A/N Thanks for all the great reviews. This is just a filler episode and is a crossover with the movie Jeepers Creepers. I've also took a few liberty's with the story. I hope you guys enjoy it.
Thanks to my new reviewer WBH21C, I'm glad you like the story. Thanks screaminheathen69, Kuramalovergirl, and X-Over.
To Anthony1, this chapter should answer the last question you had about the story. And Angel want be in this story, especially seeing that there's only about two or three chapters left. He just wouldn't fit into the story well.
And to J, I hate to sound harsh but this is my story and I decide what's best for it. The reason I made Kendra a Wayne is because it plays a big part in a later storyline. And she will be the last family member to join the bat clan, in that time frame anyway. I wouldn't do anything too overboard and you have to remember that about me, I like to set up events so that they play a part in later series. Plus it's not really creative if I have to do everything DC, Marvel, or Joss does. I like to do my own thing. Plus, this is my universe combined with DC and the Jossverse, so things are gonna be different anyway.
One more thing, somebody asked if the first season was going to be the only thing I was going to cover in this fanfic. Well the answer is yes. I hate extremely long fanfics and I lose interest in them if they go on too long. However I will do a special halloween episode for season two for this fic, but It will be a seperate fic from this one. So be looking for that.
Anyway enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 21
Night of the Creeper
LA
Night
Shaking with fear, a brunette haired teen boy and teen girl ran down a dark and narrow alley. Even though they couldn't see there pursuer, they could still hear the excessive flapping of it's wings. The two had been running all day from the winged demon and everywhere they went for help, they only ended up bringing death and destruction to their door steps.
And what made it so bad was that they could only see glimpses of their attacker. At first glance he seemed to be an old man, wearing a ragged old duster and an even older, dirtier cowboy hat. But as he would continue to get closer to them, they saw that he was some kind of reptillian demon and later that it had wings. Stopping to catch their breath's, the boy looked over at the girl.
"What the hell are we going to do now, Trish?" he asked, trying to take in some air into his lungs. 'God, I wish we never came to this city.' he thought to himself.
"I don't know Darry, maybe keep running for our lives." she replied sarcastically to her little brother, with tired eyes as she leaned up against a wall. Running a hand through her long brown hair, she looked up at him and sighed. "Listen Darry, I'm sorry. Maybe we should just..."
"Shhh..." he said putting his finger to his lips, while grabbing her by the arm. "I think he's gone."
"Why would he give up this easily, Darry? He's been following us all day."
"Exactly. He's been after us all day." Darry replied as he nervously looked around. "Maybe he gave up, because he couldn't catch us."
"Darry..."
"Sis, come on." he said looking at her in the eyes. "I don't want for us to die down some dark and shit smelling alley."
"Alright." Trish said as she gently squeezed her brother's hand. He had a point and he was right, she didn't hear the demon anymore, so maybe he had given up on them. "Let's get the hell out of here."
Taking the lead, she ran down the face of the alley and stopped at the entrance. Her eyes going wide at what she saw.
"Trish, why the hell did you stop run..." Darry stopped talking, as his eyes went wide as he saw the creeper standing right in front of them. It smiled at them, because it smelled their fear, revealing a row of razor sharp teeth.
"Fuck..." was all she could get out as the Creeper reached for her...only for Darry to jump in the way and get grabbed instead.
For a moment they shared brotherly-sisterly eye contact. Both of their lives flashed before their eyes and they saw all the teasing and even all the good times they had with each other, but nothing compared to the act of love he was showing as he mouthed one word to her. "Run." Not knowing what to do, she looked around for a weapon to use and then into his eyes once more and saw fear, but also something else. Love. Knowing that she was wrong, she turned and ran down the opposite end of the alley, her brother's screams echoing in her ears as she went.
The Next Day
Sending out a rainbow kick, Kendra just managed to avoid a backhand by her opponent. Sliding easily under a high kick, she dropped to the floor and did a leg sweep that sent her assailant sprawling to the ground.
"You have a near flawless form." Kendra said as she reached down and helped Buffy off of the dojo room floor. Both of them were wearing matching white karate uniforms. "Although your blocking and evading skills are a bit sloppy."
"Is that what you think?" Buffy asked as she got into a fighting stance. "You got the moves, I'll give you that." Buffy said as they started to circle one another. "But you don't have any imagination."
"Is dat right?" Kendra asked as she started to clinch, then unclinch her fist.
