A/N I decided to combine the episodes Passion and Killed by Death.

Chapter 16

Killed by Passion

Stone Manor

L.A.

"Yes, I knew about Gemina's capabilities the whole time." Thomas Stone said to Xander and Kendra once they pulled him aside after practice."The reason why the sword acted as it did, is because twins are meant to be together and when Kendra felt that you needed her..."

"The swords decided to combine." Xander finished.

"Exactly." Thomas said with a shake of his head. "I'm sorry that you had to lose your sword Kendra, but it seems that it doesn't matter now." he said as he looked at the Scythe that Kendra had in her hand.

"Do you know what it is?" Kendra asked as she handed it to him. Once he had the weapon in his hands, he felt old power radiating off of it.

"Well, I can say this for certain." Thomas said as he handed the axe back over to Kendra. "It's old and it's not what it appears to be."

"What do you mean?" Kendra asked.

"Well it's not an axe, it's actually a form of a Scythe." Thomas informed her. "But I'll get my research team together tomorrow and see if they can do some research on it."

"Alright."

"Class dismissed." Thomas said to the rest of the Scooby Gang. As they started to pile out of the room, he spotted the student he really needed to talk too. "Mr. Osbourne, might I have a word with you?"

"Yes Sensai?" Oz asked as he jogged back over to him.

"Like, I said after classes I would really like for you to call me Tommy." Thomas said with a smile.

"Only if you call me Oz." the werewolf said back.

"Fair enough." Thomas said back. "Willow told me about you being a werewolf now."

"So can you help me?" Oz suddenly asked full of emotion, making Thomas look at him wierdly.

"To a point, yes." Thomas said as he started to think for a minute. "I can teach you the basics of your tranformations, so you have control over when you turn into a werewolf. You want even have to depend on the lunar cycle anymore."

"That's not what I meant." Oz interrupted. "I meant can you make me not a werewolf anymore?"

"I'm sorry, son but I can't." Thomas said sadly. "To my knowledge, once someone's turned into a werewolf, there's no turning back." he stopped as he let it sink in for a moment. "But like I was saying, we do have other options. I have some friends in Tibet, that will be able to teach you how to tame the werewolf all together though. You will still have the powers of a Lycan, like speed, heightened smell, and strength without having to transform again."

"But what about children?"

Thomas then let out a breath. "I want lie to you son, sometimes the children turn out having characteristics of a werewolf. You weren't born a Lycan so there's a twenty percent chance that you would have that problem with your children. If that does happen, the best I could do would be a spell to make them look more human. And it will be a permanant spell."

"Thank you for helping me."

"Don't mention it my, boy." Thomas said as he lightly slapped him on the back.


"So I was thinking that maybe we could all go out to get something to eat." Xander was saying as Thomas and Oz walked into the living room.

"I would like to join you,but I'm beat." Buffy said with a yawn.

"I too need to retire for the evening." Giles said as Miss Calendar whispered something in his ear, causing him to blush.

"And me and Willow have a lot to talk about." Oz said as he put his arm around the red head.

"And, I just don't want to hang around you anymore than needed." Cordelia said as she walked past him. "See you back in Sunnydale." she said as she walked out of the building.

"So what about you, Ken?" Xander asked as he turned to look at her.

"I'm not feeling well. I tink, I'll just meet you back at de hotel."

"Are you okay?" Xander asked.

"I'll be fine." she said as she walked out of the room with the others.

"So it looks like it's just you and me." Trish whispered into his ear, causing Xander to smile. Maybe his friends not wanting to come was good after all.


"Now that was a good movie." Trish said as they walked out of the movie theater.

"I don't know." Xander said with a shrug. "A guy with a hook, killing people it's just so passe'. And didn't that girl Sarah Michelle Gellar, look a lot like Buffy?"

"You noticed that too, huh?" Trish said with a laugh.

"Wait, what was that?" Xander asked as stopped walking, hearing something in the distance.

"I don't hear, anything." Trish said as she stopped to listen.

"Just come on!" he yelled out as the two took off running.

Too, Trish's surprise what Xander heard came from almost a block away, down an alley. It was a girl about to be attacked by three vampires. They were just going to jump out from behind, the vamps and stake them, but a team of six teenagers came out of the shadows and attacked the vamps instead.

