Part 14,
Sorry about the long time between postings, I just finished with Finals and Moving.
Be warned, there is a lot of nudity and sexual references in this chapter. In addition, this connects with my Faith and Dana Story "Choices." If you get confused start reading that story and it will fill in a few blanks. Also this is the start of the "Firefly" crossover stuff.
All bow before the Gods of Joss and Rosenberg.
Now on with the chapter.
Andrew was sitting in the mystical equivalent of Cerbro. Between Willow and Fred's knowledge of Tech and magic, they had been able to work out a way to create a computer controlled Spell casting system that locked onto the specific mystical energies a Slayer emitted. In layman's terms what the system did was to scan the planet with Weather Satellites and combined with a trace Spell to created by Willow called Slayer Lo-Jack, they could find any Slayer or Watcher by their specific EM fingerprint. But hey... The only thing this system was missing was the Professor X headgear and the really large rounded room. However, the room was Pentagon shaped anyways to fit with the Wiccan magic.
"SLAYER IDENTIFIED." The computer chimed out in the Female Macintosh computer voice. "COMMENCING SCAN... SCAN COMPLETED... TWO SUBJECTS IDENTIFED..." That was when Andrew shot up in his chair...
"Oh... crap..." Andrew said as he squeezed the fool out of his drink box letting the slime apple green fluid land on the floor. "Oh... Shit..." Andrew said as he threw the box away from him and started to pound away the computer with sticky fingers.
"Hal... give me status of Slayers." Andrew spoke as he typed in the same words.
"SLAYER ONE LOCATED AT LOCATION LISTED IN FILES AS SUNNYHELL... SLAYER TWO LOCATED IN LOS ANGELES... BOTH SLAYER SHOW ANOMOLIES." Hal the computer said as Andrew looked around.
"Please not let it be another Psychotic Slayer! I have my hands full with dealing with Dana." Andrew said as Dana walked in the room.
"What about having your hands full of me..." Dana said worried. "Is this about me going topless and asking you to feel my boobs..." the formerly Feral Slayer said as Andrew looked up at her in full horror remembering how she behaved after having her "growth spurt." Between being in a room with a woman who was exploring her newfound sexuality and being very attractive, that and boy did she have a pair on her. Andrew knew that if he touched her, well... He did not want to go there.
"No... It isn't that... well just that... well... heck you are going through intellectual puberty with a fully adult body just minus a few years." Andrew said Dana shifted a little unsure around on her feet.
"You mean... you like me... but you are a little overwhelmed by me!" Dana said getting scared.
"Yeah... well actually, you and I are a lot alike... just it is you having the industrial strength superpowers thing that creeps me out... hell you probably know things about Buffy and Faith's sex lives that..."
"Faith did the Karma Sutra with Xander during a one night stand... that and she likes handcuffs. But she hasn't experienced cuddle sex before." Dana said aloud. "But Buffy is into long sex... You know... hump a guy for like... I not sure... but she and Riley did have sex... all I remember is that there was a Wednesday referenced on the calendar." Dana finished looking at Andrew... "And you didn't need to hear that." Dana said looking away from him and quickly at her feet.
"Yeah..." Andrew said as he attempted to get his mind on task and not think about jiggly Cleavage before him. "Ain't like you can use your powers to see what Kennedy and Willow's sex life is like because?" Andrew started to type like crazy.
"Trust me... There are times where I think about girls... and I don't mean about in a fashion sense." Dana said as she attempted to read what was on the screen. "So... you have a Slayer Scan alert." Dana said as she attempted to change the subject.
"Yes... the computer was running a scan on all the Slayers on the face of the planet and I was doing an update on those who are already on the system." Andrew said as the system started to put out a history scan.
"SLAYER ONE, APPEARED ON SCANNER THREE DAYS AND FIFTEEN HOURS AGO. SLAYER TWO, APPEARED ON SCANNER FORTEEN DAYS AND THREE DAYS AGO. ANONOMLIES DETECTED AMONG THE TWO." Hal spoke out of her speakers.
"Anomalies?" Dana said worried. "Why type of Anomalies?" She said leaning forward.
"Lets see..." Andrew said typing away... "Okay... that's weird... Slayer one is listed as being in her teens and has the same magical EM as Buffy and the second one is screaming as something completely different..." Andrew said as he moved over to hit the button on the Speaker Phone. "We have to tell the Gang about this."
"Yeah... we do..." Dana said looking around the room.
"Oh and Willow like breasts. Ken is more of a South of a border type of gal." Dana said as she felt a tickle on her breasts...
"How do you know this stuff?" Andrew said turning to look at her.
"Because... every time Ken and Willow do it... I feel their snuggling." Dana said as she hugged herself tighter. "That and Wil has a cold nose today."
"That's it... I'm calling Willow to put some sort of barrier spell on Kennedy." Andrew said as he punched in Willow's home phone number.
"Yeah... you better..." Dana started to closer her eyes... and starts to rapidly gasp for air... "Oh... darn..." Dana said as she moved over and planted a kiss on Andrew and nearly sucked the breath out of his lungs. "Andrew... I think you better take your pants off..." Dana said as she started to look flustered as she started to shed the yellow hooded sweatshirt she had on along with the jeans. That was when a third Blip appeared on the screen of the computer as Dana pulled off her underwear and started to work on Andrew Well's clothing with her teeth.
"Dana... do you think... we should be..." then there was a moan from Andrew as Dana found his manhood. "Um... never mind..." He choked out.
