Title: Anna
Chapter title:
Author: Libra
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Okay, here goes, I own Jaime, Riana, Cassie and most of the watchers and operatives. I also own the storyline. Joss owns the Buffy thing and characters, but Christopher Golden owns Anna and the lost slayer universe.
Pairing: Willow/Tara
Summary: Just read it!
Feedback: If it's not too much trouble
A/N: Spoilers for Original Sins by Christopher Golden
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The next day, after a good night's sleep, Anna and Cassie were put in the training gym to try and get to know each other, and train if they were up to it. Cassie, who was dressed in combat pants and a latex top that showed her stomach, was practicing some gymnastic rolls and flips on one of the many mats, while Anna, who was wearing a tank top and baggy pants, sat on one of the horses and watched the younger slayer's technique, obviously she wasn't fighting, but Anna could make out some kind of street-fighting style by the way she moved.
Cassie soon noticed Anna was watching her and pulled out of a somersault, landing on her feet, but only barely. She grinned sheepishly and jogged over to the horse where Anna was sitting, the bubbly girl jumped up onto the horse and turned to face Anna with a frown.
"What?" She asked. "Did I do something wrong?"
"No." Anna replied. "Just checking out your style."
"Oh, you wanna go at it? Spar?"
"Uh, okay." Anna said.
Both girls went into the centre of the large gym, away from the obstacles and faced each other, standing in fighting stances. Cassie started with a back kick, but Anna's super-fast reflexes blocked the attack with her foot. Anna blocked two punches and another kick, this one a spin kick and answered with a sweep, knocking the girl to the ground.
"Cheap shot." Cassie said with a smile.
Cassie threw her hands back and flipped back into a handstand. Then she pushed hard with her hands and went sailing over Anna's head, giving her a painful kick in the back. Anna spun as Cassie came out of the strange attack and gave her three sharp palm jabs to the stomach and a stiff kick to the chest, knocking the girl back and tumbling over the horse. Cassie got off the ground rubbing her back and smiled at Anna.
"You're a good fighter." Cassie said.
"You too."
"Well state the obvious!" Cassie said sarcastically, both girls laughed and went off to the cafeteria, in the hall they bumped into Willow and Tara who were both dressed in simple clothes that moved easily and allowed them to cast spells easily, they were also heading towards the cafeteria.
"Hey Willow, Tara." Anna said. "Going to dinner?"
"Yeah, you?" Tara answered.
"Uh-huh, hey, this is Cassie." Anna said.
"Oh, hi, the new slayer right?"
"Yeah." Cassie replied. "Nice to meet you. Are you a watcher?"
"Oh no." Tara said with a laugh. "I just help out with the magickal workings and stuff."
"Cool."
The four of them began walking down the hall together, they passed rooms and offices and even labs on their way. Cassie was amazed at how big the place actually was, every person that lived there had a big room, with a small kitchen-but most people preferred the cafeteria-and their own toilet-not a bathroom though. Cassie was more than a little nervous when they walked through the doors to the cafeteria, there were loads of watchers, operatives and various other people-and some things-that worked for the American watcher operations in California, all of them sitting around eating and drinking, and now all of them looking at the new girl, many people turned and whispered to the people next to them.
God. Cassie thought. You'd think they'd never seen a slayer before.
Willow, Tara, Anna and Cassie sat down at a table where two men sat, Cassie knew that the one with the blonde hair was Anna's watcher, Jaime by the description she gave her. But the other man was short and had red hair and stubble. She didn't know this one. However, she asked for a chicken salad when Willow asked what everyone wanted, Anna asked for a plate of fries, Tara just asked for a soda, while Jaime and the redhead both asked for ham sandwiches. Willow went over to get the food as the redhead turned to the group. He took a sip of the coke he already had and looked at Cassie.
"Hi." He said. "You're new. I'm Oz."
"I'm Cassie." She said with a small smile. "What's your specialty?"
"I'm a werewolf."
"Oh, I see." Cassie said, she didn't get to say anything else because Willow came back with the food. She carried the a plate of fries and a chicken salad, while the two sandwiches, the soda and a hotdog which must've been for Willow floated in front of her on an invisible wind. The others ate quickly, which they probably had to, so Cassie tried to eat fast too. She got to her last piece of chicken when a light that was installed on the roof of the cafeteria began to flash brightly and an alarm sounded out in the hall. Everyone jumped to their feet and rushed out of the cafeteria.
