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The creature shot up into the air forcing Buffy to grip onto the saddle, then as it dived down spilling a fiery encircle around the beast and shot back up. When they circled back, Buffy saw the Beast couldn't move from his entrapment of the intense fire.

"Oh my goddess this is a dragon!" Buffy shouted.

"Wow you finally figured that out" the Rider said.

She turned her head to give a piece of her mind only to shut it. Even though it was dark, she could see that Mr Tall, Dark and Handsome was smirking at her in the most sexiest way possible and she was practically sprawled over his lap and looked like a mess. Despite the embarrassment she realised that what she was hungry for and was it him as she watched his lips move.

Shaking herself out of her little daydream she asked, "Can you repeat that again?"

"I said do you still have his horns?" he asked.

"Yeah why?" she asked as she showed him.

"The Beast can only be killed if a piece of himself is stabbed into him," the Rider explained.

"Be your own weakness, must be the new phase" Buffy joked.

The dragon landed gently into the square letting them hop off, well Buffy actually slid off while the Rider was doing the hopping. Before the Beast could react Buffy threw both of the horns into its abdomen. What surprise Buffy was that the Beast wasn't looking at her as it was dying and she trailed its direction of it's eye line to the Rider.

"Angel, you think that defeating me would end all of this?" the Beast said as his body crackle up with the light pouring of him "It has only begun"

The Beast shook with violent as the Rider grabbed Buffy and pulled her under the dragon's wing. There was an explosion and when the dragon lifted her wing up Buffy saw a huge crater of where the beast once was.

"What the hell was he on about?" Buffy demanded from the Rider "'It has only begun'? That to me is bad"

"More are coming" the Rider said simply "I suggest you watch over your people"

"These are not my people," Buffy said immediately "I just happen to live here"

He looked at her for a moment "You're an outlander?" he said sceptically.

"Well, yeah I just have job at the Inn" Buffy said.

"You don't smell like an outlander" he commented, dragon riders had very acute sense of smell and taste "Outlanders smell like apple, rum and grass, you my dear have a faint smell of jasmine and lilies and something else I can't put my finger on it"

"Oh how nice" Buffy said, trying to hide the fact that she was scared of being found out by him.

He just looked at her, really looked at her like she was something extraordinary yet a treasure worth to gaze with affection. Or at least what she thought why he looked at her, other than that she didn't want to know and it was making her dizzy. Very dizzy.

"Look, like you said…before more are…coming…" Buffy said as a wave of dizziness over came her and she fell into a pair of strong arms, to an unconscious darkness.

Buffy felt her mind rising out of the dark as she awoke, she was fully aware that the floor didn't feel soft or warm that's why when she awoke she was in her bedroom. As if by magic the pain she felt from the night before was gone and nothing ached. Groaning she pulled the covers to revealing that she was still wearing her cloths and that they were full of mud and she groan again, she didn't like being dirty. She got to her feet, stretching out her tired muscles she walked to her bathroom, moving quietly as she goes flashbacks to last night swam through her mind.

Bracing herself on the sink, looking into the mirror into her eyes when she entered it. She didn't feel different, just the same as ever. Nothing in her eyes or face told her anything but she knew something was different when she fought the Beast. Remembering the Beast beating the crap out of her and vice versa she felt power surging through her veins. The power was ancient yet new at the same time, a beautiful contrast it was to be flowing through her body.

She felt strong.

She felt new.

She felt completed.

Shaking her head of the thought. How could she feel all that in one fight? It had to be adrenaline. Yes adrenaline, it was a rush to fight it and beat it. But she need help to beat the Beast thought bringing her attention to the Dragon and it's rider.

"Angel, you think that defeating me would end all of this?" the Beast said as his body crackle up with the light pouring of him "It has only begun"

"Angel" she whispered hazily remembering what the Beast said "So you're Angel" she looked down to her sink "Guess I'm going have to get reacquainted with you"

Buffy had sneaked out of her room through the window with her hunting clothing and gear and landed soundlessly on top of stables that happen to be there. She listen for any sound before she freefell off the stables and headed off uphill to the woods. She really didn't want to be bombarded with questions by Willow, Jenny and especially Giles, he was the one that actually called the Beast a demon. She didn't want to answer questions; she wanted to ask questions and quite frankly the dragon rider might know. Question was: where was he?

