Disclaimer: You know the drill! (I created Victor, Cloak guy, parasidic demons) Buffy, Xander, Giles, Willow, Angel are owned by Joss Whedon, 20th century FOX, Mutant enemy co, steal their rights and have flaming disturbance thrust upon thee! Author's notes: Okay, this story is going to be the part before the end. So it also is description driven, enjoy.. ..
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Part Four
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Xander stared at the wall, His eyes frozen. He bit his bottom lip so he wouldn't start crying. It was the next day, (Saturday afternoon) Xander hasn't fallen asleep after he made that fateful phone call. Xander sat alone, It can be very lonley in the library. Luckily this was morning time, and as he expected Giles walked in through the creaky, old Doors.
"What are you doing here, How did you get in here?" Giles was actually surprised that Xander was in the library before he was.
"Vents", Xander lethargically answered," I know how to get around everywhere."
"But why are you here?It's saturday, shouldn't you be watching your (ahem) Cartoons", Giles added.
"I couldn't sleep last night", Xander mumbled.
"Yes, you do look a little well.. Un rested", Giles mentioned in an almost silent tone of voice," Is there something troubling you?"
Giles walked towards Xander, Then sat himself on a chair, Fixated his Gaze on the uneasy boy.
"This guy name Victor", Xander started.
Giles interrupted," Yes, the boy Buffy said had something very peculiar about him."
"Yeah?, .. .. she never told me"
"Yes.. do continue"
"Well, this guy is cool and everything, He was with me yesterday.
"When that young man melted?" Giles interrupted again.
"Exactly, Anyway I remembered what Willow had explained to me about parasite monsters, and what not.. . and I think Victor is the demon.. . ," Xander said as a look of lost washed over his already blank face.
"But, What about the cloaked person?"..
This time Xander interrupted,"It can't be him, Victor died a week ago by slitting his wrists! He's dead! A damn Zombie!"
Giles was astonished.
"But what I want to know", Xander continued," Is, how does He remember me? Isn't he a demon? He's not really Victor right? Victor's body has just been taken over.. .. But how can a demon I've never personally met remember me?"
"Well", Giles pushed his glasses from his nos so he could rub his eyes.
Xander waited for Giles response with baited breath.
Giles began speaking", Well, Parasidic demons when in control over the body, also have access to the brain. You see the Brain is in it's own way, and organic Computer. Stores information, and so on, and so on, and so on.
"And?" Xander added impatiently.
Giles continued," the parasidic demon can access files to the brain, As said in mythic lore, when your spirit leaves your body, all the information you had stored up here", Giles pointed to his cranium," Is erased, you are a blank slate, So all the information is dtuck inside the unused brain. In that way, this Demon Victor can actually remember you by sucking out information of his brain."
"That is so disturbing," Xander muttered, not sure what to think.
"Very much so", Giles added.
"And what's even weird is Vic and I knew Tim Mallid (see part 2) I didn't know Tim very well, But Vic always used to hang with him. And the guy who died at the pizzeria, I found out who he was. He used to be a friend of Vic too!" Xander said with a chill in his voice," You don't think.. ?"
"Demon Victor is using the memory banks of your deceased friend to kill everyone he could get close to?People that he knew best, That the parasite knew could be close to?" Giles added.
"BINGO!" Xander's eyes lit up," But why hasn't he attempted anything on me?"
"That is the question we need to answer," Giles ran towards a stack of mythic lore.
"Put your litterary skills to use!" Giles screamed a he dropped a book in front of Xander's face.
"Ugh.. .. Reading," Xander mumbled under his breath.
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Hours passed as the day got darker, the fogfilled the streets of Sunnydale with a feeling of uneasyness. Buffy was out "investigating" again, she had found nothing the day before, hoping to find the "Cloaked guy"(part 2). But to of no avail. She had no idea that Victor had become prime suspect number one. Suddenly the pager attached to Buffy's Belt buckle began vibrating, she quikly looked at the Beeper's message and hurried off towards the library.
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While that happened, on the other side of Sunnydale , stood Angel, He was looking for the "Cloaked guy" too. As Buffy had asked him so nicley to do, . She had given him the exact decription, that Xander had given to her straight on to him. Angel would do anything for Buffy, except let himself fall in love with her, it was forbidden.
So Angel staked a barren part of Sunnydale. The sky had become pitch black now, casting a shadow all around town. This was good, Angel's vision worked better under these conditions, He was the best nocturnal hunter at this time. And his job was to bring the "Cloaked guy" back dead or alive, preferably dead.
