There are a few references to Nudity in this chapter. I have tried to keep the imagery to a Minimum.

Now on with the Story…

Part 12,


Dawn Summers was sleeping in her bed as she let Sleep take her... Spike was alive... Not in a long time had she felt that things in the world were working out for the best...

Spike... the Vampire who had a soul... The only person that didn't treat her like a kid... Well more like an older brother.... During the Days where Glory was Terrifying Buffy her and her Mom... Spike seemed more like a person that she could feel connected to... Well other than the Blood drinking. Dawn could remember the Earthy Peroxide smell he had when he let her sleep in his crypt. Even with the candles, Spike had covered her with his precious leather jacket so that she could stay warm... Niblet...

Dawn hoped that she would find someone like Spike... Well with a pulse to say the least. It wasn't until Dawn had hit full REM sleep that she was dragged into a dreamscape.

"Ojon..." A voice said as Dawn felt like she was floating through a warm mist.

"Ojon... We need you..." Another voice said this time it was a child....

"Who's there?" Dawn Answered back into the cloud....

"Ojon... The key of existence..." Another voice said this time but it had an accent to it. Definitely European... "Ojon... Do not be afraid...." Dawn was getting scared as a hand reached out and grabbed her by the arm.

"Ojon..." the voice said as Dawn screamed. As she spun around to see who had her and Dawn looked right into the terrified eyes of a girl no older than thirteen.

"Sorry.... Ojon..." The girl said as she let go and looked down in shame... Dawn was shocked at the girl's appearance. The girl was... Well to put it bluntly wearing garments that could be loosely called clothing, more like wraps of cloth that covered what needed to be covered for modesty's sake sort of like a swimsuit. Ironically the garment the girl had on looked more like a banded swimsuit looped around her body that was covered in bands of colored patterns such as Triangles, Squares, and Circles that rested on the Sand colored cloth the girl had on.

"You called me Ojon... That means you know that..." Dawn was cut off as she heard a sandal hitting a stone floor and the girl holding her hand let go and ran off.

"You are the Key..." A woman said in her mid twenties who was wearing the same type of garments but in her case they were struggling to hold in her massive D-Cup breasts that just screamed that they were there under the cloth each boob was cradled in which made the woman look kinda of like a Penthouse stripper but gave off a feeling of respect and power. "Yeah.... we all know..." The woman said as she commanded the mist to leave by just waving her hands. Dawn was shocked at seeing that she wasn't the only one there. There were several other women standing around her all wearing the same type of garments but they seemed to be tweaked to their own tastes. Some looked more like something you would wear to the beach, while others... Thirteen-year-old Boys to death would kill to be near girls wearing some of these clothes.

"Dawn..." One of the Girls called out as she rushed over to her. "... Wow, it is an honor." the unfamiliar girl said as Dawn saw that she was wearing one of the more muted garments that could pass for beach wear in Cancun.

"Do I know you???" Dawn questioned as she looked down to see that she was wearing the same clothes as well. But she was wearing a Bikini top and a skirt-like wrap. "Um, and how did I wind up in these clothes???"

"Oh... Sorry... My name is Vesta..." The girl said holding her hand out for Dawn to shake... Dawn hesitantly took it.

"Vesta... where do I know that name?" Dawn said getting worried.

"Well... We did kinda of know each other... Well actually." Vesta was trying to say something the right way.

"Well to put it blunt, she knew you when you were a Green ball of Energy." Another girl said as she came up to Dawn as she was tying back the piece of fabric that the girl was using as a Bikini top so that it was closer to her body.

"Yeah..." Vesta said with her thick French accent leaking through... "Thank you Ren... I was trying to break what we were to her lightly." Vesta said, as she looked deflated. "For a girl that can command the elements of water she can be subtitle as a jackhammer at a prom. "

"You mean..." Dawn was realizing something almost calming about Vesta... "You can control the elements too???" Dawn said in shock...

"Well not elements... a element... you know the forms and energies that we were created from. Mine's fire... but I'm getting off track..." Vesta said as she brought Dawn over to a cushioned bench that looked like it came right of Julius Caesar's own time. "Dawn we are all constructs like your self..." Vesta said as Dawn started to look around. Occasionally noticing among the girls talking there was common energy among them. It was like something she had wished to be part of when Buffy had all the Potentials in their house in Sunnydale. It was here and she was part of it...

"Ojon..." the same Dark Skinned girl who had taken her hand when she was in the mist was standing by her now. She was a bit more calmer, yet scared. "My... My name is Kalechi...." the girl said as she offered her earthen toned hand out... she had almost golden Hazel eyes that matched her nearly Blond hair. "You are glowing green." The girl said, as she got a little skittish.

"Wait..." Dawn put up her hands in defense. "You mean that all of the girls here they are..."

"All Magical constructs like yourself. We are called the Golani," The D-Cup woman said as she moved to sit down by Dawn. "Yes... Dawn" The woman said as she offered her hand out. "My name is Kerryn... I'm kinda of the de-facto leader around here." The woman said to Dawn, as she got more jittery. "Listen... you are kind of like a superstar slash celebrity around here, so pardon some of the... um... hmmm... whispering and um embarrassment from the others."

"Soo... I'm one of you... Then... Why am I here?" Dawn said as she pulled a lock of her Brown hair in front of her so that she had something to keep her mind busy as she kept hearing whereas around her.

"Well... there is a crisis coming and we need your help." Kerryn said, as Dawn got scared.

"Help... my sister is bailing me out of all sorts of stuff since I was three." Dawn said moving away.

"Dawn... Someone is hunting down beings like ourselves." Kerryn said as she handed a Pillow to Dawn. "We summoned you before your time so that we could speak to you and your Sister... the Slayer." Kerryn said as Dawn was getting worried.

"Don't tell me that Glory is back and she is..." Dawn Gulped at the memories of what Glory had planned to do to her.

