Smallville: Amazons & Slayers by Antonio Cabañas
Chapter 6
Disclaimer: Smallville, Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and all related characters are trademarks of DC Comics, which is owned by Warner Bros. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon.
E-mail: borg31de777yahoo.es.
Spoilers: Smallville second season until "Rosetta" and the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
I wish to thank my beta-reader Carycomix for his help and support all this time, and I'm sorry that our association isn't going to continue more time. I am not going to be able to contact with my beta-reader in a while, so if somebody wants to beta-read my stories, at least until I reestablish contact with him, e-mail me to my address above.
Answer to reviewers:
Please, review!!!!
Note: this story contains a rather pedantic explanation of the dangers of subterranean places that had been closed for many time. If you aren't interested, you can skip it without problem, as it no has great relevance to the story.
Summary: A mysterious woman comes to Smallville, jealousies in the Smallville High Athletic Team take a odd turn, a mystery from the past reappears and Clark become involved in all of that.
The Talon
"This coffee shop seems like a good place to stay." said Buffy.
"Indeed." nodded Willow, appreciating the tastefully decorated environment.
A black-haired young woman, accompanied by a brunette girl, came to the table where the Scoobies had sat.
"Welcome to the Talon. I'm sorry for the havoc here, but we are placing the decorations for the festival." said the brunette girl. "I'm Lana Lang, the manager. If you have some complaint, I will be by the coffee machine." and started to go there.
"Well, what do you wish to have?"
After ordering orange juice, Willow went to talk with the brunette girl.
"Miss Lang, can I ask you something?"
"Of course. What do you want to know?"
"Do you know Chloe Sullivan?"
"I'm her best friend."
"Oh! Good, because, you'll see, I'm writing a thesis about the kawatche settlements in this area."
"Are you interested in the caves?" asked Lana to the redhead witch.
"Partially, although I have found, consulting old documents, that there was a subterranean chamber where the kawatche shamans performed some ceremonies. The chamber was already abandoned by the time that Smallville was founded, and a mansion was built over it. They used it as a sort of basement or something like that. The mansion was destroyed in the meteor storm, but I want to see if the chamber can be excavated. Where the mansion was, now there are a lot of bungalows, and Ms. Sullivan agreed to help me to locate it."
"So that was what she was doing this morning!" exclaimed Lana "I live in a room in her home, and when I wake up this morning she was busy comparing measures on two maps."
"I hope that she won't try to open the chamber. It's dangerous" said Willow and thought 'Specially if there is still a vampire there'
"Why? It's cursed or something?"
"No, but you can never know what has been growing in a place that has been closed for many years, apart of the possible accumulation of toxic or radioactive gases." seeing the blank face of Lana, she elaborated "There are several species of molds that grow in dark, humid places, like subterranean chambers, and whose spores are able to grow in the lungs or the trachea. In Prague, for example, two archaeologists died after opening the crypt of an ancient bohemian king. And radon, a radioactive gas of the same family of neon, argon or krypton, can filter through the rock, and being heavier than air stays low..."
"Ok, Ok, I get the idea." said Lana. "I'm going to call her."
When Willow got back to the table, Buffy complimented her.
"Very smooth, Wills. Did you make the story of the crypt?"
"No, I saw a documentary on Discovery Channel."
Outskirts of Smallville
'Why are you doing this, Chloe?' thought the blonde teenager as she was walking down the street 'You could have told her what you had investigated'
'Because there was something that didn't sound well in her story. That's why you have left your cellphone in home.' she answered in her head 'And you know the reputation of this place, too'
All the bungalows here had been built after the meteors fell. The only other building in the area was the house of Professor Hamilton. The area has good communications with Smallville and had an easy access to the highway, but currently there were only some people living here, and mostly on the edge of this area. The reasons were the odd things that happened here. Most of the people that lived here caught a weird illness whose cause was unknown, but the symptoms disappeared once that they moved away from here. One of the unexplained mysteries of Smallville. For a few years there were miscarriages of pregnancies, unexplained deaths of children and elders until...
"Carney House" she said under her breath, as a chill ran through her spine, when she saw her destination.
