Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy or its characters, the same for Panzer
Dragoon Saga, the inspiration for this story
Do They Really Breathe Fire?
Chapter 4
Xander sat in the back of his car; while Spike drove the doctors had said he was not allowed to drive, because they had given him some painkillers.
"I still don't see how its safer letting HIM drive!" Xander moaned
"Hey, your forgetting I was the one that drove you here, whelp" Spike retorted seeming a little put out that he hadn't got any gratitude for his efforts, even though he knew he didn't deserve any.
"Oh and that was so much safer than leaving me on the floor to bleed to death, I just got lucky" Xander spat back
Willow thought it was best to break them up at that point "Xander enough. If it wasn't for Spike you might be dead, at least let him drive in peace"
Xander look a little put out, but quieted down, he had always hated when Willow was upset with him.
The car turned down a small dark road, which was strange because there weren't any small, dark roads where they were going.
"I hate to embarrass myself totally, but... I'm lost" Spike spoke, the car slowing slightly as Spike lost his bearings.
As they continued down the road, it merged into a dirt trail, the trees around them got taller, thicker, and denser.
"What the bloody.hell? Spike slowed the car to a crawl, and looked confused out the windows.
"How did you managed to get us lost in Sunny-WHAT THE!?!" Xander stared out the window "where the hell are we?" he asked
"How the bloody hell would I know? I was just turning down the street to the house, and, here we are." Spike motioned out to the odd scenery
"We should go back, figure out this strangeness later." Willow said, sounding baffled.
"She's right, turn around" Xander said while still staring out of the windows, looking around the car as if looking for something about to jump out.
"No argument from me" Spike said while pulling the car around in a half circle, and began driving back the way they had come from.
After heading in that direction for a few minutes, it became obvious that the road was not going to change back into the familiar one that they had all travelled many times.
Spike pulled the car back to a stop, "This ain't working" Spike grumbled.
"Maybe we should turn back the other way?" Willow suggested, although odd situations were not new to Willow, getting lost had always been one of her fears.
"Yeah, maybe she's right, turn us back around" Xander told Spike more than asked.
Spike turned the car around without a word, and then steadily drove along the bumpy path. He wouldn't admit it, but he didn't want to bump Xander about too much after his fall.
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A figure sat in the branches of the tree, watching the car go back in the direction of the demon's lair that the figure knew was there.
'The demon is more powerful than I thought, instead of taking corporeal form; it's transferred them back in time to a point where it had a body. It was smart enough to get the Slayer out of the way, but it still doesn't know about his powers. yet, neither does the boy..' the man though to himself, and jumped down from the tree.
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"What's that?" Willow asked pointing to some objects up ahead
"Look like horse drawn carts" Spike said with confusion in his voice, an eyebrow cocked
As they neared the gathering of carts, they noticed that there was no sign of life, the horses were long gone. They had just been left in the middle of the road, for no apparent reason.
Spike pulled the car up, by the side of the dirt trail.
"I'm gonna go take a look" Spike announced and got out of the car, and began walking the few feet towards the nearest of the previously horse powered vehicles.
Xander decided to get out for a look also, and Willow followed, getting out of the car, they followed Spike.
After walking past several, they came to see a large hole in the middle of the road. Spike stepped up to the hole and peered in, he couldn't see the bottom of the cavernous tunnel.
Spike turned to Willow and Xander, who stood side-by-side a small distance away, he shrugged.
Then the ground began to shake and a deep roar was heard, and out of the hole shot a pillar of deep green.
The green pole then bent down, showing that at its top was a head, with a long mouth, spikes, and a pair of horn, bent forward, similar to a bull's horns, but straight forward rather than curving out then inwards.
After staring at them for a second, long clawed arms poked out from holes in its body, both sides having four.
It swung one at Spike, who had not had time to move back, the force knocked him into one of the abandoned carts, which broke apart with the force.
Xander and Willow ran back, Xander narrowly escaping a swipe of the creatures claws, another cart was not so lucky, the monsters claw cut through it like a boiling hot knife through butter.
Spike managed to pick himself up, only to see the creature attacking again.
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Buffy sat on the couch, she was wondering where they had got to; Willow had called her when they had both got to the hospital, and when they had left. They should have been back.
Dawn sat the other side of the couch to Buffy, looking far more impatient.
"Where are they, is Spike driving like an old woman?" Dawn asked Buffy.
Buffy just looked at her with a 'You expect me to know1?' look.
Giles walked into the room, his hair wet from taking a shower, his shirt still stained with Xander's blood, but his hands now clean.
"Still no more news?" Giles asked
"Willow called while you were in the shower, they are on their way, but they're taking their time" Buffy replied, Giles looked thoughtful, before walking over to the window, and peering out from behind the curtain, it was early morning, the sun just beginning to hint that it was rising, they should be in bed.
"You two can retire for the night, I'll wait up for them to get back" Giles suggested
"Nah, I wanna see them get back, but, Dawn? Bed" Buffy said, ending with an order to Dawn, suggesting that argument would be pointless.
