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  The Morgaine Chronicles

  Book VIII

  MORGAINE AND NICHOLAS

  By

  JOE VADALMA

  ISBN 978-1-60089-065-9

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  Copyright 2007 by Joe Vadalma

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  FIRST BOOK EDITION

  MORGAINE'S LIFE SO FAR

  Books One and Two. Morgaine and Michael and Morgaine and Melody

  Melody Trent, an attractive modern woman, dreams of dancing nude in the woods. In her quest to discover the meaning of this strange vision, she falls under the spell of a mysterious astrologer and psychic, Michael Ellul. Her involvement with this enigmatic man leads her into a universe populated with eccentrics whose strange paranormal beliefs and customs include pagan ceremonies and erotic acts. Melody begins to suspect that is that Michael is not simply a rich and famous student of the occult, but is a thousand-year old sorcerer who has sold his soul to the devil. Michael's terrifying secrets are slowly revealed to her as she is enticed into his eerie and magical world by his uncanny ability to dominate her with his eyes. Soon she questions whether he truly loves her or with the aid of the flamboyant, sexy Morgaine Fabiano, a self-proclaimed witch, has lured her into his world to sacrifice her to an evil demon in an attempt to gain immortality. A fate that would make her the slave of the demon until the end of time.

  Michael Ellul was born in the tenth century A.D. At the turn of the second millennium, as a knight he is stricken with fear and runs away from his first battle to become an outlaw. His overwhelming desire to become immortal leads him to a sorcerer who for a payment of ten years of service grants him a thousand years of life. Throughout the centuries, he tries to discover the secret behind his longevity. In modern times, he struggles with a demon while two beautiful women battle for his love.

  Book Three. Morgaine and Raven

  When Michael Ellul mysteriously disappears, Melody hires Raven Lenore, a tough young former cop, PI and modern witch, to find him. But, what starts out as an ordinary missing persons case soon turns out to be a dangerous game against mysterious demonic forces. During the investigation, Raven and Keith Borgenson (Raven's boy friend and partner) discover that two people committed suicide on the Ellul's estate, Michael Ellul's friend Lance Flebert is in an insane asylum and another friend, Jack Westcott is an alcoholic on the skids..

  Morgaine returns to earth as Claudia Van Best from the Westchester Institute of the Occult, and the detectives are accosted by gunmen who question them about Westcott and Claudia. During a seance a channeled spirit warns of danger from an elemental. In Ellul's abandoned estate in the mountains, Raven finds a decomposed corpse and a computer printout that claims that Doctor Frankenstein was a real person. Claudia locks the detectives in Michael's laboratory, erases the file on the hard disk and absconds with the information.

  A robot named Isaac chases the detectives into a labyrinth underground below Moonwood where they find a bloody altar surrounded by human bones. After the detectives escape, they fly to the site of the Frankenstein's ancestral home, where they find Frankenstein's secret journal, and Raven sees a dark winged shape fly across the moon. The trail leads to the Orkney Islands where Raven finds Michael but Keith and Isaac are kidnapped. Raven, Melody and Michael return to London, where Raven is abducted by the thugs who are after the robot. Major Bachman, their boss, and Raven find Doctor Dee's secret journal in a tomb. When Claudia shows up, Bachman trades Raven and the journal for the robot. As Claudia, Morgaine possesses Raven.

  While being possessed Raven learns the true story of Morgaine, Michael and Melody. Under Morgaine's control, she meets the Elluls at Moonwood where Morgaine casts a spell that grant Melody eternal life and unknown to Michael, causes Morgaine spirit to enter Melody.

  Books Four and Five. Morgaine and Gretchen and Morgaine and Asmodeus

  Denise Fabiano, a five-year-old girl, lives with her mother and her grandfather, Papa Joe, in an ancient farmhouse in the Catskill mountains. Papa Joe is a storyteller who amuses Denise with fabulous tales of fairies, gremlins, sorcerers and pirates. One stormy night Papa Joe tells her the story of Rip Van Winkle. At the end, he says, “When there's thunder and lightning in the mountains with no rain, that means that Henry Hudson and his men are bowling. Fairies and other odd folk also live in these woods. When you see tiny lights blinking on and off in the forest, those are fairies carrying lanterns."

