A/N Thanks Union- Jack 2.0 you really inspired me to start back on the story. I hope you continue to review and that you like this chapter. And I totally agree with you about Kendra. God I loved that girl.
Also to WhiteWolf 3 the whole Jenny thing is explained in this chapter.
This chapter takes place instead of the episode School Hard. I really hope you guys like it.
Chapter 6
First Impressions
Two weeks later
Summary of events
Kendra was slowly but surely integrating in Sunnydale high. Even Cordelia of all people offered to help her fit in better, especially after the whole zombie fiesco. As promised the Council forged some documents for her, so she was now officially named Kendra Renae Giles. Which in contrast was funny that she was a Giles, because she was already officially a nerd.
She wasn't kidding when she said, all she did was read alot of books, because she was very smart. Anytime they had a research session and Giles would make a mistake, she would point out his mistakes and correct them. Giles was proud and also irritated at the same time. He always hated when somebody corrected him.
Sunnydale night
Restview cemetery
Kendra lands flat on her back on top of a casket. She looks up at the vampire that just threw her and sees him coming toward her. She grabs a brick lying on the ground behind her and throws it at him, hitting him in the forehead. She follows it up with another stone. The vampire staggers back a few steps. Kendra hops back to her feet. She pulls a stake out of her shirt and launches it at him. He grabs the other vampire and pulls it over in front of him so the stake impales him instead. He shoves the vampire aside as he crumbles into dust and comes at her with a roundhouse kick. They start fighting hand-to-hand.
Unknown to her another vampire is looming in the shadows taping the fight. He gets closer for a better view. Kendra continues to fight the first vampire. The 'battery low' indicator starts flashing. A moment later the view becomes snowy, and the vampire takes the camcorder away from his eye. He jostles it, and it starts working again. He raises it back to his eye to continue recording.
The fight goes on, and a few hits later the first vampire knocks Kendra into a gravestone. She holds onto the side of the broken headstone and kicks the vampire to the ground. She turns around with her back to the headstone and grabs the side as the vampire gets back up. She raises her legs and grabs the vampire's head in a scissor hold. She twists her body and flips him over sideways onto the ground. Stepping away from the headstone, she spies a shovel and then looks down at the vampire.
He tries to grab for her legs, so she jumps over him and somersaults to the shovel. She pulls it out of the ground and swings it at his legs as he comes for her, knocking them out from under him. She raises the shovel and swings it hard at his head decapitating him. The vampire bursts into ashes. Kendra drops the shovel to the ground as Xander, Willow, and Giles run up to her.
"That was amazing." Willow gushed as she gave Kendra a quick hug. Kendra looked embarrassed by the praise but hugged her back.
"When am I going to be able to help patrol?" Xander asked looking expectantly at Giles. Giles just pursed his lips in thought at the question.
"A...after more training." he said after a moment.
"You still haven't forgiven me for last week have you?" Xander asked holding up his hand brace. When Cordelia was captured, by the guys that wanted to turn her into frankenstien's bride, Xander ran off with Kendra. When he did, he saw Cordy's ex trying to choke Kendra to death. Being the White Knight that he is he tried to punch the guy and got his hand broken.
"I thought it was brave of you." Kendra said shyly. Then when Xander smiled at her she blushed and lowered her gaze to the ground.
"See, your daughter believes in me." Xander said with a lopsided grin as he, put his arm around Kendra's shoulder. Willow eyed Kendra with jealousy as the group started to walk off.
The unknown vampire lowers the camcorder and slowly backs away as he watches her and her friends leave.
The next day
Sunnydale High
Library
As Xander and Willow walked into the library, they saw Kendra sitting alone reading a book. Before Xander has time to go over and try to scare her, Giles and Jenny Calendar walk in.
"There is nothing in the chronicles about a-an extraneous lunar cycle." Giles says to Jenny as they make their way over to the others.
"The Order never accurately calculated the Mesopotamian Calendar. Rupert, you have got to read something that was published after 1066."
"Very funny." Giles replied dryly.
"What's the up, guys?" Xander asked.
"W-um, Ms. Calendar has been researching, well, uh, surfing on her computer, a-and she's... Well, according to her calculations, this Saturday is the night of St. Vigeous."
