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Author Note 1: This is my second attempt at a BTVS fanfic and my first attempt at a crossover of this magnitude so make sure to give me feedback.
Author note 2: To those who know my work no I have not given up on "Mazoku" I do intend to finish it but this story will not die in my head and demands to be written.
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Author note 4: I have never attempted a story like this and anyone who truly knows the world of "Noir" that might help me out after this chapter I would greatly appreciate it.
Summary: Memories- they are like grains of sand that can slip away or be forced into a compacted space. Who is he really? What is the path he must take? He has forgotten those times to be left waiting for the call. Yet on all hallows eve a mistake shall awaken what he has lost. Given the mind of a genius murderer and the return of what he never knew he lost. The legacy of the third will be written in blood.
Now on with the Show
Alexander
Chapter Fifteen: The Sin within the Sin
Xander sighed as he picked up his graduation gown. Something was deeply wrong with this whole graduating thing to him. It didn't help that Valkyrie and the Mayor were keeping quiet, which meant his paranoia instinct was reaching new heights.
"I can't believe they picked this color. Maroon who likes maroon? Personally, I lobbied for teal, I would've looked great in teal." Cordelia said walking beside him.
"Do you actually listen to yourself talk, Cordy? At least the color is dignified, lord knows, black would just remind us all of a funeral." He replied, starting an argument with his nemesis and student.
"So what's bugging you, Boytoy, you seem like Fang today?" Faith asked ending their argument by walking up with her own cap and gown.
"Something just has me convinced that I'm not getting out of this school alive." He answered though it was a partial lie.
"Now is so not the time to get nervous, Dweeb-boy, if anyone can survive this place it's us."
"Yeah chill, Boytoy, we got this under control."
Xander shook his head as they walked up on Buffy and Willow, catching Buffy's comment about missing graduation.
"Hate to burst your bubble, but the speaker for graduation is the Mayor." He spoke up.
"All those students and parents right there when he does the Ascension?" Willow commented.
"Like one big buffet." Buffy finished for her.
"So, anyone up for Canada? I hear they need heroes." Xander joked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Too cold, how about New York?" Oz said, completing the teenage group as they walked towards the library.
"There would be temptation and any number of Cosa Nostra people after my head, so, no." Xander said then whistled innocently as everyone turned to stare at him.
"I kinda had a hand in on killing their last leader and the deaths of the three best hit men Sicily has ever put out." He explained nervously.
"What about that tempting thing?" Buffy asked.
"Do you remember the Godfather movies?"
Home of Professor Lester Worth
Professor Lester Worth opened his door that evening to find a dark haired woman standing there. Waving her in, he turned his back on her. That proved to be the final and most lethal mistake of his life as she fired several bullets into his back.
"How tedious, even a rookie could have done this. Wilkins truly doesn't understand how to best use my talents." She said and made her way inside beginning to go through his belongings.
"No, this isn't going to tip off Alexander and his friends, he just knows my style inside and out. The Mayor truly is an idiot as if the Soldats will actually allow his Ascension." She talked to herself as she began rifling through papers on the deceased man's research.
Taking out a small piece of paper, she left it for the intrepid hero and his friends to find before walking out.
Library
Xander sat around an impressive amount of printouts downloaded from the internet. If anything, technology had become his best friend after he started discovering online role playing sites for the "Naruto" anime series, which included detailed jutsu lists of every type. If Itachi didn't know it, then he was learning it.
'They even tell you how to precisely mold the chakra, this is just fantastic. Orochimaru would be in heaven if he knew how easy it was to fulfill his silly dream in my world.' He thought as he watched Giles and Wesley fencing, which was more like Wesley fencing and Giles playing with the young watcher.
Shaking his head at the scene, he turned back to his printouts and paying a little attention to his surroundings as Buffy burst in with a newspaper. The fact that Giles could carry on a conversation, having a drink of tea and seemingly completely ignore Wesley, while still parrying every attack just amused Xander.
