For Him
pt 8
Dont own BTVS
AN. Okay I am not gonna write for every episode, just the ones I feel are important and when I want to include something. Other than that same old, same old.
Xander showing up to the Rosenbergs house for breakfast on Saturday morning was a regular occurrence. He'd been doing it since they were old enough sleep over and get up a six to watch morning cartoons in matching footy PJ's.
Lucky for the Rosenbergs he didn't rise that early anymore.
He gave a quick knock on the front door before going on through into the kitchen. Willow caught him at the kitchen doorway. She was wearing some ridiculously large and dark sunglasses, a dark blue skivvy and a long blue skirt.
"Oh ahh Xander come her, I've got something to show you" The words came out awkwardly as she threw a quick glance at her parents at he kitchen table.
She dragged him up to her room.
"What am I going to do? I cant go out like this!" She took off her glasses to reveal remarkably similar eye's to those of Xanders. Xander gave her a reassuring look and a congratulatory...
"Go Will! It took me forever to get my eye's"
"That's not whats bothering me Xan! How am I gonna cover them up?" Willow was getting frantic.
"Dont worry Will," he said reassuringly, "we'll just get you some nice shades, for example." With flourish Xander pulled from his pocket a very nice pair of dark glasses, remarkably similar to those he wore now. Small, black reflective lenses on a nice thin, silver frame. He placed them delicately on her nose.
"Ohh Very nice" Willow Turned around to get a look at them in the mirror.
"Xander, these are great! But they must have cost a fortune. I'll pay you back every cent."
"Dont worry, Ian Stanley got em for us for nothin. His dads an optometrist ya know."
"So he what... Got them for you just like that?"
"Well he offered after I beat up Luke Salakas for him"
"Xander!!" Willow couldn't believe what her friend had done.
"Dont worry, that was in seventh grade. I just called in the favor is all" Xander explained.
"Oh well OK" replied a relieved Willow. Luke had been such a dick that year.
"So you seen Crytex this morning ?" Xander asked amusement in his eyes, as he slumped down in Willow computer chair.
"YES. Scared me half to death, but I guess I'll just have to get used to it"
"That you will. Hey... wanna see Glyndaf?"
"I'd better, dont want me freaking out and screaming in public. I woke my parents up this morning, with the screaming that is. Blamed it on a bad dream."
"Bit old for that, dont ya think. But hey, if it works..." He gave a shrug, " Hey Glyndaf! Come here buddy" Xander gave a whistle.
* I'm not your dog Alexander * Complained Glyndaf walking through the wall into the room. Willow eye's bugged and she took a step back, but she handled it rather well.
"Ah hey Glyndaf" She gave him a small nervous wave. He must of noticed because he struck a pose, forked tongue running across his lips as he examined a sharp claw and pretended to pick at a nail. He than stared her straight in the eyes.
* Good morning Willow * He added in his deepest voice. Willow almost squeaked.
"Stop that you!" Xander through a pillow at him that flew inconsequentially through him but managed to stop him posing.
* You know your a bad influence on each other dont you? * added Crytex, coming out from, rather poetically, under the bed. Both stuck their tongue out at her. In tandem.
Willow started laughing, she couldn't help it.
Xander gave her a mock glare.
"So anyway, how'd you fare up after last night?" he asked curiously, changing subjects quickly.
"I'm still sore, my elbows and knees hurt from were I fell, and my lip still hurts and my arm, Oh and there's this one spot on my back, that hurt so much last night"
"Give us a look" Willow turn round and lifted the back of her skivvy. Half way up was a large bruise, Xander sucked in a hiss when he saw it. Slightly further up though was what intrigued him. He smiled and very gently ran a finger over Willow's new tattoo tracing the outline. He smiled as she shivered and goose bumps covered her back. It felt kind of nice that he had this effect on his friend. His very female friend. He waited until she was just about to shiver again and quickly pulled the shirt back down.
"Well you have a massive bruise were you got hit yesterday, are deciding to spend the day bra-less...," she turned and slapped him on the shoulder, he just laughed ".. and, AND have decided to join the world of those with permanent body art"
"WHAT?!"
"Hey, dont worry it's just a small one, right in the middle of your back, no one will notice." He proceeded to watch a rather comical viewing of Willow trying to look at the middle of her back over her shoulder in the mirror.
