Buffy and Willow walked over school grounds. They needed to get to class, and Willow was deep in thought. "Have you noticed something odd about Xander and Lexa?" she asked her blonde friend.
Buffy looked at her, and asked, "Apart from them being evil?" Willow looked at the blonde who shrugged pitifully, saying, "You weren't the one hanging from the ceiling."
"That's not what I meant," Willow said, gathering her thoughts. "Have you ever seen both of them together?"
"Plenty of times," Buffy hissed in anger remembering her chase match where the two of them were playing her like a piano.
Willow shook her head, making an educated guess, and added, "No, in the exact same room, at the exact same time. Have you ever seen Xander /and/ Lexa? Talking to each other for example."
Buffy frowned as she thought back. "No, I don't think I have. Why? You think they are one and the same or something?"
Willow shrugged, and said, "Well, Xander leaves, Lexa arrives. Xander stays home, Lexa comes with us to the bronze. We go over to their apartment and Lexa is out, and you chasing them yesterday, I not once saw either of them together. Xander goes to China, gets especially trained by some super martial artists, and Lexa never having been there has the same strength and speed and skill as Xander. I'm just saying . . ."
"But Willow, she's a girl, he's a guy, there's no way he can be in disguise," Buffy said in disbelief. "This isn't like Clark Kent putting on some glasses. I can tell a guy in a dress from an actual girl, you know."
"Yesterday they were wearing the same clothes," Willow pointed out, making Buffy think back. "And I wasn't thinking disguise, more like some kind of magical illusion. Glamour, didn't Giles call it that?"
Buffy nodded, and then added, "But Lexa is a bit shorter than Xander. I don't think a glamour can do that, I thought Jenny muttered something about skintight overlay? Besides, you were dancing with her, head against her if I remember correct; were her breasts non-existent? Just light? Or round fruits?"
Willow blushed, remembering resting her head against the very prominent fleshy cushions, and they were certainly no lemons or something like that. "Yeah, I guess you're right," Willow muttered looking down thinking, and then added, "Perhaps I should ask Giles or Jenny if it could be done."
"You know, Willow, you're paranoid, and /I've/ got more to fear from them. You don't think they'll try to hang me upside down again, do you?" Buffy asked embarrassed when she remembered her time being strung up.
"Nah, payback delivered, apologies and hugs exchanged, no worries," Willow told her friend.
Willow was done with her computer class, but instead of leaving she went over to the desk and waited for the last student to leave the classroom before talking to Jenny. "Uh, miss Calendar . . ." Willow started nervously.
Jenny looked up and said, "Willow, you can call me 'Jenny'."
"Uh, Jenny," Willow said nervously, "You're this Techno Pagan, right? You know some stuff about magic?"
"Uh, yes, why do you ask?" Jenny asked.
Willow fidgeted and brought up her courage, then asked, "I wanted to know, is there a magic that would allow a boy to look and feel - to someone else - like a girl, and then switch back a moment later, and then switch again?"
Jenny regarded Willow for a few moments, contemplating, then asked, "Why? Do /you/ want to do that? Do you want to learn magic?"
"No-no-no-no," Willow quickly answered, shaking her hands in innocence. "I just suspect a guy I know from doing that; I just wanted to know if it was possible . . . And would you? Teach me that is?" Willow added the later in a little excited afterthought.
Jenny regarded Willow, and asked, "Feel?"
"Breasts," Willow answered.
Jenny blinked at that and then thought, "Well, making an illusion so powerful you can feel it . . . I haven't heard of such a thing, but I /do/ know that if it were possible it would mean serious, serious magic. The kind requiring so much power and skill that takes years, if not decades to master. So just a 'guy' going to school here wouldn't be able to do something like that."
"Oh," Willow said a bit perturbed, guessing she was wrong about Xander and Lexa after all.
"As for teaching you magic, I don't know, you've hacked your way into computers," Jenny thought deeply.
Willow looked at Jenny with an embarrassed look, and said, "But you know, now that I think about it, it would be good to be able to set a gang member on PCP on fire from across a graveyard."
Jenny nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Usually it takes quite a while before one has that kind of power and skill that the gang member is hit not the friends fighting him." Jenny sighed, and then added, "Willow, using magic is not a toy. You are really overboard on your hacking for recreational purposes not for the greater good. That would have to stop first, and I would have to teach you a great deal about the effects of magic, side effects of magic, what you can and can't do with it. This requires a huge amount of teaching on what people shouldn't be doing with it. I will have to teach you philosophies behind magic, the threefold rule. This isn't going to be easy. Giles would have to agree on it. And before I even consider teaching you actual magic you'll have to prove to me you've learned how dangerous magic can be, and that you can't just play with it."
Willow nodded, and then said, "I'll learn, I promise I won't treat it as some 'cool' fashion statement or something."
