A/N Fallenange15 has been bugging me to finish this story for months now, so with his help I've finally completed Xan Helsing. I hope everyone has enjoyed this story. I've also given him permission to finish a few other stories of mine so be on the look out for them.
This takes place two years after chapter 12 and Cordelia, Angel, Xander, and Jenice are still living in Romania protecting those that live there. Also for continuation I'm going with the alternate fight scene ending from the last chapter I posted with the exception that one of his revolvers is gone and Xander is now possessed with Balthazar's spirit , so be expecting him in the story, as well as a certain demon and a certain vampire.
Chapter 13
A New World
1900
A Romanian Forest
Night
A dark figure wearing a fedora styled hat and a brown overcoat ran quickly through a foreboding dark jungle at night. Ducking pass trees and jumping over stumps, his dirty old brown duster billowed behind him, as he came to a stop to take in his surroundings. Seconds later his partner ran through a passing of trees and stopped beside him.
"You picking up anything?" Xander asked, turning to his vampiric friend.
"Aye." Angel replied. Every time he turned he heard snippets of the sounds of the jungle. Picking up a familiar scent, he turned just in time to avoid being pounced on by a giant of a Lycan.
But Xander wasn't so lucky, taking the blunt of the Lycan's lunge he was knocked to the ground, where his revolver was knocked out of his hands. Bearing it's fangs it attempted to try to bite down on him only for Angel to step up in front of him with his game face and growl deep in his throat. The werewolf in turn bared its fangs at Angel and growled more loudly. Returning the growl, Angel bared his own fangs and stared the werewolf down, warning him away. Giving the vampire a curious look, the beast turned and ran off into the night.
"Are you alright?" Angel asked, extending a hand.
"Yeah." Xander replied roughly as he took the offered hand and stood to his feet. The duo had been tracking this demon for nearly two days straight, without much rest. And what made it worse was the fact that when the beast turned to a man, he was a serial killer, that would terrorize the people in the village in the day. "Now come on."
Taking off, like a shot, the two struggled to keep up with the demons trail. Coming along a small pond, Xander dipped the barrel of his gun in it, causing a huge rivot of water to shoot up into the air because of the speed of their run. Hearing a scream, they doubled their efforts to stop the beast they were after.
"Grigore do you think it wise to be here?" a beautiful woman with long brown hair asked of her boyfriend. He was about a foot taller then her, muscular, and with short black hair. "Xan Helsing told us to..."
"Xan Helsing, Xan Helsing, Xan Helsing..." Grigore mocked in a sing song voice. "I tire of hearing his name. He isn't the master of me nor my fate."
"But the monster..."
"Don't you think I would protect you?" he asked as he grabbed her around the shoulders. Looking up into his eyes she saw that he was genuinely hurt. "I'd protect you to the end of my life, Idris."
"What was that?" she suddenly asked, hearing a rustling of leaves.
"It's nothing my darling." he replied with a smile as he looked towards the bush she was looking at. A smile that disappeared when the large, hairy werewolf, that was watching them, jumped out at them and growled menacingly. With his manliness gone Grigore turned around and ran off screaming into the night, sounding very much like a little girl, and leaving his beloved behind.
As if it were amused the werewolf looked after Grigore for a moment, before turning to the girl and attacking her. Pouncing up into the air it knocked her to the ground, slashing her shoulder with it's claw in the process. Just as it was about to bite into her juicy neck, Angel suddenly appeared and pulled the monster off of the girl before fighting with it himself. Punching the thing twice Angel knocked it back a step before stabbing it in the chest with his blessed silver sword. To his dismay the creature still stood tall over him.
"Damn." was all he got to say as the thing batted him aside like a rag doll. Not having a chance to fully get back on all fours Xander ran in front of him and took out his revolver before shooting it with everything he had. Not being able to withstand the silver bullets, that ripped through his flesh, the creature fell back to the ground and immediately turned back into the shape of a powerfully built man with a bald head and dark ink black eyes.
"I guess I don't owe you one anymore, Deadboy." Xander replied with a smile as he tipped his hat up, with a still smoking barrel of his gun.
"Don't worry the night isn't over yet boy." Angel replied standing to his feet. "I'm sure I'll be savin' your arse sooner or later."
"So Migeff the last of the Werewolf Kings." Xander said aloud as he looked down at the man, once beast, darkly. The man had been responsible for so many lives that had been taken. He was truly a monster. Hearing someone crying, he snapped out of his musings and saw Angel gather a woman up in his arms. "Idris? What are you doing here? I thought I told you to stay in the village?"
"Grigore, Grigore told me to come here. He told me he would protect me." she cried the last part out.
"Grigore, I should've known." Xander said contemplating the situation. That asshole just left her here.
"Come on lass, I'll take you home." Angel said as he turned to see Xander staring down at the body. "Aren't you coming?"
"Yeah...yeah, I'll be right behind you." he replied not looking up. "I'm gonna hide this body first. We'll bury it later."
"Aye. I'll see you back at camp then." Angel replied, before turning and walking off. Crotching down, inspecting the body closer he suddenly hovered a hand over the man's chest before quickly standing to his feet in an attempt to walk away.
"Do it!" a dark voice shouted in his head.
"No, I've had enough of this sick game." Xander whispered. "I'm not going to..."
"Do what I say boy. You know the price of disobeying me." Xander was about to joke about a voice being so scary, but then he remembered what happened a few months ago when he had woken up and saw that he had a gun pointed at Cordelia's head. Not knowing what was going on, he tried to put the gun down only for Balthazar's voice to talk in his mind. He told him that for over a year and a half he had been learning how to control all of his bodily functions, but only for a short period of time. But in that time he could do alot of damage, like kill his lover Cordelia and all of his friends. And what was worse was that if he told anyone what was going on, he would kill them all.
Doing, what he had been doing for the last few months to other high level demons, Xander put his hand over the Werewolf's chest and waited. Not having to wait long a black light emanted around his hand, just as a dense black cloud streamed up from the creatures body into the light. The black stream pouring out of the creature suddenly came to an end and Xander stood to his feet as the new power radiated throughout his body. He couldn't totally desribe it but he felt stronger, more flexible, but above all else more dangerous. It felt almost like a drug. A very addictive one.
