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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tenchi do not belong to me and are used without
permission. There it's been said, don't sue me, it's pointless anyway.
A Soul's Destiny Part 1a
By Tracy Garnett AKA Crikit
Sunnydale California�
Buffy Summers, walked out of the bronze to stand in the cool night air. For
a moment she contemplated giving up the nights patrol and returning to the
warmth and noise, but only for a moment. Tonight was not the night for her
to slack off, she could feel it in the air, or as she would say�her slayer
sense was tingling.
"Well, I guess I'd better get on with it." She mumbled as she did up her
coat and checked to make sure that her various weapons were in place.
Stepping out of the safety of the light that the bronze promised Buffy
slowly made her way down the alley towards the nearest cemetery. It was
there that she would officially start her patrol, meaning she was free to
clear the clutter of her mind until she reached her destination. What with
finals and the fight that she had earlier in the day with her mom she could
use the time to herself.
<Why can't mom realize that I have to do this, it's not like I asked for
this job�it just sort of fell into my lap. > Buffy thought as she slowly
walked the streets of Sunnydale.
As she neared the cemetery Buffy sensed something or someone behind her; she
instantly stopped in her tracks and looked around. "Angel, you can come out
I know you're there."
Angel stepped out of the shadows a slight smile etched on his lips as he
looked at Buffy, "Buffy, Hi�I was just, well I was just�"
"Following me?"
"No, no�I was just enjoying the night air that's all."
"You know I thought that after being alive�er, so to speak, for over
two-hundred years that you would be a better liar, guess I was wrong." Buffy
said as she slowly started to make her way through the open gate.
Angel followed behind Buffy, slowly gaining ground until he was walking
beside her. "What do you mean?"
" Oh, come on Angel we both know what you were doing, so admit it�you were
spying on me."
"I was worried about you that's all."
Buffy stopped and looked Angel in the eye, "I can look after myself Angel, I
am the slayer after all."
"Buffy, I know that�but that doesn't stop me from worrying about you," Angel
wrapped his arms around Buffy drawing her closer so that his head was
resting on her chest "but even if you are the slayer you are still human.
You can still get hurt, and I couldn't stand it if that happened. Buffy, I�"
"Don't say it Angel, please�" Buffy turned her head so that her face was
buried in Angels chest, muffling her voice "I feel the same way. But we
can't be together, it's to dangerous."
Angel kissed Buffy lightly on the top of her head then reluctantly broke
away. "We should get moving."
"Yeah, I guess so."
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Tenchi walked slowly up to the house, as he approached he could hear the
unmistakable sounds of a fight. "What are they fighting about now?"
"Ayeka, I was watching that." Ryoko said as she tried to grab the remote
that Ayeka was now holding.
Ayeka plopped down on the couch, slipping the remote behind her back were
Ryoko couldn't reach it, "Well you aren't now, Marmalade Boy is on, you
can't expect me to miss that. It's just getting good."
"I don't know what you see in that, all it is some stupid soap about a
confused girl and the love triangles that surround her."
"And just what is wrong with that?"
"It's just so unrealistic, at least what I was watching had some action,
violence, truth, to it."
"Oh, please Ryoko I can't believe that you think two female bounty hunters
causing an unbelievable amount of damage is realistic. It just isn't
possible." Rolling her eyes Ayeka turned her attention away from Ryoko and
focused it back on the t.v.
"Yeah, well how many wishy-washy people do you know that are currently in a
love triangle?"
As if on cue Tenchi cleared his throat, alerting the girls to his presence,
"I'm going upstairs to take a nap, I all of a sudden have a headache."
Ryoko leaned over to Ayeka as Tenchi slowly walked up the stairs shaking his
head and mumbling under his breath. "Hmm, he must have had a bad day at
school."
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"That's it! I know how to help them. But I will have to work quickly I don't
have much time." Tamashii said as a sudden plan to help came to mind.
Quietly she set off to make preparations for her plan.
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Sitting by a freshly dug grave Buffy slowly twiddled her thumbs while Angel
looked on. "I say we give this guy a few more minutes and if nothing happens
we head on, what do you think?"
"I think we need to talk."
"Funny, I could have sworn that's what I was just doing."
Angel sighed as he sat down beside Buffy. "That's not what I mean Buffy. I
mean we have to talk about us."
"I know Angel, but can't it wait? I mean I already have to many things on my
mind and us talking about the fact that there can't be an us will not help
me any."
"I know, but�" Angel stopped talking and slowly, purposely, gazed around him
"Did you hear something?"
Buffy stood and pulled a couple of stakes out her coat and handed one to
Angel. "Yup, and unless you ordered a pizza without telling me I say it's
trouble."
