The Substance of Evil: Part Three
by Alex Mercado
Disclaimer: ( Victor, the cloaked guy are my creations ) All other characters Buffy, Giles, Willow, and Xander are owned by Joss Whedon, Mutant enemy co., yadda, yadda, yadda. Authors notes: This part isn't disturbing as the first two.. .. but read on.. ..
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Part Three
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There stood Xander and Victor, watching the very leaky corpse be dragged off to the coroner's. The two guys had been witnessess to one of the most vile, disturbing and disgusting visions in their lives.
"Yikes!" Xander muttered.
"I know what you mean." Victor said agreeing.
"You want me to walk you home man?" Xander said in a low tone.
"What is this a date?" Victor shot back.
"No screwball! I mean are you okay?" Xander mumbled back.
"I'm okay man.. .. I'll go Home by myself."
"Okay.. then I'll see you Monday at school", Xander said as he shook Victor's hand, Xander then quickly darted across the street.
"I'll call Ya', I remember the number", Xander yelled as he ran towards the direction of the library, or as he called it "Slayerette central."
By this time Victor realized what Xander had just said.
"NO! DON'T CALL MY HOUSE!" Yelled a nervous Victor.
Xander was already past by the crowds of people, and the loud Bawling sounds of the ambulance and police sirens.. ..
"Don't call my Hou.. ," Victor stopped himself.
He knew Xander couldn't hear him, and he lost sight of him when he ran through the crowd.
"Damn", Victor thought to himself," Where do I live?"
* * *
Buffy and Willow sat near the library's computer, skimming through the information of "Tim Mallid" the first reported leaky death.
"So gross!" Buffy frowned.
"I mean this guy, he just .. .. ewww", added Willow
"OF COURSE!!!!" Giles yelled, causing Willow and Buffy to jump.
Giles quickly bolted out of the stacks, with an oversized Bible of Myths, and facts.
(Giles drops the book on the table where Willow and Buffy are sitting at)
"Hey, thanks for the mini-heart attack!" Buffy shakingly said.
"Yes, yes that's all fine and good." Giles ran his finger along the line of text which had given him much reason to shout.
"Did you find anything about this in the Mythos books?" Willow asked.
"Right here, my bewildered students of lore!" Giles pointed at the page where he had found the info similar to the deaths.
"Parasidic Demons:
>From the nether regions exist, parasidic demons. When demonic entities have no shape or form, they are no more than blobs of slime. The only way these parasites can take form, is by way of freshly buried corpses. When the parasites overtake the corpse's body, it needs fluids from the living to keep the bones, body and skin from deteriorating."
Willow interrupted," Why can't the parasidic demons take over living humans?"
(Buffy looked at Willow and turned back to Giles)
"Good question." Giles pointed out.
(Willow smiled)
"These parasidic demons do not have the extreme power as the other fleshy demons, from overtaking the living. These demons have not the strength, so they need to overtake the flesh of the recently deceased's non-working brain . In their new host body/Corpse they drain other living humans of enzymes, calcium to keep strong bone structure, and Blood cells to keep the heart pumping. Or the Demon's gel body will coagulate, or harden in the corpse's body, causing them to stiffen and have very weak flesh. Easily breakable." Giles read out loud smiling.
"So we are fighting pond scum monsters", Buffy smirked.
"Well, in the sense.. Yes," Giles fixated his glasses on his nose.
* * *
Willow, Giles and Buffy continuosly did research on the subject on the demons, When a half hour passed, and an out of breath Xander stumbled through the Library doors.
"Friends!(wheeze) Guy (pant) turn gel, not pretty!" Xander tried to mouth out the words gasping for air. It was obvious Xander had ran the whole way from the distant Pizzeria.
Xander sucked in a great big amount of air.
"whew", Xander let out.
"A guy turned into a human fountain of goop.. very disturbing, I was knocked over by a guy dressed in a cloak, who left the scene!" Xander added.
"That must be our Paramedic"-Buffy began.
"-sedic", Giles interrupted.
"Parasedic demon guy!" Buffy finished.
"It's most likley", Giles mumbled as he returned his attention to the giant book.
"Para wha?" Xander added
Willow walked to Xander, put her arm around his neck."Welcome to the world of knowledge my not-so-aware friend," Willow guided Xander to a table to explain it all to him.
"I'll need to do some investigation", Buffy grumbled, putting her jacket on.. securing a stake in her pocket, and headed straight out of the door.
"Buffy, I want to go", Xander yelled.
"Stay!" Buffy yelled back.
Willow continued to inform Xander, while his face turned into a variety of expressions, mostly ones of disgust.
* * *
It was three hours later as Xander went through all the closets in his room, He was looking for the phone number book that he had since along time ago. He finds the crusty, leather bound, big as a wallet mini phone book. "Aha-Jack-pot-ola!" Xander yelled out..
He had found Victor's phone number..
He dialed The number, singing a little tune to himself as he pressed each button.
The reciever on the other line picked up.
"Hello?" The female voice on the other end said.
"Uh.. Hi, May I please speak to Victor Romwell?.. I'm a friend of his", Xander asked.
"Is this some kind of joke?" the female's voice began to crack into a sorrowful tone.
"I don't understand," Xander added.
"Victor commited suicide a week ago"
The phone dropped out of Xander's cold hand.
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