Welcome To Cleveland Part 1

[Guestage_87]

WELCOME TO CLEVELAND

Cleveland, Ohio

“How many do you count?” Vi asks from atop a roof top looking down at a bunch of people gathering in an alley below. Although it has been a few months since her and the other slayers destroyed the first hellmouth, she is still very shaky about just bursting into battle. She looks at her brunette counterpart, who is always ready to battle.

“There’s about ten all together, vamps don’t usually gather in that big a number.” Kennedy looks at Vi with a very eager grin. Kennedy took the lead slayer role very easily once Buffy left for Europe, and Faith had to cross the border. And Vi knows that it was because of her ambition and confidence is why she sort of became the leader of this new group of Scoobies. “We can take them.”

“You sure, we’ve only been slaying for a few months? Maybe we should get Xander….”

“No, we can do this on our own.” But right as she says this Kennedy is tackled from behind, Vi recognizes the bumps on his forehead and immediately pulls for her stake. Kennedy yells at the top of her lungs as she struggles with the vamp that has his arms grasped against her neck, which is a very stupid move as the vamps below look up to see what the commotion is all about. Vi is able to stake the vamp through the back and right into the heart, suddenly, Kennedy finds herself in a cloud of dust. She gets up and reaches for the weapon that hangs on her belt buckle, the scythe. She looks sort of unsure at Vi. “ I told you we could handle them.”

“What about them?” Vi points to the vamps who are making their way up the building by using the balconies and rafters on it. Without saying a word Kennedy leaps off the top of the roof and lands on the balcony below, Vi follows suite. Kennedy begins to scale down the ladder to next balcony where the first three vamps are, Kennedy stops to begin fighting them. Vi notices two vamps on the balcony beneath the one they are on now, and the other five are distracted by something approaching below. Vi swings off the top balcony knowing that Kennedy can take care of the three on her own, she lands on the platform below and starts throwing blows and block with the two vamps. Up above Kennedy dodges an attack from the first approaching vamp and throws him off the balcony onto the ground below to focus on his approaching comrades.

In the alley below, a school bus comes crashing through the gates, it doesn’t stop for the vamps who are down there. Three manage to get out of the way, but the other three (including the one who was just knocked off the platform.) get ran down by the hulking Sunnydale High School bus, not dusted though. The six vamps below recover and get back on their feet as the bus stops and the doors open up. Two very brave vampires run up to the door as it opens, one of them gets met by a swinging battle axe to the neck. As the dust of the first vamp flies, Xander Harris leaps out from the doorway with the battle axe and begins fighting with the other vampire. The four other vamps on ground level run to team up on Xander, but are flung back by an invisible force from inside the yellow bus, they all hite the surrounding walls. They look up to see a grinning red head in the doorway of the bus, she steps out almost daring them to approach her, of course they know what she is, a very powerful witch. She is followed by a scrawny looking young man wearing a coat that looks it like it came out of the movie “The Matrix” and wearing a pair of sunglasses to match the coat. Seeing that this boy looks the most vulnerable, the four vamps decide to ignore the red head and go towards him instead. As they lunge toward him, he pulls what looks like a super soaker out of his coat, he points it at them with a confident grin and begins to pump it. But before he can pump up the soaker enough, he is forced to the ground by the first oncoming vamp, he begins to struggle and flail his arms as the vamp begins to go for the kill. “You didn’t give me enough time to pump up my holy water, no fair, no fair.”

Kennedy finishes off the first two vampires above, and jumps down on one of the vamps below. Kennedy gets off the vamp and back up towards Vi as they stand face to face with the two vampires. “Don’t you love this power?” Kennedy says to Vi not taking her eyes off the vamp across from her. “You know your dust right, we are slayers, you are just a bunch of piss poor vampires.” Vi stands next to her nodding her head in agreement.

“You know she’s right, you guys are dust?” Vi says with confidence.

“Two slayers? I thought there is only supposed to be one.” The vampire looks at his comrade confused.

“Well, the rules have changed just a little bit.” Kennedy says right before both slayers engage in battle with the vamps, within two seconds both vamps are dust. They look down to see that they have been joined by the rest of the scoobs. One of the vamps is in a sort of grudge match with Xander, who doesn’t really equal his strength. Andrew is on the ground being pummeled by another vamp, no surprise to the two girls, and Willow is holding the other three at bay trying not to use too much magic. Vi and Kennedy leap down to the alley way to aid Willow. Both land on their feet next to Willow and Kennedy gives her a sweet look holding up her scythe. “You miss me?”

Willow returns to look to her girlfriend. “Always, but next time you should tell me next time you go out patrolling for the grrrarrrg.”

Xander looks back at his group as he struggles with the vamp. “ I hate to break up the girl talk, but the men are getting their asses kicked.”

Vi looks at Xander who has just been knocked down to his knees. “And that’s different from the other patrols how?”

Andrew yelps from beneath his vamp. “Ha-Ha. This vamp just broke my new sunglasses, that’s the fifth pair this month.”

The girls look at eachother and shrug, then burst back into battle mode. Fire pulsates from both of Willow’s palms as Kennedy twirls the Scythe in her hands as Vi rolls towards Andrew’s attacker. Kennedy takes out one of the vamps very easily as the other two burst into flames, the three turn to dust at about the same time. Vi pulls the vamp off of Andrew and leaps on his back as Andrew squirms on the ground. He finally grabs for the super soaker that he dropped on the alleyway ground and in crouching position aims it for the vamp that Vi has climbed onto. He blasts the holy water into the chest of the vampire, he slowly disintegrates into dust as Vi suddenly falls to the ground of the alleyway with a small thud. Andrew gets up with a very professional look on his face, then he breaks it and a look of glee appears. “ I just dusted a vampyre.” Vi coughs a little bit and Andrew lifts his hand to help her up, although she hates having a nerd help her back up she lets him. “Xander did you see that? I just dusted my first one.”

Xander is back up still fighting back and forth with the last remaining vampire. “Sorry, I missed it, I’m a bit preoccupied. Plus, you know, missing an eye here.” Vi walks up to the vamp and pulls him off and shoves him to the corner of the alleyway. The vamp looks up as Willow and Kennedy take the lead with Xander limping behind them next to Vi and Andrew brings up the rear holding his super soaker close to his chest.

Kennedy holds the end of the scythe towards the vampires neck. “Alright, one chance, one question.”

The vampire gives Kennedy a fearful gaze and then the begging begins. “ Please don’t I’ll tell you whatever you need to know, just don’t dust me.”

Willow has a smile on her face. “I love it when they beg, you don’t see that too often.”

“Well, with a super extra surplus of slayers nowadays, I can see why vampires might think they are becoming an extinct species.” Xander replies behind Kennedy.

The vamp looks down at the Scythe being held to his neck. “Wait, wait, wait, I am a vampire with a soul.”

Xander and Willow laugh at this. “Wow, that’s one I haven’t heard yet. But there are only two vampires with souls out there and we know both of them. Oddly enough, one is actually a phantom now.”

Andrew butts in. “Wait, Angel is head of an evil law firm AND a phantom? WEIRD”

Xander corrects him. “No, Spike is vampire turned vampire with a chip that won’t let him hurt humans turned vampire with a soul turned trigger to The First turned phantom. And Angel is the vampire with a soul turned evil turned good again turned detective turned evil again turned good once more turned head of evil law firm.” Xander looks around at his group. “Does anyone else find this ‘vampire with a soul’ a little confusing?”

“Yeah, they’ve had more changes than Logan or Weapon X as he was called back in the day.”

Willow stops the conversation. “Guys, we got a vampire pleading not to be dusted, we should have this whole soul conversation a bit later.”

“We don’t believe the whole soul thing, what else do you have or can I just ask you what I need to know then get to dusting you?” Kennedy asks now very impatient.

“Wait, your going to dust me anyways?”

“Yeah, pretty much, it’s what we do. No offense.” Vi says.

“Then why should I tell you anything?”

Kennedy shoves the Scythe even deeper into the neck of her enemy. “Because ontop of dusting you, I can make you hurt, badly.”

“Okay, okay, what’s your question?”

“Where is the hellmouth?” Willow asks without the vengeance that her girlfriend has.

“I don’t know……” He is cut off by the power of Kennedy’s Scythe and then turned to dust.

“Wrong answer” Kennedy says as she puts the Scythe back into her belt buckle.

“Does anyone else find Kennedy kind of scary at times?” Andrew asks as they begin to walk away from the pile of dust.

“Just aggressive.” Willow answers the weakest of the crew.

“That’s the way you like it.” Kennedy says grabbing onto Willow’s right hand.

Xander looks back at Kennedy. “As much as I want to hear more, believe me I do. Why did you dust him so quickly? We could’ve got some information out of the vamp.”

“He did seem fairly desperate.” Willow agrees.

“He did’nt know where the hellmouth was, he lost.”

Xander looks down at Kennedy from the doorway of the bus. “Maybe if you rode it out a little, we could have gotten some information on at least where to begin.”

At this Kennedy begins her trademark defensive attitude. “We don’t need him, we’ll get the information some where else.”

“But this is the third time you did it this week?” Xander corrects her, the other three stay out of the conversation knowing that the two are getting into it.

“And when did you become my dad, you can’t tell me how to do my job.” That snotty attitude is something that Kennedy has had since day one.

“Um, Honey?” Willow says inside the bus putting her hand on Kennedy’s shoulder, now everyone is inside the bus. “ He actually can.”

“What?” Kennedy asks, very upset not only in the fact that Xander can boss her around but that Willow is going to take his side again.

“ I got back the paperwork today from one of Giles and The New Watcher’s Council’s messengers, I’m officially yours and Vi’s Watcher.”

[rene]

cool zander a watcher? thats cool and darn that kennedy shes always getting in the way! lol that was really good!

[Guestage_87]

here's some more:

“I don’t need a watcher,” Kennedy still complaining even as she enters the Scoobs very small apartment building. She is followed Willow, then Xander who has been hearing her crap for the last fifteen minutes enters with a frustrated look on his face, Vi is next in the doorway, then bringing up the rear holding bags of groceries is Andrew. “We blow the hellmouth sky high, there’s really no need for me to have a watcher.”

Xander sits on couch just listening to his new charge bitch and moan. “ There is more to learn, do you know how many times Buffy averted the end of the world and still needed a watcher?”

Andrew butts in. “By my count, five” Both Xander and Kennedy give him a ‘stay out of this’ look and he shuts up.

“Also” Kennedy begins. “No offense, but what watcher experience do you have? And aren’t supposed to be british?”

It’s Willow’s turn to interrupt the argument. “Wait just a minute,” She gives her girlfriend a very stern look, everyone looks at Willow, when she speaks everyone listens. “Xander has had more field time then most Watchers, he’s helped Buffy on many occasions. There’s no way you can say he’s not qualified to by your watcher.”

Kennedy begins to speak again from the doorway leading into the bedroom, she looks straight towards Willow, very upset. “Why are you always on his side? I know you two hooked up a couple of times, but…..”

“Hey, hey, that’s stuff we don’t talk about around the young ones….” Him and Willow both look shocked that he brought this up as do Vi and Andrew. Xander looks towards Willow a little betrayed. “You told her that?”

Willow, now feeling very awkward. “Xander, she’s my girlfriend…..” Then she looks towards Kennedy still very nervous, she hates confrontation like this, it’s been happening a lot between Xander and Kennedy. “Kennedy, it’s not that I’m taking his side. Well, yeah it is, this time, but I’m not always on his side. But this time he has a good point. Xander has been around slayers and vampires for about eight years now, he’s had our back through and through. He has everything it takes to be a watcher, that shouldn’t be questioned what so ever.”

Kennedy hits the wall in anger, knocking off a piece of it, she begins to speak in frustration. “I can’t believe this, we spend the whole summer dropping off and locating slayers. We get no action what so ever in fighting vamps and when we finally get to Cleveland we can’t find the stupid Hellmouth….”
“Because somebody keeps on dusting our leads.” Xander says from his couch.

Kennedy now even more frustrated at Xander. “ This should be easier, we have a witch and two slayers, this shouldn’t be that hard.”

“Ah yes, this band of misfits” Andrew says from his area in the kitchen as he and Vi put away the groceries.

Kennedy looks at him, interrupted again, and then looks back at Xander. “And that’s another thing, what’s he still doing here? He’s useless.”

“Hey wait a minute missy” Andrew says in a very defensive tone. “I do the chores and might I say that’s not an easy task, you guys are pigs.”

