Operation Slayers and Non Essentials, the Second Coming:

Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

"We managed to finally get in contact with every major contact the Council has and told them about what happened here. The secondary head Council group in England are going to send a special construction crew for Xander to over-see, along with all papers and building permits," Olivia told the group as she rubbed Giles' back and sat beside him.

Giles continued, "We still have a budget to work with everyone, so don't get any ideas. Now, in addition, London's Council will be sending us new weapons and books to replace the ones we lost. That means i will need some of you, and even I am cringing when i say this, to do inventory with me. Also, Olivia will need some temporary help as we will be receiving medical supplies and equipment along with the construction crew."

"OOKAAAYYY! So who is up for patrol?" Buffy got up and asked with a squeaky voice.

"Why me God? Why?" Andrew asked as he looked to the sky.

"Because were hungry!"

"And Horny!"

Chapter 3

As those unfamiliar voices rang out into the night, the group of demon hunters turned their heads to see who spoke. As they did, the group witnessed a brunette vampress and vampire standing side by side with an Ethros Demon dressed in a metal ballroom mask, black boots, pants, shirt and hooded robe. The vampress surprisingly, was dressed almost exactly as Spike with the only exception being the tight female leather pants instead of male. The bulkier and taller male wore black jeans, t-shirt and a black leather jacket. Both creatures of the night were already wearing the vampiric faces.

Before saying a word, the two vampires took off running across the cemetery while the Ethros demon vanished into an invisible, air rippling portal behind him. As the demon hunter's gave chase for a minute or two, they stopped as they lost sight of their prey. However, the Slayer's continuously tried to spot the two undead monsters as they could still smell and feel them near. After a few seconds, both vampires emerged from behind a marble statue and the Ethros demon re-emerged from his portal.

"Tsk tsk tsk. All these girls wandering around at this time of night, just ripe for the picking," The male vampire spoke to the group, grabbing his crotch and giving the group of demon hunters a good thrust to get his point across.

"Hey!" Andrew protested. Unphased by the vampire's sexual threat towards the girls.

"Oh don't worry blondie, I'm gonna have fun with you," the vampress spoke out to the young watcher as she licked her fangs seductively.

"Thank you! Finally someone doesn't make fun of me!" Andrew exclaimed as he raised his arms in victory.

"Oh don't worry baby, I'll be too busy beating you and draining you dry to make fun of you," the vampress said with a sadistic smile.

"And what about you Alichino? Nothin ta say? Not even a hand gesture?" Faith asked the demon.

The Ethros demon remained silent.

"He's more of a do-er sweet thing. Speaking of doing, any last words before we rape you to death baby?" the male vampire asked.

"We? What is this we? There are three of you and 11 Slayers...plus the boy...I thought when people go evil their IQ increases?" Buffy quipped.

Both vampire and vampress looked at each other with huge fanged grins and then both whistled. Literally, out of every immediate hiding spot possible, vampires and humanoid demons started to surround both groups.

As the band of demon hunters surveyed their surroundings, all they could see was wall-to-wall evil.

"How many?" Buffy whispered to Faith.

"Fifty, minimum," Faith responded.

"Lead the front, I'll take the rear...and no jokes," Buffy whispered back to Faith with a bit of a smirk.

As the ambush was finally set, the two vampires both wore inhuman smiles as they never took their hungry eyes off of their enemies. However, thanks to Faith's body positioning; she was able to keep one of her hands invisible behind her back as she was snapping her fingers towards Andrew and waving him to come closer to her. As the young watcher did so, Buffy caught onto Faith's battle strategy and did the same, turning her body in a way to hide her hand which was not holding onto the Slayer Scythe. Buffy snapped her fingers behind her back, pointed towards her Slayers and then pointed towards Andrew who was now behind Faith. Then with the same finger pointed downwards, performing a stirring motion.

"Any better last words bitches?" The vampress asked as her enemies who were shuffling around in what she can only guess is both fear and confusion.

"Yes actually, KEN'S TEAM TO THE FRONT! SATSU'S TO THE REAR!" Buffy shouted as she quickly moved behind Andrew, facing their enemies at their rears.