"Yeah, and I'm so going to wipe the floor with you."
"Dat's it!" Kendra yelled out as she ran to fight Buffy.
The two had virtually been at it since they had met. Buffy didn't dislike Kendra as she had originally thought and to be honest, she really enjoyed not being the only Slayer. She was happy to have friends, but none of them understood how lonely she felt to be the the chosen one. But now there was a chosen two.
"They really don't like each other do they?" Jesse asked from his position on the exercise bench, as he watched Buffy block a kick then some rapid fire punches from the Jamaican Slayer.
"Nah, they like each other." Faith replied with a wince as Kendra flipped Buffy over her shoulder and onto the mat hard. "Maybe."
"Ouch." Willow said as both girls fell forward, in a tangle of arms and legs pulling each others hair and slapping each other on the arms and head.
"Ooooh, chick fight!" Jesse yelled excitedly, as he rubbed his hands together.
"Aren't we going to do something about them?" Willow asked after she slapped her boyfriend on the back of the head.
"Hell no. Things are getting exciting." Faith said, as Willow gave her a look. "Fine." she said in a huff as she stood to her feet. "You always have to spoil all the fun."
Seeing that Faith started to hold back Kendra, Jesse and Willow stood up to hold back Buffy.
"Let me go!" Buffy shouted as she tried to leap at her sister Slayer. Jesse and Willow let out a low wince as they were barely able to hold her. They knew that Buffy wasn't trying to literally kill Kendra, because if she was she would have easily tossed them aside. Surprisingly though, it didn't look like Faith was having that much trouble holding back her sister. "I can totally take her."
"She whooped you fair and square, B." Faith said as Kendra finally calmed down. "Now, we're going to let the both of you go and I want you two to kiss and make up."
"I'm not going to kiss anodder girl." Kendra informed her as she glared at Buffy and folded her arms over her chest. "Dat's unseemly."
"It was just a figure of speech hon." Buffy replied as she mimicked Kendra's stance and folded her arms over her chest. "She wants us to apologize to each other."
"Well, I'm waiting." Faith said as she put her hands on her hips and looked between them. Looking up at the girl, Buffy saw that Faith had a little smirk on her face.
'She's enjoying this.' Buffy thought as she turned her glare on Faith. "Fine. Kendra I'm...I'm sorry." she said as she extended her hand for her to shake. Still with a glare on their faces, they quickly shook hands.
"Now, the both of you go and sit down so me and Willow can spar with each other."
"Yes mom." Buffy said mockingly to Faith as she and Kendra walked towards the bench. Halfway over the two started to slap at each other again. Hearing the commotion, Faith looked over at them, making them instantly stop and sit down on the bench.
"Willow is coming along quite nicely with her training." Kendra said to Buffy after a few minutes of uncomfortable silence.
"Yeah, I can't believe Faith of all people is training her." Buffy said as she watched Faith show Willow how to do a rainbow kick. She could have sworn Willow had told her that she didn't like Faith too much. "Umm, Kendra can I talk to you about something?"
"Yes." she replied as she took her eyes off Faith and Willow.
"Well. um it's about Xander."
"What about him?" Kendra asked suspiciously.
"Well, I know that you've only been here for a week and a half, but have you noticed anything strange about him?"
"Like what?"
"Okay, listen..." she stopped talking as Xander, Giles, and Wesley entered the room arguing about something. Giving Kendra a look, that said they would talk about Xander later, they stood to their feet and walked over to them. "Hey guy's what's going on?" she asked as Xander handed her a newspaper.
"Read the headline." Xander informed her as he went back to his discussion with the Watchers. Hearing the commotion, the others walked up to see what was going on, as Buffy began to read the headline.
"Twenty teens missing, feared dead."
"Damn." Faith said with a grimace as she snatched the paper from her and started to read it.
"So what the hell are you guys arguing about?" Buffy asked.
"Me and Giles figured that these dissappearances are demonic, so we think we should go to LA and check it out." Xander said as he looked back at Wesley. "But Watcher Jr. over here doesn't think we should go."
"There's no evidence that suggests that a demon did this." Wesley told them all stiffly as he grabbed the lapels on his suit. "So this is a job for the police, not us."
"It says here that a few body parts from the people who were missing turned up recently." Faith said as she put the paper down on the exercise bench.
"Obviously the work of a psychotic killer."
