A/N Thanks for the great reviews.

Chapter 3

The Slayer and the Knight pt.1

Xander faced the towering school and let out a deep breath. For some reason he felt particularly nervous that morning. He didn't know whether it was from starting a new school or from the possibility of finding out about his past. He was relieved, that the news paper reporters believed that he was just passing through Sunnydale and not staying. If they found out, they would just make his life a living hell.

Not really paying attention to where he was going, he scanned the crowd of students walking by him, to see if he recognized any of them and he bumped into somebody.

"Sorry." Xander blurted as he helped whoever it was to their feet. Then brown eyes met green ones. Xander was looking at the most beautiful blonde he had ever seen. And that was saying alot because he had dated plenty of blondes.

"No it was totally my fault." the girl said back as she brushed off her clothes.

"Um...Xander."

"Buffy." Buffy greeted back as they shook hands.

"Buffy?" Xander asked with a raised eyebrow. 'What kind of parents name their children that?' Xander thought to himself.

"Yeah, Xander." Buffy said back getting defensive. She hated people making fun of her nickname, almost more than she hated her real name, Elizabeth. 'And who is he to talk?' Buffy thought to herself. 'Especially with a name like, Xander.'

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude." Xander said sincerely. "I've just never heard a name like Buffy before and with a name like Xander...I really shouldn't talk." he said with a shrug. "Now let's start over. Hi, my name is Xander." he said with a grin.

"Buffy." Buffy said with a grin of her own as she shook his hand again.

"So since we're such good buddies now." Xander said as he looped an arm around her slender shoulders. "Do you mind showing me around the school. I'm new to Sunnydale...well sort of, and I really could use a guide."

"Actually, I'm new myself." Buffy said, happy that she had made a new friend. After what she had did at Hemery High, she didn't think she would make any friends. 'But these people don't know about you, Buffy.' her self concious voice spoke to her. 'You have a new start here. A new beginning without you having too be the Slayer.'

"Are you, okay?" Xander asked giving her a questionable look. "It looks like you spaced out there?"

"Yeah." Buffy replied coming out of her daze. "I was just thinking about some...stuff. Now what did you say to me."

"I asked where are you from?" Xander asked again.

"Oh, um...I'm from LA. So where are you from?"

"Gotham." he replied as he looked up to the early morning sun. 'Gotham was never this bright, it was always so dark and gloomy.'

"Cool, Gotham City...hey do you know Bruce Wayne?"

"We've met from time to time." Xander said not wanting to give to much away.

"Well it was nice talking to you." Buffy said as she started to walk off. "But, I have to find the principal and get my class schedules. Maybe we could hook up later?"

"Yeah, I'll see you later." Xander said as Buffy ran off. As he was about to walk off, his foot hit something. Looking down he saw that it was... "A stake?" he muttered as he flipped it around in his hands. Glancing up, through the sea of students, he saw the retreating form of Buffy and smiled. "Maybe, there's more to you yet, Buffy." and with that he put the stake in his backpack and walked towards the Sunnydale High entrance.

"So what do you girls think of, Buffy." a very beautiful and curvacious brunette asked her group of sheep, in front of the Sunnydale High entrance. They had just met Buffy and she thought that the girl would make an excellent Cordette. She had the right fashion sense and she was from LA, so that was a plus.

"I'd rather talk about something else, Cordelia." Harmony said as she walked up. "You guys will never guess what I just heard. My mom told me last night that Bruce Wayne's son, Alexander Wayne has just moved to Sunnydale."

"You've gotta, be kidding me." Cordelia said as her sheep started to whisper to themselves. "Why would a boy from one of the richest families in the world, want to move here?"

"But it's true." Harmony interjected. "My mom, sold him the mansion that he lives in now." and it wierded her out a little bit, once she heard where the mansion was. It was basically on the outskirts of town, in a very creepy location.

"Excuse me ladies." a voice said behind them, instantly making the Cordettes stop gossiping. Turning around they saw a handsome boy, with a goofy grin wearing all black. Just by looking at him, Cordelia already decided that he wasn't important, but for some reason it was like she should have remembered him from somewhere. "I'm new here so could one of you point me in the direction of the principals office?"

