Slvr Fyre
Disclaimers: I do not own BtVS, Joss Whedon and the WB do. Nor do I own Highlander which is
owned by Rysher.
Part 1
Willow awakened with a scream as her body arched up, remembered pain riding through her body.
Her thoughts were chaotic as she mindlessly cried out. Hands pushed down on her body, restraining
her gently but firmly as a voice soothingly said, "Shh. . . Shh. . .It's alright. . ." Willow's eyes slowly
opened looking for the gentle comfort the voice promised.
Deep violet eyes looked back. Holding her down was a girl who looked fifteen. Red hair was pulled
back into a ponytail at the crown of her head. The girl was dressed in black pants and a white tank.
She was deceptively slender, but the strength in those hands held Willow down effortlessly. Those
hands could harm her very easily. Willow realized. "Who are you? What happened?" Willow asked
glancing around quickly trying to place her surroundings. One moment she was fighting beside Buffy,
Xander, Cordelia, Giles, and Angel-
"Oh goddess! Are they alright?" Willow questioned frantically, looking back at the girl who watched
her closely not answering her as she pulled back, sitting beside Willow. Then, Willow suddenly
remembered the rest of what happened to her as she fought beside Buffy and the rest of the
Slayerettes.
Part 2
Willow staked the vampire in front of
her. A mixture of luck and skill bringing the
stake home. She looked back at Buffy
who was facing one of the larger demons.
Around them stood what was left of the
library. It looked like a war zone, bookcases
toppled, weapons and books scattered
all over. Giles was cornered in the stacks,
trying to fend off three vampires with
various holy items. Xander and Cordelia lied
unconscious in the office where Angel
and Willow had dragged them before going
back to fight. She had since then lost
track of where Angel was as she concentrated
on surviving.
A sudden pain erupted in her back as
she was kicked in the spine by a large burly
vampire. Willow landed on her back,
further injuring herself. A sword entered her
stomach. The pain from the wound almost
brought Willow to unconsciousness. A
loud growl could be heard as pale hands
roughly broke the vampires neck. As the
dust settled, Willow could see through
tears of pain that Angel had saved her. Tears
of blood traced down Angel cheeks as
he looked at the hacker. He fell to his knees
as he whispered a choked, "Willow."
Angel held a hand to her wound as he
slid the sword out. A painful, gurgled cry came
from Willow as she started to cough
up blood. He threw the sword away from them in
disgust. Angel pulled Willow into his
lap, pushing back strands soaked with blood
and darkened by ashes. His dark rich
eyes brimmed with tears as he brushed a kiss
on Willow's lips.
They didn't notice, Buffy finally killing
the demon, didn't notice as Giles killed the two
vampires. Buffy yelled Willow's name,
Giles alerted by his Slayer's cry followed her.
Both tried to pull Willow towards them
but Angel's powerful growl startled them. They
watched amazed as the vampire pulled
Willow closed, saying softly "Willow." They
then became aware of the trails of tears
falling across Angel's cheeks.
Willow reached up with a weak arm and
softly brushed Angel's lips with her figertips.
"Angel." She whispered coughing up more
blood.
"Shhh….Willow don't talk." Angel softly
said his voice hoarse as he took Willow's
hand in his own, holding it close against
his heart.
"No. . . Have to tell. . . to tell you.
. . that. . ." Willow paused trying to gather the
strength to go on. She had never told
anyone about her feelings for the vampire.
The only person that Willow had ever
told all of her feelings to was her closest
on-line friend, SlvrDragon. "I love
you." Willow joyfully said, eyes shining with love,
before her body sagged against Angel.
Tears could be heard, great sobbing as
Willow took her last breath. Angel
answered softly, "I love you too Willow." He
brushed his gentle fingertips, across
Willow's face, closing her eyes. Angel swept a
kiss gently on Willow's forehead, before
laying her gently in the floor.
Angel looked at Buffy and Giles, both
crying as they watched. He left the library
silently.
Part 3
Kai was finally going to meet Willow Rosenberg, a.k.a. NightFx online.
