Author's note. I wanted to post this chapter next week, but I'll be extremely busy with school, so I'm posting it now. Hope that does not bother you/g/
Oh in this chapter there are some minor fluff moments between Buffy and Anakin.
Vote results: First place is shared between Wesley and Xander, so it will be one of them. And since there were a lot of demands for Connor, he will be in this fic.
Chapter 6: Holt Kezed
Covertly landing a mile away from separatist base the two robed figures managed to enter in to facility through the back doors, which in Buffy's opinion looked suspiciously like the sewer entrance.
Climbing down some ladder they entered the dark, dank and moist tunnel of some kind.
Closing her eyes Buffy mentally swore, she had enough poking about in the swerves in Sunnydale and she certainly did not want to poke around the sewers that were on some planet, with funny name she could not pronounce.
"I've seen worst." Said Anakin out of the blue like he could read her mind. And Buffy thought, he probably did.
"Really, what could be worst than a dark, creepy place with the green goo, and dripping of the walls, which I so didn't want to know what it is, hmm?"
"A dark, creepy place with the green goo dripping off the walls and some monster standing guard." He said smartly.
Buffy groaned. "You do realize that you just jinxed us, right?"
And as if, to confirm her words, there was a laud hissing sound, like a giant cat. At which, Buffy shoot her boyfriend a glare, but Anakin just smirked.
"You knew about the monster didn't you?" she hissed.
"Yep" he answered.
Buffy was really suppressing the urge to whack him now. "And you would have told me about this monster surprise… when?"
"If I would have told you, it wouldn't have been a surprise."
But whatever retort Buffy would come out with was abruptly cut, when said monster came barging around the corner.
It looked ugly with capital U. It was four meters long and was towering over the two humans by about two meters. It had three giant armored claws, with multiple legs, and it was orange.
"I hate bug monsters." Muttered Buffy when she and Anakin ignited their light sabers.
Anakin attacked first, and while he succeeded to cut one of the critters claws he was sent flying in the wall by the critters tail. Buffy having more experience fighting insect monsters ducked the tail and claws and started to hack the monsters legs.
Soon the bug monster lost its balance and tumbling down, but before it could adapt, Buffy took a great swing with her lightsabre and cut its head off.
When she did that, the creature exploded in many orange bits spraying it on the walls.
"Ewww!" Buffy squealed. Looking around her self, she looked at her clothes and her hands.
"ICK I'm covered in monster ick!" she tried to clean her self off but the monsters remains were sticky like the spiders web.
Anakin having escaped the burst of the monster goo, was looking at his girlfriend trying to clean her self, and though he thought her antic were cute, even if she was covered in goo, she was also extremely funny.
But while chuckling he did not noticed a smaller monster, a baby, already preparing to jump him.
"Look out!"
At Buffy's shout he whirled about and neatly slashed the mini monster…and getting a full dose of goo in his face.
Loosing his balance he went tumbling on the ground and landing directly on the large puddle of murky water and green slime.
When muffled giggles reached him, he knew that his little accident was not something he wanted to be told back at the Temple.
"Will you stop it," he muttered. "It's not like you're not covered with this gunk."
"True," Buffy smirked.
"But I did get it fighting the monster, you fell on it." She pointed out.
Seeing as he was becoming grouchy, which considering that his pants were drenched was no small wonder.
"But let's hurry; as soon as we get on higher levels the sooner we will get dry."
When the two tired, slimy and in Anakin's case drenched, heroes finally entered the clean, white and gray hallways of the upper levels, they looked for a cleaning facility, so that they were once again clean and dry.
Moving carefully through the brightly lit corridors, on which there was really no place to hide, they finally came to a large window, overlooking on large laboratory full of tanks filled with some blue liquid.
In them were blue-furred bear-like humanoids.
"Looks like we found our missing Nelvaanians." Anakin whispered to Buffy, but she only nodded, not being able to turn away from the tubes.
"At least they were not transformed yet."
Buffy just looked at Anakin sadly.
"Some of them were not so lucky." She whispered and pointed at the tubes filled with purple liquid, there was almost unrecognizable member of Nelvaanaan race.
Its blue fur was disturbed with armored bulks, it looked stronger, and it also had metallic long nails on its hands.