"Lay down Andrew..." Dana said as two very bronzed hands grabbed Andrew's behind and pulled him down to the floor as they made love in positions that would have shown the Immortal a thing or two. That and Andrew was thinking of two things... the number fifty and needing to do his laundry.
"Okay... How did I do that?" The young girl said looking at the hole that she had just punched into the wall up to her elbow.
"Yeah... Okay... Clem please write down that she has superhuman strength." Gloria said looking at the damage to the wall.
"Wow..." A young Demon girl with wolf-like pointed ears said nearby... "And I thought Gloria here was strong... but you take the cake."
"Um... yeah..." The girl spoke uneasily... "Um... listen. I know that my brain is Swiss cheese, but could you at least give me a name."
"How about Trish... or Amanda... Those sound good." Clem said as he thought of some names off the top of his head.
"Do I look like a Trish or Amanda!" The girl said looking at her self in a mirror that was hanging on a nearby wall as she started to remove her arm from the wall.
"How about Iria..." you kind of look like an Iria... the young demon girl said stroking down the Slayer's sweat filled hair. "Or Xena... but there would be issues... they probably think you were gay."
"No... Iria sounds good... well... until I find out what my name is." The girl said as she stretched some in the sweats that she had on as she started to get used to how little she was hurting.
"Sorry that we didn't get any undergarments for you." Gloria said as she moved over to the now named Iria...
"I know... But..." Iria moved some as she felt her throat... "If I'm..." Iria was getting scared. "... Like you guys... no offense... Do I have a family...do I have a brother or a sister... I mean it ain't like I can shoot laser beams from my eye by squinting..." with that, Iria squinted her eyes in a loose attempt to poke a hole through a nearby scented candle. "... Nope... Zilch on the heat vision." Iria said in defeat as Gloria came up beside her and helped to get Iria's arm out of the wall.
"Well... Superman's heat vision did not fully develop until, like he was older and interested in girls... Maybe you have to think about boys... or Male Slayers..." the demon girl said.
"Male Slayers..." Iria said as she turned towards the demon girl. "That means that I might be making baby Slayers?"
"I don't know..." the girl said as she looked at Gloria. "Gloria... are there any male Slayers?" The demon girl said.
"I don't know Mae... I mean... she is a girl... maybe... there are?" Gloria said pondering that idea...
"Yeah... well she does look human... maybe Male Slayers look human too?" Mae said as she cautiously poked Iria's cheek while she bit at her lip with her elongated canines.
"Yeah... that probably means that she has a mommy and Daddy Slayer out there." Mae said as she started to scratch at her wolf like ears on the side of her head.
"Mae... Do you think that..." Iria paused for a moment as Gloria finished freeing her arm from the wall. "Thank you Miss Gloria... That... I have a real name that I might truly go by..." Mae moved over and cautiously touched Iria's arm.
"Clem... You knew a Slayer... Any Ideas?" Mae said looking at the kind demon.
"Well there are a few things I do know... Mostly stories, but what I knew of the last one... Buffy, she was... gentle and kind towards people... she was very protective of her sister Dawn... But trust me when you decided to pick a fight with her... well there was going to be some ass that was going to be kicked." Clem said as he gently ushered the young Slayer over towards a well duct-taped couch and started to tell of what he knew of her people well the Reader Digest version of what he knew that and a few rumors that he had heard. He could have been telling a story of being some Champion given how much this young girl was soaking it in.
An hour later, Clem realized that Slayers had appetites that would make a Frat house full of Vampires at a Rush week Pledge Party Kegger on a day that ended with a "Y" look tame as Iria tore into her plate of Chili Cheese Fries. While Iria ate, she and Mae started to talk about Orlando Bloom and which film he looked the hottest in.
Illyria sat on the beach naked. 576460752303423488, 1192921504606846976. The cell division in her body announced itself as a life form inside of her started to borrow from her essence and the Shell's biology. She could no longer deny the fact some entity had taken control of her shell against her will.
"Hey Blue... how was your swim?" Charles said as he sat down beside her.
"It was pleasing..." Illyria turned her head towards Charles. "... Even not changing my form to go through the water easier, It made me feel at peace." There was a cock of her head.
"Want a blanket?" Charles said to her as he rubbed her bare back with his hand.
"Yes..." Then there was a trembling from her lip. "... I cannot seem to control the elements around me. I'm starting to feel cold from the elements."
"Yeah... Listen take my shirt and wrap it around you." Gunn said as he placed his shirt on Illyria's matted blue skin and Illyria moved her arms so that she could pull the edges around her.
"Charles..." Illyria said as she looked out at the water before turning to look at Gunn. "Do you think I will ever find my place in this world or will I..." With that, Gunn moved his hand and placed a finger on her mouth to stop her from talking.
"Blue... I think that you are lonely... I mean I saw happy you were when you were with the Slayers..." Gunn said as he placed his hand on Illyria's bare shoulder. "You felt alive... like you fit in... I saw you grin." Gunn continued grinning at her. Illyria bit her lip and pondered this concept.
"You are right about me feeling comfortable around that particular group of warriors." Illyria said as she slowly placed her hand on her belly. "I feel not alone..."
With that, there was a clear crackle as Illyria turned her head toward one side. "I feel that any young that I bring into this world would be at home among them." Illyria said as she traced her finger down her midriff and started to scratch above her navel.
"Feeling mortal..." Charles said as Illyria pulled several locks of her hair to cover her mammary sacks.
