A.N: Season 4 of Angel was one of the best and one of the worst things I have ever seen on television, while I loved it and was the edge of my seat through the entire thing I have a few complaints. I violently disliked the directions taken by both Connor and Cordelia's characters, why did they have to put them together and make me want to vomit myself to death? Oh well, this is my version of season four which I feel a large part of will be my making my own character out of Connor. The first matter I must address in this instance is... (Drum roll) Connor's hair - this matter must be dealt with instantly! I had this bizarre thought train of when the fake swami guy told Angel any warrior fighting in the apocalypse would want to have hair with hold, and then I thought of my brother saying when you have really short hair you don't even have to worry about it. So I figure Connor should have a blade-four (yes I find it kind of funny too but oh well, I think with that like that he might have some potential. In this story Angel will still be a champion, but I feel Connor should also be a champion (hence the title.) So here is goes!
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: I don't like to reveal pairings I like to have the audience guess!
Reader interaction: I have had some bad experiences with fics in the past so to make a story that people like I would like them to have there say on what they want to happen, not all requests will be honored however I always like to hear what my readers have to say.
Title: Champion
Chapter 1:
The restraints still held, after all these months e was still bound into his watery prison, Angel had tried to get out, until his brain was numb with desperation and his muscled ached from struggling. Giving up was worse though, there was nothing he could do, he was bound there, by his son. His own son had done this to him.
The feeling in his gut gave him a far worse sensation, he tried not to he tried to shun this feeling but he couldn't help but hate his son. What had done to him was unbelievable, though Connor was his son Angel couldn't conceive what it would take for him to earn forgiveness. Though Connor hadn't seemed very concerned with forgiveness when he threw Angel into the ocean.
[Kill him]
Angel shuddered in his restrains, Connor didn't deserve death, he was his son, he was just confused.
[Stop making excuses for him]
Connor had been so easily influenced by Justine... it wasn't Connor's fault it was Justine.
[Kill them both!]
Angel could see it now, his arms around their next it would only take one twist and...
"No!" Angel could feel Connor dying, he had killed his son. He couldn't let himself do that...
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Everything went quiet, all light was gone from the room and for a moment there was nothing. However it was no more than a moment, the rock had collided with Connor's head only stunning him for a moment. The battle continued as Gunn and Fred fought other vampires around him.
The sand felt soft as Connor jumped back into his fighting stance, with the rock and one of its companions stood before him ready to fight.
"Connor!" Gunn yelled, throwing his companion a stake to arm himself with.
Connor span quickly grabbing the stake out of the air and turned back in time to stake the attacking vampire, it disappeared in a cloud of dust leaving the other vampire bewildered by Connor's speed, and his quick recovery. The vampire stood in a ready position and shot a surprise kicked at Connor, who ducked under it with all his speed, and appeared, as if in a moment, behind them vampire, and thrust is stake hard into its back.
Another vampire turned into a cloud of dust as Gunn's ax swung through the air, while Fred shot an arrow from her cross bow at the last remaining vampire, who was currently in retreat, the arrow was just short of killing the vampire, however it was already far enough away that the arrow landed a few feet short.
"Damn it!" Fred called out, if that vampire got back to its lair it would return with the whole nest.
"It's okay," Gunn comforted Fred. "Co-!" Gunn stopped shouting Connor's name when he looked and realized he had already run after the vampire.
The vampire Connor pursued were faster than the other one's he had fought, it was actually taking some effort to catch up with this one. A large mound of rocks separated the back they were on from the next. The vamp saw it as his only chance of escape and he scaled it quickly, as it was only about eight feet. Connor followed up quickly, he saw the mound and didn't slow down only quickened his pace and used his supernatural abilities to push himself off the ground and to the top of the mound, grabbing the escaping vampire's feet causing it to trip fall down onto the sand head first.
While the vamp struggled to get back to its feet Connor flipped off the rock to land in the sand in front of the vamp, he swung his leg violently into the side of the vampire's head, knocking it back down into the sand. Connor dived at the vampire with the wooden arrow Fred had shot out of her crossbow, unexpectedly, the vampire shot up countering Connor's attack and slamming him hard into the rocks behind him.
"Ugh!" Connor grunted as he was pushed back into the rock, the vampire held him back with its own body weight as it moved its mouth towards Connors neck.
Suddenly Connor bashed his head hard into the vampire's causing it to fumbles back giving Connor enough room to punch it in the face sending it back further, with some distance between the Connor turned his body and jumped at the mound of rocks using it to push himself off and launch a flying spin-kick into the vampire's head.
Splashes rang in the air as the vampire landed in the surf and struggled to get to its feet before Connor came back with his arrow, ready to kill. Connor ran at the vampire with his guard up, and just as the vampire shot its fist up to the side of Connor's head, Connor brought up his clenched fist, which held the arrow, and the arrow stabbed into the vampire's hand.