Even though they were young, the teenagers worked together well as if they had been staking vampires their whole life. That was until two things happened. One of the vamps knocked out a young black girl and another fifteen vampires stepped into the alley. Provoked into the fight, Xander and Trish got up from their hiding position and jumped into the fray.


"They're to many vampires." a muscled up youth said as he staked another vampire with his wooden pike. "We have to retreat."

"But what about Alonna, Snake?" another boy asked as he looked at her crumbled body on the ground.

"There are to many, vamps between us and her Bobby." Snake said as he started to back away. "We have to leave her."

"Gunn sure as hell ain't gonna like this." Bobby muttered under his breath.

"I'm the leader of this gang!" Snake snapped. "Gunn's just gonna have to live with it. Everybody retreat!" he yelled out as he and his comrades fled from the scene.


Xander stood still as two vampires charged him from opposite sides. As they came closer, he activated his wrist stake launchers and staked both of them. Seeing another one run up, he reached into a hidden compartment on the back part of his jacket, by his neck and took out a stake. Throwing it he dusted the vamp as it ran. Looking around he saw Trish, dust the last of the vampires she was fighting and he saw that the teenagers ran out of the alley. All except one.

Running up to her crumbled body, he saw that she was still alive.

"Is she alright?" Trish asked as she walked up behind him.

"She'll be fine." Xander said as he picked her up in his arms. "Come on let's go back to the hotel."

Warehouse district

"You did what?" a tall, bald, black guy growled at Snake.

"It was our only choice man." Snake said not backing down. "If we had of stayed, all of us would have died."

"Bobby...Raven you're with me." Gunn said as he gathered his homemade axe. "We're gonna go and search for Alonna."

"The hell you are." Snake said as he got in his face. "She's vamp food by now. Now sit down and that's an order."

"Fuck you and your orders." Gunn told him. "And if my little sister is dead, you're gonna join her." he said as he walked past him and out into the night.

The next morning

'What hit me?' Alonna thought to herself as she sat up in bed. Then her eyes shot open as she felt the bed. She hadn't been in a bed since she was a little girl, before the fire killed...no she didn't want to think about that.

Looking around the room she saw that she was in a lavish hotel room. Never in her life had she been in a place so nice. As she was prepared to get out of bed, the front door opened and three people walked in.

"Oh, so you're awake." the boy out of the group said as he walked further into the room.

"Who the hell are you?" Alonna asked as she jumped out of bed and got in a defensive pose.

'Why is it that every time a girl wakes up she wants to fight me?' Xander thought to himself.

"It's going to be alright honey." Trish said as she got in front of Xander to calm the situation down. "We're just here to help."

"I ain't your honey." Alonna growled as she prepared to walk by them. "And you can help me by getting the hell out of my way." she said as her knees started to buckle. Before she fell face first to the ground, Xander picked her up and placed her on the bed.

"Damn that really went against my tough girl act." Alonna said as she tried to sit up.

"Easy now." Xander said as he gently pushed her back down. "You have a concussion, but other than that you'll be fine."

"Who are you people?" she asked again as she layed back down on the soft bed.

"My name is Xander, this is my girlfriend Trish, and she's my sister Kendra." Xander introduced the group as Alonna looked at him and Kendra funny. "She's adopted."

"Oh." Alonna replied. "My names Gunn. Alonna Gunn."

"Well, Alonna what's your parents phone number?" Trish asked as she walked to the phone. "I'm sure their worried sick about you."

"My parents are dead." Alonna informed them sadly, making Trish drop the reciever of the phone back in it's cradle.

"I'm sorry." Trish said as she lowered her head. "Well what about somebody else? Is their somebody else that you want us to contact?"

"You can just drop me off with my crew and my brother."

"You mean the crew that left you behind, when those vamps were about to snack on you?" Xander asked.

"Xander..." Trish whined as she hit him on the arm.

"Well, I'm sorry Trish, but the Scooby Gang doesn't leave anybody behind."

"The Scooby Gang?" Alonna asked with amusement in her voice.

