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Five o'clock was not a hard time for Nux to get up, she was used to it, but in a new town after a hard night on a cold floor the girl was not in the best of moods. Getting on some tight fitting running short and put in a set of clothes into her duffle bag; swinging that and her backpack onto her shoulders she exited the room. Creeping down the rickety stair case Nux crouched low, she could hear the snores her father separated only by a thin wall with a hole in it. Grabbing a helmet and the long board tilted against the fading wall paper. Pushing a few times against the concrete road the girl easily gained momentum and headed in the direction of the school.
Meanwhile Spike was frequenting Willie's making small talk to one of the rare human customers that had wandered into the joint, unaware of the type of establishment it was. With one final swig the blond haired man finished his drink; the red headed women had attached herself to him. "Looks like someone had too much to drink and needs to go home" stated Spike looking down at her. "I don't wanna go home" the women said slurring her words. "How about I take you home with me, pet" he whispered into her ear. "Sounds nice" red stated before latching onto Spike's jacket to not fall down. Putting a few bills down on the counter Willie gave him a knowing look and Spick winked back at him before hauling the nameless women away. "So where do you live?" questioned red as they entered an alley way that was a dead end. "That's no concern of yours, pet" said Spike turning and biting into the women's neck while she screamed. 'Bloody awful, blood diluted with liquor' thought Spike as the lady was just about drained. His thoughts were interrupted when someone said "Can I have a taste" He snapping up Spike observed a blond with a pink jacket staring at his almost dead women. Turning back to his human face "And what's your name love?" inquired the male. "Harmony, and you are?" simpered the girl. "Spike, have at it mate, I'm going home" Spike hissed throwing the woman at Harmony and walking out into the street.
"Hill, my name is Coach Trawny, I train the track boys here at Sunnydale, and to be honest I have no idea what I'm doing" the man whispered the last bit. "What was that, sir?" stated Nux. "Nothing, nothing at all, well you know the drill, do your normal Tuesday morning routine, whilst I try to sort this out in my head" again the last was almost inaudible. With a pointed glare Nux turned and started walking down the street whilst putting her ear buds in. Once a good playlist started the girl began jogging forward down the lane. After a five mile run Nux came back and entered the showers but unfortunately she had to pass by the boys locker room and the entire track team was exiting for their first period sports class. "Well boys, looks like we have a new member, maybe an initiation is in order" stated a black haired boy, looking the girl over. He and a few others started heading in her direction. Rolling her eyes Nux raised her fist staring blandly at the group approaching her. "Looks like we have a fighter boys, the punk thinks he can come into our spotlight, steal our girl?" asked the leader of boys. He raised is fist to strike the girl, however a scream for the boys locker room stopped the male. They all turned around and ran into the locker room. Nux followed them in looking to the ground hoping not to see a naked teenager. She set eyes on what looked like a skeleton a few feet away. A boy was kneeling over him shocked he kept repeating "Dave, Dave…" and so on. "Someone call 911 now!" she shouted while rushing over to the pair of boys.
"Well cheerleading is off for a few days girls, how about we go shopping?" stated Cordelia with a smile. "A student was killed, Cordelia, think about that" stated Xander as he and Willow walked toward the Library. "Like I care, he was only a sophomore and not that good looking" said Cordelia as she and her gang moved toward the door and the possibility of a mall trip. "Giles we have arrived, the core members are here, let the meeting begin" stated Xander smiling. "Yes, happy to have you join us" stated Giles not even looking up from the large volume he was reading. "So what are we looking for then Gile?" asked Willow heading toward the lonely computer on the side of the room. "Demon of some kind, what did the boy look like again Buffy?" inquired the librarian. "Well, the boy was skin and bones honestly, that's about it, uh, but there were no cuts of wounds" stated Buffy sliding down the stair rail with a smile. "Well, there were some abrasions actually, red rings on his face and arms, also his skin was extremely dry, like it was flaking off, as well as his hair, it was extremely brittle" stated Nux as she stepped out from a bookshelf that had blocked her from view. Buffy turned and glared at the girl. "Thank you Nux, that information is very helpful" stated Giles pulling Buffy back a bit. Willow and Xander raised their hands and waved lightly. "Nux was one of the first at the scene of the crime, and very observant at that" stated Giles.
"So tell me Xander, what exactly are we looking for?"asked Cordelia as she and Xander entered their anatomy class. "Well, anything that could drain you dry of bodily fluids" stated Xander. "Would you Cordelia and you Mr. Harris get the skeleton from the closet, it seems you don't want to pay attention to me lecture anyway" stated the teacher looking up at them. Sighing Cordelia got up and walked to the closet that the teacher had indicated, wrenching open the door the girl curled her nose "Professor I think moths have gotten to this skeleton, it's gone all wrinkly" said the girl moving away. "What are you talking about Ms. Chase?" asked the teacher coming forward, however Xander moved the girl away and looked at the closet. "Um, Cordy that's not a skeleton, room well it is a skeleton, just a real one" said Xander as it fell out of the cupboard were everyone could see. The screaming was very loud and most everyone could hear it.
"Two attacks in one day, what's going on, and in broad daylight, okay, tell me the facts I'm researching again, after all school is closed down for the rest of today and tomorrow, I'd like to stop whatever this is before students come back here" said Willow sitting down to the computer again. "Well it appears that not that much has changed from the last case, of death" Giles muttered annoyed with the second killing. "Well we do know that the people killed were losers, one of them was a track geek and the other was on yearbook staff" Cordelia chimed in, she did not want to be at the library but was far too afraid to go anywhere else.
