To Moloch, I just learned of this today. Basically I suck at writing fight scenes and scenes with good emotional depth to them so I had someone else do the writing for me. Anyway read this and it'll explain what went on in this chapter. I posted this at the board that that authour usually posts at and I'm about to email him. But this explains everything and I'm also changing the scene you're talking about. Again I'm sorry to everyone who reads my work, I had know idea this was going on, but I'm going to correct it. This also means that I want update any of my stories until this is corrected.

What I said on the board.

As a stated before to the board and to other authours is that I suck at fight scenes and scenes with a lot of emotional depth to them. That's why I got somebody else to do it for me. I often wondered and even asked him, why he didn't want to be credited for helping me well
now I know. it's because he's been stealing the material.

I walked over to his house about half an hour ago and talked to him about this and he admitted to doing it. When I asked him why, he stated and I quote "Dude, it's just fanfic calm down." That's when I told him that me and other authours take our work very seriously.

And I wondered why, I never read your story before, it's because I haven't. That line was one of the one's that he added into my story for me.

I even took it up a notch and made him show me his computer. When I looked at it, I saw that he was copying and pasting other's work into the chapters that I asked him to help me with. Not just for this story but for others as well. Now I have to spend the rest of my vacation from work, to go over my work and take out whatever he put in. Now that's a sucky vacation.

Even though I didn't steal others work, I still take full responsibility because I posted it. I felt that I should explain what went on to the entire board, because the guy that was supposed to be
helping, the guy that I trusted with my stories, tried to make me into something that I hate. A thief. Again I apologize to Bastard Snow, the authours of this board, and anybody that I mistakenly hurt because of this.

And thanks Tenhawk for bringing this to my attention. Now I have to go to some other websites and apologize to those authours too. I guess you can't trust people to help you with anything these day's so from now on I'm not going to ask anybody for help, I'll just post
what I got no matter how sucky my work is. I really hope that you guys can forgive me for my part in this, even though I had no knowledge that it was going on until now.

p.s. don't worry about that guy either because, I think he figured out a way to break into my yahoo account so I'm going to get in contact with the authorities and have him taken care of.

Chapter 5

One Hell of a Night

Xander stared at the army of darkness and let out an audible gulp. Chancing a glance at Willow, he saw that she looked equally as scared.

"What's wrong, son of Sparda?" Spike asked. "It's as if you've seen a ghost." he said as his eyes flashed a crimson red.

"Wh...why is..he call...calling you that?" Willow managed to stutter out.

"I'll tell you later, Will's. I promise." Xander vowed. 'That is if we get out of this alive.' he thought bitterly to himself. "Willow do you trust me?" he asked as he noticed that Spike wasn't making any sudden movements.

"What?" Willow asked as she nervously looked up at him.

"Do you trust me?" he asked again.

"With...with my life." without another word, Xander gathered Willow into his arms and jumped onto what was left of the shops roof, making Willow's wig fall off in the process. Some brick and wood crumbled beneath them, as they landed on the far end of the building, but they were relatively safe.

"Just stay here, Willow. I promise everything is going to be okay." Xander said as he turned around and regarded Spike. "I don't know what you want with me Spike." Xander said as he dramatically whipped his duster open, and unholstered Ebony and Ivory. "But if it's a fight, then you got it." he said as he fired a round from both guns at him.

As if in slow motion, Spike saw the bullets coming. Within the last second, he pulled a sin demon in front of him and as the bullets hit, it dusted with a low growl.

"You know mate, you remind me of your father." Spike said as he clapped demon dust off of his hands. At the same time, Xander jumped nimbly from the building and out onto the street, about twenty feet from his new adversary. "Too, bad you have to die like him. Get him boys." Spike said as his army ran past him.

With arms pointing sideways in opposite directions, Xander ran forward, firing like a madman as monsters came out of the shadows. They carried large scythes, and cackled maniacally. With each blast from his handguns, a demon went down under the unsloth of bullets.

Xander, watched fascinated as the first wave of the Sin Scythe's broke to pieces like glass and melted into the street. Just as Xander seemed to relax, as if on queue, a fresh wave of demons appeared in front of him.

Sighing, Xander holstered his guns took out Rebellion and charged at them, hacking the first, leaping clear over the rest and hacking down the ones at the back. He dropped the sword and fired with Ebony and Ivory, killing two more. After picking up Rebellion he ran over to the last demon. It was large with wings and had the upper torso of a man, but the legs and head of a goat. With foreign, memories coming into his head, Xander recognized it as a Blood Goat. It swiped at him with its claws, but Xander jumped and landed on its back forcing it to the ground. Instead of pushing off, he merely shot it in the head.