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Tenchi tossed and turned in his bed as he slept, lost in a dream that he did
not understand.
He had awoken to find himself at the end of a long hall, not that there was
anything new about that. He often found himself at the end of a hall in his
dreams. Only this time was different usually the hall was barren and silent,
now it contained things that would be normally found in a school -lockers,
trophies, pictures, the odd piece of trash- and a soft tune played on in the
background.
Shrugging Tenchi made his way down the hallway towards a pair of large
swinging doors. Pushing the door open Tenchi walked slowly into the room,
what he saw shocked him even more then the sight before.
Instead of being in a schoolroom or another hall like he expected he found
himself in a bedroom, a girls room at that. Deep down the hentai urges in
Tenchi surged, but he quickly surpressed the desire to look for the girls
underwear drawer and instead settled for a quick glance around the room.
It was what he thought a typical girls room would look like, -of course,
compared to the girls that he had living with him, any girl would be
considered typical- oriental fans decorated the walls, while stuffed animals
sat quietly on a shelf. Other odds and ends decorated the walls and dressers
but one thing in particular caught his attention, a picture.
Crossing the room in a couple of strides, Tenchi stooped to take a closer
look at the picture. As he bent down to look at it he was enveloped in a
brilliant white light. When the light cleared he found himself standing in
the middle of a cemetery in the middle of what appeared to be a fight.
Confusion ran through Tenchi's mind, one minute he was in a house and the
next he's standing in the middle of a group of very pissed of people. This
was the weirdest dream he had ever had, only this dream didn't feel like a
dream it felt real a little to real at that.
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Angel glanced around at the surrounding Vampires and knew that they were in
trouble. The Vampires out numbered Buffy and himself and they didn't look
like the typical looking for blood ones, they had a mission and he knew what
it was.
They wanted to kill Buffy, but most monsters wanted to kill her, and they
never succeed. Buffy was to strong, to fast, to smart for them, and Angel
was almost always fighting by her side. Together they made a formidable
fighting team and he wasn't about to let it get broken up.
"Buffy, let's show them what we're made of."
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Tenchi heard the voice behind him and felt his body spring in to action.
He ducked under the arm of the closest attacker grabbing it in the process
and shoved a wooden stake through his back towards its heart. Tenchi tried
to jump away as the person that he was holding suddenly turned to dust and
crumpled away before him, but he found his body unwilling to comply. Instead
he lashed out at another person to his right driving the stake through his
chest producing the same result as before.
"Buffy behind you!"
Tenchi tried to turn his head to see just what was behind him but he
discovered that his body had other plans. Quickly he sent an elbow flying
behind him that met the face of one of the attackers; he followed that up by
a punishing high kick that sent the man to the ground.
<What the hell is going on here? > Tenchi thought as he watched his body go
through actions that he didn't want it to do. <Stop it; just stop it�this
dream is going to far�I want it to stop! >
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As Angel watched one of the foes turn to dust he noticed out of the corner
of his eye that Buffy had stopped fighting and just stood there, a look of
fear and confusion mingling on her face.
"Buffy?"
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Tenchi stood still, trying to figure out just what was going on with this
dream and why the person that was fighting on his side kept calling him
Buffy. He didn't have a chance to figure it all out though as he felt hands
lock around each of his arms and legs and then someone grasping his head.
"This is where it ends slayer." The breath of the vampire was hot on
Tenchi's face. The hands that held him were cold and lifeless against his
flesh.
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"No, no�" Angel felt his face morph into that of the demons that inhabited
him. Throwing the vampire that he was fighting in the wall of a nearby
crypt, he rushed forward towards the slayer and her attackers.
"Stop him!" The cry rang out through the night air, and the remaining vamps
rushed forward throwing themselves on Angel and in his path.
Angel's eyes blazed yellow as he was grabbed and restrained by various
vampires. He gazed across the short distance to look at Buffy, and for the
first time in his immortal life�Angel was scared.
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"Buffy, fight!" Tenchi heard the voice call out to him, telling him to
fight, and for the first time since the dream started he wanted to, but he
couldn't he was paralyzed in fear.
"What's the matter slayer�we to tough for you?"
"Let�let me go." The voice sounded strange to Tenchi, it wasn't his but the
fear and terror that he felt came through just the same.
"So you can show fear, good. Now I can say that I killed the great
Slayer�the chosen one, and that she showed fear. Real fear. Ah, the life of
a vampire is but a grand thing." The Vampire tightened his grip on Tenchis
forehead and chin and smiled a sickly smile.
A multitude of visions flashed through Tenchi's mind, some he recognized
others were as foreign as the nightmare that he was currently trapped in.
"See you in hell Slayer."