"No Glorificus is not a threat to you any more... She is... well the dark side of her was tortured out by the First... She is human now... So if she runs into you again... Well she will be in therapy for a long time." Kerryn said as Dawn calmed down some but was still a little anxious. "Dawn..." Kerryn said as she held Dawn's hand. "... You are about to discover your destiny. One of our own... A construct... She has been taken. Dawn... she is on the path of redemption... Though she was born from evil and touched by it. It did not claim her heart." Dawn looked on as Kerryn spoke. "Dawn... we need your help to save her, is she dies then we all will die." Kerryn's words shook Dawn to her core... "Every generation one of us gives birth to a child who is able to keeps the Golani whole. Who has the power to keep the energies in check that give us all life. If she dies or her child dies then all life as you know it will end."

"What do you mean that we will all die?" Dawn said with fear in her voice.

"Dawn... The magic within her... if it is breached... the energy will unmake all constructs and all magical creations starting with us and ending with the demon born. Dawn... Humans are on the list as well." Kerryn's words struck at Dawn's should with pure fear.

"You mean if she dies or whatever it is that has her learns how she was made then..." Dawn couldn't force the words out.

"Every one you know will die very painfully, and we must stop that Dawn..." Suddenly the young girl Kalechi moved and grabbed hold of her and hugged her shaking in fear...

"I don't want to die..." Kalechi said crying as Dawn placed her hand on her back.

"It's going to be okay... I'll see what I can do..." Dawn said as she brought her hand up to see that it was covered in clay...

"Dawn... You must act fast." Vesta said looking on in fear. "Kalechi is the youngest of us and the closest of the base elements... She is only a few weeks old if the secret is discovered then... all life that we know will die."

"Dawn, I give you the power to remember all of this... You must save Eve of the Wolfram and Hart." Kerryn said as Dawn was shifted back to finding herself in her bed. Dawn felt something sticky on her hand and saw a mixture of Blood and clay in her hand. What scared her more was she had a bit of Kalechi's garment and a long lock of her blond hair. That was when Dawn's hand started to glow green as she held those few items in her grasp.

"It wasn't a dream." Dawn said as she looked down at what she had. Then she screamed for her sister.


Gloria was asleep or what could loosely be called sleep as she slept on the couch in the Clinic with her Cowboy hat covering her eyes. Such a simple item, but it was a connection to her new life... She remembered when she had found the hat. It was rolling along in the wind. The golden brim of the hat had taken much of the rolling but for Gloria that only added to its character, rough and battered but still looking good. Chester one of the human survivors of the Sunnydale cave-in had said that it looked good on her. She had grinned when he had said that, that was also the same day that they had found a mother in labor and Gloria had learned that she had medical training. It wasn't a shock for her to have that skill, but it was the need to use it that over took her like she needed to set some wrong right. Now all Gloria wanted now was some sleep. Then She heard a crash, which immediately had gotten her attention. Rolling off of the couch and getting up Gloria picked up the three inch thick three foot long piece of steel rebar she had found and held it like a baseball bat. The "Bat" weighted at least one hundred and eighty pounds but it would make short work of anything that it hit given her superhuman strength.

Gloria cautiously entered the main medical ward and started to check around to see if there was anyone there. Slowly Gloria pulled back the curtain of one of the beds to see if her young patient was still there. But Gloria felt that as she moved closer to check the sheets she saw that the top covers of the bed were gone and the bed was empty.

"Well I at least know who is up and around." Gloria said as she lowered her "Bat." "You can come out now... I'm not going to hurt you." Gloria said that more to assure herself than the young girl who was moving around. Suddenly Gloria heard a wrenching sound from over in the corner. Racing as fast as she could Gloria stopped to see in the sink... Well half in the sink and half hanging out of it a very naked teenage girl hanging on the edge of it about to wrench out her guts again... Gloria moved up by the girl and propped her up so that the girl wouldn't get any vomit into her nasal track or choke on it.

"It's okay..." Gloria said as she turned on the sink to the town's limited plumbing that was in the process of being restored. "Just let it out..." Gloria said as the girl's body attempted to adjust to itself being functional again.

"Who...." the girl was struggling between stomach contractions. "... Am....I???" The girl said as Gloria just held her.

"I don't know... I was hoping you would know." Gloria said as she looked into the sink just long enough to realize what the girl was barfing up was dirt. "Easy there... just let it out, hopefully once you do you will feel better." Gloria said as she turned on the water to the sink to wash the sludge down into the septic tank. That was when it hit Gloria... How does a person get dirt into their digestive track along with topsoil?

"Oh... Crud..." The girl said as a very noticeable bowel movement took place and the same stuff coming out of one end started to match what was coming out the other.

"What did you eat??? An entire bag of potter's soil." Gloria said realizing that she would need to get a mop later. "Then the wrenching started again... Well It looks like you are getting a bath before I put you to bed again baby..." as more dirt and clay came out of both ends.


Illyria was sitting in the lobby of the Hyperion... looking at Charles... She felt perturbed... Even with the garments she had changed into of Fred's she had chosen to command her old warrior vestments to form a garment called a jacket. Though it beheld some of her vestment's characteristics, she had lengthened its neckline and let the garment lay loose around her. But it was the act for Fortification she had done with Charles that disturbed her. The Fred in her was yelling at her that she had moved too quickly with the fortification act.

"Illyria" Fred said in Illyria's mind. "You know you shouldn't have had sex with Charles..." Fred said as Illyria looked at Charles across from her.

"Yes I know..." Illyria thought knowing that Fred would hear her. "But... Did I rush through the acts of the Mating rituals?" Illyria communicated.

"Uh... yeah you did Blue..." Fred said and Illyria knew that she had much to learn of social influences and niceties. "Listen I need to go and talk with Charles and I want you to explore who you really are... You are going to living among humans for a long time." Fred said as Illyria got up and started to walk over to by the counter.