"I'm telling you Giles, this has the Mayor's name written all over it." Buffy said showing him the paper again.
"I don't doubt you, Buffy, but it could simply be a case of American violence or gangs."
"Giles, the last time you tried to rationalize things, we had a Hyena possessed Xander running around."
"I suppose, but it's not like vampires to use guns."
"But Valkyrie does." Xander said butting into the conversation and moving to look at the paper.
"See Giles, Xander believes me." She said, sticking her tongue out at the watcher.
"She was after something by the looks of the place. You up for looking around tonight, or should I grab Faithie?"
"No, I'll go and keep you company, we haven't had a chance to talk by ourselves for a while."
"Cool, oh that reminds me, G-dad, a source of mine sent a whole bunch of stuff about Ascensions to me so you can look over that."
"Yes, um, thank you, Xander."
Hallways
Xander watched the people passing him and walking in front of him in the halls for any movement. Something just felt wrong today and he couldn't for the life of him shake the felling of wrongness. It was as if he expected to be attacked at any moment. He lightly fingered the demon seal charm in his pocket with his left hand. Since that feeling had wrapped around him, he had been keeping the seal close letting the pulse of the demonic chakra fill him with a little ease, knowing if he called on the power, nothing could get in his way.
'My dreams are troubled and filled with Itachi's sins, or with those words I spoke to Valkyrie. Maybe I'm losing my mind, but it's almost like the enemy is everywhere haunting me like a spirit. Maybe a little time playing detective with Buffy will clear my head.' He thought as he approached his locker and began putting in the combination.
Hearing a noise to his right, he lashed out without thought and hurled whoever was so close to him against the lockers. He blinked when he saw it was only Larry trying to get into his own locker.
"Lar, I'm so sorry man, I just got out of a tough final and I'm really on edge." He apologized and let the much taller boy go.
"Try that again, runt, and I'll knock your fucking lights out!" The football player yelled before moving away.
'I've got to get a hold of myself before I hurt someone. Valkyrie and Soldats are getting to me, I just need to calm down and focus, do as I was taught, and as Itachi was locking everything down until I have time to deal with it.' He thought and took several deep breaths putting everything behind him for the moment.
Opening his locker, he was immediately hit with a stench he recognized all too well. The smell of blood floated from inside and amongst his books, he found a wrapped parcel, the paper being newspaper, and another thing that was not there before, was a single blood coated rose.
Slamming the door closed, he forced his anger down before it could wrap around his heart. Taking another breath, he forced his emotions down and hid behind the cold impassive mask of an Uchiha and an assassin. He spotted Cordelia walking up to him and she seemed to appear worried as she spotted his face.
"What's wrong, Dweeb-boy?"
"The Mayor's going to devour everyone at graduation after he transforms into whatever he is going to" He lied.
"Oh right. So are you going to fifth period?"
"Thought about going out for a picnic, do you want to join me?"
"Sure."
Home of Professor Lester Worth
"I hate messy assassins." Alexander said as he and Buffy inspected the crime scene, he was dressed fully for a fight, and Buffy in a simple outfit and leather coat.
"You think for the price, they could at least keep the place clean?" Buffy commented leafing through some papers.
"No one seems to have true love for the craft these days." He replied, looking in filing cabinets and folders.
"Do you find it weird we're having a conversation about murder for hire?"
"Buffy my dear friend, if we didn't talk about murder for hire, then we might fall into silence and then where would we find ourselves?"
"Far more productive?"
"Exactly and I've been a slacker far too long to risk a loss of my reputation this close to the end of high school."
Angel walked into the duo laughing, and then blinked when Alexander turned, and threw something at him. Before he could move to dodge, he found a piece of tape sticking to his jacket holding a bell in place.
"Um, Giles sent me to help you two." He stated as the two shook off their laughter and went back to work.
The now trio worked in different areas, gathering and reading what they could. Angel was as close to Buffy as he dared, while Alexander worked wherever his mind took him.
