Part 2,


The morning sunrise was like nothing Illyria had ever seen. She felt warm, as she stretched out of bed. This was only the second time she had slept like a human but she was starting to like it, but the getting up part was draining. Her body didn't want to move but something in her felt alive as she moved to get up as the fog of sleep faded from her body. She looked around to see that she was holding the long eared stuffed animal idol in her arm. Then she raised her arm up and an order hit her again.

"I stink again. Must I be cursed with this smell the rest of my existence?" Illyria said as she realized that she had to bathe once again. With that she reached down and started to shuffle through her bags for new garments to wear and for the material called deodorant. With that she moved to the end of the hall to search for the room of the indoor rain.

As Illyria moved throughout the hallway she noticed that there were several boxes in a few of the doorways along with weapons of various designs hanging on wooden weapons mounts. Text covering various subjects ranging from "Biological development on alien worlds" to "The History of the Amazons" and many of these subjects started to click in her mind as being important. Then as Illyria continued her journey down the all she noticed that there was a door labeled W.C. and there was water running from behind it. Illyria just waited as she studied the sound of a person humming from behind the door. The song she could not place but she had heard it before someplace and it was as if it was a strong memory of Fred's. It was of a memory of a time right after Fred had fornicated with Gunn inside of his conveyance that he had used in battle before he had met Angel and the others. It was of an old tune of "I can't get enough of you Baby" and whoever was humming it was doing a good job at the tune. Illyria became curious about who was singing the song so she decided to done some of the studying characteristics Winifred had used to study a situation that had become honed in Pylea. Slowly opening the door Illyria slowly moved in as she cracked the door to see the Slayer known as Kennedy perched with one leg on the sink listening to a human device called an MP3 player as she cut away at the foam on her leg and scratching in the process the hair off of it with an small bladed handle device. Illyria just stood there watching the Slayer doing a simple hair sheering chore and she became fascinated by this act of removing hair. She knew that the humans had once been from the muck but they had later developed hair later on which Illyria had only recently learned by watching late night educational television. That was just about the time Kennedy looked up as she rinsed her leg off.

"Illyria, I didn't see you there." Kennedy said as Illyria just looked at her and studied the items by the sink.

"Humans are strange beings, you attempt to remove yourselves from your previous states, yet part of your past comes back in regressed primal form." Illyria said as she moved towards the Slayer.

"Yeah it really sucks but hey, there are some things that all this hair removal does. It makes for some really great love making." Kennedy said as she moved towards Illyria and stroked at a lock of Illyria's hair and started to examine it.

"I would suggest a good conditioner to give your hair some life, it seems so limp and lifeless. You might have blue in your hair but you need to understand that looking a little better might make you feel better." Kennedy said looking at Illyria more intensely and Illyria started to move backwards not liking how predatory the Slayer was behaving towards her.

"You look like you are lusting after me like a male, but you are female. This disconcerts me, I feel uncomfortable." Illyria said as Kennedy stopped and backed off.

"Sorry, I thought that you were, you know a male entity in a female body." Kennedy said blushing sheepishly.

"I did not have a gender as to say. I took the gender of my host body." Illyria said as Kennedy looked at her.

"Sorry Illyria, I'm gay and well you do have an attractive body. No wonder Connor said that you looked hot wearing that leather Cat suit of yours and during the battle well, you have a good figure." Kennedy said as Illyria became unsure how to proceed.

"You lust after members of your own sex." Illyria said as she attempted to fathom this alien concept of same sex fornication to her mind. "How can there be any young as a result?" Illyria said looking at Kennedy.

"Well Illyria, I don't know... I'm just kinda of wired that way sexually. My true feelings about my sexuality didn't come out until I learned after a spell that I liked women instead of men." Kennedy said as Illyria took note of this.

"So this action you are taking towards me is your attraction towards me as a potential mate." Illyria said worried afraid that she would be in some mating act that she knew not how to proceed in her seven lifetimes.

