Part 9,


Note: D.B.G.T, which Andrew says in this chapter, pertains to the Anime Dragon Ball GT, a kung fu fighting cartoon where most of the characters have superpowers and noticeably when they really revved up their powers they form an energy aura around them before they throw an energy ball or take flight. In other words, when you see them glow, they are going to kick some serious ass in the process.


Illyria had spend several hours on the plane with several of the Scoobies... Between the warrior Xander, Buffy: the Queen of the Slayers, The Slayers: Chloe, Faith, Kennedy and Vi, the Red haired Earth mother Willow which made Illyria feel just plain off set. A human with the power of a God, but Illyria felt a certain relief when around her... Not unlike the Oracle Tara. Not a domineering personality but one of compassion, and need be... Fury. Then the rest of the individuals on the plane were the same. Giles a fellow Shadowman and elder of her own beloved Wesley... then there was Wood... Faith's fiancée. Though Illyria sensed that he had some of the Slayer warrior line in his blood, he felt like more of a knight that would teach young warriors the errors and problems of the things they would encounter ahead and not all the battles would be with mortal foes, they would be the personal ones.

Then there was Dawn... Illyria had felt almost a kinship with her, like they were both new to this world and had deep ancient magic in them... Dawn was a bit scared, but Illyria had felt that if this mortal had a fragment of the universe contained within her. Such power, yet such innocence... When Illyria had used her powers to see past the veil of reality that cloaked this young individual, she felt that she had seen a fragment of the Ojon. She couldn't have... the Ojon was sacred... The thought had stuck in the back of her mind and was making her human side think about things she was afraid off... Mortality. With that Illyria got out of her seat and moved over to Dawn...

"May I speak with you? Illyria said as the very round-faced girl with brown hair looked up at her.

"Your that Fred girl from L.A." Dawn said as she looked up. There again was the shimmer of reality as the girl faded out and the Ojon was seen again. Illyria's curiosity was perked.

"Yes I am..." Illyria said as she looked at the girl and letting the illusion and reality wave between each other. That was when Dawn got a good look at Illyria's human face.

"Wait I know you from somewhere?" Dawn said as she patted her hand on a vacant seat by her. "Mind that you sit down." Dawn asked as something in her started to realize something about Illyria.

"Yes, I shall sit by you?" Illyria said as she noticed that Dawn had remained solid.

"You ... look familiar." Dawn said as she started to examine Illyria then fear hit her. "You don't walk into people's minds and give them nightmares...." Dawn said getting scared.

"No, I do not... Those creatures are beneath me." Illyria said as Dawn's appearance faded again. Illyria's eyes opened and saw the Ojon before her... "Ojon..." she said not being able to stop herself from trembling...

"Are you going to hurt me?" Dawn said, as Illyria had to force herself to blink...

"You are the Ojon..." Illyria said as she averted her eyes away from Dawn... "Mustn't look upon it... Sacred..." Illyria said as she closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around her body...

"You see... what I am..." Dawn said as she attempted to place a hand on Illyria but she shifted away.

"Yes..." Illyria said as she started to breath like mad... she knew that rapid breathing like this was bad for her... But it was the fear driving it and not her will.

"So... you know what I am..." Dawn said as she stood up and grabbed Illyria by the shoulders and shook her. Illyria was getting frightened.

"OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT ME!!!" Dawn said as Illyria forced her eyes open... She was terrified. Not since she surveyed what had happened to her once mighty temple and her empire, had fear set it this hard... Suddenly Illyria started to lose hold of her human disguise and her blue stripes and Alabaster white skin returned as locks of her hair started to go darker blue.

"What are you?" Dawn said as Illyria was on a verge of passing out...

"O...Old.... Owa.... One...." Illyria said as she passed out.


"Okay..." Dawn said over the passed out form of Illyria... "This is a first... Buffy usually scared the crap out of the bad guys..." Dawn said as a flight attendant came by and saw the passed out Alabaster woman in the chair next to her...

"Oh... shittt." The woman said looking at Illyria's face. I need to tell the pilot that we have a..." the flight attendant said as Chloe came by...

"Let me take a guess... Old blue passed out after she hyperventilated." Chloe said as she adjusted her black leather jacket.

"Huh..." Dawn and the Flight attendant said at the same time.

"Blue here is part demon..." Chloe said as she patted Illyria on the head... "I see that she did her little demony thingy, went blue and all... Is that drool coming out of the side of her mouth?" Chloe said as she bent down to look at the damage... "Dawn... What did you do to her?" Chloe said as she looked up at Dawn.

"Um... Nothing... We were just talking and then she freaked... had a panic attack then... I said what are you... then... She went all blue and passed out." Dawn said looking at Illyria.

"Do you have any smelling salts on the plane?" Chloe said being the only calm one in this row of seats...

"Yes I do..." the flight attendant said as her brain started to kick in again. "Oh... Okay..." the flight attendant said as she left to head to get some out of the first aid kit.

"I don't want to know Dawn. I don't want to know..." Chloe said as she looked at Illyria.


The smell was odious to Illyria's senses and she wished it would go away... As she opened her eyes and waved her hands... "Remove, that foul stench from my presence, or I will place it in a realm that will produce so much pain, you will have wished for the peace of death." Illyria said as she attempted to clear her mind of the previous events that had occurred to her.

Then Illyria looked up to see the incarnate form of the Ojon Key... "You are... Ojon..." Illyria said as she attempted to make herself more polite and humbled before this being... "The Key." The Ojon chewed over what Illyria said and studied her and wondered if she was a threat.

"You know what I am. So are you going to hurt me... or are like going to be some groupie and follow me around. Because I don't want either." Dawn said in her best impersonation of Buffy. "I have Slayer blood inside of me, I know how to kick ass." The Ojon said as Illyria looked at her.

"The Ojon taints itself with Slayer Blood?" Illyria said concerned and worried.

"No... Slayer Blood didn't taint me... The Slayer blood is so that I can protect myself." The Ojon said as Illyria reached slowly out...