"Fred..." Illyria said as she started to ponder he actions of both the past and the future. "... Do you wish me to act more like you?"

"Illyria... just... Be open... You know how humans act, well... act human but not as me as much. Okay." Fred said in Illyria's mind.

"I do not understand???" Illyria said to Fred.

"Blue... If a stone knows it is falling, it still falls. Correct." Fred stated.

"Yes... it does." Illyria said to her inner Fred.

"Well, don't change who you are... Just choose a different approach." Fred said as Illyria came to a stop in front of Gunn and stood there for several moments, as he was engrossed in legal information he had been able to get his hands on for Annata's case.

"Charles..." Illyria spoke softly... "Do you require any assistance?" Illyria said with a softened tone.

"Um..." Gunn looked up at Illyria... "Oh, Hi... Illyria do you need something?" He said as he placed a Post-it note on one of the pages before he turned his full attention towards her.

"I wish to apologize for my actions with the forn... Sex... The Previous night." Illyria said as she toned down her behavior to human levels. "I... was..." Illyria started to look flustered. "It is hard for me to communicate to you... the way you use language is... crude." Illyria said as a needful look filled her eyes.

"Illyria you okay???" Gunn said as he moved from behind the counter and headed over towards her.

"Human..." the word was forced out of her mouth like it had been yanked from inside of her entrails. "A word... Term..." Illyria became flustered. "Charles..." Tears started to come down her face as Gunn moved over by her and hugged her. "... Am I a... Half... Half-breed in your eyes???" Illyria looked up at Gunn.

"Blue... You are you... I don't see you as a Half-breed." Gunn said as Illyria turned her gaze away from him.

"Do you wish that I was???" Illyria said as she put her ear on his chest and listened to his heartbeat. "Maybe... so that..." Illyria's words started to become mumbled together. "You would like me..."

"Blue... I know that you were... well explorative of... you know." Gunn motioned between them.

"I feel that my need to fit into this world is wearing on me and..." Illyria looked up into Charles eyes...

"You feel like you want to have Fred or literally be Fred yet you don't want to lose who you are..." Gunn said as all Illyria could do was nod up and down. "Okay... Listen... Lorne told me about this group that he was planning on introducing Nina too and since we... Me and Angel set up so many inter-clan treaties Lorne thought that it would be nice to have the gang pay a visit to one of these meetings. May be... it could help with how you are feeling." Gunn said as he slowly started to stroke Illyria's head.

"Charles... I would like that..." Illyria said as Nina came up and put her hand on Illyria's shoulder.

"Fred... is this about you being part demon?" Nina said as Illyria turned to see the female Moon beast.

"Yes..." Illyria said as she let Charles heartbeat sooth her. "I will go to this meeting with you." Illyria responded as she just let the moment hold on to her like a blanket.

The scents were strange in this structure... Angel thought as he stood in the hotel guest lounge. Between the various flavors of soda being served and fruit punch he definitely needed a slug of Blood.

"Do you have any coffee?" Angel said as he headed over to the snack table.

"Regular, Decaf, or Industrial Strength, sir." A server said to him that looked no older than his early twenties but smelled like an Ano Movic.

"I'll take the one that could put me into a coma." Angel said to the waiter as he looked around the room. Between the various people of various ages he could smell several types of demons, a couple of Werewolves, five or six Slayers... which Willow could have zeroed in on at any time. Fifteen witches and warlocks and a few creatures he couldn't place. That wasn't until he spotted a young woman with curly blond hair moving around the room wearing sunglasses. He had seen her face somewhere but he couldn't place it. She smelled of human but also of something else... Something elemental... Earthen... then it hit him. Dryad... She was part Dryad... And she looked clearly overwhelmed. As Angel was handed his coffee he moved to say Hi to her.

That was when she ran right into Illyria and a potted fern...

"Sorry..." the girl said as her oversized lens sunglasses had come off and Angel Recognized her. She was Emilie Ravens an actress he knew from Lorne's client list and a cast member of a Sci-Fi Twenty something show called Contact Zone.

"Aghhhh." Emilie screamed as she covered her ears... As she attempted to right the plant. "... Please be quiet you plant... I know I knocked you down. Please stop screaming at me... Please..." She said as she twitched in pain. That was when Illyria bent down and helped her right the plant.

"You hear the song of the green???" Illyria said as she shifted from her Fred form to her more blue skinned form. The young actress was still wincing in pain as if she had put her head against a concert loud speaker cranked up to max and someone had plucked a string on a guitar while she was next to it.

"No Fucking Shit Lady..." The actress said as Illyria offered her hand to help her up. "Thanks..." Emilie said as she got a full look at Illyria in one of Fred's dresses. "Um... your blue..." the young actress said looking Illyria up and down.

"I am... That is the stain of my people. I sense that your appearance is not what you look like." Illyria said as she tiled her head in a bird-like manner she was known for.

"Um... I don't know what you are saying lady." Emilie said as she attempted to move away...

"Green one... The plant... The Fern was saying Sky all wrong... Sky all wrong... Death..." Illyria said as Emilie stopped in her tracks...

"You heard that!!!" Emilie said as she looked at Illyria...

"Yes... I heard it... Green one..." Illyria said as Emilie looked at her.

"Green one... Wait... how do you know I'm..." Emilie moved backwards a little scared.

"Green... That is your stain, I see it..." Illyria said slowly moving over as she changed back into Fred. "I meant you no offense." Illyria said using Fred's voice and mannerisms.

"So... you... are... well Like me???" Emilie said as Illyria took her hand.

"I do not know... My Demon Essence is several Millina Old, but I am in my late Twenties." Illyria said, as Emilie looked a little calmer. "You???"

"I... don't really know... I mean I was doing a nude photo shoot for some Men's magazine and while we were taking this break... Well..." Emilie felt uncomfortable...

"Your' demon self emerged." Illyria said. "Did you turn Twenty-one on that day?" Illyria asked.

