Time Spin

Buffy stood beside Faith and Sasha in the doorway of the tunnel that led into the open field where they could hear the Initiative at work. Looking over to her sister slayer she saw the same expression that was always on Faiths face before any slaying or fight…excitement and anticipation.



Frowning when she realized how old they were…the oldest slayers on record…ever and here they were still fighting the good fight. Turning she saw Sasha quietly conversing with Toru and a scout. Watching as the scout teleported out of there passage, no doubt going back to the one he came from that had the Skin walkers and other slayers waiting for the order.



When she saw Lonnie quietly make her way toward her she smiled as encouragingly as possible. No one spoke…no one could take that chance, even with the steady downpour they didn’t want to take the chance that Tyrell had any creatures that would smell t hem. Willows cloaking spell would cover there scents and presence but that was all moot if they were sniffed out.



When Sasha cleared her throat, the sister slayers looked over. She gave one curt silent nod before drawing her sword. Nodding Buffy drew her own sword and stake and carefully stepped out of the passage, followed by Faith, Sasha, Lonnie and Willow…as well as thirty slayers and fifth teen demon soldiers.



Sasha took her demons and went right, everyone stayed low to the ground, Buffy looked across the field to see Giles and the skin walkers emerge from there passageway, glancing up to the cliff face Buffy couldn’t see Coop or Mijay with there winged beasts but she knew they were there…



Taking one last look around she nodded at Faith and together the pair let out a war cry and they broke into a sprint into the clearing, followed by each and every slayer, demon, witch, and skin walker.



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Faith turned and swung a hard punch into the nearest soldier, thrusting her sword she cut the mans stomach, sensing someone approaching she swung her leg out cutting another’s legs out from under him, raising her sword she brought it down killing the man.



Turning she spotted Raya and Horus mauling a pair of Initiative that were opening fire on a group of advancing slayers. Whirling around when she heard someone behind her she momentarily froze when she came eye to eye with who could only be Tyrell. Growling she swung her arm up to block his blow and swung her sword arm up to his abdomen only to have that blocked by his own sword ‘what kind of tiger brings a blade to a fight’



Years of being immersed in skin walker culture contradicted the fact that he was swinging that sword, snapping out of her reverie she let her sense take over and jumped up delivering a swift double kick to his stomach and chest.

Tyrell snarled and grasped the slayers leg, swinging her around him threw her away from him and into a group of grappling demons and soldiers.



Sniffing in satisfaction he turned and motioned for the mage to follow him. Walking towards the future opening of the hell mouth he paused only to rid himself of annoying slayers that got in his way.



Growling softly he turned to the mage “Conjure something up to help the soldiers. Keep the bitches busy” Hurriedly nodding the mage turned to the battle and unfolded his hands and began chanting in ancient Babylonian.



Moments later the ground beneath them began shifting as malformed warriors made from earth and rock began pulling themselves up from the soil, chanting again he instilled only one desire in them. Kill the slayers and there allies.



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Buffy parried and made quick work of killing off these soldiers, killing humans seemed wrong to her no matter what but she knew it had to be done…and they had chosen there path so be it. Swinging the scythe she cut through the middle the three soldiers effectively killing them.



Jumping in surprise when the ground beneath her arose she momentarily panicked thinking she was standing where the hell mouth would be…looking down as watched stunned as a humanoid for made from the earth kneeled and stood and fixed its glowing red eyes on her…’wish it was the hell mouth’



Thrusting her scythe into the warrior she realized it didn’t kill him…stepping back she swung and hit the thing with a roundhouse kick. The dirt warrior grunted and didn’t even budge, even through she had knocked his head off…she watched ion horror as the dirt shifted and he grew a new head…’Well this gives a whole new meaning to green thumb’



Jumping back up she swung the scythe into a figure eight sweep through the figures body, her satisfaction turned to annoyance when all the damage she did simply replaced itself…god what was going to kill him?



Grunting when strong dirt laden arms wrapped themselves around her and picked her up she kicked frantically “This is new leather dammit”



Suddenly the creature dropped and she was let go. Rolling away she sprang up in defensive. Looking up she saw Lonnie standing in front of her hacking at the thing with her axe.



Breathing heavily she looked at her mate and smiled. “You good?” Lonnie asked breathlessly. Buffy nodded. “Okay…don’t get dead” Lonnie said before running up and kissing her mate quickly on the lips before running back into the fray.

“She likes this shtit” Buffy thought a second before turning and seeing four of those dirt demons walking toward her…ok new plan. Jumping up she ran at them full force…



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Skye grasped Ryan’s hand and pulled her through the woods as they ran toward the fight. Switching to her animal sight she blinked at the sudden clarity, looking around she tried to pick out the right trail to where they needed to go. Why was it whenever you NEEDED to get somewhere you could never remember how?



“This way” Ryan said a moment before leading her mate through the brush, Skye followed behind the hybrid muttering something about pushy pregnant chicks.



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Coop stood atop the cliff face, strategically firing arrows at several soldiers when she saw the earth demons emerge from the ground. ‘Damned powerful mage you got there kitty’



Turning to Mijay “Keep things up here…I got to get down there and help.” Mijay nodded and raised his crossbow again and began firing.



Coop stretched her wings to there full length and dove down off the cliff. Feeling the wind pound against her wings she shifted them and swooped down throwing her sword into the back of a soldier that was about to take a cheap shot at Kennedy.