Willow grunted in frustration, "What's it look like?"
Xander lifted up the sleeve of his shirt and pointed to the one on his shoulder.
"Just like this only smaller, about the size of..." He searched around her room for a reference. He snatched up a small round candle off her table and showed her the bottom. "...This." The candles base had a diameter of about seven centimeters. She didn't look very relieved. So he decided to tell her she wanted to here, something he wanted to tell her.
"Dont worry Will... It looks very sexy" Willow stopped her struggling for a moment, peering at him.
"Really?"
"I think so" She gave him a soft shy smile in return and stopped trying to look. A kind of awkward silence followed as they both smiled kinda nervously at each other.
"So umm what did you end up getting?" Asked Willow, trying to break the silence.
"Huh?, oh Glyndaf said I got a bit faster and stronger, oh and I got some nifty writing on my blades" Said Xander, rather proudly.
"Your blades?" Willow asked giving him a questioning look.
"Oh thats right, I haven't showed you them yet have I? I got them the other day. You know at school." Xander made to slide his blades out but stopped suddenly. "All right Will, this is one of those don't scream moments." She gave him a nod.
He clenched his fists and pulled his arms back. His black bone blades slid out of his arms, silently and quickly. Willow gave a small gasp.
"Oh my god" She gazed at them as Xander waved them about gingerly. "Don't they hurt?"
"Nope, dont feel a thing, well except when I got them." Xander said easily.
Willow came forward cautiously and grabbed one of Xanders arms, holding it still while she examined the blade.
"Careful, they're pretty sharp" Willow glanced up at him, amazed, before looking back down at his blades.
All along the black blades there was now writing. Blazing red runes that seemed to glow under their own power. They drew the eye and directed it to the next rune, flowing down the blades. They seemed to be engraved on to the blades, but as Willow ran a cautious finger down the flat of the blade, she couldn't feel them.
"Glyndaf said all my bones are black like that now, says it makes them really strong, almost unbreakable. So hey, no more skateboarding injuries." Willow was examining Xanders elbows, where the blades emerged. His elbows skin seemed to have folded sideways when the blades emerged.
"Will I get Blades like this?"
"Probably not, Glyndaf reckons you'll be a different fighter to me. No surprise there, but you'll get other things....Oh which reminds me, here" He pulled a book from his back pocket and handed it to her. Than slid his blades back in.
"Whats this?"
"Dont know, I cant read it. But Glyndaf said you could. I've got one of my own, I'm guessing it's kinda like an instruction manual. Mine kinda explained some stuff, about Him, some of his gifts, weapons, legends, that sought of thing." He explained off handedly. "Oh and it's written in blood."
"Okay ewww but thanks"
"No prob, now come on, lets get some breakfast. Oh and you may want to change... Today we go running"
Willow finally noticed his sweat pants and shirt and groaned.
*******
Willows thighs ached. Her feet were sore. Her arms protested every movement, and her lungs burned. But she kept on running, because he hadn't stopped.
"Will it always be like this?" She panted out as they rounded a corner and started jogging into the park. Xander looked at her for a moment, barely sweating, which annoyed her to no end, before answering.
"Dont worry Will, in a few weeks you wont even feel tired after a jog like this."
"No I meant our gifts! Will we always be getting these changes or what?" They headed towards a couple of benches.
"Well, you may get maybe one more big change but after that it'll start to slow right down. I think anyway. I mean, killing a vampire, big thing in His books. But you do it over and over again he'll just get bored. Especially if he gave us so many gifts that we could kill them in seconds." He explained as they stopped at one of the benches and started to stretch out and take a breather.
"So what will happen then? We kill vamps for him, and fight for him and he gets bored so we get nothing?" Willow felt kinda jipped.
"Think of it as brownie points Will. For every vamp we kill or fight we get in, we get one day of training, or a tiny increase in speed and strength, or go into the running for a nice new car. But dont worry, we'll find something stronger than vamps, something that'll tickle his fancy. This is the mouth of hell, there's hopefully gonna be a bit of variety."
"You really want to fight something stronger than a vamp?" Willow asked incredulously as she sat and held his feet as he started to do some sit ups.