Time slowed as Tenchi felt the hands grow tighter on his chin and forehead.
A few droplets of rain escaped the sky, matching the tears that were pouring
down Tenchi's face. He felt the sting of pain course through his body as the
Vampire started to turn his head, and then�nothing.
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"BUFFY!" Angel shouted, as he watched the life drain away from the slayer.
Breaking free from the mob of Vampires that held him he rushed to her side.
"Buffy�"
Carefully lifting the limp girl, Angel walked past the few vampires that
remained on the scene. They did not attack him, for they had done their
purpose and done it well. What did it matter if they let the body leave?
Besides it was sheer luck that they were able to hold Angel the first time,
to even attempt to hold him now would be suicide.
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"NOOOOOOOOO!" Tenchi bolted up from his bed, the images of his dream still
fresh in his head. He gasped for breath trying to calm his racing heart.
"Tenchi are you okay?" Ryoko asked as she teleported in to Tenchi's room.
Tenchi sat quietly in his bed staring up at Ryoko, still trying to catch his
breath and fighting desperately to hold back the tears that threatened to
pour out from him.
"Lord Tenchi?" a voice called softly from the hall.
Ryoko turned to look at the door then turned to look back at Tenchi. "Stay
here I'll look after this."
Winking at Tenchi, Ryoko walked through the door to stand in front of the
princess "What do you want Ayeka, we're busy."
"We're?"
"Yes we're, Me and Tenchi."
"But I thought Tenchi was sleeping�"
"He was. What do you think he screamed for?"
"Ryoko, I do not appreciate you attempting to take advantage of Lord Tenchi
as he sleeps."
"Why Ayeka, did you want to do it?"
"Ryoko�"
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Giles silently sat in the library leafing through his newest acquisition-a
19th century mythology book- and drinking a hot cup of Earl Grey tea.
Suddenly the library doors burst open causing Giles to drop his teacup in
sudden shock.
"Um�it wasn't a very good brand anyway." He said, looking down at the
fallen cup and the tea that was soaking in to the carpet.
Angel walked slowly in to the library carrying Buffy in his arms. Upon
seeing the sight before him Giles stood and looked at Angel in absolute
horror.
"Giles�" Angel whispered as he stood before Giles, panic and fear in his
eyes.
"What happened?"
"We were attacked. Buffy and I tried to fight, but they outnumbered us. A
group of them got a hold of Buffy, while another group restrained me." Angel
paused trying to get control of his emotions before continuing. "I tired to
stop them Giles, I did. But I couldn't. The one time she needed me the most
I couldn't help her." He didn't say how Buffy had stopped fighting and had
just stood there. That was something Giles and the others didn't need to
know.
Giles looked up at the man standing before him. He could see the pain and
quilt in Angel's eyes. It was the same pain, the same quilt that Giles had
felt when he lost Jenny. He had been unable to help her, and he knew that he
would be unable to help Buffy, but he could try, If not for Angel, for
himself.
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<It was a dream, that's all it was�but then why did it feel so real, why was
I so scared? Why do I still feel the pain, the fear? >
"What are you doing Tenchi?" Sasami asked as she took a seat beside Tenchi
and looked out at the lake.
"Uh, Just thinking Sasami."
"About Ayeka and Ryoko?"
Tenchi looked down at the young princess and forced a smile, "Maybe."
"Do you love them Tenchi?"
"I guess I do Sasami�but I love all of you girls."
"That's not what I meant Tenchi." Sasami giggled as she looked up at Tenchi.
"I meant do you love them love them. You know enough to marry one of them."
Tenchi put a hand behind his head and stuttered "Well�um�I�you see�Shouldn't
you be starting supper soon?"
"Oh your right, I guess I should go." Sasami said as she stood and looked at
her watch.
"I'll go with you, I, I've got something I want to do at the house." Tenchi
said as he stood up and started to walk with Sasami towards the house.
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Giles looked up from the table to face Angel. The slayer, his slayer�their
slayer was no more, she no longer existed to stamp out evil, no longer
existed to make his live adventurous or to give him lessons on the latest in
teen slang. She simply was no more. He would no longer hear her laughter or
see her tears. Angel, no, they had failed. They were unable to save Buffy.
As the two continued to stare at each other and the limp form of the slayer,
voices echoed through the halls of the school.
Xander and Willow walked through the library doors. Willow listening
intently as Xander tried to explain the virtues of one Scooby girl over the
other. "Look Will, all I'm saying is how can you possibly think that Velma
is cooler then Daphne? Daphne had the looks, she had the brains, the
money�hmmm almost like Cordy, only Cordy doesn't have the brains part."