The Carney's had been one of the first families to move here. A young couple with a child, they were the first that had gotten ill. Mrs. Carney, who was pregnant, suffered a miscarriage, and after that her reason began to slip off. She talked with people that nobody could see, and suffered violent episodes. One night, the neighbours heard screams and two shots coming from the house, and they called the sheriff. When he came into the house, the scene gave him nightmares for years. The Carney boy had been bled to death from a great cut in the neck. Mrs Carney had died of a shot between her eyes, and the blood soaking her night-gown and covering her face showed that she had not only killed her own son, but that she had also drunk his blood. Mr. Carney had shot himself in his head with his revolver. This event was the last straw for most of the people in the neighborhood, as most of them had left soon after that.
Chloe climbed over the fence and looked at the building, that was very clean for a building that had been several years abandoned. It seemed that even the most obnoxious graffiti painters avoided this place.
The doors were closed, and the windows blocked with planks, as the glass had disappeared a long time ago. She reviewed every one of the windows, and found that one had a loose plank. She managed to remove it and loose the others, so she could sneak inside the house, squeezing through the blocked window.
The building was dark, with that particular stench that closed buildings develop over time. She turned on a small flashlight and started to explore the house. On most of the wooden walls there was broken planks, following lines that continued the cracks in the floor. She followed the cracks toward their origin, a great hole in the floor. She looked inside, seeing a circular well that went down toward an ancient-looking stair, made of irregular stone steps. Some of them were covered by the debris of the floor.
"So that woman was right, this chamber seems to have survived the meteor, unlike the manor and the upper basement." she said to herself.
She kneeled and looked at the walls of the hole. Oddly, they seemed very smooth and shiny, almost as if they were glass. Suddenly she started to hear a rumbling sound coming from below. She stood up and started to move backwards, toward the window. When whiffs of green vapor began to appear she started to run.
She was frantically loosening the planks in the window when a cloud of green vapor enveloped her. The last thing that she saw before losing consciousness were two unearthly glowing green eyes.
The Talon
While Dawn was asking Willow about what she should study at college, Buffy was looking through the window. She saw a golden sports car ('How garish' she thought) parking before the Talon, but her gaze was attracted by two girls that had just turned a corner. One of them was a brunette, and the other had flaming red hair. There was something about those girls...
Dawn excused herself and started to go to the toilet when a bald man that had just entered bumped into her. She stumbled for a moment and would have fallen if the man hadn't caught her. Unfortunately, her backpack, that was loosely hanging from her shoulders by only one strap fell to ground, spilling part of its contents.
In normal circunstances Dawn would have thanked the man and started to put her things back inside, but these weren't normal circunstances.
"Thanks, mister...?"
"Luthor, Lex Luthor."
"Please, Mr. Luthor can you collect my things from the floor. I really, really have to go to the toilet."
Lex nodded and Dawn raced to the toilet.
Lex looked at the things that had fallen from the backpack with curiosity, although soon realized that they were the usual things to be found there, several notebooks, a diary, snacks, a make-up kit, lipstick and a cellphone. When he started to put the things inside, he noted that there was an ancient-looking hard-covered book inside, and other things that sounded metallic. He shrugged off the impulse to see what the book was and picked up the last thing, a notebook, from the ground.
The notebook had opened with the fall, and what was in the page caught his eye. A really well made drawing of Lex favorite comic-book hero, Warrior Angel, dated around Christmas of the last year.
Unable to repress his curiosity, he started to leaf through the notebook, seeing equally well made drawings of several superheroes, including Warrior Angel, the Amazon Pricess, Dark Crusader, several of the Golden Age heroes of the Justice Society, alternated with drawings of what seemed demons and vampires, dated through that year. The last drawings were three vampires, named Angel, Spike and Drusilla, and an original superheroine, a blonde-haired woman dressed in a tight-fitting, sleeveless black jumpsuit, with stylized blood-red S in the chest, wearing a utility belt full of weapons, carrying a broadsword in one hand and a crossbow in the other, named 'The Slayer'. The drawing, which was inked and colored, was dated the day before.
