I do not have any copyrights to the characters, and ideas I used from TV-series and Movies in this story. I only used them for 'fan-fictional' purposes!
Vampires
The alarm went off at about quarter past eight in the evening. Markus sluggishly opens his eyes, looks at the time, and thinks: " Whoa what is going on here?" He suddenly realised by looking at his watch, that it was Friday evening, but he couldn't remember anything that happened after Tuesday evening. He knows who and where he is, his name is Markus Schwarz, he is 24 years old, and lives in a little city called: "Idar-Oberstein". Then suddenly the phone rings, it's his best friend Martin.
"Hey Markus good evening, how are you?"
"Martin? I'm fine; at least I think I am. Something strange happened. I just woke up, and I can remember who and where I am, but my memory seems to stop at Tuesday evening, and it's now Friday evening, isn't it?"
"I'm so terribly sorry Markus, it's all my fault."
"What's your fault martin, what are you talking about?"
"You trust me don't you?"
"You know I do, you're my best friend, and I do trust you."
"Then please go to your computer, and there is a file called 'My Story'. I've written everything down what happened since Wednesday morning. When you read it get back to me. I am sorry."
"Ok I'll do that, after I had dinner, it would be silly to call it breakfast, wouldn't it?"
"I'm afraid I took away all your food. Trust me on this, take what is in the fridge and you'll feel just fine."
"I'll have a look. Cu later."
He hangs up the phone, gets out of bed, puts his dressing gown on, and goes downstairs. He looks in the fridge and it is full with bottles of all sizes. So he takes one bottle out the fridge, as Martin asked him to, he gets a glass, opens the bottle, and then shouts out: "Is that some kind of sick joke? It smells like blood, looks like blood, probably even is blood." Then he realises that he actually longs for this, it is strange he can't describe it but he actually really wants it. Therefore, he decides to taste it. He didn't gag, or anything when he swallowed it, he just felt relaxed, and satisfied, and it actually tastes quite nice. "Ok this is really scary now. If I am what I think, then this must be a dream. These creatures don't exist." He pinches himself hard. He could feel this, so he went on thinking: "If this isn't a dream, then what on earth is going on?" Then he remembers Martin talking about this computer file. He takes the bottle and glass and goes to the lounge, sits down, starts the computer up. There on the desktop is a link to a file called: My story.
He opens it up, and starts reading; it is written as Markus himself would have written it:
It all started when Martin called me Wednesday morning, saying that I had to come over to look at his latest invention. I always loved seeing his inventions, he always invents strange things, and unfortunately, most of them don't work properly. "I'll be there in five." I said, and got ready to go over there. If I had known in what terrible mess I would get because of this, I would have gotten the guys with the straight jacket.
Just before I want to leave, the phone rings again:
"It's me again. You know that you always go on about Buffy the vampire slayer."
"Yes, why?"
"Bring a couple of video's with you. You're going to love this!"
"Ok I'll do that, I don't really know what you want with those video's as you don't really like watching Buffy."
"Don't worry about that, just get your arse over here ASAP."
He just hangs up after this, so I go back in the lounge and get the complete season 3 on video, and went off to his house. When I arrived there, he immediately takes me downstairs to his converted cellar, and says: "There it is."
I am looking at a pc connected to a strange looking VCR and TV. He then put on an episode of 'Voyager'.
"See this watch I got here."
"Yes looks actually quite nice."
This watch he got on his wrist is a digital one, with just one button on the side, and 2 lines of LED displays on it. He presses this button, and suddenly disappears, just after that someone who looks exactly like him appear on the telly in that 'Voyager' episode, dressed in the same as everyone in the episode, a Starfleet uniform.
Someone then says: "Where did you just come from?" and this person who looks just like Martin, presses the button on his watch again, and disappears from there, just after that Martin appears besides me again.
"Let me get this straight, you haven't just been in an episode of 'Voyager' have you?"
"Yes I have, is it great? I got that up and running about a couple of months ago, but thought I wont tell you till I tested it out myself, and make it absolutely safe. I also made some changes. I can assure you it is even better now, then when I first tried it, and it is completely safe. You want to try it?"
"That is why I was supposed to bring a couple of Video's of 'Buffy' with me?
"Exactly, so you want to try it?"
"Oh yes of course! What kind of modifications have you done to it then?"
"I can change anything I like, and create a whole new storyline within it, and it will record everything that happens, and store this on my computer. I can also combine different stories into one, like for example Buffy and Blade wouldn't be a problem, or what I have done before is putting Babylon 5 and Voyager together. It took some figuring out to make the storyline believable but it worked."
"Great can you do a crossover like that for me as well?"
"Sure no problem, but wait for my latest addition to the system. When you are inside, the computer can actually manipulate your brain without any side effects. Which means that I can store any additional information into your brain!"
"Cool. You know that film with Christopher Lambert, 'The Highlander'?"
"Sure I know that, let me guess you want to be one of these immortals?"
"Oh yes that would be great."
"There is the keyboard, just write down what you want and the computer will store the information and recreate you to your wishes once your inside."
I then start typing the storyline:
It is the year 1025 BC and Marcus Black is born, in a little village in what in time would be known as Germany. One night when he was 25 years old, these creatures invaded the village, and killed everybody, including Marcus. After they left, a completely annihilated village, Marcus suddenly woke up again. During the next millennia's he gets to know what he is, who killed everybody in his village, his friends, family and all the others. Since he got to know that Vampires looted his village and killed everyone, it became clear to him that he had their strength, enhanced sense of smell and sight, and could sense other vampires in a similar kind of way, that he could sense other people like him. Because he didn't have any clue about vampires at the point when the village was attacked he just buried everyone, totally ignorant to the fact that some of the people from his village might return as vampires themselves. It is now 1999 on the verge of the new millennium, and he heard of this vampire called 'Angelus' and heard that he was in USA in a little city called Sunnydale. Therefore, he decided to go there. He looked very young, everybody always mistaken him for 17 when he was actually 24 when he died first time round. So he fakes some documents, and hacks into some computer systems, and lets everybody believe that he is an exchange student from Germany. So he goes to Sunnydale High where everyone he heard of is.
When I finished this outline Martin read it, and said:
"Wow great, that will be interesting."
"Oh I forgot something, as I put down there that I am that old I probably accumulated some wealth, and abilities, like martial arts. It shouldn't be difficult to find me a house, near to Buffy's what you think?"
"Sure no problem at all. You ready? Lets put that tape in, and get you in there for the best vacation of your life!"
"Ok I'm ready, but before I go, what if it looks like I am going to die, inside there?"
"You still worried, I thought you trust me? Nevertheless, stop worrying, the computer will immediately pull you out by itself, if you are about to die. Obviously it wont pull you out when you are hurt a little, like in a fight."
"That sounds good, lets do it!"
"Ok then," Martin said "there is the tape, and here is the watch."
