Authors Note: Hey guys sorry it took so long to update been suffering from a writer's block with this story lately but this is the final show down it may be the final chapter I'm not sure yet but if I feel like the story ends the way I want it to then it will be the end. The could be a sequel I am going to do a one shot for Halloween I might use the idea from the Halloween idea in season two of Buffy dunno yet let me know what you think of this idea in the reviews.
Anyway enough of me rambling on, the final chapter begins now!
Could I be anything you want me to be, if so it is meant to be seen?
Tony walked behind the bar and poured himself a drink. Melissa walked over to bar and sat down on the bar stool, she looked at him.
"I'm going out." She told him slamming her hand down on the bar. He looked at her, as she got up to walk out Tony walked around the bar to her and stopped her.
"Hey what wrong you have been acting strange for the last hour and a half now. Tell me what's wrong?" he said softly gripping her arm. She sighed and not looking at him.
She avoided his gaze, "Where gonna loss." She removed his hand from her arm and walked out.
She walked into the lift, "Main lobby JARVIS." I said to the A.I.
"Yes Miss Dee." JARVIS said to me with its British accent. The lift stopped and the doors opened, Melissa walked out of Stark Towers to get some air.
Bruce was in his lab with Dawn, he looked at her he wanted to kiss her again. He kept looking up from the desk and back at Dawn. She moved next to him, he was sitting downing calculations for Tony on something.
"What you doing?" she asked him softly, looking at his big brown eyes. He pulled off his glasses, putting them in his shirt pocket and looked at her.
"Something for Tony." He said to her, suddenly she was sitting on his lap. She moved her hair back to over on shoulder and looked at his notes. He gently placed his hands on her waist; his heart began to race again. He breathed slowly to slow his heart rate.
"You ok Bruce?" she lend back, he could smell the coconut in her hair from her shampoo, he nodded as his arms wrapped around her waist. She stood up breaking his grip, she turned around and kissed forehead.
"Come on big guy, you look tried." She pulled him up and took him to his room.
She opened the door to his room and said to him softly, "There you go big guy." She was about to walk away when Bruce pulled her into his room.
"Stay please?" Bruce asked Dawn she didn't know what to say to him, she nodded and walked into his room. He lay down on the bed and Dawn lay next to him not saying a word either of them. They both slowly fell asleep next to each other.
She slowly made her way down a dark alley way she heard someone chasing strides forward with a small smile.
The vampire said to the kid, "Gave me a pretty good run there. Bet the blood's just pumpin'." The boy backs away, frightened.
The vampire continued on to say to him, "Bet it's hot."
The kids voice was breaking when he asked him, "Don't hurt me."
"Don't hurt you?" The vampire just laughed at the kid.
Melissa's head pops out. She innocently asked, "Hey, what's going on?" The vamp turns his head to glare at her.
The kid shouted, "Help me! Call the police!"
"Get outta here, girl." He said to me then turns back to the kid.
"You guys havin' a fight? 'Cause, you know, fighting's not cool." I told the vampire and the kid.
The vampire turns to glare at her again.
The kid looked confused that Melissa wasn't leaving, "Get out of here!"
"No." The vampire said while he turns fully towards Melissa, "No, she wants to stay. I don't mind a little appetizer."
Melissa had a small frown, and walks forward, "Have you ever heard the expression, 'biting off more than you can chew'?"
The vamp frowns, shakes his head.
Melissa said to the vampire, "Okay. How about the expression vampire slayer?"
He asked her, "What the hell you talkin' about?" The vampire didn't even know what she was talking about.
"Wow, never heard that one. Okay. How about, 'Oh god, my leg, my leg'?" said to him in a sarcastically tone.
The vampire growls and lunges at her. She ducks his grab, punches him in the face and kicks his leg. His knee buckles and he falls to the ground.
The vampire fell to the ground grabbing at his leg and said, "Oh god! My leg!"
Melissa smiled and said, "See? Now we're communicating."
The vamp surges up, grabs Melissa and throws her against the wall. He grabs her again but she pushes his arms away, punches him in the face, knees him, then goes around behind him and kicks him into the wall. He lands against a dumpster, turns and backhands Melissa, who stumbles forward toward the boy.