"BACK TO BACK!" Faith shouted quickly after her better half.

"Kill them!" ordered the growling male vampire.

As the circle of undead and demons charged towards their prey, both the Ethros Demon and Slayers took action. The hooded demon stepped backwards and as the air around him vibrated, he started to disappear. Kennedy and her crew took flanking positions at Faith's line, leaving the elder Slayer in the middle. Satsu did the same with her crew, leaving the legendary Buffy Summers in the middle to lead their defense once again.

"Weapons up!" Faith yelled just before hearing the sounds of metal and leather fill the air.

And so the wave of undead and demons clashed against the Slayer's. Both Slayer lines taking that one moment right before impact to draw back their weapons in order to strike. And like time just stopped for a mille-second, both factions finally came to a head. Both Slayer lines striking first at the exact same time.

(Author: Try to picture what is about to happen next all occurring simultaneously)

Buffy kept the Slayer axe lowered, bidding her time. Right before the first vampire tried to strike at Buffy, she turned the axe head upwards, swung her weapon to the heavens and cut right through her attacker, balls to head.

Satsu standing beside Buffy held the hilt of her katana, bidding her time as well. As soon as her attacker tried a wild left hook, Satsu ducked, unsheathed her sword and with a blinding burst of speed the woman split the contents of the demon's stomach to the ground with a horizontal slash. The Asian Slayer then followed up with an upwards diagonal slash with her katana, spilling the blood of another demon as she rose from her crouched position. The rest of Satsu's crew were also faring well against their attackers, but Dana was just tearing shit up.

Being and looking like the youngest out of all the Slayer's present, it seemed that the Slayer's enemies took that into consideration and tried to break through their defenses by going through Dana. Although Dana has made amazing progress with regards to becoming a normal and stable person since she first arrived at Slayer Central, right now the raven haired Slayer was anything but.

With two stakes in hand, Dana blinded her first attacker by giving it a shin kick and then stabbing it in the eye. Her second attacker didn't fare any better as the vampire received a Slayer football punt in the testicles. However Dana's third attacker managed to get a brass knuckled right cross in, right to Dana's mouth. As the blow connected and Dana's head snapped to the side, it caused Dana's lip to split and spurt blood on to her chin. Her vampric attacker's smile soon turned into a look of concern as Dana reeled her gaze back to her attacker, revealing a psychopathic look in her eyes and a wolfish grin on her blood stained lips as she crooked her head to the left. As her attacker came out of his trance, he tried for another right hook but without warning, Dana lashed out at the stunned vampire and caught him in the heart. Before the vampire had a chance to turn to ash, the insane Slayer did a three-sixty spin and plunged her stakes into the hearts of the whaling one eyed demon and recovering ball-less vampire. When Dana pulled her stakes out and span back to her spot to face the ongoing battle, all she could do was smile as she witnessed two vampires turn to ash and a demon keel over at the same time.

At the front of the battle, Faith's line was also faring well. As Faith unsheathed her twin daggers, she spun forwards in a three-sixty and cut off her female attackers head, turning her to ash and continuing to attack her enemies. The second Faith spun forwards make her original attack, another gusty vampire lunged into the air in an attempt to topple over Faith's line with his body. As Faith's actions created a cloud of dust in front of her when she killed her first attacker, more ash started to rain down on top of her as a wooden tipped crossbow bolt fell to the grass.

Beside an engaged Faith, Kennedy was Kung Fuu'ing enemies left and right. When the battle first broke out, Kennedy staked two vampires before imbedding her stake into a demon that keeled over backwards with the Slayers weapon still in its carcass.

"Fuck!" Kennedy cursed as she was unable to reclaim her weapon with more demons rushing towards her.

Without hesitation, Kennedy switched to a muay thai stance and gave a charging demon a flying knee strike that knocked it on its ass. Upon landing, Kennedy used her forearms to block two vampires trying to punch both of her flanks at the same time and shoved each of their arms away. Sensing the opening, Kennedy launched a right cross to the left vampire's jaw and followed up with a spinning left back elbow strike to the right cheek of the vampire on her right. The brunette Slayer then followed up again by switching to her tae kwon do stance and unleashed a front pump kick to her attacker's knee cap on the left, downing him instantly. Kennedy then spun in a circle and connected a spinning roundhouse kick to her other attacker's face, sending him toppling into her downed opponent.

