Title: Phoenix Risings: Necro-Gate
Rating: PG-13/R
Chapter Number: 7
Author: White Werewolf
Category: Buffy/Xander, Eric/Faith, Sam/Daniel (Maybe), Gabrielle/Joxer
Spoilers/Timeframe: All I know for sure it is after "Becoming Part 2."
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the ideas and my computer.
Summery: After Buffy leaves Sunnydale, Xander decides to go looking for her. On the other side of the universe, Ninedinna wants the book she created...the Necronomicon Ex Mortis: the Book of the Dead.
Author Notes: This part is just a prologue to the Phoenix Risings Trilogy; which is in turn the starting fic to a huge series. This is the third part of the trilogy. It will be mainly focused on the Buffy/Xander relationship and it will be housing many crossovers.
Special Thanks: Danii, Tenhawk, Teri, Silent Bob Foley, and X-Lander
Crossovers Planned:
Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Evil Dead
Stargate SG-1
Xena: Warrior Princess
Boy Meets World
Cameo Crossovers will suddenly appear. Take a read, and see if you can spot one.
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Buffy and Xander looked at each other as the unknown visitor walked forward.
Before any of them could do anything, the visitor staked the last demon. "For the Slayer, you certainly are slow on doing the staking."
Her eyes narrowed, "Who the hell are you?"
He chuckled as he walked forward to the teenagers. "I'm just someone who was sent by the powers that be."
(The powers that be? What? Alex wasn't enough?) With a calming sigh, she asked, "What do you want?"
He smiled, "It's not what I want, it's what you want."
Xander showed a confused look, "What do we want?"
"Oh, I don't know. I'd think stopping someone so you two can go home be something that you want."
Xander's friend asked, "How do you know what's coming?"
The visitor said with a smile, "I have visions. Consider me a personal link to the powers."
The boy questioned, "What kinda visions? We talking visions of the women of Baywatch? Prophetic visions? Or visions from our past?"
Buffy looked at her friend, "Xander..."
He showed a confused look, "What? I'm a guy after all. I have a right to imagine Pamela Anderson."
She smiled, "Whatever." Turing to her new link, "As my horny friend was saying."
He showed a hurt look, "Hey!"
Giggling, she continued, "As I was saying. What kind of visions?"
"Prophetic visions, Buffy." Introducing himself, "By the way. My name's Doyle."
"How do you know my name, Doyle?"
He grinned, "I know all about you, Buffy. I also know all about you, Xander."
Xander gulped, "You know about my stash of Playboys under my mattress?"
Buffy asked surprisingly, "You have Playboys? Let me guess. You read them for the articles?"
He shrugged, "Of course I do."
(Men,) she thought. (It's all they think about.) Moving on, she asked, "So, what's the vision?"
"The vision was kinda vague, but I'll tell ya this: Someone's comin' to LA, and she's gonna cause some real trouble."
***
The voice from the darkness came forward, followed by three others. "Allow me to introduce my family."
Ash growled, "Not interested." He walked up to a vampire and looked down, "You're shoelaces are untied." The demon looked as Ash flew a right cross against his chin. "That's the second time that that worked."
The demon recoiled with a roundhouse, knocking the S-Mart employee's air right out of him. "Attack!"
Ash jumped to his feet and grabbed the said demon by the shirt. With his revved up chainsaw in the air, he brought it down full force dissecting the demon lengthwise. "Try pulling yourself together faster, Jerkface."
The former promised one turned around to see Gunn in the middle of a two vampire brawl.
Grabbing one into a half-nelson, Gunn staked the vampire with ease. "Get your hands off me!"
Watching the demon's ash settle to the ground, the second vampire threw a punch at Gunn's back.
Before the demon connected, Ash intercepted and caught the fist. He twirled around dissecting the vampire in two with his chainsaw. "Leave him alone, Asswipe." Soon, Ash's victim crumbled into dust.
Gunn, meanwhile, ran to the last demon and grabbed his arm. With all his human strength, he threw the vampire to the other side of the street.
"Pathetic mortal." The vampire said as he got to his feet. "You're going to pay for that."
Ash smirked, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." He looked at Gunn, "Can I borrow your stake?"
Nodding, he threw it to him, "Not at all."
Catching it, Ash walked up to the demon. "You guys make me sick." He quickly stabbed the piece of wood into the vampire's chest. "And that's how it ends."
Turning back to his new friend, he tossed him the stake. "Thanks, Kid."
Gunn smiled, "Nice work, Ash. That chainsaw of yours can do some serious damage."
"You better believe it. But you never saw what it could do against deadites. These vampires are strong, but deadites are so much more stronger."
"I believe it." Gunn said with his still conscious grin. "Let's get back to the cabin."
"Let's take the longer route. Strangly enough, I'm in the mood for a walk."
"That's cool." He said as joined the brunette. "Where can I get one of those chainsaws?"
***
Saying that, the two turned the corner to see a young woman being forced to the ground.
"As X would say, 'It's clobbering time!'"
Wesley sighed, "He never says that."
Faith said as she launched herself at the attacker, "You obviously don't know about Xander's love of comics."
She landed on the demon who was holding onto the young woman. "Get the fuck off of her!"
The demon dropped his victim as he heard the cry from the unfamiliar brunette female. Turning around, he caught her in mid-air and tossed his attacker aside. "Get the hell away from me!"
Faith got back to her feet, with one hand on her chackram, she used the other one to gesture a signal for her watcher, "Get her out of here!"