So Dawn gave a sigh, got up, and made her way up the stairs, on her way calling out "Goodnight".
Giles then sat in the space on the couch previously occupied by Dawn, and they both watched the news report on the earthquake currently on the TV.
"-town Sunnydale was hit by an earthquake just over four hours ago, the rise in seismic activity that has been going on the past week was not expected to produce such quakes at this time. Scientists say the seismic activity is less predictable than they expected, and it is likely that Sunnydale will be evacuated starting tomorrow, and a short feature on what to do in an earthquake to remain safe will follow this report. Authorities say, 'stay alert, and be ready to be evacuated tomorrow, pack only the essentials'. For now, have a good morning." After that the presenter faded out, and the short program on earthquakes started, but Giles and Buffy weren't interested, and only gave each other a look.
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Willow and Xander hid behind one of the remaining carts, while Spike made some attempt at fighting the demon, but was mostly trying his best to avoid its clawed arms, he already had a gash in his right arm.
"Can you whip up some magic?" Xander asked
"I'll give it a try" Willow closed her eyes
Just then the beast flipped the cart that Willow and Xander were hiding behind over, they scattered, but Willow trapped herself in-between the tipped over cart, and another nearby one.
The large monolith swung at Willow, she managed to dodge, but the arm hit her on the way up, knocking her down
The creature prepared another swing, which would surely kill her
Xander saw it, he knew he had to do something, he began running toward her, as he did, he felt a strange surge of energy everything but him became slow motion, he ran at what he perceived as normal speed toward Willow, a new instinct taking ever.
He dived in front of Willow, held up his arm in a protecting stance; a curved wall of red light appeared
The creatures arm hit the wall with a tremendous force, but it held strong, even though the force of the blow was heard hitting it, and the vibrations felt through the ground.
The creatures arm flew back, and it roared in pain, Xander lowered his arm, the red, curved wall of light disappeared, he held out his hand, a light appeared in it, a yellow light, it grew until it was the size of his palm, then he wound up and pitched it as if playing baseball.
The light spread out into a wall of flame, hitting the creature full on, it roared in pain again and again as the flames disintegrated it, its ashes falling to the ground.
All that remained was some of the green titan's body sticking out the cavernous hole, charred and smouldering, smoke rising in trails slowly, the echoes of its roar, slowly dying, far off in the distance.
Spike looked over at him from where he was standing, a look of confusion on his face, Willow looked up at him as she stood, open mouthed.
Xander's look of determination itself began to slowly change to confusion, as realization came to him.
After a long pause, Spike finally spoke.
"What the Bloody hell was THAT!?"
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Do They Really Breathe Fire?
Chapter 4
Xander sat in the back of his car; while Spike drove the doctors had said he was not allowed to drive, because they had given him some painkillers.
"I still don't see how its safer letting HIM drive!" Xander moaned
"Hey, your forgetting I was the one that drove you here, whelp" Spike retorted seeming a little put out that he hadn't got any gratitude for his efforts, even though he knew he didn't deserve any.
"Oh and that was so much safer than leaving me on the floor to bleed to death, I just got lucky" Xander spat back
Willow thought it was best to break them up at that point "Xander enough. If it wasn't for Spike you might be dead, at least let him drive in peace"
Xander look a little put out, but quieted down, he had always hated when Willow was upset with him.
The car turned down a small dark road, which was strange because there weren't any small, dark roads where they were going.
"I hate to embarrass myself totally, but... I'm lost" Spike spoke, the car slowing slightly as Spike lost his bearings.
As they continued down the road, it merged into a dirt trail, the trees around them got taller, thicker, and denser.
"What the bloody.hell? Spike slowed the car to a crawl, and looked confused out the windows.
"How did you managed to get us lost in Sunny-WHAT THE!?!" Xander stared out the window "where the hell are we?" he asked
"How the bloody hell would I know? I was just turning down the street to the house, and, here we are." Spike motioned out to the odd scenery
"We should go back, figure out this strangeness later." Willow said, sounding baffled.
"She's right, turn around" Xander said while still staring out of the windows, looking around the car as if looking for something about to jump out.
"No argument from me" Spike said while pulling the car around in a half circle, and began driving back the way they had come from.
After heading in that direction for a few minutes, it became obvious that the road was not going to change back into the familiar one that they had all travelled many times.
Spike pulled the car back to a stop, "This ain't working" Spike grumbled.
"Maybe we should turn back the other way?" Willow suggested, although odd situations were not new to Willow, getting lost had always been one of her fears.
"Yeah, maybe she's right, turn us back around" Xander told Spike more than asked.
Spike turned the car around without a word, and then steadily drove along the bumpy path. He wouldn't admit it, but he didn't want to bump Xander about too much after his fall.
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A figure sat in the branches of the tree, watching the car go back in the direction of the demon's lair that the figure knew was there.
'The demon is more powerful than I thought, instead of taking corporeal form; it's transferred them back in time to a point where it had a body. It was smart enough to get the Slayer out of the way, but it still doesn't know about his powers. yet, neither does the boy..' the man though to himself, and jumped down from the tree.