As blood, spewed from it's head wound, the blood goat fell to the ground and started to thrash about. Not seeing it as an immediate threat, Xander took his sword and slashed the nearest demon down. It was a ghostly demon with a black robe, that carried a enormous pair of wicked looking scissors in it's hands.

"I don't need a haircut today." Xander joked, as he swung his sword like a baseball bat, killing two more. By then he was surrounded by demons, slashing away at any one of them that dared come closer. The steel of the Sin Scissors weapons dug into his skin, making blood pour from his body. They were landing blow upon blow on him and for everyone he killed at least three took its place.

Just as he was in the heat of battle, he heard a woman's scream. Not just any woman, he recognized it to be, Willow's. Chancing a glance back, he looked up and saw that a shadowy cat like demon was slowly trying to scale the building.

Before he knew what was going on, Rebellion went flying through the air and hit the demon through the back and into it's black heart. As it cried out in pain, the demon cat disintegrated leaving the sword embedded in the wall. But seeing his, Willow in danger did something to Xander. He could feel a new source of energy coursing through his veins. If anyone had been paying close attention, they would have seen the roots of his hair turn white.

He concentrated all this new found power and energy into his chest. He could feel it welling up inside him as if it was willing him to release it. He then started to focus on the demons and instantly sweat drew up onto his forehead. His chest began to feel like it was on fire because he was trying to draw more power then he'd ever done yet.

He reared back his head, letting loose a primal roar, as his liquid brown eye's changed into an unholy shade of red, it almost looked reptillian. Spike's army hesitated for a moment. One look at Xander's eyes and they saw that he tapped into a well-spring of fury even he never knew he had. The man was super-charged and ready for war. Xander tore into the demons, unleashing a blizzard of martial arts moves. He powered a right hook into the first Sin Scythe's face, then pivoted, launching a devastating spinning back-fist into the face of a second. At the same time, he ripped the second Sin's Scythe's, sickle from it's hand and started twirling it around nanchadku-style to blind a third Sin and cut the wrist of a fourth.

Some Pyro-mancers fired their torches at him, but Xander was a whirlwind, shifting and dodging. The fire went wild, hitting buildings, and making vehicles parked on the street explode. In seconds, flames licked across the streets of downtown Sunnydale.

Xander dropped to the ground, causing another pair of Pyro-mancers to fire their flames at one another. As they burned and disintegrated Xander turned and knocked two more demons onto their asses with a foot sweep. Then he's up again, slamming the bridge of another demons nose into it's brain with a palm heel strike. A snap kick, an overhand elbow strike, a knee stamp then shattered a Blood Goats head.

An upward block, a jab, a cross, a shin kick aimed at another demon, sent it dead on the ground . Overhand punches, rising punches, parallel punches, spinning rear elbows, deep kicks, on and on and on and on in an orgy of super-hero violence until -- WHAM! Xander blasted the last of the demon soldiers down with Ebony and Ivory, turning from the creature's disintegrating bodies, he came face to face with...Spike. With a grin on his face and Rebellion in his hand.

"Way to go, mate." Spike said as he twirled Rebellion in his right hand. "Honestly, I didn't think you would make it this far."

Not understanding his words Xander, moved towards the vampire, throwing a series of punches, jabs, uppercuts, cross-kicks, back kicks, sidekicks and roundhouse kicks. Spike nimbly ducked every attempt at physical attack, his grin never falling from his face.

Seeing an opening, Spike took the butt of the sword and hit it square in the middle of Xander's gut. The force of the blow sent Xander reeling to the ground with a thud. As he opened his eye's and looked up, he saw Spike standing there with Rebellion held up to his neck.

"You're still not ready yet." Spike informed him in a huff, as he moved the sword away from Xander's neck. "Lord Ahriman wants you in top condition, before he can use you. Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh." Spike softly chided as he saw that Xander was about to stand up and fight him again. "You shouldn't worry about me, mate. You should think about your little girlfriend." he said as he pointed over Xander's shoulder.

Chancing a look back, Xander saw a robed figure hovering towards Willow. Not even looking back at Spike, Xander flipped back to his feet and jumped on top of the building. Before the robed sin demon knew what was going on, Xander put his arm around the demons neck and twisted.

Willow winced at the sound of the hollow cracking sound and watched as the demon fell from the building and dusted on the street. Looking up she saw that Xander was staring at her. Almost as if he didn't recognize her. She saw that, even though he had dyed his hair white, that it looked more natural now. Almost as if he'd had it his whole life.

Willow also noted that his gaze seemed much more different than the last time she saw him. His gaze spoke of a deep, dark pain. Of shadows within himself, within his own heart. But there were still the flashes of light that played amongst those shadows.

"Xander?" Willow asked nervously, as he took a step towards her.

"Willow." Xander replied softly, barely remembering the beautiful redhead. As he took another step towards her, they suddenly heard a car honking it's horn. Looking down they saw a young blonde guy in a van looking up at them.