"Or a demon that likes to chow down on human flesh." she said as she sent a glare towards Wesley. "So I think we should vote to see if we go to LA or not."
"That's absurd. We're the Watcher's here and..."
"I think Faith has the right idea." Giles cut his fellow Watcher off. "If it is indeed some form of demon, then it might not be long before it reaches Sunnydale. Therefore it'll be prudent if we were to stop it now."
"So we'll vote." Xander said stepping forward. "All in favor of going to LA, raise your hands." to Wesley's dismay everyone in the room raised their hands, all except Kendra. Good faithful, Kendra. That was until Faith bumped a curvy hip into her side.
"Maybe, we should check it out." Kendra told her Watcher. "For security reasons."
"Fine." Wesley mumbled out. 'Nobody ever listens to me.'
"Cool, I can't wait to use that new sword my dad gave me." Jesse said as he ran for the door, only for Xander to grab onto his shoulder.
"Listen man I think that you and Willow should stay in Sunnydale."
"Why?" Jesse asked as he frowned at his friend.
"Because this is gonna be dangerous and..."
"We go into dangerous situations all the time."
"But..."
"I'm tired of people treating me and Willow like we're worthless." Jesse said raising his voice slightly, causing the others to look over at them. "I've been right there in this fight from the beginning. And who are you to place judgement to see if I can go or not? You're barely even around to help us fight."
Xander couldn't help but flinch at the harshness of his friends voice and he was right. Jesse and Willow chose to be in this fight, where as everybody seemed as if they were forced into it. For a second Xander put himself in Jesse's shoes and thought about how he would feel if someone told him that he couldn't help and to stay away from a fight. It wasn't a good feeling. Letting out a heavy sigh, he looked over at his friend and considered a few things.
"Did you get your drivers license yet?"
"What?" Jesse asked confused.
"Have you gotten your drivers license yet?" Xander asked again, as he started to dig into his pants pocket.
"Yeah a couple of weeks ago. Now why would you want to know..."
"Here take my convertible and you and Willow meet us near the Bronze and we'll all leave together." taking the keys out of Xander's hands, Jesse looked at him for a minute, nodded his head and walked out of the room.
"Alright everyone, let's get prepared." Giles said as he himself walked over to the door. "As Xander said we should all meet at the Bronze."
On The Highway
9:00 PM
"I wonder why Xander decided not to meet us at the Bronze?" Jesse asked as he turned on the high beams of the car to see the highway better.
"He said something about he and Faith going on ahead to make reservations at the Bell Plaza Hotel, just incase we're there longer than a couple of days." Willow replied as she looked at the country side as it passed. "Speaking of Xander, what were the two of you arguing about earlier?"
"Noth..." he stopped mid-sentence as he looked over at Willow and saw her "resolve face". 'Damn, why does she have to do this everytime?' he thought to himself. "Xander didn't want us to come with them to slay this demon."
"Why?"
"Because he probably thinks that we're useless like everyone else does." Jesse muttered.
"We're not useless. We help." Willow said as she gently squeezed his hand. Looking back out to the country, she frowned as a large shadow quickly passed over the car. "What was that?" she asked nervously.
"What was..." before Jesse could ask the question they both heard a loud flap of some wings. Trying to look out the window to see what it was, a hand suddenly ripped through the fabric of the car's roof and grabbed Willow by the hair, slowly pulling her up.
"No!" Jesse yelled out at Willow's scream and as he started to loose control over the car. Taking a look at the hand that threatened to take his girlfriend away, he saw that it was slightly green and almost looked like it belonged to some kind of reptile.
Remembering something, he reached into the back seat with his free hand and grabbed his sword. It had a razor sharp blade that was about 27 inches in length, with a black hilt that had a howling wolf on it. Thrusting upwards with the sword, he cut through the roof and into the creature's arm making it howl wildly and to pull Willow up harder. Giving it another try, he stabbed it through the roof again, the beast finally let go of Willow, but nevertheless stayed on top of the roof.
"Willow are you okay?" Jesse asked breathing hard as he looked from his girlfriend to his sword. It had green blood on it, but it also had something else. Something that looked like dust.
"Something...I...I feel..." Willow started to splutter as she closed her eyes. Once she opened them, her eyes turned solid black and she started to scream like a banshee. Before Jesse could even fathom what was going on, a dark aura gathered around her and with another scream she released the energy, making it turn in fire and destroy the roof section of the car.