Jenny nodded and then said, "Go on, I think your friends are waiting, I have to think about this." Willow nodded, eager for more knowledge and then left the room.
Later that afternoon after school Xander, Willow and Buffy were in the library. Buffy was going to train hard, with her determination to defeat Xander. Xander was going to train with Willow, but first Xander decided it was time to show them their surprise. He had already prepared two plastic water bottles, one filled with hot water the other with cold. Giles was behind the counter sipping a tea readying himself for the training.
"Guys, before we go train very hard, the surprise has arrived," Xander said with a huge grin.
"Really? Really? Really?" Willow jumped up in excitement, looking left and right, and then slumped. "Where?"
"Here," Xander said indicating the plastic bottles he put on the table.
Buffy and Willow looked at the water bottles and the water inside, and looked up at him. "Water? Will this water keep our skins young, fresh and tight or something?" Buffy remarked in confusion.
"Surprise? Miracle water? What?" Cordelia's voice sounded and she barged into the library. They all looked at her. "I heard you! Where's the miracle skin care?" Everyone narrowed their eyes at her but Giles. "Show me, damn it!"
"There's no miracle skin care, Cordelia," Xander said in irritation.
"I heard you!" Cordelia repeated coming down the few steps to the lower part of the library.
Xander grimaced. "Nope! Watch," Xander said with a grin, turning back around to face Willow and Buffy. He took the bottles, then walked away from them, behind the table and Giles started paying attention, intrigued. Xander unscrewed the bottle revealing a squeeze trigger. "Cold water," Xander said, and squeezed the bottle spraying some water in his face. "Hi, guys!" Lexa waved with a huge grin, her breasts on display in the tight shirt. Willow and Buffy's eyes widened. Cordelia's jaw dropped. Giles sputtered, dropped his cup of tea, and then it shattered on the ground. "Warm water!" Lexa said, and splashed that in her face. She grew a bit, and became male. "Yo, I'm back!" Xander said with a huge grin at the shocked girls. "Cold water," Xander said again, showing Lexa. "Warm water," and Xander was back once again.
Everyone looked at him silently, until Willow regained her wits first. "I /knew/ it!" she yelled in triumph. "Didn't I tell you! Didn't I tell you, Buffy!?" Buffy nodded with her jaw still dropped.
Cordelia boiled on the inside. Not only had 'loser' Xander gotten a sudden hotness upgrade, that annoyed her to no end, for since when did a prom queen consider a geek 'hot', but the little bastard was also the girl that had been making her life miserable for the past few days. Everywhere she went it was 'Lexa this,' and 'Lexa that.'
Buffy exploded first. "YOU BASTARD!" she screamed jumping forward intending to clog Xander one, but he bent back and she missed.
"Hey! What the hell was that for?" Xander said in shock, avoiding another blow.
"Uhm, watch the books!" Giles said as she watched Buffy trying to hit Xander who had now jumped up on top of the railing very close to the precious books.
"You bastard! You spied on us! I can't come, but Lexa can, 'all girls night out'! AAH!!" Buffy screamed out in rage and frustration, still not able to land a hit on Xander who kept deftly avoiding her hits. By now they had made a full circle with the others watching. "You had us tell you which guys we thought was hot, you, you . . ." Buffy paused for a moment as she felt suddenly very embarrassed about basically telling Xander she thought he was pretty hot. That boosted her rage onward and she swung fists again, that Xander either avoided or pushed them aside. Xander blocked a punch, making him squeeze the bottle a bit, and cold water splashed in Buffy's face. Her eyes flashed in rage fighting onward.
"Buffy, please! It wasn't like that! I just wanted to know what an actual all girls night out is like. It wasn't for spying, I'm one half girl, I just wanted to enjoy girls amongst each other without whole 'he's a guy' awkwardness," Xander tried to desperately explain to the super powered girl that had completely lost it. "Willow, help?"
"Willow, don't listen to him! He weaseled out of you you've got a crush on him, making you look like a fool! He needs to pay, help me out, together we can get him!" Buffy screamed, making Willow look shocked.
Giles' eyes widened, just as the library doors opened admitting Jenny Calendar who looked surprised at the scene and from Willow to Xander. Cordelia also looked at Willow. The redhead shrank in on herself, with all the eyes on her, and the look in Cordelia's eyes that couldn't bode well.
"Oh, real smart, Buf. Who's the one making her look like a fool, huh? Maybe you should have gotten a megaphone to be certain /Europe/ heard you," Xander remarked sarcastically to a momentarily paused Slayer who slowly realized her goof, which of course only got her more angry and started up again.