"You see. Trust in me and power like this can be ours."
"Shut up!" Xander shouted, as his ears perked up a bit. Turning he could've sworn that he heard Cordelia's scream, along with a sense of something evil approaching.
As if he were tuning into a radio broadcast, he heard a ceremonial drumbeat and chanting in the distance. In the blink of an eye he was off once again with almost uncanny speed. Coming into a clearing he saw three figures in dark robes standing over a woman, who was lying on an altar with dark hair wearing a beautiful white dress. Seeing that one of the figures was about to plunge a knife into her, he threw open his overcoat and whipped out his revolver and opened fire.
As all the bodies dropped from the onslaught of bullets that ripped through them, Xander ran over to the girl who was still struggling against her bonds, sighing when he saw who it was.
"What the hell took you so long dweeb?" Cordelia asked as Xander put away his gun and pulled out a long knife.
"Why can't I ever get a thanks for saving my butt Xander?" he asked as he started to cut through the rope. "Why do you always have to nag?"
"I'll nag and you'll listen to it buddy." Cordy replied with a raised eyebrow. "And since I'm yelling, we've only been married for three days. What the hell kinda honeymoon is this supposed to be anyway?"
"I know it's been rough but just... tell me what's going on?" he asked as he finished cutting off her bonds.
"Well when you left this handsome man showed up and swept me off of my feet." Cordelia replied smugly as she saw a look pass across his features. "Anyway he put the whammy on me and tried to offer me up as a sacrifice. He said that his name was Dracula."
"Dracula." Xander repeated, as his top lip started to twitch. Not being able to control it, he burst out laughing.
"What the hell is supposed to be so funny?" she asked crossing her arms over her chest.
"Come on Cordy, Dracula?" Xander replied as he calmed down a bit. "I mean we already sealed that guy away like two years ago. It was probably just some vamp trying to make a name. Now let's get back to the village. Or better yet, why don't you just go sit on top of a crypt and flaunt your neck cleavage until Dracula shows up? Then you two can talk private."
"I knew he wasn't the real Dracula." Cordy countered. "And please, you're just jealous."
"Yeah, I'm jealous of a corpse." he chuckled as he felt an evil presence. Turning he saw a man walking forward out of the darkness. He was very thin and pale, had long flowing black hair and was wearing a long cloak.
"So you are the famous demon hunter I've heard about." the vampire said with an accent. "Xan Helsing is it? Well my friend you will not stop me from my power boost. I will get the power of the gypsies and..."
"Wait, wait, wait...you're killing me." Xander said as he again burst out in laughter. "Say...say I've come to suck your blood?" he begged in a cheesy Dracula voice.
"Xander." Cordelia whined, as even she had a smile on her face.
"Okay, okay..." Xander said wiping a tear out of his eye. Not giving the fake Dracula time to respond Xander fired off a round catching the vamp full in the chest.
"No...no this cannot be." were his last words as he crumbled into dust.
"All in a days work." Xander said as he blew the smoke from the barrel of his gun, before holstering it.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, you big hero." Cordy said looping her arm in his. "Now let's go and start our honeymoon." she said taking a big whiff of his clothes. "Right before you take a bath and put on some clean clothes."
Later That Night
As Xander and Cordelia rode on horse back towards their beautiful two story home, which was built as a thank you to them from the Council, Xander suddenly had a suspicion that someone was watching them. Glancing back at his wife, who had her arms wrapped tightly around his waist, he suddenly gave her a wink.
"Hey go on ahead to the house." he whispered softly as he looked down the rock road path towards the out house. "Nature calls."
"As if I really wanted to know about your bowel movements." Cordy replied with a frown, as she took the reins of the horse, after he had slipped off of it. "But make it quick. And take a bath before you come to our bedroom." she said as she galloped off. Watching her go a sinister look crossed his features as he took out his revolver and walked to where he felt the demonic presense.
"Look, I don't feel like playing games so just come out." he said as he turned around only to come face to face with his old rival.
"I don't feel like playing games either." Vlad in human form said as he slowly pushed the barrel of Xander's gun out of his face with a finger. "On behalf of the underworld I've come to talk."
"Not to be rude but aren't you supposed to be in hell?" Xander asked, as he turned around and started to follow the demon. To his surprise Vlad smirked at his comment.
"Believe me, I'd rather be down there now instead of this place." he said looking off into the night. "I don't know how you humans can bare being here. It's disgusting."
"Sorry." Xander replied with a roll of his eyes. "Now what do you want? I'm busy...or about to get busy." he said thinking of Cordelia.
"Alot of evil beings on earth are being slaughtered..."
"I'm not hearing anything I don't like yet." Xander interrupted impatiently.
"Oh but you will." Vlad assured. "When demons and even you damn white hats die, your energy is dispersed into the great beyond to keep balance in the universe. But something is taking that power and I need your help to see what's happening."
"I'd love to help but I have something to do." Xander said walking around the demon, only for Vlad to grab his shoulder tightly.
"You don't understand, Xan Helsing. If a demon is taking this power then your world, along with mine will perish."
"Then it's a good thing I'm not a demon." Xander replied with an evil smirk and in a voice not of his own. But it was a voice that Vlad instantly recognized.
"Balthazar?"
"In the flesh." he said looking down at his body. "Well not exactly my flesh but you get the point."
"How...?"
"Before you and the others managed to destroy my body, I pushed my soul into Xan Helsing's." Balthazar explained. "And for the last few months I've been the one attracting and destroying all of the major players of evil here."
"Until now." Vlad replied. "This will soon be over."
"My thoughts exactly." Balthazar went on with a smile.
Sizing each other up, they both got into fighting stances, waiting to see who would attack first. Not being able to take the waiting game Vlad let out a growl and charged. Wanting and hoping that he could end this quickly he threw a few quick punches making his enemy take a few steps backwards. Seeing that his punches were either blocked or didn't hurt his opponent, Vlad jumped up and kicked him down.
