Glory-ous New Beginnings
Summary: 3rd in my Glory-ous series. In the immediate aftermath of her defeat of the Slayer Glory reveals her true plans.
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It was over.
Buffy was dead.
Xander was almost certainly dead.
Spike had died months ago.
Willow and Tara had both been reduced to crazy slaves of Glory's will.
Only Giles and Anya were left now. Giles knew what fate was next. His heart was broke over the loss so part of him would welcome what was to follow. Better that than watch the world be torn apart as Glory uses Dawn to return to her home dimension.
Giles and Anya look up as Glory leaps all the way down from the top of the tower to right in front of them, cratering the ground slightly as she lands. She stands up straight, a large triumphant grin on her face. "Well now. Down to the Watcher and the former Vengeance Demon. Doesn't say much about the calibre of this world's so-called heroes now does it," Glory mocks as she walks towards them gracefully, with a certain sway to her hips. She stops a few feet in front of them. "Now then what to do with the two of you," Glory contemplates while theatrically tapping her chin with her finger.
Giles raises his chin defiantly. If he is going to die it will be with as much dignity as he can manage.
"Giles! Anya!" screams from above grabs their attention.
Both look up to see Dawn in the arms of Kal as he floats down to stand next to Glory. Glory looks at Dawn and pats her on the head like she was a pet. "She's awful cute ain't she but somewhat noisy. I mean she just talks and talks and talks. Don't you hate people like that?"
"End this game," Giles demands of Glory.
Glory laughs. "Wow. Did you hear that little Dawnie. This pathetic mortal is daring to tell a God what to do. He's just lucky I'm in a good mood or I would have already ripped out his spine," she says in a completely inappropriate cheerful sounding voice for describing something so horrible. "So Rupert," she says using Giles' first name. "Can I call you Rupert?"
Giles glares at her wondering what it is she wants. She has already won. He obviously can't stop her.
"And Anyanka," Glory says using the name Anya went by when she was a vengeance demon. "By the way Anyanka big fan of your work," she says in what could be interpreted as actual admiration for all the truly terrible and horrific vengeances Anya has inflicted on men over the centuries.
"Thank you!" Anya says pleased she is getting some praise.
"Here's the one time only deal I'm going to offer because I am in such a good mood. Pledge your eternal and undying loyalty and worship to me and you get to live. Refuse and I'll...do something excruciatingly painful. You know whatever pops into mind. So what do you say?"
Giles says nothing.
"OK!" Anya announces loudly her agreement to Glory's offer and moves away from Giles to stand next to Glory.
"Anya. What are you doing?" Giles asks unable to believe what she is doing.
"It's over Giles," Anya says plainly. "She's won. I'm doing the sensible thing. I want to live," she gives as her explanation.
"She's a hell god bent on destroying the world Anya," Giles argues.
"True but at least she has great fashion sense."
"That is completely true," Glory says sounding slightly air-heady. "So Rupert what do you say? Ready to join the winning team?"
"I will never compromise my principles," he replies.
Glory rolls her eyes. "Yeah. Yeah. Blah. Blah." She waves him off. "You see I try to be nice and people throw it in my face." She turns to Kal. "Kal sweetie. Be a dear and show Rupert what happens to those that oppose us."
"Anything for you honey," he says in an deliberate over the top sugary sweet voice. His eyes glow and two red beams shoot from them hitting Giles and setting him alight. He screams in unimaginable agony for the several seconds it takes him to die.
Tears roll down Dawn's cheeks as overwhelming fear fills her. She knows what comes next. She is cut open so her blood can open the portals between dimensions.
Glory dusts her hands off and turns to Dawn. She bends down next to the Key in human form and brushes Dawn's hair off her face before using a tissue to wipe Dawn's tears away. "Hello there my little Key. Do we have some plans for you..." Glory leans in right to Dawn's ear and whispers, "but not the ones you think we do."
Dawn turns her head to look right in Glory's eyes as the Hell Goddess smiles knowingly.
"You see none of you ever knew what was really going on did you. All this..." Glory gestures at the tower. "It was all for show."
"And what a terrific show it was oh Great One," Anya says in sycophantic praise.
Glory stands up straight. "How about we show you what we really plan to do next huh? Would you like that Dawnie?"
Dawn says nothing.
"Jinx!" Glory screams. "Bring me my ride!" she orders.
The 4 of them then head for the street out of the building site where the tower stands.