As the Slayer and the cursed boy continued their dance of violence, Willow looked down at the ground blushing, feeling ashamed of herself, she could already hear Cordelia's biting remark, 'Such a loser, can't even make a fellow geek interested in her', or some such. It was all Xander's fault, and Buffy's just now, but if Xander hadn't played them as Lexa . . . Lexa . . . Willow blinked, remembering pressing against the sexy body of Xander's girl form, remembering how he got her to dance, have guys dance around her. Buffy's compliment after that, and how that and Xander's further encouraging got her to actually stand up for herself and give Buffy a little bit of well deserved payback for being such a bitch the day earlier. "BUFFY, STOP IT!" she suddenly screamed, fed up.
Buffy paused, "But . . ."
"Xander Harris, you better explain yourself this very instant, or I'll swear to god, you'll get a payback that won't end till the fourth millennium," Willow snarled, slowing the whole library down.
Xander carefully got off of the railing he had found himself on, warily eyeing Buffy. "Ok, how to explain this," Xander muttered, wondering why nobody had asked yet how he got this.
"Star at the beginning, most notably how you got this . . . condition?" Giles suggested highly intrigued.
"What condition?" Jenny asked confused.
"This," Cordelia muttered grabbing the bottle in Xander's hands since he was close by and sprayed him with cold water.
"Hi!" Lexa greeted Jenny Calender in a very girly matter.
"Is that an illusion?" Jenny asked remembering the conversation with Willow.
Xander shook his head while grinning sheepishly, and said, "I'm a girl, one hundred percent." Jenny looked astounded.
"Warm water changes him back," Buffy muttered gruffly folding her arms across her chest and eyeing Xander with cold anger.
"Like so," Lexa said, spraying himself with hot water. A few moments later she was Xander again.
Everyone looked expectantly at Xander, and he started talking, "Ok, beginning. You guys know how I got sold to the Chinese mob to be a sex slave, right? Right. Anyway I escaped, and fled as best as I could. Eventually I came across . . .
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Xander ran across the grass, breathing heavily. Gunshots went off, and dirt and grass were sent upward whenever a bullet struck the ground nearby him. The satin male sex slave outfit he wore was built to show off his body, but not build to run in, making this even more difficult. He stumbled halfway the small incline, but managed to keep going. Fear and his heartbeat rang in his ears along with the grunts of the mob men chasing him. His eyes widened, for there he saw the greatest sight he could ever have hoped for, providing of course they didn't belong to the mob either. One boy his age, and an older man, both were wearing a white gi and were high in the air. They met and exchanged blows, and the man went down. Xander reached the top of the incline, after which it went almost straight down. Right at the end of the decline a pond was visible. There were more ponds, small pieces of ground in between. Sticks, seemingly of bamboo or a similar large sturdy grass were spread around the field with ponds and springs. There was a third pudgy man in some kind of uniform speaking Chinese.
The relief that there were people that might be able to help him, did by no means limit the fear that these people might simply get shot. It did however make him miss a rather, good-sized rock, and he hooked his right foot behind it. Xander's eyes widened and he keeled over, rolling down the decline, making him miss the panda jumping from the pool the older man had just fallen into. The panda landed on one of the grass sticks with one foot, as the boy was standing on one equally. "What's going on!?" the boy yelled in Japanese when he saw the panda. The guide explained, much to the boy's shock.
The panda grunted and jumped. The boy jumped too, but still too startled he was unable to properly block or parry the panda's strikes and so he was sent flying to another pool, at the far edge in the corder of the field of springs. The boy smashed into it as the guide yelled warnings in Japanese, and only then noticing the other figure rolling down the decline just by the same pool. "Oh, no! Not you too! Hold!" the guide yelled in further Japanese, but Xander was too tired, rolling too fast, and unable to understand Japanese to do anything about it. A moment after the first boy splashed into the spring, Xander splashed into the same.
The guide came over and tried to explain as a redheaded girl in a gi rose from the water, but before he could speak a girl Xander appeared from the water and screamed desperately, pointing up to the decline he came rolling down from, "Mob! Me sex slave! HELP!!"
The panda let out a grumble and looked over, the redhead too. The guide looked shock for a moment and then looked up too as the first three of ten men appeared at the top, guns in hand. They spoke in Chinese, "Where did he go!?"
Xander couldn't understand him, nor could he understand the Panda's grunts or the boy's Japanese exclaim, "You bastards dare defile such a beautiful girl! You will pay!" The panda's grunts had actually a similar meaning. The panda and boy jumped, up and up easily landing on the rather tall incline with one bound, startling the mob thugs.
"Whoa, just like Buffy," Xander muttered in surprise. The panda bashed aside one mob guy, and twisted the barrel of the other's gun, after which he bashed that one as well. More mob guys showed up as the boy now girl bashed aside one of his own opponents, and kicked another meters away groaning in pain. The boy then twisted a gun arm of another mob guy and snapped it over his shoulder, making the thug scream in pain. The fight was over not much later, having ten mob guys lying unconscious in multiple places, one of them floating around in a pond as a turtle.
