Title: The Monster's Alphabet
Author: alliterator
Summary: A series of vignettes, from Adam to Zookeeper. Spoilers for all seven seasons.
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine; everything belongs to the great and power Whedon.
Kralik
Takes before Buffy was the Slayer, but spoilers for Season 3's "Helpless."
"Why did you come to the dark of the wood to bring all these sweets to grandmother's house?"
- Kralik in Helpless.
A girl with dark brown hair and a freckled face walked down a darkened hallway. In one hand, she held a stake, which she gripped tightly. The other hand was just bawled up, her fingernails making deep indentations in her hand.
"Just pull and keep quiet," a voice said from the shadows. The girl turned around, trying to find where the voice was. "Those are your grandmother's intestines." The girl swallowed nervously and kept walking along the hallway.
She reached the door at the end of the hallway and put her hand on the doorknob. "Eat and keep quiet," the voice said again and the girl turned her head, but she still couldn't see where it came from. "They are your grandmother's teeth."
The girl turned the doorknob and slowly opened the door. She looked inside the room and saw no one. "Eat and keep quiet. They are your grandmother's jaws." The girl tried to stay calm, but her expression revealed her terror.
She closed the door and walked by down the hallway. "Drink and keep quiet." The girl turned again, still searching for the voice. "It is your grandmother's blood!" And the voice came up from behind her, grabbed her shoulders, and sunk its teeth into her neck. She struggled, but the voice's hands held her. She screamed, but that just made the voice drink deeper.
And after several minutes of draining her, the vampire dropped the girl to the floor. "Mmmm, salty," Zachary Kralik said. "I always like eating the British – they always taste so good."
Suddenly, the door to burst open and several men poured into the hallways. One was holding a gun and quickly shot Kralik. "Ah, man," Kralik said, "just when I was at the fun part." And then he collapsed with a tranquilizer dart imbedded in his torso.
The men moved forward. They were dressed in suits with ties and one started wrapping chains around Kralik's hands and feet, while another checked to see if the girl's pulse.
The man who checked the girl's pulse – a young Watcher named Bryce – came up to another of the men. "I'm sorry, sir," he said. "Elaine's dead."
"Well," Quentin Travers said, "I guess we'll have to start with another Slayer. What a waste."
Author's Note: The lines Kralik speaks to the Slayer are from an Italian/Austrian version of 'Little Red Riding Hood,' called 'Little Red Hat.' I chose the story because it was particularly gory and the traditional wolf is replaced by an ogre, so I figured Kralik would like that and remember that particular version..