"Ummm... you guy's want a ride?" Oz asked hesitantly.

Xander seemed to snap out of his daze at that question and looked out onto the street. There wasn't any sign of demons at all, only the destruction they had left behind. Cars were flipped over and burning, trash was freely blowing about in the street and numerous shops were caught on fire. As he looked around for Spike, he was no where to be found. Only his sword remained behind, embedded in the middle of the street.

"Rebellion!" Xander called out, not even looking at it. "Come to me." With that said the sword started to violently shake. Within seconds it dislodged itself and went spinning in the air and into Xander's outstrecthed hand. "Yeah, man." Xander said as he looked down at Oz and placed the sword on his back. "I think we'll take that ride from you."

Before Oz could reply Xander took the surprised, Willow in his arms and jumped off the building.

"Cool." was all Oz could say as they landed safely on the ground. As Xander slid the door of the van open and tossed his sword inside he started to feel a little woozy.

"Alright, buster now talk." Willow told Xander with her 'resolve face' as they got in Oz's van. Xander was hiding something from her and it just didn't seem right. Xander just looked up at her with wide eye's and pulled his hand back from his side. His hand was covered in blood. His blood.

Before Willow could do more than call his name, Xander killed over and darkness claimed him.


Xander quickly tried to open his eyes, but a bright light flooded them. Just as quickly he closed them. After a few seconds, he tried again more slowly. As his eye's came into focus he looked around the room and saw that he was in a hospital. Looking more closely, he saw, Willow, Oz, Giles, and his mother quietly arguing with the doctor.

"Hey guy's what's the what?" Xander asked with a wince as he sat up in bed.

"Xander!" Willow yelled happily as she ran over and hugged him. She was quickly followed by everyone else.

"This shouldn't be." the doctor said quietly as he consulted his notes. "You should still be in a state of sleep. And the blood loss..." he said as he checked the bandages on Xander's side.

"This...this doesn't seem right." the doctor said as he looked at where Xander's wounds were supposed to be. "Your... your wounds are completely healed." he said astounded.

"I'm...I'm a fast healer." Xander said nervously. "Doctor can you leave me alone with my family?"

"Yes... yes of course. I have to check my notes anyway." the doctor said as he walked out of the room. As soon as he left everyone, save for Oz started to fire off questions.

"Alright, everybody calm down." Xander said as he sat up successfully. Then he looked over at Oz. "Did anybody tell him about the night life?" he asked Giles.

"Oh, um..." Giles started nervously causing Xander to let out a low sigh.

"Vampires are real, demons are real and we're on the mouth of hell." Xander informed the guitar player.

"Oh... well that makes sense." Oz reasoned. Now everything came together why so many people turned up missing or dead. Then Xander thought of something else.

"Oh, man the kids." he said as he started to rise out of the bed. Giles put a restraining hand on his shoulder to keep him down.

"It's quite alright Xander." Giles said causing Xander to relax. "Buffy, Miss Calendar, and Angel went out to gather the children and to return them home. What my concern is you right now and what Willow told me."

"Oh." Xander said sheepishly. "I'll tell you everything. I just want to wait until Buffy and the others get here first."

Spike's Warehouse

Sametime

Spike strolled into his makeshift home with a huge smile on his face. Even though he only briefly fought with Xander, the fight was still exhilirating. He had a feeling that it would turn out to be one of the most thrilling brawls of his life.

"So what did you think of our brawl?" Spike asked as he lit up a cigarette. As if on cue a dark shadow detached itself out of the night and appeared behind him.

"It was actually very interesting." Ahriman told him in a dark and booming voice. "But he's still not strong enough to ressurrect my Master, Mundus."

"A few more brawls like that and he should be ready right?" Spike asked as he took a drag of his cig.

"Yes." Ahriman replied. "Now I'll uphold my part of the bargain." he said as Drusilla stumbled into the room. "But keep in mind vampire, this is only a temporary fix. She needs something more to substain her power." with that he went inside of Drusilla as she started to scream.

"Soon baby, you'll be whole again." Spike said as he took his last drag of his cigarette and dropped it on the floor. As he stomped it out with his boot, he watched as Dru started to thrash around. "Oh so very soon."

With another plan forming in his head, Spike also thought about what he wanted to do to the Slayer. 'Maybe, I should call the Order of Taraka, to take care of her.' he quietly thought to himself. " 'Sides, I got me a devil to worry about."


After dropping the children off at the school Angel, Buffy, and Ms. Calendar went back to visit Xander. Buffy was heartbroken, because Giles made her go and get the children instead of visiting her friend. By the way Willow was talking, Xander might die. She knew it was the right thing to do and get the children, but she still wanted to be there for Xander, just incase he did die. They were all surprised though when they opened the door and saw Xander talking animately with their friends.