Ranma - the redhead girl, once boy - came down the incline, the panda following him. "Hello, gull, you allight?" she asked looking at Xander.
"What!?" Xander exclaimed in anger pulling himself out of the water. "You dare call me a girly man!? I have you know was outnumbered ten to one and they had guns, and that's not counting the rest of them!"
"Gulls! Save the lives, and they shout at you! Unglateful," Ranma complained, the panda nodded and made a agreeing sound.
"TAKE BACK ME BEING WIMP, OR ELSE, BITCH!!" Xander screamed in extreme anger.
"You question my manhood!?" Ranma raged right back, the two girls about ready to fight each other.
"No, no! Not understand!" the guide interrupted the two waving his hands frantically, then pointed at the pond they had fallen into. "Is Cursed Spring of Drowned Girl! Tragic tale of girl that drowned their fifteen-hundred years ago! Now all who fall in become a girl!"
Xander and Ranma took in the guide's frantic words, frowned, looked back at each other, and then looked down. Both had bulges where their shouldn't be any. Both their eyes widened and grabbed the sides of their tops, and pulled them open, seeing breasts. "AAAAAAHHH!!" both of them screamed out in shock.
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"'With their "bear" hands,'" Willow recited a sentence from Xander's first letter. "That was a pun, not a spelling mistake." Xander grinned, nodding at Willow.
"The Cursed Springs of Jusenkyo," Giles said in revelation. "I knew 'Jusenkyo' sounded familiar. They are quite famous amongst the paranormal circles, I never looked into them though."
"So then what?" Buffy said suspiciously.
"Well, then we called the cops, but the place was primitive, Jusenkyo was in the middle of nowhere, no hardened roads. So they couldn't send a vehicle, and Genma - Ranma's father - offered take me back to Hong Kong. Somewhere along the line they decided they should train me, and they found I was really good at it," Xander explained, remembering. "Anyway, at first I was completely down at the whole 'cursed being a girl bit', especially with Ranma's complete Japanese martial artist honor and losing manhood spiel that brought my down along with him. Until that day we were with the Chinese Amazons; they were hot, damn hot. Anyway, you can understand I got . . . uh . . . worked up. Somewhere during our flight I turned into my girl self, and that night we slept somewhere, still . . . worked up. At first I was annoyed; I was, well, horny and no warm water around, until it occurred to me, that I didn't /need/ any warm water. After all, I still had a body that was obviously fully functional, not to mention a /female/ body, so I went exploring."
"Ex . . . ploring?" Willow muttered, and all the girls and one grown up woman nodded. Giles was furiously cleaning his glasses.
"The other word starts with an 'm'," Xander said with a huge grin.
They all looked shocked, and then Buffy exploded, "You can't do that! You pervert! You're a guy, you-you-you shouldn't be touching a girl's body like that!"
"I do believe, Buffy, that eventually doing the duty to the continuation of the human species, he is meant to do exactly that," Giles said with a serious face, still cleaning his glasses.
"You all know what I mean," Buffy spat out rapidly.
Xander smiled and said, "Well, it's my body, I get to do whatever the hell I want with it. Anyway, it was around then that I realized this wasn't a curse at all. I had been looking at this all wrong. How many guys and girls haven't wished to be able to know what's like to be the other gender for a short while. And look! Here I am! Cold water girl, warm water guy! This wasn't a curse; it's a blessing! I'm in the mood for a good, quick jerk-off I'm a guy, I'm in the mood for multiple orgasms I get some cold water and I go," Xander said with a huge smile.
With an audible snap Giles broke his glasses, which he was cleaning, and said, "Oh, dear." The other occupants of the room looked at Xander with wide eyes.
"I didn't say that last part out loud, did I?" Xander whimpered, scratching his head furiously. Willow took in Xander, remembered Lexa, remembered her head against his breasts, and latched onto those two words. She had a crush on Xander for a long time, and now she felt herself growing hot all over with very lewd images. She looked hungrily at Xander.
Across the library Jenny swallowed and turned away, looking into Giles eyes. Cordelia just in front of her looked at Xander in a completely new light. After all, how could a loser possibly be able to induce multiple orgasms in a girl? Subconsciously she licked her lips.
Buffy's jaw was dropped and then she practically broke down, wailing, "No way! That's so unfair! He's a guy! I'm a girl! Why can /he/ give himself multiple orgasms!? /I/ can't give myself multiple orgasms! The universe hates me!"