"It's a long story." Xander said as he smiled at her. "Now come on we're gonna have some breakfast and then I'll take you to your brother."

Alonna's Gang Hideout

Alonna had spent an hour with her new friends and she had learned alot. She had always thought that her and her gang were the only one's that knew of the darkness, but now she knew better.

Opening the door to the warehouse, she was greeted with three pikes pointed at her chest.

"Hey, it's me." Alonna said as she raised her hands up high.

"Alonna?" a boy said as he and the others lowered their pikes. "We thought you were vamp food."

"No thanks to you." she said as her and Xander walked into the warehouse. "Now where's my brother?"

"He's been out all night, looking for you." the boy told her.

"Got Damnit!" Gunn growled as he opened the front door and stormed in. He had searched for his sister, through the early hours of the morning and hadn't found hide nor hair of her. "Hey Alonna." he said as he walked right past her. Then his eyes bugged out as he turned around to look at her.

"Where the hell have you been?" Gunn asked as he pulled her into a hug. "I looked everywhere for you."

"Well after they left me..." Alonna said as she broke their embrace. "Xander and his girlfriend saved me."

"Xander?" Gunn asked as he looked up at the teen standing behind his sister and grinned. "What are you doing back in LA or do you just like jumping into hopeless fights?"

"We've met?" Xander asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Hell yeah. If it wasn't for you then I would have died when those vamps attacked me a few months ago." Gunn said causing Xander to have a mind flare of the time when he had lost his memory for two days and ended up in LA.

He was jumping from building to building, in search of prey and he had spotted Gunn down an alley trying to protect a girl from over ten vampires. Quickly killing the remaining ones off, he introduced himself to Gunn and disappeared into the night.

"I remember." Xander muttered to himself.

"Yeah, well thanks for saving my sis dog." Gunn said as the two shook hands.

"Not, a problem." Xander said with a smile that quickly faded into a frown. "But I wouldn't have had to save her at all, if your so called leader hadn't of left her."

"What the fuck did you say?" Snake asked as he got in Xander's face. "I thought, I did what was right for the team."

"By leaving one of them behind?" Xander asked. For all he cared Alonna was one of his girls now and he felt as though he should protect her.

"Who the..." was all Snake was able to get out as he let out a startled gasp. Looking down at his chest, he saw, the blade of a sword protruding out of his chest. As dark blood dripped slowly out of his mouth, he fell off of the blade and it was revealed that a young man, with cold eyes, white spikey hair and a light blue jacket was standing behind him.

"Hello brother." Vergil greeted as he lowered his bloody katana. "It's an honor to finally meet you."

The outskirts of Sunnydale

"I called my dad and told him about Alonna and the other kids of the shelter." Trish was saying to Kendra as they drove nearer and nearer to Sunnydale. "He said that he was going to donate money to their cause and try to get some of them off of the streets."

"Dat's nice." Kendra said weakly, causing Trish to look over at her.

"Are you okay?" Trish asked as she noticed that Kendra was sweating perfusely and that she was starting to turn pale. Kendra's only reply was to lean forward in her seat and to vomit on Trish's shoes.

The Sunnydale Hospital Emergency Room.

Trish rushed through the entrance of the hospital with Kendra in her arms as Willow, Oz, and Cordelia followed up behind her. She had called them on the highway and told them what was going on, so they met her at the hospital.

"We need help!" Trish yelled out as she looked around the empty room.

"Somebody, please, now!" Willow said as she saw an intern approaching them.

"What happened?" the intern asked as he looked from face to face and brought over a gurney.

"We were driving, she..she had a fever and then she passed out." Trish told him as she layed Kendra out on the gurney. The intern took out his pocket light and checked Kendra's eyes for a response. The nurse took notes while he spoke as they started to wheel her into the emergency room. The Scooby Gang all followed.

"Patient's unconscious... Pupils are unequal and unresponsive." the intern said as they turned a corner.

"What does that mean?" Cordelia asked.

"Is she gonna be okay?" Willow asked concerned.

"Please, you gotta give us some room." the intern informed them.

"What do we have?" Dr. Wilkinson asked as she arrived on the scene.

"High-grade fever, doc." the intern informed her.

