Disclaimer: I do not own Highlander Davis/Panzer does, this story is only written for fun and enjoyment not for profit. Rated M for mature.

I want to thank my Beta reader R.J. Bingham. Please go and read R.J. Bingham's Fan-fictions, they are all well written and very enjoyable.

Chapter 9

Mystical Witchcraft and Amy Thomas

Amy had arrived early and found a hiding place near a grove of trees, unfortunately so had Mr. Samuel McConnell. He had spotted Amy and snuck up on her and applied a little chloroform cloth over her mouth and Amy was out like a light bulb that just had been turned off. Unlike her father Amy had not learned to do her homework first on immortals and McConnell was one who liked to have an advantage over his opponent, and his preferred prime choice of advantage was a flesh and blood mortal. He bound Amy's hands, gagged her, and just as she was beginning to awaken McConnell dragged her to the top of a hill.

Gwen had thought a lot of what Joe had said to her about the fact she should stop taking chances and start using her Mystic witchcraft more. Seeing Zhandra again also inspired Gwen to realize she was not using all the weapons she had in her arsenal when she was in a challenge with another immortal. The Quarry Gardens were lovely in low sunlight of six pm. Gwen looked for the best spot to fight the battle where she would be able to see her opponent coming and also had an easy escape route. Then her mind turned to the reason she was in The Quarry Gardens and where was the other immortal?

"So where the hell was this guy, 6:15 he is certainly not a punctual person." Gwen said to herself, as she scanned the area suddenly feeling the buzz on another immortal she look at the top of a small hill.

"Miss Gwendolyn McDermott Adams, I see you are here, such a long name for such a small women. You killed my partner that I had for over 300 years. Do you have any idea how long that is to be with the same person? I loved Him. Have you ever lost someone you have loved for 300 years, it's like losing a piece of yourself." lamented McConnell.

"Umm, you loved him three hundred years, which is a drop in the bucket of time as we live our lives, how about trying to make a relationship work for two thousand years and all you found in the end; it was all a lie. You want something to cry about, try that. Three hundred years that's nothing, give it up McConnell, you're still young, and you can meet someone else. You obviously don't understand I did not challenge Dean Morris. He challenged me, in fact I tried to talk him out of it. And by the way who is this Girl you have bound and gagged? Why do you seem to think McConnell, that you need a hostage in order to fight me? How bad of a sword fighter are you, should I tie one of my arms behind my back so it can be an even fight? Gwen mocked her opponent.

"I do not believe anything you say Miss Adams, you killed my partner in cold blood, and I will kill you after I kill this girl if you do not lay your sword down now! If you do surrender to me I promise I will not kill the girl and let her go." McConnell commanded Gwen.

"Well if that's all you want me to do, that's easy, then let the girl go first. So if you think I do not have a sword in my hand I am helpless? Who do you think you are challenging, a rookie, someone who's only been around for fifty, one hundred, five hundred years or so McConnell? Sure we can play your way just let the nice watcher lady go. I will put my sword down, but I warn you, it will not do you a bit of good, you're a dead man unless you walk away now. Think about it I will give you two minutes starting now!" Gwen shouted as she looked at her watch.

McConnell looked at Amy and looked at Gwen; he has never heard such boldness from an immortal. Who was this Gwen and should he walk away, then he started to laugh. "Gwen Adams you are the biggest bluffer I have ever encountered in all my 537 years, but you amuse me so I do as you say and let the girl go, anyway I can kill her after your dead." McConnell said smugly. She is the kind that stays around and watches, so she will still be here after you are dead. Then he untied Amy's bonds and gave her a push off the hill he was standing on and she rolled down the hill into the stream.

Amy got up and ran at least a 100 yards to where she had hid her binoculars. Amy wiped the sweat off her forehead and face and tried to wipe the water off her still wet clothes. She was still shaking as she started the job for which she had been trained, watching immortals battle for the prize.

Amy couldn't get over just how beautiful the landscape was in this subtropical paradise. She thought that Whangarel Subtropical Quarry Gardens seemed too beautiful for the destruction that a quickening might bring to it but it was too late and the battle had begun.