"Do we look like losers, loser?" Cordelia asked. "Just go inside and if you're lucky somebody will help you." suddenly the entrance door opened and Buffy popped her head out.

"Oh, hey Xander." Buffy greeted when she spotted him. "Principal Flutie, told me to come and find you. And I didn't know that your last name was Wayne. What are the chances that you would have the same last name as Bruce Wayne and come from Gotham City, huh?"

"Yeah, that's just convenient." Xander said as he walked past the stunned Cordelia and her sheep. Without so much as another word, he walked into the school and dissappeared with Buffy.

"Damn!" Cordelia shrieked as he got out of hearing range, as the other girls started to gossip about Cordelia messing up her chances. 'He's supposed to be wearing suits or expensive clothes, not jeans and a T-shirt.' Cordelia thought to herself. "Harmony, call your mom on her cellphone." Cordy told the other girl. "I want you to ask her for his home address."

"Is something wrong?" Buffy asked as they walked towards, the principals office. Xander just had a troubled look on his face.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Xander lied. He hated those stuck up bitch types. Always thinking they were superior to everyone else. "Oh and um...you dropped this." he said as he reached into his backpack and handed over, her stake.

"Thanks, um... this is just the lastest form of protection in LA." Buffy hurried to explain. "It's the newest craze."

"I'm sure it is." Xander said giving her a look. "I guess this is my stop." he said as he spotted the principals office. "I'll see you later."

"Sure, I have to go to the library today anyway." she told him, then walked off.

With a sigh, Xander entered the Principals office.

Later that day

The Quad

A mousy, but beautiful redhead sat on a bench, in front of a wall taking out her lunch. Even though she was a teenager now, she still enjoyed her peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. As she started into her lunch Buffy approached her.

"Uh, Hi!" Buffy spoke loudly, but nervously. "Willow, right?"

"Why? I-I mean, hi!" Willow replied as she looked up. "Uh, did you want me to move?"

"Why don't we start with, 'Hi, I'm Buffy,' and, uh, then let's segue directly into me asking you for a favor." she said as she sat next to her. "It doesn't involve moving, but it does involve hanging out with me for a while."

"But aren't you hanging out with Cordelia?" Willow asked dumbfounded.

"I can't do both?"

"Not legally." Willow muttered under her breath.

"Look," Buffy started as she let out an even breath. "I really wanna get by here, new school, and... Cordelia's been really nice... to me... anyway, but, um, I kinda have this burning desire not to flunk all my classes, and I heard a rumor that you were the person to talk to if I wanted to get caught up."

"Oh, I could totally help you out!" Willow said excitedly. "Uh, if you have sixth period free we could meet in the library?"

"Or not." Buffy replied quickly. "Or we could meet someplace quieter. Louder. Uh, that place just kinda gives me the wiggins."

"Oh, it has that effect on most kids. I love it, though, it's a great collection, and the new librarian is really cool."

"He's new?" Buffy asked weary of the man now.

"Yeah, he just started. He was a curator at some British museum, or, or The British Museum, I'm not sure. But he knows everything, and he brought all these historical volumes and biographies, and am I the single dullest person alive?" Willow said, thinking how boring her life was.

"Not at all." Buffy said as Xander hopped up onto the wall behind the girls and sat on it between them.

"Hey, Xand." Buffy said with a smile. 'At least there seems to be one normal person at this school.' Buffy thought to herself.

"Hey, Buff." Xander greeted back as he looked over at Willow. Something about the cute red head just seemed so familiar. Like he was supposed to remember her. "Aren't you going to introduce me to your new friend?"

"Yeah, Willow...Xander, Xander, Willow." Buffy properly introduced the two.

"Did you say, Xander?" Willow asked. She too felt as though she was supposed to remember the boy. Those brown eyes and his grin just seemed so familiar.

"Yeah, it's short for..."

"Hey guys." a voice called, interrupting Xander. "What's up."

"Oh, hey Jesse." Willow said as she looked back at him. "Guy's this is my best friend Jesse. Jesse, this is Buffy, and... and Xander."

"Xander?" Jesse asked with raised eyebrows.

"Yeah." Xander said confused. "Why does everybody keep saying my name?" he asked. 'It's not that wierd.' Before anybody could reply Cordelia walked over to them.

