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Chapter 2

And Dreamscapes

'God my head hurts.' was Xander's first coherent thought as his mind suddenly came back into the realm of conciousness.

'That's because you hit your head silly.' a little girl's voice interrupted his thoughts with a laugh.

'Oh man, I sound like a little girl now.' he thought as the voice laughed again. Forcing his eyes open, after feeling something wet on his forehead, he saw a cute girl, of about thirteen years of age, with long flowing black hair, standing over him, placing a wet rag on him.

"Um...hi." Xander said nervously as he looked around the tiny room. The place looked like a shack with little to no personal objects around, but rather swords, other weapons, and books laying around.

"Hi." she replied back, but as Xander was looking at her he could have sworn that she didn't move her lips.

"He's awake." the man from the night before said as he walked into the room. After a few seconds one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen walked into the room. She had shoulder length pink hair and some of the most intense liquid brown eyes he had ever seen.

"Nail I was just putting a wet rag on him, I promise." the little girl said as she ran into the older man's arms.

"I know little one." Nail said as he caressed her cheek fondly. "Now go outside. We must talk to him privately." sending out a wave towards Xander, she did as she was told.

"Where...where am I?" Xander asked as he stood out of bed. For some reason it was hard for him to move, but it wasn't from any form of pain but rather as if the air itself were thicker. "Who are you people?"

"My name is Skyy and this is my older brother, Nail."

'Nail?' Xander thought with a grin. 'What was their dad's name, Hammer?' as he thought that, Nail growled low in his throat and was about to move forward until Skyy grabbed his arm. 'Damn did he hear what I thought?'

"Nail wait for us outside." Skyy told her brother as they shared a look.

"As you wish, sister." he said with a formal bow, as he rolled his eyes at Xander and walked out of the room.

"What's your name?" Skyy asked as she walked closer to him.

"Alex but my friends call me..."

"Xander." she finished for him.

"How did you..."

"My people have the ability to read people's minds." she told him. "So the next time, please be careful what you think around my brother."

'Oh crap.' Xander thought, causing her to smile at him. "Will you stop doing that. Now where am I?"

"Before I tell you that, I must say that we had no choice in bringing you here. You were knocked unconcious by that beast and we couldn't leave you outside alone..."

"Just tell me where I am." he interrupted making her let out a sigh.

"You're on my home world of Thalos."


"I'm sorry that you feel uncomfortable here." Skyy said as she led Xander outside."I think it's because Thalos' gravity is heavier then that of earth's."

It had taken Xander a moment but he finally started to adjust to the idea that he wasn't on earth anymore. And looking up, he had no choice but to believe. The sky was a beautiful pink, with two suns and the clouds looked like giant puffy marshmallows in the horizon. And taking in a lung full of air, he knew that he couldn't have been in California, because there was no smog. Taking a better look around he saw that he was in a forest clearing with jeering dark age dressed villagers and many shacks and huts all around them. But in the distance of the trees it unveiled a grim landscape covered in thorn bushes and the scars of recent fires.

'God what the hell happened to this place?'

"This is the result of our last excursion with our evil uncle, Wrath." Nail said as he walked up to him, making Xander remember the warning that Skyy had given him. Holding his tongue, he didn't make the joke that he was subconciously thinking about.

"Yes, but before we get to that we must talk about what happened last night." Skyy started as she took Xander's right hand, into hers. "What do you remember from that time?"

"I was talking to some fri...some people I knew and I walked to the park. When I did I saw these ninja guys fighting off some kinda werewolf thing..."

"It's called a Wolfmar and those of whom were fighting it were us..."

"Nail." Skyy beckoned her brother to be silent, before turning back to Xander. "Please continue." she said as Xander gave the two siblings a look. It was just so strange to him for an older brother to obey the younger one.

"All I can remember is trying to help that guy... oh man where is he...I..."

"He's dead." Skyy told him sadly. "He was... in your world he would have been known as my husband."

"I'm sorry...I..."

"This isn't your fault. Now please go with my brother and he will explain the rules of my world to you."

"Why? You guys can send me back home right?" he asked as Skyy and Nail gave each other a look.

"Just come with me." Nail said as his little sister ran into his arms.

"Can I come?" she asked as he looked down at her and smiled.

"No little one." he said as he caressed her cheek, with his thumb. "Now stay with Skyy. I'll be back shortly."

With that said, he took Xander by the arm and took him through an avenue of trees, which allowed them access along an old dirt road. A thick humid mist filled the forest, as he led them on the wining, torturous path... clambering through bracken and over jagged rocks.