"Of course, Faith." Wesley said as we ran to the fallen young woman. "Remember your training, Faith."
Faith nodded, "Training, right. Move it!"
Watching him go, Faith aimed her chacram and let it loose. She watched it as the weapon bounced off of the buildings that surrounded the street as well as trashcans and a fire escape. But it missed the demon by a few centimeters and landed by the far right wall.
"Damn. I guess I need more practice." She said to herself as she went for her stake.
"You got one hell of a lousy aim." The demon said as he grabbed something from the ground. "I got what I needed."
He then began running down the street.
Faith sprinted down the street, making sure to pick up her chackram.
Looking up from the ground, she noticed the demon escaped. "Shit!"
"Everything okay?"
Faith looked at the source of the voice to see her watcher coming from the darkness. "The demon got away."
"He couldn't of gotten far. Let's go after it."
Nodding, Faith placed her chackram back on her belt. "I wonder what he picked up from the ground."
***
"What is this show?"
Ryan looked up from the television. "It's called Xena: Warrior Princess. It's a spin-off of Hercules: the Legendary Journeys."
Callisto looked at her show, "There's shows based on Hercules and Xena?"
The vampire nodded, "Yeah." He turned to the television and looked at the episode. "This is a repeat. It has Hercules making a crossover."
"Hercules is in this episode?"
Pointing to the screen, he said, "Yeah, he is. The brunette is Xena. And the annoying blond is Gabrielle. They work together fighting the gods, warlords, and creatures. Whether they are Ares, Callisto, or a minotaur."
His face paled, "Callisto..."
***
***
The demon lowered his head as he entered the spacious room.
Raising it, flicked the light switch on allowing the florescent lights to brighten the room.
Shadows soon danced across the room as he walked over to the right corner. Grabbing the object he obtained from the ground, he placed it on a podium.
With a malevolent smile, the demon said, "Finally. I now have the last page."
He lit surrounding candles that decorated the top of the podium with a match. Satisfied, he closed his eyes, raised his arms and started to move his hands in a circular motion.
"Abba moni clactu virata nikto josuz---."
CRACK!
The demon suddenly fell to ground in a thud.
Somebody walked inside the room and walked over to the fallen body. With a mighty thrust, she yanked her weapon out of the demon's neck.
With a smile, "Looks like I didn't miss this time."
"Well done, Faith." Said the Englishman.
"Thanks, Wes." Stepping over the body, she grabbed the pages that were on the podium. She looked down at it, and saw red writing on the torn pages. Faith gave them to her watcher, "What do you make of this?"
He immediately recognized the pages. "These are from the Necronomicon Ex Mortis."
"Shit!" Faith hollered out. "Uncle Ash isn't going to like this."
Saying in a low voice, Wesley said, "No he won't. We better take these to him and the others. I have a feeling something is bound to happen shortly."
"Hurry up then, Wes. We'll figure out what to do there."
They then ran out of he room with the pages of the Necronomicon.
***
Xander looked at his friend, "Do you think this guy is for real?"
She nodded, "As much as I think the powers should be screwed. I recently learned to trust them on occasion."
He showed you a confused look, "You learned to trust the powers? Since when?"
Buffy didn't want him to know about Alex. Alex was somebody that only Buffy knew about, and she wanted it to stay that way. Hoping something would happen to change the course of this conversation, anything at all.
Doyle said, "Listen you two. Something is coming. I should know, I got a vision, and my former migraine proves it."
Thankfully, Buffy asked, "Migraine?"
He nodded, "Aye. I get a migraine every time I get a vision. It hurts like hell, but everything has a price."
Buffy sighed, "Don't I know it."
Xander noticed the tone of her voice. Buffy was a girl that had too much responsibility. Strike that. She was a young woman who had too damn much responsibility.
Every night since he known her and even before that, she went out of her way to risk her life so people like him could live the next day.
Knowing that, he promised himself that from the very day he met her, he'd protect her in anyway he could. Xander already lost Jesse and Catharine. He didn't want to lose anyone else.
Xander would help her in anyway that he could. He has proven that time and time again, and it looked like she knew that.
"You alright, Xan?"
Her voice cut him out of his inner musings. With a smile, he said, "Yeah, I am. Forget about it."
She grinned, "Already forgotten. C'mon. We're off to the cabin."
***
She nodded, "Before I answer that, I want to make sure I'm right..."
Her eyes widened as she saw a character appear on the screen. The character had long hair, wore a familiar set of pants as well as a familiar shirt.
Callisto approached the screen, getting the whole picture of the said character. "Is that...?"
Ryan showed a confused look, "Is that who?"
His sire reworded the question, "Is that Hercules?"
Her childe looked down at the screen, nodded, and said, "Yeah, that's Kevin Sorbo. He plays Hercules."
A wide grin realizing the truth. Hercules was still alive, but as Kevin Sorbo? Didn't matter. Killing him would only make her feel more complete.
"What are you talking about?"
Callisto said with a smile, "Never mind. Where is this 'Kevin Sorbo' now?"
"My guess is Los Angeles. That's where the show's being taped."
"Take me there, Ryan. Take me to Los Angeles. I'll tell you everything you need to know on the way."
Without any further hesitation, Lieutenant Ryan Banks said, "Of course, Callisto."
***
That smell.
It was that smell.
With two glowing green eyes, he looked down the street with himself in the shadows of the night.
With his eyes glaring at the two humans down the street, his smile grew even more malevolent. He rubbed his hands in eagerness.
