TITLE: THE BODYGUARD 8 AUTHOR: STEPHEN HOWE
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DISCLAIMER: All characters belong to Joss! He created everything! Set in season 5.B/X eventually (Is there any other?) Giles is Buffy's watcher. Starts off with the big battle with Glory then jumps two years into the future. My take on what happens in the season final is just wishful thinking. PG-15 for adult themes. BUFFY'S HOUSE. Giles stepped back from the pentagram just as Buffy finished hauling the chest down stairs. Willow replaced the rug over their casting and as she did so she whispered. " Do you think it worked?" Giles shook his head. " Theoretically it should have but we wont know until he either shows up or… He starts killing people." Buffy starts to move the chest towards the lounge but hears a noise at the front door. She opens the curtain at the side window and tells everyone." Okay I think it's officially time to panic!" They all look outside and see two demons setting up studio lights while another lifts a professional looking TV camera onto it's back. Giles looks from one side to the next. " I count about eight… Maybe more." Buffy looks at her friends and then slumps her head dropping the weapons chest before telling them. " It's me they want so it's me they get." She moves quickly outside before the others could talk her out of it and called out to the hit beasts." Okay guys it's me you want so come and get me but leave the others alone!" The demons, and humans, look at each other and laugh. " I don't think so honey! The contract calls for ALL the Scooby gang to get what we're going to give you, though I think we'll just disembowel Giles. But we intend to Party with the three females till we're partied out. Then, when our employer has had enough, we'll kill them too!" A vamp moves through the crowd of assassins and takes up his position." This should be fun. But all too brief if you ask me." One of the killers tells him Spike drives a stake through the beings chest. " Briefer than you thought sport!" Buffy is set to go down fighting when a sudden wind picks up. She struggles to stand and realizes it's not a wind but something forming just above the gathering crowd of assassins. It's drawing power and air into what looks like a tiny light forming inside a vacuum. Willows eyes are now black as she hovers above Tara and Dawn. " I command the spirits to send a warrior to aid thy servants on this day. I call the wind to blow life into its lungs! I call lightning to give its form the spark of life! (The gang hears the crash of lightning from outside). I call upon the Gods themselves to aid us in their quest to preserve their creations from fading into the night!" With her spell finished Willow collapses onto the floor and holds her nose as it bleeds. She slams her hand against the floor. " Okay! Okay no more conjuring then either!" Everyone on the street was blown down by the ground effect wave as the energy from the rip was released. Buffy picked herself up and opened the door, slamming it behind her. As she did the others turned to her and she told them. " I think something big's coming and I don't think it's the Stay puff marshmallow guy!" They all move to the windows and watch as the energy became mass and took form before their eyes. There fifty feet above the sidewalk a human form took shape and it resembled a man. " I think its going to …" All but Dawn turned away as it fell the fifty foot and crashed into the concrete footpath. Dawn exclaimed. " Now that'll leave a scar for sure." The being kept kneeling on one knee then, as the electric field dissipated he stood and surveyed the area giving Dawn a close look at him. " WOW! We got naked man flesh on our lawn!" She looks at his crotch and her jaw drops. " If this is a demon I gotta tell you girls we should really think about changing sides!" She looks at Willow and Tara." No offence but yikes! You don't know what you're missing!" Willow sneers at her before she too looks out the window." And what would you know?" Willow and Tara peer out." Jeez Louise! " Willow is stunned then Tara tells her. " Yeah it's Xander!" Willow grunts." How do you know? Who the hell knew?" Tara looks at Willow and tilts Willow's head up so she can see Xander's face. " Because I was looking at his face. So what should we do?" She looks over at Buffy and Dawn, both are concentrating as they chew on their right thumb nails" " HEY! I said what should we do?" Both girls say." Nail him." Then Buffy snaps out of it." What did you just say?" Dawn gives her the look she has perfected over the years." Oh come on! Don't tell me you didn't think the same thing!" She turned to the other two females and realised her mistake. Willow says. " Maybe he came in answer to my summons?" Dawn could be heard mumbling." He sure came for mine anyway." Giles pipes in." It appears he's causing quiet a stir in our friends out there too." They all look outside again and watch as the hit beasts surge forward, each one ready to kill the intruder. All except for a blond haired one that runs towards the house and bangs on the door." For God's sake let me in!" Buffy opens the door. " Come in Spike. But the first time you look at anyone's throat and your back out there with appendage… Ugh I mean Xander." He moves over to a window." So I wasn't drunk it is droopy." He gets a better view and smirks. " Well I supposed that insult doesn't hang right now." The first of the creatures reaches Xander and tries to throw a punch. Xander grabs its fist mid strike and they see the bone protrude as he snaps its arm. Xander grabs its duster as the creature screams in pain then he twists its neck causing it to do a Linda Blair impression before it drops to the ground. Buffy picks up her weapon and opens the front door." I'm going to help him." Spike nods and as he exits the house he tells them." I'm going to watch! I haven't had this much fun since Angelus and I.." The door closed blocking off his tale. The two of them watch as three beasts empty their weapons into Xander. Buffy screams as she sees the bullets strike his flesh in an explosion of blood. Before she can move to help Spike grabs her arm. " Wait a minute pet I don't think he's down for the count!" They watched as Xander stood up and walked over to the gunmen as they frantically tried to reload. Xander coughed as if in pain the spat out misshapen projectiles into their hands. " I believe these are yours?" He then hit one sending him up into the air and out of sight. He walked over to the other two and smiled evilly at them. " All this fuss has made me quiet the hungry boy. Do you MIND?" The gang watched as he plunged his hands into their heads and a white light glowed from inside his hands as he drank their minds." He looked at the survivors and moaned. " Mmm and you can't stop at one!" Spike grabbed Buffy." Jesus that was just like…" They both answered together." GLORY" Suddenly the air was rent with the sound of a horrible wailing and Willow came running out to them. The area in front of Buffy's house lit up with mystical symbols as Willow told them. " Oh God it is her! That was the alarm I set up warning us that Glory was close by!" Buffy shook her head. " No please God not Xander!" END OF 8