The Blood of Toy Soldiers
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Chapter 1
Xander stared at the burnt out wreck that had been Sunnydale High School. What the hell happened here? Xander thought as he turned and started walking towards Buffy's house. It was just over a year and a half since he had left Sunnydale to try and gain some control over the thirst that drove him to kill. He'd had limited success, he could now walk down a street and not instantly jump and kill anyone he came across, but the scent of freshly bled blood would still cause him to lose control. However he still needed to feed, but now he wasn't overwhelmed by almost constant bloodlust, he was able to direct his feedings to certain people. While he didn't feel any guilt when he killed, his strong sense of right and wrong made him only pick those people that have done evil, murderers, rapists and the like. He'd discovered early on that if someone lied to him he would hear the true answer to that question in his head seconds later. So when picking a victim, all Xander had to do was ask them one simple question: 'What's the worst you've ever done?' Then he would know if that person was an innocent or not and in extension whether they would die or not. As once he started to feed he could not stop until he'd had all the blood.
Xander reached Buffy's house, it was dark, as it was the very early hours of the morning. Mrs Summers would be asleep and Buffy most likely was on patrol. Xander was about to turn and head for one of the cemeteries, when he realised that he really should get to know Buffy's scent, and the best way to do that would be going to Buffy's bedroom. Xander headed to that back f the house, knowing that was were Buffy's window was and jumped onto the branch that was just outside of her window. He looked inside and frowned. The room was clearly not being used as Buffy's bedroom anymore. It had boxes stacked everywhere. Buffy didn't live here anymore and clearly hadn't for quite sometime.
Puzzled Xander dropped from the tree, Buffy had left home and with the High School gone Xander had no idea how to contact them. He could try Giles, but banging on the guy's door at this time of night would just lead to pointy objects and a lot of bloodloss. The thought of blood caused his throat to flare. Xander sighed, unnecessarily, he'd only feed yesterday. No thinking about blood! He admonished himself. Perhaps swing by one of the closest cemeteries, before he searched for somewhere to spend the day, he might get luck and met Buffy while he was there.
No such luck, but he did find a group of stupid vampires that didn't stop to notice that Xander didn't have a pulse before they tried to attack him. One even tried to bit him, before Xander pulled the vamps jaw clean out. Shortly after Xander finished killing off all of the fledgling in quick, brutal and bloody ways Xander was hit in the back with something and his body convulsed as electricity ran though him. He managed to get the wires out of his back but the burning in his throat rapidly grew as a result of his body healing from the electrical burns and quickly became more than he could stand against. There were four heartbeats nearby, Xander turned to the closest one and pounced, knocking his prey to the ground. He quickly bit down, savouring the sweet blood. Xander jerked as three more bolt hit him and sent almost 40,000 vaults though him. For the first time in over a year Xander lost consciousness, dropping onto the body of an soldier in full combat gear. From the surrounding shadows three more soldiers emerged. They cautiously approached the two downed figures. While two of them removed Xander from their fallen companion, the other reached for his radio.
"This is Lilac One, requesting pick up for one unknown HST." He looked over and saw the fallen soldier start to convulse. "Possible infection of Lilac Three."
"Copy that Lilac One, pick teams on the way." As soon as the radio went quite the soldier identified as Lilac Three started to scream.
This is just setting the scene next chapter will be longer.
Soldier call signs were made up by me.
Ooo, what's going to happen to Xander now!? You'll have to wait till I write more! *Evil laugh*
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