It was not Halloween. It was not some Spell. It was just Xander finally being lucky, or was that unlucky? He wasn't quite sure about that. But his Parents had been turned while out drunk. Xander had to kill them as they came home trying to kill him. But both still very drunk and not really up to snuff on fighting someone who had been pushed around one too many times.

Xander had slowly gotten an anger problem. Cordy being her usual self, or worse than normal. Buffy trying harder to get him out of Sunnydale Nightlife fighting and Willow not even looking in his direction anymore. He was now a person of non interest. He thought that was called Persona Non Grata. But he was not sure about that. So sitting at home in an almost empty house with no one to help him out with what he had to do now. His parents were in Jars packed between the last few Brandy, Vodka and other Bottles that Xander kept because they were very expensive. He only went to school because he needed to so no one would come looking for him. He was after all 17 ½.

It would not take long for him to finally be rid of his personal Hell-Hole of a home. Giles was devastated about Jenny Calendar who had been apparently killed by Angel. But she showed up with a new name and a new hold over Willow. So she was under Jennys watchful eye. Trying her best not to piss off her new surrogate Mother. Giles was still a bit fussy over her and tried to keep her away from the whole Hellmouth devastation. Jenny however didn't faze that the slightest. She was just sure that nothing would bring them apart anymore. She would stake Angel herself should he loose his Soul again. But there was little chance of that since he was in LA.

Buffy being her usual self with being "right" about everything was just happy that everything was as it should be. In her opinion there was just two things that would make this whole ordeal perfect. One Angel should be here with her and just leave LA be and Xander should just be there to he goof and punching bag when she needed someone to vent her anger out on. But He was being an idiot and didn't come by anymore. She didn't see the point of having him helping because in her eyes he could only hurt himself. She did hide it well so Giles so deeply in love and Willow trying to get on Jennys good side, Buffy could pull the strings to her liking.

They, minus Xander again, were all in the Library when Principal Snyder came rushing in shortly before closing time of the School ranting. Giles, Jenny and him vanished into the Office and Giles discretely pulled up a silence charm, so Buffy couldn't listen in. After a few minutes Snyder rushed out of the Library red in the Face with scared eyes. Giles and Jenny came out shortly after him both with equal sour and fearful expressions on.

At the Same time with Xander who was sitting in his Room listening to his records he had saved from the scrapheap. He was going through things he had found in the Attic. Things that came to life about his parents that were above and beyond. He had found out that they were both bigshots in the Technology-scene. His Mother was an expert programmer and Computer-manufacturer. His Father was a Wizard at making Tech that was so far out of the normal spectrum that Xander had a tough time following his writings. He was now sitting in the Office part of the House and looking at a huge golden Egg.

It was something called Aincrad. His Parents had worked on it for a time and apparently finished it. But something compelled them to not activate it. Xander didn't know what it would do. But as far as he had found out he would create a floating castle hidden in plain sight, whatever that meant. Clouds and Shields were the things that Xander understood.

He then looked in the Box again. Under the Egg beneath the inlay for the Egg Xander found a little Box that was blinking. Xander carefully put the Egg back again and closed the box up carefully. He then pushed the blinking light.

A floating pair arrived in a shower of sparks. Xander saw that is was a younger version of his parents. He blurted out: "MOM, DAD?!"

The forms flickered and fixated him. His Father then began to speak: "Please put the Device up to your Head. It will read your Mind and determine who you are and what has happened."

Xander did without thinking and felt the Device attach itself. He went stiff as a board and fell backward on the master bedroom Bed.

Inside his Mind …

Xander sat in in Living-Room with his parents sitting in front of him looking down. Xander build up the nerve and asked: "Who were you two?"

That started the discussion.

"Son we were from another Reality fleeing when the world became more and more destructive with what we had made."

"Aincrad"

"Correct Alex. Your Father and I made Aincrad from a gift of a longtime enemy of your Father. But when we came here Aincrad was broken. We tried to make it work over the years. But the longer we stayed in this town the more we got carried away by the alcohol. Until at last both your Father and I weren't that much Parents but more jailers to you. We are deeply sorry about that. Seemingly was the magic laying over this town more destructive that we thought."

"Right you are Jess. But there is still hope. Our own son can do something about that."

"What can I do?"

"You kept our Ashes. That should be enough if you place them in the Center Square of the Starter town on Aincrads first floor and make us NPC's. Aincrad has enough power to make it. But you need to let it create itself outside of the Aura of this town son. It will not take very long for Aincrad to be built. There is a lot of Magic around here to use. We can then help you along becoming stronger in Aincrad to help you on your Mission."

Xander somehow believing those two not knowing that it was the Cube that made him believe it. His Parents had forseen it to a decree that they had to have some sort of Power over their own son so he could do the right thing. Xander woke up and quick as lighting grabbed the two Jars, the Egg-Box and a little assortment of Snack-Food and left in his Fathers Car. He didn't see Giles' Car turn the corner as he drove off towards the Desert. Giles' old car got left in the dust of Xanders Fathers Challenger. Xander for his part had a destiny with life that neither he nor his friends knew about.