As soon as he got those pages, he would be the most famous demon in the entire planet. Satan would no longer be the name that all men feared. The name would be none other than Goklox.
Goklox would be truly omnipotent and all the world would tremble when his name was spoken.
Feeling nothing but pure evil energy in his body, Goklox ran out of the shadows hollering, "You have crossed the street for the last time!"
The young woman asked in confusion, "What?"
With a snarl, the demon said, "My name is Goklox. For I am the most omnipotent demon on the face of this Earth. And all I need are those pages!"
The elder man said, "If you think that my slayer here is going to give you these pages, you are hugely mistaken."
"You dare defy me! Nobody will forget who I am!"
Faith smirked, "Yeah, right. You ain't getting these pages."
He stomped forward, "Oh, but I am!"
She gave the pages to her watcher as she took her weapon from her belt. "Shut the fuck up!" Faith then aimed her weapon, and let it loose.
Her chackram cut through the demon's windpipe, killing him in the process.
"That was easy enough."
Wesley nodded, "It appears that way. He definitely thought highly of himself."
She showed a confused look, "What was his name again?"
He shrugged, "I do not remember. Let's go to the cabin."
***
"Ash!"
Ash stood up from the couch to see Wesley charging inside the cabin carrying a limp Faith. "We need your help!"
"What happened?" Xander yelled as he approached his friend.
"Is she alright?" Buffy asked.
"Is she alright, Man?" Doyle repeated the question.
Wesley looked at the source of the new voice, "Who are you?"
Buffy said, "It's alright, Wes. This is just Doyle."
Ash immediately ran to his niece, "Don't worry about him. What happened to her, Wes? You better tell me what the fuck is going on?"
He looked down at her and she started shaking recklessly. "Somebody damn well tell me what's wrong?"
Faith soon felt something on her shoulder. She immediately grabbed the spot to try and stop the pain.
"What the hell happened?" Gunn asked.
Ash brought Faith to the couch as Wesley told the story.
"We followed a demon to his apartment where he was chanting some kind of spell. After Faith killed him, we took the pages the demon was reading from."
Ash growled getting an idea in his idea, "What kind of pages?"
Wesley said immediately, "The Necronomicon..."
The former promised one cut him off, "Shit! I fucking hate that book!"
Gunn showed a confused look, "What's this Necronomicon?"
Ash snarled, "It's the damn book that ruined my life! There is no way I'm going to lose Faith."
Faith's hand grasped her shirt and yanked it off revealing bare skin. Her skin started to open up.
Buffy's eyes widened, "What's happening to her? There's an eye on her shoulder!"
"Shit! That ain't normal, Uncle Ash!"
Her uncle shook his head, "No! Not again!"
Xander asked, "What the hell are you talking about?"
Wesley stated, "Chances of what your thinking are slim to none on happening again, Ash!"
He glared at him, "You may have studied the book. But I've lived it! I know better than anyone what's happening!"
"What's happening?" Gunn asked.
Soon the cut on Faith's shoulder started expanding showing a nose.
"Shit!" Xander yelled.
"That ain't right!" Doyle yelled.
Faith immediately sprang from the couch and ran to the mantle. Grabbing the chainsaw, she tossed to Ash, "Get this thing out of me! Get this mother fucking thing out of me!"
The hole in her shoulder expanded more and more. A new eye emerged followed by more skin.
"You got to be kidding!" Xander yelled.
Catching the chainsaw in his free hand. "Dismemberment ain't going to do shit!"
"Then what will?" Asked the human/demon half-breed.
Faith hollered, "Then take the chackram!"
Their eyes widened in horror as a head appeared out of Faith's shoulder.
Faith looked in the mirror that was by the right wall, and screamed in horror.
"You got to be kidding me!" Faith yelled.
She started running out of the cabin, screaming into the night.
"We're coming, Faith!" Xander yelled as he sprinted out of the cabin as well. His friends followed suit.
***
The two-headed Slayer ran into the night. Soon, an arm and another set of legs grew from Faith. It looked like Faith now had a Siamese Twin.
The two of them ran down the street. They started pulling away from each other. And soon, two bodies separated from Faith's body.
"What the fuck are you?" Faith asked.
The other Faith snickered, "'What the fuck are you?'" She repeated with a haunting laugh.
Faith suddenly remembered her uncle's stories. "You're me! Aren't you?"
Ash and the others came running to them.
"It happened again!" Ash yelled.
"There two of you now!" Gunn asked.
Ash growled, "That's Bad Faith."
Faith said, "You're me."
Evil Faith smiled wickedly, "Give the Slayer a prize!"
"What do we do?" Doyle asked.
Faith's evil twin saw the pages from the Necronomicon in Wesley's hands. "I'll take those!" She grabbed them.
"If you thought Bad Ash was bad, wait to you see Bad Faith." Evil Faith said as clobbered Buffy in the cheek. "Slayers may be strong, but I'm stronger."
Buffy recoiled quickly with a left cross but Evil Faith intercepted by grabbing the blond's hand and throwing her onto the Englishman.
Xander charged the double but was kicked in the gut. "Pathetic."
She saw Ash's chainsaw revving, "That won't do any good. You realize that, don't you?"
Gunn grabbed his stake and launched himself at her.
The stake imbedded in Bad Faith's chest, but it didn't do any good.
"Damn!"
She kicked Gunn's side forcing the bald man to the ground. "Did you fall and go boom?"