"Then you know what I am?" Illyria said worried some as she put her hands in her lap.

"Well I know that you are an Old One... whatever that means... I also know that you see me as what I am and what I was... and you afraid of one of the two." The Ojon said as Illyria head followed the Ojon's human form as she sat down by Illyria.

"It wasn't fear it was..." Illyria attempted to search for the words to use. "Shock and respect of your presence." Illyria said to the Ojon.

"Great... A Groupie..." the Ojon said in disgust to Illyria.

"No, I am not a... Groo pee..." Illyria said sounding out the alien word.

"Then tell me why are you here?" The Ojon said looking at her with a bit of anger, but under all of it Illyria saw fear in those eyes.

"I... I have lost everything from my world and when I saw..." Illyria stopped fearing that this being before her would destroy her.

"You thought that you would be able to reclaim some of your old glory..." the Ojon said as Illyria started to realize that she had to step in quickly.

"No. Not glory... I just... I have only found a few things in this strange world that I have found a connection with." Illyria said as she looked down at her hands. "At those times this strange world feels like I am home..." then the Ojon put her hand on Illyria's hands.

"You're homesick." The Ojon said as Illyria looked up at her.

"Homesick?" Illyria said wondering what the word meant.

"Yeah homesick... Longing for home... or a piece of it... I understand." The Ojon said as she sat down by Illyria and reached into her pocket and pulled out a medallion attached to a watch. "This medallion belonged to my mother... well not actually my mother... the woman who I thought was my mother... but a mother none the less. When she died... I thought my world would be gone. But between me being scared and not wanting to be this Key thing... I found comfort in choosing to say. "I am Dawn Summers, I have a sister... her name is Buffy... My Mom's name was Joyce..." I don't know how long I went on reciting stuff from my life... I didn't know what was real but I kept saying what I felt was true. But I knew that I needed to be human just to deal with the pain... Because that is all I knew." The Ojon said as tears started to come from her eyes...

"You made a choice to be human?" Illyria said as it hit her of why would a being made of the stuff that held the universe together would choose a fate to be a mortal.

"Yes I did... the thought of being this thing of energy... It's something that I am afraid of... It's just too much for me to deal with. But as a human, I have the ability to be who I want to be... skinned knees, wanting to be part of the crowd, it just a little old over whelmed me. But it is there I know that I just have to deal with what is in front of me. It ain't much... but it's a whole lot better than the alternative of being alone." The Ojon said to Illyria, as Illyria felt better...

"You made this choice... Not to be alone, even with all the powers you have?" Illyria said realizing everything that had happened to her for a reason.

"Yes... Power is just a tool... Now matter how much you have of it... sometimes you don't need it, while others do need that power to do good things... to help make things right in this world." The Ojon said as Illyria felt kinship with this being.

"Then you will not destroy me for... knowing what you are?" Illyria said as she sought out approval from the Ojon.

"No... Destroy... Pffalat... Just I feel that there is this connection between us. Like we have been in the same boat." The Ojon said as a common bond started to develop between them.

"Boat... we are in this flying conveyance that is taking us to Cleveland." Illyria said as the Ojon started to giggle...

"You know that you have a good sense of humor." The Ojon said as she patted Illyria on the arm. "You are going to need that with people." The Ojon said as she wiped the tears from her eyes from laughing so hard.

"I do not get it?" Illyria said looking at the Ojon...

"Hello... we are in a metaphorical boat being so much alike and we are also on a literal plane." The Ojon said as Illyria started to realize the joke she had said.

"We are in a boat that isn't here and yet we are on a plane together." Illyria said as she pondered it, then the image came into play and she started to laugh... For the first time in a long time she understood that you needed to just let go. That was Moments before things went to just plain weird... for the rest of the occupants on the plain


The plan was simple to take the plane and send a message to the government... How were they supposed to know that there was a group of Superheroes on board the plane? A would be hijacker though as he was pinned under the foot of a woman with blue hair.

"Hey Blue... I think Riley is going to have a lot of paperwork to fill out after this." A young woman said as he saw her holding up Mo by the nape of his neck and had him slammed against the side of the divider between the various sections of the plane.

"I believe that the warrior of the Green will be pleased in us stopping this muck from causing trouble among his leaders." The blue haired woman said as she kept her weight squarely on his jaw making him squirm on the isle floor.

"Yeah, Blue... But your Agent Smith impersonation needs to be toned down some. You know crack a joke... Hell read some Spiderman comics." Another woman with Raven black hair said as she and her husband drug two more... very unconscious associates down the other isle. "You know I can let you take a look at my comic collection and you can take a few notes..."

"Yes I will Faith the Slayer..." The blue woman said to Faith.

"Uh... Let me take a guess is there a Slayer convention you are all going to?" The hijacker said wondering what he had done to deserve this...

"No... We are not going to a convention... we are heading to the Slayer's home base." The blue woman said as she leaned more weight into the back of his neck.


Dana was scared... Hot tears were running down her face as she buried the side of her face into the pillow. Between the straight jacket she was in and how feral she had gotten, she just wanted to die...

Dana just replayed the moments of fog she had before she attacked Mina... she wanted to take Mina's life and there was nothing she could have done but watch... the voices were winning and she was being swallowed by the tide of personalities...then there was a click of the door behind her. Dana didn't want to see who it was, she was too scared who it would be. Then a gentle hand caressed her face.

"Dana... it's Faith." Faith said as Dana started to cry more.

"It's going to be okay... I'm here now..." Faith said as she leaned into Dana's view and Dana pushed herself up by sliding against the wall. The pressure against her forehead felt good as she could ground herself in the here and now with each ridge of the paint. "Sorry about taking so long to get back here... I just needed to see a friend." Faith said as she slowly moved the locks of dislocated hair from Dana's face.

"I'm scared Faith." Dana said as years of repressed emotion started to flood on out. "I don't want to be that monster..." Dana said as she felt another injection take hold.

"It's okay..." Faith said as she leaned forward and hugged Dana... "I think I found someone to help you control those voices in your mind." Faith said as Dana snuggled into Faith's neck...