"Yeah Will, I do" He got to the top of a sit up and gave her a serious look, "You're rather new to this so you dont really feel it yet. You get an urge to fight. To test yourself against something stronger and stronger. And when you fight everything else disappears, it's just you and them. It starts to feel really.... good." He shook himself out of his thoughts and started his sit ups again. "Than again it just might be me."
"Well it's probably all those male hormones" She gave him a playful smile and a poke in the gut "You and your girls, cars and fighting."
"Are you telling me that you dont want to be my girl?" He smiled at her.
"Ahh umm Noo" Willow stumbled from word to word, put off by his question.
"Good" He grabbed her arms and hauled both of them to their feet.
"So what did you have planned for today?" Xander began as they started walking back to Willows.
"Well I was going to go shopping with Buffy for make up. After last night I think I'm gonna need it."
"Last night?" Xander looked puzzled as he tried to remember something he should have done last night.
"Crap, I forgot to tape Babylon 5! Please tell me you got it Will?" He put on a show of desperation.
"Hmm I think I did, but I may lose it if I have to run home" she gave him a mischievous grin.
"Easily fixed" He grabbed her by the waist and hoisted her over the shoulder before she could react, and started running. Willow let out a squeal as she bumped around on his shoulder, giggling all the time.
"Xanderrr!!!"
*******
And so the year continued...
Xander and Willow continued training, each receiving little private lessons from their familiars. Willow was introduced into magic, Xander into mental attack and defense skills, and meditative healing. They helped get Amy her body back from her body switching witch of a mother. Miss French was chopped into tiny bits by Buffy though, Xander wasn't saved, by a queer stroke of luck he had decided to play hooky the day Miss French had asked for volunteers. Unluckily the anointed one was still missed by the gang.
The incident with the pack though, That was a strange one.
*******
"Whoa, I'll handle this," Xander gave Buffy a confident grin "It's what I do".
Xander ducked under the yellow tape partitioning off the Hyena exhibit and strode after the schools complement of bullies. Glyndaf fell into step next to him.
* You know he wont reward you for this *
"Yeah, but it aint always about that. Some times you do it cause you want to. That and it's the right thing to do and all that crap", he added that last bit as an after thought.
They continued down the walkway, passing through ripped tape barricades, until they came upon the actual enclosure. Kyle and his friends were holding Lance over the railing.
Xander strode up to them, absently cracking his knuckle. He reached forward and grabbed Kyle by the collar, lifted him to his toes and tossed him away from Lance.
"You guys were really looking for a beating now weren't you?" Lance made good the distraction and made for the exit, he'd thank Xander later.
Tor and Kyle turned to Xander, slight trepidation in their eyes. Xander had a bit of a rep. Still their female friends were there, they weren't backing down.
"Well if it aint captain geek. Here to save his little buddy"
"Ready to save the day again?" The sarcasm in their voices wasn't lost on Xander.
"No actually, I just felt like beating you two to bloody messes." He cocked a fist.
Than it happened, the Hyenas eye's flashed and suddenly Tor and Kyle's did the same, so did the girls.
Xander felt the magic flow over him, It felt just like when he received a gift from him only more, only...dirty, and wild. He didn't like it. When it suddenly slammed into him and he fought it. He felt another mind, a simpler, but powerful mind try to overlap his. He pushed it back but it surged forward again. He felt himself fall to his knees. He was vaguely aware of Kyle and his group laughing at him. But his entire being was now focused on his fight He pushed and pushed and fought, using some on the mental techniques Glyndaf had taught him, pushing the other mind inch by mental inch out of his mind until it was gone, the tension popped like a soap bubble. The mind was gone... but only for know, he could still feel the magic flowing over him.
* Xander! XANDER! Get to Willow now. Xander can you hear me? * Glyndaf was sounding worried, which scared Xander. He'd never heard, Glyndaf worried. Xander managed to nod weakly. He felt like crap. His entire mind at the moment was clenched like a fist. Ready to fight and defend against, the mind when it tried to take over again.
Xander felt a bead of sweat run down his forehead.
* Xander, Go to Willow, she can help * Xander didn't answer. He just climbed to his feet and stumbled out of the room, and out of the enclosure. Willow was sitting on a low wall across from the entrance waiting for him. It seemed Buffy had moved on. Glyndaf rushed ahead and told her and Crytex what had happened. Willow rushed over to him.