"Hey, Buffy I have to tell..." then she looked over and saw Xander. "Oh, hey Xand. Listen I'm sorry about what I said to you earlier."

"That's a first." Jesse said as he sat on the other side of Willow. "I never thought, I would see the day when Queen C would apologize."

"Oh, shut up dweeb!" Cordelia snapped.

"Cordelia." Buffy called the girls name to get her attention. "What did you want to tell me?"

"Oh, right." Cordelia said, getting her thoughts together. "I don't mean to interrupt your downward mobility, but I just wanted to tell you that you won't be meeting Coach Foster, the woman with the chest hair, because gym was canceled due to the extreme dead guy in the locker."

"What?" Buffy asked.

"What are you talking about?" Willow spoke up.

"Some guy was stuffed in Aura's locker." Cordelia told them as if it wasn't a big deal.

"Dead?" Buffy asked.

"Totally dead. Way dead." Cordelia went on.

"It's not just a little dead, then?" Jesse quipped.

"Don't you have somewhere else to be?" Cordelia asked with a glare. "Hey where did Xander go?" she asked as she took a look around. The others also looked around and didn't see him in sight.

That was when, Willow spotted something golden on the ground. Picking it up, she opened it to find a picture of herself, Jesse, and their friend (at the age of seven) that they had thought died years ago named...

"Xander." Willow whispered to herself as she closed the locket.

Girls locker room

Xander stepped over the yellow police tape and scanned the locker room. Spotting the body, wrapped up in a sheet, he pulled it back and examined the body, of the teenaged boy. After seeing the vampire bite, he opened the corpses mouth and didn't see any blood.

'Hmmm...' he thought to himself. 'I should go to the library and check out a book on vampirism.' and with that he closed the boys mouth, put the sheet back over him, and quietly walked out of the locker room.

A few minutes later

Xander was in the stacks checking out some books on Vampires and other demons. For some reason they had volume upon volume of occult books. Picking up another book, he stopped as he listened to someone shouting. The voice distinctively sounded like Buffy's.

After listening to Buffy whine too the new librarian, Giles, he made a mental note to find out what a Slayer and a Watcher was. Not hearing their voices anymore, he took the book he needed and silently slipped out of a window.

Later that day

The Quad

"Yes, Master Alexander." Alfred said into his cellphone/monitor.

"Alfred, it's started." Xander said as he pitched his voice low. "One boy is already dead and...and there's just something wierd about this school."

"How so?" Alfred asked.

"I...I don't know. It's it's like theres something evil about this place. I can feel it everywhere." Xander said confused.

"I'll look into it for you, sir." Alfred informed him. "Is there anything else?"

"Yeah, see if you can do some background work on something called the Slayer and the Watcher's Council." Xander said causing Alfred to fidget, although Xander didn't see it. "Also see if you can get some info on a Rupert Giles and Buffy Summers."

"Yes, sir." Alfred said sternly. Without another word Alfred cut off communications.

"Hmm...wierd." Xander muttered to himself as he cut off his cellphone. Alfred always said goodbye, but just then he seemed so cold.

"Xander!" he heard someone yell out. Turning he saw that it was the red head he had met earlier and her goofy friend. For a moment when he had saw her, in his minds eye he saw the little red head girl in his dreams.

"Um...hey Willow right?" Xander asked as she ran up to him out of breath.

"Yeah, and this is Jesse." Willow said as she pointed behind herself. "Can...can we talk for a minute?"

"Yeah, sure what's up?"

"Well, um first of all you dropped this." she said as she handed him his locket. Xander's hand immediately went up to his neck and then he grabbed the locket from Willow.

"Thanks." Xander said relieved. He couldn't believe that he had dropped the locket and didn't notice it.

"I need to as...ask you something else." Willow started nervously. "Are you originally from Sunnydale?"

"Yeah." Xander said with a frown. "How did you know..."

"Because we think you're our old friend, Alexander Harris." Jesse blurted out, making Willow glare at him.

Then Xander stepped back a little and really looked at them. Closing his eyes he imagined their faces.

'Xander, Jesse...stop wrestling.'

'I don't have nobody.'

'Stop being wierd, Willow.'

'Yeah, stop being wierd Willow.'

