A/N thanks for the reviews, they are the only thing that keeps me going with these fics.. To clumbsyLurker, Dante will be in the story much later on, but since I haven't played Devil may cry 3 yet, I have virtually no info on vergil. So he want be in the story.

To Chi Vayne, I'm not sure who I want Xander to be with in this fic, but it's a good chance it will be Trish. Speaking of Trish, if anybody wants a photo (the real life Trish, not a cartoon pic) of how she looks send me an email requesting it and I'll send it to you.

Chapter 3

Silent Hero

As Xander opened his bedroom window, he looked out into the darkness and it beckoned to him. The blackness was once a source of fear, but now it was welcoming. After gathering his weapons and putting on his duster, he jumped out the window, into the world of night. Instead of leaving his home, he felt like he was going home. After climbing onto the roof, he drank in the night and through his new demonic eye's he saw everything perfectly. He leaped to the house next door. The heights didn't scare him in the least. He took off running... leaping silently from roof to roof... running along the peaks... finally he leaped to a streetlight, grabbed it and did a full flip around it.

Letting go, he landed gracefully on his feet. The lopsided grin that was on his face quickly vanished as he scanned the night. Something was off. Closing his eye's he seemed to hone his senses. Something was telling him that he had to move and he had to move now. Going with the feeling, he snapped his eye's open and took off into the night.

As Xander finally found the source of his discomfort, he found himself in the Restfield Cemetery. As he walked to the heart of the cemetery, he saw Buffy easily stake a vampire. About to walk back into the darkness, he looked up into the night sky and felt that it was going to rain. As the first few drops of water started to drop, he suddenly sensed something. Looking back at Buffy, he suddenly saw over ten vampires emerge out of the darkness.

"Damn." he muttered grimly, as he reached over his shoulder and grabbed his sword, Rebellion. Taking off at a run, the first crackle of lightning appeared across the night sky.


As Buffy looked at the advancing vampires, she knew that she wasn't going to make it. 'At least not with just a stake.' she thought bitterly to herself. Then she saw it. Something the other vampires didn't see. Thinking it was just her imagination or just another vampire, a familiar voice stopped everyone cold.

"Alright boy's, Let's rock." As one of the vampires turned towards the voice, he was quickly decapitated by a sword swipe. As Buffy tried to see who had swung the sword, a fist collided with the back of her head, instantly making her crumble to the muddy ground, unconcious.


As soon as the words left Xander's mouth, he immediately flicked out Rebellion. When the first vampire crumbled into dust, all of the other vampires looked at him stunned. They sensed a demonic presense inside of the newcomer, but all in all he didn't look so scary. That was until, the leader got cocky and approached him.

"Who the hell do you think you are, meatbag?" he asked with a sneer.

"You know..." the figure said as he tapped the dull end of his blade on his shoulder. "I never thought to think up a name. Hold this while I think about it." he said as he charged forward, kicked the vamp in the leg and plunged his sword through the vamps back, sending blood across the finely manicured grass. As it doubled over in pain, Xander turned around and brought his fingers to his palm in a "come on" gesture.

Some of the smarter members of the gang had now decided that they had better things to do with their time. One took off running as fast as it's undead legs could carry it.

Whipping his duster open, Xander took out Ebony and Ivory, and blasted at the retreating vamp. In Xander's eye's he saw the bullet's move in slow motion, as they ripped into the vamps body, turning him into dust as he ran.

Enraged at what they had seen, it's friends made a loose circle around the man in black. As Xander looked at them, he decided that they were getting a little to close for comfort. Xander dropped his pistols and ripped Rebellion out of the still down leaders back. Before the leader fell forward, Xander swung his sword and decapitated it. As the dust blew into the wind, Xander whirled around and smiled at the rest of the vamps. Seven vampires now remained, and Xander was of a mind to lower that number slightly.