  One day little Denise goes in the woods alone and meets the little people. They give her a charm to remember them by.

  Her mother gets a job in the city, and they move away. As time goes by, Denise comes to believe that all that stuff about meeting fairies and dwarves was simply her childish imagination. In college, she befriends Raven Lenore and join a Wiccan coven when she becomes interested in witchcraft and magic. She takes the name of Morgaine, after the sorceress of the Arthurian legend, Morgaine le Fay.

  When she learns that Papa Joe has Alzheimer's, she returns to her former home and learns that what she had attributed to her childish imagination was real. She meets a dwarf who takes her into the land of the fairies, whose queen promises to make her a sorceress.

  The entrance to the University of Wizardry is in a painting at an art gallery. She enters the painting and learns magic from the spirits of such notables as Dr. Dee, Michael Scot, Theophilus, Peter of Abano, Nicholas Flannel, Robert Fludd, Count de Gebelin, Papus, Roger Bacon, Faust, Albertus Magnus, Edward Kelley, Parcelsus, Nostradamus, Cagliostro and Aleister Crowley. She learns numerous types of magic, both white and black. At the school, she falls in love with a sorcerer, Michael.

  When she returns to the real world, she encounters Michael again. He tells her that he has received a thousand years of life from the demon Asmodeus. To save his life, she sacrifices herself to the demon. She returns from the otherworld in the guise of Claudia Van Best, possesses Raven Lenore and eventually Melody Ellul.

  Book Six. Morgaine and Armageddon

  One evening Michael has a strange dream in which a man in a black suit hands him a pamphlet concerning the End of Days. When he awakes, the pamphlet, which is from a cult known as the Children of Aquarius, lays on the table next to his chair. He begins to suspect that his wife, Melody, is possessed. To find out the truth, he uses his magic crystal to learn that Morgaine has possessed Melody. He also has a vision of the End of Days with Morgaine as the Antichrist.

  Michael hires Raven to spy on the Children of Aquarius. During Raven's initiation she and her fellow initiates are required to commit each of the seven deadly sins.

  Michael attempts to exorcise Morgaine from his wife's body, but stops when Morgaine threatens to destroy Melody. The possessed Melody departs for places unknown, but leaves a hint that Michael will find something interesting in Siberia near the Arctic Sea. In Siberia Michael discovers Frankenstein's undying monster, who he smuggles into America. The monster
takes the name Victor Legion and informs Michael that Morgaine may have taken Melody to Snagov, Romania. At the monastery where Vlad Tepes is buried, Michael discovers that that Melody is a slave to the vampire Vlad Tepes. With the help of Victor Legion and Isaac, Michael destroys Tepes. Morgaine shows Victor Legion that Tepes had created a host of creatures like him.

  Raven becomes a priestess of the Church of Omega in Jerusalem where the mysterious book called the Book of Seven Seals is kept. When the first seal is broken, Raven has a vision of Major Bachman leading an army of robots. Major Bachman kidnaps Jack Westcott, Melody and Isaac, but Morgaine forces Bachman to release the prisoners.

  When the second seal is broken, Raven has a vision of Victor Legion leading an army of beings like himself. Their goal is to wipe out mankind. The third seal is broken, and Raven has a vision of a world devastated by an atomic war and the nuclear winter that follows. The fourth seal is opened, and Raven has a vision of a terrible plague that is killing everyone on the planet. When the fifth seal is broken, Raven has a vision of rows of people wearing the robes of the Children of Aquarius filing into a door into a mountain. Once inside she learns that a comet is on a collision course with earth. Only those inside the hideaway will survive. After she wakes from this vision, she learns that an astronomer has discovered a new comet heading towards the inner solar system. Michael contacts the astronomer.

