Deliver Us from Evil - Part 3 of Twisted Reality
by DaBear
Rated R for language, disturbing images, gore and death. Third season spoiler warning. The characters do not belong to me, they belong to Joss Whedon, 20th Century Fox, Mutant Enemy, and such forth and so on... i.e. NOT ME.
Follow up to 'Unexpected Arrival' and 'Scooby Snacks'. An unexpected arrival changes the third season finale.
Warning Multiple Character Death!!
Sunnydale High School
After the Graduation Ceremony
The massacre was over. Bodies litter the courtyard in silent testimonial to the rise and fall of one man's century long quest for ultimate power. The final body count well into the triple digits there is no one left of the Class of '99 SunnyDale High. Every student, parent and faculty member that had shown up to the Graduation Ceremony was dead. Either eaten by the Mayor in his orgy of Assencion or drained by his vampire cadre that he had called in whilst the eclipse of the sun hid the deadly Sun from the sky.
Snapshots in death. Cordelia Chase lay upon the front steps of the school. Her neck torn open and her blood drained by a nameless vampire, one of the Mayor's nameless horde. Her hair is mussed, her makeup smeared and she is missing a shoe. Even in death the Hellmouth wishes to ruin her carefully maintained façade .
Wesley Wyndam-Price's body is laid out near the shattered graduation stage. He had died while running away from the newly risen Olvikon demon, Wesley had tripped and fallen over an upturned chair, breaking his neck upon the uneven ground. Which is quite an unflattering death for the Watcher. Luckily for him and his face conscious family no one alive knows the circumstances of his demise.
Rupert Giles had died in the heroic yet suicidal final attack on the transformed Mayor of Sunnydale. The rocket launcher having proved ineffective, as he had feared it might. Removing his glasses for the last time he had sighed in resignation and then grinning a grin he let out Ripper to play. Running forward towards the demon he had pulled a cord which in turn stripped the pins off of the ten white phosphorus grenades strapped to his chest. Taunting the Mayor, Ripper managed to get himself eaten. Fifteen seconds later the middle portion of the mayors transformed body was blown apart by the combined explosions of the grenades, and Mayor Richard Wilkins III was no more.
Daniel 'OZ' Osborne's remains were never found.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The MGM Grand
"Hey Faith baby, come on out here a sec."
Coming out of the bathroom, Faith is wearing not a stitch of clothing and is casually drying her hair with a towel. Unconcerned at her nakedness Faith walks over to the king-sized bed and asks, "What's up stud?"
Momentarily distracted by Faiths luscious body Xander fails to respond for a second. And then snapping out of the slight daze he was in he gestured at he TV playing the news across the room.
{...And now back to our main story this evening. The quite town of Sunnydale, California was shocked today when two rival gangs disrupted the Graduation Ceremony for the Local High School. During the confrontation somehow a gas main was pierced and caused an explosion killing most or all of the attending students, family and faculty...}
"Looks like he did it, luv." Xander says with a wide grin to Faith's delighted expression.
Dropping the towel to the floor Faith slides seductively into Xanders lap and wrapping her arms around his neck she slowly lowers her head and kisses him. Letting the kiss deepen for a few seconds, she chuckles against his lips as she feels Xander respond to her. Pulling back after a minute she grins an evil grin and says "No nookie till you marry me mister."
Laughting in delight Xander picks Faith up and swings her around the room, all the while smiling up at her. Finally putting her down he says, "Go get dressed and we'll go find one of those all night chapels." As Faith walks over to her bag, which was still unpacked, he watches her swaying posterior and smiles a lusty smile. "Hey baby, you want to get married by an Elvis Impersonator?"
Sunnydale High School
12:35 a.m.
The clouds are weeping down upon the site of the Massacre of the Class of '99. The rain hiding the full moon and seeming to try and wash away the hurt, hide the fear and the pain as well. That is something that will never happen though. Half of the population of the town of Sunnydale has died today. The others will begin to move away, tired of the town's many problems. Tired of the gangs, tired of the fear at night. Inside 5 years the town will be empty. The people all gone. Leaving the Hellmouth to the demons.
From the ruble of the school comes a skittering sound. Rocks shifting along rocks. The ruble shifts and a clawed hand emerges into the rain soaked night, followed quickly by a mud streaked muzzle. Once emerged into the night the fearsome creature raises its muzzle to the night sky and howls its broken heart into the night.
The Prophesy of the Wolfen
Jealousy shall eat the Light
And Fire shall eat the Innocent.
The Wyrm shall eat the Wisdom Bringer
And a Demon shall eat the Beauty
Fear shall eat the Weak
Five shall be eaten
Only one shall remain
To wreck vengeance upon the Betrayer
To kill the Darkness
That consumed the Light
Only one to live on from that night
The Wolfen shall hunt, and none shall sway him.
Et ne nos inducas in temptationem, sed libera nos a malo
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DaBear