"Let me guess: he didn't make balloon animals?" Xander asked.
"No, he led a crusade, of, of, uh, vampires. They swept through Edessa, Harran, and points east."
"And dey didn't leave much behind." Kendra commented sitting down her book.
"Exactly." Giles said with a smile in her direction.
"This Saturday's going to need a great deal of preparation."
"Well, we'll help." Willow said excitedly.
"Yeah, I'll whittle stakes." Xander joined in.
"A-and I can research stuff." Willow said standing to her feet.
"And while I'm whittling, I plan to whistle a jaunty tune." Xander said with a smile.
"Yes, your form of help will be greatly appreciated." Giles said with a roll of his eyes. "Under normal circumstances I would say that Kendra and I could handle this on our own. But strength in numbers is probably our best option." Giles said as he removed his glasses.
"Also Xander, until your hand heals and until you get additional training from me, I don't want you engaging in any more battles."
"But Giles..."
"No but's Xander. I trained you there for I'm responsible for your well being."
Xander started to pout until he thought of something.
"Wait did you say, this goes down on saturday?" Xander asked.
"Yes, that is if Jenny's calculations are correct." he said while sending Jenny an apologizing glance.
"Man we were supposed to go to the Bronze that night." Xander muttered to himself.
"Certainly not." Giles said walking up to him. "Our lives are in danger, how can you even think of going out to party?" Giles asked as he took off his glasses. His dissappointment written clearly on his face.
"Actually I tink we should go to de Bronze." Kendra said walking on the other side of Giles.
"Why does everyone want to party when our lives are in danger?" Giles asked as he turned his glare towards Kendra.
"I wasn't talking about to party, sir." Kendra said looking down at her shoes. "If it is indeed going to be de night of St. Vigeous den wouldn't it stand to reason dat some vampires might want to stage a massacre?"
"I suppose so..." Giles said giving what she said some thought.
"Then what better place to have a massacre then the Bronze." Xander said following Kendra's line of thinking.
"Yeah all of those tasty morsels, it's the perfect spot." Willow put in. Giles looked at them all in turn and then sighed.
"Perhaps you are all right." he said as he put his glasses back on.
"We'll all meet at the Bronze saturday." Giles said. Suddenly the school bell rings. "Now all of you go to class, I'll see you later." with that the kids walked out of the library. Giles looked at their retreating forms with a sad smile on his face.
"What's wrong, Rupert?" Ms. Calendar asked him as he sat down heavily in a chair.
"Nothing, it's just Kendra is in real danger and I want to keep her safe." Giles admitted.
"Rupert she's a big girl, she can take care of herself." Ms. Calendar said as she walked to the door. Getting ready to go to her science class. "Besides you told me yourself that she never had a normal life. Do you want to be responsible for making sure that she never does?"
Giles doesn't answer, he just looks down at his hands.
"Just think about that." Ms. Calendar said as she walked out of the door.
"That was awesome." Xander said as he put an arm around Willow and then Kendra.
"Yeah, Kendra you were amazing." Willow piped up. Kendra looked less then enthused.
"I don't tink I should have said dat to Giles, just so we could go out." Kendra said.
"It'll be fine Ken. I told you anyway as long as you're with us, I'm going to make sure you have fun." Xander informed her. "Besides it's not like something bad is going to happen."
"Until somebody says, it's not like something bad is going to happen." Willow said glaring at him and throwing his arm off of her. "Xander how could you say that?"
"What?" Xander asked.
"Even I know dat you just jinxed us." Kendra said throwing his other arm off of her.
"Boys." Willow and Kendra exclaimed in unison as they walked off.
"What?" Xander asked again as he watched their retreating forms.
The old Crawford Mansion
Later that night
Spike's watching the video that the vampire took of Kendra's fight, with a smile on his face.
"Here it comes." Spike says watching the tape intently. "Rewind that. Let's see that again."
The vampire rewinds the tape as Spikes strolls around to another monitor.
"She's tricky." Spike says with a chuckle. "Baby likes to play." The scene where she decapitates the vampire with the shovel replays.