As the black flames died down, Willow looked over at Jesse with dark eyes, that rolled up in her head as she passed out in his lap.
"Forget about the car man, I'm just glad you're alive." Xander was saying to Jesse at the end of his story.
"But I want to know what happened to Willow." Buffy said as she walked out of her hotel room and into the hall with the others. Willow had woken up from the drive, but complained about being tired so the others helped her to get some sleep.
"It was way wierd." Jesse said freaking out a bit. "I was trying to get that thing off of her and she just started freaking out. Her eyes turned black and it looked like she was using some kinda magic."
"I can only conclude that someone was channeling magic through her." Giles spoke up as he took his glasses off to polish them. "Willow asked me earlier this year to train her in magic, but I refused. With all the time I spend with Buffy, I wouldn't have time to properly introduce and train her in magic. I highly doubt that she's had time to try to study magic herself and even if she did, it's nearly impossible for her to achieve the level of magical abilities you described."
"But who would want to channel magic through, Red?" Faith asked as she leaned her back against a wall.
"That still remains the question." Giles replied as he put his glasses back on his face.
"Mr. McNally." Wesley called out for further down the hall, as he and Kendra walked up to him carrying the shadow sabre. "I examined and then cleaned your sword and what you thought was dirt, was something else entirely."
"Well, what was it?" Jesse asked as he took his sword back, causing the young Watcher and his Slayer to look at each other.
"It was dead skin." Kendra answered, making everyone have disgusted looks on their faces.
"Nooooo!" came Willow's muffled scream from her room. And as they entered it, they saw Willow sweating perfusely and thrashing wildly on her bed. Running over Buffy and Giles started to hold her down.
"Willow, what's wrong?" Buffy asked as she started to calm down a bit.
"It's...it's not right...hanging bodies." Willow babbled out as she looked around at the others with tears in her eyes.
"Willow, babe what are you talking about?" Jesse asked as he dropped his sword to the floor and sat down on the bed to comfort her. "What bodies?"
"The boy with no eyes." Willow cried out as she sat up and pulled him into a hug. "He...he died so young." after nearly fifteen minutes of Willow babble, which Jesse was fluent in, the gang was able to determine where the Creepers hide away was.
"I'm gonna stay behind and watch over, Willow." Jesse told his friends as they headed to the door.
"I'm going to stay behind as well to do some research on this beast." Giles said as he cracked open a tome from the collection he had brought with him. "From Willow's apparant vision and description, I think I've narrowed down what this creature is."
"Then maybe I should stay behind to help." Wesley volunteered.
"No. I need someone on the field to give an unbiased description of this creature."
"Alright, that sounds reasonable. I'm glad I brought my camera and cellphone." he said as he and the others walked out of the door.
"One more thing, Wesley." Giles said making his fellow Watcher turn around to look at him. "If this thing is what I think it is, don't try to engage it in a fight."
"Then what do you suggest for us to do?"
"Run."
"So do you think, Willow is gonna be okay?" Buffy asked as the group started to walk further downtown. They had parked their cars a few blocks back, because from where Willow told them to go, the only way to get there was to go down a series of narrow alleys.
"Mr. Giles is doing some research on the matter, so I'm sure she'll be fine." Wesley answered as he took the lead.
"Speaking of our friends, where did Xander run off to?" Buffy asked as she looked around.
"He said something about taking an important call." Faith lamely covered for him.
"Then he obviously doesn't know how important this is." Batman said as he emerged out of the shadows, startling everyone.
"My word, you nearly gave me a heart attack." Wesley said as he straightened himself up.
"Trust me you'll get used to it." Buffy told him. "Now what are you doing here?"
"The same reason you are, Miss Summers." Batman replied as he spotted the warehouse they were walking too. "I believe this is..." jumping back Batman barely dodged a sword swing. Getting into a defensive stance, along with some of the others, they looked up and saw that it was a pretty brunette with a glazed over look in her eyes.
"What the..."
"Damn girl." a tall black man said as he ran up behind her and grabbed the sword out of her hand. "What the hell do you think you were doing?"
"Gunn?" Batman asked as he took a step back in the shadows, making Gunn look over at him.
"What's up, B?" Gunn asked as the two briefly shook hands.
"A different thing." the girl said hysterically as she stared at Batman. "Not the same thing... a different thing."
"What's the matter with her?" Batman asked as Gunn let out a sigh and pulled the girl close.
"Me and my crew found her walking around by herself last night. She kept mumbling something about some monster taking her brother."
