Operation Slayers and Non Essentials, the Second Coming:
Author's notes: Sorry for the slow updates. Work and playoffs have kept me otherwise distracted.
Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
"So you still love her then?" Xander asked.
Willow looked up at Xander after his question with tears brimming in her eyes and replied, "Yes…No…It's complicated. I think I finally realize how you felt about Anya after the wedding. I know it's over, but she will always be in my heart. I feel so guilty after kissing you, even though I know were done. I feel like I betrayed her somehow…a-aand kissing you was wrong of me. I tried to use you when I was hurting, I'm sorry Xander."
"Hey no complaints on my end, I got a lesbian to kiss me…Oh yeah, I'm baaaddd," Xander again mused as he wiped the tears off of his best friend's cheeks with the clean side of his thumbs.
"Dawn? Found something?" Giles asked as his and everyone else's gaze fell on her.
The younger Summers woman picked up the open book she was reading from and planted it on the middle of one of the many brand new library table's Slayer Central received that morning, pointing to a picture.
"This thing look familiar to any of you?" She asked.
"Son of a bitch! That's it! That's the demon that fucked up Ken!" Faith excitedly and loudly exclaimed.
"Buffy, there's a chance that the longer Ken is out of commission, we may slowly loose our Slayer powers." Dawn explained.
"Wait a sec, the book said blood and she ain't one of the originals. So unless momma never told me about my long lost kid sister, we should be fine." Faith commented.
"Unless Ken…was the next chosen one," Willow explained to the room with her eyes wide open in shock.
Buffy suddenly stepped forward from Faith's side and spoke to the group,
"Right now we have every available Slayer and watcher on guard duty and damage control. Were the Slayer Special Forces. There are two main hot spots we think the Ethros demon may be hiding out at, marked on a map both Faith and I have. Faith will be leading team Kennedy and I will take Satsu's team to the other hot spot. We will meet by the giant statue of Michael in the Springfield cemetery in exactly two hours from now. No vehicles will be taken to ensure we are not spotted or attacked all at once. Stage one is strictly recon, we will engage after we collaborate our information when we meet at the cemetery. People, we are all Kennedy has to rely on. We are her family and she needs us. Failure is not an option. We do not come back home unless we drag that Ethros demon by the balls and bring him back here so we can bleed him dry! Am I understood?" Buffy asked after her speech.
Meanwhile, the force of over fifteen vampires smashing face first into Andrew's barrier caused it to shatter almost instantly; However, this collision caused the front lines of the attacking vampires to stumble backwards in pain and confusion.
With very little effort the band of Slayers decapitated or staked their stunned victims, decreasing their enemy's numbers by seven in several seconds. Unfortunately, the next batch of undead would prove to be most difficult to kill. Whereas a normal staking would kill the monsters, the Slayer's were missing the mark by a fraction of an inch. Thus wounding their opponent's but not killing them. A mistake that would not be forgotten as both sides of the gang war were taking casualties. Vampires were being dusted, but Slayers were falling to injury as well.
"Ok youngin's listen up. I'm positive were getting less Slayery as I speak. Let's take a breather, patch up and take it from there. Andy, did anything make it to the cave?"
"Yeah, that jerk who shot me made it in." Andrew replied as Dawn laid him on sand to treat his wound.
"Fuck balls! Ok we can't wait for Buffy, after we patch up we have to go in. We don't know if they have a secondary exit, for all we know the fuckers are already leavin. You girls fix yourselves up while I leave B a sign when she shows," Faith commanded as she strode towards the middle of the sandy encampment.
Chapter 6
"Owwwch!"
"Andy shut up!" Faith hissed.
"Well it's not my fault I don't have Slayer night vision! I call shenanigans!"
"Sweetie quiet down, just hold onto my hand," Dawn replied as she offered the young watcher her hand in the darkness.
"Dawn are you ok? Your hand feels different…nice, but different"
"That ain't Dawn nor a hand Andy boy," Faith said with a smirk that Andrew couldn't see.
"Sorry!" Andrew squealed as he pulled his hand back and eventually found Dawn's.