A fierce growl came from the demon from the pain of Connor's arrow, it thrust it other hand onto Connor neck and tossed him over it's head down into the water, which this far out covered his entire body. The vampire quickly jumped on Connor and held him down beneath the waves; Connor struggled to move himself from the vampire's grip but his face was planted firmly into the wet sand and the struggling wouldn't allow him much more time. Connor slowed his struggling and lifted his legs, the vampire sat atop him, however Connor assumed that one solid kick could send the vampire far enough forward for Connor to escape its grip. Connor's legs shot into the vampires back and set it fumbling over Connor's head giving Connor the chance to jump up as quickly as he could and kick the vampire down into the water and pull the stake from it's hand. The vampire tried to crawl away but Connor had it just wear he wanted it. The arrow slammed hard into the water than sank into the vampire's chest penetrating its heart and then there was nothing but dust to be swept away by the water.
Connor felt exhausted, the fight had been hard and being held under water for that long was not to his liking. He collapsed to his knees and lay his body down entirely into the water by now Connor's jeans and long sleeved shirt were completely soaked and it didn't bother him to immerse his entire body in water, it was cool and it was calming to Connor, though the ocean was the site of his greatest betrayal. Angel had killed Holtz, he deserved it, but he wasn't sure if he could continue lying to Gunn and Fred, they were such good people it was a terrible burden he carried, the lies the deceit, he wasn't even for if he had been right, Angel murdering Holtz just didn't make sense. But Justine told him what had happened he could trust her...
[What have you done? They'll never forgive you]
The situation was so awful, Connor wasn't eve sure what he was going to do when the time came that they find Angel, if they ever did.
[They will. And then they will find out it was you]
They had all grown so close over the Summer, Connor wished he could take it all back, if had never done this to Angel he could still be friends with Fred and Gunn, only he wouldn't have ad to lie to them.
~Are you kidding? They don't care about you. When they find Angel they wont stop him. They will help him kill you~
"Connor!" Though water was in his ears Connor had supernatural hearing, which allowed him to hear Gunn and Fred's worried calls.
Connor stayed beneath the calming water until he heard worry come over their voices, they had obviously spotted him, and they were worried had drowned.
A head emerged from the water and relief washed over Fred and Gunn. They slowed their pace however they had already headed into the water. Fred wore a blue denim skirt and was unaffected by the water however Gunn's black jeans had been completely drenched in the water.
The three walked back to the beach and shared a moment of relief as they relaxed after the long battle.
"Don't be scarin' me like that," Gunn said with an annoyed tone. "Had me thinking you was dead."
"I was relaxing," Connor replied calmly.
"Oh yeah drowning looks real relaxing," Gunn replied rolling his eyes.
"Do you think we'll be able to find her now?" Fred asked, referring to Marissa the vampire that used to hunt at the bluffs where Angel disappeared.
"With Connor takin' her crew out by the dozen," Gunn asked proud of what he had taught Connor over the summer. Gunn couldn't fight as well as Angel and Connor was stronger but Gunn had been fighting vampires since he was a kid, he had a lot to teach. "There ain't nothin' standing between us and Marissa."
Connor and Gunn clapped hands, similar to the way Gunn and Wesley once had. Gunn no longer felt anything towards Wesley but anger, the things Wesley had done were unforgivable at least he could rely on Connor.
The two smiled at each other than parted Connor went to lay in the sand next to the water while Gunn went back to Fred and they began to talk softly to each other. Connor could hear every word they were saying if he wanted to, but he was more interested in the sound of the ocean, it was so eternal like Connor wished things could be, he was happy with the way things were...
[But one day they will find Angel and]
"Connor!"
A large tentacle of some kind wrapped around Connor's legs and began t pull him into the ocean, Connor clawed at the sand but his fingers just slid through it as the creature pulled him into the water.
The crossbow still lay in Fred' arms and Gunn pulled it off her and shot and arrow into the creature's tentacle but it had next to no effect.
"Damn it!" Gunn yelled as he rushed to Connor to get him out of the creature's grip, though Connor was amazingly strong he was still quite smell and Gunn could easily lift his upper body from the floor as he tried to pull him out of the creature's grip.
Fred watched in panic, se wanted to help but she wasn't sure what she could, do 'til her eyes traveled to Gunn's abandoned ax that lay on the sandy ground, she grabbed it in her small thin hands and moved quickly to Gunn side. Gunn still held Connor tightly trying to pull him out of the water as the creature frantically. Fred lifted the axe high above her head and slammed down on the creature's tentacle with all her strength, severing it from the rest of the creature.