"I'll kill you!" Faith yelled.
"We'll kill you!" Xander said as helped Buffy to her feet.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Bad Faith said as she turned around. "Wait till I come back! I won't be alone next time!" Then she ran off.
***
"Good. You're all here."
Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill looked at his superior officer, "What's the problem, Sir? I was going to go fishing."
General George Hammond said, "It's going to have to wait, Colonel. We have a problem on our hands."
"What kind of problem, Sir?" Captain Samantha "Sam" Carter asked.
"Please sit down."
The four members of SG-1 and the general sat down in their familiar seating arrangements. "Lieutenant Banks and Caroline have left the premises. When they were stopped by Colonel Hummings, they easily got passed him. No damage was dealt. The two of them just walked off the base."
Doctor Daniel Jackson looked at them. "Well, General Hammond. I saw them earlier. Ryan said he was on his way home."
He nodded, "I called Lieutenant Banks' phone. But nobody was there."
"Perhaps Lieutenant Banks has not arrived home yet?" Teal'c offered.
"That is a distinct possibility. But that was over an hour ago. Lieutenant Banks only lives fifteen minutes away."
Jack nodded, "I saw Banks kissing a woman in the corridor a while ago."
"General Hammond!"
Hammond look at the door and noticed a horrid look on his face. "What is it, Colonel? You better have a good reason for barging in."
Colonel Makepeace said, "I do, Sir. I just went to see Nurse Hall. She's dead."
"Are you sure, Colonel?"
He nodded, "She had two holes in the side of her neck, Sir."
Jack showed a confused look, "Two holes? You sure it wasn't just from a goa'uld?"
Makepeace shook his head, "No, Sir. Two holes in her neck. Her body's cold."
The general looked at the archeologist, "What do you make of this, Doctor Jackson?"
Daniel looked at him in confusion, "I really can't think of anything that would cause two holes in the neck, General."
Jack smirked, "Vampires could."
Sam looked at him, "Vampires, Colonel?"
Daniel said, "Vampires could exist, Jack. Recently, we've found out a lot of Earth's mythology was based on alien influence. Vampire mythology could've been influenced by goa'uld or other parasitic animals' interference."
Jack said, "That would make sense, Sir. Banks' not the type to kiss women."
Hammond looked at him, "What are you suggesting, Jack?"
Jack said, "Well, Banks was never the type of guy that kisses in the base. He was a guy who lived by the book. And plus, don't vampires have that whole sexual appeal?"
"You can't be serious, Colonel." Sam asked. "You really believe that vampires exist?"
Daniel said, "Actually, Sam. It would make sense. Vampires have always been a part of world culture. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, and a lot of fiction is based on some truth. Who know's if he hasn't come in contact with a vampire?"
Nodding, the captain asked, "What do we do, Sir?"
Hammond gave it some thought, then said, "If either Lieutenant Banks or Caroline are vampires, then this world is in serious trouble. I want SG-1 on the top of this matter."
Sam then remembered something. "Actually General, the whole incident Colonel Hummings experience could be explained by this. Hathor did the same thing. She was able to use all of you to her advantage. Perhaps Banks was just under Caroline's influence."
He nodded, "Either way. I'd like SG-1 on top of this. The problem is, we don't know where Lieutenant Banks or Caroline are. They could be anywhere."
"Indeed." Was the Jaffa's statement.
Sam suggest, "We could just ask around, Sirs. If I were a goa'uld, I'd want to travel in secret. Causing a ruckus wouldn't be the best solution."
Hammond agreed, "That's probably the best solution we can come up with, Captain Carter. I want you four to get going."
Jack sighed, "I guess I'll have to fish another day."
"Afraid so, Jack. You're dismissed."
They left the room with Daniel saying to Sam, "Who knew Jack have the right answer to something."
"I heard that." Jack said from outside the office.
***
"Here you go, Sir. Two tickets for Los Angeles."
Banks grinned, "Thanks. The train leaves when?"
The teller looked at the clock, "In fifteen minutes, Lieutenant Banks. Thank you for making Western Union Rails your train station. Have a good trip."
Caroline said, "We will. Thank you."
With that said, the two vampires turned around and headed for the right train.
***
"What do we do now?"
Ash looked at down at her niece. "Fighting my twin wasn't easy, Faith. It took a lot to get rid of him." He turned to Wesley. "What exactly happened?"
He replied, "As I have said before. Faith and I tracked a demon to his apartment. He chanted a spell from the Necronomicon. Then we killed him."
The former promised one asked, "Did he finish the spell?"
Faith thought for a moment. "No. We stopped him in the middle of it."
Ash grunted, "That's what happened last time. I didn't say the right three words and I awoke the army of darkness. Big mistake."
Buffy asked, "So how do we stop her?"
He thought back, "It took a lot of fire power. But what we need to do is train an army." He then remembered something, "Gunn, do you think your team can help us here?"
The bald man nodded, "Definitely. They're always up for action."
He grinned, "Good. Because we have a lot of work to do." He turned to Xander, "You think Kevin will want to help?"
Xander said, "I could ask him. He'd probably want to help. He already knows a lot about us."
Ash smiled, "Good. So this is what's going to happen. We don't have much time. Since tomorrow is Sunday, we need the time to train. Faith's training room wont be enough space for us."
Xander shook his head, "Neither will my apartment."
"Or mine." Buffy said.
Wesley grinned, "I believe I have a suitable solution."