"Yeah..." Emilie said in shock and some Relief. "How did you?"

"This is about the age where most part Demons forms reveal themselves in humans." Illyria said, as Emilie looked at her relived some.

"Then... When you were about my..." Emilie was worried that she would say the wrong thing.

"What is your name?" Illyria said speaking up realizing that she did not know this woman's name.

"Emilie... You know from off of the TV." Emilie said as Angel continued to watch as Nina came by.

"Angel..." Nina said as she looked over as Angel was studying a situation, then she recognized the woman. "Is that who I think that is?" Nina said as her jaw nearly hit the floor.

"Yes... And I think that Illyria and her have struck up a friendship." Angel said as Nina snaked her arm behind him. "Well that's good..." Nina said as she started sniffing the air. "I was wondering if she would be talking with some of the Slayers around here... I mean a few of them look like Illyria slash Fred might feel at home talking with them." Nina said as a group of Slayers were all gathered around a guy that she had dubbed the Gay Dude.

"Well I think the main reason old Illyria is talking with Emilie there is the fact that Emilie is a Dryad and hears something called the Song of the Green. I still haven't figured out what that means... But for Illyria it looks like she is talking with someone who she doesn't have to dropkick a few times to get them to notice her."

"Yeah... I noticed, but I have a vague Idea of what she is talking about. Angel... Fred's homesick or I think the Demon is." Nina said as she sniffed something. "Angel... is it just me or do I smell a bug around here the size of a alligator?" Nina said as she started to look around the room.


Charles Gunn felt moving around this rented room that he could escape for a little while the Monster Killing and make contacts with some honest hard working folk. That wasn't until he came upon a very bust young woman with dark hare in her early twenties. What caught his attention was the fact that she was playing with her arm and constantly rubbing an off colored section on her arm.

"You okay?" Charles said as the young woman who looked like she was Slavic in origin looked up at him.

"Yeah..." The word was actually very off key and the street detective in him started to work over time.

"Be truthful... the way that you are rubbing your arm is not being nervous. Did you just get a cast off of it?" Charles inquired.

"Actually my arm was severed by a couple of goons that were trying to mug me... What scared me the most was... Well before they severed my arm... I... I didn't know I was part demon." The young woman said as she kept opening and closing her hand as if she was getting used to having it reattached.

"Phantom limb syndrome right... It should be a few weeks until it goes away with your new hand." Charles said as the young woman looked up at him. "So who did your surgery?" Charles said as the woman looked up at him.

"There was no surgery... It grew back and I was scared more by it growing back than it being cut off." The woman said as she shook in fear at some of the memories being replayed in her mind. "Yeah... the entire demon thing didn't hit me until mom told me."

"Wow... learning that you were part demon must have been a shock for you... um Miss." Charles realized that he had never gotten her name.

"Katia... Kabanová." The woman said as she offered her hand out to Charles.

"Charles Gunn." Charles said as he shook her hand. "Wow... you have a grip." He said as he shook the fingers of his hand to get the blood flowing again after she had let go.

"Yeah..." Katia said as she blushed some. "My other said that I was part Giger... Whatever that means." Katia said as she looked around the room.

"Gigers... I knew one when I worked at Wolfram and Hart. She tended to be big into Mexico beaches." Charles said as Katia looked at him.

"Yeah... my mother said that Gigers have this thing for travel, reading people, food, science and sex." Katia said blushing on the last one.

"So what do you do for a living?" Charles said attempting to fish out information about her and why anyone wanted to attack her.

"I'm a secretary that works at a Fertility Clinic, but I would like to go into law." Katia said as Charles listened and occasionally filled in parts of his life when she asked. By the end of the night Charles was thinking of going back and starting a little law firm in helping the helpless while getting another lead for Angel.


"Angel, It looks like over the past month, there have been a series of muggings, murders and limbs being chopped off in the LA area." Charles said as he and Angel looked at Data's computer screen and the map that was forming.

"Yeah and it looks like that all the attacks have been following a pattern." Data said as he scrolled through a Boolean listing he had created. "With some of my contacts in the Demon community, there have been specific types of demon and extra-dimensional folks hit." Then on one side a list of beings hit started to show up. "It looks like they guys are after specific demon body parts, glands, enzymes, hormones... Powers." That was when Gunn noticed some of the Demon types...

"Gigers??? Wait Angel... while we were at that Demon's anonymous group I ran into a girl from that very species...." then Gunn looked at some of the body parts. "Whoa... It looks like they are mainly after they eyes and arms of these folks." Gunn said as he looked at the screen.

"For the most part... It's more like a shopping list, like someone is trying to make a Franken-Demon... A Whole lot of Franken-Demons." Data said as he looked at Angel.

"Yeah... A few years back, Me, Wes and Cordy stumbled into a group of Demon body part dealers. It looks like they have started up again." Angel said realizing what was going on.

"Yeah but the bad news is why Steal Adam and the rest of Project three-Fourteen?" Riley said as he came in with a very thick folder under his arm.

"Riley... What's up?" Gunn said as he saw the ex-military now government employees enter the room.

"Angel... there has been a Massacre at a known Demon Hotel..." Riley said, as he seemed like he had seen something that had sapped the strength from him. "...There have been human casualties."


Dana was sitting in her room... Her mind was still jumbled, but between the medicine, therapy and Magic she was feeling better... Leaning on the pillow buddy in her room she was writing. God her handwriting looked awful as she wrote in her journal. Dana realized that she could summon some of the memories of the Past Slayer at times. But to prevent herself from being dragged in... She had to write them down. Andrew had started to take notice of this and had asked Mr. Giles to give him some of the old Watcher journals. Some of the things in Dana's mind were the same yet different than what was in the books. Dana was scared but Andrew said that what she was writing was good. It would allow her to find herself.... Stay in the now... So she wrote.

God her back itched... Dana thought as she pulled off her Flannel shirt and undid her bra before resting on the pillow buddy again topless.