"Willow." Xander said as he snapped his eyes open and pulled her into a hug. Startled, Willow leaned into his embrace. After a few seconds she felt another pair of hands around her waist. Looking back she saw that, it was Jesse.

"Alright the Xandman's back." Jesse said happily. "Where have you been man? The rumour around the school is that Bruce Wayne raised you."

Before Xander could answer his cellphone started to ring. Taking it out of his pocket, he read the number off of it and saw that it was Alfred.

"I have to go." Xander said as he backed up some.

"But we're just meeting up again." Jesse said.

"Yeah, Xander don't go." Willow said with a frown.

"We'll meet up again real soon." Xander said as flipped the phone open.

"What about tonight then." Jesse replied, thinking of where they could go. "You can meet us at the Bronze."

"Alright, I'll see you guys later." Xander said as he ran off.

"Don't you need directions!" Willow yelled after him.

"I'll find my way." Xander said as he dissappeared into the parking lot.

"Okay, that was just wierd." Jesse commented, only for Willow to slap his arm. "Ow, well he was acting wierd." he said as he rubbed at his now sore arm.

"It doesn't matter." Willow told him seriously. "Xander's back. Now come on." she said as she grabbed his arm and led him in the opposite direction of their old friend.

"Alfred this had better be good." Xander said into his cellphone. He had finally met his friends again and he had been interrupted.

"Yes sir, I have some of the information that you requested." Alfred informed him. "I'm sending it to you now." he said as the face of Alfred was replaced with aLCD readout.

Outside of the Bronze

Even though Xander drove his convertible to the Bronze, he still watched the shadows as if someone were following him. He still couldn't believe what he had found out about Buffy. Xander found her to be beautiful, but a mystical warrior, he found to be hard to believe. She was just so tiny and didn't have any muscles.

But he learned a long time ago never to judge a book by it's cover. Walking up to the entrance of the club, the girl in question suddenly crashed into him.

"Oh, Xander I'm sorry...have you seen Willow?" Buffy asked as she looked at him worriedly.

"No, why?" Xander asked.

"Um, somebody bad has her. If we don't get to her now, she could die."

"Just tell me what's going on."

"I don't have time." Buffy said as she started to look around. "Please just help me find her."

"Alright." Xander said as he put his hand on her shoulder, while at the same time putting a bat-tracer on her back. "You go this way and I'll go that way." Xander said pointing in opposite directions. Waiting until Buffy ran off, Xander turned around and ran for his car. For the night was going to be his first trial as the Batman.

The warehouse Alfred told Xander about was only a block away. When he had first walked inside, he thought he was in the wrong place. The warehouse was completely empty, or so he thought. When he walked inside all he saw were these wierd red symbols on the wall. But on closer inspection, he saw a simple black button on the far wall and pushed it.

When he did, the floor under his feet opened up and he fell into some kind of capsule. At almost supersonic levels, he traveled through the Sunnydale sewer system. Emerging on the other side the capsule opened up and Xander looked out to a almost pitch black room.

"Man that was a hell of a ride." Xander said as he stepped out of the capsule and took a look around. 'I don't have time for this.' Xander thought to himself. 'I have to save Willow.'

Ignoring the expensive looking equipment in the cavernous room, he ran to the back of the room where he saw a large glass case. Looking inside of it, he saw the Batman suit.

"Damn." Batman said annoyed after he stepped out of the armor room, donning his Batsuit. "I'm never going to get to Willow in time."

"Then might I suggest using the car." Alfred's voice filled the cave. Looking around Xander saw Alfred on a huge computer screen monitor.

"That's just the problem Al." Batman said as he walked up to the computer screen. "Even if I can get back up to my car in time, I'll never be able to get to Willow."

"I wasn't referring to that car." Alfred said as spotlights cut on in the room. "I was talking about that one." Alfred said making Xander turn around. And when he did, the car if that's what you wanted to call it, blew his breath away.

It most definately wasn't the batmobile, it looked more like a tank. It had heavier looking armour than the batmobile and had huge tires in the back, like it was meant for a mac truck. And the car/tank looked like it had been altered a little. It looked as if it could fit four people instead of two.

"That young, sir." Alfred said interrupting Xander's thoughts. "Is called the Tumbler. It was Master Bruce's first car."

