Dark Choices 29?
Author: Dave Mycock
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy or any of the other characters in this story they belong to Joss Whedon.
Pairing: Faith/Xander Romance, Xander/Amy friendship
Summary: Set around early season three. Xander suffers for lying to Buffy about the soul spell. After a nearly been beaten almost to death by her whilst Willow, Cordelia and Oz watch with no emotion, only Giles arrival saves his life. With no option but to leave Sunnydale he heads to Boston to stay with his cousin only to meet the new slayer and her watcher.
Kakistos looked upon the library with a burning hatred as he knew his enemies were inside awaiting him. He could hardly contain his thirst for the coming battle but he knew he had to keep his head and stick to his plan overwise he would face defeat once again like before.
Victoria was barely keeping herself from launching herself through the school to find her prey and bathe in the blood of another slayer she had bested.
His knew the slayers and their allies were not his usual enermies which he quickly destroyed as had been proven by them surviving again and again and so he had decided to send a small wave of vampires in first to see if they had any hidden surprises in store for them and then unleash the rest of his vampires whilst he, Victoria and the remaining Tarakins went either in the back or through the windows or even the roof taken the ddefenders by surprise.
Xander hefted his shot gun knowing he would only get at least three shots with it before he would have to switch weapons so he did not accidently kill one of his friends by accident.
"Remember no one lights the fire at the doors until the second wave hits" he reminded the others
"You really think they aint just all gonna charge in and try and over run us?" Buffy asked a little frustrated at the lack of action she just wanted this fight over with
"Kakistos aint stupid Buff, he'll send a small scout force first to see if we have any ambushes and then when he thinks our tricks are done he'll rush us" Xander answered
"Great, I hate smart Vamps" Buffy grumbled
"You and me both" Faith agreed from the side of her
Suddenly the sound of charging feet could be heard from the hallway and everyone quickly began to prepare for one hell of a fight. The door smashed open revealing a force of twenty vampires seven of those were instantly speared on the trap Angel had come up with.
Xander took too down with clear head shots, whilst Giles and Jessica downed another two with bolt shots to the vamps hearts. Angel led the charge with Buffy, Faith and finally Xander into the remaining lackeys. They had decided to keep their magic users in reserves.
Xander ducked the wild swing of one vamp and managed to swing his hidden stake into the back of another who was about to try and blind side Faith, before he dropped to the group and swept the feet out from under vamp he had actually been fighting and staking it as well.
Angel had killed one vamp straight of with a powerful ramming of his stake into his adversarys chest, he quickly dropped another before been charged by two other which knocked him to the ground before Buffy beheaded one with a sword she had grabbed whilsty Faith took the other with a swift kick to the head and then staking it.
The last three vampires tried to run but two of them got ended up dust from Giles's and Jessica's crossbolts and the last was killed when Faith through her stake straight through it's heart. They quickly retook their positions behind cover.
"Oz, Cordelia you ready? Faith asked
"Ready" Oz said as he lit the lighter he had placed it near a line of gasoline they had spread out from the doors to the defencive circle
"I'm good" Cordelia said somewhat nervously as she too got ready to light the second line of gasoline
"Do you think we'll catch a lot of them?" Amy asked from the side where she crouched along with Janna and Willow
"Hopefully" Buffy answered
The sound of a lot more feet began to echo in the hallway
"Begin casting your spells" Giles ordered as he, Jessica and Xander moved to cover their magic support
The three witches quickly closed their eyes and began to chant different spells one of which would be a shield spell, the doors this time were knocked right of their shattered hinches as the vampires charged inside
"Now light em" Xander shouted
Oz and Cordelia both dropped their lighters into the gasoline, the gasoline quickly caught fire and spread straight to the pool around the doors and the three back rows of vampires were quickly set on fire and turned to dust leaving at least twenty vampires for the others to deal with.
As Angel, Buffy and Faith prepared to charge in The side windows were smashed in and the Tarakins began to enter the library whilst from the upper window in the ceiling Kakistos and Victoria jumped down completing the forces against them.
At the same time Willow and Amy unleashed their spells which quickly turned four vampires into dush two by fire and two by flying stakes one of which just missed hitting the newly arrived Victoria.
"Ah Buffy the so called greatest Slayer in a century" Kakistos taunted as he saw the blond slayer
Victoria ignored everything else as she charged as quickly as she could towards where Faith was standing, the two went flying to the floor as they collided.
Angel quickly through one of the last monotiv cocktails Xander had put together from the left over Gasonline toasting another seven vampires which they could ill afford to fight as well as the Tarakins, Cordelia through the over but not at the vampires but at three of Tarakins themselves catching all three as Xander charged another.
Buffy's eyes narrowed as she approched the tall vampire knowing she could not afford to be flippant or get distracted.
Faith managed to block the side quick only to get caught by the vamps right fist, she spat blood out of her mouth as her anger began to boil. She fainted right before landing solid blow to the left side causing the vamp to cry out as she back off a bit
"You'll pay for that" Victoria spat "And after I have dealt with you I will claim your mate as my own" she taunted knowing it would anger the slayer futher and made her loose concentration
Faith immediately jumped forward catchingt the vampire off guard with her burst of speed and kneed her in the gut and then catching her with a headbutt. However Victoria quickly responded with a kick to Faith's knee and then a side kick to her side knocking her to the ground, as Victoria got ready to deliver the fatal blow as Faith tried to push herself back up someone pushed a stake straight through her back she turned to catch sight of Jessica before turning to dust.