Xander looks at Andrew to tell him that he’s not really helping and then looks at Kennedy. “Andrew is here because he wants to help out with our cause, even if that means getting torn apart by vampires or something even more savage.” Andrew gives a bit yelp at that. “ And I’m someone who appreciates that. He’s a member of the Scooby gang now, end of story.”

“Don’t you get it Xander, there are no more Scoobies, that was something you had back in High School when Buffy was still around. That is why you are not cut out to be a watcher, your still living back in Sunnydale.”

Xander stands up very defensive at the girl now. “Don’t you ever shut up, Kennedy?” Everyone is shocked that he finally says something. “All you do is complain about every decision I have made, if you don’t like it, then choose not to be a slayer. That’s what Willow’s spell was all about, either accept to be a slayer with every perk that comes along including having me as a watcher or leave and live the life of a normal bratty girl.”

Kennedy knows she’s been backed into a corner now and walks into the bedroom and slams the door. Willow sits down next to Xander giving him a very concerned look. Vi notices that they probably want some grown up time and excuses herself, “I’ll go talk to her, maybe I’ll be able to calm her down.” Vi then goes into the bedroom to speak with Kennedy. Willow and Xander then look at Andrew who can’t really take a hint, he just continues to stalk the cabinets.

“You know, I can probably make a brilliant tuna casaroule tomorrow night for dinner……” Both Willow and Xander look at Andrew with contempt, he looks back and finally gets it. He reaches for the trash can and pulls the bag out. “I think I’ll take out the trash.” He then leaves in hurried fashion and shuts the apartment door.

Xander looks at Willow very frustrated. “You know your girlfriend is evil right? I liked Tara much better, was’nt as standoffish.”

Willow frowns at this then puts her arm on Xander’s shoulder. “She’s just stubborn, she’ll come around soon.”

Xander one good eye winks at her with a coy smile underneath. “But you know she might be right about something?”

“What?”

“I’m probably the last person who should be a watcher of a slayer, much less two slayers. What was Giles thinking referring me to The Watcher’s council without asking me if I wanted to do it.”

Willow looks at Xander with a sweet smile. “Xander, do you want to be a watcher?”

He looks back up at her. “Of course I do, it’s something I always dreamed of back when I was in High School, I just never thought it would happen.” His smile turns to a frown as he continues. “ But dammit Will, I’m not sure I’m up to it now, look at me I’m a wreck. My ex-fiance died, I lost one of my eyes, and my first girlfriend is in a coma after giving birth to an evil love god.” Then a confused look on his face appears. “Why are things so much more confusing in L.A than the Hellmouth? It makes no sense.”

Willow passes this off and gets right to what is really eating at her old friend. “Your still missing her aren’t you?”

A little tear drop comes from his one good eye, he didn’t know he would break down like this at this point. “I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye to her, I should have been there fighting by her side.”

“Xander, it’s not your fault.”

“Of course it is, Will” He wipes his eye then continues. “I shouldn’t have listened to Buffy, I should’ve went with Anya.”

“She might’ve died anyways, Xander. You don’t think I felt the same way after Tara died?”

“Well, I actually thought you were thinking ‘Kill kill, Die, die’.” He smiles a little at this, Willow frowns. “And it’s just the way I acted after hearing that she was gone, I pretended that nothing was wrong, I pretended that I didn’t care. Anya didn’t even get a funeral and I didn’t say a word about it. But now….”

“Now your beating yourself up.” Willow holds his hand in a very sisterly way. “ It won’t bring her back and it will just make you feel worse, hindering you from your new work.”

Xander puts his head down. “Can I really do this? Is this really my role in life?”

“Deep down inside, you know it is.” She stops to hear Andrew’s footsteps coming up the hall. “I believe in you Xander, Anya believed in you. That should be more than enough to motivate you to lead our group into the hellmouth.”

As Andrew enters the doorway Xander touches Willow’s leg and smiles. “Thanks, Will. You have always been there for me.”

“You’ve always been there for everyone.”

[rene]

wow thats good!!! thanks for haveing xander actually care about anyas death

[Angelic]

OMG that was good! More please!! WOW!

[Hero]

Are you gunna do more? I hope you do :)

[Willow02]

Hey Hostile_17, that was awsome. I wonder what's gonna happen with Kennedy. Maybe your gonna get rid of her and bring Tara back?????? If not I hope they work through it. I loved the whole Andrew matrix type thing. I could actually see him doing that. Anyway if your going to do another part I can't wait to read it.

[Guestage_87]

Thanks for the kind words guys and yeah, I thought that Xander needed to feel sorry for losing Anya and I'm going to keep Kennedy around, I'm enjoying writing for the little brat. Here's more, these next two scenes were the hardest to write so far:
“There’s no way that Wolverine would be able to defeat Darth Vader.” Andrew says from his bed on the living room couch looking down at Xander who is in sleeping bag on the floor. The living room doubled as the men’s bedroom at nights, while the real bedroom belonged to Willow, Kennedy, and Vi. Xander thinks it might be very hard for Vi to sleep in that room with the happy couple. Andrew doesn’t give Xander a chance to continue the thought. “ Maybe Wolverine can slash up young Anakin maybe even Luke, but not the Lord Of The Sith.”

“Yeah, but I’m fairly certain that Vader has no chance against Gandolf the Gray.” Although Xander would never tell him, Andrew has become like a little brother to him. In the last seven years he has never had a best buddy since Jesse was sired. Sure, he had Oz and Riley in the past, but they didn’t have the same interests as him and plus they were just there because they were dating his two closest friends. And Giles was more of a father figure to him. And forget him ever being good buds with Angel or Spike, although he did room with the latter for a short period of time, but they were far from friends.

“Sorry, but Harry Potter could take down Gandolf, the only person in the Galaxy who can go against Vader would be Thanos and maybe The Mighty Thor.” Andrew says thumbing through his Green Lantern comics, Xander gives him a look of agreement. Another reason why Xander likes having Andrew around is it’s sort of like having Anya back. Not in the way that Andrew would look good in a thong, but just the whole comedy aspect. He remembered Anya bringing him such comfort with her comedic look at the world and the fact that she was just plain funny. Andrew was sort of the same way and plus he is the last little souvenier from Anya. He was the last person to see her alive and he has a feeling that she died saving his life, given his fighting skills he’s pretty sure that’s what happened or so he would like to believe. Andrew looks back down at Xander with a very curious look. “So, why haven’t we found that hellmouth yet?”

“I’m not sure, back in Sunnydale we would just look down and know it was there. But here, no bad feeling, no strange happenings, it’s very weird.”

“Couldn’t Willow just do a locator spell to find it, that seems to have worked in the past.”

“That is another issue entirely, Willow’s been having problems lately. It’s all pretty much due to the spell she has done, she can locate slayers, but she can’t for the life of her find the Hellmouth.” Xander tries to hide that he worries for his child hood friend, her powers have been waning on and off for the last couple of months. Sure, she can still cast good spells in battles, but when it comes to going any further her powers fade out.

“So would this Hellmouth be just as powerful as the one in Sunnydale?” Always interested in knowing more is Andrew.

“Well, so far we haven’t found any strange occurances, but we’ve only been here a week and didn’t really start researching. Too bad Giles isn’t here with his books and we don’t have online access to get old data, so we can’t do it like the old days.” Xander thinks how much things have changed since he first met an extraordinary girl named Buffy Summers, back then even though they had no clue what they were doing, even Giles, they even had some resources. Tomorrow Willow and Kennedy are to go down to the local library and try to find some information but he is certain they won’t find anything of importance. Then he thinks of his other plans for the next day, one of them involves him and Vi doing something that both of them will hate and the other involves his new little brother. “Andrew, I have a favor to ask you.”

“What is it, it better not involve dressing in drag again.” Andrew regrets a misadventure they had over the summer.

“It looked like a vampire hang out.” Xander tries to forget the little misunderstanding at “The Mr./MRs. Club” a while back. “ Anyway, you have experience summoning demons right?”

“I’d like consider myself retired actually, because most demons don’t like going back to where they came when I’m done.” Andrew stops to ponder for a moment. “And plus, it’s only something that I did when I was a super villain.”

Xander chuckles at Andrew’s delusions of being a super villain. “I’m sorry Andrew, but you were never a super villain and you know it. You were a lackey to sexist murder who’s greatest achievement was failing an attempt at the slayers life. We’ve been through this before, you know how the story goes” He looks at Andrew who is a little hurt by this, but the little geek needs to be reminded at times. “You see the thing is, we need your summoning skills tomorrow.”

“What exactly do you need me to summon?” Andrew looks very reluctant, but there’s not a thing he wouldn’t do for Xander.

“Something that could give us information on the hellmouth in this area, preferably a non violent demon.”

Andrew thinks about this for a few seconds. “Well, first of all the only demon I really can summon are usually hench-demons, not really sure I can do one that has any knowledge.” Andrew stops for a moment and thinks for the cause he signed on for. “But I do have a few books in my luggage, I can see if I can find something close to what you are looking for.”

Xander grins at time. “Thanks Andrew, I know it doesn’t seem like it, but your help here is appreciated.”

Andrew just smiles back him, Xander has always been a little afraid if Andrew had a crush on him, seeing that he seems a little gay. But it is really no problem with him, he knows Willow and had to ignore all of Larry’s pick up lines in High School. And he can’t really be sure if Andrew is into the men or not, something he doesn’t really talk about and it doesn’t really matter anymore. Andrew’s cool for a guy who aided in making Buffy’s life a living hell.

Double Post (next time use the edit button!):

Once again, Vi can’t get any sleep, it’s kind of hard when your two bedmates are cuddling and making out on a regular basis. They probably think that she is fast asleep, she can’t blame Willow and Kennedy, she fakes being asleep very well. The lovebirds have finally gotten sleep, but now she finds herself in deep thought about a lot of things, most of which what is she doing. She knows that she chose this life of being a slayer, but now she is getting a major case of cold feet, she is not a super hero. Sure Kennedy loves the slaying, but Kennedy already graduated High School and lived the life of normal teenager, she hasn’t even gone on her first date yet. When she was in the Hellmouth she did enjoy the rush of kicking some Turok-han ass, and it was with that high that she agreed to go on Willow, Xander and Kennedy’s crusade into this new hellmouth. She wonders if she could’ve just fought vampires in her own hometown like Rona had decided to do at least then she could balance a normal life, but that wouldn’t be it though. She’s heard stories from Buffy, once you are a slayer or CHOSE to be a slayer as it is the case now, there’s no having a normal life without consequences. She also could have gone the road of Chow-Anne who decided not to be a slayer whatsoever, or so they think all she did shake her head and yell in her native tongue. But there is a part of her that wishes the Bringers forgot about her and didn’t kill her watcher or her foster parents for that matter.

Suddenly, her thoughts are interrupted by the sound of the apartment door opening and closing, her first thought are that the Bringers are back to finish up the job. Of course that’s nonsense, isn’t it? She looks over to see if the sound woke up Kennedy and Willow, it didn’t. She thinks to wake them up, but then decides to check it out herself, she is the slayer isn’t she? She slides out of bed without waking up her roommates and goes right to her luggage and pulls out one of her stakes and holds it towards her chest. She slides open the bedroom door in fear that something is going lunge out on her, nothing does. She opens the door even more to just see the living room of the apartment, Xander is fast asleep on the floor in his sleeping. As she looks it at him, she can’t believe that he is the person who will be their watcher, not that she minds, he’s just always had that cool older brother vibe going for him, not the lame stuck up watcher attitude.

As she walks further into the living room she gets a good look at the couch, Andrew is missing from it. She wonders why he would need to leave the apartment at 3:00 in the morning, but really why should she care? He is old enough to fend for himself, sort of. Then she hears footsteps going up the stair case in the hallway, she thinks that must be Andrew going up to the roof, but why would Andrew be heading uptop? She ponders investigating, maybe he is up to no good after all or maybe he just wanted some alone time. Still she thinks she should check it out, in fact, she wants to check it out, she doesn’t even know why. Plus, it would be good to have someone to talk to she thinks as she wedges her stake in between the waistband of her pajama pants and slowly makes her way out the apartment door. She shuts the door softly so she doesn’t wake the others having them worry about her and Andrew both. She slowly makes her way through the hallway knowing that vamps don’t need any invite to get to the complex. Once she is down the hall she climbs up the metal steps making a clanking noise as she gets to the door to the rooftop of the apartment building.