"Our journey will be long, so I'll begin my peoples story here." Nail said as he closed his eyes to think. "Many years ago, our people were much like yours. We had famine, disease, and many wars, but then one day a large faction of us evolved from such things."

"How do you know so much about my world?"

"Because my people also have the ability, through alchemy, to see into other worlds." Nail replied as the forest separated ahead, revealing the ruins of a great stone wall, that strecthed out as far as the eye could see. Taking a closer look at it, he saw that it was cracked and splintered into countless jagged shards. "Now look over there. That is the Temen-ni-gru."

Following his gaze Xander saw that far off, half veiled in the swirling fog, was a castle that sat nearly a couple of miles up on a tower stand. They were unbroken by the war, even as the creepy fog waifed about its feet. And looking around he saw several mini homes, that were destroyed long ago.

"Those that didn't want law, order, and a government stayed on the surface world. Shortly after we finished our castle another war broke out between the surface dwellers and those of the kingdom. A powerful sorcerer then created the tower of the Temen-ni-gru, that rose our castle to the sky, in order to stop the fighting, so we could live in peace."

"Did it work?"

"For a hundreds of years it did, which led to my father sending my uncle to conduct peace negotiations with the surface dwellers. But something went horribly wrong."

Flashback

On Top of The Temen-ni-gru

A powerfully built man laid in the garden area of his castle, next to his wife and his eldest son, of whom was sitting indian style and reading a book. Usually he would be about his castle and upon his kingdom doing kingly things, but today seemed unnaturally beautiful and peaceful. And to be honest with himself, he never wanted it to end.

Suddenly the little bundle in his wifes arms started to wail, disturbing the peaceful tranquility. With a smile, King Edward Elric took his little daughter out of his wifes arms and held her close to his heart.

"What's wrong little one?" he asked, as she looked up at him with the same innocent brown eyes as his. At the sight of him, she stopped crying and cooed. "Are you hungry?" he asked as he picked up a green grape and placed it over her mouth.

"Edward what are you doing?!" his wife asked with wide eyes. "Constance is a newborn, she can't..."

"I was merely letting her have the juices." the king replied as he looked over at her. Dropping the grape in his mouth instead, he reached out and brushed a leaf from his wifes long flowing pink hair. She was just so beautiful.

"Father...father...!!!" he heard his eldest daughter Skyy yell out. Looking up, he saw her running towards him with something in her hands and fresh hot tears running down her face. Placing Constance, back in Trisha's hands he stood to his feet and met his daughter halfway in her run.

"What's wrong, Skyy?"

"I...I...I was practicing my alchemy like you taught me and...and..."

"Let me see what's in your hand." he said as he looked down and saw a blue bird twitching in her hands.

"Is it dead?" Skyy asked.

"No." Edward replied after a few moments of thinking. Putting the bird down on the ground, he pinched his hand, letting a dribble of blood come out and drew a circle of his blood around the animal. Clapping his hands together once, the alchemy circle on the back of his hand and the one he had drawn on the ground glowed blue. After the power of the blood seal dissipated the bird flew up into the air.

"Now what spell were you trying to perform?" he asked as he got down on one knee and placed his hands on her shoulders.

"I was trying to..."

"See that boy in the mirror again." Edward finished for her. "Skyy, I've told you not to try that. That's a dangerous spell and you could get hurt."

"Yes, father." she said ashamed, looking down to her tiny feet.

Suddenly the sky boomed, as thunder rolled through the air. Looking up they all saw as the heavens turned from a beautiful shade of pink to an almost pitch black red. Feeling an evil power growing, Edward stood up and watched as a man with a pointed blonde beard, crazed eyes, and a axe and sword in each hand, that was dripping blood, standing towards the entrance of his castle. Taking in the spectacle, Edward looked even closer.

"Brother?"

"Uncle Alphonse?" Skyy asked as she was about to run forward, towards him.

"Skyy, no!" Edward yelled, never taking his eyes off of his brother, of whom stood in place breathing heavily, chest heaving. "Go to your mother now!" as he yelled Skyy screamed in fright before bolting straight for her mother, her little heart pounding with fear. "Brother what has happened to you?"

An Hour Before

The Surface World

Alphonse fled on horseback, cloak billowing, chased by five rag-tag castle enemies. He was on a mission to make peace with the enemies of the northern woods, and was ambushed almost as soon as he left the kingdom and crossed the great wall. Taking a turn, he saw that he had made a mistake as up ahead, a steep, rocky area prevented escape. Getting off his horse, he attempted to run and seeing his plight, a soldier aimed a primitive rifle and fired.

