Title: Halloween World
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:Chain Reaction
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Friday, October 31, 1997.
It's Halloween night in one of Whedon-verses.
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In the back room of Ethan's shop, the man of the hour prepared himself to incant a spell in Latin.
Ethan nodded and finished the preliminaries.
"Janus, evoco vestram animam. Exaudi meam causam. Carpe noctem pro consilio vestro. Veni, appare et nobis monstra quod est infinita potestas."
[Janus, I invoke your spirit. Hear my plea. Seize the night for your own reason. Come, appear and show to us that which is infinite power.]
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At a house elsewhere, Willow followed her charges along the porch to the front door. "C'mon, guys..."
One of the kids, who was wearing one of Ethan's favourite monster masks [from his old stock] on his head, rang the bell and stepped back. An old lady answered the door, and the kid with the mask pulled it down over his face.
All the kids chanted in unison, "Trick-or-treat!"
The lady smiled in genuine pleasure, "Oh my goodness, aren't you adorable!"
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Back in the shop Ethan chanted,
"Persona se corpum et sanguium commutandum est. Vestra sancta praesentia concrescet viscera. Janus! Sume noctem!"
[The mask transforms itself into flesh and blood. Your holy presence curdles the heart. Janus! Take the night!]
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A wave of energy spreads from the costume shop, building strength and power.
The first of those changed are only altered slightly. A child dressed in a demon mask becomes a mini-demon, limited in appearance and persona.
The spell grows larger and larger, as is the nature of chaos.
Cells are altered at a genetic level. Matter is broken down and reassembled. People become there costumes at the quantum level. There very spirits are broken and remade. People of the world die and people of other worlds are reborn.
The spell grows beyond Sunnydale's limits, far beyond it's caster's intent. It continues to grow and grow, building strength and speed, sending shock waves threw the planet's ley lines.
In LA, the people at a Corporate Halloween party, who never encountered Ethan Rayne, change into there costumes. A man dressed as Garou from Werewolf: The Apocalypse RPG becomes a Corporate Wolf. A generic vampire becomes a member of Lasombra Clan of White Wolf Vampires
In New York, many little girls become Princesses and either become helpless victims for the monsters or if magical, use there fey magic to escape. Parents dressed as Ghosts fall dead and rise as spirits as those who became Ghouls feast on there bodies.
In Ireland, many little boys become Pirates, who rob, kidnap and murder there neighbors. Parents and Guardians dressed as Clown just laugh at the chaos, as they stretch, deform, expand and contract there bodies into any form they can imagine.
In Scotland, those dressed as Witches scream as there minds open to the magic around them. Parents dressed as Cats become creatures ranging from common house cats to anthropomorphic cats to thrianthropes/shape shifters.
In England, the domineering, strict and ruthless head of the Watcher's Council, Quentin Travers is killed when a trick-or-treater becomes a Pumpkin headed plant monster and sucks his blood out. The husk crumbling to dust like a vampire.
As the numbers of transformed rapidly increase, the differences between identical costume changes increase, leaving individuals with common traits.
Those children dressed as Marvel Comics' Spiderman don't all become the same person. One remembers his marriage to Mary Jane, while another remembers dating Kitty Pryde. One remembers a life as Ben Reilly and another battling Alchemax as the Spider-Man of 2099.
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Even Janus can not stop the flow, as the spell is fueled by chaos, the primordial state of existence from which the first gods appeared. The primal chaos that gave birth to the first god Gaia.
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, was born from a mystical stone made of primal chaos. He brought chaos and destruction to heavens. Now, the All Hollow's Eve spell shakes the new gods The Powers That Be and the ancient demons Wolf, Ram, and Hart.
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Back in Ethan's Costume Shop, Ethan screams as the chaos consumes him. A swirling amorphous darkness as dark as the void of space tears apart his body, his soul, his very existence. The bust of Janus glows brightly then explodes into a burst of light and energy, shooting into the sky.
The sky and earth part, as Sunnydale is covered in shadows. The Earth shakes and the whole moon became as blood.
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END OF CHAPTER 01
NEXT Aftermath: a Changed World.
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CHAPTER 02:Aftermath: a Changed World.
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November 05, 1997
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When the ash and dust settles the world has forever changed.
Some would think in a world of eternal Halloween, the world would be filled with rampaging titans, but there are counters to each.
The Spider men (and spider women) were crippled by psychological problems that plagued Peter Parker and the others with Spider Powers. They were forced to hide away and support each other, becoming what would be communities.
Many people dressed as Superman and were transformed into Kryptonians, but they fell victim to there weaknesses. There powers fueled by yellow sun rays were drained by the night and shadow filled day. Kryptonians, as they were in the comics, are also vulnerable to magic. In a world filled with witches, demons, and creatures created by chaos magic, many children of Rao were killed and devoured.
Those who dressed as Goku or Vegita from the Anime Dragonball Z became weak Saiyans with only the potential to grow powerful. They also suffered from a vulnerability to magic and many died before they learned there limits. There was also mass destruction as some still possessed there tails and became giant apes (oozaru) under the light of the Hallow Moon.
Those who dressed as sailor senshi and other magical girls, found themselves either weakened with there powers divided between them or mutated by the tainted earth. Power Rangers found themselves cut off from there power sources. New born Angels "returned" to the Heavens and Devils "returned" to Hell. Three people dresses as omnipotent beings ceased to exist as they became one with the infinite.
There was destruction in the change.
Those who couldn't control there new superhuman, supernatural, or paranormal abilities and were consumed. Those who couldn't handle the memories and became insane, seeking to destruction to end there pain. Those who were corrupted by there power and fought with others for more power. Those who costume personas were meant only for destruction and death
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In the ruined town of Sunnydale, from which the chaos erupted, a young man named Xander Harris helps tend to the wounded in the old hospital building.
He carefully applies wraps bandages around the burnt arms of a small girl. The girl is around ten years old with long curly blond hair. She wears a hospital gown and a small golden tiara, the remains of a Princess costume.
"Your looking fine. There's no sign of infection and the skin is healing quickly."
"I won't become a monster." she says nearly crying, "like my brother did."
"No. We made sure there were no seeds."
It is said that Jack was a thief who stole from many people and was chased away. He encountered a devil wanting his soul, but tricked the devil into never taking it. When he died, he was too evil for heaven and could not enter hell, so he was forced to wander the earth. To illuminate the night, the devil tosses him a ember of hell's fire that would never burn out and Jack carried the fire within a hollowed out piece of food.
The Jack O'Lantern monsters born on Halloween that capture souls of those they kill to feed there flames. A seed captures the soul in it's vines and wraps it's vines around the corpse to create a body, they grow feeding on the pain and suffering of the capture souls.
Xander thinks back to how this began.
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Flashback
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Xander had planned to go as soldier for Halloween. He had old surplus fatigues at home and all he needed was a toy gun from the cheap new shop, Ethan's.
His plan was derailed by his father, the town drunk Tony Harris. The man spilled his beer on the fatigues and when he couldn't find "the boy" to punish him, he tore the fatigues in his drunken rage.
"Take it, Xander."
"But.."
"No Buts!"
The young man was forced to accept money from a stubborn best friend to buy a new costume. Willow's resolve face proves it's power.
"OK, but You have wear a new costume." says Xander with a revenge smirk, "No ghost this year."
"OK" says Willow slowly.
"Pinkie Swear."
Willow giggles then swears.
It's strange but he that promise would saved her life A dozen children dressed as ghosts would die leaving behind there bodies for grief-stricken parents to find still clad in there sheets.
It's hard to find a good cheap costume when your nearly 6 feet tall.
Xander found a green Chinese outfit with black arm bands, a headband, and a long white sash. It looks like a wuxia (Chinese martial arts) costume from one of those wire fu films. He feels the fabric and notes the pants and shoes are also a fit, which is odd considering this was meant for a tall Chinese man.
"Found something?"
Xander jumps and turns to see Ethan Rayne behind him.
"That's a bad habit in this town."
"Sorry. This also belongs to the costume."
He hands Xander a small black case Inside are green contacts, a monocle and ear cuffs, which causes Xander to pale, but one look from a smiling Willow causes him to grab them. If she had to wear a new costume, he had to wear the whole costume. He also reminds himself to use hair gel, as the picture on costume card has wilder hair.
"This a good guy, right?" says Xander, eying the monocle, "This isn't some evil general."
"No. I believe it's one of four main protagonists in a series of books." says Ethan, "It also comes with this, free."
Ethan Rayne hands over a toy dragon. It's a cool-looking oriental dragon, a long white serpentine dragon with large wings. It looks very life like despite being made of rubber and plastic, almost like taxonomy of a real dragon.
"I believe it's called Hakuryu."
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Chou Hakkai awakens to hear the screams of a man. He finds himself on a strange foreign road and sees many rampaging youkai. He finds the source of the screams, the burning corpse of a young man lies in a pool of burning liquid.
Next to the man are three plant-like youkai. They have humanoid bodies composed of vines and leaves rather than muscle and sinew, with long arms ending in sharp claws and gourd-like heads.
The first has a dark orange rotten fruit head with slit-like glowing yellow eyes and a wide mouth filled with thorn-like triangular teeth. It has an almost sneering face and the stalk on the back extends like a long braid. It's also the leader.
The second has a wide-mouth Jack O'Lantern in the chest area and the vines from the stalk forming a skull-like head. The eyes of skull and the eyes and mouth of the Jack O'Lantern burn a fiery red and it's also the tallest, standing nearly as tall of Chou Hakkai.
The third is dressed in a green-black robe with a white pumpkin head with black eyes and fang-filled mouth. It trails vines beneath the robe and a long vine-like arms holds a scythe in it's five thin claws.
As one, the three attack the green-clad youkai. The first generating spheres of gel in his palms, ignites them, and tossing them at the young Youkai, who avoids them with ease.