"Okay Inara... Where were we???" Dana said as she moved the pin to her left hand and started to write again.

"The Battle of Marathon..." The voice said in Dana's head as she started to write again as a spark formed on one of her fingers as the Ancient Slayer told her tale.

The words flowed out from her like music as Inara told of how she had aided in the battle. At times Dana could feel the blood and the smell the fermentation of the urine and fecies on the ground from both the living and the dying on the battlefield.

"Dana..." Inara said breaking from the internal conversation in Dana's mind... "I am glad that you are writing this down." There was a pause from the long dead warrior. "Dana... do you have any dreams?" The being said as Dana stopped for a moment and placed the pen down.

"I.... I don't know...." Dana said as she sat up. "I... never thought I could..." Dana was getting scared..."are you talking about visions or about..."

"Dana... Your own dreams of what you wish to become." Inara said as Dana pulled her shirt back on but leaving it unbuttoned.

"I'm unsure..." Dana said letting the fabric caress her skin. "I feel like I am overwhelmed by..."

"By being a Slayer..." Inara said as she projected herself into Dana's reality...

"Yes... I... I fell broken..." Dana said as she could feel Inara's hands on her shoulders as she sat by her on the bed.

"Dana... you may be different than other Slayers but... You will be you... You have so much knowledge... You just need to find a ground you feel safe in." Inara said as Dana turned to look at her.

"You really think that I'm normal?" Dana said worried, as there was an electric click at her door.

"Dana... You're normal... and you are more like Faith than you think." Inara's voice faded away as she went back to the spirit realm.

"Dana..." Faith said entering the room with Andrew. "... You okay?" The Elder Slayer said as Dana looked up to see her.

"Miss Boras.... Andrew... Sorry...I ...I..." Dana stammered as she stood up and for a moment flashing a boob at Andrew.

"Don't worry Dana." Faith said looking at the scribbling on Dana's notepad. "Red said that you were in your spirit connection state, though seeing what Inara looks like was interesting." Dana just blinked at Faith.

"You mean that you..." Dana was afraid.

"Will created a spell and placed it on the cameras so that we could see some of the things you were seeing." Faith said looking at Dana with understanding. "Dana... Mina was right about you having Slayer visions... But holding a conversation and a friendship with one... well that..." Faith didn't finish her sentence.

"Weird..." Dana said finishing Faith's thought. "Yeah..." Dana looked down as she buttoned her shirt up. "I'm still getting used to being super strong..." Dana said getting up from her mattress bed and kicking a ball from her old ball pit out of the way.

"Yeah... trust me... the first three soda cans that you punch a hole into with your thumb while they are still holding them will defiantly scare you." Faith said tapping Dana on the shoulder.

"Okay..." Dana said as she looked up at Faith. Then she got worried. "Something has happened hasn't it?" Dana said as Faith bit her lip.


Harmony was getting worried... Had Illyria found out her part in Wesley's death... Damn Hamilton and that pint of luscious human blood. That and the sex.

Great all she needed was to have an unstoppable killing machine wanting to rip her head off her body... Or worse...

Harmony shook her head in fear... Pack stuff into her bag and split... Head to Mexico... No... Fred knew that... that would mean that... Okay... forget Mexico....

Sydney...

Sydney was a good place... they spoke English... Big Bad Blue would never think about finding her there... Then there was a knock at her door. If Harmony had a heartbeat, it would have skipped a beat. Harmony reached under her bed and pulled out a battle-axe. It was a little ungainly for her tastes... Hell a freaking Bazooka would have been better than this.

"Harmony... Harmony Kendell you in there?" A voice said from behind the door.

"Damn it..." Harmony said in fear looking at the three suitcases she had. "... Yes... who is it?" Harmony said as she crept towards the door.

"It is me... Mrs. Jacobi." The voice said from behind the door. Harmony was a bit calmer now.

"Mrs. Jacobi???" Harmony said as she heard a faint whimper from the other side of the Door.

"It is me... Harmony... I need to talk with you." Mrs. Jacobi said as alarms started to go off in Harmony's head.

"Um... Give me a second." Harmony said as she moved over by the door and started to rattle the security chain.

That was when the door was slammed in on her and Mrs. Jacobi went flying towards her. Harmony using her Vampire reflexes grabbed Mrs. Jacobi and her dog from their flight path into the wall and slammed them onto the bed.

"Wha..." Mrs. Jacobi said from the disorientation then as she saw Harmony's full Vamp Face, she let out a scream.

"Mrs. Jacobi... It's me Harmony...." Harmony said as her attention was quickly turned to seeing the woman entering the door. What she was wearing looked like street clothes but her face looked like someone had barfed up flesh-eating maggots on her Nubian princess body. Collar around the woman's neck looked like something she had heard about but... Oh... Shit... that was new as Harmony saw the woman extrude maggot laced vomit all over Mrs. Jacobi's dog.

"Donni..." Mrs. Jacobi yelled in fear as she saw the dog be eaten and dissolved away on Harmony's bed.

Quickly Harmony picked up one of her bags and threw it out towards the woman. As the suitcase was about to hit the woman the decaying Nubian babe hosed down the bag with her vomit slicing it in half.

"Hey... Those were my favorite clothes." Harmony yelled as she grabbed poor Mrs. off of the bed and tossing what was left of the mattress on top of her. Then there was a pause from the demon woman attacking her... It looked like she was fighting something as a sort of clarity returned.

"Must rrr. Runnnnn..." the woman said as she gritted her teeth and squinted her eyes shut to force the words out. ".... Oh... thers... come ning..." Harm knew that whatever happened to this poor being running would be a priority right about now.

"Mrs. Jacobi... " Harmony said as she picked up the mattress and looked down to a very frightened Mrs. Jacobi. "We better get out of here." Harmony said grabbing the elderly woman and the mattress and headed out the door.

