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A/N: Here is an alternate version of Halloween. What if Buffy and company did not dress up as helpless victims? What if Janus want to even the odds for humanity and decided to help those caught in his spell?

8.8.2010

By: Fire Wolfe aka Fire Star
Not so helpless-

Part 11 Knights and Gods

Dawn her boy friend Philip and best friends Kit, and Carlos, laughed as they went trick or treating. Dawn was so happy she had escaped being sent along with her sister. Granted getting stuck with Andrew Wells was a bit of a drag but, at least he did not try to order her and the others around. They all even had cool costumes. They had decided to go as Selene, Endymin, Eos and Astraeus ancient Greek titans. She had gotten the idea from one of Giles old texts and it fit them perfectly. The costumes had been easy to make and Giles had lent them each medallions containing these titans' images. Dawn chose to go as the Goddess of the Moon and Philip chose to go as her husband Endymin the king of Olympia. Kit decided to go as her sister Eos who was the Goddess of the Dawn and Carlos as Astraeus the god of the Dusk. Kit had laughed and said she always wanted to be Dawn's sister and this allowed for that. The boys had simply went along with the girls choices. After all they were both dressed in Togas and they were not about to complain about that idea.

Janus watched this and was not overly happy. He looked over as the four other gods joined him. "Well this is up to you all. How shall we handle it?"

"Really Janus you do so push the limits."Selene said however she was smiling clearly not overly upset. Perhaps we should allow them lesser versions of our powers. Immortality of the gods is something I can live with. We do not wish them to replace us but, they are all good children seeking to work for the good of our human children. So we shall give them our powers at a lesser version."

"I say we give them our power at about 25 percent. That will be enough to give them protection but not so much that they are too godlike. Dawn/Selene is already very powerful we should not give her to much more. She is far too young to deal with this. We should instead make them our avatars on Earth. We can protect them and allow them time to grow into their power." Eos replied. "Immortality is a useful gift here on the hell mouth. I would also gift them with protection against getting turned into vampires."

"This is reasonable and it should be protections for all of them. We need to help them grow into their power slowly and safely. We will give them boost when they need it. They should become demigods like Hercules." Astraeus agreed. The gods left leaving Janus to finish his work.

Janus smiled as the titans gave him the go ahead. Demigods should even the odds considerably. He looked over and noticed Andrew Wells seemed to a little confused yet when seven vampires attacked he pulled out his light saber and prepared to defend the children in his care. He jumped into action as the vampires tried to grab Dawn. With a quick slice the vampires arm came off and dusted. Kaja Sinis could not believe that that such evil ran wild. Dawn and the others jumped in and began to fight. They were all used to the night time in Sunnydale. Philip had been born here and he was not about to let anything hurt Dawn. He had been trying to get an official date for weeks. He was not about to let some vamp make a snack out of his newly official girlfriend.

The five of them made quick work out of the vampires who were not expecting any resistance.

"Who are you?" Kaja Sinis asked. The teens titans all came to his side and introduced themselves.

Selene/Dawn introduced them and he returned the favor. Kaja Sinis was not certain he believed these beings were god like beings. His mind however recognized the names so he bowed to them briefly as he would to others of his order. "We should find a safer place to continue this."

The others agreed and Selene led them toward the school. The others followed all drawn by the memories of their Avatars to a place they knew allies would dwell.

Janus smiled five more champions who would serve well. He smirked as he considered how much fun Wells would be when he drove the other crazy now that he really was a Jedi Knight. It would be amusing to watch the others as they realized that their favorite geek was now the original Jedi and that he would help recruit and train more. Yes this should be interesting of course with all light there was dark and across Sunnydale Darth Maul made short work of a frayl demon who wanted to use him as a chew toy along with several other Siths and their apprentices. Then again Janus thought he was the god of Chaos. He had to make life interesting.

Part 11