For further up the Celestial Ladder another discussion was taking place.

"Well Father I am in hope that we haven't lost too much of the great City of Atlantis when we incorporated it inside the creation of those two."

"I do hope so myself Son. But I do know that the young Knight will be very surprised when he sees how much power he now holds."

"Just make sure that you two do not go overboard again. I hate to go over every little thing you two do."

Xander arrived long before the others and activated the Egg by opening the Box and turning the rings on the Egg so the Picture of Aincrad was whole on all four sides. By then Giles had arrived with his ancient Car and they saw how Xander got pulled into the beam of light along with his possessions that were standing around. They only had the box left and that was crumbling apart.

Timeturner a few turns back Scene-Change Library …

Giles looked everybody over and especially Buffy got the patented Ripper-Look that sent her cowering in her Chair. The one sentence was enough for Buffy to want to throw herself out in front of a Car: "Xanders Parents were Killed. Snyder didn't know by what. But he was fairly sure that it was Vampires. We will go now and talk with him."

Cordy only saw along with her Sheep that the Library-Creepy-Group was out and about in force. She didn't need to know that something was wrong. But she needed to get rid of her Crew so she could follow. Harmony saved her by asking: "Cordy, you wanna go after them?"

Cordy at first only nodded then added: "Yes. The Librarian only has that look on his face when something is seriously wrong. Go home and stay indoors. I will follow them myself."

She didn't do anything more than stalk after them and into her own car. Harmony and the rest knew that something was wrong when Cordy didn't hide the fact that she knew what was going on but didn't tell the others. So the Telephones didn't stand still this whole night.

Cordy followed them and saw that they drove to doofus House. She wanted to turn and drive off again when she saw that he was scurring into his Fathers Car and drove off like a maniac. She turned off and took a detour that was a little longer. But her Car was faster then the one from the Librarian. She came by just when Xander was starting the Lightshow. When the lightshow started she fell on her ass and yelped. Buffy and the others heard her and came over.

"Cordy are you okay?"

"No I am not Okay. What was that? Where is the Doofus? What are you all doing out here?"

They all looked at each other. Willow being Willow started on the Questions in order on auto: "We do not know, we do not know. Hoping to talk to Xander because we think his parents were killed by Vampires."

Cordy sprang up and looked at her strangly: "Wait, wait, wait. Xanders Parents were killed and you don't know? The three of you are practically connected at the hips. Why do you not know?!"

Buffy stood in between: "I don't want Xander getting hurt so I threw him out of the slaying. It's all my fault."

Willow followed up by pushing Buffy away and fixating her with a look of pure determination: "It is as much my fault as anyones. Xander and I tried to get rid of that stupid atraction by doing a delusting spell. But Spike kidnapped us before we could even start it. Then we thought we were going to die and you all saw what happened and I left him in hope of still being your friend. But I should have been there for my oldest friend. Not someone who only thinks of him as someone that can only do wrong things. He was the one that kept up the Patrols when you left after Angel was sent to Hell. He did a damn good job as well. Better that you ever could. Because he never only slayed vamps for 10 minutes and then spent the next 30 minutes kissing Angel. I can't believe how stupid I was for ever believing you were so much better than him. Your just still the spoiled brat you were in LA. Everything has to go after your head or not at all. He got power to help you out. But you always made me and Giles remove them so you were the only one who had the power to help. But even without power he was length better than you." **SLAP**

Willow stalked back to the spot Xander had vacated before sitting down on a boulder with a huff. Buffy stood there flabbergasted over mousy Willow slapping her like that. It didn't hurt physically. But Emotionally it hurt like hell. She sat down and began to gape. Cordy stood there at first gaping and then huffed stalking over to Willow who still was seething: "Hey Willow, did you two really try to end it between you two?"

Willow looking up with remarkable hatred in her eyes that made Cordy step back replied: "Yes we did you Bitch. He loved you more than anything else. But you used that against him during Valentines-Dance and threw him before the whole School. I was trying to get back on Buffys good side and all the while were his Parents killed and no one was there for him. No one was ever there for him. I promised him in kindergarten that he could always come to me when he had problems at home. But I broke that promise because that stupid bitch over there."

Cordy sat down on a nearby boulder and fixated Willow who by now was almost calm. Willow annoyed again and fired off: "What do you want now?"

Cordy didn't flinch out of pure determination and replied: "I want to know what you feel for him if you are honest with yourself."

Willow fell into thougths. By then all had caught themselves again and now stood around them both. Willow looking down thought out loud: "At first me being me I thought is was love at first sight. Getting married having Kids House Picked Fence the whole thing. Then more and more it changed. He went from Being the one true love of my life to being my brother in all but blood. I just couldn't dare to see him with anyone. I thought that he would leave me as anyone else would when they found out that I know almost everything but nothing of life itself. I know that magic is dangerous. But I thought I had to be special at something so they wouldn't throw me out. Xander was always there for me when my Parents were gone. He was the one teaching me how to cook. He was the one teaching me how to take care of myself and what I needed to do when my Bleeding came. He was the one working in the City-Library to find out how you used these things. He was always there for me. I just couldn't see my life without my brother by my side. I wished it so much I thought that I did the lust spell without knowing it. But that is neither here nor there. He is gone now. I don't want anything to do with Buffy if her idea of ideal is living without my brother by my side. What do you want?"