She opens the door once again half expecting a vampire or demon to spring out attacking her. Once again, nothing of that sort, just the Cleveland nights sky looking back at her and all the way at the edge of the building is Andrew, sitting down reading something. She reconsiders talking to him, he looks deep in thought like she was just a couple of minutes ago. But she is very curious as to what he is doing and why do it up here? She tries to creep up silently not to startle him too much as she thinks he looks kind of handsome when he isn’t talking and in a background like this, just thinking to himself. As she gets closer, she tries to get that thought right back into her head and not to think that again about Andrew. Once she gets right behind him she slowly puts her hand on his shoulder.

He turns around and screams at the top of his lungs and grabs for a small squirt gun and sprays the holy water in her face, luckily she’s not a vampire so it doesn’t work. “Taste the power of god, blood sucking fiend.” He screams at her. Then he realizes that it’s not a vampire, just Vi and he puts the squirt down. At first she is a little pissed off at the nerd for squirting her, but then realizes it’s half her fault. He still looks a little startled, “What are you doing? Don’t sneak up on a guy when he’s reading Zalarr’s guide to Demonology.” Then he looks a little upset that he snapped at her, then he begins to laugh a little bit, as does she. “Sorry, you just scared the bejesus out of me.” He grabs a cloth from the bag he brought up with him and hands it to her.

“No, that was my fault, I shouldn’t have snuck up on you. Sorry Andrew.” She says this as she begins to wipe her face off flashing Andrew a bright smile beginning to laugh herself. He kneels back down reaching for his book again, apparently he lost his place, with her reflexes she is able to grab the book before he does. She hands it to him with a smile. “Did you lose you place?”

He looks up at her a little shy. “Not really, it’s not like I’m reading a Stephen King novel, hey have you read his latest?”

She shakes her head at this. “I’m more of an Anne Rice fan.”

Andrew nods knowingly. “Fitting for a slayer of the Vampyr.”

She giggles a bit each time he pronounces vampire like that, it’s funny that he lives in his own little world she thinks, kind of cute. She gets a good look at the book she is reading and looks down at him. “What were you working on? And why are you doing it up here?”

He looks at her, trying to come up with a good explanation on what he is doing. “Xander wants me to find a demon to summon to help us locate the hellmouth. I told him that I’m not good at summoning demons who’s purpose goes beyond just beating and torturing humans, but I figured I’d give it a try.”

“So how does summoning a demon work?” Vi is still so very inexperienced on the supernatural despite having been involved since last January in fighting vampires.

“Well, different demons require different actions, some need sacrifices, I try to stay away from that, some just a few mystic words. Of course, I don’t know as much as my older brother, Tucker, but Xander really wants me to give this a shot. And I’m willing to try.”

Vi listens to this and thinks back to her thoughts about herself earlier about why she stayed with The Scoobs. Which brings her attention to Andrew, he was the only one who could’ve gone back to a normal life, but he didn’t. He chose to live in a world where he is always a second away from being killed by a vampire or demon. Interested, she takes a seat next to him on the roof looking at this thoughtful young man. “Andrew, can I ask you a question?”

“Shoot for it. People love asking me questions tonight.” Andrew still sort of deep in thought, looks at her with a half smile.

“Why did you decide to go with us on this mission, you could’ve have easily gone back to Tucker and a normal life.”

“You really want to know?” He asks, she hasn’t seen him serious like this before, it’s kind of nice. He seems kind of shocked that she really wants to know though.

“Of course.” Vi finds herself scooting closer to him smiling at him.

“Well, a few reasons actually. The first, the most important really, is that I’m trying to live out Jonothan’s dream.” He looks down a little bit with a half smile.

“Wait, isn’t Jonothan the person you killed” She is sort of confused at why he would want fulfill a wish of a person he killed.

“I know, I know,” Andrew gives her a remorseful smile. “That’s a sin that I will always atone for, maybe I’ll never get my redemption because I still feel guilty. He was my best friend, such a Cypher, you know from ‘The Matrix’, to do. And I was so damn gullable for letting The First trick me into killing him, but all along I knew what I was doing, but I wanted to stay in my fairy tell world. You know, pretending it was one big episode of long running series. I should’ve died in Sunnydale.”

Vi finds herself putting her hand on his shoulder trying to cheer him up. “But you didn’t, your still here, still able to atone.” She stops to think about the other people in her group. “And unless you haven’t noticed, one of the people leading us also was a murder.”

“Yeah,” He thinks about Warren and how him and Jonathan went along with him. “That was also partially my fault, if I wasn’t such a lap dog…..”

“You know your problem is that you are still living in past mistakes, it’s done and over with and you know it.” She didn’t mean to take a stern tone with him, but he shouldn’t be beating himself up.

“Yeah, I guess your right. Thanks.”

She removes her hand from his shoulder, because it kind of felt weird and out of place and she didn’t know why she did it in the first place. “No problem, you were talking about Jonothan?”

He gives her a thoughtful smile and then continues. “ Yeah, all he ever talked about in Mexico was being a member of the Scooby gang and helping fight evil. Of course, they probably never gave him a second thought in High School and then further and he didn’t care, he just wanted to fight the good fight. And he remembered them fondly, he let go all those feelings of rejection by that time. In fact, the last couple of things he said was how much he missed High School and how those memories were still there. But I know he was hoping to be apart of Buffy’s gang and if it wasn’t because of me that might have actually happened.”

“So, your fulfilling the only thing he really wanted.” She is kind of touched by this, she never knew he could be that deep.

Now his look has become very sad. “But dammit Vi, he was such a better person than me. I also feel like I ripped him off, I killed him then took the spot that he should have had. But I’m here and he’s not, someone must live his dream, I know it sounds morbid.”

“No, really it doesn’t.” She looks at him and he gives her a very sorry excuse for a smile.

“Thanks and also there’s another person who is responsible for me going along with this mission.”

Vi is now curious to know more about the many reasons Andrew is motivated. “Who?”

She can tell that Andrew is embarrassed to admit this next confession. “Anya, she made me feel like crap most of the time, but during those last couple of days I really got the feeling that she was the only one watching my back. Sure, she talked about using me as a human shield and cannon fodder, but in the end she fought bravely and died while she was covering me.” He looks at her with convincing eyes. “You know the weird thing was that once we were out of Sunnydale, I was pretty much over the whole living out my Star Wars fantasy thing. I was ready to go back to my normal Babylon 5 watching lifestyle. But in my gut, I felt that Jonothan AND Anya wanted me to stay and fight like another stupid human. So that’s why I went with Xander and Willow here, I might not be the best fighter and probably my best talent is washing dishes. But I’ll stay until end like Chewbacca.”

She thinks about her earlier doubts and how much it kind of relates with Andrew’s story. “ You know before I came up here, I was thinking of packing my bags and going back to my normal life. I wasn’t sure I can make it as slayer for a long period of time, I’m still not so sure. I mean do I want to do this until I die? Probably not, but I don’t want to let Xander and Willow down and god knows what Kennedy would do or say.” Andrew is the last person she thought she would be opening up to, but she finds herself more and more comfortable with him, it’s kind of nice but different all at the same time. “But the truth is, I want that normal life as a teenager, something that slayage would indeed corrupt. I mean I was so psyched that we helped destroy the hellmouth, so I didn’t think on what a commitment going down here would be, I didn’t know what I would be missing out on. Well, I knew, Buffy warned all of us many times after the Hell Mouth was destroyed, but I just passed it off. But now….”

“Now, your thinking you can be normal without slaying.”

“Yeah, but then I think to the people who don’t know what’s going on to the people who can’t defend themselves. Like my foster parents who didn’t know and that got them killed. And like you, I think to Molly and Amanda and the other potentials who died, both of them wanted to BE slayers after awhile. And now from what I just heard from you, you don’t have slayer powers, but you stay and I do, but I want to leave. What kind of person does that make me?”

“A completely sane individual.” Andrew replies

“True, but that also makes me a coward. And I was given these amazing gifts and I want to squander them because I want to be selfish and live a normal life. So many people died for this power that is mine and so many others will if I don’t accept my path. So now, more than ever, I want to be a slayer, not the greatest or the longest, but just a slayer who will fight to protect those who cannot.” Andrew notices the confidence grow inside her as she has her little speech. “ And I think I have what you just said to thank for that.”

“Thank your self,” He says with sweet eyes. “I’m just a geek who can’t fend for himself. Like Rocky, the power was always there inside you.”

“Maybe, it was.” She looks back up at him and she has no clue why she says this next remark, but she does. “But I’m sure you’re a better fighter than you think, but if your in any trouble just know that I will be there to protect you.”

She gets so nervous after she says that, she really questions what inside her made her respond like that. But she wasn’t even prepared for his response. “I’m not sure if this means anything, but I’ll be there protect you as well although I’m not sure how well…….” Suddenly, they both look down and realize that they are holding hands, she wonders when that happened, she doesn’t even remember grabbing it. They both let go and she gets up and he opens his book. “Well, I better get back to my research. Have a good night.”

She backs away very flabbergasted at what just happened. “Yeah, I, uh should probably get some sleep. Good luck with the demon research.” She speed walks to the doorway leading back into the building wondering what just happened. She just wants to get off this roof as fast as possible now, although it seems like forever she gets back to the stairs and closes the door. It is only halfway down the hall that she realizes that she has the brightest smile on her face. She tries to get rid of it, but can’t, even as she gets in the apartment she still glows. She falls asleep with that huge smile on her face.

[Mr. Pointy]

Looking good so far Hostile_17. I liked your "Twenty Years Later" too - any more of that to come?

[Guestage_87]

I might return toTwenty years Later sometime later on, but right now I'm really into writing this. Thank you for the kind words

[Guestage_87]

Here is some more:

“Hi Dawn,” Xander tries to speak while dodging Willow, Kennedy, and Vi in the cramped kitchen. It’s about 8:00 in the morning and everyone has just woke up for breakfast, except for Andrew who apparently has gone somewhere else for breakfast. Xander is finding it incredibly hard to talk on the phone and dodge the girls who are fixing breakfast at the same time. He takes the phone into the living room to concentrate on his conversation. “How are you enjoying London.”

Kennedy, who is sitting at the tiny kitchen table eating her cereal looks up at Vi who just entered the kitchen and gives her a long hard stare. “Why are you glowing?”

Vi doesn’t know how to respond to this accusation. “I’m glowing?”

Kennedy grabs the milk. “You look happy about something.” Vi replies to this by trying to hide her smile, but she can’t so she just goes to the fridge to grab something, anything.

“Really? They all smell like Giles over there? Interesting.” Xander continues his conversation with Dawn. He puts the phone aside and looks at everyone and yells. “Dawn says hi everyone.”

Willow, Kennedy, and Vi respond at the same time. “Hi Dawn.”

Xander goes back to the phone. “Everyone, accept for Andrew who is missing at the moment says hi.” At the mention of Andrew Vi acidently bumps her head on the top of the fridge she gives a little yelp but tries to hide it, still everyone looks at her.

“Are you okay, Vi?” Willow asks from the kitchen counter slurping from her cereal bowl.

“Yeah, I’m fine. I was just looking for my….uh” She pulls something out of the fridge not even looking.

“You were looking for Xander’s half eaten egg salad sandwhich?” Willow asks very confused.

“Um, I gotta go to the bathroom.” She throws the egg salad sandwhich back into the fridge and runs for the bathroom.

Kennedy and Willow exchange a glance. “Why is she acting so weird?” Kennedy asks Willow.

“Do you think maybe she was awake last night we were… being close?” Willow is a little afraid that she might have overheard them making out and cuddling.

“She was fast asleep, I checked.”

“Yeah, apparently now I’m watcher-rific” Xander tells Dawn over the phone. “Speaking of which, is Giles there? I’m not really sure what this job entails. I’m not really sure if taking care of young girls is the thing to do now a days. It might have worked for the Watchers a couple years back, but it certainly didn’t work for a Mr. Kobe Bryant.” He listens in a bit more and then responds. “Okay, I’ll hold on.”

Kennedy puts her bowl in the sink and slides up next to Willow holding her waist. “Are you still having problems with your powers?”

Willow looks upset at this. “Yeah, every time I try to locate something I get static.”

Kennedy takes a sip of her orange juice. “Have you talked to the covenant about it?”

Willow shrugs. “I’m not sure it’s that big of a deal, might just be some backlash from the slayer spell. But this is making limiting my powers much easier, keeps me in check. Might just be a blessing disguise actually.”

Kennedy grimaces at this. “That’s bull, honey and you know it. If were going to battle on the hellmouth we are going to need you at your most powerful.”

“HEY!” Willow gets defensive. “It’s not like I’m completely powerless, did you see me last night? Two fireballs at once.”