"Faith?" Jessica asked as she helped her adopted daughter up
"I'm ok" Faith assured her "that kick broke a rib I think, give me a minute" she added as Oz took a postion to their left and fired another bolt dusting another of the vampires leaving only five left after the others had fallen prey to the spells of Willow, Janna and Amy who remained been gaurded by Giles and now Cordelia.
Xander suddenly cried out as the Tarakin he was fighting shoved a knife into his left arm and twisted it causing even more pain, Xander headbutted the Tarakin as a fire ball passed him to engult another of the Tarakins which he knew Janna had thrown.
"You fight well human why not join us?" the Tarakin said obviously impressed
"Not likely" Xander shot back as he ran forward ignoring the pain and through a left hook which the Tarakin doged, he tried a right hook which this time the Tarakin caught but Xander quickly shot out his leg and drove it into the mercenaires right knee breaking it with the force of the blow causing the Tarakin to fall to the floor where he ended up stabbed by Faith who had run over at his scream of pain.
Angel got back up slowly, the blow he had taken from the Tarakins club had caught him of guard but his vampirc healing was already working, he noticed the last of the vampires were not gone either dead or had run away and they were only facing three Tarkins and of course Kakistos who was beating Buffy quite badly this caused him to get angry and he charged the Tarakin again.
Buffy shook her head trying to clear her vision a bit, this vampires hit rather hard and he had already landed some bad blows to her ribs and her left arm. But she knew she couldn't give up not yet, she was a little off guard by the size of the vampire. Suddenly Faith was by her side
"Need a hand B?" she asked as she dropped into a fighting stance
"Actually I could" she replied feeling no shame in admitting it
Kakistos growled in rage as Faith joined the blond in facing him as it meant Victoria had fallen.
"I will feast on both of you" he cried out as he charged
Both slayers jumped to different sides and landed side kicks to Kakistos causing him to wince, suddenly a boom echoed in the library and they turned to see Janna had garbbed Xander's disgaurded shotgun and shot the last Tarakin as Angel was busy ripping the head of the other.
Their distraction was costly however as Kakistos backhanded Buffy sending her flying into the wall. Faith however managed to recover faster and ducked Kakistos second swing and kicked out catching him in the side again
"You can't win Faith" he taunted
"Wanna bet" Buffy spat from behind him as she pushed her stake through his back missing the heart by centremetres but causing the vampire to howl in pain and anger
Faith took the distraction to grab a sword from the shatterd weapons cabnit as the witches used their magic to put out the raging fire around the doors and charged towards Kakistos who had turned back towards Buffy and jumped swinging her sword in a cutting ark removing the vampires head from his body both turned to dust instantly.
Instant quite settled in the liabary as almost to the last person they collopsed in exsurstion and pain, the library had taken massive damage and they knew they would have to face questions the next day but for now they didn't care they had survived barely.
"Giles better get the med kit we better start seeing to the wounded and then we can head home, we'll deal with the damage here later" Janna spoke up
"No we won't. we're gonna blow the school leaving no evidence of what happened" Xander said as he stood grimicing in pain
"We're gonna do what?" Buffy almost shouted in shock
"With what's gone on latly Buffy any evidence we leave will make it look like we are responsible not just for this but what happened to the Mayor and the factory" Xander explained "If we blow the school and make sure we have allibies then it will look like some gang has been blowing things up and the cops will not look at us too closly" he added
"Giles?" Buffy asked confused
"He has a point Buffy" Giles consided "But what about my books?" he asked concerned at loosing all of his collection
"We'll take care of that Giles" Janna assured him "Willow Amy" she called the other two witches came to stand on either side of her and began chanting as did Janna the liabry was bethed in a white light and suddenly nearly the entire library was gone leaving only the books which were actually supposed to be here
"Where you send them?" Jessica asked
"I sent them to yours and Giles places as it wouldn't do to have them all in once place" Janna replied
"Alright lets get out of here, Angel you're with me" Xander told the others
The vampires nodded his head in agreement as he watched the others grab some stuff including the weapons Giles had stored within the library and exited the school
"So how we gonna do this?" Angel asked
"I want you to go down to the boiler room and smash the gas volves all of them and then use this last can of Gazoline to trail up to here and then we light it and run" Xander informed him
Angel nodded and quickly ran off as Xander grabbed the lighter Oz had used and waited for the souled vampire to return, a few minutes later he did trailing the Gasoline behind him before dropping the cam once he had reached the liabry.
"Alright get ready to run, this whole place will go in seconds" Xander warned him before flicking the lighter's wick and then lighting thew Gasoline but before he could turn and run Angel grabbbed him and began to run with him hosted on his shoulders heading straight into the hallway and then out of one of the windows cutting them both.
Both rolled away from the glass before they got back to their feet and ran towards where Giles and the others were waiting
"Go" Xander shouted as he continued to the run the others did just that.
A few seconds after Angel and Xander had crashed through the window Sunnydale high school was blown to pieces. Waking nearly the entire pollace of the town with the force of the explosion.
The grouped at split into three groups, one headed for Buffy's, one to Giles and the last to Jessica's. They all arrived ten to fithteen minutes after the explosion, once again luck was with them as they encounted no one as no one was stupid enough to go out after midnight in Sunndale.
They knew tommorow would be hetic but not as bad as it could have been, they had agreed to meet up at Buffy's in the morning to discuss what happened next.
