14. The Battle of Starbucks part 1

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Spike yawned and stretched his arms, before left the room and heading to the nearest kitchen. However, he was annoyed to find there was no blood in the fridge and he decided to complain about it, sniffing out Giles’ room, kicking the door open and marching to the end of the Watcher’s bed

“Hey, how come there’s no blood in the fridge?”

“Because I don’t cater to vampires”

“I thought you would have ordered some since I was here”

“I’ll order some today, Spike, now go away”

“Fine”

Spike left the room and slammed the door shut on his way out. He was on his way back to his bedroom to rejoin Illyria and Elena, making sure to avoid the beams of sunlight filtering through the windows, when…

CRASH!! KA-BOOOM!!

“What the bloody hell!” Spike cried, ducking for cover

The windows were shattered, while parts of the wall were blasted away, letting in sunlight. Spike quickly dived away from the sunlight, as Slayers started showing up, some of them armed, while others were looking around in bewilderment

“We’re under attack!” a Slayer cried

“Thanks for pointing out the obvious,” Spike said sarcastically, “Get Giles!”

Wesley and Illyria came out, heading towards the destroyed wall

“Oh, this doesn’t look good,” Wesley groaned

“What? What is it?” Spike asked

“Non and Kenny and a whole heap of commandos”

“Commandos?”

“I’m guessing they’re vampires wearing the same material used to protect Angel from the sunlight when he’s playing Twilight”

“This is great. And I can’t do a thing”

At that moment, Giles arrived with Willow, Lindsey and Faith

“Is that a Tyrannosaurus Rex?” Giles asked

“Yep, sure is,” Spike said, “And it talks too. I think it’s from a different dimension”

“Well, of course. Willow, can you put up a shield for us?”

“Easy”

Willow spoke the spell, as a large green energy shield appeared around the Council building, barring Non and her forces off

“Don’t know how long that’s gonna last for,” Willow said

“At least until tonight,” Spike said, “You did good, Red”

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“They put a shield up?” Non cried, “Well, that sucks!”

“What’s the plan now?” Kenny asked

“We get some guys in to take it down, obviously. In the meantime, let’s have us some fun! I want to see some chaos and carnage everywhere!”

Kenny roared with delight and charged for the nearest building, snapping at the screaming civilians, while the vampires drew short swords and proceeded to create rivers of blood. Non was laughing manically as she watched the carnage getting carried out, sucking the life-force from several nearby humans, feeling the strength coursing through her. Grinning madly, she quickly joined in on the slaughter, however, upon hearing Kenny roaring angrily, she stopped and turned towards the source of his anger, seeing a group of Slayers standing outside the council building

“Oh, so you have decided to join us?”

Wesley, Illyria, Lindsey and Faith stood at the front of the Slayers. Non clapped her hands and every vampire in the nearby vicinity grouped together behind her, waiting for her next order, as the Slayers readied themselves

“Take them down,” Wesley said

Non snapped her fingers, as the Slayers and vampires rushed towards each other, wielding their weapons. Blood splattered the road when the mortal enemies sliced into each other. Faith uppercutted a vampire, then backhanded another, before kicking a third vampire in the chest, as another vampire lunged at her, swinging his swords. Faith dodged the blades, before punching the vampire and striking with her stake. However, the stake splintered against the vampire’s tough leather armour and he snarled, before slashing and drawing blood along Faith’s left arm. She cried out, as Wesley heard her and struck the vampire with a blast of magic. A vampire went to slice at Wesley, taking advantage of his distraction, but Illyria grabbed the vampire’s arm, kneeing him in the ribs and throwing him aside

Kenny charged into the fray, crushing one Slayer beneath his foot, while snapping up another Slayer in his arms and biting her in the half, raining her blood onto the battle. Non joined the battle, draining the life force from three nearby Slayers. With their powers flowing through her body, Non dodged a Slayer’s sword and drove her fist straight through the Slayer’s chest, killing her instantly. Another Slayer slashed at Non, but she dodged the blade, before snapping the Slayer’s neck, as Lindsey stabbed with his sword. Dodging, Non elbowed Lindsey in the face, breaking his nose and drawing blood, as Illyria spun Non around and slugged her in the face. Non grinned and struck Illyria back, sending her stumbling back into a Slayer and a vampire, knocking them down

“You could try and take me on, Illyria, but you’ll lose,” Non said, “Take a look around, you’re already losing the fight”

Looking around, Illyria saw that Non was right. Slayers were falling in battle, blood soaking the road. Wesley was taking notice and knew what had to be done

“Retreat,” he called out, “Retreat. Fall back!”

“I’ll let you go,” Non said to Illyria, “But only this once. Next time we meet, you die”

“I think it will be the other way around,” Illyria said

She hurried past Non, helping Lindsey rejoin Wesley and Faith as they quickly led the remaining Slayers back to the Watchers Headquarters, as Non laughed at them

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Later that night…

“It’s madness out there,” Giles said, standing at the window

Dead bodies littered the streets, while building fires burned high into the sky. Spike was standing next to him, a look of sadness and determination on his face

“Right, are the new lot of Slayers in?”

“Yes. They came from Cleveland, New York and Africa. Surprisingly, no Xander. They said he went on some trip and can’t be contacted”

“Good. Don’t think I could have handled Pirate Boy being here”

“Xander is-”

“Yeah, whatever, Rupert. Let’s just this, shall we?”

Spike and Giles headed down into the courtyard, where over a hundred Slayers were waiting, all armed and ready for combat. Illyria, Willow, Wesley, Faith, Lindsey and Kate were standing at the front of the army, as Spike and Giles joined them

“Alright, there’s not gonna be a speech for the big battle, apart from kill as many as you can and stay alive as long as you can,” Spike said, “So let’s go”

Giles headed back into the building, now on baby-sitting duties, as Spike led the Slayer army out onto the streets. Non was already there, wearing her original shirt and skirt, while Kenny and about a hundred vampires waited behind her. At least thirty of the vampires were wearing commando gear, including the leather chest armour

“Ready to get your ass kicked again?” Non smirked

“Just you wait, little missy,” Spike said, “I’ll rip your head off again”

“I’d like to see you try”

“Bugger this. Let’s just get this done, shall we? Red?”

Willow raised her arms, as her hands flashed orange and suddenly, all the vampires’ chest armour was instantly ripped away from their bodies, leaving them vulnerable once again. Non frowned at this, as Spike smirked

“Right then. Let’s go”

The vampires and Kenny rushed forward to engage the Slayers. Non uppercutted a Slayer, then backhanded a second Slayer and broke her neck, as Kenny bit a Slayer in half, staining his lips with her blood. Vampire bust was blowing everywhere, as Willow incinerated a vampire with flames. Illyria snap-kicked a vampire on the jaw, knocking him down, before staking another vampire, as Lindsey decapitated a vampire, then crossed blades with a commando vampire, before finally winning the fight and turning the vampire to dust, as another commando vampire lunged at him. Spinning around, Lindsey defended the strike, as Kate dodged a vampire’s fist and staked her through the back. Meanwhile, Spike kicked a vampire in the stomach, throwing him back, as another vampire tackled him against a car. Shoving the vampire back, Spike climbed up onto the car’s roof, as the vampire lunged up and swung his fist. Spike dodged, before blocking the backhand, twisting the vampire’s arm, then sweeping his legs out from underneath him, before staking him. At that moment, Spike looked up, seeing a large group of Tyrannosaurus Rexes coming towards the battle, accompanied by Mohra and Gator demons

“Oh bloody hell,” Spike muttered

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