Gunn was still holding onto Connor and when Fred had severed the creature's tentacle he had stumbled back and crashed to the floor with Connor landing on top of him. Both men let out a grunt as they hit the ground, particularly Gunn, under Connor's weight. Connor squirmed and stretched his muscled before rolling over and pushing himself off of Gunn.
"What was that thing?" Connor asked as he helped Gunn to his feet.
"I don't know," Fred replied the fear still in her voice. "But I don't want to be here if it comes back." The three collected their weapons ad quickly headed off the beach back to where Gunn had parked his car before the fight with the vampires.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: I don't like to reveal pairings I like to have the audience guess!
Reader interaction: I have had some bad experiences with fics in the past so to make a story that people like I would like them to have there say on what they want to happen, not all requests will be honored however I always like to hear what my readers have to say.
Title: Champion
Chapter 1:
The restraints still held, after all these months e was still bound into his watery prison, Angel had tried to get out, until his brain was numb with desperation and his muscled ached from struggling. Giving up was worse though, there was nothing he could do, he was bound there, by his son. His own son had done this to him.
The feeling in his gut gave him a far worse sensation, he tried not to he tried to shun this feeling but he couldn't help but hate his son. What had done to him was unbelievable, though Connor was his son Angel couldn't conceive what it would take for him to earn forgiveness. Though Connor hadn't seemed very concerned with forgiveness when he threw Angel into the ocean.
[Kill him]
Angel shuddered in his restrains, Connor didn't deserve death, he was his son, he was just confused.
[Stop making excuses for him]
Connor had been so easily influenced by Justine... it wasn't Connor's fault it was Justine.
[Kill them both!]
Angel could see it now, his arms around their next it would only take one twist and...
"No!" Angel could feel Connor dying, he had killed his son. He couldn't let himself do that...
*****************
Everything went quiet, all light was gone from the room and for a moment there was nothing. However it was no more than a moment, the rock had collided with Connor's head only stunning him for a moment. The battle continued as Gunn and Fred fought other vampires around him.
The sand felt soft as Connor jumped back into his fighting stance, with the rock and one of its companions stood before him ready to fight.
"Connor!" Gunn yelled, throwing his companion a stake to arm himself with.
Connor span quickly grabbing the stake out of the air and turned back in time to stake the attacking vampire, it disappeared in a cloud of dust leaving the other vampire bewildered by Connor's speed, and his quick recovery. The vampire stood in a ready position and shot a surprise kicked at Connor, who ducked under it with all his speed, and appeared, as if in a moment, behind them vampire, and thrust is stake hard into its back.
Another vampire turned into a cloud of dust as Gunn's ax swung through the air, while Fred shot an arrow from her cross bow at the last remaining vampire, who was currently in retreat, the arrow was just short of killing the vampire, however it was already far enough away that the arrow landed a few feet short.
"Damn it!" Fred called out, if that vampire got back to its lair it would return with the whole nest.
"It's okay," Gunn comforted Fred. "Co-!" Gunn stopped shouting Connor's name when he looked and realized he had already run after the vampire.
The vampire Connor pursued were faster than the other one's he had fought, it was actually taking some effort to catch up with this one. A large mound of rocks separated the back they were on from the next. The vamp saw it as his only chance of escape and he scaled it quickly, as it was only about eight feet. Connor followed up quickly, he saw the mound and didn't slow down only quickened his pace and used his supernatural abilities to push himself off the ground and to the top of the mound, grabbing the escaping vampire's feet causing it to trip fall down onto the sand head first.
While the vamp struggled to get back to its feet Connor flipped off the rock to land in the sand in front of the vamp, he swung his leg violently into the side of the vampire's head, knocking it back down into the sand. Connor dived at the vampire with the wooden arrow Fred had shot out of her crossbow, unexpectedly, the vampire shot up countering Connor's attack and slamming him hard into the rocks behind him.
"Ugh!" Connor grunted as he was pushed back into the rock, the vampire held him back with its own body weight as it moved its mouth towards Connors neck.
Suddenly Connor bashed his head hard into the vampire's causing it to fumbles back giving Connor enough room to punch it in the face sending it back further, with some distance between the Connor turned his body and jumped at the mound of rocks using it to push himself off and launch a flying spin-kick into the vampire's head.
Splashes rang in the air as the vampire landed in the surf and struggled to get to its feet before Connor came back with his arrow, ready to kill. Connor ran at the vampire with his guard up, and just as the vampire shot its fist up to the side of Connor's head, Connor brought up his clenched fist, which held the arrow, and the arrow stabbed into the vampire's hand.
