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The Kensington Horror	By : ladymadrigal Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > Queen Views: 1560 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. I do not know the members of Queen. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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"How about this one, darling?" Freddie was saying later. They were over at the Mercurys' flat. Tianna was looking through the sheaf of papers her father had faxed, trying to call up half-remembered voodoo rituals, banishing spells. Maddy was leafing through a book she'd brought along. Freddie had a three-ring notebook open in his lap -Maddy's own Book of Shadows, a handwritten compendium of spells, notes and rituals.
"Which one?" She looked around.
"Your Earth Day Spell." He struck a dramatic pose to read, "Oh great Glob, Protector of Earth---"
"Ghob!" Maddy interrupted.
"Pardon?" Freddie looked at her.
"Like globe, only without the L," she sighed.
He looked back at the book. "Dear, are you sure? It really does look like Glob."
She rolled her eyes. "My handwriting is not that bad!"
"Dear, your handwriting is exquisite. It's a thing beyonduty,uty," Freddie told her. "It's just bloody near impossible to read is all." It wasn't her fault that her writing had more extemporaneous loops, swirls and curlicues than Brian's hair.
She went to look over his shoulder as he continued reading, silently this time.
"You think so?" she said after a moment.
"Well, it's a protective spell," he pointed out.
"Yeah, but not that kind of protective. I more had bulldozers in mind," she pointed out.
"Bulldozers, weird outer space thingies, what's the difference?" Freddie said.
"Uh, guys?" That was Roger Taylor, coming back in with a drink. "At the risk of having Tigi hit me over the head with some large object, why are we assuming that any of this stuff is real?"
As he spoke, a gust of wind hit the building, makit sht shiver despite its bulk. They all looked up, startled. Seconds later, the lights went out.
"Bugger---" Roger said nervously in the aftermath, then let out a startled cry as a bluish light filled the room. Maddy had taken out the athame Freddie had bought for her - which was now glowing a brilliant silver-blue.
It answered Roger's question far more eloquently than anything anyone could have said.
~*~
"Yeah! Party on! Partyman rocks ass!" Carlton enthused. This spell stuff rocked! He was down in a deserted corner of Bowdowin Park with the ever-loyal Vikki Barrett gigglingly assisting. He'd never seen any of Maddy's girly-girl spells put the lights out and make the wind blow! "Now Mrs. Cuddles, take off all your little Partysexies and do the Sexy Nekky Nekkid dance like you did last night and Mr. Cuddles is gonna make him some party fun!" He threw some more Partycense into the Partybowl. This partied ass! He started chanting: "Pugliah neglian donoro Yog-Sototh, pugliah neglian donoro Yog-Sototh, pugliah neglian donoro Yog-Sototh--"
~*~
"What the flying fuck is going on?!" Tianna demanded shakily.
Maddy had grabbed the phone, but the line was dead. Not even static.
Brian was looking out the window. "All of London is out of lights, I think."
"Power cut?" Freddie wondered. "On Halloween?"
Brian looked down. " Are those lights in the park?"
Freddie came to look. "It's a campfire, dear. Some idiot lit a campfire -and it looks like they're dancing around it." He frowned. "Actually, it looks like they're dancing aroun in in the altogether, if you know what I mean. "
The others came to look.
"Guys, that's Vikki!" Maddy exclaimed.
"Are you---?" Freddie broke off when he saw Carlton in the reflected glow of the incense bowl. It was more aflame than smouldering because he had no idea that you had to burn noncombustible incense over a special type of charcoal. "Good Lord, what is that idiot doing?!"
"Come on!" Maddy headed for the door.
The Queenies followed her, after Tianna ran to grab Jada. Opal was at a friend's house attending a Halloween party.
"Carlton!" Maddy yelled, running into the park. "Carlton, what are you doing?!"
"Maddy, look out!" Brian yelled, catching up and grabbing awkwardly at her. He was so much taller than she that he wound up knocking her to the ground by accident.
"What is ---" She looked the way he was pointing and froze. Something was sweeping over the tops of the buildings - a huge black shadow, darker against the dark, with a shape like a manta ray -and a huge, glowing, deep ruby three-lobed eye.
Vikki screamed. Carlton's triumphant Partyman Yell was cut off mid-party .Across the street, Freddie, Tianna and Roger froze in horror.
"It's coming right at us---" Brian whispered shakily.
"Maddy, the athame!" Freddie yelled at the top of his high-ped led lungs. "He's afraid of the light!"
