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Spike leapt across to Pavayne’s outcrop, swinging his fist, but Pavayne blocked and ducked, slamming both palms against the vampire’s stomach, before swinging his fist. Spike dodged the swing and drove his knee into Pavayne’s stomach, before punching him in the face, then throwing him down to a lower outcrop. Pavayne got to his feet, just as Spike landed before him and swung his foot. Catching Spike’s boot, Pavayne rose up, throwing him onto his back, then reached down at him, but Spike booted him in the gut, before flipping up onto his feet and drawing the Vorax. He swung, but Pavayne ducked under the blade, sweeping his legs out from underneath, before jumping to a lower outcrop, then leaping up to a high outcrop, as Spike got up

“If only I had my bloody chain,” he muttered

“Coming right up,” came Wesley’s voice

A three-metre long hooked chain suddenly appeared in Spike’s hand, as he leapt to the low outcrop, then leapt up to Pavayne’s outcrop, using the chain to pull himself up onto the level. Pavayne was ready for him, waiting with a broadsword and a battleaxe in hand. Spike swung the Vorax, as Pavayne blocked with the axe and stabbed with his sword, missing when Spike dodged to the right and snapped the chain upwards. Pavayne reeled back, blood flying from his nose, as he jumped to another outcrop

Spike followed after him, landing and swinging with the Vorax. Pavayne blocked Spike’s blows with both weapons, then whirled around and slashed wide. Spike growled as his blood splattered the rock, a large laceration visible on his stomach. He slashed, then whipped the chain, as Pavayne ducked and jumped over it. Spike then whirled around and slashed, but Pavayne blocked him, moving the Vorax down with his sword and swinging around with the battleaxe. Spike dropped to the ground, sweeping with his leg, but Pavayne avoided the move, kicking him in the face. Getting back up, Spike stabbed with the Vorax, as Pavayne deflected the blow, only to get booted off the outcrop. He landed on a lower outcrop, as Spike stood over him, raising the Vorax

“Time to end this,” he growled

“I don’t think so,” Pavayne replied

He kicked Spike in the groin, then kicked him off the outcrop. Spike hurriedly stabbed the Vorax into the rock to keep himself from falling to the ground, then groaned as pain throbbed in his groin. Resolving himself, Spike pulled himself up onto the top of the outcrop, where Pavayne was already waiting for him

“Here, let me give you a hand”

Pavayne grabbed Spike and hauled him up, then launched him through the air to another outcrop. Spike landed on his back and quickly to his feet, just as Pavayne landed before him. Spike stabbed with the Vorax, missing when Pavayne dodged, then snapped the chain overhead, cracking the Reaper in the face. With blood trickling down his face, Pavayne lashed out with his sword, cutting Spike on the cheek, then swung his battleaxe. Spike blocked, moving under the battleaxe so he could kick Pavayne in the ribs. The blow connected, making Pavayne stumble, as Spike sliced towards his throat, only for Pavayne to suddenly duck and impale him through the gut with his sword

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Illyria dropped the dead werewolf and swiftly killed another, as Dracula and Lindsey continued to thin the pack. Kate was by the ex-goddess’ side, using a 9mm handgun, her last firearm, shooting down the werewolves with precision and accuracy

“There’s not many left now,” Dracula called, “Which is good”

He stabbed a werewolf through the chest, then sliced upwards on another, as Lindsey lopped off part of a werewolf’s head, then slashed open another werewolf’s throat. The pair were a lethal team together, experts with the sword, as they cut down any werewolf that came near. Illyria killed a werewolf, then kicked another one aside, before stabbing her knives into a werewolf’s chest. The werewolf she kicked aside, got up, shaking its head and snarled, as Kate fired a single round into its head, killing it instantly

“That was the last of them,” she called

“Excellent. Now we can aid in destroying Pavayne,” Dracula said

“Hold your horses. Not so fast,” Lindsey said

“Why do you say that?” Illyria asked

Lindsey pointed ahead, where a group of skeletons were coming towards them. they were all carrying swords, but there were also several skeletons riding skeletal horses, wielding battleaxes and chained spiked maces