All in all it somehow reminded Buffy on the Borg, the Star Track villains that Andrew once dragged her to watch.
Anakin's face darkened. "Lets' get them out of there."
"I could not agree more."
Slipping in to large lab, the two Jedi learners separated, Buffy was to free those in blue tubes and Anakin went to check to see if the transformations done on those in purple was reversible.
Freeing the Nelvaanians was proving a bit harder to Buffy than she originally thought that it would. Apparently after being in the tubes for some time, they were a bit on the weak side, they were barely moving, but their minds were in tact, which in Buffy's opinion was most horrific, to know what those Separatists sadistic scientists were doing to them and why.
And they were caught. By the very large droids. Igniting her saber, Buffy scanned the droids and while her mind calculated that she was seriously out numbered.
But before the droids could disarm or kill her, Anakin jumped in the middle of the group and started to truthfully demolish them.
Opting to rather stay with the weakened Nelvaanians Buffy stood ready for any stray shoots that could endanger her charges.
Soon there were only droid bits lying scared on the floor around Anakin.
"You welcome." Anakin said to Buffy.
She frowned then rolled her eyes. "Than you."
Then she gave him her best innocent look. "I would say that you are my hero but that would just inflated your already big head."
Then she giggled at Anakin's expression. "If you stop pouting I'll give you a cookie."
"I don't pout." He growled in annoyance.
Buffy smirked. "That's too bad, cuz you just so cute when you do."
Then she turned around and went back to the Nelvaanians leaving Anakin behind.
Buffy was pouting. They managed to save all Nelvaanians that were still alive anyway. And Anakin got named by them; OK it was a funny name, Holt Kezed, which in their language meant Ghost Hand, but he got a name. And they saved them together, well she was guarding their weakened furry butts, and Anakin was demolishing droids that were attacking them, and so they slowly boarded cargo ships, and fly to Nelvana, the home world of Nelvaanians.
And then they named him…well at least they saved the fur balls. And they were invited to a party, so it was not so bad.
Buffy was watching the drunken Nelvaanians, wobble to the music, it was funny. The big blue bear like fur-balls swinging to the music that was similar to jazz.
Anakin was pulled to the dance with a couple of furriest blue duds that they saved and it was just hilarious to watch. Not to mention the expression on his face when the said fur-balls started to spin him around. When he finally escaped, Buffy was openly smirking at his down in the dumps expression.
Anakin was definitely not a happy camper, being slapped about on the solders, for thanks and being dragged across the dance floor was not his idea of fun, and his girlfriend had a time of her live, watching him, he could just see her eyes,…her whole face alight with amusement, she looked happy and beautiful.
If only he would not be the source of her amusement. Tired he went at the hut that their host kindly lent to him, he hoped that tomorrow will be better.
When Buffy saw Anakin sneak to the hut she quietly made her way inside. Seeing that Anakin was not in the best of moods she wanted to cheer him up a bit.
"You OK?" she asked. Anakin turned around sharply.
"Sorry," she apologized sheepishly.
Anakin shrugged then smiled. "There are not a lot of people that can sneak on me like that."
"Yah, being a Jedi wonder boy, can come in handy some times." Buffy smiled warmly.
"If you ignore whole Chosen one pressure." He muttered. Buffy frowned at that.
"What are you talking about…?"
Sighing deeply he sat down on the bed, sensing that this will be difficult story for him to tell she sat as well.
"There was a prophesy, made by a very powerful Jedi, who could see very far in the future…, what"
Buffy's face was set in grim lines, but her eyes were brimming with sympathy. "Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt, but well …I hate prophecies…but this is not about me, so please continue."
"He said that the Chosen One will bring the balance. The Jedi Council believes that I'm the one to bring the balance to the Force."
Buffy took his big hand between her smaller ones, and then she looked at his eyes.
"Whatever the prophesy you are not alone, you have Obi-wan, as well as me to help you. You won't have to face this all alone."
"Thanks" he smiled at her.
"Hey, I'm your girlfriend, I have to be supportive."
"Smart ass."
"That is way you like me." Anakin chuckled and yanked her closer.
"True."
Buffy cuddled closer and Anakin wrapped his arms around her. And soon they were drifting to sleep with fuzzy and cozy feelings extending to their dreams.
To be continued…
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