Blood exploded from his arm as he ran, making his sword fall from his now functionless hand. Taking advantage of the situation another soldier grabbed the sword, as Alphonse ran. Stopping at the rocks, after seeing that he had nowhere to go, Al faced the men showing no fear. Another Rifleman then raised his rifle, seeing it Al reached over his shoulder to grasp a sheathed knife. Throwing it the Rifleman jerked back, the knife in his eye socket.

Reading an ax, the soldiers moved in with swords. They then battled, steel against steel. Al fended off blows from all sides, but was unable to stop a lunge of a sword, of which blade stabbed deep into his side. Alphonse roared in pain, bringing his ax down...breaking the sword at the hilt.

An upwards stroke sent, said soldier's head over heels in a fountain of blood. Al staggered, howling, trying to pull the blade from his ribs as the remaining soldiers closed in. Before they could come down on him with their swords, a dark shadow loomed over Al and quickly jumped into his body. With green almost, reptillian eyes, Al twirled his ax around and tore threw the remaining soldiers as if they were nothing but toilet paper.

As their twisted, bloody torn bodies laid on the ground, he finally came to his senses.

"What...what has befallen me?" he asked himself as he looked down at his hands.

"I am Dai-Satan." a dark voice spoke into his mind. "And I have been watching you for a long time, Alphonse Elric."

"Get out of my head." Al pleaded as he fell to his knees. "What is it that you want?"

"The kingdom long lost to me and the death of your brother." Dai-Satan informed him. "And you will help me."

"No, I will never betray my brother."

"Even though he has already betrayed you? Look around you Alphonse and think. How is it that your enemy knew exactly where you were and why would your brother send you out here alone. You are the arch duke of the kingdom of Thalos. You should have the royal guard with you."

"Why would my brother betray me?" Al asked.

"Because of his jealousy of you. He doesn't want you to be king and he's been jealous of you for a long time."

"I...I can't believe this..."

"But you must. Right now he's celebrating what he thought was your demise..."

"Tell me how to get rid of him." Alphonse interrupted a sneer on his lips.

"You can borrow some of my power. Now go...!"

As the power of Dai-Satan erupted throughout Al's body, he picked up his sword, ran back to his horse and galloped back to the Temen-ni-gru tower. Once there he started the slaugter of many of his people. As he finally made it to the top of the castle, he saw his older brother talking to his niece. Not listening to his brother's words he raised his sword up, before he finally spoke.

"You've betrayed me brother." Al spoke, in a tongue not of his own. "And for that you will die."

Dodging a sword swipe, Ed clapped his hand and put it to the ground making a broad sword materialize in his hands. Blocking his brother's next swing, he met him face to face, even as blood from Al's sword dripped on his hand.

"Brother what have you done?"

"Your brother isn't here right now." Dai-Satan spoke through Al.

'Dai-Satan.' "Trisha get the children out of here!" Edward yelled to his wife. Taking that second of distraction Al ran his brother through with his sword. Falling off the tip of it, he fell to his knees.

"Now all of you are next." he said as he walked towards Trisha and the others.

"Father!!!" Nail yelled out as he attempted to run forward to help.

"Nail no!" his mother cried as she grabbed his arm.

"But mother..."

"You should listen to your mother boy." Al said as his features started to turn more demonic. "You should've run when you had the chance Trisha. Now you will die alongside your husband and children." trapped on the corner of the building, they could only watch as he raised his sword up to finish them off.

Suddenly Edward appeared, stomach dripping with blood and took on a defensive stance, stepping in front of his wife and children.

"You...you're the one that will perish this night." Ed said as he clapped his hands together.

As he did so a powerful wall of energy surrounded the castle and the alchemy circles around his hands disappeared and one of them went on Skyy's hand and the other on Nail's. Meeting his wifes gaze, he sent out a gust of wind that knocked her and his three children off of the side of the building. But before Trisha fell all the way, Alphonse threw something after her.

Being the last to fall off of the building all Nail was able to see was his father being cut in half.

As the family landed harmlessly to the ground, Trisha handed Nail his little sister, before sprawling down to her knees. Looking around her, Nail and Skyy saw their uncles small axe sticking out of her back. Tipping over Nail handed Skyy their sister and caught her before she fell face first to the ground.

"Mother..."

"Listen to me Nail...you are the eldest and you must watch after your sisters."

"But mot..."

