Operation Slayers and Non Essentials, the Second Coming:
Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
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.
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
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 on four legs walking through and past the demonic line on its own accord while staring at team Kennedy with murderous intent.
"Oh" Vi spoke.
"Fuck" Rona finished.
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.
All too quickly were the Slayer's loosing. They let the enemy surround them, demoralize them and toy with them.
"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.
"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?"
"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.
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.
"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.
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 Satsu.
"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.
"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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"The only reason I let you live is because I will have you killed if you come back to me with failures 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.
"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 eyed 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!"
Chapter 7
"Uhhhgg, what the fuck? How the hell did I get in the castle?" Kennedy asked out loud as she awoke on a cot.
Shrugging as the Latina Slayer looking around the castle library, she sat upwards and then began to stretch while lying down; hearing and feeling her muscles pull and joints crunch.
"AAHH! What the fuck!" Kennedy again asked out loud as something jumped onto her lap.
After mere seconds passed, Kennedy was able to calm down as she was staring into a smaller pair of curious red eyes looking back at her.
"Umm…Hello there little...Guy?" Kennedy greeted the small creature after tilting her head to look between its legs.
"So what does Andrew call you?...Actually," Kennedy wonder aloud as she tilted her head and looked down at the small demonic creature's stubby legs while trying to climb up her torso.
"Why would Andrew summon a baby demon lion wolf thingy anyways? Dawn must have busted his balls for a dog or something." The Slayer concluded.
"Speaking of which, where the heck is everybody? Did you scare them away little man?" Kennedy asked the young male as she cradled the climbing creatures butt with one hand and scratched behind it's Doberman like ears with the other.
"Hey! Stop it! Ahahaha, you little evil bugger, quit it!" Kennedy hollered as she her face licking attacker caused the woman to go into a giggle fit.
After a few good minutes of laughter and fun, the demonic puppy nuzzled into Kennedy's chest and closed its eyes to rest upon her. Kennedy smiled down at the baby demon and softly stroked the fur on its back as she lay down, closing her eyes to rest and replay the latest events in her head that she could remember.
However, before Kennedy could remember past the flying knee she gave the Ethros demon that fateful night, a loud glass shattering crash jerked the Slayer to her feet within mere seconds; unfortunately causing the demon puppy to roll right off of his soft human bed and bounce off the cot, onto the floor.
Kennedy quickly surveyed her surroundings and soon found that the window at the far wall was shattered. As she strode over to the window with her guard up and demon puppy following, Kennedy noticed a familiar looking glass covered crossbow bolt on the floor near the window.
Kennedy quickly picked up the demon puppy and smacked her back flush with the wall beside the window. The Slayer then peered around the window frame to see what was going on outside, only her eyes, forehead and hair showing out the broken window. What Kennedy witnessed while peering out the window bewildered her, but also explained why the demon puppy started growling and barking at the situation on the castle grounds.
Below Kennedy a battle was being waged. It was dark outside, but lamps and fire illuminated the battlefield. As Kennedy looked upon the battlefield she saw many familiar figures in mid combat. Faith barking orders, a flying monkey throwing stones from the air, Vi war crying like a banshee, the usual. However the one figure that caught Kennedy's eye and caused her to clench her jaw and grind her teeth was the sight of the Ethros demon, currently engaged with Buffy.
Without so much as a word, Kennedy quickly dropped the demon puppy she was holding onto the cot, grabbed a rug, placed it over the shards of broken glass and ran out the library doors before locking them shut behind her.
"HOLD THE LINE!" Buffy commanded.
"Don't let them in! For the love of God don't let them in! I just finished painting!" Xander added.
And so the scene was set in motion. In front of the castle doors Giles, Andrew, about a handful of watchers and Xander stood with crossbows in hand and a barrel of bolts on the concrete steps. In front of the boys was the Slayer last line of defense made up of the most inexperienced Slayers along with team Faith. Injuries still plagued team Faith so her team was left near the back to pick off any stragglers that managed to get through the front lines. Faith herself stood on the second step behind her team and barked out orders as she was able to witness and concentrate on the battle waging in front of her, occasionally grabbing a crossbow bolt from the barrel behind her and manually chuck it with her good arm at an enemy or two. Ahead of Faith's line, the first line of defence was conducted by all of team Satsu, Buffy Summers and a small group of the more experienced Slayers.
