A/N thanks for the great reviews. This part of the fanfic will take place a week before the episode Becoming. What will Xander think when he gets back home?
A/N 2 Thanks for the review Darklight and I'll try to keep Faith's Watcher alive but I can't promise anything. Because I'm trying to figure out a way for Faith to meet up with Xander and Kendra before she arrives in Sunnydale. It really took me awhile to work in everything with Duncan and Sheila, so thanks for the compliment. Also be expecting another guest star in the near future of this fanfic.
To dogbertcarroll, yeah three slayers woohoo.
To BAKAMAN, unfortunately I'm not going to have a sequel to this story. To tell the truth I'm writing fanfic so I can improve my writing, because I want to write and publish a horror story. As for Angelus something else is going to happen to him and it's not for the good.
To Abuhin, Kendra might get a new Watcher, i haven't decided yet. Alsosee if you recognize the fight scene that Kendra is going to be in during this fight scene. It took me a long time to get it right and I had to watch that PR tape over and over again to get the fight scene right. I even had to get someone else to help me write it.
On with the next chapter
Chapter 15
Fallen Soldiers pt. 2
A month and a half has now past since Kendra's accident. She now stayed at Sheila's house with Xander and Dierdre. The worst part of her arrival was her breakdown after her Watcher's death. Even though she had a family now it was hard for her to let go. When she was sick he would make her better, when she needed someone to talk to he was there. But now he's gone.
They didn't know much about Mr. Zabuto, so they just gave him a traditional burial. However he didn't leave behind any notes informing Kendra on how to get in touch with the Council. So as far as they knew he was still alive and well.
But now she has a sister. Someone she has to watch over now. And then there was Xander. He was brave, funny, and spirited. That's part of the reason the two started dating. But it was more then a "I like you" situation. She was slowly falling in love with him.
Then there was Sheila. She really didn't know whether to trust her or not. Especially because of what she did to Xander. But if Xander could forgive her then so could she. Besides she opened up her home to all of them. Kendra was slowly opening up her heart to Sheila as if the older woman were her big sister or a mother. But regardless, she was still going to watch her.
"Hey at least it's friday." Xander was saying to Dierdre as they walked through the front door. He had just walked her home from school and she told him that she had a bad day.
"Maybe the guy likes you." he added with a grin. Dierdre just pouted.
"Is dat why he keeps hitting me" she asked. "Boys are so stupid." she said as she walked into the kitchen.
"My little girl is growing up." Xander mock cried as he wiped away invisible tears. "She's figured out boy's already."
"Xander how was school" Sheila asked as she walked into the living room.
"Pretty good, I'm just glad today's friday." he said putting down his backpack. Suddenly a mocha colored whirl wind ran into the room and engulfed him in a hug.
"And I see someone else is glad it's friday too." he said looking down into Kendra's eyes. Then the two started kissing. Seeing enough Sheila cleared her throat, to get the young lover's attention. Breaking apart the two smiled sheepishly up at Sheila.
"Dinner is ready and is in de kitchen. Miss Mabinty should be here in a few minutes." Sheila said as she was about to walk in said room. "Oh and Xander here, you got a letter from Sunnydale. Her name is Willow." she said reading who sent the letter. Handing it to Xander she walked into the kitchen.
"I can't believe I forgot to contact, Willow." Xander said as he sat down on the couch. "I wonder what's going on in good old Sunnydale. Hmmm this is dated a few weeks ago" he said as he started to read the letter.
"Yes sometimes de mailing systems are very slow down here." Kendra told him.
His eyes started to water as he read and reread the note.
"No. Please God don't let this be happening." Xander said as the first of his tears started to fall.
"What's happened" Kendra asked as she took the letter out of his shaking hands.
