Disclaimer: I don't own any of the character's from Jeepers Creepers 2
I also did a little research and found out the events of Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2 happened in 1980. But I just wanted to use this for the summers interlude anyway.
A/N Thanks for the reviews. To Darklight Cordy will join the Scoobies sooner or later. Too Bakaman you were right it is Jeeper's Creepers. To home and charmed, the part about Faith is coming up after this chapter, I hope everybody likes it and this chapter. And kinetic-kid I'm glad you like this story and I'm glad you like the hunter keep reviewing.
Chapter 18
Jeepers Creepers 2
"Dragon Gaunlets!" Tara yelled out as she jumped from the drivers seat, to the hood of the car. Kendra had to grab the wheel and stop the car, to avoid running off of the road. From the hood, Tara jumped the twenty feet distance from the car to on top of the bus and started to fight the winged beast.
Seeing some people in the bus, the rest of the Scooby gang looked at each other and shrugged. Their desicion made they ran for the bus.
"Hey, open up!" Xander yelled as he looked inside of the bus and saw a geeky youth. As he shook with fear, the kid opened the door and Kendra, Amy, Johnathon, and Xander got on.
"Please help us!" a cute raven haired girl said as she ran up to them.
"That's what we're going to do." Johnathon told her. "We got somebody taking care of that thing now."
"No man is going to be able to take care of that thing." a tall blonde haired boy told them.
"Just trust us pal, Tara can take care of herself." Xander informed him. Then the boys eyes widened.
"You mean to tell me a girl is up there fighting that thing? Man she's going to get herself killed."
As if on cue the monster bounced off of the top of the hood of the bus, making everyone scream. It looked as if his clothes were burned and some parts of it's reptillian skin was exposed. The beast looked up and into the bus and wailed. It's horrible sound feeling the night air. Then he looked up to the top of the bus and growled at something. Standing up, it flew off into the night.
"I think she can take care of herself." Xander replied as he looked back at the youth. As he said this there was a knock on the door. As they opened it they saw that it was Tara.
"What the hell is going on here?" she asked as she stepped on the bus.
After about thirty minutes of telling them what they knew, the kids on the bus introduced themselves. In turn the Scoobies told them who they were. Just as the girl, known as Minxie was about to tell the gang about the vision she had before they arrived, Tara's cellphone rang.
"Hello." Tara said as she dug the phone out of her pocket. "Giles, yeah. What did you find out." she said as she stopped to listen. "Yeah I fought that thing too. Is that really what it is?" she asked as she stopped to listen again.
"Okay now how do we stop it?" she asked.
"You can't." Minxie spoke up, making Tara look in her direction.
"Hold on a second, Giles." Tara said as she put down the phone. "What are you talking about?"
"The boy in my vision told me, it can't be killed. It's going to eat us all." she said as she started to cry some.
"Giles I got somebody here that might know what's going on." Tara said as she handed the girl the phone. "This is Giles, just tell him what you know and he may be able to help us."
With that said Minxie started to talk to Giles. At the same time, Xander pulled Tara to the side.
"What did Giles say that thing was?"
"He said that it's some kind of a Creeper. It's a form of Gargoyle."
"You mean like that cartoon?" Johnathon asked, only for Tara to glare at him. "Forget I said anything." he said as he sat back down, as Amy patted him on the shoulder sympatheticly.
"Dude these people are nuts." Scotty whispered to Jake.
"Tell me about it." Scotty whispered back. "I say we take their car and get the hell out of here."
"And go where exactly?" Kendra asked. With her Slayer hearing she had heard their conversation. "De moment you step off of dis bus, dat ting could come to get you."
"Why don't you mind your own damn business bitch!" Scotty snapped as he pointed a flare gun at her. "In fact I want the keys to that car out there."
As Scotty leveled the gun at her head, his hand started to violently shake. Before he knew what was going on the gun was snatched out of his hand by an unseeable force. Looking up about five seats up, he saw that the honey blonde, Amy had it in her hand.
Before he could even complete the thought of how she was able to get the gun, Tara grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt and lifted him off of his feet.
"If you ever try to attack one of my friends again, you want have to worry about the creeper killing you, because I will." Tara told him coldly.