I put the watch on and said: " I'll see you a bit later then, oh this is exciting!" I press the button, and next thing I know is I'm sitting in a car outside the school I sunnydale. Suddenly I remember everything I put in that computer earlier on, as if it were my own memory of my past. My cell phones beeps, I look at it and it is a txt from Martin: "Everything alright? I put some extras in for you, hope you like them? You wont be able to reply to this, just nod if you are alright." So I do nod, and after I leave the car, I enter the school and run into Principal Snyder.
"Your that German exchange student right?"
"Yes that is right, and you must be Principal Snyder."
"Yes I am, and you are late, you better hurry up, it's down the corridor to the right Room 304."
I have a look then, and there it is Room 304, I knock on the door and go in and introduce myself.
"Principal Snyder sent me here. I'm Markus Black, the exchange student from Germany."
The teacher said hello, and asked me to take a seat, I saw that there was a free seat besides Xander, and thought that this would be a good idea. They were just about to do some history. Obviously, I wasn't too impressed with the topic they were doing now, World War II.
Later in the lunch break, Xander took me over and introduced me to the others, willow and Buffy.
"Hi I'm Markus, and you are?"
"I'm Willow and this is Buffy."
We were chatting, when I got the idea of asking them something to see how they would react.
"Can any of you tell me how to get to the local cemetery, my dad asked me to visit the grave of a good friend of his?"
"Sure that is just 3 blocks from here. It's on my way home, I could show you later on?" Buffy said
"That is very kind of you. By the way, do you happen to know where 29 Arlington Road is? Apparently my dad arranged something for me there."
"Isn't that just down the road from your house Buffy?" Xander then said.
"Yes that is right isn't it?" Willow then popped in.
"So if you wouldn't mind too much I could give you a lift home, later on, as we happen to live in the same road?"
"That would be lovely, thanks!" Buffy said.
After the break was over we went back to class, it was time for some Mathematics.
When the bell sounded to tell everyone that school was over for today, I quickly went to the library, and there was this guy, he looked out of place. Then he said, in a broad British accent:
"Can I help you?"
"I wonder if you can? Have you got a book about London in the early 19th Century? I was particularly interested in a young aristocrat by the name of Angelus."
"I am not certain if we have or not, I'll check the register, and let you know as soon as possible." The man said.
"Thank you, Mister?"
"The name is Giles."
"Thank you Mr. Giles. Good day."
"Good day to you too."
Then I leave the library heading towards the exit. When I am outside, I see Buffy standing at my car, scanning the surround.
"About time, where have you been? My mother is expecting me home for dinner you know. I haven't got all day waiting for you to turn up?"
"I'm sorry, but I quickly went to the library, checking for a book I'd like to read. How come you know that this is my car?"
"First of all there aren't many cars around anymore, and secondly you aren't very observant are you? Look at your registration, it says: Markus 1"
"Oh yes it does, shall we go then?" I said and I unlock the doors, we get in, and drive off.
On the way, we come across the graveyard, and then she starts talking about what sunnydale has to offer.
"Well Sunnydale isn't the nicest city around, it has got a rather good restaurant, an acceptably sized cinema, oh yes and the only nightclub in town called 'the bronze'."
"Sounds rather nice, a nightclub called 'bronze'?"
"It's alright, nothing much really. Here we are, that my house there. Number 29 is just round the corner on the right. You can't miss it."
"Thanks Buffy."
"Don't mention it, and thanks for the lift."
"Your welcome, see you tomorrow at school."
"Yes see you then, have a nice evening." She says and gets out the car, and walks towards the house, while she is walking towards the house, the door opens and out comes here mother. When I am about to drive off, her mother says to Buffy: "Who was this good looking young lad?"
"Well I told you before that we were about to get a German exchange student, that was him."
When I finally found the house, I drive up the driveway, switch the engine off, take my bag, and get out of the car. Then my mobile beeps again, it is Martin. The message reads: 'Hope you like what I done to the house?' I then enter the house, put my bag to the side, and wonder around a little. In the lounge, there is a painting on the wall, which shows Maria with little Jesus on her arms. Then there also are a toilet, the lounge, the kitchen, and an office. On the first floor are a large bathroom, the master bedroom, and a spare bedroom, and another kitchen, not as big as the one on the ground floor. Then I suddenly notice the elevator hidden in a corner. When I enter the lift, it has 3 buttons C for cellar, 1 and 2. Therefore, I shut the door, and press C. When I get out of the lift again, I am astonished. There is a pool indoors. I walk around the pool, and there is a little step down to another room, it looks a bit like a shrine, on one end of the room, there is some sort of altar, where a bronze statue of Buddha is situated, it has 'Om's' painted on the walls, and a nice red carpet on the floor. I turn around, and find another of those steps leading to a different room; it rather looks like a gym and a martial arts studio in one. So I go back upstairs, to the master bedroom, take my clothes off, put a dressing gown on, which I just spotted lying on the bed. After that, I go back to the lift, and go back down to the pool, take the dressing gown off, and have a swim. Later on, I put my dressing gown back on, go back up to the bathroom and take a shower. After that I put some clothes on, and go and have a look at the upstairs kitchen, it hasn't got much in the fridge, just some garlic, and a few small bottles of water, with a sticky label on it, saying: blessed water. I take a couple of those bottles out, and take them downstairs, look in the fridge in the main kitchen, and there is lots of stuff. So I fix myself something to eat. Afterwards I look out the window, and it is already dark, so I load up the dishwasher, grab those bottles of blessed water, and go back out to the car, and open the boot. There is this bag in there, as I open it there are stakes, wooden crucifixes, and nicely crafted daggers inside. I take the bag out the boot, put on the passenger seat, and as I am about to start the car, I say out loud: "Thanks Martin, that is one terrific house you got me!" A few seconds later, my phone beeps again, the message reads: 'Your welcome, I'm glad you like it.' So I leave the driveway, and am on my way to the graveyard. At the destination I grab the bag, put my pendent on top of my shirt, take a stake out of the bag, and get out of the car, ready to enter the graveyard and kick some ass. It doesn't take long till some Vampires appear and come towards me, in a ridiculous speed.
Meanwhile on the other side of the graveyard
Buffy, Willow and Xander were walking along the graveyard, when they saw a couple of vampires from afar, Xander said:
'Wait a second, that looks like that exchange student from school?'
'Where?' Buffy asked
'Just over there fighting the vampires. Xander is right, that is this guy, what was his name?' Willow said then.
'Markus, his name is markus. I'll go over there, give him a hand getting rid of those vampires, and then he will have some explaining to do!" Buffy said, and went over to my side.
Buffy and I were then dusting vampires together. When only one was left, I punched him over and over again, till he was lying on the ground, took my pendent of, which was a solid silver crucifix, and wrote markus on his chest. Then I said: 'I'll let you live, if you can call it that, for only one reason tell Angelus he is history, he just doesn't know it yet!' and that vampire ran off.
"Who or what are you exactly?" Buffy then asked
"Well take me to your watcher and I'll tell you!"