"Not exactly, I already have a girl. I just, you know, kinda of find you attractive, a little skinny but good looking. So I apologize for how I approached you." Kennedy said as Illyria stood her ground.

"I do not wish to be an object of your fornication. I was just watching your hair sheering technique that you were performing on your limbs." Illyria said as she was prepared to summon one of her blades.

"Oh, so for you... You haven't seen anyone shave... Have you." Kennedy said realizing the reason that Illyria was watching her.

"I apologize, I took your looking at me as you being.... I deeply apologize." Kennedy said as she looked away from Illyria. Illyria just twitched her head around in her bird-like pattern.

"I have much to learn about this shell I am in and last night's talk about hygiene has left me curious and disgusted at the same time of how this body will operate as I am confined to it." Illyria said moving towards the Slayer.

"Illyria, I'm sorry. I think that the both of us tripped at what the other was thinking. Truce." Kennedy said as she offered up a slightly wet hand to Illyria.

"Truce Slayer, if there are other's with your sexual preference tell them if they even look at me in a lustful manner, I will batter their bodies and pull their eyes from their sockets to see their mewed and battered bodies." Illyria said as she started to become almost feral in front of Kennedy.

"Illyria, I'm human and trust me if you want to know why people lust after you, take a word of advice. You have a beauty about you that people see inside of you. A sense of danger and of innocence that both contrast and compliment yourself." Kennedy said as she touched Illyria's face. "It isn't your body they lust after, Illyria..." Kennedy said as Illyria turned to look in the bathroom mirror. "They see the humanity in your heart which is the most precious thing that you have and I see it too... Now I will not make a move on you but you will have to learn about your sexuality and trust me you are definitely going through puberty. Trust me being here will make you a stronger person." Kennedy said as Illyria saw herself in the mirror and she reached out her reflection.

"Wesley... Was this what you were attempting to teach me, that I still have much to learn about myself. I am small, not as mighty as I used to be, I cannot rule by running... You knew that I would fall more than once. You just wanted to give me a perspective on life. I will learn Wesley... I will honor your memory in that way." Illyria said as she turned towards Kennedy with tears going down her face.

"Will you accept my apology, Kennedy the Slayer?" Illyria said as the Slayer looked at Illyria.

"You know Blue... We have to do something about the way you look because between your marble peach skin and your blue markings you need to seriously need some fashion work because you look like you need to improve your appearance because no Slayer would ever be caught with split ends like that." Kennedy said as and Illyria started to look at each other and start to laugh like mad.

"Yes, my hair... It looks like the underside fur of a Maul Beast from Quartoth realm. I agree with you there." Illyria said as she leaned on Kennedy.

"Well Illyria, I let you get cleaned up, but here... You might want to use this when you wash your hair." Kennedy said as she handed Illyria a bottle of hair revitalizer.

"What will this do?" Illyria questioned.

"Lets just say, its part one of the bodywork that I'll help you with." Kennedy said as she headed out of the bathroom around Illyria and closed the door behind her. Illyria stood there for several moments after Kennedy had left and looked at herself in the mirror again as she pulled of her nightshirt and looked at her naked human body.

"I have so much to learn..." Illyria said as she realized that the Fred in her wanted to do some touchup work on her especially around her neck. "Is my neck really that long? Or is it just the Stripes?" Illyria thought in the back of her mind.


Vi the Vampire Slayer had just come into Slayer House after spending her watch duty with Gunn. For a guy that had been slice and diced by a group of Vampires as he decided to take out their demon master, well he showed that he was tough as nails. Between listening and comparing war stories about demon's monsters and killing techniques she started to learn that she wasn't the only monster hunter out there. Heck the way that he talked about slaying a forty-foot tall while crouching monster made her think of her battle against the First Evil. But given how Illyria was behaving when Spike had introduced her to the human demoness, she felt that Illyria was like another being that she had encountered. The Vengeance Demon Anya. Vi knew that at some point she would have to tell the blue demon about how much life Anya had and how much she was willing to sacrifice to protect her friends and loved ones. So as Vi walked through the doors of Slayer house she saw Illyria sitting on the couch wearing what looked like normal human clothing and Kennedy and several other girls around her adjusting her appearance between hair rolls and nails.