"Do you think I am going to be a real girl?" Dana said as Faith moved back and looked into Dana's eyes...

"You are a real girl. And I am going to make sure that you will have a chance at a normal life." Faith said as she moved to caress Dana's olive skin.

"We are Slayers and we are the closest thing we can have to family... given all we have lost" Faith said as a knock on the door occurred. "Dana, in the next day or so... I think you will be okay." Faith said as she got up and took a blanket out of her backpack and placed it around Dana. "Here... Sleep tight... I'll be back in a few hours." Faith said as she got up and headed out the door.

"Faith... Will I... forget my parents?" Dana said as Faith stopped walking and turned back towards her.

"I don't think you ever will, just try to hold onto the good memories. Those are the ones that will give you strength." Faith said as she stood there for a moment before heading out the door.

"Faith there is a guy from Homeland Security that wants to speak with you about what happened on the plane." Andrew said as the door closed behind Faith.

"Homeland Security?" Dana said aloud... what is Homeland Security?


Illyria was sited behind the computer terminal inside of the Slayer and Watcher Stronghold. Such marvelous technology and devices that told more than any Oracle she or even any other being she had known in her existence. But it was the Slayer next to her that had her real attention.

"See given that every Slayer has the cumulative memories and experience of all the Slayers that have come before them. Now given that, that gives us an edge in battle of who and what our opponents are and how to take them down." Mina said as she kept scratching at the brace on her knee.

"I see, so a warrior such as your self, if you have encountered an Old One, you would knowledgeable in the ways to hurt, harm and even to kill them." Illyria said suddenly understanding how these Slayer had come to be feared so many creatures.

"Yes, kind of like the saying... when one Slayer dies another rises." Mina said looking over the various bits and pieces of information about the Slayers that existed in Dana's head. "In this case... Dana didn't just get the combat knowledge downloaded into her head... She got some of the personalities as well and it is getting very noisy in her head." Mina said as she displayed the file on the computer.

"So her personality is being drowned out by the others." Illyria said as the file scanned through and displayed several of the names and places of the various Slayers that Dana had regressed into.

"Yes. It is like a hundred people are occupying the same body and all fighting to gain control of it and Dana tends to get the brunt of their emotions." Mina said as Illyria watched footage of Dana from the surveillance logs. That ranged from her speaking several languages during casual conversations as well as the moments where she was dangerous and afraid. Then the computer hit a snag.

"Damn it... the computer locked up." Mina said as she hit control, alt and Delete a few times before a blue screen showed up on the computer before Mina was forced to hit the power button on the computer and forced it to reboot.

"What happened?" Illyria said as she watched the computer run through its diagnostic repair mode.

"The computer locked up and I had to reboot it." Mina said to Illyria as she watched the display text underneath the utility window note what it was doing.

"Locked up and reboot?" Illyria said as she used a spark to access Fred's memory about computers and realized that was information that pertained to the rebuilding of information on a computer so that it could run properly again. Then she looked at the screen and read the words: REBUILDING FILE ALLOCATION TABLES.

"Yeah that is when a computer has a malfunction and can't access a file or key files correctly." Mina said as Illyria started to sort through ways to use this new information.

"Mina... If there was a way to rebuild Dana' s mind, like a file allocation table and give her the ability to access these memories and thoughts on her own accord... Then would this allow her to be healed?" Illyria said as she examined her ways to access information from her eight lifetimes and Dana's inability to keep this information and thoughts in her mind in any sort of order.

"Yeah that might work, but humans are not like computers, they can't just be rebooted." Mina said looking at Illyria with worry.

"But can this be run without having to reboot the system?" Illyria said examining her options.

"Yes it can, but Illyria..." Mina said as Illyria raised her hand to stop her...

"I have the ability to access eight lifetimes at once. Then... If Dana had the same power as I... And her core personality was made dominate, then would she be able to be healed with only one mind to contend with then several hundred all screaming out their lives into her small mind." Illyria said as Mina started to look at Dana's problem in a new light...

"You mean that if Dana just had to just deal with Dana and just file the rest of the memories into different parts of her head and just let her pick what she wants to access when she needs it, then..." Mina realized where Illyria was going... "Yes that would work, it wouldn't hurt the other Slayers since they have the same information... But for Dana it would allow her to focus on what she needs to focus on... healing." Mina said, as Illyria now understood what course to take in helping Dana out.

"This would work... But she must know that if this is to work, she has to face her own demons in her mind. That I will aid her with." Illyria said knowing that this was going to be more one on one than she had thought about.


Faith watched as Dana was taken into what Andrew had dubbed the Slayer Danger room. Between the projected Illusions, the mounted weapons, and the various protection spells, the room seemed the safest place to perform this healing Spell.

"Andrew, I need you to set the protection system on the highest setting we have." Faith said as she looked at the display monitor before her.

"I wonder what will happen to Dana after this?" Andrew said as he took up his position behind the keyboard with his white button up shirt and his old black Ministry of Evil combat jacket. "Okay... Danger Room is now online White Queen, waiting for Psylocke to do her mental mind meld thingy to Penance down there." Andrew said making multiple X-Men references to Faith.

"Andrew... Please.... go do Sci-Fi geek someplace else, but not during this." Faith said wanting to slap him upside the head.


Illyria was standing in the room... The Magics in this room were almost like the training room at the layer of the Wolf, Ram and Hart. But there was a difference; she was hoping that she would help this young warrior reclaim a bit of her life. That was when Dana was brought in wearing a cloth restraint that kept her arms crossed in front of her body.

"Ma'am..." The security person said as she had one hand firmly on Dana's restraint. "Dana here is having one of her better days but I would be careful, since her last turn she has become very hyper-aware so I would watch yourself." The security person said as she and three others started to head out of the room.

"Guard..." Illyria said before the personnel left.

"Yes. Ma'am..." The Security person said she turned to face Illyria.

"Would you please remove her restraints?" Illyria said sternly.

"Ma'am do you know how dangerous she is. Heck during her last feral state we dumped two thousands C.C.s worth of sedative into her system just to knock her out." The guard said with concern.

