Second Chances
Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy or Star Wars.
Summary: Xander-Halloween fic. Xander goes as a Jedi Knight, giving to two young lovers a second chance.
Rating: PG-13; just to be on the safe side.
Author's Notes: Thanks for all the reviews!
Perfect Darkness: It's not Dawn, she doesn't appear her until season 5. About the voxyn; they weren't the writers just didn't feel that they should focus anymore on them after Star by Star.
Rankokun Alpha: Where was the mistake?
Contains Spoilers for the New Jedi Order series!
Chapter 5 Worse things than a demon
Rupert Giles stood in front of his card catalog in the Sunnydale high school library, enjoying the one day of the year that was usually considered a holiday or Slayers and their Watchers.
Giles looked up from the catalog, for some time now he had been hearing strange noises from outside. If it was any other day other than Halloween, he would have thought that something supernatural was involved, today it was probably just some group of youngsters doing some prank or just horsing around.
Willow walked though the wall in front of him, "Giles!" she exclaimed.
The cards of the card catalog flew up into the air as his hands spasmed in shock and his heart missed several beats in shock.
Seeing Willow walk through a wall had been something he had not been prepared or even expected to see tonight!
"Dear lord! Willow?" he said while utterly flabbergasted, "How'd you do that!"
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Elizabeth walked down an unfamiliar alley looking for some type of safe haven in which she could hide out in.
The architecture of the buildings here were very strange, she could not recognize any of them.
She had run from the house when that man, Angel had turned into a vampire.
She felt strong hands grab her.
She than found herself looking into the unshaven face of an one-eyed pirate.
He pushed her up against the wall of the alley, "Pretty, Pretty…" the pirate said as he salivated at the sight of her.
Elizabeth began to whimper as the pirate leaned in to kiss her.
The pirate was unceremoniously grabbed and thrown away from Elizabeth by Anakin.
The pirate regained his balance and turned to face the person that had interrupted his fun.
He looked at Anakin and said, "Arrh…I'm going to teach you some manners boy, you don't get between a man and his wench!" he drew his cutlass form its sheath.
Anakin smiled calmly at the pirate and stretched his hand out at him as if pointing.
The pirate frowned at this and said, "What are you going to do? Point at me all night long? Is that all?" he sneered.
Anakin's lightsaber leapt up from his belt and into his hand and he ignited it with a snap hiss.
The pirate watched in disbelief as Anakin stepped forward and swung at the pirate. The purple blade sheared through the pirate's cutlass above the handle.
Anakin stepped back and kept the point of his saber pointed at the pirate's throat.
The pirate's eyes focussed on the point of the blade, noticing that it was actually round. He looked at the still smoking handle of his cutlass. He looked again at Anakin.
The pirate turned around and ran away into the night, screaming for his mommy.
Anakin disengaged his blade and turned to face Elizabeth was shocked by what she had just seen.
"That felt strangely satisfying," Anakin said in confusion.
The others caught up with them and when Elizabeth saw Angel, she screamed in terror and said, "Vampire! He's a Vampire!" she hid behind Anakin again.
Anakin gently disengaged her hands from the death grip they had on his sides. He turned around to face her, "Relax, he's one of the good guys."
"Is she still on that?" said Cordelia in a disgusted tone, "Look, he is a vampire, but a good one. Get over it already!"
Anakin froze; he could feel the voxyn reaching out for him.
He looked to Tahiri and found her also frozen. Their eyes met.
"We have got to run…NOW!" Anakin commanded.
"What's wrong?" Angel asked concerned for them.
Anakin did not answer him, instead he grabbed Elizabeth's arm while Tahiri grabbed Cordelia's arm. They started to run down the alley pulling the two females along behind them. Angel reluctantly followed after them.
The voxyn appeared at the opposite end of the alley and howled as it caught sight of them. It started to run after them in bounds and leaps.
They ran now without hesitation.
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In the library Willow was trying to turn the page of the book she was looking through but her incorporeality was not helping her in the matter.
"Giles, this isn't working! I can't turn the pages." Willow complained.
"Yes well…perhaps if we go through what happened before?" trying to placate her.
"We all became our costumes, Buffy was dressed as an 18th century noble woman and she became one, Xander dressed as a Jedi and he became one and I went as a ghost and I became one," she explained.
Giles scrutinized her, "A ghost…A ghost of what exactly?"
Willow took umbrage at this, "This is nothing! You should have seen Cordelia in her cat suit!" She ranted in defense of herself.
"Dear lord! She actually became a feline?" Giles asked, shocked.
"No…she didn't, she wasn't changed at all…" a thought occurred to her, "She got her costume from Partytown…" Willow trailed off.
The same thought occurred to Giles, "Where did you get yours?"
"We got them from the new place, Ethan's" Willow said, realizing the significance.
"Show me where," Giles ordered.
They quickly headed for the door, Giles stopping only shortly to get his coat.
Giles had a disturbing thought, Ethan's? It could not be Ethan Rayne, my old companion? This is just the sort of thing he would love…Dear lord, I hope not!
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I wish I had Alema's Longblaster with us…Anakin thought.
They were running down a deserted main street with the voxyn in hot pursuit.