Thankfully, all of the construction crew made it to safety in the almost finished bomb shelter as the attack occurred. So the only castle hold member remaining in question was one Willow Rosenberg.
"Andrew! Have you seen Willow?" Xander asked.
Suddenly, without warning, a formally air born Willow crashed right on top of Andrew.
"Um…Found her!" Andrew replied back as Willow got to her feet after a few seconds.
"You son of a slime demon! I'll kill you!" Willow shouted.
Again without warning, Willow's hands were set ablaze with fire. The witch then launched two fireballs into the air that struck down two harpies. Willow then leapt into the air and flew somewhere across the battlefield, leaving Andrew stunned on the floor.
"Andrew she's practically a Goddess and you lived in the same house as her for months! Snap out of it, get your ass in gear and keep firing!" Xander yelled to the young watcher.
Meanwhile, at the front lines of the battle, Buffy and her sister Slayers tried to hold their enemies back but eventually the numbers game caught up with the good guys. The forces of darkness soon over ran the front Slayer line and engaged Faith's injured line. Fortunately for team Faith, the ranged support behind them was picking off most of the attackers that made it by the front line. However unfortunately for the front line, their range support was now gone and that allowed more enemies to pass through them. Thus, more targets were set up than the Slayer ranger support could put down before the enemy reached an injured team Faith.
Now Faith being the bad-ass leader she is would absolutely not let her temporary team mates take the brunt of the battle, injured or not. With a summer salt over the back Slayer line's head's, Faith performed a downward scissors kick to the top of the first vampire's head when she landed. Faith may be injured, she may have a broken collar bone and shoulder, but she is still Faith Lehane, THE Slayer.
"Sword!" Faith commanded as she reached backwards behind her.
After having a long sword placed in her left hand Faith spoke again, "Andrew, can you barrier us every time a wave hits us?"
"Yeah I guess, why?"
"Put your toy down and get ready, when I say so, put one up a foot or two ahead of us!" Faith instructed as at least a five vampires and five demons ran past the Slayer's front line and approached the last.
"Readdddddy...NOW!" Faith commanded again.
Suddenly, the vastly approaching enemies bounced off an invisible wall and either hit the ground or staggered backwards while briefly stunned.
"Andrew put the barrier down!" Faith screamed to the young watcher.
As Andrew did as commanded Faith again yelled out instructions.
"Ok Girls, fuck em up!"
Within seconds, the group of ten were demolished. However the second wave seemed to be advancing faster than anticipated.
"Andrew again!" Faith barked.
And like clockwork, the second wave of evil bounced off Andrew's barrier and was soon killed. Wave after wave of evil were falling into team Faith's trap, but after the tenth or so wave Faith noticed something was wrong. The barrier that was protecting herself and her teammates was flickering around them. As Faith turned to look at the source of her team's barrier, she witnessed a very tired and heavily breathing Andrew hunched over.
"Fuck!" Faith cursed.
The elder Slayer knew Andrew wouldn't be able to keep up his magical reserves for his barrier to take much more. Faith knew that very soon, shit was going to hit the fan.
"Andy, take a breather!" Faith hollered to the young man.
"But"
"No buts! Just do it!"
Faith knew that both her and her team needed support as their injuries would make them sitting ducks for any evil that had more than basic combat training, but she didn't have any other options at the moment.
"Ok girls, this is gonna hurt like a motherfucker! So let's hurt back, yeah?" Faith yelled to her troops behind her.
And sure enough another wave of evil came at team Faith. Bracing themselves for impact a few feet before the two elements clashed in battle, team Faith raised their weapons in anticipation. However, team Faith were taken by surprise when the wave of evil hit an invisible wall and landed on their asses. Faith turned around and expected to see a half dead Andrew defying her, but when she turned around Faith was pleasantly surprised.
"RIPPER! OH SNAP!"
"Faith would you please just kill them quickly! I'm not as magically inclined as I used to be!" Giles scolded.
"Oh yeah…Right"
Meanwhile, at the front Slayer line, Buffy was doing her best to fight off the Ethros demon while keeping it's minions at bay and making sure her fighters didn't die around her. Indeed Buffy Summers had her work cut out for her yet again, but Buffy Summers wouldn't be Buffy Summers if she would lose that easily. With Slayer axe in hand, the blonde bombshell gave absolutely no quarters and showed no mercy. When a vampire tried hit her high, Buffy would duck, stick her axe into the belly of the beast and swiftly slide her weapon from one end to the other. When a demon tried to hit her low, Buffy would parry the attack with her upside down axe blade, shrug the attack off and then split her attacker vertically in half. After a while the enemy seems to understand that going through the centre of the front Slayer line was a death sentence, so the majority of demons and vampires tried to go around the line or through it at different points.
