Author's Note: You're all probably thinking: 'Oh great, he's started another story without finishing the others'. Yeah, but I've been working on this one for a while and it is intended for Halloween to be done by Halloween. I hope you enjoy it.


Jade: The Vampire Slayer

By OneHorseShay

Disclaimer: I don't own the intellectual properties of iCarly, Victorious, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel: The Series, Supernatural, Moonlight (The CBS Vampire Detective show) or the Evil Dead Franchise (particularly Army of Darkness) so don't sue, for God sakes, don't sue.

Rating: T Violence, Language, Adult Theme/Content

Pairings: Future Jade West/Freddie Benson (Jedi), ambiguous Tori Vega/Beck Oliver (Bori) and other various pairings.

Summary: Jade West, one of many slayer potentials activated, struggles to live a normal life and pursue her dreams of being an actress and musician while dodging the Machiavellian politics of the supernatural world and helping to try to stop the release of a forty-five hundred year old Abomination from the Necronomicon.


Chapter 1

Abandoned Warehouse
Los Angeles, CA
Sunday, April 15, 2012

In the waning light of the afternoon, Victoria 'Tori' Vega and Beckett 'Beck' Oliver quietly made their way through an 'abandoned' warehouse, navigating around various stacks of crates. On paper the warehouse was abandoned by one of various companies hitting hard times, but it was far from abandoned with various amenities of being occupied by worn furniture, several mini-refrigerators and even a microwave, but with an impressive television and entertainment system that had to 'fall out of the back of a truck'.

The pair could individually smell the faint scent of the occupants, but they weren't the usual squatters… they smelled the scent of death and unholy permeating the room.

The back of Tori's neck tensed up as she felt a presence approach them from the other side of the open space. The pair slightly separated and watched for what turned out to be a pair of twenty something young men rounding a constructed wall of crates and barrels. There was nothing too remarkable about them and one wouldn't give them a second thought if they passed them in the street.

A somewhat built man in his mid-twenties growled out, "You two lost?"

Tori smiled. "Ah no, we're exactly where we need to be."

The leaner of the pair smiled in an almost giddy manner. "Yes you certainly are. I'm going to enjoy her for a very long time—hell, I think I'll turn and keep her." The pair roared as their incisors became ragged, canine teeth extended, their brows deformed into ridges causing their eyebrows to disappear and their eyes turned yellow.

Tori smiled while she pulled out a short wooden stake from an inside pocket and finding a comfortable grip in the handle.

Beck's irises turned into a sharp blue color and his canines extended then let out a roar to respond to the pair's challenge.

The pair of vampires was somewhat shocked in the male teenager's appearance and reaction. The surprise was clearly cut off when Beck leapt and crossed the dozen feet to tackle the larger vamp while the other one charged Tori. The brunette raised her left arm to protect her head while she tried to get in a quick jab towards his heart, however his reflexes were faster and he swatted her arm away and actually the stake completely out of her hand. However, she quickly grabbed him by the collar and tossed him away to her right off his feet and slammed against the wall about half a dozen feet away.

She caught movement in her peripheral vision to her left and turned to meet the threat: a third vampire had appeared out of nowhere to tackle her to the ground. They rolled several times and ended up with him on top. She got her arms up to protect her head as he tried to start pummeling her face. He suddenly jerked up into a sitting position then the vampire's eyes shot open then looked down to see the tips of what looked like a pair of scissors sticking out of his chest. He didn't get a chance to further process the sight as he dissolved into a fine brown dust, covering the long haired brunette.

Tori frowned up at her 'rescuer': Jade smugly smiling at her as she lowered the scissors.

The vampire that Tori had tossed against the wall got back on his feet and was ready to charge the girls. Jade tossed Tori a spare stake from her jacket as the longer haired teenager jumped to her feet and the girls prepared to double team him. However, he quickly stopped as in a flash a muscular teenager was on his right and swung a machete horizontally, slicing through his neck. His head rolled off his neck and the head and body dissolved into dust before either hit the ground. The decapitator turned to reveal he was Freddie Benson.

Jade smiled her thanks just before the three turned to see that Beck had gotten behind his opponent in a headlock then made a quick jerking motion with his arms, snapping the demonic vampire's neck. Beck dropped the crippled vampire then took the advantage of pulling out a stake and stabbing him in the back. A high pitch scream later and the vampire crumbled to fine dust.

The blue highlighted girl began in an angry tone towards Tori, "What do you think you're doing?"

Tori pointed behind her and interrupted, "Complain later; we still have company."

