Of Wolf and Man

Chapter 1: Dressed to Kill… But Not Ready for Surprises!

            A/N: This is set a year after 'Chosen' and I did make up what happened afterward, although Joss Whedon made Spike come back, not me.

            Disclaimer: I don't own any Buffy or Angel characters. If I did do you honestly think I would be sitting at my computer? No! I would be out partying with David Borenaz and Sarah Michelle Gellar! I'm just a teenager… I own nothing but the clothes on my back and my computer!

In the aftermath of Sunnydale's destruction and simultaneously the Hellmouth that had resided on it for seven long years Buffy and the Scoobies had gone to Angel's place, Wolfram and Heart in L.A., to get the girls' and the gang all rested. Then, after about two weeks, they had all gone to England. After about three months there, she got a call from none other than Spike. Explaining what happened, Spike had constantly said he was sorry. Disgusted with him, Buffy had slammed the phone down, but, after much debate with Willow and the gang, she decided to invite Spike over to England.

            Now, a year after Spike had arrived in England the rest of the Slayers were training in the new Slayers' Academy. The rest of the gang was hunting a vampire nest in an abandoned warehouse. This suspicion was based upon an anonymous call from a town just outside the former Sunnydale.

"Alright Will. You can do this. You're an uber witch remember?"

"You're right," Willow replied.

"Remember Willow all you need to do is see if there are any living, or rather, un-living, vampires or beasties. Or, as my fateful little prophecy says: forces of darkness." Buffy explained, using all her usual quirky speak.

"All right, I'm ready now." Willow took a deep breath.

"Goddess reveal to me

Now if there is

A beastie

Or two

Tell me now!" Recited Willow of an incantation.

"There's just one!" Willow reported happily.

"One? Yeah right.."

"That's all I can tell." Willow said of what she could now sense.

"All right. We might as well take our chances." Buffy thought aloud half-heartedly.

            Armed with a stake in a sheath on each lower leg and upper arm, a crossbow in her hand, and bottles of holy water and hellfire in a leather gear belt, she called back to the rest of the Scoobies, "Faith, Spike, Xander, Dawn, everybody, come on. It's safe. One little beastie that will get its ass royally kicked by yours truly."

"Well said, B." Faith smugly said, loud enough so only Buffy could hear. Wearing tight leather pants and a bright red halter-top in typical Faith style, she was armed similarly to Buffy, with sheaths containing stakes on her lower arms and a huge sword sheathed to her waist. In her hands was a hellfire and holy water soaker that Giles had rigged up for her.

Spike was armed with only a bottle of holy water sheathed on to his pants and three stakes; he had his vampy teeth. Dressed in his normal trench coat, red shirt, and studded belt with black pants he looked ready to kick some vampire-without-a-soul ass!

            Xander, in all black, was armed with a rather large dagger dipped in holy water and ten of a weapon of his own creation: Koosh balls dipped in, lo and behold, holy water. He also carried an axe with a just-sharpened edge that was sheathed to his upper leg.

            Dawn, who, against Buffy's approval, had started messing with magic mojo, was carrying stakes dipped in holy water and a sword with a length of about three feet that was surprisingly lightweight, the result of Dawn charming it without anyone, including the Buffster, knowing.

            "Let's go kick some un-dead vampire's ass." Buffy remarked, a little too overconfidently, she would realize later.

            The gang opened the doors to the huge warehouse, Buffy leading the way, Willow following her, and Spike following her, and Faith was walking next to him. Xander was at the end with Dawn.

            "Uh, guys, there's a hell of a lot more than one little vampire in here." Buffy said.

            "In front of them was not one vampire, but at least five hundred vampires, harbringers, and demons. Two huge werewolves were in the very middle.

            Simultaneously, everyone in the "good guy" gang thought:         

Those two werewolves look identical.