As the Slayer of Joan of Arcadia was occupying her time with vampiric hand to hand combat, Dawn was on clean up duty. Not only was the younger Summers sister taking care of Kennedy's sloppy seconds, but she was taking care of her own business. With her dragon slaying broadsword in hand, Dawn struck first. As a demon was first to approach the young Slayer from the left, Dawn clutched her weapon with both hands and swung downwards and then upwards again in an arcing motion. As Dawn's demon attacker fell to the ground with its legs detached from its body, she quickly followed her attack through to the vampire that Kennedy just roundhouse kicked and performed a downwards slash to slice the vampire diagonally in half. Unfortunately for Dawn, a demon was quickly approaching her backside. However, unfortunately for said demon, Dawn's growing Slayer abilities are almost a mirror image of Buffy's. As the demon approached Dawn's back and raised its metal pipe to strike the Slayer down, Dawn twirled her weapon so that she was using a backhand grip on the hilt, and stabbed the demon behind her in the gut.

Fortunately, the battle waging to Faith's right also fell into the winning category. As Faith struck her first blow, Vi sent a visceral war cry through the night which could be defined as a blood curdling scream. Unfortunately for the bad guys, they indeed thought that Vi's scream was a sign of panic and fear. Only when they ran towards the red haired Slayer and she twirled her two short swords in her hands, did her attacker's realize they were dead wrong. Vi's first kill was made by splitting her vampiric enemy in half from snatch to head as the Slayer performed a uppercut swing with one of her swords. Not even a second later did Vi's second victim turn to ash as she swung her right handed weapon horizontally and decapitated the vampire, while the cloud of ash from her first kill lingered in the air.

Just as her second enemy turned to a cloud of ash, Vi's next attacker struck out of nowhere through the ash cloud with a long sword. Thankfully for Vi's sake, she reacted quickly by switching her grip on her left handed weapon to a backhand grip; parried her attackers blow, and split open her demonic opponent's stomach with a right handed swing of her sword.

Beside Vi, her ebony lover was a one woman wrecking crew. As the first attack came, Rona side stepped to the right and swung the axe of Charles Gunn to her left and decapitated her enemy to ash as the weapon connected with the back of the vampire's neck. Rona was not finished after her first kill of the night, not by a long shot. Just after her first kill Rona continued to swing her axe all over the place, dropping anything near her that moved. Until Rona felt fatigued and was forced to switch to her one handed fighting technique, the ebony Slayer continuously performed whirlwinds of death and destruction. Unfortunately, Rona even nicked her lover fighting beside her a few times on the arm and shoulder. However as funny as it may look to an observer, Vi didn't even feel the small cuts as she continued to fight like a woman warrior out of 'Lord of the Rings' on crack.

(Author: Ok, you can stop imagining stuff happening at the same time now)

Indeed, the beginning of the battle between good and evil started to favor the side of good. However, not long after the battle began, the numbers advantage broke through Buffy's Slayer line. Before the Slayer's defense could regroup, enough demons and vampires got through to fully negate the Slayer's defenses and turned the battle into a free for all.

"Andrew!" Buffy called to the young watcher.

"What!"

Buffy quickly grabbed the young man and dove with him in her arms behind a tree and other shrubs after she decapitated the demon who tried to flank her blind spot.

"Listen, there are too many! Run back to camp and get Willow, Giles and Xander here as fast as you can. Take the minivan and bring whatever medical supplies u can." The eldest Slayer exclaimed to the young watcher, trying to keep her voice as low as she can.

"What? No!...I'm not leaving Dawn-"

"Dawn it Andrew we don't have time for your manly bullshit! We need Willow's firepower and a way to treat and transport our wounded! Dawn can handle herself and this fight is not for range combat! GO!"

Looking out into the battle, Andrew saw Dawn faring well by Kennedy's side and decided Buffy was right.