"You see that? The way she kills him with that thing? That's what's called resourceful. Wait I never saw this part of the video rewind it again." Spike says. Then it shows Willow, Giles, and Xander.
"Miss Edith needs her tea." Drusilla says as she comes from the other room.
"C'mere, poodle." Spike says as he holds his hand out to her.
"Do you love my insides?" she asks as she takes his hand. "The parts you can't see?"
"Eyeballs to entrails, my sweet." he replies with a smile. "That's why I've got to study this Slayer. Once I know her I can kill her. And once I kill her you can have her blood, so you can get strong again."
"Don't worry. Everything's switching. Outside to inside." she says as she breathes at Spike's neck. "It makes her weak."
"Really? Did my pet have a vision?" he asks.
"Do you know what I miss? Leeches." Drusilla replies.
"Come on, talk to Daddy." Spike says pulling her closer. "This thing that makes the Slayer weak? When is it?"
"Tomorrow." Drusilla replies. "Our Great Grandpa is coming to change things." she said happily as she starts to clap her hands.
Spike just looks at her strangely at this. 'She's even nuttier then usual.' Spike thought to himself.
"Right our Great Grandpa is coming." Spike said humouring her. "Now I have to get ready for the Slayer." he said walking off from her. "It's time to stage a massacre."
Saturday Night
The Bronze
Nickel is the band tonight. They're in the middle of playing "1000 Nights". Xander dances lamely by himself as Willow talks to Kendra at a nearby table. Giles and Jenny are on the balcony of the club, over looking the crowd.
"Kendra can I ask you a question?" Willow asked.
"Yes." Kendra replied.
"H...how do you get boys to notice you?"
"I don't know." Kendra admitted. "Why do you ask?"
"We...well I kinda... like Xander." she said muffling the last part out with her hand. Kendra looked at her in confusion.
"What did you just say?"
"I said, I kinda like Xander." she said leaning in close so she could whisper it to Kendra. "I just don't know how to tell him." she said nervously.
"I'm sorry Willow, I can't help you dare." Kendra said looking down into her drink. "I was never allowed to talk to boy's." Willow just looked at her new friend with a sad expression on her face. 'Xander was right, we have to do something to make Kendra's life more fun.' Willow thought to herself.
"Guys, I'm all alone out there. Somebody has to dance with me." Xander said running up to the two.
"Well, we are studying." Willow lied.
"C'mon, one dance. You've been studying nearly twelve minutes." Xander said not noticing that they didn't have any books to study with.
With a sigh, Willow gets up. Kendra starts to protest, but Willow and Xander drag her along with them.
"Come on." Willow said with a smile as she pulls her to the dance floor.
Spike walks up to their now vacant table and watches them dance as the band starts a new song, "Stupid Thing". Spike walks along the edge of the dance floor and studies Kendra intently.
Xander and Willow dance lively. Kendra doesn't move much, but smiles widely, enjoying herself.
Spike having seen enough goes over to one of his new minions at the bar.
"It's time to start the party." he whispers to him. With a smile on his face, his minion walks outside.
Spike then comes back to some people near where Kendra, Willow and Xander are dancing and speaks loudly so that Kendra is sure to overhear.
"Where's the phone?" Spike asks in fake panic. "I need to call the police. There's some big guy out there trying to bite somebody."
Kendra runs from the dance floor as Spike watches her go.
Spikes lackey has found a young asian woman. She trembles with fear as he grabs her neck and moves in for the bite. Kendra grabs him by the shoulder and pulls him off of her. He somersaults and rolls up to his feet.
"Slayer!" the minion growls
"Vampire." Kendra says back to him.
She does a roundhouse kick to his face. He only flinches a bit. He swings at her, but she sidesteps the blow. She swings back, and he grabs her arm, swings her around and throws her into a metal roll-up door. She hits it high and hard and falls to the ground, but quickly gets up again. He swings again and hits the metal door with his fist when she ducks the punch. Xander and Willow arrive.
Kendra blocks the vampire's punch and holds on to his arm. She looks behind her at the others.