"Dragons need a supply of food and water, this thing is huge so it needs to be concealed pretty well so somewhere away and high since this thing fly" Buffy muttered and the first thing came to her mind was the waterfall nearby the village "Oh it can't be that simple" she shook her head "Can it?"

Taking the route to waterfall it was a whole hour till she quickly smell something cooking and burnt stuff. She began to notice other things such as the trees on the side either cut into or had huge scratch marks. She saw remains of bones that looked like the remains of boars and other bits and pieces she didn't want to figure out what they were. She moved further and over a scorched tree and paused when she saw something on the leafy floor and picked it up, a red scale. It was nearby. Carrying on her route she saw other things such as scorch marks, huge patches of none leafy ground and footprints.

"Dragon landing spot" Buffy commented before carried on her quest to find it.

More landing spots, more upturned trees, more remains of animals made Buffy nervous, this thing was dangerous and it could probably rip her to shreds. Not to mention this thing was huge too so it probably could squish her like a bug.

"The rider, think about the rider" Buffy muttered, she thought about the rider and remembered how handsome he was and how much she wanted to- "Oh no wait don't think about anything"

She moved more silent yet faster when she heard the sound of the waterfall getting louder ahead of her. Her nerves began to fry as her heart beat speed up a bit. Swiftly she jogged up the hill and realised it was a cliff when she saw the sudden drop, so slowly she got to her knees and crawled to the edge. She looked across and saw the rocky waterfall flowing freely over the edge with the shrub holding for dear life on the walls as her eyes trailed down with the waterfall to the pool there. The water clear to show how deep it was with the rocks and someone swimming beneath the surface. Wait. The rider was swimming down there.

Oooo yummy Buffy mentally cursed herself as she watched him swim towards the edge Hang on is he wearing any cloths? her answer was when he stood up, walked, the water trickled down his muscular back from his short hair, revealing that no he wasn't Oh boy he's not he walked over to his clothes that was on the rocks nearby okay now would be a good time to turn around, yep turn around now, now would be a good time to turn around, TURN AROUND GIRL! he stretched his muscles revealing how toned he was that made her want to feel each crafted muscle Oh you bad man.

Buffy mentally cursed herself as she watched him swim towards the edge her answer was when he stood up, walked, the water trickled down his muscular back from his short hair, revealing that no he wasn'the walked over to his clothes that was on the rocks nearby he stretched his muscles revealing how toned he was that made her want to feel each crafted muscle

She brought every ounce of self will she had and made herself to turn onto her back. She took several deep breaths as she closed her eyes and swallowed down all the moisture in her mouth. Never in her life did she want anything like she wanted him, she would have jumped into the water to either cool down or have him.

"You know you can come down"

Buffy rolled over back to her stomach to see him looking straight at her, fully clothed, smirking freely.

"You knew!" Buffy shouted echoing it around the waterfall

"Yeah baby, I could smell you" the rider said smugly "Jasmine and Lilies and that little extra of yours that makes your lovely scent so irresistible"

"Oh how nice" Buffy said as she walked near the edge of the cliff to were there was a path to.

"I wouldn't put it as nice" he said beneath he eyelashes.

"Than what would it be?" Buffy said halfway down the path, swallowing down her fear and carried on walking to him.

"I don't know if I should tell you" the rider said cocking his head in a playful manner, his dark mystifying eyes twinkled in mischief.

"Afraid that I'm some kind of little girl?" Buffy tentatively asked.

"Well I wouldn't call you a girl, more along the lines of a woman" he said.

"I'll take that as a complement" she said, not quite sure what to do with herself once she was levelled with him.

"You should" he said "Not everyday a someone beautiful comes along and has the power to stop something from happening"

"Great, you remember what happened last night" Buffy said, determined to get somewhere "Which by the way thanks for sticking around while I collapsed to the floor"

"Don't mention it" scoffed the rider.

"Anyway" Buffy ignored him "Like you said before more are coming" Buffy said, "I don't want them to reach Rosenberg since I like it"

"Well boohoo, if these things come to this village no one will survive" the Rider said "Not even you"

"Hey I kicked that thing's butt!" Buffy pointed out to him as she stood right in front of him.

"No, if I didn't come along your pretty head would have been popped off" the Rider said.