"Um what about all the crazy people?" Anya wonders that are wandering around aimlessly, including Tara and Willow amongst their number.
"What about them?" Glory asks in a cold uncaring rhetorical fashion.
"Nothing. I was just wondering if you had some plan for them oh great Goddess of mine. I of course meant no disrespect."
If she had Glory would have killed her. "They've served their purpose," Glory states.
The 4 stand at the kerb and wait as a minion drives up in an open top red Ferrari with the number plate 'GLORY 2'
"It's new," Glory explains with pride in it. She looks so good in red. "The previous one broke after we discovered a human built car can't stand up to a God and a Kryptonian having sex on top of it."
Kal smiles at the memory. "But you did look so sexy lying atop of it naked beforehand."
"Naturally," Glory says like he is stating the obvious.
At that Anya briefly wonders if this Kal would ever be willing or allowed to service her needs in that fashion. It is not that she didn't like Xander. She did but he's dead and she has to make the best of the situation she is in now. "So...uh...Kryptonian?" she wonders having never heard that term in her 900 years of life.
"It's my species," Kal replies. "And that is all I'm going to say about that so no more questions," he warns her off.
Anya for once chooses to remain quiet.
Dawn gets stuffed in the back of the car and belted in. Glory pats her head. "Buckle up sweet cakes. I don't want you to get hurt."
Dawn just glares as defiantly as she can while she tries to stop herself from emotionally falling apart at having just seen everyone she cares for be killed. Anya sits in the back next to her.
"This is a really nice car!" Anya praises it. She is also jealous at her not having a car like this. She wonders what she has to do to get one.
"Traitor!" Dawn hisses at her.
Anya shrugs. "Call me what you want but are you really telling me if you were in my shoes you would have rather ended up like Giles?"
"In a heartbeat," Dawn says with total conviction.
Glory gets in the driver seat and Kal in the passenger. Glory revs the engine and the car screeches off through the streets of Sunnydale at an insane turn of speed.
They come to a stop outside a warehouse which is being guarded by Glory's minions. "Here we are!" Glory announces.
Dawn has her hand over her mouth trying not to barf. That was the most insane driving ever. It was worse than Buffy. How they are still alive Dawn has no idea.
Dawn gets dragged out the car and the 4 head into the warehouse.
One of Glory's minions runs to greet them and bows in her presence. "Oh great, most perfect Glory. Slayer of Slayers. Retriever of the Key. Most Marvellous Moth..."
"Enough already!" Glory yells. Even she gets tired of hearing all that.
The minion bows lower. "Of course. Forgive me. I am not worthy."
"Tell me something I don't know."
The minion turns to Kal and bows to him. "Most Honoured and Worthy Consort to the Great Glorificus I bid thee welcome."
"It's Gurk right?" Kal queries.
The minion, Gurk, bows lower. "You honour me with remembrance of my name."
Glory rolls her eyes. "You do that on purpose just to get praise don't you," she says meaning Kal bothers to remember the minions' names to get praise like he just did.
"Have no idea what you mean," Kal says with a fake innocent smile.
Glory snorts. "Take some advice. Learn to lie better. I've killed people for less you know."
"I know. You tried to kill me for less. Lucky I'm immortal isn't it."
"Wait," Anya says. "She tried to kill you?"
"The very first time we met," Kal confirms. He then moves over and gives Glory a deep kiss. "That was the day Glory started to help me see how I should truly live."
"Can we get this over with already," Dawn complains kind of almost wishing they would just kill her and get it over with.
"Over? It is only just beginning," Glory tells Dawn.
They enter into the warehouse. Inside there are a few dozen of what looks like leather-like spherical objects about the size of beach-balls held together in some kind of resin. Glory walks over and places her hand gently on one stroking it with loving affection. "Hey Kiddies! Mommy's home!"
"Mommy?" Dawn and Anya exclaim at the same time.
Flashback...
Glory stretches out her muscles after some more wonderful sex with Kal. It had been a good few months since she found him. He was getting more perfect every day he let her teach him how he should use his power. He was going to be great by the time she took him back home with her.
Glory rests her head on her hand and watches him as he stands at her window haloed by the sunlight. He seems to be deep in thought which tends to be a bad thing in his case. It means he is brooding on something most likely to do with his past life and how he defined himself by human standards.
Glory gets to her feet and moves over to him wrapping her arms around him from behind and nibbles at his ear. "If you say you are regretting any of this I will have to kill you," she informs him.