Everyone looked at her, Xander swallowed. Cordelia walked over to the distraught Slayer and slapped her across her left cheek, startling Buffy. She pulled her hand back, and slapped her with the back of the hand across her other cheek, then pulled back again. She slapped Buffy for a total of five times and then said tersely, "There's a /hotguy/ in this room that just told you he can induce /multipleorgasms/ in a /girl/ with /just/ his fingers, and /that's/ what you're thinking of!? The /unfairness/ of it!?" Buffy looked up at Cordelia in surprise, letting her words sink in deeper and deeper. Suddenly her eyes brightened and she bent to her left looking past Cordelia at Xander.
"Oh," she said, her eyes suddenly started to sparkle. "Ohhhhhhhhh."
"That's right!" Cordelia said in satisfaction, her assessment of Buffy had gone down sharply. "Ow!" Cordelia suddenly exclaimed and grabbed her right upper arm. Looking over she saw Willow still with the fist.
"Did you /have/ to point that out to her, you idiot!" Willow exclaimed angrily at Cordelia. Cordelia glared back, then suddenly her eyes widened and looked back at a still sparkly-eyed Buffy.
"Shit," she said, berating her own stupidity.
Xander took a few nervous steps back, then mustered his courage, and spoke, "Once I got back from China, I promised myself, I would be experimenting in other areas equally: what's it like to be a girl in a bar and guys try to pick you up, what's it like to be ogled by guys . . . what's it like to have girlfriends, as in girl buddies, which is where not telling right away came in." Xander paused and walked over to Buffy and Willow. "I didn't mean to hurt you guys, or spy on you, or get to know things I shouldn't be knowing, I had none of those intentions, I just wanted to know what it was like. You know that if I really wanted to deceive you I wouldn't have bothered showing you guys now. Can you forgive me?"
Willow looked at Xander, going over his words. What /was/ it like to be a guy? If she could turn into a guy at will, would she try and find out what it's like to be one in a similar manner? She knew that with her curious mind, she would. She slumped and said, "You're forgiven."
Xander then turned his best puppy dog eyes on Buffy, who folded her arms across her chest, but unable to remove the sparkling in her eyes as she took Xander in. Willow then place her arm around Xander's waist, laid her head on Xander's upper arm and added her own puppy dog eyes to the power landing on their friend. Buffy looked at them, grumbled, and realized that if she didn't forgive the big doofus she might lose the two best friends, actual friends she'd ever had. She nodded, but remained angry, eyes still sparkling. "Thanks, Buff," Xander said with a smile, swallowing nervously.
"Well, uh," Giles muttered trying to diffuse the situation as two friends gazes settled on Cordelia. "I have enough faith in you that you can start and perform your training without me, I need to get my glasses fixed. Right." Giles nodded and went to the exit, pulling Jenny along, and whispering, "Let's get out of that powder keg." Jenny looked back for a moment and then seeing the three girls half surrounding Xander she realized, Giles was right.
Xander swallowed, not quite knowing what to do with his two friends carefully appraising him and the Queen of Sunnydale High doing the same. "Uh, heh, okay, right, training. Willow, get in your workout clothes, so we can start your training," Xander said, scratching the back of his head.
"Of course, Xander," Willow said in a husky voice, or was Xander imagining that? "Come on, Buffy, let's change clothes in Giles' office." The two girls started going for the office.
Cordelia walked toward Xander, and stated, "You, Xander Harris, . . ." Her finger started at his chin and slowly slid down his neck down as she continued, ". . . will be mine." Xander's eyes widened and he swallowed as Cordelia's seductive finger stopped right above his heart. She gave him a sexy smile, then turn around and sashayed out the library. Xander's gaze followed her out the door, his jaw slack all the way.
Inside Giles' office Willow and Buffy started undressing, and Willow said sugary sweet, "Buffy, if you are my friend, you will keep your paws off of Xander." There, she'd mustered up the guts to say it. First time she had actually asked something substantial from a friend. But Xander had just become a prize she couldn't afford to miss out on, especially seeing some of the lewd images that had formed in her mind that she still had to analyze thoroughly, mixed with recent confidence boosting happenings she had no other choice but to do that. Buffy looked at her friend, and then let her shoulders slump, nodding.
Back in the main library, Xander muttered, "Oh, man, what did I get myself into now?"
A bar, somewhere outside of Sunnydale
The next day
The door to the dingy place, bikes parked all around it crashed open. In came a woman in her mid thirties. She wore very exotic clothing. Her big breasts were obvious, her muscular arms were obscured though. She had big green eyes, and her chestnut brown hair hung curly around her head. The counter inside was made of wood, and the whole bar was filled with demons and vampires and the like. The windows of the place was covered up. Most of the demons were in biker clothing. A lot of them had red eyes and there must have been at least fifty, that was biker demons alone, not counting the others and the vampires.
The woman calmly made a slight bow, straightened back up and said with a slight accent but otherwise impeccable English, "Nihau. My daughter and I are looking for a place called Sunnydale. We have business there. Unfortunately we have never been to this continent, and must have made a wrong turn somewhere. Does someone here know the way by any chance?"