Kai first met Fox, Kai personal
nickname for Willow, in the December of 97. Fox was asking everyone
online how to banish a certain
demon from this dimension. Everyone in the chat room thought that Fox
was crazy except for Kai,
who had actually banished demons before. Kai introduced herself as
SlvrDragon, and went on to
help Willow out. Soon they were the best of friends online, they would
tell each other things that they
would never tell their other friends. Their thoughts, feelings, and
the oldest of memories, everything
and anything could be discussed between the two.
This would be the first time they would meet. They had been planning
this for weeks. What Kai didn't
know was that another Apocalypse had come up and the entire Sunnydale
gang had to stop it. Kai
didn't know about this and Willow had totally forgotten about Kai's
visit in the rush of preparations.
Kai drew her arms around herself as a chill went up her spine. /Damn
there's vampires in the area./
She twitched her left arm and a wooden knife dropped into her hand.
/Time to do some hunting!/ Kai
grinned as she spent the next hour patrolling within a five block
radius.
As Kai passed the high school she noticed a vampire entering. /Strange./
She entered silently behind
the vampire. Sounds of fighting echoed down the hall, and the feel
of the Daishin swept across Kai.
The fighting started to die down, as the vampire went through a set
of double doors. Kai glanced in
through the window set in each door. /I'll be noticed if I just stand
there looking in. Hmm. . . There's a
skylight in the library./ Kai concentrated on the skylight overlooking
the library. A moment later she
reappeared near them. She looked into the library and saw that she
had a great view. Kai silently
cast a spell allowing her to hear what was going on down below.
She watched the fighting. /Oh gods, that's Willow!/ Kai thought as
she leaned closer towards the
skylight upon hearing Willow's name spoken. A flicker of lightning
crackled around Willow as she
moved, killing another vampire. /What the?/ With narrowed eyes Kai
cast the spell that allowed her to
sense a pre-immortal. The feeling of a Presence came back at her. /Oh
bloody hell! She's a
pre-immie!/ Kai watched as Willow was killed, watched as the vampire
that killed her died at the
hands of another vampire. /He must be Angel./ Kai thought, Willow had
never told her the exact
names of the people in her life, but Kai knew through her sources about
the vampire with a soul.
As Angel left the library, the girl whom Kai recognized as the Slayer,
went into an office. Her Watcher
called an ambulance. /Oh gods. I've never had to deal with a pre-immortal
who just died. What am I
going to do?/ Kai calmed down, remembering how her mentor dealt with
it. /Ok girl first things first.
Get all of the things from the hotel and bring it to the airport. Then
the morgue./ Kai raced to morgue
all the while teleporting all of her stuff back to the jet that she
had used to come here. Kai slipped
unnoticed into the morgue minutes after they had placed Willow in one
of the metal cabinets.
Kai opened all of the other ones searching for a Jane Doe, she found
a recent one and set to work.
Ten minutes later, Kai had made the body look exactly like Willow's.
She was lucky that the Jane Doe
had the same physical characteristics. It made her work a lot more
easier. Kai was also very thankful
that Willow had wanted to be cremated, instead of buried. /I don't
have to worry about the spell lasting
to long. If I have to, I can use the energy generated on such a regular
basis in town./ Kai gave a
mental shrug and took out her phone calling her mentor to let him know
that she was coming home,
explaining what had just happened. The understanding voice agreed that
with Kai's course of action.
Kai slipped her arms around Willow's body and effortlessly lifted her
up. She cast an invisibility spell
around them and went downstairs where a car was waiting for her. Kai
laid Willow carefully in beside
her and silently made her plans, as they headed for the airport. A
new life for Willow as an Immortal in
San Francisco.
Part 4
Willow came out of her memories, sobs racking her body. The girl held
her
gently, running a hand up and down Willow's back. They stayed that
way for a
while, Willow calming down to a crooning voice that sang a soft lullaby
in an
unknown language.
As Willow slowly straightened, she asked "I died, how can I still be
alive?
If I am, are you an angel?" Willow's face mirrored the confusion in
her
voice, teeth worried at the corner of her bottom lip as Willow's tried
to
make sense of what happened.