"It's in my mind Will... It's trying to take over my mind" Xander grated it out through gritted teeth.
"Oh ah well I can help. It think. No I know.. I know. Dont worry Xan. Just hold tight"
Xander felt the presence preparing for another assault.
"It's coming again Will" He let out a groan.
* Do it now Willow! Kasta kundow posrite *
" Ahh Kasta Kun-dow posrite" Willow's pronunciation was a little off but her concentration was correct so the spell still worked. Willow felt the small flop of her stomach that told her it had worked.
* Well done Willow, first go this time too * Crytex congratulated her. They had been practicing spells all afternoon yesterday, and Willow had had a bit of trouble executing them first time around, simple as they were. Xander was standing there dumbly but obviously not tense or scared. In fact he showed no emotion at all. It worried Glyndaf, he couldn't feel Xander anymore.
* What did you do to him!? I cant feel him at all! * Said Glyndaf angrily, Willow took a step back.
* She did what was necessary, She froze all magic on him. A relatively useful spell though it is rather weak * Stated Crytex coolly, coming to Willows defence.
* But that includes his soul! He'll be an emotionless doll until you reverse it. *
* Which is just as well. He'll be much easier to handle until we can trap the animals mind and free him. Dont worry, we will reverse the spell... I doubt I could stop Willow from doing it anyway *
"Why didn't you know about the spell?" Willow cut in curiously. She was wondering why Crytex would know the spell, while Glyndaf wouldn't. She assumed both Xander and her were learning the same things.
* I'm a Warrior Familiar, not a battle mages familiar * stated Glyndaf in an angry impatient tone.
"Oh Ok." Willow carefully took note of that information.
* Willow will you be able to get him back to your house directly after school? * Asked Crytex * We'll be able to fix him up there *
"I think so, but how will I get him to do anything?"
* Dont worry, right now he's like a computer... You just have to tell him what to do, but to be safe be kinda specific, and keep him away from most people so they wont realize something wrong * instructed Crytex.
"Oh ok, that shouldn't be too hard"
* Hmm this could... I'll meet you there. I have things to see to * Glyndaf kinda just phased out in front of them.
"Weird"
pt 8
Dont own BTVS
AN. Okay I am not gonna write for every episode, just the ones I feel are important and when I want to include something. Other than that same old, same old.
Xander showing up to the Rosenbergs house for breakfast on Saturday morning was a regular occurrence. He'd been doing it since they were old enough sleep over and get up a six to watch morning cartoons in matching footy PJ's.
Lucky for the Rosenbergs he didn't rise that early anymore.
He gave a quick knock on the front door before going on through into the kitchen. Willow caught him at the kitchen doorway. She was wearing some ridiculously large and dark sunglasses, a dark blue skivvy and a long blue skirt.
"Oh ahh Xander come her, I've got something to show you" The words came out awkwardly as she threw a quick glance at her parents at he kitchen table.
She dragged him up to her room.
"What am I going to do? I cant go out like this!" She took off her glasses to reveal remarkably similar eye's to those of Xanders. Xander gave her a reassuring look and a congratulatory...
"Go Will! It took me forever to get my eye's"
"That's not whats bothering me Xan! How am I gonna cover them up?" Willow was getting frantic.
"Dont worry Will," he said reassuringly, "we'll just get you some nice shades, for example." With flourish Xander pulled from his pocket a very nice pair of dark glasses, remarkably similar to those he wore now. Small, black reflective lenses on a nice thin, silver frame. He placed them delicately on her nose.
"Ohh Very nice" Willow Turned around to get a look at them in the mirror.
"Xander, these are great! But they must have cost a fortune. I'll pay you back every cent."
"Dont worry, Ian Stanley got em for us for nothin. His dads an optometrist ya know."
"So he what... Got them for you just like that?"
"Well he offered after I beat up Luke Salakas for him"
"Xander!!" Willow couldn't believe what her friend had done.
"Dont worry, that was in seventh grade. I just called in the favor is all" Xander explained.
"Oh well OK" replied a relieved Willow. Luke had been such a dick that year.
"So you seen Crytex this morning ?" Xander asked amusement in his eyes, as he slumped down in Willow computer chair.
"YES. Scared me half to death, but I guess I'll just have to get used to it"
"That you will. Hey... wanna see Glyndaf?"
