There's moments in your life that make you, that set the course of who you're gonna be. Sometimes they're little, subtle moments. Sometimes...they're not.

Xander sat there in surprising calm at the announcement of another slayer. Buffy on the other hand was not. Being the slayer was her thing she doesn't know who this Kendra is but she can't be the slayer. Buffy's the slayer.

Xander looks at the new girl. "So who are you?"

Kendra repeated herself. "I am Kendra de slayer. I have no last name."

"Wow can you say stuck in the 80's and she can't be the slayer, I'm the dam slayer." Buffy quipped.

Xander looked at the two and a painful face formed at the memory as the realization sunk in. "You're both slayers."

Buffy glared at Xander. "The only way she could be a slayer would be if I …oh." Buffy realizes what Xander means. "But it was only a minute."

Xander shrugged. "I guess dead is dead Buff. No offense."

Kendra stares on at confusion. "What are you two talking about?"

Giles catches on with what Buffy and Xander were talking about. "She drowned, but she was revived."

"So there really are two of them." Willow says from the hallway.

Xander fights the urge not to laugh. "Can we please let Willow in?"

Giles nods and opens the door he kept Willow away because he thought Kendra was another assassin. Kendra looks at the girl and feels uneasy. Something about the red head is off. If Kendra didn't know any better she'd swear she was a vampire but it's too early and too sunny.

Willow went to the computer and finished her search for Angel's enemies. She got an idea. "Daniel Holtz"

"Died over a hundred years ago." Giles informed her.

Xander was in thought. "How about Dark Soul some of those entries might be about deadboy and his enemies."

Willow thought about it and typed it in she has nothing better to go on anyway. "Over 3,000 matches 4 of them are about Angel and oh." Willow smiled seeing Xander and Angel has something in common. "2 are about the Black Swordsman."

Xander's eyes nearly popped out of his head. He made the research material but he has the same nickname as Angel. He goes to the computer. "Let me see that." He looks at the first incident and groans. "Oh come on those were demonic elves."

Xander looked up and saw confused looks between Kendra and Giles. "I'd wager."

Xander kept reading the second incident. He has no excuse for that one the eclipse just ended and he wanted to kill a demon he didn't care who got in the way. "So what do we do?"

Giles was the first to speak up. "I believe you and Buffy have to go. Law Enforcement meeting and Snyder is on the prowl."

The Slayer and the swordsman rolled their eyes in all the excitement of wormy they forgot. Xander took wormy's ring out of his pocket and threw it to Giles. "Buff barbequed another assassin." The two proceeded out the door.

Giles looked to Xander. "Xander"

"Yeah G-man"

"Sword"

Xander felt his back and realized it was still strapped on. He removed the strap off his waist and the blade falls to the floor. "Thanks" He says as he exits the door.

Kendra looked at the sword and wondered. "How does he swing tat ting."

Giles shrugged Xander lives with him and he really didn't know either. "He just does."

They are on their way to career day when Buffy makes a sudden stop at the broom closet and throws Xander in. She gets in herself and quickly closes the door.

"We need to talk!" The two say in union.

Xander was confused by that "Um…ladies first."

Buffy started though now she wonders what Xander has to talk to her about. "How do you feel about Willow?"

Xander didn't know what to say. "Willow is well Willow fangs and all she's still Will."

"No, no, no, I meant Willow as girl." Buffy replied.

Xander nodded as it clicked. "You mean would I ever date Willow?"

Buffy nodded.

Xander pouted. "I'm not blind I know Will has a thing for me but I just don't feel that way about her. She's like a sister you know."

Buffy shook her head in understanding. "Do you think that could ever change?"

Xander nodded his head no. "Not really save for higher powers or the idea of evil getting involved."

Buffy frowned a little for Willow and what's this idea of evil?. "Good thing you didn't tell her about the sister bit. That's like the ultimate soul crushing defeat to a girl. So what do you want to tell me?"

Xander took a deep breath ready for the ass kicking or whatever Buffy does to him for this. He has it coming. "Do you remember when I was possessed by the hyena pack?"