TBC
***
Author's Request
Please, can someone review. I want to know what you people think of this series. Please review, and I hope you enjoyed reading this. A lot more surprises are coming.
Rating: PG-13/R
Chapter Number: 7
Author: White Werewolf
Category: Buffy/Xander, Eric/Faith, Sam/Daniel (Maybe), Gabrielle/Joxer
Spoilers/Timeframe: All I know for sure it is after "Becoming Part 2."
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the ideas and my computer.
Summery: After Buffy leaves Sunnydale, Xander decides to go looking for her. On the other side of the universe, Ninedinna wants the book she created...the Necronomicon Ex Mortis: the Book of the Dead.
Author Notes: This part is just a prologue to the Phoenix Risings Trilogy; which is in turn the starting fic to a huge series. This is the third part of the trilogy. It will be mainly focused on the Buffy/Xander relationship and it will be housing many crossovers.
Special Thanks: Danii, Tenhawk, Teri, Silent Bob Foley, and X-Lander
Crossovers Planned:
Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Evil Dead
Stargate SG-1
Xena: Warrior Princess
Boy Meets World
Cameo Crossovers will suddenly appear. Take a read, and see if you can spot one.
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Buffy and Xander looked at each other as the unknown visitor walked forward.
Before any of them could do anything, the visitor staked the last demon. "For the Slayer, you certainly are slow on doing the staking."
Her eyes narrowed, "Who the hell are you?"
He chuckled as he walked forward to the teenagers. "I'm just someone who was sent by the powers that be."
(The powers that be? What? Alex wasn't enough?) With a calming sigh, she asked, "What do you want?"
He smiled, "It's not what I want, it's what you want."
Xander showed a confused look, "What do we want?"
"Oh, I don't know. I'd think stopping someone so you two can go home be something that you want."
Xander's friend asked, "How do you know what's coming?"
The visitor said with a smile, "I have visions. Consider me a personal link to the powers."
The boy questioned, "What kinda visions? We talking visions of the women of Baywatch? Prophetic visions? Or visions from our past?"
Buffy looked at her friend, "Xander..."
He showed a confused look, "What? I'm a guy after all. I have a right to imagine Pamela Anderson."
She smiled, "Whatever." Turing to her new link, "As my horny friend was saying."
He showed a hurt look, "Hey!"
Giggling, she continued, "As I was saying. What kind of visions?"
"Prophetic visions, Buffy." Introducing himself, "By the way. My name's Doyle."
"How do you know my name, Doyle?"
He grinned, "I know all about you, Buffy. I also know all about you, Xander."
Xander gulped, "You know about my stash of Playboys under my mattress?"
Buffy asked surprisingly, "You have Playboys? Let me guess. You read them for the articles?"
He shrugged, "Of course I do."
(Men,) she thought. (It's all they think about.) Moving on, she asked, "So, what's the vision?"
"The vision was kinda vague, but I'll tell ya this: Someone's comin' to LA, and she's gonna cause some real trouble."
***
The voice from the darkness came forward, followed by three others. "Allow me to introduce my family."
Ash growled, "Not interested." He walked up to a vampire and looked down, "You're shoelaces are untied." The demon looked as Ash flew a right cross against his chin. "That's the second time that that worked."
The demon recoiled with a roundhouse, knocking the S-Mart employee's air right out of him. "Attack!"
Ash jumped to his feet and grabbed the said demon by the shirt. With his revved up chainsaw in the air, he brought it down full force dissecting the demon lengthwise. "Try pulling yourself together faster, Jerkface."
The former promised one turned around to see Gunn in the middle of a two vampire brawl.
Grabbing one into a half-nelson, Gunn staked the vampire with ease. "Get your hands off me!"
Watching the demon's ash settle to the ground, the second vampire threw a punch at Gunn's back.
Before the demon connected, Ash intercepted and caught the fist. He twirled around dissecting the vampire in two with his chainsaw. "Leave him alone, Asswipe." Soon, Ash's victim crumbled into dust.
Gunn, meanwhile, ran to the last demon and grabbed his arm. With all his human strength, he threw the vampire to the other side of the street.
"Pathetic mortal." The vampire said as he got to his feet. "You're going to pay for that."
Ash smirked, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." He looked at Gunn, "Can I borrow your stake?"
Nodding, he threw it to him, "Not at all."
Catching it, Ash walked up to the demon. "You guys make me sick." He quickly stabbed the piece of wood into the vampire's chest. "And that's how it ends."
Turning back to his new friend, he tossed him the stake. "Thanks, Kid."
Gunn smiled, "Nice work, Ash. That chainsaw of yours can do some serious damage."
"You better believe it. But you never saw what it could do against deadites. These vampires are strong, but deadites are so much more stronger."
"I believe it." Gunn said with his still conscious grin. "Let's get back to the cabin."
"Let's take the longer route. Strangly enough, I'm in the mood for a walk."
"That's cool." He said as joined the brunette. "Where can I get one of those chainsaws?"
***
Saying that, the two turned the corner to see a young woman being forced to the ground.
"As X would say, 'It's clobbering time!'"
Wesley sighed, "He never says that."
Faith said as she launched herself at the attacker, "You obviously don't know about Xander's love of comics."
She landed on the demon who was holding onto the young woman. "Get the fuck off of her!"
The demon dropped his victim as he heard the cry from the unfamiliar brunette female. Turning around, he caught her in mid-air and tossed his attacker aside. "Get the hell away from me!"
Faith got back to her feet, with one hand on her chackram, she used the other one to gesture a signal for her watcher, "Get her out of here!"
