Smallville: Amazons & Slayers by Antonio Cabañas
Chapter 7
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
Author Note 1: English is not my first language, so the story has probably a good quantity of errors. Please, be gentle in that issue, I can't reach my usual beta-reader (If anyone is interested, my e-mail is above).
Author Note 2: Next chapter is going to be an interlude set several years on the future, when Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent is invited to Wayne Manor.
Answer to reviewers:
Papa Wheelie: the identity of the shadower is going to have to wait until the chapter after next one. And I like embroiled stories (although sometimes I can't find a way to resolve them), so that's account for the byzantinism of the story.
Deadpan: thanks for your review. The "jumpiness" is an integral characteristic of my style, although I'm trying to get it under control (the first drafts of my stories are quite less organized than the final stories, and I have to do a big editing work to get a presentable story). I'm glad that you haven't lost in it.
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
Dawn Summers got out of the toilet quite relieved. But the relief become anger when she saw that the bald man that she had asked to collect her things from the floor was reading one of her notebooks. She approached him from behind, trying to be as silent as possible. When she was just behind him, she said coldly, refraining her anger:
"Having fun?"
That startled Lex, who looked back at the angry teenager and said:
"Before you get mad at me, can you let me explain?"
Dawn narrowed her eyes, but nodded.
"When your things fell to the ground , this notebook opened by this page" said Lex, showing her the drawing of Warrior Angel that had drawn his eye earlier. "I'm a great fan of Warrior Angel, and you are a talented artist, better than some professionals. You should go professional, miss...?"
"Summers, Dawn Summers." said Dawn, whose anger seemed to have dissipated a bit.
"Miss Summers, I want to present you my excuses for my unforgivable actions of ..." started to say Lex, a bit theatrically.
Dawn stopped him saying:
"You are charming, indeed. Come on, let's forget it." said Dawn, and then asked "Do you like how I draw?"
"As I said before you should go professional, miss Summers." answered Lex.
"Call me Dawn."
"Ok, Dawn." said Lex "You have a style reminiscent of Alex Ross, very realistic looking."
"Well, the guy who teached me to draw was a talented painter, so something had to rub off. He served as model for Angel and the Dark Crusader."
"I have noticed the similarity." he leafed through the notebook until he found the last drawing. "This is the best, and do you made a beautiful work with the ink and the colors."
Dawn blushed.
"Thank you. I used my sister as the model for that drawing, the blonde woman of that table." said Dawn, pointing to the table where the Scoobies were.
Buffy hadn't noticed that Dawn hadn't still returned. Her attention was still fixed in the two girls, who were entering now the Talon.
Arty and Meg sat in a table, and Arty hung her worn out backpack from the back of the chair. A black haired woman came almost instantly.
"Hello, I'm Diana, what you do wish to have?."
"A light cola." said Meg.
Meg didn't answer, her eyes fixed in Diana's wrists.
"Arty!" said Meg under his breath, giving her a subtle poke with the elbow.
"Those bracelets... how have you obtained them?" said finally Arty.
When Diana had heard her name, she had fixed her eyes into Arty saying, almost at the same time that Arty asked her:
"Arty? Are you Artemis Stevens?"
"Yes, I am. And you are...?"
"I'm Diana Prince. Your mother and mine were sisters." said Diana. "I'm so glad of finally finding you."
"But, how...?"
"I'll explain all of you everything later, although I would like to talk with your mother also."
"Mrs. Stevens in on her way here." said Meg
"Excellent! So we can have a small family-get-together" said Diana smiling "But just now I have work to do, so what you do wish to have?"
"Eeeeeh... lemonade" said Arty, still bewildered by the turn of events.
"See you later" said Diana.
"Did you know that you had a cousin?" asked Meg, in low voice.
"My mother has always being very tight-lipped about her family. I have deduced that there were some problems when she married my father."
"And now a cousin appears from nowhere. How Jerry Springer-ish!"
"Well, my mother told me that she was going to explain everything about her past and her family this afternoon"
"Hmmm, that sound interesting"
"What's going on?" asked Lana to Clark in an angry tone.
"What do you mean?" answered Clark
"You have been looking at Diana since we opened. Your eyes seemed to be glued to her. I hope that you have a good explanation."
Clark stood still for a moment, not knowing what to say.
"What I was thinking!" said Lana, starting to leave.
"Lana, wait!" said Clark, reaching Lana "It's not what do you think, but we cannot discuss it here, she could hear us."