Buffy nods not going to forget that he ate a pig raw.

"So do I." Xander muttered out. "I didn't have the guts to tell you before and I'm thankful for desks."

Buffy realized that he told her this to put the ball in her court. She can do whatever she wants now. She decides to give him one quick jab to the face causing Xander to wince and put pressure on his nose. "You're an idiot."

Xander moves his hand no blood and she didn't break anything. "I know."

"I wouldn't have cared." Buffy replied. "And besides I have plenty of desks on hand if you try again."

"I'd never ever of my own free will do-" Xander's rant was brought to halt as the slayer put her finger over his mouth.

"We've all done crazy things under a spell that we regret." Buffy says as she touches the scar above Xander's nose that's her regret coming very close to killing him if the blade had gone in deep. "So don't worry about it. Anything else you want to tell me."

Xander thought about it no that was it. "I can't think of a thing."

"Well I have one last thing." Buffy said wrapping her arms behind Xander's neck.

"What's that?" Xander asked.

"I want to be the one that tells Willow about...this" Buffy said. "Your not exactly good with words considering the sister thing." The two share a quick kiss before Snyder comes looking.

The two go to the law enforcement booth and sign in. The red headed female officer takes the clipboard and starts saying names. "Buffy Summers"

Buffy puts her hand up and the officer puts down her clipboard and pulls out her gun set to aim it at Buffy. Xander however grabs her hand and smashes it into the locker a couple times forcing her to drop it. The officer pulls out a hidden knife and nearly slashes Xander across the arm. Buffy pushed her into the locker and the officer swung at her but Buffy was a vastly better fighter dodging until she had the chance to kick the knife out of the cop's hand and kicking her hard knocking her back into lockers and onto the floor. The officer pulled out another gun and aimed at Buffy who was too far away to do anything. Xander ran in front of her and waited for the inevitable.

BANG

Buffy and Xander watched as someone took one hell of a shot and shot the second gun out of the officer's hand. Buffy and Xander each grabbed one of the officer's arms and Buffy noticed the Order of Taraka's ring on her finger. They turned around saw of all people Jonathon Levinson holding the gun that Xander knocked out of the assassin's hands. He was the one who took the shot.

"Nice shooting Tex." Xander quipped.

Buffy was amazed at that shot. "How did you do that?"

Jonathon was nervous but said. "I'll explain everything in the library."

Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles all sat in shock as Jonathon finished telling his story.

Xander was still trying to wrap his head around this. "Let me get this straight. On Halloween you took the gun I was going to buy to be a soldier and turned yourself into the friggin Punisher."

Jonathon nodded. "Snyder strong armed me into chaperoning and I already had the costume from Comic Con just needed a gun which I got from Ethan's."

Buffy can't believe this was she the only one that picked something stupid for Halloween. "And now you have the skills and marksmanship of the Punisher."

Willow had her share to add. "Why did you shoot the mayor in the face with a shotgun?"

Jonathon knew it was going to come back to that. "Because he was planning to kill us all during graduation. He would have turned into a demon and ate us."

Xander was shocked of all the cruel things to do. "You mean to tell me even when we made it through 4 years of this hell he was going to kill us anyway."

Jonathon nodded.

"That son of a bitch what kind of sick weirdo was he." Xander said he can't believe he was going to be a sacrifice so a human can become a demon…again.

At this point Kendra finished her time with the police officer whom they learned is named Patrice. "I don't tink she knows anyting."

Giles takes over for the new slayer but Kendra doubts he'll get anything from her. 20 seconds later they hear Patrice from the other room. "I'll talk I'll talk."

The scoobies including Jonathon and Kendra ran into the room.

"What happened?" Willow asked.

Giles was just putting his glasses back on. "She got chatty."

Patrice breathed and asked. "Can you untie me with 6 people here I'm not exactly going to get away."

Buffy unties her and in an unspoken conversation with eyes makes it clear if she tries to run Buffy will beat her to death.

Buffy looks at her. "So who hired you?"