Dearest Xander,
I don't know how to tell you this but, not all is well in SD. Angelus has killed, oh my God he killed Miss Calendar. Giles is really heartbroken over it. They were starting to fall in love and Angelus killed her and left her in Giles Apartment. Even after that Buffy still refuses to kill Angelus. Since you've been gone I've been dating a guy in the band Dingoes ate my Baby. His name was Oz. Angelus killed him too. Also Harmony has turned up missing. I think Angelus might have killed her aswell. Xander please come back soon. Maybe you can talk some sense into Buffy. I really miss you.
Willow
"Xander, I am so sorry." she said as she embraced him in a hug.
"Maybe, if I was there I could have done something." Xander said.
Then Sheila, Miss Mabinty, and Dierdre walked into the room.
"What's wrong" Sheila asked as she saw Xander crying. After his crying fit died down some he explained to them about Angel, his curse, and what he had did to his friends in Sunnydale.
"Xander I'm so sorry." Sheila said giving him a hug. "I wish dare was something I could do."
"Dare might be something I can do." Miss Mabinty said as she paced around the room in deep thought.
"What do you mean" Xander asked. "You got a way to kill Angel all the way over here"
"No, maybe I can give him back his soul. But I'm going to need something from an deserted island. It's called The Orb of Thesulah."
"Alright but how am I going to get it" Xander asked. Kendra looked up, alarmed.
"You... you can't go alone. I'm coming with you." she told him. Before he could argue Miss Mabinty intervened.
"You both can go." she said with a pensive look on her face. "I neva had time to get de Orb because an evil mage came to the island. Dat's been a long time ago so who knows what dangers lurk on de island." she explained to them.
"We can handle danger." Xander said. "But just how do we get to the island"
"I can open up a portal from here to de island. De only problem is the portal can only stay opened for fifteen minutes."
"Come on Kendra, let's get suited up." he said as he lead the way to the basement. "Miss Mabinty get that portal opened."
After about thirty minutes of chanting Miss Mabinty was finally able to open up a portal. The vortex swirled and pulsed as it hanged in the room. Taking a look back at the others, Xander and Kendra jumped through it.
As they moved through the foreboding jungle terrain, their ears are alert to all the unearthly sounds around them. Finding the orb was extremely easy, since the portal opened close to Miss Mabinty's old cabin. But as soon as they turned back, the portal was gone.
Miss Mabinty warned them about this. That's why she gave them a mystical coin that glowed whenever a portal was nearby. So they had no choice but to go deeper in the jungle to find where the new portal was.
"Man this place is creepy." Xander said as they walked from behind a tree. Kendra was about to nod her sentiment when a large black demon grabbed her and ran with lightning speed through the woods.
"Oh, hell no." Xander said as he ran into the woods after them. No way was he loosing his girl too. As he came into a clearing he saw a huge building. Without a word he ran into an opening on the side of the building.
As he eased into a steaming, hissing room, a thick smell of chemicals filled the air. It was some kind of lab. Heavy thrumming machinery filled the large chamber and massive turbines spun and pounded generating power.
Staying low he heard some people talking.
"Your body will be perfect for my experiments." a male voice was saying. As Xander looked up from the barrel he was hiding behind, he saw Kendra being held down on her knees by some big black scaly looking demons. The guy who was talking was a tall old white male, with a bald head.
As Xander stood up, ready to shoot the speaker and the demons, he looked down and his eyes went wide. The writing on the barrel he was hiding behind read that the contents of it were nitro glycerin. As he crouthed back down he begin to peer around the room and he saw similar barrels spread about the room. He also saw a bomb or two placed about the room.
Even without his solider boy memories, he knew that this guy planned to leave the island and he was going to make sure no one found out about his experiments.
'All this nitro and the bombs would destroy this island.' Xander thought to himself. 'Damn so I can't use guns or I'll blow us to kingdom come.' Putting his gun back up in it's holster, he sat there so he could come up with a different plan.
Kendra screamed in protest as the older man started to caress her face. With an evil smirk on his ancient looking face he grabbed a large hatchet off of his desk. Raising it up high he was about to sever Kendra's head from her body when...
