

Her reason for poor Lana to end up in the nut house is because of her incredible world has finally crashed around her. Her family deserted her, she was behind on her taxes that repo took most if not all of her cherished belongings including loosing her multi-million dollar house. Eventually it made her snap and was last seen running around with barely any clothes on and caught in a fight with local police leaving her to the institution in the first place. At least the world will see most of the once great Lana LaRouche for what she truly is and in her place a real star can rise and aspire generations that can make real contributions to the entertainment world. Launa often rewards this by actually staying awake to the end when the remake to one of Lana debut movies now played by Christy actually got the Academy Award.

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Retribution #11
Dreams of a Fallen Yesteryear pt. 3

Madsen could only catch up with Launa for so long until he is short on breath. Feeling that he has lost Launa to what just happened. She saved the town when otherwise could have run away from the chaos. Still searching for her all the sheriff can see is the path of destruction Launa left behind, Fist marks deep in solid rock, trees thicker than cartwheels broken like mere twigs and the large heavy footprints that sank deeper into the ground the more they progress. It surely could mean that Launa is not that far behind. Still calling out for her name Madsen makes his offer to help her but a faint voice calls out to leave her alone and can't be seen like this. But Madsen wants her to stop this ridiculousness and wants her to let him help. Clumsily Madsen trips over a rock and sprains his ankle but also setting loose a tree Launa previously pushed over to fall towards him.

It's a very large tree that was coming at him with great speed. Madsen with his sprained ankle didn't have enough time to get out of the way as the tree was getting closer and closet but just as he felt he was about to meet his woody end. The sound stops and Madsen began to re-open is eyes to discover something amazing. It's Launa holding the tree up with her own hands. But it wasn't the fact she's holding the tree but of what she has become. Packed with explosive biceps, a great wide back, a incredible six-pack, thick, powerful thighs and calves stretching what remains of her torn clothes and one hell of an incredible rack. All this as Launa lifts the multi-ton tree over her head and throws is off hundreds of feet landing with a hard crash. Looking down at Madsen Launa reaches down with her large hand asking if he's alright. Honestly Madsen can't help but feel intimidated by such a now powerful maiden showing such incredible strength but he'll hold that to knowing that he's found her or in this case Launa has found him.

Launa can see feel the effects of the red dracorc blood flowing through her veins. Her body still feeling aflame as her muscles still pulse and throb making final adjustments before making her new body its new natural state. Madsen can take this moment to wonder if she's alright after saving the town. Launa in turn only did it because... she didn't want him to get hurt. She was a witch, stripped of her powers by a witch hunter now resorting to trickery and petty theft in her still immortal life just to get by. But the more she stick around in her new home town the more it actually became her home but now after this. How can she ever come back looking like this. Madsen places his hand on the soft facial fur and tells her with his help, one step at a time. With a deep smile, Launa doesn't need to run away again like she did long before. Carrying the injured sheriff in her arms, Madsen couldn't believe that he's being carried off back to town by a female titan. Everything was so high from here, Madsen can guess it would take two and a half of him to match her new towering height.

As they walked back into town, the people who are still recovering were quick to surround Launa with pitch forks and torches ready as if they had suffered enough through the first attack and now they have to face a towering cat woman who just save their village from a one-monster attack. Madsen really knows how to put them in their place by reminding them while they were all running away even the town's own forces, Launa stood sticked around and fight no one would but she did. And they owe it to her for saving this town from further destruction. The crowd was indecisive at this point but the following days proved more that Launa was on her way to paying her own debt to society becoming the town's local defender. She had proven herself more useful with her newfound brawn than she did just being swift and cunning though those are qualities that would just make her stronger.

While she was helping an old woman by pulling her heavy cart and carrying a stubborn 1000-pound horse over her shoulder into town. Unaware that she is being watched by a bearded stranger who has been watching her since becoming the town defender knowing that she is a hidden potential to become something much, much, more. In the name of becoming the guardian of the empire.

To Be Continued...