Oni or Tenshi?

[Stormforce]

Ceridwenfaylinn - Konnichi wa, koibito Don't worry, this chapter will fix the (Miss Kitty thinking Tara hates her) problem. I wouldn't want that to go on for too long. Have to admit, using the kitten to catch a fish would be easier, or at least I think so Wouldn't wanna try it though.



Egnalos - Glad you liked Willow using the kitten for bait, or at least having her to catch them before she got a carrot. Yep, wouldn't be the same if Willow and Anya didn't cause somekind of trouble. And I am sorry for leaving the last chapter off like I did, I'm gonna try and not do that with this one And here's the update.



Viximon - Happy I can make you laugh and Buffy will have more of her "blonde" moments in the next chapter, I just hope I can get it right. And here's the chapter where everything gets better, at least better than what it was.



Oni or Tenshi?

Pairing: Eventually W/T, B/F

Rating: PG-13-R

Disclaimer: Don't own 'em



Chapter Twenty-Nine: Finding Miss Kitty



Dawn was nowhere in site when Miss Kitty appeared in the lab, but knew the kitten was there through the mind link. The kitten ran past the small floating pillow to the back of the lab where she sat in front of a large glass tank filled with water, and small round balls with black eyes swimming around. Miss Kitty meowed sadly, as she thought about the words Tara had shouted when she'd stepped into the room. And she didn't know why Tara hated her, what had she done? As far as the kitten knew, she hadn't done anything that could get her into trouble, okay, sure she'd slipped into the shed, and ate a couple of carrots, but she was hungry.



Seven small balls floated up behind her, and stared at the kitten through the glass of their tank, and hurriedly swam away when Dawn stepped into view, "What's wrong, Miss Kitty?" Dawn asked softly, placing her hands on her knees, "Why don't you tell me about it." the scientist held her hand out, causing the kitten to run back the way she'd came, right now she just wanted to be alone.



Dawn shrugged, "Wonder what happened?" she then smirked, "Maybe I should check the cameras." she said to herself, and walked toward her transparent computer.



Upstairs, Willow and Anya were still frozen in place, and hadn't blinked for the last five minutes, they had just stared at the place Tara had been standing, "What's going on?" Xander asked stepping into the room, and tapped Willow on the shoulder, causing the girl to slowly turn her head toward him, but say nothing. Sighing, Xander touched Anya's shoulder and quirked his eyebrows when he got the same responce from her, as he did from Willow, "Alright, I ask again, what's going on?"



Willow mumbled something he couldn't understand, "Okay, let's try an easier one, why was Tara yelling?"



Anya held up the dress with her right hand, and pointed at Willow with her left; the demon blinked and held up the sleeve, "It got ripped..." she trailed off, and lowered her head, "Tara said she hates us."



"It was an accident." Anya said lowering herself to the floor with a sigh, "Looks like our fighting has gotten us into more trouble."



Xander reached out and took the dress from Anya's hands, and held up, "Oh, I see," he whispered, "This was our mother's dress, it was one of the last things she wore before she fell ill."



Dammit! Willow growled in her mind, This sucks! Now what am I going to do?



What's wrong sis? Dawn asked through the link, What happened? Just open your mind and let me see. Willow sighed, but did as Dawn said, she was suppose to know everything, so maybe she could help, Oh, okay, I see what happened now, why don't you just sew it?



Maybe because I don't know how, and I'm sure Princess Prissy don't know either.



Yeah, okay, well, I'll tell you what to do then.



Willow really had no other choice, if she didn't let Dawn help her then Tara would still hate her, but if she could fix it, well, then Tara might like her again, Alright, but I'm not coming into that damn lab, you come up here.



Fine, I'll be up in a few minutes. Dawn giggled, it was wasn't like she'd really be able to catch her sister without a fight anyway, so why not?



When Willow felt Dawn cut their link she looked at Xander, who looked like he was about to cry, "Hey, Xander, I'll fix it, you know, sew it."



The young man grinned and nodded, "Okay, when your finished, give it back to Tara, okay?"



"I will... Hey, princess, you wanna help?"



Anya glanced up in surprise, she didn't think the demon would ask, but since she did, "Yeah, sure, I'll help." she said and stood, giving Willow a small smile.



Xander shook his head, he'd never figure those two out, one minute they're fighting, and the next they act like friends. Oh, well, who really care, just as long as they didn't kill the other, or blow anything up, at least not around him and the others. He was sure Buffy would like to keep her hair, and so would he.



Outside the house two officers were helping Hallie search for the missing kitten, and couldn't help but wonder what had happened to cause Miss Kitty to take off like she did. Faith came around the side of the house, and shook her head, "Nope, she isn't in the shed."



"And she isn't at Nikko's either," Buffy spoke kneeling next to the princess, "What did you find?"



"Nothing, she isn't in the house, I checked everywhere."



Faith blinked, "Even in the lab?"



"Yeah," Hallie nodded, "Dawn said Miss Kitty had been in there, but ran out soon as she spoted Dawn."



"I would have, too." Faith mumbled, before she turned at the sound of the bushes moving around, "Well?"



Tara crawled out of the bushes, and stood shaking her head, "She isn't anywhere around here. What about you?" she said pulling dead leaves from her hair, and brushing them from her shirt.



"Nope, not at Nikko's, not in the house, and not in the shed." Faith said and saw a smile cross Tara's face.



"Ah, I bet I know where she is." Tara nodded to herself, "I'll be right back." she said and ran off with a hopeful Hallie watching.



Tara took the quickest route to the fields, and not to mention the quietest, seeing as it was along the paved road. Slipping behind a small tree Tara peeked around, and saw Miss Kitty setting on one of the large rocks she and Xander used to rest, and sometimes eat lunch. The kitten turned her sad eyes to the sky before she lowered her head, and sighed softly, she didn't hear Tara's light footsteps behind her.



Tara for her part was having to hold back her giggles as she used what Nikko had taught her, and walked quietly toward the kitten, wasn't cats suppose to have great hearing? Even with Nikko's training, Tara didn't think she was walking that softly, but then again, maybe she was, who knew? She certainly didn't.



Miss Kitty looked to the left, and then the right as she was lifted into the air, "There you are, I got you now." Tara spoke, causing the kitten to struggle, "Hey, please, Miss Kitty, I wasn't talking to you." the blonde turned the kitten around, and smiled.



The kitten turned her head to the left, and closed her eyes, trying to ignore Tara, "I didn't mean you, I couldn't hate you." Miss Kitty opened her right eye, and peeked at Tara before snorting out a deep breath, "Oh, I see, how about I make it up to you? Let's get some carrots."



"Meow!" Miss Kitty nodded, and struggled free of Tara's hands, only to hop up on to the girl's shoulder, and meowed again with a nod. Tara laughed brightly, she knew that would get the kitten back in a good mood, and grabbed the hoe she'd left eariler.



"Damn! That hurt!" Willow growled, as she once again, poked her finger with the very sharp needle, and nodded to Anya as she handed her a band-aid.



The demon sighed, that was about all Anya could do at the moment, seeing as she'd tried sewing first, and had poked everyone of her fingers. Now, here Willow was, doing the same thing, her fingers would be covered in band-aids if she poked the others -or what was left to poke- and she knew she would. "Ouch! Dammit!" She did it again, and once more, nodded at Anya -who once again- handed her another band-aid.



Hallie stiffled her giggles, and hurried into the kitchen where she could laugh, and not have to worry about her sister, and Willow hearing. They were trying so hard to fix something that was really both of their faults. Anya should not have pulled on the dress, but Willow shouldn't have taken it down, since it just caused Anya to get angry. And they really should have just let her sew it, at least she knew how to sew without poking her fingers every few seconds, but no, Willow and Anya had said they were going to do it. Well, at the very least the girls had taken her advice, and made smaller stitches besides the huge X's they had stitched before. Now the dress was coming along just fine, and looking as if nothing had happened to it.



Back at the fields Tara poured another small basket of carrots into the larger one, and kneeled down, slipping her arms through the rope straps, before standing with the basket on her back, and Miss Kitty sitting atop the carrots. With the heavy load she was carrying, Tara knew going down through the fields would be just a bit of a problem, so she decided to take the easier way. The road would be the easiest way to get back home, especially without having to walk down half of the stairs. It seemed like a good idea, but sometimes, good ideas turn to bad ones.



Half way home the weight of the load was starting to tire Tara out, sweat was dripping off her face, and hitting the pavement. Miss Kitty looked over Tara's shoulder, and could see the sweat, and feel Tara's breathing just a little harder than before. With a soft meow, the kitten extended her claws, sunk them into the basket, and used a little of her power to lift the basket up.