The second spreads his arms and a huge spray of spray of burning oil and fat shoots at high speed from the mouth in it's chest. It collides where Hakkai was before he jumped high into the air to avoid it.
The Third extends it's vine arm by several times and swinging the scythe blade at a superhuman-level speed. The most level-headed member of the Saiyuki team spins to avoid the first swing and vanishes with the second.
He appears behind the trio and raises his palms, with a roar the pumpkin monsters are consumed by a spherical chi blast. As the light clears, all that remains is ash, few small pieces, and a broken steel blade. As the last of the hellfire is extinguished, the remains that aren't burnt to ash, quickly rot away.
The Chou Hakkai screams in pain as the world breaks and loses consciousness.
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When he awoke on streets his mind was filled with the memories of hero of Saiyuki. His life as the human Cho Gonou. The kidnapping and brutal rape of his beloved sister Kanan and his complete slaughter of Hyakugenmaoh tribe that followed. He remembers the spilled blood of the a thousand youkai transforming him into a youkai as the chaos energy transformed Xander Harris into one.
He remembers the Journey West with his friends: the chain smoking gambling foul-mouthed priest Genjo Sanzo; the brave cheerful Monkey King Son Goku; and womanizing kappa hanyou (half youkai) Sha Gojyo. to stop the possible resurrection of the Bull-Demon-King, Gyumaoh. He remembers everything of Chou Hakkai's life up to the end.
"Doctor! Doctor! Trouble!"
Xander turns to see a small brown-haired child running in.
"The Hunters were clearing out the southern sector, when a group of Reapers attacked!"
"How many are injured?"
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END OF CHAPTER 02
NEXT SUMMERS FALL
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CHAPTER 03:SUMMERS FALL Part 1
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December 01, 2007
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The night of Halloween, the world was plunged into darkness in more ways than one. The chaos magic distorted the earth's magnetic field like a massive solar flare and when it collapsed the surge ended the modern age.
Across North America, massive transformers exploded without warning cutting power to millions of homes. The electromagnetic pulse spreads across the Earth's surface damaged every piece of electronic hardware that wasn't turned off or heavily shielded.
The numerous satellites that made modern communication are destroyed. Some are destroyed by the magnetic explosion, some are destroyed by debris, which creates more debris causing further impacts in scenario known as Kessler Syndrome. From the surface, people watch the debris fall like falling stars, as if a third of the stars in heaven are falling.
Without power and communications, the great proud cities became great tombs. People not killed by starvation, disease, fires, or rioting were killed by the Halloween creatures that feed off the destruction. In a strange twist, the small towns that were once the most vulnerable places became the last hope for humanity. A hope that is quickly fading as growing numbers of monsters follow there prey out of the cities as there old food sources get low.
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Sunnydale
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The ruins of Sunnydale have become a violent place. There isn't a day, when the sounds of violence and death fill the air. The air is permanently smells of blood and burning ash.
There are loud screams, a figure in black rushes to rescue the few remaining innocent.
In the center of a street, a group of civilians lead by men in rifles are facing a mix of vampires and demons. The ten civilians and twenty vampires are dressed in battered clothing. The five demons stand 2.5 meters tall with thick muscles covered in ash gray fur with sharp claws and fangs, yellow eyes, and long tapered ears.
One of the furry demons knocks one of the riflemen to ground, but before he can kill the soldier the sound of an automatic pistol are heard and the side of the monster's head bursts into a red mist. As the preternatural creature stumbles back, when a natural creature would fall dead, the shooter arrives dressed in black with a long coat.
More shots ring out and the eyes of two more demons are destroyed and five vampires collapse. The remaining demons charge forward and try to grab the "human pest". The woman grabs the wrist of one demon and pulls it close, then rams it's other hand threw it's jaw into it's skull. She then rams the corpse into the other demon, knocking it back. As demon number 2 stumbles, the woman flips over it, grabbing it's neck, and then with a twist breaks it violently.
Two of the soldiers have managed to kill one of the three blinded demons with there blades, taking as few minor injuries. The civilians are using holy water, crosses, and Molotov cocktails. Five vampires are dusted by the more experienced civilians.
Two vampires charge the youngest civilian, who managed to get separated, only for the woman to fire a couple of shots into there heads.
Common bullets have very little effect to vampires. It takes ammo meant for large game animals to cause enough damage. Blessed bullets burn the flesh and blood of vampires, but can be cut out of there undead flesh. The bullets fired by the woman contain a UV-emitting liquid that flows threw there undead bodies.
The two vampires collapse and begin to have seizures as the liquid burns threw there brains like acid. Smoke and ash stream from points of purple light on there faces as burns spread across there bodies, before there entire bodies collapse into burning ash.
The remaining 8 vampires flee as the woman uses a pair of swords taken from the civilians to decapitate two blinded demons. The final demon, missing half it's face, tries to jump her from behind, but she crosses her swords behind her. The swords penetrate the demon's torso and then spins, tearing the demon in half at the waist. She then walks up to the still struggling monster, swings both blades, then rams both threw the last demon's head into the road beneath it.
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A few minutes later, the woman leads the group to the "hospital". Xander is tending to a boy in one of the hospital.
"Hey Xander."
Xander turns from a patient
"Another lost group, Buffy." says Xander, as the woman removes her hood, "Supplies are running low. We may need to rain a few dead homes."
"I'll pull a group together later." says an altered Buffy as she walks down a hall.
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Ethan's Costume Shop
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Buffy Anne Summers was hoping to enjoy a quiet night at home watching movies, eating ice scream, and not worrying about being a Vampire Slayer. Then the Troll-in-semi-human-form Snyder forced her to take care of trick-or-treaters.
It would become ironic because it was one of those volunteers that ended Snyder's life. A possessed kid covered him in slime-vomit and a volunteer dresses as a knight thought he was a troll and decapitated him.
Buffy watches as a Princess dress is sold to another teenager and sighs. She was hoping to find something old fashion to impress Angel, but that was the only old one..
She turns and sees three costumes on a rack. One is a business outfit with hair dye and an official looking FBI ID saying "Clarice Starling". She thinks back and remembers a book she saw at Willow's house, The Silence of the Lambs.
"I deal with enough psychos."
The second costume is the red and white clothing of a Japanese priestess including socks and sandals, a miko if she remembers Giles right. It comes with a necklace, a long black wig, an old bow, and a quiver of arrows. She reads the name tag, "Kikyo".
She pauses then turns to the final costume
It's a black latex catsuit with matching leather corset. It also comes with a black wig, hair dye, and contacts. She grimaces at the fangs and a pair of semi-automatic pistols. She remembers Xander's comments about women in latex, then wonders if she's going the wrong way with Angel. Instead of a piece of history, why not show Angel what the new age has to offer.
"Read to buy?" asks Ethan appearing behind her.
"Don't do that!!"
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When the World changed, her mind was filled with centuries of memories. She remembers being Selene, a woman born to a Hungarian family. Her father was a well-known architect who helped design a fortress for a general named Viktor. She remembers believing her family killed by Lycans (werewolves) and becoming a vampire, becoming a death dealer to hunt them down.
She remembers meeting Michael Corvin, the last of the Corvinus line, rescuing him from both the Lycans and fellow vampires. She remembers saving his life by allowing him to become the first vampire-lycan hybrid and killing Viktor, the vampire lord who murdered her family.
The last thing she remembers is a helicopter ride after the battle with the Corvinus brothers. A battle in which lycan dominant hybrid Michael killed the Lycan Elder, William Corvinus, the first and strongest of all Lycans and she enhanced by the blood of the Immortal Alexander Corvinus killed the vampire-dominant hybrid Vampire Elder Marcus
It wasn't just her mind that was changed, her body had forever changed. Centuries ago, the Corvinus strain, allowed Alexander Corvinus to survive the plague and gain superhuman strength and immortality. It allowed his son William bitten by a wolf to become the first Lycan. It allowed his other son Marcus bitten by a bat to become a vampire. It also allowed Michael bitten by both lycan and vampire to become a Hybrid stronger than both
The enhanced vampire blood, a result Selene's drinking Alexander's legendary immortal blood, and traces of the pure Corvinus, combined the demonic slayer essence. She didn't revert with the spells end, instead she became a genetic hybrid of Selene and Buffy possessing the powers of both.
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Flashback Break
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"Buffy?"
"Mom?"
"Are you OK?"
"Just remembering."
"You need to feed."
Buffy takes the plastic bag and sinks her fangs into it.
Joyce Summers watches as her oldest daughter drinks the medical blood. It's disturbing on many levels, but necessary.
She walks back down the corridor. She has patients to heal and she can't get distracted.
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Flashback time
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Joyce was invited to a costume party by one of her clients at the art gallery. He friend save her three costumes for her to and she wishes her friend was here so she could yell at her.
The first costume resembles an ordinary outfit with a Tennis racket, which was revealed as Jamie Sommers by a fake ID. She thought the bionic implants covered makeup was a bad idea, because people wouldn't really see the costume.
The second was a Wonder Woman costume including black wig, hair dye, and golden lasso. It was a great costume and she would have worn the classic, if she didn't know that another woman at the party would be wearing the same costume. The thought of that woman made her very mad.
The Third Costume is the most unique. A gray top and black pants covered by a green jacket with a wide belt. It also has sandals, a blond wig with a ponytail, and inflatable bra!? It comes with a funny-looking black hat with a Japanese kanji and a diamond-like mark for her forehead? She also finds a round container she recognizes as Sake from Mr. Takahashi's last new years party and a deck of playing cards.
"Tsunade?"
TO BE CONTINUED IN PART II
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CHAPTER 04: SUMMERS FALL Part 2
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December 01, 2007
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Joyce sits at desk, head in her hands.
