Title:
Halloween World - Scourge of Time
Author:
Spaceman
Distribution: Please Ask
Disclaimer: I don't own
anything
Summary: Another Halloween 2007 Fic. The Halloween spell
goes too far. It doesn't change a town for a night, it changed the
entire world forever. How will humanity survive in a world of eternal
Halloween?
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CHAPTER
01: The Prophecy of the
Mad
Spike's Warehouse October 30, 1997
Spike is watching the video that the vampire took of Buffy's fight.
"Here it comes." he watches closely "Rewind that. Let's see that again."
The vampire rewinds the tape as Spikes strolls around to another monitor.
Spike chuckles, "She's tricky. Baby likes to play."
The scene where she stakes the vampire with the sign replays.
"You see that? The way she stakes him with that thing? That's what's called resourceful. Rewind it again."
Drusilla comes from the other room, "Miss Edith needs her tea."
Spike holds his hand out to her, "C'mere, poodle."
Drusilla takes his hand, "Do you love my insides? The parts you can't see?"
"Eyeballs to entrails, my sweet. That's why I've got to study this Slayer. Once I know her I can kill her. And once I kill her you can have your run of Sunnyhell. Get strong again.
"Don't worry. Everything's switching. Outside to inside." says Drusilla, "The Slayer vanishes..."
"Did you have a vision, Pet?" asks Spike gently
Suddenly, Drusilla begins to shake as if having a seizure. She grips her hands so tightly, her nails make her bleed and she seems to cry blood.
Chaos shall remake what it has made.
The Slayer shall rise as prey, but stronger predator shall she become.
The Willow will fall and lady of death with rise to kiss the dead with her ice.
The Protector of man shall fall, the cleansing king stained in the blood of evil shall rise again as the healer and the demon bane.
The fangs of Wolf Lord will grow beyond the moon light and the Wolf Sorceress shall rise from the secret watcher of the past sins.
The Shepard and her flock shall rise as predators of the new field and the crimson moon shall shine.
The Gem was born of evil's fire, the Gem will be a Portal. The End of Time of All Things Mortal.
The Angel of the Night shall fall threw the Gates beyond Heaven and Earth.
And the Children will Follow.
Spike looks pale, which is impressive for a British vampire, he grabs her and speaks to her.
"Come on, talk to Daddy. When is it? What's going to happen??"
"Tomorrow." she says, crimson tears still falling.
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CHAPTER
02: The Trip
Begins
Streets of Sunnydale October 31, 1997
A dark figure moves threw the night streets of Sunnydale. This not what's unique, as Sunnydale has always had an active night life. What is unique is the person himself.
In 1727, a child name Liam was born to a middle-class linen merchant in Galway, Ireland. By 1753, at the age of 26, he develops a taste for alcohol, women and sloth. Liam is a hedonist whose only real ambition lies in seeing the world. He was found by the vampiress Drusilla and turned. When he returned the first thing he did was slaughtered his family, his sister let him in thinking he was an angel. So gave birth of the legendary nightmare, Angelus, the demon with the angelic face. Darla later left her master to be with 1760.
He became known as the most blood thirsty vampire in recent history and took torture to an art form. In 1890, Angelus spotted Drusilla from London, England, a young woman "cursed" with the "sight", something her mother saw as "an affront to the Lord." Angelus killed her family, which caused her to flee to a convent. On the day she was take her holy orders, Angelus killed the entire convent, then proceeded to rape her and drive her insane, before finally turning her. So began the story of Drusilla the Mad.
Drusilla, in turn, sired William the Bloody, for whom Angelus largely served as a mentor and "role model." William, who was a blood awful poet in life, reveled as a vampire causing massacre after massacre as the final member of the vampire quartet known, The Scourge of Europe. William would later gain the name Spike, for his method of torturing victims with Railway Spikes
In 1898, while in Borsa, Romania, Angelus tortured and killed the favorite daughter of a tribe of Kalderash gypsies. To avenge her death, the Kalderash gypsies curse him by restoring his human soul, thus afflicting him with a conscience and condemning him to an eternity of remorse for the crimes he has committed. He spent years in depression, trying and failing to be evil, and living like a sewer rat, until a demon named Whistler working for the PTB (Powers That Be) in 1996 had him become the hidden protector of the Slayer Buffy Summers.