Kal turns round and smiles softly. Glory finds her heart speed up at the way he smiles. He kisses her on the lips and his hands caress her perfect form. "I'm not actually. I feel...you make me feel so free. I always use to feel so burdened."
"That's because you stopped thinking in human terms," Glory explains.
"Life seems so much simpler now."
"Life is simple when you're a God. You command something and it happens."
"I'll never be a God Glory."
"You're close enough for me."
"Am I?" he asks. "That was what I was thinking about. What happens when it is time for you to go home?"
"I told you this. You come with me. We kill my brothers and then bring about a reign like no Hell dimension has ever seen." Glory sees him make a face. "What is it now?" she asks starting to get annoyed at him.
"Why are so eager to go back?" Kal asks her.
"Because it's my home," she says like it is obvious. "And it was taken from me unfairly. It was mine! They had no right! I was the most powerful! The most Worthy! That domain and all others I want are mine!"
"This world Glory is my home," Kal explains to her and hopes she understands.
"This world?" she repeats incredulously. "I can crap better worlds than this!"
"I'm sure you can but it is the only place I know. It is my home...and I don't think I want to leave it."
Glory pulls away from him and paces across the room unable to believe she is hearing this tripe. "This world is unworthy of you. It is unfit! How can you even consider staying here? How can you even consider leaving me?" she screeches in fury. It is just unthinkable to her how anyone could choose this miserable planet over her.
"Glory. It's not that simple," he tries to make her understand. He does...more than care for her he has discovered during these last few months but going off to some Hell dimension isn't what he wants to do. He doesn't know what he wants to do yet but he knows it has to be here on Earth.
"Get out!" she seethes in fury as she points at the door.
Kal takes a step towards her. "Glory..."
"I said get out!" she screams picking up the entire bed and throwing it at him. He bats it off easily enough. "Get out! Get out! Get out!"
Kal sighs and can see he isn't going to get through to her until she calms down which knowing Glory could either be in a few minutes from now or never. She could be that unpredictable. In a blur he gets his clothes on and is gone.
Glory collapses to the floor and finds herself sobbing. She raises her hand to her cheeks and find real tears rolling down. What is happening to her? She is a God. Gods don't cry.
It's this body. Has to be. She's been trapped in human form for too long. It's starting to infect her. Once she sheds it and returns home everything will be fine...except it won't because Kal won't be by her side.
She wipes more tears away.
'What is wrong with me?' she asks herself. All she has ever wanted is to go home but now the thought of doing so without Kal makes this heart she is stuck with physically ache.
Glory sits there for a long time trying to work it out. While the stupid Slayer and her friends have insulted her by calling her not very smart nothing is further from the truth. Glory was just stuck with a pathetic human brain that couldn't properly hold her magnificence. It is what caused her bouts of insanity. No surprise really when you take a Hell God and try and compact them down and stuff them in a fleshy human form that it doesn't quite work right.
She still has her moments of insanity although fewer and further between as her powers return and she reverts to her true self. Now she puts all that has returned to use and tries to understand what she is feeling.
Feelings.
Yes. That's the problem. She has feelings...feelings of attachment...of care...of...of...No!...No!...Definitely no!...She can't...She's a Hell God...She can't feel...that...Gods don't feel...that!
Glory sits there longer willing herself to find the solution to this problem. Eventually it strikes her what it is she must do.
Kal returns to Glory's apartment after one of the minions found him and told him that the Most Beautiful Fabulous Glorificus wished to see him. He has to wonder though how this will turn out. He finds her standing, waiting, dressed to kill, perhaps literally.
Glory points at him. "You," she says accusingly. "Do you know what you have done to me?"
"Glory. I am not going to fight you," Kal tells her and he can tell from her look, her profile, that she is planning to.
Glory blurs across the apartment, grabs Kal by the throat and throws him all the way back out of the 3rd floor apartment. He impacts the ground outside cratering it. Seconds later Glory is landing on top of him. "Fight me!" she demands.
"No," he refuses.
Glory punches him a few times and then to Kal's complete shock kisses him ferociously. She trails kisses and bites all the way along his jaw to his ear. "You need to fight me because I need you," she whispers almost desperately.
"Glory. What?" he says totally befuddled.
Glory sits up and straddles him. "I decided that I don't wish to go home without you."
"Glory I can't go with you," he tells her. He had not changed his mind on that.
She looks at him and Kal sees a tenderness there he didn't know she possessed. "I know. I'm going to stay," she tells him what she has decided to do.