Jade and Freddie followed her pointer finger to another five vampires ready for a fight and wearing their game faces.

The quartet turned to face them with Freddie raising his machete up and eyed the vampire at the right end to him, Beck snarled and focused on the vampire on the other end and the girls decided to take the three in the middle with the boys anchoring their flanks.

However before the two groups could charge one another, a voice called out from behind the group of vampires, "Ah, excuse me."

The center standing vampire turned and curiously looked at another teenager in a grey cloth hooded, black leather jacket and blue jeans. The vampire roared and gave the teenager a deadly stare as the briefest of warnings before he planned to tear out his throat.

Dusty calmly raised his left hand and placed his palm on the vampire's forehead and instantly, a high pitch whine sounded from the spot and a white/yellowish light blazed through the creature's eyes and out of his mouth through a terrifying scream and lighting up the area. The light ceased another moment later to reveal the eyes had been disintegrated before the vampire crumbled to dust.

The other vamps took fearful steps back in not comprehending what they had just witnessed. In their hesitation, Dusty stepped forward in less than a blink of an eye and caught two others by the throat and picked them up completely off their feet then slammed them into the ground. Their eyes flashed in the same white/yellowish light as their fellow vampire and dusted just as quickly after their eyes were reduce to less than ashes.

He looked up in a cold and predatory stare at the other two vampires.

They turned to ran away from him in instinctual fear, but apparently forgot the quartet they had been facing. Beck and Tori tackled one to the ground and she shoved the steak into his heart then the pair dropped to the ground as the body fell apart.

Jade grabbed her opponent by the collar and shoved the scissors into his heart while Freddie grabbed his left forearm to prevent the vampire from defending himself. His face looked to her in abject horror before it dissolved.

The smiting teenager casually walked to the quartet with a disapproving expression.

Tori laughed while standing up and looking at the surprised fifth member of the group, "So that's why they really call you 'dusty'."

The lean teenager frowned at the slayer as he brushed off his hands on his jean covered outer thighs. "Funny. So you're taking on nests by yourselves now?"

Beck retorted in mild offense as his eyes returned to his normal color and his canines retracted to their normal length, "We were doing just fine."

Jade sarcastically countered, "You were doing so fine that you were about to be ambushed by the two we just dusted then the other five after them."

Tori looked to Jade with an impatient stare. "We could have handled them just fine. We were taking them on two at a time."

Freddie interrupted with a concerned laced voice, "This isn't funny Tori. You walk into a nest without any backup? You were going to beat eight on two odds?"

Beck through out his hands and retorted in a mildly offended tone, "I was her back up."

The more muscular teenager frowned at the leaner teenager and didn't look convinced at all from that optimistic assessment.

Tori palmed her forehead and looked to the Seattleite. "How did you know we were here?"

Jade crossed her arms under her chest and gave him a look as if he had seriously asked such a question.

Beck shook his head. "Cat…"

Freddie spoke up, "Of course Cat told us where you were. She was afraid of you two going out alone."

The darker haired girl demanded, "Why didn't you ask the rest of us to go with you?"

Tori responded with a somewhat embarrassed tone, "I didn't think you were still patrolling or willing to go out to destroy a nest and I thought you would have tried to talk me out of it."

Jade snorted out in disgust, "We live in L.A., patrolling is a waste of time in a city this big, but I guess your boss is too stupid to realize that and you didn't ask if I wanted to go." She motioned to herself, Freddie and Dusty. "We would have gone with you."

Tori crossed her arms under her chest and blew out a breath. "She's the Slayer and has been doing this for about fifteen years. I'm going to trust her experience… something you should be doing—she's a little concerned about some of your choices."

Jade placed a hand on her upper chest and sarcastically retorted, "Oh, she's still hung up that I work for a vampire. I'm the bad one? I'm another Faith in the making? That's rich coming from her: Buffy the Vampire Fucker."

Tori crossed her arms under her chest. "You're a Vampire Slayer; you don't work for a vampire."

Jade motioned a hand towards Beck and looked to Tori as if she couldn't believe she made such a remark.

"That's different and you know it!"

The pale girl shrugged a shoulder and casually asked, "How?"

"I have to explain that to you? He's your ex."

Beck rolled his eyes then shouted with a clearly annoyed tone, "I'm standing right here—and I'm not demonic."

Jade verbally jumped, "That's my point: neither is Mason and he gets just as offended about the purposeful confusion of the two." She looked back to Tori and continued, "I'm not going to feel ashamed for working for Mason. It's working for a vampire and having a record deal to become a hit recording artist verses being Buffy's little bitch? It's not a hard choice for me."

