DISCLAIMER AND NOTES REFER TO CHAPTER 1
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Chapter 03:Death and Rebirth
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"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."
1 Corinthians 13:11-12
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Summers Residence, 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale
Saturday, November 01, 1997
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Buffy and the Scooby Gang have gathered at the Summers house. Normally, they would have gathered at the High School Library, but half the school was incinerated last night. The extensive kinetic and fire damage caused by the blast, plus years of earth quakes and unique phenomenon, caused the underground cave network beneath to collapse. The school is now a pile of burning rubble in a rather large sinkhole.
"Tonight, the peaceful town of Sunnydale (snicker) was the sight of multiple accidents and acts of gang violence and terrorism."
In the Summers living room, 11 people have gathered and are currently watching the news report.
"In one night, over one billion one hundred sixty-nine million dollars in damage have been done and over one hundred people are either dead or missing."
Buffy/Nancy is dressed in black pants and a black jacket with a red blouse. She stands far more elegant for a California cheerleader. She has a dislike of guns, but she is currently carrying a concealed Beretta. Buffy is trying to adjust to her new strength, which has nearly doubled with her increased size and enhancement! She already broke her alarm clock radio and the desk it was on!
"...Town Hall, the house of Mayor Wilkins, the warehouse district, 3 museums, 2 churches, 8 graveyards..."
Dawn/Tenten is dressed in a pink Chinese chest, black drawstring pants with ankle ties, and taichi slippers. The way she plays with needles is disturbing. She remembers everything from last night and she is amazed at what was bee happening in Sunnydale. She's also worried as the strange sensation from last night is still present, pulsating threw her chakra pathways. She wishes Neji-san was here, with his Byakugan and Jyuuken training, he could tell her what's wrong.
"Witnesses report a 400 foot purple and green robot fighting a giant fire-breathing lizard. The police asks 'What have you been smokin?'."
Willow/Yomiko still wears her black dress, white long-sleeved shirt, brown vest, dark red tie, and black shoes, with a tan jacket and flat-sole shoes. She also still wears the glasses. She's also carrying several books that's to her new obsession. She's also trying to sort out a melting pot of emotions and memories.
"Foreign teacher Onizuka reported seeing a blonde in red leather before the building was reduced to rubble."
Xander/Naraku is dressed in a dark purple untucked dress shirt and tight black pants. This morning he found a spider-shaped burn in the center of his back. It's still fairly painful. He was up most of night with nightmares and there's a missing chunk of memory that makes him worry. The fact that parts of his body have been changing shape and this morning's shower ate a hole in floor, seem minor.
"The museum was robbed of all rare artifacts by a thin short-haired man in 1960s style.."
Cordelia/Brianna is dressed in a loose green/gold silk shirt, tight track pants, and sneakers. She's not wearing any jewelry because of there silver content. She also moves very carefully. As a normal human, Cordelia could lift an absolute max of 100 Kg. Brianna could lift 3200 Kg, making her over 5 times stronger than the original Slayer Buffy. She's lucky she didn't dress as Brianna's sister Brittany Elin Diggers, Cheetah could lift double what Brianna could, being a pure-blooded werecheetah.
"Yes, Miss Winters, there appears to be a new PCP gang in town being lead by an Asian teen. He is reported to wear a bright red jacket and ride an 'extremely cool red motorcycle'."
Harmony/Rosette is dressed in a white shirt and blue pants, with a small gold cross necklace. Harmony didn't possess the inner strength of the others, so the result is more dramatic. Harmony was nothing more than vain, conceited air head, unlike Cordelia who was actual smarts and had a lot of potential. The end result is Rosette's dedicated persona has completely consumed Harmony's weaker mind. Cordelia realized this when she asked Harmony about the cross and got an accented "nun" response instead of valley girl fashion response.
"The vigilantes are described as a japanese girl in a catholic school uniform wielding a katana and a young boy with a long pole and a monkey tail?"