"Now... I wished that..." There were tears starting to from in her eyes. "I wished that Wesley and Fred would have had born their young before I had returned to this world. At least I would not feel so alone." Illyria said as she started to trace her finger in the dirt.
"Wes and Fred... did make a large impact on a lot of people Blue... You have Fred's memories and well... you did feel like When Wes died that you wanted to feel anything other than pain." Charles said as he pulled her close to him.
"Yes... I do..." then Illyria craned her neck up to look up at Charles... "Do you wish to fornicate? Your actions indicate that this closeness you are performing now show that you wish to mate with me?" Illyria said as Charles looked down at her in shock.
"Blue... Whoa... Hold on a sec... You think that me being this close to you means I want to hump you... No..." Charles said as he stroked a lock of Illyria's hair out of the way which had been blown in front of her face by the sea breeze. "Blue... You think that I am doing this so that I can score with you...Noo... It is just that well given all that has happened I considered you a friend and you looked like you were hurting." Charles said as Illyria kept looking at him.
"Then it is not fornication with this shell you desire." Illyria said as Charles hugged her closer as she started to shiver.
"No... I just want you and Fred or what is left of her inside of you to be happy." Charles said as he kissed her blue stained brow. "Hey..." Charles said something caught his attention. "Why don't you look at that?" He said as gestured with his head. Illyria turned her gaze from him to out towards the ocean...
"What is it?" Illyria said getting ready for battle as she searched for those who would intrude on her serenity.
"The seagull... he is having a good time riding those sea breezes." Charles said watching the bird surf the air currents off from the shore as the sun moved towards its final approach into going into the sea.
"Yes... The primitive air creature is seeking the simple pleasure in riding the air currents." Illyria said as she leaned back against Charles's Chest. "I used to watch scenes like this unfold with Chimera... she would have... Enjoyed this... though the creatures we watched in our youth were much larger and far more leathery." Illyria said as she snuggled closer to Charles's chest.
"That sounded almost nostalgic Blue." Charles said as Illyria and him watched the Sun Set.
"Yes... it does... my Dark Human warrior friend." Illyria said as she slowly started to write Chimera's name in the sand in the language of the Old Ones with the toes of her feet.
Dana was walking through the dreamscape naked. The sex she have had with Andrew was remarkable... well... considering it was her first time being consensual... Why was she here? Dana felt the small pebbles stick to her feet as she came up upon a camp fire that was set up around several smoothed logs and sat down to get warm. I thought that this was a dream... Fires usually meant meeting places and humoring who had summoned her here would lead either to embarrassment or of terror.
"Sorry..." A young voice said from behind her. "... I didn't know that you were naked." Dana turned around to see a young girl wearing a very large... well large was an understatement... A Humongous t-shirt.
"This is a dream... but I have a feeling that this a Slayer Dream." Dana said reaching out to feel the heat of the fire.
"So... Let me guess... Are you sleeping in your bed nude?" The girl said as she moved to sit down a good distance from Dana.
"No... Actually on the floor... I just finished having sex with my boyfriend." Dana said blushing.
"Ahh... so... you are a..." The girl said as she moved her short cut hair back with her hands...
"Slayer... Yes I am..." Dana said staying still but slowly moving her arms to cover her breasts.
"Well... I can tell that the next time I go to bed I am wearing some sweat pants..." The girl said as she crossed her legs and pulled her shirt further down her legs.
"So... did you do the summoning or are you playing around with your powers..." Dana said looking at the girl more... "Wait... I know you... you showed up in my dream several days ago... I was... wearing blood on my face..."
"Wait... was the blood in five lines going down your face." The girl jumped back some and falling backwards off of the smooth white log she was on.
"Yes... that was..." Dana spoke realizing that she had met this girl before...
"Okay... so... I'm telepathic... I read minds..." the girl was stammering out... "So... I'm right now sleeping in bed and you are... well sleeping on naked..."
"Hold on... I will not hurt you," Dana said as she got up and moved to help the girl up.
"Okay... So... is there any more of our... people here... I mean I don't want to run into a guy here and make the impression that I am..." the girl stopped. "Wait... how many of our people use this? Do we... Where do we come from?" The girl's mind was racing...
"Calm down... What's your name?" Dana said as she placed a hand on the girl's shoulder...
"Iria... I think... I don't remember my name... but everyone calls me either Slayer or Iria..." The girl said looking up at Dana. "What's your name?" Iria said calming down some.
"Dana... I used to be from LA, but I live in Cleveland now. You?" Dana said as she pulled several large locks of hair around to cover her breasts so she would not be constantly flashing this young girl.
"I don't know... I know that I am California... The folks call the town Sunnydale or Summer's Crater. Most of them are not human... But this woman named Gloria... she has been keeping an eye on me." Iria said as Dana slowly moved with her and sat down on the log again.
"Well... This is the first time that I have talked with another Slayer while having a Slayer Dream." Dana said looking at the fire.
"Slayer Dreams... is this how our people communicate? I mean..." Iria was struggling to deal with the information before her.
"Yes... it is how Slayers both living and dead talk with other Slayers..." Dana said as she shifted on the log. "Sorry... the wood is really lumpy where I am sitting."
"Oh." Iria said looking up into the night sky...
"So..." There was a nudge... "Crap... not much time..."
"Not much time for what..." Andrew is attempting to wake me up...
"I want you to scratch your name into my arm..." Dana said looking at her with urgency...