She took another step to her fellow slayer and stared her right in the eyes. "Get it through your head Tori: you work for Buffy then you're her bitch. In her mind, she is never wrong and if you disagree, she will make you agree with her or destroy you out of spite. Ask Faith."

She shook her head in mild discuss as she brought up another point, "And I enjoy the protection of being signed to his record company, something we don't get in her little band of slayers."

Tori raised a disbelieving eyebrow. "Protection?"

"Yes, the protection. Buffy thinks she has this grand army now and thinks she can take on the whole supernatural world. She can't. Everyone is starting to organize against her. The demon clans that hate each other are setting aside their differences readying for a fight. The demonic vampires are starting to organize and focus on seriously taking her on." Jade finished by spitting out in anger, "She's taken away our greatest weapon against them."

Tori retorted in disbelief, "And what's that?"

"Them being afraid of us. We were supposed to be their bogeyman, but they're not afraid of us anymore, but angry and hate us, so they're ready to take us head on. What's going to happen is that once they're ready, they are going to wipe her out and her little Scooby Gang and any other slayer that is stupid enough to stand with her. I don't plan to be one of them."

Jade threw her hands up in disgust, "Chizz Tori, the Catholic and the Protestant hunters want to put her and the rest of us down… I hear the more reasonable ones are giving us the consideration of exorcising the piece of the demon out of us then sending us on our way in peace instead of killing us on sight."

Tori frowned and glanced to Dusty in an almost accusing manner and he stared back with an impassive expression and replied in a conversational voice, "You have a little bit of a demon in you that gives you your powers and she's organizing you into an army only answerable to her and her handpicked lieutenants; you don't think that's going to worry a few people? Especially since she's told every other hunter organization on the planet—some that have been around since the Crusades—that she is the law and get in line behind her. I have no interest in bowing to her and there are plenty of us that share that belief. It's my understanding that the Pope Adrian the Seventh was not too happy being told such a thing. I thought you were Catholic and took his word over hers."

The brunette shook her head then looked to her darker haired friend, "So you sell your soul to a vampire for that 'protection'? He's going to protect you from the fighting?"

Jade crossed her arms back under her chest and sharply retorted, "I didn't sell anything. I'm a signed musician—a real job, not obligating my life to monster hunting because of what Buffy and her witch did to me—to us. I have other responsibilities now—more important responsibilities than to be her disposable foot soldier in a war she can't win."

Tori bowed her head and shook it and sadly remarked, "We're not going to get the normal life. We're the chosen ones—"

"We're only chosen because a bunch of warlocks that were too cowardly to fight their own battles enslaved a girl to fight for them after forcing the spiritual power of a demon down her throat. We weren't chosen by some divine power; we got it by the luck of the draw. I'm not sorry to say this Tori, but I'm no one's slave. If you want to think you have to give up your acting or musical ambitions because of this, that's on you and not my problem."

Tori looked to the floor in embarrassment at how close to home Jade had hit with her accusation about putting her entertainment ambitions on hold.

She pointed a finger in Tori's face and hissed, "And don't you ever pull a stunt like this and scare Cat again or I'll kick your ass." She snorted out in disgust then turned and started for the door.

Freddie blew out a breath, but gave a lighthearted smile to the brunette, unsure of what else to say, "See you in class tomorrow?"

Tori returned the easy going smile with a wave of her hand as he turned to catch up with the pale Slayer. "See yeah."

Dusty looked between the slayer and vampire and shook his head in mild disgust of what he saw was clear stupidity on their parts then turned to catch up with Jade and Freddie. As if to prove his point another vampire jumped out from his left on his way towards the exit, but he quickly and quite offhanded manner, dusted it with a palm to the forehead, a flash of light, the eyes consuming away in their holes.

West Residence
Los Angeles, CA
Mid-evening

Jade's room had taken on a far more lighthearted approach over the last few weeks. The darker elements of her room were removed, including her odd collection of jarred specimens. She actually added another lamp to lighten up the mostly dark room to highlight the fact that one side of the room looked liked it belonged to a small child with various items of children books and toys… which it did with her step-brother Ian West moving in with her and her mother.

It was perhaps Jade's own motherly instinct or her healthy respect for the things that were out in the world after her calling in being a slayer (or in her mind the cursed by that redheaded witch to jank up her life), but she insisted that Ian stay in her room until he was older for his safety or until their father returned.

At the moment, Ian was in his bed snuggling to Jade's right side while she was finishing reading from one of his story books. The young child drifted off as Jade finished the last line of the book, "…and they lived happily ever after."