"Get her into Trauma 1, give her a CBC, Chem 7, type and screen."

"Right." he replied. The Intern and nurse then took Kendra through the doors to the emergency room beyond. The gang all try to follow, but Dr. Wilkinson blocked their way.

"I'm sorry, you can't go any further." the doctor told them.

"Someone should be with her!" Trish told her urgently.

"I'm sorry!" the doctor said again. "You can't go any further." and with that she backed in and closed the door in their faces. They looked through windows for a couple of seconds, and Willow reacted first.

"I called Giles, Buffy, and Miss Harris. They should be here in a little while."

15 minutes later

"Where is she?" Miss Harris immediately asked as she, Buffy, and Giles ran into the waiting room.

"She's still in the emergency room." Oz told her as he stood up.

"I wanna see her." Jessica said as she started out of the waiting room.

"They won't let us in there." Cordelia said making Jessica stop and look back at her. Just then Dr. Wilkinson came to the door.

"Miss. Harris?" the doctor asked.

"Yes." she replied as she turned to look at her.

"I'm Dr. Wilkinson."

"Is Kendra okay?" Jessica asked as the two shook hands.

"We were able to stabilize and..."

"Is she okay?" Jessica interrupted insistently.

"She's going to be fine." Dr. Wilkinson said reassuringly.

"Thank you." Jessica said in relief as she put her hand to her face.

"Good. That's good." Buffy said as she touched Jessica's back in support.

"I wanna keep her here a few days, though." the doctor said as she consulted some of her notes. "She still has some healing to do." she said causing Giles and Jessica to look at her anxiously.

The hall upstairs near Kendra's assigned hospital room.

The gang were all waiting for Kendra to be brought up. When they saw her coming they all approached the bed. She had an IV in her right hand and her left forearm was wrapped in an elastic bandage.

"Kendra?" Jessica said as she reached the bed. "Hi, sweetheart."

"Hey, Ken, we're all here." Trish said as she pushed some hair out of her face.

"Hey." Kendra said groggily. "Am, I going home now?" she asked as she tried to get up.

"No. Kendra, you need to lie down, honey." the doctor said as she pushed her back on the bed.

"Yeah? Lie at home. Me bed is better den any bed dat's... not me bed." Kendra babbled.

"She's still a little out of it." the doctor said as she turned to look at Jessica, who nodded back.

"Shhh!" Kendra said as she pointed at Trish. "Hospital zone. No singing."

"She'll feel better after..." the doctor started as Kendra looked at her. "she's been here a while."

"No!" Kendra cried as she tried to get up again. "Lemme go. Look, I wanna go." The orderly pushed her on the bed, two nurses and Dr. Wilkinson struggled to get her to lie back down, but Kendra put up a fight.

"Kendra, what's wrong?" Willow asked.

"No! No! Let me go!" Kendra screamed weakly.

"I think she wants to go." Cordelia said as they managed to get her pushed back down on the bed, strapping her in as they did so.

"No, don't do dat! Stop it!" Kendra pleaded as tears came to her eyes.

"Hold her steady!" the doctor ordered of her staff.

"Mom, tell dem!" Kendra said as she looked into the older woman's eyes.

"I got her." the orderly said as he put the last strap around her arm.

"De vampires! I need to kill de vampires!"

"This'll help you relax." the doctor said as she put a needle against Kendra's inside elbow and injected her with a sedative. Trish threw Jessica a concerned look, while Cordelia cringed and looked away.

"Ow!" Kendra cringed as she winced in pain. "No!" When the doctor pulled the needle back out Kendra layed back and started to breathe heavily.

"It's gotta be the fever." Buffy said trying to cover for Kendra's outburst about vampires.

"Yeah, it made her delusional." Willow added.

The sedative started to take effect and Kendra began to relax, as one of the nurses checked her IV. When the nurse moved out of the way, Jessica leaned in and stroked her hair.

"Honey, listen..."

"I wanna go home." Kendra whined sounding like a hurt little girl.

"It's gonna be okay. I promise." Jessica vowed as they started to wheel Kendra away again.

"Please don't make me stay here..."

