:Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy or anything else but the Boy/ Bryce, Kay? Joss Whedon, WB, and
Fox (I think) are the dudes who own Buffy and co.
Bryce took a glance at the man at the other side of the room. Giles, definitely Giles. In the show on his world, Giles had had been Buffy's second, and probably longest, Watcher. According to the show, and a movie that came before it, Watchers trained the Slayer's, teaching them the basics of vampire slaying, and in Buffy's case, the fact that vampires even existed, and kept track of them (the Slayers, that is.) And just a little while ago, Buffy had asked Giles to become her Watcher once again, because after a fight with good 'ol Dracula himself, she had decided that she needed to know more about Slayers, to train more, to give herself a major experience boost. However, that had been interrupted when Dawn had been sent into her life, to
become her ward, to become the child that she was basically stuck protecting. Oh, he knew about Dawn all right, having both seen and heard the explanation from the show and from Buffy's own incredibly loud thoughts. Ever since the fight with the Pre-Master, Bryce had found that, with or without the crystals in his hands, he could still read minds, though the effect was stronger
when he actually held the three crystals in his hands. He wanted badly to meet the young lady, though he also wanted to see how Giles would react to the things that Buffy and the others had told him of himself (Bryce.)
"So," Giles began from behind the counter of his magic shop. "You are from another world?"
"That's the way it looks, yup."
"Do you have any idea how you came here?"
"Like I told Buffy, and like she probably told you, I just walked into the forest right behind the backyard of my house, and suddenly , here I am, in Sunnydale, California, when my house was in East Berlin."
"Germany?"
"No, Pennsylvania. Though that's probably where they got the name from."
"From what Buffy tells me, you seem to have Slayer-like instincts, but since you're not... not...," he stammered, just as Buffy had, trying to find the right word to describe the prerequisite for being a Slayer.
"I already went through this with Buffy. Just go ahead and say it. I am not a girl, so I can't be a Slayer."
"Not necessarily a Slayer from this world, but perhaps there are male Slayers on the world that you come from..."
"No, like I told Buffy, I think I just happen to have been born to fight something stronger than vamps. That simple." Giles was about to say something in response, but before he could speak, a customer walked in, asking for a specific type of magic item, and so Bryce went to looking at the wide array of items that Giles had for sale. And then he saw something that easily caught his attention. A pair of pointed crystals, apparently quartz. And yet... there was something obviously strange about them. Suddenly, the realization hit him. Both of them had holes where the bottoms would have been. Curious, Bryce stuck the two crystals on his staff, one on each end. Amazingly, they were a perfect fit. Giles, now done with his customer, suddenly noticed Bryce and the now crystal-tipped staff.
"I just got those in the other day. Sort of strange, actually. They came with a shipment of statues I'd ordered, but they weren't supposed to be part of the shipment."
"What are you asking for them?" Bryce asked, with a look on his face that showed just how desperately he wanted the two crystals.
"Well, since the delivery guy didn't charge me for them, I can't really give you a price for them. I suppose that you can have them for free."
"Are you sure? Okay. Oh, and do you accept this kind of money here?." Bryce asked, holding out a hundred dollar bill.
"My, oh, my. Yes. Why do you ask?"
"Just wanted to make sure this world had the same currency as the one on my world. All right then, if you don't mind me taking these for free, would you mind if I took a look around? If I ended up here simply by walking, who knows when I could end up leaving again, and I would certainly love to take some magic with me, wherever I end up."
"Yes, I don't see why not. But the next item you find better be one you can pay for."