"No I am so not going to do this, you will tell me now, or I'll have to get it out of you." Buffy then said, being pissed of by my attitude.
"I do not think you really want to do this. Just take me to your watcher and I'll tell you everything."
Suddenly Buffy attacked me, and I just defended myself, so we started fighting each other. We both gave our best, but it was no good, it looked like we were as strong, agile and bright as the other.
"This isn't taking us nowhere, just take me to your watcher and I'll tell you everything. I am on your side, trust me."
"Very well then, lets go!"
Buffy insisted on that I went in front of her, we didn't take my car, no, we walked back to high school, to the library.
When we entered the library Giles immediately noticed that I came with Buffy and the others, and said:
'Well I thought that he looked familiar when he came in here earlier today, and I was right.'
He picked up a book, came over to us, and showed Buffy the page he had marked. There was a quite good portrait of me, in that book.
'This book is the oldest known reference to Marcus. It says here, that Marcus was born 1025b.c. in what is nowadays known as Germany. He was what they call an immortal being'. Giles then said.
Xander then asked:
'Let me get this straight; there are 2 kinds of immortals? Those we call vampires, and others like Marcus?'
'That is correct. These immortals usually don't interfere in anything, just live unknown among us, and fight between themselves. It is written in ancient texts: 'There can be only one, he who survives will decide the fate of mankind.'
Buffy then looked at me, then looked at Giles and said:
'If you knew about these immortals, why didn't you tell me?'
He then replied:
'Well I didn't see the need to do that, as they usually don't interfere, and keep out of any trouble if so possible.'
Then willow put into the conversation:
'What I still don't get is what you doing here in Sunnydale?'
Buffy then added to that:
'And more important, how comes you know Angelus?'
'Well doesn't it say in any of your books something about my history? Ok everything started when I was about 25 years old, in the year 1000b.c. when these creatures attacked our village, later in history they were known as vampires. Everybody, including me was killed by them, for me as I am one of these Immortals woke up again when they had left. I didn't not turn into a vampire, just adapted their strength and the ability to sense the presence of one. However, as I didn't know anything about these creatures back then, I buried everyone in my village and went off, after these creatures. I didn't rest until all over them were destroyed.'
While I was talking about the past Willow was going through one of the books Giles had found with reference to me, and she read about the same what I just said, and then she found a passage, and said:
'Hey Buffy, I found something which would explain why he knows Angelus. It says here that Marcus was actually very much in love with Drusilla before Angelus got her in his hands, and first drove her insane and then turned her. Since that day Marcus swore that he would make Angelus pay for what he had done.'
'That is correct. When I heard of the curse those Gypsies put upon him, returning his soul I decided not to pursue him any longer, but the actual reason for my being here now is that he is no longer Angel, the vampire with a soul, and therefore a vamp with a conscience, no he has turned back into this evil monster Angelus.' I then said.
Willow who was always the first to do some revision before a test at school, then said:
'Well we should probably go get some sleep, we got a History test ahead of us tomorrow.'
Giles then replied to that: 'Willow is absolutely correct, it is rather late you should go and get some rest.'
We all go home then, and rest. Next day at school, this history test is on the line, it is about the Second World War. As I as this immortal actually had been there, fighting with others in the German resistance group, had no problems what so ever to answer all the questions in that paper.
After school, we meet in the library to go through the strategy for the night. Later on, Buffy and I go home together, and she says:
'Well there we are, I'll see you later then. Shall I come round and pick up later? Lets say about 10o' clock?'
'Yes that would be lovely thanks.' I reply and wonder off to my house. I get in, and take a little nap, when I wake up again, I go and have a shower, have something to eat, put some nice clothes on, and get ready to leave.
Back when everyone in the village was killed by vampires in the year 1000b.c. I didn't know the first thing about them, so I just buried everyone and walked away. Since then, I never even thought of that some of them might have changed into vampires themselves.
When I leave the house, and start walking down the road, to go and see if Buffy was already heading my way, quite a few vampires, about a dozen of them, suddenly appeared. One of them then stepped forward and said:
'Well hello my son.'
It was my father, who had been killed about 3000 years ago; he must have been around all this time as a vampire. I was so surprised by this, and then started to look around, and registered other familiar faces from the village I grew up. Then for just a moment I was not paying attention properly, and my dad grabbed me, and was about to bite me, I tried pushing that button on that watch Martin gave me, but it just made a noise, and nothing happened.
While then my Dad started drinking my blood, I could see Buffy coming round the corner, she was just about to run towards me, to start a fight, and trying to help me. I then managed to get free of the hold of my dad, and sank to the ground, and shouted towards Buffy:
'Get the hell out of here Buffy; you don't know what this means that an immortal has been bitten by a vampire, the second time. I'll be a vampire in a matter of minutes, and imagine Angelus and then triple the evilness, and you got an immortal turned vampire. So get the fuck out of here, quick, and warn the others.'
After I said that, and Buffy actually listened to me, and thought that it might be best to go and find Giles and tell him, I started to feel an immense pain, and suddenly I started to vomit my guts out. Every little bit what was left in my system came out. Then I had this tremendous tooth pain, when those fangs started to form. After it was over my dad helped me to get up, and I looked at him, and said:
'After all this time, it is good to see you again, Dad. Let's go and kick this Angelus out of town. I hate his guts.'
Suddenly everything went black, and next thing I know is that I am back in the 'real world' in martin's converted cellar.
'I'm so awfully sorry Markus, you shouldn't have had to go through this, but there was something wrong with the computer, it wouldn't bring you back for some reason.' Martin then said.
'What the hell are you talking about, and who the fuck are you?' I said then, as I recall I then showed Martin my fangs, and he was shocked as he later told me. He then shouted: 'Oh my god, what have I done?' and presses something on the keyboard, and suddenly everything goes black in front of me again, and I am back inside the story.
I thought then: 'What the fuck was that all about?'
My dad then says: 'Well with the two us back together Angelus will wish his mother never gave birth to him!' and we walked off searching for Angelus whereabouts.
Meanwhile at the library:
Buffy came running in the library, totally exhausted from all that running.
'You look terrible what happened?' Xander then said.
'I was walking down towards Marcus's house, when I saw all these vampires around him, and they were talking in a foreign language I think it was German. One of them actually had Marcus in his arms, drinking from him.'
When Giles heard that he went white around his face, and said:
'Oh my goodness. Where is that book on Immortals, and vampires?' he looked furiously for that book, and when he found it, he flicked through the pages, and then started to read out loud:
'If somehow an immortal shall be bitten by a vampire twice, he himself will turn into one. He will be more powerful, and more vicious then any other vampire.'
Xander then interrupted Giles and said:
'Oh shit that doesn't sound good at all.'
'Well if you let me finish it comes even worse. It says here, within 48 hours of his transformation he will be immune to most sort of curses and magic.' Giles then said with a nasty look towards Xander.