"I promise." Jessica said as they all followed as Kendra was taken to her room.

"Buffy, you must wield me scythe with effieciency!" Kendra yelled out as the door closed. Trish looked in through the narrow window and after a moment she looked over at Giles.

"That was a new experience. I've never seen Ken, act that scared before." Trish said.

"I know how she feels." Buffy said suddenly uncomfortable. Ever since her cousin Celia died, she hated hospitals as well.

"But, still this is Kendra we're talking about." Cordelia said. "She's taken out demons and alot of other oogy things. So why would a hospital scare her so much?"

"I think, I know why." Jessica said as she let out a heavy sigh. "When, Kendra was five about a day before she was taken by the Watcher's Council, her grandmother was in the hospital. She was very sick and weak." she said trying to recall what Kendra had told her, of her last memory of her homelife. "Anyway, she visited her grandmother in her room and she saw lots of blood coming out of her mouth... Kendra could only watch as her grandmother slowly died in horror. Then the next day, Mr. Zabuto came and took Kendra, and she never even got a chance to say goodbye to her parents or go to her grandma's funeral."

"No wonder she hates hospital's." Willow muttered to herself.

"Yeah, that sucks." Cordelia added.

"There might also be another reason." Giles interrupted as he took off his glasses. "A few day's ago, Kendra told me of a slayer dream. It was of two little girls in a hospital much like this one. One of the girls was very ill and the other one could only watch as the girl screamed and died."

"Wait, what?" Buffy said as she grabbed Giles' arm. That story sounded very familiar to Buffy. It was because she had lived it.


"Who the hell are you?" Xander asked the young man before him, even as he reached for Ebony and Ivory. The rest of the group spread out like the red sea as Vergil, walked past them.

"The names Vergil Sparda." Vergil said emphasizing the last word. "Brother."

Whipping out his pistols Xander opened fire on his brother...or so he thought. As he stopped shooting, he found that Vergil was nowhere in sight. Hearing a whistling sound in the air, he brought his guns up, just in time to avoid getting his head chopped off by Vergil's katana.

"You're faster than I gave you credit for, Xander. But are you fast enough?"

"How did you know..."

"You son of a bitch." Gunn growled as he hefted up his homemade axe and threw it at Vergil. Merely feigning to the right, Vergil ducked the axe throw, knocked the pistols out of Xander's hands, and watched as the axe embedded itself harmlessly in the wall behind him.

Vergil then looked up at Gunn...and smiled.

"I think, I like you." Vergil said as he took his eyes off of Xander. "You like to go in for the kill." he said as he picked up his sword and threw it at him.

"Gunn...no!" Alonna cried out. As Gunn closed his eyes to except his death, he heard a slight grunt. Opening his eyes, he saw his oldest friend fall to his knees with the sword skewered through his chest.

"Rondale!" Gunn shouted as he grabbed Rondale before he could fall over face first on the floor. "Hold on man, just hold on!"

"From the womb to the tomb...bro." Rondale gurgled as he took his last shuddering breath and died.

"How sweet." Vergil mocked sympathy as he turned around, only to be met by a fist too the face. The force of the blow had his head ringing, as he was flung back almost ten feet.

Looking up from his position on the floor, he saw Xander holding his now sore hand and slowly walking towards him.

"So you think you have power?" Vergil asked as he stood to his feet. "Well let me show you a little of my own." he said as his eyes sparkled with a dark energy. Channeling, that energy into his hands, he made it into an energy ball and unleashed it as Xander ran to him.

"Destiny Destroyer!" as Xander took the full hit of the powerful blast on his chest, it sent a shockwave of energy throughout the room, knocking everyone off of their feet. With a chuckle, Vergil ripped his sword out of Rondale's body and fled out of the warehouse.

"Damn." Xander said, letting out a wince, as he looked at his now smoking duster. As he tried to stand to his feet, an axe blade was pressed close to his neck.

"I guess this is what, I get for trusting white folk?" Gunn said with a grim look on his face. "I thought we were cool dog, but then you gonna call your bro in to kill all of us?"

"I don't know who that was." Xander said hurriedly, as the sharp blade got even closer to his neck. "I promise."