One swing sliced three surprised vamps through the middle. The slash cut them cleanly in half as he spun in a circle. Another vampire had its arm taken off at the elbow as it tried to claw him from behind.

The others remaining looked at each other, and one ran off from the other's. As two of them charged together, Xander decapitated the one on his left , and turned his head as the other vampire's fist exploded against his jaw. It stung like hell, but Xander pushed through the pain.

With a growl, he struck the vamp in the face, pulverising its face and spraying blood everywhere. Drawing the blade of his sword up, Xander split the vamp from crotch to head. Even he had to wince a little at that move, as the halves of the vampire seperated and turned to ash.

The single vamp left looked around at the dustpiles of his friends. Not wanting to be next it turned and ran.

"Hey get back here!" Xander shouted over the roar of lightning. Then suddenly his sword spoke telepathicly with him.

With a smile, Rebellion flew like a boomerang from his hand, spinning in the air and heading for the vampire. As it caught up to the screaming creature, the blade cut cleanly through its neck, dusting it instantly.

As the spinning blade reached Xander's outstretched hand, he breathed slowly and moved to retrieve his pistols. As he picked them up, he then remembered Buffy. Looking around he saw her lying face down in the dirt. As he moved to get her up, she suddenly sat up. Not knowing why, but he immediately stepped back into the darkness.

"Man what the hell hit me?" Buffy asked with a wince, as she rubbed at the back of her head and stood up. As she looked around and scanned the dark and now wet cemetery, she saw blowing dust piles and 9mm bullet casing's littering the ground. As she sensed something, she turned around and saw the same figure from before standing in the darkness, twirling two guns in it's hands. She knew that it was the same figure from before, even though she couldn't see his face.

She couldn't help but wonder who or what he was. Her slayer sense was going crazy, but she couldn't help but feel a strange sense of trust towards the figure either. Turning to look at the dust piles, she knew that he or it had helped her when she was in danger.

"Who are you?" Buffy asked as she started to tremble from the cold rain water.

"A friend." a deep voice replied. "But you can call me... the son of Sparda." he said as he turned to leave.

His black duster flapped behind him dramatically, leaving Buffy wondering how much practise it had taken him to get the effect just right, when he'd first obtained it.

"Wait!" Buffy called out before the figure could walk away. "Thanks for the help and...and will I ever see you again?"

"It seems that you need backup to fight the demons of the hellmouth." the son of Sparda said not turning to meet her gaze. "So I'll be around." he said as he dissappeared in the darkness. The lightning flashed revealing to Buffy a well built man with a black duster, a huge sword on his back, and a hint of raven colored hair. The lightning flashed again and the figure was gone.

Xander practically did the Snoopy dance all the way home. He had just saved Buffy's life and she didn't even know it was him. For some reason, he felt as though, he should hide his identity for awhile. Since Buffy didn't want the help of Xander Harris, she would inadvertantly get the help of the son of Sparda.

With a lopsided grin on his face, he headed in the direction of home. If he had of stayed a moment longer, he would have saw a dark shadow pass through the glow of the moonlight. As soon as it was there, it was gone.

The next day

Sunnydale High Library

After school

"I'm telling you guy's it was totally awesome." Buffy explained to the group about the man she met for the thousandth time.

"You're talking like, you're in love with this guy." Angel accused as he gave her a look.

"Come on, Angel." Buffy said giving him a soft smile. "I haven't even seen the guy's face."

"Aha." Giles said as he sat down next to Willow with an open book in hand.

"I bet he was all sexy and cool." Willow said ignoring Giles.

"Well there was that deep voice." Buffy said with a smile.

"I said aha." Giles spoke up in annoyance.

"You alway's say stuff like that." Buffy said giving him an easy smile.

"Only when it's important." Giles said with a slight pout, until he went into research mode.