"Darry...his..his name was Darry." Trish interrupted as she gave Gunn's hand a gentle squeeze.
"Den we're here for de same reason." Kendra said and for the first time Gunn saw that Batman had other people around him. There was a tiny cute blonde girl, a nerdy type man with glasses and a suit, a sexy girl with long raven hair and the pretty black girl with the Jamaican accent that had spoke earlier.
"Well hello." Gunn greeted as he tried to shake Kendra's hand, only for her Watcher to step in the way.
"You said the rest of your...crew was here." Wesley said giving Gunn a dissapproving look. "So where are they?"
"They're doing a sweep."
"We don't have time for small talk." Batman interrupted the two. "Gunn, I'm assuming that you're here to kill the same beast..."
"It's some kind of a gargoyle." Trish interrupted.
"You've seen this thing up close?" Wesley asked and at her nod he continued. "Then please, describe it to me." as he pulled her over to the side to talk, Batman along with the others walked over towards the warehouse.
The closer they got to it, the less at ease the Dark Knight became. It almost felt like something were watching them. Hearing a birds caw, he looked up towards the roof of the warehouse and saw dozens of crows perched on top of the building. Their little dark eyes seemed to peer through group and send a shiver down all of their signs. No one in the gang was stupid. They all knew that the crow was a symbol of death.
Taking another look around, they stopped at the main door of warehouse. With a nod to Buffy and Kendra they raised up the garage door of the warehouse and were immediately assaulted with the stench of rotting flesh and blood from the dark insides of the building.
"Got damnit!" Gunn yelled out as he and the others instinctively took a step back. Alerted by the shout Wesley and Trish ran over and upon smelling the stench, Trish leaned over and vomited on Wesley's shoes.
"I say." Wes said as he tried to shake some off of his shoes.
"What the hell is that smell?" Faith asked as she put a hand over her nose.
"Flesh." Batman answered as he took out a flash grenade bomb and threw it into the dark void.
As the bomb exploded and illuminated the room, the gang finally saw what was causing the smell. There were mutilated bodies, with missing body parts, hanging upside down from chained hooks. And as the light from the bomb started to go out, Trish saw something else. It was a man with his eyes taken and the back of his skull carved out.
"Darry?" she asked as a tear fell from her eye.
"We've found where this things nest is." Batman said snapping her out of her reverie. "Now I think that we should..." suddenly the sound of rusty chains swaying and foot steps filled the air. As they looked up and into the warehouse the Creeper suddenly emerged out of shadows and pounced on top of Batman.
As Trish and Wesley screamed like little girls, Kendra and Buffy grabbed the creature from under it's arms and tossed it off of the dark knight on onto the pavement. As it stood to it's feet, Faith ran into him with a barrage of punches and kicks. Jumping into the fray, Buffy delivered an upper cut punch to the beasts head, while Kendra did a roundhouse kick on it that sent it staggering. Making the girls move out of the way, Gunn ended the assault as he came down with a hard swing, that left his homemade axe embedded in the Creepers forehead. As the beast fell over, they all looked at each other and then back at Wesley.
"That was easy." Buffy panted out from her slight exercise.
"Don't be so sure." Wesley said taking a step back. Looking over their shoulders, they stared in amazement as the Creeper stood to it's feet, grabbed the axe out of it's forehead, and tossed it with a clatter to the ground.
"What the hell is it going to take to kill you?" Buffy asked as the thing let out an earth shaking shriek, made his wings burst out of the back of his duster, and took to the air.
"Oh, no you don't." Batman said with a growl as he reached into his utility belt, grabbed his grappling hook gun, and fired it into the air. As it wrapped around the demons leg, Batman was lifted off of the ground and high into the air.
Feeling the weight on his leg, the creature looked down and saw Batman holding on for dear life. With a wicked grin it visciously sliced through the cable, sending Batman plummeting to the ground. At the last possible moment however, he activated his cape and glided harmlessly down to the ground in a crouch.
"How the hell are we gonna kill that thing now?" Gunn asked as Batman stood to his feet.
"I put a tracer on it's leg." Batman informed them all. " Gunn tell your crew to go home. But I want you to come with me. I'll bring the Tumbler around and pick you up."
"Got it." Gunn said as he grabbed Trish's arm, his axe and ran off.
"Now let's check in with Mr. Giles and see if he knows how to kill this thing."
