AN: Still own nothing.
The ground quaked, and the trees shuddered with each punch of the combatants. Conner had suspected that Zatan would be strong, but as he flew into a mausoleum wall causing the entire structure to collapse upon him, Conner began to realize just how much stronger Zatan was.
"Is this your might child?" Zatan asked "the first god fought all those years ago, would never have been beaten so bad." He mocked. The mausoleum roof shifting before Conner finally threw it off of himself, his coat was in tateres from the mausoleum stones burying pieces of it between them, and then tearing those pieces away when Conner stood. Conner's eyes glowed red with suppressed rage, grabbing the shoulder of his jacket Conner gave a brief pull tearing the jacket away from him body and throwing it to the ground.
"I'm gonna rip you in half." Conner growled out, watching Zatan carefully.
"You may try child." Zatan said back without an ounce of fear. A fact which enraged Conner who with a mighty roar lunged at Zatan his fist leading the way, but in his blind fury he never saw Zatan's foot shift, his body weight preparing to turn. So when Conner's fist was mere inches away from Zatan's face he never expected the vampire to twist his body and grasp Conner's arm, using the boy's own momentum to increase the speed and force with which Zatan slammed him into a large grave marker. Conner groaned as he rolled onto his hands and knees, beginning to push himself up when he felt a brutal kick slam into his ribs, a sickening crack being heard as an immense pain shot up his side, Conner's body flying through the air for mere moments before it crashed into another grave marker. Conner groaned as he struggled to his feet his left hand resting on his damaged right side.
"Why do you try child?" Zatan asked as he walked towards the gasping young man, Conner's hand gingerly gripping his side. "This fight is pointless you will fail much as the first god did." Zatan stated as he stopped walking when he was three feet from Conner, catching the punch that Conner threw, before quickly kicking his left side sending Conner's body breaking through six grave markers before finally coming to rest upon the ground. Bloody flew from Conner's lips as his body shook from a massive coughing fit. Conner listened hearing the slow steady pace of his opponent walking towards him, coming to a stop mere feet from him. He felt as Zatan placed his foot on his right side, before pushing; send massive spikes of pain up through Conner's body, which now rested on its back. Zatan quickly placed his booted foot upon Conner's chest before he could roll over again.
"Poor child, sent to his death, just like the slayer." Zatan mumbled before putting pressure on Conner's chest. Conner struggled trying to push Zatan's foot of his chest, with each second that passed it became harder for him to draw in breath, black spots began to flitter across his vision when he felt the weight on his chest lifting.
"I'm curious child, before I kill you, was it worth it, trying to stop me your slayer going after my king, she is dead you know, don't worry soon you'll join here, but I am curious, was it worth all that you are about to lose?" Zatan asked as he looked down at Conner waiting for an answer. With a glare and drawing forth all the courage he could muster at this point Conner lifted his chin glared right into Zatan's eyes and said,
"Fuck you."
Zatan seemed taken aback for a moment, as he stared at Conner, before both heard the sound of dozens of boot crunching the leaves around them.
"Such a crude mouth this one has on him." came a highly civilized sounding voice from the side, Zatan seemed to straighten at the sound of the voice, whilst Conner just rolled his head to the side to stare at the vampire that stood to the side of them, the same vampire as was in Buffy's nightmare, the master.
"Master you have been freed." Zatan stated as he bowed as much as he could while still keeping his foot firmly planted on Conner's chest.
"Yes Zatan I am free, and I am curious why you still haven't killed this child, obviously he has posed no match for you." The master responded, staring at the other vampire.
"No master he has not." Zatan said looking at Conner for a moment.
"I see so you have been playing then." The master said somewhat amused. Before shifting to leave, "Zatan after you have finished with the boy I want you to take these young vampires to feed." The master told Zatan before leaving the area. Conner felt tears welling up in the corners of his eyes at the fact that if the master was walking free then they had failed and Buffy was dead, this sadness turned to rage, his irises began glowing red behind his eyelids, Conner began to feel Zatan put pressure on his chest again, but before the pressure began to cut his breath short Conner opened his eyes the concentrated blast of heat vision scorching the side of Zatan's neck and burning away part of the skin.
