Summary: Something
unexpected happens to Buffy on
her first night in Sunnydale. Something that causes her to change
her
name and hide from the people that were to be her friends. What
happens when a certain peroxide blond vampire rolls into town?
Scenerio #1 in the Immortal Guardian Series
Chapter 24
Christmas came to Sunnydale just as it did to everywhere else in the
world. Spike and Beth were back on track ever since Spike decided it
didn’t matter to him who Beth was before she was turned. She was still
the same sweet, innocent vampiress that he fell in love with when he
first came to Sunnydale. They had spent Christmas Eve making sweet love
followed by several rounds of raunchy shagging. All in all, Spike
thought it was the best Christmas that he had ever spent on the planet.
New Year’s Eve found the entire Scooby gang, and all of their allies,
having a party to celebrate the incoming year. The only person not
totally happy was Cassie who missed Angel terribly. She had a date with
a young college boy named Parker, but when said boy tried to hit on
Beth, he found himself at the fangs of a very disgruntled Spike. It
took both Buffy and Xander to calm the grumpy vampire down.
Beth and Cassie’s birthdays were within days of each other, and that in
itself was cause for another celebration. The party was interrupted by
the arrival of a Fyral demon which Spike almost immediately declared
was Rupert Giles. While Cassie and Faith were off looking for Ethan
Rayne, who they had determined was the culprit of the transformation,
the other Scoobies tried to ignore the fact that Anya pulled Giles into
another room for orgasms. After Rayne left town again with his tail
between his legs, things settled down, but not for long.
The Specter was patrolling alone. Spike had a poker date with Clem at
Willy’s Alibi Room. However, the Specter wasn’t too upset. She had a
lot to think about, and that required alone time. The Specter knew she
needed to tell Spike all about herself. The sooner the better if the
truth be known.
The Specter fought and killed a vampire in the warehouse district close
to where she used to live before she and Spike moved to their house. As
she stood looking down at the dust, she heard a shout.
“Hey!” A security guard ran up with a flashlight, which he shined in
the Specter’s face. He took in her mask, but he had seen weirder things
in Sunnydale than a gal in a mask before. “If you’re looking for one of
those rave things, I’m afraid you’re too late. I ran a bunch of kids
out of here last night.”
The Specter gave a small shrug to indicate that she didn’t care.
“You know, if it was my call, I’d let you do whatever you want. It’s
not like anyone’s using this place or nothin’. But they just don’t pay
me enough to argue with the boss.” The watchman looked around.
The Specter turned to leave the way she had come. Behind her the guard
leaned over, and he picked something up off the ground.
“Oh, hey, miss don’t forget your… whatever it is.” The guard held out a
glowing ball. “Guess glow balls are the in thing this year.”
The Specter took the ball from the guard with a shrug. She had no idea
what the thing was, but she could feel a supernatural air about it. She
decided to take the item to Anya, and maybe she’d know what it was.
The next day Beth wasn’t thinking about the glowing ball that she had
discovered the night before as the Specter. She was at the hospital
with Joyce who she had found on the floor of the kitchen passed out.
While there, Beth ran into the security guard, but he wasn’t the same
man that he was the night before. Something had made the man go crazy
overnight. This had every part of Beth worried. Was there a new
epidemic happening in Sunnydale?
After Beth got Joyce settled at home, and checked up on Dawn at
Janice’s, she went out as the Specter again. It was time to investigate
the warehouse a little closer.
When the Specter slipped inside the warehouse, she found a monk tied up
to a chair. She blinked in surprise as she was not expecting to find
anything like that. The monk was semi-conscious, and she hurried to
loosen the ropes that bound him. When he grunted in pain, the Specter
tried to make him feel better, but to no avail. She let out a guttural
grunt as she turned to grab her attacker’s neck.
“I’m not stupid,” the Specter grumbled.
“What did you say?” The blond haired woman gave the Specter gave a
withering look. “I mean really, speak the native language.” She threw
the Specter across the room.
The Specter crashed into the brick wall with a tremendous amount of
force. She rose to her feet with a growl. She glanced at the monk for a
minute before she gave a feral grin that she knew her opponent couldn’t
see behind her mask.
“My town, my rules,” the Specter grunted in English. Then, she dashed
towards the monk, grabbed him, and crashed out the window in just a few
seconds, leaving behind a flabbergasted Hell-God.
As the Specter and the monk escaped across the parking lot, Glory had a
major temper tantrum resulting in the destruction of the warehouse that
buried her beneath tons of rubble.
“Stop, please,” the monk moaned. He was in so much pain.
The Specter pointed towards the street to indicate that they needed to
keep going.
“My journey’s done, I think, Slayer.”
Beth stared at the monk in surprise. How did he know her secret?
“Yes, I know your secret. You must protect the Key.” The monk coughed
as he sank to the ground.
“Protect together?” The Specter sank to the ground next to the monk.
“No, I am dying. The Beast did too much damage. You and your mate must
protect the Key together.” The monk coughed again. This time there was
blood. “The Key is energy. It’s a portal that opens the door…”
“Glow ball?” The Specter asked.
“No. For centuries it had no form at all. My brethren were its only
keepers. Then the abomination found us. We had to hide the Key. We gave
it form and molded it into flesh … made it human and sent it to you.”
The monk grabbed the Specter’s arm. “She is fashioned from your flesh
and that of your mate. She is your sister in name only.”
Beth reached up and pulled off her mask. She stared down at the monk
before she changed into her vampiric visage. “Our memories?”
“We built them.” The monk could feel his heart slowing down. “She’s
helpless. An innocent now. We couldn’t give you an infant, and she
couldn’t be your childe in the other way. The Key would never tolerate
the impurity of a vampire demon.”
“But…” Beth was unsure of what to say.
“You cannot abandon her. She belongs to you.”
“Mine!” Beth growled. She could feel all three sides of herself merging
into one as she uttered the word that claimed her daughter as part of
her family.
Across town at Revello Drive, Dawn sat up from where she was writing in
her diary. She felt something go through her very soul. “What the hell
was that?”
At Willy’s bar, Spike stopped in the middle of raking in his winnings.
He shuddered for a moment as he wondered what the hell just happened.
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Beth stepped into Betty Meers’ house. She let the woman lead her down
to the basement where Warren was sitting in from of a television
playing with a Playstation gaming system.
“I need you to make me two of your robots,” Beth said. “I’ll pay you
good money for them.” She handed Warren two files. One was marked
‘Joyce Summers’, and the other was marked ‘Dawn Summers’.