As he ran towards the Tumbler, he heard Faith calling out his name.
"I wanted to talk to you about what you said the other day." Faith said as she fell into step with his jog.
"I'm kinda in a hurry, Faith." Batman whined in Xander's voice as they turned down a corner.
"Yeah, but I wanted to talk to you about me being Catwoman again." she replied making him stop in his tracks. "It's about what you said about me seeking redemption for the wrong, I've done."
"Faith listen to me." Batman said grabbing her by the arms. "You have to find your destiny just like I have to find mine. If you want to be Catwoman to help find your destiny, then do that. I'll be right here with you every step of the way. If you just want to be plain old Faith Wayne then I'll still be there for you."
"Alright, but you better not call me old again." Faith said with a smirk as she punched Batman on the arm.
"I'll see you later tonight." Batman said as he kissed her on the forehead and ran for the Tumbler. Neither of them saw Buffy, watching from the shadows. She didn't hear everything they said, only the last part.
"It started in the dungeons of a 12th century manision in Romania. This was a time of darkness throughout Europe." Giles was lecturing as he looked around the room with a large book. Willow had woken up thirty minutes ago and it looked like she was going to do just fine.
"The original myth has it that a Count Van Verschrikking was consumed with performing ancient experiments in a dungeon which was hidden beneath the depths of his mansion. He wanted to prove he could bring the dead back to life. His experiments included mutating human remains with animals. It was said that his experiments brought back many different abominations of nature, most were not dead, but not completely alive either. His greatest achievement was in capturing a werewolf and mixing it's blood with the blood of a bat and the ground powder of stone. He infused this with the dead remains of a human. Thus that night a gargoyle was born."
"But how do we kill it?" Trish asked, cutting off Giles' long speech.
"I was getting to that Miss, Miss Jenner." Giles stuttered. "In the early thirteenth century a young and noble knight slayed demons alongside a Slayer. It was a time before the Watchers had an effective way of reaching the Slayers and realizing the power she had, she joined with the knight to fight along side him. One night they came across this gargoyle creature that you described and it killed the Slayer. Saddened by her death the knight spent many years in depression, roaming the countryside until he ended up in a small village. He stayed there drinking himself into oblivion, until one night the village was attacked by the gargoyle."
"Then what happened?" Buffy asked after Giles' long pause. She loved good stories, even if they were coming from Giles.
"Then the knight attacked the beast and nearly died. Seeing that the man was about to die a young witch took him and nursed him back to health. They fell in love over the course of a year, had a child and...dear lord." Giles gasped as he flipped another page and saw something that made his eyes widen.
"Giles what is it?" Buffy asked as she took the book away from him and looked into it.
"Buffy what's wrong?" Willow asked as Buffy turned the book around so all of them could see. It was a portrait of the knight and the witch, but what was surprising about it, was that they looked exactly like Willow and Jesse. And what was more amazing was that the knight held the same sword that Jesse carried.
"I...I don't understand." Jesse said as he sat down next to Willow on the bed.
"You two must be their descendants." Wesley said taking the book. "It says here that the witch put a spell on the knights sword, so that it would be strong enough to kill the beast. Before she could finish it however the beast came to the village again and attacked her. Upon her dying breath she cast a spell on the beast, cursing it so that it would be frozen in stone. The people of the village then took it, upon finding that it couldn't be destroyed, and sealed it into a stone box to be forgotten by time. Before the knight committed suicide a few years after that, he had a son by a noble woman named Elizabeth Sumner."
"So does the sword have enough juice to kill the demon anyway?" Gunn asked, getting into the story.
"That's still unknown." Giles said taking the book back. "What is known is that in the early nineteenth century another witch tried to use the gargoyle against enemies that threatened to kill her. Needless to say, she found the demon to be uncontrollable and not knowing the original witch's spell, was only able to curse the demon so that it could only hunt for a few days and be in a hybernative state for twenty three years at a time."
"Hmmm." Batman grumbled as he took something out of his utility belt.
"What is it?" Trish asked.
"As I said I put a tracer on the demon earlier."
"Yeah so?"
"My tracking device just indicated that the thing is here." before anybody could say anything they heard a flapping of wings.
Suddenly the entire outside wall, on the right side of the building smashed to pieces, exposing them to the outside. Batman and the others jumped up in alarm, as moonlight streamed in.
The Creeper then appeared in the wall, which was now just a broken frame with shards of wood and glass hanging in it.