"But you hate this world," he reminds her.
"I do. Therefore if I'm going to stay I decided I'll have to take it over. I exist to rule. I must rule. I can't deny that instinct within." Glory looks at him intently. "We will rule together side by side you and me. Reshape this world to our liking," she says really meaning she wants them to be equals rather than him being the subordinate she proposed he be before. "What do you say?"
Kal is rather at a loss what to say. He had never expected this but as he thinks on it it may not be a bad idea. He lost everything he use to be because of humans. Humans just make one colossal mess of everything. It always use to irritate him how humans could never see how to live together in harmony with themselves and the planet but he never thought it was his place to force anyone to change as that had been what he had been taught by his parents. That was the way they had raised him. However thanks to Glory he now thinks quite differently on things and maybe her suggestion is not such a bad idea. "What about what we are doing to the Slayer? What about the Key?" he wonders now that Glory is not going home.
Glory smiles. "What about them? We don't have to stop playing with them? In fact just think of how much sweeter it will all be with them trying to stop something we no longer plan to do. It will be so much fun!" she declares.
"That it would be," he says in agreement. "And the Key?"
Glory cocks her head to one side as she thinks. "Well one day I would still like to get revenge on my brothers and I need the Key to break down the dimensional barrier. We'll keep her like a pet until we're ready. I'm sure we can find some way to use her without destroying what will be our world by that time."
"Our world," Kal repeats. "I like the sound of that."
"I know! It sounds so good!" Glory says with almost child-like enthusiasm. She gently strokes his broad chest. "Anyway that brings us to my totally brilliant idea."
"Which is?"
"Children!" she announces with glee.
"Children?" Kal asks totally lost.
Glory nods. "I was the most powerful Hell God back home with the largest army and you know how I got the largest army?"
From what she said Kal can guess the following. "You gave birth to them."
"Uh huh," she says with an enormous smile. "And now that I'm free of Ben I have the power to give birth again. I'll breed us our own army with which to conquer this little backwater world. I think you can pretty much guess what your contribution will be."
"Can you really do that with me? After all we're so different."
"I'm a God," Glory says like that explains everything. "True by human standards your...we call it back home the 'Code of Life'...is complex. For me it is not so much." She bends down and kisses Kal sweetly, tenderly. "So tell me Kal are you ready to make some babies?" she asks him huskily.
The growing tightness in his jeans would kind of indicate yes. He kisses her passionately. "You really are a Goddess," he says, his own voice husky.
"I know and you know what you have to do now."
Kal smiles tenderly at her before punching her in the face and flipping her off of him. Violence equals foreplay for Glory.
They both get back to their feet grinning at each other before they charge at each other making the ground shake first from fighting and second from their love-making. The result of which they place in a warehouse prepared specially to house their offspring as they mature.
Back to the present...
"Your children?" Anya is the one to ask sounding totally shocked at the revelation.
Kal moves next to Glory and places his hand on top of the same...egg essentially as her. "Yep. They'll almost be as powerful as we are," he explains from what Glory told him they would be like. "They're warriors," Kal adds onto that. "Intelligent, powerful but not in possession of full free will. They will obey Glory and I without question. When they mature in a few years they'll be our soldiers with which we will conquer this planet."
"And more than that," Glory adds. "They'll be gorgeous!" she proclaims with absolute certainty. "After all look who their parents are," she gives as the explanation as to why they'll be gorgeous. "And this is only the first batch," Glory says grinning in anticipation of the many more mating sessions with Kal to come to breed more.
"Years?" Anya once more is the one to query since Dawn seems to have been stunned to muted silence.
Kal and Glory stand up straight and shrug. "We're immortal," Kal says.
"What's a few years to us?" Glory finishes off by asking the rhetorical question. "In the meantime we'll take over this two-bit town. It's a perfect breeding place sitting on top of a Hellmouth as it does. The mystical energy that leaks from the Old 'Boca del Infierno' is feeding our children as we speak. It will feed them by night while the sun will boost their growth by day," she says pointing at the roof which Kal fixed up to be retractable and allow sunlight in.
Simply it is the combination of Glory and Kal's genes that will allow their offspring to feed off both forms of energy and make them grow faster.
"You'll be stopped," Dawn says finally having found her voice.
"Aw. Cute. She's so feisty isn't she?" Glory says. "Well don't worry we'll soon knock that out of ya hon," Glory promises.