Angel hid in the shadows, until a murmered screaming caught his his ear. His vision let him see 100 feet towards where the scream came from, Sure enough it was the cloaked guy, He was in an alley grabbing on the base of a girl's neck. The cloaked guy.. .. a heavy, dark brown raggedy cape, with a cloak that hood over his head, The bottom half of his face covered by a scarf.
In a flash Angel had ran quickly as he could but he was too late , for the girl's body was already motionless, spewing fluids from her head.
"You didn't let me finish", Cloak guy said , his voice raspy, as if he smoked ciggarettes all his life.
"Isn't that too bad," Angel smirked, as he jumped on top of the cloaked guy.
The two exchanged swift punches, Cloakedguy managed to doge all hard punches of Angel's. Cloak then picked Angel up and Body slammed him towards the ground.
"Oh that hurt!" Angel rubbed the bruise on his back.
Angel quickly stood and punched Cloak repeatedly, Then attempted to kick Cloak in the leg to trip him. Well Angel got the kick in, but to not what he expected, his kick tore cloak's left leg off entirely.
The leg rolled as White ooze spewed from cloak's stump. The white ooze spilled upon Angel's well maintained shoes.
"What the hell?" Angel thought to himself.
Cloak made no sound , he just looked at the ground where his leg was, and to the stump where his leg should be.
As Angel stood there shocked, not knowing what to do, A giant pain came upon the back of his head.
Angel hit the ground, woozy, it wasn't cloak guy who had hit him. It was someone who caught him completley by surprise.
"How utterly despicable!, two demons fighting over a deceased girl! The both of you shall perish!" a voice Angel heard, it was the voice of the one who took him by surprise. He didn't see yet who it was, his vision was still groggy.
All Angel could see now were blurry images, as he stared while laying on his back, letting the pain sink in.
"How dare you take my body over!" Angel heard.
It was Two guys fighting now, the cloak hopping away from the other guy.
Then Angel's vision came back in synch, What he saw amazed him.
The cloaked guy's scarf had fallen off, revealing his rotting face, then he saw the one who hit him from behind.. .. It was the same guy!
They both were exact duplicates by face! Only one's was deteriorating, while the other's eyes had becom transparent.
Angel had enough of this, he was too spooked, He got up and quickly darted towrds the direction of the library. As this happened the double of cloaked guy (dressed in more sensible clothing) Looked at Angel running. "What are you chicken?!" He yelled.
As he was distracted by Angel's quick exit, The cloak guy simply picked up his dettached leg and quickly bolted out of there.
"DAMN!" shouted the duped guy. He sat besides the girl who had been attacked by cloak guy and carressed her head with his hands." I'll avenge you," whispered the male, her lifeless body limp. Oblivious to his touch.
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A good fifteen minutes passed by, as in the library sat Willow cradled Xander like a child. She wanted him to forget his pain, stroking his hair, Willow was there for him. Meanwhile Buffy and Giles were conversing about victor's next moves, and possibly what would happen.
All of the sudden Angel staggered into the library, his head still freshly bloody from the unexpected hit.
"OH MY GOD", Buffy yelled in a nervous tone, running towards Angel.
She helped him along to a chair.
A few minutes later Angel had an ice pack on his head, and had finished explaining to The others what had happened.
"So identical twins attacked you?" Willow asked innocently.
"Not exactly, One was dressed in cloak, his face was falling apart, really disgusting!"
Angel moved his hands around his face to mimic a disgusting face.
"And the other one was clean as a whistle, .. but they were the same guy! One was bad, and I'm guessing the other was good cause he did attack the cloaked one, he obviously sensed I was a demon, and hit me with something large. So I don't blame him for jumping to conclusion"
"Is there any way we could tell them apart?" Well, I uh, knocked off the cloaked one's left leg.. that'd be good I. D," Angel smirked before feeling a little pain from his head again.
Buffy grimaced.
"Can you tell us what he uh, they look like?" Giles asked .
Angel scanned his eyes across the room and fixated them on a computer screen that had pictures of recently deceased teens that Willow had downloaded.
"Him!Him!" Angel stood up, quickly removing the icepack from his head," THAT'S Him.. I mean them! There are two of this guy!HE'S THE ONE!"
Angel pointed at a single picture on the screen of the computer.
Buffy, Giles, Xander and Willow all gathered around the screen.
"Victor?!" they all said at once in confused unisom.
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