Peace Out

Xander has always kept the group together with his wit and charm. But after one night of fighting an archmage, he accidentally gets a member of the gang hurt. After getting kicked off of the team, he takes a walk, bumps into a fight, and ends up in another dimension full of mystical beings, alchemy, and dragons.

A/N Takes place in the middle of season one, before the episode Nightmares, but after the Episode The Puppet show. Also I wanted to say that it'll be awhile before I update my other stories. The computer me and seraphim2db were using died several weeks back and it had all of our stories on it. I'm still going to update my stories but it'll be awhile before they're posted because I have to try to rewrite the chapters I had written out but never posted.

Chapter 1

Nightmares

"Well this isn't just a little depressing." Xander said aloud, his voice echoing eerily throughout the library. He, Buffy, and Willow had just barely won a battle with an archmage and Giles had gotten hurt. He couldn't help but feel a little guilty by that.

"Xander this isn't your fault." Willow tried to comfort him as she put a hand on his shoulder. "You tried to help... Giles wouldn't want you to beat yourself up about what happened."

"I wouldn't say that, Willow." they heard Buffy's voice say, startling them both. Looking up they saw Buffy, walking through the library doors looking mad as hell.

"How's Giles?" Xander immediately asked, as he stood to his feet and walked over to her.

"Like you care." she stated bitterly, as she struggled away from his touch.

"Buffy come on, you can't think that what I did was on purpose."

"No what I think is you should've done what Giles told you and stayed at home." Buffy shot back. "If it wasn't for you then he wouldn't be in a coma right now."

"Oh my God." Willow said as she stood to her feet. "A coma."

"Yeah..." Buffy replied as she stopped glaring at Xander. "When Xander pushed Giles he must've hit his head on something."

"How long will he..."

"The doctor said he doesn't know. It could be a day...a week...or maybe..."

"We shouldn't think like that." Xander cut Buffy off as he put his hand on her shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "This is Giles we're talking about. He'll be up and about in no time."

"No thanks to you."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"What it means is, I want you to stay away from us. I knew your stupidity would get somebody hurt one day."

"Buffy..."

"No, Willow she's right." Xander cut the red head off. "You wont have to worry about me screwing anything up again." with that said Xander turned on his heel and marched out of the room.

"Buffy, I can't believe that you were so mean to him." Willow said as she turned from Xander's retreating form to the Slayer. As she looked at Buffy, she saw her rubbing at her temples and looking completely disoriented. "Buffy are you okay?"

"Ye...yeah I just have a little headache." Buffy replied with a wince as she looked up at her. "Now where's Xander? I need to talk to him about how Giles is doing."

With wide eyes, all Willow could do was stare at her new best friend strangely.

'Maybe Buffy's right.' Xander thought to himself as he clucthed his jacket tighter around his body. For some reason it felt unnaturally cold that night. 'All I did was get in the way tonight. Maybe I should stay out of the group.'

With that thought rattling around in his mind, he heard an ear splitting demonic growl. Snapping out of his dark reverie, he looked around and noticed that he was in Sunnydale park. Hearing the sound of a fight ahead of himself, he instinctly reached into his jacket and pulled out a stake.

"I guess this is better then nothing." he muttered to himself as he ran in the direction of the disturbance.

Running through a clearing of trees and bushes, he nearly pissed his pants at the spectacle that was unfolding, not thirty feet away from himself. There were three of what looked to be ninjas in all black tactical and metallic armor, fighting off a huge black almost werewolf like creature. There were over five more of the same kind of demon littering the ground, which made Xander realize that even that group probably didn't need his help. Looking down at the little stake in his hands, knowing he wouldn't be much help anyway, all he could do was watch the fight before him.

The werewolf demon barked dangerously at the lead ninja, as the others stood back to avoid being ripped apart by the razor sharp tip of it's long doggish tail. Before he could fully take out his sword the demon all of a sudden, pounced. Before its claws could rip into his body, he delivered a super powered back hand punch to its muzzle. Eyes glowing white, the werewolf shrank back, but lashed out with a swipe of one its paws, knocking him to the ground.

