Title: Awaken the Inu
Author: DhampyrX2
Genre: Crossover
Rating: PG-13
Timeframe: prologues are btw seasons 3 and 4. The rest starts season seven.
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. Poverty is my constant friend. Please don't sue. I make no money from this.
Note: Evil plot bunnies have invaded my brain again, and the demons of writer's block are spreading. Instead of Starting with a Buffy or Star Wars sequel, or adding to 'The One Who Sees", I feel compelled to work on this. Sorry. Blame the bunnies. Anya's right, they're EVIL. I also changed this from a season five idea, to a season seven idea. Just because I hate Caleb, and want Xander to have a bigger role in the proceedings.
Summary: Xander's father is not who he thought. His real father has decided to inform him of his heritage, leaving Xander with some tough choices.
Once the strike force reached the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High, they quickly broke into their respective teams and prepared for the final fight. The teams gathered for one final pep talk at the front of the school before going to meet their destinies.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, Sunnydale High School, home of the not so famous Hellmouth, and out alma mater. We blew it to pieces years ago, and the damned thing /still/ won't stay dead. I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the bathrooms are located on you left as you head toward the basement. Please feel free to use them before the death and carnage starts, as it may be your last opportunity to do so for some time." Xander stated, eliciting giggles from the nervous neo Slayers. "Now, you all know your jobs and locations, good luck, and good slaying."
Buffy took the opportunity to use the silence Xander's speech had created to add, "Once, a few years back, I told Faith that the first rule of being a Slayer id 'Don't Die.' Follow that rule today, and make the First pay for what it has done."
"You heard her, ladies, get moving." Faith snapped saucily, before tuning and making her way inside, along with Xander, the youkai, a blanket covered Angel, Buffy, and Giles.
The Slayer teams snapped into action then, with some mild direction from Dawn and Wood on where to go to set things up. Once they seemed to understand everything, Dawn went inside to join the main group for one last pow-wow.
Xander looked slightly nervous as he rubbed his hands together and commented, "Well, looks like this is it. The big showdown. So where are we going to celebrate after we win?" he asked.
"I was thinking a small...private celebration at home, Xander-sama." Kagura replied with a naughty grin.
"Kagura! Have you no shame woman? We're about to go into battle at Lord Alexander's side. This is no time to be thinking like that!" Jaken squawked indignantly, making most of the group, minus Giles who seemed to agree, smile.
"I don't know Jaken, that will give me some incentive to come back." the hanyou joked slyly.
"Just as long as you try keep it down this time. I couldn't sleep last night with all the noise." Dawn mock-chided at the pair.
"I'll say. K-girl wasn't kiddin' about the boost in stamina, boytoy. You had baby Slayers drooling in their sleep." Faith added with a wink.
"And this is what we call a scary visual place." Buffy remarked in a tone reminiscent to a tour guide.
"Aww, Buff, you're just sorry you missed the show this morning. After all, Faith and Will were more ogley that freaking outey." Xander responded with a grin.
"Xander!" Willow cried in embarrassment.
"Just kidding Wills." he replied.
"So, that aside, and deeply repressed, I was thinking the mall, then maybe the Bronze." Buffy said to change the subject.
"Sounds like fun. We come, we slay, we party." Xander added.
"A time honored tradition." Willow chimed in.
With that a quiet hush settled over the crowd for a moment as they each mentally prepared themselves. Finally, it was Dawn that broke the silence. "Well, I guess we should each get going to our places. Stay safe everyone." she said as she moved in to hug her fellow Scoobies.
This started a round of hugs and pleas to stay safe, until Dawn, and Wood went to their predetermined locations, each unslinging their MP-5's as they went, and Faith and Willow went to their own assigned places.
As the groups broke up, Giles went to his own location, shaking his head as he heard Xander and Angel begin to bicker lightly, as Buffy tried to break them up. "The Earth is /still/ doomed." he lamented playfully as he went.
As they reached the door to the basement, Buffy asked, "Is everyone ready to heat things up?"
"You know it, Buff." Xander replied, as he lifted up one of the three satchel charges he had carried in to prove his point.
Buffy nodded in acknowledgement, before opening the door and heading in, her scythe drawn and ready. As the groups made their way in, they surveyed the room, which was surprisingly empty. "Think the First doesn't know we were coming?" Rona asked the group nervously.
Xander took a moment to sniff experimentally before he replied, "Nah, I smell bleach, cigarettes, and desperation. Three guesses who's nearby."
"Spike." Angel growled angrily, his vampiric visage coming to his face in his agitation.
"Well, we can worry about Deadboy Jr. after we settle things here." Kagura commented idly, gaining affirmative nods from the rest of the team.
"You said it, Kagura." Xander replied, as he activated the comm unit he had placed on his right ear, causing the others to do the same. "This is team one. We're in position and ready to open the door. Is everything ready?"