The demons chuckled and laughed. One said, "Is your daughter as hot as you are? If so, you should bring her in."
"Yeah," another demon said getting up, and running a hand across the woman's ass and up her back, and as he circled her across her breasts, "that way we can have some fun before you go on your way."
"Then you know the way?" she asked calmly.
A vampire chuckled and said, "Sweety, no demon around here doesn't know the way to the Hellmouth. But you know, we require payment first, right guys?" The demons and vampires howled in approval.
"I see, I shall pay you with steel and wood then," the woman stated and the demons stopped their leching and laughing and looked dumbfounded. The woman rapidly smashed a finger in the bar and then in the wooden floor. A moment later both exploded, and demons screamed in pain as splinters and pieces of wood entered their bodies. Most vampires exploded almost immediately in the rain of wood. Another moment later she unsheathed two wicked looking swords, decapitating two demons in the same movement. She whirled around, five more demons dropped to the sandy ground beneath the destroyed floor screaming in pain. The woman casually balanced on the beams, and ran over to the non-destroyed parts, slicing demons left and right. Some attacked but were easily dispatched by the woman's superior reach with the razor-sharp swords. Not long after their leader fell and then the demons started panicking, removing any chance of them escaping alive, killing demons went with even greater ease. The woman made a kick and a demon managed to dodge it. The kick crashed into the stone wall and a moment later the wall had a rather large hole. She twisted around decapitating the demon that got lucky the first time around.
Finally one lone demon remained, sitting against a wall trying to go further backward. The woman put her sword at his throat and said, "Sunnydale." The demon quickly gave the directions. The beautiful woman smiled brightly, and said, "Thank you, if only you had not indicated you wanted to rape me and worse, my daughter." A single slice later, left the demon holding his opened throat and gurgling to his death. The woman tossed the swords up, pulled out two smooth cloths. The swords came falling down, she cleaned the blades without grabbing them, and then the blades smoothly slid inside the sheaths on her back. She put the cloths away, and walked out, leaving a terrified human bartender with soiled pants.
Outside she stepped into the rented vehicle, and told her sixteen-year-old daughter, "We're almost there."
The following day.
Xander spotted Buffy and Willow coming to join him. Willow looked good, she wasn't particularly dressed any better, but she was definitely wearing some make up, red lips, and her hair was a bit more fluffed up than her usual straight down hair. "Hi, Lexa," Buffy greeted and joined girl-Xander on her right side.
"Hi, Lexa," Willow greeted and joined Xander on his left side. Xander, or Lexa, herself was wearing jeans and a sweater that hugged her well endowed chest. If she turned into Xander she'd look just as good - ever since his close call with Buffy the other day he had decided to play thinks safer when she didn't absolutely have to look like a wet dream. She still looked fantastic though; the jeans were tight, and her makeup was impeccable.
Yesterday night a lot of the courage that yesterday's anger and big surprises had introduced, had ebbed away from Willow. She shyly pressed her books against her chest. It had taken all her mustered up courage to keep herself from completely backing down. She knew Xander saw her as a friend, so she decided she would play the friend angle but step by step show him more. She hoped she had the guts and everything else it took to pull it off. Willow turned and took in Xander's female body, and realized she didn't really mind. This was Xander, the guy she'd had a secret crush on for nearly two years. He was still the amazing, caring, loyal, heroic individual she always had been. She smiled, her heart beating in her chest. To think that thanks to him she'd basically told him what she felt for him, and she now had the guts to do something about it. Her heart sank again, that last still remained to be seen. "Uhm, Giles asked if you could come to the library. He wanted to do some comparisons on you and Xander - you know, uh, well . . ." Willow made heavy hand gestures, not really knowing how to explain it without everyone in the vicinity who might be able to overhear thinking they had finally really lost it.
"Okay, let's go," Lexa said with a smile, while thinking. -You're such a chicken, Xander Harris for not coming to school as you.- None of them noticed Cordelia observing them from afar, and being annoyed.
Lexa walked in between Buffy and Willow, looking back and forth between her friends, wondering. "Lexa!" Cordelia's voice sounded and the three of them turned around seeing a big splash of water coming toward them. Willow and Buffy managed to dodge to the side and not get wet, but Lexa being the target and in between the two girls couldn't dodge. "YOUCH!" he screamed when the hot - too hot - water splashed onto her. "What's the big idea, Cordelia! Are you trying to put me in a hospital with third degree burns!?"