After hitting his shin on a small bolder for the tenth time Andrew wailed,
"God damn it that hurt! Why can't we use flashlights again?"
"Home boy, shut it already. If we use lights then they could see us coming you dork." Rona reminded her watcher.
"Look, up ahead." Faith commented as she pointed towards a dim light in the distance.
As the group cautiously limped and walked towards the light, they noticed two openings within the cave. The opening on the left was block by boulders and debris that would take far too long to clear, while the right was clear to walk through.
"And the ants go marching one by one, hurra, hurra." Rona mused.
"Yeah it's obviously a trap but right now we can't afford to go back and try running around the cave from the outside. But traps usually try to keep people from something important, so were going in. Just be careful, don't step on any cracks or big lumps on the floor and don't touch the walls. And if you see anything shiny, holla." Faith commanded as she walked through the right cave passage.
As the band of wounded but fearless heroes walked further into the cave passage, hung torches that were set ablaze became a common theme. Eventually, the group walked into a large and baron pit. Or so it seemed, as Andrew started to notice bones in certain corners of the pit.
"Everybody out, now!" Andrew yelled.
Unfortunately for the band of demon hunters, it was too late to retreat. As team Kennedy turned to retreat, a stone door and broken rope slide down to the ground and blocked the only exit; an arrow lodged into the cave wall where the strong ropes were once fastened.
"Muahahahahhaha!"
"Ok, either that's doctor evil or I'm about to be very pissed off." Faith exclaimed.
"Stupid modern humans, take away their technology and they are helpless." The Ethros demon in question exclaimed as it rested a bow on the wall.
"Now the Egyptians, those humans knew their stuff. Like how to build traps that still work after thousands of years," the demon snickered whiles fondling a piece of rope to drive the point home.
As the Slayer's look upwards at the Ethros demon on an impossible to reach ledge, some sort of projectile suddenly came into their view as it traveled away from them. Before the projectile could come in contact with the demon, the demon vanished into a transparent portal and then reappeared in the same spot seconds later.
"I see we can skip the pleasantries then," the demon spoke as he looked down particularly at Andrew.
"My thoughts exactly you pussy! Now you gonna grow a pair or will I have to come up there and cut into you myself?" Dawn screamed to the demon.
"I would like to see you try Slayer. Here's hoping you won't be too tired after the troops have tossed you aside." The Ethros demon replied with his fingers crossed for all to see
"Pull!"
And on that command, pieces of the cave coliseum wall jerked upwards. With little warning, scores of vampires and humanoid demons started to walk into the rocky circle and form a line; A line that was going to surround the Slayers if the situation continued.
As the lines filled to rank, team Kennedy ready themselves. That is until vampires and demons alike started to split their line, as if making room for a general. Faith quickly realized the loosened formation in the enemy's ranks and expected the Ethros demon to make an entrance on the soon to be battlefield. However, what Faith didn't expect was for her enemy's to chant and holler the word 'eura'over and over again. Faith also didn't expect to hear demonic snarling and growling coming from the back of the enemy line. Furthermore, Faith was dumb struck when she witnessed a demonic creature with two blood red eyes walking on four legs right through and past the demonic line on its own accord, while staring at team Kennedy with murderous intent.
"Oh" Vi spoke.
"Fuck" Rona finished.
As the demonic four legged figure strode more into the surrounding torches light, the full body of the creature was revealed. This four legged creature looked like an alien wolf from space. The beast was easily as big as grizzly bear, if not slightly bigger. This creature wore a hyena like muzzle sported by a full set of pointed teeth;a set of four canine teeth three inches in length, easily stood out as the creatures dominate facial feature. In addition to the demon's impressive jaw, above its Doberman like ears, the beast's head was crowned by two huge sharp horns that arched backwards like a bow and spiraled to the middle of the creatures back. Just below the creature's ears, two smaller horns protruded from each side of the beast's jaw and arched down the beast's neck and shoulder blades.