"Huh?" Tara glanced back when she felt the weight being lifted, and smiled, "Thanks Miss Kitty." she said to the kitten, just as her feet lifted six inches off the ground. This was nice, even though she felt as if she should be walking, just a take some of the work away from the -small- but helpful kitten. Her rest was short lived though, when Tara heard the sound of a car approaching, and began swining her legs.



"Miss Kitty! Let me down! There's a car coming!" Tara spoke and began struggling just a bit more, and caused the kitten to lose her grip on the basket, and let Tara fall to the ground. Both the kitten, and Tara's eyes widened when the carrots poured from the basket, and covering their heads, as the car passed by with a little girl giggling in the back seat.



With a sigh, Tara stood and grinned at Miss Kitty, "Well, that was fun, but how about we do something different, huh?" she asked kneeling down to pick the carrots up.



Back at the house, both Willow and Anya were standing in front of Adam, and waiting for Tara to return. The demon smiled slightly at the site of Miss Kitty with three carrots straped on her back, as she meow happily at having help Tara carry the load of carrots home.



"Ah, Tara..." Willow hugged the -now fixed- dress to her chest, before holding it out, "We, uh, we fixed it."



Tara saw that both girls had band-aids wrapped around every one of their fingers, and even a few on their hands, and thought it was nice the girls had fixed her mother's dress, "Oh! I'm not upset anymore, but thank you." Tara smiled, and saw that Anya wanted to shout for joy, but held back. Willow, however, jumped into the air with a happy shout, and spun around.



"Miss Kitty!" Hallie shouted happily as the kitten ran over to her, jumped up on to the little girls' shoulder, before she perched on top of Hallie's head, "I was worried, please don't run off again."



"That looks heavy." Willow said, carefully handing Anya the dress, and hurrying over to Tara, and took the basket from her hands, "Let me carry it."



Tara nodded, and smiled at Anya before she started walking beside Willow toward the shed to put the carrots up. Miss Kitty looked over her shoulder, and gave a soft, sad meow as she watched the two girls disappear behind the side of the house.



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There's 29, and I'm working on 30, should be out in a few days. Hope ya enjoyed

To be forgotten is worse than death.

Edited by: Stormforce at: 1/12/05 4:21 pm

[ceridwenfaylinn]

Hey koibito



This was such a nice chapter.



I'm glad all the problems are fixed now. And MK is just the cutest thing. But she just couldnt resist the allure of some carrots huh?



And Willow and Anya trying to fix the dress



I can just imagine them with all their fingers covered with band-aids



Once again, great update



Keep it up love

[Viximon]

Hey! Good thing Miss Kitty misundertood had made up.

And poor Willow and Anya, mending the dress, how cute. those two are quite a tandem, a weird one, but tandem nevertheless. They always do wrong stuff and mess around things (specialy Willow) but they have a heart of gold deep down. No wonder the siblings had fell for them (respectivamente I mean)



I'm curious about how you are going to do the Zero's part. I wonder...Tokimi and how was named? Dr.Clay? Gonna they to be someone Buffyverse's or you own?



I can't wait. Keep it up

[Egnalos]

This was a cute chapter. Tara finding Miss Kitty and making things better.



And Willow and Anya poking their fingers while sewing the dress but at least they realized the mistake they made and worked together to fix things.



Cute chapter. More soon please.

[some dark thing]

ok, I've just dropped in after a loooong time. But I'm an otaku so your title got to me and now I've sen it all... Tenchi Muyo? Tenchi Muyo? I mean cool, but why? lol. Anyway good job.

[Stormforce]

The update will take a little longer, I've caught a bad cold and I'm not feeling too good at the moment. I'm about half way in the next chapter, and I'm slowly working on it. I hope to have it up in a few days.



Again, I'm sorry for the delay.

[ceridwenfaylinn]

Baby, dont worry about updates, your health comes first.



Just get lots of rest and take care of youself since im not there to do it



I miss you baby



Get better soon



Aishiteru koibito

[Viximon]

Yep! First comes health.

The truth, I was worring cuz you're so punctual and all, poor you would be at the time all dizzy under the bed cover with the cold and stuff.

Well, take your time to make better, we will be there.

Take care.

[Stormforce]

I am sorry to be using Amanda’s account like this, but I am only doing this out love for my best friend. I ask that anyone who reads this message to please keep her in your thoughts. One of the 18 wheeler trucks where she works backed into her, and drug her several feet before he was stopped. Amanda has been lying in a hospital bed since yesterday afternoon from the accident, and as of now all I can say is she only drifts in and out of consciousness.



Please, keep her in your thoughts, and wish her well being.



Amanda’s family and friends will be grateful.



Thank you.



~Rei~

[Viximon]

Oh my! that's horrible!

I hope she's all right...I mean that she gets better (obviously she's not that all right)

I don't know what to say....

I only can send my best wishes for her from here.

Please tell her



...



I suck with this....I'm so sorry. I don't find the words I want...Well, is that... Mmm that I will keep my thoughts in her and that I wish her better.

Truly.



...

[Stormforce]

Ceridwenfaylinn - Hey koibito, thanks, I'm glad you liked the last chapter, and hopefully this chapter will be pretty good too



Viximon - You're right, Willow and Anya are always doing something they shouldn't, which gets them into trouble. But at least they do care for each other in their own twisted way... And thank you, Rei printed out your message, and brought it to me.



Egnalos - Its good that they worked together to fix the dress, and I can say it was also a good thing they didn't start another fight >_< that would have been bad. And here's the update...finally.



Some dark thing - Hey there, I'm glad you like this fic, and I have to say I'm an otaku also. As for why Tenchi Muyo...I was just watching it one day, and ended up seeing Willow as Ryoko when she was fighting Tenchi and thought why not. ^_^



Note: Well, here's the update, about time huh? >_< Between getting that cold, and then ended up getting hit by that semi, I can say I've had some bad luck. But I'm back home, and working on the chapters again Well, anyway, thank you for waiting, and I'll shut up now, ^_^ Hope ya enjoy.



Oni or Tenshi?

Pairing: Eventually W/T, B/F

Rating: PG-13-R

Disclaimer: Don't own 'em



Chapter Thirty: Galaxy TV





After having helped Tara stow the carrots away in the shed, Willow happily sat down next to her at the table to eat lunch. Hallie had outdone herself once more with the cooking, and especially with the chicken stew she’d made. Miss Kitty munched on a bowl of carrots and kept her eyes on Tara, no one heard her soft sad meow as she bit into her lunch. Now as it was two hours after the group had eaten, the demon was standing under a tree, and trying to stay just a little cooler. It seemed that the afternoon was the worst time of day to do any kind of chore, especially if it was outside under the sun. Anya joined the redhead, and nodded to her as she leaned against the tree causing Willow to grin. Who knew the princess actually had it in her to work, and outside even, it was like she wasn’t a princess anymore, and just a common girl doing her chores.



“Damn! It’s hot as hell out here!” Faith griped as she and Buffy approached with brooms in their hands, the dark haired officer’s shirt was sticking to her back, and was a much darker color due to the sweat.



Buffy nodded, she felt like she was going to melt if she stayed in the sun any longer, “Yep, but at least it isn’t cold.” She said causing Faith to roll her eyes; she didn’t know how the blonde could still be on the perky side seeing as how she was grouchy from the heat.



“Too bad our show isn’t on today.” Anya spoke wiping the sweat from her face, and saw the others nod.



“Yeah, we’d be inside where it was cool, and not feeling like we’re standing in one of the nine rings of hell.” Willow sighed, and started to float into the air to give her aching feet a few minutes rest.



“Well, standing around isn’t getting our work done, what do we have left?” Faith asked leaning against her broom.



“Me and Anya have to water the plants, and finish cutting the grass.” Willow pointed to a mower, and dreaded pushing that thing across the lawn, but she and Anya shared the chore, and took every other turn to give the other a short rest.



“That just leaves sweeping the million steps leading to Nikko’s home.”



“It isn’t a million, just an even hundred.” Willow smirked at the blonde officer.



“You try sweeping all those stairs and then tell me it doesn’t feel like a million.” Buffy shot back, causing the others to blink. She’d been around Faith for too long, and was picking up her smart-assed mouth.



“Well, let’s get to it.” Anya said, and walked out of the shade, and over to a small garden hose.





Miss Kitty moped around the kitchen, barely paying any attention to Hallie as she finished up supper. It was getting late, and the kitten was starting to worry about the siblings, they should have been home by now. “Meow.” The soft sound of the kitten’s voice caught the young princess’ attention, causing her to turn, and smile down at her before she patted her shoulder, asking the kitten to hop up on her head. Miss Kitty meowed once more, before she hopped up onto the princess’ shoulder.



“What’s wrong, Miss Kitty?” Hallie asked as she turned and began peeling a potato, “Don’t worry, I’ll give you a few extra carrots tonight.” The princess grinned at the happy meow, but didn’t notice the sadness return to the kitten’s face, as she glanced out the kitchen window.