Giles/Walter. He wears gray trousers, a white long-sleeved shirt, black vest, and a red tie. It seems the massive surge of power from the bust and partially wearing a costume resulted in a partial transfer. He possesses the skills and most of the memories of the famed "Angel of Death". He awoke with the abilities on Buffy's couch, after waking up from the explosion. He's not burn or injured from blast and believes the costume's charms somehow protected him. The irony is if Ethan had worn one of costumes, he could have survived. If he rubs his glasses anymore, he will have a monocle. He would have done a few spit takes, if a certain woman hadn't threaten to shove a wooden sword in an inappropriate place.
"A representative of law firm Wolfram & Hart have stated 'Insurance rates will increase for the next 200 years?"
Jenny Calender/Integra Hellsing. She wears a dark green suit jacket with a white blouse, blue ascot, and a silver cross as a "tie pin". Dark green trousers and low shoes complete her outfit. She acts very cool on the exterior, but inside her fire gypsy half is colliding with Icy Hellsing to form quite a mental storm. She' still packing her own gun, having decided blessed ammo is a good idea in a place like Sunnydale.
"When the officers tried to arrest several people for possession of illegal weapons, a localized gas explosion reduced there cars to scrap..."
Kaneda/Jubei. He wears a black biker shirt, dark green pants, and white sneakers. He carries his sword, now disguised an old walking stick. He also carries numerous scrolls and books on his Talismanic magic. They remind Dawn of summoning contracts and exploding notes carried by Konoha's Nins. She even carries two herself, which summons a weapon per symbol. Kaneda is looking over his notes on the various charms he used and variants of them. He also seems fascinated with Slayers, Watchers, and Giles' demon books.
"A person was arrested for the theft of the Egyptian antiques, but Mr. Motou was found innocent an hour later"
Oz/Jon Talbain is dressed in a white shirt, dark blue pants and has blue-white hair. What's strange is the hair isn't one of his multi-color dye jobs. He had just gotten near Ethan's, when the power erupted. The energies of Janus and Talismans fused his own werewolf essence with the essence of extremely powerful gaming werewolf. He decided to dress up, when his gig was canceled and had picked Jon Talbain from the video game series Darkstalkers as a personal joke. His human form resemble a more mature, taller, more muscular Oz, unlike the others who no longer resemble there original forms. Fortunately, laid back persona conflicts with Jon's serious "almost Angel-like-angst" persona.
"Willy's Bar burned to ground in seconds and only bar owner Willy and several dozen animal skeletons have been recovered. Witness reports a woman with 'an extremely painful' laugh."
The young woman who stands next to Oz, is Buffy's mother, Joyce Summers, though she doesn't resemble it. She had bought her costume and was going to pick it up later. Ethan's booster effected the pre-bought costume as well. The 40 year old mother had been dared to buy something wild by a friend and Kaneda had offered the "Ultra A-class" assassin of Outlaw Star. She had looked odd in the outfit, but it certainly fits now. Twilight Suzuka stands 5'8" with a slim build. She has very pale skin, long black hair bound up into a ponytail, and dark brown eyes. Her costume consists of a white kimono with red trim and a red obi (belt), and an orange shawl draped over her shoulders. She can now pass as her new daughter's older sister.
"Further investigation may be delayed, as the majority of Sunnydale Police Department have been implicated in a massive corruption case."
I don't know Larry's last name so I picked the first Larry I could think of.
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"This is very troubling. The extent of damage and loss of life. The loss of the Library."
"I guess I should start." says Kaneda, "I'm the only person who knows how BIG a problem we have."
Kaneda pulls out a detailed chart from one of his scroll cases. The chart apparently lists every costume he sold Ethan, listed by name and series. There are over 200 costumes listed and over half have been checked in the SOLD box.
"Almost 2 weeks ago, I met Ethan Rayne at Tanaka's R & I shop. It's a place that makes fake art, artifacts and furniture for people who want to look very rich, but aren't. I mentioned my cosplay costumes and we decided to work together to create a memorable Halloween. I'm a mage specializing in talismans. My costumes have talismans designed to help the wears play the part. In a Star Trek costume, the wearer would play Jean-Luc Picard better than Patrick Stewart. It also leaves behind a few bonuses. A detective gains better deductive abilities. A pilot gains better reflexes. Nothing harmful or malicious. (notices looks) I use them on myself!'