Doing a spinning move to get back on his feet, Balthazar charged and went on the offensive. As if super charged he went into a series of punches and kicks that were so fast that Vlad was forced to the ground in merely five seconds.
"I hate this human body." Vlad said aloud as he wiped blood from a corner of his mouth. "It's just so weak."
"No it's just you that's weak boy." Balthazar replied as he took Xander's revolver out of his duster and pointed it at him. "Good bye."
With one final surge of power and anger Vlad changed into his demonic form. Taking his enemy off guard he kicked the gun out of Balthazar's hand and stood firmly to his feet.
"So you still have a little fight left in you?" Balthazar asked as he retrieved his weapon.
"More then a little." the small winged demon replied as he extended his hand. Seconds later a demonic looking broad sword materialized in his hand. Gripping it firmly, he crotched down low and ran forward in a blur. Seeing the attack coming, Xander raised up his revolver and blocked the swing knocking his opponent back.
With a growl the two demons charged at each other, both getting ready to jump and kick. Going at the same speed they jumped at the same time, and kicked each other in the center of the air. Since Balthazar's kick was stronger, Vlad fell to the ground as the stronger demon made a safe landing.
"Come, I don't have anymore time for games." Balthazar spat out, as his duster blew around him mystically. With a look of pure hatred, Vlad screamed and with his sword held high, ran forward.
Remembering Vlad's last charge, Balthazar smirked as he quickly put the revolver in its holster and made his eyes glow red. In a flash of bright light Vlad's body trembled as he came to a halt. Dropping his sword with numb hands he looked up at his old enemy one last time, before his head slid cleanly off of his body.
"Better luck next time, kid." Balthazar said with a howl of laugher, that echoed throughout the night. With a final sniff of the night air, as Vlad's body lay decomposing, he slowly walked towards the house. If he had of been paying better attention, he would have seen that someone was in the out house, looking out at him with terrified haunted eyes.
The Next Day
Late Afternoon
The Harris Estate
"Come on, Xander just stay a little while longer." Cordelia complained to her husband, as she held onto his hand, smiling up at him seductively. "I'll make it worth your while."
"Oh, I'm sure you would." Xander replied as he gave her a kiss on the forehead, before sighing. "But you know aswell as I do, that I have to investigate this demon sighting. Don't worry, I should be back before you know it."
"Alright, buddy but you better not come back dead."
"I promise." Xander replied with a smile as he walked away from the door and out of the house. Dropping her smile, Cordelia closed the door and looked over at the younger girl that stood behind it.
"Are you sure about what you saw last night, Jenice?" Cordelia asked as the two sat down on her bed. "I mean he still acts like the same old Xander to me."
"Trust me, he...he's not Xander." Jenice said shivering. "He's... he's that monster."
"Alright, I believe you." the older witch said swallowing hard. "Now what are we going to do about it?"
"We have a saying here in Romania." Jenice replied with a wiry smile. "The best way to a man's heart is through his stomach."
Moments Later
Xander slowly galloped on his horse, with his partner covering tightly with a blanket over his head and wearing gloves.
"What took you so long getting home last night?" Angel spoke up. "I thought that you were just going to hide the demon body."
"Cordelia didn't tell you that I had to save her last night?" Xander asked. "And what's with the third degree anyway dead boy? I already got Cordy nagging me. Now you?"
Without saying a word Angel just raised his eyebrow at that. It was so unlike Xander to lose patience so quickly.
"Shhh...this is it." Xander said stopping the horse in front of an old abandoned looking shack in the outskirts of the town. "I can hear three heartbeats and I can smell something demonic coming from over there."
"How can you tell that, lad?" Angel said looking over at the building, that was still to far away for even him to sense what was inside.
"Just call it a hunch." X replied getting off of Buffy. "Now come on."
"So you believe this to be the home of Van Helsing?" a demon with grey skin and large white horns, asked another of his kind.
"Yes, my lord. But the man we are seeking goes by the name of Xan Helsing." the slightly older demon replied, to his young lord as he bent down to kiss his hand, as a big demon stood behind them.
"No matter. We must inform him of what is taking place in the underworld before full chaos reigns."
As soon as he said that a metal canister shattered one of the windows beside where they were standing. Almost majestically Xander stepped through the opening holding his revolver followed by Angel, who was holding a blanket over his head to shield him from the sun's rays.
"Xan Helsing!" the balance demon lord cried out in fright.
"Yeah, too bad nobody's gonna know who you are." Xander replied as he aimed his revolver at him. Trying to save his lord the older demon leaped in front of him to take the blast. With a irratated glance Angel hit the short demon, sending him stumbling back against the wall.
Seeing that all three of them were ready to fight Angel raised his crossbow as they squared off against them making them suddenly come to a dead halt.
"Come lads, whose looking for a little devilment." as Angel joked with them a growl sounded and Angel turned his head to see that Xander was snarling at them, his face full of rage. Putting his gun away Xander leaped past Angel, tackling all three demons at once, then started to lay into them like there was no tomorrow.
Angel stared and kicked the occasional foe as it came his way, but Xander was hogging all the action, tossing the demons around like rag dolls.
Seeing one trying to run past him he shot it in the throat with an arrow and all fell quiet as Xander tossed the last demon aside. With a violent look still in his eyes Xander let out a sigh, still holding one of the demon's arms that he had torn off.
"That was fun." he said dropping said arm.
"Aye." Angel replied with a gulp as Xander walked past him and out into the late day sun. Even with his time as being Angelus he had never attacked anyone or anything so viciously.
Harris Estate
Later That Day
"There's my big hero." Cordelia said with a wide smile as she walked over to her husband. "How was today's hunt?"
"Fine." Xander replied with a suspicious glance, towards her as she took off his coat and took his hat. "What's up? You're acting... chipper."
"Why does anything have to be wrong with me?" she asked with a toothy grin, as she led him over to the dinner table. "I'm just happy to see you."
"Right." he said with squinted eyes as he watched Jenice walk into the room with a big platter of food. "Jen what's up? I haven't seen you in what two days?"