Cordelia walked over swaying her hips, while saying, "Sorry, didn't know how hot was hot enough, I'll do less next time." Cordelia stopped right in front of him, so he had to look down and his jaw dropped. Buffy and Willow looked shocked as well. Cordelia was attired much like Lexa was the first day she arrived, only more. Ultra short, tight black skirt, and a lovely white top, leaving her shoulders bare and an equally low cleavage. But where Lexa's wrap around was closed, Cordelia's smooth top was tied closed with a string down the middle of her body, allowing even greater height control - or rather depth control. Cordelia had tied the string only three quarters of the way, and very loosely, displaying an even deeper glimpses, even parts of the roundings of her breasts. Xander's eyes were glued there, he was a hormonal teenager, he had no choice.
"Xander," Cordelia started huskily, hands loosely in her sides. "Would you go out on a date with me?" Buffy's jaw dropped, and then her shoulders slumped in defeat: Xander was off limits, she should go looking up Angel she thought. Willow's eyes narrowed, her teeth grinding together as her anger grew rapidly. What did that bitch think she was doing?
"Uh, uh, uh," Xander tried, and then shook his head. "No," he stated resolutely.
"Are you certain, Xander?" Cordelia asked, untying the string opening up just a bit more. She innocently batted her eyelashes at him.
Xander looked, felt a stirring, and then shook his head hard to clear it. "No!" he stated again, slowly getting angry. "If you want to get with me, first you should get a bigger notion of me than thinking flashing some flesh is going to get me to go out with you. Second you need a serious personality transplant; get kinder, now leave me alone."
Cordelia pouted, and Buffy blinked at Xander's answer and Willow pumped her fist going 'yess' silently. Xander turned around and quickly entered the library the library. To his annoyance he noted that Cordelia came along with Buffy and Willow. He sighed, hoping the girl would get a clue and leave him alone. He had his heart set on a certain blonde.
The three girls walked around Xander to the far end of the library, and Xander stopped in the middle. "Ah," Giles said coming from his office. Jenny cam from behind a stack of books, carrying one. She walked over, and as she placed the book Giles had apparently asked her to get in front of her boyfriend, Giles spoke, "Xander, good. I brought two bottles of water, one warm and one cold as you can see." He pointed at to plastic bottles. "I'd like to make some measurements, height ratio, width ratio, agility differences and such. I hope you agree to letting me put you through a few of these tests, it would be fascinating to see how the genders differ from each other taking the exact same genetic structure. Very interesting indeed. Do you agree?"
Xander thought it over and shrugged. "Splendid," Giles said with a grin. "Now let's . . ."
"NIHAU!" a lovely voice called out as the library doors opened. Everyone turned to look at the teenage, deep brunette entering the library and then jumping from the top of the few steps high through the air, directly at Xander. Who stood completely still in shock and surprise.
"What?" Xander managed to mutter when everyone else just stood watching the buxom, exotically dressed girl fly through the air slack jawed. Her attire was a loose pants, some kind of sandals, and an smooth shirt wrapped tight around her breasts, all adorned with flowers and other motifs. Her long hair was loose apart from two tails that hung from the top of her head from two knots that were incased in lovely white cloths, and tied at their ends with green ribbons. The green-eyed girl slammed against Xander, arms wrapped around his neck, her body - and especially her prominent breasts - pressing tightly against his, and she rubbed her head against his chest, just under his right shoulder.
"Xander Harris, my lover, my fiance, my strong man, finally I found you!" the girl said rubbing up and down against him, making him feel her breasts very much so. Xander didn't move though, his eyes were still wide, his jaw open and partially pulled half in surprise, half in fright. His hands were stiff and outward, as if he was ready to start running but were frozen in position, while he made several pitiful noises from the back of his throat.
"Did she just say 'fiance'?" Willow muttered with a small voice.
Giles was cleaning his fixed glasses, and Jenny stood next to him with wide eyes. "Uhm, excuse me," Jenny asked slowly and carefully, "exactly who are you?"
The girl didn't stop rubbing herself against Xander seemingly with eternal love, and answered, "I'm Lu Xion, from hidden Chinese Amazon tribe."
While the three girls were still trying to figure out this new rival, Xander woke up. "Wha-wha-what!? Why in blazes are you here?"
"Look for my fiance of course," Lotion answered sweetly, and tiptoed looking over his shoulder at the three girls. She saw two shocked girls, and Cordelia pissed off, arms over her chest. Going from left to right, starting with Willow, Lotion appraised her rivals, "Flat chested . . ." Willow's eyes bugged out. " . . . flat chested with a crooked nose . . ." Buffy's eyes widened, and then narrowed down anger growing, her fists clenching. Lotion's gaze lingered a moment on the very sexily attired Cordelia, who smugly moved her body. " . . . penis envy bitch," Lotion finished.
"WHAT!?" Cordelia screamed out, and then clenched her whole body, grinding her teeth together. That bitch was going to get it. If not from her, it was from the other two girls who were growing more steamed by the moment.
Lotion looked up at Xander, and told him, "I can see why you came to China look for fiance."