Kennedy grunts. “You know that’s amateur stuff compared to someone at your level.”

“Yes, Giles, glad I finally got ahold of you. Oh and by the way, did you know that you are insane?” Xander listens to his former mentor and passes it off as Watcher gibberish. “You thought I would be happy that you just made me a watcher and didn’t even ask me, that’s a lot of responsibility.” Xander listens in deeper to Rupert Giles. “Yeah, yeah, I know, I’ve been doing this job for seven years I’ve was just given the official title yesterday. Willow beat you that conclusion last night.”

As Xande continues to speak to Giles over the phone the apartment door opens as Andrew walks in holding his bag full of demon summoning books another book under his arm and a coffee in each hand. “Xander, I found something.” Andrew screams at the top of his lungs.

Willow looks at Andrew and makes an observation. “Who’s the other coffee for?”

“Um, well, it’s for me.” Andrew tries to cover up that he is lying to her.

Kennedy looks at Willow. “Aren’t you already wound up enough? You need to drink all that coffee?”

Andrew ignores this and goes to Xander, who is still trying to hear Giles. “Xander, I found a demon.”

“Hold on Andrew, I’m on the phone.” Andrew just stands there by Xander waiting. “Yeah, he’s still with us, the boy wants to help I say let him help.” Giles says something over the phone. “No, we still haven’t found it yet, Willow’s powers are acting up a little.” He pauses and answers Giles next remark. “She’s says it’s nothing to worry about just yet. And by the way, why couldn’t you just make her a watcher? Will is a whole lot more qualified.”

Andrew tired of waiting for Xander to get off the phone decides to put his stuff down on the kitchen counter as Willow and Kennedy move to the bedroom to get ready for their day. As they enter the bedroom, Vi comes back from the bathroom and enters the kitchen at the exact time Andrew enters from the other side. They both stare at each other for a second or two. Vi is the first one to say something. “Uh, hi, did you find your de….”

Andrew nervously cuts her off. “Um yeah, it was kind of hard but I finally found something. Did you get enough slee….”

Vi not thinking, cuts him off like he did her. “Yeah, I did.”

They both just stand there for a couple of seconds, not knowing what to say. Then Andrew looks at the extra coffee he has in hand and hands it to here. “Uh, here, I got an extra cup.”

She takes the coffee giving him a sweet smile, not knowing exactly what to say. “Thank you.” She sits down and begins to make herself cereal and sips on her coffee. He stares for a moment with a stupid smile not knowing exactly what to do now. Vi tries to look casual while eating her cereal, but can’t get that wide smile off her face.

“Really? The Watcher’s council doesn’t allow Slayer/Watcher relations? How do you explain you and Buffy?” Xander holds to hear Giles response which is a lot of defensive yelling that Vi and Andrew can hear. Xander has a huge smile on his face as Giles continues to insist that him and Buffy weren’t dating and the thought was just disgusting. “Giles, relax, I’m joking. You were saying something about giving me an occupation. Please don’t tell me I’m going to be a librarian.” He listens to Giles ramble on a little more for a couple more seconds and Xander’s expression is priceless in Vi’s opinion. “SHOP TEACHER? Wait, the watcher’s council got you a comfy job at the school library and I got shop teacher.” He listens to Giles some more. “Yes, yes, I am good with my hands.”
Vi and Andrew burst into laughter at this, Xander looks back at his charge and his sidekick with an upset look on his face. “Keep laughing Beavis and Butt-Head. You were saying Giles?” Another pissed off expression is on Xander’s face. “Wait, I have to interview? Today? What time?” He looks at his watch and rolls his eyes. “That’s in an hour and a half, I haven’t even taken my shower yet. You couldn’t have told me this yesterday?” He pauses to listen to more. “Yes, I know of the time difference, listen Giles I got to let you go. I gotta ready and brief the group, Cheerio!” Xander slams down the phone a little frustrated at Buffy’s former watcher.

Willow comes from the bedroom noticing Xander’s frustration. “Xander what’s wrong?”

“Nothing’s wrong really, I’m just running late.” He pauses. “Get Kennedy, we need to have a group meeting.” He looks at Andrew taking up a seat across from Vi. “You found a demon we could use to locate the hellmouth?”

Willow and Kennedy walk into the kitchen and both grab chairs and sit at the table as Andrew sits on the counter scattering through the books. “Um yeah, I found one, the Mizerak Kazarak, took me hours to find it.”

“Good,” Xander pauses making sure everyone is listening to what he’s going to ask. “What do we need to do to summon the Buttcrack Epilak?”

Everyone turns to Andrew. “The summoning for the Mizerak Kazarak shouldn’t be hard, but….”

Xander looks at him even more concerned now. “What’s the but for, what don’t want butts.”

“Uh, well you see, the Mizerak is a very powerful locator demon and well requires a test.” Andrew tries to explain.

Kennedy looks at him. “What kind of test?”

“Well, from the looks of this passage, the demon must be defeated before he can locate the hellmouth for us. Not killed just defeated by one person.”

Willow stares at Andrew very interested. “Hmmmm, I never have come across a demon that wants to get the information beaten out of him. Interesting.”

Xander gestures to Andrew. “The passage say how many tries we get to defeat?”

“Apparently, one try per person.” Andrew replies reading the passage.

“So, this should be easy. Kennedy will be the first to take him on, if that fails then Willow will give it a try, then Vi, then me, sorry Andrew, but your only in case of emergency.”

Vi raises her hand, trying not to make eye contact with Andrew. “ This isn’t a battle to the death is it?”

“Nope, just a regular fight. But he does have this venom that squirts from his stomach. It’s cool.”

Kennedy chimes in and makes sure all eyes are on her. “Well, we can’t have this here.”

“We’ll do it at the local grave yard.” Xander says then takes a sip of orange juice and continues. “We’ll have to do it late tonight though.”

Andrew looks at his hero Xander. “I still need to gather a few things for the summoning though. Shouldn’t be too hard, I just need some spending cash.”

Xander raises an eyebrow at Andrew. “How much you need?”
“Fifty dollars.” Andrew shrugs as he says this.

“You don’t really need fifty dollars do you?” Xander asks a little impatient.

“Well, the ingredients and a new pair of sunglasses will cost that much.” Andrew says as Vi can’t help but giggle with her glowing smile, Kennedy looks over at her disturbed by her buddies weird behavior.

Andrew walks up holding his hands out with a wide smile. Xander hands him a twenty dollar bill and Andrew frowns. “That’s all you get.” He looks at the girls as Andrew stuffs the money in his pocket. “As for the rest of us, we need to talk about what we are going to do from here. Now I have an interview today at the local high school very soon.”

“Are you going to be the librarian?” Willow asks with an eager smile, she likes books.

Xander has a grimace on his face. “Shop teacher.” Willow, Kennedy and Vi burst into laughter. “Don’t start laughing just yet, I’m not the only one who needs to get a living.” He looks at Willow and Kennedy with a smile on his face. “Along with your studies today, you two need to find a job.”

Kennedy begins to wine. “I’m a slayer, I shouldn’t have to work.”

“Honey,” Willow begins to carress her hand. “You being unreasonable again.”

She points to Andrew. “How come he doesn’t need to get a job?”

Andrew replies to that. “Well, Mrs. Smarty pants, I just so happen to have applied at numerous comic shops.”

“THAT’S SO COOL!” Vi bursts out then realizes that she just implied comics were cool and that everyone is staring at her. What has gotten into her? She thinks.

“Glad you seem so enthusiastic for him, Vi.” Xander has a big smile on his face. “Tomorrow, you will be enrolling in High School, the same one I’ll be working at.”



As the conversation continues, they don’t hear the little footsteps outside the door of the apartment though. They don’t know that they are being eavesdropped on during their little conversation. But standing outside, listening through the hollow wall are two dark haired teenage girls. They both look alike and have the gothic look going on, in each hand is a wooden stake and each have an anarchy sign on each arm. They look at eachother, one of them whispers to the other. “They are none the wiser, we make our move tonight.” With that they both walk off snickering.

[rene]

that was good!!! i cant wait to find out who those girls are

[Willow02]

Hey Hostile_17 great update. I really love this story. I wonder whats gonna happen with Vi and Andrew. I think they would be good together. Can't wait till next update.

[Guestage_87]

YEah, thank you, Vi and Andrew is my first attempt at a ship, more or less I just thought it would be funny. Before I continue is there any other comments or critiscm or questions? Any more feedback or input would greatly be appreciated. I'm getting cold feet continuing, but I'm sure I'll be coming up with another part tommorrow or the day after.

[Mr. Pointy]

Hostile 17,
I'm enjoying this story so please don't get cold feet. I wanna see how it ends - always the sign of a good tale for me. I also want to see the end of "Twenty years later" - hint, hint.

[Guestage_87]

Here's some more, it's not too long, but still it's something:

From what he remembers of the old days, patrolling was phase numeral uno, and that is what Xander is making Vi and Kennedy do at this very moment as part of their training. He thinks this is a whole lot easier than he thought it would be at first. He observes Kennedy and Vi battle three vamps in the middle of the cemetary, he sits on a head stone munching on a bag of cheetos. Kennedy easily takes out the two vampires that she was fighting with the slayer scythe, but Vi is still having trouble with the vamp that she is fighting. Kennedy waits until the vampire clearly has the upper hand and Vi is on the ground, to stick her scythe into him turning him to dust. She stands with a confident smirk on her face helping Vi up, Vi not happy that she let the vampire get the best of her accepts it. They both try to catch their breath from the last battle, but are interrupted by the crunching of Xander’s cheetos. “Did Giles always used to sit back and eat chips when Buffy was a teenager?

Xander gives her a smart ass smile. “Oh yeah, he would eat cheetos, read GQ, and light it up while he was observing Buffy at work.” He pauses then looks directly at Kennedy, is a little timid to look directly at her, what he is about to do is not going to go over well. “ Kennedy, give me the scythe.”

Kennedy bulges her eyes and the sides her mouth go wide in anger at this request. “What? No!”

Xander sighs in frustration over his charge. “You rely way too much on your weapon, rather than relying on your instincts. I need to see how you do on your own.”

“Buffy chose me as the one wield the scythe, you can’t take it away from me.” Kennedy keeps her grip on the Scythe as she explains this to him.

“If Buffy were here right now she would ask the same thing I’m asking, so would Giles.” His one eye now glaring at the stubborn young slayer.

“But your not Buffy or Giles.” Kennedy continues to argue as Vi stands to the side just staying out of the conversation.

Xander yells at the top of his lungs in anger, than he gives her a calm smile. “No, I’m not, to you I’m more important than either of them. Kennedy, I am your watcher and if you want to live a long slayer life, you’ll hand me the scythe.” He knows that she needs to be taken down a peg for her to be a good slayer, he’s hoping that that monologue helped.

“Fine!” She says as she hands him the scythe in anger. “ Why the council made you a watcher I’ll never know.”

“You and me both sister.” He says putting the scythe to his side, then he turns to see another pack of vampires approaching. He looks at his charges noticing that they see the enemies as well. “Vi?”

“Yes Xander?” She asks raising an eyebrow.

“Sit this one out.” He looks right at Kennedy. “Let the pinnacle of slayage take care of them.”

Kennedy feels betrayed now. “But I don’t have a weapon. What am I going to do?”

“You’re the slayer you tell me.” Xander’s blank face stares right at Kennedy as he offers Vi some cheetos as she sits down next to him. Kennedy begins to get antsy as the pack of vampires creeps ever closer.

“I’m so telling Willow.” Kennedy pouts as the vamps surround them.

The lead vampire looks at Vi and Xander, he replies to gaze. “That’s the girl you want, she’s the slayer. If you defeat her then you can snack on me and the little red head here.”

The tall vampire with a buzz cut gives Xander a smile. “That’s a deal. Come on guys, let’s get us a piece of the slayer.” Kennedy has no clue what to do as the pack of vamps surround only her, she looks to Xander who just shrugs. She charges at the lead vampire striking him with a roundhouse kick as he falls back she spins backwards nailing a vamp who is trying to sneak up behind her with a left fist. The three others approach her and she pulls a crucifix out her coat and flashes it at them, they recoil.

“Do you really think that she can dust those vamps without any back up or the Scythe? Vi asks Xander looking on.

“Of course I do,” Xander winks at her with his one good eye. “She’s a slayer, she just needs to rely on her skills rather than her weapon, she’s using it as a crutch. She needs to find out for herself that she is just as powerful without the scythe as she is wielding it.” He pauses as Kennedy runs away from the vamps and further through the cementary and they give chase. “I’m sounding more and more like Giles every day aren’t I?”