Cassie was unsure what to do but followed Anna, who was pulling her down the hall, but instead of heading to the stairs like everyone else, Anna pulled her into a room just outside the cafeteria. Inside, there was a rack on the wall of the small room, each groove held some kind of weapon, a sword, an axe, stakes, crossbows, almost every weapon suitable for slaying vampires were jammed into the small room.
"Quickly." Anna said. "Take whatever you want."
"What's going on?" Cassie asked. "What is that?"
"That's a warning system Willow fitted, it tells us when a vampire comes within twenty metres of the building."
Cassie looked out the window and noticed for the first time that it had gotten dark, dark enough for vampires to go outside, that meant that it was finally happening, Cassie was finally about to fight her first vampire. Cassie grabbed two stakes and buried them in the pockets of her combats and made sure her blessed stake was tightly strapped to her forearm.
"Okay, let's go." She said, reaching for the door.
"No." Anna said, going to the window and pulling it open. "This way's quicker."
Anna smiled at Cassie and leaped out the open window, Cassie gulped and looked out the window, it was only a story down but she had never jumped that far in her life, she took a deep breath and several steps back, then with a squeal, she flew through the window after Anna. Luckily she rolled out of it as she landed, and easily jumped to her feet with a triumphant smile.
"Hey, I did it!" She said.
Then Anna and Cassie ran as fast as was possible for a slayer, until they got to the front of the building. Willow, Tara and Jaime were already there, along with several operatives. Oz was in his werewolf form, which, quite frankly, gave Cassie a slight case of the wiggins. They stood facing a dark-haired vampire who was obviously the leader of the party of about twenty other vampires. Neither side attacked, so Anna and Cassie went to stand near Willow.
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Willow stared in shock at the vampire before her, the vampire was once a friend, not really a friend but she used to help fight vampires, now they were enemies once again, what would Xander say if he saw this?
"Cordelia?" Willow asked. "Goddess, what happened to you?"
"What do you think?" The vampiress said, taking a step closer to Willow, who was stood slightly ahead of everyone else. She reached out to touch Willow but before she could, a small wall of fire sprung up between them.
"Touch her." Tara said, with her palm smoking slightly. "And burning in a wall of fire will be the least of your problems bitch."
Anna looked at her in shock, so did quite a few other operatives. None of them had ever heard Tara talk that way before, even when they were in the trouble with the Kakchiquels, Tara was the one who changed the least. She was still sweet and normally shy and quiet. Cordelia took a step back but kept smiling like a Cheshire cat, she motioned to the vampires behind her and walked out the way, folding her arms like she was a spectator.
"Fine, witch." She said, motioning to the vampires again. "Have it your way."
The vampires rushed forward, hoping to catch the operatives off guard, but they were met half-way by the group of weapon-wielding operatives, led by Tara, who had an impressive acid green glow of power growing between her fingers. Tara swiped her hand at a vampire and, without even touching it, it turned to dust. Cassie barreled into a vampire, staked it without looking and attacked another with a backhand before easily staking that one too.
Over to her left, amongst the group of men and women who were decapitating, burning and staking vampires, Anna stood in a circle of five vampires, but she didn't seem to care how many there were, which scared Cassie a little because that was more vampires than she had ever seen in one place before. Anna staked one vamp, kicked another twice before throwing it in Willow's path-who set it alight with a touch-she slammed a vamp to the ground and staked it hard in the back, shattering it's spine like a shard of glass, and snapped another's neck before staking that one too. She looked up at the last one, it took one look at the piles of dust and scrambled through the operatives to get away, only to receive a stake in the back from Cassie.
After less than ten minutes there were only three vampires still alive, not including Cordelia, these three were easily, and quickly taken care of by the two slayers. The remaining operatives-three had died-Willow, Tara and the two slayers all glared at Cordelia. The dark-haired vampire simply smiled at them, never letting go of the whole 'Cheshire cat' thing.
"Impressive." Cordelia said. "Riana told me you were good but I just had to see for myself, the famous Sunnydale operation."
"Good enough to take your sorry ass down." Anna said.
"Oh, you must be the slayer right?" Cordelia said to that.
"Not the only one." Cassie said bravely.
"Yeah, I noticed."