Buffy then said: 'Well I am going to have to kill him then, won't I? Does it say in there anywhere how to kill an immortal turned vampire?'
Willow then interrupted, and said:
'Well there is one other possibility but we would have to act fast. We could do the same with Marcus, as the gypsies did with Angelus? I've been studying the research Miss Calendar did before Angelus got to her. I am confident that I can do it.'
Giles then looked in total disapproval and said:
'Willow you shouldn't, you know magic can be very dangerous. Especially here in Sunnydale, on the verge of the hell mouth you have to be even more careful.'
Willow then replied:
'I know, I know. I was just waiting for the right time to tell you. I got all the ingredients and everything at home locked away in a drawer. Nevertheless, we shouldn't waste any time now. For Marcus especially I think we will have to modify the spell a little.'
Giles then said:
'Your right, it will have to be chanted in German.'
Buffy then said:
'Well you look for a translation of this spell into German, and we'll go and get the stuff from willow's. This better work, if not we'll have to come up with something else, and fast.'
Back on the streets of Sunnydale
There were now more the '2 dozen' vampires gathered around my father and me. We then stopped, and my dad turned around and spoke to the other vampires around us. 'My son has finally joined us, and we have decided to go and declare war against Angelus and his followers. Shall we ban him from Sunnydale, and make it our own?'
Then suddenly a loud noise erupted, it was an ancient German battle cry. As we were near to the school when my dad made his speech, Buffy, willow and Xander were hiding around the corner listening and watching what was going on. When we moved on, they came out and went towards Willow's house.
Buffy then said: 'Lets get this over and done with, we have no time to waste.'
Willow then said: 'We have a little more time on our hands now, haven't you heard what Marcus said to the crowd, he said: Don't dust Angelus I got special plans for him.'
They then get to Willow's house, go straight up to her room, get everything they need and leave again, heading back to the library.
Meanwhile we found Angelus' hideout. Then three vamps come out, and two of them are immediately turned into dust. The third one is sent back in to deliver Angelus a message.
It doesn't take long until Angelus and his guys come out, and he looks at me, and says: 'Well hello there Marcus I see you are one of us now!'
'Don't you dare compare me with yourself. I haven't forgotten what you done to the love of my life. Ok it was rather neat and I would have probably done the same, or something more drastic, but the fact that you dared to touch my girl, is unforgivable.'
When I finished saying that, my dad gave the signal and once again, this ancient German battle cry was heard, and the fight began.
Meanwhile the three arrived back at the library, and Giles was still looking for every possible information on trying to get an immortal turned vampire infused with a soul.
Back at the scene of the fight, it went rather well we only had a few casualties, and when it was all over, they were holding angelus down.
I put then some protective gloves on, and someone passes over a bottle with holy water in it. I rip his shirt open, and actually write my name on his chest with this holy water. Angelus is pretty much knocked out by that then. So I ask for a coffin, we place Angelus inside, shut it, secure it with nails driven in the wood, and as I still got those protective gloves on I fix a crucifix on top of the coffin, and tell them then, to go and make arrangements that this package will be shipped to Australia.
In the meantime:
Buffy is out and about and grabs a vampire; she comes across, and gives him a message for me. This vamp then runs back to our hideout now. When he gets back, he says:
'I am glad to be alive, I crossed the path of the slayer, she wanted me to deliver a message for her. She wants to meet you, just you on your own. Kind of a duel, she said.'
I then take a stake, and turn the messenger into dust. When dad asks why I'd done that, I say: 'He was more afraid of the slayer then of me. I cant have that.' And dad smiled.
'You know that is probably a trap. To lure you away from us.' Dad then said
'Well I think I can handle one little slayer. Anyway I'll be back soon with her as my bride.' And I leave.
I don't realise that I am already been watched by Buffy, and she quickly calls Giles on her cell phone: 'Well it seems to work. He is heading away from the lair now.' Giles then mentioned that it would be helpful for the spell to work if she could make me very angry. Buffy answer to that, that it shouldn't be very difficult to manage that.
When we finally stand in front of each other on an open field, I say to her:
'Well if you want to see Angelus again, you will have to go to Australia, I think he should be on his way there now. Oh and by the way, when this is over I'll make you my bride!'
Buffy just smiles at me and says then:
'Would stop talking such nonsense? Lets see what you got, come on.'
We then start fighting, at first it really looks like I am stronger as her, which actually might be the truth, but then Buffy is not only strong, and fast, she is also very clever. She somehow manages to block most of my attacks, which on the other makes me more furious.
Meantime at the library:
Giles then gives Willow the piece of paper where he'd written down the spell in ancient German, and says:
'Are you sure you'll be alright reading that?'
Willow then says:
'Sure that should work out nicely?'
Giles then looks at her in disbelieve and says:
'Oh god we are doomed. Should work is not good enough, if you say something wrong you have no idea what might happen?'
Willow then looks at Giles angrily and says:
'Calm down, when I say it will work, it will work, trust me!'
Back at the scene of the fight.
Suddenly I feel this awfully sharp pain growing inside of me, and sink to the ground. I scream as loud as I can, and then collapse completely, when I open my eyes again a moment later, I see Buffy standing over me, and I say:
'Hi Buffy where am I and what's happened?'
Buffy then knows that the spell must have worked, and helps me to get up. Then she says:
'Well I got rather bad news, and rather good news. The bad news is that you are a vampire, but the good news is that Willow and Giles managed to give you a soul.' Then Buffy looks at the time, and says that the sun will be rising soon, and she doesn't think that I would like to be around when that happens, so we make our way back to the library as quickly as possible. Luckily we don't ran into any other vampires on the way there.
Back at the library first of all I go over to Willow and Giles and thank them for turning me into a half decent being.
Then I decide that I had enough of being a vampire for now, and press that button on my watch, and am back in Martin's converted cellar.
'Welcome back, unfortunately I haven't found the error yet.' Martin the says.
I ask him what kind of error he was talking about, as I didn't remember an error, then I look in a mirror, and have no reflection what so ever, and also open my mouth, and feel my teeth, and I still got the fangs of a vampire. I start to scream heavily after that, and Martin says: What the fuck is wrong with you?
'Well I tell you what is wrong with me, I am a vampire, that is what is wrong with me.' I shout at him.
'Calm down, I'm sure I can fix that, just give me some time.' He says then.
'Calm down you say? How the fuck am I supposed to calm down, vampires don't exist remember?' and I push him away, and run out. He follows me, and I am heading back home to my flat. Back home I go in the lounge and then collapse and lose consciousness.'
There then ends the file 'my story'
I get up from the pc, and have a look outside it is still dark outside, so I go over to Martin's. He opens the door, and asks me to come downstairs. He sends me in and pulls me back out about a dozen times, nothing changes I am still a vampire. A very stressed out, and pissed off vampire.
He then says: 'Well Markus I'm so awfully sorry but I still can't find the error in the system, I'll keep searching don't you worry. There must be a way to get you back to your old self.'