'I didn't know Ethan was a chaos mage. Mixing magic is bad as you saw last night. I guess, the reason our costumes became permanent is Ethan wanted to get back at me for making Buffy ditch his stupid Princess costume. Good thing too, a Princess wouldn't have lasted long last night."
"I knew Ethan in my younger days, when I was more rebellious." says Giles, "He was into several nasty habits, including demon worship and devotion to chaos. The original spell would have disappeared leaving a few lingering memories, but the bloody moron decided to create a super-version using your rather impressive costumes. That plus the wards has caused enough chaos to give seers migraines for the next thousand years."
"I made the chart to see how successful my costumes were" says Kaneda cutting in, "Some were harmless, like Makoto from NGE. Human with a few skills. Some were medium, such as the Naruto character I sold Dawn (nervous at the pins she's holding), and some were insanely dangerous such as Infurita from El Hazard. A woman who can vaporize cities. Fortunately, only the people in this room got permanent bodies and memories. The rest are just got cosmetic changes and minor improvements to there physical and mental."
"Have you noticed any changes in your Slayer powers?" asks Giles
"I broke my desk this morning." says Buffy, "I guess my Slayer dojo mixed my superspy bod."
"We all got a few abilities" adds Xander, "It's the memories and new face I could do without."
"If you didn't have Naraku's 50 years of experience and the memories of the demons, you wouldn't be able to stay in human form." notes Kaneda.
"Human form" inquires Buffy, while the group looks confused.
"Naraku is the product of recombinant demon sorcery. Basically, millions of demons merged to form a uber-demon. In demon form he looks like a amalgam of different demon parts."
Xander holds up a hand, which morph into a grotesque clawed green-scaled appendage of a demon with a red eye on the backhand, then reverts back to humanity.
"Gross." says Buffy, but at Xander's wince she adds, "Well you got some cool powers. You dusted Spike with that purple fireball."
Cordelia is wondering what Xander could do to her with demonic shape-shifting. Brianna legendary persona showing.
"I feel great, too" says Joyce, "but there are going to be problems."
"The fact that none of us resemble our old selves even on a genetic level."
"We don't have any ids. No records. We don't legally exist and people would accuse us of stealing the ID of others."
"Well I have my computer skills" says Miss Calender, "Plus Willow's, Cordelia's, (she smirks at the now sweating Giles) and if I'm not mistaken you now have computer skills."
"Oh Bloody Hell."
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Angel's Apartment
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Angel had a very bad night. He was born in the year 1727 in Ireland. In the year 1753, Liam encountered the vampiress Darla in Galway who turned him. His sister called him an angel before he killed her, so he took the name Angelus. Angelus, Scourge of Europe, terrorized until 1898 when Gypsies cursed him with a soul for feeding on there princess. He lived like a vagrant for centuries until the Balance Demon Whistler told him to him a new Slayer named Buffy Summers.
Angel. Angelus. Childe of Darla, Grand Childe of Heinrich Joseph Nest, the Master of Aurelius. Sire of Drusilla the Mad, Sire of James and Elisabeth, Sire of Penn, Grand Sire of William the Bloody. The Demon with the face of an Angel, Most vicious vampire in known history,
He thought living in sewers, feeding on rats was lowest he could get.
He went out to find Buffy as the world went mad. He encountered numerous "problems".He got bit by a couple of miniature demons. Two women in skimpy leather blew up the street he was on. A 400 foot dragon nuked the sewers he was standing on. Stabbed by insane Catholic Priest with blessed blades. Kicked in the nuts by Peel-wannabe and nearly decapitated by a paper wielding librarian. Finally, he got stung by a huge swarm of demonic wasps
He now lies on a pile of pillows, covered head to toe in bandages like a mummy, with several medical blood bag nearby. There is stand with numerous painkillers and ointments.
"This couldn't get any worse" he says threw a swollen jaw. Never say those words on the Hellmouth.