"Tara."
"Yeah." Tara said looking back at Kendra.
"It's comin' back."
Feeling the Creepers presense herself, Tara dropped Scotty and listened out into the night.
WOOOSSHHHHH! An inky black smear flies past the right side of the bus- big enough to blot out the moonlight in each window as it speeds by. It makes everyone scream.
Tracking it's trajectory, Tara moved to the back of the bus. As she looked out of the emergency door's window, she saw the Creeper out on the road looking up at her.
The Creeper is a hideous thing, with it's wings outstretched, and it's coat hanging off it's reptillian form. It bares it's fangs as it stands in the middle of the two lane watching her.
As long as Tara would live, she would always remember the evil smile that the Creeper gave her. As he opened his mouth again he revealed a razor sharp network of teeth. Giving her one final glance, it jumped on top of the bus.
"Open the door." Tara said as she walked to the front of the bus.
"Are you crazy?" Bucky asked as he stood to his feet. "That thing could come in here and kill us all."
"It's not going to kill anyone else, because I'm going to kill it. Now open the door."
"I'm going with you." Kendra said as she walked up behind her.
"No." Tara said as she looked back at her friend. "If anything happens I need someone strong enough to get these people out of here."
"But I'm de Slayer..."
"And I'm your teacher." Tara replied.
"Alright." Kendra agreed. "Just be careful." with that Bucky opened the door and Tara jumped on the top of the bus.
When she got there, the Creeper again was just standing there at the end of the bus watching her with that creepy smirk on it's face. As she slowly started to walk towards it, it began to sniff the air.
"Your feeding time is over." Tara mutters as her extender sword telescopes down into her hand. With a growl from the Creeper, the two charge each other.
"Kendra what are we going to do if that thing get's past Tara?" Amy asked, as she hears the battle going on over head.
"I don't know." Kendra admitted with a sigh. "We can't all fit in de car, so..."
"We can go through the corn field." Scotty said as he walked up to them. "The way I'm figuring, if this part of the field is fenced off, then there has to be a barn or a farm out there somewhere."
"We talked about this before Scotty." Izzy said as he stood to his feet and walked to him.
"There's no way in hell I'm going out there. That thing would pick us off one by one."
"Why not just call the police?" Bucky asked. "We have a cellphone now."
"And tell them what exactly?" Xander asked. "A monster is trying to kill us all. And besides..." he said with a shake of his head. "they'll never be able to kill that thing. Just trust us and we'll handle the situation."
Before anyone could argue that point, the group heard a loud banging noise. As they looked up they saw the Creepers face looking in at them through the hole he had made earlier. The hole that was right above Johnathon.
With a smirk the demon reached down into the bus and grabbed Johnathon by the hair. The kids on the bus started to scream as it, started to lift Johnathon higher up into the hole.
"Look out!" a beautiful brunette yelled out. She charges through the fray with the javelin as Johnathon screams and goes higher towards the hole.
Rhonda thrusts the spear upward, right through the roof of the bus and through the Creeper's shoulder. It comes out the other side as it wails in agony, like a demon from hell.
Rhonda is still holding onto the spear and she yanks it down with all her might savagely pulling the spear out of the Creeper's shoulder. It wails again in agony.
The Creeper's hand pulls Johnathon up harder now. He hits the ceiling. Kendra takes the spear out of Rhonda's hand and leaps forward with the spear again. Thrusting it up even harder.
A tremendous wail sounds out from on top of the bus and Johnathon falls back down hard.
"Johnathon are you okay?" Amy asks as she helps him to his feet and away from the hole.
"Just peachy." he says with a wince as he runs his hands through his hair.
The Creeper is on his knees and staggers back as he tries to stand. As he turns we can see that the javelin has gone out the back of it's head. One of it's eyeballs is skewered at the tip of it. The Creeper then grabs the pole and starts to pull it back down through his head. The eyeball with it.
This becomes excruciating to it. The Creeper thrashes around still gripping the pole, which is starting to rip through the dusty consistency of the upper part of his head.
Inside the teens can only hear it wail. They then see the javelin as it falls past the windshield onto the road. The kids watch breathlessly. Feeling brave, Double D. slips into a forward seat to try and peer up through the hole in the roof.