The boy leaps out of the way. The vamp punches Melissa again, picks her up and slams her down on top of another dumpster. The kid was cowering in the corner. Melissa kicks the vamp, cartwheels off the dumpster and kicks him again, then again, and then yet again. On the final kick he lands on his back among a pile of wooden boxes.
They all shatter. One of the shards of wood flies toward Melissa and she catches it. As the vampire lunges up out of the boxes, she stakes him with the piece of wood. The boy watches in shock. The vamp turns to dust. Melissa drops the makeshift stake and stares at the pile of dust as the boy continues to cower in the background.
"Wow. Been a long while since I met one who didn't know me." Melissa said to herself. She turns to go, pauses and looks at the kid.
"You should get home." She told the kid, she begins walking back the way she came out from.
The kid was in complete shock and asked her, "H-how'd you do that?"
She doesn't turn around but stops as she replies. "It's what I do."
"But you're ... you're just a girl." The kid said to her, Buffy pauses in the doorway.
"That's what I keep saying." Melissa said walking down the alley.
She was walking back towards Stark Tower a bit calmer than she was before. As she walks in the entrance and Tony was there waiting for her.
"You OK?" he asked her softly walking towards her slowly.
She nodded and relied to him, "Ya just need to kill something."
"I really need to tell you something." He said to her, he grabbed her hand and led her to his room. He opened the door; they walked in and closed it behind him. He pulled her closer to his chest.
"Tony what is it?" she asked in a serious tone, she wasn't messing around tonight.
He moved a strained of her from her face, "Melissa I love you. I'm not messing with you. When you were in that coma I felt like I lost you without getting to chance to tell you that I truly and deeply love you."
She felt her lips curled upwards and she tilted her head and pushed away from him, "Tony, I love you too." She said to him softly, her hand was on his chest feeling his heartbeat. Tony smiled he was glad that she felt the same way. He kissed her forehead gently she could smell his aftershave, it was strong. The smell was filling her head. Suddenly Loki was banging on the door,
"Guys Darcy is saying she needs to be somewhere." He shouted from behind the door. Tony closed his eyes then slowly let go of Melissa and opened the door.
"Come on Wesley knows how the portal opens too." He told her and Tony.
Everyone was silent now didn't know what to say they were still in shock about what Wesley had just told them.
Melissa sighed then said, "Anything?"
Wesley sitting at the table with a few books opens in front of him.
"Nothing you want to hear. The ritual is, uh..." Wesley said to her,
Melissa looked annoyed, and told him, "Explain it again."
"There's nothing new to…" Wesley was dancing around the question again.
Melissa was getting pissed off now and shouted, "Go through it again!"
Everyone looks nervously at Melissa. We see Willow sitting at the couch on Xander's other side. Wesley slowly removes his glasses. Everyone else was standing to the side.
"The key was...living energy. It needed to be channelled, poured into a specific place at a specific time. The energy...would flow into that spot, the walls between the dimensions break down. It stops, the energy's used up, and the walls come back up. Glory uses that time to get back into her own dimension, not caring that all manner of hell will be unleashed on earth in the meantime." Wesley told her as nicely as he could.
Melissa looked grim.
"Um, but only for a little while, right? The walls come back up, uh, n-no more hell?" Jane asked everyone.
Willow looked at her, "That's only if the energy is stopped. And now the key is human ..." she pauses looks over to Melissa, "...it's Layla."
Wesley continues on to say, "The blood flows, the gates will open. The gates will close when it flows no more." removes his glasses, "When Layla is dead."
Everyone is silent and Tony looks at Melissa and stroked her back gently.
Darcy shouted out, "I have places to be!"
Everyone looks over at Darcy, who is curled up in a chair to the side. She falls silent again and they return to their conversation.
Clint asked everyone, "Why blood? Why Dawn's blood? I mean, why couldn't it be like a, a lymph ritual?"
"Cause it's always got to be blood." Angel said to him,
Xander said to him, "We're not actually discussing dinner right now."