"On my mark!" Buffy warned.

"GO!"

Suddenly, Buffy appeared from the scenery and decapitated a demon who was charging towards one of Satsu's crew mates while Andrew ran as fast as he could back to camp.

Waiting in the wings, a smile erupted from the face of a blurring Ethros demon as it emerged from its vibrating air portal beside his two vampiric companions.

"Glad you could decide to come out and play, now how about you actually do something other than being a pussy in a robe! You-"

"Arrrccch!"

"You...you bastard! You killed my brother!" The female vampress shouted and cursed towards the Ethros demon that just killed her brother with a metal scythe that appeared out of thin air.

Before the vampress could avenge her brother, the Ethros demon disappeared and then reappeared behind the vampress and sent her head rolling to the floor before it turned to ash.

"Don't ever call me a coward", the Ethros demon spoke to the deceased in a deep half human and half demonic voice.

As the battle waged, the pre-occupied demon hunters took no notice of what just transpired, nor did they take notice of the Ethros demon stalking towards them. Or so it seemed; after Faith kicked a horde of undead off of her and once again did that bad ass kip up we all know and love, she saw the whole ordeal between the Ethros demon and the vampire siblings. While her former attackers were now engaged by other Slayers, THE Slayer now stalked towards the 'big bad' with evil intentions. Shoving whatever comes in their way to the ground as they walked, both Faith and the Ethros demon were on a warpath towards each other. When the two were a few feet from each other, the demon vanished into his portal. Knowing the demons next probable move, Faith switched her grip on both her daggers to a backhand grip. The Slayer then performed a stabbing motion with both her weapons behind her back, with both her arms stretched. When Faith failed to hear steel entering body, she turned her head to see her attack was not completely unsuccessful. As Faith looked, she saw the Ethros demon sliced slightly on both of its hips as the demon was standing side to back with Faith and not his front to her back.

"Lucky fuck," Faith exclaimed as she pulled her weapons back towards her and spun around to face the demon.

Then like out of a movie, the two engaged with steel on steel. Faith tried to hit both high and low in succession, but the Ethros demon used his scythe to parry her attacks and attempt to land some of his own. As the two fought, Faith gained the upper hand and managed to slice a piece of flesh off of the demon's arm and follow up by knocking the demon on its ass with a sweeping kick to the back of its ankle.

"Any last words Alichino?" Faith asked the Ethros demon as she loomed over him with both daggers in hand.

"NOW!" The demon yelled out into the night.

Suddenly a confused Faith was pinned to the ground as a few vampires tackled her from seemingly out of nowhere. The Ethros demon laughed in a deep demonic voice as he got off the ground and loomed over Faith.

Faith tried as hard as she could, but the vampires pinned her to the ground must have been professional wrestler's as they were holding her down in exactly the right spots. As the smiling Ethros demon stood over Faith, it began to chant in some demonic tongue. Soon, the air around its hand was burning hot and started to smoke. Faith could only watch powerlessly as the chanting Ethros demon's smoldering hand came to rest a few inches above the exposed flesh above her abdomen.

"AAAAAHHHH!" Faith shrieked from the pain as the Ethros demon was working its magic.

"Faith!" Kennedy screamed, being the closest to the elder Slayer, Kennedy head Faith's cries of anguish and turned her head to see Faith's current situation.

Without a second of hesitation, the Latina Slayer rammed her current opponent's head, face first into a tree. Kennedy then ran as fast as her injured and adrenaline filled body could carry her towards her fallen friend and comrade.

As the Ethros demon was chanting louder and with more assertiveness, his hand started to glow bright red and orange. Just as a black demonic symbol was forming on Faith's agitated skin, a loud war cry was heard as Kennedy jumped over the vampires who were holding Faith down and delivered a flying knee to the jaw of the Ethros demon. Kennedy's move forced both her and the Ethros demon to go flying backwards in a heap of intertwined flesh and caused Faith's captures to lower their guards.

