A/N Thanks for the reviews. Now to John yes Xander will be coming back. I don't know how yet but yes he will be coming back. And to Salvory I hope to god this story comes out to be better then the first one as well. I often look back at the first one and think...man I can't believe I wrote that. I really enjoyed writing it.

Also to Dogbertcarroll if you're reading this, dude stop nitpicking so much. You made me cry the other night when you talked about my work. lol just messing with you. But still man just sit back and enjoy the story. It's fanfiction it's not meant to be based on reality. If a theme sounds rediculous just go with it. Everyone else does. Just messing with you, just do your thing.

Chapter 1

Cleveland, Ohio

December, 2002

The silence of the night was cut off by the sounds of gunfire. As the patrons of a club ran from the man who was shooting inside, the wall to the place exploded. A shower of wood and fire exploded out onto the street as a figure emerged out of the fiery building.

The flames seemed to bend and flex around the figure as he stepped out of the burning building with a twelve gauge in his hands. He is wearing all black, with a mask that has three red lines going down the front of it. This man is the Dark Redeemer of the night. He is the Hunter. Throwing down his now empty gun to the ground, he stands in front of the roaring fire of the club, as he sneers, under his mask, at what's left of it's patrons.

Not waiting another second, two of the people from the club suddenly charge him, with a growl. It turns out that they were all vampires. He flips one over his head, flips the other while simultaneously spinning around to face the demon who closes ranks from behind. The fight is furiously expert - hands and feet working like windmills. Taking a katana out of his back sheath, he quickly lobs the heads off of the two vamps he was fighting. Leaving only him and the Bion demon.

The demon was tall, had red skin, with large horns on the top of it's head. It also was very powerfully built. Recognizing this form of demon, he summed up that it was a samurai demon. Not one to be intimidated, The Hunter dropped his sword and waited as the demon charged.

The Hunter parry's every thrust the demon has to offer, countering every move, but is nonetheless being backed into a corner. The demon moves in for the kill as The Hunter suddenly vaults up and over him in a seven-foot backflip. Grabbing the demon's horns from behind for leverage, he hoists the Bion Demon over his head, then sends the bewildered thing flying through the air, crashing into the fiery club.

Seeing that his work is done for tonight, The Hunter retrives his sword and his shotgun and holsters them. As he is about to take off into the night he suddenly hears the sound of motorcycles. Looking up he see's three vampires dismounting from, their hogs.

"Just when I thought the night was slow." The Hunter muttered to himself, as the vamps formed a loose circle around him.

Suddenly a foot flashes up, headed straight at The Hunter's face. In a lightning-quick move, he grabs the swinging leg with both hands, rises, swings the vampire off the ground in a circle, and sends him crashing into the motorcycles .

The second vampire, switchblade in hand, rushes The Hunter, while the third unhooks chains from his belt. The Hunter sidesteps as the vampire tries to cut him with the blade. The knife slashes through his duster, sending it billowing out behind him like a cape. The third vamp whistles the chains past The Hunter's ear. He snatches them, karate-kicks the third vampire in the stomach, simultaneously belting the second one across the side of the head with the chains, knocking him down.

The third vamp lunges at The Hunter from behind. The Hunter spins, grabs his arm, and twists the knife away. As he catches it in his other hand he trips the third vamp, sending him sprawling in the mud.

Taking a stake out of his thigh holster, he turns and stakes the second vampire. Hearing a groaning sound behind him, he throws the stake at the first vampire as it tried to stand to it's feet. As he crumbles into dust, The Hunter takes the katana back out of it's sheath, then he slowly walks over to the third vampire, who was lying still on his back and put's the sword to his neck.

"I need some answers." The Hunter said in a low scary voice.

"Sure...sure man." the vamp stuttered out. "But you got to promise me something' man. You gotta promise me that you want chop my head off."

"I promise." The Hunter said in a huff. "Now for my questions. For the last few month's I've been sensing an increase in power somewhere. The demons of this city seem to be going towards it. Where are they going?"

"To the Hellmouth." the vampire said easily. Seeing The Hunter's eyes turn from liquid brown to a milky white, he added. "Not our's but the one over in Sunnydale." he quickly relented.

"What's happening in Sunnydale?" The Hunter asked.

"The grapevine has been saying that the first evil is back. They say it's trying to call all the evil forces it can to Sunnydale to help it."

"Thank you." The Hunter said as he removed the sword from the vamps neck. "You've been most helpful."

The vamp stood to his feet and started to run. Not even getting a few feet away, he feels wood entering his back. Turning he saw The Hunter behind him.

"I promised that I wasn't going to chop off your head. I said nothing about staking you." he said as he pushed the wood all the way into the vamps unbeating heart. As the dust floated around The Hunter, he looked up to the sky as it started to rain.

"It seems that I must go back to your hometown, my old friend. I promise I'll stay out of her way." with that said he got into a black pontiac firebird with a red symbol of a pheonix on the hood and drove off into the night.


"Alex come on man, let us go with you." a hispanic teen named Mario begged. He was tall, had long shaggy hair, and had lots of tattoo's.

"No." Akin stated as he put some more clothes into a bag. "I want both of you to return home and forget that you ever even met me."

"Forget?" a girl named Tracy asked. She had long blonde hair and was very petite."All that we've done together, all the things that we've seen. How are we just going to forget that?"

"Because I'm asking you to." he said as he turned to look at them. "Listen I've been around for a very long time and I've seen to many young people die. They died because they were trying to fight against the darkness. I don't want that to happen to you guys, I want you to live long and happy lives."

"Why are you talking like you're never coming back?" Tracy asked a little sadly.

Akin just looked back at his team for a second. He had found the two more then ten months ago when they were a couple. When they were busy making out, some vamps came and tried to make a snack out of them. That's when he showed up. After he dusted the vamps, the two followed up behind him. Not being able to make them go away, he decided to take them in and train them. They had been a team every since.

"Because I might not." he whispered as he threw a package to them. "You can also keep the apartment." he said simply as he walked out of the door. As Tracy opened the package both of their eyes widened as lots of money fell out. Quickly counting it they saw that Akin had left them over ten thousand dollars.


As Akin walked out of the apartment he looked up at the night sky and sighed. Throwing his bag into his trunk, he got into his car and drove off into the night. Sunnydale had just found itself a new hero.

TBC...

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A/N I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I can. Also I wanted to have Akin call himself Alex because I thought it would make a strange situation in later chapters. And If anyone is wondering how Akin got money to get the equipment and a car, well a long time ago when he possessed a few people, he had them set up several bank accounts all over the world, just in case a time of crisis arrived. Consider it a safety precaution.

As for the team he left behind, I haven't decided if I'm going to have them in the fanfic later on or not. Just think of them as a Willow and Xander pair. Just think how they followed Buffy around in season 1 and 2. They basically did the same thing to Akin, accept he trained them.

As for this scene he was merely trying to find out why the demon activity in Cleveland went down, by going to a demon bar. But then some demons got a little rowdy so he had no choice but to take them all out.