"Me an angel?! No, I'm not. Your did die Fox." The girl answered.
"How can I be alive then. I'm not a vampire." Willow felt along her
neck for
her pulse, and found one. She gave a sigh of relief. Willow then noticed
that
her clothes had been changed. Instead of bloody clothes Willow was
wearing
gray sweats and a white shirt. "What am I? Where am I?" Her mind caught
up
with the name that the girl had used. "Silver?" Willow asked amazed
~No
except Kaisean calls me Fox~.
Kai nodded slowly, as she pushed back a long red braid off of her face.
~I
didn't notice that before~ Willow thought. "I-I don't understand, Kaisean.
What ha-happened to me? What am I?"
"You're an Immortal. There are many Immortals out there. Born foundlings,
we
age like mortals until we die our first death. Which has to be violent.
In
this state before first death we are called pre-Immortals, or pre-immies.
Immortals have the ability to sense each other. This sensing differs
for each
Immortal. Each Immortal has a Quickening. The sum of all their knowledge,
strength and power. Immortal's cannot age and are immune to all disease.
If
they suffer a mortal blow they die for an amount of time depending
on how
strong their Quickening is, which they then they heal, the only wound
that an
Immortal can not heal is beheading.
"Now this is important." Kai leaned forward to emphasize. Willow listened
attentively to her friend, fascinated by what she had become. "Immortal's
play in what is called the Game. The object of this is to kill another
Immortal, to take his head. When this happens all of their power is
released
going into the Immortal who is nearest the body. This is called the
Quickening, and is often very spectacular depending on the losing Immortal's
Quickening. It is said that there will be the Gathering, a time when
Immortals will be irresistibly called to isolated location, where they
will
feel the urge to fight. The one who is the last in the Gathering is
supposedly going to win the Prize. No one knows what the Prize is,
most
believe it is ultimate power, the ability to fully access all of the
Quickening of all Immortals. The ability to rule the world for eternity.
Other's say that they the Prize will be to become mortal again, to
age and
have children. No one knows for sure.
"There are two hard core Rules in the Game. One you can not, may not
fight on
Holy Ground, no matter what. Doesn't matter what religion, Indian shrines,
cemeteries, churches, etc. All Immortals can sense Holy Ground. It's
said
that the last Immortals who fought on Holy Ground were there when Mount
Vesuvius erupted. The other rule is this, there are no other rules.
"I saw as you fought in the library that you might be a pre-immie. I
cast a
spell that allowed me to see if you were a pre-immortal. I myself am
a
pre-immortal. I grew up with Immortals in my life. I got you out of
the
morgue, magicked a body to be you temporarily, and brought you here."
Kai
paused giving Willow plenty of time to absorb what she had just said.
She was
careful to lower her shield slightly to sense Willow's thoughts.
Willow was a whirl with emotions. Awe and sadness. ~I'm going to live
forever. I'll see so many things. So many places. But the price, to
see those
that I love die. My parents, my friends. Who think that I'm dead. Angel!
Oh
goddess!~ she thought
"You will be able to see him again. I don't know when though. You have
to
learn how to fight first. To defend yourself in the game. You have
start a
new life Willow you can't go back to the one you had in Sunnydale."
Willow
was unknowingly broadcasting her thoughts out loud. Kai, who was a
very
powerful telepath received everything that Willow thought.
"What are my options?" Willow asked, she trusted Kai with her life.
~Hell I
trusted Angel's life in her hands.~ Willow would do anything for her
friend.
"You can learn, and learn well to survive. You can hole up on Holy Ground
in
an attempt to be safe. Or you can die. I assure you that you will die
if you
don't learn Fox. Believe me I've seen it happen. What do you chose
Willow?"
"Where do I start?" Willow asked resolved in her decision to learn.
A feeling
of rightness swept through her as Willow looked Kai in the eyes, accepting
her Immortality. Kai smiled at Willow, tugging on her hand.
"First I introduce you to everyone else in the house. Welcome to San
Francisco, Willow Rosenberg."
End of Awakening
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