Should I be doing this? Willow thought to herself as she walked toward the fields, where she knew Tara would be. After she’d finished her chores at the house, and watched as the others went inside, Willow decided to hurry off to the fields, and see if the siblings needed her help…actually, it was more just to see Tara, but helping would be best. I mean, what if she doesn’t want my help? Or will she be happy to see me? the redhead shrugged her shoulders, and could only hope that Tara wouldn’t be angry at her for just showing up.



But that brought up another question, why wouldn’t she be? How could Willow screw up at putting carrots in a basket, and carrying them back home? There had to be nothing to it, right? Just pulling the carrots out of the ground that was it, right? “It can’t be all that hard, especially if Tara and Xander do it most of the day.”



What the demon didn’t know was that any kind of gardening was hard work, and working in a vegetable garden was the hardest. The first thing you did was to use the hoe to break the ground, and pull the weeds away from the plants. And when everything was ready, you had to begin picking and pulling the vegetables from their vines, or out of the ground. And doing that all day was hard work, especially for your back.



Up at the fields…



Xander sighed for the fifth time in as many minutes, he just couldn’t understand why Tara was working double fast, and it was starting to bother him. Plus it looked like she was off on another world, and not paying any mind to what she was doing. The young man had to wonder just what was on her mind, and if he had to say, Xander would say it was Willow. And knowing his sister the way he did, he knew he was right, and had to smile when he saw the redhead approaching from the road. Now if he could just get the two of them together, and then he could worry about his relationship with Anya.



“Need any help?” Willow’s voice startled Tara, causing the blonde to jump, and spin around with a carrot held out like a sword, “Uh, I don’t think that would be a very good weapon.” Willow smirked as she eyed the carrot.



Tara ducked her head, and couldn’t help the blush that spread across her cheeks, You just have to act like a moron, don’t you, Tara? The blonde asked herself before she forced herself to relax, “So, what brings you up here?” she asked glancing at Willow.



“Just thought I’d see if you needed some help with anything.” The demon said and saw a grin cross Xander’s face.



“Yeah! We sure could,” He nodded, “Tara’s been working double hard today.” Maybe he shouldn’t have said anything about that, since Tara cast a glare at him. He’d seen his sister angry before, and he surely didn’t want that anger directed at him…but whatever, he needed to get Willow to worry about her, and that seemed like the best way to do it.



“What? Tara! You should not be working any harder than you usually do!” Willow spoke firmly, causing Tara to, once more, duck her head down and blush.



Great, now Will’s gonna be on my case more than Xander! Tara thought, and shrugged as she raised her head, “Yeah, but we need to get these carrots in; otherwise, Miss Kitty isn’t going to have enough.”



“Don’t worry about her, she can eat other things.” Willow said picking up Tara’s full basket in her arms, “Now, you just rest, and I’ll help Xander carry these back to the house.”



The blonde knew not to argue with the demon, since she knew she’d never win, and just nodded before casting another glare at her younger brother –who just smiled back and winked.



As the small group of three walked along side the road, Xander couldn’t stop the grin that spread across his face, as he listened to Willow worrying over Tara –and at that very moment she was giving Tara a piece of her mind.



“I may not know how to be a gardener, but I do know you have to space your work out, that way you don’t wear yourself out!”



“Will, I know, I just wanted to get the hoeing done so we wouldn’t have it to do tomorrow.”



“Even so, you’ve still worked a lot today, and you should not overdo it!”



“But if you get it done today, the work will be easier tomorrow.”



“Yes,” Willow nodded, “But you’ll still be tired from all the work you did today, and don’t tell me you won’t. The more work you do in one day still keeps you drug out the next.”





Tara sighed, Willow was worse than a pit-bull, but the blonde was glad that she was being worried over by the demon. Now all she had to do was get Xander back for telling her, and she figured Anya wouldn’t like to hear about how hard he worked a lot of the time. A low, and very quite chuckle caught her attention, turning Tara glared at her brother once more, Yep, I’m definitely gonna get Anya on his ass! “Okay, Will, I won’t be overworking myself again.”



“Good, and to make sure,” Willow spoke as she turned toward the dark haired boy behind her, “Xander, you’ll tell me, right?”



Xander nodded, holding back his laughter, “Yeah, I’ll tell ya.” He grinned.



“Great.” Tara sighed, and gave up; there was no way she’d win with both of them ganging up on her.



The blonde’s mood suddenly turned from bad to pretty good, or at least half way good, when Xander tripped, and fell flat on his face. The carrots came rushing out of the basket, covering the ground in a two foot circle. “Ouch.” Her bother groaned as he got up on his knees, and groaned again when he saw the carrot-covered ground.



Willow sat the basket she was carrying on the ground, “Here, let me help.” She said, and bent over to help toss the carrots back into the basket, she never felt a pair of eyes on her –actually, they were on her ass. What a dress. Tara thought as she watched the dress part at the slit in the side to reveal Willow’s leg, It cups in the right spots too, showing off her nice firm… The blonde blinked, blushed, and looked away before she was caught staring, little did she know that Xander had seen her staring, and was grinning from ear to ear. All Tara had to wonder, was when she’d started acting like her brother? And she could only hope she didn’t start acting like her father…or both of them at once.



“There we go.” Willow smiled and helped Xander strap on the basket before picking up hers, and continued to walk beside Tara toward the house.



“Thanks.” Xander said from behind the two girls.



It only took the group of three another few minutes to reach the Maclay home, and hurried to put the carrots away, before going inside to have supper. All through out the meal Miss Kitty would watch the siblings from where she was munching on her own supper. No one noticed, and if they did, no one said a word and continued to eat. After the meal, Buffy thanked Hallie and hurried off to watch a cartoon –a cartoon that no one could really figure out.



Xander shook his head when the opening song drifted into the dining room, how could she watch that? A guy, any guy –even a cartoon- in Xander’s opinion would not be caught dead in tight pink spandex, with a bright purple spandex top, and a bright yellow cape. The Super Space Policeman Space Show was only one that Buffy could, and would sit through –no matter what time- the blonde officer was there to watch it.

And it was only because Dawn had taken the Maclay satellite, and redid the whole thing to pick up every channel in the universe; the young scientist had also redone the remote, and now it looked more like a computer keyboard than a television remote control.



It was after Dawn had fixed everything up, and had installed it once more, that Buffy had picked the remote up, squealed like a small child on Christmas morning, and pressed a glowing red button. Anya, Willow, and Xander had leaned forward, all three grinning, Faith had rolled her eyes, Buffy’s scream joined Tara’s as the blonde covered Hallie’s eyes, and Dawn had cocked her head to the right, and had said, “That position is not possible.” The screen showed what Xander began calling “Alien Porn”.



Tara had hurriedly grabbed the remote, and switched the channel to another station Dawn had said was from Cromien 6, a planet where the inhabitants looked like Easter eggs. Some of them were dark purple, others were pink, and others were, green, yellow, brown, pitch black, red, and some looked just like a regular white egg. The episode that had been airing showed two of the eggs, one purple –the male- and one green –the female- in bed together, and they were both speaking in another language no one could understand.



“What the hell are they saying?” Willow quirked her eyebrows, and watched as Dawn took the remote, pressed a few buttons turning on the automatic translator. Xander had shaken his head when the announcer began speaking “As Things Get Hot will return after a word from our sponsors.” It was then that scenes began playing, and showed the two eggs making love, causing Xander to get up, grab Tara, and haul their asses outside. “I do not wanna see that kind of sex!” he’d said picking up a hoe, and heading for the fields.



When the siblings returned that night, Tara had a discussion with Anya about letting Hallie watch something of that nature. Even though the small princess was over nine hundred years old, she still looked, and acted like an eight year old, but a mature one. Anya agreed to either cover her sister’s eyes, or ask her to leave the room when a sex scene came on. With a heavy sigh Tara nodded, and could only hope that the older princess did as she said she would. And that was that, the girls began watching the hour long soap opera, and never missed a single one.



“Hey, Buffy, can we watch the weather?” Tara asked just as the cartoon’s end credits rolled.



“Sure,” Buffy nodded, punched a button and stared. The channel was certainly not the weather, especially seeing as how there was a woman with four large breasts moaning for the camera, “That would not be what you wanna see.” The officer said quickly pressing another button, and changing the channel once more. This time the screen showed a woman with pink skin, three breasts, and a very naked green skinned man standing in front of her.



Tara cocked her head, “Why does she have a garden hose in her mou-” the blonde blinked, and blushed as she quickly turned her head, that was not a garden hose!



“Shit, B! Turn it!” Faith shouted when the man began moaning.



“I’m trying! I’m trying!” Buffy whined pressing more buttons, but only succeeded in turning the volume up.