This history is important because Spike lead by a very active Drusilla has found Angel in the middle of the street. Spike and Drusilla are followed by a small group of vampires, most of them were created by Spike, but two were servants of The Master of Aurelius, also known as Heinrich Joseph Nest.
"It's a small world." says Spike with a smirk.
"Still a Bad Poet, William."
Suddenly, the Event occurs. A massive wave of chaos magic explodes across Sunnydale and collides with the pack of vampires like a tsunami. Drusilla screams in pain as the stars scream, the chains of destiny shatter and the future is clouded for the first time in centuries. The wave of magic is powerful enough to knock the vampires down, but the remaining members of the Scourge of Europe are the most effected.
Angelus was created different than most vampires. The hedonist accepting becoming a vampire and lost most of his humanity in process to further sate his desires. When he was cursed, the soul Angel channeled his animal impulses, his Id, into the demon Angelus and became a brooder. This created a far more savage and darker demon. The chaos magic is attracted to the positive and negative spiritual energies caused by the Soul/Demon conflict.
Drusilla was turned after her mind and spirit had been shattered. The broken soul was lost inside Drusilla unable to escape when she was turned. The demon entered a body with a damaged psychic mind and was also shattered. The frail condition caused by a mob in Prague left Drusilla's mind dispersed and also makes her an antenna for the energy swirling around her.
Spike was sired by Drusilla and made different than most. She left a great deal of psychic power in Spike, which resulted in the demon that inhabited the corpse to absorb the totality. In other future time lines, Spike would have been ensouled, but the amount of change would be almost nothing because the actual difference between the demon and soul is almost nothing. The oddly human demon and connection on Angel and Drusilla causes him to absorb larger amounts of energy.
The vampires around them can only watch as the traitor and there masters glow with a misty dark blue-purple energies. They are too scared to move from the arcs of energy that crawl across there forms.
"FOUL DEMONS!"
The vampires turn to see a man dressed in the browns and greens of Fantasy Druid holding a long wooden staff with a glowing spherical gem at the end. The man's eyes are filled with madness and pain, and the vampires step back as the Druid points his staff at them.
The vampires are suddenly surrounded by a translucent energy bubble and float in the air. Then the bubble is filed with an explosion of sun light, that instantly incinerates them. The bubble pops like a soap bubble and a cloud of ash falls to the ground, where Angel, Spike, and Drusilla are slowly getting up.
"ABOMINATIONS!"
The Aurelius Vampires have no time to reacts as they are caught in a another bubble and begin to float, but before the Druid can create the sun flash, the sky turns red and arcs of red and green energy descend from the dark heavens. The helix of red and purple energy hits the druid and is channeled into a purple blast that shoots from the staff into the spherical bubble containing the three vampires.
The bubbles glows purple, then bright purplish white, then shrinks to tiny glowing point and vanishes with a loud energy shock-wave. There are no witnesses left as the Druid falls to the ground dead from channeling the vast amount of energy, his organs and nerves burnt, his blood near boiling.
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In the now chaotic realm of the Powers that Be, several members scream out as there plans dissolve. In another plan of existence, the fallen Power that would have taken the name Jasmine screams as the chaos wipes away her plans.
In LA, as the Wolfram & Hart building collapses and it's members die, a scroll referred to as Shanshu Prophecy ignites. The Circle of the Black Thorn is burned away by the chaos and by those born of the chaos and violence.
Sahjhan and his fellow Granok who thrive on chaos and violence, and were made immaterial by Wolfram and Hart, don't have time to celebrate as the chaos warps time and dimensions, and tears them to pieces. Caught in space and time, 18th century English vampire hunter Daniel Holtz dies and rejoins his wife, son, and daughter, the hunt for Angelus forgotten.
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Between time and dimensions, a bubble of chaos continues to fall.
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CHAPTER
03: Falling threw the
Gates.
Unknown
The three remaining members of the Scourge of Europe - Angel, Spike, and Drusilla find themselves falling. They awaken quickly after this realization, but quickly learn they are not endangered of becoming dust piles on concrete.