"When I was young, my father would tell me stories about Sparda?" he said as he started reading out of an ancient tome. " Long ago, in ancient times, a demon rebelled against his own kind for the sake of the human race. With his sword, he closed the portal to the demonic realm and sealed the evil entities off from our human world. To escape his own fate, since he himself was a devil, he crossed dimensions. The demon known as Mundus found him and they fought. Mundus tried to open up the mouth of hell and Sparda gave his dying breathe making sure it stayed closed."

"But what about his son?" Willow asked as she looked up at the older man.

"All we know of Sparda was what I read to you." Giles said as he closed the Iscariot tome. "It mentions nothing of him having a son."

"Hey guy's what's the what?" Xander asked as he strolled into the room.

"Xander!" Willow shrieked as she latched on to him.

"Hey Will's." Xander replied as he hugged her back.

"Xander what are you doing here?" Buffy asked as she stood up and walked up to him.

"Just checking to see how my friends are doing." he said emphasizing the word friends. Buffy just looked at him guiltily.

"Xander, I'm sorry about what I said to you the other day." she said looking down to the floor. "You bring alot to the team."

"Yeah that's why, I brought delicious pastries." Xander said with a smile as the others just looked at him confused.

"Um, Xander...where's the donut box?" Willow asked. As if on cue a beautiful blonde with a baseball cap, pushed the double doors of the library open and walked into the room carrying a large white donut box.

"Hi nice to meet you all." the girl said with a little wave, as she handed Xander the donut box.

"This is an...old friend of mine." Xander explained. "Her names Trish. Trish this is Buffy, Willow, Giles, and Deadb...Angel." he said pointing to his friends in turn.

"So you're Buffy?" Trish asked as she gave Buffy a dissaproving look.

"Yeah it's nice to meet..."

"What did the five fingers say to the face?" Trish suddenly asked her. Buffy just looked at her in confusion.

"What...?"

"Slap!" Trish yelled out as she slapped Buffy hard on the cheek. Stunning the Slayer and everyone else in the room.

"What the hell did you do that for?" Buffy asked as Angel ran up and put a protective arm around her. Even though she was the Slayer, that slap still hurt like a bitch.

"Oh, like you don't know." Trish said crossing her arms over her chest. "Xander told me what you said to him. He's supposed to be your friend, how could you treat him like that."

"Trish." Xander said as he put the donut box on the library table and grabbed her arm. "Buffy just apologized for what she said to me the other day."

"Oh, sorry." Trish said as she glanced back at Buffy. "Let's just start over." she said as she extended her hand for Buffy to shake. The now pissed off Slayer just looked at Trish's hand and then glared at Xander.

"Xander, just exactly what did you tell Trish about us?" she asked.

"Yes, Xander I would like to know as well." Giles said as he walked up beside him. It was already enough that, they knew about vampires and demons, but Giles didn't want them to go out and recruit more people into the fight.

"Well um...you see." Xander said running a nervous hand through his hair.

"He told me everything." Trish informed the englishman. "I was about to get snacked on by some vampires and Xander saved me."

"Xander, saved you?" Angel asked glancing back and forth from, Trish to Xander. Then his eye's stopped on Xander. Something seemed off about him and his smell had changed. Even the aura that surrounded him seemed a little darker.

"Yeah, I saved her." Xander said snapping Angel out of his musings. "What's it to you anyway Deadboy?"

"It's just that..." Buffy said with a wince at what she was about to say. "we've just never seen you rescue anybody before."

"Except you." Trish stated.

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Buffy asked. Besides the slap, something else about the new girl, rubbed the Slayer the wrong way.

"Well if it wasn't for Xander, you would have stayed dead when that Master guy drowned you."

"Xander, I can't believe you told her about that." Buffy said shooting daggers at her friend. "And besides Miss know it all, Xander would have never got there if it wasn't for Angel."

"Oh is that what you think?" Trish asked.

"Trish..." Xander said as he grabbed her arm. He really didn't want that secret getting out of the bag.