"Why?" Iria said looking at Dana.
"Because when we wake up, I'll know that this wasn't a dream."
"Oh..." I Iria said as she grabbed a piece of wood off of the ground and scratched the first three characters of her name into Dana's arm...
"Quick do me... I need to show Gloria that I wasn't dreaming either." Iria said as Dana took the stick from Iria's hand and only got the first two letters of her name on the girls' arm before she woke up.
"It wasn't a dream." Dana said looking down at her arm... the blood freshly breaking through the surface of her skin.
"Iria wake up... Iria." Mae screamed as a trail of blood started to from on the back of Iria's arm.
The young demon had heard of words being etched into a person's skin by demonic magic since she was a child... However, never had she actually seen it. DA... whatever it meant it was not good.
"Iria... please wake up..." With that, Mae grabbed a bottle of water, pulled the cap off, and dumped the contents onto Iria's face.
"Wha..." Iria said as she woke up from being doused in cold water. "Mae... " The young Slayer said as she woke up and looked down at her highly drenched extra large T-Shirt. It wouldn't have been so bad with the cold and the wetness but... However, Her boobs were starting to show through the grayish white shirt she had on.
"Mae... what is it?" Iria said as she got out of her bed. Mae just looked white as a sheet as Iria covered herself with her arms.
"You... you were being taken over by a demon." Mae said as her wolf-like pointed ears looked like someone had taken a bite out of them.
"No I wasn't..." Iria said as she looked down at a place on her arm that was starting to itch. "I was..." with that Iria stopped dead in her tracks and saw... "D A" Then she came to a realization... as she grabbed Mae and gave her a bear hug.
"It was real... Da... Dana... she was real... then that means..." Iria had let go of the young demon and started to pace around the room. "Okay... then... this means that... she is..." then something set in... "Oh Shit..."
"What is it Iria... is it something bad?" Mae said getting scared as she slowly moved over, grabbed her blanket off her bed, and bound it up around her.
"No... Just that I found out that I'm telepathic with my own people... and..." Iria moved her hand to pull her t-shirt down some... "I need to start wearing sweat pants to bed from now on... along with underwear..." Iria said letting something set in...
"Okay... so you were in telepathic communication with one of your Slayer Kin... so any word about them coming to get you?" Mae said getting worried.
"Not really but... I think she is more embarrassed about the entire walking into her dream thing than me." Iria said looking up at Mae.
"Why is that Iria?" Mae said getting worried about her demonic heritage being put on the line here.
"Um... I think I ran into after she had sex with her boyfriend..." Iria said moving over and picking up a note pad and starting to write stuff down...
Cleveland, Ohio...
Slayer- Wild one with blood on her face/ looks like a cross between J-Lo and Penelope Cruz and a bit of Jessica Alba.
Has Boyfriend named Andrew...
She was From L.A. Originally
Had sex in a public place...
I told her about Sunnydale/Summer's Crater, Gloria, and residence here.
Slayer Dream/ Telepathy... More of my kind use it... Summoning the Dead to Speak with? Playing around with Powers?
Shadow Creature-- not there this time sense that is bad.
African warrior babe not there... Seems important.
Mae slowly moved over, sat down on the guest bed next to Iria, and looked at the notepad she had in her hands.
"Iria..." Mae looked scared as she watched Iria write. "So... if you stay here long enough... then More Slayers will come looking for you?"
"I don't know?" Iria said as she stopped writing and read over what she had written. "Maybe... if I have another dream... Then... she can find me or I can find her..." Iria said looking over at Mae...
"So that means... if your folks are out there then you might be heading home?" Mae said looking at Iria...
"I might find out what my real name is Mae..." Iria said moving her hand over to touch Mae's shoulder. With that, Mae started to wonder if Slayers could also read her mind.
Shendell and Nancy had started to move again... this complex was huge... it either underground or on the freaking moon for all they cared...
"Shen..." Nancy said looking over at her young cohort. "Do you know what they did to you?" Nancy said, as she looked both ways at the hallway junction that they were at.
"I don't know... most of my mind is a blank at times... I mean I know a ton of stuff about shoes... Clothing... Mostly from Rodeo Drive in L.A. But I get Flashes of something else like... there is this woman with olive brown skin and she is trying to tell me something... then..." with that Shendell fell to the ground in pain as she got hit by a killer headache that topped nothing she had even felt before.
"Shen... What's happening?" Nancy said as she rushed over to Shen's side to see that Shendell's eyes had turned white...
"Nancy... we need to go into that room... guards coming..." Shen said as she got up... Still unable to see and somehow was able to open a door right across from them and had Nancy follower her in... A moment later through the view port on the other side Nancy saw a pair of cybernetic guards walk on by them...
"Shen... How did you?" Nancy's words were cut off as she saw attached to a vertical rack an Asian girl and Aoki standing right next to it.
"Aoki... how did you get in here?" Nancy said looking at her fellow escapee.
"Nancy... Haveire sent me out to look for you... But as my Spidey Sense started to tingle I came in here and found here... it is like we are connected somehow..." Aoki said moving over to the Asian girl who was strapped in with metal bolts that were designed to hold someone down five times her size or strength.
"She looks like Shit off of a dead person..."
"Sie-sie. Thank you. " The Asian girl said through her semi drugged state as she attempted to strain to pick her head up. Her Clothing looked like she had been through a battle and had dished it out as much as she had taken it.
"Are you okay?" Aoki said to the Asian woman.
