Short Shots: Buffy

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Short Shot One:

Assassins and the Zeppo

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They think that I am the Zeppo. They have no idea. Buffy, she thinks that there are less and less vampires to kill because she has scared away those that haven't been dusted by her. On average, I stake ten times the number of vampires a week that she does. Or rather, she stakes, I kill. Thanks to Giles and the council's stuffy, old methods, she has no modern combat training. Vampires have weaknesses other than their reaction to wood piercing their harts. Decapitation destroys them. Fire destroys them. Holy water burns and sometimes kills them. Sunlight kills them. More than thirty poisons kill them. More than on hundred chemicals can kill them by burning them, especially if a priest blesses them first. Buffy uses a stake. I use anything I can. A gun included.

Vampires like to say, "Ha, go ahead! That won't kill me!" Well, they are right. A bullet, even a big one, won't kill them. But my guns have large enough bullets, long enough range, and more than enough power to put a basketball sized hole in their chests. May not dust them, but I have yet to see a vampire get up from a wound like that before I get to them and stake them.

It's not just vampires either. At least now I understand the council wanting to keep the slayers' identities secret. If they know you, they come after you in force. Hell, the head of the Order of Teraka, the assassin's guild, knows me by name. Apparently, a very large number of my enemies all paid for my death. He decided to take maters into his own hands. If they kill me, he will get enough money to have the order work for free for the next century. Not that he would. He is Japanese, or rather was when he started the Order several thousand years ago. Calls himself Jade.

Xander was drawn out of his thoughts by the sound of a woman screaming. He rushed down the alley, and saw her. Surrounded by Terakans. Great, just bloody great.

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See what I mean. This was a short shot. Some may be longer, some shorter. This was just the first of many that will be posted here.