"Having fun?" said Dawn behind Lex, startling him.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Chapter 6
Disclaimer: Smallville, Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and all related characters are trademarks of DC Comics, which is owned by Warner Bros. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon.
E-mail: borg31de777yahoo.es.
Spoilers: Smallville second season until "Rosetta" and the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
I wish to thank my beta-reader Carycomix for his help and support all this time, and I'm sorry that our association isn't going to continue more time. I am not going to be able to contact with my beta-reader in a while, so if somebody wants to beta-read my stories, at least until I reestablish contact with him, e-mail me to my address above.
Answer to reviewers:
Please, review!!!!
Note: this story contains a rather pedantic explanation of the dangers of subterranean places that had been closed for many time. If you aren't interested, you can skip it without problem, as it no has great relevance to the story.
Summary: A mysterious woman comes to Smallville, jealousies in the Smallville High Athletic Team take a odd turn, a mystery from the past reappears and Clark become involved in all of that.
The Talon
"This coffee shop seems like a good place to stay." said Buffy.
"Indeed." nodded Willow, appreciating the tastefully decorated environment.
A black-haired young woman, accompanied by a brunette girl, came to the table where the Scoobies had sat.
"Welcome to the Talon. I'm sorry for the havoc here, but we are placing the decorations for the festival." said the brunette girl. "I'm Lana Lang, the manager. If you have some complaint, I will be by the coffee machine." and started to go there.
"Well, what do you wish to have?"
After ordering orange juice, Willow went to talk with the brunette girl.
"Miss Lang, can I ask you something?"
"Of course. What do you want to know?"
"Do you know Chloe Sullivan?"
"I'm her best friend."
"Oh! Good, because, you'll see, I'm writing a thesis about the kawatche settlements in this area."
"Are you interested in the caves?" asked Lana to the redhead witch.
"Partially, although I have found, consulting old documents, that there was a subterranean chamber where the kawatche shamans performed some ceremonies. The chamber was already abandoned by the time that Smallville was founded, and a mansion was built over it. They used it as a sort of basement or something like that. The mansion was destroyed in the meteor storm, but I want to see if the chamber can be excavated. Where the mansion was, now there are a lot of bungalows, and Ms. Sullivan agreed to help me to locate it."
"So that was what she was doing this morning!" exclaimed Lana "I live in a room in her home, and when I wake up this morning she was busy comparing measures on two maps."
"I hope that she won't try to open the chamber. It's dangerous" said Willow and thought 'Specially if there is still a vampire there'
"Why? It's cursed or something?"
"No, but you can never know what has been growing in a place that has been closed for many years, apart of the possible accumulation of toxic or radioactive gases." seeing the blank face of Lana, she elaborated "There are several species of molds that grow in dark, humid places, like subterranean chambers, and whose spores are able to grow in the lungs or the trachea. In Prague, for example, two archaeologists died after opening the crypt of an ancient bohemian king. And radon, a radioactive gas of the same family of neon, argon or krypton, can filter through the rock, and being heavier than air stays low..."
"Ok, Ok, I get the idea." said Lana. "I'm going to call her."
When Willow got back to the table, Buffy complimented her.
"Very smooth, Wills. Did you make the story of the crypt?"
"No, I saw a documentary on Discovery Channel."
Outskirts of Smallville
'Why are you doing this, Chloe?' thought the blonde teenager as she was walking down the street 'You could have told her what you had investigated'
'Because there was something that didn't sound well in her story. That's why you have left your cellphone in home.' she answered in her head 'And you know the reputation of this place, too'
All the bungalows here had been built after the meteors fell. The only other building in the area was the house of Professor Hamilton. The area has good communications with Smallville and had an easy access to the highway, but currently there were only some people living here, and mostly on the edge of this area. The reasons were the odd things that happened here. Most of the people that lived here caught a weird illness whose cause was unknown, but the symptoms disappeared once that they moved away from here. One of the unexplained mysteries of Smallville. For a few years there were miscarriages of pregnancies, unexplained deaths of children and elders until...
"Carney House" she said under her breath, as a chill ran through her spine, when she saw her destination.