A small creature walks into the room. It resembles a ball of thick brown fur with large eyes, tiny arms ending in three claws and equally small legs. It seems to float, emitting a high pitched squeak. Suddenly, it notices Angel and flies towards him.
There is an explosion and Angel is sent flying onto wall. A few seconds later, the smoking ensouled vampire falls out of the impression in the cheap plaster.
On the ground, tracked in by Angel's old shoes is a Japanese gaming card. KURIBO. Dark/Demon/L1/ATK300/DEF200
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Watcher's HQ, London, England, UK
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Quentin Travers sits at his desk looking over reports of the Hellmouth. Next to him a foul smelling herbal mixture used to treat the migraines of Dwarven Miners.
Quentin is a man of tradition, following the ancient rules of Watcher's Council, using the Slayers to fight the forces of darkness.
He has always had a dislike of Buffy Summers, the current Slayer, and her watcher Rupert "Ripper" Giles. They go against tradition. A slayer must be a solitary hunter, with no friends or family, just dedication to the hunt. The Watcher must be cold, training and giving orders to his Slayer. Quentin never considers Slayers to be anything other than soldiers and tools. The reason there is now a second slayer in Jamaica is do to the actions of an Alexander L. Harris.
Last night, the Council of Witches and the Ministry of Magic registered an immense magical surge from Sunnydale, home of active Hellmouth, Slayer Summers, and Rupert Giles. The surge rated a 12.6 on the GSRH scale and 8.9 on the Merlin scale. That much magical energy converted to nuclear would be in the 1000-1200 megaton range! Did he get any reports from Rupert Giles? No. Did he get any news on the Slayer? No. What did he get? 120 complaints, 3400 inquires, 243 damage reports, and a migraine.
"Sir, the Mages have lost track of Slayer Summers." says the idiot, a Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, "They think she's still alive, but another Slayer has appeared in Sunnydale."
Quentin stares at the nervous Watcher. The young by-the-book agent nearly cringes.
"The Ministry is sending Him to investigate."
"Send Sam Tsebuto and his Slayer to Sunnydale." orders Travers, "I want some Intel now!"
"Sir, are you...??"
"Mr. Wyndham-Pryce, I'm sending you as well. This will require extra help."
"Me? Thank you, Sir!"
Idiot.
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Wolfram & Hart LA Branch, Los Angeles, California
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Wolfram & Hart is a law firm to the human world, but is in relaity a far bigger entity, spanning across the dimensions. The Law Firm is where the demon community go in the modern world. The great finances acquired by century-old demons are managed by W&H accountants. If a demon or human mage wants to acquire certain dark artifacts, W&H does the searches and sets the rates. If a demon kills and/or sacrifices and/or eats a human, W&H pulls strings so it's covered up. If a person is selling there soul to a devil, W&H will draw up the contract. The Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart act as a counter to the PTB- Powers that Be, which control the champions of good and humanity.
Last night, there seers and artifacts detected a massive surge of mystical forces.
"Shit." says Lindsey McDonald.
The demon seers resemble short, thin men with bald heads, dotted yellow-green skin, and white pupil less eyes. There inhuman features include a third golden eye in there foreheads, claws, and pointed ears. They dress in dark green and black robes and hold black crystal spheres. That was what they looked like.
The demon seers in front of them have burst eyes, with blood pouring from there eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. The back of there heads have blown out, showing brain and bone fragments. The once flawless spheres are now covered a spider web of cracks and are still smoking!
"There are humans that blow out from visions. " says Lilah Morgan, "but I've never heard of a Green Order Unkarran dying like this."
A tall man with average features, brown eyes, and short brown hair walks in. He hands each of the lawyers a letter.
"I heard the higher ups are hiring the Tarakans to investigate." adds Lindsey
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HST control, Pentagon, Washington, DC
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The United States Government have known about demons for a long time. Hostile Subterranean as they are known on Paper, have been handled by various groups.
There are vigilante groups that handle cities and towns. These people possess limited knowledge and firepower, but are best at handling local threats like vampires.