Now as freaky as the creature in question looked, from the neck down, Faith could have made an educated guess that a lion mated with a buffalo. The demon's four lion legs looked like they were steroid injected. The front legs were equipped with thick claws the size of human fingers while the back legs sported three huge toes with claws as big as a rhino's horn at the end of each toe. Jutting out from both elbow's and just below the back of each knee, the demonic lion came equipped with curved hunting knives in the form of spiraled horns. Now one of, if not the most striking feature on this demon was its large and muscular chest. The freak lion's chest was almost four times the thickness and mass of its stomach; thus, giving Faith the lion-buffalo love child idea. Lastly, the most definite feature that would make anyone think that the beast in question was part lion was its picture perfect lion tail.
Now normally Faith would be able to keep her cool, or at least partially enough to think of the best way to either run or throw stuff at demon beasts, but for some reason Faith and the other Slayers were stricken with fear. It was like the demonic lion had a paralyzing stare, a stare that for some strange reason only affected the Slayers.
"Um…guys… guys! Plan! A non-throwing me to the lion plan would be good right about now!" Andrew screamed over the cheers of the enemy humanoid demons and vampires.
After several moments of nothing from Faith and his Slayers, the young watcher closed his eyes and did his best not to panic. With eyes closed, Andrew lifted his arms in the general direction of his attackers and began to chant; contorting his facial features with painful concentration as he did so.
With Andrew's movements, the demonic lion charged, running straight for the Slayer's front line and lunging a few meters before Faith to deliver the death chomp. However thankfully for Faith, the lion creature was intercepted by three lunging hyena looking figures. When the three hyena looking beasts hit the ground, Faith and the rest of team Kennedy started to blink again. Looking around to get their baring's, the team saw Andrew breathing heavily as he brought his arms to his sides. The Slayers also witnessed three of the young watcher's demon dogs circling and snarling around the demonic lion that struck immobilizing fear into their hearts.
"Fools!" A sudden Ethros demon like voice screamed.
"Kill them! Kill them all!"
"Andy stay behind us, help your pets take care of big ugly any way you can! Dawn and Rona take the flanks! Vi, be ready to go ape shit! Don't let them surround us people! On my mark!...One! Two!-"
"RAHHHHHHHH!" Vi screamed, rushing head strong into battle with her twin Roman Gladius's the council gave her gleaming in the torchlight.
"Damn it Vi! I didn't mean go ape shit now! Everyone, charge!" Faith screamed to her group as Vi left the line.
And so the two elements clashed, good and evil, light and dark. Now normally the Slayers would get the first attack off, but being weaker due to the Ethros curse, the side of good took quite a beating near the beginning of the battle. Faith being the elder Slayer was the only one to evade the first assault of blows, but still took a flurry of right and left hooks to her face from both directions. Rona and Dawn however, weren't so lucky. Rona was being held by her ankles and arms while a line of demons took turns laying punches and kicks into her; soon after causing the ebony woman to bleed internally and shoot blood from both her mouth and the gashes on her face. Thankfully Rona's involuntary bloodletting kept the swelling on Rona's face to a minimum. Dawn on the other hand, being part Buffy 'Legendary' Summers, was faring better. Dawn was indeed getting assaulted from all sides, but she was still able to get a few kill shots in between getting kicked and punched from all directions. The only person not getting the life beaten out of him was Andrew, well for a short time anyways. The young watcher, weakened from summoning his demonic pets, tried his best to support his warriors in the front line by manually throwing his bolts like darts at the enemy. Unfortunately, as soon as the demon hunters were overrun the young man found himself in high school all over again; being tossed around from one body to the next while being punched and kicked repeatedly until he hit the ground.
All too quickly were the Slayer's loosing. They let the enemy surround them, demoralize them and toy with them. After what seemed like a life time of repeated poorly defended blows to her body, Faith was now on the cave floor with her vision narrowing. The once mighty alpha Slayer, the woman who at one time took shit from nothing and nobody, the once personification of rage against the machine, was about to black out with eyes swelling shut and was soon going to undoubtedly meet her end. The last thing Faith saw were vampires and demons in small packs repeatedly kicking, taunting and hammering down on her comrades while she was powerless to help. And to top it all off, before Faith's eyes swelled shut she also saw Andrew's pet's dead on the floor and the demonic lion creature walking with a purpose towards her.