Normally Buffy would be able to shout out commands to counter the enemy's tactics but just as she started to shout, a familiar Ethros voice called to her.
"Slayer!"
"Asshole!" Buffy countered as the Ethros demon started to stride towards her, its metal scythe materializing in the demon's hand. .
"Clever," the demon quipped. "Let's see how clever you are when I take your head!" The Ethros demon yelled as it raised its weapon and tried to pierce the top of Buffy's head with the point of the scythe.
With the sound of metal on metal filling the air, Buffy quickly blocked the demon's attack and locked her horizontal Slayer axe's shaft under the curved blade of the Ethros demon's scythe. The two mega power's looked into each other's eyes, not budging and inch nor showing an ounce of fear. As if thinking the same thing, soon after the steel on steel tie up, the two shoved each other backwards and then took a battle stance.
While running all over the castle, Kennedy was completely confused. The interior of her home looked completely different, walls were constructed where they didn't used to be, certain rooms security taped off and all of the doors leading to outside on the first floor were boarded shut and reinforced with some kind of make shift door stopper.
"How the fuck do I get out of here?" Kennedy asked out loud.
Quickly looking around for any type of exit, Kennedy had to do a double take or else she would have missed it. Kennedy smiled as she spotted the reflection of the front door, closed but not barricaded in the hallway mirror.
"Party time!"
The Ethros demon struck first as it charged towards Buffy and tried to stick the point of its weapon into the side Buffy's rib cage. Buffy expertly blocked the attack with the shaft of her vertically upright weapon, shoved the Ethros demon and its weapon backwards, did a three-sixty spin while swinging her axe in the direction of the demon and finally stopped at the completion of her three-sixty whirl winding attack by taking a knee. Unfortunately for Buffy, the Ethros demon dodged backwards and tucked in its stomach to avoid the attack. The demon then raised its weapon again and delivered a downward, overhead swing to Buffy's head. However, Buffy raised her weapon horizontally in both hands so the shaft of her axe blocked the attack. The Ethros demon tried a number of overhead strikes again, but Buffy had enough strength to block them all.
Finally, the demon put as much power into his last overhead swing as it could and when Buffy blocked the attack, the demon stepped forward and put all of its strength and weight behind its weapon. With this action, Buffy's elbow's started to bend and the point of the demon's scythe started to descend towards Buffy's forehead. Keeping her eyes locked on the demon's feet and gritting her teeth, Buffy inwardly damned the curse the Ethros demon used to weaken her and her Slayers; the effects of the curse still evidently showing.
"Goodbye Slayer! And not to worry, I will send the rest of your crippled friends and family to join you soon!"
"Giles! Andrew? How we doing?" Faith yelled.
Both Giles and Andrew looked at each other while bent over, with hands on their respective knees and panting like they just ran a marathon.
"Are they dead yet?" Andrew asked with a groan.
Before Faith could answer, a severed demonic arm flew through the air and smacked Giles in the face. Looking at Giles's annoyed face while trying to catch his breath, the young watcher knew the answer to his question but could only let out a groan of frustration.
"Awwwwweee!"
Faith felt sorry for the boys, but not for long. Another wave of demons and vampires made it past the front line. Faith again witnessed the barrier around her group begin to flicker, but this time soon fade. Knowing that both the older and younger watcher were both on empty, Faith also knew what that meant.
"Girls! Were on our own! Get ready!" Faith commanded as she braced herself for demonic impact.
And so team Faith took their fighting stances as their attackers approached. When the enemy was but mere feet away, Faith attempted to strike first. Now normally Faith would have been able to land her attack, if not for what she saw out of the corner of her eye when the Slayer missed on her downswing. When Faith's sword point hit the ground and the Slayer looked up and to her left while she was hunched over, she couldn't believe her eyes.
Faith and everybody behind her, including both Giles and Andrew who were on their asses trying to kick the front door that sent them flying closed, witnessed Kennedy delivering a flying right knee to the jaw of a surprised vampire. As Kennedy landed, she didn't miss a beat. The Latina Slayer lashed out and staked the two closest vamps at either of her flanks using the crossbow bolts she grabbed behind team Faith, or rather, what should now be known once again as team Kennedy.