"Hey, Buff." Xander greeted as he saw Buffy and the others entering the room.

"Xander." Buffy said as she ran up and gave him a quick hug. "I thought you were..."

"On deaths door?" he said with a smile as he glanced over at Willow.

"No." Buffy said as she playfully slapped him on the arm. "Now what happened to you two? Willow told me some... stuff on the phone, but I couldn't believe it."

"Well take a seat, Buffy." Xander said as he patted a spot next to him on the bed. "Because, I'm going to tell you some stuff, that'll knock your socks off."

"So you're the guy that saved me?" Buffy asked incredously at the end of Xander's tale.

"You sound dissappointed." Xander said meeting her gaze. After all that he had done, she still looked down on him.

"It's...it's nothing like that." Buffy said as she looked down at the floor. "It's just all the stuff, I said to you. I..."

"It's alright now." Xander said in understanding. "You were only trying to protect me. But I want you to understand something Buffy, this war...this fight, I chose to join it."

"Alright."

"What are you looking at, Deadboy?" Xander asked as he saw Angel looking at him.

"Earlier, when I looked at you. I knew that there was something different about you, but being a demon..."

"Just because, I'm half demon now doesn't mean that we're going to start a fan club."

"I would like to know more about this fight that took place." Giles said, trying to be diplomatic, as he removed his glasses and cleaned them. "From what you told us, you've accomplished something even a Slayer hasn't managed to do."

"It was awesome, Giles." Willow piped up happily. "Xander was all like, you'll never take us alive and boom!" she emphasized her index fingers as guns.

"That's very fascinating, Willow." Giles said as he smiled at her. "However, I was talking more about your fight with, Spike and who he said he was working for."

"Oh." Willow replied embarressed.

"He said that it was some guy called...Lord Ahriman." Xander said as he remembered the name.

"His name sounds fairly fimiliar." Giles said as he chewed on the earpiece of his glasses. "Perhaps, tomorrow night we should do some research. It'll probably take all night.

Buffy glared at Xander and then slapped him hard on the arm.

"Ow, Buffy what did I do?" Xander asked as he rubbed at his now sore arm.

"We have to research because of you."

"It's nothing we haven't done a hundred times before." Xander countered.

"I know, but I had plans for the next couple of days and by the look on Giles' face I have to cancel them." Buffy said with a pout.

"Oh cheer up Buffy." Xander said with a goofy grin. "I'll get you a low fat yogurt." he said with puppy dog eye's causing everyone in the room to slightly chuckle. Even Oz had a grin on his face.

"This, isn't official yet." Xander said as he glanced at Oz. "But, welcome to the Scooby Gang. That is if you want to join?"

"I'm in." Oz said simply. "Later." he said as he turned and walked out of the room. Followed by Buffy, Angel, and Xander's mom, of whom had to go and fill out some release papers for Xander.

"Xander, can I talk to you for a minute?" Willow asked as Miss Calendar pulled Giles to the side to talk to him. "I wanted to talk to you about the stuff, I remember from tonight."

"Sure." Xander said as she sat down next to him and started talking.

"What did you want to talk to me about, Miss Calendar?" Giles asked nervously.

"Firstly, I told you to call me, Jenny." she told him. "And the reason, I wanted to talk to you is because I know who Lord Ahriman is." she said as she remembered the stories her Gypsy tribe, told her of him.

"Well what do you know?" Giles asked getting all business like.

"He's the herald of the dark lord Mundus."

"I'm sorry, but I don't know much about this Mundus character either." Giles said slightly embarressed. It also caused, Miss Calendar to raise her eyebrows at him.

"You've got to be kidding me." Miss Calendar said. "Mundus is the demon, that was prophesized to be the one to open the gate to hell."

"Good Lord!" Giles said, loud enough for Xander and Willow to hear.

"Hey, if you two can't get along I'm going to send you too your rooms." Xander joked.

"Sorry." Giles said as he turned his attention back to Jenny. "You must show, me the text of where you got this information from." he told her in a whisper.

"Alright." she said as she thought of something else. "I remember something else, too. The text also said that the son of a devil would be the only one to stop Mundus at the time of his Ascension...or something like that." she told him. It had been a long time when her people had told her those stories.

Giles just looked over at Willow and Xander laughing about something, and sighed. Just when he thought life couldn't get any harder, it seemed to get a little worse.

TBC...

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A/N Xander will have two Devil Triggers. The one you witnessed in this chapter was called the Berserker mode where his hair turns white and his strength increases. He's also hard to reason with. Also Xander found a note in the costume he wore for halloween. After reading it, he found out that it was from his father. The last bit of the note was cut off though, from the battle that he was in. All that last part of the note said was that "you have a br" and nothing else.