Chapter Eight

July 02 1999

It had been a couple of days since his talk with Xavier when he stumbled across the pub in a rough part of town called O'Malley's. From the out side it looked like a slightly run down bar, but inside it looked like a well kept English pub with a difference it was a demon bar. Xander had been bored and went out looking for some vamps to dust when he had saw some yuppies leave a office building on wall street, they were vamps and Xander had followed their cab as they left the area, he had followed them to O'Malley's. The bartender and owner Maxamillion O'Malley was quick to inform him that the bar was neutral territory and there was wards on the place to stop any violence in the bar and there was an undeclared truce for a three block radius around the bar and it was enforced by the people in the area no matter the religion, gang, or species. This is where Xander went back to school under the tender mercies of one "professor" Solomon Kane.

From Solomon Kane Xander learned how to use a few more medieval weapons and a few more fighting techniques than what he knew and that there was a whole lot more out there than what was in Giles' books and what he had since remembered. For one there was Mr. Kane himself according to the books and council records Solomon Kane had been born to a prosperous Puritan family in Devonshire, England in 1549, and had been an adventurer, ships Captain, Buccaneer and pirate. He had been all over the world fighting all of the things that go bump in the night and supposedly died at the age of 61, fighting a clan of werewolves in Greenland saving a lost colony of Vikings. Mr. Kane told Xander that it was all true to a point, he didn't die, he had been exhausted and pretty much beat up when he had stabbed the last werewolf, alpha male of the lycan clan hiding out on Greenland and with his last breath had cursed him to never change and to be invisible to death. It was years later that he realized what that were had done to him, he wasn't immortal as far as he could tell, and he still healed at the same rate as a normal human. What the curse had done was stop his aging process and some how gave him the "luck" needed to prevent him from getting any Serious or fatal injures when he fought. So here he was 450 years old and still looking to be in his late 50s.

Solomon taught Xander everything he knew about the various Races of demons, vampires and werewolves. Xander learned that there were two types of Demon Vampires and three types of souled Vampires with subgroups or clans. The biggest groups are the Demon vamps, which are the Aurelius line, the vampires that Xander knew about, before he had his memories restored and there was the Dracula Line, (the vamps from the Blade movies), which is made up of twelve houses or families, that over the centuries have developed different abilities. The Dracula line vamps are also severely allergic to silver. The souled lines are the Kindred, which is the largest group made up of thirteen clans, Seven clans make up the Camarilla, two the Sabbat and four are the neutral clans, all with different abilities and claim to be descended from Adam's son Cain (Xander knew better, he knew it had been his former host Cain who had created the virus that had created the kindred line of vampires). The ones who call themselves Vampyr (Forever Knight) appear to be the most powerful, they are faster and stronger as fledglings than the others as elders, and they can fly. This group claim to be descended from Adams first wife Lilith (again Xander knew the truth; the virus that created the Vampyres had been created by the scientist by the name of Morgana La Fey, her friends called her Lilith). The third type of souled Vampires and the smallest group is the Corvenus group. Of the werewolves there is three types, the lunar werewolves like Oz, the Immortal werewolves who call themselves Lycans, and the smallest group are called the natural werewolves, they are born werewolves and can change at will and have a human form and wolf form and usually have a life span equal to normal humans, the experts consider them a separate human race, and are slowly going extinct. There are only four groups left, one at Wolf Lake, Washington and three groups in Canada. All of this Xander knew about since his first human host, Cain, had been one of the scientist that had created the souled Vampire lines and the Werewolves lines, the only Vampires that he hadn't known about was the Dracula and Corvenus lines. He didn't tell Soloman this he let Solomon think that he was as he appeared a 19 year old kid from the hell mouth.