"For what I need to do, there must be trust... The defenses will prevent any physical harm, but what I am doing will be mental... so remove the restraints..." Illyria said as above there was a call from the control room.

"This is Mina... She needs to have the restraints off of Dana so take them off." Mina said over the speaker.

"Are you sure Ma'am?" The guards said giving a questioning look up to the command window.

"Yes I am sure... Most of this will be mental and given that we have the system's defenses set on max... We won't be able to even slap her without a major jolt backwards." Mina said as the guard sighed...

"Okay... But I am going on the record that I protest this move." The Guard said as she undid the straps to Dana's straightjacket restrains. Dana had gotten scared some...

"Am I to die?" Dana said as the jacketed restraint was loosened and was pulled away far enough that she could take it off. But Dana didn't make a move as the guard lifted the straightjacket over her head to reveal that she was only wearing a t-shirt underneath and the plastic of the adult diaper crackled under the sweat pants. With that the guard left the room as Illyria approached her wearing her red warrior battle armor...

"Dana..." Illyria said slowly moving forward and taking the young Slayer by the hand. "... You know of me... I am Illyria... I was the one that talked on the viewer about ways to heal you." Illyria said as Dana reached slowly out and stroked part of Illyria's blue stripe on her face...

"You are part demon..." Dana said as she studied Illyria's eyes... searching for something to make her a threat, but the only thing she saw was of concern...

"Yes I am..." Illyria said as she took her fingers and started to work some of Dana's black hair out of her face. "Such power and such sadness." Illyria said as she moved Dana and had the two of them sit on the floor in a circle of sand.

"Yes... I miss my family..." Dana said as she sat by Illyria.

"I know, I also know what it is to be like when your mind is confused.... You do not know what is the truth... I have eight lifetimes in side of me young one... I know of your curse and of your gift." Illyria said as Dana blinked some at her.

"You don't know..." Dana said Illyria put a lone ungloved finger on Dana's lips.

"I know more than even you will know..." Illyria said as she used her powers to summon a small dagger.

"You are going to kill me?" Dana said going of the defensive. But Illyria moved and placed her hand on Dana's shoulder.

"No. I am going to teach you how to use your gift to help you recover young warrior." With that Illyria pricked her finger and then moved to prick Dana's...

"What is this going to do?" Dana said as Illyria placed her own pricked finger on Dana's.

"Teach and learn young one." Illyria said as her existence went black.


Dana was hit with images of thousands of places coming at her with a blur.

"Dana, sort the images to where they belong, they all have a connection... Will them to where they meet." Illyria's voice said as Dana started to see herself out of her body... Her hands were sparking with electricity as she moved through the images... Some pleasant... Like Christmas Morning... Others dreadful... Like seeing the death of the girl with the white tribal face paint.

"I can't there are too many..." Dana yelled as she felt her garments of her astral body being torn off.

"I know you can do this... Start with your own..." Illyria said as Dana started to grab onto the memory of her fifth birthday... She could smell the strong salsa of the enchiladas her best friend's mom, Joey had made for her party... the sweetness of the vanilla frosting on the yellow cake her mom had made... then she latched onto another... the day she had gotten her first bicycle... how much fun she had on that day when her dad had run beside of her with the training wheels on that she out paced him... Suddenly more memories started to come into play as she noticed that there were others like this from the others in her minds. The white face dark haired porcine doll in the white dress... The quartet of flowers being held in another... A Japanese paint set... More images started to fall into place as she connected the memories of these girls' lives into coherent stories as well. There were more and more images... Sad days of mother and father's deaths... Best friends playing around... then there was Buffy....

"Illyria... I think I'm doing it." Dana said as more images hit her... Warriors... All these girls in her head were warriors... Then the images went dark... Then she started to see the bodies of dead people... Some were enslaved... Tortured... Maimed... Killed... and even eaten... Then she saw herself when she was ten...

"No. I don't want to see this..." Dana screamed as she witnessed herself being defiled... the Whistling man was cutting her nightgown off of her body... Suddenly Illyria stepped in.

"You have to, you are almost there..." Illyria said as Dana fled from this memory and ran into one of pure solid peace... Then she was ripped from that and thrown into a grave, which she had to punch her way out of as dirt started to fall down on her face... She had been buried alive...

"Dana... Focus on the fighting... you has the spirit of a warrior... Use it." Illyria said as Dana fled again into another memory...

Dana found herself found herself inside of Faith. She was killing people... then she saw Buffy, the knife slid into her gut... 'You must be in love with

Angel to kill me for him to have the cure.' Faith thought as she looked at the blade in her chest... Dana fled again... This time she was standing over bones... Vampire bones....

"Dana... you must not flee again... you are almost there." Illyria yelled as Dana watched the memories play before her.

She was Buffy Summers... The Slayer... The bones below here were of the Master... You killed me and I came back... I killed you after you put me on death's door... Buffy thought as she felt the sledgehammer in her hands. Then she struck... Bones shattered... Buffy felt relief for s second... Die... Buffy swung again as memories of her being killed by the Master kept being played again and again in her head...

Die... Die... Buffy screamed in her mind with each swing of the Sledgehammer.... Die... Buffy grunted as she with each blow turned the Master's body to powder... then after the last fragment of the body turned to dust she let the hammer fall from her grasp... That was when Xander, Cordy, Willow, Giles, Ms. Calendar and Oz gathered around her. It was over... The master wouldn't rise again....

"Dana use this strength... the other Slayers have it... Us it... Attack the image of the one that had hurt you... Destroy the Whistling man..." Illyria said as Dana started to feel something inside of her grow... It wasn't power; it was control of her existence... Control over who she was... Suddenly she saw the other before her whose line she was part of... Girls and women of various ages all stood before her...

"You are Dana?" They all said in chores. Dana just stood there unsure what was going to happen next.