Still angered, but a bit intrigued she looked around, searching for somebody to stay in the bar. Diana no, she was tending the tables... where in the hell was Chloe? She hadn't answered her calls... Ah, Pete had just arrived.
"...If you change your mind, I know people in several editorials." said Lex, offering her hand.
"Thanks, Lex. But I think that my future pass through college, although later, who knows?" said Dawn, shaking Lex hand, and then she went back to the table.
"So, who's your new boyfriend?" said Willow, teasing her.
"He's not my boyfriend, Wills. He was simply praising my artwork, and he is too old for me, and he is engaged."
"Do you know who was that guy?" said Xander.
"He said that his name was Lex Luthor, why?"
"Have you heard of Luthorcorp?" answered Xander.
"He is THAT Lex Luthor?"
"Yes." answered Xander "Lex Luthor was one of Anya idols, young, handsome and with tons of money. And for what she said, his father is a magnificent bastard, one of Lord D'Hoffrin Top Ten. Buffy was present when we talked about that... Buffy?"
Buffy was still looking to the girls. 'It's odd, I get both bad and good vibes from them'
"Buffy, wake up!" said Dawn, waving a hand before Buffy's face.
"Eh? Sorry, what were you saying?"
"What you were looking at? You seemed almost catatonic again." asked Willow.
"Those two girls over there." answered Buffy.
"Do you like girls now, Buff?" said Xander
"No, Xander. There is something about those girls, just looking at them I can tell you there is something wrong there, but at the same time that there is something very right... I don't know how to explain that."
"Do you know the girl that was with Luthor jr.?" asked Arty
"No, she must be a tourist, and I see that you still have sympathies toward the Luthors, don't you?"
"If Lionel Luthor had spent a bit more in maintenance, my father wouldn't have suffered that accident" answered bitterly Arty, adding just after that "Although what Lex did with the plant when his father tried to close it was very nice."
"Yes, it was a pity that..." Meg couldn't end the phrase as he fell from the chair and began to writhe in pain on the ground.
"Oh my God! Somebody help me!" Arty had jumped from her chair almost immediately.
A blonde young woman appeared almost instantly to her side, and helped Arty to lift Meg, making her pass each one of her arms over their necks, and taking Meg's hands hands.
"Can you carry her while I try to call to the hospital?" asked Arty to the woman.
"Ok" answered the blonde.
Arty produced her cellphone from he backpack and saw that it was discharged. She remembered that she had forgotten to recharge the batteries last night, and cursed under her breath.
"My cellphone is discharged, have you one?"
"No, sorry. I have left mine where I am lodged" answered the blonde "But I think that..."
"Hey, Arty. What's happening?" said Pete who had came from the bar.
"Meg had gotten very ill, where's Lana?"
"She caught Clark ogling the new waitress and they are having some words in the back store"
"Ok, call the hospital, please."
"There is a bed in the upper floor, she will be more comfortable there" said Pete while he was going back to the bar.
Smallville streets
Artemis Stevens had been trying to call her daughter, but either she had disconnected her cellphone or the battery was down.
Carney house
The green vapors dissipated , revealing the unconscious body of Chloe Sullivan on the floor. She started to move and opened her eyes, now glowing emerald orbs.
Talon. Upper floor
They left Meg on the bed, and waited:
"Thanks for helping me... Goddess, I don't even know your name."
"Buffy Summers." said Buffy, offering her hand.
"Arty Stevens." replied Arty, shaking it.
"Arty? Odd name for a girl."
"It's a diminutive, my real name is Artemis, like my mother. I don't like it very much."
"I can understand it." said Buffy, smiling, as she had never liked too much her real name.
Buffy was starting to get restless. The feeling that there something very wrong here had increase. The Stevens girl seemed nervous, although she couldn't now if it was for her friend, who was finally silent although trembling, or something else. Finally Buffy decided to confront the girl.
"So, what's going on?" asked Buffy, very serious, looking intently at Arty.
"What do you mean? Meg is ill, that is all what is going on."
"I don't mean that, Arty, and I think that you know it." said Buffy. "Something is amiss here, I can feel it, and it's related either with you or your friend."
They were now giving their backs to Meg, who was slowly getting up, her eyes still closed.
"I don't know what you are talking about." said Arty nervously, but her expression said another thing to Buffy.
'She is hiding something, but I don't feel that she is a threat. But in that case, the threat can only be..."
She turned, on time to see how Meg, her eyes open now, revealing twin unearthly glowing green orbs, jumping toward Arty saying, in an inhumanly deep, raspy voice:
- SLAYER! -
TO BE CONTINUED...