"Pro...promise me." she begged as a small trickle of blood came out of her mouth.

"I promise." he said even as a tear fell out of his eye.

"Skyy...you are my little princess..." not being able to finish her sentence, Trisha's eyes glazed over as she took her last breath. As all three of the children started to cry, they looked around as fairies and the people of the northern woods came out of the shadows.

End Flashback

"We were then taken in and raised by the people of the northern woods." Nail started to finish the story. "We later learned and met up with the few people that managed to survive my uncle's onslaught. They managed to save a few trinkets and a few books on alchemy. They also told us of the new name he took on. The name Wrath."

"That's the saddest story I've ever heard." Xander said as he put his hand on Nail's shoulder.

"Yes...yes it is, isn't it?"

"But there's a few things I don't understand." Xander went on. "Why hasn't your uncle come down here to kill you all?"

"Before my father died he made a barrier that surrounded the entire castle. When I read the books of alchemy, I found that it was a barrier to keep evil spirits in a certain space. However lately my uncle has found a way to send down evil demons to attack us."

"I have another question. Why do you follow Skyy? I thought you were the oldest?"

"I am. But the night my parents were slain, I gave up my birth right of king and vowed only to serve and protect my sisters." Nail said as he turned his back to him. "Now come we must journey back home."

"Wait...this isn't my home. I'm supposed to be back in Sunnydale."

"For now my friend this will be your home. We won't be able to send you home for atleast another three moon slips."

"Moon slips?" Xander asked confused. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"In your world it's...it's three years."

"Three years?" Xander asked, reeling from the news. "What the..."

Sunnydale Hospital

Sametime

"...bloody hell have you done?" Giles asked as he finally awakened from his coma. Looking up at Buffy from his bed, all she could do was lower her head in shame.

"I don't even remember saying any of those things to Xander." she told him again. "Besides, if it wasn't for him in the first place you wouldn't have gotten hurt."

'You bloody stupid girl.' "If it wasn't for Xander then I would've parished. At the moment Xander pushed me out of the way that demon was throwing a ball of energy at me. A ball of energy that would've certainly killed both myself and him. Now where is he now?"

"I...I..."

"Buffy kicked him off of the team and he ran out."

"You bloody did what!" Giles roared, making Buffy flinch at the sound of his voice. She had never seen him so angry. "You sent that boy off alone, at night with the Master's disciples lurking about?"

"Giles, I'm..."

"I don't want to hear anymore of your apologies. Just find him, Buffy."


"You seem quiet all of a sudden." Nail commented as he and Xander came through a clearing of trees.

"I was just thinking about my friends."

"You still consider them your friends, even after how they've treated you?" Nail asked as Xander roughly grabbed him around his arm.

"Listen man, I don't care how you guys are in this world, but in mine it's an invasion of privacy to read peoples minds. So I really would appreciate it if you guys would stop doing that. It's annoying."

"As you wish." Nail replied with a slight bow. 'Maybe there's hope for this boy yet.' "Even though we lack the power to send you home at this time, we can still look into your world."

"How?"

"Just come with me." as they walked through the village, they went up a hill and into a large tent like area. As they entered they saw about a dozen brown robed monks, sitting indian style on the floor. Giving Xander the signal to be quiet, they walked up to what looked to be a water well.

"This is called a scrying pool." Nail told Xander in a hushed voice. "Concentrate on the person you want to see most and it'll show them to you."

"That's it?"

"That's all you have to do."

'Alright here goes nothing.' Xander thought to himself as he looked into the pool.

As he concentrated on Buffy the pool started to slightly bubble and boil. Simmering down some, Xander looked in and saw that it was very dark and raining in Sunnydale. But looking a bit closer, he saw that the town looked strangely different. Almost like it would back in cowboy times.

Suddenly two figures stepped out into the street, coming from opposite directions. Both of them had on traditional cowboy hats and clothes and they kept their heads down to avoid the downpour of rain from getting into their faces. As one of them lifted up their heads, Xander saw that it was a woman with long brown and blue streaked hair with some of the palest skin he had ever seen.

"I'm your huckleberry." she said over to the other figure that clung to the shadows.

Coming out of said shadows, Xander saw someone, a female someone, with long blonde hair walk slowly towards her opponent. Hand hovering over the gun that sat on her hip, she tipped up her hat and as the light hit her face, Xander saw that it was Buffy.

"Come on Fred. You can't hate me that much to want me dead." Buffy regarded the blue haired woman.

"As I told you before Slayer, this is only a shell. I am the goddess..."