She quietly slipped from his side and put the book on the neighboring nightstand then pulled up the blanket to his chest and kissed his forehead. She beamed a smile to him. "Sweet dreams sweetheart."

He mumbled something unintelligible that brought a bigger smile to the teenager. She looked down at the Border collie lying just under the side of the bed. She leaned down and scratched behind his ear and he eagerly wagged his tail before settling back down to 'sleep' just under the left side of Ian's bed.

She walked over to her window and triple checked the lock on the ballistic glass windows. She looked above the window to see the Enochian demon-warding symbol still intact then started her routine of going about the house to double check the other windows, doors and other warding symbols.

She peaked her head into the garage to see several warding symbols painted on the inside of the garage door then locked the kitchen door behind her. She passed a goodnight farewell to her mother on she passed the living room and made her way back up the stairs.

She glanced back into her room for a moment to look at Ian peacefully sleeping with a stuffed animal Cat had given him. The Border Collie immediately lifted his head sensing the girl's presence. She raised her finger to her lips. "Shhh Ira, I'm just passing by."

The 'dog' settled back down while keeping a watchful eye while Jade continued on her way to the end of the hallway. She stopped at the partially opened bedroom door and looked inside: Freddie was sitting on his bed with his laptop in his lap, intently focusing his attention on the screen. The guest room was quite Spartan with the room's original decoration other than a few pictures on the dressers as Freddie hadn't bothered to decorate the room when he crashed in it several weeks ago.

She softly knocked on the door and playfully asked, "Any luck in finding your lost book?"

Freddie broke his attention from his PearBook and looked up to Jade with a slight frown, trying to ignore how lovely she still looked being dress down for bed in a tank top, black light sweatpants and makeup and jewelry free face. "No. Not even a whisper of any deadite activity since I got here or anywhere else. Someone has to have it and is smart enough on how to handle it without raising an army or getting infected themselves."

She walked into the room without a real invitation and plotted down beside him to his left. She rested her forearm on his shoulder to rest her chin and looked at the screen with him. He had several different windows opened to various news sites, especially the less respectable ones. She suggested, "What if it's just abandoned somewhere? What if you got the original deadite that was released when the poor soul read from the book the last time?"

Freddie turned his head to meet her eyes, their lips about an inch apart. "No, we would have found the book with him. The demon wouldn't have left the book in the wind, but then why aren't we being overran by deadites? What's with all the hiding?"

"Maybe they're fighting it out with the demonic vamps for the city? They have to share the territory since they can't come out in the daylight either. They might just be too busy?"

"Too busy competing for the same resource? People?"

She shrugged. "You can't infect a person as a deadite demon if they're already infected with a vampire demon. We know that there are plenty of demons that compete against each other and plenty that look down on vampires. Maybe they're fighting each other and can't bring about their undead army?"

His shoulders slumped on thinking on her words, not happy at all in that prospect either.

"Or maybe the dumb smuck decided to not read from the book until he realized what he was reading? Maybe the deadites scared him or her enough to stop?"

"Whoever has the book now was just lucky to keep one step ahead of them while carrying the book?"

"I don't know, but you were the one following the path all the way down here. Maybe you were catching up to them before they caught up with him? You're the one that is supposed to be the expert, but I'm sure you'll figure it out. You're the 'Promised One' after all."

He snorted out a laugh, "So says the 'Chosen One'."

"Yes I do." She stole a quick kiss from his cheek and quickly got up from her seat. "I'm going to hit the bed early, so goodnight. Don't work too hard and stress yourself out. It'll turn out alright. Get some sleep."

"I will… ah…" His voice suddenly thickened with nervousness. "Do you need any help tucking in Ian?"

She bashfully smiled to him and almost embarrassingly answered, "I already put him to bed, but thanks for the offer."

He nodded his head and the pair shared an awkward smile before she turned to exit the room.

Once she disappeared by rounding the corner of the doorframe to her room, he took a deep breath and pursed his lips, surprised from the contact on his cheek. He tried to turn back and focus on his research, but the lingering feeling of the kiss was quite the distracting point while trying to track down the Necronomicon Ex Mortis.


Jade looked over to Ian one more time when she slipped back into her room and still saw he was still peacefully sleeping then walked over to her own bed to turn in early. She crawled under the sheets and slipped her hand under her pillow with a reassuring grip on the handle of the stake before settling her head on the pillow for a good night sleep.


Author's note: In medias res as it is called. I hope the first chapter of my Halloween story wet one's appetite to continue reading until the finale on Halloween.