Smallville: Amazons & Slayers

by Antonio Cabañas

Chapter 8

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.

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Spoilers: Smallville second season until "Rosetta" and the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer series

Author Note: English is not my first language, and I can't reach my usual beta-reader, so please, don't be too hard in that issue..

Answer to reviewers:

Superfan: thanks for yor support, and I want to excuse me by the lapse between updates. Vacations are never very productive.

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.

Talon upper floor

Meg knocked down Arty, and said in the raspy inhuman voice that seemed to have taken control of her.

"You will come to me, Slayer!"

Buffy, already back on her feet, kicked Meg down and tried to immobilize her in the ground.

"Quick! Help me!" said Buffy.

Between both girls, they managed to keep Meg pinned down.

"Well, she was what was wrong here." said Buffy.

"But, why did she attack me? What is a 'Slayer', and why she called me that?"

Buffy, thinking quickly, said the date when Willow had activated all the Slayers.

"Does this date means something to you?" asked Buffy.

"The race!" said Arty "I won the goddamned race that day! I am the Track Team of the High School, we were running that day and I was last. Suddenly I felt like dying, but when that passed I won the race by a good margin. " she felt the impulse of trusting to this complete stranger things that she hadn't even told to her mother or her best friend. "Since then I have found that found that I am much faster and stronger than before..."

"You need to eat a lot more, don't need too much sleep and you recover quickly from wounds... Been there, done that and got the t-shirt" said Buffy "You are a Slayer, like me."

"But what in the Hell is a Slayer?"

"The full name is Vampire Slayer." said Buffy "Originally there was only one, but that day we changed the rules. Every girl that could become a Slayer become a Slayer that day. Since then we are collecting them and training them. We are always girls, chosen by The Powers That Be to fight evil and avoid its spread..."

Talon, backstore

"All right, Clark " said Lana when he ended to explain what had happened back in the Kent farm "She is not what she seems. You of all people..."

"Yes, yes, I know. It's not that she is hiding things what it's bothering me. It's the combination of that and something that Mrs. Stevens said three years ago, when we were celebrating Thanksgivings." said Clark and explained "She got a bit tipsy and said things that otherwise she hadn't said. Apparently her wedding hadn't been well received within her family, she and somebody called Hyppolita..."

"Artemis, Hyppolita, Diana... They seems to like the classical names" commented Lana.

"...I think that she can be Diana's mother, almost had a fight back then, and that she was expelled afterwards. Diana can have good intentions, by all that we know, but..."

His last words were drowned by a noise that sounded like somebody had fallen through the stairs.

The Talon. A few minutes before.

Artemis Stevens was reliving the harsh words of twenty years ago when she arrived to the Talon, where she looked around searching for her daughter. She saw her backpack in a chair, and a glass of lemonade in the table.

"Artemis?" said a female voice. Artemis recognized her, even if last time had been the voice of a girl instead of the voice of a young woman.

"Hello, Diana" she said in a cold voice, turning to see her 'niece' the amazon princess "You have grown a lot."

The smile that was in Diana's lips died when she heard the cold voice and saw the grim expression of Artemis. She sighed, this wasn't to be easy.

"Artemis, my mother sent me to..."

"I'm not coming back, Diana. Here I have a life and a family."

"I know, Artemis. I haven't come to..."

"Your mother didn't listen to me twenty years ago and I don't want to know what she has to say now." said Artemis, a bit more acidly of what she pretended "Where is my daughter?"

"I don't know where is your daughter, Artemis. She was sitting here with a friend, but when I came here to bring what they had ordered, they had disappeared."

Not too far from them, Lex Luthor was watching the exchange with keen interest.

A Smallville alley, not too far from the Talon.

Nobody saw the man who seemed to materialize from thin air, the same man who had been shadowing Artemis earlier. He walked toward the door, and saw that Artemis and the woman called Diana Prince were speaking. Unnoticed, he went to a table, where he suddenly looked up as if she had something that only he could hear.

Talon, upper floor

"That seems straight from a B-movie" said Arty ended to explain what was a Slayer "Vampires, werewolves, demons... that's a bit hard of swallow."

"And the meteor freaks are not?"

"Well..." then she paled when she remembered something "The Midwest Vampiress... she was a real vampiress, wasn't she?"

"Yes, one of my... pure predecessors killed her just before the meteors fell."

"Her father was one of her victims, Virgil Rawlings" said Arty "Can be related with this?"

"Honestly, I don't know. Rawlings was turned and he was buried in the meteor rain."

"Can he be still alive?" asked Arty, shifting slightly her weight over Meg.

That was all that Meg needed to kick Arty out of the way. Then she got up in an almost feline movement and pushed Buffy toward the stairs.

Talon

Artemis and Diana were silent, trying to find something to say when Buffy fell through the stairs, shortly followed by a scream.

"Goddess, Arty!" said Artemis, running toward the stairs with Diana in tow.

Talon, upper floor

When Arty managed to stand up and look to Arty, she screamed when she saw the changes that her friend had suffered. Her eyes were still two green glowing orbs, but parts of her skin were starting to show the same glow. She was advancing very slowly toward her.

"Meg, why are you doing this?" asked Arty, going back, although she knew that Meg was cornering her.

"You will..." started to say in the raspy voice, but then she stopped, and suddenly the glow in her eyes diminished "He is..." she said in her normal voice, but haltingly, as if forcing herself to speak me." then the glow reappeared and she advanced toward Arty again.

The glow diminished again and she came to a halt "I'm...trying...to...fight.. him...but.. he is... too... strong..."

"But who is controlling you?"

"My... father!" said Med as Artemis and Diana entered the room and the glow started to grow again "Please.. stop... me!"

Talon

"She should had waken up already" said Willow with a worried expression. They were crouched over Buffy, while the two women disappeared in the stairs.

"Look!" said Dawn, alarmed, when she saw that the ankh was starting to glow.

"I knew it!" said Willow taking the ankh in her hands. "I'm going to..."

'No!' said a male voice, or at least that was what seemed to Willow.

"Who has said that?"

"Wills, nobody have said anything" said Xander.

"But I have..."

'I need to speak with the Slayer, Ms. Rosenberg, and I am speaking to you through the ankh'

"And you are...?" said Willow aloud.

'Doctor Fate'

Willow gasped when she heard the name in her mind. Dr. Fate was a legend in magical circles, maybe the most powerful sorcerer that had ever existed.

A tower near Salem

"Where am I?" said Buffy, and then noticed that although she could still see herself, she could see through her own body "And why am I transparent?"

"You are in my tower, Slayer. And you are transparent because only your conscience is here. I need to talk with you, although I didn't expected you until the night" said a voice that she had heard before.

"Nelson!"

TO BE CONTINUED...