"Luh suh. Shitty. Dang-ran Of Course. " The Asian woman said as Aoki reached over to get a class beaker and turned on the sink to give the woman a glass of water.
"Listen my Chinese is really weak but I get enough of what you are saying." Aoki said as she moved the glass up to the woman's mouth and let her sip at a slow but constant rate.
"Sie-sie. Thank you. " The woman said as Aoki moved to sit down on a nearby table but as she sat down the blanket on the table pulled enough that a female arm came out from under it.
"Oh shit." Shendell said as she looked at the body. She slowly moved over to pull the tarp back to reveal another young woman/girl under it. She had almost the same battle injuries as the Asian girl had but this one was dead and was very naked and very skinny.
"Amanda..." The Asian girl said looking down at her friend.
"You know her?" Nancy said looking at the body that had been clearly been stripped down. Several tubes had been inserted and what looked like a surgical cut that started from the shoulders and ran in a "Y" formation down the torso.
"Yes..." The Asian girl said in semi broken English... "Her name is... Aman...da." Then Aoki moved over to another table to see that there was a similarly vivisected body...
"I found another..." Aoki said getting worried.
"She named Cari... Cariadad." Asia said as Aoki slowly caressed the mocha skinned face.
"What they hell did you girls go through?" Nancy said as she moved to phase her hands through the restraints to free the girl.
"We... We are Slayer." Asia said as Aoki moved to help hold her up.
"Slayer... so you and these girls are killers?" Shendell said as she touched one of the bodies and her eyes went white.
"Shen... what is it?" Hold it... I think this is a power of mine... wait a moment.
" You are Chou-Ahn... " Shendell said keeping her eyes white... "A Slayer... you and them fought an ancient evil..."
" You speak my language. " The Asian girl said.
"Some... I think my demon side... knows languages..." Shendell said as she felt pain coming from the Slayer and a strong will to live... then her Humanity screamed... Help her Shen... Get your ass moving. With that Shendell moved to help the Surviving Slayer down.
" How long have I been out? " The Asian Slayer said as she looked around, her oval face showed the strength of her will. Then there was a thunk as several screws started to be slowly turned out of metal grating.
"So... could someone give me a hand." A male voice said as a pair of fingers started to wiggle from the grate.
"Who are you?" Sendell said moving over to see a guy in what looked like a blue military flight suit.
"Hey ma'am... I know that you and your friends have been sneaking around... But right now... I need to stand up. I have been in these vents for the past week." The man said as Shen slowly moved and placed her hands on his fingers. Images started to flash into her head. Soldier... military... Space... An alien planet... Large battle...
"ALLIANCE FIGHTER 210... DO YOU READ ME..."
"Sir... Taking fire from one of our own guns... The Damn Browncoats over ran one of our positions... I have been hit... Losing engines one thru three. I have to punch out." The pilot said as he reached over his head and yanked at the release harness to punch out of the cockpit as he was fired out of the dying aircraft.
"Battle of Serenity... yeah right..."
Shen... what is it... My powers they kicked in again... I think we can trust him... he is like us... he got grabbed." Shen said as she moved over to Chou-Ann and pulled a blanket from a pile and wrapped it around the young Slayer. With that, Shendell returned to the grate and yanking it and part of the mounting out of the wall. The pilot looked at Shen like she had three heads but realized that from probably from what he had seen getting around this place that this was no longer weird factor of ten, but just plain setting into a weird factor of three.
"Thank you Ma'am... I am sure obliged by your actions." The Pilot said as he climbed out of the vent.
"Good... Listen..." Nancy said as she noticed that the guy was taking a hard long look at her cleavage.
"My name is Eli... Eli Leonhardt... Ma'am." Eli said as Nancy got this feeling that he liked his women with curves... mainly cheesecake.
"Eli... listen... how long have you been moving around?" Nancy said as she handed over Chou-Ann to Aoki.
"A little over a week, I used to stay in one of the store rooms but moved after I almost got caught." Eli said looking over at the bodies... "I saw these two being autopsied..." then he winced. "Trust me they said they wanted to access the heart of the Demon or whatever crap that meant." That was when Chou-Ann started to speak...
"Heart of the Demon... it is the source of our powers... it is where we were forged from." Chou-Ann said as she attempted to stand but her legs were like rubber and gave out from under her.
"Right... Okay... listen... I don't know if you are part of some sort of way of the warrior/noble savage thing going for you as a group Miss... Nevertheless, I am a soldier and it is my duty to escape. Now are you with me, or not?" As the girls looked at him as if they were annoyed at that he had asked them the question of wanting to leave this place.
"Duh... we are planning an escape... but since you know the lay of the land as per say... it might cut down the time." Nancy said to Eli.
"What do you mean that there are more of you?" Eli said realizing that he might have run into a scouting party for a much larger group.
Faith lay in bed naked next to Robin... A mother she was going to be a mother... It was now setting in for her. She was scared... Well Dana would be there for her... Faith had never really thought about family before given that her's was a shit house even before her watcher adopted her... but now... Faith moved her hand down to her belly. A Child... How much of her wanted to see this person growing in her womb grow up... Then she thought about Nikki Wood, Robin's mother... She had been slain while out on a routine patrol... So many of her memories of wanting to get home had flooded into Dana... Nikki and Faith had a lot in common but... Dana she saw more like a kid sister... But since Andrew and Dana had started talking and becoming friends since the entire Illyria, Defrag Super Sayian 4000 incident Dana had become more... Normal wasn't a term that Faith would throw around but Dana was at least out of the deep darkness but... like Faith herself it would always be there given them strength and testing them as it slowly tore into her. That was when Faith's hand went lower from her belly to her hot groin and she grinned... If pregnant women got increasingly horny during their nine months... Oh well, Robin could always use Viagria. With that, Faith rolled over and started to snuggle into Robin's shoulder.