“Give me that!” Dawn growled snatching the remote from Buffy, and pressing just one button, turning the television to the weather, and smiled at Tara, “I think that’s what you wanted.”



“Yeah, thanks.” The blonde nodded thankfully. After the weatherman showed the forecast and saying it would turn out hotter than that day had been, Tara sighed, and decided to go to bed, before Willow threatened to carry her upstairs…but would that have been bad?



That night everyone slept peacefully, Tara with her arms wrapped around Willow from behind, Xander had his arms around Anya, Dawn had fallen asleep and was using her keyboard for a pillow, and even Hallie was sleeping peacefully with Miss Kitty lying beside her.



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There's 30, and I'm tweeking 31, I hope to have it out tomorrow hope ya enjoyed.

To be forgotten is worse than death.

[ceridwenfaylinn]

Quote:

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Tara cocked her head, “Why does she have a garden hose in her mou-” the blonde blinked, and blushed as she quickly turned her head, that was not a garden hose!

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Hehe, funny chapter baby.



Keep it up



Aishiteru

Edited by: ceridwenfaylinn at: 2/25/05 9:14 am

[Stormforce]

Ceridwenfaylinn - Konnichi wa koibito Glad you liked the last chapter, hopefully this chapter will be just as good. Aishiteru.



Oni or Tenshi?

Pairing: Eventually W/T, B/F

Rating: PG-13-R

Disclaimer: Don't own 'em



Note: Beware! Sorta a cliffhanger. Sorry. ^_^



Chapter Thirty-One: Masu?



Early the next morning Hallie woke up with a smile on her face, and rose from her bed with Miss Kitty stretching on her pillow. The little princess smiled and pet the kitten’s head as she remembered the dream she’d had. Everyone had been standing in the Great Hall of the Juraian palace. Tara and Xander stood side-by-side in front of the throne; Xander was on the right side, and wearing a light green suit with a white sash around his waist, and a dark blue royal robe with white stripes over the suit. Tara was on the left, wearing a pale blue pant suit with a black sash around her waist and a red royal robe with green stripes over the suit.



The siblings turned as the music began and lit up the room with their smiles as they set their eyes on the large double doors. Anya stood just inside the door wearing a midnight blue wedding dress that touched the floor in the back, and came up to her knees in the front. She smiled and took the offered bouquet of green, red, blue, and yellow flowers from an older woman with light blue hair. Willow stepped beside the princess wearing a turquoise wedding dress with white lace around the mid-thigh hem in front, and down to the floor length hem in back. The redhead nodded to the older dark haired woman as she took the offered bouquet of pink, purple, blue, and white flowers.



Anya held up her left hand, offering it to Willow, who raised her right hand, and slipped it into the princess’ before they both walked forward down the isle. Faith smiled and slipped her hand into Buffy’s, giving a slight squeeze as the girls passed by. Dawn bowed and grinned at her sister before picking up Miss Kitty, and placing the kitten on her shoulder. Hallie winked at both officers and the scientist as she followed behind the brides, holding both of the older women’s hands.



Mr. Maclay stood next to Nikko with a goofy smile on his face as he watched both of his children take their lover’s hands. The siblings bowed and kissed the top of the girls’ hands before turning, and giving their attention to a man with long purple hair, and beard in braids.



“That was a wonderful dream, Miss Kitty!” Hallie giggled as she stood up and stretched.



“Meow.” Miss Kitty cocked her head.



Hallie nodded at the kitten, “Yeah, but I wonder if that is how they will get married?” she mumbled to herself before shrugged, “Oh, well, I shouldn’t think of that now, huh? I have to get breakfast ready, and Tara and Xander’s lunch ready for today.” The princess yawned and hurried off to shower.



An hour later found the little girl and kitten on the back porch watching as the siblings tied their work shoes. “Here you go.” Xander turned taking his and Tara’s lunch from the princess.



“Thanks.”



“Meow.” Miss Kitty hopped into the carrot basket, and propped her front paws on the top as she stared up at Tara.



“No,” Tara smiled picking the kitten up, and placing her on Hallie’s shoulder, “You need to stay here, and keep Hallie company, okay?”



“Come on, sis; let’s get out there before it starts getting hot.” Xander scratched the kitten’s head, and patted Hallie’s before he took off with Tara right behind him. Miss Kitty watched the siblings go and lowered her head with a soft meow.



“Don’t worry, you’ll see them tonight.” Hallie told the kitten as she stepped back inside the house. What she didn’t know was that the kitten had really wanted to go with Tara and Xander. As the little princess began finishing up breakfast, Miss Kitty hopped down from her shoulder, and ran upstairs hoping to find Willow before she began with her chores.



After searching for nearly a half hour the kitten gave up when she tried her link, and found out the demon was bathing. Lowering her head, Miss Kitty took a deep breath, and chose to talk to Dawn after breakfast. Laying down the kitten could only wait, and closed her eyes to take a short nap. It was over an hour later when a rather loud explosion rocked the house, and woke the kitten from her catnap. Propping her front paws on the windowsill Miss Kitty looked out the window, and could only shake her head at what she saw.



Willow’s dress was torn in several places allowing the most of her upper body –especially her chest- to show; Anya’s royal robes looked as if a group of very large cats had used it to sharpen their claws on. Both women’s clothing and body was covered in soot, thus causing both women to look as if they’d just crawled out of a fireplace. Miss Kitty glanced to the left and could see Buffy hiding in the bushes, and Faith peeking around a tree behind Buffy. The officers ducked and covered their heads when Willow flew up into the air, and threw a rather large and very powerful energy blast at the princess. Anya dove out of the way and was thrown ten foot to the left when the energy exploded, leaving a seven foot deep, eight foot round crater where it hit.



Up in the fields Tara shook her head and Xander sighed, looked to them like Willow and Anya were into it again. Another explosion shook the ground, causing Tara to sigh, and Xander to shake his head, “Maybe we should be late going back.” The young man mumbled.



“Yeah.” Tara nodded and began to once more pull the carrots out of the ground.



Back at the house Buffy ran by Willow, actually, she ran under the floating Willow, screaming, and heading for the lake. Anya blinked as Faith ran in front of her, and after her lover all the while screaming for her to drop and roll. Buffy didn’t hear Faith’s shouts and dove into the water, causing steam to rise as the fire on her shirt and pants met the water. The redhead glanced at Anya, “Umm… Maybe we should stop.”



“Yes, you’re right; otherwise we might set the house on fire.” Anya agreed, picked up a garden hose, and began watering the plants. Willow nodded, grabbed Buffy’s broom and headed toward the stairs.



Inside Hallie heard nothing else, figuring that everything was back to at least half way normal she crawled out from under the table, shook her head, and went back to preparing lunch. Upstairs the kitten turned away from the now peaceful scene, slowly walked down the stairs, and slipped into the lab where she knew Dawn was working on some weird experiment –one she most likely didn’t want to know about. Appearing behind the scientist’s floating pillow, Miss Kitty saw Dawn typing on her phantom computer.



“Meow! Meow, meow, meow!” The kitten began speaking to Dawn, and using her right front paw to point toward the door.



“Hold on, I’m almost finished.” Dawn said and kept typing on her phantom computer, causing the kitten to meow sadly, and walk off toward a large glass tank. Plopping down with her head lowered, the kitten never saw the small brown creatures with black eyes swimming around in the tank. The small round creatures stopped and slowly floated up behind the kitten, watching her with their black eyes. Feeling like she was being watched, Miss Kitty turned, causing the creatures to quickly swim away.



“Meow?” Miss Kitty cocked her head and took a step forward as the creatures swam back up to the glass. The kitten stared at the creatures, and the creatures stared back, that is until a shadow fell across Miss Kitty causing them to swim back into the darkness.

“You seem to be interested in them.” Dawn said as she stepped behind Miss Kitty, and kneeled down. “They’re aquatic creatures that live on a planet 23,000 light years away from Earth.”



“Meow?” The kitten looked up at her creator and cocked her head to the right before staring back into the tank.



“Their name is Masu, or Mass is how it would be said on Earth, it means the original element of all things, and they are used as your life base.”



“Meow?”



“Yes, really,” Dawn nodded at the kitten when she heard the question through the link, “So really it’s no wonder you’re interested in them.”



A ding caught the young scientist’s attention, “Hello, Dawn.” Anya spoke when she appeared in the lab, after having changed and now looked as if she had not fought with Willow, “I’ve come to tell you that the show is starting in a few minutes.”



“Really?” Dawn stood, “I didn’t know it was getting that late.” She said approaching the princess. Miss Kitty turned away from the tank and began running after her meowing all the way, “All right, you can tell me later.” Dawn picked the kitten up, and left the lab.



If anyone had stayed behind for just another few seconds, they would have seen the Masu swim together, and begin merging. First it was three that started the process, but more and more joined until it was too many to count.



