Dragon Of The Line
I don't own Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Stargate, or Pathfinder RPG.
Alexander stumbled for a moment as he found himself mid-stride outside, definitely not inside of the order ritual room any more. looking around, he appeared to be in a residential area with strangely crafted houses and horseless carriages that must be powered by some sort of fire elemental. There were a number of diminutive monsters running around, causing havoc and disturbing the citizens. He drew in a deep breath, prepared to remove the threat only to be stopped by a yell.
"Alex, stop!" shouted a voice, "they are just children, changed against their will!"
Alexander focused his senses on the creatures and realized that they were releasing an incredibly powerful feeling of transmutation magic, and so held back. He turned towards the voice and saw Willow, her eyes burning with witch-fire
"Where are we, Wills? This really doesn't look like the interstellar teleportation staging room!"
"I don't know! but finding out can wait, we need to find the source of this spell and break it before anyone is seriously hurt by it!"
"You track down the source, I'll protect you while you do."
Alexander shifted to his true form, that of a sixteen foot long, vacuum hardened, adamant scaled and clawed, fusion furnace, known as a Solar Dragon, his armor growing with him; then he quickly grabbed Willow as she started scratching a rough containment circle in the ground and loped off, having recognized a voice in the distance and wanting to reach it before its owner did something she would later regret.
As Willow was getting ready to berate Alexander for jostling her as she prepared to cast a spell she saw lieutenant Buffy come into sight getting ready to strike out at the changed victims around her and shouted out, "Buffy, stop!"
Having quickly explained what seemed to be going on in the town they found themselves in, Willow suddenly exclaimed that her initial thoughts on how they had ended up here had been proven false.
"Well, Buffy, I had initially thought that we ended up here as a result of a miscast teleportation spell, but you were supposed to be going out on a date with Liam in the capitol, so you would have been nowhere near the Interstellar Embarkation room. That means we should definitely put finding how we got here as a priority, though I believe that it probably has a connection with the general chaos occurring around us."
A few minutes later, Willow had discovered that they appeared to be possessing the bodies of, well, themselves, affixed there by the power of a mid level divinity.
"I think I can follow the traces of the spell to it's anchor, and destroying it when we find it should be relatively simple."
From there, the group proceeded to track down the source of the trouble, only to be stopped a few blocks later when Alexander once again heard a voice he recognized, this time belonging to his fiancée, Cordelia Chase.
With a roar of, "get away from my fiancée," Xander chased the hairy beast chasing Cordelia away, before turning back into his human form to fuss over her, only for her to flinch away before screaming at him.
"Harris! What the hell was that! you just… you just… Gah! Dragon! You! What is wrong with you, you freak!"
Alexander was developing a heavily hurt look at the treatment by the love of his life before Willow caught him in a hug.
"I can't feel any magic on her, that isn't your Cordy Alex, Your Cordy is still at home. Don't worry, We'll end this spell and get back."
Buffy approached Cordelia.
"Sorry about that, Miss, but you look a lot like someone we knew from home. We are tracking down the source of the spell causing this chaos. You should find a safe place until we have done so."
Cordelia insisted on accompanying them and the rest of their trip to the source was uneventful, the monsters recognizing Alexander as a far greater threat than they were. They discovered that the source of the spell was a store called 'Ethan's Costume Shop' which was locked up, but that proved no obstacle for them as Alexander easily tore the door off its hinges.
The group was confronted by the shopkeep, a middle aged British man, whom they assumed was Ethan.
"Hey now, What do you think you are doing breaking in here!"
Alexander lunged at him, picking him up by his collar and pinning him against the wall.
"What kind of man are you, doing this kind of thing to children?!"
"Just a little prank! the spell was crafted in such a way that those under its thrall would be unharmed!"
"Yeah, the people affected by it, but what about the people who weren't under the effect of the spell?" Retorted Willow, "Will they be protected from harm as well?"
Ethan's face quickly paled, "I didn't think of that! The spell was anchored to the bust of Janus in the back."
They found the anchor and Willow cast a thaumic disjunction, ending the spell.
Buffy and Willow found themselves pushed against the walls as Xander suddenly found himself as a giant winged lizard, plastic armor tearing as he grew.
"Well, crap. Hey Wills, you remember any of that mojo? We seem to have a problem."