"Harmony... your... you're..." Mrs. Jacobi was so scared that her old bathrobe looked like it was about to come of her elderly body...

"A Vampire..." Harmony said as several goons with big old honkin guns that looked like a cross between something from a western and commando gear that Wolfram and Hart would have used appeared in the hallway and started shooting.

Harmony quickly picking up the mattress used it as a shield to hold off on the bullet damage.

"Okay... I know that I did the entire selling out of Angel... but Gessh... give me a break... I'm not totally evil nor good..." Harmony yelled at her shooters.

"Harmony... " Mrs. Jacobi said as he became snagged on the garbage chute door that they were fleeing backwards from. "I'm stuck..." the old woman said frantically tugging at the leg of her bathrobe.

"What..." Harmony yelled out... as she turned to see what Mrs. Jacobi was yelling about. "Oh..." Harmony said seeing the door and the cloth she was stuck on. "Good Idea..." Harmony said grabbing the door open to the garbage chute and flipping poor Mrs. Jacobi down it.

"Hwoon dahn... She is going down the disposal chute." One of her pursuers said as Harmony took a deep breath, not that she needed to and dove through the same garbage chute she had dumped her one nightstand down after she had found him drained of blood. All Harmony could think of was not so much the smell, it was the sudden deceleration coming up.

"Oh... shittt." Harmony yelled as she was flung face and chest first into a large pie of garbage.

"Miss. Kendell... whomever you have pissed off... I don't want to meet." Mrs. Jacobi said as she moaned in pain. That was when Harmony vamped out.

"Sir the subject has..." The voice said as it started to come closer to the dumpster. "... Dove down the garbage chute."

"Is there any trace of her?" A voice said over a radio.

"Just a sec..." The man's voice said as Harmony braced herself to pounce. Then Harmony jumped up with the edge of an old chair leg.

"Hii.... Yaa..." Harmony yelled at the top of her lungs as she flew right into her pursuer's body and shoved the chair leg deep into his chest. All the guy could do was with his last breath spit up blood on her face as he fell to the ground.

"Ewww..." Harmony said as she looked down at her pursuers body. "I did not need that." as she shifted back to her human form. That was when she turned her attention back to Mrs. Jacobi. "It's okay now Mrs. Jacobi, you can come on out now. They're..." Harmony's words were stopped in their tracks as two electric needles slammed into her chest and she got knocked flat on her ass.

"Got her." The guy said as he bent over her body... "One Female Cat Face ready for the cage." Was the last thing Harmony heard before she got jabbed in the leg with a needle?


Angel was patrolling... it was so strange, yet so familiar to him... But something was sticking in the back of his mind as he moved through the streets... The Bad part of town... Demon and usual creepy activity was on the rise. Well... for things post an Apocalypse on a rise.

"Where is a Fer'all demon when you need one?" Angel said to himself as he moved down an alley. Then he heard a grunting nose coming down the old alleyway. It took a moment for him to realize that this was near where the old Caritas Bar used to be and where... that was when he heard the scream of a woman...

Quickly Angel moved fast on his feet to where the grunting was coming from and jumped over a set of crates and lined to see a skull-faced demon...

"Yes Sergi... Yes... "

Humping an attractive Blue skinned Woate Pict demon woman. Angel just stood there in shock as the girl opened her eyes and screamed.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh..." the demon girl let out as the guy spun around to see Angel with his Sword drawn...

"Listen... um.... Man..... don't...." The guy said as he started to pull his blue jeans up and zipped them.

"By the gods... " The girl said in fear as she grabbed onto the back of her boyfriend's jacket... "... It is the Cleaver." The clear British accent coming through very clear as the mirrored branch marking on her blue face started to go straight as she looked on in terror.

"Listen.... Man. Um here take my wallet... " The dark Skull faced demon said as he tossed the wallet toward Angel's feet. "There is about five hundred Dollars in there..." the demon male said as he started to sweat. Angel looked down at the wallet and picked it up and moved over to hand it back to the kid.

"I don't want your money kid... I heard the scream and thought..." Angel said as he took a deep breath and sighed... "That she was in trouble..." Angel said as the girl started to look at him some more.

"You're a vampire." The demon girl said looking at him.

"Yes... yes I am..." Angel said with embarrassment. "... So I see that the Caritas is still in business." Angel said turning towards the door.

"Yes it is... Well since Kalornswath left... the new owner Allana... Another Seer has been running the place." The girl said as she shifted her dress skirt down. "It is becoming a quite a crowd place for the younger set." There was a clear blush to the girl's blue skin... then he noticed the ring...

"So you two are married?" Angel said looking at the two of them.

"Yes... We are... Me and Kiria are working on our first..." Sergi the demon said as he started to revert to a more human form.

"Yeah... Allana said to start right away so that we could...." Kiria started to blush...

"Wait your Angel..." Sergi said as he looked at Angel's body stance... "You're that vampire Champion who..."

"... Took on the forces of Wolfram and Hart... Saved the world from Jasmine the Devourer... Yada yada yada..." Angel said being very sardonic.

"No man... You're the dude that worked out the peace treaties with the various demon clans..." Sergi said as he walked forward. "... You're the main reason that me and Kiria were able to get married."

"Oh..." Angel said as it hit him.

"Yeah... My folks were against the marriage but..." Kiria said as she leaned over to Sergi some more and kissed him. "... One of your aids... Charles Gunn... he... well helped out of a sticky scrape... I mean how many times can a guy be called..." then Kiria said something with a series of clicks that Angel knew... what it exactly meant. "... Without losing his cool." Kiria said as Sergi patted her hand then Angel remembered the treaty.

"Oh... that treaty..." Angel said remembering what happened. "You mean the one with the..."

"Paternity Suit..." Kiria finished.

"Oh... Well listen... I would suggest that you two go someplace private and..."

"Finish working on our first born." Sergi said as Angel's phone started to buzz on its vibrate mode.