"Don't play me for a fool! I got two dead people here." Gunn growled. "And that guy with the swords said you two were brothers. Ain't that right sis?" not getting an answer he looked around the room. "Sis, sis...Alonna!"

"He must have taken her." Xander figured.

"Then, I'll just kill you and then I'm gonna get her back." Gunn replied as he raised the axe up higher. He had never killed a human before, but to save his sister he would do anything.

"Gunn, you're never going to stop him. Just let me help."

"Man, please he kicked your ass too." Gunn huffed. Then he thought about it. If Xander had led that guy here, then why would they fight each other.

"Listen, man the time you're sitting here wasting with me, theres no telling what he could be doing to your sister."

"Alright." Gunn said as relaxed a little. "Get your ass up and let's go."

"Gunn, what do you want us to do with these bodies?" one of the teens asked as he ran up to them.

"The same thing we always do when one of ours dies." Gunn said as he looked down at the dead body of his best friend. "Burn them."

Buffy's room

flashback

Little Buffy pulled aside the curtain around her cousin Celia's bed and walked in to see her sleeping form.

"Celia?" Little Buffy asked seeing that she was shaking, making Celia wake up and start to scream. She held her hands in front of her as if trying to push something away. "What's wrong?" Buffy asked, but Celia kept screaming at the top of her lungs in complete terror.

"I don't know what to do, Celia!" but she just continued screaming and swating with her hands at something unseen. "Help! Help! Help! Somebody help!" Buffy yelled out as she looked back at the door.

"Get it off of me!" Celia screamed out.

"Come on, Celia!" Buffy said hoping that she could help her cousin fight.

"Get it off of me!" Celia screamed again, but this time Buffy saw something. It was a hideous pale skinned demon sitting on top of her cousin.

Buffy, woke up with a start as she quickly looked around her bedroom. As her heart slowed down, she picked up Kendra's scythe and twirled it around. Getting out of bed with her mind made up, she headed for the hospital.

Sunnydale Hospital

Kendra's room

Kendra stirred in her bed, as she came out of her fit of nightmares. The clock on the nightstand changed to read 2:27pm, as her IV slowly dripped in her arm and the LED on the heart monitor next to the IV blinked steadily. Taking a deep breath she woke up and blinked her eyes several times before looking over at the door. She noticed that it was standing open, and a young boy was there just silently staring in at her.

A few moments later he started away down the hall and as she continued to look out the door, a man in a black suit and hat walked by. As he glanced into her room she took a closer look at his face. It's all disfigured, his nose was long and bent down to a point, his teeth were all long fangs, and his fingers were grossly elongated. He looked back after the boy and continued to follow him out of view. Kendra raised her head in disbelief, pushed her hair back with her bandaged hand and slowly sat up. She then got out of bed and steadied herself to a stand. Tying her robe closed she walked out of the room and into the hall. It was deserted except for the janitor mopping the floor behind her.

Letting her Slayer senses kick in, she followed into the direction where she thought the monster was headed. Walking by the childrens ward, the hair on the back of her neck started to stand on end and her slayer powers tingled. Looking in the window of the ward, she saw only empty beds.

As she was about to leave, after thinking she was just paranoid, a form began to take shape as though unfolding. It stepped over to a bed, and suddenly the Kindestod demon was clearly visible to Kendra. It looked into a bed and found it empty. She stared at it through the door's window. The monster looked over at another bed and noticed her staring. It straightened itself up and looked at her, making Kendra's eyes go wide with fear. It just giggled maniacally and took off its hat to her. Keeping an eye on her for another moment as it turned toward the other door to the ward, put the hat back on and walked to the other door. The Kindestod opened it and went through, and as it closed the door, Kendra read the sign on the door: basement access.


"Shh!" a little brown haired boy named Ryan whispered to a group of children he was leading. They found a secluded corner and all of them crouched down and huddled together.

"I'm cold." a little blonde haired girl said with a shiver.

"Here." Ryan said as he took off his robe and draped it around the girl. "Here. We're gonna be safe in here." for the last couple of days that he was in the hospital, a monster was terrorizing and killing them off.

"Look!" another boy shouted as his eyes went wide. The Kindestod suddenly appeared behind Ryan, making the other kids scream.