"Illyria what are you doing here?" Vi said as she moved into the house and looked at Illyria as she looked at the young Slayer.

"I came here due to me needing someplace that I felt comfortable being with... That and I was scared so Jo Anne and Kennedy the Slayer decided to let me stay here so I could be closer to Gunn as he is recovering." Illyria said as she attempted to get up as the cotton around her toes forced her to waddle in a strange manner but forced her back into the sofa.

"Okay girls, I think we better let Illyria's nails dry." Kennedy said as Illyria just sat there in defeat. "I'll be back in a little bit to remove those rollers from your hair. At least we got it to a point where it doesn't look like a rat's nest." Vi just looked at Kennedy as Illyria slowly looked at the blue on the back of her hand.

"I feel like I'm about to be served up as some elaborate meal instead of being cleaned up." Illyria said as she slouched down some.

"Illyria you look somewhat better than I last saw you at the Hospital." Vi said as she sat down on the couch next to Illyria.

"I know, but this being human is something that I am still learning about, but I feel like I have been taken down by some mighty foe." Illyria said as Vi reached over and took Illyria by the hand.

"Hey I'm still learning to be a Slayer. So how about this, you teach me to fight and I'll teach you some of the human nuances of what it means to live in this world." Vi said as Illyria looked up at her.

"You are asking for a trade that you will get the better part of it Slayer." Illyria said examining the young Slayer.

"No, I say you are getting the easier part Illyria." Vi said as the Illyria looked at Vi's cast.

"Gunn has marked you with his name." Illyria said as she moved her hand to feel the black marker laden signature of Charles Gunn.

"Yeah he did and I signed his, listen do you want to sign mine." Vi said as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a black marker. "You know kinda of a trophy of saying I am here. Spike did a little thing of poetry called the Slayer when I asked him. What do you want to put?" Vi said as the question put Illyria deep into thought.

"I shall sign my name, in the four languages that I have come to respect." Illyria said as she sparked her finger and accessed Fred's memories of how to use the pen and started to think of the way she would put the symbols on to the cast. Then Illyria started to slowly do the symbols of her name and she realized that she started to feel comfortable as the symbols started to take form. First she did her name in the language of the Old Ones, then in Brak-Lin, then she wrote her name in English, but the last time she wrote her name, it started to come out in mathematical equations that had been floating in her mind since she had taken over Winifred's body. Vi looked at her cast and took notices of these last symbols.

"Um Illyria," Vi said as she tried to stay still as possible as she attempted to prevent her arm from cramping. "That is an interesting math problem you are putting down. What does it mean?" Illyria had to stop for a second as she looked at and studied the symbols with curiosity.

"I believe it is my name in the sorcery called Science." Illyria said as she finished the last symbol. "I don't know what compelled me to write it, but I sense that I have evoked my name." Illyria said as she felt some power flow around her.

"Illyria, why did you do that?" Vi said as something hit her and flung her to the other side of the couch.

"Vi, are you well?" Illyria said as she rushed off the couch and moved with inhuman speed to Vi.

"I fell okay, just that last thing you put on my cast sure packed a wallop." Vi said as she looked at the cast again, and the mathematics had changed in to something else. It read: "Winifred Burkle, the soul of Illyria the Prymordium"

"Uh, Illyria is your name Winifred? Because your spell is saying what your name is." Vi said as the letters on her cast changed from bluish black marker to glowy green and red letters. Illyria moved and saw it and realized why she had written it.

"Winifred is a part of me, I believed that she was gone, now I know I'm not alone on this journey." Illyria said as she handed the marker back to Vi.

"Well the next time that your sister or soul decides to send you a message, tell her to make a phone call." Vi said as she looked at Illyria, as an egg timer dinged.

"Do you have something cooking Illyria?" Vi said as Kennedy came back into the room.