Chapter 7
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
Author Note 1: English is not my first language, so the story has probably a good quantity of errors. Please, be gentle in that issue, I can't reach my usual beta-reader (If anyone is interested, my e-mail is above).
Author Note 2: Next chapter is going to be an interlude set several years on the future, when Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent is invited to Wayne Manor.
Answer to reviewers:
Papa Wheelie: the identity of the shadower is going to have to wait until the chapter after next one. And I like embroiled stories (although sometimes I can't find a way to resolve them), so that's account for the byzantinism of the story.
Deadpan: thanks for your review. The "jumpiness" is an integral characteristic of my style, although I'm trying to get it under control (the first drafts of my stories are quite less organized than the final stories, and I have to do a big editing work to get a presentable story). I'm glad that you haven't lost in it.
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
Dawn Summers got out of the toilet quite relieved. But the relief become anger when she saw that the bald man that she had asked to collect her things from the floor was reading one of her notebooks. She approached him from behind, trying to be as silent as possible. When she was just behind him, she said coldly, refraining her anger:
"Having fun?"
That startled Lex, who looked back at the angry teenager and said:
"Before you get mad at me, can you let me explain?"
Dawn narrowed her eyes, but nodded.
"When your things fell to the ground , this notebook opened by this page" said Lex, showing her the drawing of Warrior Angel that had drawn his eye earlier. "I'm a great fan of Warrior Angel, and you are a talented artist, better than some professionals. You should go professional, miss...?"
"Summers, Dawn Summers." said Dawn, whose anger seemed to have dissipated a bit.
"Miss Summers, I want to present you my excuses for my unforgivable actions of ..." started to say Lex, a bit theatrically.
Dawn stopped him saying:
"You are charming, indeed. Come on, let's forget it." said Dawn, and then asked "Do you like how I draw?"
"As I said before you should go professional, miss Summers." answered Lex.
"Call me Dawn."
"Ok, Dawn." said Lex "You have a style reminiscent of Alex Ross, very realistic looking."
"Well, the guy who teached me to draw was a talented painter, so something had to rub off. He served as model for Angel and the Dark Crusader."
"I have noticed the similarity." he leafed through the notebook until he found the last drawing. "This is the best, and do you made a beautiful work with the ink and the colors."
Dawn blushed.
"Thank you. I used my sister as the model for that drawing, the blonde woman of that table." said Dawn, pointing to the table where the Scoobies were.
Buffy hadn't noticed that Dawn hadn't still returned. Her attention was still fixed in the two girls, who were entering now the Talon.
Arty and Meg sat in a table, and Arty hung her worn out backpack from the back of the chair. A black haired woman came almost instantly.
"Hello, I'm Diana, what you do wish to have?."
"A light cola." said Meg.
Meg didn't answer, her eyes fixed in Diana's wrists.
"Arty!" said Meg under his breath, giving her a subtle poke with the elbow.
"Those bracelets... how have you obtained them?" said finally Arty.
When Diana had heard her name, she had fixed her eyes into Arty saying, almost at the same time that Arty asked her:
"Arty? Are you Artemis Stevens?"
"Yes, I am. And you are...?"
"I'm Diana Prince. Your mother and mine were sisters." said Diana. "I'm so glad of finally finding you."
"But, how...?"
"I'll explain all of you everything later, although I would like to talk with your mother also."
"Mrs. Stevens in on her way here." said Meg
"Excellent! So we can have a small family-get-together" said Diana smiling "But just now I have work to do, so what you do wish to have?"
"Eeeeeh... lemonade" said Arty, still bewildered by the turn of events.
"See you later" said Diana.
"Did you know that you had a cousin?" asked Meg, in low voice.
"My mother has always being very tight-lipped about her family. I have deduced that there were some problems when she married my father."
"And now a cousin appears from nowhere. How Jerry Springer-ish!"
"Well, my mother told me that she was going to explain everything about her past and her family this afternoon"
"Hmmm, that sound interesting"
"What's going on?" asked Lana to Clark in an angry tone.
"What do you mean?" answered Clark
"You have been looking at Diana since we opened. Your eyes seemed to be glued to her. I hope that you have a good explanation."
Clark stood still for a moment, not knowing what to say.
"What I was thinking!" said Lana, starting to leave.
"Lana, wait!" said Clark, reaching Lana "It's not what do you think, but we cannot discuss it here, she could hear us."