Vi giggles as Kennedy finds a left over shovel by one of the tombstones. “Just a little bit. So did you get the job at the school?”

Xander smiles as Kennedy slays the first approaching vampire. “Yep, sure did. Over glorified carpenter now a shop teacher at Burton High School, I start tomorrow. Yeehaw, back to High School.”

Vi crunches another cheeto as Kennedy takes out a second vamp. “How do you think I feel? After a one year hiatus, all the catching up I need to do, it’s going to be tough. Plus, my minds been somewhere recently.”

Dust flies as Kennedy executes another with the butt of her shovel, Xander watches this then looks at Vi. “ Now if your looking for me to tell you that school is easy, than your looking at the wrong guy. That was never one thing I could really do. But I kicked some demon ass on Graduation Day and dated the head cheerleader for awhile. And there was this one time I was turned into a hyena, but I don’t think you’ll run into anything like that. Talk to Willow if you want to know about the greatness of High School.”

One of the vamps is able to disarm Kennedy and she bounces off a tree kicking one of the vamps in the face. Vi looks at Xander remembering something from earlier in the afternoon. “Why did you trade in the school bus? That thing came in very handy”

Kennedy is knocked on her feet as Xander answers Vi’s question. “ Yeah, but it was also very suspicious. I figured something a little smaller might work just as well as the big yellow, plus it won’t be as patridge family-ish.”

Kennedy kicks the vamp off her and gets back on her feet as Vi continues the conversations. “ So, why did we drive your car here? And what kind of car is it?”

Xander grimaces as Kennedy throws the vamp into the edge of a pointy statue turning him to dust. “ You see that was the problem. Since I was a little busy I had Andrew pick out the car, he’s bringing Willow here right now.”


A car that bares a striking resemblance to the one used in the show Knight Rider screams into the parking lot of the graveyard, with the theme from the same show blaring from it’s speakers. Inside, Andrew is rocking out to the tunes with Willow sitting next to him looking a little annoyed. They both haven’t said much on the ride there, the relationship between the two has always been awkward and almost nonexistant. It’s not because they don’t have anything in common, it pretty much boils down to one person, Andrew’s old buddy Warren. It was about two years ago that Warren killed Willow’s lover, Tara, he was aiming for Buffy. Of course, Andrew didn’t want to go that far, but they were still involved with the deed and deep down inside Willow still blames him a little, not as much as she should, but there is still bitterness. Once she turned evil after Tara’s death, she tried to kill him and Jonothan. Luckily, she didn’t get away with it, but he still very much fears her power, even if there isn’t much left of it. Even after spending a while at the Summer’s residence with her and dropping off and locating slayers as well, they still didn’t talk much. Willow breaks the silence with actual concern. “Are you sure you can do this? Are you sure you want to do this? I looked at the passage and it’s a pretty difficult summon to do. You were lying to us this morning when you said it was easy.”

He gives her a very nervous glance as he parks the car. “Tr….true” He stutters a little bit than gathers himself. “But I have summoned demons before, I think I can do it. Maybe. Plus, the really hard part is up to you guys, the powerful ones. Ever notice that the only powerful ones around nowadays are girls? Kind of weird.”

Willow frowns. “Yeah, I’m beginning to doubt that I count as one of the more powerful ones nowadays.” In her mind she worries about her powers, it seemed like just yesterday that she was trying not use them as much. Now that they have been limited, she finds it a pain in the ass. To everyone else she is trying to play it off like it’s no big deal, she’s not telling them about the headaches or the weird dreams about Tara coming back from the dead and killing off her new lover. She can’t tell Xander, Kennedy, or especially this nerd. She’s hoping that this is just an after effect from the ‘slayerspell’, but she knows the truth, this didn’t start to happen until she got to Cleveland. Why isn’t she telling anyone that she thinks there is something behind this? Is it pride?

Andrew hops out of the car, putting on his “Matrix” leather jacket and new pair of sunglasses and looks at Willow who is also getting out of the car. “Well, you’re a whole lot more powerful than me. I’m not sure if that means anything, but well…. Yeah, well we all know that I’m the weakest link.”

Willow gives him a warm look, although not very trusting of Andrew, she knows she needs to get along with him. “I was the weakest link at one point too. So was Xander, you just need to quit playing to the part of weak guy and find niche.”

“Should I become a witch who nearly destroys the world like you?” That really didn’t come out the way he wanted it to. Andrew is not the most tactful when it comes to these types of things. Willow walks off very hurt after trying to cheer him up about his weakness, he chases her. “Willow, wait, I didn’t mean to say it that way.” She just ignores him walking into the graveyard.

[Guestage_87]

Xander claps as Kennedy finishes off the last of the vamps, a very pleased look is on her face as the dust flows past her. Xander walks up holding the scythe and Vi follows grabbing the cheetos as Kennedy struts toward them with confidence. “I told you I could do it without the scythe. Now can I have it back?”

“Power hungry much?” Xander asks. “Plus, you probably won’t need it anymore tonight.”

“Are you kidding me? We are facing a demon tonight, I’m going to need it.”

“We are battling a demon in a fair contest, you don’t always need to use the scythe and you just proved my point with that brilliant display.” Xander flashes a cool smile and is interrupted by some yelling coming towards them.

“I told you, your forgiven, but please just stop apologizing.” Willow says coming into Xander and the girl’s view. She looks slightly annoyed and is holding a few ingredients for the spell.

“I’m sorry for saying I’m sorry.” Andrew follows with his half of the ingredients with a very nervous look on his face. But then he notices Vi standing there watching the whole thing and stops, trying to put a ‘cool’ look on his face. “I mean, it’s all good.” Vi gives him a warm smile, he smiles back at her.

“Will, you just missed girlfriend take on five vamps on her own without the scythe.” He pauses. “So what are you guys fighting about?”

“Oh, Andrew just had a slip of the tongue and he is now drowning me with apologies.” Willow muses.

“I didn’t mean to call you a murderous witch, even if you are, I’m a murderous human.” Andrew tries to defend himself.”

“Xander,” She looks at him worried. “Make him stop digging himself an early grave.” Kennedy sneaks up to her grabbing her hips, they give each other a little peck.”

“Andrew, begin to work on your summon so you don’t get your Star Trek ass kicked.” Xander commands to his sidekick. Andrew gladly obliges and goes off to an uncluttered field and begins mixing his ingredients.
Willow looks at Xander, he can tell there is something wrong with her, that there is more to this magic deflation. “So, tomorrow is the big day for you two, excited yet?”

“Try not at all.” Xander replies in his sarcastic voice. “School was never my thing, Will.”

“Xander, at least try to sound a little more positive, your not the only one going back to school.” Willow insists. “Vi are you excited? Math, Science, Social Studies, boys?”

Vi is always very cautious on the whole guy situation, even more so now, she doesn’t want anybody knowing, herself included, about the feelings she might have. “ I’ve never been good at any of those subjects, especially guys.”

“Oh come on,” Xander interrupts. “Never not a lucky guy back home who will probably never see you again because you have been chosen as one of the many slayers on earth?”

It’s Kennedy’s turn to intrude into her personal life. “Have you ever been kissed?”

Vi shakes her head at this. “Just something I never got around to.”

Xander gives his child hood friend a glare. “Hey Will, she’s kind of like you when you were in High School.”

Both Vi and Kennedy looked a little shocked at that little tid bit. Even Kennedy didn’t know that she was a late bloomer in High School. “When was the first time someone kissed you?” Kennedy asks.

“Junior year and I’m the one who did the kissing.”

Xander takes a deep breath. “Ah, I miss Oz.” Then he looks at Willow, then Kennedy, realizing he might have opened some issues. “Not to say that I don’t like you Kennedy or that I don’t miss Tara….”

Willow gives him a look. “You’r becoming just as bad as Andrew.”

“Maybe,” He looks at all three girls. “But I’m better looking and not gay.”

“HE’S NOT GAY!” Vi tries to deny what very well may be the truth. They all look very confused at Vi’s outburst. She looks over to make sure Andrew didn’t hear that, apparently he didn’t because he is still working on his summon. “Well, I don’t think he is.”

“Oh come on,” Kennedy defends her side of the argument. “He lisps and he is so woman like and have you heard him talk about Harrison Ford?”

Willow looks at Vi. “And there’s nothing wrong with being gay unless you haven’t realized I’m a little queer myself.” She holds Kennedy’s hand while saying this.

“Well, yeah, I know and it’s not like I don’t like gay people, it’s just that….” She looks over at him with caring eyes that nobody in the group notices. “I don’t think he’s gay.”

“Well, that’s a story for another time, I say we gather up our weapons and gear and get on over there so we get some sleep.” Xander commands grabbing his bag of weapons and walking over the Andrew’s work station. Kennedy makes sure to grab the scythe.

Once they get there Andrew is drawing a circle in the grass with a big pole, Vi can tell he trying to concentrate on how the summon goes. That tingle arises again in her stomach, she can’t believe she feels this way. He looks up at them with a very worried smile. “Okay, I’m about ready to summon the Mizerak Kazarak.”

“So what do we do?” Get in the circle? Does someone get in the circle, it’s very wide, I think we will all fit.” Willow asks very curious, most of her older spells involve being in a circle.

“No one gets in the circle.” He answers.

“Then why is there a really big circle in the grass?” Kennedy asks.

“It’s the ring that he will battle you in, if you are knocked out of the circle, you lose.”

“Okay, good to know. Let’s rock this Casba.” Xander says as he and the girls stand outside one side of the circle, Andrew sits in the other.

“Before we get started,” He looks at Xander. “Throw me a fairly big weapon, just in case it comes down to me and it. God, I hope it doesn’t come to that.”

“Don’t worry,” Xander begins as he throws a fairly big battle axe to Andrew. “We all hope it doesn’t come to that.”

“Thanks.” He puts the battle axe next to him and looks across at his allies. “I’m going to need you guys to be silent while I do this.” He looks over at Vi who gives him a thumbs up, he looks down with a warm feeling and confidence now. He begins to chant and pours a vial of something purple in the middle of the circle. “Ospa, netra nergra.” He commands before he throws a weird powder into the circle, he prays silently to himself as he does that. He feels the force of the demon already pulling at him from the inner depths of his dimension, this has to be the hardest summon he has ever done. “Mizerak Kazarak, I compel you to hear my plea.”

Xander whispers to Willow. “Wow, I never knew that Andrew could ever look that serious.” Willow elbows him telling to be quiet. To Vi, he looks very at peace, almost powerful, which is something that nobody would normally call Andrew. She can’t take her eyes off his peaceful face.

He throws what looks like pigs blood into the circle. “This is our worlds sacrifice, hear my cries and show yourself, Olpa pespo.” He is suddenly pulled backwards as the circle begins to glow a yellow color. When Andrew gets back to his crouching position, he throws another vial of the purple liquid into the circle. “REVEAL!” He yells as the circle turns to stone and a figure appears in the center of it.

“WHO CALLS ME AND WHAT DO YOU SEEK?” The demon stands a good seven feet and has three horns that burst out of the back of his head, his face is purple, but his body is gray color. There is a hole in the middle of his stomach and each finger has razor sharp claws.

Andrew looks on, surprised that he actually performed is successfully. He then remembers what he is supposed to tell the demon when asked that question. He stands up and gets on one knee as the demon turns to him. “Uh….hi. I am Andrew the Demon Summoner.” The demon turns to the others on the other side of his ring, Andrew gestures them to do the same as he did.

Xander gets on one knee and introduces himself. “Xander Harris, The Watcher.”

Willow follows the lead on one knee. “Willow Rosenberg, I’m a witch.”

Kennedy is next but refuses to get on one knee. “I’m Kennedy The Vampire Slayer and wielder of the Slayer Scythe.” Xander groans at his cocky charge.

Vi finishes up getting on one knee. “ Vi, Slayer of the Vampyrs” She looks at Andrew who has a wide smile on his face at this, he likes being quoted.

Despite him being happy that someone used one of his phrases he knows that he must continue his spiel. “We need to know the location of the nearest hellmouth.”
The Mizerak turns back to Andrew and begins to speak in his deep voice. “ You realize how futile your quest is. Once you destroy this Hellmouth, there are many others that surround this earth.” He then turns towards the others once more. “But I will fulfill your request if you are able to defeat me in battle. Who is the first to challenge me?”

Kennedy steps forward holding her scythe towards the Mizerak with wild eyes. “ I do.”

Before she is able to step into the stone ring, the demon gives her a very stern look. “ Put your weapon down and choose another one, slayer.”