As the Ethros demon was returning to a vertical base, Faith shook her right leg free and kicked both vampires' by her feet in the face. Faith's suddenly actions enabled her to get her lower half free long enough to kick one of her captures by her upper body in the face and then fully free herself by punching her last capture kneeling at her shoulder in the jaw.

By the time Faith was fully freed, the Ethros demon was now looming over Kennedy with scythe in hand; arms raised and ready to strike.

"Die Slayer!" The demon exclaimed before he started to trust downwards.

However, before Kennedy met her end, a piece of tombstone collided with the demon and sent it crashing towards a nearby tree. As the Ethros demon slowly rose to its feet wincing in pain, it opened its eyes and witnessed the Slayer that previously attacked him clutching her stomach and heaving in pain while some of her comrades came to her aid. The Ethros demon used his weapon to help it stand and chuckled as it spoke, "Not what I had in mind, but it may just work."

"KEN!" Dawn screamed as she ran to her best friend, sheathed her broadsword and took a knee to inspect her fallen sister Slayer.

As Dawn was witnessing her best friend withering in pain, powerless to help her, Dawn Summers panic stopped. With tears threatening to escape her eyes, Dawn Summers performed a maneuver that her elder sister performed while fighting the army of Turokan back in Sunnydale. Dawn slowly looked up at the Ethros demon and rose to her feet, not moving any of her muscles other than the ones she needed to breathe and stand. Dawn remained perfectly still as the battle was starting to die down around her, her gaze fixed on the Ethros demon making its way to a vertical base.

Suddenly, without warning, Dawn Summers snapped. Her screams filled with emotion as her chest expended and shrank; the veins in her neck and on her face bulging out like she was turning into the incredible hulk.

"I!..." Dawns exhaled and then quickly drew breathe.

"WILL!..." again Dawn exhaled and then quickly drew breathe.

"END YOU!" Dawn exhaled once more as she unsheathed her sword and charged at the Ethros demon; spit flying from her mouth like she was a spitting cobra.

While Dawn took off with incredible speed, even by Slayer standards, she was met by a few undead obstacles. Unfortunately for her undead obstacles, Dawn gave no quarters. As a vampress lunged to tackle Dawn from her right flank, the Slayer vertically split her attacker's head open in midair and continued on her war path. Not more than 5 strides later did Dawn meet a vampire charging towards her head on. As the vampire tried to bash Dawn over the head with an iron pipe, the Slayer ducked and sliced open her attacker's stomach without even breaking a stride.

As the Ethros demon was watching, he made a quick decision and performed a series of whistles. Seconds later Dawn was now faced with a small group of vampires and demons forming a wall in front of her target while running towards her. Just as the wall of evil was about to run over Dawn, the Slayer did a 'Summers sault'and jumped high in the air above her attackers.

"DIIIIEEEEE!" Dawn screamed as she hurdled down towards the Ethros demon sword first.

However, just before Dawn could end the demon it stepped backwards into its vibrating transparent portal; causing the Slayer to cut a tombstone diagonally in half.

"FUCK!" Dawn screamed in frustration.

After mere seconds passed, Dawn heard the growls of the undead behind her. When the young Slayer turned around she saw the group of vampires she leaped over before, walking towards her with deadly purpose. Dawn readied her stance with her teeth grinding together, barely able to stop the steam from screeching out of her ears.

But before Dawn could make her move, a torrent of blue energy sent her opponents crashing through trees, statues and tombstones. When Dawn looked for the source of the magical attack, she felt a wave of relief as she saw Xander armed with a crossbow and very pissed looking Andrew with his hands glowing blue; both on top of the Slayer central minivan.

"NOT!..."

"ONE!..."

"MORE!" The young watcher screamed in the same fashion that Dawn did towards the Ethros demon, the young man's hands bursting with blue glowing energy as he stressed each word.

"Babe, try to figure out what's wrong with Kennedy. We'll hold them off!" Dawn instructed her man.

So there her kin stood, a weaponless Andrew, enraged Dawn, severely bleeding Vi and extremely fatigued Rona; all defending their fallen sister in a square formation with Andrew kneeling next to Kennedy as he tried to study her for injury.