"I'd better, dont want me freaking out and screaming in public. I woke my parents up this morning, with the screaming that is. Blamed it on a bad dream."
"Bit old for that, dont ya think. But hey, if it works..." He gave a shrug, " Hey Glyndaf! Come here buddy" Xander gave a whistle.
* I'm not your dog Alexander * Complained Glyndaf walking through the wall into the room. Willow eye's bugged and she took a step back, but she handled it rather well.
"Ah hey Glyndaf" She gave him a small nervous wave. He must of noticed because he struck a pose, forked tongue running across his lips as he examined a sharp claw and pretended to pick at a nail. He than stared her straight in the eyes.
* Good morning Willow * He added in his deepest voice. Willow almost squeaked.
"Stop that you!" Xander through a pillow at him that flew inconsequentially through him but managed to stop him posing.
* You know your a bad influence on each other dont you? * added Crytex, coming out from, rather poetically, under the bed. Both stuck their tongue out at her. In tandem.
Willow started laughing, she couldn't help it.
Xander gave her a mock glare.
"So anyway, how'd you fare up after last night?" he asked curiously, changing subjects quickly.
"I'm still sore, my elbows and knees hurt from were I fell, and my lip still hurts and my arm, Oh and there's this one spot on my back, that hurt so much last night"
"Give us a look" Willow turn round and lifted the back of her skivvy. Half way up was a large bruise, Xander sucked in a hiss when he saw it. Slightly further up though was what intrigued him. He smiled and very gently ran a finger over Willow's new tattoo tracing the outline. He smiled as she shivered and goose bumps covered her back. It felt kind of nice that he had this effect on his friend. His very female friend. He waited until she was just about to shiver again and quickly pulled the shirt back down.
"Well you have a massive bruise were you got hit yesterday, are deciding to spend the day bra-less...," she turned and slapped him on the shoulder, he just laughed ".. and, AND have decided to join the world of those with permanent body art"
"WHAT?!"
"Hey, dont worry it's just a small one, right in the middle of your back, no one will notice." He proceeded to watch a rather comical viewing of Willow trying to look at the middle of her back over her shoulder in the mirror.
Willow grunted in frustration, "What's it look like?"
Xander lifted up the sleeve of his shirt and pointed to the one on his shoulder.
"Just like this only smaller, about the size of..." He searched around her room for a reference. He snatched up a small round candle off her table and showed her the bottom. "...This." The candles base had a diameter of about seven centimeters. She didn't look very relieved. So he decided to tell her she wanted to here, something he wanted to tell her.
"Dont worry Will... It looks very sexy" Willow stopped her struggling for a moment, peering at him.
"Really?"
"I think so" She gave him a soft shy smile in return and stopped trying to look. A kind of awkward silence followed as they both smiled kinda nervously at each other.
"So umm what did you end up getting?" Asked Willow, trying to break the silence.
"Huh?, oh Glyndaf said I got a bit faster and stronger, oh and I got some nifty writing on my blades" Said Xander, rather proudly.
"Your blades?" Willow asked giving him a questioning look.
"Oh thats right, I haven't showed you them yet have I? I got them the other day. You know at school." Xander made to slide his blades out but stopped suddenly. "All right Will, this is one of those don't scream moments." She gave him a nod.
He clenched his fists and pulled his arms back. His black bone blades slid out of his arms, silently and quickly. Willow gave a small gasp.
"Oh my god" She gazed at them as Xander waved them about gingerly. "Don't they hurt?"
"Nope, dont feel a thing, well except when I got them." Xander said easily.
Willow came forward cautiously and grabbed one of Xanders arms, holding it still while she examined the blade.
"Careful, they're pretty sharp" Willow glanced up at him, amazed, before looking back down at his blades.
All along the black blades there was now writing. Blazing red runes that seemed to glow under their own power. They drew the eye and directed it to the next rune, flowing down the blades. They seemed to be engraved on to the blades, but as Willow ran a cautious finger down the flat of the blade, she couldn't feel them.
"Glyndaf said all my bones are black like that now, says it makes them really strong, almost unbreakable. So hey, no more skateboarding injuries." Willow was examining Xanders elbows, where the blades emerged. His elbows skin seemed to have folded sideways when the blades emerged.