A fierce growl came from the demon from the pain of Connor's arrow, it thrust it other hand onto Connor neck and tossed him over it's head down into the water, which this far out covered his entire body. The vampire quickly jumped on Connor and held him down beneath the waves; Connor struggled to move himself from the vampire's grip but his face was planted firmly into the wet sand and the struggling wouldn't allow him much more time. Connor slowed his struggling and lifted his legs, the vampire sat atop him, however Connor assumed that one solid kick could send the vampire far enough forward for Connor to escape its grip. Connor's legs shot into the vampires back and set it fumbling over Connor's head giving Connor the chance to jump up as quickly as he could and kick the vampire down into the water and pull the stake from it's hand. The vampire tried to crawl away but Connor had it just wear he wanted it. The arrow slammed hard into the water than sank into the vampire's chest penetrating its heart and then there was nothing but dust to be swept away by the water.
Connor felt exhausted, the fight had been hard and being held under water for that long was not to his liking. He collapsed to his knees and lay his body down entirely into the water by now Connor's jeans and long sleeved shirt were completely soaked and it didn't bother him to immerse his entire body in water, it was cool and it was calming to Connor, though the ocean was the site of his greatest betrayal. Angel had killed Holtz, he deserved it, but he wasn't sure if he could continue lying to Gunn and Fred, they were such good people it was a terrible burden he carried, the lies the deceit, he wasn't even for if he had been right, Angel murdering Holtz just didn't make sense. But Justine told him what had happened he could trust her...
[What have you done? They'll never forgive you]
The situation was so awful, Connor wasn't eve sure what he was going to do when the time came that they find Angel, if they ever did.
[They will. And then they will find out it was you]
They had all grown so close over the Summer, Connor wished he could take it all back, if had never done this to Angel he could still be friends with Fred and Gunn, only he wouldn't have ad to lie to them.
~Are you kidding? They don't care about you. When they find Angel they wont stop him. They will help him kill you~
"Connor!" Though water was in his ears Connor had supernatural hearing, which allowed him to hear Gunn and Fred's worried calls.
Connor stayed beneath the calming water until he heard worry come over their voices, they had obviously spotted him, and they were worried had drowned.
A head emerged from the water and relief washed over Fred and Gunn. They slowed their pace however they had already headed into the water. Fred wore a blue denim skirt and was unaffected by the water however Gunn's black jeans had been completely drenched in the water.
The three walked back to the beach and shared a moment of relief as they relaxed after the long battle.
"Don't be scarin' me like that," Gunn said with an annoyed tone. "Had me thinking you was dead."
"I was relaxing," Connor replied calmly.
"Oh yeah drowning looks real relaxing," Gunn replied rolling his eyes.
"Do you think we'll be able to find her now?" Fred asked, referring to Marissa the vampire that used to hunt at the bluffs where Angel disappeared.
"With Connor takin' her crew out by the dozen," Gunn asked proud of what he had taught Connor over the summer. Gunn couldn't fight as well as Angel and Connor was stronger but Gunn had been fighting vampires since he was a kid, he had a lot to teach. "There ain't nothin' standing between us and Marissa."
Connor and Gunn clapped hands, similar to the way Gunn and Wesley once had. Gunn no longer felt anything towards Wesley but anger, the things Wesley had done were unforgivable at least he could rely on Connor.
The two smiled at each other than parted Connor went to lay in the sand next to the water while Gunn went back to Fred and they began to talk softly to each other. Connor could hear every word they were saying if he wanted to, but he was more interested in the sound of the ocean, it was so eternal like Connor wished things could be, he was happy with the way things were...
[But one day they will find Angel and]
"Connor!"
A large tentacle of some kind wrapped around Connor's legs and began t pull him into the ocean, Connor clawed at the sand but his fingers just slid through it as the creature pulled him into the water.
The crossbow still lay in Fred' arms and Gunn pulled it off her and shot and arrow into the creature's tentacle but it had next to no effect.
"Damn it!" Gunn yelled as he rushed to Connor to get him out of the creature's grip, though Connor was amazingly strong he was still quite smell and Gunn could easily lift his upper body from the floor as he tried to pull him out of the creature's grip.
Fred watched in panic, se wanted to help but she wasn't sure what she could, do 'til her eyes traveled to Gunn's abandoned ax that lay on the sandy ground, she grabbed it in her small thin hands and moved quickly to Gunn side. Gunn still held Connor tightly trying to pull him out of the water as the creature frantically. Fred lifted the axe high above her head and slammed down on the creature's tentacle with all her strength, severing it from the rest of the creature.
Gunn was still holding onto Connor and when Fred had severed the creature's tentacle he had stumbled back and crashed to the floor with Connor landing on top of him. Both men let out a grunt as they hit the ground, particularly Gunn, under Connor's weight. Connor squirmed and stretched his muscled before rolling over and pushing himself off of Gunn.
"What was that thing?" Connor asked as he helped Gunn to his feet.
"I don't know," Fred replied the fear still in her voice. "But I don't want to be here if it comes back." The three collected their weapons ad quickly headed off the beach back to where Gunn had parked his car before the fight with the vampires.