As the others tried to join the fray, the demon turned around and opened up it's maw. Before they could move a surge of fire ruptured from it's mouth, destroying the ground under them and knocking them off of their feet.

Doing a fancy spinning move to get to his feet, the lead ninja looked to the ground for the sword he dropped when the werewolf hit him. Seeing it he decided to run for it, but the demon pounced on him and started to rip through his suit and then the soft flesh underneath.

"Damnit." Xander muttered to himself as he stood up from his position of hiding behind the bushes.

Seeing that the other two were still down, he ran to see if he could help. Picking up a rock, he threw it at the beast making it stop it's feeding frenzy and concentrate it's evil gaze on him. Standing on it's back legs, Xander looked up at the towering demon and let out an audible gulp.

"Nice doggy." he said as the werewolf snarled, bared its fangs and lunged at him.

Jumping out of the way just in time, Xander came up in a roll and his arm grazed something metal. Coming out of his roll, he looked to his side and saw that it was an all silver broad sword. Hearing the demons growl again, Xander attempted to run but tripped on a tree branch knocking him to the ground. As the demon prepared to lunge on his next meal, Xander brought the sword up and it was plunged hilt deep into the demons chest. As the werewolf let out a howl of pain, as black viscera spewed out of it's wounds, it slapped Xander with one of it's paws, sending him flying into a tree, were he hit his head on a rock. Before losing conciousness, he saw that he was laying next to the ninja warrior that the demon had eviscerated, before closing his eyes and letting the darkness claim him.

Seeing the demon fall over dead, the lead ninja warriors mask deteriorated into nothing, revealing a handsome young man in his mid-twenties. Glancing over at the unconcious Xander, he smiled before he drew a circle and a symbol into the dirt. Slowly grabbing Xander's hand, he put it into the circle and dabbed his gloved finger on his chest and gathered some blood. Using it to draw the same symbol on the back of Xander's hand, he clapped his hands together once and a soft blue glow surrounded them both. With his last shuttering breath, as the light faded, the man coughed up a little blood, closed his eyes and finally died.

Climbing out of the crater, that the beast had created with his attack, the two armoured warriors lowered their heads as they saw the bodies around them. Particularly their leader. Running up to him, they saw that it was too late and that he was already dead.

"Power down." a female voice said as both of the warriors armor, mystically dissappeared from their bodies.

The man was white, tall, well muscled, had slicked back black hair, and had a cold and stoic demeanor. The woman however was a very beautiful light skinned black woman, about 5ft 1in with soft brown eyes, natural pink hair and was wearing all black leather.

"Xavier..." she said softly as she leaned down and touched her dead husband's face.

"I'm sorry sister." the man said as he placed his hand on her shoulder. "But we must go now. The chance to make a portal to our world is slipping away."

"Yes...bu...but what about him?" she asked as she looked down at Xander.

Scanning his body more carefully she saw that he had Xavier's sword clutched tightly in one hand and the demon lying dead, not to far from him. And looking at his hand she saw the symbol of fire on his hand, letting her instantly know what happened.

"We'll leave him of course." her brother said as he crossed his arms over his chest. "This is his world. He'll just have to fend for himself."

"No..." the pink haired woman said as she looked forth into the advancing darkness. As her mystical powers reached out, she could sense powerful demonic forces nearby. "We won't leave him here..."

"But Skyy!!!!"

"He bares the mark of the final dragon, sealed with the blood of my martazar." Skyy interrupted as she looked back down at Xander. "Now pick him up. We must go."

"Yes sister." he replied with a growl even as he picked up Xander and carried him over his shoulder. With a tear Skyy turned to her dead mate.

"Goodbye." she whispered as she snapped her gloved fingers, causing a spark. Changing the oxygen density in the air with the help of transmutation circles on her gloves, a roaring fire surrounded Xavier and the dead beasts and in mere seconds of intense heat, they were reduced to ashes.

Having seen enough Skyy turned, looked past her brother, threw some crystals down to the ground and clapped her hands together once. The transmutation circles glowed, along with the crystals and a swirling vortex opened. Giving one last look to earth, one in utter distaste and the other in sadness, the three jumped through the portal and into the land of the mystics.

A/N there will be a flashback hopefully in the next chapter that will show how Giles got hurt.