Joyce remembers Tsunade's life. She remembers growing up in Hidden Leaf Village (Konohagakure no sato) in Fire Country (Hi no Kuni). She remembers graduating the ninja academy at age 6 and becoming the student of Sarutobi, the man her grandfather and his brother picked to be Sandaime Hokage (Third Leader Fire Shadow). She remembers at age 22, giving her little brother Nawaki her grandfather's necklace and grieving over his death. She remembers at age 24, she tried to have Medic-Nins included on each team and meeting Dan. She fell in love Dan only for him to fall in battle leaving her shaking.
Joyce winces at the memories. If the memories had stopped there, she would have spent her time in fetal position. She still fears for her daughters in the twisted new world. She still has nightmares of finding Buffy with her throat torn out or Dawn consumed by a pitch darkness.
Joyce remembers Tsunade leaving the village at age 35 with Dan's niece, a young Chunin-rank Kunoichi (middle-class female ninja) Shizune. She remembers becoming professional gambler earning the title the Legendary Sucker and using a genjutsu (illusion art) to appear younger.
Tanzaku city was were her...Tsunade's life changed again. She met her former teammate, a evil demon-in-human-flesh Orochimaru who lost his arms fighting there old teacher and wanted her to heal him with the promise of bring Nawaki and Dan back to life. Then her other Teammate Jiraiya, a self-proclaimed Super-Pervert arrived with a hyper-active kid called Naruto with offered position of Godaime (5th Leader) Hokage
It came down to a bet with Naruto. If Naruto failed to master the final stage of the famous technique known as Rasengan, he would forget his dream to be a Hokage. If he won, she would give him her necklace, which is worth mountains. In the end, the brat used the finished Rasengan to save her life as she cowered in fear from blood and then saved his life cured of her hemophobia. Orochimaru left defeated and she agreed to become Hokage.
Joyce looks down at her hand with it's soft smooth skin. When Tsunade awoke Halloween night, she was able to destroy most demons she faced with her insane superhuman strength, but was later forced to use "Creation Rebirth" against one extremely powerful her chest. Creation Rebirth heals any and all damage to her body almost instantaneously, and allows her to continue to heal at an accelerated rate for the duration of the jutsu.
It allowed her to destroy the monster, but the warped mystical energies of the Halloween spell merged with the technique. The energies spread threw her cells, altering them as it went. Leaving Joyce not a 40 or 50 year old woman, but a big-breasted blond woman in her twenties. She now has the body of Tsunade at her prime
"Mom?"
Joyce looks up into the cold face of her youngest daughter.
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Flashback time
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Dawn Summers was looking threw the costumes. She had originally wanted to go as a Princess or a magical Fairy, but quickly dismissed those Ideas. Xander was buying a cool martial arts costume and her sister was buying black latex thing.
She looks over the costumes and finally stops at three possible choices.
The first is a black and yellow bodysuit with a X buckle belt. It also comes with Hazel contacts, a brown wig, a broken bone claw, and a Star of David necklace. Dawn recognizes the costume as Kitty Pryde from Xander's X-Men comics
The second is a tight tattered red shirt and right black pants with a long black wig, a blood-stained knife, and a handgun. It also comes with an interesting kit and an ID with the name Anita Blake. She like the costume, but like Shadowcat, the size is not correct.
The third costume is her final choice. A black bodysuit with gloves, boots, and a unique belt covered by a hooded cloak held by circular jewel. It also comes with hair dye and a "chakra" gem. Dawn picks it up and sees it's the correct size and a mystic would look good with a martial artist.
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Halloween Night
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Dawn's transformation into Raven is a lot more energetic than the others.
Dawn's existence is tied to the Key of Dagon, an sphere of green energy that can burn down the barriers of time and space. In another time line, Dawn would have been created during Buffy's 5th year on the Hellmouth. She would have been given human form and memories, and the memories of others would have been rewritten to include her existence. Then she would have lost most of her power, when the Hell god Glory tried to burn to hole back to her hell dimension.
In this time line, the whispers of a malevolent force forced the Monks to act. The magic arranged Joyce to become pregnant with Dawn years before her sister Buffy would become a Slayer and the Key was sealed within her body and soul.
Now the Key's power is warped by Halloween magic. It fuses with Raven's connection to another dimension. The connection to her father Trigon, the all-powerful ruler of an alternate dimension, also connects to the Hellmouth, the dimensional portal that Sunnydale was built on. The three "portals" align and react and fill the night sky with energy.
"The gem was born of evil's fire. The gem shall be his portal. He comes to claim. He comes to sire. The end of all things mortal."
Raven's body releases streams of green and crimson flame that swirling around the floating girl's body in a double helix. A sphere of white light consumes the girl a second before the world breaks and the energy disperses.
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Flashback End
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"We are getting reports of several towns with large amounts of supplies. One in the South is ruled by a mage who creates clean water and food using magic. One to the North is ruled by a group of cyborgs and robots using advance technology. I want to send out a couple of med teams to bargain for supplies."
"As long as they have heavily armed backup, I have no problem, Dawn" says Joyce, "Dawn. How are you feeling?"
"I try not to." replies Dawn, "Raven's powers surge with emotion, but on the Hellmouth the effect is far worse and Trigon's influence is stronger."
"It wasn't your fault."
"Mom, I destroyed four city blocks in a sphere of black flame!"
A Water Tank behind Dawn turns black and implodes violently spraying water over the office.
"I need to meditate." says Dawn
Joyce can only watch with tears threatening to fall.
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END OF CHAPTER 04 SUMMERS FALL
NEXT WILLOW AND GYPSY
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CHAPTER 04:WILLOW AND GYPSY Part 1
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November 23, 1997
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In other countries, even those who didn't celebrate Halloween were changed. Pieces of there culture and fiction became there masks and those masks became flesh. Legendary creatures were reborn or imprisoned were set free.
In China, massive serpentine dragons rose from the ancient mountains and reduced the great army of PRC to ashes or drowned them in unending floods and storms.
In Japan, many children were devoured by Kappa (water imps) or rescued by Tengu (crow demons). The masses without communications or power were taunted by Kitsune (foxes) and Tanuki (raccoon dogs) and cities were reduced to rubble by the youkai for consuming Nature to create them.
In Germany and Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden), Dwarves and Elves resembling those of Fantasy RPG appeared from Mountains and Forests, as the modern world crumbled back into the Earth. The Norse Gods, long gone from the mortal plane, once more hear the cries of there people.
In the Middle East, young Muslim warriors no longer fight men for there honors and riches beneath the sand, now face true enemies of there faith, the spirits of smoke-less fire, the Jinn. The Ghul, desert-dwelling shape shifting demon, that prey on there children and devour there dead. The Ifrit, embodiments of flame, who ignite the oil fields that started wars between men. The Marids, wish-granting Jinns of water watch as Bahamut rises from the Gulf
In India, the great cities each dense with human flesh were devoured by the unrightous spirits the Rakshasa and the fallen gods the Asura. The people prayed for help as the sands turned red with blood.
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Dawn walks into what was once a Library. The old sunnydale high library is gone, along with the school. The surging mystical force overloaded the convergence like the electromagnetic pulse overloaded electrical transformers. The school ignited and without emergency services, collapsed into rubble.
Giles managed to escape with Jenny's help, but most of his prized books were consumed by the flames. What they managed to save was moved to abandoned library, that with a few metal plates and powerful wards became a small fortress.
Dawn walks down the cold, silent hall and opens the large doors at the end to reveal, Rupert Giles and Jenny Calender researching various books with the help of several other former students. Dawn doesn't know who these people were before there transformation, but there costume personas have consumed them leaving fictional characters with the lives and names, Technomage Blitz Cobalt, Yomiko Readman, Gordon Freeman, and Evelyn "Evie" O'Connell.
Giles unchanged by the Halloween magical surge is in a wheelchair taken from the hospital and enhanced by a couple of Wrench Wenchs. His leg is in a cast, broken from the falling rubble after the Hellmouth detonated. He still maintains the British integrity and helps coordinate the others.
"Miss Readman, have you found how to stop the Sangre Demon?"
"Yes, Sir. The demon's crystal body is hard as diamond and immune to magic, but it has the same weakness of crystal." says the British-accented voice, "Mr. Tohno's special ability should be very effective."
"Mr. Cobalt, could you send the message?"
"No problem." says the bald man in the leathery robe, "I've also managed to find my notes on Demonic Metallurgy. It should help the engineers."
"I found a book called 'Great Invocations of the Day Goddess'" says other British woman, "It contains spells to create divine magic-based sunlight."
"Giles."
Giles looks up to see Dawn at the door.
"Dawn?"
"We need to assemble a team to investigate a couple of towns. One is being supplied by a mage, the other is being supplied by advance technology. We are hoping to set up trade negotiations."
"I can handle it." says Miss Calender, "I was a computer teacher before a bad ass sorceress."
Dawn looks at the former Computer Teacher and Techno-Pagan. She doesn't look any different except for the streak of silver hair and the new dress.
The Scoobies learned the woman's true identity as the gypsy Janna Kalderash shortly after Halloween. Apparently, her clan was the one who cast the soul curse on vampire scourge Angelus, creating the brooding champion Angel. She was sent to monitor Angel, to make sure his suffering continues. It was only after Halloween did they find out the truth, that if Angel's suffering had ended, the curse would have broken and Angelus would have been free to rain terror down on Buffy and her friends.
Everything changed that night.
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Flashback Ethan's Shop
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Miss Calender looks at the various consumes, wondering which one would catch Giles' interest.
She sees a few costumes she could picture Giles in, such as Walter C. Dornez, a wire-wielding battle butler with scary shiny glasses. She had almost burst out laughing at Mr. Rayne's explanation. She wished she could have convinced him, because a British vampire hunter is perfect for him. Tho, she suspects he would prefer a classic like Professor Abraham Van Helsing from the 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.