"I don't get it, why take out a Volcanologist?" Alexander asked his companions as he continued coming through papers.
"A what?" Buffy asked.
"Volcanologist a guy who studies active and dormant volcanos, it just doesn't make sense to mark him for a hit."
"Maybe he knew something that he didn't know the value of?" Angel conjectured.
"Hey look, I found something else." Buffy called, pulling out a piece of white paper that was resting on top of one of the many tables in the living room.
Dear Alexander,
I find myself wondering if you're the one reading this, or if it's one of your darling friends. In either case, it matters very little as I surmise you already know from whom this letter is. The time has come for us to stop dancing around one another, Alexander, and to finally conclude our business once and for all. We will meet in the place that your sins continue to live alone, and duel as only assassins can. If you don't come, Alexander, I will be quite disappointed, and your friends will not live within the protected area. We will meet tonight at Midnight.
With love,
Valkyrie.
Buffy turned to Xander and saw the dark look filling his eyes along with the chillingly cold calmness that passed over his features.
"Angel, take Buffy back to the library and fill in the gang. I have to prepare for a family reunion." He stated calmly and turned heading for the door.
"Xand, wait!" Buffy called out stopping him.
"You don't have to do this. Let's just go back to the library and get everyone, then go turn over this chick to the police."
"The Soldats would simply have her released within five minutes later. All of us together cannot fight her, she would pick us apart one by one to prove her point to me. Buffy, this is my fight and my responsibility."
"Xander?"
"For the longest time I've been trying to arrive at some point, where I wouldn't need to make a choice, but it would already be made for me. I've been selfish trying to covet all of my precious people and be everything for them and hoping I'd never have to choose a path for myself. Blood and dust coats my hands, and in my great desire to not become like Itachi and to not lose myself, I, in fact did. I became the Sin within the Sin, a sword forged in blood. I have one more soul to commend to the ages this night, do not get in my way." With that speech, he walked out.
Streets
"The sin within the sin, why does that sound familiar?" Angel mused as the pair walked back towards the library.
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know, it just sounds like a quote I heard once, but I can't seem to pull it all out of my head."
"We should hurry, I wouldn't want to keep you busy all night not being your girlfriend anymore and all." Buffy said with anger, remembering Angel breaking up with her after prom.
"Buffy, we have to get along until this is over, no matter how hurt your feelings are." Angel said then sighed.
"Well, excuse me for not being all gung ho on your mystery quote, or all nice after you broke up with me for no reason!"
"Stop acting like a brat!"
"This is the last time I have an office romance." She said but before Angel could reply, a wood bolt slammed into his shoulder, sending him to the ground in pain.
On the nearby roof, Sarah smiled darkly and handed the crossbow to a simple minion vampire.
"You didn't hit his heart."
"I didn't mean to. The girl will be distracted, now go inform the Mayor that I have a family reunion to attend."
'Now Alexander, you and I can finish this.'
Graves
'Give me strength, Jesse and Alexandria. My brother in all but blood, and the sister I never got to know. I apologize for marring your resting places with this, but I suppose it is fitting that you have a ring side seat. Make my aim true and deadly, and my body fast and accurate.' He prayed as he knelt before the two graves, and then stood his eyes switching to the sharingan, and the wind blowing his cloak. He had off loaded anything that wasn't designed to kill a human, and was now in full assassin garb and gear.
"Let's not either of us hold back this time, Alexander." Valkyrie said staring the boy down and slipping all of her weights and limiter spells off.
The gravity jutsu flared, and then fell as he released it, then he slowly unclipped his wristbands and ankle bands letting them fall to the soft earth. He reached into his cloak and pulled the seal charm out, tying a leather cord to it and slipped it around his neck.
"This will be our final meeting, so don't hold back on me, mother." He spoke low as red demonic chakra began to swirl around him.
"A battle between titans, I can think of no better way to end one of our lives." She replied and pulled a simple necklace out, baring an onyx stone, placing it around her neck and black aura surrounded her.