"Team two is set, Xand." Dawn replied over the network.
"Team three is in position." came Wood's voice.
"Team four is ready as well, Xander." came Giles' response.
"And I'm ready too. Good luck, guys." came Willow's response.
"All right, we're a go people. Buffy, ladies, do your mojo." Xander responded with a nod, as the Slayers took positions around the Hellmouth seal, and cut open their hands, allowing their blood to fuel the incantation to open the Hellmouth.
The mouth opened with a piteous wail, making more than one rookie slayer cringe. Still they began to step bravely forward, Buffy in the lead. Half the group was in when those outside the Hellmouth heard a muffled gurgle followed by a voice behind them.
"Aww. Am I late? You buggers are really rude to start this little shindig without me. Lucky for all of you I'm not the vengeful type. Oh, wait. I am." Spike said conversationally, as he dropped the corpse of a random Slayer, as a team of Bringers and Turok-hahn moved in to engage the Slayers.
Xander knew immediately that something was up when they reached heavy resistance the second they had entered the mouth. The area was literally teeming with Ubervamps, although he was cutting through them easily with his claws and speed. Likewise, Buffy, Angel, Kagura, and Jaken were having little trouble dispatching the deformed demons. In fact Jaken, with the flamethrower like attack of the staff of souls, had the highest initial kill numbers.
Still it was all too prepared for the hanyou's suspicions to feel at ease, a fact that was backed up when their TAC net came to life with combat sounds on all channels. It appeared Spike had planned a counter assault of his own, and Slayers were meeting them at all quarters. The worst news came from Rona, though, who reported that Spike was there, just before she gave what sounded like a death cry over the radio. Buffy, Xander, and Angel's eyes all met over the carnage, before the hanyou yelled, "I'm nearest the door. I'll handle it." and tossed his charges over the cliffs, igniting dozens of Turok-Hahn on the lower levels, as he took off up out of the Hellmouth, cutting a swath through any bringer of ubervamp in his way.
The sight that reached the son of Sesshomaru was a grisly one. Eight Slayers lay dead on the ground, five of them, including Rona, at Spike's feet. The others were all fighting against Bringers and Turok-hahn in a minimum of three to one odds apiece, as the bleached vamp looked on with amusement.
The hanyou growled low in his throat as he rushed back and forth through the basement, tearing apart Spike's nearby troops in a matter of seconds. Soon, only Xander, the Slayers, and Spike remained.
"You broke my new toys Droopy. You know, I never thought of it, but that nickname really suits you now." the vampire said with a grin.
"Hello, all you happy people." Xander replied in a deadpan, as he faced Spike. "Girls, head down and help the others. I'll handle this." he said a moment later to the surviving Slayers.
Both vampire and hanyou watched the group move into the mouth before facing each other again.
"Where's your bint, whelp. I figured she wouldn't want to be out of your sight." Spike sneered.
"I can take care of myself, Bleach Brain. And she's taking care of your /master's/ cannon fodder underground." the White Knight sneered back.
"Well then. I guess it's just you and me. Pity. I was looking forward to killing Peaches, then the bint, then you. You screwed up my order." Spike responded.
"Whatever. I'm going to dust your ass, you know?" Xander queried.
"We'll see Droops." Spike taunted back, as he took out his black bladed broadsword.
"Oohh, you have a new sword. Watch me tremble. Not." Xander scoffed as he unsheathed the Tetsusaiga.
"Let's have a go, then, and see who the real Big Bad here is." Spike challenged.
"My pleasure." Xander replied, as he rushed in for a quick kill, only to be blocked handily by Spike, who used his momentum to toss him aside into some crates.
"What the hell?" the hanyou asked, from where he climbed up out of the debris just in time to block Spike's follow up strike.
"Not gonna be that easy, boy. I'll have your guts for garters." Spike sneered as they traded strikes and parries at speeds no human could follow, much less achieve. This went on for several seconds, until Xander was forced to jump back to get some room. "What's the matter, Droopy? Things not goin' as easy as you'd like." the vampire taunted.
"Alright. No more mister nice hanyou." Xander growled. "Kaze no Kizu." he cried as he went in for his wind scar attack.
He was thoroughly shocked and worried when Spike's sword spat out violet lightning that blocked the attack, and left Xander open for a bloody claw strike to the side from his opponent.
"I told you it wouldn't be easy whelp." Spike sneered, his hands dripping with hanyou blood. "Your little armor clothes and toy blade won't save your arse, boy. The First made sure I was more than a match for the likes of you, and Naraku made sure my sword was better'n yours."
It was a much more calm and cautious Xander that replied, "We'll see." his voice dropping into the emotionless timbre his father was known for.