Landing in a crouch she tucked her wings back and ran to the nearest soldier, jumping she thrust her wings out grabbed his shoulder and launched straight into the sky, flying up until she was almost a hundred feet above the ground she dropped the annoying prat and watched him fall the ground.



Flipping in the air she sailed down straight for the ground before grabbing another soldier and repeating the move.



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Sasha fought back to back with Kennedy, fighting through the fray, when she had enough time she paused and lit her sword arm with her fire ball letting it travel up the blade, in turn making the sword blazing hot.



Roaring to life she turned and hacked her way through soldier and dirt demons alike. Turning she saw Willow trading blows of magic with the mage, swooping her fire blade she swung down and cut the legs off a dirt demon and went into a blind blood lust as she fought her way through the seemingly never ending throng of opponents.



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Ryan and Skye broke through the trees and froze at the carnage laid out in front of them, Skye felt her heart clench when she saw several girls she knew lying dead on the ground. Pleased at the sight of dead soldiers as well.



Ryan turned and looked at her mate, kissing her softly before stripping off her jacket and uncovering the poisoned arrow. “Come on princess…times awastin”



Ryan walked a few feet into the field and after taking a deep breath, discovered she couldn’t pick out Tyrell’s scent among all the others because of the rain. When she felt Skye grab her arm and point across the field she looked…there across the open space was her father.



He looked just as she remembered…growling low in her chest she grasped the arrow tighter walking to a fallen slayer she picked up the discarded crossbow and fixed the arrow into place.



Lifting it to her shoulder she carefully took aim. Zeroing in on the man as he stood a top of a small hill reading from a large book she fingered the trigger…suddenly he was gone. Just vanished.



“RYAN!” Skye screamed out, Ryan spun around and saw him breaking through the trees toward them, tuning fully she fired the arrow. Tyrell knocked it away without breaking stride.



Throwing the weapon to the ground Ryan hissed and extended her claws. Charging Tyrell they met halfway and fell to the ground heavily. Grunting from the force of the fall Ryan threw her knee up and caught his middle before swiping her claw out and lunging forward to bite him.



Gurgling when he refluxed fast enough to grip her throat she clawed at him a moment before Skye threw herself at the tiger.



Wolf and tiger rolled around on the ground, Ryan sat up and forcing the pain out of her throat she snarled and threw herself at her father. Raking his back with her claws she bit down hard onto his neck. Snarling at the first burst of blood into her mouth.



Wrenching her throat back and forth she hung on even when he stood and spun and forced her to let go. Stumbled rolling across the ground she stood.



Watching in horror when Skye threw herself at the tiger and he thrust a shard of broken arrow into her mate’s neck. “NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo” Howling in rage she rushed the monster and drove him back several yards before momentum forced them to the ground.



Clawing and biting blindly she let herself slip into a blind rage, Tyrell yowled in pain when his brat bit through an artery, and using his slipping magic he propelled her away from him.



Looking up he smiled at the sight of the hell mouth forming a moment before his joy froze, seeing the winged woman swoop down with the blue demon and drop down on top of the opening. .



Snarling he stood and rushed toward the pair. Adrenaline and hate thumping through him, Lonnie turned from her now dead opponent, seeing the tiger man running to the hell mouth where Coop and Sasha huddled unaware of there impending danger.



Lonnie bent and picked up her poisoned arrow and sprinted to the man, years of hunting experience thrummed through her as she flung her small axe and it whirled through the air in perfect circles.



Catching the tiger in his thigh Tyrell fell heavily to his knees, his hamstring severed. Rushing to the now kneeling tigers she grasped his head, wrenching it to the side she released the trigger on the arrow and thrust it into his chest.



Stepping back when he gurgled and slumped forward she turned. It seemed they were winning…watching as almost at the same time Willow evaporated the mage, all the dirt monsters crumpled back to nothing but piles of dirt.



Turning back to the hell mouth she saw a small cloud of black mist rise from the partially opened hell mouth an instant before Coop screamed something in Roman and the hell mouth crashed shut.



Turning she saw Buffy walking toward her, limping slightly, covered in dirt but with a small smile on her face. They had won….smiling she flung her arms around her mate.



Looking up she saw Raya and Faith meeting back up with Horus and Asher…that’s when they heard the sobs. Lonnie turned and looked over in the direction Tyrell ha been coming from…there in the distance was Ryan. Slumped over an unmoving eerily familiar figure on the ground.



Who? No…looking back in horror she saw Faith break into a run barely in front of Raya. Everything seemed in slow motion as the pair dropped down in front of the fallen girl.



Lonnie felt her chest tighten as everything seemed to stand still.



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Faith sobbed and clutched at the dead body of her baby girl. Crying out she didn’t even notice when Raya slumped down beside her, staring blankly at Skye. Didn’t notice anything but the lifeless blue eyes and the small gaping wound in Skye’s neck.



Her baby was dead. Nononononononono….



Raya stared down in horror, her mind refusing to believe what she was seeing. Looking up she saw Horus and Asher both staring down in stunned grief, throwing her head back she howled into the still night.



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Miles away, Jaeger slumped down in her seat when she sensed Skye slip away...she had thought...hoped...but she was wrong.



TBC



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A/N: Yeah…so don’t verbally kill me.