"I've um...I've just been busy." she replied nervously as she placed the platter on the table and sat down across from him. Giving both of his girls a look Xander stared down at the food and smiled.
"Man this food looks good, Jen. What's the special occasion?"
"Actually, I didn't make it." Jenice confessed as she placed a napkin in her lap. "Cordelia did."
"In... in that case I'm not that hungry." Xander replied as he dropped his fork back on his plate. He had tried Cordelia's cooking before and to say that it was terrible was an understatement.
"WHAT!!!!!?" the dark haired young witch screamed, nearly shaking. "I slave over a hot stove all day and you say you're not hungry? Listen buddy you're gonna eat my cooking, even if I have to spoon feed it to you."
"As tempting as that sounds..."
"You could atleast taste it, lad." Angel said as he walked into the room and sat down next to him. "She's your wife after all so you'll have to get used to her bad cooking sooner or later."
"Hey!" the woman in question screamed out, overhearing what the vampire had said. Letting out a sigh, Xander picked his fork and knife up and started to cut into the meat that was in front of him. Closing his eyes, expecting a nasty taste, he was surprised at the flavorable taste of it. Opening his eyes he started to dig into the food, like a pig.
"Hey, Cordy could you pass those rolls?" Xander asked with a mouth full of food.
"Maybe you were wrong about what you saw." Cordy whispered to Jenice as she passed her husband the rolls.
As Angel was about to drink some blood he looked over out of the corner of his eye at Xander, who had finally taken a bite out of the bread. Xander began to choke and Jenice screamed as she stared at her friend, who was growling and whose face was turning into that of a demon's.
"You... you used psylis eucalipsis powder didn't you?" Xander asked in Balthazar's raspy voice. "Damn women... you can't trust them for anything." with that his head jerked around before he dropped unconscious onto the table.
"Ha... and he said that I couldn't act."
"What the hell is going on here!?" Angel demanded as he jumped up from the table, eyeing both girls suspiciously.
"An exorcism." Cordelia told him sadly, as she held on to the crying girl.
After a few moments of explaining what was going on, Angel picked up Xander and placed him in his bed. Finding some metal shackles he placed them through the bed post and around Xander's wrist's and legs. Seeing her friend sweating profusely Jenice covered him with a blanket as Cordy picked up a big glass bottle and started to draw a circle around the bed with the yellow sand that was in it.
Oh, I wonder if I should put sheets down. Cordelia thought to herself. "Angel, are you expecting any big vomiting here? Because – I saw a movie once..."
"I really wish that you girl's would've told me about this last night." Angel was saying as he placed on the last of the iron around Xander's foot. "I could've been killed."
"That's your fault for trusting in a woman." Xander growled harshly as he woke up and looked from Angel, to Jenice, to his beautiful wife. "Isn't that right baby?"
"Don't answer him lass." Angel warned. "Let's just do this spell and..."
"Shut up, Dead Boy." Xander all but commanded. "I'm trying to talk to my wife here."
"How stupid do I look to you, that I'd want to hear what you had to say?" Cordy asked, as he looked back at her with raised eyebrows. Ignoring what he had to say Cordelia turned to Jenice and gave her a grim look. "Jenice hand me that book, so we can get started."
"No. I'm going to do this ritual."
"What?" Cordy asked surprised. "Look I don't have time for this. I'm the senior witch here missy and I say you can't do it."
"But I know this ritual and we have the supplies."
"She's right lass.You've never done anything like this before." Angel spoke up.
"You're going to turn your back on me aswell?" Jenice asked bitterly. "You're saying I can't do it."
"No I'm not saying that you can't do this." he replied swallowing hard. "I'm saying that I don't want you too. If anything happened to you, I don't know..."
"Ahh... isn't this touching?" Xander asked, mockingly and in a baby like voice. "I knew you had a thing for younger girls, but Jenice? Mmmmm you have some good taste."
"Shut your mouth you..."
"Omnis spiritus in munde. In nomine dei!" Cordelia yelled out making Xander scream and fall back on the bed. Giving the girl an apologetic look, she continued to read or try to read from the book. "Omnis spiritus in munde. In nomine dei. Omnis spiritus in..."
"Your Latin really sucks." Xander said in a deep demon voice as he sat up in the bed and looked at her.
With a snarl on her lips Cordy splashed some Holy Water on him before picking up the book and handing it to the younger girl. "He's right." she started with a smile. "I do suck at Latin."
Taking the preoffered book with pride, Jenice started to read from it. And to be honest she read Latin much better then the other young woman.
"Yeah, come on Jenny. Hit me with that old time magic."
"I know your tricks." Jenice siad swallowing the ump that formed in her throat. "You'll not deter me from what must be done."
"You do something?" Xander asked with a laugh. "What makes you think you can do anything? I mean come on we've all contributed to the team. Everybody but you."
"Don't listen to him, lass." Angel replied putting a hand on her shoulder. "Keep going."
"In odorem suavitatis. Tu autem effugare, diabole. Appropinquabit enim judicium dei."
"You couldn't even be a good daughter!" Xander yelled out, making Jenice stare down at him. "Everyone knows that your dad really wanted a son. God you couldn't even do that right. Infact nothing you do is going to make him proud of you."
"Shut up."
"All those hours of practicing magic and you still weren't good enough. Not good enough for Daddy, not good enough for your Bunica."
Jenice blinked at that and then looked back at the book: "Omnis spiritus... I...I already said that..." she said as she started to flip the pages.
"Ahhh, did you lose your place? What makes you think these people want you around any more than your family did?"
Angel and Jenice looked at each other then. Giving her a nod Jenice took a deep breath, held up the cross and started again.
"Tu autem. Effugare, diabole."
"You stupid whore!!!!" Xander screamed out at the top of his lungs. He would never admit it, but the spell was taking effect.
Having had enough Jenice lunged towards Xander with the cross held high, scuffing the circle with her foot.