"What do you want Cordelia?" Willow asked. "Cause if you came to fight, I think that I could take you down myself, let alone either one of the slayers."
"I didn't come to fight, well, they did, but I came with a message."
"So spill already." Anna said. "Before I get bored and spill your guts all over the grass."
"Ohhh, this one's fiery." Cordelia said.
"Talking of fire." Tara spun a ball of flame around in her hands as a warning.
"All right, have a aneurysm, why don't ya." Cordelia said. "Riana wants to have a….peaceful talk."
"Ha!." Willow said. "That's a laugh, a peaceful talk? With someone who killed one of my best friends, and who's trying to re-start the thing that killed my other best friend. Is it just me, or are both of you kinda nuts?"
Cordelia sneered at that and turned to leave, Anna was about to shout after her when Cassie broke ranks and launched herself at the retreating vampire. She slammed into Cordelia's back with a grunt and both of them tumbled to the ground. Cordelia now snarled like a beast and her face morphed to show the demon within, she viscously grabbed Cassie by the throat and lifted her up in the air. The vampiress attempted to break her neck but Cassie threw her foot with a heavy blow into Cordelia's stomach. That just made her more angry, Cordelia raked a clawed hand across Cassie's bared stomach and the girl fell to the ground. Anna and several operatives tried to help her but Cordelia grabbed the young girl by the throat again, this time with a savagery Anna had rarely seen.
Cordelia once again, tried to break Cassie's neck, this time her eyes went blank and she was thrown off with enough force to kill an elephant. Anna rushed over to Cassie and stood over her in a protective stance, she watched in amazement as Cordelia writhed on the ground, her vampire face disappeared, and her eyes turned white. Anna thought about attacking when the vampire stood up and spoke with a voice she thought she would never hear again.
"Don't even think about meeting Riana." The voice said. "It's a big no, no. A trap."
Willow and Tara both came over and helped Cassie to her feet, Cassie had no idea what the hell had happened but the two witches seemed to be pretty clued up about it. Anna, Willow and Tara all knew who the voice belonged to, how could they ever forget. The ghostly voice belonged to the prodigal slayer.
"Faith?" Anna asked.
"Hi!" The slayer/vampire said.
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A/N: So, what did you think? Feedback appreciated!
Chapter title:
Author: Libra
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Okay, here goes, I own Jaime, Riana, Cassie and most of the watchers and operatives. I also own the storyline. Joss owns the Buffy thing and characters, but Christopher Golden owns Anna and the lost slayer universe.
Pairing: Willow/Tara
Summary: Just read it!
Feedback: If it's not too much trouble
A/N: Spoilers for Original Sins by Christopher Golden
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The next day, after a good night's sleep, Anna and Cassie were put in the training gym to try and get to know each other, and train if they were up to it. Cassie, who was dressed in combat pants and a latex top that showed her stomach, was practicing some gymnastic rolls and flips on one of the many mats, while Anna, who was wearing a tank top and baggy pants, sat on one of the horses and watched the younger slayer's technique, obviously she wasn't fighting, but Anna could make out some kind of street-fighting style by the way she moved.
Cassie soon noticed Anna was watching her and pulled out of a somersault, landing on her feet, but only barely. She grinned sheepishly and jogged over to the horse where Anna was sitting, the bubbly girl jumped up onto the horse and turned to face Anna with a frown.
"What?" She asked. "Did I do something wrong?"
"No." Anna replied. "Just checking out your style."
"Oh, you wanna go at it? Spar?"
"Uh, okay." Anna said.
Both girls went into the centre of the large gym, away from the obstacles and faced each other, standing in fighting stances. Cassie started with a back kick, but Anna's super-fast reflexes blocked the attack with her foot. Anna blocked two punches and another kick, this one a spin kick and answered with a sweep, knocking the girl to the ground.
"Cheap shot." Cassie said with a smile.
Cassie threw her hands back and flipped back into a handstand. Then she pushed hard with her hands and went sailing over Anna's head, giving her a painful kick in the back. Anna spun as Cassie came out of the strange attack and gave her three sharp palm jabs to the stomach and a stiff kick to the chest, knocking the girl back and tumbling over the horse. Cassie got off the ground rubbing her back and smiled at Anna.
"You're a good fighter." Cassie said.
"You too."
"Well state the obvious!" Cassie said sarcastically, both girls laughed and went off to the cafeteria, in the hall they bumped into Willow and Tara who were both dressed in simple clothes that moved easily and allowed them to cast spells easily, they were also heading towards the cafeteria.