At first she spots three consumes with the same name, "Jimaine Szardos", but the two outfits makes her stop. One is pink and black with gloves, one is pink and gold with a jacket, and the last is shiny armor with horn accessories. The name reminded her of home, but she moves on.
The second is a tight little outfit that makes her think British, but also contains green contacts, a plushy, and long mane of red hair. She is so tempted by the ultra-cute little cat/rabbit thing, but wig is the same color as the crab dinner she had last month. One that still gives her nightmares. Who knew Sunnydale sea life was so awful.
It's ironic since the Boys' Swim Team Coach Carl Marin dressed as the Creature from the Black Lagoon and drowned in the air.
The third outfit is the most simple and elegant. A Medieval European/Fantasy dress covered by a robe with a long black wig with a gray streak. It takes a couple of seconds, but she recognizes it as Polgara from David Eddings' "The Belgariad". She remembers borrowing the five-book fantasy epic and the new prequel. Giles said it was ironic, since Polgara was also the name of a demon species and she let him borrow her copies of the series.
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Halloween
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A moment of ecstasy and agony. That is how Jenny recalls the night of change. The torrent of chaos magic, rippling across reality and foaming the spiritual plane crashed into her like a tsunami. The magic was channeled by her own magical abilities and her costume's sorceress nature. The two flowing paths merged together and all that was Janna Kalderash and Polgara the Sorceress merged into.
In the physical world, a lone vampire decided to drain the unconscious woman near the school, only to be trapped in a swirling vortex of glowing wind and light. The winds build as the woman rises, her hair flowing in the magical currents. Her body seems to glow brighter and brighter, before there is a shock wave that reduces the vampire to glowing dust in the wind and leaves an unharmed Sorceress.
Polgara's mind is filled with image, strange and bizarre. Boxes of glass filled with light. Words, Numbers, and a strange language with only two symbols. Ancient ways and ways of a world more advance.
Jenny minds flashes with memories A mother, a wolf that can become a woman. Poledra. Abandoned by the father. A twin sister with light hair named Beldaran wed a king. Loss. The deformed dwarf Beldin and twin sorcerers Beltira and Belkira. An Owl in flight. The ones who raised her.. no not her.
Jenny collapses again as the sky darkens.
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Dawn knows that Jenny may have the others fooled, but she knows that Jenny is cursed.
Cursed with centuries of knowledge and the knowledge that she will live for centuries to come. Jenny is now as immortal and un-aging as Polgara the Sorceress was. If the world survives the darkness, she will watch most of the people she knows die of old age and the only people that will remember her is as a legend, Janna the Sorceress.
"So, who else are you sending?" asks Janna. She never thought the little sister of one of her students would have such power. The young half-demon witch controls more people that her Slayer sister.
"Willow, Oz, and Cordy's Crew."
"Did someone call me?" comes Willow's voice.
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to be continued in part 2
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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Author Notes:
In the Library with Giles
Yomiko Readman (Read or Die)
Gordon Freeman (Half-Life)
Evelyn "Evie" O'Connell (The Mummy)
They also referred to:
Shiki Tohno (Tsukihime)
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CHAPTER 04: WILLOW AND GYPSY Part 2
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Ethan's Shop
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"No ghost this year."
"OK" says Willow slowly.
"Pinkie Swear."
Willow Rosenburg giggles then swears.
The young computer hacker and possible future goddess walks threw the small shop. It's strange, but it seems like the shop is larger on the inside than the outside. If her magical awareness had been developed, she would have noticed a faint spell attracting certain people to certain costumes, but like most of Sunnydale's people she suffers from denial syndrome. Not as bad as most of the population, but enough to deaden the senses to daylight danger.
She passes a military uniform, which should have caught her eye since Xander loves science fiction and it came with a free furry six- footed stuffed animal. She also passes Seven very detailed Gabrielle costume from Xena: Warrior Princess. She may not have the amazonian muscle with a blood thirsty Xena, but she could pull off a warrior bard.
She finally stops at a rack as if pulled by a force and finds three costumes..
The first costume is a tight red outfit she recognizes from one of Xander's X-men and Avengers comic books. Wanda Lensherr Maximoff known as mutant reality warper Scarlet Witch.
In a another dimension, the demonic elder god Chthon known as The Other and the Demon of the Darkhold senses a change in the mystical flows. The first master of black magic attention takes notice for only a second, then returns to his dark arcane.
The second costume is a a form-fitting full body blue and white garment with skin paling make-up, red contact lens, and a short blue wig with a pair of hair clips marked A10. There's also an ID card with the names NERV and Ayanami, Rei in English and Japanese.
On another earth, in another time, dozens of red eyes open briefly as there pale white bodies float in the blood of angels. They sense the possibility of another, not born of the mothers, even if none contain the mother's soul. Then the soulless hosts for Lilith's soul return to there rest.
Willow can't explain a split-second burst of fear in her heart, but it causes her to grab the costume between Rei and Wanda. The costume is Japanese according her research for a history report- a white kosode (shirt), a black kimono and hakama (pants), and a white obi (belt) sash. It also comes with a black wig, dark contacts, a katana (sword), and two strange devices. The devices resemble a PEZ dispenser with a cute bunny top and the name "Soul Candy" and a fingerless glove with a skull and flame design.
She holds it up, unconsciously blocking her view of the other two costumes. She then notices Xander paying for a martial arts outfit and quickly decides.
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Halloween
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At a house elsewhere, Willow followed her charges along the porch to the front door. "C'mon, guys..."
One of the kids, who was wearing one of Ethan's favourite monster masks [from his old stock] on his head, rang the bell and stepped back. An old lady answered the door, and the kid with the mask pulled it down over his face.
All the kids chanted in unison, "Trick-or-treat!"
The lady smiled in genuine pleasure, "Oh my goodness, aren't you adorable!"
The homeowner looked into her empty bucket and said, "Oh, dear! Am I all out? I could've sworn I had more candy..."
The kid wearing a red rubber cap with horns suddenly morphed into a horned, red-skinned real monster. The woman didn't notice and said, "I'm sorry, mister monster..." She bent down, "Maybe I..."
The kid with the green mask had changed into a demon also; so he grabbed the lady by the neck, and began to cold-blooded -ly choke her.
The other children just screamed and ran away. Willow shouted in confusion, "No! Let her go!"
The red demon attacked the green one, and he let go of the woman. The two monsters started to tear at each other's throats as Willow kept shouting, "Stop! What're you doing?!"
The old lady quite sensibly ran into the house, and slammed the door shut. The former redheaded guardian of the children just ignored that and yelled, "Stop! Hey!"
Suddenly, the magic which had been building in her explodes outward.
The swirling chaos magic was suppose to give a costume physical form and appearance, but a Shinigami is a spiritual creature with a body of ectoplasm unseen by the normal human.
Willow's soul is torn from her body, a chain extending from her chest crumbling to dust. Her transparent spirit glows white as it draws in spiritual particles, the quantum particles of spiritual energy like photons are to light. Willow screams as her soul is changed, her very essence changed into something else.
The soul cutting sword, the Zanpakuto, used by all shinigami are extensions of very souls, unique for every person. For the sword Sode no Shirayuki, Sleeve's White Snow, to become real, that part of her very soul must become real.
The glowing spirit of Willow Danielle Rosenberg rapidly changes to that of the unseated shinigami (death god) in the 13th Division, Rukia Kuchiki.
Willow's body, still in costume, also changes from a costumed teenager to a solid shinigami, then transforms into a white light that melds with Rukia's floating form
Rukia awakens to find herself in a strange foreign land. She notices the monsters are reacting to her, but are not corrupted spirits.
"Is this a Gigai (faux body)? It looks like my own body, but the humans can see me. Doesn't look like one Urahara's creations."
She remembers the gigai he gave her, it was slowly draining away her power and making her human. She sometimes wonders what would have happened, if the Soul Society failed to locate her. Aizen would never have located the Hogyoku (Crumbling Orb) and started creating his Arrancar army and she would have been with Ichigo.
She turns in a split second, drawing her Zanpakuto, and slicing threw the head of the vampire that was attacking her from behind.
An interesting fact, is that God doesn't give power to crosses and holy water, but the wielder's faith. When a person has faith in an object, they transfer there own spiritual power into the object. A Cross or a Star of David can repel vampires and burn them if they come in physical contact. Ordinary water blessed by a priest becomes like acid to demonic flesh. There is one case where an obsessed baseball fan killed a vampire with an autographed bat to save his little sister.
A Zanpakuto forged of spiritual power, forged by the soul in the heavens, is like a holy high energy laser beam. The top of the vampire's head is cut clean off and ignites into white flames. The vampire burns like a giant grotesque candle for a split second, before it explodes into a cloud of ash.
Suddenly, Rukia feels a massive surge in spiritual pressure. It warps space, time and reality and Rukia Kuchiki also feels it warping her soul.
An only neglected child of two doctors. Sheila and Ira Rosenberg.
Abandoned by an older sister named Hisana
A yellow crayon from a black haired boy. Xander Harris.
Stealing food with a red haired boy. Renji Abarai.
Outside the popular groups with friends. Jesse.
Separated from friends. The Kuchiki family
Jesse killed by vampires and the vampire wearing his face dusted by Xander.
Kaien Shiba, forced to kill a Hollow wearing his wife's face, then forcing her to kill him.
A world beyond mortal life. A reluctant real heroine named Buffy Summers.
A world of mortal life. A hero protecting his family. Ichigo Kurosaki.
Facing Death and Saved by Friends. Fighting to protect others..
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It's hard to believe the Japanese girl in front dressed in Japanese clothing of them was once a mousy Caucasian.
"There's a mission, Willow. Could you get Oz and Cordy's Crew."
