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Hagrid was escorting his class through the dark forest showing them the extensive flora and fauna. After his lecture on the class trip, he walked over to Xander and Willow to thank them for being chaperones.
"Its good of yeh to 'elp me Xander"
"Not a problemo big guy. Besides you helped me earlier with cleaning up the lower levels. If it weren't for Willow agreeing to help, this trip would have been a no go. Thanks Will." Xander nodded in her direction. Hagrid again gave his thanks and then returned to his students.
"Wow Xan, you didn't tell me about the different plants and creatures in the forest.
This is… Amazing!" Willow stooped down to take a look at a large reptilian-mammal named a Trisik, a squirrel type critter. As she leaned in to look closer, it turned its back on her. "Say Hagrid, what's it doing?" she yelled as Xander turned to watch.
"That there is a defensive measure it's main diet is a wild bean, which produces…"
At that moment there was a soft "whuff" sound and a sharp reaction from Willow.
"Ohhh…God! It … farted … in my face! Oh… Xander it …oh my god whe're the Lysol!"
Xander concerned, quickly looked at Hagrid who "Oh, forgot about that one… But it's not 'armful, just smelly as 'ell. They live a long time…" By this time Xander and the class were on the ground laughing, watching Willow back off and rush around the bend to escape the lingering stench.
Ginny, quickly followed the red witch giggling all the way. She remembered last year when she did absolutely the same exact thing.
After five minutes, half the students were still laughing, when two screams pierced the forest. Xander knew Willow's scream, the other obviously Ginny's. Of course Xander being Xander sprinted towards the scream around the curve. Not stopping, he ran straight on into the cloaked creature grasping Ginny, causing all three to fall. Picking up Ginny, he motioned her away, then snap kicked the creature in the face. Xander rushed to Willow who lay limp in the unclean monstrosity's arms. Reaching her he grabbed the evil thing around the chest, using leverage; he was able to throw it to the ground. The evil flowing from the demon was nauseating, but after meeting the First this was a cakewalk. Stooping he quickly scooped up his friend and ran after Ginny! Looking behind him he saw four more besides the ones already coming to their feet. All heading towards one goal, Hogwarts!
"HAGRID!!! What are these things? Hagrid don't just stand there, MAN, take Willow and get the students out of here, Warn the Profs, NOW!" Hagrid just stood in place, in shock until Harry and Ron shook him out of his stupor.
"Sorry, I am… but Dementors…! Here in the woods??? I thought Dumbledor told the council.."
"Harry, Ron get him and the others out NOW!" The boys obeyed immediately noticing no hint of the normal lighthearted man. He was now all business and totally in charge!
Ron, Draco, Crabbe and Harry hurried down the path. Draco turned at the curve of the path and watched in awe as this muggle, the one he used to make fun of, grab a branch from the ground to knock the closest two Dementors off their feet! He then ran full tilt at the other four! Was this guy nuts? He thought he saw surprise gleaming from the red eyes under the cloaks of the evil creatures! Just as he was about to make impact with them, he through his body in the air horizontally and collided with them taking all to the ground. Rolling off before any could grab him, he fought to his feet. Unexpectedly one grabbed his arm, there was a sharp snap and Xander screamed, "Aarhggg ".
Xander was able to shake free clutching his useless arm when he noticed Draco standing where he was. "Draco, out now! I'll lead them this way… Go!" Draco turned and left in a dead run.
Xander, staggered deeper into the woods turning occasionally to make sure that four of the creatures were behind him. "At least most of them are behind me. Oh…s@#t!
My friends are going to kill me; maybe I should let the demons have me! Wait, what am I thinking, they must have been Gay, Big Bads tried to kiss me …ewww! Why do I always get the funny one?" He mumbled to no one in general.
Hurrying down the path cradling his arm and hearing the foot falls behind him, he realizes that he has never been on this path before. He continued until it dead-ended into a small peninsula on a deep blue lake. At the end of the peninsula was a large moss covered rock "O'k, nowhere else to go. Hope I can swim with one arm, and I hope they can't!" He thought.
He staggered to the other side of the rock, while watching the nearest demon at least ten paces behind him. Getting ready to jump in the water, he stopped for a quick breath.
The nearest Dementor quickly came around the side of the boulder. But it would never truly know what would of happened as it's dismembered head flew into the water with a load splash. Xander came from behind the boulder dragging a three-foot double edged sword. *Dang… this thing's heavy… wish it were lighter. Maybe like a Katana.* The second creature was three feet away, with Xander's broken arm tucked tightly into his buttoned up shirt. When he hefted the sword he didn't realize that the blade was balanced perfectly to his own preference and that the blade was now curved and lighter. He quickly thrust the blade point up into the nearest Dementor and sliced up! The demon seemed to be in shock as it fell backward onto the ground. The other two paused and started to retreat away from Xander, who was bleeding badly from his compound fracture.
They turned and retreated right into two very pissed off Slayers! Who immediately punched their hands through the faces of the two creatures.
Both girls ran up to him catching him as stumbled and then yelling when he bumped his arm. "Xander… my god! You're hurt! Quick B, lets get him back to the castle before he bleeds to death."
"Where'd he get that sword? Never mind, I'll grab the sword and the scabbard,
you help him get to the castle."
Xander still semi-conscience heard a voice, in his head, in a heavy British accent saying, "Use it wisely youngster, White Knights are hard to find these days". He passed out right after, falling to the ground. Buffy ran quickly to Faith and helped Faith throw her over her shoulder. Turning back to pick up the sword that she dropped, she noticed that there was no sign of the path that they took at all! It had disappeared!
"C'mon B, lets go! Turning Buffy catches up to Faith and they hurry to Hogwarts. "B, do yah think he'll be o'k? I mean he's normal, ya know."
"It's only a break Faith, they should be able to fix him right up." She smiled at Faith's worried countenance. "He'll be five by five when this is over."
" I…I know Buff, but I'm worried about him. He's the normal guy, and with that eye, well…"
" Faith, I understand, I do, but he chose to help, not us. Once I tried to keep him safe and it backfired on us, he saved us all including you…But he never once told us about it. Please keep it to yourself. I found out about it from a source I had."
"He saved me twice and I didn't know, I should break his other arm," Faith said in mock anger. They both laughed as they came to the back of the castle where several students and faculty were standing over two smoking Dementor corpses.
"So, do you think they'll find the bodies of the one's we ripped apart in town?" "Don't you mean the pieces B?"
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