End of part 1
Vampires
The alarm went off at about quarter past eight in the evening. Markus sluggishly opens his eyes, looks at the time, and thinks: " Whoa what is going on here?" He suddenly realised by looking at his watch, that it was Friday evening, but he couldn't remember anything that happened after Tuesday evening. He knows who and where he is, his name is Markus Schwarz, he is 24 years old, and lives in a little city called: "Idar-Oberstein". Then suddenly the phone rings, it's his best friend Martin.
"Hey Markus good evening, how are you?"
"Martin? I'm fine; at least I think I am. Something strange happened. I just woke up, and I can remember who and where I am, but my memory seems to stop at Tuesday evening, and it's now Friday evening, isn't it?"
"I'm so terribly sorry Markus, it's all my fault."
"What's your fault martin, what are you talking about?"
"You trust me don't you?"
"You know I do, you're my best friend, and I do trust you."
"Then please go to your computer, and there is a file called 'My Story'. I've written everything down what happened since Wednesday morning. When you read it get back to me. I am sorry."
"Ok I'll do that, after I had dinner, it would be silly to call it breakfast, wouldn't it?"
"I'm afraid I took away all your food. Trust me on this, take what is in the fridge and you'll feel just fine."
"I'll have a look. Cu later."
He hangs up the phone, gets out of bed, puts his dressing gown on, and goes downstairs. He looks in the fridge and it is full with bottles of all sizes. So he takes one bottle out the fridge, as Martin asked him to, he gets a glass, opens the bottle, and then shouts out: "Is that some kind of sick joke? It smells like blood, looks like blood, probably even is blood." Then he realises that he actually longs for this, it is strange he can't describe it but he actually really wants it. Therefore, he decides to taste it. He didn't gag, or anything when he swallowed it, he just felt relaxed, and satisfied, and it actually tastes quite nice. "Ok this is really scary now. If I am what I think, then this must be a dream. These creatures don't exist." He pinches himself hard. He could feel this, so he went on thinking: "If this isn't a dream, then what on earth is going on?" Then he remembers Martin talking about this computer file. He takes the bottle and glass and goes to the lounge, sits down, starts the computer up. There on the desktop is a link to a file called: My story.
He opens it up, and starts reading; it is written as Markus himself would have written it:
It all started when Martin called me Wednesday morning, saying that I had to come over to look at his latest invention. I always loved seeing his inventions, he always invents strange things, and unfortunately, most of them don't work properly. "I'll be there in five." I said, and got ready to go over there. If I had known in what terrible mess I would get because of this, I would have gotten the guys with the straight jacket.
Just before I want to leave, the phone rings again:
"It's me again. You know that you always go on about Buffy the vampire slayer."
"Yes, why?"
"Bring a couple of video's with you. You're going to love this!"
"Ok I'll do that, I don't really know what you want with those video's as you don't really like watching Buffy."
"Don't worry about that, just get your arse over here ASAP."
He just hangs up after this, so I go back in the lounge and get the complete season 3 on video, and went off to his house. When I arrived there, he immediately takes me downstairs to his converted cellar, and says: "There it is."
I am looking at a pc connected to a strange looking VCR and TV. He then put on an episode of 'Voyager'.
"See this watch I got here."
"Yes looks actually quite nice."
This watch he got on his wrist is a digital one, with just one button on the side, and 2 lines of LED displays on it. He presses this button, and suddenly disappears, just after that someone who looks exactly like him appear on the telly in that 'Voyager' episode, dressed in the same as everyone in the episode, a Starfleet uniform.
Someone then says: "Where did you just come from?" and this person who looks just like Martin, presses the button on his watch again, and disappears from there, just after that Martin appears besides me again.
"Let me get this straight, you haven't just been in an episode of 'Voyager' have you?"
"Yes I have, is it great? I got that up and running about a couple of months ago, but thought I wont tell you till I tested it out myself, and make it absolutely safe. I also made some changes. I can assure you it is even better now, then when I first tried it, and it is completely safe. You want to try it?"
"That is why I was supposed to bring a couple of Video's of 'Buffy' with me?
"Exactly, so you want to try it?"
"Oh yes of course! What kind of modifications have you done to it then?"
"I can change anything I like, and create a whole new storyline within it, and it will record everything that happens, and store this on my computer. I can also combine different stories into one, like for example Buffy and Blade wouldn't be a problem, or what I have done before is putting Babylon 5 and Voyager together. It took some figuring out to make the storyline believable but it worked."
"Great can you do a crossover like that for me as well?"
"Sure no problem, but wait for my latest addition to the system. When you are inside, the computer can actually manipulate your brain without any side effects. Which means that I can store any additional information into your brain!"
"Cool. You know that film with Christopher Lambert, 'The Highlander'?"
"Sure I know that, let me guess you want to be one of these immortals?"
"Oh yes that would be great."
"There is the keyboard, just write down what you want and the computer will store the information and recreate you to your wishes once your inside."
I then start typing the storyline:
It is the year 1025 BC and Marcus Black is born, in a little village in what in time would be known as Germany. One night when he was 25 years old, these creatures invaded the village, and killed everybody, including Marcus. After they left, a completely annihilated village, Marcus suddenly woke up again. During the next millennia's he gets to know what he is, who killed everybody in his village, his friends, family and all the others. Since he got to know that Vampires looted his village and killed everyone, it became clear to him that he had their strength, enhanced sense of smell and sight, and could sense other vampires in a similar kind of way, that he could sense other people like him. Because he didn't have any clue about vampires at the point when the village was attacked he just buried everyone, totally ignorant to the fact that some of the people from his village might return as vampires themselves. It is now 1999 on the verge of the new millennium, and he heard of this vampire called 'Angelus' and heard that he was in USA in a little city called Sunnydale. Therefore, he decided to go there. He looked very young, everybody always mistaken him for 17 when he was actually 24 when he died first time round. So he fakes some documents, and hacks into some computer systems, and lets everybody believe that he is an exchange student from Germany. So he goes to Sunnydale High where everyone he heard of is.
When I finished this outline Martin read it, and said:
"Wow great, that will be interesting."
"Oh I forgot something, as I put down there that I am that old I probably accumulated some wealth, and abilities, like martial arts. It shouldn't be difficult to find me a house, near to Buffy's what you think?"
"Sure no problem at all. You ready? Lets put that tape in, and get you in there for the best vacation of your life!"
"Ok I'm ready, but before I go, what if it looks like I am going to die, inside there?"
"You still worried, I thought you trust me? Nevertheless, stop worrying, the computer will immediately pull you out by itself, if you are about to die. Obviously it wont pull you out when you are hurt a little, like in a fight."
"That sounds good, lets do it!"
"Ok then," Martin said "there is the tape, and here is the watch."