"Yes... I... I... I am." Dana said with a bit of fear in her voice... "Wha... wha... what do you wa... wa... want?" she said as a lone girl with olive skin and long black hair came up to her... her grab was very warrior like with all the embroidery of a close knit top, and a pair of earthy brown shorts that looked like they were merged with a loincloth.

"I am Inara... the others have selected me to help you." The warrior girl said as Dana looked at her...

"Why have you been chosen to help me?' Dana said as the girl moved forward and touched Dana's face.

"Because like you... I was violated at a young age... I lost my village... I lost my family... the individuals that did this left me for dead... then the Guardians found me." Inara said as images appeared around Dana... the village attack.... the demon minions... the killing... then Dana saw girls being violated by soldiers and demons before being stabbed or gutted, or having their necks broken... one of them was Inara who was stabbed and was tossed into a pit.

"You survived this?" Dana said as she watched the carnage.

"Yes I did... then when night fell a Guardian found me." Inara said as she took Dana by the hand and led her to the pit where Inara's still breathing counterpart lay naked in a pool of her own blood. Then Time jumped forward and a woman lowered herself into the pit wearing the same garb that the Astral Inara was wearing.

"She took me, helped me heal and showed me that I had powers... Slayer powers..." Inara said as Dana felt strength... I was afraid... Half mad from the violation... But she guided me back... Showed me what it was to be alive again... Then I started to hunt the monster and the things that preyed on the weak and the innocent. Dana you have that strength... Even the Old One that is helping you knows that..." Inara said as Dana looked out over a field.

"I used to come here, this is where I met my husband. I was sort of scared about being around people." Inara said Dana watched Inara's counterpart fishing by stream. Then there was a loud splash... A demon was grabbing children and was pushing them into the water in an effort to drown them. Inara moved and stopped the creature. The two children were dragged out of the water. That was when a young man with a bow showed up and saw her helping the children.

"You slew this creature..." the young man said as Inara drew out her blade.

"Yes..." Inara said as the young man approached her... Before he got to close Inara ran and disappeared as she darted out of his eye line...

"I wasn't exactly wanting to talk with any male... due to me being..." Inara said as Dana moved and touched Inara's face with understanding... "Well, it took awhile but we finally met, talked... I told him what happened. And years later I bore him four daughters..." Inara said as she let the images flash forward... "Dana you are a descendant of one of those daughters I bore him." Inara said as Dana now understood why the others had chosen this Slayer of the past to speak with her...

"Why me... Why did I have my family taken from me?" Dana said as Inara moved through the other memories with her.

"It was random Dana, but you do have the power to destroy him." With that Dana's fingers started to spark with electrify again...

"What is this???" Dana said as Illyria started to speak again.

"Dana... this is part of my powers, use the power of the Slayer line and take out your pain on the one the inflicted this damage on you." Illyria said as Dana was thrown back to the moment that she was being attacked.

Dana looked at her naked and terrified younger counterpart who was curled up into a ball next to the chained post in the deserted whiskey factory. That was when the spirits of the late Slayers started to appear and enter into her body as the sparks in her hands started to grow stronger and brighter in the process. Then the Whistling man came into the room expecting to have some more fun time with his newest pet... he stopped when he saw Dana...

"Who are you?" The human predator said as Dana's now glowing eyes sparked with fury...

"I am Slayer... She is Slayer... I am here to take back what you have taken from us... " With that Dana started to spark and form an energy ball with her hands. "You will know what pain is and death will not be the end... It will be a beginning of eternal torment." With that Dana threw the energy ball at Whistler and slammed him into the wall behind him.

Suddenly more and more Spirits started to appear and walk into Dana as she moved towards Whistler and started to hit him with punches and kicks at such speed that kicks and punches struck the same place in succession after a single beam of light hit the same spot. Dana was pounding Whistler into the wall as her younger counterpart looked on.

"You took twelve years of my life... You took my family... You took my INNOCENCE... I WILL STRIKE YOU FROM EXISTANCE..." Dana yelled as her hits grew with more anger as Whistler's face started to fade.

"You cannot defeat me... I will exist because I am now eternal..." Whistler said as he gave Dana a mocking grin as he phased into the wall.

"Dana... He is now a Spirit... Like all Spirits... they can be destroyed or vanquished." Inara said as she moved by Dana's now counterpart and placed a blanket from her own time over the child.

"How do I do that?" Dana yelled as she harnessed her powers and formed two glowing gauntlets on her hands.

"You must merged with Inara and your younger self and summon your powers and destroy his bones." Illyria said from everywhere and nowhere. With that Dana ran towards Inara and her younger self... Then object in the room started to move around them.

"I won't let you do that..." Whistler said as more and more objects started to fly around at Dana. The various saws, serrated blades, candles, plates, unfurled springs from the mattress, syringes, and tons of broken glass attempted to slice at Dana as she ran... if this battle was going to end. She was going to send this guy with a one-way ticket to Hell.


"My God... Dana and Smurfette the Warrior Princess just went Vegeta on us." Andrew said as waves of Electrical energy formed around Dana and Illyria's bodies creating what he could best term as major superpower overload.

"Andrew... is that what I think it is forming by them?" Faith said as the revving of a vortex started to coalesce beside of Dana and Illyria. The sparks started to reach on through it.

"Yeah... they're doing an Android Seventeen on us from D.B.G.T." Andrew said going full geek on Faith...

"Andrew... " Faith said as she looked around the monitors in the room. "... Will you stop with the science fiction geek stuff and fire up the computer defenses and see if you can get the two of them to stop." Faith said as she tapped on her wireless earpiece to access the speaker in the Danger Room. "Fred... Dana... If you can hear me... stop what ever you are doing... And get out of there; your neural activity is reaching maximum levels. You are moments away from complete synaptic failure." Faith yelled at the top of her lungs forcing Andrew to lean one of his ears into the shoulder to muffle the sound.

"Faith... the portal... I just did a telemetry lock on where it is opening." Andrew said as the readings showed that the portal wasn't going extra-dimensional... it was planetary... "Faith the doorway they are opening is opening on the..." Andrew checked the transmission trace signal again. "California???" Andrew said as he looked down at the flickering window showing the place where Dana and Fred were at on the floor of the Danger Room.