"Of course, Faith." Wesley said as we ran to the fallen young woman. "Remember your training, Faith."
Faith nodded, "Training, right. Move it!"
Watching him go, Faith aimed her chacram and let it loose. She watched it as the weapon bounced off of the buildings that surrounded the street as well as trashcans and a fire escape. But it missed the demon by a few centimeters and landed by the far right wall.
"Damn. I guess I need more practice." She said to herself as she went for her stake.
"You got one hell of a lousy aim." The demon said as he grabbed something from the ground. "I got what I needed."
He then began running down the street.
Faith sprinted down the street, making sure to pick up her chackram.
Looking up from the ground, she noticed the demon escaped. "Shit!"
"Everything okay?"
Faith looked at the source of the voice to see her watcher coming from the darkness. "The demon got away."
"He couldn't of gotten far. Let's go after it."
Nodding, Faith placed her chackram back on her belt. "I wonder what he picked up from the ground."
***
"What is this show?"
Ryan looked up from the television. "It's called Xena: Warrior Princess. It's a spin-off of Hercules: the Legendary Journeys."
Callisto looked at her show, "There's shows based on Hercules and Xena?"
The vampire nodded, "Yeah." He turned to the television and looked at the episode. "This is a repeat. It has Hercules making a crossover."
"Hercules is in this episode?"
Pointing to the screen, he said, "Yeah, he is. The brunette is Xena. And the annoying blond is Gabrielle. They work together fighting the gods, warlords, and creatures. Whether they are Ares, Callisto, or a minotaur."
His face paled, "Callisto..."
***
***
The demon lowered his head as he entered the spacious room.
Raising it, flicked the light switch on allowing the florescent lights to brighten the room.
Shadows soon danced across the room as he walked over to the right corner. Grabbing the object he obtained from the ground, he placed it on a podium.
With a malevolent smile, the demon said, "Finally. I now have the last page."
He lit surrounding candles that decorated the top of the podium with a match. Satisfied, he closed his eyes, raised his arms and started to move his hands in a circular motion.
"Abba moni clactu virata nikto josuz---."
CRACK!
The demon suddenly fell to ground in a thud.
Somebody walked inside the room and walked over to the fallen body. With a mighty thrust, she yanked her weapon out of the demon's neck.
With a smile, "Looks like I didn't miss this time."
"Well done, Faith." Said the Englishman.
"Thanks, Wes." Stepping over the body, she grabbed the pages that were on the podium. She looked down at it, and saw red writing on the torn pages. Faith gave them to her watcher, "What do you make of this?"
He immediately recognized the pages. "These are from the Necronomicon Ex Mortis."
"Shit!" Faith hollered out. "Uncle Ash isn't going to like this."
Saying in a low voice, Wesley said, "No he won't. We better take these to him and the others. I have a feeling something is bound to happen shortly."
"Hurry up then, Wes. We'll figure out what to do there."
They then ran out of he room with the pages of the Necronomicon.
***
Xander looked at his friend, "Do you think this guy is for real?"
She nodded, "As much as I think the powers should be screwed. I recently learned to trust them on occasion."
He showed you a confused look, "You learned to trust the powers? Since when?"
Buffy didn't want him to know about Alex. Alex was somebody that only Buffy knew about, and she wanted it to stay that way. Hoping something would happen to change the course of this conversation, anything at all.
Doyle said, "Listen you two. Something is coming. I should know, I got a vision, and my former migraine proves it."
Thankfully, Buffy asked, "Migraine?"
He nodded, "Aye. I get a migraine every time I get a vision. It hurts like hell, but everything has a price."
Buffy sighed, "Don't I know it."
Xander noticed the tone of her voice. Buffy was a girl that had too much responsibility. Strike that. She was a young woman who had too damn much responsibility.
Every night since he known her and even before that, she went out of her way to risk her life so people like him could live the next day.
Knowing that, he promised himself that from the very day he met her, he'd protect her in anyway he could. Xander already lost Jesse and Catharine. He didn't want to lose anyone else.
Xander would help her in anyway that he could. He has proven that time and time again, and it looked like she knew that.
"You alright, Xan?"
Her voice cut him out of his inner musings. With a smile, he said, "Yeah, I am. Forget about it."
She grinned, "Already forgotten. C'mon. We're off to the cabin."
***
She nodded, "Before I answer that, I want to make sure I'm right..."
Her eyes widened as she saw a character appear on the screen. The character had long hair, wore a familiar set of pants as well as a familiar shirt.
Callisto approached the screen, getting the whole picture of the said character. "Is that...?"
Ryan showed a confused look, "Is that who?"
His sire reworded the question, "Is that Hercules?"
Her childe looked down at the screen, nodded, and said, "Yeah, that's Kevin Sorbo. He plays Hercules."
A wide grin realizing the truth. Hercules was still alive, but as Kevin Sorbo? Didn't matter. Killing him would only make her feel more complete.
"What are you talking about?"
Callisto said with a smile, "Never mind. Where is this 'Kevin Sorbo' now?"
"My guess is Los Angeles. That's where the show's being taped."
"Take me there, Ryan. Take me to Los Angeles. I'll tell you everything you need to know on the way."
Without any further hesitation, Lieutenant Ryan Banks said, "Of course, Callisto."
***
That smell.
It was that smell.
With two glowing green eyes, he looked down the street with himself in the shadows of the night.