  A talking bronze head tells Michael that humanity will be destroyed by the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Michael sends Melody away with Westcott as her guardian. He uses his magic crystal to enter the dimension of the demons where he is thrown into a dungeon cell. At Moonwood, Flebert, Rhami and Longfeathers are attacked by demons, who possess them. At the airport, Morgaine's familiar telepathically tells Melody that something terrible is happening at Moonwood. She and Westcott return to Moonwood. Melody and Westcott conjure up Morgaine who calls upon an angel to exorcise the demons and wake Michael from his trance. Lance Flebert checks himself into an insane asylum, escapes, robs a gun shop and buys a ticket to Jerusalem.

  When the sixth seal is broken. Raven has a vision that the comet is broken into seven pieces. The first fragment falls into the Pacific and causes a monstrous Tsunami, the second fragment strikes China. Forests, grasses and cities are set on fire. The third comet fragment strikes the Atlantic Ocean turning the sea crimson and poisoning all life in it.

  Michael learns that Rhami and Longfeathers are still possessed and tries to exorcise the demons again. FBI men arrest Michael, Melody, Westcott, Rhami and Longfeathers. At FBI headquarters, Michael meets the astronomer Gonzolas who tells him that a comet will strike earth.

  When Rhami and Longfeathers go to the airport, security takes them into a small room, where Bachman hires them to conduct a seance to raise the ghost of the scientist who invented Isaac's brain. Bachman uses the information to build an army of robots.

  When Raven encounters Flebert, the demon releases him and possesses Raven. Raven has a vision of the fourth comet fragment striking the United States which produces a great poisonous cloud. Flebert encounters a strange man who gives him a message for Michael to go to Stonehenge.

  Victor Legion and his artificial creatures take over a hidden cache of weapons near the monastery. The news that the creatures have taken over a province of Romania reaches Michael along with the message from Raven to go to Stonehenge. As Michael and Melody are about to leave, Flebert shows up at their door. Michael tells him to intercept messages from Raven and to keep a lookout for any indication of what happened to Isaac. Flebert thinks Isaac may be on his way to Jerusalem. At JFK. he encounters Rhami and Longfeathers. When Rhami's dousing leads Flebert to Bachman's robot factory, Flebert finds that the factory is run by robots who lock him up.

  With the help of Westcott, Raven's demon is exorcised, and she and Westcott become lovers. She has a vision of a fragment of a comet fragment larger than all the others that falls into the Pacific and creates months without sunlight or starlight. She also has a vision of human armies being slaughtered by robots.

  Soon Legion has conquered Romania and begins to gear up for total war. He attacks Bulgaria and Serbia. The U.S., England, Germany and France counterattack. The war is fought to a standstill, until Bachman's robots are sent against Legion's army.

  At Stonehenge, Morgaine brings Michael to the center of the stones, where she and Michael disappear. Michael finds himself in the distant past when Stonehenge was a great building occupied by the Atlanteans. He learns that angels and demons are visitors from outer space and that there is war being fought throughout the galaxy, all time and in different dimension. Morgaine and Michael enter a UFO which flies them to Atlantis, which is at the bottom of the sea, where he meets Lilith, Morgaine's boss.

  When a mysterious pregnant woman appears on a moon base, Morgaine gives Raven the assignment to take the woman and her child to a Buddhist monastery high in the Himalayas when she returns to earth. Legion sends Boris, an assassin, hijacks the plane, but the priestess sent with Raven kills the hijacker and throws his body from the plane.

  At first Legion's army prevails against the robots, but finally bogs down. The robots rebel against Bachman and leaves earth in a spaceship. The countries of Europe fall one by one to Legion's invincible force.

  NASA astronauts blow up the comet hurdling toward earth, but seven fragments are still on their way. The general in charge of fighting against Legion uses biological warfare which kills not only Legion's forces, but millions of human beings as well.