There are branches of FBI, CIA, and NSA that investigate paranormal phenomenon and secret branches that "handle things".
There are organizations, both public and private, that handle major problems the government can't be involved with.
HST control is the government group pushing for the Initiative project, a HST capture, analyze, and neutralization project they have been trying to put in place in the Hot Zone, Sunnydale. There plans have been hampered by the Mayor Wilkins and his legal and government connections. Now, in one night the balance has shifted.
"Reports are confirmed. There was two massive surges of energy last night. The end result is the creation of metahumans and possible Sub-Ts, it also resulted in the death of Mayor Wilkins and his limiters."
"We send in our project, now?"
"There is a problem of other agencies have detected the massive shift in power and are sending there own agents."
"Not all of them deal with HST threats. This situation could rapidly spiral out of control."
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Actual Hellmouth, Under Library, HS rubble.
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Deep within the Earth is the cavern that held the Master of Aurelius for 60 years. A cavern that rumbles and glows slightly with an evil red aura. The broken rock glows as if highly radioactive. The stone and dirt seems to pulsate with dark energy, like the beat of a demon's heart.
The reason the Master failed to open to the Hellmouth and became trapped is a vampire seal underneath the cavern. The ancient seal that keeps an army of prehistoric Turok-Han vampires trapped in another cavern. The Hellmouth itself is a center of mystical convergence, which like gravity warping spacetime, brings numerous dimensions together. The Sunnydale Hellmouth is not the only one, it's not even the only one in the states with another in Cleveland. It is the only active one, as only one Hellmouth can be active at a time.
The massive surge of energies last night has caused problems for the Hellmouth. Janus chaos, high order Talismanic, youki from demons, magic from Mages, ki and chi from fighters, psychic energies, divine power, etc.. all combined and melded with the Hellmouth's own field of power. When the powers collapsed, it was like an electromagnetic pulse. The metaphysical pulse "fried" every active magical element in Sunnydale. The Hellmouth is now extremely unstable and getting worse by the hour.
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Deep within a hidden cavern, rests a mysterious castle. A castle of ancient Japan, that wasn't there to days ago and may vanish like smoke if it's master's desires.
A figure stands hidden in the shadows, clad in white fur, holding a pulsating purple light.
In front of him are twelve clay jars. Each jar is white with blue markings. Each is filled with a strange pulsating living mass, red-purple tissue and organs growing and shifting. The things within glow an evil crimson light, that fills the castle with shifting shadows.
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Summers Residence, 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale
A few hours later
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Miss Calender having retrieved her laptop from her apartment is working on creating new IDs with the help of Buffy and Cordelia.
"Man, am I bored." says Kaneda, "Hey Dawn, what do you say we go over to Sunnydale Park and get some training. "
"Wait a minute." says Mrs. Summers
"It's Ok, Mrs S." says Xander, "I'll go with them. I need to stretch my legs."
"Ah.. Xander." says Giles, before Miss Calender grabs his arm.
"Your not getting away that easy."
Giles flushes. Caught.
Kaneda grabs his staff/hidden sword and a bokken- wooden sword- he had carved while watching the hackers work on the computer. Dawn grabs her shurikan holder and straps it to her hip and packs her scrolls. Xander does need anything considering he is the weapon.
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The Rubble of Ethan's Costume Shop.
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A trio of people have arrived at the exact center of last nights mystical explosion. They know this fact because they from the Ministry of Magic. One is young wizard with messy brown hair and glasses. One is a long red-haired girl who could pass as the old Willow's cousin. The last is a tall, red-haired boy with freckles. They all wear red and gold shirts, gloves, pants, and sneakers, all covered by duster-style jackets.
"So this it?" asks Glasses.
Th girl holds up a palm-size dark blue crystal ball. It shows three sets of symbols. One black, one red, and one green.
"This is were the original spell we cast and where it detonated. There were two casters with two separate spells, the main one is dead, while the minor one is completely transformed. There were 9 to 12 permanent transformed."
"So, where's the second caster?"