"Get her out of here!" She yells and then she turns her attention back to punching the vampire repeatedly in the face. Willow grabs the woman and pulls her away and out of danger. As they are about to go into the club Xander see's another vampire coming out of the shadows. Thinking rationally for once he decides to go and inform Giles of the situation.
Spike looks on from the side as Xander and Willow dissappear with the woman inside the club.
"Giles... Giles!" Xander yelled panting heavily as he ran up onto the balcony.
"My lord Xander, what's the matter?" Giles asked, putting his hands on Xander's shoulder to keep him from falling over the railing.
"Kendra's being attacked by a vampire!" Willow yelled loudly.
"So come on, so we can go and help her." Xander said getting his second wind.
"I think we have more pressing business to attend to." Giles said as he suddenly paled. Following his line of vision Xander see's three vampires enter the club and start to attack people.
"Holy crap." Xander muttered.
Kendra punches the vampire's face again and then his chest. He gets loose from her and lands a punch on her face. She goes spinning down to the ground and lies there, momentarily stunned. The vampire looms over her.
"I don't need to wait for Spike. You're mine." He says as he bends down to get her, and she kicks him in the face. He staggers backward as she maneuvers to he feet.
"Spike! Gimme a hand!" the vampire sai, changing his tune. Kendra looks over at Spike in the shadows. Seeing that she might get outnumbered she spins, draws her stake and in a smooth, swift motion plunges it home into the vampire's chest. He doesn't even have time to fall before he crumbles to ashes.
Spike comes out of the shadows slowly clapping his hands. Kendra looks at him with a confused expression on her face.
"Nice work, luv." Spike said with a cocky smile.
"Who are you?" Kendra asks. Spikes smile only got wider.
"My name's William the bloody." suddenly Kendra goes pale. She had heard of him from her studies with Mr. Zabuto. He had already killed two Slayer's.
"I see you've heard of me, luv?" Spike says as he notices her look.
"I'm not your luv." Kendra declared raising her stake.
"That you aren't." Spike said as he shifted into his demonic visage. "You're my third." he said as he charged her.
Xander avoided several punches and kicks from a female vampire. His own punch misses, and he gets kicked to the ground from behind. As he stands to his feet she grabs him by the neck. As she starts to strangle him Giles suddenly appeared from beside them and punches her off him.
"Xander are you alright?" Giles asked as he helped him too his feet. Suddenly Xander surged forward and staked the now disoriented vampire that was trying to choke him. As she crumbled into dust, he looked back at Giles.
"I am now."
"Good," Giles said as he looked around the club. Willow and Jenny were still busy getting people out of the club and the last vampire was trying to eat somebody from the band Nickel. "now go and help them, I'm going to check on Kendra." Xander only nodded and went over to help out the band. As Giles turned to go outside, Ms. Calendar intercepted him.
"There is still another vampire in here. God only knows how many others are outside."
"Listen! I am her fa... her Watcher! I am responsible for her, and I have, I have to go!" Giles shouted as he turned to leave.
"Rupert!" She calls out. He looks back at her again.
"Be careful." she said in a low voice.
Kendra and Spike exchange several blows. He then throws her into the wall.
Kendra ducks another punch and lands four of her own in a row. Spike grabs her arm and shoves her into the wall again. She slides down it quickly. He suddenly smiles as he looms over her.
"You know luv, you've got to be the easiest Slayer, I ever bagged." Spike said with a short laugh. "You're punches barely hurt."
Kendra suddenly rolls and gets behind him and kicks him high and hard in the neck.
"Now, that hurt!" he said as he went for a rainbow kick which Kendra smoothly slid under. With a kick of her own, she kicks him in the gut and then in the chest, sending him sprawling up against the wall.
Going for her stake, she quickly finds out that she dropped it during the fight. Seeing it ten feet away on the ground, she rolls over to it and scoops it up in her hand.
"Now, now Slayer." Spike says from directly behind her. Kendra is suddenly frozen with fear. She had failed. Spike was mere inches from her and he could just easily bend down and snap her neck.
"Are you going to waste your time trying to stake me or are you going to help your old man?" Spike asked. Not really knowing what he meant, Kendra extended a leg and kicked Spike in the crouch. Rolling up and onto her feet, she gets into a fighting stance.
