A/N: Yo! Here is chooch with the next chapter of my Rider Xander story. I'm sorry that it took so long, but between several writer's blocks, new stories, and other things, I have just not had any ideas about the story until now.
Now for reviews:
Thanks edboy4926, ultima-owner, grandma406, DonPjuan, archoan, and cjcold2 for the keep it up reviews. Also, yes, they will think that most of them are dead as I said hiding in the last chapter. The only one that really doesn't is Janna because Xander was the one that found her dead this time and no one else did.
Also, cjcold2, nice catch on the 6 instead of 5, I meant to say that the rider's powers went in five others, but accidently said five parts. Thank you for pointing that out and nice comment about the way I described the souls system. In my mind, that makes sense for the PTB to want so many people to die, as they would get more powerful. My idea is that they want to try to overthrow God and the Devil, but need more souls than the devil to do it.
Dragonbard, this is an AU that will be explained in this chapter whenever the girls meet with him. The reason it took so long for Janna to try and get back his soul is because I have her more accurately portrayed as a Gypsy that is focused on revenge. Meaning that she didn't try the curse until much later and under much pressure from Buffy and Giles.
Thank you Jaggerbomb for the please continue as well.
Dragonhulk, I like the way that you did your review a lot. You talked about what you liked and disliked about the idea. That is how a review should be.
Dragonbard, you are right about it being a bash fic. And I will explain the details in this chapter about what is going on in it.
Chapter 3: The girls
On the outskirts of Sunnydale, Xander checked the address that he was holding once more in order to make sure that he had the right place. The place was a damn mansion, about ten times larger than his house, which was two stories tall and about 3,000 square feet including the basement. The style was more gothic than anything else, which was fitting with who had built it.
The yard was about two acres every way and there was a large wall between the mansion and the surrounding area, signifying where the property ended. There was only one gate to get inside.
The yard inside of the gate was almost completely dead. There were a few trees here and there, as well as a small garden, but other than that, there was nothing there. There was a large race track with a few motorcycle bikes just inside of the wall that surrounded the place.
There was also a feeling of evil surrounding the entire place, almost begging him to go into his rider form for a second time.
Xander walked down the narrow stone path that went from the gate to the house, for some reason, he had a feeling that if he stepped on the path, there was a good chance that he could be killed or maimed, injured at the least.
That feeling was proved correct when a crow landed about three feet off of the stone path and on the dirt.
A skeletal hand quickly rose out of the ground, shot up, grabbed the bird, and dragged it under the ground with nothing left above.
Xander gulped slightly in fear and made a mental note not to go off of the stone path as he would definitely die.
After that, he reached the mansion front door without incident at all.
The door was surrounded by two pillars with vines all over them, and, as soon as he walked through the pillars, it was like the evil had vanished completely, as he couldn't feel it anymore.
Above the door was a sign that said: The rider keeps evil at bay.
That statement along with the feeling he had been getting made him realize that it was the grounds that had given off that evil feeling. He would definitely have to get used to that.
Xander pushed the door and it immediately swung open, almost of its own accord.
He tried to sneak off to the master bedroom in order to stay away from the ladies while they calmed down, but immediately heard a throat clearing and stopped stone cold the first step up the stairs.
"You wouldn't be trying to go upstairs without us talking about the fact that you apparently made a deal with the devil, would you, Xander?" Joyce said sweetly.
Xander would have responded, but he was stuck looking at each and every one of the people there. All of the five had died in one way or another the last two years, and he had been getting even more alone and darker with each death, not that his friends had known that with them trying to push him out.
Joyce had died from a tumor in her brain about four months ago. She had apparently had it for a long time, but no one had realized it until it was too late to do anything for her. The only thing that was good about her death was that, unlike others, she had at least died of natural causes.
Anya had died a year ago when she was mortal thanks to some vampire snapping her neck in a fight. She had dropped dead instantly. The worst part was that Xander was extremely close to her physically and had been pushed out of the way of the vampire when he had charged them.
Kendra had died about a month ago when Angelus first got on the scene. Kendra had been working with Buffy for a few weeks after she had gotten back at the end of summer as she had been called to the hellmouth since she had already had some experience on the hellmouth and had worked with the group before.
Xander and Kendra got along from the first moment, and, unlike the rest of the group, Xander had stuck with Kendra when the group had immediately gone back to Buffy whenever she had gotten back. Her death at Angelus' hands had been the first time that Xander's berserker nature had been fully awakened and he had gone on a rampage through every vampire that he could find until there were about 50% of the vampires in Sunnydale left undead. He had snapped out of it thanks to a fight with Angelus when he almost killed Xander.
Dru had been the next to die. She had died protecting him from Angel during the love spell incident, and that, in his book, earned her his respect. Even if she was a vampire and insane, he still felt extremely bad about her death. After all, she had died to protect him from someone she knew that she wouldn't survive against. She had made one of the noblest sacrifices.
Jenny had been the last to die. She had died outside of the school where she had been trying to find out if there was a way to kill Angelus using the soul curse. The others all thought that she had been looking for a cure, but she had confided the truth in Xander as she had immense trust and respect with him. He had gotten a bad feeling the previous night and had immediately gone toward the school. The others were all relaxing in their beds as Xander went out and found her body.
Xander did the only thing that he could think of after about a minute of staring: He fainted.
The last thing that he heard was a, "Dru, catch him!" From Jenny.
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"Faith, the council has given me new orders." Linda said to her young protégé slayer.
"What is it?" Faith asked curiously and a bit sadly, thinking that she would have to leave her there.
"We are to go help the slayer on the hellmouth and are also supposed to help some people that have gained new powers." Linda said as she looked over the message that Travis had given her.
Faith blinked for a second before shrugging like she didn't care and said, "Cool, just let me get my stuffy and we'll leave."
With that, the two started packing to leave the next morning and start on the way to California.
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"Perfect, we have our way to look at the riders." One council member of the PTB said.
"Yes, soon, our plans will be complete." A second council member said.
"And God and the Devil will fall and we will take our places as rulers of reality." A third one said and all eleven of them gave an evil smirk as they thought of the way that they would kill the riders.
Done! As you can tell from this chapter, the main enemy shall be the PTB.
I say that this would be a good plot and it would work really well. I have seen evil power stories, but never one where Xander and the rest have to go against the PTB.
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