Buffy was outside of school looking around the football field, then to the pool and year book offices, she was hoping to find some clue that could help indicate what was going on. Lastly she checked the anatomy class room and found more than she was bargaining for. The teacher was dead on a lab table, and to add to her woes Nux walked out of the adjoining room with wet hands, hands that had just been washed. "Nux, what is this?" asked Buffy looking up with apprehension. "Calm down Buffy, it's not what it seems, look at the body, do you see something different this time" stated the girl with no hesitation" pulling the conversation away from herself. "Well this time, wait he doesn't look quite as drained as the last one. Was it because I interrupted you?" asked Buffy smiling. "Close but no cigar, I interrupted it, you interrupted me trying to figure out what it was" stated Nux. "Well that's fine with me; I never needed you here, at all. What are you trying to do, steal my spotlight?" asked Buffy grabbing the girl's left arm and dragging her to the library. Pushing her through the doors everyone looked up at them.
"We can't be sure that Nux is the culprit Buffy, I think you may be jumping to conclusions here" said Giles "We didn't even tie her up" he finished pointing to the girl. "That was only because you guys insisted we don't, I was all for it" said Buffy in a high tone. "Guys I appreciate the fact that you all are arguing whether I'm a killer of students and teachers or not, but can I ask what time it is?" question Nux who had not stated a word in her defense the entire time. Cordelia had stood up for the girl until she forgot that the he was a she. "It seems to be 4:10, why?" inquired the British man. "I shall be happy to continue my incarceration at a later time and at a location far from here" stated Nux looking around worried. All she met with were blank stares from everyone. "I figured it out, I'll tell you later, right now we RUN!" shouted Nux looking at the clock. Grabbing Willow and Giles arms she started to sprint away. Because everyone else thought that Nux was a killer they followed with hot pursuit. After they all had reached a distance far from the school the girl stopped, she was all but carrying Giles.
"Alright, I've had enough of this, nothing happened to us back there and now you run away, we saw nothing at all" shouted Buffy punching Nux in the stomach causing her to move back a few feet. "You can't see it because it's tiny, a bacteria of some sort I think" she said, again met with stares, "Demons take different forms, not all of them are huge and jump out at you, especially this one" stated the girl. "Wait Buffy this sounds like something I have heard before, continue Nux" Giles said, stopping Buffy from pounding Nux into the ground. "Thanks Giles" Nus said nodding, and when the librarian sat down on the ground the girl did the same, eventually Buffy, Xander, Willow and Cordelia did the same as well. "Okay, this demon, I think is trying to manifest into a body, that's why it keeps killing people; trying to get all the minerals that it needs to make a body. I or did know the pattern of killing, it seems that if one person is alone it can kill that person. It stays in that same location, but a group of people came in, it can't kill more than one at a time, not powerful enough, yet" stated the girl. "And then I thought I had it trapped in the science class but Buffy came in, it seems that it kills on the hour, every hour, and right now it missed a meal, I promise you its hungry now" finished Nux looking down.
After a few minutes of thinking Giles stood up "I know this demon, Fantra, demon of the mist's I was reading about it a month or so ago, the problem is I have no clue how to kill it" stated the man. "Well what is it made of, where does it come from, maybe I can use magic to stop it before it takes form, you know" Willow suggested. "Well if I can recall he seemed to be from a dimension that creature cannot take form, they are solely spirit, they seem to keep on slipping into our world, therefore no one knows what they look like, seems that none of them had enough human to feed off of" stated Giles eyes widening. "Are you telling me that the human race was not enough to satisfy this demon? We talking about everyone gone, nada?" asked Xander with horror in their eyes. "Think about galaxies Xander, all that energy trying to take a form, it's gonna take more than one planet to give it a body" stated Buffy, "I think I can stop it, minimizing spell, trap it in a bottle, like this one" said Willow pulling a flask that she conveniently had in her bag? "Are you sure you can do this Willow, that's powerful magic?" asked Giles. "I'm sure I can do it, I just need someone to be bait" stated Willow.
Buffy very unhappily trapesed toward the school entrance flinching at the sound of the wind. When she had a feeling something was behind her she turned quickly around but before anything could happen a yellow wall appeared between her and the thing that was trying to suck her dry. "Antetio admortum" yelled Willow as the force gut suck into the flask. Nux grabbed the stopper rolled thought the yellow wall and plugged the hole, allowing nothing to be able to come out. "Job well done, guys" Stated Buffy turning and ripping the bottle out of Nux's hands. "So, party later guys?" asked Buffy as she handed the flask to Giles. Everyone started to move away but Nux came up to him and asked quietly "Could I have that?" He looked down at her and thought 'well Willow made it so that it's unbreakable' thinking this threw he handed the bottle to the girl.
The cool air that rushed past Nux's face was an amazing feeling to the girl. Reaching the top of a crest that looked out onto Sunnydale the girl jumped off of her board and smashed the flask onto the ground soundly breaking it to smithereens. She felt the demon creep on her before her words stopped it. "This one time, I release you do not come back, or I will personally kill every last one of your kind, now run as far away from this planet as you possibly can" the girl said eyes flashing a gold color. For a second the girl could feel the demon resisting her words but a second after it zoomed up and away and as the girl got back on her longboard and road away she could see a new consolation in the sky. 'Who would have thought something so terrible could be so beautiful' thought the girl.
Meanwhile at the Bronze Buffy and co. were talking "So about this Nux girl, I don't trust her really, I want you all to keep a good lookout, make sure she's not evil, you know, she may have gotten out of this caper but I'm not at all convinced" (To Be Continued)