“Wait,” She stops flaberghasted that he would suggest such a thing. “That is not fair.”

“I’m not stupid girl, I know what power that thing possesses. Word has been buzzing around the demon dimensions about it since the last hell mouth was destroyed.” He stares at her until she steps back giving the scythe to Xander. Xander hands her a sword from the bag of weapons. “Good girl.”

“You still don’t stand a chance.” Kennedy declares as she enters the stone circle standing face to face with the ugly demon.

“Before we get started, I must ask you a question.” He looks at her with the piercing eyes. “Why do you seek the hell mouth?”

She actually looks away from the demon not sure how to answer that. Then she thinks of a good excuse. “Because it’s my calling.”

“That is a poor answer slayer, you clearly have a whole lot more soul searching to do.” He pauses then swipes his hand down on Kennedy, a thud is heard as she hits the stone ground. “Get up, weak slayer.”

Struggling on the ground Kennedy yells. “I’m not weak, I’m stronger than you will ever be.”

“Your pride doesn’t hide your fear slayer.” He chuckles a little with his strong deep voice. “Get up.”

As Kennedy gets up, she does a leg sweep at the demon’s knees sending him to the stone ground, she stands up with a smile on her face. “I’m way ahead of you.”

The Mizerak chuckles as he gets up and looks at Kennedy. “ Now we are even. This time don’t hold back, idiotic slayer.” She throws her sword down and begins throwing lefts and rights into his chest, he steps back a little bit, but not much. With a battle cry she kicks him in the crotch, he falls backward a little more. He takes a couple of swipes at her with his claws, she dodges both attempts and hits him with a spinning kick right into his face. He falls backwards towards the edge of the stone ring.

Crouched down he looks up at Kennedy, she has a wide smile on her face. “How do you like me now?” He stands up and green ooze flies out of the hole in his stomach, Kennedy screams as the stuff gets in her eye. Blinded she punches and kicks stuff that isn’t there. The Mizerak chuckles at the confused girl and hits her with an uppercut that send her flying out of the ring and into the grass behind her friends.

“I still don’t like you whatsoever.” He looks at the three remaining in front of him. Willow’s first reaction is to go to her lover, but she realizes it’s her turn to get her ass kicked. He stares at his other challengers. “If she was you’r best shot at defeating then I suggest you back out now. Who’s next?”

Willow steps towards the ring holding hoping that she has some power left to fight this thing. “I do.”

He looks at the tall red headed witch who is approaching him. “Step into the ring, that girl was special to you wasn’t she?” Willow steps into the ring staring at this giant, praying that she could do something.

“Yes, she is my girlfriend.”
The demon picks at his chin. “Who is more pathetic, the idiotic child you are loving or you for loving the idiotic child.”

Willow feels the energy swirling inside and her pupils turn white. The demon steps back at this. “DON’T YOU EVER SPEAK ABOUT HER IN THAT WAY!” Willow is joyous that the power has returned but still worried that Kennedy was defeated.

“Good, this promises to be a challenge. But I must ask you this also, why do you seek to find the hell mouth?”

Willow stares at him with her Goddess-like eyes and answers with confidence. “ To atone for my past sins.”

“Like your girlfriend, you clearly are clueless as to why you want to destroy the hell mouth. Don’t use your past mistakes as a reason to fight on the side of good. It’s just another weak answer.” Before he can attack Willow casts a fire spell on the demon, she smiles as the force of the flame sends him backwards, but he doesn’t catch on fire or doesn’t burn. “Very good instincts witch!”

Willow yells at her demon opponent. “I’M NOT A WITCH, I AM A GODDESS!” She puts her palm up towards him to throw him backwards using a force spell, that would knock him out of the ring. But instead of a spell or any kind of force she gets nothing. Her pupils go back to normal as she tries again, but still nothing.

He approaches her with the widest smile she has ever seen from a demon. “No, you are a witch who was once powerful, who once performed a powerful spell. Now you are nothing more than a child.” He sinks his claws into her shoulder, not enough to kill or injure, but enough to give her major pain. She begins to take steps backwards, shocked that her magic failed her and that she let him get the best of her. She steps more and more towards the edge. The Mizerak walks up to her and just gives her a push and she falls out of the ring. He laughs at these humans failed attempts.

Xander immediately runs to his childhood friends side, he checks to make sure that her wounds aren’t critical. “Willow, how do you feel?”

She looks at him with sweet eyes. “Stupid, very stupid.”

Vi looks up at the demon in the ring and looks across at Andrew who also looks very concerned about….. What About? She thinks to herself, then looks at the demon who gestures for her to try and come into the ring. She looks back at Andrew, who wishes he could say something to bolster up the enough confidence for her to beat this beast. She looks at the demon and just tries to think happy thoughts, think that maybe she can get at least one good move on the Mizerak. She steps forward not saying anything to either Andrew or the demon.

“You? Slayer of the vampyrs? Are you the next to challenge me?” The now zealous demon asks her.

“Yes, yes I am.” She grabs a crossbow from the big weapons and makes sure to load it right.

“Then step forward, young slayer.” She steps into the ring, clearly showing her fear of this monster. He looks at her with a terrifying grin. “Now tell me, why do you seek the hell mouth?”

She tries to come up with the best answer, but can’t. “I don’t know.”

“Finally, someone who gives me an honest answer. Maybe not all humans are liars and cheats, I will make this quick.” Before she can aim the crossbow at the Mizerak, he clenches his fist and knocks her immediately out of the ring. Andrew watches her head hit one of the stone statues, he can even hear the thud, hell, he feels it. He can barely watch the blood trickle from her mouth, he is stunned by how vicious this creature, it is all his fault. “ I told her it would be quick, it’s painless, but it’s quick.”
Mizerak goes to the edge of the ring and looks right at Xander who puts Willow down for a couple of minutes. Xander wonders why he is even going to do this, this demon already took out his most powerful guys. He just wants to find another way to find the hell mouth rather than have him and Andrew get their asses handed to them by this demon. The one thing that convinces him that he must fight is that Giles would stand up and fight even if Buffy or Spike or Faith or anyone else who would fight by his side or for his cause were to be taken out. He looks right at the demons red eyes with a cowardly glare. “What about you, Watcher? Do you challenge the demon that took out your charges within minutes?”

Xander is about to step forward and agree to fight this monster, but is stopped by a piercing scream from behind the demon. “NO, I CHALLENGE YOU!!!” He is shocked when the demon falls forward, out of the ring right in front of him. Did he just witness what he though he witnessed? He looks down at the demon then into the ring, still not believing what he just saw. He looks at the edge of the ring where the powerful Mirzerak Kazarak stood just a few seconds before, he is now replaced by a very scrawny boy who is on one knee holding himself up with the battle axe that Xander threw him minutes before the summoning. Xander knows that that took everything Andrew had to knock the demon out of the ring, even with the butt of the axe. Andrew looks at Xander, both are surprised that Andrew just got very lucky. “I think I pulled something.”

But there is something else there in his eyes, still same old goofy Andrew, but there was something else. It looked liked he just let a whole lot of rage out on this demon. But what would cause such rage in a person who was never known for his rage, but his lap dog reputation? Then he takes a look over at Vi who has been knocked out from the Mizerak, then everything clicks in Xander’s head, he knows the reason for Andrew’s rage and sudden bravery. Now he just feels dumb founded by this revelation, it is so very odd to fathom. The last ten seconds hard to fathom actually, none of it makes a lot of sense in Xander’s mind. But he knows he would have done the same for Anya, and that’s what brings this revelation about his new friend to life. His thoughts are interrupted by the chuckle of the demon as he gets back up. “Well played, young summoner.”

Xander, now out of his dumbfounded trance goes to help Andrew up as the Mizerak is now on his feet looking at the two young men. “Well, you were defeated are you going to tell us what we need to know?”

“Of course, I will keep my word.” The demon says as he watches Xander help Andrew out of the ring. “And watcher, you clearly have a brave group warriors on my side.”

“I’m starting to notice that.” Xander agrees completely after seeing this selfless display by Andrew.

“But they have a long way to go if they want to defeat what lies beneath the hellmouth. I wish you luck.” Xander is surprised at how polite the Mizerak is, but he guesses the whole taunting intimidating thing is just part of the job.

“I’ll remember that.” Xander pauses as Andrew is standing on his own. “Now can you tell us where the hellmouth is?”

“Gather your wounded and I will tell all I know.” Relieved that this night is almost over with him and Andrew scatter to help the girls back to their feet.

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Amazing absolutly amazing, I'm living this fic more and more with every update. And way to go Andrew!!!!!!!! I figured it would have been him or Vi to take out the demon but I thought the demon would take everyone out first then Andrew would have to fight. Can't wait till next update. More soon please.

[Shell]

Wow!!!Wicked fic!!!!:D

[Hero]

More great updates. I love this story. Keep going soon.

[rene]

yay andrew!!!! my nerdy-bear is a hero! lol this is sooo good! can wait for more!

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I'm glad that you guys are enjoying this fic, hell, I'm enjoying writing this fic. And for those of you that REALLY enjoy I remind you that one of this months categorys in the member awards is Best Fan Fic Writer. I'm not saying I am the best (Not even close actually) on these boards. But a few nominattions would be just as good as winning. Alright, enough self promotion, here is the laatest update:

“Can you walk?” Xander asks as he helps Willow to her feet, putting an old cloth on her wound. Kennedy is back up in time to help her girlfriend.

“Yeah, I think I can handle it. Of course with a little help.” Willow says cozying up to Kennedy.

Kennedy looks at Xander. “So did the Mizerak defeat us?”
Xander gives her a grin. “Actually, he was defeated. He’s letting us gathered the hurt, so we can all gather around and tell us the location of the hell mouth.”

“Wait,” Kennedy begins very curious. “If I didn’t beat him, and Willow doesn’t like she was successful, neither does Vi, how were you able to throw him out?”

Xander looks over at Andrew who is dragging Vi over to the stone circle, she looks like she’ll recover soon. He smiles at Kennedy. “ It wasn’t me either.”

Kennedy looks confused at this, she can’t fathom who did end up defeating the Mizerak. Willow, who saw a little bit, answers Kennedy’s question. “Andrew beat it.”

Xander loves the look of shock on Kennedy’s face. “Yep, the one you termed as useless, just got us a ticket to finding the hell mouth.”

Kennedy looks amazed. “Wow, wonders never cease do they?”

“They really don’t.” The Mizerak answers from his stone platform. “I’ve never been defeated by a human with no slayer abilities or powers.”

“Bet you’re a little ashamed, aren’t you?” Xander asks the demon who sits perched on his stone.

“I beat two slayers and witch, I have no reason to be ashamed. The Summoner just out smarted me, very wise summoner.” The Mizerak gazes at Andrew who sits Vi down in front of the demon. “Is the youngest slayer recovered yet?”

“I think she is coming to.” Andrew answers still very shaken at the stupid but brave thing he just did.

Vi sits up indian style trying to wake up from that deathblow the Mizerak just gave her. “I’m up, what happened?”

“That explanation will have to wait for another time.” The Mizerak stares at Xander with enraged eyes. “I grow tired of this world, are you ready to find out the destination the hell mouth.”

“Yes, let’s just get this over with so we can all just go to bed. Is anybody else with me on this one?” He looks over at the rest of his crew, he is the only one who is at hundred percent health.

“Sounds good to me.” Willow answers in Kennedy’s arms.

“Me too.” Kennedy agrees making sure the scythe is nearby.

Xander looks over at Andrew who has been fairly quiet for the last couple of minutes Andrew gives him a look of agreement as does Vi who is now out of Andrew’s arms. Xander nods at the Mizerak as that the whole group is in agreement that they want this night to end. “Okay, we are all ready to hear what you have to say. So where is it?”

The Mizerak grins. “The Hell mouth is located at ….” All of a sudden a green energy hits the Mizerak, disintegrating the demon into many pieces. The five looks shocked as the demons stone plat form disappears.

“What the hell?” Xander exclaims realizing at that very moment that this has been pointless.

Andrew looks at him. “Wh…what just happened?”

A voice from behind them speaks up. “The big demon fellow just went boom.” They turn around to see two identical twins dressed in gothic clothing, both carrying stakes, with wide smiles on their faces. The one talking looks at her sister. “Ain’t that right Elaina?”

“That is correct Eliza.” The tells her sister as they approach the five scoobs, getting ready to battle.

Kennedy immediately stands raising up her scythe, also ready for battle. “Who are you?” She looks at Vi is still struggling to get to her feet, still in pain.