With his eyes glaring at the two humans down the street, his smile grew even more malevolent. He rubbed his hands in eagerness.
As soon as he got those pages, he would be the most famous demon in the entire planet. Satan would no longer be the name that all men feared. The name would be none other than Goklox.
Goklox would be truly omnipotent and all the world would tremble when his name was spoken.
Feeling nothing but pure evil energy in his body, Goklox ran out of the shadows hollering, "You have crossed the street for the last time!"
The young woman asked in confusion, "What?"
With a snarl, the demon said, "My name is Goklox. For I am the most omnipotent demon on the face of this Earth. And all I need are those pages!"
The elder man said, "If you think that my slayer here is going to give you these pages, you are hugely mistaken."
"You dare defy me! Nobody will forget who I am!"
Faith smirked, "Yeah, right. You ain't getting these pages."
He stomped forward, "Oh, but I am!"
She gave the pages to her watcher as she took her weapon from her belt. "Shut the fuck up!" Faith then aimed her weapon, and let it loose.
Her chackram cut through the demon's windpipe, killing him in the process.
"That was easy enough."
Wesley nodded, "It appears that way. He definitely thought highly of himself."
She showed a confused look, "What was his name again?"
He shrugged, "I do not remember. Let's go to the cabin."
***
"Ash!"
Ash stood up from the couch to see Wesley charging inside the cabin carrying a limp Faith. "We need your help!"
"What happened?" Xander yelled as he approached his friend.
"Is she alright?" Buffy asked.
"Is she alright, Man?" Doyle repeated the question.
Wesley looked at the source of the new voice, "Who are you?"
Buffy said, "It's alright, Wes. This is just Doyle."
Ash immediately ran to his niece, "Don't worry about him. What happened to her, Wes? You better tell me what the fuck is going on?"
He looked down at her and she started shaking recklessly. "Somebody damn well tell me what's wrong?"
Faith soon felt something on her shoulder. She immediately grabbed the spot to try and stop the pain.
"What the hell happened?" Gunn asked.
Ash brought Faith to the couch as Wesley told the story.
"We followed a demon to his apartment where he was chanting some kind of spell. After Faith killed him, we took the pages the demon was reading from."
Ash growled getting an idea in his idea, "What kind of pages?"
Wesley said immediately, "The Necronomicon..."
The former promised one cut him off, "Shit! I fucking hate that book!"
Gunn showed a confused look, "What's this Necronomicon?"
Ash snarled, "It's the damn book that ruined my life! There is no way I'm going to lose Faith."
Faith's hand grasped her shirt and yanked it off revealing bare skin. Her skin started to open up.
Buffy's eyes widened, "What's happening to her? There's an eye on her shoulder!"
"Shit! That ain't normal, Uncle Ash!"
Her uncle shook his head, "No! Not again!"
Xander asked, "What the hell are you talking about?"
Wesley stated, "Chances of what your thinking are slim to none on happening again, Ash!"
He glared at him, "You may have studied the book. But I've lived it! I know better than anyone what's happening!"
"What's happening?" Gunn asked.
Soon the cut on Faith's shoulder started expanding showing a nose.
"Shit!" Xander yelled.
"That ain't right!" Doyle yelled.
Faith immediately sprang from the couch and ran to the mantle. Grabbing the chainsaw, she tossed to Ash, "Get this thing out of me! Get this mother fucking thing out of me!"
The hole in her shoulder expanded more and more. A new eye emerged followed by more skin.
"You got to be kidding!" Xander yelled.
Catching the chainsaw in his free hand. "Dismemberment ain't going to do shit!"
"Then what will?" Asked the human/demon half-breed.
Faith hollered, "Then take the chackram!"
Their eyes widened in horror as a head appeared out of Faith's shoulder.
Faith looked in the mirror that was by the right wall, and screamed in horror.
"You got to be kidding me!" Faith yelled.
She started running out of the cabin, screaming into the night.
"We're coming, Faith!" Xander yelled as he sprinted out of the cabin as well. His friends followed suit.
***
The two-headed Slayer ran into the night. Soon, an arm and another set of legs grew from Faith. It looked like Faith now had a Siamese Twin.
The two of them ran down the street. They started pulling away from each other. And soon, two bodies separated from Faith's body.
"What the fuck are you?" Faith asked.
The other Faith snickered, "'What the fuck are you?'" She repeated with a haunting laugh.
Faith suddenly remembered her uncle's stories. "You're me! Aren't you?"
Ash and the others came running to them.
"It happened again!" Ash yelled.
"There two of you now!" Gunn asked.
Ash growled, "That's Bad Faith."
Faith said, "You're me."
Evil Faith smiled wickedly, "Give the Slayer a prize!"
"What do we do?" Doyle asked.
Faith's evil twin saw the pages from the Necronomicon in Wesley's hands. "I'll take those!" She grabbed them.
"If you thought Bad Ash was bad, wait to you see Bad Faith." Evil Faith said as clobbered Buffy in the cheek. "Slayers may be strong, but I'm stronger."
Buffy recoiled quickly with a left cross but Evil Faith intercepted by grabbing the blond's hand and throwing her onto the Englishman.
Xander charged the double but was kicked in the gut. "Pathetic."
She saw Ash's chainsaw revving, "That won't do any good. You realize that, don't you?"
Gunn grabbed his stake and launched himself at her.
The stake imbedded in Bad Faith's chest, but it didn't do any good.
"Damn!"
She kicked Gunn's side forcing the bald man to the ground. "Did you fall and go boom?"