A large dagger was thrown from across the room and embedded itself in his chest. Without so much as a grunt he took it out of his chest and threw it to the ground. Black blood was pooling out of his wound. This guy couldn't be human at all. Peering out into the darkness the old man saw a dark silhouette standing up.
As Kendra watched in horror as the old man lifted up a hatchet, a dagger suddenly appeared in his chest. Whatever was going on behind her made the demons that were holding her down, loosen their grip. Using this time to her advantage, Kendra stood up and side kicked the demon to her left and punched the one on the other side of her.
Seeing that the old man turned his attention back on her, Kendra jumped up and did a spinning rainbow kick on him. The force of the blow knocked him up against the wall.
"Kendra get out of here" someone yelled behind her. Turning she saw that it was Xander.
"Xander ..."
"Don't worry about me." Xander said cutting her off. "Just run, I'll be right behind you." he promised. She was about to protest that she was the Slayer and this was her job but then she saw Xander take out two 9 mm's out of their holsters. Then he had the look of creul determination in his eyes as he turned and aimed at the monsters.
Suddenly running seemed to be the best option.
Kendra ran through the dimly lit building like a wildfire, as explosions start to go off around her. A voice from behind her called out to find them no matter what it takes. She ran through one of the corridors and then flew in the other direction when she saw one of the creatures in the in the middle of her way. Kendra ran for the light, when another series of explosions went off. She literally flew out the door.
She scrambled up to catch her breath. Kendra ran for her life as two of the creatures took a leap from the building and flat backed her. She grabbed her ribs as pain shot through her. Ignoring the pain she ran deeper into the jungle. More creatures surrounded her.
She took her first kick and one of the demons flew back. Doing a back flip, her feet caught the creature and sent it flying back, like the first. She landed, twisted, and came up to block a lunge by another one of them.
She whirled into a sweeping kick, and brought the advancing two to the ground. Then she sprung up and caught the third with a snap kick to the chest, sending him sprawling. She was soon caught by one of them and kicked to the ground.
An explosion went off behind them, stunning some of the attacking monsters. She managed to get to the edge of the cliff and looked toward the ocean. The portal had changed where it was and was now hanging just above the ocean water.
"Dis is not good!" Kendra said looking down at the churning water.
Another massive explosion hit and Kendra had no choice but to risk jumping downward to the portal. As she emerged on the other side of the portal, she looked up at Miss Mabinty and Sheila.
"Child are you okay" Miss Mabinty asked.
"Yes ma'am." Kendra said standing to her feet and brushing the dirt off of herself.
"Where's Xander" Sheila asked as she noticed that he didn't come through the portal.
Kendra's eyes widened.
"He was right behind me" she exclaimed.
As soon as Kendra left his side, one of the snarling beasts got up and tried to take a swipe at Xander's head. Ducking under the move he came up and shot the beast several times on it's side. As that one fell another one took it's place.
Trying for a lunging swipe Xander brought up his pistol and opened fire. All of the bullets hit home except for one. The bullet went wide and hit one of the barrels that had nitro in it.
"Oh shit" Xander screamed as he ran for an exit. There was a door at the end of the hall, so Xander ran toward it. Heart racing, the demons howls thundered in his ears. That's when the first of the explosions happened, nearly knocking Xander off of his feet.
Seeing Kendra about fourty feet ahead of him, she suddenly jumped off of the cliff. Then he saw a bright flash of light.
'Damn that must be where the portal is.' he thought to himself. Chancing a glance over his shoulder he saw the fire coming his way. 'I'm never going to make it in time.' Xander thought bitterly to himself.
'Unless.' he finally realized. Taking the amulet into his hand that Akin gave him, he raised it up into the air as he ran.
"Akin give me your power" Xander shouted out into the wind. In mere seconds black and red lights engulfed him and he was wearing the Hunters mask and a duster. Picking up his speed like lighting he reaches the cliff and jumps over. Like a bat descending into hell he finally jumps through the closingportal.
"I'm going back in after him." Kendra said as Sheila tried to hold her back. Suddenly the portal starts to blend and flex.