As he looks out he see's the Creeper standing and in horrible pain. It's mouth roars open in profile and he looks intact, but when he whirls his head toward the hole his right eye and surrounding forehead are missing.
Double D. watches in a daze, then he whispers to the rest.
"Half his fucking head's gone..."
The Creeper rages again and launches himself up into the night sky. He goes up so high that both he and his wail are swallowed up by the darkness.
"Fuck..." was all Double D could say as he watched the Creeper.
Boys and girls then crowd the hole and the windows to look up. Exchanging looks afraid to think that maybe the tables have turned. Some try to laugh finally -a nervous laugh halted by...
A whistling sound from high above.It get's louder and faster as it cuts through the night. Like a bomb dropping.
As Tara wakes up, from being knocked out by the Creeper, she looks up and see's something falling from the sky.
"Oh shit!" she yells as she jumps from the top of the bus and lands in the fields. Overdoing her jump, she slips and hits her head on a rock. Knocking herself unconscious.
Before the kids on the bus know what's going on...KA-BLAMMM! Something large and dark plummets out of the night and onto the roof of the bus. The glass on all the side windows blow out, raining over the two-lane.
The bus jolts massively as people are thrown from their seats. Some hit the floor from the impact. In the next instant the whole thing rocks to stillness. And silence. The Kids stare in disbelief. At the center of the bus, the roof has buckled severely.
Izzy shakes his head "no" as he see's something. It can't be what he thinks it is.
He and others rush to the driver seat, attempting to see up through the hole.
"You gotta be kidding me..." Johnathon says as he looks outside the window. He see's the tip of the Creeper's wing.
At the belly of the bend, two sections of sheet metal have split revealing part of the Creeper's body. Jake leads with his flashlight as he and others examine it. Whatever part it is, -a breeze from the missing windows starts to blow it away...in tiny drifts of dust...
"Man, this thing is cooked." Jake says to himself.
"Yeah, but where's Tara?" Xander asks.
Scotty stares at the wing a moment longer and nods to Bucky.
"Get that door open." Scotty tells him as he looks at the others. "We go. Now."
"Hold on man, you're not the leader here." Xander says as he walks up to him.
"And who the fuck do you think you're talking to?" Scotty asked, not backing down.
"Enough you two." Kendra said as she pulled on Xander's arm. "We have to get out of here and find Tara. Den we can go and try to get help."
Seeing that Kendra was on his side, Scotty looked over at the team manager.
"Bucky!" he called out. Bucky is already pulling the handle but it won't give.
"Something got screwed up!" he informs them. Others then come to help. Double D. slams against the doors while, others grapple the handle with Izzy.
"Get that shit off the exit and get it open!" Scotty yells as he moves over to Jake.
Jake looks at him like "easy for you to say". He motions to the severely sealed up rear door. Scotty starts pulling at the ropes. The bus rocks as Double D. slams into the doors at the front of the bus.
All of the frantic activity stops as they hear a groaning sound of metal. It only gets louder and louder as the kids turn towards the center of the bus. Some recoil into their seats as...
KEE-RANNKK! The split in the roof gives way and a giant wing crashes into the center of the bus. Kids flee in both directions -until the gray dust settles and reveals the massive wing is not moving. Most stand silent in a kind of awe of the wing's incredible physiognomy. It's translucent from one side in the flashlight beam.
"Come on, D'." Kimball says as he nods to the back side of the bus. "Everybody. This side."
The thought of having to traverse the wing is not a happy one. No one wants to be the first.
"He's right man, come on." Xander calls out.
"I am not gonna touch that thing!" Double D says incredously.
"This is the way out man," Kimball says seriously. "you just gonna sit back there and wait for the Red Cross?" he asks. "Get your ass over here."
Double D. approaches the wing warily. Then he studies it closely. He then starts to climb around it. Over seats to avoid contact.Double D. comes down behind the wing, on the front half of the bus. Chelsea is next, but she shakes her head 'no'. Izzy pushes his way through. Steps to the wing. Stares at it. Doesn't climb over the seats. He's feeling braver. He squeezes around it.