"No time to explain the rest." Xander told him as he ran to the Tumbler and jumped inside. With an audible whoosh the domed top closed, as he started the car up. Looking ahead of himself, an LCD readout of Buffy's location showed up on a paneled computer.

"Hold tight, Buff." Batman muttered to himself. "I'm on the way." As soon as those words left his mouth the artificial cavern wall ahead of him opened up. "Here goes nothing." he said as he tapped his foot on the gas petal. With enough kick to give him whiplash, the Tumbler bucked and flew out of the Batcave.

The city seemed nothing, but a blur as Batman navigated inside of his car. Glancing down at the readout he saw that it was leading him to a cemetery. Arriving at his destination, the Tumbler roared to a halt at the entrance of the Restfield cemetery. Jumping out of it, Batman was immediately greeted with a scream. Moving with speed, that the Gods themselves would be envious of, Batman ran in the direction of the disturbance.

Willow always knew that Sunnydale was strange but this was downright spooky. She thought her day was going fairly good, because she had met up with an old friend and Buffy had talked her into talking to a guy. A real guy.

But that's when all the trouble started. The boy, Thomas is what he called himself, had led her into a crypt, at the local cemetery. After she tried to leave, because of him acting mean, she had bumped into Jesse and a pretty blonde. At least she was pretty until her face changed. When she turned around, that's when she saw that Thomas's face had changed too.

She was happy though when Buffy showed up and did something to Thomas to make him turn into dust, because it gave her enough time to get the injured Jesse and herself out of the crypt. But looking around herself, now at all of the vampires surrounding her, she thought that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to have left Buffy's side.

"My aren't you a pretty one." one of the vampires said to Willow as he leered at her. Neither of them noticed a figure dropping inexplicably behind them. "I'll ask the Master if he'll let me turn you. We could be lovers forever." he said causing Willow to close her eyes. She could feel it in her gut that that thing was going to hurt her. However it was a pain that she would never feel.

Opening her eyes she saw the thing turning into dust. Startled, she looked up and saw an apparition as dark as the night itself. With her eyes adjusting to the darkness she saw that the thing had long black horns and wings...no a cape, Willow observed.

"It's the Batman." someone from the crowd of vampires yelled.

"Let's get out of here." she heard the one Thomas, called Darla say. Like a pack of wild dogs, the vampires ran for their unlives.

"Are you alright." came a voice, low and omnious. Willow had to look around again, because of the darkness to see who it was. Then her mind made her remember that the creature...no Batman was right in front of her.

"Y...yes." Willow managed to get out.

"Ah, man...that blonde gave me such a hickey." Jesse stammered out.

"Is your friend alright?" Batman asked as he gave them a look.

"Yeah, but...I think he's lost some blood."

"Get him to my car." Batman said as he looked over his shoulder, after hearing some fighting coming from a crypt. "I'll take him to the hospital."

"What car?" Willow asked as she turned to look for it in all directions. Then she heard a loud rumbling of a powerful engine. The heavy Tumbler sent rooster tails of expensive, manicured lawn high in the air, as it stopped inches from Willow. "Oh, that one." she said as she turned around only to find Batman gone.

'Damn this suit is hot.' Xander thought to himself as he stealthily ran inside the crypt. Once he did so he saw a hulking vampire, already in game face, standing over an opened coffin, rambling about something. Not giving it a chance to notice him, he reached into his utility belt and took out a specially made Batarang and threw it.

Buffy could only breathe heavily as Luke, or the Incredible Hulk as she liked to think of him as, threw her into a dark dirty coffin. Out of all of the vampires she had faced so far, he was by far the most powerful, as far as sheer strength.

And what made him more scary was that he was quoting scripture. 'Just shut up already.' Buffy's mind screamed at her to tell him. Just as he leaned in the coffin to grab her, he suddenly roared in pain. The sound of the wail, seemed to shake the very building.

Buffy then heard someone arguing, the brief sounds of a fight, and then the sound of a vampire dusting. Seeing that everything was quiet and plus she wanted to see what was going on, Buffy leaned up to peek out of the coffin. As soon as she did a menacing silhouette of a black demon, suddenly popped in over the coffin top, staring down at her.

Buffy then did something that every girl would do in a situation like that. She screamed.

TBC...

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