"Ok, thanks." And withn that Bryce went to looking at the rest of the items Giles's shop had to offer. There were numerous items, most of them having to do with different types of religious magicks, which for some odd reason just didn't appeal to him, and so maybe fifteen minutes later he found himself looking over the last few parts of the shop. These last few parts
were scrunched together, but they were in fact different parts, at least for Bryce, because they contained differing products, some of them things that you wouldn't expect to find in a shop specializing in actual magic. Most of these things were backpacks and trapper keepers, obviously figuring in with the fact that school was just starting up again for K-12 schools in this area, though there were indeed things that you would expect to indeed in a shop such as this one as well. Such things were those little pouches you could find every once in a while concerning containing this or that spell ingredient or some little children's plaything like rocks that you could grow crystals on or good luck stones or some such thing. And then, suddenly, and quite amazingly, Bryce found three different items, side by side, that he simply knew he was going to buy. The first was an ancient looking book with the title on it, "How To Learn and Master Several Different Magics and Psionics (Author's Note: For those of you who don't know what psionics are, they are basically all of the known psychic abilities; the ability/abilities to travel astrally and etherically is/are sometimes included among them)" and below that it read "Including an index of magicks, spells, and abilities, and how to use them." The second item was a large case with several different crystals, rocks, and gemstones in it, and as well as a paper, which was visible through a see-through plastic wrapping, that clearly said the different magic and psionic abilities and characteristics the contents of the box were said to have. The third item was another book, though this one had no title, and was perhaps the strangest of the three items Bryce had automatically decided to buy. Instead of a visible title that announced what was contained within it like the other two items had, this one simply had a
dusty hard cover, the dust probably hiding the cover, and a beat up binding, the kind you would find in really old and really big books. Picking up the three items, Bryce headed back to the front of the shop, though he picked up a hiker's backpack before he left the area, making four items, and plopped the four items on the counter.
"Those are the items you want to buy?"
"Yup. How much?" Even as he said this, Bryce took out his wallet, his hands on five one hundred dollar bills.
"Hmm... About a hundred and seventy-five dollars."
"Oh, okay. Here you go," he said handing the Watcher two of the five bills he held in his hand, waiting about five minutes for Giles to get him his change. And with that, he walked out of the magic shop, an idea forming in his mind. Perhaps if he could convince Willow and her fellow witch, Tara, to show him a few spells and lend him some ingredients. Then perhaps he could try out a little bit of magic. Looking curiously at the items he held in his hands, the two books and the gemstones and crystals and the backpack, particularly the book with the "invisible" title, wondering what he all he would accomplish with them while he was here.
:Author's Note: Sorry it's taken so long to get just this tiny little bit done and posted on the site, but a combination of technical Internet problems on my computer and the disks and documents used on it, this one included, as well a bit of writer's block on the side (whcih is quite simply altogether enough to delay me for months on end should any of it continue.) Hopefully the combination of problems will be solved soon and things should be going along quite smoothly then (longer pieces to the story more often). Though that may take a while to accomplish...
Fox (I think) are the dudes who own Buffy and co.
Bryce took a glance at the man at the other side of the room. Giles, definitely Giles. In the show on his world, Giles had had been Buffy's second, and probably longest, Watcher. According to the show, and a movie that came before it, Watchers trained the Slayer's, teaching them the basics of vampire slaying, and in Buffy's case, the fact that vampires even existed, and kept track of them (the Slayers, that is.) And just a little while ago, Buffy had asked Giles to become her Watcher once again, because after a fight with good 'ol Dracula himself, she had decided that she needed to know more about Slayers, to train more, to give herself a major experience boost. However, that had been interrupted when Dawn had been sent into her life, to
become her ward, to become the child that she was basically stuck protecting. Oh, he knew about Dawn all right, having both seen and heard the explanation from the show and from Buffy's own incredibly loud thoughts. Ever since the fight with the Pre-Master, Bryce had found that, with or without the crystals in his hands, he could still read minds, though the effect was stronger
when he actually held the three crystals in his hands. He wanted badly to meet the young lady, though he also wanted to see how Giles would react to the things that Buffy and the others had told him of himself (Bryce.)
"So," Giles began from behind the counter of his magic shop. "You are from another world?"
"That's the way it looks, yup."
"Do you have any idea how you came here?"
"Like I told Buffy, and like she probably told you, I just walked into the forest right behind the backyard of my house, and suddenly , here I am, in Sunnydale, California, when my house was in East Berlin."
"Germany?"
"No, Pennsylvania. Though that's probably where they got the name from."
"From what Buffy tells me, you seem to have Slayer-like instincts, but since you're not... not...," he stammered, just as Buffy had, trying to find the right word to describe the prerequisite for being a Slayer.
"I already went through this with Buffy. Just go ahead and say it. I am not a girl, so I can't be a Slayer."
"Not necessarily a Slayer from this world, but perhaps there are male Slayers on the world that you come from..."