Patrice glared at her. "It was a vampire her name is Drusilla."

Willow can't believe it Angel was right. "She set me up didn't she?"

"If you're the Martian vampire yes. She wanted the slayer to kill you and watch you tear yourself apart in guilt."

Willow's eyes went red. All the hell she put herself through since they found Harmony's body she owes Drusilla pain. She quickly regained her calm. "Why did you kidnap Angel?"

"Drusilla needed him alive for a ritual to restore herself to full power."

Xander was confused at that she seems pretty lucid to avoid the scoobies and send assassin's after them. "She seems in control and powerful at the moment."

"It's a temporary cure. She's eating the remains of someone called Spike to stay near full power."

Xander's face scrunched up. "Ugh"

Buffy's face soon matched. "I see your ugh and raise you an ewww."

Xander realizes something. "Wait, Will's blood is supernatural cyanide how the hell is she still alive."

Willow knows this from experimenting with Angel. "My blood is only lethal straight out of the vein it goes back to normal blood pretty fast."

Buffy turns to the Patrice. "Now this is the $64,000 question where are they performing this ritual?"

"The church on 3rd street but you can't stop it."

"You don't know that." Buffy said.

Patrice smiles one last time. "Me and my brethren you fought are the child's play in the order odds are Drusilla has foreseen my capture and already called in the elites, the big muchachos. I'll save you a seat in hell Slayer." Before anyone can get to her Patrice puts one hand below her jaw and another on top of her head and breaks her own neck falling over dead.

Xander just looked down, "So how are we going to hide a dead cop in the Library?"

To answer Xander's question Patrice's body turns to smoke and vanishes.

Jonathon looks at it. "Do all the demons you guys kill do that?"

Buffy shrugs. "It's usually just vampires."

Willow glares at the group. "Church now quip later."

The scoobies come back in defeated and embarrassed. Patrice lied. So instead of finding Angel and getting into a massive drag out brawl with Drusilla they instead…stormed a baptism.

Buffy starts off. "I've never been so embarrassed in my life."

"Well at least we got free holy water." Willow quipped.

Xander leaned against the bookcage. "Will we stormed a baptism. Those kids will be scarred for lives."

Giles was washing his glasses. "Not likely they were only infants."

"and Jonathon got blessed by tat priest." Kendra added.

"He was choking me." Jonathon replied.

Willow recatches her resolve. "Maybe we should look up a sire thing. Angel told me he was the one who made her."

Xander rolls his eyes. "That guy got serious neck in his day."

Xander looks over to Kendra. "You Ok new girl?"

Kendra responded nervously. "Y-yes s-sir." She looks down at her feet.

The rest of the day and some of the night was spent looking into Vampire rituals until they found the one they were looking for. Using the life force of a sire a vampire can be restored to health. They require a cross of DuLac and to meet at the Dulac Church. Now that they have a place they call Cordelia as the sun is down and they need a ride to get there quicker.

Xander and Cordelia follow Jonathon up to the clocktower and see quite the array of weapons. Really shows how no one pays attention in Sunnydale.

"It's always the quiet ones." Cordelia quipped.

Jonathon grabbed a pair of Ithica 37 shotguns and instructs Xander where the ammo is.

"You know we have crossbows if you're a long a distance man." Xander said bluntly.

"With a 30 second reload time and a one bullet clip." Jonathon said holding up a gun. "This is just as dangerous as a cross bow if misused it's just more effective. But if you insist on using medieval weapons I suggest switching to a longbow."

Xander comprehends in his head that he just got smacked down by Jonathon of all people. He goes to where Jonathon said the bullets were and opens the box and pulls out green shells.

"I thought shotgun shells were red?" Xander asked.

Jonathon picks them up and loads his guns. "They're custom rounds."

"Can I have a gun?" Cordelia asked.

Xander and Jonathon's eyes shot up in horror. Jonathon went into the pile and gave her a tazer and a stake. "You can have a gun when you learn how to shoot."