"Blood is life, lackbrain. Why do you think we eat it? It's what keeps you going. Makes you warm. Course it's her blood." Angel said to him, while looking at Melissa.
Melissa said to everyone, "Pretty simple math here. We stop Glory before she can start the ritual. We still have a couple of hours, right?"
"If my calculations are right. But Melissa…" Wesley said to her,
Melissa turned away walking towards Tony, "I don't wanna hear it."
"I understand that…" Wesley said to her,
Melissa turns back around, "No! No, you don't understand. We are not talking about this."
Wesley jumps up from the coffee table, and yells, "Yes, we bloody well are!"
Everyone looks shocked by Wesley' outburst towards Melissa."
Wesley quieter, "If Glory begins the ritual...if we can't stop her..."
"Come on. Say it. We're bloody well talking about this. Tell me to kill my sister." Melissa told Wesley.
Wesley whispers to her, "She's not your sister."
Melissa pauses, "No. She's not. She's more than that. She's me. The monks made her out of me. I hold her...and I feel closer to her than..." she looks down, sighs, "It's not just the memories they built. It's physical. Layla... is a part of me. The only part that I…"
"We'll solve this. We will. Don't have another coma, okay?" Willow said to her, Melissa gives a small smile.
"If the ritual starts, then every living creature in this and every other dimension imaginable will suffer unbearable torment and death..." he looks up at Melissa, "including Layla."
Melissa told him, "Then the last thing she'll see is me protecting her."
Wesley said quietly, "You'll fail. You'll die. We all will."
"I'm sorry." Melissa told everyone. The others look at Melissa as Wesley walks slowly away.
"I love you all...but I'm sorry." Melissa tells everyone
She turns away too. Wesley turns back to look at her.
Jane loudly says, "Okay." raises her hand and says, "All in favour of stopping Glory before the ritual. Anyone got any suggestions, ideas? Time's a-wastin'."
Clint says to Melissa, "Uh...when you say you love us all..."
Bruce and Tony unison say to him, "Shut up."
"Willow. I bet you've got some dark spell a-brewing'. Uh, make her a, a, a toad? Little hoppy toad, we can hit her with a hammer?" Jane asked Willow beginning to panic.
Darcy giggled at Jane and said, "Hoppy toad."
"What about Ben? He can be killed, right? I mean, I know he's an innocent, but, you know, not like dawn innocent. We could kill a...regular guy." Loki asked everyone.
Pause while everyone considers this and Loki realizes what he's said.
"It's doubtful he'll surface again this close to the ritual. We can expect its Glory we're dealing with." Thor said to him,
Willow said to him, "We don't have to kill her. Uh, we just have to stop her from doing the ritual. I mean, there's only the one time that she can do it, right?"
Angel agreed with Willow, "Yeah. We get her on the ropes; we just gotta keep her occupied till it's too late."
Jane entered panic mode again and said, "Okay. But I'm still not hearing enough ideas. She's a god. Let's think outside the box."
"Why don't *you* go think outside the bleeding box." Tony said to her,
Steve said to Jane, "Yes, Jane, apart from your incredibly infectious enthusiasm, have you anything else to contribut…"
Jane cut him off and said, "The Dagon sphere!"
Steve asked her, "Sorry?"
"When Willow and Melissa first fought Glory, she found that magical glow sphere that was meant to repel Glory. We've got it in the lab. It might drive her away or hurt her. Ooh!"
Dawn hurries over to the weapons chest, gestures like a game-show hostess.
Dawn said, "And the troll god's enchanted hammer."
The hammer was on the floor next to the weapons chest.
Dawn said to Melissa, "You wanna fight a god, use the weapon of a god."
Melissa walks over to picks the hammer.
Angel flashed back to when he tried to pick it up, "Uh, nah, that thing's too heavy to…" he sees Melissa picks it up easily,
"Good." Angel said to her.
"Good job both of you." Melissa said to Jane and Dawn.
Jane smiled and Dawn said, "Here to help. Wanna live."
Bruce said to Tony, "Smart chicks are so hot." looking fondly at Dawn."