Above and below them is something beyond the scope of man during there human births. It's like the universe has been compressed into walls of endless darkness and light. Angel's vampire sense of sight can see spiraling bands of flowing iridescent patterns and chaotic pitch darkness.
Suddenly an arc of darkness crackling with energy hits Drusilla causing her to shatter into dust, starting with her clothing, then her hair and skin, then her flesh, and finally her bones. Then a arc of white light hits the dust cloud and the process is reversed with the bones reforming followed by flesh, then skin and hair,.and finally the clothing including the a couple of stains!
"I'm naming all the stars."
An arc of white fire hits Spike and his form blurs and splits into a dozen transparent images, that flow back together to form the original who looks shocked.
"I vowed to never eat a druggie again because of this bloody weirdness."
A arc of black lightning hits Angel and his mind explodes with images and voices, mostly his own saying things from the past or things he has never said.
"Ah, heh. Is there a problem, ma'am?" "Yeah, there's a problem." says Buffy, "Why are you following me?
"There's no humanity in him." says a blue-skinned demon "I couldn't have said it better myself." replies Angelus
"You're gonna die. And I'm gonna be there." says Xander to Angelus
"I love you" says Buffy and he replies the same. "Close your eyes."
Angel finds himself still falling.
"Do you have a clue where we are now, mate!?" asks Spike, "I'm getting sick of falling."
A shower of energy balls like iridescent soap bubbles and bubbles filled with smoke rise from below them and pass them. The three vampires can see various scenes in each bubble.
An immense and insanely powerful demon fox with nine tails attacking a forest village with four faces carved into the mountain like Mount Rushmore.
A silver-haired man with fangs, claws, and golden eyes dressed in red and using a huge fang like sword. He's fighting a creature that explodes into an immense swirling cloud of darkness.
A strange boy with extremely extravagant hair features multiple layers including long blond crocked, pointy locks for his fringe; the rest features six large, black spikes with magenta-rimmed edges. Around his neck is a closed buckled leather collar and a inverted gold pyramid on a chain like a necklace.
A pink-haired girl racing along side a plant-like creature which has light green skin with purple-tipped claws and a flower growing out of it's head. Then after a burst of light, the creature is replaced by a giant humanoid cactus with boxing gloves.
A giant ape with a long snout, red eyes, and a monkey like tail. It's stomping the terrain around it into tiny pieces and then roars as the full moon shines above.
A orange-haired youth dressed in black Japanese clothing wielding a giant cleaver-like sword.
"Think we can get cable on these things?" says Spike with a sneer.
An immense bubble rises from the depths and the three vampires are helpless as they sink into it's dark surface and vanish.
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CHAPTER
04: ARRIVAL
(Filler)
Unknown
It's a cool, cloudy evening and a faint wind blows across the land.
Suddenly, there are flashes of light above the clouds. Arcs of blue energy criss cross across the sky and finally collide in the center., where the storm has begun to swirl. Slowly a hole opens in the clouds like the eye of an immense hurricane. More arcs of blue lightning reveal the cause of the hole, a near-invisible spherical bubble of energy. The bubble seems to warp space causing weird iridescent reflections to appear on the surfaced, then a white light fills the bubbles.
With a thunderous crack, the bubble vanishes leaving three European vampires in free fall.
The vampires cry out, or rather the two males cry out in fear, while the female sounds a fan of roller coasters. Spike manages to get under Drusilla to protect her, while Angel finds the aerodynamics of a long leather coat.
Spike and Drusilla land in a small pool of water creating a tower-like splash of water. Angel breaks threw the limbs of a tree and lands in the mud.
It takes nearly an hour to pull themselves out of the water, by then the clouds have cleared leaving a clear unfamiliar sky. Spike sits under one tree holding a sleeping Drusilla, falling into water from that height is like hitting concrete. There master-level vampire healing and the mystical energy they absorbed has repaired most of damage, but left them drained.
Angel sits under another tree, his own magically charged vampire healing repairing the damage caused by impacting tree limbs, hitting the ground, and the eighteen splinters and pieces of wood he pulled out of his body. His clothing is still partial covered in mud, even after using the nearby river to clean himself. He too drained and tender to attempt to stake his former partners in crime.
Suddenly, both Angel and Spike enhanced hearing pick up the sound of footsteps. They tense and watch something very strange walking towards them.
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