The scoobies get to the DuLac church with an array of weapons. Buffy has a sword and crossbow after repeatedly shooting down Jonathon's offers. Kendra has an Axe. Xander has his sword, The knife from the Cyclops, and Puck. Willow has a katana that she and Angel modified so it can take blood from her resembling the sword she used on Halloween. Johnathon had one of the Ithaca shotguns and a pair of desert eagles. Giles had the other Ithaca and a stake. Last was Cordelia with a tazer, stake, and cross strapped around her neck.

They enter the library and see Drusilla a picture of health and a half dead Angel at her feet. Along with three new assassins. A ninja in a gray and silver thing that looks like battle armor half his face resembles a robot and the other half resembles a blond long haired girl. On the other side was a demon from the looks of it. Green skin, long red hair with a big red scar across his chest wearing nothing but a pair of shorts he growled at the scoobies. Standing in the middle was an 8ft tall ogre more beast than man. He had red and black eyes black hair and with all the muscles he was built like a brick wall with a sword as big as Xander's.

Puck was terrified. "Xander the one in the middle is-"

"I know." Xander cuts him off.

"You can't beat-"

"I know." Xander repeats. "Besides I don't have to beat him I just have to keep him busy so he doesn't transform."

Drusilla smiled. "All the lambs have come to the slaughter."

Angel spoke up weakly. "She already completed the ritual get out of here."

Drusilla kicked him in the face knocking him out. "Bad daddy"

Willow let out a growl. "Drusilla is mine."

Xander stares at the thing from his past. "I'll take the ogre."

Kendra stared at the demon. "I will fight de green one."

"Ninja Barbie is fine with me." Buffy quipped.

Jonathon nodded. "We'll deal with the other vampires."

Everyone started fighting their opponents. Jonathon saw two vampires running for him. He aimed right at the middle and fired. His shotgun releases a wave of little metal crucifixes and fire instantly incinerating the two vamps. He pumps the gun and fires at another definitely better than a crossbow. Giles was calmly using his shotgun to a similar effect. Cordelia made a unique strategy of tazing vamps where it hurt, or getting them in the neck then staking them while they were twitching.

Kendra was fighting the feral demon. She grabbed it but the demon let electricity course through its body shocking her. Kendra quickly let go and kicked it in the face. The demon jumped at her and wrapped its hands under its legs turning itself into a human canon ball. Kendra ducked under and the demon scratched her from behind tearing up her shirt.

Kendra looked at the damage and went into a rage. "Tis my favorite shirt. Tis my only shirt."

Kendra delivered one stiff kick to the demon's head and it wobbled over a pew. She jumped over and took several quick swings of her axe and the demon was no more. She knew how dangerous the Order of Taraka was.

Willow is doing her best against Drusilla. However it ends up she's more dangerous than Spike is. Willow went for a couple swings with her sword but Drusilla dodged it. The vampire countered with a punch to Willow's gut knocking her down.

Xander charged the ogre sword drawn. Xander took a swing with his sword and the ogre took one of his own. Xander quickly changed his sword to defend himself and was knocked into wall hard.

'He hits even harder I remember.' Xander thought to himself as he pulls himself to his feet. The ogre stood impressed. It has been decades since someone has successfully dodged one his attacks. When Xander got to his feet the ogre took another swing at him. With impressive speed Xander ducked under and ran to the other side of the pews. The ogre roared and moved the pew away with impressive strength. Xander bolted and the ogre gave chase just as Xander hoped he would.

Buffy was fighting the ninja in a sword fight. They fought to a stalemate however the ninja's sword was built of stronger material and Buffy's sword cracked under pressure.

The ninja took a swing and Buffy ducked under finally giving her an opening. The slayer swung the sword and cut the ninja across the chest. Two things happened. The sword cut the ninja and this white puss came out instead of blood and Buffy's sword broke before it could go in deep enough. The ninja swung a punch that Buffy caught and countered with a punch of her own and a kick. The ninja went for a spin kick but Buffy caught its foot high and kicked it below the belt. To Buffy's surprise despite the long blond hair the ninja is a guy. Buffy put her arms around the ninja's neck while he tried to recover and kept squeezing and turning until something broke and the ninja fell down dead.