"No, like I told Buffy, I think I just happen to have been born to fight something stronger than vamps. That simple." Giles was about to say something in response, but before he could speak, a customer walked in, asking for a specific type of magic item, and so Bryce went to looking at the wide array of items that Giles had for sale. And then he saw something that easily caught his attention. A pair of pointed crystals, apparently quartz. And yet... there was something obviously strange about them. Suddenly, the realization hit him. Both of them had holes where the bottoms would have been. Curious, Bryce stuck the two crystals on his staff, one on each end. Amazingly, they were a perfect fit. Giles, now done with his customer, suddenly noticed Bryce and the now crystal-tipped staff.
"I just got those in the other day. Sort of strange, actually. They came with a shipment of statues I'd ordered, but they weren't supposed to be part of the shipment."
"What are you asking for them?" Bryce asked, with a look on his face that showed just how desperately he wanted the two crystals.
"Well, since the delivery guy didn't charge me for them, I can't really give you a price for them. I suppose that you can have them for free."
"Are you sure? Okay. Oh, and do you accept this kind of money here?." Bryce asked, holding out a hundred dollar bill.
"My, oh, my. Yes. Why do you ask?"
"Just wanted to make sure this world had the same currency as the one on my world. All right then, if you don't mind me taking these for free, would you mind if I took a look around? If I ended up here simply by walking, who knows when I could end up leaving again, and I would certainly love to take some magic with me, wherever I end up."
"Yes, I don't see why not. But the next item you find better be one you can pay for."
"Ok, thanks." And withn that Bryce went to looking at the rest of the items Giles's shop had to offer. There were numerous items, most of them having to do with different types of religious magicks, which for some odd reason just didn't appeal to him, and so maybe fifteen minutes later he found himself looking over the last few parts of the shop. These last few parts
were scrunched together, but they were in fact different parts, at least for Bryce, because they contained differing products, some of them things that you wouldn't expect to find in a shop specializing in actual magic. Most of these things were backpacks and trapper keepers, obviously figuring in with the fact that school was just starting up again for K-12 schools in this area, though there were indeed things that you would expect to indeed in a shop such as this one as well. Such things were those little pouches you could find every once in a while concerning containing this or that spell ingredient or some little children's plaything like rocks that you could grow crystals on or good luck stones or some such thing. And then, suddenly, and quite amazingly, Bryce found three different items, side by side, that he simply knew he was going to buy. The first was an ancient looking book with the title on it, "How To Learn and Master Several Different Magics and Psionics (Author's Note: For those of you who don't know what psionics are, they are basically all of the known psychic abilities; the ability/abilities to travel astrally and etherically is/are sometimes included among them)" and below that it read "Including an index of magicks, spells, and abilities, and how to use them." The second item was a large case with several different crystals, rocks, and gemstones in it, and as well as a paper, which was visible through a see-through plastic wrapping, that clearly said the different magic and psionic abilities and characteristics the contents of the box were said to have. The third item was another book, though this one had no title, and was perhaps the strangest of the three items Bryce had automatically decided to buy. Instead of a visible title that announced what was contained within it like the other two items had, this one simply had a
dusty hard cover, the dust probably hiding the cover, and a beat up binding, the kind you would find in really old and really big books. Picking up the three items, Bryce headed back to the front of the shop, though he picked up a hiker's backpack before he left the area, making four items, and plopped the four items on the counter.
"Those are the items you want to buy?"
"Yup. How much?" Even as he said this, Bryce took out his wallet, his hands on five one hundred dollar bills.
"Hmm... About a hundred and seventy-five dollars."
"Oh, okay. Here you go," he said handing the Watcher two of the five bills he held in his hand, waiting about five minutes for Giles to get him his change. And with that, he walked out of the magic shop, an idea forming in his mind. Perhaps if he could convince Willow and her fellow witch, Tara, to show him a few spells and lend him some ingredients. Then perhaps he could try out a little bit of magic. Looking curiously at the items he held in his hands, the two books and the gemstones and crystals and the backpack, particularly the book with the "invisible" title, wondering what he all he would accomplish with them while he was here.
:Author's Note: Sorry it's taken so long to get just this tiny little bit done and posted on the site, but a combination of technical Internet problems on my computer and the disks and documents used on it, this one included, as well a bit of writer's block on the side (whcih is quite simply altogether enough to delay me for months on end should any of it continue.) Hopefully the combination of problems will be solved soon and things should be going along quite smoothly then (longer pieces to the story more often). Though that may take a while to accomplish...