Tahiri, Anakin and Angel were not tiring but Elizabeth and Cordelia were fading fast.
If they did not deal with the voxyn soon it would be all over for them all.
Anakin reached out for Tahiri through the Force, fighting through the Primordial Darkness that was everywhere. When he reached her he let his shields down and joined her mind to hers in a Jedi battle meld. They quickly managed to come up with a half-sane plan to deal with the voxyn.
Only they, Tahiri and Anakin could deal with it.
"Angel! You need to take the girls down the next alleyway!" Anakin shouted.
"And leave you to deal with that thing!" Angel said vehemently.
"It's a voxyn! Tahiri and I know how to deal with it!" Anakin explained loudly.
I hope…
Angel reluctantly agreed and he, Elizabeth and Cordelia went down the first alley they encountered.
Tahiri and Anakin were now alone in the main street. the street was still deserted except for a few parked cars.
Anakin reached out once more to Tahiri and they formed a Jedi battle meld.
Anakin grabbed one of the thermal detonators off of his belt and set it for a three-second delay. He threw it into the voxyn's path.
The voxyn veered out of the silver sphere's way and leapt away from it. The detonator exploded in a blinding flash of sunfire, vaporizing a small hole in the pavement.
The Jedi's delaying tactic worked and Tahiri and Anakin both Force leapt onto cars on opposite sides of the street. The ignited their lightsabers and held them at the ready.
The voxyn stopped and looked at them, animistic intelligence shone in its cruel yellow eyes; it recognized the trap they had set for it.
If it attacked one then it left its flank open for attack by the other Jedi.
It howled and pointed it's head at Anakin, spewing out acidic mucous at him.
Anakin leapt behind the car he had been standing. Hissing erupted from the car as the mucous hit and started to melt through it.
The voxyn meanwhile ran at Tahiri, when it was close enough it sent a sonic shriek in her direction, knocking Tahiri off of the car and shattering all of the car's windows.
Tahiri hit the ground roughly and her lightsaber flew from her grasp. She quickly rolled onto her stomach.
She had forgotten how loud a voxyn's sonic blasts was…
With ears still ringing she pulled her amphistaff off of her waist. With a deft twist of her wrist, the serpentine slithered to her hand and extended to become its sword form.
The voxyn came flying over the car to land near Tahiri. She stuck out with the amphistaff.
The voxyn howled in pain and backed away after the amphistaff sliced off one of its legs and envenomed another with its bite.
Anakin came charging around the other side of the car causing the voxyn to split its attention between the two enemies.
This gave Tahiri enough time to get back to her feet.
The two Jedi stood on either side of the voxyn now, weapons at the ready.
They struck!
They worked in tandem probing the voxyn's defenses for weaknesses they could exploit while trying to avoid the voxyn's its disease ridden paws and razor sharp tail that was trying to disembowel them.
They engaged in the deadly dance of battle until the voxyn suddenly feinted right and twisted its body around, allowing it to throw a decapitating blow with its tail towards Anakin.
He saw it but only managed to turn the decapitating blow into a slash across his left arm.
Pain blossomed in Anakin's arm as the tail slashed his arm. The armor he wore took most of the blow so instead of taking his arm off it only opened a large gash.
Tahiri quickly absorbed Anakin's pain through the battle meld allowing him to go back on the attack.
Finally Tahiri was able to get close enough to slice of the tail and as the voxyn opened its mouth to howl in pain, Anakin managed to stuff a thermal detonator down its mouth.
They ran from the voxyn.
A blinding flash of light washed over Anakin. He looked back to see his handiwork. The detonator had completely vaporized the voxyn, not even leaving a grease stain to signify that it had existed here.
He disengaged his blade and clipped it back onto his belt. He looked around for Tahiri. He found her walking towards him, he watched as she tore a strip from her living cloak with her amphistaff docilely twined around her forearm.
"I got it," he said quietly.
She came up to him and started to tie the strip she had torn around the wound he had received when his armor had been compromised by the voxyn's tail.
She looked up at him with her soulful green eyes, "I know." She finished tying the strip around his arm.
He leaned down and softly kissed her on her lips.
The world disappeared as they both leaned into the kiss, wrapping their arms around each other.
As far as they were concerned only they existed the Force…
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Ethan Rayne lay curled up, in pain, on the floor in the backroom of his store after Ripper's viscous thrashing.
"The statue…Janus. Smash the statue!" Ethan managed to get out through the pain.
Giles moved towards the statue. He picked it up and raised it up above his head. He threw it forcefully at the ground.
It shattered into a million pieces…
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Xander Harris found himself passionately kissing a perfect stranger in the middle of street.
They abruptly broke apart and Xander found himself looking into a pair of wide eyed green eyes in a face that he had never seen before with confusion and horror written all over it.
They stared at each other in shock.
Finally, Xander broke the silence, "Uh, hi…nice night we're having here, right?" he quipped.
The girl looked startled by him then she turned around, ran into the night and away from Xander.
Xander blinked at this and then shook his head sagely at this, "Yup, just another normal night on the Hellmouth…" he joked to no one in particular.
Author's Notes: Hope u like this chapter. Please Read and Review. Who Tahiri really is will be explained in the next chapter.