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Chapter Dedication. This Chapter is dedicated to by good buddy Brian Zinnel (AKA Zin Dog)

The Son of Blood Chapter 7

The sound of wood clashing together was the only sound that could be heard as Xander and Minsc were sparring with wooden swords in the training room of the Mansion

Xander and Minsc were giving the sparring match there all and found they were pretty evenly matched.

Minsc sent a downward slash at Xander but the young Bhaal spawn rolled away and landed a blow on the lower part of Minsc's leg before jumping back.

With about two yards of space between the two combatants Xander and Minsc slowly started circling each other looking for a weak point in the others defense.

Xander was looking hard at Minsc's posture trying to find an opening then he saw one and with out waiting ran forward and attacked.

The blow landed against Minsc's right ribs and sent the warrior to his knees gasping for breath.

"Alright Xander you win." Minsc said standing up and rubbing his swore ribs.

"Good match Minsc." Xander said extending is hand and shaking Minsc's

"Yes it was Minsc has never had a more challenging fight in his life." Minsc said putting his training sword back on the rack.

"Yeah same here now I got too start practicing my magic." Xander said as he put his sword away and moved to the center of the room and sitting down.

Xander folded his legs underneath him and closed his eye's and cleared his mind of everything the way he was taught and was soon in a deep trance.

"Xander is a very strong lad." Minsc observed talking to the large Falcon on it's perch.

"Yes he is one of the strongest I've ever seen." Shriek said looking to the young man in the center of the room.

"Do you think he will be able to defeat Sarevok?" Minsc asked the bird.

"Well Sarevok is very strong both physically and mentally and has a vast amount of deadly spells at his disposal, but Xander has something I've never seen before." The bird said.

"What is that?" Minsc said looking to the brunette.

"I don't know it's hard to describe it's like some sort of vast power that is untapped and just waiting to be discover." Shriek said to the man.

Xander finishing his mediation stood up and held is hands in front of him bending his fingers to make an O shape.

Xander then concentrated his energy and started to chant.

A ball of energy started to form in Xander's hands.

Finishing the chant Xander pushed his hands forward and a fireball shot out and exploded against the wall.

"Good job Xander!" Shriek said from his perch.

"Oh ho good job butt kicking friend." Minsc congratulated.

"Thanks that's two spells I've mastered." Xander said looking at the scorch mark on the wall.

"And in under three months that's very impressive." Shriek said flying over and landing on Xander's shoulder.

"Yeah now I'm gonna go shower and then head over to the library maybe the others have found something." Xander said heading for the door.

Meanwhile across town in the Sunnydale High School library the Scooby gang were going through books or checking the internet as in Jenny's case, trying to find information on Sarevok.

"Uh I hate this we've been researching for months and not one thing on Sarevok." Buffy said slumping in her chair.

"Don't worry we'll find something that can help Xander." Willow said comforting her blond friend.

"I hope your right." Buffy said reaching for another book to look through.

"Where is Xander don't you think he should be here after all this is his destiny." Cordelia said slightly grumpy and reaching for another book to dig through.

"Cordy you know that Xander needs to train or else Sarevok will waste him." Jenny said to the young brunette.

"Yeah but I can still be grumpy." Cordelia said paging through the book.

After about another thirty minutes of useless research the libaray opened to reveal Xander with Shriek on his shoulder.

"Hey guys what's up?" Xander asked walking over to the table.

Shriek however launched himself from Xander's shoulder and flew over to Oz's.

"Hey Xander." Willow said not looking up from her book.

"Gee talk about a warm welcome." Xander said sitting down next to Buffy.

"Oh chill out and read." Buffy said grabbing a book from the pile and pushing it in front of Xander.

"Geez I have to save the world and your still making me do research?" Xander asked opening the book.

"Yup now shut up and read." Buffy said never looking up from her book.

Shriek had to suppress a chuckle but failed.

"You think this is funny Shriek." Xander said leveling a glare at the bird.

"Yup." Shriek simply responded.

"Ya know Shriek give me one good reason I shouldn't fry you right now." Xander said looking the bird in the eye's.

"Because you'll miss my quirky attitude and devilishly good looks." The bird said.

"What good look's your uglier than a emu." Xander said to the bird.

"This coming from a guy who could win an ugly contest." The bird shot back.

The fight between the man and bird lasted long and soon everyone in the library was staring.

"Your mother was a pigeon."

"Yeah well your so fat the last time you saw 90210 was on the bathroom scale."

"Oh that's real creative feather head."

"Better feathers than that rats nest you call hair."

And the fight raged on much like that until everyone in the room broke down into hysterical laughter including Giles.

After about another twenty minutes of the man bird insult swaps the two cooled down and things returned to normal.

"So Xander where's Minsc?" Buffy asked her friend.

"Oh he's still at the hospital with Imoen." Xander said.

"How she doing?" Jenny asked.

"Well her injury's have healed and there's been slight improvement but the doctors still don't know if she'll make it." Xander said suddenly a little depressed.

"Hey don't worry I'm sure she'll pull through." Buffy said patting him on the shoulders.

"Yeah she probably will." Xander said standing up and starching out his legs.

"Well Shriek and I probably better get going." Xander said turning to leave.

"Hey wait how long until we see you again?" Cordelia asked.

"Well I was thinking about going out on patrol tonight if that's alright with Buff." Xander said turning to the slayer.

"That would be great meet me hear at sundown." Buffy said.

"Will do, see ya." Xander said and with that he and Shriek left the library.

End Chapter 7

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