"Amagoi no Jutsu." (Rain Praying Technique) he whispered, making one seal focusing his chakra into the few clouds in the sky. The clouds suddenly drew thicker and blocked the moon, before the rain began falling.
"Amakaze no Jutsu." (Rain and Wind/Driving Rain Technique) came from his lips, a second later, the rain suddenly becoming harder pouring down on them with a vengeance, the wind whipping between them.
"You love the theatrics, don't you Alexander? It does set the mood though, so shall we dance?"
"A beautiful endless waltz of death." he responded and both charged the other.
Library
"What do you mean, Boytoy went to fight her?" Faith demanded as Buffy tended the weakened Angel. She could careless if the vampire lived or died, but it seemed her sister slayer had her priorities backwards again.
"We found a note, and it said to meet her tonight to finish it, or she'd come for us. He got really quiet after that, and spouted a weird speech before taking off." Buffy said in near hysterics over the poisoned Angel.
Play: Listen to the Rain
Alexander's black bladed katana met the silver of Valkyrie's longsword, and both pushed against the other for a moment. Alexander suddenly leaned back and dropped, sending a sweeping kick at her legs to which she responded by jumping up and swinging her blade down at his chest. He rolled to the side, avoiding it and spun to his feet, his katana coming around in a decapitation strike that Valkyrie ducked under and lunged forward with an attack with her sword. He neatly sidestepped her, and jumped into a spinning roundhouse kick that caught her in the jaw, sending her flying. Landing, he immediately had to roll left to avoid a fatal bullet as it was his right arm that was still grazed.
"The council has declined to help us with Angel's problem" Wesley said sadly as he came back from his call to the watchers.
"What? But why not?" Buffy yelled.
"They said and I quote. 'We're in the business of killing vampires, not saving them.' Mind you, those are their words, and not mine. They've also ordered us to focus on the upcoming Ascension."
"Crying shame, ain't it, B? You seem to be the only one wanting to save his hide. Jeeves, they tell you anything about the poison? I wouldn't ask, but we still need B for the fight, after that, I really don't care." Faith interjected, still rather worried about Xander.
"No, but I've called everyone else and they're on their way, perhaps together, we can crack this mystery?"
"You didn't call Boytoy's cell, did you?"
"Um, yes, but he didn't answer."
"Damn it, he's in the middle of a fight."
Alexander bit back a curse when his phone rang, and Valkyrie used the distraction to lodge a dagger in his side. Ripping the blade out, he felt the demonic chakra already sealing the wound up. Both had scored disabling hits on the other, only to find each was regenerating just as quickly as the hits were scored.
Rolling from behind Jesse's tombstone, he fired twice and heard one of the round piercing through the flesh. Darting forward, he drew a kunai and leapt past the willow tree, launching the ninja weapon at the healing assassin. She countered by shooting the kunai away and unloading several shots at him, which he avoided by twisting and flipping. He landed and immediately was on the defensive as she came at him with her sword in one hand, and a dagger in the other. He dodged her swings, switching his guns to his katana and kunai matching her. She was avoiding the sharingan and while he could still predict her, it didn't always mean he could match her moves.
Cordelia paced back and forth as Willow and the three Watchers searched for the poison infecting Angel. It wasn't that she wanted him to die, but she was more worried about the dweeb at the moment. Oz didn't show it, but she could almost say with certainly that he was worried too.
"I think I found it!" Willow declared suddenly from her place at the computer.
"Go Red! So what's the toxin on the menu tonight?" Faith inquired, she figured the quicker this was over with, the quicker they could go and help Xander.
"Killer of the dead. It's a poison, specifically for vampires and other undead creatures. The only cure seems to be… A full draining of a slayers blood." Lindsey was reading aloud to the room.
Alexander ducked barely avoiding a black fireball that Valkyrie had launched from her hand at him. Making seals faster than she could follow, he made his next move.
"Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu." (Water Element: Water Dragon Blast Technique) the water on the ground suddenly came together, and formed a huge dragon that surged towards Valkyrie. She was caught in the attack and hurled back, several gashes forming on her body, that instantly began to heal as her necklace glowed.
Charging in the attack's aftermath, he fired three shots at her form only to have her roll away, and hurl several balls of pure energy at him. Channeling the demonic chakra, he was able to raise a shield around himself to block the balls, but was still pushed back by the force of the hits.
As the shield faded, he barely had time to block her incoming sword with his own, neither was giving the other an inch of breathing room, and the battle would rage until one was foolish enough to make a mistake.
Jumping apart, the pair fell into ready stances with their blades. The rain beat down upon them, soaking their bodies and the world. As if heaven itself wept at this inevitable battle.
"Gesshoku no Mai." (Dance of the Lunar Eclipse) Clones formed around Alexander, and the group began to run in a circle around her. The real Alexander was impossible to discover, and so she waited in a defensive position for the attack to come.
"Don't look at me, he's your pet project, B. He ain't snacking on my neck." Faith said when Buffy turned to her.
"Faith, it's the only way we can save Angel!" Buffy yelled.
"Yeah, and when we die from blood loss or are too weak to face down the Mayor? This ain't just about your precious Fang, B, you forgot we got a world to protect, and while we're sitting here, one of our own is out there, maybe dying?" she retorted.
Oz and Cordelia stayed out of the argument, instead they were looking through Xander's jutsu printouts. Focusing for the moment on the medic-nin techniques, they were looking for a way to handle the poison without one of the slayers becoming a snack.
"This one might work, but it would take both of us performing it." Cordelia said, looking at a chuunin level skill.
"No, we need to go a step further. This one, its jounin level, but it will definitely wipe the poison out." Oz suggested.
"Do we have time to perform it cold? Neither of us really have experience with Medical jutsu."
"First time for everything."
"Right, let's get started then."
Breaking up the argument, the two began practicing the jutsu, hoping that they would be good enough for it.
Blood spewed forth from his mouth after he had struck at her. He'd been able to deeply cut her from hip to shoulder diagonally, but she had been able to rip into his shoulder then side with a quick counter he was unable to avoid since he was already in motion. Spinning around, he met her sword, then lashed out with his left hand punching her in the stomach. As she was pushed back, she leapt up and caught him under the chin with a snap kick that threw him back.
Turning the fall into a back flip, he landed in a crouch and launched several shurikens at her, which lodged in several vital places along her body. He watched the black energy of her necklace push each one out and heal the wounds instantly.
'Only one chance.'
Channeling his chakra, he steadied his breathing, and began forming seals.
"Ok, let's get this show on the road." Cordelia said with enthusiasm when the pair looked ready to try.
Faith was going to pour her chakra into the jutsu along with Oz, while Cordelia handled the actual technique, having the best chakra control of the three.
"This is crazy, that's why I love it." Faith said before forming the ram seal and gathering chakra. Oz silently nodded and did the same.
"Here goes nothing. Literally, if I screw up" Cordelia muttered then began forming hand seals, her eyes closed in concentration.
"Kakusei no jutsu." (Purification technique) she called finishing and drawing on the prepared chakra of herself and the others. Then she focused the medical technique onto the undead souled vampire.
The group watched as they worked.
"Amaterasu." (Goddess of the Sun Technique) he called, releasing the black flames of the Uchiha at Valkyrie.
She brought up barrier after barrier and flipped to avoid the flames that cut through each mystical wall with ease. She could feel burns forming on her arms and legs, but still she was able to dodge a death blow.
"Susanoo." (God of the Storm Technique) through the black flames, she saw him coming for her and his speed tripled, what should've been possible and lightning seemed to dance around his limbs.
It was the ultimate taijutsu and could change to suit your battle position. One moment it could be the ultimate attack, the next, the perfect defense or counter move. He was using it now to wedge open his celestial gates, and use the Uchiha's most powerful physical attacks. He watched her try to dodge or block hits as he pounded into her body, forcing her pendent to work overtime to heal her. As the attack came to an end, she let herself draw breath, her hands coming up and catching his fists.