Maddy scrambled to her feet, pulling the athame out of her coat pocket with a flourish and holding it in front of her with both hands. The brilliant glow from the blade lit up the entire park.
Freddie had run across the street by then; he grabbed the athame from her and brandished it at the shadow, yelling something at it in Persian. The dusky behemoth swept over them and vanished.
"What the fuck was that thing?!" Brian demanded shakily in the aftermath. "And what did you just do?"
"That was Yog-Sototh, darling. Like the star---" Freddie had started shaking so much he'd dropped the athame. "I banished him, but that's not to say he won't be back." He looked at them. "According to Ozmid, Yog-Sototh kills his summoner. I'd hate to be the person who did it " sin singer was far too pale.
"W-wait a minute, Fred---" Carlton quavered. It was hard to tell in the uncertain light (the athame had faded back to a soft bluey glow) but it looked like the front of his tan painter's pants was a few shades darker than usual. "K-kills---?"
Maddy picked up the athame, then turned to glare at her cousin. "I told you that book was dangerous. Carlton, when are you going to grow up enough to learn to listen to people?!"
An unpleasantly scented curl of smoke wafted around them and Freddie made a face. "What is that?"
"That's the Partying Partycense," Carlton said. "To make spookies appear." He was recovering a bit of his usual attitude. "Bet you never a-did you nothing like this, huh, Mads?"
"And I'll bet I never wanted to," she added. "Carlton, do you have any idea what--"
That was when Freddie fainted. Brian barely caught him in time to keep him from cracking his head on the concrete path.
"Freddie?" he said anxiously, lowering his friend to the ground.
"Freddie?" Tianna knelt by him. "Freddie, are you all right?" She turned to glare at Carlton. "You stupid fuck! Don't you have the slightest fucking idea what you're doing?!"
"Freddie?" Brian gently patted the singer's cheek. "Freddie, wake up. Speak to me. Fred? Fr--ow." He winced when one of the singer's hands came up, swatting him weakly on the nose.
"Stop calling me that---" Freddie said weakly, managing to sit up, leaning heavily on his hands. A wave of dizziness overtook him and he had to hang his head until he was certain he wouldn't pass out, his dark hair completely shrouding his face.
"Are you all right?" Tianna said anxiously.
"I'm fine, dear. But that noisome dullard over there isn't going to be when I get through with him---" Feeling steadier, Freddie sat up the rest of the way and glared at Carlton, who was loo up up anxiously at the sky. "I think you owe us a very detailed explanation, dear."
"Starting right now," Roger added, then let out a startled squeak as Tianna deposited Jada in his arms. "Here, Goldilocks. Hold the squirt."
"Tigi---" he started, but she had gone over and retrived the black-bound book from the ground nearby. "Hey tits, shut up and pometomething on," she added to the screeching, sobbing Vikki, coming back over to the others. "Is this it?"
Maddy took the book. It was, as she suspected, the John Dee copy of the Necronomicon. "Carlton, what in the world did you ever buy this for?"
"You always do that spooky spell stuff and all---" Carlton tried.
"Yes, but unlike you, Maddy actually knows what she's doing," Freddie interrupted.
"I didn't think any of it was real!" Carlton cried. "I thought ---thought it---"
"Would be a neat way to get some Halloween nookie," Tianna put in.
Carlton looked miserable, but didn't deny it.
"Darlings?" Freddie had Jada in his arms, looking around nervously. "Is it just me, or is everything, well ---too quiet?"
Roger looked around. "The lights are out. What do you expect?"
"Yes, but----" Freddie looked at the drummer, dark eyes frightened. t;I t;I can't see Anything---"
"That's because the lights---" Roger started, but trailed off. He should have been able to at least see the outlines of the buildings, but he couldn't. The noxious Partycense had flamed itself out by then; the only light came from Maddy's athame, which had brightened slightly -not a good sign. Apart from Vikki's snuffling and whimpering, there wasn't a sound. No vehicles, no voices, not a whisper of wind. And the air was growing unpleasantly damp, with a sharp, vaguely fishy tang that made Brian sneeze several times.
"Mr. Cuddles? I'm like all scared and all---" Vikki whimpered.