Dawn doesn't show any emotion with her reply.
"No problem."
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Swim Pools
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Daniel 'Oz' Osborne sits by the Sunnydale Swim Pools playing his guitar. The changed man's eerie music bounces off the cool walls and various containers of holy water, the same holy water that fills the pool. It was his idea to have one of the surviving priests bless the school water supply and now he takes a break from his numerous plans.
Most people would not recognize Oz with long back hair, black beard, and black leather jacket. His view of the world changed since Halloween night.
A group of drunks decided to show the rock band "Dingoes Ate My Baby" what they thought of there music. They threw there drinks and managed to hit Oz, soaking his clothing. He quickly managed to take off the sticky shirt and borrowed a long coat that one band member got a costume store because it was cheaper than the other stores. They had him put on a long black wig and a fancy necklace, just to see if the "new look" would work.
When the chaos magic strikes, teenage common werewolf Daniel 'Oz' Osborne becomes 800 years old Hungarian Lycan Clan Leader Lucian.
Within the body, the lesser demonic wolf was devoured by the spirit of the Lycan Alpha. The feral creature replaced by the powerful being no longer bonded to the light of the moon. He didn't know about his curse, until he lost it that night.
Memories tear threw the barriers of his mind. Born the Lycan slave of the Vampire lord Viktor. Hiding with Sonya from a crazy preacher as the sun rose and the affair that arose when she arranged to marry the vampire lord Marcus's son Nikolas. The wanton Lycan servant Leyba betraying them in jealousy. Himself beaten and forced to watch as Sonya was burnt to death, still pregnant with there child. His rebellion against the vampires and years of trying to unite the Corvinus vampire and lycan bloodlines. He remembers his death at the hands of Kraven by silver nitrate rounds. He died satisfied, knowing that his wife would be avenged and his aim had been achieved.
Oz pulls himself from the memories to see Shinigami Willow walk in.
Since Halloween, Willow learned that her original body had become a strange faux body, one that allows her to heal rapidly and when she releases her soul from it, it becomes sealed inside his soul allowing her to remaining visible. As a result she has two bodies, one civilian, one warrior.
When others asks her about it, she tells them of some Urahara guy's untraceable shinigami-to-human gigai and the mad scientist Mayuri Kurotsuchi's lieutenant and so-called "daughter," Nemu Kurotsuchi, who is the ultimate result of his gigai and modified soul research. A seal-able body double isn't that strange.
"How are you feeling, Oz?"
"I'm dealing with six centuries of memories. I could be better."
"Have you thought about Buffy's idea?"
"Lucian died watching Selene create the first lycan-vampire hybrid. I think I'll stay the way I am."
"There is a reason I'm here. We need your help for a mission."
Oz puts his guitar in it's case and slowly rises with an animal's preternatural grace.
"No Problem."
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CHAPTER 04:CHASER AND CHASED Part 1
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November 23, 1997
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The Change went far beyond the living world to worlds of the dead and other dimensions.
There were many who dressed as creatures and monsters summoned from other realms and worlds. When the change occurred, they "returned" to those realms, in reality they changed part of other worlds or created new realms between worlds. These realms continued to grow and evolve beyond imagination, changing the nature of the other worlds.
Some of the changed became corrupt spirits that devour the souls of both living and deceased humans. They created more of there kind from the sea of dead and they tore a space between the living and the dead to hide in.
Some spirits possesses the living, changing them, or possessed the dead, animating them. Some of the living were pulled into the world of spirits and changed into something other than human.
In Poland, the most nightmarish creatures were born of human history. Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps, gave birth to a creature of rage, fear, and suffering. Lesser monsters were born from others camps to follow the strongest.
The Imperial Japanese Army units were covert medical experiment units of the Imperial Japanese Army which researched biological warfare through human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945) and World War II. The sites of Unit 731 - Auschwitz of the East - and the others also spawns there own demons seeking revenge and destruction.
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Sunnydale Limits
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The armored buses are ready to leave. They use to be ordinary intercity coach buses before Halloween, but after the event they were modified by the various mechanics, wrench wenches, and mad scientists into mobile fortresses.
Holy Forging is the name given to a process in which metal objects are blessed, reforged in a purifying fire, cooled with holy water, and then blessed and charmed again. It's done an interesting factory run in the heart of Sunnydale known as "Field of Blades". It's run by seven Christian monks, five nuns (All Roman Catholic) , five miko (Shinto shrine maidens), four druids, three bad ass priests, three Buddhist Monks, two Native American shamans, one living Buddha (mummy version) and one Pope. What is interesting is before Halloween, only one priest and one Buddhist Monk were the same.
The buses were taken apart, reforged, and assembled into new forms meant to stop supernatural attacks. A strong frame and suspension, thin metal walls replaced with hardened steel and metal plates, thin windows covered by bars and metal shutters, and radiators filled with holy water. Every piece of the engine and every pipe blessed and shielded. Even the individual screws are blessed and the special large armored tires.
The Buses are also loaded with weapons including several weapon ports on the sides, a couple of cannons mounted on the roof with the users protected by metal cages, and one mechanic built the buses with a modified flamethrower system He designed it so the driver could step on an additional pedal next to accelerator and flames would erupt from outer sides of buses without enough power to kill, a nastier version of the carjacking deterrent built by South African inventor Charl Fourie.
"Have you heard of the Mascot Massacres?" asks Shinigami Willow
"The what Massacres?" asks Oz
"The Halloween spell effected all costumes and those connected to them. The mascot monsters turns out to be stronger than 'normal' due to the years of accumulated energy. The greater the faith in the team and the number of people that witnesses the mascot, the more powerful the monster was created."
"It's a good thing our Mascot was eaten." says the Lycan Lord of Music.
"Don't mention that to Xander." says Willow with a nasty look, "The USC Mascot became a powerful Trojan soldier on a white horse, but Oski from Berkeley and Scotty from UC Riverside both became immense demon bears that ate there entire universities."
"What about Disneyland?" says Janna, "One witch did a scan and the entire place is missing, all that remains is an immense crater. We know it didn't explode because the resulting thermal radiation would have incinerated us. The only trace leads to somewhere near the New York wastelands."
"That would explain the radio Intel I got." says Oz, "The New York Alpha is someone called Bigby Wolf."
Willow's eyes widen, "Big Bad Wolf!?"
"Correct. He's not some Disney character anymore, he's a massive wolf bigger than a house and command hurricane force winds. He's also married to a woman named Snow and has seven cubs."
Raven arrives with a small backpack.
"A slight change of plans. We will need to make a pit stop at a Catholic Church in Sunnyside. The town's resources are depleted and and they need evac."
"Any defenders?" asks Willow
"An 'Halloween-is-evil' Parent Group prevented most of them from trick-or-treating, as a result while they didn't get many monsters, they didn't have many protectors when the monsters from other towns invaded. The only real defenders are a trio of women: Sister Rosette Christopher, Heinkel Wolfe and Yumie Takagi Note those are there fictional persons, there original personas were wiped."
"I'll see if we have files on them on the way"
The four enters the bus and join the other groups. The groups of children that were lead by the volunteers have become teams under there command. It's interesting that they used common themes to prevent the children from getting confused and the same theme now binds each groups.
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Willow's Team is called Megane Gan or Glasses Gang. Each member of her group excluding the ones wearing demon masks wore glasses. The two that didn't wore bright enough colors that Willow let it pass. The rest became a group that would most demons away.
Gendo Ikari, a confident, brooding, super-intelligent, self-possessed, self-controlled, cunning, intimidating master manipulator. At least he has charm and science background to help.
"At least I'm free from that spineless wimp. I create a machine to safeguard humanity and what does he do. He cries out how I was never there for him. Why would I want him? He only has one use, as a pilot."
It's also ironic, that while he was completely converted into Gendo Ikari, his biological age is currently 14, the same as his son in Neon Genesis Evangeleon.
Brad Crawford. The young brown haired boy grew in a six-foot-one bishounen (pretty boy) with black hair and steel blue eyes. His code name is Oracle and was an assassin/bodyguard with has the ability to see parts of the future before they happen. He's also skilled with his fists and his Walther PPK.
Crawford is currently nodding at Gendo's rants. After dealing with crime boss Reiji Takatori and his twisted family, he can handle one megalomaniac ranting about his loss command. He uses his powers to determine if anything interesting will be happening soon, but is disappointed that he will have to listen to the fool for at least another new hours.
Kabuto Yakushi. A very mysterious person with very odd hair color. A powerful elite ninja and master skill medic with the ability to heal and kill with a touch. Willow is disturbed he was the right hand to the Big Bad in the manga, but having a medic on any team is good idea.
He's currently adding poison to a set of senbon (acupuncture needles). This poison is designed to kill extremely power opponents and was developed to kill a boy named Naruto. Kabuto grins as he remembers his encounters with Naruto. The first meeting at the chunin selection exam. There battle during Orochimaru's search for Tsunade and how they met again after Orochimaru's death at the hands of Sasuke.
"It's a shame. I spent so much time creating this poison, yet I never used it."
He then pales when he sees Roberta with Scary Shiny Glasses.
Roberta. Willow would never suspected that a little girl dressed in an odd maid's uniform could become a bad-ass. When she was still a little brown-haired girl introduce herself as "Roberta, a maid who has worked for four years at the Loveless household in Venezuela" she thought it was cute.
Then after Halloween she learned Roberta was once known as Rosarita Cisneros, a former FARC guerrilla trained as an assassin in Cuba and an internationally wanted criminal. She earned the moniker "Bloodhound of Florencia" for her relentless drive to achieve her objectives. Willow watched as the woman in her mid-twenties still dressed as a maid tear threw demons like the original Terminator threw cops.
"You are ruining the seats!"