"Will I get Blades like this?"
"Probably not, Glyndaf reckons you'll be a different fighter to me. No surprise there, but you'll get other things....Oh which reminds me, here" He pulled a book from his back pocket and handed it to her. Than slid his blades back in.
"Whats this?"
"Dont know, I cant read it. But Glyndaf said you could. I've got one of my own, I'm guessing it's kinda like an instruction manual. Mine kinda explained some stuff, about Him, some of his gifts, weapons, legends, that sought of thing." He explained off handedly. "Oh and it's written in blood."
"Okay ewww but thanks"
"No prob, now come on, lets get some breakfast. Oh and you may want to change... Today we go running"
Willow finally noticed his sweat pants and shirt and groaned.
*******
Willows thighs ached. Her feet were sore. Her arms protested every movement, and her lungs burned. But she kept on running, because he hadn't stopped.
"Will it always be like this?" She panted out as they rounded a corner and started jogging into the park. Xander looked at her for a moment, barely sweating, which annoyed her to no end, before answering.
"Dont worry Will, in a few weeks you wont even feel tired after a jog like this."
"No I meant our gifts! Will we always be getting these changes or what?" They headed towards a couple of benches.
"Well, you may get maybe one more big change but after that it'll start to slow right down. I think anyway. I mean, killing a vampire, big thing in His books. But you do it over and over again he'll just get bored. Especially if he gave us so many gifts that we could kill them in seconds." He explained as they stopped at one of the benches and started to stretch out and take a breather.
"So what will happen then? We kill vamps for him, and fight for him and he gets bored so we get nothing?" Willow felt kinda jipped.
"Think of it as brownie points Will. For every vamp we kill or fight we get in, we get one day of training, or a tiny increase in speed and strength, or go into the running for a nice new car. But dont worry, we'll find something stronger than vamps, something that'll tickle his fancy. This is the mouth of hell, there's hopefully gonna be a bit of variety."
"You really want to fight something stronger than a vamp?" Willow asked incredulously as she sat and held his feet as he started to do some sit ups.
"Yeah Will, I do" He got to the top of a sit up and gave her a serious look, "You're rather new to this so you dont really feel it yet. You get an urge to fight. To test yourself against something stronger and stronger. And when you fight everything else disappears, it's just you and them. It starts to feel really.... good." He shook himself out of his thoughts and started his sit ups again. "Than again it just might be me."
"Well it's probably all those male hormones" She gave him a playful smile and a poke in the gut "You and your girls, cars and fighting."
"Are you telling me that you dont want to be my girl?" He smiled at her.
"Ahh umm Noo" Willow stumbled from word to word, put off by his question.
"Good" He grabbed her arms and hauled both of them to their feet.
"So what did you have planned for today?" Xander began as they started walking back to Willows.
"Well I was going to go shopping with Buffy for make up. After last night I think I'm gonna need it."
"Last night?" Xander looked puzzled as he tried to remember something he should have done last night.
"Crap, I forgot to tape Babylon 5! Please tell me you got it Will?" He put on a show of desperation.
"Hmm I think I did, but I may lose it if I have to run home" she gave him a mischievous grin.
"Easily fixed" He grabbed her by the waist and hoisted her over the shoulder before she could react, and started running. Willow let out a squeal as she bumped around on his shoulder, giggling all the time.
"Xanderrr!!!"
*******
And so the year continued...
Xander and Willow continued training, each receiving little private lessons from their familiars. Willow was introduced into magic, Xander into mental attack and defense skills, and meditative healing. They helped get Amy her body back from her body switching witch of a mother. Miss French was chopped into tiny bits by Buffy though, Xander wasn't saved, by a queer stroke of luck he had decided to play hooky the day Miss French had asked for volunteers. Unluckily the anointed one was still missed by the gang.
The incident with the pack though, That was a strange one.
*******
"Whoa, I'll handle this," Xander gave Buffy a confident grin "It's what I do".
Xander ducked under the yellow tape partitioning off the Hyena exhibit and strode after the schools complement of bullies. Glyndaf fell into step next to him.
* You know he wont reward you for this *
"Yeah, but it aint always about that. Some times you do it cause you want to. That and it's the right thing to do and all that crap", he added that last bit as an after thought.