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"What's that?" Willow asked pointing to some objects up ahead
"Look like horse drawn carts" Spike said with confusion in his voice, an eyebrow cocked
As they neared the gathering of carts, they noticed that there was no sign of life, the horses were long gone. They had just been left in the middle of the road, for no apparent reason.
Spike pulled the car up, by the side of the dirt trail.
"I'm gonna go take a look" Spike announced and got out of the car, and began walking the few feet towards the nearest of the previously horse powered vehicles.
Xander decided to get out for a look also, and Willow followed, getting out of the car, they followed Spike.
After walking past several, they came to see a large hole in the middle of the road. Spike stepped up to the hole and peered in, he couldn't see the bottom of the cavernous tunnel.
Spike turned to Willow and Xander, who stood side-by-side a small distance away, he shrugged.
Then the ground began to shake and a deep roar was heard, and out of the hole shot a pillar of deep green.
The green pole then bent down, showing that at its top was a head, with a long mouth, spikes, and a pair of horn, bent forward, similar to a bull's horns, but straight forward rather than curving out then inwards.
After staring at them for a second, long clawed arms poked out from holes in its body, both sides having four.
It swung one at Spike, who had not had time to move back, the force knocked him into one of the abandoned carts, which broke apart with the force.
Xander and Willow ran back, Xander narrowly escaping a swipe of the creatures claws, another cart was not so lucky, the monsters claw cut through it like a boiling hot knife through butter.
Spike managed to pick himself up, only to see the creature attacking again.
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Buffy sat on the couch, she was wondering where they had got to; Willow had called her when they had both got to the hospital, and when they had left. They should have been back.
Dawn sat the other side of the couch to Buffy, looking far more impatient.
"Where are they, is Spike driving like an old woman?" Dawn asked Buffy.
Buffy just looked at her with a 'You expect me to know1?' look.
Giles walked into the room, his hair wet from taking a shower, his shirt still stained with Xander's blood, but his hands now clean.
"Still no more news?" Giles asked
"Willow called while you were in the shower, they are on their way, but they're taking their time" Buffy replied, Giles looked thoughtful, before walking over to the window, and peering out from behind the curtain, it was early morning, the sun just beginning to hint that it was rising, they should be in bed.
"You two can retire for the night, I'll wait up for them to get back" Giles suggested
"Nah, I wanna see them get back, but, Dawn? Bed" Buffy said, ending with an order to Dawn, suggesting that argument would be pointless.
So Dawn gave a sigh, got up, and made her way up the stairs, on her way calling out "Goodnight".
Giles then sat in the space on the couch previously occupied by Dawn, and they both watched the news report on the earthquake currently on the TV.
"-town Sunnydale was hit by an earthquake just over four hours ago, the rise in seismic activity that has been going on the past week was not expected to produce such quakes at this time. Scientists say the seismic activity is less predictable than they expected, and it is likely that Sunnydale will be evacuated starting tomorrow, and a short feature on what to do in an earthquake to remain safe will follow this report. Authorities say, 'stay alert, and be ready to be evacuated tomorrow, pack only the essentials'. For now, have a good morning." After that the presenter faded out, and the short program on earthquakes started, but Giles and Buffy weren't interested, and only gave each other a look.
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Willow and Xander hid behind one of the remaining carts, while Spike made some attempt at fighting the demon, but was mostly trying his best to avoid its clawed arms, he already had a gash in his right arm.
"Can you whip up some magic?" Xander asked
"I'll give it a try" Willow closed her eyes
Just then the beast flipped the cart that Willow and Xander were hiding behind over, they scattered, but Willow trapped herself in-between the tipped over cart, and another nearby one.
The large monolith swung at Willow, she managed to dodge, but the arm hit her on the way up, knocking her down
The creature prepared another swing, which would surely kill her
Xander saw it, he knew he had to do something, he began running toward her, as he did, he felt a strange surge of energy everything but him became slow motion, he ran at what he perceived as normal speed toward Willow, a new instinct taking ever.
He dived in front of Willow, held up his arm in a protecting stance; a curved wall of red light appeared
The creatures arm hit the wall with a tremendous force, but it held strong, even though the force of the blow was heard hitting it, and the vibrations felt through the ground.
The creatures arm flew back, and it roared in pain, Xander lowered his arm, the red, curved wall of light disappeared, he held out his hand, a light appeared in it, a yellow light, it grew until it was the size of his palm, then he wound up and pitched it as if playing baseball.
The light spread out into a wall of flame, hitting the creature full on, it roared in pain again and again as the flames disintegrated it, its ashes falling to the ground.
All that remained was some of the green titan's body sticking out the cavernous hole, charred and smouldering, smoke rising in trails slowly, the echoes of its roar, slowly dying, far off in the distance.
Spike looked over at him from where he was standing, a look of confusion on his face, Willow looked up at him as she stood, open mouthed.
Xander's look of determination itself began to slowly change to confusion, as realization came to him.
After a long pause, Spike finally spoke.
"What the Bloody hell was THAT!?"
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