Taking out a batarang, Batman threw it at the demon only for it to catch it in it's hand. Not losing it's stride, it smacked Buffy and Kendra across the face sending them to the floor. As Gunn tried to throw his axe, the demon threw the batarang and it embedded itself in Gunn's right hand.
Moving towards the bed, Jesse got in it's way only to join Buffy and Kendra on the floor. Next up was Batman, who was tossed aside like a rag doll and into Wesley and Giles. Taking his prize, he jumped out of the window and dissappeared into the night.
"Is everyone okay?" Giles asked with a wince as he stood to his feet.
"Just peachy." Wesley said as he looked up and saw Trish trying to dislodge a batarang out of a screaming Gunn's hand. Stepping over Jesse, he moved over to help them.
"Willow?" Jesse said as he opened his eyes and stood up. "Willow!" he screamed as he saw that she was nowhere to be seen.
"The Creeper took her." Trish said as she took off her shirt and wrapped it around Gunn's hand.
"I'll get her back." Batman said as he ran and jumped up onto the window seal.
"Not without me." Jesse said as he grabbed Batman's arm and the Shadow Sabre.
"Mr. McNally, this mission is too dangerous..."
"Willow's my girlfriend...my soul mate." he said taking in what he had heard about his ancestors. Batman looked at him hard and then let out a sigh.
"Alright...come on."
An LA Skyscraper Roof
Willow shivered, not because of the cold draft, but out of fear as the Creeper sniffed her. When she had first woken up she helped Giles with the research on the beast and she had found out that it used fear to tell what body part it needed from a person to sustain itself.
Even with that knowledge, she couldn't help but to fear the demon. And that same fear was heightened when it shrugged off his duster, took off it's hat, and leaned down to bite her with it's razor sharp teeth. Before she could even scream, the demon howled in pain instead. As the Creeper let her go, Willow saw two things. She saw that a batarang was sticking in the back of the beasts head and that Batman, along with Jesse, were gliding down from the sky.
"Willow!" Jesse yelled out as they landed on the roof. As he tried to run to her the Creeper stood to it's feet and back handed him, sending Jesse falling over the edge of the building.
"No..."
"Jesse!" Willow yelled out.
"You're gonna pay for that!" Batman yelled out as he took out a huge curved blade and made a run towards the demon bat.
"Jesse." Willow cried to herself as she curled up into a ball. It seemed that no matter what time they were in, they would never be together. As she thought about all the good times they had together, she heard a woman's voice in her head. It was the same voice she heard when she and Jesse were coming to LA. As she listened to it, her body started to swell with power.
Falling into a roll, Batman stood to his feet and let out a low wince. This was by far the most powerful demon he had ever faced. And he had the most distinctive feeling that the demon was just toying with him and not even using his full power. As he thought about that, he heard a cracking sound. Dodging to his left, he saw a black cord shoot by his head that slapped the Creeper in the face, stunning it.
Seeing that it was distracted, Batman turned and saw...
"Catwoman?"
"In the flesh." she said with a toothy smile as she threw her cape to the ground. She had one specially made so she could emulate flight, like the bat. "And guess who I brought along with me." she said as Jesse stepped away from behind her. "Now are you ready for this threesome?" she asked as she sashayed over to him.
Letting out a shudder at the thought of having a threesome with his sister, Batman and Catwoman ran to engage the Creeper in a fight.
"Willow are you okay?" Jesse asked as he ran over to her. But there was something wrong. She just had her eyes closed and was rocking back and forth mumbling. "Willow..." and as soon as he called her name the second time, her eyes snapped open and they were pitch black like tar. Before he could ask what was going on, power flowed between the two and the Shadow Sabre started to glow.
Ripping half of the chest armor off of Batman's costume with razor sharp claws, the Creeper threw Batman bonelessly to the ground. Turning he saw Catwoman trying to sneak up behind him. Seizing her by the neck, he tossed her high into the air.
With a scream, as she started to fall back down to earth, she opened her eyes as she felt a pair of strong hands grab her.
"Jesse?" she asked as she looked down and saw that they were still hovering almost thirty feet in the air. As they started to float down in an almost heavenly grace, she saw that it was Willow surrounding the two with magic that helped them to fly. "Um thanks." Catwoman said as her claws descended out of her gloves.
"No miss." Jesse said as he took out his Shadow Sabre and blocked her path with it. "He's mine."