"I'll show you whose stupid!" she growled as Xander held up his hand breaking his shackles. Right before he could plunge the cross into her, Angel got between them and the holy item buried itself into the side of the vampires neck. Jenice fell back, screaming as blood splattered on her and the floor, even as Angel pulled out the cross and tossed it away, shaking his hand from the pain of the cross burning him, while Xander looked on and laughed.
His laughter died out however as Cordelia dug deep into her magical and shot a beam of energy at him that tossed him back down on the bed. Her invisible fields spiraled out, partially keeping him down on the bed. Pushing through her magical ward Xander started to sit up. Fighting the pressure of it, blood trickled from her nose.
"I...I can't hold him down." Cordelia whispered more to herself. "I'm... I'm just not strong enough."
"I am." a womanly voice said from behind them. Turning just in time they saw a figure standing in the doorway, wearing a white robe and a hood, holding onto a tall wooden staff. With merely a gesture the woman sent out a blue volley ball sized energy ball that hit Xander full in the chest, knocking him unconcious once again.
"Who...who are you?" Cordelia asked as the woman slowly strolled into the room, her staff tapping the floor as she walked.
"Come on Cordy." the woman said throwing her hood back. "I know that in your perspective that it's been a long time since you've seen me, but I don't look that bad do I?"
It took Cordelia a long moment, which was a long time for her, before she spoke. Instead she just looked at the older woman that stared back at her in recognition. She had long flowing silvery white hair and looked as if she were a hundred years old. But what was most amazing about her, besides the enormous power she radiated, were her eyes. They were still full of youth and spoke of experience. They were eyes that she recognized.
"Willow?" Cordelia asked, as she ran over to her and gave her a huge bearhug.
"You two know of each other?" Angel asked, having a feeling that he was supposed to know her himself.
"It's me, Angel." Willow told the vampire, giving him a look. "That's right you're not my, Angel. I mean you're not my Angel... but the one from my time. Goddess you look different with long hair... will someone stop me from talking already?"
"Same old, Willow." Cordy said lowly. "Wait you aren't the same old Willow. Well you're old but... oh what the hell is going on? What are you doing here?"
"Well first... ouch at being called old." Willow said fake pouting. You try being almost a hundred and see how you look, missy. "Secondly, I'm from the year 2075. To make a long story short after you two guys disappeared we freaked. Giles even called in a few favors to the Council to see if he could find you but we didn't have any luck. After becoming a witch, I always swore that I would find out what happened to you. Who'd a thunk that after going through the files at the Council, seventy years later that I would find your marriage certificate."And your death certificate. She silently added. After reading the report and a newspaper article she had found, she saw that Xander and Cordelia had died in an explosion. She was figuring that Cordelia couldn't stop Xander's evil or whatever was inside of him, so she overloaded her magical powers destroying them both. Wow it's a good thing I got here in time. Because of the way they died it caused the future to turn out a little differently, which was why Angel didn't say anything about them when they first met. It was because he didn't know. "Now what happened here?" she asked as Cordy let out a sigh and told her about Balthazar.
Recognizing the name Willow immediately walked over to a shelf and picked up a cross.
"What are you doing?"
"Ending this." she told the former cheerleader as she stalked towards the bed and tossed Jenice the book of exorcism. "I'm going to need your help, little one."
"Willow." Xander said with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes. "Long time no see."
"Get back." Willow warned as she stepped up to the bed and laid the cross on his chest, making it sizzle and burn his chest.
"You stupid lesbian, bitch!" Xander screamed in a demonic voice.
"Abrenuntias satanae?" Willow said firmly, as she looked over her shoulder at Jenice, who was busy tending to Angel's wound. "Read. I'll do the Latin and you do the translation."
"Do... do you renounce Satan?" she said picking up the book.
"Hell no. We're friends." Xander replied with a growl.
"Et omnibus operibus eus?"
"And all of his works?"
"Omnibus pompis eus?" Xander's chest was smoking pretty good by now, but he still couldn't budge.
"And all his pomps?"
"Exorcie te. Omnis spiritus immunde. Adaperiae! Get the hell out of my best friend!" as she yelled that and stepped back Xander began to glow and writhe on the bed. The light hit the wall and Xander layed on the bed, back in his human face.
"Willow you did it." Cordelia said excitedly. "This is all over."
"Not yet." Willow said as the light in the room turned dark and transformed into a tall figure wearing a dark robe. Balthazar had finally turned back into his human form.
"Your power." Balthazar said weakly as he reached out for Willow. "I must have your power."
"Not this night." Angel replied as he got in front of Willow and threw a punch. Using his remaining power Balthazar caught his fist before it connected and punched Angel in the stomach before slinging him across the room. Slipping into his vampiric mask Angel swung at him again, but it didn't faze him. Taking the advantage of the vampires slow movements, Balthazar punched Angel in the kidneys, sending him to the ground.
As the demon was about to deal a death blow to Angel, a hand suddenly grabbed his arm in a vice like grip. Looking over his shoulder, he saw that it was Xander.
"Surprise." he said with a smile as he punched Balthazar in the face.
Before the demon could react Xander suddenly reached up and grabbed Balthazar's throat and squeezed, then used his grip to sling him over the table and away from him. Going into a dive Xander rolled over the bed, grabbing an axe off of the wall, and facing the taller man. Cracking his neck, Xander now seemed more comfortable in his own skin, having finally gotten the demon out of his body. They exchanged punches and kicks, but Xander stunned him with a punch, and seized the opportunity by swinging the axe at his head, slicing it clean off. Panting heavily as the body of the demon started to dissapate and float in the air like ash, Xander's knees started to buckle and he nearly tumbled but was caught by Willow.
"Will's... Will's is that really you?" Xander asked bleary eyed as he looked up at her. Man she's old.
"I heard that, buster." Willow said as she and Cordy helped him to sit down on the bed. "And just so you know if you manly men had've stepped out of the way, I could've zapped Balthazar without a problem."
"Sometimes you gotta do things yourself." Xander winced as he got comfortable on the bed. "Besides I got tired of being his butt monkey."
"Who are you?" Jenice dared to ask as she and Angel walked over to them.