Still angered, but a bit intrigued she looked around, searching for somebody to stay in the bar. Diana no, she was tending the tables... where in the hell was Chloe? She hadn't answered her calls... Ah, Pete had just arrived.
"...If you change your mind, I know people in several editorials." said Lex, offering her hand.
"Thanks, Lex. But I think that my future pass through college, although later, who knows?" said Dawn, shaking Lex hand, and then she went back to the table.
"So, who's your new boyfriend?" said Willow, teasing her.
"He's not my boyfriend, Wills. He was simply praising my artwork, and he is too old for me, and he is engaged."
"Do you know who was that guy?" said Xander.
"He said that his name was Lex Luthor, why?"
"Have you heard of Luthorcorp?" answered Xander.
"He is THAT Lex Luthor?"
"Yes." answered Xander "Lex Luthor was one of Anya idols, young, handsome and with tons of money. And for what she said, his father is a magnificent bastard, one of Lord D'Hoffrin Top Ten. Buffy was present when we talked about that... Buffy?"
Buffy was still looking to the girls. 'It's odd, I get both bad and good vibes from them'
"Buffy, wake up!" said Dawn, waving a hand before Buffy's face.
"Eh? Sorry, what were you saying?"
"What you were looking at? You seemed almost catatonic again." asked Willow.
"Those two girls over there." answered Buffy.
"Do you like girls now, Buff?" said Xander
"No, Xander. There is something about those girls, just looking at them I can tell you there is something wrong there, but at the same time that there is something very right... I don't know how to explain that."
"Do you know the girl that was with Luthor jr.?" asked Arty
"No, she must be a tourist, and I see that you still have sympathies toward the Luthors, don't you?"
"If Lionel Luthor had spent a bit more in maintenance, my father wouldn't have suffered that accident" answered bitterly Arty, adding just after that "Although what Lex did with the plant when his father tried to close it was very nice."
"Yes, it was a pity that..." Meg couldn't end the phrase as he fell from the chair and began to writhe in pain on the ground.
"Oh my God! Somebody help me!" Arty had jumped from her chair almost immediately.
A blonde young woman appeared almost instantly to her side, and helped Arty to lift Meg, making her pass each one of her arms over their necks, and taking Meg's hands hands.
"Can you carry her while I try to call to the hospital?" asked Arty to the woman.
"Ok" answered the blonde.
Arty produced her cellphone from he backpack and saw that it was discharged. She remembered that she had forgotten to recharge the batteries last night, and cursed under her breath.
"My cellphone is discharged, have you one?"
"No, sorry. I have left mine where I am lodged" answered the blonde "But I think that..."
"Hey, Arty. What's happening?" said Pete who had came from the bar.
"Meg had gotten very ill, where's Lana?"
"She caught Clark ogling the new waitress and they are having some words in the back store"
"Ok, call the hospital, please."
"There is a bed in the upper floor, she will be more comfortable there" said Pete while he was going back to the bar.
Smallville streets
Artemis Stevens had been trying to call her daughter, but either she had disconnected her cellphone or the battery was down.
Carney house
The green vapors dissipated , revealing the unconscious body of Chloe Sullivan on the floor. She started to move and opened her eyes, now glowing emerald orbs.
Talon. Upper floor
They left Meg on the bed, and waited:
"Thanks for helping me... Goddess, I don't even know your name."
"Buffy Summers." said Buffy, offering her hand.
"Arty Stevens." replied Arty, shaking it.
"Arty? Odd name for a girl."
"It's a diminutive, my real name is Artemis, like my mother. I don't like it very much."
"I can understand it." said Buffy, smiling, as she had never liked too much her real name.
Buffy was starting to get restless. The feeling that there something very wrong here had increase. The Stevens girl seemed nervous, although she couldn't now if it was for her friend, who was finally silent although trembling, or something else. Finally Buffy decided to confront the girl.
"So, what's going on?" asked Buffy, very serious, looking intently at Arty.
"What do you mean? Meg is ill, that is all what is going on."
"I don't mean that, Arty, and I think that you know it." said Buffy. "Something is amiss here, I can feel it, and it's related either with you or your friend."
They were now giving their backs to Meg, who was slowly getting up, her eyes still closed.
"I don't know what you are talking about." said Arty nervously, but her expression said another thing to Buffy.
'She is hiding something, but I don't feel that she is a threat. But in that case, the threat can only be..."
She turned, on time to see how Meg, her eyes open now, revealing twin unearthly glowing green orbs, jumping toward Arty saying, in an inhumanly deep, raspy voice:
- SLAYER! -
TO BE CONTINUED...