"Honey... Want to see if we can make another baby for our little one to play with inside of me?" Faith said as she dragged out the bottle of baby oil that had become the aphrodisiac that Faith had been using as her discreet signal of wanting to hump more.
"Um... Baby... Faith... We already had sex eight times tonight... And that doesn't count the being handcuffed in the shower together while out on patrol..." Robin said as Faith took the oil and squeezed it on Wood's chest before she dragged her ample and now growing bosom seductively across his chest as she before she got up to his chin and kissed him on the neck. "That and when you are pregnant... you can't make another child in your oven..." Wood said as all Faith did was to give him a chestier cat grin. "And you knew that... you just want more sex..."
"Okay... you lay there and I just do it orally." Faith said as Robin rolled his eyes Faith snaked down his body.
"Woman... you are going to kill me one of these days with your..." There was a long pause as he thought about what he was about to say and the images unfolding in his mind... "Wait... probably that isn't a bad way to go. Sure beats being eaten by killer slugs."
"Yeah and I've recently have developed a taste for chocolate beefcake." Faith said as she grinned. "So have you come up with any names for our child?" She said as she started to take the packaging of the condom wrapper off with her teeth.
Illyria was standing in front of the long full-length mirror in Fred's room. The bath she had taken to remove the dried salt from her body had made her think of her native form. Between the fog of her mind after she had drank several bottles of Wesley's poison Liquor she remembered the image in her mind of her true form and that her garments had become shredded in the process. Much like Nina the Moon Beast's when she failed to disrobe while inside of her cage.
Illyria had removed her garments, had laid them on the bed before her bath under the artificial rainfall, and was looking at her form. She took several times of relaxing her entire body to get the start of her transformation started... she didn't need her true forms actual size, but a smaller version would work in this small space.
Slowly her body started to change as her arms at the elbow started divide into two tentacles... the sensation in this environment was different from any that she had experienced. She slowly started to morph the rest of her body... Limbs taking on the feeling of her own flesh followed by her change of her torso... However, something inside of her made her pause as she kept the appearance of the shell's mammary organs in her changed state. Then Illyria got to her face... Even then, she paused as the modulation of her form... As much as she wished she couldn't get rid of the decayed cellular mass of the shell's hair... all she could was bulk it together forming large brown and blue dreadlocks out of her head as the enlarged stone blue eyes looked back towards her. Illyria moved slowly as she slithered across the carpet as she headed towards the mirror.
"My body..." Illyria said in her native tongue. "I feel so... lonely." Then there was a knock at the door.
"Fred..." Nina the Moon Beast's voice called out through the door. "... It's Nina... Gunn said that you were up here and."
"Yes... Nina the..." Illyria stopped herself... Calling Angel's Mate "Moon Beast" was upsetting her, If Illyria was to bond with the Slayers then she must act like one. "... You may enter." Illyria said in Fred's voice. With that, Nina came in and just stared at Illyria's demon form.
"Uh.. Listen I can come back." Nina said as she attempted to shun her eyes away from Illyria.
"No... I have seen you in your transformed state... I am not ashamed of you seeing mine. It is the least I should do for one of the beasts and followers of Luna. " Illyria said moving between human English and her native tongue as her now formed cartilage tri-jaw moved pressed together to keep a human like mouth present as she formed the words.
"Oh..." Nina said cautiously coming in. "Well we are both adults here and I have been in a few Human Figure classes so..." There was clear discomfort in Nina's voice.
"You wish me to retake my human form..." Illyria said to Nina. "This state of mine is unsettling for you."
"Yes..." Nina rushed out of her mouth.
"I will do so..." Illyria said as she modulated her form back to her human state, but it was not until Illyria felt human hair on her naked back that she would need to put a garment around her. Illyria kept still until the transformation was complete before moving towards the dresser and picking up the gem that was her warrior vestment and changed it into her body armor leaving her feet bare. It was not until she felt the cloth of the carpet against her bare feet; she remembered that she had not reincorporated her boots back into her vestments.
"Fred... I keep forgetting that you can do that." Nina said as she slowly came in the room.
"It is a simple modulation of my form... I think it and thus I become it." Illyria said as she turned towards Nina.
"Yeah... Just that I... I didn't know that ... well that pattern covered your body the way it did." Nina said as Illyria studied her.
"You came to speak to me." Illyria said getting to the point. It took Nina a moment for her mind to catch up with what she had seen.
"Oh... yeah... Gunn was telling me and Angel about your little encounter with the Stalkerrattzii." Nina said as Illyria moved to sit on the Bed.
"Yes... Those pieces of filth that hunt their prey with their contraptions so they capture acts of normality then use those images to humiliate. They are worse than the worms that feast on the flesh of rotten beasts." Illyria said with distain.
"I agree with you there." Nina said as she placed a hand on Illyria's shoulder as she sat down on the bed next to Illyria.
"Nina... You touch me because you agree?" Illyria said as she mirrored Nina's hand placement to the female werewolf's own shoulder.