She made one fatal mistake though, as she pushed against him. Valkyrie lifted her eyes and met the swirling crimson orbs of Alexander.
"Tsukuyomi!" (God of the Moon Technique) He yelled and cast the last of three great techniques.
Cordelia forced the chakra into the vampire, beginning the purge of the poison. Sweat gathered on her brow as she molded and formed the unfamiliar technique. Drawing strength from Faith and Oz, she forged ahead, obliterating the toxin slowly in each area of the body.
"Is it working?" Buffy asked her for the fifth time since she had started the technique.
"If you ask me that again, I promise to strangle you." Cordelia replied keeping her concentration, this was going far too slowly for her to be distracted.
She took a breath as the technique slowly faded, seemingly completed.
"Did it work?"
"I think so, he should be fine now if the jutsu worked."
He saw Valkyrie's eyes glaze and his left hand immediately flashed out swiping at her necklace, and ripping it from around her neck. Next, his right hand moved forward slamming a kunai into her chest and twisting it between her breasts with as much force as he could muster. He didn't have the chakra to hold the genjutsu long, so he had used it to buy the time he needed for a killing strike. Letting her body fall back, he leaned against Alexandria's tombstone, his body was exhausted from using all three techniques and his chakra reserves were almost gone. He looked at Valkyrie as she coughed up blood and turned her eyes to look at him.
"You missed my heart Alexander, but still a very lethal strike." She congratulated before coughing up more blood.
"You don't appreciate life until it's slipping away, such a tragic thing we humans must endure. Such a sad creature man is, desiring peace yet wanting war and strife at the same time. Alexander, you should know the truth though, about that night. Altena and I were ordered to kill a Japanese businessman and when we got to his home, we found him in bed with a little girl. Your caring mother lost it and she tormented the man before killing him. Altena, my oldest and dearest friend, had become just what they feared and it was my responsibility to stop her, it hurt me to do it, but still it had to be done lest she had a psychotic episode and turn on the Soldats. Altena is insane, deep inside she has no sanity left, and perhaps if I had not buried myself in killing to escape the guilt of betraying Noir, I could've stopped her fanatical beliefs from contaminating you."
"Perhaps, man is undeserving of life. It could be why god allows assassins to exist. Goodbye, mother." Alexander said, standing and walking over to her, his hand holding his old and trusty berretta.
"Goodbye, my little one. Make me proud." She kept her eyes open, staring her death straight in the eyes.
He fired a single bullet into her forehead with no words, nor that smiled gracing his lips. Sarah McNeal had been a worthy opponent and he would honor her. She was one of his mothers, but one still alive.
As the moon shone from behind the clouds, he swiped away a pair of crystalline tears, and took out the watch baring the Soldats emblem and flicked it open.
"Maybe one day, I will escape the fate you failed too."
Library
The doors were pushed open, a hour after Angel was pronounced cured, and through them, walked Xander. He looked to be okay, but his clothes bored several bloody holes, yet beneath them, was unbroken skin. Somehow his cloak had come out of the skirmish unscathed.
"Did everyone have a fun night without me?" He asked with a lopsided smile. Three pairs of eyes could see through the facade, to the pain hidden behind a mask.
"Xander, are you all right?" Giles asked looking at his son.
"Just fine G-dad, but do me a favor, will you?"
"Yes?"
"Wake me up in a few weeks." With that, Xander's head tilted to the left and fell onto the table, a light snoring filling the room.
"Damn it, he got out of telling us what happened!" Cordelia fumed.
Morning
Xander yawned and shifted to the side, normally this would be easy, but sleeping in a chair with his head lying on a table, was slightly different than a bed. Muttering, he tried again with more force, and suddenly found himself hitting a very hard and uncarpeted floor.