"She's our friend from the future." Xander answered as Cordelia slapped him hard across the back of the head. "Ow what was that for?"
"For talking about my cooking earlier."
"Cordy come on... I... I was possessed." Xander whined.
"Believe me that was purely, Xander."
"Um guys..." Willow tried to speak up only for Xander to cut her off.
"Come on Cordy you've tasted your food before. It..."
"It what?"
"Guys!" Willow all but shouted out, getting everyone's attention. Even after all these years they're still the same. "Don't you even want to know why, I'm here?"
"Um... yeah Will's why are you here?" Xander asked, sitting up.
"I'm here to give you guys your wedding present." she said at their confused looks. "I'm here to send you two home."
"Wait... Willow me and Cordelia talked about this years ago." Xander replied as Cordelia sat on the bed next to him and held his hand. "We don't want to go back to our time. We love it here."
Damn I was afraid of this. Willow thought to herself. "I'm afraid you guys don't understand. By coming here you created an alternate timeline."
"Well how bad could it be?" Xander asked. "It's not like me and Cordy were that important in our time." he said getting another slap on the back of the head. "Ow."
"Speak for yourself." his wife said with a grin. Even though she knew that he was right. What could they have done in the future that required their attention.
"You... both of you were... are more important then you think. Except now that you've come here and defeated some enemies that should've been in the future things have drastically changed aswell as some enemies."
"Willow is Buffy..."
"She's dead now, but after you left she lived for years." the once red headed witch informed him. "Well she died a couple of times but other then that she was fine."
"What happens that's so terrible, Willow?" Cordelia asked. "Why are we so important?"
"Because of an enemy that comes about in the future. He's the ultimate vampire and he ends up exposing the entire world to what goes bump in the night and it plunged the entire planet in the first ever human demon world war. The effects of it were... anyway it's partially your fault." she said shaking the memory out of her mind. "When you arrived here going by the name Helsing an organization started when you helped to deliver a coffin to them."
"Oh my God!" Xander replied getting out of the bed. "Willow please tell me that the vampire wasn't..."
"I'm afraid so." the older woman said with a nod.
"What's going on?" Cordelia asked as the group stared on. "Who are you talking about? What coffin?"
"The coffin of the vampire Alucard." Willlow replied letting that sink into their heads. After the general public saw what he could do, they demanded protection from the government and it was exposed that all the things people thought were myths were true and they started to kill off all of the demons. They even attacked the Council because of it."
Looking to his wife he gave her hand a gentle squeeze before he spoke. "Alright Willow we'll go back." Xander said saddened. "But I got to know something first. You're a powerful witch now. Why can't you just travel back to that time and destroy Alucard yourself?"
Letting out a breath, she started in on her explaination. "Because the Powers That Be won't let me. According to them if I did that it would effect things to much. So the only thing I could do was come back here and get you since history has already recorded you two as... missing anyway."
"Don't worry lad, me and Jenice will come with you." Angel said with a wince as his neck wound started to heal. "It'll be a grand adventure."
"Angel you know that's impossible." Willow told him. "Now guys I don't have alot of time. It's now or never."
"Jenice come here." Cordelia said, already feeling the tears form in her eyes. "I think the reason that my parents never had anymore kids was because they were selfish. I always wanted a little sister and I just wanted you to know... thanks for making that possible for me to have one now." she said pulling her into a hug. "God I'm tired of all of this sappy stuff... and I guess it's time for me to give you that power I promised you years ago."
"Why?" Willow asked with a raised eyebrow. "This girl has plenty of power."
"What?" Jenice asked. "What are you talking about?" as she asked that Willow put her hand on the young girls forehead and closed her eyes. "You'll find out in a couple of more years."
"You'd better protect Jenice with your life deadboy." Xander warned as he gathered a few things of his and Cordy's.
"You don't have to worry about that, Xander. I will." looking into the vampires eyes he saw that what he had said was true.
"Well good." he said strapping on his weapons. "And tell Giles I said goodbye."
"Xander." Willow said walking up behind him. "It's time."
"I'm going to send you guys back in time a few hours after you disappeared, to make sure that what you did in this time still happened." Willow said to Cordelia and Xander as they mounted Buffy. "The situation with Alucard won't come into place until 2010, so you'll have plenty of time to train and learn."
"I thought you said that you didn't want any of this stuff to happen?" Xander asked.
"No, I never said that. I'm still not allowed to change things that happened in this time, other then to disperse the dark energy that Balthazar stole back where it belongs."
"Alright, we're ready." Xander said with a sigh as Willow smiled up at them. Saying a few choice words a portal opened up in front of them and before they started to ride in, they looked up and saw Jenice and Angel looking down at them from their second story window. Giving them a wave goodbye Xander clicked his heel on the side of Buffy and started to ride into the open portal.
"Xander wait!" Cordelia tried to yell out over the roar of the opening. "My journal. I left my journal behind."
"I can't hear you!" Xander yelled out as they ran through, the portal closing behind them.
"What do you suppose Cordelia was yelling about?" Jenice asked Angel as she wiped a few tears out of her eyes. She was really going to miss those two.
"I don't have any earthly idea, lass." Angel said as he sat down on their bed. Feeling that he was sitting on something he stood up and saw that it was Cordelia's journal. Opening it he read a few pages and his eyes widened at what he read.
California
1999
A portal opened and with a yell Xander and Cordelia road like hell out of it. Stopping they both looked around the long stretch of highway and smiled.
"Cordy do you smell that?" Xander asked.
"What your hot breath?" she asked with a smile.
Damn woman. "No the smell of the trees, road kill, and pollution. We're home."
"As fascinating as that is, why don't we just go to Sunnydale and meet up with the others."
"No it's going to be dark soon." he replied looking up into the sky. "I'm guessing from where we are that we're about a few minutes from LA. Let's just go there, get a hotel and we'll head out back to Sunnydale in the morning."
"Sounds like a plan."
Making a clicking noise with his mouth, Xander lightly tapped his horse on the side and headed towards the advancing lights of civilization. Lifting her head off of his back Cordelia suddenly smiled.
