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“Sure is a lot of damn demons,” Faith said, slashing with her daggers

“Pavayne is trying to end the world,” Wesley said, blasting a demon with his shotgun, “If he wins here tonight, then the world is gone”

“Oh hell no! No way that is happening on my watch!”

Wesley allowed himself a grin as he witnessed the woman before him, marvelling at how far she had come and also their Slayer-Watcher relationship had improved a lot since Sunnydale. Here was a woman willing to give it all, perhaps even her life to save the world. Ducking under a demon’s sword, Wesley pulled the trigger, getting covered in blood and gore, as the buckshot blast straight through the demon and into his comrade

“Nice one, Wes,” Faith smirked, “You look a lot better now”

Wesley rolled his eyes, as Faith kicked a demon the stomach, before blocking another demon and slitting his throat with both daggers, then spinning around with her daggers in a windmill fashion, slicing up another demon

“Are we having fun?” Buffy asked, slicing a demon open from the crotch up

Lindsey impaled a demon, then removed his sword and spun around, slashing wide. The demon fell back, its head still attached to its neck by a small sliver of skin. Buffy dashed to his right, impaling a vampire through the heart with the stake end of the scythe, as gunfire rang out. Demons dropped like flies, as Kate made an appearance, ripping the pin out of a grenade and lobbing it through the air. However, a demon kicked it right back

“Oh, that’s not good,” Wesley said

The grenade was suddenly caught in mid air by an unseen force, getting thrown back and blowing up several demons in a bloody rain of gore, as Angel and Cordelia arrived. The seer’s hands were glowing, as she unleashed a spell onto several more demons, trapping them in a hypnotic state and allowing the others to cut them down

“Learnt some new tricks, Cordy?” Buffy asked, “Good for you. Now, has anyone seen Dawn?”

“Anyone seen Connor?” Angel asked, looking around at the war zone-like area

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“You know, for a first date, this isn’t what I had in mind,” Connor said

“Compared to this, an ordinary first date would be boring,” Dawn said

Connor smiled and beheaded a charging demon, as Dawn remained as back-up

“Well, I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself”

“I get to feel more useful than research girl and its cute watching you fight”

Connor was slightly dumbstrucked by that last comment, but still managed to impale a demon through the stomach. It growled and raised its own sword, but Connor quickly snapped its neck, before removing his sword, watching as Dawn dodged an axe and sliced one of the demon’s arms off. It roared and smacked her with its remaining hand, as Connor lunged at the demon and stabbed it through the throat

“Are you okay?” he asked, helping Dawn to her feet

“Yeah, I’m fine,” she replied, dusting herself off, “Thanks”

Connor smiled and leaned his head in, but a demon snarled and lunged at them. Dawn stabbed the demon through the chest, as Connor watched in amazement. She smiled and simply shrugged, before pulling him close to her

“Where were we?”

They locked lips, but only for a brief second, as another demon came at them. This time, however, a sword appeared out of the demon’s chest, as Dracula snapped its neck, removing his sword as he glared at the two teenagers with amber eyes

“What are you doing, making out at a time like this?” he growled, “Kids!”

Connor shrugged and picked up his sword, as Dawn retrieved hers

“Alright then, let’s get going”

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“Illyria, are you alright?” Spike asked, dropping to her side

“More,” Illyria said, getting to her feet without any scorch marks

Firestorm roared and brought his head down, but Illyria dived out of the way, before leaping up and grabbing onto one of his lower facial horns and clinging on as he breathed a stream of flames and flew through them, trying to burn her again. Illyria started climbing towards his eye, but suddenly, Firestorm’s tongue wrapped around her torso and dragged her inside his mouth. He reared back his head, then snapped it forward, spitting Illyria out at high speed. She struck the road and dug up a shallow trench as she slid along. She remained down for a moment, before slowing getting to her feet

“Is that the best you can do?” she asked mockingly

“Why do you have to antagonise the big, nasty dragon?” Spike muttered to himself

“I will crush you beneath my power,” Firestorm roared

“Spike, go find Pavayne. Destroy him and end this madness,” Illyria said

“What about you, love? You’re fighting an Old One and you’re not as powerful as you used to be, demon form or full power”

“I can handle him. Go now”

She dodged Firestorm’s snapping jaws and booted him. His head reeled back, as Illyria leapt up, grabbing onto his nostrils and pulling herself up onto his snout. Firestorm’s cat-like green eyes narrowed at her and he tossed his head, throwing her into the air, before snapping his jaws over her. Illyria used herself as a brace between the jaws, using all of her strength to keep his mouth open. The back of his throat glow, as Illyria leapt out of his mouth, narrowly avoiding the jet of flames. Snarling, Firestorm slashed at her with his claws, but she did a backwards handspring, before throwing a few daggers at his throat

“Okay, I guess you can handle yourself then,” Spike said, “I’ll leave you to it”

He took off, rounding a corner and coming across a small pack of vampires, being led by Lucas Strike, his game face on as he spotted Spike

“Fancy seeing you here,” Spike said

“Likewise,” Lucas said, “I see your city is being torn apart”

A roar of annoyance came from nearby. Spike smiled to himself

“So, Spike, do you remember 1984?” Lucas asked

“Like it was yesterday”

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1984

“Come on, another one,” Spike said, “Can’t kill you”

“I agree,” Lucas said, chugging back the mug of beer, “I love this!”

“Immortality sure does have a lot of perks”

The two vampires chugged back another mug of beer each, before calling for another, as the front doors burst open and a young woman walked in. Spike and Lucas turned in their seats to look at the woman, as murmurs of ‘Slayer’ reverberated about

“I’m told that the two vampires behind the spree of murders are here,” Peri Bohr said, “Anyone want to lead me to them or shall I beat it out of you all”

“A Slayer,” Spike drawled, “Haven’t seen one of you since ’77. Come, have a beer”

“You seem like the vampire behind these spate of murders,” Peri said

“Indeed I am. I’m a vampire; it’s what we do. Now, I suggest you get yourself a new job, cause you get killed in this line of duty. I hear Billy Idol is looking for groupies”

Peri drew a stake and headed towards him, but Spike shoved Lucas in her way and took off for the exit. Intoxicated, Lucas just narrowly avoided being staked by Peri

“He’s the one you want,” Spike called over his shoulder, “I was just tagging along”

The demons and vampires shrank away from the Slayer as she eyed Lucas

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“I was so lucky to survive that,” Lucas said, “I’ve been waiting to pay you back for that”

“Oh boo bloody hoo,” Spike said, “So you nearly got killed by a Slayer. Big deal. It’s not like I haven’t. And have you seen…actually, never mind about that”

“No, let’s not. Let’s just get down to the killing and your death”

“Now you’re singing my tune. Come on, boys, step on up and let’s have at it”

The vampires growled and charged at Spike, while Lucas hung back. Smirking, Spike swung the Vorax and sliced his way through the vampires, spilling dust around him, until each one had been dusted, leaving just Lucas

“Come on, N*sync drop-out. Let’s get this song and dance out of the way”

“As you wish, Spike,” Lucas said, “Let’s end this”

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