Upstairs the girls were watching the soap opera “As Things Get Hot”, never knowing what was going on inside the lab. Miss Kitty meowed at Dawn only to be shushed before Hallie called her over, glancing at Dawn and lowering her head the kitten slowly walked over to the young princess, and sat down. In the lab the glass tank cracked as the Masu formed and took the shape of a woman, with more energy working through the larger body of the Masu, the glass broke setting off the lab’s alarms. The Masu-woman stepped out of the tank, and glanced around before walking off.



“Huh? I thought I heard something.” Dawn turned glancing at the lab door, but shrugged and turned her attention back to the soap opera.



“Hey! Sorry to interrupt, but we have news to report!” A young man spoke as they interrupted the show, causing the girls to bang their heads on the table.



“Come on Miss Kitty, looks like I have time to talk with you now.” Dawn said rising, and heading for the lab.



“The new Galaxy Police Battleship Shunga has been robbed!” the news man said causing Buffy to pause in eating a cookie.



“That’s terrible!” Faith rolled her eyes when Buffy spoke, and began munching on the cookie once more.



Out in the fields Tara and Xander sat down, “Getting late, huh?”



“Yeah, time to eat.” Tara picked up the small basket and handed Xander a sandwich before taking a bite out of hers. Neither of the siblings saw the Masu-woman watching them from behind a tree.



The lab door crashed into the wall when Dawn slammed it open and panted as she looked around the room. Faith glanced up from doing arm curls with a dumbbell, Buffy looked up from reading another shoujo manga, Anya stopped practicing sewing, Willow leaned over looking as if she was hanging upside down from the rafters, and Hallie poked her head out of the kitchen.



“Did they come through here? Anything weird walk out the door? Where did it go?” Dawn asked hurriedly, her eyes never staying in one single place for more than a second.



“What the hell is wrong now?” Willow floated down from the rafters landing beside the princess.



“Yeah, did one of your experiments get loose?” Faith asked lowering the dumbbell, and watched as Buffy stood.



The young scientist took a deep breath, “Come on, I’ll show you.” She said and ran back into the lab with the others following. "We have a problem." Dawn said motioning toward the broken tank.



Buffy looked from the tank to the scientist, "There something wrong with the tank?"



"No shit!" Faith half shouted, "The damn thing is broken!"



"It's not that, the Masu or Mass was kept in that tank."



"Huh? Masu? Mass? What's that?" Willow asked having never heard of the creatures before.



"Your father."



"What?!" The others screamed in surprise, "What the hell are you talking about?" Willow clenched her fists.



"Well, I wanted a sister, and to create that sister I used a donor's egg cells with this creature." Dawn explained before stepping forward closer to the tank, "Miss Kitty was also created the same way, except I used a mineral life form for her."



"Huh?" Willow watched her sister study the broken glass all the while wishing the scientist would start explaining faster.



"So it was Willow's father who escaped?" Hallie asked wanting to make sure she was on the same wave length as Dawn, and didn't see the glare Willow sent her way.



Dawn continued on as if the small princess hadn't spoke, "The Masu are very gentle creatures by nature, and wouldn't do anything like this..." she trailed off and turned, "Unless some very specific factor interfered."



"And just what is a Masu?" Anya asked having grown tired of wondering just what the creatures were.



"Ah, a very good question, princess." Dawn smiled clapping her hands, as desks and chairs appeared under the girls, bouncing them into the air before settling on the floor.



"What the hell is this about?" Willow shouted slamming her hands on her desk, and standing.



Dawn clapped her hands, "Quiet, please. Thank you." A large screen lowered from the ceiling as the scientist took out a pointer, "Now, please look up here." she said as a picture of a small brown round ball with black eyes appeared, "This is a Masu."



Willow rolled her eyes, and sat down, "So that is Willow's honorable father?" Buffy asked staring at the creature.



"I have always thought of her as a monster," Anya mock whispered leaning back in her chair, "But now I know it for a fact."



"What did you say?" Willow growled quickly standing and clenching her fist toward the princess, only to be hit on the head with a book as Dawn shouted at her to listen.



"The Masu act as a group and it is the will of their leader, the brain of the group that decides the behavior of the group." Dawn began explaining as Willow rubbed the sore spot on her head, "However, when the leader senses any other will stronger they accept it as their brain and act accordingly. Do you understand?" All the scientist received was blank stares, and a chorus of "Uh's". "Guess not... Well, ask me some questions."



"If those Masu move around--"



"Please raise your hand, Anya."



The princess sighed but did as was asked, and stood, "If those creatures move around on their own, will it cause problems?"



Dawn nodded as the screen switched from a group of Masu to that of a broken spaceship, "Yes, it will cause a large problem. What you see here is all that remains of what once was a Juraian battleship. You see, when attacked or exposed to extreme tension they have a habit of shooting out parts of their bodies at the enemy."



While Dawn spoke, Willow was busy using a razor blade to cut a large block of clay into small squares. "How is it possible for such little creatures to generate such power?" Dawn asked as the screen once more changed to show the inside of a Masu, "The secret is that they are composed of the material, anti-material and the neutral-material."



Anya had her eyes on the screen when she felt something hit the side of her head, behind her Faith had her head leaned back and was staring at the ceiling, and Buffy was snoring away. To her left sat Hallie who also had her eyes on the screen, and behind the young princess sat Willow, who at the moment was throwing the square clay at Anya, and giggling.



"What it means is that the anti-material, normally encased in the neutral material is disturbed, and is destroyed by some exterior stimulation, which results in a counter-extinction between material and anti-material and--"

The scientist was cut off when Anya turned with a book in her clenched right hand, and her teeth bared, "Kaboom!" Dawn shouted just as Anya threw the book at Willow, hitting her in the face.



"Willow! Anya!" Dawn shouted just as a bucket fell from the ceiling and hit the demon on top of the head, and a very large flower pot hit the princess on top her head, "Now keep it there, and don't let it fall!" she said sending both girls an angry look.



"I think Willow's father is very dangerous." Hallie said as she stood, "And I think we should try to capture him as soon as possible."



Willow sent another glare at the princess from behind her, and tried not to let the bucket fall off, "Our problem in finding the Masu is that they don't react to any searching systems such as light and heat reactive systems." Dawn shrugged, "The only way is to use our physical sights... So this is the question... How would you go about finding the Masu?" she asked turning, "Willow?"



"Huh?" Willow blinked and stood, "You're asking me...? Well, I think we should just go out and search."



"Wrong!" Dawn shook her head as a large stone tiger statue fell on top of Willow's head.



"If we find the factor that affected them then we'll find where the Masu went." Faith said raising up with a yawn, and punching Buffy in the shoulder to wake her.



"Correct." Dawn grinned, and picked up Miss Kitty, "And would you believe that factor is her?"



"H...how can you know that?" Buffy asked around a yawn.



"If anyone communicated with the Masu, it was her. She was the only one in front of the tank."



Anya stood, taking care to keep the pot on her head, no telling what Dawn would do if she didn't, "Well, why don't you just ask her then?"



As soon as the question was out, a chair with several wires rose up out of the floor, "In order to find out where they went we'll check her memory with this."



No, you can't!" Hallie shouted standing, and grabbing the kitten from Dawn, "You can't go snooping around in her head without her permission."



"But she..." Dawn was cut off when Miss Kitty hopped out of Hallie's arms, and into the chair before turning and giving the princess a happy meow, "Good girl." Dawn grinned and put a small round device on the kitten's head. The lights began glowing, and blinking as Dawn typed on her computer, "That's weird...the main OS should be in here." Dawn glanced at the blank screen before typing in another code. The screen filled with pictures of carrots causing the group to giggle, "Now its carrots!"



Dawn watched the screen for a moment, "And this area... Oh, there is some data about us." she said as small mini's of the girls appeared, the mini's of Hallie, Tara, and Xander were smiling, Faith was shaking her fist as if she was angry at someone, Buffy was eating a cookie, Dawn was typing on her computer, and Willow and Anya were throwing energy blasts at each other.



"Okay, now where is the most recent data she has..." Dawn mumbled as she began typing once more, changing the scene on the screen. The screen now showed Tara and Xander in the carrot fields hoeing the rows, as a large Miss Kitty appeared beside the siblings with her own hoe, and began working along side them.



"Oh, I see," Buffy giggled, "She wanted to help in the fields."



"You are so cute!" Dawn grinned as she picked the kitten up and hugged her close to her chest, "But wait! If the force behind what's moving the Masu is the will to help Tara and Xander--"



"Then the Masu went to them!" Anya shouted standing and allowing the flower pot to fall, and at that moment she didn't care. All she cared about was what would happen to the siblings if the Masu got to them before they did.



"But you said Willow's father is a gentle person by nature." Buffy blinked, just before Willow grabbed her shirt, lifting the officer into the air.



"It's not my father!" Willow half shouted half growled.