Opening his eyes with a yawn, he climbed to his feet. Rarely was he a morning person, this was because of his nature that he was lazy at heart, even in the sense of an assassin. Two, he usually was up at night hunting the undead, or in the case of his youth, doing training. Third, a very little known fact about Itachi, was his love of sleeping in. He had gotten past these obstacles because he trained before and right after dawn, but still some habits rear their heads at will.
"I fell asleep in the library, hmm, now where do I keep my stash in this place?" he wondered to himself looking around.
Looking down at his clothes, he sighed and decided going home to change was most likely for the best. Besides, he had a lot more pockey hidden at the house.
Library
"We're one day away from graduation. Do we know anything?" Xander asked that afternoon as he looked at his friends.
"Well, um, we are sure he is transforming into a true demon and from the pages of the book Willow was able to steal when she was taken from, the mayor describes the ceremony in great length." Giles supplied.
"He's going to be big, like almost gigantic." Faith added.
"There's no spell to stop it from happening, and he is planning to do it during the graduation ceremony." Willow said.
"We can't kill him until he has transformed, that's what we figured out from that professor's notes." Buffy finished.
"So basically, we know everything, except how to stop him." Cordelia spoke up through the silence.
"Shouldn't you young people be in class?" A voice spoke from the doors and their heads turned, spying the honorable Richard Wilkins smiling at them.
He brought up his hand, allowing a kunai to pierce all the way through it. Turning his eyes to Xander, he wagged a finger at him before pulling the weapon out and letting his hand heal.
"Now, Alexander, you should be more careful with your toys." He replied staring at the dark haired assassin.
"What do you want?" Buffy asked.
"A fair court system, more money for schools, happiness of my townspeople, oh and to devour your living flesh and souls." He answered.
"We will stop you." Faith promised with a growl.
"It's always nice to have a goal, well kiddies, it's been fun, but I have a speech to write for graduation." With that, he turned and walked out.
"Hey Oz?" Xander asked.
"Yeah?"
"I think I can be convinced not to go to New York."
Graduation
Alexander sat listening to the people speak, but not hearing a word they said. Instead, his mind focused on the only plan they'd been able to pull off, and how if even one thing went wrong, a lot of people were going to die. He felt the shadow of the eclipse fall over him, and his eyes watched the Mayor begin his transformation.
Standing up, he threw his graduation gown and cap off, revealing his cloak underneath. As he opened it, he raised his modular rifle loaded with explosive armor piercing rounds. All around him, other students lifted weapons, dating back to mid-evil times all the way to modern firearms.
"Open Fire!" he ordered and immediately, the entire senior class of Sunnydale High began bombarding the giant snake with weapons fire, or in the case, of his student's offensive jutsu.
"Faith, Oz, Cordelia, fall back and contain the vampires. Everyone else, continue the assault." He called out, and then moved firing rapidly at the snake, which had just devoured the troll Snyder.
"Damn it, I was gonna kill him! Now I'm annoyed." Bringing his rifle up, he took careful aim and popped several rounds into the snake's left eyes, causing it to scream in pain.
"Come on, you over grown worm, let's play." He yelled before darting into the school with an enraged demon hot on his heels.
Angel turned as he heard a vampire dusting behind him and found Cordelia standing there with a length of razor wire held between her hands now coated in dust from the kill. Faith was tearing into the other vampires with a simple stake and her taijutsu. Oz seemed to be causing the most damage though, with his sound jutsu which both hurt and crippled a vampire's heightened senses.
Cordelia, without making a noise, moved away and seemed to fade from his eyesight. She was utilizing simple genjutsu, and the stealth/silent killing method to behead her opponents.
The ground suddenly rumbled, and they watched the school explode in a huge fireball.
Alexander hit the halls, running with a giant snack right behind him. Immediately pouring chakra into his legs, he jumped onto the walls and began leaping down the hallway, his hands always touching the surface with each landing. The sound of the snake's body slamming into the walls as it slithered urged him on ahead.