He then pushes against it to clear his path and realizes its folding capabilities.
"This thing's like a fucking shower curtain man." he says as he looks at the others.
"Look."
He folds the wing up a bit. Then he laughs nervously as he does it again. This time he does it really high and walks under it to the other side. He turns and lets Chelsea and Rhonda step under it as he holds it up higher.
"Come on..." he says to the next group of kids. Dante is next and not to be out done, he grabs the wing and folds it up even more.
"Shower curtain?" Dante questions as he holds it up even higher. "This is a fucking piece of toilet paper."
As he says this the great wing unfurls at lightning speed and wraps around Dante, cocooning him in it's leathery fabric. Both sides of the bus population rear back -piling up at entrances and exits that cannot open. They watch Dante's body struggle inside the powerful wing as if he were trapped inside a giant Anaconda.
Kids bang on both exits, screaming at the horror of...the wing wrapping even tighter and starting to lift him up through the split ceiling. Like a hideous curtain, veiling with its thin membrane Dante's entire body.
The kids can see Dante's face trying to breathe as it goes up out of sight...Izzy, Kendra, Johnathon, and Double D. charge forward and almost fall onto the wing. As they wrap their arms around Dante's wing-wrapped body, it quakes violently as they grapple with it. Trying to pull him down, yanking harder and harder, until he slips out of the wing as it disappears back up onto the roof and a crimson splatter spraying the ceiling overhead...
Kendra and the others crash to their knees with rescued Dante. Then they realize something is horribly wrong. They back away, leaving Dante kneeling on the bus floor without his head. His arms are still moving as he falls forward.
The Creeper kneels on top of the bus in the deep indentation of the roof. It then rips at it's shirt...The Creeper then stands as it's tattered clothes fall to its feet. His wings unfurl, as he grapples his badly damaged head with both hands and tears it off its shoulders with a horrible wail.
The Creeper's head is only attached to the tentacle plate by some gummy strings of goo -they finally snap off... The Creeper's head hits the asphalt as kids inside watch this, still frantically pounding away, at the doors.
Tentacles then reach down inside the half skull and pull up the Creeper's new head.Which is Dante's. His own pinkish skin cradle's in place by the tentacles, as it assimilates into the grayish tone of the Creeper's wrinkled flesh.
Chelsea, Amy, and the others try to peek up through the split roof to see -when GLOOP! A slimy glob of something falls onto the girl's faces. They all freak out.
Other's stare up, just catching a glimpse of the Creeper launching into the air from the top of the bus. Just as Jake gets the last of the lashings off the rear exit and it swings it open All the kids look to Kendra, silently wondering what they should do, when suddenly, Braddock blasts towards the back exit and lurches onto the asphalt.
Before he can take two steps on the road, Double D., Kimball and others follow.
A mass exodus of the bus begins. Attention on the sky. As the kids flee off the road and across the field, they see the Creeper swooping down.
"Ruuuunnnnnn!" Izzy yells as the Creeper sweeps in from above, like a crop duster, lowering to snatching level.
The Creeper grins as he smells the fear coming off of all of the kids. Taking a ninja star like object, out of his duster he throws it and kills one of the kids as they run. As he kills another boy, he fly's down low and takes his body up and into the night. As it comes back a few minutes later, it swoops down even lower and see's another target, standing by a tree. Taking out a knife made out of bone he throws it at him.
"What the hell are we going to do now!" Scotty yells out as he put his hand on a tree. He had already witnessed some of his friends die, and they couldn't find any farm. Before anyone could answer him a knife suddenly embedded itself in his hand, pinning him to the tree. Looking up he saw the Creeper flying closer and closer to them.
"I'm sorry." he cried out as he looked over at Kendra, who was desperately trying to get the knife out of his hand. "I'm sorry for what I said to you earlier. Just please help me."
Just as Kendra yanked the knife out of his hand, the Creeper swooped down and grabbed him. Not being able to grab him in time, she, Xander, Amy, Johnathon, and Double D. could only watch in horror as the Creeper took Scotty screaming off into the night.
"What the hell do we do now?" Double D. asked as he looked over at Kendra.
"We have to get back to de bus." As they run for the bus, they see the Creeper flying down towards them. As the group panics and screams...