"Xander," Buffy muttered growing pissed off, her tone said 'you better not have taken advantage of this innocent girl, and if she's not innocent I'm gonna kill her', "explain yourself."
"How the /hell/ am I supposed to know!?" Xander yelled out in shock, still in Lotion's death hug that was starting to get to him.
Lotion looked up at Xander, and said, "You not remember most romantic day of my life!?"
"What the hell are you talking about!?" Xander exclaimed in growing more fearful of the rising tempers in the girls behind him that he could practically smell, as well as angry with this stupid Amazon. "All I did in that village was accidentally eat the prize of a contest, watch my friend win that contest by beating the final winner, and then running for my life!"
"Hmm," Lotion said.
While Giles furiously increased his cleaning, he asked, "Uhm, Miss Lotion, perhaps you could explain to us why you think you and Mr. Harris here are engaged to be married?"
"Lotion comply," she said, and started explaining.
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Girl-Ranma's leg finished her one single movement, hitting Xian Pu, a fantastic blue-haired girl and sent her flying off the wooden beam upon which the contest was held. The guide looked stricken, while Xander and Panda Genma finished eating the prize supreme diner. They nodded in expectant satisfaction.
As Ranma was declared winner Shampoo got up and walked over to Ranma. She took his head and placed a gentle kiss on his cheek. "AAH!" the guide exclaimed as Shampoo and several other Amazons started picking up weapons. "She just gave him the 'Kiss of Death'! Amazons proud! Losing from outsider worse than death! Now she will hunt him until she kills him!" Ranma avoided a swipe from Shampoo as Genma went over to grab him and flee.
Xander in the mean time was under barrage of a lovely brunette, her face grimaced with anger. She swung a pitch fork at Xander who ducked. Seeing how more Amazons were starting to get dangerously close, Xander saw himself forced to do something he had promised himself he would never do, but dying was something he wanted to do even less. With one powerful haymaker from his right arm across the girl's chin she went down. She looked up dazedly, Xander was vague, while he told her, "I'm really sorry, please forgive me, don't give me the Kiss of Death and everything. You left me no choice, I would never hit a woman if . . ."
"Com on, Xander!" the guide screamed in terror, grabbing by an arm and pulling him along, the two men, one panda, and one redhead running for their lives.
Lotion closed her eyes, falling into unconsciousness, muttering one last word, "Xander . . ."
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Everyone looked shocked at the girl's story, and even more so when she suddenly pulled Xander down, and planted a loving kiss right on his lips, then made it more passionate by adding her tongue. Xander's eyes widened. Willow's, Buffy's, and Cordelia's eyes narrowed in anger. "What the /hell/ is wrong with you!?" Buffy screamed out. "He hit you and you fall in love with him? Don't you have any pride as a woman? How can you be in love with a guy who punched you in the face!? That's so . . . so . . . icky!?"
"Not to mention degrading!" Cordelia added grimacing.
"Hmm," Lotion said. "Ancient Amazon tradition: man defeat Amazon in combat, Amazon marry man."
"AARGH!!" Cordelia exclaimed. With a clang Giles' glasses shattered again, looking perturbed at his destroyed glasses. Xander made several more pitiful sounds.
Willow shook her head, muttering, "I always though Amazons were these great first generation examples of feminism. What a disappointment."
"THAT'S IT!!" Buffy screamed out loud, finally fed up with the Amazon and the way she was hugging Xander as if she owned him, and then the reason Willow just mentioned. "Get your claws off him, bitch!" she yelled as she pulled Xander away from her by his shoulder. A punch followed and Lotion easily dodged it. She swiped Buffy's feet from underneath her, pulled out two nunchakus and put either around one of Buffy's arms, much to the Slayer's shock. She pulled Buffy to her, and then kicked out right in Buffy's chest. The slayer was launched from her grip, flew onward until she crashed into the stone edge of the higher level. She groaned in pain as the stone around her cracked and she hung there. "My doubled training, I will triple," Buffy muttered in determination and then fell forward and slipped into unconsciousness.
Everyone but Xander and Lotion looked at the unconscious Slayer covered with pieces of stone. Willow and Cordelia swallowed and backed away a bit. "Xander," Lotion said looking deep in Xander's eyes. "I've beaten my rival for you. Marry me."
"Marry you!? Right now!?" Xander exclaimed in shock. "Are you nuts!? No way in hell, you get that!? You are in the United States now, and before we get married we first date, then live together and if we can still stand each other and still love each other, /then/ we get married. No sooner, got that!? WELL!?" Lotion looked about ready to cry. "And one more thing, you want to marry me, you better stop beating up my best friends!!" Lotion broke down, cried and ran out the library. "What?" Xander asked when the others stared at him.
"Wasn't that a little harsh to a girl in love with you, Xander?" Jenny asked him.
"AARGH!" Xander screamed.