A/N: Sorry I haven't updated, I feel like one thing after another keeps happening to prevent me from finishing this story, or hell even continuing it. My grandfather recently got sick and needed surgery and I just haven't felt up to writing lately, and I am sorry to those who feel that I am using junior year as an excuse. I know, your right, it is the easiest year in high school. But for me it has been an emotional wreck, so please, I know the school work and load is easy, but personally this school year has been difficult and emotionally draining. So again I apologize and I will continue to try my best and get out of the funk I have been in all year to bring this story to you. just please, if you can, try to bare with me. It would be greatly appreciated.
JenaMariano
On with the story...
Finding out that your family was living in the cemetery that you and the others patrolled every night, and you didn't know about it, was more than a little unnerving to Spike and Buffy. But, none the less, the two of them put that worry into the back of their minds and attempted to focus on the issue at hand. The fact that for some reason DanI had run out off the Summers house like a bat out of hell and then joined up with one of the strongest vampires in history, to ever fight her own kind since the start of her turning. They were about to follow the two women into the house when all of the sudden came a loud roar from behind them. They immediately spun around to see an army of demons coming toward them. They wanted to fight them and protect their loved ones inside the mansion behind them, but they recognized these demons. The four of them couldn't even have taken out five of them never mind a whole army of them. The four began retreating toward the mansion, praying that a play would be put into action soon, when window, paned, glass shattered behind and above them.
Gaby landed in front of them as if to tell the army that they had to go through her to get to them. Spike looked up and saw four teenagers jump through four different upstairs windows and land gracefully on their feet. It was when they were in mid flight that he noticed Dani was leading the three other teenagers. Her black, leather, duster billowed in the air behind her as she, appeared to fly through the air. "Dawn?" Spike heard Buffy yell. He turned his head in the direction that his sister-in-law was looking, and was shocked to find his wife, dressed similarly to his daughter, and making the energy that made her the Key, glow around her. Not to mention it made her rather intimidating…okay a lot intimidating.
"Michael, you take Andrew and William and take the ones on the left. Gaby, you and Mum take the ones on the right. I got the ones down the center!" Dani yelled her orders, and the others wasted no time in following them. The three boys began fighting the left side and Gaby began fighting the right. Dawn was using her powers to knock the demons off their feet and allowing Gaby to take them out. Dani on the other hand closed her eyes and bowed her head as the demons came charging at her. She meditated quickly and felt her power grow with in her. When her power was at its peak she snapped her head up and released a wave of it at the demons. That wave of power knocked out have off the demons and gave the warriors the upper hand. If you can call six against hundreds of demons the upper hand. But Dani knew that her mother was waiting for the opportune moment to let her powers shine. She had actually been the one to tell her mother not to use her full strength to soon. She knew that if her mother over extended her self she would get weak very fast. Yeah her mother was powerful, but the powers it took to bring the Key energy to full power, were draining on her body.
Dawn had gotten used of the fatigue she would feel after using her powers for a long period of time. But she knew her daughter was right, until they figured out a way that allowed her to use her powers to the fullest without putting herself and the ones she loved in danger she was going to have to leave the heroics up to her daughter. Due to the fact that Dani had been prophesized, her body been made to harbor, use, contain, and control the powers she possessed. But due to the fact the monks had place the Key inside of Dawn, her body had not been able to gain such luxuries as her daughter.
Dani flipped over demons heads and snapped their necks in the process. She was no longer the little girl who needed Daddy's protection. No, she was in battle, and the little bit of William the Bloody that was ingrained in her DNA, was taking over. She felt her bones break as she threw rock hard blows at the demons. The kind of punches that would shatter the facial structure of her opponent. It wasn't that she relished in this kind of battle, but it was the only way she knew how to fight and guarantee a victory, as well as keep those she loved safe. To be truthful, she loathed going into this …"killer"…mode, but she had no other choice. She was the strongest out of all of the warriors present. She would rather have the blood of her enemies on her hands, than the death of a loved one on her shoulders. This was the life she was destined to live, and she wasn't about to start bitching now. She had accepted her destiny along time ago, this was just one of the downsides to that destiny. Just like any other destiny, hers too, had ups and downs to it.
Buffy's eyes began to tear up as she watched her niece fight the demons on her own. She could see…herself…in the young girl. She was fighting a war that she had no say in. a war that was predestined to be hers, before she was even born. But what scared Buffy more was that, she herself was 21 and felt as though she was fighting a loosing battle. Dani was only 15 and had seemed to already have adopted the same jaded outlook on the world around her as she fought. Dani was, much like herself, waiting for that one demon that would be the one to sign her death certificate.
Dani mentally winced as she felt another one of her bones break or bruise, but she knew her powers would hold her body together until after the battle. She knew that even though she was going to be hurting later, she had more demons to hurt before she could allow her own pain to affect her.