"Yes..." Nina said a bit off. "Listen Fred I know that being part monster and all is a little much but..." Nina was cut off by Illyria speaking up at the last moment.
"I am not a monster... The demon I am was a God to a God... Yet... I would give it all up to have Wesley back..." Illyria pulled her hand away from Nina and turn away. "Nina... do you wish to bear Angel's young?" Illyria said as she looked back at Nina.
"Wait... Fred..." Nina was taken back by this. "Whoa... the main reason that you are feeling moody is because..." Nina looked at Fred.
"Wesley and..." Illyria force herself to say the name. "Intimate... Children... Young... Life growing inside of this body..." Illyria was getting scared. "... Bare his young... and he would be happy... I would have been a good mother... Human even." Illyria was breaking down... Nina leaned over and just hugged Illyria tight. "Mother wanted her daughter to bare her some grandchildren..." Hot human tears were running down Illyria's face at this time.
"Fred... you mean that... you wanted to get married and..." Nina nuzzled her on the neck as Illyria leaned on her in pain... "It's okay... so your biological clock went off..."
"No it is not my clock, I am worried about Nina... the Stalkerrattzii knew my name..." Illyria was getting scared now. "If they, Mother and Father learn I am not human... that Human Fred is gone... Then..." Nina pulled a little bit away and looked at Illyria...
"Fred... I do not know what is scaring you more... that you are still in the closet about being part demon or that you want to be a mother. But Trust me once you let your folks know that you are part demon... and if they are understanding then..." Illyria looked at Nina as if she was the eternal abyss of the Deeper Well. "They will accept that you are still you." Nina said as Illyria pushed away from her and slid off the bed and back away from the female Werewolf as fast as she could get traction with her slick bare feet.
"Noo..." Illyria was shaking in fear as she hit a pile of pillows on the floor and grabbed Fred's bunny Rabbit Flagellum and held it tight. "... I do not know if I am human infecting a demon in a human Shell... A demon wearing a humans' skin or some sort of anomaly that should have never come into existence." Illyria said seeking solace in the stuffed animal idol.
"Fred... Tell me what is wrong... " Nina said moving slowly next to Illyria.
"Slayers... They have strength, power, respect... they are feared... Honored..." Illyria was squeezing Flagellum so hard that the stuffing was rushing towards his head. "When I was with them... Things made sense... Not alone... Felt myself... no doubts... Felt alive... connections with constants... Jaw felt like it fit." Illyria said as Nina slowly put her hand under the ancient Goddess's face and lifted it up.
"You wanted to go back to a simpler time in your life..." Nina said as she sat down in the pillows next to Illyria. "Times where you didn't have to fight the world or all the monsters in it just to exist. You just wanted things to make sense." Nina said as she let Illyria work the pain out of her body. "Okay here is a deal... Fred... I..."
"Illyria... my name is Illyria..." Illyria was able to force out to a somewhat audible level even with Nina's enhanced hearing.
"Illyria... Okay..." Nina corrected herself. "Illyria... I want you to do something... I heard that you wanted to go live with that small group of Slayers at one of the University campuses... Now while you are there I want you to take a class... I do not care if it is underwater Basket Weaving or Nude Hang gliding... Just take a class that makes you happy. Chose a course you like for fun, and take it." Nina said looking with understanding into Illyria's eyes.
"I like beating things up... and looking at the stars..." Illyria said as the tears started to slow their exit from her eyes.
"Okay... Let's see if they offer any boxing courses, but given your background... why don't you take a course in Astronomy." Nina said as she sat down next to Illyria.
"Astronomy... that is the study of the Stars in the havens..." there was a light grin forming on Illyria's face... "This might help me understand the magic of this world." A light set of tears was running down the sides of her rounded face.
"Okay... you take some classes... and learn the ways of the Slayers... and all I ask from you is that you sing for me during the nights of the full moon." Nina said as she touched Illyria's face to wipe the tears dry.
"That will be acceptable Nina..." there was a pause from Illyria. "My nose has become congested with Mucus and I need to get it out." Illyria said looking a bit concerned at Nina.
"I'll get you a Kleenex." Nina said getting up as she grinned at her friend.
Dana was walking around the stable area on the Slayer Watcher compound. Her well worn jeans, black classic Converse sneakers, and gray hooded Sweat shirt that had the crest of the Council on it made her look like she was normal... but the pair of wooden Sias she had stashed in the back of her sweatshirt screamed that she was a Slayer... Walking around in the sun like this felt great... no worries... was she sun shining on Iria where she lived... that thought stuck in her mind... then there was a sound... a snort sound from a grazing horse...
"Hey there... D'Argo." Dana said moving over towards the young horse. "So... out moving around." Dana said as she let the large beast's head started to nuzzle against her hands.
"Yeah..." Dana said as she let the large beast move beside of her. "You needed to get out... So where is Aaron and Chi Chi?" The horse nudged her in a direction where he was heading.
"Oh... you don't want to be with those two... they can be quite the bitches those two." Dana said as whispered into the horse's ear. The horse neighed in response. "You agree with me don't ya?" Dana said as she started to pat the horse's side. With that, the horse started to slowly move with her as they moved along the old wooden fence of the compound. After awhile Dana saw a green glow coming from behind a tree in the distance from where she was walking.
"Is this what you wanted me to see?" Dana said leaving the horse on the path. As she started to move through the uncut grass of the ground, she turned to look back at D'Argo but saw Inara standing there in her full warrior garments. The black leather Greek Armor and blood red Skirt of the Ancient Slayer stood there looking at her.