"No, Vi..." Kennedy said as she moved over to Illyria. "It's time to take the rollers out." With that Kennedy moved Illyria back to the couch and started to take the rollers out of Illyria's hair. "Now after I get these rollers out, Suz and the others have picked you out something to wear." Kennedy said as she slowly bit her lip lower lip with her teeth.


Charles Gunn lay in bed looking at the TV, between the mass speculations on several TV networks about where the Sub-T community can come from. The very fact that Earth as a whole just had been in the middle of two inter-dimensional forces for several centuries had started to set in. What Gunn and the other had done was just to make sure that there was an Earth left in the end. But this program on CNN was mainly a science debate of how these doorways could be opened and the possible cultures that had arisen on those worlds.

"I say that according to the Murdock theory, that these Aliens or "Sub-T's" as they are being called must have passed through pre existing doorways between the dimensional realms. Now, how such doorways or portals could be opened would require large amounts of energy." With that the speaker onscreen was put in a mini box at the top of the screen as footage of the monster portal was shown with the forces of Wolfram and Hart coming out of it. "Given how the portal here was shut down, it speculates that there are biological beings that either have large energy stores in their bodies equivalent to nuclear reactors or have the ability to channel naturally occurring electrical or gravitational energy in the area to open these doorways." One of the speakers said as the image shifted to his counterpart on the screen.

"Yes but according to research done by Winifred Burkle at UCLA, she stated in her theories that dimensional gateways would require the focus point of what she calls a "Hot Spot." Now if these hotspots were in an area where the amount of natural energy would allow for such doorways to occur and form. Then the only thing that prevents these doorways from being seen is the use of coherent particles that would make them visible to an outside observer." The speaker droned on and on as Gunn reached for the remote and started to flip through the channels only to find that the kids' networks were the only ones not showing back-to-back News reports. It was like nine eleven all over again with news guy talking with news guy, talking to government official or technical expert or some analyst or business executive taking about what had happened. Heck where was Rudy Gullianni when you needed him. At least that guy knew how to put things were they were needed.

"Mr. Gunn..." A nurse said sticking her head into the door, to see if he was awake. "It is time for your physical therapy." The nurse said as she rolled in a wheel chair.

"Oh, alright. Anyways TV was looking boring." Gunn said as started to pull the sheet off of his body.

"Wait I'll get it." The nurse said rushing over to stop Gunn.

"Listen you have had some severe injuries done to you. Most of your insides are being held together by stitches and that blue stuff your girlfriend put inside of you." The nurse said as she helped Gunn up into the chair.

"I know but this is like the second or probably third time I have been in the hospital like this." Gunn said wincing at the pain he had.

"Second or Third time!!! Mr. Gunn you better think of choosing a better line of work. Because whatever you have been doing is pretty dangerous." The nurse said as a figure came through the door.

"Charles, are you in here?" Illyria said as she came into view as the Nurse moved behind of Gunn.

"Yeah, I'm in here Illyria." Gunn said as he saw Illyria. She was wearing a baggy yet feminine black long sleeve t-shirt that had red sleeves, which hung loosely around her hands. She was wearing denim blue jeans that made her form look like she was Angelic but it was her hair, the browns and blues of her hair showed that it was highlighting her face especially her blue eyes. It was as if her hair had come to life and gone from the flat dead falling style she had had since she had taken over Fred's body, now it seemed that somehow she had tapped into Fred's being and somehow it had started to transform her to something less menacing and more human. The stripes that ran from her forehead and the sides of her neck were almost invisible but still noticeable, as she looked coyly at him a little unsure how to proceed next to him. She looked like a human being and if it weren't for the blanket-covering crotch she would have seen the boner that he was giving her.

"Human... Um, Gunn. Do you find this appearance satisfactory? " Illyria said as the nurse turned and looked at her.

"Well if he doesn't find you attractive even with the blue hair there must be something wrong with his head." The Nurse said as Illyria came closer.

"Gunn, I sensed that I am close to you. The Shell's... Sorry." Illyria said as she turned away for a moment in shame. "I am still learning these emotions. They are complicated but the Slayers are teaching me." Illyria said as she turned back towards Gunn.