"Hey Willow, Tara." Anna said. "Going to dinner?"
"Yeah, you?" Tara answered.
"Uh-huh, hey, this is Cassie." Anna said.
"Oh, hi, the new slayer right?"
"Yeah." Cassie replied. "Nice to meet you. Are you a watcher?"
"Oh no." Tara said with a laugh. "I just help out with the magickal workings and stuff."
"Cool."
The four of them began walking down the hall together, they passed rooms and offices and even labs on their way. Cassie was amazed at how big the place actually was, every person that lived there had a big room, with a small kitchen-but most people preferred the cafeteria-and their own toilet-not a bathroom though. Cassie was more than a little nervous when they walked through the doors to the cafeteria, there were loads of watchers, operatives and various other people-and some things-that worked for the American watcher operations in California, all of them sitting around eating and drinking, and now all of them looking at the new girl, many people turned and whispered to the people next to them.
God. Cassie thought. You'd think they'd never seen a slayer before.
Willow, Tara, Anna and Cassie sat down at a table where two men sat, Cassie knew that the one with the blonde hair was Anna's watcher, Jaime by the description she gave her. But the other man was short and had red hair and stubble. She didn't know this one. However, she asked for a chicken salad when Willow asked what everyone wanted, Anna asked for a plate of fries, Tara just asked for a soda, while Jaime and the redhead both asked for ham sandwiches. Willow went over to get the food as the redhead turned to the group. He took a sip of the coke he already had and looked at Cassie.
"Hi." He said. "You're new. I'm Oz."
"I'm Cassie." She said with a small smile. "What's your specialty?"
"I'm a werewolf."
"Oh, I see." Cassie said, she didn't get to say anything else because Willow came back with the food. She carried the a plate of fries and a chicken salad, while the two sandwiches, the soda and a hotdog which must've been for Willow floated in front of her on an invisible wind. The others ate quickly, which they probably had to, so Cassie tried to eat fast too. She got to her last piece of chicken when a light that was installed on the roof of the cafeteria began to flash brightly and an alarm sounded out in the hall. Everyone jumped to their feet and rushed out of the cafeteria.
Cassie was unsure what to do but followed Anna, who was pulling her down the hall, but instead of heading to the stairs like everyone else, Anna pulled her into a room just outside the cafeteria. Inside, there was a rack on the wall of the small room, each groove held some kind of weapon, a sword, an axe, stakes, crossbows, almost every weapon suitable for slaying vampires were jammed into the small room.
"Quickly." Anna said. "Take whatever you want."
"What's going on?" Cassie asked. "What is that?"
"That's a warning system Willow fitted, it tells us when a vampire comes within twenty metres of the building."
Cassie looked out the window and noticed for the first time that it had gotten dark, dark enough for vampires to go outside, that meant that it was finally happening, Cassie was finally about to fight her first vampire. Cassie grabbed two stakes and buried them in the pockets of her combats and made sure her blessed stake was tightly strapped to her forearm.
"Okay, let's go." She said, reaching for the door.
"No." Anna said, going to the window and pulling it open. "This way's quicker."
Anna smiled at Cassie and leaped out the open window, Cassie gulped and looked out the window, it was only a story down but she had never jumped that far in her life, she took a deep breath and several steps back, then with a squeal, she flew through the window after Anna. Luckily she rolled out of it as she landed, and easily jumped to her feet with a triumphant smile.
"Hey, I did it!" She said.
Then Anna and Cassie ran as fast as was possible for a slayer, until they got to the front of the building. Willow, Tara and Jaime were already there, along with several operatives. Oz was in his werewolf form, which, quite frankly, gave Cassie a slight case of the wiggins. They stood facing a dark-haired vampire who was obviously the leader of the party of about twenty other vampires. Neither side attacked, so Anna and Cassie went to stand near Willow.
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Willow stared in shock at the vampire before her, the vampire was once a friend, not really a friend but she used to help fight vampires, now they were enemies once again, what would Xander say if he saw this?
"Cordelia?" Willow asked. "Goddess, what happened to you?"
"What do you think?" The vampiress said, taking a step closer to Willow, who was stood slightly ahead of everyone else. She reached out to touch Willow but before she could, a small wall of fire sprung up between them.