"Oh..." Willow let the blonde go before turning toward her sister.



"If the Masu sense the hidden power inside either of them...then they will attack them." Dawn said causing Miss Kitty to struggle in her arms.



"Tara!" Willow gasped, and flew toward the ceiling with ever intention of fazing through, and getting to Tara before the Masu.



"No, Willow, wait!" Dawn shouted as the redhead neared the ceiling, and ran into a force field, causing electricity to spark, "Well, all I wanted to do was warn you..." Dawn shook her head as Willow fell to the floor, and made a Willow-size hole, "About the shield up there."



“We must hurry!” Anya shouted turning toward the lab door and racing through with the others hot on her heels. The princess knew they had to get out to the fields and warn the siblings before anything happened. She just hoped they would be in time.



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There's 31 and I'm tweeking 32 it should be out tomorrow. Hope y'all enjoyed

[robotguru]

heh, Willow: *Looks at chaos around her* Maybe we should stop



EDIT: Is it just me or are Willow and Anya fighting just out of habit now if they can just stop like that?



lmao



Long time since i've left feedback on this one, still loving it.

Edited by: robotguru at: 3/2/05 8:47 am

[ceridwenfaylinn]

Hey baby



That was a cute chapter with all the MKF action

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Back at the house Buffy ran by Willow, actually, she ran under the floating Willow, screaming, and heading for the lake. Anya blinked as Faith ran in front of her, and after her lover all the while screaming for her to drop and roll. Buffy didn’t hear Faith’s shouts and dove into the water, causing steam to rise as the fire on her shirt and pants met the water. The redhead glanced at Anya, “Umm… Maybe we should stop.”

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Poor Buffy.



And everyone calling the massu Willow's father



*Clears throat* Ok, seriously now, great chapter, very funny and very cute... just like you baby



Keep it coming.



Aishiteru sweetheart

Edited by: ceridwenfaylinn at: 2/27/05 8:15 pm

[Viximon]

You're back.

I'm so happy you're ok now.

And full of energy I see. Two chapters on a weekend.



The two were pretty funny. I enjoyied the first the best. .

When Will startled Tara on the fields and the blonde aim at her with a carrot. Willow escuse to "help" worked pretty well, didn't it? I think our redhead actually help for real. That are more points to win Tara .

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she never felt a pair of eyes on her –actually, they were on her ass. What a dress. Tara thought as she watched the dress part at the slit in the side to reveal Willow’s leg

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Oh oh oh, Tara got a dirty mind at the end hu hu hu



Can't wait to read what happen about masu



PS: Welcome back

[Stormforce]

Robotguru - Gald you're still lovin' the fic, and yeah, Willow and Anya's fighting is just out of habit now. But I still like to write it in



Ceridwenfaylinn - Konnichi wa koibito, o-genki desu ka? I'm glad you liked the last chapter, and hopefully this chapter will be just as good. Yeah, poor Buffy, but at least she always comes out of everything un-hurt...somewhat ^_^ Aishiteru koibito.



Viximon - Yep, Tara has a dirty mind, one which I just love writing Anyway, I've been trying to add in more sweet scenes and Willow wanting to help, and actually carrying Tara's basket, I think, was a good thought. ^_^



Note: I'm sorry about the lateness I'm getting this chapter out, but real life caught up to me, and its being a pain. Having to pack and then move, and move some more, and now my aunt has come down to visit. But I'm working on the next chapter as much as I can, and I'll have it out as soon as its finished. Again, I apologize for the long wait.



Oni or Tenshi?

Pairing: Eventually W/T, B/F

Rating: PG-13-R

Disclaimer: Don't own 'em





Chapter Thirty-Two: A New Form



Out in the fields...



The Masu-woman stepped out from behind a tree after having watched Tara and Xander eat their lunch, before they went back to work. For just a few minutes the creature watched the siblings, and knew what it was that they had to do. Slowly approaching the young man and woman the creature cocked her head to the right when the blonde looked up.



"Whoa!" Tara shouted making a run for it, and jumping into the bushes, leaving behind a very confused brother.



"Tara, what's up?" Xander asked never noticing the Masu-woman behind him, that is until Tara poked her head out of the bushes, and pointed behind him, "What?" turning the young man saw the creature, and for a split second stared, before letting out a scream that scared the birds from their nests, and jumped into the bushes beside his sister. Tara joined her brother by, once more, ducking her head down in the bushes.



The Masu-woman stopped beside Tara's fallen hoe, and picked it up before she began doing just like the siblings had been a few seconds earlier, "That must be one of Dawn's weird experiments." Tara whispered to Xander and stood.



"Where you goin'?" Xander tried to grabbed his sister's hand, but wasn't fast enough. "That thing could be dangerous!" his harsh whisper caused the blonde to stop and think about it, shaking her head; Tara continued approaching the creature. "Well shit!" Xander sighed and hopped out of the bushes, if his sister was going to be eaten by a weird monster thing, then he would be eaten with her.



"Hey there." Tara spoke in a gentle voice as she slowly stuck her hand out. The Masu-woman dropped the hoe, crossing her arms in front of her chest, and stepped back as she began to shake. Xander smiled and mimicked his sister by sticking in own hand out. The creature stared at the offered hands, and slowly rose her own as she stepped forward to shake Tara's hand.



"No! Don't touch her, she's very dangerous!" Anya shouted as she and the others minus Willow stopped at the edge of the fields.



"Wha--" Xander screamed, as he and Tara bolted toward the bushes once more.



"No! Don't move!" Dawn called out, stopping the siblings in mid-step, causing both of them to have their left leg in the air as if they were about to take another step -which they were. "You'll only cause them to attack if you move!"



"Could've told us sooner!" Xander called back, struggling to keep from falling forward.



Buffy looked from Tara to Xander, and let her eyes settle on the creature, "Please stop it honorable father! Your daughter grieves for you." she said causing everyone to sigh, and Faith to roll her eyes.



"Buffy, that is a woman, so I don't think it can be called an "honorable father", don't you think?"



"Oh, yeah, I suppose you're right."



Miss Kitty began struggling in Dawn's arms, causing the scientist to hold her just a little tighter, "Don't you dare move either! Not while we're in the Masu's territory."



"What do you mean "in their territory"? You mean to say--" Anya growled at Dawn.



"Better settle down, unless you wanna scare it." Dawn smirked as Anya shut her mouth, and backed up. "Don't worry, we'll be fine. The decoy is on the way."



Back at the house the lab door slowly creaked open as Willow crawled up the stairs, "Tara...I'm coming to save you..." Willow whispered.



In the fields both Tara and Xander were fighting to keep from falling forward, but soon couldn't stop it, and fell anyway. Xander fell first quickly followed by Tara. The Masu-woman lowered her hand an inch as a small ball of orange light appeared at her shoulder, and slowly moved down her arm. "Whoa! We're finished!" Xander cried out as he and Tara crawled backwards.



"Tara!" Willow's voice could be heard before she appeared next to the fallen girl, and smiled down at the siblings, "Huh?" she blinked when Tara said nothing, only pointed in front of her with a frightened look on her face. The Masu-woman turned toward the demon, and raised her hand, "Ah, so I guess this is the Masu, right?"



As soon as Willow finished speaking the Masu let the energy blast go, hitting the demon in the stomach, and knocking her, Tara, and Xander back as the ground exploded in front of them. The swirling wind from the blast cleared the area of dust, allowing the Masu to see clearly, and ready another energy blast. Miss Kitty hissed as she jumped out of Dawn's arms, and ran forward fighting against the wind to make it in time.



"Miss Kitty!" Dawn shouted as the kitten jumped up and on to the Masu, digging her claws into the back of its head. The Masu raised both hands as two balls of energy began to form, "Miss Kitty! Assimilate and control!" Dawn shouted clenching her fists, and could only hope it worked. Miss Kitty let out a low but loud meow as the Masu grabbed its head, and fell to the ground.



"Damn!" Xander stood along side Tara, and ran forward.



"Dawn, is she going to be all right?" Faith asked as she and the others stopped beside the fallen Masu.



Dawn nodded as a smile crossed her face, "She'll be fine."



Tara reached out to touch the woman, and jerked her hand back when it made a rawr sound, and sat up. Hallie began to giggle as she took in the new form of Miss Kitty. A form that was tall as Willow, brownish fur all over her body, and two strips of white hair on either side of shaggy brown hair.



"Hmm..." Dawn began checking the kitten's new body over before she stood straighter, "You assimilated quite well, say something."



Miss Kitty rawred once more as she looked at Dawn, and then the siblings who were smiling at her, "Ca..."



"Ca?" The others repeated.



"Carrot!" Miss Kitty said happily, and causing the group to sigh.



"Here." Tara grinned sticking her hand out, and grasping the kitten's to help her up, "There you go."