"Yeah..." Angel said with the awkwardness of the moment.

"Um... your jacket is buzzing." Kiria said pointing out the jumping action Angel's coat was making.

"Oh..." Angel said as he reached into the pocket of his jacket and took out his cell phone. "Angel here..." He said into the receiver... and nodded a few times as he heard the voice of Riley on the other end as Kate was talking with a fellow officer in the background.

"Angel... I think we have another attack." Riley said as he could hear the shuffling. "It looks like our buds are no longer concerned about laying low... this was public." The clear sound of an ambulance siren chirping in the background was very noticeable.

"So... any clue on who the victim was?" Angel said as Sergi and Kiria started looking at him.

"Yes... give me a second..." Riley said as he flipped through his notes. "Ah... here it is... the victim was a twenty-five year old woman by the name of Harmony Kendell... He wasn't that the name of..."

"Yeah... she's a Vampire... and my former secretary." Angel said exhaling down at the ground. "Any clue on the perps?" Angel said getting back into business mode.

"Yeah... from what a Mrs. Jacobi said, it seems that Harmony had some limited contact with her... and I do mean limited... It wasn't until the cowboys, black acid vomit girl and cyborg ninja zombie dude showed up and made her knock on Harmony's door that Harmony wasn't human." Riley said as he was forced to speak up over the gathering noise around him. Then there was the clear sound of Kate's voice as she came over.

"Angel... this is Kate... Listen... it looks like Miss Kendell was about to blow town, there happens to be a lot of references to the Blue Queen bitch of Hell coming after her plastered on the fridge and notepads. That and the garbage can full of Granny's Aken's approved Low Carb Blood bottles."

"Low... Carb... I knew Harmony had this thing about her figure and getting fat... But Low Carb..." Angel said, as he had to scoop his jaw up off of the ground. "Well that is definitely Harmony..." Angel said getting back to business at hand. "Is there anything else you can tell me?"

"Yeah... It looks like Vomit girl was fighting some sort of mind control and told Harmony to run. That was before the shoot out and the five story dive into the dumpster." Kate said as Riley got handed back the phone again.

"Uh ha... so our Cleaver as the sub-T community has been calling him happens to be plural... or a gang so... given that whomever is out there... It looks like they are attempting to make another project three-fourteen." Riley said as Angel started to understand.

"So in other words someone is making an army." Angel put down as he was standing in the alleyway.

"It looks like it." Riley said as Angel looked up as a low rumbling sound started to occur around him. At first he thought was an earthquake... It wasn't... At that moment an aircraft about the size of a seven forty-seven flew overhead at breakneck speed and disappeared into a dimensional vortex.

"Guys... you better get some help down here... I think we have another vortex to deal with." Angel said as Sergi and Kiria moved over by him.

"Was that what I thought it was." Kiria said as she looked up.

"Yeah... it was." Angel said as Kiria and Sergi moved over to a black van that had a spray painted image of the Death Star II from Return of the Jedi painted on the side and got in. "You kids better stay here." Angel ordered as Sergi locked the doors to the van.

"I second that." Sergi said as Kiria moved closer to him as Angel moved to check out the building the plane had vortexed through. About a minute later the back of Sergi's van was rocking back and forth as Sergi and Kiria set about finishing the conception of their first child who in seven months would be named Angel.


She was in a field with other girls all doing some sort of training... the dark blue sweats she was wearing felt soggy and her muscles ached. She was the youngest one there.

"Punch block combo!" an older woman in her early twenties yelled as the rest of the girls and herself did the move and grunted in response. She was trying...

"Cross Block Kick." The older woman yelled with a hard sternness to her voice. As the girls did the move... she started to feel tired... would they stop... would they end...

"Chamber your energy. Punch Block combo!" The woman yelled.... that was when exhaustion set in and she messed up the punch move action with her arms. She prayed that the instructor hadn't seen that. "Hold it!" The woman said moving up towards her. She knew she was busted. "What the hell do you call that, potential?" She averted her eyes in attempt to avoid the skewering gaze of the instructor. "Try that in the field, you are dead." The sternness of the woman's voice shook her to the core... and she was more scared. "Drop, and give me twenty."

"Twenty what?" She said unsure of what twenty this woman wanted as she got into her face.

"Push-ups, maggot!" the woman said as the young girl attempted her best to do the twenty... "I love this job! Did you see that? I called that girl "maggot"." she was getting scared... that was when the sky turned dark.

"You are Slayer... Chosen..." a very raspy female voice said behind her... she was in the field but the rest of the girls were gone... that was when fear set in.

"Is there anyone there?" The girl called out.

"You are not Potential... you are Slayer." The voice called out again the girl spun around in an attempt to figure out where it was coming from.

"Okay... you ever you are... you can come out now... " The girl said as she picked up a branch on the ground. "This isn't funny anymore."

"Slayer... you have been to the other side and been brought back..." the voice said as the girl started to stab at the air in an attempt to look intimidating. "The one the sent you there was not us... it was the one of Lies."

"Okay... where was I sent?" The girl called out.

"To death."

"No see I'm alive... heart beating..." the girl held up her fingers to her neck only to find a noose lying limply around her throat and a raw mark around her neck.

"You were dead... Brought back you were... the powers so deemed it. Much you must learn." The voice said as a small fire appeared.

"Okay... how did you do that because..."

"You liked the one called Pooh... you were young... not ready for the challenges... still are not" the voice said again.

"Um... not ready for what?" The girl said, as she was the only one there.

"To give death as a gift." That was when she saw a black woman wearing white face paint in the shape of a skull on her face and shimmies across her body. That was when the girl fell backwards and started to move as fast as she could to get away from this creature.

"She comes to us all." Another voice said from behind her and she looked up to see a woman with olive skin and long dark hair wearing a yellow sweatshirt.

"Death is our gift..." the Skull woman said.