SKEEEEOOOSSSHHHH! Something rockets into the Creeper so fast and so hard, it sends it flying out into the air in a whirling mass of wings and limbs.
The Creeper somersaults higher and higher until THWONK! The cable that is now attached to it runs out of slack abruptly halting it.
The Creeper wails as he looks down with wide eyes at one of the Taggerts homemade harpoons, that has skewered him through the stomach. He see's that the long cable attached to the spear leads back to, the Taggart truck blasting across the field from the two-lane!
Taggart is in the truck bed strapped to his post puncher,taking up the slack on the cable by turning a large hand crank at its spool. The Creeper doesn't know what to make of it, as he soars to a higher altitude still tethered.
Kendra, Amy, Johnathon, Xander and Double D. screech to a halt at the far end of the field, after they hear the commotion. They then stare up atthe impossibility of a crazy man in a pick-up truck who has just harpooned this Creature!
The Creature grabs the metal spear and yanks on it. Glares down the cable at the distant truck and takes off higher into the sky...
The hand crank spins as cable flies off the spool again.Until it runs out, knotted at the end to stay there.
The Creeper's ascension is again abruptly stopped, as a huge fireball hit's him. As they look in the field to see where the source of the flames are coming from, they see Tara, with a pissed off look on her face.
As the Creeper looks down at her, their eyes suddenly meet.With a glare, Tara's eyes turn an eerie blue as her Dragon Gaunlet's flare a bright red. Sending out a huge wave of fire, the beast wails, a horrible sound that tears across the night...
As Tara unleashed one last volley of fire, The Creeper plummets back to the earth with such force that it cracks the street where it falls. With a look of cold rage on his face, Jack Taggert takes a homemade harpoon off of his truck bed and walks toward where the Creepers body is.
When he get's there, he see's that the Creeper's body is a mangled mess. It's wings, an arm and one of it's legs are missing. With a clear picture of what it did to his son, Jack lift's the harpoon over his head and plunges it into the Creeper's heart.
The Creeper only looks up at him and gurgles out blood. It's still not dead. Taking the harpoon forcibly out of it's chest Jack plunges it into his chest, again and again and again and again... He's putting his heart and soul into each blow. Even though he couldn't get his son back he still wanted revenge.
All around Jack the surviving teens and the Scoobies watch as the older man keeps stabbing the vicious beast. With one final thrust Jack again buries the harpoon deep in the Creepers heart. With one final glare the Creeper closes it's eye's and a patch of reptillian skin covers it's face.
"It's still not dead." Tara informs him.
"It looks dead to me." Mr. Taggert says as he looks up at her.
"In about twenty three more years, that thing is going to come back."
"I don't think so." Minxie said as she ran up to her. "Mr. Giles found a spell." she said as she handed Tara the cellphone.
"I'll see you in hell." Tara whispers as she looks down at the still form of the Creeper.
"No Giles I wasn't talking to you." Tara says into the phone.
"Tara are you sure it was smart to give that guy, the demon's body?" Xander asked as they all piled back into the car. He was going to drive since, Tara was tired.
"After what that thing did to his son, I would have given him anything." she replied as she let out a long sigh. What was even more disturbing is that they found an old ice cream truck not to far away. And what they found inside was bodies wrapped and roped in bloody sheets. There were seven at least and more hanging from hooks on either side of freezer walls."Besides, me and Amy did a binding spell on it and if the spell holds like Giles said it would, we'll never have to worry about that thing again."
"So where to now?" Xander asked as he honked the horn at the Taggerts and the rest of the surviving teens, as he pulled onto the road.
"To Boston." Tara replied as she closed her eyes. She was totally exhausted.
"Hopefully." Johnathon added as he began to laugh nervously.
TBC...
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I pretty much kept some stuff close to the movie. Now the reason the creeper didn't kill Tara on top of the bus is because Tara didn't fear it. The creeper thrives on fear and finds out what he needs from people because of it.
As for jack taggert here's the story on him. In the beginning of Jeepers creepers 2 the creeper kills his youngest son, so he is looking for revenge. Just watch jeepers creepers 2 and you'll see what I'm talking about.