23: Chaos is King

Fanfic

Xander Harris has always been a bit chaotic. Things that should kill him don't, that should not almost do, and odd things happen to him regularly.

But what if there was more to it than that?

In a dimension not that far from the main, a seven-year-old Xander Harris who is just a touch more observant makes a discovery after an odd game of Yahtzee where he rolled nothing but Yahtzee's and nothings, exactly half-and-half. In interest and the spirit of exploration, he goes and buys two lottery tickets. One gets stolen by his parents, and they rough him up for buying it. The other gets him $150,000.

As time goes by, his experiments get more refined and bigger. In the end, he goes artifact hunting. His first attempt brings him face-to-face with a lethal artifact, and brought under the tutelage of world-famous archeologist, Indiana Jones. Three years later, one Buffy Summers moves to town mere days after the suspicious death of one of his best friends. With her help, and her with his, this boy proves that a little luck and a little chaos are just what the demons and the Powers That Be DIDN'T need!

Finally, Halloween rolls around. In the spirit of adventure, and relying on his instincts, he gets a Van Hellsing (Hugh Jackman) costume from Ethan's Costume Shop and encourages his friends to go all out on his dime (artifact hunting can be worth a pretty penny after all). The results are… well worth the costs. Sadly, they weren't the only ones to keep their costumes.