"What?" Ryan asked not knowing that it was to late. The demon grabbed Ryan from behind and lifted him up and away. "Whoa!"

It threw him aside, making the little boy hit the concrete floor hard. The kids kept screaming as Ryan tried to get up. The monster growled making Ryan turn around and look up at it. Paralyzed with fear, the boy couldn't scream, as it kneeled and leaned down over him. It took his head to hold him steady, and the boy watched as the monster's eyes bugged out and split open. They extended from their sockets down toward his forehead, as it drooled heavily and licked its lips. Its eyes make contact with Ryan's forehead, making him screams as he felt his energy being drained. Suddenly the Kindestod got hit in the head with a large section of pipe, and its eyes snapped back into their sockets. As it fell over it was revealed that Kendra was standing over it with a pipe held ready.

"Get away from dem." Kendra said as the Kindestod stood up and faced her. She swung the pipe at it again, but the monster blocked it and knocked it from her grip.

Although Buffy couldn't see it as she ran into the room, she saw that Kendra was fighting something and took the opportunity to go to Ryan and lift him up from the floor. She carried the boy over to the other kids. Chancing a glance at Kendra, Buffy saw that she wasn't in top form as she fought the Kindestod, and it gained the upper hand and punched her twice in the face, then threw her against a pipe.

As Buffy moved in to help the unseen foe, the Slayer's Scythe started to shimmer. Closing her eyes the blade spoke to her in a woman's voice. Opening her eyes again, she finally saw what Kendra was fighting. It was the same monster from her dream that had killed Celia.

"Get the rest of the kids out of here." Buffy said as she looked over at Ryan. Not seeing if he followed her orders or not, she ran over too the demon. "You make me sick!" Buffy growled making Der Kindestod turn and look at her.

Even as Buffy swung the scythe, she could have sworn that the demons eyes filled with recognition of her. Seeing the demons head roll off from it's body, she walked over to Kendra and helped her to her feet.

"Come on, let's get you to bed." Buffy said as she let Kendra lean on her.

"You swung me scythe with great effieciency." Kendra said as she slowly trudged along with her.

"Yeah, thanks." Buffy said with a smile as she sent a silent prayer to her cousin Celia. Finally her soul could rest in peace.

On top of a LA skyscraper

"Why are you doing this?" Alonna asked as she sat chained next to Vergil.

"Because, I hate all humans." Vergil answered. "No offense." he ammended, sarcasticly.

"But why? Aren't you human?" Alonna asked. She knew that some demons had the power to shapeshift but she only wanted to keep him talking so he wouldn't hurt her.

"Hardly." Vergil answered as if bored. "I'm actually a halfbreed, just like my brother Xander." he then stopped talking as he seemed to sense something.

"Speak of the devil and he shall appear." he muttered as Xander and a bald black man ran through the access door of the roof.

"Gunn!" Alonna shouted as she struggled against her chains.

"Alonna!" Gunn shouted out.

"You get your sister." Xander whispered as he took Rebellion off of his back. "I'll take him on." he said lowly as his eyes met with Vergil's.

"Ah, how nice of you to join me brother." Vergil said with an evil grin. "You asked me a question a while back, about how I knew about you. Well, I've been spying on you and your little friends for weeks now. I know about all of them, Buffy, Giles, Kendra, and even your honey Trish."

"Rebellion, Excalibur mode." was Xander's reply as his sword changed into the familiar katana and his hair turned white.

"Oh, a man of action." Vergil said as he reached into his blue duster and took out a katana of his own. "God, you remind me so much of Dante."

Not caring who Dante was, Xander thrust at him with his sword, but Vergil parried and swung around with a thrust of his own, which Xander also parried. They clashed blades several times, and Xander ducked a wide arcing swing from him. They faced off again and trade one thrust and parry after another. Vergil tried another arcing swing from above, but he easily ducked and sidestepped out of the way. They faced off again close to the edge of the high building and traded a few more blows. Seeing an opening Vergil tried a swing from above a third time, and again Xander ducked it and escaped to the side. He jumped up on a low railing and swung at him again. Vergil parried, and swung at his legs, making him jump up and over his blade and land on the floor.