"Touch her." Tara said, with her palm smoking slightly. "And burning in a wall of fire will be the least of your problems bitch."
Anna looked at her in shock, so did quite a few other operatives. None of them had ever heard Tara talk that way before, even when they were in the trouble with the Kakchiquels, Tara was the one who changed the least. She was still sweet and normally shy and quiet. Cordelia took a step back but kept smiling like a Cheshire cat, she motioned to the vampires behind her and walked out the way, folding her arms like she was a spectator.
"Fine, witch." She said, motioning to the vampires again. "Have it your way."
The vampires rushed forward, hoping to catch the operatives off guard, but they were met half-way by the group of weapon-wielding operatives, led by Tara, who had an impressive acid green glow of power growing between her fingers. Tara swiped her hand at a vampire and, without even touching it, it turned to dust. Cassie barreled into a vampire, staked it without looking and attacked another with a backhand before easily staking that one too.
Over to her left, amongst the group of men and women who were decapitating, burning and staking vampires, Anna stood in a circle of five vampires, but she didn't seem to care how many there were, which scared Cassie a little because that was more vampires than she had ever seen in one place before. Anna staked one vamp, kicked another twice before throwing it in Willow's path-who set it alight with a touch-she slammed a vamp to the ground and staked it hard in the back, shattering it's spine like a shard of glass, and snapped another's neck before staking that one too. She looked up at the last one, it took one look at the piles of dust and scrambled through the operatives to get away, only to receive a stake in the back from Cassie.
After less than ten minutes there were only three vampires still alive, not including Cordelia, these three were easily, and quickly taken care of by the two slayers. The remaining operatives-three had died-Willow, Tara and the two slayers all glared at Cordelia. The dark-haired vampire simply smiled at them, never letting go of the whole 'Cheshire cat' thing.
"Impressive." Cordelia said. "Riana told me you were good but I just had to see for myself, the famous Sunnydale operation."
"Good enough to take your sorry ass down." Anna said.
"Oh, you must be the slayer right?" Cordelia said to that.
"Not the only one." Cassie said bravely.
"Yeah, I noticed."
"What do you want Cordelia?" Willow asked. "Cause if you came to fight, I think that I could take you down myself, let alone either one of the slayers."
"I didn't come to fight, well, they did, but I came with a message."
"So spill already." Anna said. "Before I get bored and spill your guts all over the grass."
"Ohhh, this one's fiery." Cordelia said.
"Talking of fire." Tara spun a ball of flame around in her hands as a warning.
"All right, have a aneurysm, why don't ya." Cordelia said. "Riana wants to have a….peaceful talk."
"Ha!." Willow said. "That's a laugh, a peaceful talk? With someone who killed one of my best friends, and who's trying to re-start the thing that killed my other best friend. Is it just me, or are both of you kinda nuts?"
Cordelia sneered at that and turned to leave, Anna was about to shout after her when Cassie broke ranks and launched herself at the retreating vampire. She slammed into Cordelia's back with a grunt and both of them tumbled to the ground. Cordelia now snarled like a beast and her face morphed to show the demon within, she viscously grabbed Cassie by the throat and lifted her up in the air. The vampiress attempted to break her neck but Cassie threw her foot with a heavy blow into Cordelia's stomach. That just made her more angry, Cordelia raked a clawed hand across Cassie's bared stomach and the girl fell to the ground. Anna and several operatives tried to help her but Cordelia grabbed the young girl by the throat again, this time with a savagery Anna had rarely seen.
Cordelia once again, tried to break Cassie's neck, this time her eyes went blank and she was thrown off with enough force to kill an elephant. Anna rushed over to Cassie and stood over her in a protective stance, she watched in amazement as Cordelia writhed on the ground, her vampire face disappeared, and her eyes turned white. Anna thought about attacking when the vampire stood up and spoke with a voice she thought she would never hear again.
"Don't even think about meeting Riana." The voice said. "It's a big no, no. A trap."
Willow and Tara both came over and helped Cassie to her feet, Cassie had no idea what the hell had happened but the two witches seemed to be pretty clued up about it. Anna, Willow and Tara all knew who the voice belonged to, how could they ever forget. The ghostly voice belonged to the prodigal slayer.
"Faith?" Anna asked.
"Hi!" The slayer/vampire said.
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A/N: So, what did you think? Feedback appreciated!