I put the watch on and said: " I'll see you a bit later then, oh this is exciting!" I press the button, and next thing I know is I'm sitting in a car outside the school I sunnydale. Suddenly I remember everything I put in that computer earlier on, as if it were my own memory of my past. My cell phones beeps, I look at it and it is a txt from Martin: "Everything alright? I put some extras in for you, hope you like them? You wont be able to reply to this, just nod if you are alright." So I do nod, and after I leave the car, I enter the school and run into Principal Snyder.
"Your that German exchange student right?"
"Yes that is right, and you must be Principal Snyder."
"Yes I am, and you are late, you better hurry up, it's down the corridor to the right Room 304."
I have a look then, and there it is Room 304, I knock on the door and go in and introduce myself.
"Principal Snyder sent me here. I'm Markus Black, the exchange student from Germany."
The teacher said hello, and asked me to take a seat, I saw that there was a free seat besides Xander, and thought that this would be a good idea. They were just about to do some history. Obviously, I wasn't too impressed with the topic they were doing now, World War II.
Later in the lunch break, Xander took me over and introduced me to the others, willow and Buffy.
"Hi I'm Markus, and you are?"
"I'm Willow and this is Buffy."
We were chatting, when I got the idea of asking them something to see how they would react.
"Can any of you tell me how to get to the local cemetery, my dad asked me to visit the grave of a good friend of his?"
"Sure that is just 3 blocks from here. It's on my way home, I could show you later on?" Buffy said
"That is very kind of you. By the way, do you happen to know where 29 Arlington Road is? Apparently my dad arranged something for me there."
"Isn't that just down the road from your house Buffy?" Xander then said.
"Yes that is right isn't it?" Willow then popped in.
"So if you wouldn't mind too much I could give you a lift home, later on, as we happen to live in the same road?"
"That would be lovely, thanks!" Buffy said.
After the break was over we went back to class, it was time for some Mathematics.
When the bell sounded to tell everyone that school was over for today, I quickly went to the library, and there was this guy, he looked out of place. Then he said, in a broad British accent:
"Can I help you?"
"I wonder if you can? Have you got a book about London in the early 19th Century? I was particularly interested in a young aristocrat by the name of Angelus."
"I am not certain if we have or not, I'll check the register, and let you know as soon as possible." The man said.
"Thank you, Mister?"
"The name is Giles."
"Thank you Mr. Giles. Good day."
"Good day to you too."
Then I leave the library heading towards the exit. When I am outside, I see Buffy standing at my car, scanning the surround.
"About time, where have you been? My mother is expecting me home for dinner you know. I haven't got all day waiting for you to turn up?"
"I'm sorry, but I quickly went to the library, checking for a book I'd like to read. How come you know that this is my car?"
"First of all there aren't many cars around anymore, and secondly you aren't very observant are you? Look at your registration, it says: Markus 1"
"Oh yes it does, shall we go then?" I said and I unlock the doors, we get in, and drive off.
On the way, we come across the graveyard, and then she starts talking about what sunnydale has to offer.
"Well Sunnydale isn't the nicest city around, it has got a rather good restaurant, an acceptably sized cinema, oh yes and the only nightclub in town called 'the bronze'."
"Sounds rather nice, a nightclub called 'bronze'?"
"It's alright, nothing much really. Here we are, that my house there. Number 29 is just round the corner on the right. You can't miss it."
"Thanks Buffy."
"Don't mention it, and thanks for the lift."
"Your welcome, see you tomorrow at school."
"Yes see you then, have a nice evening." She says and gets out the car, and walks towards the house, while she is walking towards the house, the door opens and out comes here mother. When I am about to drive off, her mother says to Buffy: "Who was this good looking young lad?"
"Well I told you before that we were about to get a German exchange student, that was him."
When I finally found the house, I drive up the driveway, switch the engine off, take my bag, and get out of the car. Then my mobile beeps again, it is Martin. The message reads: 'Hope you like what I done to the house?' I then enter the house, put my bag to the side, and wonder around a little. In the lounge, there is a painting on the wall, which shows Maria with little Jesus on her arms. Then there also are a toilet, the lounge, the kitchen, and an office. On the first floor are a large bathroom, the master bedroom, and a spare bedroom, and another kitchen, not as big as the one on the ground floor. Then I suddenly notice the elevator hidden in a corner. When I enter the lift, it has 3 buttons C for cellar, 1 and 2. Therefore, I shut the door, and press C. When I get out of the lift again, I am astonished. There is a pool indoors. I walk around the pool, and there is a little step down to another room, it looks a bit like a shrine, on one end of the room, there is some sort of altar, where a bronze statue of Buddha is situated, it has 'Om's' painted on the walls, and a nice red carpet on the floor. I turn around, and find another of those steps leading to a different room; it rather looks like a gym and a martial arts studio in one. So I go back upstairs, to the master bedroom, take my clothes off, put a dressing gown on, which I just spotted lying on the bed. After that, I go back to the lift, and go back down to the pool, take the dressing gown off, and have a swim. Later on, I put my dressing gown back on, go back up to the bathroom and take a shower. After that I put some clothes on, and go and have a look at the upstairs kitchen, it hasn't got much in the fridge, just some garlic, and a few small bottles of water, with a sticky label on it, saying: blessed water. I take a couple of those bottles out, and take them downstairs, look in the fridge in the main kitchen, and there is lots of stuff. So I fix myself something to eat. Afterwards I look out the window, and it is already dark, so I load up the dishwasher, grab those bottles of blessed water, and go back out to the car, and open the boot. There is this bag in there, as I open it there are stakes, wooden crucifixes, and nicely crafted daggers inside. I take the bag out the boot, put on the passenger seat, and as I am about to start the car, I say out loud: "Thanks Martin, that is one terrific house you got me!" A few seconds later, my phone beeps again, the message reads: 'Your welcome, I'm glad you like it.' So I leave the driveway, and am on my way to the graveyard. At the destination I grab the bag, put my pendent on top of my shirt, take a stake out of the bag, and get out of the car, ready to enter the graveyard and kick some ass. It doesn't take long till some Vampires appear and come towards me, in a ridiculous speed.
Meanwhile on the other side of the graveyard
Buffy, Willow and Xander were walking along the graveyard, when they saw a couple of vampires from afar, Xander said:
'Wait a second, that looks like that exchange student from school?'
'Where?' Buffy asked
'Just over there fighting the vampires. Xander is right, that is this guy, what was his name?' Willow said then.
'Markus, his name is markus. I'll go over there, give him a hand getting rid of those vampires, and then he will have some explaining to do!" Buffy said, and went over to my side.
Buffy and I were then dusting vampires together. When only one was left, I punched him over and over again, till he was lying on the ground, took my pendent of, which was a solid silver crucifix, and wrote markus on his chest. Then I said: 'I'll let you live, if you can call it that, for only one reason tell Angelus he is history, he just doesn't know it yet!' and that vampire ran off.
"Who or what are you exactly?" Buffy then asked
"Well take me to your watcher and I'll tell you!"
