Before you read this story I must stress that I am not Joss Whedon! Neither am I any other person associated with BtVS, WB or Mutant Enemy. The only parts of this story which are mine are: The Plot! Dorian the Prophet, the Vampers, Shellæ and Panther (although these last two are only mentioned). This story will not become a future episode of BtVS (although it would be good) and in no way am I being paid for writing this (except for where pride counts, but that is not physical and you cannot by computer software with pride so it isn't really considered as payment). Finally I hope you enjoy this story!
Part Two
Xander on the Otherside
Remembering descriptions of the Master that Buffy had given him, Xander could easily recognised the walk and stance of the boy. He looked different, younger. He also had blond hair and his face was alot less gruesome. But then something hit Xander. If on this world the Master wasn’t the Master, then why was he still alive now and who is the Master now? Thinking that maybe Heinrich will lead him to these answers, Xander followed the boy. Heinrich passed by many houses, a few of which Xander recognised. Heinrich stopped infront of Buffy’s house and walked up to the front door. He knocked three times and entered. Xander, curiously and slightly jealously, walked up to the window to see what was going inside. Within the house he could see Heinrich speaking to Buffy and her mom. If he only he could lip read.
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“Hey Mrs S...is Buffy ready?” Heinrich threw his bag onto the tiled kitchen floor as Buffy’s mom handed him a slice of toast with honey on it.
“Ja, ich bin fertig!” Buffy’s voice wafted from the second storey.
“Ahh, I see you are learning German, well, Komm!” Heinrich ushered for Buffy to come out the door.
“Okay okay! I’m hurrying I’m hurrying!” Buffy leapt off the stairs, picked up her bag, kissed her mom and walked out the door with Heinrich.
“Hope you go well on your History test today!” Mrs Summers cried after the two friends as they left the house.
The two walked slowly towards the impending highschool, which was on the boundaries of the newly moved cemetery.
“I hope them moving the cemetery doesn’t cause a ‘Poltergeist’ experience of the Worst Kind!” Xander, who was shadowing the two grimaced as Heinrich made a lame movie crossover.
“I wonder what Cordy is up to, I heard she dusted four last night!” Buffy’s voice dropped abit as she mentioned this.
< Cordelia the Slayer? How could that be? And why is the Master so friendly with Buffy, I mean he did kill her and all! What is going on? >
“Boy do I hate history. Who cares if Julius Caesar killed Brutus, I mean the guy was leading Rome into the future! If only there was no such thing as fear....” Heinrich swang his bag around as the two entered school grounds.
“Heinrich! Caesar killed Brutus because the people were afraid that he was becoming a tyrant! We all know that he was the best leader for them, but they didn’t. It just goes to show that even back then people were mindless.” Buffy sighed as they entered the school corridors, heading straight for the library.
As he looked on at the two, Xander saw Willow out of the corner of his eye. With great excitement he ran over to his best friend and wrapped his arms around her.
“Hey Will, what’s up with Buffy?” Xander’s grin changed as Willow kicked him in the knee.
“Get off me you jerk! What’s your brain disease?” Willow turned around with a look of disgust on her face.
It was then that Xander realised what was going on. Willow was dressed in ‘hip’ clothing, the Master was a normal teenage guy, Buffy was a shy girl and the bronze was surrounded by bright light and ‘Vampers’. Xander remembered watching something like this on the Twilight Zone, or maybe it was the Outer Limits. He had travelled to another universe. It was weird but eversince he had met Buffy, everything had been weird. There was only one person who could help him, Giles. With that Xander picked himself off the ground and headed off for the school library inorder to query the Watcher on what had happened to him.
Xander got the shock of his life when he burst through the double doors of the library and ran into Angel, an older Angel mind you. It was even more surprising when both he and Angel at the same time exclaimed “How can you be here at this time!?”. Cordelia and the Master had also noticed Xander’s arrival and were crowding around the startled pair.
“What do you mean what am I doing here? Look pal, I’m not the bloodsucker who is harmed by the Californian rays.....I’m just an ordinary guy okay!” Xander’s thoughts had become askew when he had bumped into his rival for Buffy’s heart.
“I’m not sure what you’re talking about Alex, but if I guess right from your frightfully rude entrance, you are calling me a vampire.” Angel had a pair of books under his right arm.
“Damn right I a.....” Xander noticed the books as well as the expression on Angel’s face. “Oh god...you mean on this world I’m the vampire....and you’re the librari.....hey where’s Giles?” Xander was coming to terms with what was going on.
“You mean Mr Giles, his on the net with Buffy” Heinrich was eyeing Xander suspiciously.
Xander’s thoughts went to Heinrich being the Master, he began to wonder whether Heinrich was thinking about lunch. Lunch that was red, liquidy and inside Xander. It made him feel like a walking lunch box.