"Yes! Kill them all! Destroy them all!" A maniacal, ominous and Ethros voice boomed over the screams in the cave coliseum.
"AAAAHHHHH!" A Faith like voice echoed above the screams of her comrades.
Even though Faith couldn't see, she knew what was happening. The demonic lion creature had Faith in her muzzle by the Slayer's collarbone. Faith knew that the puncture wound wasn't deep thanks to the magically imbued Kevlar she was wearing, but the crushing force of the beast felt like a truck parking on the right side of her chest and shoulder.
Seconds felt like agonizing hours for the demon hunters, as they were being toyed with and physically tortured. Faith soon felt her collar bone break under the beast's bite, screaming after every time the creature would bite down on the Slayer. However something soon went awry.
After the untold time the beast applied pressure, the pressure didn't lessen or worsen. Faith didn't know if the demonic beast got bored or if Faith stunk, but she was thankful regardless. Only when Faith was undisturbed long enough for her to feel a familiar humming in her pit of her stomach did the Slayer realized what was happening; and hearing a friendly voice didn't hurt either.
"Everybody spread out and get them off our people! MOVE!"
Faith couldn't help but smile as she heard that familiar voice shout commands, nor could she not smile when her face were in warm hands and the pressure on her torso was relieved.
"What took you B?"
"Someone forgot to carry a cell phone F," Buffy said matter-of-factly.
"Now hold still, I'm going to bleed you so you can see again." Buffy told her lover.
After a few minutes, shallow cuts and the odd demon or vampire that tried to get the best of a distracted Buffy Summers, Faith was able to see again. And what the elder Slayer saw made her heart flutter with relief. Faith was witnessing team Satsu and a few of the stronger damage control team members of the younger and less experienced Slayers holding their own against their enemies. What made Faith smile the most was the Slayer axe lying on the cave floor covered in purple blood, with the decapitated demonic creature's head and body on either side of the axe blade.
"No! You fools! Kill the injured! Don't go after the new arrivals! Finish them off and we can retre…"
"Arrrch!" The Ethros demon wailed in pain as it grabbed at a gash that ran along its shoulder. As the Ethros demon surveyed its immediate surrounds, the demon saw a bloodied shuriken imbedded into the cave wall behind itself.
As the Ethros demon looked to the battlefield below, it caught a gaze of the source of the attack. A very pissed off looking Satsu stood with her legs spread shoulder width apart, feet firmly planted on the ground and her arm outstretched as if the woman just threw a football. With the Ethros demon now shouting profanity and directing a small number of its minions to attack Satsu, the Slayer 's eyes never left the demon.
When the few demonic and undead tried to attack Satsu, they met their end within seconds. As the first vampire to foolishly run in came within a few feet of the Asian Slayer, Satsu unsheathed her ninjato and katana upwards while performing and x like slash at the vampire's neck with the two blades; turning the foolish vampire to ash. As two of other attacks came into melee range, Satsu dodged the claws aimed at her head by performing a back bending- standing three sixty spin. The Slayer's eye's briefly watching the Ethros demon over her attacker's shoulder, as she arced her lower back and swung her swords in a windmill motion while performing the spin under the vampires swing; effectively forming two vertically deep open wounds along her attacker's torso and downing him instantly. But Satsu wasn't finish laying waste to her enemies, not by far. Right after the woman pulled a ninja move out of her ass, Satsu ended her whirl winding attack by extending her armed extremities, plastered two deep horizontal slashes along her demonic attacker's chest and stomach, took a knee as the demon hit the ground and looked back up at the Ethros demon with that look that turned the tide of a battle once before in the past.
That same look that a mortally wounded and downed Buffy Summers wore after she told the First where to go and rose to her feet ready for the kill moments later. Indeed, the Ethros demon was now fearfully staring wide eyed into the eyes of death incarnate. The Ethros demon that tried to poison the Slayer line was now staring into the unforgiving eyes of THE SLAYER.