"Do not fear it... we are the carriers of life that burns bright." That was when the marks of blood appeared on this new woman's face as the shadow beast started to growl by the fire behind her.

"We are life... we bring death to take life away." The two women said in unison as the girl rolled over to see herself hanging from a tree.

"Defeat the one of lies in your mind. You shall have no past until it is so." The voices said as the hanging corpses eyes opened and roared.

That was when she woke up screaming tearing the sheets covering her naked body away from her. Only to encounter another monster standing before her.


"Please be quite...." Clem said to the hysterical girl before him. "Please be quite..."

"Don't eat me..." the girl said in fear as she started to move backwards revealing a very naked form as she started to hug the wall in an loose attempt to crawl up it but going nowhere as she kicked the torn sheets away from her body.

"Okay... as long as you don't eat me." Clem said he wishing he hadn't said that, the girl was getting more scared.

"Eat you... you know what I am???" The girl was getting more scared. "I'm more afraid of you eating me!!!"

"Um... Gloria.... I need some help in here." Clem yelled out. The girl just started to look left and right in an attempt to figure out how many others were in the room with her.

"Just a second Clem." A woman's voice called out.

"How many of you are there?" The girl said as she started to hyperventilate. "And where are my clothes?" She said as she started to realize the draft across her body.

"Um. That is what I was dropping off since..." Clem didn't finish realizing that this girl was running on fear and adrenaline. Clem raised his arm to cover his eyes as the girl quickly covered her body as every pant could be heard. This girl had the same sized boobs as Buffy's sister Dawn did Clem thought as he pushed that idea from his mind as he caught her scent.

"You know you smell like a Slayer..." Clem said as the girl-started process her surroundings.

"Slayer... as in to slay, as in to kill..." The girl was on the verge of an information overload as she searched him for any sign of aggression.

"Gloria... you better get your ass out here...." Clem yelled. "Your patient is awake and is scared shitless." The baggy demon said.

"Okay Clem I..." Gloria walked into the room.

"Clem what did you do... I said put the clothes down and leave... Not "Oh... I'll wake up under aged naked girl in the bed and see if I can give her a coronary." Sheesh Clem." Gloria said as she reached over and grabbed her medical jacket off of a hanger and slowly moved over to the girl.

"Here take my jacket... you look cold." Gloria said as the girl was glued by the wall running of fear. With a clear move the girl snatched the jacket and wrapped it around her.

"Are you human?" The girl said in the defensive Tree equals good and fire equals bad mode she was in.

"I don't know... But I think I consider myself one." Gloria said slowly moving by the girl. "Okay... I have a sandwich, It's peanut butter and jelly." Gloria said as she reached over and held out the sandwich with the girl grabbed from her hand with such speed that it nearly took her finger off. Between watching the girl rip open the plastic and predatorily watching both Clem and Gloria as she started to scarf down the sandwich. It would take time for the girl to trust them.


Illyria had come back from patrolling with Gunn... her feelings were... strange... She desired the human but... felt that she had to obey the human social customs to achieve him. That was when she headed into her room to see Spike setting up the Box of the X to the human viewing window called the Television.

"Hey there Blue, I see that you are back." The half-breed said as he finished attaching a cable to the front.

"Half-breed what are you doing here?" Illyria said moving over by him.

"Well considering that you were having a craving for the X-Box, I decided to get you one to play to your dark heart's content." Spike said as he hit the power button to turn the unit on.

"This is for me???" Illyria said taken back.

"Yes it is Luv, yes it is..." Spike said reaching over to hand her a package, which Illyria studied and wondered what its significance meant. "Open it." Spike said as Illyria reached in to pull out several games.

"Crash Bandicoot..." Illyria said as she looked up towards Spike and wondered what it means.

"Yeah, I got you a few titles that I thought you might like." Spike said as Illyria looked at the other titles.

"Dead or Alive three, Soul Calibur two, Crash Bandicoot Racing, Enter the Matrix, and The Sims." Illyria said going through each of the titles before looking up Spike. "Do you wish to play?" Illyria said looking over at Spike. Spike was taken aback by this.

"Yes... I would..." Spike said as he sat down by Illyria. As he sat down he noticed that Illyria was wearing her red leather as a corset and some of Fred's old jeans.

"You find my modification of my garments pleasing." Illyria said as the title screen came up as the motor of the XBOX's DVD drive wured through the initial loading process.

Spike turned towards her, "Luv... I have noticed that you have become more Cautious when you are around people." Illyria tiled her head in the birdlike way she had done in the past but it was her eyes that caught his attention.

"My attempts to this world and especially humans is...." Illyria left the sentence standing...

"Is..." Spike tried to nudge her on.

"Perplexing..." Illyria said as she bought up her right and looked at it. "This form... though I share its place... Fred..." Illyria was struggling to put into words what she was thinking. "I desired when Wesley was still alive to open up to him... to please him..." lllyria looked up at spike with tears in her eyes... "I desired to carry his larva...." then Illyria was numb as she attempted to swallow as she took several moments to focus her attention and thoughts back onto Spike. "Now I feel that with Charles... I have attempted to push him into a relationship and declaring him my mate... yet his feelings for Fred are there... even after I let her command my form." Illyria looked down at her hand again and shifted into her Fred persona.

"Even after we went to that meeting of the hybrids... I am still confused if I am the shell or the shell is me." Illyria said as Spike looked at her.

"You feel love that you are trapped between two worlds." Spike said as he reached up and touched her shoulder.

"Yes I do..." Illyria said as Spike felt warm human flesh under Illyria's remaining blue markings.

"Well, how about we play a few bouts of Crash Bandicoot racing around the track and talk about it some." Spike said as he saw a small grin form on Illyria's face.

"If Drogyn was still around he would have found this compelling." Illyria said as she copied Spike's hand positions on the controller and played the game. Outside Gunn was watching as he scratched at some of the blue stain on the back of his hand.

"That's my girl..." He said as he just watched.


TBC

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