The girl makes a few motions and the black and red symbols vanish. A green "compass" forms and points to her left.
"I think there's a park that way."
"Our House's Smartest Girl can't read a map?"
"Don't make me hurt you."
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A few miles from Sunnydale
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A black van has arrived at the outer limits of Sunnydale. The group inside considers of a man in his late 40 early 50s, a young woman with short dirty blond hair, a young brown-haired man with glasses, and a tall black man with a black cap.
"We're finally here!"
"I told you to be patient Colonel" says the blond, "The surge of energy that came from this place nearly fried our new hybrid sensors. It would have destroyed the weapons if they hadn't been so heavily shielded. This could be great (to the man in Glasses) what did your research uncover."
"The place was called 'Boca de Inferno' by the early settlers. The Mouth of Hell. In 1812, the Sunnydale Mission was swallowed by an earthquake. In 1899, Sunnydale was founded by Richard Wilkins and was later governed by his son Richard Wilkins the Second and his grandson Richard Wilkins the Third. Strange thing is they all look alike and the dates don't quite match. Such as 1903 - Richard Wilkins marries Edna May. Major earthquakes in 1937 causing massive loss of life. A murder-suicide in '55. A lot of strange phenomenon, which seems out the X-Files, happened in the last 2 years."
"The Usual, huh?"
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A Plane from England
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Wesley Wyndham-Pryce is not in a good mood. He's was happy to get an important assignment, but now he's upset.
The Council has a lot of old money and a lot of investments.
The Heads of the Council, like Travers, get to fly on private planes.
There Second-in-Commands and Special agents got First Class Airline. Great seats, movies, champagne, caviar, the works.
Field Watchers get Second Class. Average seats and features.
Junior Watchers get Third Class. The cheap seats.
He got Fourth Class, being shipped with the luggage and on a poultry shipment plane.
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Sunnydale Park.
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Kaneda is practicing with his bokken, perform kata after kata. Finally, be performs his vacuum blade which cuts a trash can in half.
Dawn has wood and paper targets hanging from several trees. Dawn throws toothpicks into the direct center of each, every time, while hanging upside down from another tree.
"I would take to a bar to win a few bets, " says Kaneda, "but 1. your too young and 2. all the bars are either burnt down or closed for repairs."
"Did you notice, that people are beginning to leave Sunnydale?" asks Xander, who is using a stick to practice, "I saw at least 12 families leaving."
"I got a couple of theories." says Kaneda, "Maybe the Mayor's death or the magical pulse broke what ever spell is on this town. People are no longer attracted and blinded into being tools and victims. My other theory is my costumes made enough people aware and gave them enough common sense to leave."
"530... 535...Would explain why the police got canned....575" says Dawn as she hits 5 separate targets, dead center, for the 115th time.
"If there was a way to seal the Hellmouth permanently, I'd leave too!" says Xander
"Where would you go?" asks Kaneda.
"Maybe Europe, see the land of tweed or Rome, where Buffy has always wanted to go. Maybe Japan, I know the lingo well enough."
"Maybe just LA or San Fran" says Kaneda, "We're almost weird enough to live there."
The three pause, then begin to laugh. Dawn nearly falls out of her tree.
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Meioh's Rare Finds
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Meioh's RF has supplied mystical relics to Sunnydale's human and nonhuman nightlife for 120 years. Mystical Potions, Talismans, Relics, Books, and magic ingredients hidden amongst Souvenirs, New age, furniture, and pawned goods.
Basilisk tooth, CF Heartstring, powdered Unicorn horn, Phoenix eggshell Manticore venom, Thestral hair, werewolf tooth, Baku blood, Asakku bone, and several others all destroyed. There rare magical properties rendered useless.
25, 350 charms destroyed. 13, 550 wards burnt. 78 magic books destroyed. All beyond any possible repair.
Normally, Mr, Meioh resembles an elderly man with long white hair, a long beard, and green eyes. He usually dressed in black and green robes with old fashion spectacles.