Seeing their comrades fail, another group of demons and vampires tried to gain favour by succeeding where others failed. But of course, Satsu laid waste to them all while barely getting hit at. The one punch to the face Satsu received was like punching a falling wall. The Slayer's neck snapped to the side as a large fist connected with her right cheek, but without even blinking the woman pressed forwards and stared a hole right through her attacker that was quickly aided by her swords. Satsu was now clearly demonstrating why she was an alpha female, why she was a leader and why most of the other girls fighting in the cave were now fighting behind her and not alongside her. If an aura reader was presently in the cave, that reader would be having an aura orgasm by the power, confidence and fury radiating off of Satsu. Indeed, Satsu was proving the old additive true; Hell has no fury like a woman's scorn.
"Raaah! Damn you! Damn you all! You will fall Slayers! I will make sure of it!" The Ethros demon yelled in frustrated as it vanished into its transparent portal.
Alas the tide of the battle was now turning and not long after the Ethros demon vanished, the battle between good and evil was over, good wins.
"Damage report! You bunch, help any Slayer's you can! And you, run outside, take my phone and call the castle. Tell them to bring the medical van and Olivia. And for the love of God if there are any hostiles along the way run back and come and get us!" Buffy commanded as she threw her cell phone to a random Slayer.
"Were checking now!" A random Slayer yelled back.
As Buffy and an injured Faith walked the isles of dust and corpses, checking for life, the two soon split ways when certain bodies caught their eyes.
"Wow, I guess I really am the pretty one." Buffy mused while looking down at her bloody and beaten younger sister. A sister that very painfully gave her the finger with a smile.
"C'mon," Buffy rolled her eyes as she bent down to the ground and scooped up and cradled her groaning baby sister and held her to chest.
Buffy looked with both pride and worry at her sister's, nay, her daughter's face with tears in her eyes.
"First rule of Slaying," Buffy spoke.
"Don't…..die," Dawn said with a bit of difficulty; barely able to form a smile as Buffy kissed her bloodied forehead.
"A..aaa…Andrew?" Dawn asked.
"AAAAAAHH!" A sudden scream was heard as Buffy winced from the loud noise.
"Oh stop being such a little bitch Andy, I dislocated my shoulder tons of times" Faith scolded the young watcher.
"Well at least he's alive?" Buffy mused to her little sister.
"Buffy, everyone is accounted for. No casualties but Faith's team needs medical help immediately and one of the younger Slayers was just revived by mouth to mouth." Satsu told Buffy without emotion.
Buffy and everyone else knew that inside, Satsu was dieing. Whether Kennedy and Satsu were an item or close friends that maybe shared the same bond Faith shares with Buffy, the blonde Slayer was not sure but she knew Kennedy means a great deal to Satsu either way.
"We have that bastard on the run Sats, it won't be much longer until we have him. I swear it." Buffy spoke to Satsu with confidence.
"Wait!" Faith hollered.
As all eyes were on the elder Slayer, the group soon looked to where Faith was pointing to.
"We need that fucker's blood, and we have some." Faith commented as she pointed towards Satsu's shuriken imbedded in the cave wall.
"Faith, sweetie. We don't know that will be enough. I don't want to get everyone's hopes up if it doesn't work. Usually rituals need a lot of blood or the death of whatever the sacrifice is. And there's no way we can get it all the way up there any time soon. We don't even know if the ritual will work with that little amount of blood or if the blood dries." Buffy commented painfully as she looked around at the faces of her sister Slayers.
"Andrew!" Satsu called, as if she was commanding.
"Help me up," Andrew answered.
"Ok what the hella you two doing? Andy stay down until help comes." Faith commented as she gently laid a hand on the young watchers bruised and tender chest.
"Faith, just help me up." Andrew replied to the elder Slayer.
Nobody knew what Andrew and Satsu were planning, but Andrew has proven himself to be trustworthy in the past so Faith aided Satsu in helping Andrew to a vertical base.
"Ahhh,"Andrew winced in pain as he started to fall backwards.
Faith took it upon herself to help the young man stand by standing back to back with Andrew, using her frame to help Andrew stand.