"California? What the hell is in California?" Faith said as the energy flowing from Fred and Dana started to reach through the vortex.


Dana was dodging objects through the air as she ducked dodged, leapt and flipped as Whistler's psychic-self attempted to maintain a link to his victim.

"Illyria... I could sure use some help right about now." Dana said as she slid with enough forward inertial force that she hit Inara and her younger self.

"Dana... I am opening a vortex... I have located his link to this world... I'll see if I can used our combined powers to break that link." Illyria said as Dana and Inara shielded the younger Dana from the debris.

"What do I do here???" Dana yelled out to the non-corporeal Illyria...

"Stall him... do what Inara says. But protect your younger Self." Illyria said as something more powerful started to take form around Dana.

"Inara... what do we have left to us?" Dana said to her ancestor.

"Dana... Whistler fears our merging, he knows that once we do that... he will be crushed." Inara said, as Dana understood from her heritage... what it meant.

"I understand... I am Slayer... Death is my gift... I deliver death so others may live." Dana said as she placed her hands into Inara and her younger, innocent self. That moment Dana felt power... She felt the blood and knowledge of all of her ancestors... All of the Slayers that had come before her and the ones yet to be born... Dana became fully human... Fully Slayer at that moment... Not since the times of the Old Ones had a power like this been seen and so focused on an single entity... Dana was about to show Whistler what fear was... she was Death...


In an undisclosed graveyard, in an unmarked grave lay the body of Weston "Whistling Man" Kendel. Suddenly the earth around the grave started to shudder as the simple wooden casket that Kendel was buried in, started to be forced up to the surface by the energies ushered out of the vortex from above. A passerby would have thought that there was an earthquake happening, but it was something more powerful... As the casket exploded out of the ground and started to hover as the sides of wood were ripped apart grain by wood grain at supersonic speeds. Peter Voorhees a funeral director at a local funeral parlor and a grounds keeper at the cemetery watched as the body bag inside of the casket was incinerated and the skeletal remains hover over the ripped open hole in the ground as if something big was about to happen.

"Do you think we should report this?" Peter said to the grounds keeper who was wondering if he should hit the local bar and get drunk if he survived this.


Dana felt powerful as she moved through the vortex. Whistling Man's body just hovered there.

"Noooo... you cannot do this... I command you... I will hurt you...." Whistler's astral self said as Dana, the Slayer incarnate just batted his astral assault away from her...

"You destroyed who I was... You took my family... Killed my baby sister in front of me... Destroyed my life." Dana said as waves of pure electrical energy made up this form... "You did not know I was part of a warrior bloodline... I now will destroy you... Death is my gift... Now I GIVE YOU OBLIVION." Dana yelled as the sound behaved more like a sonic boom... As Whistler's skeletal remains were incinerated to the point of vaporization, each section of bone matter was shucked into fragments as it floated up into a wisp of glowing white hot plasma as Whistler's spirit was ripped from its hold on this plain of existence and sent to Oblivion.

For the longest time Dana looked at the hole in the ground after the energies of her action.

"Free... I am now free." Dana said as she headed back through the vortex.


"Dana..." a voice called out... "Dana..." it called again... Dana opened her eyes... she was sitting in her room...

"Mommy..." Dana called out as she looked around her room.

"She isn't here Dana..." A woman with the same colored skin she had was standing next to her window, another woman with Alabaster white skin and blue Trill strips and blue hair was leaning on her dresser and a third woman with olive skin and wearing a Xena-est Amazon garment was standing by her bed.

"Dana it is going to be okay..." the Amazon said as Dana clutched the sheets in front of her small body...

"I remember you... your from my nightmare." The girl said as the woman who was standing by the window came over by her...

"It was not nightmare..." the woman said as Dana started to get Scared...

"No it isn't... MOMMEYYYY." Dana screamed...

"Dana... you are a spirit..." the blue woman said... as she slowly came towards her...

"Noooo.... " Dana sobbed as she started to cry...

"Dana...." the woman by her bed said who looked like she had been through a lot. "I'm you..." She said as she moved and stroked a lock of hair out of Dana's face.

"What do you mean?" The younger Dana said as she started to look at her and saw he same round face, the same pencil thin eyebrows, the same part in the middle of her hair...

"Dana... I'm you... that man that... monster... he." The elder Dana couldn't finish.

"Dana... I am Inara... One of your ancestors and me, Illyria and your older self went on a mission to save you." Inara said as she sat on Dana's bed. "I know that we cannot bring back your family, but we have given you a chance." Inara said as she bit her lip.

"A chance at what???" Little Dana said.

"To be innocent again..." Dana said as she started to cry... "I lost eight years of my life... most of it living as individual trapped inside of my own body unable to move." The elder Dana said as she started to cry...

"Dana..." Illyria said as she moved by the elder Dana and hugged her. "... It's going to be okay..." Illyria said as Dana started to feel scared.

"Illyria do you know what it is like to be alone... Trapped in a vessel that won't let you out as you spend every moment of your existence wanting to scream." Dana said as Illyria sat her on the bed as the younger Dana got out from her sheets and kneeled by Inara.

"I know Dana... I spent ten thousand years trapped in a sarcophagus with nothing to deal with other than my memories, moments of sheer terror and all of this being in a non physical form." Illyria said as she started to let the elder Dana cry on her shoulder. "When I finally got out... So much of my world had changed... I was a stranger... At times I feel like I am still lost, but when I am something familiar... I feel like I am home again..." Illyria said as she moved to let Dana look at her. "Don't lose that... You have a people, a heritage... Friends... They might not replace what you have lost... but you will have the chance to make new memories..." Illyria took Dana's face in her hands. "... I am..." Illyria said as Illyria's blue eyes showed understanding... Dana studied her and realized that she wasn't alone...

"Um... Miss..." The younger Dana said tapping Illyria on the shoulder... "If you are a super hero... am I... I mean... are we..." the girl said pointing back and forth to both versions of herself.

