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Chapter 5– World has changed.
Ares walked out of the doors of his mansion, and then took a look at the map he had in his hand. He decided start in America. Oh the good land of hamburgers, he thought as he teleported to California.
Ares come out of the alley he had teleported in, and looked around the town he was now in. He could sense the powers of Hellmouth coming as waves over him. Damn, he had forgotten all about that.
He had tried to land in LA, but obliviously the energy from Hellmouth had intercepted his teleport. He walked near the center of the Hellmouth, looking at the building on top of it. Typical Americans, to put a 'Sunnydale High School' over the mouth of hell, The Boca Del Inferno. He entered the school, and was surprised when an annoying blonde girl ran into him. She had shoulder length hair, and light green eyes. She was really short, and tiny, so it was amazing how powerfully she had run into him. She gave a short apologetic look to him, before jumping on the demon behind him. He had, of course sensed the demon, but thought that maybe the blond would back away in fear, as most people do. As the blonde however kicked the demons ass, he noticed her aura.
"Nice to meet you, Slayer." He said, as the slayer stalked to him. This of course, was not a good idea, as he was wearing ancient clothing and it was a cloudy day. That with the fact that he had known who she was, brought Buffy to a conclusion, and she acted on it. Ares had the good opportunity experiencing the Slayers powers, as her fist connected with his nose, sending him flying to the other side of the hallway.
"Who are you?" The slayer asked sending a look of disgust along her nose.
"Isn't that quite a rude thing to ask AFTER you have hurled me to the other side of the room?" He asked getting to his feet. The Slayer, however, to his unfortunate, was having a bad day, and decided that staking the cocky vampire as soon as possible would make world a better place. He, not wanting to "die" ducked, as the Slayer send an annoyed response to his way.
"I said WHO ARE YOU VAMPIRE!" Shrieked, now getting annoyed in hitting the air.
"Well, if you could calm down, maybe I could consider, and I would inform you that I am, indeed not a vampire." He said blocking the Slayers kick, and sending her, this time, to the other side of the room.
The slayer just sat there, dumbfounded, looking up to him. Then, after a moment of consideration she asked civilly;
"Who are you, and what are you?"
"I'm… let's just call me Harry. And as what I am, I'm quite human, or so my sister says."
"Ill take that for an answer…for now. Now, would you help me up?" She said, as Ares walked near her, and pulled her up.
"May I enquire why you trust me so easily? Surely you don't trust that easy as you have survived so long?"
"I just get this good spidey sense thing from you… for now, as I said."
"Right. Well, then may I enquire where your friends are? I've heard great deal of them, specially Tara and the white knight. Hell, I even heard you've met Anyanka." The Slayer threw him a suspicious look, before answering.
"Well, I am about to meet them at the magic box. How about you hang around. I, for one want to hear the whole Mr. Big-guy-explaining-how-he-is-strong-but-not-quite-evil?"
"I would love to, even thought I do not understand this 'hang around' term. But, lead the way." He said, and imitating by his hand for her to go first. She did, thought she seemed surprised by the gesture.
Everyone raised their heads as the door to magic box opened. Everyone had been worried about Buffy, as she was late for the meeting. No one would call Buffy punctual, but she was 2 hours late. Everyone saw the door open, and Buffy step in, in one piece. Tara could hear Giles to let out a relieved breath. Tara had just turned her attention to the books, to continue searching, when she heard Anya's deep take of breath, and the shuffling of feet. Now that was interesting. As Anya never took any part in the Scooby meeting, just like she didn't. She looked up, and let out and astonished breath of her own. Then she, as Anya, both looked at each other, and then walked gracefully to the handsome man. They both stopped three feet from Ares, and bowed deeply, looking carefully at the good of war, not wanting to be disrespectful.
"Oh, it is an great honor to lay my eyes on you, I had prayed this day to came." Anya said, in the most respectful voice anyone had heard, and then continued in a kidding sort of voice, as she noticed Ares eyes were twinkling. "Has anyone ever told you are my idol?"
"Oh, I've heard of it, Anyanka. I especially like that curse you did to the priests in 1500." Ares said, that way acknowledging Anya.
" Oh great one, it is an honor to meet the great Ares. My goddess has told me about you." Tara said, talking in perfect Greece.
" Ah! The Wicca. I have to say Hecate talks lot about you. Well, that is understandable, as you are her chosen one after all." Ares said smiling now really for the first time.
"You're Hecate's chosen one!" Anya shrieked shocked, gaining the attention of the rest of the room. No one except Giles and Willow had understood some of the discussion, but every one of the Scoobies knew what a gods chosen one was, and of course had read a lot about Hecate in their research.
To Be Continued
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