"Dana... Go look behind the tree..." Inara said as she moved by Dana and headed off towards the tree before disappearing.
"Okay..." Dana said before sprinting to catch up. "Hey Inara... I know that you are dead but could you at least wait for the living to catch up with you." Dana said as she moved around the tree. Sitting in a lotus position at the base of the tree was Dawn...
"Dawn..." Dana said looking down at the young woman. It took a moment before Dawn took notice of her. As of out of a trance Dawn opened her eyes.
"Dana..." Dawn said in a bit of shock as she attempted to get up bout her legs would not unfurl the way she wanted and she landed on her ass with a thump on the ground.
"Sorry..." Dana said kneeling down next to Dawn... "So..." Dana was a bit worried... Dawn was the sister of Buffy and... The memories about her were vivid... Well except for the glowing green stuff.
"Listen... I did not know that you were out here... I'll go." Dawn said straightening her legs out and getting up.
"No... Dawn..." Dana said as she started to sound like Buffy as she reached out and grabbed Dawn by her arm.
"Dana... listen..." Dawn said as she pulled a lock of her long brown hair out of her doll like face.
"Dawn..." Dana said pulling herself back to the present. "I know that you don't like me because... I have my... Buffy's memories inside of me..." Dana struggled to prevent herself from slipping. Then a wave of memories hit... Spike... Not Bad Spike, but... Spike as a friend... Dawn... Protected by Spike... Glory... Hurt Dawn...
"Spike I respect what you did for Dawn..." Buffy said to a badly beaten Spike...
"I know..." Spike said back.
"The robot was wrong..." Buffy said, "It was sick and it was wrong."
"Spike I need you to keep an eye on my mom and Dawn." Buffy said but the time was sped forward.
More memories flooded into Dana's mind. It was her life now... the orderly in the hospital, she had slit his throat... The Security Guard... the Dock Worker... The Store clerk... Then there was Spike Again... she was feral... Hunting...
"Now I am here to help you love..." Spike said to her... No... Xin Rong's memories overwhelmed her. She was fighting him. The city was on fire... then another set of memories hit...
"You take big bad meanie monsters and turn them into defenseless kittens..." Buffy said to a man... Riley...
"Okay... you know a whole lot more than I thought." Riley said to Buffy. Images of Spike unable to hurt Xander... Willow... Tara... His head was hurting... then images of Spike in a Hawaiian shirt... fully vamped out... "I can hurt demons? I can hurt Demons... I'm a bloody animal... I'm back..." Spike said as he fought along side of the Slayer...
Suddenly a memory of her own... Spike unconscious... she was sawing his hands off... "Never touch me again... never hurt me again..." with this image Dana was thrust back to the present as she fell against the tree.
"Dana..." Dawn said as she rushed over to grab the young Slayer before she fell.
"Dawn..." Dana called out as started to cry... "I hurt Spike... I killed innocent people." The tears were pouring out like a flood from her eyes.
"Dana... Faith and the others knew that once you remembered the events of..."
"...The night I escaped and butchered people..." Dana said as she attempted to lift her face to look up at Dawn.
"Yes... Listen... you were feral... running on instinct..." Dawn said as she attempted to comfort the girl.
"I killed... Heart and Head... I cut off hands..." Dana said as Dawn slowly moved with her and sat on the ground...
"It's going to be okay... it's not your fault... you had like a few thousand really pissed off dead Slayers taking you for a joyride..." Dawn said as she started to caress Dana's dark hair.
"I killed..." Dana said as the small girl trapped inside of a very adult body started to claw her way to the surface...
"Dana... your not the only one who has seen this dark side... I mean Faith killed too... it took her a long time to come to terms with what she did..." Dawn said as she slowly started wipe the tears from Dana's face. "... You only become a monster if you let the bad things win and sometimes they lay beneath your skin tearing at your soul."
"Fight..." Dana said as she looked at Dawn... "... Fight is all I do... I want to grow up... No monsters... I don't want to be a thing..." With that, Dawn held up her hand and a green light started to be emitted from it. "Wha.." Dana said as she saw Dawn start to Glow.
"This is who I am... I am a ball of green Energy... also, I am a person... first, I thought I was something bad... that I wasn't real. Hell I tried to commit suicide." Dawn said as Dana started to look at her attempting to fathom what Dawn was talking about. "Then I realized that..."
"That even through the Monks made you... you needed to know that you were real. A real girl..." Dana said as she came to terms with some of what she had done.
"Yeah... big adjustment..." Dawn said as she just sat with Dana... "I had to make a choice... to be a person..."
"It's Summers blood...Dawn" Dana said sounding eerily like Buffy.
"Yeah... how did you... Oh..." Dawn said as she realized what was happening as Dana looked off in the distance.
"I feel the others... just scratching behind my eyeballs." Dana said as she let her eyes sag. "I see their lives... their dreams and their deaths..." Suddenly Dana was yanked out of the now...
"Dana..." Iria' called out... "I need to speak with you..." The voice screamed out... All Dana could do was convulse...
"No... I'm... Still awake..." Dana stammered out... "It hurts..." with that the pain stopped. "Dana..." Dawn Screamed as Dana started to slump up against of her.
"Iria..." Dana said before she lost consciousness.
"Stay with me Dana..." Dawn said as she started to dial on her cell phone.
"Willow... I need a medical team..." the words were fading into the darkness.
TBC
Part 15,