Within seconds and while fighting in unison, team Kennedy and Faith managed to take down their enemies without further injury.
"Ken!... How?" Faith asked aloud.
But before Kennedy could answer, she was ensnared by Andrew's arms in a surprisingly fierce hug.
"Oh my God she's awake! Thank the lord almighty!" Andrew hollered as his tears stained Kennedy's tank top.
"Ok, ok Andy I know you love me but were in the middle of a war here!"
"Sorry," Andrew sniffled as he let his leader go.
"Don't be buddy, good to see you to…"
Suddenly, Kennedy was cut off as yet another way of evil and undead started to roar and charge her way. Kennedy could only smile at the fools charging towards her and hers. Being in a night terror coma during all hours of the day for a few days and nights, while being sedated hard enough to put down a bull elephant, really makes a Slayer restless apparently. None the less, with a flick of her foot, Kennedy launched an enemy long sword in the air and caught it with ease.
"Oh how I missed this!"
Oh…no…he…didn't, Buffy thought to herself. This demonic asshole brought up what it did and actually though it could win? Not on Buffy's watch. With a war cry that made Vi look like a kitten, and that drowned out the screams that were directed at Buffy, the blond Slayer quickly summoned all of her strength and lifted both her Slayer axe and the demon's weapon overhead just slightly. With one swift motion Buffy leaned to the right, tilted her head back, let the demon looming over her fall towards her and then rushed her head forwards; effectively head butting the Ethros demon in its left kneecap with a loud crunching sound, sending it sprawling backwards while screaming in pain.
Buffy then slowly rose to her feet, never taking her eyes off her attacker, giving the demon that infamous look as she rose. That same look that meant imminent defeat for the First and it's army. However when Buffy firmly stood on her own two feet and readied her weapon, she winced and grunted in pain. All along Buffy's back, from the bottom all the way to the top of the Slayer's right shoulder blade, there was a deep gash that was spilling Buffy's life force onto the ground.
After the last of the current wave of demons and vampires met their end, team Kennedy regrouped and got ready for the next assault. However before the group reformed their ranks, Kennedy heard a familiar scream and looked around the battlefield frantically. Kennedy wasn't seeing what she was searching for so she quickly ran up the steps to the castle's front door and peered into the distance. Thankfully, the Slayer found the source of the familiar scream and then took off at full speed towards it; only turning back once to yell at Faith.
"I'll be back! Don't die!"
Despite their injuries, the two warriors looked at each other with a steel gaze that told the other there was no quit in either of them. Both Buffy and the Ethros demon began to limp towards each other, but when the two were mere feet from each other the demon vanished into its transparent portal. Looking from side to side, Buffy quickly determined where the demon would strike from. Holding the shaft of her weapon in both hands, Buffy raised her weapon above her head and felt a strong force collide with her Slayer axe as a curved piece of metal entered her view.
Appearing behind the blond Slayer, the Ethros demon kicked the back of Buffy's right knee with its good leg; effectively sending Buffy Summers to her knees, with her weapon still raised over her head and keeping her death at bay. With one smooth motion, the Ethros smiled before it quickly jumped in front of Buffy and landed on its good leg. The demon then jerked its weapon backwards as hard as it could, relinquishing Buffy's grip from her weapon and sending the Slayer axe to the ground by the demon's feet. The Ethros demon smiled again as it kicked Buffy's weapon into the air with its good leg and caught it.
"What a beautiful weapon, I can see why you have been successful. Far be it for me to keep it though." The Ethros demon mocked as Buffy had just started to make her way back to a vertical base.
"Here Slayer, Have it back!"
With a hard toss, the Ethros demon hurled the Slayer axe back at Buffy. Luckily, Buffy was able to avoid the axe head of the weapon as it spun towards her, gaining altitude and velocity; or so the blond Slayer thought. As soon as the Slayer axe spun past the right side of Buffy's hip, the Slayer let out a loud grunt and dropped to her knees immediately while clutching the side of her leg. Right under Buffy's waist, a deep gash was gushing out blood every time the Slayer's hip moved.