"But..." not being able to even finish what she was about to say, Jesse was already making a suicide run towards the demon.
Sensing a familiar power, the Creeper looked up and was just able to duck under a sword swing.
"So we meet again at last." Jesse said as the two started to circle each other. And for a moment the Creeper's eyes filled with recognition of who he was facing. "So you remember me? Good, because this time you die."
Ducking under a shovel sized claw strike, Jesse did a spin and slashed the creature in the chest with his sword. Jumping into a spin kick, that the thing smoothly slid under, he brought his sword backwards and ran the demon in the stomach with it.
"I'll see you on the other side demon!" Jesse said sadistically as he dragged his sword out. Letting out a final whail, the demon fell to his knees, slowly losing it's life force. "Shadow Sabre, full power!" Jesse yelled out as his sword started cackle and glow with a brilliant white light. Swinging the sword out in a spin, he took the demons head off of it's shoulders, making it explode into dust before it's body hit the ground.
With a spell on her lips, Willow walked over and the dust started to hover in the sky in a benevolent black energy. Finishing off her spell, the dust dissappeared into the nothingness of the night.
"Rosa." Jesse said with a smile as he caressed Willow's hair, with a gentle hand.
"Donovan." she said back as she touched his face.
"May our souls meet again in the afterlife." Jesse said as he gave her a lingering kiss. As she returned the kiss, they slumped onto each other and fell unconcious onto the ground. Giving each other a shrug of confusion, Batman and Catwoman grabbed their friends and took off into the shadows.
The Next Day
Morning
"You're welcome to come back to Sunnydale with us." Xander was saying to Trish as he and Buffy got in his convertible. Catwoman was taking, Willow, Jesse, and Kendra back to Sunnydale in the Tumbler, while Giles left with Wesley in his car.
"Thanks for the offer." Trish said with a weak smile as she grabbed onto Gunn's good hand. "But I think, I've found a new home."
"Well good luck." Buffy said as she shook Trish's hand and then Gunn's bad one. "Sorry." she said at his wince.
"It's okay." he said taking his hand back.
"Here's my number. If you guys ever need help out here then just give us a call." Xander said as he handed Trish his card.
"Okay." she said with a smile.
"But just remember that invitation works both ways. If you guys need us then we'll come a runnin'."
"But we don't have your number." Xander asked confused.
"Don't worry, I gave it to your sis." Gunn said as he and Trish walked off.
"Wait a minute." Xander said after a moment of thinking. "Which one?"
"Stop acting all mad." Buffy said as she put a hand on his shoulder. "And let's go home."
"Xander?" Buffy said after a few minutes of driving down the highway.
"Yeah, Buff?" Xander asked as he looked over at her.
"I...I just wanted to talk about a few things."
"Is it about, Willow and her magic?" Xander asked concerned. "Buff you don't have to worry about that, Giles and Wes are all over it."
"No, it's not that, it's about us. I was thinking about what Willow told me earlier. You know about her and Jesse's ancestors having to wait so long to be together."
"Buffy what are you saying?" Xander asked giving her his undivided attention.
"I'm saying that, I don't want to have to wait until another lifetime to find my soul mate." she said meeting his gaze. "Because, I think I already found him." pulling him into a kiss, it was a struggle not to wreck the car. And for the first time in a long time, Xander genuinely smiled. Little did he know but his life was about to go to shit, real soon.
Sunnydale Night
A classic 1958 Dodge Desoto FireFlite crashed through the 'Welcome to Sunnydale' sign and screeched to a halt.
"Why the 'ell did we stop at this dump?" Spike asked as he opened the door and looked outside.
"Because we're 'ere to find our son." Drusilla replied with a large smile. "The stars sing to me and tell me that he's 'ere."
"Our son, huh?" Spike asked with a roll of his eyes. She's been off her bird for weeks. "Let's just find someplace to stay."
A/N Next up Xander will meet up with Spike and Drusilla. Then the beginning of the end of this fanfic will start. Also I deleted a few scenes in this chapter. Buffy and Alonna Gunn were supposed to meet and it was supposed to be revealed that the two knew each other from junior high, before Alonna had to drop out of school and before Buffy left for Sunnydale. It was also going to be revealed that Buffy and Jesse were distant cousins, but I think there are enough family elements in the story, so I decided against it.
Also Gunn and the other characters from LA want appear again in the story, because it's going to end real soon, so I want to concentrate on certain characters.
TBC...
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