Of Birds and Slayers

Kennedy was doing quite well, to her opinion. After all, she was not dead yet! Everywhere around her, there were demons harming her friends. She dodged once more the sharp blade of the demon’s sword and hit him with her bat. He moved back slightly, and charged again. She felt a hot projectile flying next to her ear. Willow’s fireball hit the demon and this latter was burning in an instant.

‘Shannah, we need you...’ she thought. A shadow passed on her face. Kennedy looked up to see the Phoenix flying above them, beheading two demons. The change was not that big. In fact Shannah was still the same, she had still her baggy and tank top. The only thing is that she now had large white angel wings in her back and her eyes were black. The Latino SIT still found her very sexy. Shannah piled in, knocking out two more demons. The potentials who were fighting them finished off the two knights.

(Korn – Wake up hate)

“I’ll take the leader!” the brunette warned everyone. The girls focused on the last demon.

“Who are you little girl?” the deep voice of the Mohora resounded in Shannah’s ears. She faced him and answered in a calm tone.

“Nobody you would know. The First sent you here didn’t he?”

“Our Master will kill you all, and He will take His time to do it. So will I.” The demon declared furiously and charged Shannah. She managed to dodge his first attack and stabbed him on the side. He growled and threw the sword towards the young girl’s belly. The blade pierced it.

“Say goodbye little girl!” the Mohora smirked, his face a few centimeters from her. Shannah stared at her bleeding wound, then deeply into the demon’s eyes and smirked back.

“Goodbye!” she said before sticking her metal claws into the bad guy’s head. He was still holding his sword when he collapsed on the floor. On the other side of the hall, the other demon was dead. The potentials were quite proud of themselves, though some of them were badly injured. Shannah glanced down at her belly, there was no more wounds. But the blood was still staining her black tank top, which was now full of holes.

“Hey! Are you okay? I saw this guy stabbing you!” Dawn said in a worried tone.

“Yeah, I’m fine, he missed me!” she suddenly realized that everyone was staring at her wings. “Um, I’d better change back...” She closed her eyes and concentrated several seconds until the wings fold back between her shoulder blades.

“We have to go back home I guess...” Willow declared, and everyone followed.

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(Polaroid – So damn beautiful)

The Scooby gang was in the living room for another ‘New bad guy sent by the First’ meeting. Shannah took advantage of it to go to the bathroom. A hot shower was all she needed for now. The water felt like a kind of purification on her skin. She closed her eyes and cleared her mind. She ran her hands through her wet hair and laid her forehead against the wall. Downstairs, Kennedy couldn’t take any longer Buffy’s endless speech about insecurity and war. She sneaked off the living room and went upstairs to find Shannah. She didn’t find her in their bedroom, but heard the sound of water pouring. When the Latino girl turned her head towards the bathroom, she smiled. Shannah was taking a shower in the bathroom connected to the bedroom...and she had forgotten to close the door.

‘Maybe she did it on purpose...’ Kennedy wondered while stepping closer. Even if she had not entered the bathroom, the potential could feel the heat inside the room. The mirrors were steamed up, as well as the shower glass. But she could still make out Shannah’s beautiful body through it. The dark brunette was standing with her back to Kennedy, and this latter noticed for the first time a black Chinese symbol tattooed between her shoulder blades. She was longing for this girl so much...she had to have her one way or another. But it was too early. Kennedy stared one more minute at Shannah, and went back downstairs.

“Where have you been?” Rona caught her on her way to the kitchen. “You missed the last ‘I’m the powerful one, you’re just brats’ speech!”

“I-uh...was trying to find my white shirt...” Kennedy lied. Rona stared at her, dumbfounded and obviously not believing her at all.

“Yeah...Right! Never knew your shirt had wings!” Rona teased her.

“Fuck you!” Kennedy grinned, poking her friend’s shoulder. They both laughed before entering the kitchen, hoping there would still be some pizza for them.

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One more training and she would turn mad. Kennedy slammed the back door and sat on the steps. General B had once again made fun of her, saying that her “overgrown ego wasn’t properly appropriate in a fight against Evil”.

‘Fuck you Buffy!’ the Latino girl thought, angrily. It wasn’t until she smelled the familiar smell of smoke that she noticed she wasn’t alone in the backyard. She smiled and stood up to come next to Shannah.

“You’re a bad girl after all!” Kennedy teased her. Shannah had stuck her claws in two trees, arms outstretched, one meters above the ground, and a cigarette in the corner of her mouth.

“How long have you been holding that position?”

“For about half an hour...But I stopped five minutes ago to lit my cig.” Shannah answered, drawing in her claws and landing on the ground. “Want one?” she offered her pack to Kennedy who took a cigarette. The Phoenix lit it with her lighter. And they both sat against the trees.

“You wanna see something cool?” Shannah asked mischievously and Kennedy smiled in response. The girl draw out her right hand claws and started carving a letter in her own flesh.

“Wait! What are you doing! ” The potential panicked, trying to stop Shannah from hurting herself.

“Chill out and watch!” she replied calmly. She finished carving a bloody K in her forearm.

“It’s all about magic!” Shannah grinned, and soon the flesh closed up and the wound disappeared. There wasn’t any scar of the K.

“See? Now you’re inside me!” The young brunette smiled. Kennedy was flabbergasted and moved at the same time.

“Your wounds heal in no time?”

“It’s a little more complicated than that.” she paused “I can still be killed beheaded you know, or cut in half...But I can’t burn, drown or die because of a bleeding. In fact, only innocent people can hurt me. The old guys who created the Phoenix thought that if their creation turned evil, people needed a way to kill him, to defend themselves you know? So if one day, I fall over the Dark Side, take a gun and shoot me.”

“I will! But I should probably get this gun soon, because you’re already a bad girl!” Kennedy laughed. Shannah shrugged and took a drag of her cigarette.

“So, are there other facts about you that I should know? Out of the fact that you’re a magic smoker with tattoos and piercings who likes playing rock and slaying demons?” Kennedy couldn’t help to lay her eyes on the brunette’s body.

“Well, there are a lot of secrets.” she chuckled. “I did bad things, I still do...” Shannah stared at her deep chocolate eyes, and it made Kennedy shiver. “And you know what? There’s a little thing I wanna do since several days...it’s also a bad thing.” Her tone was full of mystery.

“And what is it?” Kennedy asked, playing the brunette’s game.

“You don’t wanna know...” She took another drag of her cig, and exhaled it slowly.

“Yes I do, that’s why I’m asking you!” the SIT laughed. The Phoenix came closer to Kennedy.

“If it turns bad...” Shannah whispered, her face now very close to Kennedy’s. “...You won’t say that I didn’t warn you...” and their lips touched in a passionate kiss. Kennedy’s hands went automatically grabbing the girl’s back and hair. It was breath taking, she had never thought of anything like this. And to be honest, she had never thought that Shannah would be such a good kisser. She was doing perfectly, driving them. Kennedy had to keep herself from pinching her arm to figure out whether she was dreaming or not. The return to reality was like hitting a wall at full speed.

“Everybody, meeting in the living room!” Buffy shouted from the kitchen.

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