"A hero... well you have the power to be one..." Inara said as she taped the younger Dana on the arm.

"Well... do I have a costume... like you two?" The younger Dana said as Illyria and Inara looked at each other...

"I am unsure what the garments of the Slayers currently are, but I feel that you will chose one that is right for you." Inara said as she stood up leaving Illyria and the two versions of Dana sitting together.

"Illyria, I know that you are still troubled about your actions... In time you will know that you like Dana here will have a destiny to fulfill. Don't worry Faith will guide her." Inara said as she moved towards the Danas.

"Dana... I Inara will give you a gift... The world has changed much for you two... don't fret..." With that Inara put two fingers of her right head on the elder Dana's head and then placed two fingers of her left hand on the younger Dana.

"Dana... I give you the gift of knowledge and the ability to reclaim who you were once was." With that the two Dana's started to blur and merge into one body as Inara brought her fingers together. The Dana sitting before Illyria looked a bit younger than the Dana that had vanquished the Whistling man but had some of the pain in her eyes...

"Awaken Dana..." Inara said as she brought the young woman up. "... I have combined your innocent human side with your Slayer 'warrior' side." Inara said as Illyria stood up as well and looked at this newly formed being...

"Illyria... you have aided in the creation of a new born Slayer, the way it should have been done." Inara said as this new Dana being reached out a hand and felt a lock of Illyria's blue hair wondering how one could dye their hair that way?

"I'm a superhero now?" Dana said looking at her form as she moved towards her bedroom mirror.

"If you want to call your self that... it is up to you... but you have much to learn..." Inara said as she came up behind Dana. "Illyria here only opened the door so you could save your self. I am only the voice of your ancestor. I too was a Slayer like you... It will be a long journey for you... You will fall many times and rise up again many times as you learn... But keep this in mind... You are Slayer... Remember that..." Inara said as Dana felt that she was going to be okay... then Dana saw light coming through the window.

"What will happen to you?" Dana said a she felt Inara's touch slip away...

"I will be with you Dana... I am inside of your heart and mind... Flesh and bone... Dana... you and I are family... Now it is time for you to wake up. You have much to learn from Faith." Inara said, as the Light grew so bright that she could not make out anything around her.


"Dana... Wake up..." Faith said shaking Dana by the shoulders. "Come on you wild cat... claw at me... You have to fight... Breath... or I am going to kick your scrawny Slayer ass." Faith said checking for a pulse again. Then there was a gasp for air from Dana as she attempted suck in air like she had been a drowning person....

"Dana... stay with me." Faith said as Dana's eyes flew open then shut again as she coughed several times from taking in so much air.

"Dana... it's going to okay... Five by Five from now on okay... I won't let anyone hurt you..." Faith said as Dana attempted to say something...

"Inara..." Dana said between coughs... "Inara... what is a Slayer?" Dana said confused....

"Dana stay with me..." Faith said as Dana moved her hands up to rub her eyes...

"Inara.... Slayers... what are they..." Dana said as she started to look around the Danger room. It was as if she was trying to get her barring. "Where am I???" Dana said as she looked around and saw Illyria forcing her way up.

"Dana... you know where you are at." Andrew said staying by the door... Knowing that the last few times Dana went feral, there was only a moment's warning...

"Wait... the memories they are coming back... I was... Faith..." Dana said as she was standing on her own two feet now... As she looked at Faith... "Did it work???" Dana said as she walked forward to Faith.

"Dana are you okay???" Faith said looking around at how Dana was behaving...

"Yes... It is like coming out of a dream..." Dana said looking at her hands then she noticed Illyria on the floor.

"Illyria..." Dana said as she rushed towards the blue demoness. "... Are you okay???"

"Dana... The power...." Illyria said realizing what she had experienced. "I thought that power like that was only a legend..." Illyria said as she moved towards her feet.

"Power... what power???" Faith said helping Illyria to her feet.

"Slayer power..." Illyria said as she attempted to get her balance. "I didn't know that the stolen magics were from Edinia..." Illyria said as she started to cry... "... I thought there was nothing left... now I find myself looking at why I was drawn to your people..."

"What do you mean?" Dana said as she moved towards Illyria.

"Dana... The Slayers and the Old Ones have the same Ancestors..." Illyria said as she looked at Dana...

"What???" Faith said as she pulled the blue demoness off the floor.

"The Slayers... and My people..." Illyria was crying... "Dana... I kneel before you..." Illyria said as she fell to her knees.

"Illyria..." Dana yelled as she ran those few paces that were between her and the blue demon. "... Is this something I did?" Dana said being scared...

"No... Dana..." Illyria said as she reached up to stroke Dana's face... "It is nothing you did... I am glad to have aided you in this part of your journey." Illyria said as she grinned. "You have a destiny now to follow child of Inara..." Illyria said as Dana just started to trace the side of Illyria's face.

"So... you saw her too??? Inara and the power to..." Dana said, as she felt scared and relieved at the same time...

"Yes... I saw Inara and your ancestors, the one the was Slayer..." Illyria said as Faith moved and sat down eye level with Illyria and Dana...

"Who is Inara... is she some demon we have to fight?" Faith said as she looked at Illyria...

"No she was my ancestor, Faith." Dana said as she looked at Faith. "I am the descendant of Inara the Slayer." Dana said as something kicked into Faith's head...

"You mean you saw the Slayer line?" Faith said as for years she had attempted to grasp with her Slayer powers...

"Saw the line... One of the line saw what was happening and came to our aid." Illyria said still a little shaken from her experience. "She helped to place Dana on the path... Faith... Dana can now heal with your guidance." Illyria said as Andrew started to creep into the room...

"So Dana will not wanting to have this sudden urge to rip her clothes off and do a slice and dice on people ala Calisto." Andrew said as Dana looked at him.

"Who's Calisto???" Dana said looking at Andrew... then feeling the weight of her chest slowly moved her hands towards her breasts and felt the two large globes of flesh on her chest... "And when did I get boobs???" Dana said realizing that there were a lot of questions she had about what had happened to her...