Spike is doubled up in pain, but he starts to laugh.
"That's my girl." he said looking back up at her. "The next time we meet, I want a better fight out of you." he said as he turned and fled the scene.
"Count on it." Kendra muttered as she watched after him for a second and then ran into the club. As she opened the door, she ran smack dab into Giles.
"Kendra you're alright." Giles said as he pulled her into a hug.
"Yes but I need to tell you about... Xander!" she shouted as she looked over Giles shoulder. Xander was on the stage fighting a big vampire. He was recieving the worst of the beating though.
Breaking her embrace from Giles she ran on the stage and quickly staked the vampire.
Later that night
Giles apartment
"An...um... and this vampire, did he say what his name was?" Giles asked Kendra as he handed Xander an ice pack for his bruised jaw. Kendra looked downcast for a moment and then she met Giles' gaze.
"He said dat his name was William the Bloody."
"Good lord!" Giles said loudly as he sat down and took off his glasses to clean them.
"That wasn't a good, good lord." Xander said looking from Kendra to Giles. "So G-man spill. Why are you two looking so sad and who's this William the bloody guy?"
"He is a former member of the scourge of europe and um..." Giles stopped a second as he cleared his throat. "He has fought two Slayers in the last century and he has slain them both, earning him the name..."
"De Slayer of Slayer's." Kendra said finishing for him.
"You don't have to worry about him." Willow declared as she put an arm around Kendra's shoulder. "Because you have something all the other Slayer's never had."
"What's dat?" Kendra asked.
"A father." she said looking over to Giles, who smiled. "And friends." she finished. Kendra smiled at that for a second and then it dissappeared from her face. Reality hit home. Spike was going to be her toughest challenge so far and for the first time in awhile she actually thought about her own death.
"Hello." Jenny said as she answered the phone.
"Janna." a man said on the other end.
"Uncle?" she asked.
"Yes it's me." he confirmed. "What is your report?"
"It's confirmed that Angelus is no longer in Sunnydale." she said as she sat back on her bed and took off her shoes.
"That is excellant news." her uncle replied.
"Why?" she asked in confusion. "I thought you wanted me to watch him?"
"Our Seer's have fortold that the threat of Angelus is no more. Since the other Slayer has died, he will never know love."
"So why am I still here." Jenny finally asked.
"Ahhh a good question." her uncle replied with a smile. "There is an even greater evil coming to Sunnydale. Someone very old."
"Who?" Jenny asked fearing the worse.
"A fallen Angel."
Spike's Mansion
sametime
Spike strolled into his mansion with a huge smile on his face. The new Slayer didn't have the fighting spirit like the last Slayer he killed. Nikki Wood. He had stalked and fought Nikki for months before he finally ended her life.
'I coulda' danced with that bird, all night.' Spike thought to himself. 'She was actually able to give me a decent brawl.'
But there was a certain something there, that made fighting the newest Slayer exciting.
'I'll kill her when she becomes a better challenge.' Spike thought to himself as he walked into his bedroom. His brow furrowed in confusion as he didn't see Drusilla.
"Dru!" Spike yelled in desperation. If anything happened to Dru he would... Suddenly he heard giggling. Walking into the garden he saw Drusilla sitting at a small table with some dolls sitting around it in chairs.
"Would you like some more tea, Great Grandfather?" Drusilla asked as she poured some tea into a small cup.
"Who the 'ell are you talking to, pet?" Spike asked not seeing anyone. Suddenly as if on reflex he got down on bended knee. Looking up, his inner demon made him see something sitting at the head of the table, staring at him.
It was a large red demon with horns and a pointed tail.
"William it's a pleasure to finally meet you." Satan said to him. "Now my son I have a job for you."
TBC...
A/N I know Spike might have seemed out of character in this chapter, for not killing Kendra but, I think I covered it up pretty well with him talking about Nikki Wood. (The second Slayer he killed.) Also I'm going to put a couple of people into the scooby gang later on. They will have an episode where they get to be hero.
That is if I decide to do it like that. lol And to anybody that's interested I'm going to try to update Problems with the Soul, The Death Dealers, and The Hunter by the end of next week.