Miss Kitty stood up, only to begin failing her arms about right before she fell, "You need to practice walking." Dawn said as the kitten let out a pain filled meow.



Five hundred foot away Willow sat up and stared into the sky with a glare, "What a day." she said before she began dusting the dirt, and rock from her hair and cloths.



It didn't take long for Dawn to get Miss Kitty some cloths for her smaller form, one that had surprised the entire group, even Willow when she saw it. Miss Kitty had a form of a three year old girl, but couldn't speak while in that form, only meow. Hallie had taken the kitten's hand, and had begun teaching her how to walk, right before Dawn came up from the lab with the cloths. Miss Kitty meowed happily when Dawn showed her the light pink dress, and had waited until the scientist dressed her, before she took Hallie's hand so she could walk.



"Here, this way." Hallie said as she slowly backed away from the kitten in her child form. Both were in the fields keeping the siblings company while they worked. Tara grinned at Xander as she threw another carrot in her basket, and watched the kitten take another step forward.



"I guess that'll do it." Xander tossed a few more carrots into his basket and crouched down to slip his arms through the straps.



Tara nodded and stood with the basket on her back, only to nearly fall, "Thank you, Miss Kitty." The blonde grinned at the kitten when she put both her small hands on the basket to help steady Tara. "Well, let's go." she said and stepped forward. The kitten lost her balance as Tara moved away from her, and fell backwards, losing her child form, and going back into her kitten form.



The siblings laughed as Hallie picked the kitten up and set her on top of her head, "Come on, you've worked hard today." The princess giggled as she walked between Tara and Xander as they headed back home.



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A large spaceship with a statue of an angel on the front, and a line of energy blasters down each side drifted through space. A few days before the Masu escaped and Miss Kitty go two new forms, up in space the giant spaceship floated by a black hole and through a small portal with several stars with rings. "Capture field normal." A computerized voice spoke, "250 parsecs to target point."



"Carrying the whole galaxy." A deep male voice said to no one other than himself, and perhaps the computer, "Her Majesty's power is marvelous."



Inside the ship sat and older man with white hair and a white beard curled up to look like octopus tentacles. The man's left eye was missing due to an experiment gone wrong, and wore robes, blue around the chest, shoulder, and back area, and red sleeves with yellow stripes. "What fantastic power." Doctor Clay said with an evil grin as he caressed an old vase, "We're going out."



"Yes, sir!" The computerized voice spoke once more as a smaller craft exited the large ship. The sleek silver ship moved quickly, and soon shot forward in a flash of red, green, yellow, and purple light as it entered warp speed, and into subspace. "Adjustment of the field space particles is complete." The computer once more spoke when the ship exited subspace, and into a ship graveyard.



The ship swiftly dived under the front half of a red battleship, and around the destroyed middle, before rising and flying over the last part of the ship. To the right floated an old Juraian battle cruiser that had been destroyed over a hundred years ago. Off to the left many of the Galaxy Police cruisers, battleships, and prisoner transport ships floated in a large clump. There were several Deathseeker battleships from the Rezian colony. Plus the small round ships from Vegita-sei floated all around the area after having the engine's shot, or the personal ships destroyed.



Doctor Clay chuckled letting his one good eye roam over the destroyed ships from the foolish Rezian's. They were much like the Saiyans of Vegita-sei, in terms of destroying planets just for the hell of it. Although, the Saiyan's had been working under the rule of Frieza at the time, but no matter, the Saiyans would still battle anyone, and anything that crossed their path. Doctor Clay had to admit though, if Frieza hadn't of destroyed Vegita-sei, he would have had the Saiyan's working for him.



As for the Rezians, they had been foolish enough to think they could take on and defeat the Saiyans, and in doing so, had been defeated themselves. Afterwards the Reizans had run, only to be caught in the middle of a battle between the Galaxy Police and a group of space pirates. Only a few of the Rezian ships made it back home, and stayed there; Doctor Clay began to wonder just when they would start their rein of terror once more.



Cocking his head to the right, and narrowing his right eye the doctor stared at a group of newer ships just ahead of him, "Hmm, there seems to have been another battle." As he spoke his ship descended down, just under a Juraian tree, and landed in a large waterway. The doctor, and a shiny black and red robot teleported outside and onto a small ring of gold that moved forward.



"Doctor, are you sure about this?" The robot asked as it stared ahead, "Our mission has not yet been completed." A large space whale rose up from the depths of the water and glided along the surface, its large tail splashed water into the air as it once more dove down into the depths.



Doctor Clay kept his eyes forward, "There is no need to bother. I don't need to do it personally; I'll just let the machines handle it." The small gold ring reached the end of the waterway, and lowered down, speeding into a bright glowing white light. Inside the light was a large room with a one hundred foot tall ceiling, black pillars lined the area, in the middle sat a large circular platform on six curved legs. At the front of the room floated a large oval shaped red gem in the center of several thick ropes. "I have returned." Doctor Clay bowed toward the red gem.



"I understand you mission has not been completed yet." A deep male voice spoke from thin air just before the image of a older man with silver hair, beard, and turquoise eyes appeared.



"Well, no, but I have come to make an extremely important repot, D3, sir."



"Oh, really." D3 said raising his left eyebrow, "More important than the report on the mission assigned to you?"



Doctor Clay stood straighter as he looked at the image, "I have heard that Lady Tokimi is looking for a certain person, and that the order was given to someone else to search for that person."



"I will not inquire as to how you came to know that." D3 spoke with an irritated voice.



"I demand to speak with Lady Tokimi."



D3 closed his eyes, "You do not demand anything!" his voice echoed around the room, "However, Lady Tokimi is right here." he said causing Doctor Clay to glance around the room, "But there is no guarantee that the certain person you know is the one our lady is looking for, correct?"



Clay's right eye went wide, he knew if D3 became angry, he would surely be killed, "Th-that is exactly why I need to speak with Lady Tokimi. To confirm."



"Confirmation can be given by me!" D3 spoke growing more angry, but stopped and turned his head to the right, "Yes, my lady, as you will." The image turned back to the doctor, "You may make your report to Lady Tokimi."



"You are too kind." Doctor Clay said, but glanced around, "But can you tell me where the lady is?"



D3 closed his eyes for a moment, "You don't seem to realize it yet." he said as his image vanished, "Very well you may see Lady Tokimi with your own eyes. The Lady will descend and reveal herself."



The light disappeared as darkness invaded and even blacker shadows shot up, causing the doctor to back up, "What?"



"High level dimension reaction." The robot spoke.



Where D3's image once was now stood the image of a beautiful woman with light brown hair. Her eyes were three different colors, a very light blue, black in the center, and blood red. She had a large red gem around her neck, and wore a brown robe with red sleeves, and green stripes down the center. The green collar of the robe looked much like that of tree leaves as it circled around her neck under the red gem. Two female shadows stood behind her one on either side, and both with long hair. "Now you may speak with the Lady." D3 said from thin air once more, as the Lady Tokimi stared down at the doctor.



Doctor Clay backed up, and fell to his knees, "Y...your--your Majesty, Lady Tokimi, you do me a great honor by seeing me in person. I bring you news--"



"About Dawn?" Tokimi spoke, startling Clay, and causing him to wonder just how she knew. "Very well, I will leave it all to you. Succeed, and I may grant your fondest wish. The wish you have for the ruling rights over one entire galaxy.



"W-wa-what?" Clay stared at the lady in shock as she disappeared, how the hell did she know what he wanted? He had never told anyone what his wish was!



"Lady Tokimi wishes to meet with Lady Dawn in person." D3 said as his image reappeared. "But be sure not to bring harm to her, or else."



Clay bowed his head, "Yes, sir." he said as the image disappeared once more, and he and his robot was left alone. "Come, Zero." Clay motioned for the robot to follow as he stepped back on the gold ring that would take them back to the ship.



As the ring rose into the air, and back over the waterway the doctor chuckled, "An entire galaxy will be under my rule." Glancing over to Zero the doctor asked, "What's your problem?"



Zero was shaking like a leaf blowing in the wind, "I am scared." The robot's voice shook as she crossed her arms over her chest.



"You can't be!" Clay said shaking his head, "You're not supposed to have those emotions, so don't!" The doctor looked thoughtful for just a moment before nodding his head, "Maybe your memory hasn't been erased completely from your last assignment."



"It is erased completely." Zero said her voice still shaking, "However, I can't help myself from shaking all over from just looking at Lady Tokimi."



"Well, it wasn't your first time witnessing a high-level dimensional life, that's for certain."



"With anyone else I can make logical computation of existence, but Lady Tokimi... Lady Tokimi is...is..."



"What about Lady Tokimi?" Clay asked becoming inpatient.



"Her very existence is impossible, even though she was present right there in front of us." Zero turned her head toward the doctor, "And yet, no such information if found anywhere in the data bank."



