Chapter 14: Destroying

From behind Buffy emerged Xander, Willow, Tara, Anya and Giles, all ready for battle. As one they moved forward, Willow striking out with pure white magic while Tara and Giles headed for a group of demons who were beginning to understand exactly what was going to happen to them. Giles stayed by the door, his face like stone and Angel and the L.A. gang understood that Giles thought of Bella as one of his kids and when anyone hurt her then Ripper would be paying them a visit.

The Cullens simply shrugged and moved back to fighting the demons; any back up at the moment would be appreciated. Emmett was thundering around, swatting the demons in his path like flies.

The LA group were having enough problems, despite Buffy's back-up. Cordelia sent a kick into the gut, or at least she thought it was the gut, of a demon and watched with a satisfied smirk as it fell to the floor with a thud, just in time for Gunn to raise his axe and behead the vile thing.

Meanwhile, Angel was fighting his way over to Buffy, Spike just behind him. The Cullen's were at various points in the room. Esme and Rosalie protecting Bella while Edward was trying to comfort her, his cold arms wrapped around her as she clung to him, inhaling his soft scent. It was a calm picture in the middle of chaos.

"Angel?" Buffy asked as her back bumped into the brooding vampire's back.

"Yeah?" Angel grunted as he slammed his fist into one of the demons, feeling a satisfying crack under his fist.

"Who is that boy with Bella?" Buffy asked.

"Edward Cullen, her ex-boyfriend," Angel answered, and though he knew that they were trying to work things out, they hadn't officially said they were boyfriend and girlfriend again. Besides, Spike hadn't given Cullen the shovel talk- or as Spike called it, the 'Hurt her and I'll shove a railroad spike through you' talk.

"He's not human," Buffy stated as she ducked a blow from one of her opponents.

"He's a vampire, different breed to me though," Angel explained as he ducked and weaved around the demons, "he has a soul- can't lose it."

"Okay, but I will need to full story later," Buffy said and jumped over some demons, landing in the middle and began to swing her retrieved battle axe at them.

Unfortunately, Victoria hadn't been killed yet; she had managed to avoid the Cullens and was lurking about seemingly, summoning more demons since there seemed to be a never ending stream of them.

Victoria was smart, and she always got what she wanted. Manoeuvring her way through the demons, she directed more over to the vampires that were with Bella, forcing Edward to let go of Bella to deal with the increasing threat to his mate.

Slowly, Rose and Esme were drawn further away from Bella, who was now aware enough that she was using her powers and trying to draw the demons away from any of her friends and family while trying to defend herself in the process.

It was then that one of the walls was smashed through with a crash, and everyone turned to see Carlisle walking through the hole, looking slightly ruffled and his butterscotch eyes darting around the room.

"Carlisle?" Esme yelled.

"Connor left, is he here?" Carlisle answered as he smacked a demon away from him.

"Connor left?!" Angel shouted.

"Yes, he opened a portal of some kind, jumped into it," Carlisle replied as he worked his way over to Esme.

"Who's Connor?" Buffy yelled as she swung her axe at a demon.

"My son," Angel answered.

"Your WHAT?!" Buffy shrieked, momentarily taking her attention away from the demon she was fighting, until it hit her in the stomach. The blonde turned with a glare and kicked the demon hard- which sent the demon flying back crashing into other demons behind it.

"Maybe we should discuss this later?" Angel suggested as he slammed his fist into a demon.

"Noted," Buffy said and backhanded a demon.

Suddenly the ground began to shake beneath them, a wind picked up around them and everyone stopped, looking around and finally up as they heard a roar of noise. They could see sparks flying from the middle of the ceiling, and they whipped out and seemed to dance along the area striking down demons with deadly precision. Angel, Gunn and the rest of LA gang realised what this reminded them of. When Connor arrived.

The noise seemed too much for the demons and they screeched as the sparks him them. From the sparks, a whirlwind-like effect seemed to grow, showing a red void behind it, the noise grew worse and almost everyone collapsed to the floor trying to muffle the sound.

After what seemed like a few hours, a being fell from the light and all the noise stopped and they looked at who had fallen from the portal.

Connor stood there, fully healed, wearing his usual hunting gear, though Angel noticed he held the knives from Quor-Toth in his hands. He turned his blue eyes to the demons and death danced in them as he fell into fighting stance.

The Destroyer emerged.

TBC…

I love to play with The Destroyer part of Connor…Reviews are what feeds my muse! I apologise for the bad actions scenes, which is why this chapter is so short, they are not me forte…however, I do hope I will get better at them.