Chapter 6
Enter the Reapers
"Xander?" Kendra screams out. Akin places Annabelle on the couch, just as Kendra rushes forward and engulfs him in a hug.
"I knew you weren't dead." she said as her tears racked her body. "Dey told me to give up, but I knew dat you'd come back to me."
"Kendra..."
"Where did you go? Why did you leave me?" Kendra asked cutting him off.
"Kendra, please..." Akin said as he pushed her back gently. "Let's just go somewhere and talk. I think I have alot of explaining to do."
With that said the two walked out of the room.
"So the Xand man's back." Johnathon said a little glumly. He was really starting to fall in love with Kendra, but now the love of her life was back in the picture.
"Actually it's not Xander at all." Giles said interrupting his thoughts. "It's Akin."
"Oh." was all Johnathon would say. Even though deep down inside he was a little happy.
"Xander I've missed you so much." Kendra said as she stepped forward on the porch and tried to kiss him. Akin just held her back gently.
"Kendra please." Akin told her with a sad expression on his face. "Don't make this even harder then it's supposed to be. I'm not Xander, I'm Akin."
"Akin?"
"Yes. Do you remember when the high school exploded?" Akin asked. Kendra just nodded. "Well before the car I was in exploded, I did a teleportation spell to get me and Xander out in time. When the spell was preformed, the Powers that be took Xander's soul and put me in the forefront."
"I don't believe you." Kendra said shaking her head, eye's glissening with tears. "De Powers dat be are de good guy's, Dey wouldn't do something like dis."
"I went to them Kendra." Akin informed her. "And believe me, they did do this."
"Why?"
"Because they said that Xander was responsible for killing thier champion."
"Dat's insane." Kendra said as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Xander would never kill a human being."
"That's just the thing." Akin said with a shake of his head. "Their champion wasn't human at all. It was, and I can't believe that I'm saying this, but it was Spike."
"Spike!" Kendra yelled in surprise. "But..."
"I know." Akin said knowing what she was already going to say. "But they said that Xander was never supposed to go to Jamaica in the first place and he was never supposed to find my mask. Another series of events were supposed to happen that would have caused, Spike to be redeemed."
"But since Xander did find your mask it led to Spike getting killed."
"Exactly." Akin told her. "But don't worry I'm going to figure out a way to get Xander back. The Powers did say that there's a way to get him back."
"What's de catch?"
"I have to become their champion again."
"Why did you leave in de first place?" Kendra wanted to know. "Maybe we could have..."
"There was no other way. I went to the most powerful warlocks and witches in the world and all of them couldn't help me." Akin informed her. "I thought staying away would be for the best."
"So what's been happening in Sunnydale?" Akin asked after a few moments of silence. "I heard that Buffy died."
"Yeah." Kendra said glumly. "She died almost two years ago, fighting a hell god called Glory. Dawn is what's known as de Key. Glory tried to use her blood in order to open a portal to her hell dimension. De catch was dat all of de dimensional gateway's would open into ours. Every demon dat you could imagine would have came here. De only way to close de portal was for de blood of de Key to stop."
"So why is Dawn still around?"
"Because Buffy figured out dat since de monks made, Dawn out of her den her blood was still de same. So she jumped through de portal and died."
"How did her mother take the news?" Akin asked. Kendra just looked down at the floor at that.
"Miss Summer's died a few month's before Buffy did. She died of a brain tumor."
"I'm sorry to hear that." Akin said as he hung his head low. "What about Faith?"
"Her, Angel, Cordelia, and Wesley are in LA. Angel started a detective agency and dey work for him."
"So why aren't they here helping you?"
"Believe me, dare going through some tings right now." Kendra said as she sat down on the porch. "So what about you? Where have you been and what have you been doing?"
"I traveled the world for awhile." Akin said as he sat down next to her. "To see if I could try to get Xander back. After I found out I couldn't I went to Cleveland, once I found out a hellmouth was there, I defended it."
"So what brought you here?"
"I could sense that a dark power was rising and it led me here. You don't have to worry anymore, sister." Akin said as he took her hand in his. "I'm here now and I'm going to help you train the girls and defeat the First."
"Thanks for the recharge boss." Lissa said as she stood to her feet. The First had just went inside of her body and charged her with it's power.
"You are my herald." Kendra/The First replied. Suddenly she doubles over as if in pain and falls to the floor.
"You okay boss?" Lissa asked as she moved over to her side.
"I'm more than okay." The First said as it stood to it's feet. "A new door has been opened onto me. Another universe." she said as she looked up at Lissa. "I have to go. Do you tink you can handle tings here for awhile?"
"Of course."
"Be seeing ya." the First replied as she blinked away.
"Alex." Annabelle said happily as she got to her feet and hugged him. Wincing with the effort. Akin just hugged her back as the potentials and scooby gang watched on. Putting an impassive expression on his face, he let's go of Annabelle and addresses the potentials.
"I am Akin Bembola." Akin said as he looked over at the girls. "Me and Kendra talked and I will now be helping to train you girls. Unlike Slayers, I use the method of modern day weapons. Does anybody in here know how to use a gun?"
"I do." Kennedy said as she raised her hand. "I'm an army brat and my dad taught me how to use weapons and stuff."
"Okay, good." Akin said with a nod of his head. "Tomorrow we train."
Vampire Universe C
A black man wearing dark glasses and a leather longcoat wades in water from a sewer. As the genetically altered vampires called Reapers come for him, a sneer of cruel contempt etches upon his face that shows the lifetime of horror, he had seen. His name is Blade.
As he unsheathes his sword, Reinhardt, from the Bloodpack, sweeps a lethal beam of uv sunlight over the two reapers. Blade retreats back into the water, calm, letting the creatures come to him, as he runs down another tunnel. As they close in on him, he stops and slips the tip of the sword beneath the surface of the water, waiting -- As one, the Reapers converge on Blade. He swings his sword up from the water, hacking away at them, using their own momentum against them.
Each way Blade turned with his sword a Reaper would lose a limb. After awhile the Reapers start overrunning him. They pile atop one another in a frenzied effort to get to him. Dozens and dozens of them. As Blade struggles to get the UV grenade device out of the water, all the Reapers stop as if sensing something.
Looking up Blade see's a beautiful young black girl, behind the Reapers. Before he could issue out a warning to the girl a portal opens up behind her.
"Come on boy's." the woman purred in a jamaican accent. "It's time to go to your new home." with that said she blinks away. As if the Reapers had forgotten all about Blade they all charge in mass towards the portal.
As Blade watches the portal about to close, he let's out a growl, grabs the device, and jumps into the portal. As soon as he enters, the portal closes up behind him.
TBC...
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