"Guys---" Maddy whispered. The athame had slowly intensified to an incandescent blue, bright enough to cast a wide circle of light. She held it up, trying to illuminate the surrounding area, but as she did, the ground shivered omniously with a rumbling that was words but not words-----
"Look out!" Brian yelled, too late, as the water started roiling in the nearby duck pond. A huge, greenish form erupted from it, something massive with tentacles, scaly wings, long claws--
"MR. CUDDLES!!!!" Vikki screamed, trying to scramble to her feet and losing her balance in her stiletto heels and toppling over. She started to sob and shriek. "HELP! HELP! MR. CUDDLES, LIKE HELP ME AND ALL!!!"
"Cthulhu!" Tianna yelled. Freddie grabbed her arm and made a run for it, almost pulling her off her feet before she got her legs under herself and followed. Carlton let out a squeak as the behemoth towered over them, the front of his painters' pants abruptly growing damper. He turned and ran, abandoning the wailing Vikki and barging into Maddy, knocking her into Roger, who lost his balance and crashed into Brian, sending the three of them to the ground all tangled up Together.
"MR. CUDDLES, LIKE DON'T LEAVE ME AND ALL!!! COME BACK!!! PLEASE!!!" Vikki shrieked.
The tentacled behemoth cocked its head at the commotion below, then reached down - and offered Maddy, who was closest, a hand - claw, really - up.
"Thank you," it rumbled. "You have freed me and my brethern."
"You're welcome, but I don't know I fit was me or not---" she said, looking both startled and rather sheepish "By the way, who are you, exactly?"
Brian and Roger were impressed. Roger was sure he would have followed Freddie's example and fainted. He almost had as it was.
"I am Cthulhu," the huge creature spoke. "My brethern and I are of a race far older then any of Earth, more ancient than your recorded time. Many of your millenia ago, we inhabited a world much like yours was in its youth, a world of great oceans and rich, fertile land, but the sun that gave our world life was not stable, and a chain reaction within it caused it to destroy itself, taking our home along with it. We were fortunate in that som us us were able to escape through the aether of deep space, searching until we found this world, so much like our own. For great aeons, we lived in peace and harmony, but a shift in the stars imprisoned us here, plunging us into a sleep like death that could not be broken until the stars moved to their right places again. During our sleep, the race of man arose, and we saw this world was no longer to be ours. Yet we could not break the sleep that held us. Now you have freed us, and we may go on to find a new home in the cosmos. Yet we shall guard over this planet always, and see that no harm shall come to you or yours, and in the far distant future, when the star that provides you with life reaches its end, we shall be there to help your kind find its new destiny among the stars. We shall meet again - perhaps in the crystal depths of the oceans of Bellemar, perhaps in the mystical forests of Zarvos, perhaps tonight amid the wind beings who inhabit the planet nearest the star you name Andromeda. Until then---" The creature lifted its arms, its form shimmering -then rocketed up into the fathomless sky in a shower of brilliant green sparks that faded out before they touched the Ground.
"Wow---" Roger said in the aftermath. "Pretty decent bloke after all, wasn't he?"
Maddy nodded, then shook her head. "Imagine ol' Carlton doing something right for a Change."
Freddie and Tianna had come back over as well.
"I love a happy ending, darlings!" Freddie said, looking around as Carlton came running over, yelling "Cuddles?! Cuddles?!"
"MR. CUDDLES!!!!" Vikki launched herself into his arms.
Brian smiled, taking Maddy's hand. "Well, all's well that ends well, I suppose---"
"YOG-SOTOTH!" Freddie yelled.
They looked around in time to see the huge shadow sweeping at them again, three-lobed eye gleaming. Vikki screamed. Maddy held the athame up, but it didn't seem to be deterring it this time. With a high scream, the shadow swept over them, then back at Carlton, ready for the kill---
A brilliant green bolt exploded from the athame, blasting the looming shadow. With a shriek, Yog-Sototh withered, dissolving into nothingness -just as all the lights blazed back on. All at once, London was bustling with life, cars and people and costumed children -it was Halloween, after all -just as always. Vikki let out another scream.
"I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!!!!!" She grabbed Carlton's coat, wrapping it around herself like a bath towel and running for their flat.
"Wait, wait, Mrs. Cuddles! Come back and let Mr. Cuddles make it all better!" Carlton ran after her. "At least tell Mr. Cuddles you'll do the sexy nekky nekkid dance for him again! Mrs. Cuddles!"
Brian shook his head, laughing. "Come on, luv, let's get out of here."
"Indeed," Freddie said, taking Tianna's hand as they started for home.
Maddy looked back up at the sky. "Thank you."
Overhead, a brilliant greenish star winked in return, then blazed off across the sky.
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