Ceil looked like a ordinary school girl, but turned out to five-foot-seven vampire killing machine.
"Keep it down, Roberta. Not all of us are Immortal."
She told Willow that she was once the 17th host body of Dead Apostles (Powerful Vampire) Michael Roa Valdamjong. She became a vampire and killed everyone in her village, the massacre only ended when Arcueid Brunestud arrived and killed her, part of her duty involving killing Roa whenever he reincarnates. However, unlike previous hosts, she returned to life after Roa had moved on to a new host. She learned the only way for her to end her immortality was to eliminate Roa.
What's more disturbing is Ciel awoke in this world to find herself immortal after she was killed by a lucky sword swing. That could mean Roa was also recreated.
"Has anybody scene my book?"
The only member of Willow's group that doesn't have an evil past is Fuu Hououji. A calm genius girl with supernatural archery skills and the ability to manipulate magical currents of wind. The "Wind of Phoenix Temple" said she got those powers from being a magical girl in another dimension, but she's still considered the most normal of the group.
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Xander is staying behind with the medics, but his team is going on the mission. They are referred to as "Upper Half" since they are composed of half-human characters.
Shiori is the smallest resembling an eight year old with white hair and purple eyes, but considering she's a hanyou (half Japanese demon) she could be far older. The dark skinned girl can generate powerful barriers, which is strange according to her since she use to a need a blood crystal.
She's currently holding a softball-size sphere of Yoki (Youkai energy), a protective barrier that holds her little stuffed white dog as a test. She doesn't like being separate from Xander, but she is glade she's with the others.
The next member and only male is Jio Freed. A young boy with spiky half-black half-white hair, mismatched eyes, and boomerang. His parents, the Freemans, thought the character from O-Parts Hunter was cute. They didn't know it's original Japanese name was 666 Satan.
"I hoped I packed enough food for this trip."
Now we have a kid with great battle skill, great trust towards his friends and an ability to persevere, who also had his world's version of Lucifer (Satan) inside him. Thankfully, he dressed post time skip and the evil eliminated There are a few bad traits remaining tho.
"I hope we find some treasure on this trip."
Dawn was part of Xander's group, so she is also part of Upper Half, even with her command level.
'I hope we find people on this trip." she says to Jio, "The people are the most important part of mission."
"Duh! I know that." says Jio rubbing the back of his head, "Money would be a nice bonus."
Dawn can't help but admire Jio. According to the files on the various costume characters they managed to create, Jio managed to defeat his inner demon permanently. Raven still has to deal with her connection to Trigon, a connection which also possesses as a spiritual copy.
Setsuna Sakurazaki is a 16 year old girl standing four-foot-eleven with black hair and dark brown eyes. She looks like a normal Japanese school girl, but she's actually a winged hanyou the daughter of a Human and Crow with white wings. Her eyes are covered by contacts and her hair is dyed to hide her albinism compounding her mixed heritage.
"If Toko or Motoko could only see me now."
She's a master Shinmei-ryu kenjutsu (Japanese swordsmanship), a style in which attacks are sword skills infused with ki and are mostly used in demon Kuzunoha was a mercenary who taught Setsuna other aspects of the Shinmei-ryu style after her relocation to Mahora. Motoko Aoyama is the successor to the Shinmei-ryu, the parent to the Kyoto style she uses. She remembers meeting Motoko after she found Motoko chasing a boy named Keitaro with her blade.
"I wonder if I'll find more people from Mahora. According to the files, the entire thirty plus collection is out there. Neji would be great help, but I don't feel right wanting him in this world.
Setsuna is also skilled in magic and even if she is part demon, her angelic wings bring hope to the refugees and scare the crap out of demons.
The other swords-woman is a tall thin woman with silver eyes, light-blond-to-white hair, and pointed ears. She wears a uniform consisting of pale grey, tightly-fitting long sleeve shirt and pants. Over this, she wear some pieces of armor, shin high, slightly high heeled metal boots (Sabatons), large wrist guards (Vambraces), large shoulder pieces (Spaulders) and a partial skirt (Fauld). She also wears a cape and fabric with an odd cross-like symbols and carries a huge Scottish sword known as Claymore.
The girl named Priss once told Xander of her world, a medieval world under attack by sentient monsters that feed on human guts Yoma, an organization in her world creates the Claymores by implanting Yoma flesh and blood into humans, thus creating hybrids that are more powerful than the original Yoma, in addition to their weapons training and often greater intelligence.
Priss is the most secretive of the group and most of files pertaining to the manga series Claymore have gone missing, which leaves greater mysteries.
"What are you eating, Priss?" asks Setsuna, noticing the Claymore has been ignoring her in favor of food.
"Hagis"
The last member is Aerith Gainsborough, a character from Final Fantasy VII video game. A member of an ancient wicca-like race, she is a powerful white mage able to cast healing and support magic. She's also skilled with a staff, but she is her team's medic.
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The last team is Buffy's Team which some people are calling the Mon-Stars, which annoys the group since Michael Jordan's Space Jam had a bunch of alien villains named that. Buffy's group is composed of classic lot of monsters, but each different then the tradition or Hollywood version. The same way that she isn't a normal vampire and Oz isn't a normal werewolf, none of the monsters are "normal".
Jill Nanashi was dressed a mermaid with legs and became a fusion of human and a mermaid from the series Mermaid Saga by Rumiko Takahashi. Those mermaids are creatures whose flesh is both magical and poisonous. Nine in Ten people who eat the flesh of a mermaid die, the remainder become monstrous fish creatures called Lost Souls. Jill was one of the one in million to gain immortality and over eight hundreds years of knowledge. She is Buffy's swords-woman and is also a skilled manipulator.
"I hope they have bottled water. I've been feeling dry recently."
One boy was dressed as Remus Lupin, a wizard from the series Harry Potter. He was infected with Lycanthropy at a young age and when the Event occurred he became a giant rampaging wolf. The bite of the alpha Lyman Oz allowed Remus gain control over his massive form. He's Buffy's team mage and is also a brooder thinking about Harry, Remus' friends, his wife Tonks, and his son Teddy, who never got a chance to really know him.
He waves a wand and a glass of water appears in Jill's hands.
"Thank you, Remmie."
The other girl on her team dressed as Lilith Aensland, the short purple-haired succubus from the Darkstalkers fighting game series. The lolicon outfit would have been rejected if her mother didn't dress as Nevan from Devil May Cry for a costume party and her older sister dressed as Morrigan Aensland, another succubus from the same Darkstalkers game. The miniature succubus calls herself Lilith and may be the most powerful of Buffy's group.
"I hope there is plenty of excitement on this trip"
It's interesting to note that Royal Aensland succubus don't seek combat just for the fun of it, but for actual physical need. Inside there body is an organ that secretes a fluid that sustains them. It secretes the fluid when there bodies are stimulated, by either sex or combat. This organ separates them from the common energy-draining succubus and if a succubus was placed in a sensory deprivation tank it could kill her. As a result, no matter how dangerous the mission, the Aesland sisters are ready for combat.
"Girls! Stop fighting!" yells Willow letting out a little spiritual pressure.
There are a pair of twin girls named Amy and May who dressed as Fantasy Elves. Amy dressed as wood elf with druidic magic, empathy, enhanced physical powers, and kick-ass archery skills. May wanting to be different and dressed a half-dark elf fighter/wizard. The girl is lethal with a sword and can throw massive lightning attacks.
The twins always fought before, but suddenly becoming opposite spectrum elves, one Lawful God and one Chaotic Evil, has made them fight nearly every waking moment. At least it's improved there skills faster then fighting plain vampires can.
The last is a Zombie named Phil. This Zombie doesn't follow any of the normal rules and doesn't come from normal world either. Phil remembers the world he lived a flat planet carried by four elephants standing on the back of a gigantic space-turtle. He's not slow or weak, he's fully sentient and has all of his memories and personality, and he wasn't changed by an evil spell or virus. He was just too stubborn to die and is now powered by the will to live.
"Amy! May! Knock it off!"
The blue-gray skinned walking corpse has dyed blue hair and white eyes. His tall, thin form is currently clad in an outfit made by Ceil. Black boots, pants, black top, black arm bands, and black gloves. The numerous straps, cords, and a studded collar add to the bondage look. It actually serves a purpose as the black leathery material is enchanted to prevent decay, helping to preserve his body and the straps and cords allow him to tie a severed part back on until he can get it sticked up again.
"Your turning me into a pin cushion." says Phil pulling a arrow from chest trying not to pull out anything that was vital. He may not need any of his internal organs, but he likes still having them.
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Cordelia Chase watches her troops with a calculated look. Unlike the Scoobies, she wasn't a volunteer chosen by Snyder and forced to take care of trick-or-treaters. If Partytown hadn't messed up and ruined her costume, the chaos wave that consumed Sunnydale would have turned her into a feline, either an actual house pet, a anthropomorphic animal, or therianthrope. Instead of becoming a house cat, a furry, or a shape shifter, she became a person who commands respect from her tropes.
The children that bought Ethan's costumes, attuned to the energy, resulted in more powerful than normal transformations. While the Scoobies took command of there own groups, she and her followers took command of those who lost there volunteer leaders. Some were children of friends, other were powerful strangers. With the military training she gained from the transformation, she has turned a group of transformed children into a small army under her command.
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Ethan's Costume Shop Pre-Halloween
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Cordelia Chase, 17 year old Queen C of Sunnydale High School, looks at the various costumes. She had originally planned to go as a slinky cat costume from the more expensive store, Partytown. Then she learned an employee accidentally started a fire and the combination of flame, water, and chemicals ruined her order and several dozen others. Most of the Partytown client who hadn't picked up there costumes, had to come to Ethan's to buy a quick replacement.
She is surprised by the Cosplay costumes, which are actually better quality than Partytown's best.