After several moments of nothing passed Faith couldn't help but wonder, "Andrew?... Andrew?"
"Mmmmm, so warm"
"Damn it Andy we can snuggle later! I still have a broken torso here!" Faith scolded the junior watcher.
"Hmm? Oh…A…yeah. Sorry." Andrew sheepishly apologized.
"Ok everyone shut up. Satsu, stand arm's length in front of me and no matter what, don't break my concentration." Andrew commanded.
The young watcher closed his eyes and let his weight rest on Faith's back, taking a few moments to relish the warmth coming off the woman. He then raised a shaky arm and let it rest on Satsu's shoulder, with Satsu helping the young man extend his arm by holding his elbow straight with both hands. Once Andrew felt he was ready, he began.
Faith's back soon started to feel exceptionally warm, almost hot. The Slayer was wondering what was going on, but she quickly got her answer as tendrils of fire tipped black smoke started to make its way into her peripheral vision. Meanwhile, Andrew's whole body was shaking with both physical pain and mental strain. The young man's hellish aura continuously faded within itself and then burst back to its normal form every few seconds. Whatever Andrew was doing, it was clear that it was incredibly difficult.
Finally, once Andrew seemed to have his aura under control, the boy started chanting. Soon Andrew's unnatural aura started to flare and blaze wildly until it vanished after the young man loudly chanted in a commanding voice and then collapsed onto Faith's back when a ball of fire emerged behind Satsu. As the flames soon turned to embers and the black smoke cleared, standing behind Satsu stood one of Andrew's familiar summons. In the place of the ball of fired which once scotched the earth, one of Andrew's winged demon apes stood. The demonic creature immediately jogged to Andrew's aid, only to be told not to.
"No, get that metal piece in the wall up there. Try not to get any blood from it on you." Andrew commanded as he nodded in the general upwards direction of Satsu's shuriken.
With a nod, the demonic ape stretched his bat like wings and flew to the rocky ledge above the cave coliseum and retrieved the bloody shard of metal and flew back down to the ground.
"Give it to the Asian one," Andrew commented.
The winged beast just looked at Andrew puzzled.
"Me," Satsu spoke up and took the bloody shard from the beast and placed it in one of her utility belt compartments.
"Buffy! The van's here!" The Slayer Buffy sent outside hollered as she waved from the broken stone doorway that once trapped team Kennedy.
"Alright, everyone gather the wounded and bring them out. We will come back for our gear after the injured are being treated. Let's move!"
And so with the battle won, the good guys started to pack up and go home. Or so they thought. Not mere seconds after the Slayers and Andrew's demon started to pack up, loud yelping sounds could be heard echoing within the cave.
"What the hell is that?" Faith asked out loud.
As everything and everyone listened intently to the yelping sounds emanating from the cave, Andrew's demon sniffed around and then flew to the opening in the wall that the vampires and demons came out of.
"You, take Dawn and get her to the van." Buffy instructed one of Satsu's team members as she gave Dawn to the younger Slayer.
"I'm coming with you B," Faith said to Buffy as she picked up a long sword off the cave floor; already knowing what Buffy was going to do.
"Faith, the upper half of your torso is crushed. You're needed here, to lead the evacuation baby." Buffy gently told her better half and did her best to give Faith a persuading smile.
"And yet I'm still better than the youngin's, how do I do it?" Faith mused with a smile.
"Faaaaiith," Buffy warned.
"Alright, alright I'll baby sit. But you owe me later." Faith retorted while she painfully wiggled her eyebrows.
"Ewwww, I'm still conscious you know." A bloodied and barely conscious Dawn spoke out.
With a chuckle, everyone and everything were quickly assigned their duties as Buffy and Satsu stood on either side of Andrew's demon that was facing the darkness of the wall cave's space.
Both Satsu and Buffy were handed a torch and told the demon to lead on. After several minutes of winding down cave caverns and hearing the yelping sound getting increasingly louder, the trio finally came to an open space. A space that looked very familiar to the Slayers. The three arrived at the enemy soldier's den; beer cans, human bodies and various living equipment all over the place. As Buffy and Satsu looked around, they could still hear the yelping but couldn't find the source in the giant un-kept mess of a living quarters the Ethros's minions called home.
