"You want me, Duke?" Aladdin whips back his multi-colored cape back, "come and get me!"

Bowie takes Aladdin by the hand, "Easy, Lad."

The Duke wags his finger, "Ah, no, no, no my little genie. You're still too strong for me to kill. Otherwise, I would have drank your blood before I killed the others. I need their energies just so I, alone will stand as the ultimate ego."

"You're making no sense, Duke." Aladdin shakes his head. "What are you going to do now?"

The Duke grabs Iman and pulls her by the wrists off the floor, "I am going to destroy Bowie's last source of happiness--the last obstacle to true miserable brilliance!" Suddenly, three extra pairs of arms sprout from the Duke, like a black widow spider. The arms pull Iman, struggling for dear life, towards the Duke, as the wizard bares his ivory white fangs.

David screams: "IMAN!!"

Aladdin starts to hurl a thunderbolt, "Let her go!!"

Behind Lexie looms a dark glass spider, fangs ready to snap her little neck.

The Duke booms, "Strike at me, genie and the little girl dies!!"

Aladdin's knees buckle under him in fatigue and confusion. Then, he notices that in the hand that David held him by, is a piece of paper. Aladdin unfurls it and reads...

The Duke: "What is that? Give it to me!!"

The paper incinerates in Aladdin's hand. Aladdin glares back defiantly.

The Duke: "Fine, you stubborn idiot! Goodbye!" The Duke lunges for Iman's throat and she starts to scream...

"Nothing remains..."

A voice is heard singing.

"We could run when the rain slows..."

But it's not the Duke singing...

"Look for the cars or signs of life
Where the heat goes..."

Nor is it Aladdin Sane's.

"Look for the drifters
We should crawl under the bracken...

It is David Bowie's voice. The real David Bowie.

"Look for the shafts of light
On the road where the heat goes...
Everything has changed....

The Duke whispers, "No..."

David sings in a clear, powerful voice:
"For in truth, it's the beginning of nothing
And nothing has changed
Everything has changed..."

The glass spider behind Lexie shattered, the babe utterly unharmed.

"For in truth, it's the beginning of an end..."

Aladdin's mottled form shimmers and separates into several persona

"And nothing has changed..."

The ghostly forms of the fallen Bowies encircle the room...
"Everything has changed..."

Bowie sings:
"In your fear
Of what we have become...

Aladdin and the ghost chant in unison with Bowie's voice:
"In your fear
Seek only peace..."

Bowie sings:
"Take to the fire
Now we must burn"

Aladdin and the ghosts:
"In your fear
Seek only love"

The Duke shakes in terror, "No, STOP IT!!" He drops Iman as she slides away.

Bowie advances to the Duke:
"All that we are..."

Aladdin and the ghosts:
"In your fear
Seek only peace"

Bowie raises his hands: "Rise together"

The ghost chant:
"In your fear
Seek only love"

Bowie: "Through these clouds..."

The clouds outside the Cloister begin to dispurse...

Aladdin and the Ghosts: "In your fear..In your fear..."

Bowie, the ghost and Aladdin unite: "As on wings..."

The Duke screams, "THIS IS UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE!!! HOW COULD YOU!!!!????"

Bowie stands over the Duke, like the victor over the vanquished,"This is the trip
And this is the business we take
This is our number
All my trials
Lord, will be remembered..."

Bowie flings the Gitanes in the Dukes face...

"Everything has changed.....!! On the last word, Bowie's voice soars mightily into a note a smoker would be hard to perform.

The Duke, losing all dignity, lunges at his own body in animal rage, "I'LL KILL YOU!! I'll FUCKING KILL YOU!!"

Aladdin pulls him off David and flings the Duke into the wall of ghost, who send him bouncing back to the center of the ring. Aladdin hoists the Duke by the lapels, "You lose. The body can survive without cigarettes, and write, and sing! So just give up!"

The Duke was beyond reasoning, and smacked Aladdin full in the face..."I may not kill the body, or his family, but I'll still destroy you!!"

To be continued...

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