END CHAPTER 20
Author: DhampyrX2
Genre: Crossover
Rating: PG-13
Timeframe: prologues are btw seasons 3 and 4. The rest starts season seven.
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. Poverty is my constant friend. Please don't sue. I make no money from this.
Note: Evil plot bunnies have invaded my brain again, and the demons of writer's block are spreading. Instead of Starting with a Buffy or Star Wars sequel, or adding to 'The One Who Sees", I feel compelled to work on this. Sorry. Blame the bunnies. Anya's right, they're EVIL. I also changed this from a season five idea, to a season seven idea. Just because I hate Caleb, and want Xander to have a bigger role in the proceedings.
Summary: Xander's father is not who he thought. His real father has decided to inform him of his heritage, leaving Xander with some tough choices.
Once the strike force reached the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High, they quickly broke into their respective teams and prepared for the final fight. The teams gathered for one final pep talk at the front of the school before going to meet their destinies.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, Sunnydale High School, home of the not so famous Hellmouth, and out alma mater. We blew it to pieces years ago, and the damned thing /still/ won't stay dead. I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the bathrooms are located on you left as you head toward the basement. Please feel free to use them before the death and carnage starts, as it may be your last opportunity to do so for some time." Xander stated, eliciting giggles from the nervous neo Slayers. "Now, you all know your jobs and locations, good luck, and good slaying."
Buffy took the opportunity to use the silence Xander's speech had created to add, "Once, a few years back, I told Faith that the first rule of being a Slayer id 'Don't Die.' Follow that rule today, and make the First pay for what it has done."
"You heard her, ladies, get moving." Faith snapped saucily, before tuning and making her way inside, along with Xander, the youkai, a blanket covered Angel, Buffy, and Giles.
The Slayer teams snapped into action then, with some mild direction from Dawn and Wood on where to go to set things up. Once they seemed to understand everything, Dawn went inside to join the main group for one last pow-wow.
Xander looked slightly nervous as he rubbed his hands together and commented, "Well, looks like this is it. The big showdown. So where are we going to celebrate after we win?" he asked.
"I was thinking a small...private celebration at home, Xander-sama." Kagura replied with a naughty grin.
"Kagura! Have you no shame woman? We're about to go into battle at Lord Alexander's side. This is no time to be thinking like that!" Jaken squawked indignantly, making most of the group, minus Giles who seemed to agree, smile.
"I don't know Jaken, that will give me some incentive to come back." the hanyou joked slyly.
"Just as long as you try keep it down this time. I couldn't sleep last night with all the noise." Dawn mock-chided at the pair.
"I'll say. K-girl wasn't kiddin' about the boost in stamina, boytoy. You had baby Slayers drooling in their sleep." Faith added with a wink.
"And this is what we call a scary visual place." Buffy remarked in a tone reminiscent to a tour guide.
"Aww, Buff, you're just sorry you missed the show this morning. After all, Faith and Will were more ogley that freaking outey." Xander responded with a grin.
"Xander!" Willow cried in embarrassment.
"Just kidding Wills." he replied.
"So, that aside, and deeply repressed, I was thinking the mall, then maybe the Bronze." Buffy said to change the subject.
"Sounds like fun. We come, we slay, we party." Xander added.
"A time honored tradition." Willow chimed in.
With that a quiet hush settled over the crowd for a moment as they each mentally prepared themselves. Finally, it was Dawn that broke the silence. "Well, I guess we should each get going to our places. Stay safe everyone." she said as she moved in to hug her fellow Scoobies.
This started a round of hugs and pleas to stay safe, until Dawn, and Wood went to their predetermined locations, each unslinging their MP-5's as they went, and Faith and Willow went to their own assigned places.
As the groups broke up, Giles went to his own location, shaking his head as he heard Xander and Angel begin to bicker lightly, as Buffy tried to break them up. "The Earth is /still/ doomed." he lamented playfully as he went.
As they reached the door to the basement, Buffy asked, "Is everyone ready to heat things up?"
"You know it, Buff." Xander replied, as he lifted up one of the three satchel charges he had carried in to prove his point.
Buffy nodded in acknowledgement, before opening the door and heading in, her scythe drawn and ready. As the groups made their way in, they surveyed the room, which was surprisingly empty. "Think the First doesn't know we were coming?" Rona asked the group nervously.
Xander took a moment to sniff experimentally before he replied, "Nah, I smell bleach, cigarettes, and desperation. Three guesses who's nearby."
"Spike." Angel growled angrily, his vampiric visage coming to his face in his agitation.
"Well, we can worry about Deadboy Jr. after we settle things here." Kagura commented idly, gaining affirmative nods from the rest of the team.
"You said it, Kagura." Xander replied, as he activated the comm unit he had placed on his right ear, causing the others to do the same. "This is team one. We're in position and ready to open the door. Is everything ready?"