"Illyria." Buffy finished for her with a growl. "But when I get done with ya, I'm gonna be gettin' my sister, Fred back."

"We'll see about that little one." Illyria said with a smug smile.

"Shay when." Buffy replied as her hand inched down further to her gun. At almost the same time, both of them reached for their guns and opened fire.

"What the..." Xander said aloud as the scrying pool, started to boil over, stopping the picture. "What was that?"

"I'm sorry, I should have warned you." Nail whispered, as he put his hand on Xander's shoulder. "If you can't concentrate hard enough, you'll end up looking into the wrong place and even different times in other dimensions. Hopefully in time you'll master this technique and be able to see your friends again. Now come on, we'll go back to camp."

As they started to walk out, something small hit Nail hard in the chest. Looking down, Xander saw that it was a pretty little fairy that was almost the spitting image of Tinkerbell, from Peter Pan, even down to the green clothes. The only difference being that she had curly red hair.

"Nail...Nail you're back." the little fairy said as she tried to wrap her little arms around, Nail's neck. "I thought you were..."

"I'm fine, Vallow." Nail said, smiling at her. "I told you that I would be back." after hearing Xander clear his throat, Nail turned to him and pointed. "And this outworlder is..."

"The promised one." she interrupted, excitedly. "The one foretold..."

"Vallow!" Nail yelled out, giving her a look. After a moment of looking ashamed, she turned to Xander.

"I'm...I'm sorry, my name is Vallow. Welcome to the world of Thalos." with that said she flew away.

"What was that all about?" Xander asked confused, as he watched her fly off.

"Nothing you should worry about." Nail lied. "Now come, there isn't much light left."

As they walked back to the camp, they saw Skyy and a few others lighting a bonfire, with what looked to be a boar roasting above it.

"I hope you two are hungry?" Skyy asked as she saw the two of them, coming out of the woods. "Constance caught this boar all by herself."

'God, I thought these people were more advanced then this?' Xander thought to himself. Casting a glance down, he saw Constance put a frown on her face and lower her head as though she were about to cry. 'Damn, I forgot that they can hear my thoughts.' "Hey," he said walking up to the girl and putting his hand on her shoulder. "can I have the first piece?"

With that said, they waited as the boar got done cooking before sitting down, carving it up, and eating. Having some troubling thoughts, he watched as Skyy picked at her food, before she stood up and walked into a sparse piece of the woods. Seeing that no one was concerned, he put the boar meat down and followed her. Seeing her standing beside a tree, he could have sworn he saw some tear drops falling, before he walked up behind her.

"Penny for your thoughts."

"Wha...what?" Skyy asked as she turned around to look at him.

"Oh ummm in my world it's an expression that means, what are you thinking about?" Xander clarified.

"I was thinking about Xavier."

"Oh...your husband."

"Yes, but I don't want to talk about that now." Skyy said as she wiped at her face again. "What did you want?"

"I ummm...just wanted to ask you a few questions?"

"Didn't my brother inform you of all you needed to know?"

"More or less."

"You wanted to know why my skin complexion is darker then that of my siblings?" she asked with a chuckle at his embarrassed look.

"Well it was one of my questions." he admitted as they started to walk back towards the village. "But I really wanted to know if you would teach me how to fight. I'm gonna be here for three years and..."

"Of course we'll train you." she cut him off, before putting her hand in his. "We aren't your friends from Sunnydale Xander. I'll see if I can get my brother to start training you tomorrow."

"Thanks. Now there's one more thing I wanted to know. What is this thing?" he asked, pointing down at the alchemy circle, that seemed tattooed on the back of his hand.

"That is the blood seal of the final dragon." she explained with a sad smile. "Before my...husband died, he transferred some of his power to you."

"So...so does that mean I can do magic now?"

"I don't know. There's no way of knowing what power you hold."

"Then let's find out." a dark voice said from the shadows.

Before they could do more then look around, a huge explosion rocked the earth, sending both of them sprawling to the dirty ground. As they got back to their feet, the smoke and dirt cloud dissipated, and a warrior with heavy duty crimson red and gold armor and a helmet, wielding a sword and shield stepped out in front of them.

"I am Koragg the Knight Wolf and I have come for you outworlder."

"Oh crap." Xander muttered, even as a red dragon descended out of the heavens.

A/N The scene where Xander saw Buffy in the wild west, was a excerpt from my story wild wild sunnydale a part I haven't written yet to be more specific, which I'm going to start back writing on soon. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I'm working on the next one as we speak.