Gwen tossed her sword about five feet from where she was standing, McConnell smiled and advanced towards her. Gwen bent down and pulled her stiletto out of her boot, held it in the air pointing it at McConnell and simply let go of it. The stiletto floated motionless for a moment as if an invisible energy force was holding it in the air. Then it rotated as if it was a cruise missile trying to find its target. Suddenly it began to fly faster than a bullet with the stiletto landing in the gut of Samuel McConnell, stopping his charge. McConnell dropped half into the stream, crying in pain, Gwen simply put her right hand out and whispered a few words in a tongue that no one had uttered in thousands of years and her sword leaped back into her hand. Gwen took her time quietly advancing to where her opponent laid swearing and bleeding.

"If you take my head another women will die," McConnell spat out trying to negotiate for his life.

"Ok, you want to play," Gwen took the stiletto and started to cut McConnell, from his chest to his belly button, then replaced it back in her boot. "Now you can die easy or I can make this really difficult, so tell me where this other hostage is, and how I find her. OH one more thing she better be alive or I will find those who you love and kill them too." Gwen smiled at McConnell.

McConnell was frightened, "I will tell you, but first I have to know who the hell are you? If I cooperate will you let me live?"

Gwen answered. "First where is the other hostage?"

"She is in a locker at Auckland International airport, locker number 56, on the third floor near the employee entrances. She should be alive, it's only been two days, and I don't think that long enough to die of dehydration. Now tell me who you are? And we can make a deal I'll go away from down under, leave you and yours alone. I will make a pact with you, I have a feeling that if I broke my side of this pact an immortal with your abilities could find me." McConnell pleaded with Gwen.

Gwen yelled to Amy. "Watcher, one of your people is in trouble, she's at Auckland International airport, locker number 56, on the third floor near the employee entrances. Hurry and call someone before she is dead, did you hear me Watcher?" Gwen continued to yell.

Amy heard her alright and yelled back "Yes I will call and we will get her out and to safety Gwen, don't worry I make sure she'll be alright"

"Good job Watcher, you can go now, I would prefer you move further away, for your own safety of course, quickening's are funny things, and since you really don't seem to know what you're doing, I want you to move further away, please," Gwen asked. "And you McConnell, the last deal I made was over 4000 years ago wasn't the best idea I ever had."

"Gwen I'm not just any watcher I'm Amy Joe's daughter" Amy revealed to Gwen. Maybe she shouldn't have said that but after Gwen had saved her life it seemed the right thing to do.

"Well Amy, thanks for the information but really for your own safety please still need to moved further away" Gwen repeated.

Then Gwen stuck her sword in to McConnell again as he moaned. "So are you going to tell me who you are before I die" McConnell asked.

"You don't know me, I was alive before most Civilization existed. I spent 2000 years in a tomb in Gaul so trust me really you do not know me. My name would mean nothing to you." Gwen repeated

"Try me I had a teacher who was very old, and he once warned me to watch for a witch who was just like you but as you have already gutted me, I guess remembered too late"

"Ok, I'll play but you tell me who was your teacher, but I will still take your head" Gwen said. "It was Gwenanosa now who was your teacher?

"Kronos, and he spoke of you often. I knew it had to be you. Did you know he said that he still loved you?" McConnell said.

"No, he never loved me, he may have lied to himself and said to you he loved me but Kronos never loved anyone but himself. Did you know he is dead now? So when you meet him in hell please tell Kronos I still hate him and will as long as I live." With that the conversation ended and Gwen took her sword and chopped off McConnell's head and it rolled in to the stream and was carried away by the current.

Amy was shocked to see the brutality that Gwen employed, but what was she to say, McConnell had drugged her and held her hostage.

Gwen stuck her sword hard in to the dirt to prepare for the quickening. Amy had spent years in research after her first unhappy field experience, and therefore had not seen very many quickening's. Amy saw the body of the dead immortal levitate off the ground and the entire area fill with fog, then lighting attacked Gwen from all over the old Quarry, and rocks exploded. It was as if the energy from the ground itself was rising up as lighting and filling Gwen's body. Then it started to rain heavily only for a moment and it was over. The damage to the park was minimal but Gwen was crumpled into a ball just hanging on to her sword with one hand. She slowly got up and pulled her sword out of the ground then looked straight into Amy's eyes then turned and walked to her Ranger Rover and drove off.

Amy wasn't sure how to report this, but first she had to help the other hostage, then maybe she would have a talk with her dad before filing this report. She looked for McConnell's watcher but no one else was there, she would have to find out what happened to the other watcher too. Well she has to file some sort of report but first she was driving to Auckland International airport and save a life.

End chapter 9

Chapter 10

Methos -The master schemer