They continued down the walkway, passing through ripped tape barricades, until they came upon the actual enclosure. Kyle and his friends were holding Lance over the railing.
Xander strode up to them, absently cracking his knuckle. He reached forward and grabbed Kyle by the collar, lifted him to his toes and tossed him away from Lance.
"You guys were really looking for a beating now weren't you?" Lance made good the distraction and made for the exit, he'd thank Xander later.
Tor and Kyle turned to Xander, slight trepidation in their eyes. Xander had a bit of a rep. Still their female friends were there, they weren't backing down.
"Well if it aint captain geek. Here to save his little buddy"
"Ready to save the day again?" The sarcasm in their voices wasn't lost on Xander.
"No actually, I just felt like beating you two to bloody messes." He cocked a fist.
Than it happened, the Hyenas eye's flashed and suddenly Tor and Kyle's did the same, so did the girls.
Xander felt the magic flow over him, It felt just like when he received a gift from him only more, only...dirty, and wild. He didn't like it. When it suddenly slammed into him and he fought it. He felt another mind, a simpler, but powerful mind try to overlap his. He pushed it back but it surged forward again. He felt himself fall to his knees. He was vaguely aware of Kyle and his group laughing at him. But his entire being was now focused on his fight He pushed and pushed and fought, using some on the mental techniques Glyndaf had taught him, pushing the other mind inch by mental inch out of his mind until it was gone, the tension popped like a soap bubble. The mind was gone... but only for know, he could still feel the magic flowing over him.
* Xander! XANDER! Get to Willow now. Xander can you hear me? * Glyndaf was sounding worried, which scared Xander. He'd never heard, Glyndaf worried. Xander managed to nod weakly. He felt like crap. His entire mind at the moment was clenched like a fist. Ready to fight and defend against, the mind when it tried to take over again.
Xander felt a bead of sweat run down his forehead.
* Xander, Go to Willow, she can help * Xander didn't answer. He just climbed to his feet and stumbled out of the room, and out of the enclosure. Willow was sitting on a low wall across from the entrance waiting for him. It seemed Buffy had moved on. Glyndaf rushed ahead and told her and Crytex what had happened. Willow rushed over to him.
"It's in my mind Will... It's trying to take over my mind" Xander grated it out through gritted teeth.
"Oh ah well I can help. It think. No I know.. I know. Dont worry Xan. Just hold tight"
Xander felt the presence preparing for another assault.
"It's coming again Will" He let out a groan.
* Do it now Willow! Kasta kundow posrite *
" Ahh Kasta Kun-dow posrite" Willow's pronunciation was a little off but her concentration was correct so the spell still worked. Willow felt the small flop of her stomach that told her it had worked.
* Well done Willow, first go this time too * Crytex congratulated her. They had been practicing spells all afternoon yesterday, and Willow had had a bit of trouble executing them first time around, simple as they were. Xander was standing there dumbly but obviously not tense or scared. In fact he showed no emotion at all. It worried Glyndaf, he couldn't feel Xander anymore.
* What did you do to him!? I cant feel him at all! * Said Glyndaf angrily, Willow took a step back.
* She did what was necessary, She froze all magic on him. A relatively useful spell though it is rather weak * Stated Crytex coolly, coming to Willows defence.
* But that includes his soul! He'll be an emotionless doll until you reverse it. *
* Which is just as well. He'll be much easier to handle until we can trap the animals mind and free him. Dont worry, we will reverse the spell... I doubt I could stop Willow from doing it anyway *
"Why didn't you know about the spell?" Willow cut in curiously. She was wondering why Crytex would know the spell, while Glyndaf wouldn't. She assumed both Xander and her were learning the same things.
* I'm a Warrior Familiar, not a battle mages familiar * stated Glyndaf in an angry impatient tone.
"Oh Ok." Willow carefully took note of that information.
* Willow will you be able to get him back to your house directly after school? * Asked Crytex * We'll be able to fix him up there *
"I think so, but how will I get him to do anything?"
* Dont worry, right now he's like a computer... You just have to tell him what to do, but to be safe be kinda specific, and keep him away from most people so they wont realize something wrong * instructed Crytex.
"Oh ok, that shouldn't be too hard"
* Hmm this could... I'll meet you there. I have things to see to * Glyndaf kinda just phased out in front of them.
"Weird"