"You know that Buffy's gonna kick your ass for naming a horse after her right?"
"Ha, I think I can take her." Xander replied as his horse grunted in protest. "Et Tu Buffy?" he asked. Damn, even women horses don't like me. With that thought in mind he rode into town and as he predicted they arrived just before sundown. Getting wierd looks from people, because of their clothing, they decided to stop at the first hotel they came too. The Hyperion.
"This place looks good enough." Xander said as he dismounted his horse. Helping Cordelia down he tied Buffy off and the two walked towards the front door, Cordy stopping to smell the flowers. As they were about the open the door to the huge hotel, someone on the other side opened it instead.
"What's up, X-man?" Faith said eyeing the both of them. "I thought you and Queen C were taking a trip together."
"I don't know what kinda game you're playing here, Faith." Xander started as he took his revolver out of it's holster and aimed it at her. "But you had better stay back."
"Whoa, X!" Faith yelled throwing her hands in front of herself. "Just calm down."
"Hey, what's going on out here?" a familiar voice asked as they came up behind the Dark Slayer. Xander nearly dropped his gun as he saw who it was.
"Jesse?" he asked, visibly shaking.
"Xander what are you doing?" Jesse asked. "And more importantly what are you and, Cordelia wearing?"
"Jesse..." Xander mumbled.
"Yeah that's my name you nut." he said reaching forward and taking the gun out of his hands. "Now come on inside and tell us what the hell is going on."
Following his lead they walked into the beautifully decorated grande hotel and saw a few people they did and didn't know sitting in the lobby. The people however seemed to know them as they waved their greetings. Seeing Buffy he was about to say something to her until a short whirlwind ran past Jesse and into his arms. With a smile on his face he squeezed the little girl hard in his arms.
"Dawn Patrol... I haven't seen you in a long time."
"It's only been a couple of days." Dawn said smiling back at her crush, until she got a good whiff of him. "Ewww, Xander you smell stinky."
"I told you." Cordelia said from behind him.
"Xander what's up?" Buffy asked as she walked over to him and made Dawn go over with the others. "Faith told me you pulled a gun out on her."
"Buffy, I just...what's going on? What are you guys doing here and why are you so chummy with her?"
"I wish you would tell me what was going on." Buffy questioned. "As for what we're doing here we're getting everything ready for Angel's hotel, for tomorrow. Don't you remember that?" she asked at his blank look. "Remember... that's the reason why you and Cordy skipped out on us... so you wouldn't have to help us with any of the work."
"Ang...Angel owns this hotel?" Cordelia asked on the verge of hyperventilating. Man he must be loaded or something?
"Why do you sound so surprised? Angel's one of the richest people on Earth. God I mean he probably owns half of LA."
As soon as she said that said vampire with a soul came walking down the stairs, wearing an expensive looking suit, walking with a green skinned demon with a loud yellow suit, Willow, and Miss Calendar.
"Xander, Cordy when did you two get back? Angel asked as he took a good look at their clothing. "Lorne stay down here with the others. Willow, Jenny Xander and Cordelia come with me."
"What was that all about?" Alonna Gunn asked the group as Angel and the others left the room.
"So I was a mega witch and I sent you guys too this time?" Willow asked at the end of Cordelia's and Xander's story. "Cool."
"What I want to know is what happened after we left?" Cordelia asked. "And most importantly how did you become rich?"
Same old Cordelia. "Shortly after you left me and Jenice sold your house and packed up to leave for America. As she got older with drifted apart... she... she got married, had kids and... she died in 1943."
"Damn."
"She died happy." Angel said placing a hand on Xander's shoulder.
"And she was one of the most powerful witches of the early twenties through the forties." Miss Calendar added. "I come from a long line of great witches and I guess I owe that to you two."
"I'm glad that you're still here Miss Calendar." Xander said grabbing her hand. "You... you look just like her." before she could ask why he was so shocked to see her, Angel with to his dresser and grabbed an old photograph of himself and Jenice and an old warn leather book.
"As for how I became rich it's all thanks to this." he said handing Cordelia the book.
"What is that?" Xander asked.
"It's my journal." Cordy said with a smile. "You found it."
"Will somebody please tell me what you're talking about?" Xander asked. "How the hell did her journal help you get rich?"
"Because I wrote about the stock market and things to invest in, in the future." Cordy replied with a shrug. "I wanted us to get rich."
"And that I did." Angel said smugly. "When me and Jenice first got here I invested and split half with her. I got out before the stock market crashed and the next time I invested it was in Disney land, Fed Ex, Microsoft, Yahoo, and a few other things. I even bought this hotel and tomorrow will be it's grande reopening."
"But how is Jesse and...?" Xander asked. "A few other people still alive?"
"Jesse... what about Jesse... death..."
"Will's calm down." he said giving his best friend's hand a squeeze.
"Because I wrote some other stuff for Angel to watch out for in the future." Cordelia spoke up. "I knew that me and you wouldn't live until the 90's so I wrote a little note with some events and big bads that you told me about, for Angel and I was going to give it to him when we got old."
"Yeah I stayed in contact with the Council this whole time and I got with Giles... the one from this time, whose still in England by the way and he helped me track all of them down." Angel informed them. "I went to Boston for awhile and I got Faith when she was in her early teens. I even went to Jamaica and got Kendra and her Watcher. We stayed in Sunnydale and I trained them both, so when Buffy came we backed her up."
"So Kendra's alive too?" Xander asked excitedly. One of the biggest regrets of his life was that he wasn't able to save her from Drusilla. "Where is she I want too..."
"She's dead." the Master vampire informed him. "She died a few month's back during the Mayor's Ascension. I was proud of her... she died fighting."
After a moment of uneasy silence Angel stood to his feet and strecthed.
"Come on let's go down stairs and tell the others what's going on."
"Yeah... yeah let's do that." Xander said standing to his feet himself. He was atleast grateful that everyone else "I need to tell them of a threat that we have to get rid of in the near future."
"Before we do that, I want my share of the money Angel." Cordelia said jabbing a finger into his chest. "If it wasn't for me you wouldn't be..."