"No it wouldn't" Buffy argued back.

"Oh so he was hugging you then" he wryly said.

"No"

"Face it, your out of league here," the rider seriously said "this is the big bad world we live in and it's gonna get a whole lotta worse if I don't cut off these little beasties"

"You? What about me? That Beast hit me so hard I had a mini flying lessons, three times by the way and I still took it on" Buffy reminding him "I ripped it's frickin horns off and I bashed him with them like he was a piñata!" she crossed her arms in anger "What the hell dose it say about me"

"You may have the ability to take one on but if you had hundreds of them, your gonna have a problem" the rider said.

"And what about you? You really think you can take them on?" Buffy question him "Even with your dragon do you really think you could do it by yourself"

"I'll do what's necessary" he said.

"Oh come on! Stop with the self-righteous-one-man-mission crap!" Buffy said "Your not doing this alone and especially not without me"

"Tell me, how many fights have you been in?" the rider asked

"Um" Buffy looked away sheepishly.

"How long have you been trained?"

"Well-"

"So you never been in a fight and you've never been train, this is really brownie points you know" he said tartly.

"Really?" Buffy asked, the sarcasm lost on her.

"No, your lucky your not dead" the rider said "I suggest you go back home"

"Outlanders don't have homes" Buffy pointed out.

"But your not an outlander" he said.

"You can tell that by smell, right" Buffy said, remembering what he said to her "That doesn't prove anything, for all you know I could have been swimming in jasmine oils and whatever"

"Yes it dose" the rider said as a matter of factly "There's a difference in product scent and body scent" leaning against the rock that had his cloths on while he was swimming "product scent does not smell fresh compare to the body scent and even then there isn't traces of sweat or emotions" he shrugs "but that's my nose for you"

"So you've got a bloodhound nose" Buffy sarcastically "This is so great"

"Owning up to something?" he asked suggestively.

"No" Buffy said immediately.

"Well explain to me why you don't smell like a outlander?" he said "Cause quite frankly if I didn't know any better I would think you were a Duchess of some kind"

Buffy eyes widen in mistake and by the look of him he had caught it all with a slight twitch of an eyebrow he watched all of her reactions.

"You know I've passed a couple of cities, towns, villages just to get to this point and they all say the same thing so far" he said "That the Princess of Chantrelle ran away"

"Yeah heard that too" Buffy said flippantly.

"Do you know why?" the rider asked.

"No" Buffy said, suppress down her fear.

"Well something to do with marriage" he said "that's an extreme way of saying no"

"Maybe she didn't want to be controlled" Buffy said.

"Hmm fear of being dominated, very interesting" he said thoughtfully.

"Dominated? That's kinda strong for being 'controlled'" she said.

"Well that's what she would be if dear Lord William had his claws on her" he said "You wouldn't believe all the stories I've got on him"

"How bad are they?" she asked cautiously, she knew Lord William wasn't called William the Bloody for no reason.

"Bad to the bone" he said "He keeps his mad mistress in the attic and shag her once a week or when she's not wailing on about something"

"Oh dear god" Buffy exclaimed.

"That's actually one of the nicest things" the rider said almost looking like he was lost in a memory "But that's what I heard anyway" he looked directly into her eyes and for a moment there was silent "Look if you learn the basics of fighting within a week I will take you with me to Aurelius"

"Why one week?" Buffy asked.

"Have you notice something big, red and scaly missing?" he said.

Buffy realised she had been talking to him and forgot all about his pet "Your dragon, where did it go?"

"She went to find bigger game. Boars and deer can only suppress her hunger only for a while. They're basically snacks to her" he said.

"What is she getting" Buffy asked warily.

"Who knows? But she's not going for the livestock or humans if your wondering" he said "So she's going further to feed"

"So she won't be back for a week" Buffy said, some part of her wondered how a rider survived without it's dragon "If anyone finds out-"

"Don't worry lass, I can take care of myself" he said.

"Still, I wouldn't like it if you were by yourself. Not many people like dragons and dragon riders" Buffy insisted "I won't feel right if your left by own, someone could kill you"

Buffy saw something flash across his blank features, for a moment Buffy thought he looked touched that someone showed compassion towards him but as soon as it came it quickly left.

"Alright then" he said.

Chapter 3 will be up soon, just hang on! oh and reviews, keep them coming!