"No I am so not going to do this, you will tell me now, or I'll have to get it out of you." Buffy then said, being pissed of by my attitude.
"I do not think you really want to do this. Just take me to your watcher and I'll tell you everything."
Suddenly Buffy attacked me, and I just defended myself, so we started fighting each other. We both gave our best, but it was no good, it looked like we were as strong, agile and bright as the other.
"This isn't taking us nowhere, just take me to your watcher and I'll tell you everything. I am on your side, trust me."
"Very well then, lets go!"
Buffy insisted on that I went in front of her, we didn't take my car, no, we walked back to high school, to the library.
When we entered the library Giles immediately noticed that I came with Buffy and the others, and said:
'Well I thought that he looked familiar when he came in here earlier today, and I was right.'
He picked up a book, came over to us, and showed Buffy the page he had marked. There was a quite good portrait of me, in that book.
'This book is the oldest known reference to Marcus. It says here, that Marcus was born 1025b.c. in what is nowadays known as Germany. He was what they call an immortal being'. Giles then said.
Xander then asked:
'Let me get this straight; there are 2 kinds of immortals? Those we call vampires, and others like Marcus?'
'That is correct. These immortals usually don't interfere in anything, just live unknown among us, and fight between themselves. It is written in ancient texts: 'There can be only one, he who survives will decide the fate of mankind.'
Buffy then looked at me, then looked at Giles and said:
'If you knew about these immortals, why didn't you tell me?'
He then replied:
'Well I didn't see the need to do that, as they usually don't interfere, and keep out of any trouble if so possible.'
Then willow put into the conversation:
'What I still don't get is what you doing here in Sunnydale?'
Buffy then added to that:
'And more important, how comes you know Angelus?'
'Well doesn't it say in any of your books something about my history? Ok everything started when I was about 25 years old, in the year 1000b.c. when these creatures attacked our village, later in history they were known as vampires. Everybody, including me was killed by them, for me as I am one of these Immortals woke up again when they had left. I didn't not turn into a vampire, just adapted their strength and the ability to sense the presence of one. However, as I didn't know anything about these creatures back then, I buried everyone in my village and went off, after these creatures. I didn't rest until all over them were destroyed.'
While I was talking about the past Willow was going through one of the books Giles had found with reference to me, and she read about the same what I just said, and then she found a passage, and said:
'Hey Buffy, I found something which would explain why he knows Angelus. It says here that Marcus was actually very much in love with Drusilla before Angelus got her in his hands, and first drove her insane and then turned her. Since that day Marcus swore that he would make Angelus pay for what he had done.'
'That is correct. When I heard of the curse those Gypsies put upon him, returning his soul I decided not to pursue him any longer, but the actual reason for my being here now is that he is no longer Angel, the vampire with a soul, and therefore a vamp with a conscience, no he has turned back into this evil monster Angelus.' I then said.
Willow who was always the first to do some revision before a test at school, then said:
'Well we should probably go get some sleep, we got a History test ahead of us tomorrow.'
Giles then replied to that: 'Willow is absolutely correct, it is rather late you should go and get some rest.'
We all go home then, and rest. Next day at school, this history test is on the line, it is about the Second World War. As I as this immortal actually had been there, fighting with others in the German resistance group, had no problems what so ever to answer all the questions in that paper.
After school, we meet in the library to go through the strategy for the night. Later on, Buffy and I go home together, and she says:
'Well there we are, I'll see you later then. Shall I come round and pick up later? Lets say about 10o' clock?'
'Yes that would be lovely thanks.' I reply and wonder off to my house. I get in, and take a little nap, when I wake up again, I go and have a shower, have something to eat, put some nice clothes on, and get ready to leave.
Back when everyone in the village was killed by vampires in the year 1000b.c. I didn't know the first thing about them, so I just buried everyone and walked away. Since then, I never even thought of that some of them might have changed into vampires themselves.
When I leave the house, and start walking down the road, to go and see if Buffy was already heading my way, quite a few vampires, about a dozen of them, suddenly appeared. One of them then stepped forward and said:
'Well hello my son.'
It was my father, who had been killed about 3000 years ago; he must have been around all this time as a vampire. I was so surprised by this, and then started to look around, and registered other familiar faces from the village I grew up. Then for just a moment I was not paying attention properly, and my dad grabbed me, and was about to bite me, I tried pushing that button on that watch Martin gave me, but it just made a noise, and nothing happened.
While then my Dad started drinking my blood, I could see Buffy coming round the corner, she was just about to run towards me, to start a fight, and trying to help me. I then managed to get free of the hold of my dad, and sank to the ground, and shouted towards Buffy:
'Get the hell out of here Buffy; you don't know what this means that an immortal has been bitten by a vampire, the second time. I'll be a vampire in a matter of minutes, and imagine Angelus and then triple the evilness, and you got an immortal turned vampire. So get the fuck out of here, quick, and warn the others.'
After I said that, and Buffy actually listened to me, and thought that it might be best to go and find Giles and tell him, I started to feel an immense pain, and suddenly I started to vomit my guts out. Every little bit what was left in my system came out. Then I had this tremendous tooth pain, when those fangs started to form. After it was over my dad helped me to get up, and I looked at him, and said:
'After all this time, it is good to see you again, Dad. Let's go and kick this Angelus out of town. I hate his guts.'
Suddenly everything went black, and next thing I know is that I am back in the 'real world' in martin's converted cellar.
'I'm so awfully sorry Markus, you shouldn't have had to go through this, but there was something wrong with the computer, it wouldn't bring you back for some reason.' Martin then said.
'What the hell are you talking about, and who the fuck are you?' I said then, as I recall I then showed Martin my fangs, and he was shocked as he later told me. He then shouted: 'Oh my god, what have I done?' and presses something on the keyboard, and suddenly everything goes black in front of me again, and I am back inside the story.
I thought then: 'What the fuck was that all about?'
My dad then says: 'Well with the two us back together Angelus will wish his mother never gave birth to him!' and we walked off searching for Angelus whereabouts.
Meanwhile at the library:
Buffy came running in the library, totally exhausted from all that running.
'You look terrible what happened?' Xander then said.
'I was walking down towards Marcus's house, when I saw all these vampires around him, and they were talking in a foreign language I think it was German. One of them actually had Marcus in his arms, drinking from him.'
When Giles heard that he went white around his face, and said:
'Oh my goodness. Where is that book on Immortals, and vampires?' he looked furiously for that book, and when he found it, he flicked through the pages, and then started to read out loud:
'If somehow an immortal shall be bitten by a vampire twice, he himself will turn into one. He will be more powerful, and more vicious then any other vampire.'
Xander then interrupted Giles and said:
'Oh shit that doesn't sound good at all.'
'Well if you let me finish it comes even worse. It says here, within 48 hours of his transformation he will be immune to most sort of curses and magic.' Giles then said with a nasty look towards Xander.