And so for several more minutes, the fighting continued. This time the battle was going extremely well as Xander was picking off the undead like he was Van Helsing, while Willow created barriers around any of the good guys who needed to be defended. Willow's aid also helped Giles bring a few of the more seriously injured Slayers to doctor Olivia at the back of the minivan.

Not long after the Calvary arrived, the group of demon hunter's had killed most of their attackers while the rest ran for their lives. As soon as they knew that they were in the clear, the Slayers regrouped amongst themselves and around the Slayer Central makeshift ambulance. All except a few Slayers.

"Giles! Willow! Get over here!" Andrew screamed.

As Giles and Willow squeezed between Vi and Rona, they realized why they were called. Lying on the grass, the once mighty Slayer of the vampiric Joan of Arc was heaving and withering in pain. Willow immediately knelt beside Satsu who had Kennedy's head in her lap, stroking Kennedy's hair in an attempt to comfort her and keep her calm.

"Ken! Damn it. Ken talk to me hun!" Willow shouted as she tried to communicate with her former lover.

Giles quickly spotted a strange black marking burning into Kennedy's stomach and took the reins.

"Dawn, Vi, Rona! Hold her limbs!" Giles shouted amongst the chaos.

"What?" The three Slayers all shouted in unison.

After checking on the injured in the minivan, Buffy and Faith both made their way into the circle and overheard both Giles' command and the Slayer's responses. For a moment, a brief moment after seeing Kennedy, both elder Slayers felt the mixed feelings of wanting to comfort their charge and the guilt that comes with knowing one of their own got hurt on their watch. However, the Chosen Two quickly regained their leadership senses and did as Giles requested, kneeling at either side of Kennedy and held her down by her arms and legs. Kennedy's screaming and attempted thrashing wasn't helping the matter either.

"Thank you," Giles commented towards his two former charges before he closely inspected Kennedy's abdomen.

"That marking, i know I've seen it somewhere during my ripper days but I can't remember from where. We will have to bring her back to the castle and research it to find out how to remove it from Kennedy." Giles stated.

Giles then took a quick surveillance of all his Slayers and spoke again, "Buffy, Faith...pick her up and place her in the van as gently as you can. Vi, if you can deal with Kennedy's screams then ride with her and get Olivia to patch you up. All those who can walk home, do so and there will be dinner waiting when you arrive home. There should be room for one more in the van if anyone wants to ride with Kenn-"

"I'll go," Satsu interrupted Giles.

"Alright, let's move. Buffy, Faith, whenever you're ready," Giles commented.

Both Buffy and Faith shared a look and mouthed to each other as they counted to three to prepare for Kennedy's departure. However, nothing could have prepared them for Kennedy's screams as they moved her from the ground and into the minivan.

"I have done what you have requested of me, now give me what is mine spirit!" A familiar Ethros demon commanded.

"You have not done what is required demon. You were to mark THE SLAYER, not one of her sheep." A very dark, evil and ominous sounding voice echoed throughout the darkness.

"You are mistaken spirit. I admit the one I marked was not the Slayer but she is indeed one of her own. The Slayer cares for her and all your sources indicate that she was to be the next in line if the Slayer was to die before her army was summoned. The spell may not be as effective but the result is the same. It is no concern of mine if your army to is too weak to defeat an army of girls, barely strong enough to equal the vampire. Now give me what is mine!" The Ethros demon commanded once again.

"Very well," the ominous voice spoke out.

"You have achieved close to my desired result. I will in turn give you some of my power. Help me to fully achieve my goal and you will be my disciple, and be granted all the power you can imagine that comes with such a title. When this is all over my armies will spring forth and my will sweeps the world, I will be able to enter every man woman and child on this earth. Just as I enter you" The ominous voice spoke out once again as its dark power began to flare.

"I am your humble servant," the Ethros demon spoke out as he raised his arms and palms like it was about to recite the 'Our Father'prayer.

Suddenly, the dark energy radiating off of the evil creature sprang forth, entered the Ehtros demon and sent its robe and hood swirling backwards in the wind. When the wind died down and the demon finally opened its bitch black eyes, it spoke to the creature.

"And I am ready to serve thee".