Buffy surveyed the field and saw Kendra, Jonathon, Giles, and Cordy on clean up. Willow was fighting Drusilla while Xander was on the run from the ogre swordsman. Buffy took the ninja's sword and went to attack the ogre.

Xander saw Buffy sneaking up on him and yelled quickly. "No, Buffy help Willow."

The ogre turned to her and Buffy looked right back at him before turning to Xander. "He'll kill you."

Xander nodded his head no. "No he won't. Now go help Willow."

Buffy nodded and went to the redhead. The ogre turned back to the boy in a smile and talked. "Honorable move boy to keep fighting one on one. I would have hated to have our duel interrupted."

Willow knicked her finger and blood poured down her sword. She ran up to run Drusilla through her sword but the vampire caught the redhead by the throat.

"Look at me dearie." She waves two fingers in front of Willow putting her under her spell.

"Be…in my eyes…be…in me."

Drusilla moves around and Willow follows her stare. Drusilla takes Willow's sword off her and in one swift movement of her other hand cuts the red heads throat and then runs her through with her own sword watching Willow fall to the floor.

A loud clang is heard as Xander and the ogre's swords clash one last time as Xander's sword breaks in half. Xander just looks at his broken sword in disgust and throws it aside. "Piece of crap"

Xander pulls out his knife and stares down the ogre one last time before speaking in a whisper. "It's been an honor."

Puck just silently nodded. "Same here."

Xander rushed the ogre in one last move until it kneeled down in pain. Xander looks behind him and sees Kendra and her axe handle in the Ogre's back pulling it out. Oh god she didn't.

Xander looked at the other slayer. "What do you think you're doing?"

"I tink tat I'm saving your life." The slayer responded.

The ogre let out a laugh. "It has been centuries since a mortal has cut me so deeply."

Xander grabs the sharp broken end of his sword in his hands he has to finish this now. He gets the creature's attention away from Kendra by saying his true name. "Zodd!"

Zodd turns around and sees Xander rushing him. How does the boy know that name he hasn't it used since the battle of Acathla. Zodd swings his sword down and Xander swings his broken blade across. Zodd's sword breaks and he is in shock.

"That attack." Zodd exclaims he remembers seeing it before. Xander quickly stabs Zodd with his sword but the demon stops it from going in deep and starts transforming.

"Kendra get the others out now." Xander shouts.

Kendra won't leave Xander behind because she's watching Zodd transform. Zodd finished his transformation and he was twice as tall as he already was and now resembled a Minotaur with a lion's head covered in brown fur. One horn on top of his head the other was lost centuries ago.

Xander just looks at Kendra. "For the record I was trying to keep this from happening."

Zodd let out a smile. "So you know who I am."

Xander just looked at him. "Zodd the Immortal aka god of the battlefield. In truth however you were the godhand's mindless puppet."

Zodd glared at Xander as his blood boiled over. "You dare."

Xander looked at him. "I call it as I see it. You went from badass immortal icon of death to giving a princess a ride in her bed. You did that today there'd be a Disney song about it."

Zodd was furious how does the boy know all this. "I will tear you apart."

Zodd rushed and started punching and clawing through the church just trying to kill the boy. Xander was dodging for all he's worth.

Kendra looked on shocked she doesn't even know which one she's saying this about. "Tat man is psychotic."

Buffy ran up and saw Willow unconscious. She's stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. She looks on seeing Xander run from a friggin Minotaur and teasing it as he goes. Buffy makes a choice seeing Xnader can take car of himself she runs up to Willow but Drusilla stops her.

"Look at me dearie."

Buffy just punches her in the face and quips. "Better vampires have tried." Buffy connected with two more punches square on Drusilla's chin.