He tried for Xander's legs again, but he blocked his attempt with Excalibur. Again they traded several swings, and seeing another opening Vergil tried a wide swing again, and this time cut him superficially on the arm.

"First blood." Vergil said with a grin, as he tried to take advantage of Xander's distraction and came at him with his sword held high, intending to swing from above, but he dropped to the floor and rolled out of the way, so he only managed to slash the railing in half.

Xander kicked his legs out from under him and scrambled back up. Annoyed, Vergil turned to face Xander still on his knees and swung three times in rapid succession, all of which he parried. He swung a fourth time, but this time Xander knocked his sword into the roof's floor with his parry and pinned it there. Vergil backhand punched him in the face, and he spun away. Using the distraction Vergil pulled the sword from the ground and swung it hard at his brother. Xander blocked the death move with Excalibur, and kicked him in the gut, making him double over. Xander then jumped over him into the clear, and raised his sword to continue the fight. Vergil thrust, and he parried. Then out of the blue Vergil kicked him in his sword arm, making him stumble back a step.

Tripping over a loose board Xander hit the ground, but scrambled back to his feet as Vergil slowly advanced on him. Xander spun around and swung at him again, only for him to block it. His sword bounced off of Vergil's and fell with the tip onto the low wall of the roof. With a smile on his face Vergil stomped on the blade before he could raise it again and knocked it from his grip. He then spun around and elbowed Xander in the face, knocking him back into a glassed off garden, which collapsed and fell with him.

"Goodbye, brother." Vergil said as he raised his sword high. Hearing a metallic whistle in the air, he turned around only to get cut deeply into his stomach with Gunn's axe.

"You little bastard..." Vergil said woozily as he began to step back. Putting his hand to his stomach, he looked down at it and saw blood. Before he could do an act of retaliation, a black portal opened behind him and a hand pulled him through it.

"Damn, what was that about?" Xander asked as he got out of the garden and brushed glass off of his clothes.

"I don't know but now we're even." Gunn said as he gave his sister and then Xander a look.

"Gunn, I know how you feel but this wasn't my..."

"Not your fault." Gunn interrupted. "If it wasn't for you, your brother would have never found and killed some of my crew."

"Gunn don't be like that." Alonna said softly. She believed Xander when he said he didn't know that guy.

Gunn merely gave her a look, as he continued. "We're even now, so I want you to get off of my territory."

"Alright." Xander said as he let out a deep breath. "But I know how you feel because I've lost people in this war too." he said thinking about Jesse. "If you ever need any help..." Xander said as he walked past him and put a slip of paper in Gunn's top shirt pocket. "just let me know." and with that he walked through the access door.

"I can't believe him." Gunn said as he took the paper out of his pocket intent on tearing it up. That was until he saw what it really was. "That son of a bitch..."

"What...what is it?" Alonna asked as Gunn showed her what it was. Her eyes bugged out as she saw that it was a check for ten thousand dollars.

Hours later

Harris Manor

Xander slowly entered Kendra's room and peeked inside. Seeing that Buffy and Trish were visiting her, he decided to come in later, but Kendra saw him and called him in.

"I heard that you were sick so..." Xander said as he handed her a little teddy bear and some flowers.

"Tank you." Kendra said with a smile as she excepted the gifts. "But what took you so long to come here?"

"I ran into a little trouble." Xander answered hesitantly. "I'll explain everything later."

"Oh, that reminds me." Buffy said as she reached into her purse and handed Kendra some mail. Buffy had already told Kendra all about her cousin Celia and the monster that had killed her. "That little boy Ryan told me to give this to you."

"De boy from de hospital?" Kendra asked as she took out the paper inside and unfolded it.

"Oh, he drew us a picture." Buffy said as she looked down at it. It was of Buffy and Kendra standing over the Kindestod with their feet up on its chest. The monster's neck was split open and blood was gushing out.

Place Unknown

As Vergil excited the portal, he looked around his environment and frowned. It was nothing more than an endless void of darkness.

"Vergil Sparda." a voice called out of nowhere. "I have a job for you." Ahriman said as he approached him.

TBC...

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