Zatan howled in pain as he staggered backwards clutching at his neck, Conner just grinned darkly at the vampire as he struggled to his feet, his rage blocking out the pain from his broken ribs, and damaged body. He closed his hand into a fist before lunging at the vampire.
In the library at Sunnydale high school, Buffy and all of her friends as well as Cordelia were smiling at the fact that the master was dead, and that his plans had been foiled. It was during this time that Xander noticed that Conner still hadn't shown up so turning to Giles he asked,
"Have we heard from Conner yet." Fear gripped him when Giles shook his head no.
"He may have just gone home after the fight Xander." Giles stated trying to reassure the young man, but also having doubts creeping up his spine.
"No he would have come to see if Buffy was okay, he wouldn't have just left." Xander said back, Giles knowing that he was right rushed back over to the table grabbing an axe, while Xander grabbed a sword. Both men turned to see Buffy, Willow, Cordelia and Mrs. Calendar standing before them with frowns of confusion on their faces.
"Giles what's going on, why would Conner be fighting somebody, and why would he know that I might be hurt?" Buffy asked staring at the man.
"It's complicated." Giles responded as both he and Xander tried to pass the women only to be pushed back.
"Then uncomplicate it." Buffy demanded back, staring at the two in a way that let them know that they weren't going anywhere till she got answers.
"Fine, there was another vampire that was to be raised this evening by the name of Zatan, it was blessed by three witches to be to strong for a slayer, in myth it's strength would be comparable to Superboy's, Conner went to do battle with this vampire." Giles stated as before both men pushed past the four stunned women, Buffy stood frozen whilst Willow turned a question plaguing her mind.
"If it had strength that could match Superboy's then why would Conner fight it, shouldn't we have tried to get Superboy to fight him." Willow asked the retreating men's backs. None of the four women knew what to expect for an answer but they never could have expected what Xander said to that question.
"We did." With that said both men left, the four women were stunned, their minds still processing the revelation that had just hit them, but Buffy realizing that Conner could be in danger grabbed a wooden stake and rushed after the two men.
Conner's fist smashed into the vampires left cheek forcing the creatures head to the side, before he shot his right hand out, it connected with Zatan's right cheek, forcing his head to the side, Conner's punch's began to follow this pattern, each punch sending the creature back a step. But Conner knew that he couldn't kill Zatan this way, until his super hearing picked up the sound of tearing flesh, his eyes zoomed in on the patch of skin that his heat vision had burned away, and he almost grinned at the fact that the skin on Zatan's neck was tearing further and further, knowing what he had to do to stop the creature, Conner began to punch harder forcing the skin to tear more and more, until after five minutes of this, with Zatan being to disoriented to mount a retaliation, Conner slammed his fist into the vampires chin in a hard uppercut, hard enough to knock the vampires head clean from his shoulders, the body turning to ash before hitting the ground. Conner grinning at the fact that he had beaten Zatan, slammed to the ground as he felt a wooden beam, break across his back, before dozens more joined in, each hit to his already severely injured body, breaking more bones, he wanted to fight back, but he was so tired and without the sun to fuel his powers Conner was helpless.
Buffy able to cover the most ground thanks to the added speed that her slayer ability's gave her, was the first one in the cemetery, her green eyes quickly scanned the grounds easily finding the large pack of at least a dozen vampires all standing in a circle and beating on something with things that ranged from tree branches, to iron bars. Quickly running to wards the group she attacked, her stake ripping through dozens of vampires until finally the last turned to ashes.
Buffy didn't know what to expect, but the sight of Conner laying on the ground his back a bloody mess, his face pressed into the ground, and his arms, and legs bent at odd angles most definitely wasn't it.
"Oh god." She gasped as she looked at Conner's broken frame tears welling up in her eyes, as she realized she might have been too late.
And that's chapter 10, the first real fight scene of the story, I realize that it wasn't the best so if I could get reviews on how I can make the next one better that be great.