"Illyria, well you look like a Goddess." Gunn said taking her hand.

"I do???" Illyria said wondering if her change in appearance had done something to give her back her former powers or some of her prestige that should have had when she entered this world.

"Yeah... Like an Angel that has come down to save my life." Gunn said as he took her blue toned hand in his and started to stroke the back of it.

"I know that you are trying to fit in, and this is a start." Gunn said as Illyria started to cry.

"My eyes seem to be over flowering with their fluids," As Illyria started to wipe at her face and one side of her shirt started to slide down to reveal her shoulder and the yellow bra she was wearing underneath.

"Well I'm kinda of glad you are showing your human side, you haven't shown much emotion other than see the bad guy, kill the bad guy." Gunn said as Illyria looked at him as she slowly moved over to pick up a Kleenex and started to dab at her eyes. "I'm not ashamed of seeing in you. I know that you are not Fred, but in time you will find your own feet as you walk around." Gunn said as Illyria turned back to him.

"This ground is uneven for limbs like these, I used to slither on my tail and I had speed and strength in my last form." Illyria said holding out her arms and legs.

"Well, Blue. Life doesn't give us what we want... It gives us what we need and right now you are in need of being held." Gunn said as Illyria moved slowly over to his chair and realized something in the back of her mind, where was the Nurse taking him.

"Healer, where are you taking Gunn here?" Illyria said as she looked up at the woman.

"To his death..." With that the Nurse changed her form sprouted a blade from her arm and took a swipe at Illyria and Gunn. Illyria using her summoning powers and brought up a metal pike and blocked the blade's blow. Suddenly the woman or creature attempted to slice at her and Gunn again. Suddenly she blocked several blows of the blade as she spun around and used the end of the pike and did a head blow.

"Gunn are you well enough to move the conveyance you are in?" Illyria said as she grabbed and pushed out the wheelchair with her leg and Gunn started to roll the chair with what strength he had to move it at speed he hadn't even thought about.

"Yeah, just deal with blade babe." Gunn said as he rolled the chair into the hallway.

"Senator Lilith Hodgekiss was my master, Charles Gunn will die." The killer nurse said as she attempted to take another slice at Illyria, but Illyria used her summoning powers and transformed her pike to a battle-axe and swung it hard taking one of the blades out. The Nurse decided to duck and run on the wall and dive out the door and moved into the lobby. Illyria started to run after the Nurse. Using her own speed, Illyria started to move at a velocity that started to force her limbs to ache. Illyria had not known that pain could feel like this, it was as if time was slowing down and pulling into a blur. Something was driving her like it was a primal force of her being that she didn't want to lose another person like Wesley. As Illyria moved down the hallway she could see the nurse slash assassin extruding another blade from its arm as it slashed at a police officer in the hallway and cleaved the poor soul in half as Gunn spun on by him.

Illyria knew that in some part of her being that time was slowing down for her.

"My the Powers that Be hear my call, please give me the speed to ensure that the human Charles Gunn doesn't die." Illyria said in the back of her mind as time started to slow around her. As Illyria moved she felt that something had wakened inside of her. Then Illyria saw the Nurse and she was leaping towards Gunn. Illyria ran harder and harder until the world around her morphed into nothing but a bunch of streaky lines in the sides of her eyes as she swung her axe with all she force she could muster through this environment and slammed it down through the Nurse. The force Illyria had used on this one attacker slammed the humanoid demon not just through the floor but also through three others until it came to a rest leaving a large dent in the last one. With that Illyria turned to moved around the hole she had made and knelt next to Gunn.

"Charles... Are you...?" Illyria couldn't say anymore Charles moved his arm around her back and pulled her close.

"I'm going to be okay, Blue..." Gunn said as several security guards and police officers came up around them.

"Secure this floor." One of the officers said as he moved towards Gunn and Illyria, "Son, what happened here?" The officer said as Illyria and Gunn just held onto each other, not answering the question. It didn't need to be answered from the way they were holding onto each other.


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