Buffy then said: 'Well I am going to have to kill him then, won't I? Does it say in there anywhere how to kill an immortal turned vampire?'
Willow then interrupted, and said:
'Well there is one other possibility but we would have to act fast. We could do the same with Marcus, as the gypsies did with Angelus? I've been studying the research Miss Calendar did before Angelus got to her. I am confident that I can do it.'
Giles then looked in total disapproval and said:
'Willow you shouldn't, you know magic can be very dangerous. Especially here in Sunnydale, on the verge of the hell mouth you have to be even more careful.'
Willow then replied:
'I know, I know. I was just waiting for the right time to tell you. I got all the ingredients and everything at home locked away in a drawer. Nevertheless, we shouldn't waste any time now. For Marcus especially I think we will have to modify the spell a little.'
Giles then said:
'Your right, it will have to be chanted in German.'
Buffy then said:
'Well you look for a translation of this spell into German, and we'll go and get the stuff from willow's. This better work, if not we'll have to come up with something else, and fast.'
Back on the streets of Sunnydale
There were now more the '2 dozen' vampires gathered around my father and me. We then stopped, and my dad turned around and spoke to the other vampires around us. 'My son has finally joined us, and we have decided to go and declare war against Angelus and his followers. Shall we ban him from Sunnydale, and make it our own?'
Then suddenly a loud noise erupted, it was an ancient German battle cry. As we were near to the school when my dad made his speech, Buffy, willow and Xander were hiding around the corner listening and watching what was going on. When we moved on, they came out and went towards Willow's house.
Buffy then said: 'Lets get this over and done with, we have no time to waste.'
Willow then said: 'We have a little more time on our hands now, haven't you heard what Marcus said to the crowd, he said: Don't dust Angelus I got special plans for him.'
They then get to Willow's house, go straight up to her room, get everything they need and leave again, heading back to the library.
Meanwhile we found Angelus' hideout. Then three vamps come out, and two of them are immediately turned into dust. The third one is sent back in to deliver Angelus a message.
It doesn't take long until Angelus and his guys come out, and he looks at me, and says: 'Well hello there Marcus I see you are one of us now!'
'Don't you dare compare me with yourself. I haven't forgotten what you done to the love of my life. Ok it was rather neat and I would have probably done the same, or something more drastic, but the fact that you dared to touch my girl, is unforgivable.'
When I finished saying that, my dad gave the signal and once again, this ancient German battle cry was heard, and the fight began.
Meanwhile the three arrived back at the library, and Giles was still looking for every possible information on trying to get an immortal turned vampire infused with a soul.
Back at the scene of the fight, it went rather well we only had a few casualties, and when it was all over, they were holding angelus down.
I put then some protective gloves on, and someone passes over a bottle with holy water in it. I rip his shirt open, and actually write my name on his chest with this holy water. Angelus is pretty much knocked out by that then. So I ask for a coffin, we place Angelus inside, shut it, secure it with nails driven in the wood, and as I still got those protective gloves on I fix a crucifix on top of the coffin, and tell them then, to go and make arrangements that this package will be shipped to Australia.
In the meantime:
Buffy is out and about and grabs a vampire; she comes across, and gives him a message for me. This vamp then runs back to our hideout now. When he gets back, he says:
'I am glad to be alive, I crossed the path of the slayer, she wanted me to deliver a message for her. She wants to meet you, just you on your own. Kind of a duel, she said.'
I then take a stake, and turn the messenger into dust. When dad asks why I'd done that, I say: 'He was more afraid of the slayer then of me. I cant have that.' And dad smiled.
'You know that is probably a trap. To lure you away from us.' Dad then said
'Well I think I can handle one little slayer. Anyway I'll be back soon with her as my bride.' And I leave.
I don't realise that I am already been watched by Buffy, and she quickly calls Giles on her cell phone: 'Well it seems to work. He is heading away from the lair now.' Giles then mentioned that it would be helpful for the spell to work if she could make me very angry. Buffy answer to that, that it shouldn't be very difficult to manage that.
When we finally stand in front of each other on an open field, I say to her:
'Well if you want to see Angelus again, you will have to go to Australia, I think he should be on his way there now. Oh and by the way, when this is over I'll make you my bride!'
Buffy just smiles at me and says then:
'Would stop talking such nonsense? Lets see what you got, come on.'
We then start fighting, at first it really looks like I am stronger as her, which actually might be the truth, but then Buffy is not only strong, and fast, she is also very clever. She somehow manages to block most of my attacks, which on the other makes me more furious.
Meantime at the library:
Giles then gives Willow the piece of paper where he'd written down the spell in ancient German, and says:
'Are you sure you'll be alright reading that?'
Willow then says:
'Sure that should work out nicely?'
Giles then looks at her in disbelieve and says:
'Oh god we are doomed. Should work is not good enough, if you say something wrong you have no idea what might happen?'
Willow then looks at Giles angrily and says:
'Calm down, when I say it will work, it will work, trust me!'
Back at the scene of the fight.
Suddenly I feel this awfully sharp pain growing inside of me, and sink to the ground. I scream as loud as I can, and then collapse completely, when I open my eyes again a moment later, I see Buffy standing over me, and I say:
'Hi Buffy where am I and what's happened?'
Buffy then knows that the spell must have worked, and helps me to get up. Then she says:
'Well I got rather bad news, and rather good news. The bad news is that you are a vampire, but the good news is that Willow and Giles managed to give you a soul.' Then Buffy looks at the time, and says that the sun will be rising soon, and she doesn't think that I would like to be around when that happens, so we make our way back to the library as quickly as possible. Luckily we don't ran into any other vampires on the way there.
Back at the library first of all I go over to Willow and Giles and thank them for turning me into a half decent being.
Then I decide that I had enough of being a vampire for now, and press that button on my watch, and am back in Martin's converted cellar.
'Welcome back, unfortunately I haven't found the error yet.' Martin the says.
I ask him what kind of error he was talking about, as I didn't remember an error, then I look in a mirror, and have no reflection what so ever, and also open my mouth, and feel my teeth, and I still got the fangs of a vampire. I start to scream heavily after that, and Martin says: What the fuck is wrong with you?
'Well I tell you what is wrong with me, I am a vampire, that is what is wrong with me.' I shout at him.
'Calm down, I'm sure I can fix that, just give me some time.' He says then.
'Calm down you say? How the fuck am I supposed to calm down, vampires don't exist remember?' and I push him away, and run out. He follows me, and I am heading back home to my flat. Back home I go in the lounge and then collapse and lose consciousness.'
There then ends the file 'my story'
I get up from the pc, and have a look outside it is still dark outside, so I go over to Martin's. He opens the door, and asks me to come downstairs. He sends me in and pulls me back out about a dozen times, nothing changes I am still a vampire. A very stressed out, and pissed off vampire.
He then says: 'Well Markus I'm so awfully sorry but I still can't find the error in the system, I'll keep searching don't you worry. There must be a way to get you back to your old self.'
End of part 1