Suddenly, while Buffy and Satsu were searching through piles of junk, the yelping sound became crystal clear and was joined by a high pitched whining sound. When the two Slayer's turned around, they were surprised to say the least. Andrew's demon found and was holding the source of the yelping with a look of confusion on its face.
Meanwhile, Faith was outside the cave taking headcounts of the good guys coming out. The medical van driven by Giles and operated by Olivia took off soon as the severely wounded were loaded; which consisted of all of team Kennedy and a few of the younger Slayers.
"Aight girls, Xander's coming with the big red machine to pick us and our gear up. So head back in the cave and bring out whatever you can carry. But stay on your guard and use some sort of buddy system. We have no idea what to expect." Faith commanded.
Just as the Slayers were groaning to go back to the battlefield, collect their stuff and raid the most likely empty pockets of any demonic clothing, Buffy, Satsu and Andrew's winged demon came out of the mouth of the cave with arms full. Although Satsu and Andrew's summon were carrying Slayer equipment, Buffy's arms were behind her back but she was clearly holding something.
"Ok girls so we found the vamp's hide out. It has all kinds of stuff in there so go carry back the spoils of war. And no fighting over stu-" Buffy spoke out to the crowd, but didn't get to finish as a horde of young woman rushed passed her to collect their well-earned booty.
"So B, find what all that yelping was all about?" Faith asked as Buffy walked up to Faith with her arms still behind her back.
"Mmmmhmmm"
"Ok? And?" Faith questioned.
"Well remember when Angel pretended to go evil and we were at the mansion and while you were trying to steal my boyfriend, you said you always wanted something?" Buffy asked, stepping excitedly on her toes with a twinkle in her eye.
"B, I really hope you're going somewhere with this trip down craptacular memory lane." Faith commented.
Suddenly, without any warning, Buffy unknowingly used her Slayer speed and a smile to present Faith with something.
"No….Fucking…Way…" Faith accepted Buffy's offering in disbelief. Her present looking up at her with its head crooked to the side in wonder as it yelped and whined.
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"You failed me! Again!" A deep, dark and ominous voice spoke out in a dimly lit room.
"I ask for one more chance, give me one last chance. If I don't come back successful, I won't be coming back at all." The Ethros demon spoke out into the darkness, knelt before an alter.
"The only reason you live now is because I will have you killed if you fail me again! Now go! Do what you must! I offer you nothing! None of my power! None of my influence! None of my resources! Bring me the head of the Chosen one or pray that I am too busy to find and kill you!"
With that, the ominous voice disappeared back into the alter. The Ethros demon was now furious. It was kill or be killed now. Bursting out of the room, the demon approached its army in a poor neighborhood's abandoned warehouse; all demonic bodies waiting, training or feeding.
"BROTHERS! SISTERS! LISTEN CLOSELY! THE ALMIGHTY HAS DECLARED ALL OUT WAR ON THE SLAYERS AND THEIR LINE! IF WE ATTACK NOW, WE WILL HAVE THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE! THEY CAN NOT FULLY RECOVER SO SOON! DEFEAT THEM NOW AND WE WILL BE GIVEN SUPREME POWER AND FAVOR FROM THE DARK ALL-FATHER! WHAT SAY YOU?"
After receiving nothing but cheers, the Ethros demon asked the masses again, "WHAT!...SAY YOU!"
"Die Slayers die! Die Slayers die!" the masses chanted back
"How goes progress?" An evil and ominous Buffy asked a robed figure.
The same robed figure walked a few feet forwards and pointed to the floor. As a black eyeballed Buffy looked to where the robbed figure pointed, she saw a large metal sewer cap; A large metal sewer cap that had weird markings on it, one of which was a large goat's head. Placed all around the giant metal piece in question, corpses of what looked to be Catholic nuns and priests littered the floor.
Buffy could only smile and chuckle in appreciation before speaking, "Good! It won't be much longer until I will be free and the old ones return! As long as those foolish humans remain distracted, this time I will win!"