"I think I was ripped off." says Cordelia, "I hope that refund clears."
She looks threw each costume and finds the final three choices.
One is a seifuku - a sailor-style Japanese school uniform with a short multi-color shirt, red-rim white gloves and red-rim white boots. It also has a gold heart-shaped locket with feathery wings on the sides and a large pair of feathery angel wings. It also comes with a tiara, scepter, and a golden wig done in a very strange hair style. It would be a good costume if her and her minion were going as a team, but tonight it's everyone for herself.
The next costume is a fishnet mess bodysuit covered by a black mini top and brown mini shirt. It also comes with a metal plate headband, sandal-sneakers, a set of daggers, and a temporary tattoo resembling three comma. It's all covered by a tan jacket Cordelia thinks it would attract a lot of attention, but the ninja punk look isn't right for a Queen.
The last costume is unique, looking like it came from a Wuxia film. It's dark red Chinese clothing with a gold edge jacket, a loose shirt, loose pants, and red boots. The sleeves are protected by armbands and the black wig comes with a gold hair piece. The costume also comes with a pair of red contact lens.
She sees the profile of a powerful skilled woman surrounded by fire and reads the attached card, "Princess Azula of the Fire Nation"
"Found something."
Ethan's quick reflexes save him from a spray of mace.
"That's a bad habit."
"I keep on hearing that, Miss." says Ethan, "So, does the Fire Princess interest you?"
"It's not the kind of princess I'm used to."
"What kind of Princess would you want to be, Miss? A submissive property of royalty to be rescued from dangers and then become a pretty baby maker or a skilled fighting prodigy, the cunning leader of a conquering army and the best warrior in the army?"
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That Halloween Night, Cordelia Chase merged with Princess Azula of the Fire Nation. It was only a strong will that allowed Cordelia's persona to survive She remembers every act did by the Dragon Lady of the Fire-benders. She was a Magnificent Bastard, who lied and manipulated people for her own ends and was a sadistic fighter. She even tortured animals and lacked remorse in her youth like a sociopath.
Cordelia looks down at her hands now covered in a blue/black flame. In Azula's world, there are four nations corresponding to the four elements and the people of each of these nations can manipulate that element. Azula's people the Firebenders could manipulate flame with there fast, aggressive attacks and techniques. Azula as a prodigy could produce powerful blue flame and lightning attacks.
When the world was covered in darkness, it changed the nature of her power. The origin of Firebending comes from the Sun and was taught by dancing with dragons. Her new focus and determination to recreate the world gave birth to the dark flames and lightning she now wields.
"You OK, Lady Cordelia"
She looks at her soldiers again.
The costume she almost wore gave birth to her own group's commander, her second in command. The 24 year old Asian woman stands five foot six, a hundred one pounds with brown hair and purple hair. She's an extremely skilled kunoichi and a sadistic fighter, an special elite ninja of Konohagakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Leave).
"I'm fine. Bad memories."
"We all have them." says Anko rubbing the side of her neck. Her former teacher may not even exist in this world, but his cursed seal on her shoulder still throbs with malignant power.
The next member of her team is Sailor Moon, also known as Usagi Tsukino in civilian mode. The girl has changed from the angelic magical girl she was. The soul of each Sailor Senshi (Warriors) is connected to the soul of the planet they protect and manipulate an element based on that planet's nature. As the warrior of the moon she possessed powers over light, love, and healing.
In this new dark world of the crimson moon, her powers have changed to include power over darkness, lust, and decay. It's reflected in her four foot eleven body with her pale skin turning dark and her long golden hair turning silver white. In her transformed state, the blue-eyed teenager's seifuku has been replaced by a piece of leather-like material resembling a ancient Roman fighter's outfit. The white has turned a silver grey and her once beautiful feathery wings have grown into the black wings of a fallen angel.
"You think we will be able to get more food."
Fortunately or not, her personality is mostly the same outside of battle.
"Meatball headed idiot."
"Your as mean as Rei, M!"
"I should hope so."
Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix is a citizen of France, Yugoslavia, and Algeria and was born a mutant, a more advance evolution of humanity. She stands five foot eleven a hundred twenty five pounds with brown eyes and long black hair. She goes by the codename M and people say it stands for Miss Perfect. Cordy can't help it would have made a great costume if someone hadn't bought it first.
The person now consumed by Monet persona is an Alpha-level mutant possessing superhuman senses, agility, strength, speed, and reflexes like a Slayer, but also possess Invulnerability, a powerful healing factor (superior to slayers), and telepathy. Cordelia sometimes calls Monet, her super slayer.
"Looks like a fallen angel acts like a baby." says a tall woman checking her machine rifle/flamethrower. "I'm beginning to miss the bugs. At least they had guts."
Ripley is a tall dark haired woman dressed in red leather body suit and boots. She's Cordelia's weapon specialist and also possesses immense alien strength and corrosive blood. Cordelia smiles remembering one vampire biting Ripley's next and falling to the ground screaming as his mouth dissolved.
The last member of her group isn't on the bus. Seto Kamiki Jurai, Plenipotentiary of Jurai, is currently working on the regeneration of her tree ship Mikagami. The people of alien planet Jurei extend there life spans using a symbiotic relationship with there Goddess' space trees, in return the trees are made mobile. They become the heart of organic ships and travel with the Juraian where they go.
The 10,000 year old Devil Princess of Jurai is not someone you command, it's someone you either obey or work with. According to her, she met her husband Utsutsumi Galaxy Police Academy and gave him a choice, Marriage or Death.
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Cordette Aprodesia was a five foot two blue-eyed blond with no real dreams or skills. She wore a slinky black dress and gloves and black wig for Halloween. What made the outfit unique was a temporary red tattoo above her breasts that she hoped would catch attention. She also carried a large red candy stone the size of his fist the shop owner called a Philo-what stone.
When Halloween night occurred, her essence was torn apart and reformed into a homunculus. A monster created by forbidden experiments in alchemy, in the subject of human transmutation. At any time there can be seven homunculi, each named after a Cardinal Sin and each possessing a unique power outside immortality and regeneration. The one she became Lust, was the ultimate lance, able to extend her fingers into hair-thin blades can slice the strongest of objects and the strongest of men to pieces.
"I hope this trip will be interesting."
The chaos magic also converted the red candy into a true Philosopher's Stone: A stone inside her, whose captured souls sustain her life until she can find a way to become human. It believed nothing of Aprodesia's memories and persona would have survived if Lust hadn't desperately to hold onto the memories of being human.
"When is it ever boring, Lust!?"
The first member of her group is 15 year old Temari of the Sand. She stands five foot two with teal eyes and blond hair done in four spiky ponytails. She's dressed in a form-fitting short sleeved kimono with a wide belt and sandals. She also carries a huge Japanese fan which she uses to create hurricane force winds.
Temari was a Jounin (Elite Ninja) in Sunagakure no Sato (Village hidden in the Sand) and her brother Garra was the leader of there ninja village, the Kazekage. Now she taking orders from a sadistic fire princess, the crazy special Jounin she met during the Leaf Chunin Exams, and a soulless sex freak.
Temari is also angry that two of her companions, the smart ones, are busy on another project leaving her to deal with a prophecy obsessed witch named Lavender Brown. If she wanted this fate and destiny crap she would have taken that offer from the Hyuuga council.
"I have good predictions about this trip."
Lavender is an pretty English witch with above average magical strength. She also has minor wolf traits from being seriously injured by the savage evil werewolf Fenrir Greyback during the Second battle of Hogwarts, a major turning point in her Wizarding World History.
The missing members are Washu Hakubi and Ami Mizuno.
Washu, an over 20,000 year old former goddess of knowledge and Greatest Scientific Genius in the Universe is working with limited materials to built up there defenses and supplies, and to solve the "Red Sky" problem, the energy field surrounding the world in eternal night. Temari shivers at the memory of five foot eleven green eyed demon with hair the color of red crab. She let Washu make an upgrade to her fan and almost blew down three city blocks by accident.
Ami Mizuno was a Sailor Senshi, Sailor Mercury to be precise. The young genius was studying in medical school, when she was pulled into out world in her transformed state. Then her magical power mutated from controlling and producing all phases of water, to becoming a lesser goddess of Yukionna (snow women). She gained a level of control that frightening and also gained incredible speed like her namesake the Roman God Mercury. She now spends her time working with Washu avoiding using her powers after an incident.
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Aura watches Cordelia plan the mission with her second in command. She looks very different from the Asian model she was. She dresses in a three-layer kimono typical of Kagura dancers and wears a pair of earrings (each is a string of five light green beads with a feather at the end). The irises of her eyes are red and her ears are pointy.
Aura, one of the smarter Cordettes, dressed as Kagura from the series Inuyasha. She retains her memories of being a spoiled human, but she also remembers her short life as wind sorceress demon. She was born an incarnation of evil demon Naraku with name meaning "the dance of the gods" and the ability to control winds using dances. Her only desire was to be free like the wind, but Naraku held her heart in his grasp and could destroy her with a squeeze. As a mocking final gesture, Naraku grants Kagura her wish by giving her back her heart, only to subsequently poison her, ensuring that her freedom will be short-lived and extremely painful.
Now Kagura lives in her and she is free to do as she pleases, but she still has to do the commands of others to ensure her survival.
"How's the wind blowing?"
"No Tornadoes today."
Azkadellia the Sorceress is no longer a dictator since the destruction of the Witch that possessed her. Kagura can understand the situation, as her late master Naraku manipulated the mind of Kohaku to slaughter innocent people and attack his only surviving family, his sister Sango. The same way Azkadellia's sister was able to exorcise and melt of the Witch, Sango helped Kohaku break free of Naraku's power.
