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"The thing about changing the world …Once you do it, the world's all different.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Season #8, The long way Home, pg 1.
She stood in front of the Worm silent and unmoving. Her eyes watched it looking for a weakness. Every part of her wanted to kill it. The Worm was a monster and she was the slayer of monsters. The girl was silent, thin and well armed. Around her waist she wore a portable shield generator. She knew from her pre-born memories never to activate the Holtzman shield in the presence of the Emperor. The shield would drive the worm into a killing frenzy that not even her or her sisters could fight, yet. Hidden on her body were various grenades and strings of shigawire. In her hand was a blade made from an unbreakable metal forged in the heart of a dark matter star. Her olive colored skin still held the sheen of sweat from this morning's work-out. Every part of her being vibrated with a light and buoyant energy that focused her mind on the sand colored abomination before her.
"I am Surayya Raisa" she said speaking to Leto in tones that were clear and commanding. "Commander of Fish Speaker Special Forces Reserve Division." She pounded her right fist to her left breast once as a salute. "What are your orders, my Lord?"
"I'm sure she wants to kill me." Leto thought to himself observing the fifteen year old girl before him.
"Even now she's assessing my weaknesses, looking for a place to strike. I can tell by the way she holds herself in the prana-bindu way of static muscle tension. She is a predator."
"It is time." Leto said to her. His voice was amplified and delivered across the huge stadium sized training center.
Surayya Raisa briefly bowed her head to Leto as an acknowledgement. Her raven black hair fell across her face. Across the practice field thousands of young girls and their trainers snapped to attention.
"A year ago I discovered the memory of an artificial moon hidden deep in the atmosphere of the gas giant Tailos three. Leto said, "A reconnaissance fleet confirmed that the moon is still there. That moon is hollow and inside of it are monsters." Leto paused a beat while assuming his best Watcher tone.
He began to mimic the long dead Rupert Giles.
"The Earth, in the beginning, was not a paradise. It was a Hell. Creatures not spawn of nature, the Old Ones, warred among themselves as easily we breathed. When they died, their essence persisted outside of time, immune to decay or corruption waiting for a day of resurrection. The physical remains of these creatures were kept in a prison called, the deeper well hidden beneath the Earth. Thousands of years ago the deeper well was moved by a cabal of men using magic of an extreme and awful nature.
They used magic to hollow out a moon, to transport the remains of the Old One's inside the moon and at the appointed hour reawaken them."
Leto shuttered at what his prescient visions had shown him. Everything he had achieved over the last three thousand years would be destroyed if the Old Ones were released from their prison. The Human race would be cast into an eternity of suffering. The Golden Path would be destroyed.
"The Old Ones are stirring in the Darkness." Leto continued, "They are awakening."
Leto shifted slightly so that on the huge overhead monitors it would appear that he was speaking directly to the individual Slayer.
"Your dreams confirm this." Leto said. "You know the horrors of what is waiting in the dark."
A year of training the newly activated Slayers had included Spice enhanced lucid dreaming combined with mentat style data processing and memory recall. The new slayers were no longer raw and unfocused like their ancestors. With Leto as their Watcher they had become bright and sharp. The young girls that stood before him were the most dangerous beings in the Human universe. Their feral impulses were balanced by Bene Gesserit training.
"I wonder how the Honored Matres would fair against them." Leto thought to himself. "But, their time is not until after the Scattering."
Leto remembered Buffy Summers in the last days of Sunnydale and assumed her persona.
"Evil is strong, but there is one thing stronger than Evil and that is us. For today, we have become an army!" Thousands of Slayers raised their blades in a deafening roar.
"Surayya Raisa" Leto said to her.
"Yes, My lord" She responded.
"The word is given. Begin your assault on Tailos Three." Leto commanded.
Moneo joined Leto on the stage in order to accompany him back to the citadel. They both moved along the incline leading out of the training area back towards the keep. Behind them team leaders were handing out assignments and billets.
"My Lord." Moneo said as they reached the half way point." I have the operations reports from Giedi Prime. Sub-commander Allison reports increased smuggler activity and an increase in faux spice sales."
Leto suddenly stopped forcing his entourage to stop as well. From the entrance of the citadel came a huge explosion that ripped a hole in the side of the building spraying the incline with shrapnel.
"They watched me for a whole year timing how long it took me to go from the training field to the citadel. Leto thought pleased with himself. My girls are beautiful and lethal. They are ready.
Fish Speakers swarmed around Leto checking him for damage and finding none. Leto looked back over the training field spotting Surayya Raisa staring at him intensely like a hawk and not moving an inch."
"They are ready." Leto thought again. "I almost feel sorry for the demons."