Leaping around a corner, he continued, his movements drawing the Mayor ever closer to the library. The snake was still blissfully unaware of each explosive note he had placed after landing each jump.
Once he was in the library, he turned and watched his enemy slither into the room, his head looming over him. Its single working eye spotted the chopped up kindling and propane tanks stacked in the room along with the hundreds of slips of paper covering the floor and shelves.
"The Soldats sends its congratulations on your transformation. However, because of it, you're no longer of use to them and the High Priest has decreed that you die abomination. Gotta say, I'm glad they contracted me for it. See you around, Richie." He said, before diving out a window and forming the ram seal, setting off every explosive note in the school.
The fireball consumed Mayor Richard Wilkins and the entire campus of Sunnydale High.
Sunnydale High School
Alexander stood on a tree branch across from the emergency and rescue crews that were on site after the explosion. He could see the gang gathered around near a fire truck, but he didn't feel a need to join them. Feeling the branch shift ever so slightly, he didn't turn to face his guest.
"Hello Chloe."
"Hello Alexander. It's time, have you found the truth?" She asked standing beside him.
"Truth is only a word, meant to give us hope to find some sort of ultimate answer that rids us of choice. I can't run from my purpose anymore, I may have been able to break prophecy in the past, but this concerns only me and my creation. I'm ready to go home, Chloe. I will resume my place by Noirs' side and as a part of the Soldats." He replied and slowly reached into his cloak, taking out the forehead protector, he slowly tied it around his head making sure his hair wasn't caught.
Chloe smiled ever so slightly and slid her hand into his, when a fire truck passed them; she led Alexander away towards the airfield. She never noticed him toss something.
"I thought you might want this." Giles said handing Buffy her diploma and gathering with the rest of the group.
"We actually did it, we stopped the Mayor and graduated, what's next?" Willow squealed from her place with Oz.
"Party?" Oz suggested.
"Talking my language, Wolfy, let's grab Boytoy and hit the road for some fun." Faith cheered.
"Hey, where is the Dweeb?" Cordelia asked looking around.
Faith looked around before spotting him. Whistling, she got the others' attention and they turned watching the teenager in the tree, simply watching them. They saw Chloe land beside him and the exchange of words, but only Oz was able to actually hear them.
"What's he doing?" Buffy asked.
"Saying. . . He's saying goodbye. I think he's leaving." Cordelia said, and when a fire truck passed between them, they discovered the pair gone and a set of keys landing in Faith's hand.
"The hell he is." Faith snarled and looked at the keys in her hand.
"Wolfy, Queen C, load the gang up, we have a Boytoy to keep around. Like hell, I am going to take his car without him here to lord it over." She snapped, heading towards the F1.
Airfield
A private jet waited for the only two passengers to climb aboard, the engines already primed and ready. Alexander and Chloe watched the sun setting for a moment longer before making their way towards the plane. They heard people approaching along with the sound of screeching tires just as they began up the steps to the plane.
"Xander!" The voice called, and he halted with his back to it and the others that had gathered.
He continued not answering them, Chloe behind him, drawing closer to the plane's entrance with each step.
"Boytoy, don't make me come up there and kick your ass." Faith shouted as he reached the entrance of the plane. Several armed men in black suits and sunglasses came from the hangers and under the plane leveling weapons at the group.
"This world of man is covered by a shadow. By a veil of darkness so thick, not even those who see through some of it, see all of it. I killed her, just as I killed Alexandria and Jenny. I am bound by my fate to shed blood, it started with a Father, then a brother in Jesse, and it continues on. Stay out of my way or I'll just end up killing you." He spoke and then continued inside.
"Thank you for taking care of him for me." Chloe said before entering and following him. They watched as the door closed and the jet started down the runway. Alexander sat next to Chloe putting his seatbelt on and never looking back. The armed men lowered their guns and moved away as the plane got into the air.
"What do we do now?" Willow asked, watching the plane.
"We figure out where they're going, and then we go and snap him out of this." Cordelia responded.
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