The one refered to as Eliza speaks up “We are the chosen ones and we have come to collect on what is rightfully ours.”

Xander who stands between Kennedy and Vi has an idea on what is going on here. “I smell ambush guys.”

“You are correct.” The other one, named Elaina confirms Xander’s fear right as Andrew and Willow and himself are flung backwards by some unknown force. Andrew hits a nearby tree, leaving him unconcious for the rest of the fight, Willow slides into some bushes, Xander soon lands ontop of her.

Kennedy charges at the two sisters raising up her powerful weapon, Vi grabs a nearby staff and follows her slayer counterpart. The one named Eliza begins throwing blows back and forth with Kennedy as Vi does the same with Elaina. The first thing Kennedy notices is that these girls don’t fight like vampires and even armed with stakes compared to their weapons they are able to block and defend each move. Kennedy is able to hold her own using the scythe to block each move and counter move, but it looks like Vi is having a much harder time defending against Elaina due to her injuries. Mid way through the battle with these two insane girls, Kennedy realizes who she is fighting, these two sisters are both slayers.

Xander gets up, then helps Willow to her feet. She looks at him very worried at this little ambush that has just taken place. “Look at those girls fight.”

“Yeah, looks like we found two new slayers, probably not on our side by the looks of things.” He looks over Andrew realizing that he isn’t going to be much more use for the rest of the night, he’s already done his part. He and Willow race towards the girls than another funny thing comes to mind. “What about the blast that took out the Mirzerak? And the force that sent us flying? Did they do that?”

“Last time I checked slayers didn’t have that kind of power.”

“So there’s another force involved with this attack I’m guessing.” He suddenly hits an invisible wall of some sort as does Willow, the two fall on their butts.

She looks at him and nods. “I’m guessing yes.”

Vi gets slammed right into the force field protecting them from Willow and Xander helping. Now the two girls double team Kennedy, the scythe falls to onto the grass and the girls keep beating on Kennedy with sharp kicks and punches, but the girl won’t go down. Xander looks at Willow feeling oh so screwed. “Do you think you can debarrier the uh barrier?”

She looks at him unsure, she doesn’t even know how much power she has left. “I don’t know, I can try.”

“Well try, your girlfriend is getting her ass kicked.”

That is more than enough to motivate Willow to try something, her hands glow a reddish color as she gathers her energies. Xander prays to himself that this works, that Willow has something left in her. She touches the force field with her glowing red hand and begins to scream in major pain. Xaner watches as Willow glows a green color and continues to scream. He cringes as he pulls her away from the force field, not only was she not able to undo the force field, apparently that was also a trap, a way to disable Willow even more.
Meanwhile, Elaina and Eliza finally get Kennedy down on the ground, the two slayer sisters laugh at Kennedy. Eliza grabs for the Scythe as Elaina continues to kick Kennedy in the gut with pleasure written all over her face. Eliza’s eyes glare as Elaina walks up to her finished with her pummeling of the other slayer. “Does it feel as powerful as our watcher said it would?”

“Even more sis, even more.” She hands it over to Elaina and her eyes begin to glow with even more pleasure. “Better than sex.”

Xander looks at his fallen comrades and then notices that the forcefield is now gone, he is the last chance to retrieve the scythe. He runs after the two girls with maybe the same rage that Andrew had earlier, they notice him and laugh at his attempt that is going to fail. He tries to tackle Eliza, but she easily throws him aside. Elaina, walks up to him and kicks him in the gut laughing while swinging the scythe. He guesses that the only reason he did it was to feel like part of the group getting his ass kicked as well. “Well, I hate to spoil the party Eliza, but we need to get this to the watcher.”

“You have a watcher?”

The two look down at Xander who is in pain. Eliza answers him with pleasure. “Don’t all vampire slayers have watchers?” The two walk off knowing that they have defeated adversaries, Xander is shocked to see them holding hands while doing so. “Bye, bye, phony watcher.”

Xander closes his eyes for what seems eternity, he doesn’t want to open them. How could those girls have watchers? Is the council up to no good again? But finally, he opens them as Kennedy helps him to his feet, her nose is bloodied and she has bruies all over her forehead. He looks at her with a look of failure. “ They have the scythe.”

She also looks upset. “This was a set up, they knew that we would try and summon the Mirzerak.”

“But it’s not just them, there was another force involved.”

Vi limps up towards them. “They knew how to weakness us. They knew our moves, how could they know our moves?”

“I don’t know but things are making sense now. Willow’s loss of magic, not being able to find the hell mouth, no records of weird happenings. Someone had this all planned.” Xander gets up as he and the girls walk up to Willow who is still shaking on the ground from the force that took her out. The three are basically helping each other walk by holding onto eachother shoulders. They all help Willow to her feet, conjoining her to their chain gang, she holds tightly to Kennedy.

“Are you okay baby?” Kennedy asks her girl who is still in a trance.

“It’s all gone, my magics all gone.” To Xander she looks as defenseless as she did back in high school before they met Buffy. “I can’t feel anything.”

The four, interlocked, slowly limped to where Andrew lays. “It’s probably just a passing thing, you’ll be fine in no time.”

“Xander,” with a very caring voice. “Don’t lie to me, someone must have spent a lot time planning this attack. We can’t do this without Buffy.”

“Don’t say that, Will.” Xander is still trying to fathom the events of the last hour. “We can do this solo, there is always a way.”

Kennedy refuses to believe that. “That’s bull! They have the scythe, they disabled Willow, they have eliminated our only way of finding the hell mouth. They have the power.”

All four find Andrew, who is now coming to, and they help him up. He interlocks with them, not saying a word he takes a comfy spot next to Vi. Right now it seems like nothing to either of them, but they will be thinking of that moment for the rest of the evening, even more than getting their asses kicked. Xander is practically talking to himself now. “ What is behind all of this?”


They don’t notice that they are still being watched from behind the trees and bushes. The figure smiles beneath his hood. Pleased with what has transpired, his plan has gone accordingly. “The answer is very simple, young Mr. Harris.” He laughs under his robe, knowing that Xander and the rest can’t hear or see him. “CHAOS is behind all of this.”

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[Shell]

Wow,cool,Im really enjoying this fic :)

[rene]

yeah it is soooo good!

[Guestage_87]

Alright here is the next update, this is probably the weirdest of my entriess but it does play into the storie. And it doubles as a homage (I.E Ripoff) of one of my favorite Buffy episodes. Here it is:

“I thought she was bad when she was evil, but now she is just useless.” Xander speaks from the living room.

Willow wakes up from deep sleep in shock that her child hood friend is saying things that she though she would never hear from him. She rolls her arm over to snuggle up next to Kennedy, but her lover isn’t there at this moment. Still, drousy she looks at the alarm clock, 9:30 P.M, how long has she been sleeping for. She remembers the ambush and getting knocked back from the force field and all of her mojo had being absorbed by something, the rest is very blurry. But has she been knocked out for a whole day? She listens in more the conversation that is going on in the living room of the apartment.

“Tell me about it, your not the one who has to sleep with her.” Willows gulps as Kennedy says this. Are her friends really conspiring against her?

“If it wasn’t for her things would be so much easier for me.” She hears Andrew complain.

She can’t take anymore of this, she needs to know what is going on. She slowly gets up from her bed, she feels so light as she walks. She slowly opens the door to the living room as her friends don’t stop the complaining. Xander stands in middle of the living room in a suit that Giles would usually wear. “For the last two years I had to be her moral support after she skinned Warren.” He pauses. “ Do you know how frustrating that is?” The funny thing is that he is looking right at her as she says this.

She walks deeper into the hall to see the rest of the group, Vi sits on a chair dressed in something out of “Chicago”, black glitter and all, on the couch sits Kennedy who is dressed in a “Joan Of Arch”-ish costume. (Much like the costume she wore years back when she was in college.) Next to her sits Andrew, but it isn’t really Andrew, Willow doesn’t notice this though, in her mind Andrew is instead Warren. Again, this doesn’t phase her, there is actually no difference to Willow. Andrew/Warren sits up and looks at her. “It’s about time you are up. You’ve been out for days.”

Willow looks at them very confused. “What happened.”

Xander smiles beneath his eye patch. “ Trying to figure out what to do with this mess we are in. Kennedy has softened up since you two started knocking boots, you killed Andrew, and your incredibly useless.” He looks into the kitchen. “What do you think Oz?

She turns her gaze over to the kitchen and inside, making a sandwhich, is her old and only boy friend Oz. He looks over at her, really making no emotion what so ever. “Oh, I’ve been here forever.”

She looks at Xander who now has both his eyes. “Xander, what’s going on?”

“Why don’t you tell us? You have always been the know it all. My girlfriends dead.”

“Well, I woke up and heard you guys saying incredibly inappropriate things about me. And how dare you….”

She stops as she notices Oz open the fridge and inside is Buffy Summer’s decapitated head. He looks at the others, confused. “ Who left Buffy’s head lying around?”

“Andrew I told you to put that in a zip lock bag.” Xander hits Andrew over the head with a newspaper, then gazes back on Willow. “Willow, why don’t you do something about that? Put the pieces together and bring her back to life.”

“I already did that once.”

“And how did that work out?” Vi stands up asking Willow.

A familiar voice over head speaks out from above. “You know the answer.”

They all look up and now Kennedy looks at her. “Oh yeah, that’s the whole reason we are here isn’t it? Because Willow was afraid of going on with life without her precious slayer.”

“What?” She has no clue why they are saying this.

“Xander,” Oz calls from the kitchen ignoring the decapitated Buffy head. “Where’s the cheese?”

A balding man with glasses walks into the kitchen holding a tray of cheese walks in. “Into each generation a cheeseman is born.” The man says as Oz grabs a slice off the tray and the man walks off.

Oz puts the cheese in his sandwhich and takes a bite. “ Tastes like Gnarl.”

Willow spins back around to the group, but the group is gone and now she is on the front porch of the Summer’s house. In the front yard is Kennedy, who is swinging her scythe and yelling out what seems to be the lyrics of Dexy’s Midnight Runner’s “Come ON Eileen.” Willow walks off the porch and to her lover, forgetting for the moment what just transpired. Before she can get there, a figure stomps past the picket fence holding something towards Kennedy. “Oh god, no!!”

“YOU TOOK HER FROM ME! YOU B!*CH!” Tara screams as she raises the gun towards Kennedy. Three shots and Kennedy is dead, blood seeping into the green grass. Tara smiles at Willow who is looking at what her dead lover just did.

“Tara, why did you kill Kennedy?” Willow asks shocked.

“Do you think I’m happy for you?” Tara smiles an evil smile that the real Tara wouldn’t. “You replaced me with this little brat. Plus, nobody like Kennedy.” As she says that line, it looks like a thousand people are behind her nodding in agreement.

“Honey,” Willow begins. “ I had to move on, I had to let you go.”

As Willow stares at somebody who was once hers, a voice behind her speaks up. “ Pay no attention to that.”

She turns to the porch to see the last person she thought she would see in her dream, Jonothan. But not the nerdy Jonothan from High School, but the cool, superstar version that he tricked everyone into thinking he was for a few days. “What are you doing here?”

Jonothan shrugs and gives her a cool smile. “You know me, I tend to pop up every once in awhile.” Willow looks back realizing that Tara is gone. “Actually Willow, for some reason your conscience has chosen me as your spirit guide, why? I’m not really sure.”
“What’s going on? Am I dreaming?”

Jonothan looks at her with honest eyes. “Yes and no, really. Your are being played with, actually you have been being played with for the last week or so. These dreams or more likely hallucinations is the way they are able to weaken you enough to steal your essence.”

“Jonothan, who is behind this?” She looks at him desperate to end this.

“Deep down inside, you know the answer. Put the pieces together, the little tid bits from last night, you already know what is going on here.”

“No,” She’s on her knees weakened from this whole dream. “I really don’t.”

“Turn around to find out, young sky walker……errrr Rosenberg.”

She feels the power behind and is now very afraid, she knows what is behind her, she knows what is going to attack her. “I don’t want to.”

Jonothan gives a sweet smile. “But you need to, it will put the pieces together a little more. Willow turn around.”

Willow turns and is now face to face with her worse night. The black hair, the dark eyes, the sinister smile, the veins coming out of her forehead, the pale skin, she is standing face to face with herself. But not the “herself” she knows and loves, but the evil wicka Willow. Evil wicka Willow looks at her with penetrating eyes and just says two things. “BORED NOW!”

With the point of her hand a green energy blast shoots at her knocking her back into the real world, sweaty and screaming at the top of her lungs.

