The Greatest Vampire

Chapter 14: Town in Hell.

"Oh dear lord," Giles said removing his glasses and wiping them.

"We can deal with this guy the same way we dealt with Illyria!" Spike yelled.

"How did we deal with Illyria, Spike?" Angel asked condescendingly.

"We ah… I tested her."

"Right. We let her throw you around for a couple weeks before we shot her with that giant laser that we can't replicate!" The vampire yelled.

"Oh dear lord!" Giles said even louder.

"We have a slayer and that ax thingy!" Spike yelled back.

"We could have tried that with Illyria!"

"Except the slayer didn't trust you, Mr. Hell CEO," Spike retorted.

"Oh Dear Lord!" Giles said syllable by syllable.

"Maybe she was just scared to see your ugly face!" Angel yelled.

"Or she didn't want to see your enormous forehead!"

"It's not that big," Angel said putting his hand to his head.

"Oh yes it is," Connor commented. Angel turned to him and scowled.

"For God sakes do you listen!" Giles yelled. Everybody turned to him as if they just noticed him.

"Yes Rupy?" Spike asked.

"I found the old one," Giles said pointing at a book they stole from Wolfram and Hart. "It's called Arolous and it was the demon that killed the Primitive," Giles explained.

"So? Spike killed two slayers and he couldn't kill me," Buffy said with a shrug.

"What?" Giles said in disbelief.

"I'll kill it," Buffy said holding up her trusty Scythe of the Slayer.

"Buffy, this more than a demon or a turicon. This is one of the most powerful demons to walk the Earth."

"We can handle it. Now to Cleveland we go," Buffy said standing up.

"But-,"

"Oh shut it, Gramps," Spike said walking passed him, followed by Angel and Connor.

"Willow," Buffy said with a nod. Willow nodded and began to chant. A white light began to swirl around everyone and they vanished.

Everyone reappearedinside Spike, Dawn, and Connor's house and proceeded to walk outside. Nobody was around but they didn't notice. The town was trashed. There was fire, blood, rubble, and destruction everywhere. Corpses littered the ground here and there. Most of the houses were either on fire or a pile of ashes.

Angel walked into the middle of the street. "Doyle," he growled. His face changed to that of a vampire and he turned to the others. "Go home. I'll deal with this."

"Angel, you know what we're up against," Spike said stepping in his way.

"Move," Angel ordered.

"I understand that this prat used your friend to get to me but he's gone. All that's left is the old one."

"Move!" Angel yelled as he charged at Spike and knocked him aside. Angel ran off and turned onto another street.

"Angel!" Spike yelled after him, but to no avail.

Spike stood up and ran after his sire's sire. "Guys wait!" Willow yelled. Spike ignored her and continued to chase Angel. He followed Angel down two destroyed blocks. After another twenty minutes Angel stopped.

"Angel?" Spike asked.

"What did he smell like?"

"What?"

"Doyle, what did he smell like?" Angel demanded.

Spike thought for a minute. "His scent is gone."

"What did he smell like?"

"Angel, it disappeared, when he died. This guy is dead!"

"Go to Hell, Spike!" Angel yelled as he took off again.

"Damn it!" Spike said about to continue.

"Oh let him blow smoke," a somewhat familiar voice said. Spike turned and saw Doyle… Arolous behind him. It looked different but it was defiantly Doyle's body. His hair had grown to about shoulder length and turned silver. His face was very pale. The black jump suit he was wearing had a samurai sword attached to the hip, in a black sheath.

"So, you're what Doyle gave his life to save," Spike said as his face vamped out.

"A half-breed is all that stands in my way now?"

"I'm special," Spike said with a smile.

The two jumped at each other and attacked. Spike punched Arolous in the chest causing him to fall backwards and land on the ground. Spike landed next to him and tried to punch him again. The demon rolled out of the way and Spike punched the ground causing it to crack. The old one jumped up and smiled at Spike's bleeding hand.

Spike looked up from his bleeding, possibly broken, hand at Arolous. "Quick bastard, aren't you?" Spike said with a smile.

"Where's the Slayer? Maybe she can help you," Arolous said looking around.

"I don't need her, to kill you," Spike said looking back down at his hand.

"But she needs you, to kill the Turicon army."

Spike's eyes widened. He turned around and bolted back towards the house. Arolous smiled and turned around. "Come on out, Angelus," he said with a smiled. Angel stepped out from behind a burning house.

"Name's Angel."

"Angelus is who you are. Angelus will always be with you," the old one said, as he began to circle the vampire. Angel smiled as his face changed. He jumped at and kicked off Arolous' face. He turned back to the demon and tried to tackle him. Arolous kicked Angel into a brick wall, which broke instantly. The demon stepped forward and lifted Angel off the ground.

Dawn kicked a vampire and then punched it with a flaming fist. The vamp caught fire and burned instantly. The witch spun around and set two more ablaze.

"Dawn! Look out!" Buffy screamed.

Dawn ducked to dodge another vampire and kicked him into a fifth one. She had been doing serious damage to the vampire army that had attacked the team. Buffy, Dawn, and Conner had taken out most of the vampires. Giles, Xander, Willow, Darla and Lorne were standing back watching.

Buffy and Dawn quickly finished off the last few vampires and turned to the rest of the group.

"We need weapons," Buffy said looking around.

"I don't know if it's still there but the shooting range might work," Connor suggested. "It'll work for the demons but vampires…"

"It'll do," the slayer replied.

Connor led the group up the street, towards Main Street. About an hour later they made it. Everyone piled into the room and began to load up. Darla, Connor, Xander, and Giles grabbed guns, while Dawn found her spell books.

Spike burst into the shooting range ten minutes later. Everyone whipped around guns raised. "Don't shoot!" Spike yelled.

"Spike?" Dawn asked.

"Yes it's me," he said as they lowered their weapons.

"Where's Angel?" Buffy asked.

"Ran off. Can't find him," the vampire replied.

"Great. Gear up. We're going to find him," Connor ordered.

"Leave him," Buffy yelled.

"What?" Almost everyone said at the exact same time.

"We need to find the old one, deal with the demons, and-"

"The ubervamp army," Spike finished.

"What?"

"I did run into Arolous. He said there was an army of them."

"Oh shi-,"

BANG!

"What the hell?" Spike yelled.

"Is that a tank?" Xandar asked horror stricken.

"Guys, the military's here," Dawn said looking out the window.

A moment later four people wearing scout masks came in. "Freeze! This is a military situation. You will be escorted from the town to the nearest safe haven," A woman yelled. "Scan them. Make sure they're human," she ordered a soldier.

"If you know what's good for you get out of this town," Buffy said to the woman.

"Excuse me?"

"Trust me when I say this. You're men are not qualified for this."

"Buffy we know what we are dealing with. Riley and his boys are experts."

"What?"

The woman pulled her mask off and Buffy gasped.

"Sam?"

I know that I've taken a very long time to update, and this was a very crappy chapter. I just wanted to set the stage, get the military in it. I will update very soon as well as my other fics. Sorry it took months. Computer issues.