Xander quickly realizes he has no more ground to run to. Puck stands ready to flash Zodd. Then the worst thing happened. Kendra went to attack Zodd again. Zodd was amused the first time but not anymore how dare this girl interfere in his fight with the boy. Zodd turned around and lowered his head. Kendra tried to stop herself in time but she was running too fast. Xander jumped on Zodd's back to try to stop it and pull the demon's horn up but no good. Kendra was impaled on the demon's horn. Xander jumped over Zodd and pulled Kendra off before he could raise his head up.

Buffy was fighting Drusilla and heard Kendra scream. She turned to see Xander had her in his arms laying her down on a pew so Puck could heal her. Buffy wasted no time. She grabbed Drusilla and threw her down hard into a pew smashing it to pieces. Drusilla is down for now. Buffy pulls the sword out of Willow so she can heal. And takes the ninja sword. She runs over to Xander and throws him the ninja sword. Xander catches it and the swordsman and the slayer are ready to fight.

Zodd just looks on intrigued as Xander whispers something to Buffy. The two teens rush the apostle as he awaits their approach. At the last second Buffy and Xander split up Buffy going to the left and Xander going to the right. In two quick swings Buffy and Xander each cut off one of Zodd's arms.

The apostle howls out and Xander shouts. "Guys get the wounded we're leaving."

Xander picks up Kendra, Giles picks up Willow and Buffy puts Angel over her shoulders and they go for the door.

Once outside Buffy shouts at Xander for making them run away. "Why did you?"

Buffy was cut off as the roof exploded. Zodd sprouted wings and had reattached his arms with Drusilla held in one of his hands. The acolyte shouts down now knowing who the boy is from that last attack. "Next time, we will finish our fight Black Swordsman."

Xander looked to the sky with smoldering hatred at the acolyte for what he's done tonight. "Count on it Zodd!"

Giles, Jonathon, Cordy, and Angel are looking over Willow whom is pale white no surprise considering all the blood she's lost tonight.

Giles turns to Angel. "Is she?"

Angel just nods no seeing her wounds have healed. "She's still alive but she should stay at my apartment tonight because the hunger is going to drive her insane when she wakes up."

"Any idea what Drusilla is up to now?" Giles asked since she still has one Taraka assassin at her side.

Angel nodded. "Something about with 6 pieces of blue daddy will come home."

Jonathon, Giles, and Cordy turn their attention to Kendra. Xander puts her down noticing Puck hasn't healed her yet. "Puck what's taking so long?"

Puck just frowns he knows he just didn't want to admit it. "There's just too much damage for me to heal in time. I'm sorry."

Kendra just tried to smile through pain. "It's ok Xander it's part of te job. Where's Buffy?"

Buffy kneeled down next to the dieing slayer. "I'm here I'm right here."

Kendra tries to weakly reach for a stake but doesn't have the strength to. Xander sees it and gets it for her and puts it in her hand. Kendra holds the stake out to Buffy. "Tis my favorite stake…I call it Mr. Pointy."

"I'll ram it through Drusilla's heart." Buffy vows.

Kendra feels the world going white around her. "T-tell Mr. Zabuto I tried." She turns to the others finally losing the slayer faced. "I'm cold." Kendra eyes lose their lust for life as a white light appears to her it consumes her making her feel like for the first time she has found peace and feels at home.

Xander pulled Buffy into a hug seeing she was upset. Hell they all were upset as they gathered around Kendra's body.

Cordelia didn't know what to say or do so she asked. "So what do we do now?"

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments.

No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

Author's Notes

Thanks for the reviews

Regards to Jonathon. The whole betverse started as a simple idea. Make a Halloween fic not about Xander. Needless to say I failed horribly. The bet was originally just going to be Guts doing his thing on Halloween Night and reverting into a blood soaked Jonathon whom passes out from shock. However when I remembered the anime and the manga I kept going back to similarities to Xander I realized it had to be him. So I decided I would give Jonathon something in the sequel.

Buffy is owned by Numfar it's why he does the dance of joy.

Berserk is owned by Kentaro 'Lazy Bastard' Miura

Blood+ is owned by Katsuji Morishita see not me.

The Punisher is owned by Disney. Still trying to wrap my head around that.

Up next: A time skip to Buffy's birthday.