"Maybe dat's him." Sheila said hopefully. Then two figures jump out and they are definately not Xander. They are two of the demons from the island. As Kendra manages to leg sweep one of them to the ground, she gets on top of it and snaps his neck. The portal then closes.With her back turned from the other one, it raises a taloned hand to try to stab her when...
The portal reopens and Xander drops out and shoots it in the head. The force of the shot sent demon blood and brain on the wall and floor. Kendra stands up off of the demon and embraces Xander in a hug and then they kiss passionately.
Sheila just looked at them annoyed.
"Damnit, Xander do ya know how hard it is to get demon brain off, carpet" she asked.
After an hour of cleaning up, the group start the resouling spell.
Dierdre walks through the living room ringing a small bell while Miss Mabinty watches . As she passes by, Miss Mabinty corrects her posture, lifting Dierdre's chin up.
As the others are surrounded by candles within a sacred circle, Xander stands to one side and waves burning incense over the orb.
"It's time." Miss Mabinty announces as she sits down in the circle and begins to chant in latin. After a few minutes her eyes suddenly go black and the orb starts to glow a brilliant blue. Trying not to pass out she stands and gathers the orb. After saying some more latin the light inside the orb dissappears.
"Did it work" Xander asked as he caught Miss Mabinty before she fell. After panting heavily for a few minutes she answered Xander's question.
"I tink so."
Back in Sunnydale
At Angel's Mansion
sametime
"Buffy. Lass it's finally over." Angelus said as he kicked Buffy in the ribs again. 'When would this girl ever learn.' Angelus thought to himself. 'Sure Angel loved her, but I frankly don't give a damn.'
"I'm going to turn you, and after you rise we're going to visit all of your little friends and kill them, off. Wouldn't that be fun" he asked. Not getting an answer he kicked her hard in the ribs again.
'Stupid girl. She comes into my home to kill me and want even answer a easy little question.' Angelus thought darkly to himself.
"I'm sorry lass, what was that" Angelus asked Buffy. She was lying on the floor and had bruises on her face and stomach and one of her eyes were swollen shut from his punches.
"I said no." she said trying to raise her head. As Angelus goes in for another kick he suddenly gasps loudly and groans in pain. She sees his eyes glow bright red for an instant and go back dark. He looks up at her, but quickly collapses to the floor, crying.
Angel raises himself back up, his eyes heavy with tears, and looks into her eyes.
"Buffy" he says softly. "What's going on" he asked through sobs.
She just looks at him, confused and raises the sword she brought. He looks around a bit and gets to his feet.
"Where are we? I-I don't remember." he asked.
Finally Buffy realizes that he has his soul back, and she slowly lowers her sword.
"Angel" she asked softly.
"You're hurt." he says looking at her face and body.
She looks down at her herself and feels his gentle touch on her arm. She ignores her brusies, looks back up at him and steps closer. He embraces her tightly.
"Oh, Buffy... God." he said giving her a hug. She still isn't completely sure that it's true, but accepts the hug.
"I... I feel like I haven't seen you in months." he says. Finally she accepts it, closes her eyes and breathes out a deep sigh.
"Oh, my God, everything's so muddled. I..." He holds her even more closely. Then he starts having flashes of the evil deeds he has done.
"Oh, Buffy..." he starts.
"It's okay." Buffy told him. "You're Angel again."
She said as she cried into his shoulder and hugs him back.
TBC...
Please review...
sorry but this wasn't my best chapter, I just decided to have a little, fun.
I originally planned for this episode to be a crossover with that movie that came out a couple of years ago called House of the Dead. But really if I did that it would have went on for a couple of chapters and I didn't want it to go on that long. I hope no one hates that I killed off Miss Calendar, Oz, and Harmony, but I mean come on the guy was called the scourge of europe and you mean to tell me that all he was able to kill was Miss Calendar and Willow's fish on the show. Give me a break.
Oh and wait until you see Xander's reaction when he gets home. Also just assume that Duncan stayed with them for a couple of days and then went back home to Paris.