"Slayer... I am a Slayer" Dana said in the shower letting the water caress her body as she brought up her hand... And studied it. It was much larger than she remembered...

"Eight years... then the factory and the... then if Mommy and Daddy are dead..." then it hit her some of the memories... being violated... escaping... then she felt it in her gut... "My powers... I used my powers... to get away..." Dana said as she started to scratch at her wrist where the watch was. It didn't look like it had a fastener to it and it felt like it was bonded to her wrist... Then as she scratched at it, the lower part of her arm moved under her breast.

"Okay..." Dana said as she traced under and over the texture of her breasts... "I have boobs???" Then she squeezed. "Yeap... their real. And I thought having a training bra would be bad... when they were small... Their huge..." Dana said as she started to trace over the rest of her body as the water made her hands go over the surface much smoother... "Okay... I have a curve... CURVES... Um... a... Oh...Boooyy." Dana said as she put her hand between her legs and felt a hand full of Blood. "FAITH." Dana yelled.


"So how did things go with Dana?" Angel said on the phone with Faith.

"Welll Angel... I think she is going to be okay..." Faith said as a plastic bag of something fell to floor.

"What was that???" Angel said worried.

"Nothing just a bag of tampons..." Faith said as she picked up the bag and set it on a table.

"Tampons???" Angel said as he wondered what was going on.

"Yeah... Dana just experienced her first period Angel... it is a little hard for her to adjust to having such an adult body..." Faith said as he could hear bedsprings creak under her weight as she sat down... "She just went from having eight years of her life taken from her and being in a delirious state "then now suddenly sane... trust me... simple girl stuff felt normal to her... So adjusting will take some time... But I am now understanding why Illyria wants to cast that age reversal spell on her." Faith said as Angel listened to her breathing.

"So..." Angel said as he looked out of the window and watched Amanda playing with her GameBoy game system. "... Have you thought about going out to a movie..." then Angel saw Spike come in and sit down on the staircase. "... Dana might want to catch up on some of what she lost." Angel said as he watched one of the younger Slayers doing Katas as Nina followed with her.

"Well trust me... Letting her sleep in a place that feels familiar or has a familiar scent might help her out." Faith said as Angel heard a muffled sound as someone roll over.

"Wait are you with Dana?" Angel said as Faith sighed.

"Yes. Angel...I am considering I have been through some of what she has been through as well. She needs a kindred spirit to keep her going. Hey Angel you said that I would find my place in the world... Well I'm helping her find her's Angel... You know I see a lot of myself in this kid, she's a little rough, but... I don't know... if I had a kid sister like Buffy, I think Dana would have been it without all the trauma, but... I don't know... I feel like this is meant to be." Faith said as she took a deep breath.

"Well, at least you feel like you can help Dana get where she needs to be." Angel said over the phone. Around that time Spike came by the counter as started to eavesdrop.

"So how is Illyria doing?" Angel said as Spike's attention started to become active when he heard this.

"Hey... Has the Blue Shiva gotten into a fisticuffs with some Slayers." Spike said loud enough to wake the dead on both coasts.

"Spike..." Angel said annoyed. "... Sorry about that Faith..." Angel said apologetically to his Slayer Friend.

"Well considering Ange... I think that she will be wanting to see how her powers stand up to ours... But I think she is in the complete pondering mode of what her place is in the world. I think when she was joined with Dana... I think she saw something that made her think hard about something."

"So in other words... You think Wes's death might have something to do with how she is behaving?" Angel said as he thought about Illyria...

"Might Ange... considering how hard she took Wes's death... I think absorbing herself into what he held as part of his life." Faith said as Angel looked out to see several of the Slayers in the Lobby hanging with some of Gunn's crew.

"Well keep me informed about how Dana and Illyria are doing... Okay..." Angel said to Faith knowing that something was up with Illyria.

"Will do Ange. Well I'll talk with you later... I need to get some rest before I go out on patrol. Talk with you later okay..." Faith said as she listened on for Angel to say good-bye.

"Well you do what you have to do and I'll talk with you later. Bye." Angel said as he hung up the phone and looked out towards the people in the Lobby... "Now... All I have to do is wait for the other shoe to drop." Angel said he watched a female Lillian demon start to give one of Gunn's old crew some serious tongue. Boy... the young were getting horny after a major battle.

"Spike..." Angel said to his fellow ensouled Vampire. "...I think we better start getting some protection for these kids." Spike turned to look at him and nodded some.

"Yeah... A few Uzi's a couple shotguns, some magical swords..." Spike started to rattle on...

"No Spike not that type of protection... I mean condoms... Look at Slayer... She is practically ripping that Initiative commando's shirt off in public and the Lillian with Gunn's crew... she is in heat..." Angel said as Spike tilted his head...

"Okay... do you think someone is sending us a message to get Laid..." Spike said as the Lillian screamed.

"Tyrell... Lets head upstairs and finish this. I can't keep my clothes on LITTERALLY." The female Lillian demon said as one of Gunn's old crewmembers moved so that he could pick up the female Lillian demon by her behind so that she could strattle him as she started to shift towards her purple skin tones as they moved towards the stairs making out like rabbits.

"Just hold on just a little longer Shiri… I'm going upstairs." Tyrell said between being muffled by her lips as he attempted to move up the stairs with what balance he had with ninety plus pounds shifting around like mad.

"Yeap... The PTB's are definitely saying "Get Shagged"." Spike said as the Lillian and the Crewmember reached the top of the stairs and a black tank top went flying into the center of the lobby and landed on Amanda's head.

"Well at least we're in a hotel..." Gunn said as he limped into the room on his crutches.


TBC

Part 10,

Note:

Sorry about the hormones in the last section, but I had to lighten up the closing to this chapter from it being so dark. Hey… there had to be ritualistic sex somewhere in here… That and someone had to get laid.

Hey… If you watched the series… you know where I got the hotel Joke came from…

Oh, next chapter there will be an inside joke,

La la la la LA lala lala…

Andrew… DS9… Voyager… Xena and Herc

You know what means.