Mr. Meioh is now in his true Histausroth demon form. This demon is fairly harmless if your alive, since Histausroth feed on decomposing flesh and rotting vegetation. They have been known to eat human corpses in there home mountain range. Mr. Meioh doesn't since half the dead are foul-tasting vamps. He stands a 4 meter tall cockroach demon with a dark mottled green exoskeleton with pink spots and large black eyes. It still possess the long hair and beard, except it's now a shade of green-white. It's really hard to keep a business when you resemble a giant bug.
Another demon walks in, this one clad in a cloak to hide it's features. It's humanoid with burst orange skin, three forehead ridges, and red-yellow eyes. It also has sharp claws and fangs, pointed ears, and dark yellow dread lochs. It holds a grey medallion with a cracked gemstone in the center.
"It's not the products fault! No, I don't have replacements." he repeats for the 28th time. All the disguise/illusion charms he sold got fried last night and now they want shudder refunds.
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Sunnydale Morgue
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Two coroners in white aprons and plastic goggles are examining a mutilated body.
"Subject: Principal Snyder. Subject was found upside down in a sewer with a pole rammed up his ass"
The coroner goes to into graphic, gory details. He describes decapitation, eyes eaten by rats, organs consumed, acid burns, foreign objects, and other nasty details. Finally, the coroner pulls out a Big rubber stamp and brings it down hard on the report.
GANGS ON PCP
The second coroner then pulls out the next corpse. A young man with shirt brown hair and brown eyes. Suddenly, the man vamps out going into full game face, then goes poof as the corner stakes it with a pencil. The second coroner looks at the first, who nods. The second Coroner grabs the corpse's file and drops it into a oddly placed paper shredder.
"What file?"
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Summer's Home
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"This is crazy! I thought it would take a lot more effort to create new identities, but the Mayor already had a system in place. Lists of foreign contacts, CIA software, INS backdoor, Medical connections, the works." says Miss Calender, "Just fill in the blanks and system will spit out a 'fully legal' ID."
"It's a good thing the system was inside a hidden bank computer." says Buffy, "With nearly all of Mayor's assets blown to pieces."
"I appears the Mayor was behind most of the problems in Sunnydale." states Willow, "The strange thing is some of these records go back nearly 200 years!"
"Richard Wilkins first, second, and third." says Buffy, "Anybody else getting wiggly."
"So what names have you picked?" asks Giles changing topic.
"Koharu" says Miss Calender, smirking at Japanese name for early autumn; Indian summer, "Koharu, Nancy. Koharu, Suzuka. Koharu, Tenten. Two Japanese-Americans and a Japanese-Chinese adopted. Xander L. Harris is now Kage Kokoro. A Japanese man who moved to the US after his parents will killed in industrial explosion. Willow is now Yomiko Book. I'm now Janna Windgrates from England. Cordelia Chase is now Brianna Chase, Cordy's distant cousin from Atlanta. Harmony Kendall is now Christine Rose . You and Oz are still themselves."
Miss Calender clicks a few more buttons.
"The packages of IDs will arrive tomorrow."
"What about our old lives." asks Willow, looking worried while reading a small novel.
"Joyce and Buffy Summers will be declared victims of the riots. Xander Harris will have runway from his abusive home taking a neglected Willow Rosenburg with him. Cordelia will have escaped to LA to avoid her Parent's legal and IRS problems. Harmony and Miss Calendar will also be considered a victim of the Sunnydale Halloween Riots. I've injected a combo worm/virus into the banking computers. It design to transfer our accounts to foreign banks and back to US under our new names. It will also wipe out evidence and several accounts that belong to Sunnydale's 'nightlife'."
"That's bloody brilliant " says Giles.
"Well, you do know both my halves."
"Can I say 'Eww'." says Buffy
"I meant he knows both me and Integra, Buffy"
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Hidden in the darkness of the mysterious castle, there is the sound of breaking pottery. In front of a white-clad man, six figures rise illuminated by the purple light in the man's hand . They stand tall in the darkness, purple slime dripping from there bodies as a purple miasma of poisonous gas grows. Three are female, three are male. The only other things that can clearly be seen is long white hair and glowing red eyes.
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