Pumping her legs as fast as she could and dodging demons and Slayers alike, Kennedy ran as fast as she could towards Buffy and her former tormentor. Originally Kennedy's only thought was 'Buffy, Buffy, Buffy', but when she witnessed the Ethros demon defeating Buffy, the Latina Slayer's
inner thoughts completely left her conscious and all that remained of the woman's psyche was absolute and pure rage. The Slayer's vision started to narrow around the Ethros demon not because of fatigue, but because according to Kennedy, only she and the Ethros demon existed on planet earth.
Kennedy's instincts took over her physical reactions so intensely that as the Slayer axe was whirl winding towards her, without hesitating or even thinking Kennedy rotated her arm in a windmill motion and caught the weapon; The Slayer's arm outstretched while holding her weapon by its metallic shaft behind her body as she ran.
"hahahaha..AHAHAHAHAHAA!" The Ethros demon laughed evilly as it limped towards Buffy.
When the demon finally approached the blond Slayer, it twisted its torso and arms backwards for the final death swing as Buffy managed to stand on her knees.
"In the name of evil incarnate! In the name of the First, I sacrifice thee!" The Ethros demon, soon to be Slayer of Slayers, said just before the demon launched its final assault.
While Kennedy was pumping her legs as fast as she could, watching Buffy on her knee's as the Ethros demon was hovering over her and about to deliver the death blow, the Slayer somehow managed to run impossibly faster. The second, nay, the split second Kennedy registered that Buffy tilted her head down in defeat and accepted death was the instant the Slayer took over the woman.
As the demon drew his weapon back in preparation to deliver death to one Buffy Summers, Kennedy made the biggest leap of faith she ever performed in her life. The Latina Slayer jumped from her spot as far as she could and somehow landed on her feet; continuing to run a few paces before her feet climbed up Buffy's tailbone and then her back. With the Slayer axe in hand, Kennedy then leaped as high as she could towards her former tormentor and performed the same war cry she bellowed out back in Sunnydale; the moment when she stopped her first Turokan from striking her down, and then chucked it to the cave ceiling head first.
As Buffy closed her eyes and waited for the agonizing pain in her back and thigh to stop when the death blow came, in that one second she knew it took for death to come, Buffy Summers inwardly thought one thing. 'Mom, I'm coming home'.
After more than a few seconds past, Buffy opened her eyes and couldn't believe what she saw. The first sight that the blond Slayer recognized was that of the Ethros demon standing exactly the way she remembered, as if it was frozen in time. Seconds later Buffy set her gaze on another figure past the demon. There crouched Kennedy with her back towards the blonde Slayer, wielding the Slayer axe in her right hand with the head of the Slayer axe covered in blood. As Buffy's stunned gaze looked from the demon to the Slayer and back, the older Summers sister had to roll out of the way; for the Ethros demon's body started to fall forwards while it's head fell backwards.
"Kkkk…Kennedy?" Buffy asked with a shaky voice.
"Hey Buffy...Wow you look like shit!" Kennedy mused after she turned to face her elder and helped the blond Slayer to her feet with a smile.
Once Buffy got her feet she had to ask, "….How?"
Sighing, Kennedy flung Buffy's arm over her neck and supported Buffy's weight on herself while quickly explaining. "Woke up, met the new pet, saw what was going on, ran outside, saw you, jumped off your back, did a Summmerssault over the currently deceased and sliced its head off. Any further questions your honour?"
Before Buffy could answer a demon and vampire ran towards the two Slayers from both sides and were getting ready to throw clawed haymakers. However when the two evils were but mere feet away, Buffy used her good leg to toss up and catch the Ethros demon's scythe. With two quick motions, Kennedy embedded the point of the Slayer axe into her vampiric attacker while Buffy flipped her weapon upside down and hooked her attacker through the base of the jaw and right through the brain; causing both the demon and vampire to stop in their tracks and die simultaneously.
"How about we get you somewhere safer oh fearless leader?" Kennedy asked as she started to walk towards the castle with Buffy clinging to her.
Thankfully for the two Slayers, as they made their way to sanctuary, Kennedy spotted sister Slayers she recognized.
"Dana! Satsu! Get your asses over here and cover us!" Kennedy commanded.
After Satsu ducked an incoming claw swipe and Dana slide her stake through the vampress's ribs and heart, both Dana and Satsu spun around to see who was calling them. Both Slayer's eyes widened with surprise and joyous relief as they saw Kennedy awake and well. Dana wasted no time in jogging to Buffy's flank and placing her back to Buffy to cover the blonde woman from an attack. Meanwhile, Satsu was frozen in place and in a state of shock while looking at the woman who was once magically and pharmaceutically comatosed.