Wesley said, "Well, we have some ideas, if we could actually get Glory on the run, but, um..."
"But, we still have no idea how to find her." Melissa said to them,
Darcy began to ramble again, "Big day. Oh, it calls me! I have to be there!"
Everyone looks at Darcy, then at Melissa. Melissa looks thoughtful.
Darcy said again. "Big day!"
"I got a plan." She told everyone, they all looked at her.
"I'm all ears." Xander said to her, Nat rolled her eyes at Xander.
Melissa nodded, "Ok, Layla you are the bait, help Darcy to where she has to go. If it a couple of hours till the ritual they would need you." Layla nodded and looked a bit scared. Melissa handed her a small dagger Layla was a bit unsure if she should take it.
"Here take it if they try anything stab them." Melissa told her and she nodded again.
"Ok if that portal opens Thor I need you to light the bastards up. You've got the lightning so use it." Melissa said to him,
"It would be my honour Lady Dee." Thor said to her, she smiled and looked at Loki.
"Loki you've got Amora make sure that she doesn't get her hands on Layla put the bitch to sleep if you have to." He nodded and smirked showing that he liked Melissa's plan.
"Bruce I need the Hulk in this fight. I can't take down Glory you might be able to." He gave her a wry smile and agreed with Melissa job for him.
"Clint, I don't want SHIELD interfering so tell Fury to stay out of it." Clint nodded and went off to call Fury.
"Steve I need you and Nat too help the Jane, Dawn, Angel and Logan you guys take on Glory's minions also the Masters of Evil might be in on this." Melissa said to them all, when suddenly noticed Peter and Janet standing by the lift door.
"Looks like you guys could use a hand." Peter said to everyone in the room, everyone smiled they were up two superheroes.
"Thanks you guys, you can help Logan and the others." Melissa said to them, with a smile.
Tony raised his hand, "What about me sweetness?" Tony said to Melissa, Clint just rolled his eyes. Melissa turned around to him; he was staring at her waiting for his job.
"Make sure that Layla is safe." She told him, he nodded to her everyone left to get ready for the battle. Tony and Melissa stayed in the by the bar.
"Stay safe please, I can't loss you Melissa." He said to her putting his hands on her hips. She closed her eyes and put her head on his shoulder, Pepper walked in and saw Tony holding Melissa.
Tony pulled Melissa closer and noticed Pepper. She looked up at him and smiled, she finally realised that he had a heart and he was wearing it on his sleeve. She waited for the moment Melissa to turn around. Melissa slowly pulled away from Tony and he gave her a small smile. She walked over to Pepper, and Pepper gave her a nod in approval of her relationship with Tony.
"Tony I need you to sign these." Pepper said to him smiling uncontrollable, he nodded and grinned at her.
"Sure thing Peps." Tony said to her, he signed the papers and handed them back to her.
He signed the papers and handed them back to her, "Don't mess Melissa around Tony she's a sweet girl." Pepper said to him taking the papers from him. He nodded as Pepper leavet the room and headed off to Chicago.
Melissa had her hair pulled back into a pony tail. "Guy remember the ritual starts we all die." Melissa told everyone clutching a bag that was draped over her shoulder. Everyone nodded; Jane looked at Darcy who was still out of it.
"Darcy…" Jane said to her softly, before getting slapped by Darcy.
"You bitch I'm supposed to be working on the factors." Darcy said to Jane.
Jane was in shock, "Sorry I didn't mean…" Darcy said to her, Jane nodded.
"Do you have somewhere you have to be?" Thor asked Darcy.
Darcy stood up from the chair, "You hold me down."
"Nobody's holding you down." Loki said to her, she looked around and walked out.
"Don't crowed her, Willow you sure you know what you are doing?" Melissa asked her, Willow nodded yes.
"I'll follow in a second." Melissa told everyone and she followed Bruce and Tony somewhere.
Tonight was going to be the fight of the lives. Melissa knew not everyone wasn't going to make it. But she was hoping that she wasn't going to lose her family tonight. She wasn't only fighting for Layla she was fighting for Buffy & Faith who gave the lives to save the world. If it came to it she would have to risk her life to save the world.