"Xander had to find your little, boyfriend and make him take him to you. He was so scared..." she said pointing at Angel. "and he didn't want to lead Xander into the caves to find you. Xander had to shove a cross in his face and make your pet vampire lead him to come and save you."

"Yeah." Buffy said as she shook her head. No way was her Angel-bear that much of a coward. "Angel, tell this girl what really happened." Buffy said as she looked back at the souled vampire. Angel couldn't meet her gaze and lowered his head.

"Let's just talk about something else." Xander said looking from Angel to Buffy. He saw by the look in the Slayer's eye's that her and Angel were going to get in an argument. He didn't care about Angel, but he just didn't want to see Buffy hurting.

"Um, what were you guy's researching?" he asked as he looked at the book on the library table. Buffy just gave Angel a "we're going to talk about this later" look and then looked back at Xander.

"I was attacked by a lot of vampires last night and this guy saved me." Buffy informed him.

"Buffy are you okay?" Xander asked, even though he knew what happened.

"Yeah, but if it wasn't for that guy, I would have been dead meat."

"So that's why, I've been trying to do some research." Giles said as he showed Xander the ancient volume. "The man that saved Buffy claimed that he was the son of Sparda, but as you can see this book mentions nothing about him having a son."

Xander mostly ignored what Giles was saying. Instead he chose to read what it said about his real father. His heart filled with pride as he read about what his father had done. The sacrifice that he had made.

"Xander did you hear me?" Willow asked as she waved her hand in front of his face.

"What?" Xander asked as he looked up from the book.

"I asked if you wanted to go to the Bronze with us tonight?"

"Um,no." Xander replied thinking of why he came to see them in the first place. "I came to tell you guy's that I'm moving." he said to the once again stunned Scooby gang. He couldn't believe that Trish's family had helped them to find a place and they even offered to fix up their home for free, for saving their daughter. "My mom, got a family inheritance, valued at 3.5 million dollars. I'll be moving into that old mansion on Crawford street, by the end of the week."

"Ah, Xander that's marvelous news." Giles said as he gave him a hand shake. He knew that Xander's homelife wasn't ideal, but this would help him along greatly and make him become the man, Giles knew he could be.

"Yeah, Xand that's great." Buffy told him.

"And, why am I just now finding out about this?" Willow asked with a glare. She had known Xander her whole life and he had never been able to keep a secret from her or so she thought.

"I've been kinda busy, Will's." Xander said as he gave her a lopsided grin. All the anger she felt was gone when she saw that smile. 'Maybe that's why, I love him so much.' Willow thought to herself. Then Xander noticed Angel, staring at him. "And what are you looking at deadboy?"

"Nothing." Angel replied as he gave Xander one final look.

'Damn.' Xander thought to himself. 'Maybe, Deadboy can sense a change in me.'

"Anyway, I just came to give you guys the good news." Xander said as he started to back up. "So, I'll see you guys later." he replied without another word as he walked out of the library. With Trish hot on his heels.

Willow just looked at their retreating forms and frowned. It seemed that she had waited to long to tell Xander how she felt about him.


"What was that all about?" Trish asked as she got into her car and started it up.

"I think, Angel can sense the demon in me." Xander replied as they pulled out of the school parking lot.

"And that's a bad thing?" she asked. "Why don't you want your friends to know what you are anyway?"

"I don't know." Xander admitted honestly. "I just feel...Oh God!" Xander said as his eye's widened.

"What is it?" Trish asked as she looked at him strangely. Xander merely pointed to the sky and Trish looked up. When she did she saw black smoke coming up from somewhere in the city.

"Xander I have a bad feeling about this." Trish voiced.

"Just drive." Xander told her.

As Xander and Trish pulled up to the source of the smoke they saw, a towering inferno engulfing a building in a poor section of town. Ambulances and fire trucks sirens whailed and filled the air. As Xander stepped out of the car, flames shot out of the upper floors of the building, as people watched helplessly on the street.

As Trish walked up behind him, they saw the Fire Cheif and a woman arguing about something.