"Satz! Oggle me later! Help me now!" Kennedy commanded.
Shaking her head, Satsu jogged quickly towards Kennedy and just like Dana, turned her back towards her fellow Slayer and awaited anything evil to foolishly attack.
"Ok, let's move!" Kennedy commanded once again.
And so the group of Slayer's advanced towards their base of operations, Dana and Satsu taking out anything that comes near. Finally the small Slayer squad reached the back line and was let in. Resting Buffy on the small steps Andrew quickly turned his attention to the castle's matriarch and began to go through a med-kit that was stationed behind him and the rest of the watchers.
Suddenly, without warning, a robbed vampiric creature landed in a huge heap right in front of the Slayer's back line.
"What…The…Fuck?" Faith muttered.
But before the Slayer could get a good look at the contorted body, the robbed figure was engulfed in fire and quickly turned to ash. As the group of Slayers and watchers tried to piece together what was going on, Willow landed a few feet away from the pile of ash with a loud thud, chest heaving forwards and backwards as the woman was breathing heavily.
As Willow rose from her kneeling position and her head tilted upwards, her eyes said it all. The red head's eyes were tearing as she looked upon Kennedy's face.
"Nice to see you to Will," Kennedy said as she walked up to Willow and rubbed the woman's shoulder tenderly. "Now how about we end this war before everyone starts offering me jello and balloons?"
Willow could only smile at Kennedy briefly before the two quickly twisted their necks to look at the oncoming wave of evil still present on their land. Turning their bodies towards the oncoming attack, the Slayer and witch felt a large presence behind them and they knew it was their comrades getting ready for battle.
"Were too scattered, we need to reform." Faith spoke up, wishing she could be in the front lines and not at the back. "Ken, I need you, Satz, and Dana in the front line again, go!"
With a nod, the three Slayers quickly jogged towards the action. As the three Slayers ran off, Faith questioned Willow. "Will, could you echo my voice?"
Willow turned around and gently pressed her index and middle finger of her right hand into Faith's throat and nodded, "Whenever you're ready".
Faith then stepped ahead of Willow and bellowed loud enough for a deaf person to hear, "SLAYERS! REFORM THE LINE! SHOULDER TO SHOULDER!"
Within a few minutes Satsu's crew lead the defense with their less experienced sister Slayers beside them. As much as a formidable force team Satsu was, and even though the enemy was more disorganized than them, the Slayers were still at a disadvantage because of the numbers game.
"Guys we have to think of something, were just sitting here waiting for our own to screw up so we can pick some off!" Dawn yelled in frustration, her inner Slayer itching for a fight.
"Think fast!" Willow demanded as she leaped high into the air and levitated in mid-air. The witch chanted a very quick incantation and forcefully extended her arms towards the enemy's army; sending an invisible force, coupled with a gale wind to knock over the first few lines of the enemy's army.
After witnessing Willow's Jedi impression, of course Andrew would be the one to get an idea.
Smiling, the young watcher addressed his comrades, "Girls, I got an idea! Xander, Mr. Giles, take your jackets off and follow me!"
While normally Andrew's friends and Slayers would make gay jokes at him, but now was not the time. That and the fact that Kennedy was too busy hauling ass, barely keeping the enemy at bay, just throwing and kicking vamps and demons backwards into their own people to make sure the enemy doesn't get past her.
(Author's notes: Ok so basically if you're confused, here is a quick summary/spoiler to this chapter and the ending of the previous chapter. Kennedy was fully released and has fully recovered from the Ethros demon's curse. She was asleep and awoke to find a baby of that demonic lion/wolf creature Faith was attacked by. Buffy gave the baby to Faith as present because there is no way Buffy or any of her Slayers would kill an innocent child, believing heavily in nurture over nature in the 'Nature vs Nurture theory'. So the creature that the Ethros demon recruited was a female and a mother. The Ethros demon wanted to keep the baby in order to train it to be a viscous and demonic type of guard dog. So Ken wakes up in the middle of a battle being waged on her front lawn and decides to join in as she is no longer under the effects of the Ethros curse, nor is she feeling fatigued. This chapter is like flashing forward about two days from the previous chapter and not to worry, all the events that took place between the time gap will be explained soon.)