“Uh, anyone got a sword I could use?” Kate asked

Illyria tossed a dagger to Lindsey, who transmuted it into a sword, then handed it to his girlfriend, as she joined the others making a small line against the skeletons. One of the skeletons pointed his sword at the four and then, the rest of the skeletons started charging

“Any ideas?” Lindsey asked, “Cause getting killed isn’t one of them”

Dracula crossed blades with a skeleton, lowering his sword so he could decapitate it. The skeleton shattered into a small pile of bones, as Lindsey sliced a skeleton through the spine. Kate deflected a sword and beheaded her skeleton, as Illyria caught a skeleton by the sword arm and delivered an uppercut that literally knocked its skull off. Pleased with this, she delivered a powerful kick to the ribs of another skeleton, shattering the bones. The skeleton groaned, holding one hand to its destroyed ribs, as Illyria grabbed its skull and tore it off, before throwing it like a baseball into the skull of another skeleton

A horse-riding skeleton swung its mace at Dracula, but the Count transformed into mist, the mace passing through harmlessly. Resuming his solid form, Dracula sliced the legs off another horse, then impaled it through the ribs to shatter the skeletal rider’s skull. Withdrawing his sword, Dracula then grabbed the reigns and pulled the horse up onto its feet, then hopped onto its skeletal back, charging at another rider and beheading him. Lindsey ducked under a mace, slicing upwards on a skeleton, then deflected another skeleton’s sword so it impaled its comrade, before beheading it. Kate was able to hold her own, thanks to the sword training she’d been receiving from Lindsey, cutting down a skeleton, then impaling two at the same time. They looked down at the blade in surprise, as Kate removed it, then lopped their heads at simultaneously

A shotgun blast rang out, annihilating a skeleton, as another skeleton’s skull was shattered to pieces. Wesley appeared out of nowhere, shooting a skeleton horse through its neck bone to catch its rider in the chest. Both skeletons were reduced to piles of bones, as Wesley bashed a skeleton in the face twice with the shotgun stock, before firing a point-blank shot into its chest, completely destroying the rib cage

“Nice of you to arrive,” Lindsey said, destroying a skeleton

“I like to make an entrance,” Wesley replied

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Spike lashed out with his fist, but Pavayne caught his arm and palm-struck him in the chest, flipping him over onto his back. Spike kicked Pavayne back, then flipped up onto his feet, whirling around to deflect Pavayne’s high kick and move in swiftly, driving his elbow into the Reaper’s throat. Pavayne choked, as Spike punched him in the face, then drove his knee upwards into his nose, before sweeping his feet out from underneath him

Pavayne suddenly appeared atop one of the high outcrops. Gritting his fangs and growling, Spike leapt up to the outcrop, dodging Pavayne’s fist and slogging him in the face. Pavayne punched him, then again, a third punch knocking Spike to the ground

“So much time and effort has gone into this,” Pavayne said, grabbing Spike by his shirt and holding him up, “All so I could kill you. You, the most elusive soul ever”

“You know, I have some good reasons for killing you as well,” Spike said

He ripped Pavayne’s hand away, then headbutted him, before kicking him back and getting to his feet. Pavayne went for a kick, but Spike trapped his leg and kicked him in the stomach, before punching him in the face. Swinging his fist, Pavayne missed as Spike’s elbow slammed into his back, then a fist crashed into his face

“You had my daughter kidnapped. You hurt her, made her bleed. You endangered all my friends and my city and you tried to kill Illyria and me”

Pavayne growled and swung his fist, but Spike caught his fist and twisted it back, slamming his own fist into Pavayne’s face and spraying blood, then snapped his elbow. Pavayne cried out, as Spike drove his elbow into his ribs, then threw him over his shoulder, off the outcrop and down to the ground below. Pavayne slammed into the ground and bounced once, before rolling to a stop, as Spike came flying down, impaling the Reaper through the chest with the Vorax, as the skeletons completely disappeared

“It’s over now,” Spike said, resuming his human face

“You’ve defeated the Reaper,” Illyria said, “But something tells me its not over”

“Yeah, you’re right, love. It is the bleeding Reaper and all. Wesley?”

“I’m sure I can think of something for our old ‘friend’,” Wesley replied

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