"Team two is set, Xand." Dawn replied over the network.
"Team three is in position." came Wood's voice.
"Team four is ready as well, Xander." came Giles' response.
"And I'm ready too. Good luck, guys." came Willow's response.
"All right, we're a go people. Buffy, ladies, do your mojo." Xander responded with a nod, as the Slayers took positions around the Hellmouth seal, and cut open their hands, allowing their blood to fuel the incantation to open the Hellmouth.
The mouth opened with a piteous wail, making more than one rookie slayer cringe. Still they began to step bravely forward, Buffy in the lead. Half the group was in when those outside the Hellmouth heard a muffled gurgle followed by a voice behind them.
"Aww. Am I late? You buggers are really rude to start this little shindig without me. Lucky for all of you I'm not the vengeful type. Oh, wait. I am." Spike said conversationally, as he dropped the corpse of a random Slayer, as a team of Bringers and Turok-hahn moved in to engage the Slayers.
Xander knew immediately that something was up when they reached heavy resistance the second they had entered the mouth. The area was literally teeming with Ubervamps, although he was cutting through them easily with his claws and speed. Likewise, Buffy, Angel, Kagura, and Jaken were having little trouble dispatching the deformed demons. In fact Jaken, with the flamethrower like attack of the staff of souls, had the highest initial kill numbers.
Still it was all too prepared for the hanyou's suspicions to feel at ease, a fact that was backed up when their TAC net came to life with combat sounds on all channels. It appeared Spike had planned a counter assault of his own, and Slayers were meeting them at all quarters. The worst news came from Rona, though, who reported that Spike was there, just before she gave what sounded like a death cry over the radio. Buffy, Xander, and Angel's eyes all met over the carnage, before the hanyou yelled, "I'm nearest the door. I'll handle it." and tossed his charges over the cliffs, igniting dozens of Turok-Hahn on the lower levels, as he took off up out of the Hellmouth, cutting a swath through any bringer of ubervamp in his way.
The sight that reached the son of Sesshomaru was a grisly one. Eight Slayers lay dead on the ground, five of them, including Rona, at Spike's feet. The others were all fighting against Bringers and Turok-hahn in a minimum of three to one odds apiece, as the bleached vamp looked on with amusement.
The hanyou growled low in his throat as he rushed back and forth through the basement, tearing apart Spike's nearby troops in a matter of seconds. Soon, only Xander, the Slayers, and Spike remained.
"You broke my new toys Droopy. You know, I never thought of it, but that nickname really suits you now." the vampire said with a grin.
"Hello, all you happy people." Xander replied in a deadpan, as he faced Spike. "Girls, head down and help the others. I'll handle this." he said a moment later to the surviving Slayers.
Both vampire and hanyou watched the group move into the mouth before facing each other again.
"Where's your bint, whelp. I figured she wouldn't want to be out of your sight." Spike sneered.
"I can take care of myself, Bleach Brain. And she's taking care of your /master's/ cannon fodder underground." the White Knight sneered back.
"Well then. I guess it's just you and me. Pity. I was looking forward to killing Peaches, then the bint, then you. You screwed up my order." Spike responded.
"Whatever. I'm going to dust your ass, you know?" Xander queried.
"We'll see Droops." Spike taunted back, as he took out his black bladed broadsword.
"Oohh, you have a new sword. Watch me tremble. Not." Xander scoffed as he unsheathed the Tetsusaiga.
"Let's have a go, then, and see who the real Big Bad here is." Spike challenged.
"My pleasure." Xander replied, as he rushed in for a quick kill, only to be blocked handily by Spike, who used his momentum to toss him aside into some crates.
"What the hell?" the hanyou asked, from where he climbed up out of the debris just in time to block Spike's follow up strike.
"Not gonna be that easy, boy. I'll have your guts for garters." Spike sneered as they traded strikes and parries at speeds no human could follow, much less achieve. This went on for several seconds, until Xander was forced to jump back to get some room. "What's the matter, Droopy? Things not goin' as easy as you'd like." the vampire taunted.
"Alright. No more mister nice hanyou." Xander growled. "Kaze no Kizu." he cried as he went in for his wind scar attack.
He was thoroughly shocked and worried when Spike's sword spat out violet lightning that blocked the attack, and left Xander open for a bloody claw strike to the side from his opponent.
"I told you it wouldn't be easy whelp." Spike sneered, his hands dripping with hanyou blood. "Your little armor clothes and toy blade won't save your arse, boy. The First made sure I was more than a match for the likes of you, and Naraku made sure my sword was better'n yours."
It was a much more calm and cautious Xander that replied, "We'll see." his voice dropping into the emotionless timbre his father was known for.
END CHAPTER 20