"Why am I even still alive?" Dawn asks. "You obviously don't need me," she surmises from the fact Glory is not going home anymore.
"But I do. You're still the Key Dawnie and one day I have plans to use you."
"I'll kill myself first," Dawn vows.
"Go right ahead," Glory tells her not in the least bit worried by the threat. She goes onto explain why. "Except you have to remember I'm now in possession of my full Godly powers. I can just bring you back to life or make you immortal."
Anya raises her hand. "Can I be immortal?" she asks not wishing to grow old and die.
"I'll think about it if you prove yourself useful," Glory decides.
Glory steps forward right up to Dawn and bends down to look the teenage girl in the eye. "Realise Dawn that there is nothing you can do to alter any of this now," Glory says sounding serious for once. "Be like your friend there," she says referring to Anya. "Learn to accept this and make the best of it. Think of it as a new beginning for you."
Dawn shakes her head. "No! Never!" she shouts defiantly or just in complete denial of the truth of the situation as it now faces her before making a run for it.
Glory and Kal could catch her easily but decide it best to let her try to escape and see how pointless it is. Kal fishes a small remote out of his pocket and hits the switch. There is a high pitched whining sound.
"What was that?" Anya asks.
Kal steps up next to Glory. "Do you think we would have told you any of this Anya if we could not be sure of keeping our children safe?" he asks rhetorically. "What do you think we are? Human? Full of human arrogance? Prone to making human mistakes? Puh-lease," he says scornfully. "I installed a Kryptonian shield generator which creates an impenetrable field around this entire warehouse. Nothing of this world either mystical or scientific can penetrate it. Even my darling Glory here would break a sweat in trying to do so and she is one of the most powerful beings in existence."
"Aw. You sweet talker you," Glory says giving Kal a playful shove.
Kal finishes, "When Dawn reaches the perimeter she'll bump into it and it'll knock her out cold but otherwise unharmed."
Why did they use Kryptonian tech you could ask? Simple really if Glory was to use her powers that much magic would be picked up by someone. Until their children are mature he and Glory will be going for mostly low profile. Even taking over the town they'll be there mostly behind the scenes. As for protecting the entire town Kal was working on installing a bigger shield generator which could cover the whole town making Sunnydale the secure base from which they launch their takeover.
"Uh...okaaay," Anya says not really understanding what he is on about.
"Now make yourself useful and go fetch my Key," Glory orders of Anya.
"I'll go get right on that," Anya says obediently and heads off after Dawn who by now would have reached the field and be unconscious.
"Will you really ever grant her immortality?" Kal wonders in relation to Anya.
"Perhaps if she is useful. Can't have her shrivelling up and dying if I can still use her."
Kal moves to behind Glory, wraps his arms around her and gently kisses her neck which always makes her purr contentedly. "So how long do you think it will take Dawn to figure out that you already made her immortal?"
Glory laughs softly. She had done that shortly after she stole Dawn away from that place in the desert. She can't risk having her little Key dying on her. It was all just another game. If Dawn ever finds the courage to try and end her life the look on the girl's face when she doesn't die will be priceless.
Kal nips the skin on the particularly sensitive spot on Glory's neck and she lets out a low growl. He keeps that up much longer and she will be ripping his clothes off right here.
"I still can't believe I'm a father," Kal admits with obvious happiness in his tone of voice. He never ever thought he would have children and to have these offspring makes him so happy.
"You're a father a few dozen times over. Eventually you'll be one several thousand times over."
Kal smiles against her neck. "Hmm. I look forward to fathering them with you several thousand times over."
Glory actually lets out a girlish sounding giggle at his enthusiasm at the two of them having sex...a lot. She turns around in his arms and wraps hers around his strong neck and kisses him. She then says the same thing she said to him that day they conceived their children as they lay together in the warm afterglow. 3 words Kal didn't think she would ever say because he didn't think she could genuinely feel the emotion. "I love you," she says.
Kal gives her the same reply now as he gave then. "I love you."
The two of them kiss once more.
Soon they both will embark on a Glory-ous New Beginning not only for themselves but for the whole world and the whole world won't know what hit it!
The End.
Author's Note: I'm growing oddly attached to this world. I still have some crazy ideas like Kal and Glory getting a visit from the lawyers of Wolfram and Hart. A crossover with Angel of some kind. Perhaps one where Xander somehow survives but ended up on a desert island and now he returns many years later to find Glory and Kal have begun their world conquest. I'll see if I write any. No promises. Thanks to everyone who has written reviews.