The Carney's had been one of the first families to move here. A young couple with a child, they were the first that had gotten ill. Mrs. Carney, who was pregnant, suffered a miscarriage, and after that her reason began to slip off. She talked with people that nobody could see, and suffered violent episodes. One night, the neighbours heard screams and two shots coming from the house, and they called the sheriff. When he came into the house, the scene gave him nightmares for years. The Carney boy had been bled to death from a great cut in the neck. Mrs Carney had died of a shot between her eyes, and the blood soaking her night-gown and covering her face showed that she had not only killed her own son, but that she had also drunk his blood. Mr. Carney had shot himself in his head with his revolver. This event was the last straw for most of the people in the neighborhood, as most of them had left soon after that.
Chloe climbed over the fence and looked at the building, that was very clean for a building that had been several years abandoned. It seemed that even the most obnoxious graffiti painters avoided this place.
The doors were closed, and the windows blocked with planks, as the glass had disappeared a long time ago. She reviewed every one of the windows, and found that one had a loose plank. She managed to remove it and loose the others, so she could sneak inside the house, squeezing through the blocked window.
The building was dark, with that particular stench that closed buildings develop over time. She turned on a small flashlight and started to explore the house. On most of the wooden walls there was broken planks, following lines that continued the cracks in the floor. She followed the cracks toward their origin, a great hole in the floor. She looked inside, seeing a circular well that went down toward an ancient-looking stair, made of irregular stone steps. Some of them were covered by the debris of the floor.
"So that woman was right, this chamber seems to have survived the meteor, unlike the manor and the upper basement." she said to herself.
She kneeled and looked at the walls of the hole. Oddly, they seemed very smooth and shiny, almost as if they were glass. Suddenly she started to hear a rumbling sound coming from below. She stood up and started to move backwards, toward the window. When whiffs of green vapor began to appear she started to run.
She was frantically loosening the planks in the window when a cloud of green vapor enveloped her. The last thing that she saw before losing consciousness were two unearthly glowing green eyes.
The Talon
While Dawn was asking Willow about what she should study at college, Buffy was looking through the window. She saw a golden sports car ('How garish' she thought) parking before the Talon, but her gaze was attracted by two girls that had just turned a corner. One of them was a brunette, and the other had flaming red hair. There was something about those girls...
Dawn excused herself and started to go to the toilet when a bald man that had just entered bumped into her. She stumbled for a moment and would have fallen if the man hadn't caught her. Unfortunately, her backpack, that was loosely hanging from her shoulders by only one strap fell to ground, spilling part of its contents.
In normal circunstances Dawn would have thanked the man and started to put her things back inside, but these weren't normal circunstances.
"Thanks, mister...?"
"Luthor, Lex Luthor."
"Please, Mr. Luthor can you collect my things from the floor. I really, really have to go to the toilet."
Lex nodded and Dawn raced to the toilet.
Lex looked at the things that had fallen from the backpack with curiosity, although soon realized that they were the usual things to be found there, several notebooks, a diary, snacks, a make-up kit, lipstick and a cellphone. When he started to put the things inside, he noted that there was an ancient-looking hard-covered book inside, and other things that sounded metallic. He shrugged off the impulse to see what the book was and picked up the last thing, a notebook, from the ground.
The notebook had opened with the fall, and what was in the page caught his eye. A really well made drawing of Lex favorite comic-book hero, Warrior Angel, dated around Christmas of the last year.
Unable to repress his curiosity, he started to leaf through the notebook, seeing equally well made drawings of several superheroes, including Warrior Angel, the Amazon Pricess, Dark Crusader, several of the Golden Age heroes of the Justice Society, alternated with drawings of what seemed demons and vampires, dated through that year. The last drawings were three vampires, named Angel, Spike and Drusilla, and an original superheroine, a blonde-haired woman dressed in a tight-fitting, sleeveless black jumpsuit, with stylized blood-red S in the chest, wearing a utility belt full of weapons, carrying a broadsword in one hand and a crossbow in the other, named 'The Slayer'. The drawing, which was inked and colored, was dated the day before.
"Having fun?" said Dawn behind Lex, startling him.
TO BE CONTINUED...