“Who’s there?” Giles came in from behind one of the bookcases at the mentioning of his name.
Xander’s mouth dropped down about a mile when he saw what Giles was dressed in. Jeans, a black shirt with a werewolf on it and a denim jacket. His sunglasses were hanging from a cord around his neck. In his right hand was a black cup of COFFEE!!!!!
“Oh boy......I’m feeling sort of faint here....” Xander stepped back before collapsing onto the floor.
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“Alex, Alex....are you okay?” it was Cordelia’s voice.
Xander opened his eyes to see that he was still in the library. It was still day and Giles, Buffy, Cordelia, Heinrich and Angel were still staring down at him.
“So he isn’t impervious to the effects of the sunlight...” Heinrich grinned as he saw Xander’s pale face.
“There’s something about him that doesn’t fit in....for one, where is the Mark of Caaël? I mean aren’t all the vampires under Caaël the Master, marled with her symbol?” Giles played nervously with the his sunglasses.
“But Alex isn’t like those other vampires, he’s different.” Cordelia came to the aid of Xander.
“Hmmm, well he isn’t one of the Vampers either, plus he can survive in the sun....I’ll consult my books on the subject...” Angel stood up and walked over to his study.
Xander jumped up, making the others step back surprised and ran after Angel.
“Wait, wait....I was wondering, if you are going to consult the books maybe you could find about how I got here....you see, my name is Alexander Harris, although I prefer Xander. In my world I have two friends, Willow and Buffy. Buffy is the slayer, Willow is the computer geek. Cordelia is the stuck up Miss Popular. You are my rival for Buffy’s heart as well as a 240 year old vampire. Heinrich is the master vampire, Giles is the Librarian and the Master is....the Master is.....” Xander stumbled as he tried to think of women in his world who had the remotest connection with the name Caaël.
“Well that explains alot...so Alex, Xander, you are infact from another, much stranger world....but I wonder what happened.....” Angel considered himself.
“I was killed, by a vampire called Dorian the Prophet...he killed me before I could become a vampire...the next thing I remember is waking up in a warehouse near the Bronze.” Xander was trying to remember how he knew he had died.
“You woke up in Vamper territory? But how did you escape? I mean they can run down anyone.” Giles piped up suddenly from behind Xander, startling him.
“By the way, who are the Vampers exactly?” Xander was still perplexed, but was at least one step closer towards the answer to everything.
“The Vampers are rogue vampires. Unlike the normal vampires who are possessed by demons, the Vampers are possessed by fallen angels. Fallen Angels are one step up in the demonic hierarchy from normal vampire demons. They can survive in their own predefined areas which they cover with normal sunlight, although this sunlight is actually fake and brighter than real sunlight. Due to the fact that they are different from normal vampires, they explode in ordinary sunlight. Also unlike normal vampires, Vampers can enter houses uninvited....Now the Prophet you mentioned....according to the Codex he is Satan’s personal messenger. He is believed to be a demon originally sired under Belial the Beast, but betrayed his master and joined the Arch Demon. You said something about him trying to make you a Vampire, he wanted to make you the Seeker?” Angel dislodged reams of information from within his mouth.
“How did you know, is this really written in the Codex?” Xander couldn’t believe what he had just heard coming from Angel, the guy had use after all!
“Yes it is...anyway back to the subject. The Prophet, being the Grand Duke of Hell, is a more powerful vampire. He can see into the future, is immune to holy icons, can walk around for a short while in sunlight and can enter houses uninvited like the Vampers. Luckily though he is trapped within the sewers..between our world and Hell. His blood is more powerful than normal vampires’ and thus must have somehow brought you back to life even if you were already dead. But it shifted you, carried you to another body where you would be alive.....” Angel thought about what he had just said.
“You mean that my body on my own world is no longer there, that I had to be brought into another dead copy of my body.....” Xander thought about vampires being the undead.
“Which means that if you were brought into a dead body in this world, you were put into the body of Alex......” Cordelia’s eyes became teary as she realised that her love was gone.
“So how do I get back? If I have no body in my world then I’m stuck here right?” Xander began to feel angry at himself for falling for Samantha’s charms.
“There is one way, some of my friends are experts on the Prophet....” Giles ushered Xander towards one of the computers in the library.
“Are they online right now?” a window of hope opened within Xander’s heart.
“We’ll see.....” Giles connected to the net and began typing into a small box.
Everyone stared at the screen for ages, reading the information given to Giles by his buddies, Shellæ and Panther. Xander read the words written in pink and blue that spoke of how he was to return to his own world. The window of hope in his heart was slammed shut and broken by a heavy rock which was grim realisation.
“So to return to my own world....” Xander turned away from the screen. “I have to kill and drink the Prophet’s blood......”
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