"But there's still a little girl in there!" a woman, who lived in the building was saying to the fire captain.

"It's impossible, lady! I can't send My men into that tinderbox!" he replied grimly. Suddenly the little girl trapped inside of the building screamed. The sound of her voice almost broke Xander's heart.

"Damn." Xander muttered under his breathe.

"Xander, what are you planning on doing?" Trish asked nervously. Xander just ignored her question and looked around. He saw that the fire truck ladder was to short to reach the window and he figured by the time the fire department managed to put out the fire that the little girl would be burned alive.

He didn't care if he had to use his powers in front of eveyone, because they would only play it off like it never happened. But as Xander looked around, he saw that the news media was there filming the fire. With a plan, forming in his head, Xander jerked the hat off of Trish and took off running with the speed of lighting.

As he put on the hat, he lowered it to cover his face. Increasing his speed, he ran past the firemen, ran up the fire trucks extended ladder, and jumped the twenty foot distance that the ladder couldn't reach and jumped into the burning building.

As he walked through the burning building more glass broke and wood splintered, behind him. The fire seemed to bend and flex as he walked past them. Even though he knew he didn't have much time, before the building collasped, he knew he had to find the little girl. As he walked into another room, he saw a small four year old black girl passed out a few feet in front of him. Quickly scooping her up, he looked back into the building to look for some other survivors.

Not seeing any, he was about to jump out of the window until the little girls head whipped up. She smiled at him creully and her eye's took on a black hue.

"I'm coming for you, son of Sparda." she said in a deep, scary, possessed voice. Xander blinked at that and looked at the little girl again. She was looking at him, with innocent eye's and coughing from the smoke entering her lungs.

Thinking that he just imagined it, Xander took off and jumped through the window, with the little girl clinging onto him for dear life. At the last possible second the building started to collaspe. Fire and wood hit Xander, but as he pushed through the pain, he ran down the ladder, just as quickly as he ran up it, dropped the little girl on an ambulance gurney and ran over to Trish.

He did it in such a blur, that no one saw his movements. Except for Trish, who was smirking at him. That was until she frowned.

"Hey where's my baseball cap?" she asked him in mock anger. Xander just shook his head at that.

"Come on, let's get out of here." he said as they walked over to her car.

Xander's Home

Later that night

"And in other news." The newscaster started to report. "A fire broke out, in downtown Sunnydale. Luckily no one died, but a little girl came close. We go live now to Joan Matters, of whom is with the little girl now. Joan." he said as the camera switched live to the little girl and the news woman on the street.

"Yes, Tom. I'm here with little Miss Angela Thomas." the woman said as she gave the little girl, with a baseball cap on, a smile. "She told us that an Angel had saved her life."

"He was very cute." Angela said into the microphone. "See look." she said as she held up a crude drawing of Xander.

"If you're watching this, Mr. Angel. Thank you." Joan said into the camera. "Now back to you, Tom."

"More like a devil." Jessica Harris said with a smile as she turned off the T.V. Then she looked over at Xander, who was frowning slightly on the couch. "Xander what's wrong?" she asked as she sat down beside him. "You just saved a little girl's life."

"It's not that." Xander informed her. "It's when I saved her I thought I saw..." he stopped for a second, because he didn't want to upset his mother. They've been so happy lately and he didn't want to ruin that. "Nothing...it was nothing."

"Alright then." she said giving him a look. "Now get washed up for dinner. This is going to be our last night here and, I'm going to enjoy it. I also invited Willow and Buffy over, they should be here in an hour." Jessica said excitedly. This was the first time Buffy had come over to her house and she was a little giddy. Especially since Xander seemed to have a crush on her. But lately, it seemed that him and Trish might have a little thing for each other.

"Okay." Xander said as he stood to his feet, snapping his mother out of her musings. "I'll be back in a few minutes." he said as he started walking up the stairs, all the while thinking of what new enemy he had made.

TBC...

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