  Michael and Morgaine travel in astral form to the time when Michael received the pamphlet. Michael is the mysterious stranger who hands it to himself. They then travel to the world of the Others to negotiate with Warlord Cthulhu. A truce is agreed upon and the End of Days postponed.

  Book Seven. Morgaine and Moonwood

  Tom Bongiglio is a hard working twenty-five year old building contractor, who has been living with his fiancé, Bridget Ryan, for two years in Queens, New York. Bridget is twenty-four, Irish Catholic and devoted to her religion. She believes in astrology and the paranormal and works for Tom.

  Because Tom's construction business is not doing well, the couple jump at the chance to renovate Michael and Melody's old mansion, Moonwood. After they move into the mansion Tom has a dream about a witch named Morgaine. Because of the dream Bridget visits a fortune teller, who warns her of danger.

  They arrive at Moonwood the week before Halloween. Before work can start Melody and Michael host a Halloween party. On Halloween night, after midnight Bridget hears strange goings on outside the house. She wakes Tom and they gaze out the window to see their host and the other guests dancing naked in the moonlight. Michael explains that they are Wiccans and that is how they celebrate Halloween. The Elluls and their guests leave Moonwood.

  Because of Tom's dream and her trepidation about what went on Halloween night, Bridget visits a psychic named Morgaine. From the townspeople Bridget hears strange stories about the house, that the Ellul's practice witchcraft, that there were two suicides there and that place is haunted.

  Tom and Bridget argue as to whether there is any truth to the rumors. Morgaine conducts a seance in which the ghost of Elizabeth appears and asks that her child be freed from bondage. The next day, Bridget goes to the east wing to hunt for the child and comes across a mummified corpse of a woman. The corpse disappears, and Bridget is not sure whether it was a hallucination or a spirit. She continues to search and finds a pagan chapel which she shows to Tom, who simply shrugs off the fact of its existence.

  Bridget finds an old document in the library that purports to be written by a woman living in the eighteenth century that claims that the Frankenstein legend is true. That evening she dreams of a hooded woman who takes her to Frankenstein's laboratory where she views the monster's creation. When work begins on the exterior of the mansion, one of the workmen, Victor Legion, is an odd fellow, huge and strong, and extremely ugly. He claims to be from Switzerland. To Bridget's horror, he resembles the
creature in her dream.

  When Tom goes into town to pay Morgaine for the seance, she seduces him and places a spell on him that allows her to control him. Legion, who Bridget finds urban and educated, warns her that Morgaine is trouble.

  When Tom takes photographs of the house to show the Elluls, a ghostly figure can be seen in the background of the pictures. As a result they hold another seance, where the ghost of Father McGillicutty gives them another warning. Bridget talks to Father Winters but receives an unsatisfactory reply to questions about ghosts, demons and exorcising the mansion.

  When Bridget finds Michael's magic crystal, she is caught by its power, enters the world of Asmodeus and is made his slave. A female demon by the name of Esmeralda possesses her body. Tom finds her mesmerized and brings her around. She wakes as happy as a lark and insists that they have sex. But her whole personality has changed. She is no longer a devout Catholic, is more amorous and is obsessed by the occult and magic.

  On Christmas Eve, Bridget, Tom and Legion spend the evening together. When Bridget flirts with Legion, he retires early. Bridget goes to bed soon afterwards. While Tom is contemplating the change in Bridget, Morgaine's familiar talks to him telepathically. The cat tells him that Morgaine will restore Bridget to her former self. In addition, the ghost of Father McGillicutty appears again and warns Tom that Morgaine is a demon.

  The next week Tom talks to Father Winters and get an unsatisfactory answer to his concerns about Bridget. While in town, he reads in the local paper that a native has disappeared. He also visits Morgaine to obtain her help with Bridget.

  Morgaine comes to the mansion and demands the Necronomicon and Tom's semen in payment for saving Bridget. She goes to the underworld and obtains Bridget's release by promising Asmodeus to go through with his secret plan. She places a spell on Bridget and Tom that makes them forget about the ghosts and what happened to Bridget.