"I know that Xander, but well there's just something about Velma that speaks
to me, she's just�she's just�Oh my God! Buffy!"
"No Will she's Velma, Buffy is our friend. You know the one that's destined
to save the world�" Corrected Xander obviously perplexed at his friend's
sudden change of topic.
"You mean the one that's lying on the table?" Willow asked as she pointed
towards the spot where Buffy lay.
"Yeah, that's the one�Wait Giles, why is Buffy lying on the table?"
"Sit down both of you." Giles said as he moved to block the two teenager's
view of their friend. Quietly sitting in near by chairs, Willow and Xander
stared up at Giles waiting for him to continue.
"Buffy�um, Buffy got in to a fight tonight. She was outnumbered and well�"
Giles paused, trying to find the words to continue and taking a moment to
push his glasses back up his nose. "I'm sorry, both of you�but Buffy�"
"She's dead, isn't she?" Xander asked as he caught on to where Giles was
taking things.
"Yes�"
Upon hearing Giles reply, Willow who had been listening quietly, stood and
attempted to make her way over to where Buffy lay, only to find herself
blocked by Giles and Angel. "You're lying, Buffy can't be dead�she's
superhero girl, she can face anything and come out all right. She's just
unconscious that's all�"
Angel quietly put his hands on the shocked girl's shoulders, and looked her
in the eye. "Willow�" he whispered "we aren't lying. I was there. I saw it
happen�Buffy really is�"
Xander moved to stand between Angel and Willow, extreme hatred and anger
blazed in his eyes, "You were there? You were there and you let this happen
to her? You let her get killed? I thought you love her Angel?"
"I did, I do. I couldn't do anything Xander, believe me I tried. They had us
both. I fought to get out of their grip but it didn't work, these weren't
your usual Vampires, they weren't looking for blood, they were looking for
Buffy, they were looking to kill her."
"And you let them."
"I had no chance to help her. One minute we were fighting side by side, and
then the next�the next�"
Giles who had been watching the exchange carefully moved forward a step to
join the little group. "What happened Angel?"
"The next thing I knew she stopped. Just stopped. It wasn't like Buffy,
Giles." Angel looked back at Buffy's still form on the table, "she's never
done that before, she's never stopped fighting, she's never showed fear- not
even when she was fighting me. But this time�this time was different. She
stopped, she showed fear, its like she wasn't herself�"
"That's all the more reason you should have saved her Angel�"
"Xander that's enough let him finish."
"I tried to get free, to get to her but there were to many of them. The only
thing I could do was watch. Do you know what it's like to see something like
that? To see the person that you love, get killed before your very eyes? And
by your own kind�he snapped her neck like it was nothing, like it was a
little twig. And I had to watch it. They forced me to watch it. To watch the
tears run down her checks, her gasp of breath right before that god awful
snap echoed through the air. I watched it all, I felt it all."
Xander opened his mouth as if to reply but quickly shut it again. "Can we
see her?" He asked, gazing past Angel to the table.
Angel stepped aside to permit the two teens access to their friend. Quietly
they moved to the table to stand beside her. As they mourned with Angel,
Giles made his way to his office. Shutting the door behind him, he picked up
the phone and started to make the call that he hoped he would never have to
make.
The phone rang until a female voice picked up the other line. Steeling his
nerves, Giles started to talk. "Ms Summers�Joyce, I think you should come
down to the school right away. Buffy�well�Buffy has been in an accident�"
Setting the phone back in its cradle, Giles removed his glasses and silently
wept.
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Tenchi sat in his room, trying to rid his mind of the dream that had
tortured him earlier in the day. 'Why did that guy keep calling me Buffy?
For that matter who was the guy? Stop it Tenchi just stop it�just don't
think about it and everything will be okay.'
"I hope it works that way." He said aloud as he made his way over to his
bed.
Suddenly there came a polite knock on the door. Tenchi changed his direction
from the bed over to the door. Slowly he opened it to reveal Ayeka waiting
patiently for him. "Ayeka, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, nothing is wrong." She paused, and gave him a rare smile. "I just
wanted to wish you good night."
"Thank you. Have a good sleep Ayeka." Tenchi started to shut the door, but
seeing a moment of hesitation in Ayeka he stopped. "Is there something
else?"
Ayeka looked down at the floor and shyly shuffled her feet. "Well, yes
actually. I was wondering if you would do me the honor of accompanying me on
a picnic tomorrow."
"A picnic�Well I was going to work on a book report that I have due,
but�sure I'd love to."
"Good Night Lord Tenchi, till tomorrow."
Tenchi watched the princess walk away from his room before shutting the
door, and making his way back to the bed. Crawling under the covers he
sighed to himself and drifted off to sleep.
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