Azkadellia powers have been weakened by the altered world, but she still possesses numerous magical attacks and her mobats (meter-tall winged monkeys), but she still despairs at the loss of special magical rapport with her sister. It's the reason, she will be staying in Sunnydale, despite the magical power she possesses.
Tenten sits behind Kagura. The brown eyed Asian girl, dressed in Chinese clothing, is vital to missions. She is a Chunin (Jouneyman-level) kunoichi of Konoha carries a large summoning scroll containing thousands of throwing weapons she can throw with a hundred percent accuracy. She's also the one who created sealing scroll to carry the food, water, and medical supplies. With these scroll they can carry large amounts of supplies and equipment without the weight, as each object exists only as a marking on paper until it's summoned.
"Let's see 150 blessed kunai, 300 HF shuriken, 1500 anti-vamp senbon, 10 2L bottles of holy water, a Icha Icha 3-Pak..."
"Hold it, cutie. Come Come Paradise?? Those porno books that master ninja Jiraiya wrote!?"
"Naruto Uzumaki once told me he developed his ninja centerfold technique because the village was full of perverts. I've found out without the Internet, people are desperate for porn. I've sold copies of these books for a power generator, three trucks, and 200 gallons of gasoline."
"Woah." says Arshes taking a look inside an unsealed book, "Looks like something Darsh would write as a autobiography. "
"Really?" says Tenten blushing badly.
Arshes Nei is a beautiful woman looking like she came off an 80s rock poster. As a hybrid of human and dark elf, she has dark eyes, dark skin, and long wild black hair. It also grants her intense magical power. The woman dressed in tight clothing and medieval fantasy armor is a powerful fighter and sorceress. While Azkadellia is good with spells and summons, Arshes is a skilled fighter and powerful spell caster that almost conquered her world with her fellow Divine Kings. She was known as Thunder Empress, which she proved recently when she sent twelve vampires and eight demons to oblivion with her sword of Lightning God. She's also become a teacher and older sister to May on Buffy's Team, hopefully May won't fall for a Magnificent Bastard like Arshes did.
The missing member of Aura/Kagura's group is Rommie. She the independent humanoid avatar to the AI controlled starship Glorious Heritage-class Andromeda Ascendant. Something went wrong in her creation, an entropic force resulted in Rommie remaining child size and the incomplete starship appearing in a cocoon-like shell. Head Scientist Washu says as the ship Andromeda regenerates, little Rommie will grow and eventually awaken, but it could take years.
The last member is a miko (Shinto shrine maiden) named Rei Hino. She was the magical girl named Sailor Mars and the Event mutated her into a five foot three Purple-Eyed Incarnation of Fire. The fire youkai she was become is almost equal to Azula-Cordelia and can produce sacred flames that burn demons and vampires worse than sunlight and blessed silver. She's also skilled in archery and can produce burning sacred arrows that can destroy a dozen vampires with a single shot.
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The next Cordette is Gwen who lost an inch in height when she became the five foot five Sheena Fujibayashi from Tales of Symphonia. A beautiful woman from the flourishing world of Tethe'alla, Gwen's new persona found herself on a world filled with mana. Unlike the world of Sylvarant, the dark Earth is filled with concentrated magical and spiritual energy, energy that grow day by day. The ninja girl is glad she's not the only ninja in town and her summon spirit Shadow is now more powerful than ever, but she still misses her friends Lloyd, Colette, even Zelos.
Her partner is Seth Nightroad. She looks like a cute little girl with short black hair and green eyes, but in reality she over nine hundred years old and an extremely powerful Crusnik. In a distant future, alien technology discovered by colonists resulted in the creation of creatures similar to the vampires of legend, the Methusalah. It also resulted in the creation of more powerful being from the genetically engineered, a vampire that feeds on other vampires and possesses immense powers. Seth possess destructive sound powers in her powered mode.
"Abel always had a sweet tooth. Sixteen spoonfuls of sugar."
Sheena is amazed at the sweet girl who was once Empress Augusta Vradica of the New Human Empire, the leader of Methusalah, and one of the most powerful women in the world.
It's also amazing is that there an alien sitting behind her. A five-foot-six hundred twenty pound humanoid alien with blue eyes, white skin, and long white hair. It's shocking is Hepzibah has a tail and is covered in a fine, white fur. According to her, she a Mephitisoid, a member of a catlike species long dominated by another alien species known as the Shi'ar.
She like the rest of her species possess night vision, retractable claws, acute olfactory senses, and pheromone odors used to communicate and suggest action. She herself is an expert marksman.
"So your people are like shunks?" asks Seth.
"You have a problem with that?"
"No, Mine are a bloodsuckers."
The most normal of the lot is Galaxy Police Officer Kiyone Makibi, who is actually pretty relaxed with her klutz partner Mihoshi. She's a twenty three years old beauty standing five foot nine with teal green hair. She's dressed in a galaxy police uniform with a red headband. She's actually taking the more dangerous missions to avoid Lady Seto's "match making".
Next to her is another near normal girl. Hinata Hyuuga is a busty young girl with dark indigo pupil-less eyes and long black hair past her shoulders. She wears an over sized jacket, pants and formal sandals. She another Chunin-level Konoha Kunoichi. She's a taijutsu (hand-to-hand) fighter possessing the doujutsu Byakugan (eye technique - white eye).
When the "Byakugan" is activated, the clan member gains an extra-sensory perception, which gives them penetrating sight and telescopic vision. This allows them to see the tenketsu; the internal chakra coils system 361 pressure points. This vision also grants the member a near 360° view of their surroundings, the higher the skill of the clan member, the further the distance from which they can sense incoming attacks.
Hinata can use these the Byakugan and her family's Juken (Gentle Fist) to attack the inner organs of an opponent, produce a spherical defense shield, or shoot chakra from her finger tips that can cut incoming projectiles like laser beams. She a very sweet, shy girl, which amuses Sheena.
The last member is Makoto Kino, another Sailor Senshi. The Five foot six green eyed brunette looks normal and she was a ordinary martial artist and great cook and gardener, but the event altered her ability to manipulate certain aspects of nature, particularly lightning and wood. Jupiter's spiritual energy, also known as mana or magic fuel, channeled by her soul and the chaos changed her from a creature whose spirit is limited by body, a mortal to a creature whose body is limited by spirit, a youkai. She now possesses the ability to manipulate all plant life and can generate massive amounts of lightning. As a result she forms a lightning power trio with Arshes and May.
"I hope I packed enough food. Usagi is bad enough, but these girls eat like starving lake of piranha."
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The last and most ambitious of the Cordette is Harmony Kendall. She wore a simple black dress that once beyond to an Opera singer. A few add ons from Ethan's resulted in the rebirth of Diva. The five-foot-two Japanese beauty with blue eyes and long black hair looks normal, but she is actually over a hundred and seventy years old.
She is a Queen to hematophagous (blood drinking) bat-like creatures that live by feeding on human blood. She the only original Chiropteran possessing enhanced speed, strength, and endurance that surpasses those of their chevaliers (vampire servants) and other chiroptera.
She's actually very dangerous, but without her sister's chevaliers she can't reproduce and she's about to enter a hibernation period, so command of her group has been given to a transformed newbie. Cordelia can say one think about Harmony as she is now, if she still exists, she won't have to deal with the airhead for a few decades. Diva is currently forming a cocoon in a secure area marked 721226. She is guarded team of chevaliers, the football team she feed her blood to a few days ago.
The newbie-turned-replacement Cordette is Ceras Victoria, a 19-year-old English woman and former cop with blond hair and red eyes. She was another cute police girl in her hometown of Cheddar, until it was destroyed by a vampire vicar and his arm of ghouls, zombies created when a vampire bites a non-virgin or someone of the same gender. She was "saved" by Alucard, Hellsing's ultimate weapon and turned into a vampire herself.
After drinking the blood of her fallen friend, a mercenary playboy named Pip, she became a full grown No Life Queen and was easily able to shred the force of Millenium, a Nazi terrorist organization using supernatural agents like artificial vampires, werewolves, and the like. It was her master Alucard - the enhanced Dracula - that finally wiped out the enemy forces, but many who fought her were annihilated like insects. She's currently the most powerful vampire on the Hellmouth and acts as Tsunade's bodyguard, when not helping Queen C.
Ino Yamanaka is rare. She's a 15-year-old blond chunin of Konoha with training in mind control and medical ninjutsu. She looks normal dressed in a sleeveless button-up shirt with a short mini-skirt. She also wears fishnet over her elbows and knees, and carries a Kunai (throwing dagger) holster on her right leg.
What makes her completely unique is she was changed completely, after she was changed. When she awoke, she encountered an injured Diva. Diva lashes out and Ino injured her with a Kunai. In the struggle Ino accidentally swallowed some of Diva's blood becoming a chevalier. There has never been a female, since male chevaliers are drone to the queens, and queens use there twin sister's chevalier to reproduce
Chevaliers possess immense speed, strength and endurance and have vast shape-shifting abilities allowing them to transform there entire bodies or just a body part into that of a bat-like chiropteran. They can also transform into any human they have feed on. There final ability is regeneration, able to heal instantly from any non-lethal wounds. These vampiric abilities combined with her kunoichi skills have made his ninja girl a heavy hitter.
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"All tight!" yells Cordelia, "Let's get moving!"
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THE RECORD
Bus Alpha - Scoobies - Current: 21 Limit: 56
Mission: North to Cyborg City
Side: Church in Sunnyside
Bus Beta - Cordelia's Crew - Current: 19 Limit: 56
Mission: South to Mage Town.
Home Base:
Washu Hakubi, Seto Kamiki Jurai, and Ami Mizuno - Red Sky Problem and Ship Regeneration.
Andromeda - Hibernation while ship body regenerates.
Diva - Entering Hibernation
Home Front: Joyce is in command with Xander in Medical, Giles in Information, and a Pope in Weapons development.
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