"I'll kill you!" Faith yelled.
"We'll kill you!" Xander said as helped Buffy to her feet.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Bad Faith said as she turned around. "Wait till I come back! I won't be alone next time!" Then she ran off.
***
"Good. You're all here."
Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill looked at his superior officer, "What's the problem, Sir? I was going to go fishing."
General George Hammond said, "It's going to have to wait, Colonel. We have a problem on our hands."
"What kind of problem, Sir?" Captain Samantha "Sam" Carter asked.
"Please sit down."
The four members of SG-1 and the general sat down in their familiar seating arrangements. "Lieutenant Banks and Caroline have left the premises. When they were stopped by Colonel Hummings, they easily got passed him. No damage was dealt. The two of them just walked off the base."
Doctor Daniel Jackson looked at them. "Well, General Hammond. I saw them earlier. Ryan said he was on his way home."
He nodded, "I called Lieutenant Banks' phone. But nobody was there."
"Perhaps Lieutenant Banks has not arrived home yet?" Teal'c offered.
"That is a distinct possibility. But that was over an hour ago. Lieutenant Banks only lives fifteen minutes away."
Jack nodded, "I saw Banks kissing a woman in the corridor a while ago."
"General Hammond!"
Hammond look at the door and noticed a horrid look on his face. "What is it, Colonel? You better have a good reason for barging in."
Colonel Makepeace said, "I do, Sir. I just went to see Nurse Hall. She's dead."
"Are you sure, Colonel?"
He nodded, "She had two holes in the side of her neck, Sir."
Jack showed a confused look, "Two holes? You sure it wasn't just from a goa'uld?"
Makepeace shook his head, "No, Sir. Two holes in her neck. Her body's cold."
The general looked at the archeologist, "What do you make of this, Doctor Jackson?"
Daniel looked at him in confusion, "I really can't think of anything that would cause two holes in the neck, General."
Jack smirked, "Vampires could."
Sam looked at him, "Vampires, Colonel?"
Daniel said, "Vampires could exist, Jack. Recently, we've found out a lot of Earth's mythology was based on alien influence. Vampire mythology could've been influenced by goa'uld or other parasitic animals' interference."
Jack said, "That would make sense, Sir. Banks' not the type to kiss women."
Hammond looked at him, "What are you suggesting, Jack?"
Jack said, "Well, Banks was never the type of guy that kisses in the base. He was a guy who lived by the book. And plus, don't vampires have that whole sexual appeal?"
"You can't be serious, Colonel." Sam asked. "You really believe that vampires exist?"
Daniel said, "Actually, Sam. It would make sense. Vampires have always been a part of world culture. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, and a lot of fiction is based on some truth. Who know's if he hasn't come in contact with a vampire?"
Nodding, the captain asked, "What do we do, Sir?"
Hammond gave it some thought, then said, "If either Lieutenant Banks or Caroline are vampires, then this world is in serious trouble. I want SG-1 on the top of this matter."
Sam then remembered something. "Actually General, the whole incident Colonel Hummings experience could be explained by this. Hathor did the same thing. She was able to use all of you to her advantage. Perhaps Banks was just under Caroline's influence."
He nodded, "Either way. I'd like SG-1 on top of this. The problem is, we don't know where Lieutenant Banks or Caroline are. They could be anywhere."
"Indeed." Was the Jaffa's statement.
Sam suggest, "We could just ask around, Sirs. If I were a goa'uld, I'd want to travel in secret. Causing a ruckus wouldn't be the best solution."
Hammond agreed, "That's probably the best solution we can come up with, Captain Carter. I want you four to get going."
Jack sighed, "I guess I'll have to fish another day."
"Afraid so, Jack. You're dismissed."
They left the room with Daniel saying to Sam, "Who knew Jack have the right answer to something."
"I heard that." Jack said from outside the office.
***
"Here you go, Sir. Two tickets for Los Angeles."
Banks grinned, "Thanks. The train leaves when?"
The teller looked at the clock, "In fifteen minutes, Lieutenant Banks. Thank you for making Western Union Rails your train station. Have a good trip."
Caroline said, "We will. Thank you."
With that said, the two vampires turned around and headed for the right train.
***
"What do we do now?"
Ash looked at down at her niece. "Fighting my twin wasn't easy, Faith. It took a lot to get rid of him." He turned to Wesley. "What exactly happened?"
He replied, "As I have said before. Faith and I tracked a demon to his apartment. He chanted a spell from the Necronomicon. Then we killed him."
The former promised one asked, "Did he finish the spell?"
Faith thought for a moment. "No. We stopped him in the middle of it."
Ash grunted, "That's what happened last time. I didn't say the right three words and I awoke the army of darkness. Big mistake."
Buffy asked, "So how do we stop her?"
He thought back, "It took a lot of fire power. But what we need to do is train an army." He then remembered something, "Gunn, do you think your team can help us here?"
The bald man nodded, "Definitely. They're always up for action."
He grinned, "Good. Because we have a lot of work to do." He turned to Xander, "You think Kevin will want to help?"
Xander said, "I could ask him. He'd probably want to help. He already knows a lot about us."
Ash smiled, "Good. So this is what's going to happen. We don't have much time. Since tomorrow is Sunday, we need the time to train. Faith's training room wont be enough space for us."
Xander shook his head, "Neither will my apartment."
"Or mine." Buffy said.
Wesley grinned, "I believe I have a suitable solution."
TBC
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Author's Request
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