Cordy was sitting frowing over that simple question: "What do I want? … the woman in me knows that I can never be good enough for him. The Princess in me believes that he can never be the one I thought he was this whole time. I put him on such a high pedestal that he could never achieve. I am selfish. I want my cake, I want to eat it and I don't want to get fat. But right now I would settle for a simple talk between hopefully still friends."

Buffy had come closer and was sitting down making it a triangle. Both Cordy and Willow looked over at her making her flinch badly. She looked down first and then slowly began to talk. By now her mother had shown up: "What do I want? I want a normal life without the Watchers looking over my shoulders. I want the Slaying without anyone dying. I am even more selfish than you Cordy. I want it all. I knew I couldn't get it so I thought that I could at least "save" Xander by making him not fight. He was the normal in our group. I out of one reason or the other never saw him as anything else than the one that could never do anything right."

Giles cleared his voice making the three girls look at him: "The adorable but useless Puppy?"

All three girls looked down in shame. Giles went over to Joyce who by now had been filled in by the others. Oz who stood by the entire time looked up into the sky and reached out yelling: "Beam me up Scotty!"

He vanished in a shower of lights making everyone look around in panic. Willow was the first one to get it and repeated his actions. One after the other all did the same and they all vanished into thin air funny enough along with their cars. They all found themselves in a big square with a high statue in the middle. No one else was there. Then out the surrounding roundwalk Hallways came three people of which one was very much known. But he didn't look happy. Buffy ran up to him wanting to hug him. But a sword was suddenly pressed up against her throat. A voice from her left told her where Xander was: "What do you want Buffy. Trying to get your way again? Give me a good reason why I should let you live through the next few minutes?"

From behind him he heard: "Easy Alex. The is the Starter-Town. You can't kill anyone here. Not even we can do that. You can hurt them but not kill them. So give her space and time to talk."

Xander reluctantly stepped back and made sure that he always had a sword between him and Buffy. When he was sure that he had enough space between him and her he lowered the sword to a guard position and began again: "Hello Buffy. Tried to get in and have your way? Or do you really have a legitimate **SMACK** OOWWWW MOOOM!"

"Son take the fast travel to the third floor and go beat up the monsters there. You need to leave for now. We will talk with them in our house here in Starter-Town. Come back once you have calmed down completely."

Xander grumbled and cursed under his breath and walked over to a pedestal and shouted out: "THIRD FLOOR!"

He vanished with a pop leaving the rest alone. The two stood there and began to talk: "You have to excuse him. He is still too angry with you guys. Come with us. Time has no meaning in here."

They walked off with the others quickly scurrying after them. They arrived in a house where all sat down and waited. The woman vanished out in the Kitchen coming in a bit later with a pitcher of something to drink and a few glasses. Joyce quickly helped her set it up. After wards they began to talk with each other.

Xander went to the third floor and wrung out his energy by going through the entire third floors monster and going up the fourth but quickly coming back down laying down in the grass by a city. Back in the house they had just finished the first introduction. Buffy was talking: "So you are his parents reborn through the power of this floating City?"

"Yes. I am his Mother. Here I am known as Asuna. This is Kirito. Xander as you call him is still very angry."

"I can understand that. I was prepared for anger. But outright murderous attempt? That one is new. Do you think him and me can talk with each other without him wanting to kill me?"

"I do believe so young one. We have more experience with that than you have. Why Kirito has a bit of a problem with that sometimes. It is just that Alex is just now slowly getting aware of how a family should behave. We were not the best in that regard. He will get over it soon enough though."

Joyce replied: "I sure hope so. I can see that none of the women here can live long without him in their lives."

A chorus of: Aww Mom and Aww Mrs Summers was enough for the Grownups to know their were right. Xander soon made an entrance and only grumbled an annoyed hello to everyone and wanted to vanish into his room. Buffy had just about enough and flew over to him and wanted to berate him for one and apologize for another. A whole other part of her wanted to clobber him into submission so he would sit down and talk. She out of nowhere had a sword in hand and attacked Xander without thinking. Xander parried and then it was on. Buffy and Xander both almost slashed a few of the people in the room before Kirito used a spell-stone to throw them up a level. Xander then continued with Buffy and hacked in on the other like maniacs.

About two hours later Xander and Buffy returned back to the House with both Buffy and Xander sitting down with a calmness radiating from them both that was a bit unnerving for the others. Cordy asked: "So Buffy everything okay between you two?"

Xander was the one to answer: "Not by a long shot. But we had enough of a beatdown for me to stay calm. I may want to do this again sometime. But for now everything is quiet. I must say I am sorry for my behaviour before. But ..."

Joyce interrupted: "We do understand Xander. But you need to come clean with us all at one point. It can not go on to have everything bottled up inside of you."

Xanders mood turned sour again: "I know Mrs Summers. But I just need time for now."