"Easy, Cordelia you're already filthy rich." the souled vampire said with a laugh. "I already gave you... well the other Cordelia your share of the money. I even helped your father out with his... tax problems."
After that was said Xander and the others went down and told the others what was happening. Cordelia even told Buffy about the horse named after her, and as she predicted the Slayer kicked his ass. Editing out the parts about who was supposed to be dead and who wasn't. They then called Giles and he sent a team to LA and Sunnydale to help out. They got rid of all the big bads... all except the most dangerous one.
The British Museum
2010
As the bodies of London's own special force's team flew out the glass doors of the museum and got impaled on the flag poles outside, Alucard strolled out of the building slowly and smiled at the soldiers, the hundreds of spectators and news reporters that stared up at him in awe. He knew that he was supposed to keep his existance a secret but desperate times called for desperate measures. Slowly walking down the red carpeted stairs, his shadow getting bigger then life, the soldiers in the crowd suddenly opened fire on him.
Laughing off their feeble attacks he was about to fire off into the group with his special weapons when he suddenly locked eyes with someone he hadn't seen in over a hundred odd years.
"Xan Helsing?" Alucard asked, his eyes glowing red.
"In the flesh." Xander said as he walked out of the middle of the crowd. "As always it's nice to see you."
"Fool."
"Ohhh that was a nice insult Count." Xander said taking out two revolvers and cocking them back. "That was almost funnier then your swan song."
"We shall see." Alucard said firing off a shot. With super speed Xander dodged the bullet and watched as it bounced off an invisible barrier, that Willow, Miss Calendar, and Cordelia had erected.
"Your shot was a little off." Xander said with a shrug. "Maybe you're getting sloppy in your old age." lining up a shot Xander squeezed the trigger of one of his revolvers and shot towards his foe. Not showing fear Alucard stood there, even as the bullet exploded. As the smoke from the explosion cleared part of the walkway had been destroyed and the vampire was still standing tall with only a scracth on his face that was bleeding rapidly.
"Is that the best you could do, weakling? This is going to end quicker then I thought."
"My thoughts exactly." Xander replied as he ran towards his foe. Guns blazing. Running side by side they shot at each other, both missing their targets as the bullets shot wildly through the night, making cars explode and chunks of buildings crumble. Taking an advantage that he knew would be there, Xander shot his opponent knocking him to the ground.
Raising his arms spiritual wards, the size of playing cards, dropped out of his overcoat and started to float magically around him. Using his magical abilities, the wards surrounded the downed Alucard and with a snap of his fingers they exploded, leaving a small crater sized hole. As the dust and smoke dissapated, Xander saw that Alucard wasn't there. Hearing laughter, he looked up to see that the vampire had teleported and was using his powers to stand on the side of a very tall building.
"Crafty." Xander said to himself as the vampire ran up the side of the building, disappearing over the lip of it. With a smile, he floated in the air and quickly walked up the side of the building himself, until he was on the edge of it.
"I see that you have some new tricks?" Alucard asked with a laugh, watching as his opponent landed on the roof. Xander saw that he had taken more of the blast then he had thought because blood was dripped and splattered all over the floor of the building. "Well allow me to show you one of my own." he replied standing to his feet, his eyes red with madness and power. Putting his hands over his face into a rectangle shape, Xander saw the symbols on the back of Alucard's white gloves glow, even as he spoke. "Releasing control art restriction to level three, level two, level one. Situation A. The Cromwell Approval is now in effect. Hold release until target is eternally silenced." as he was talking he removed his arms from the sleeves of his coat letting it simply just hang on his shoulders whilst red fire and huge eyes shone from underneath it.
With a smile on his face Xander watched as Alucard turned into an amorphous mass of darkness. Only his head was showing.
"Now you will witness true power." Alucard spoke, as he watched Xan Helsing bow his head, toss one of his revolvers to the floor, and take the bullets out of the others one.
"You know during this fight, I only needed two things to defeat you." Xander said as his hat covered his face. "One was a nail and the other thing was this." he said taking something out of his duster pocket.
"A piece of wood?" the age old vampire asked with a laugh.
"That's right." Xander replied suddenly turning serious, his voice almost a growl as he looked up at his foe with all white eyes. "A nail and a piece of wood from the cross of christ." he stated making the vampire shut up and look down at him seriously. Dodging a lunge from the vampire, Xander jumped into the air, loaded the bullet shaped piece of wood into the revolver and aimed at the vampires heart. "Sweet dreams." he said lowly as he fired the weapon hitting the Count square in the chest.
With a loud scream that echoed all throughout London the vampire broke apart into nothingness and was no more. The No life king was finally no more.
"Amen." Xander whispered as he landed back on his feet and overlooked the scores of people that were still in the streets of London trying to find out what was going on. Glancing out into the distance he thought about how the world was going to change now because of what had happened with his battle with Alucard. It couldn't be easily sweptunder the rug now about demons because part of the battle was broadcast on live tv.
Thinking about the brave new world that was about to form, he also thought that he could finally put away the legacy of Xan Helsing and live a normal life. As he thought that a woman's scream sounded in the night's air. Maybe not.
A/N I wanted to say thanks to everyone that stayed faithful to this fic. I was originally planning on having an alternate ending to this fic with Xander and Cordelia waking up in the hospital together and their whole adventure was nothing more then a shared dream. What would've happened was Xander hit a tree knocking both of them unconscious and their Doctor who looked like Jenice's father and his nurse who will look like Jenice will tell them that all they saw was a dream. But when the Doctor leaves and Xander and Cordy talk to one another Xander finds his Helsing hat laying at his side.
To those wondering about the nail of Jesus's cross, in the manga for Hellsing Father Alexander Anderson used it and almost destroyed Alucard. So I had Xander to use it to get rid of him. That's all of a fight scene that I could think up, after watching part three of the Ova, so I hoped you enjoyed that bit. Also sorry I had to kill you like that Vlad, but it was part of Fallenange15's idea to get rid of you. He said it was to tie up loose ends. lol