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Here's even more and to clarify on the last update, Tara is not evil and I dindn't mean to prtray her that way, it was just one of Willow's fears, lotsa subtext in that last update. Anyways, here's more:


“It was so terrible.” Willow elaborates in the kitchen about the dream she just had. “You guys were saying mean things and there was somebody there, he was trying to tell me something important.”

Xander hands her a cup of coffee he just made, he looks like a man who has just been waken up by a screaming woman, in fact he is. He was hoping to at least get two hours of sleep before he went on to his new job, but now it’s four in the morning. But he needs to be there for his old friend, apparently this whole situation with her magic is much worse than he thought. Who was ‘he’? And what did he tell you?”

“That’s the part I can’t remember that well, I know he was someone I know and that he felt like he was the only thing that was ‘really’ there?” Willow explains snuggling in Kennedy’s arms, Willow’s screaming pretty much woke up the whole fourth floor of the complex. Luckily, Vi and Andrew were able to get back to sleep, Vi took the couch and Andrew slept on the floor right beside the couch with a smile on his face. “Well, him and the thing that attacked me at the end of it, but that presence was there all through out the dream.”

“It’s all done and over with.” Kennedy assures her girlfriend although they all know it’s far from over, in fact Xander has a feeling it has just begun.

“And it’s not the primitive?” He knows it’s not, but he figures he should ask anyway.

“You know it’s not.” Kennedy grabs at her being more and more concerned.

“I know,” He begins as he figures since he’s not going to be getting any more sleep for the next few hours, he might as well figure this out all at once. “ How long have you been having these dreams or feeling out of place or whatever is? I know that it didn’t just start tonight.”

“You’ve been talking in your sleep a lot lately.” Kennedy confirms what Willow had been fearing for quite awhile now.

“About a week.” She answers reluctantly. “I tried hiding it, I jus thought it was a passing thing.”

“So these dreams started to surface around the same time you began to lose your magic?” Kennedy asks.

“More or less the essence that I have to perform magic, I have become totally disabled.”

“And we arrived here about a week ago.” Xander pauses then tries to gather his thoughts. “Alright, so we get here a week ago, around that time Willow loses control of her witchyness and has psyched out dreams.”

“So what’s the deal why would someone want to take Willow’s magic away?”

“I’m guessing to weaken us.”

“Why?” Kennedy asks none the wiser.

“So we would be defenseless during the attack earlier tonight.” Xander answers still putting the info together in his head. “So whoever is behind this can get the scythe.”

“Wait,” Kennedy looks at both of them now sitting on the counter. “You think that those wannabe slayers are behind Willow losing her magic?”

“First off, they ARE slayers and by the looks of things they are well trained. Look at the facts, last night we summon the Mizerak, the Mizerak pretty much weakens our two slayers. Then as the Mizerak is about to tell us where the hell mouth is, he is taken out. Then those slayers come in and beat the crap out two already weakened slayers and with Willow unable to perform as good as she used to, giving them the perfect opportunity to take the strongest weapon we have.”

“And there is more….” Willow begins thinking more and more about the events of the night before. “ Those girls were protected by magic, very powerful magic.”

“Yeah,” Xander exclaims remembering more and more about the night before. “ The blast that took the Mizerak out, the force that sent the three of us flying.”

“And the force field that worked as a trap to steal the rest of my magic. They had a powerful witch protecting them, no doubt.”

“The girls DID say they had a watcher.” Xander adds in to the conversation.

“Wait,” Kennedy looks confused, she hasn’t been around long enough to play catch up with Willow and Xander who have been doing this type of thing for years. “So, the new watcher’s council is involved in this?”

“Perhaps.” Xander scratches his head thinking this over. “But from what I hear, Giles is pretty much heading up this reformation of the council and I don’t want to think about him being behind this.”

“Or it is someone pretending to be the watcher.” Willow points out.

“That makes a whole lot more sense. But the disturbing thing is that whoever or whatever is behind this knew that we were coming. I mean it struck right when we got here, must’ve been planning this for awhile.” He hates having to think right now, he is really tired. He might be hallucinating as well, in the corner of his eye it looks like Vi and Andrew are holding hands in their sleep. He looks all the way over notices that they aren’t now, and they are fast asleep. “This is so wrong.”

“Well,” Willow begins. “When we signed on for this, did we really expect a walk in the park?”

“But we didn’t think everything would happen all at once.” Kennedy adds. “My question is, what are they after? The scythe?”

“Or to protect the hell mouth.” Xander replies.

“Or both.”

“So what’s plan?” Kennedy and Willow both look at Xander.

“What are you looking at me for?”

“Well, you are my watcher, aren’t you?” Kennedy asks sarcastically.

“Okay, tomorrow I have my teaching job to go to. What are your girls plans for the day?”

“I have an interview at 2:00 besides that I’m free.” Willow answers.

“Kennedy, do you have an interview or anything?”

“Nope, I haven’t even tried looking.”

“Alright, need you to do some scouting around, see if you can find any nests or demon that can give you information on these girls. I’ll have Andrew research spells or summons or artifacts that can steal magic or whatever.”

Kennedy looks at him very bitter. “That’s not going to get us anywhere. We need to kick these girl’s asses, we need that Scythe back. I need that scythe back.”

He takes another sip of his coffee looking at his unreasonable charge with distaste. “Yes, we know that, we do have to get the scythe back. But we cannot do that until we find their location, believe me, no one wants a shot at these girls and their watcher more than me. But we can’t beat them if we can’t find them.”

Kennedy is about to yell at Xander again, but Willow puts her hand over her mouth. “He’s got a point sweety.”

“Willow,” Xander begins. “Do you think you are up to doubling up on the watching tomorrow or tonight or whatever it is.”

“I might be up for it, I’ll need a lot of weapons.”

“It’s just light work, you’ll need to be watching Vi as she hunts for vampires in clubs and graveyards the usual.” He gets up from his chair in the kitchen.

“Why can’t I go with Willow?” Kennedy argues.

“Because you and me will be hunting for these weird slayer girls. That’s what you wanted right?” Xander, very grumpy, asks.

“Yes.” She has nothing to follow that but then she realizes that Xander is walking away. “Where are you going?”
As he walks into the room, wondering if Giles ever had nights like these where he can’t get the thoughts out of his head. Too much exposition for this new watcher, Xander thinks and soon he’ll have to get up to go to work. “I’m going to get my needed one hour of sleep.” He slams the door and crashes on the big comfy bed that the girls usually sleep on.

Author's note: Yeah, I hit a bit of a lull in the story, but filler scenes like these are needed to put things together. Next update should be tomorrow, that should be a good one, Vi's first day of High School and much more.

[rene]

that was very good urrrg i just hate that kennedy!

[Guestage_87]

Here's some more:

“Wait, you read X-Men?”

“Religiously,” Vi begins. “Well, before I became a slayer, I guess I’m kind of a geek.”

The ‘Knight Rider’ knock off car screeches into the parking lot of Burton High School, Xander never knew that Andrew could drive like that. But he figures Andrew has been acting different for the last couple of days and he thinks he knows why now. He is actually positive why both him and Vi have been acting semi-unusual, they actually remind him of the way he and Willow were acting for a few months, but he seriously doubt they have even gone as far as to be up front with their feelings yet. He listens to the two of them talk in the front seats and can’t help but think that they are so cute together. He hates to do this to his new buddy, but he needs to give Andrew his agenda for the day, he finds it best to keep the little nerd busy. From the back seat he leans over and sneaks up next to Andrew. “ I hate to interrupt, but we have some stuff to go over before you go off to watch reruns of Quantum Leap.”

“That show was so over rated.” Andrew replies, then goes on. “I usually watch Babylon 5 and Farscape on Sci Fi.”

“Andrew, remember the whole ‘rant’ conversation we had?” Xander asks him.

Andrew sighs. “Most people aren’t interested in the same stuff I’m interested in, so I should keep the sci fi talk to a minimum.”

Andrew parks the car in front of the school and looks back at Xander as Vi grabs her bag and notebooks. “ I need you to do some major research today?”

“Another demon?” Andrew moans.

“No, actually. I’m going to need you to look up on what Willow’s could be? See you can find any history of witch’s losing their mojo and having weird dreams.”

“I didn’t sign on to do research, couldn’t I chase down vampires or beat the crap out of snitch?” Andrew asks.

“Well, I see that you aren’t as humble as you were last night. Sorry Andrew, that’s just part of moving on up the food chain, you have to earn your stripes by doing boring stuff.”

Vi opens the door of car and looks at Andrew very nervous about starting anew somewhere else. “Well, guess it’s time to begin living the double life. I wonder if Buffy was ever as nervous as I am.”

Andrew gives her a confident look. “You’ll do fine.”

Vi’s face turns red as he says this. “Thank you, good luck with your research.”

“See you in class.” Xander says as she leaves the car and begins walking up to the High School. Grabbing his stuff, he looks back at Andrew with a twinkle in his one good eye. Andrew looks at him, knowing his going to start hinting to something. “Look at her go, off to make new friends, meet boys.”

Andrew tries to play dumb. “What are you talking about?”

“It would just be a pity if there was someone who had feelings for her and he didn’t do something about it until she found someone else.” A lot of this is going by a lot of his o experiences with the opposite sex. Up until last night he didn’t think that Andrew was into the opposite sex, but he doesn’t want him missing out on something he really wants.

Andrew is shocked, he thought he was doing a good job of covering up the tension over the last day. “I…..I don’t know….”

“JUST GO ASK HER OUT ON A DATE BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE DOES!” Xander demands as Andrew now looks very scared.

Without saying a word, he jumps out of the car with phony determination plastered on his face, Xander watches from the car hoping his boy will actually go through with it. Andrew walks amongst the high school students, very shaky, he feels sort of out of place chasing down a girl who is probably going to reject him. He finally spots her walking towards the office of the High School, he runs pass all the other students the tension building even more. In his mind, he practices what he’s going to say, how he’s going to say it, but he still can’t see any situation to where he’s not going to get rejected. He is finally right behind her, slowing down, “Vi.”

She turns around bumping right into him, dropping all of her books and folders. “Andrew? What’s wrong?” She asks bending down to pick up her stuff, Andrew kneels down to help her out.

“Um… Nothing’s wrong. I just wanted to uh….” He pauses still trying to gather her stuff together for her.

“What is it? Are you trying to ask me something?” She gathers all her books as Andrew adds a couple more on top.

“Uh…. I just wanted to ask you if….” He pauses for a very long time.

“Yes?” She hopes that he’s going to ask her what she wants him to ask.

“Uh…yeah…” He tries to begin again. “Do you like Agent Mulder or Agent Doggit?”

He looks back up at her, she seems very disappointed, but goes along with the question. “Mulder, Doggit was just a bad replacement. But that show should’ve ended at Season 7.”

Even though scolding himself in his head, he does like her answer. “ Yeah, I completely agree with that.”

They both just stand there looking at eachother for a moment, soaking in the awkward moment. But Vi has to interrupt it anyway. “Well, I got to go to class.”

“Yeah,” He looks at her, now being very dissapointed. “Sorry, to keep you.”

“No, thank you for that.” She now is very nervous. “Whatever that was.”

“Have a good day at school.” He says with a half smile, then she does something he didn’t expect, she leans over and gives him a hug. They both look at each other for a moment, then she runs off towards the office. She gives him a sweet smile and a wave before she goes in.

“So,” A voice from behind says as a hand goes over his shoulder. Andrew turns back to see Xander, Andrew turns red for a moment. “How did it go?”

“It went good. I was smooth.” He lies to his mentor.

“You ended up talking about X-Files, didn’t you?” Xander asks holding some objects for his new teaching job.
“Yeah, maybe tomorrow.” Andrew looks hopeful and walks off to the car, very upset with himself.

[rene]

awww poor nerdy bear! lol i hope they go out! and its
very good as usual!

[Guestage_87]

Here's another short little scene:

After second period gets out, Xander is thankful he gets a fifteen-minute break to relax and take this new experience in. He never realized how hard teaching teenagers how to build a spice rack could be, too much AOL for these kids, he figures. Maybe he’s just grumpy because he didn’t get too much sleep last night and his worries about the missing scythe, Willow’s missing magics and new bad slayers with an unknown watcher. When he was told that he had become a watcher, his worst fear is that he would mess it up in a major way, worse than Wesley’s screw up with Faith. Although, it wasn’t all Wesley’s fault, god knows the young brit didn’t help much though, the council has a way of making scapegoats. Wesley became the laughing stock of the council, even though it’s a new council, he does know