"That is nonsense!" Clay shouted, "The absolutely complete ring of theoretical system is established here in the data bank! Absolutely everything is known here even though we are not able to comprehend it at all." Clay turned toward the front again, "For the moment you'd better not investigate the matter any further."



"I understand."



"There is a lot for you to do from now on." Clay said as the ring approached the ship, and stopped allowing Clay and Zero to transport on to the ship. The ship rose up, and sped back through the ship graveyard, and back to the large ship. Which brings us to now, Doctor Clay had set course for Earth, and was only a few hours from his destination.



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There's 32 and I'm working on 33 as fast as I can. Hope ya enjoyed

To be forgotten is worse than death.

[ceridwenfaylinn]

Hi sweetheart



Interesting chapter.



Tara and Xander hiding from the Masu



MKF saving the day, very cute



And the last part with the whole... um... other stuff... I wanna see what's gonna happen



Keep up the great work my little oni



Aishiteru koibito

[Stormforce]

Ceridwenfaylinn - Hey my little tenshi ^_^ Glad you liked the last chapter, me thinks I'd done the same as Tara and Xander if I saw something like that standing in front of me. Oh well, anyway hopefully this chapter will be just as good



Note: Sorry about the delay, but we were moving, so the packing, moving, and unpacking took its toll on me. But I did find the time to work on the update, and here it is, hope its funny, at least its suppose to be ^_^





Oni or Tenshi?

Pairing: Eventually W/T, B/F

Rating: PG-13-R

Disclaimer: Don't own 'em





Chapter Thirty-Three: Zero-Willow?



Back on Earth, Hallie was standing beside Tara –who at that point was signing a postal slip saying she received the item in the box- said box was in the small princess’ hands, who was nearly bouncing around with joy at having received said item in said box. The postman smiled as he hopped back into his mail truck, waved to the girls on the porch, and to Adam and Oz –who the postman finally got used to.



Tara turned to the young girl after having watched the mail truck disappear down the road, and eyed the box she was just about to ask what it was when Willow, followed by Xander, who had Anya clinging to his waist stepped outside. Tara opened her mouth again to once more start to ask what was in the box, but was once more interrupted when Buffy, -who was holding her own box- followed by Faith, bounced up to the porch from their trip to town. It was Buffy bouncing around happily and hugging the box in her hands to her chest, while Faith rolled her eyes with a deep sigh. Now the only one they were really missing was Dawn, Tara hurriedly glanced around and not seeing the young scientist, finally got to ask her question, "What in the box?"



Hallie grinned up at the blonde and giggled, "It's a microwave/grill/oven!" the little princess hopped up and down happily, "It will make cooking a lot easier now!" she giggled and ran off toward the kitchen.



"Well, what's in your box, Buffy?" Tara asked after quirking her eyebrows at the young princess.



"Oh! This is so cool!" Buffy giggled like a maniac, which caused the others including Tara to step back, "It's a telephone/answering machine/fax/copier!"



"Question." Xander raised his hand like he was back in school, "Why do we need one of those?"



Faith shook her head as Buffy bolted into the living room with her new toy in hand, "Don't ask me, she wanted it after the salesman said it made life much easier."



“Yeah, whatever…” Willow shook her head and decided to go check out Hallie’s new cooking toy before she looked at Buffy’s. “Come on sweetheart.” The demon grinned as she took Tara’s hand, and gently pulled her toward the kitchen with the others following. What greeted the group’s site was Hallie staring at the new ‘thing’ in wonder before looking at an instruction booklet and back again.



“Wow…” Xander trailed off when he saw the white machine with many, many buttons –buttons that had strange symbols under them, “What are those?” he pointed to one of the symbols and cocked his head. They looked like something he’d seen before, but for the life of him, he couldn’t figure out where.



Hallie shrugged, pressed a button, and blinked when nothing happened, “Why won’t it work, and what’s with this book? It’s got all these strange drawings in it, and I can’t read it.”



“Drawings?” Tara looked from the oven thing to the book, “Umm…where did you get this?



"It was in one of Mr. Maclay's books with all the funny writing...but some of it I could read, and it said that it was a multifunction cooker."



Anya got a closer look at the machine and cut her eyes to her sister, "Why dose it look capable of launching a satellite into space?" It would be only a couple short hours later when Anya would really wish she'd never made that remark.



"Satellites in space?" Dawn's voice drifted into the kitchen before she herself entered, and glanced around the room, "What's up?" After Hallie explained what she'd bought, and now couldn't figure out how to use it, Dawn smiled, and picked the machine up, "Well, I do believe since that I am the greatest genius scientist in the universe I can get it going for ya." she said and bounced out of the room.



At the very moment that Dawn disappeared through her lab door, Buffy screamed in fright, and ran behind Faith to hide, knowing her lover would protect her, "What the hell is going on now?" Faith asked and saw a shaky hand point toward the new all-in-one telephone.



"It won't work, and it keeps talking to me in another language!" Buffy said near tears, and followed Faith and the others to her new life-made-easier-toy. It was really no surprise to the others when they heard the machine speaking in another language, something that sounded like air re got tow go zai mass, but seeing as how no one knew the language just stared at the machine that was actually saying "Arigato gozaimasu", which in Japanese is Thank you.



"I can fix that too." Dawn popped out of the lad, unplugged the machine, "By the way, it was speaking in Japanese, and that's what your instruction booklet is in." she said and disappeared once more.



The group blinked, and couldn't help but wonder just how Dawn had known Buffy was having problems with her new toy, but just shook their heads, and left to do their chores. With Buffy and Faith up at Nikko's home sweeping the courtyard, Tara and Xander sweeping the stairs, Willow and Anya outside watering the flowers, and pulling weeds, that left Hallie to clean the house. While Faith swept the courtyard Buffy had spoken with Nikko about a book on Japanese, and she had actually had an electronic computer-like machine. The machine would translate anything it heard from Japanese to English for the one holding it.



Buffy thanked the older woman, and pocketed the small book before going back to help Faith, she figured if that machine was going to talk in another language she was going to at least know what it was saying. Which would become a very bad idea about an hour later. Once the courtyard was swept clean, Faith popped her back and neck before she and Buffy headed down the stairs to meet up with the others for lunch. They really didn't have very far to go before Dawn met them halfway and said that she'd fixed Buffy's telephone.



Once back at the house the young scientist handed Hallie her cooker, and Buffy her phone, "Now, Hallie, I installed a voice chip on the oven so it can talk to you, and here's your instruction booklet in English and yours too, Buffy." And with that Dawn slipped back into her lab.



"Cool!" Buffy giggled and hurriedly sat her phone down and plugged it in as she took out the translator.



"Konnichi wa." The phone spoke as it lit up, causing Buffy to giggle as she read the English translation of "Hello". "Okay, let's try faxing something to the commander." Buffy smiled and wrote "Hello, Commander!" on a sheet of paper before putting in on the machine and hitting a button.



"Anata wa baka yaro desu!" the phone growled at Buffy causing the blonde officer to blink and look at the translation. Her eyes widened "What? How could you say that?"



"Damare, baka!"



"Why you..." Buffy gritted her teeth as she read the translation, and hit the machine, "Dame yo!" The phone once more growled and stood up on small metal legs as the front of it snapped at the officer, causing Buffy to back up, pull her pistol, and shoot the phone, which caused the others to run into the room.

The group didn't run to far ahead since seeing as Buffy was already heading their way, all the while screaming about an attacking phone. The blonde officer shot over her shoulder as she passed by the group, with the phone hot on her heels, Buffy may not be the brightest person in the galaxy, but she knew phones weren't suppose to attack you, nor were they suppose to have small metal legs to chase after you with. Whatever Dawn had done to the phone had turned out to be an awful idea. At the very moment the others saw the phone chasing Buffy, Hallie's scream drifted through the house just as a loud crashing sound could be heard.



Willow knew she shouldn't but she threw an energy blast at the phone anyway, and watched as it just shook the energy off, and came after her. The demon shrugged at Anya -who was standing beside her- and fazed out with the princess hauling her ass after the others when she saw the phone turn in her direction.



Entering the kitchen wasn't exactly a good idea either, since Hallie was having problems with her oven. One problem was that the oven had gone nuts, and started attacking the small princess right after she’d pressed the “On” button. When she had pressed the button the top of the oven had opened and shot out –what looked like- a missile, which crashed through the ceiling, and flew off toward space. And said oven was snapping at Hallie, who was trying to fend it off with a wooden spoon, said spoon snapped in half when the oven caught it and 'bit' into it. Hallie let out another scream, and hopped up onto the counter with Miss Kitty hissing at the now dangerous oven.



It was then that Buffy burst through the door and hopped up onto the table with the others following as soon as they entered, since the phone was still after Anya. "What the hell is going on!?" Willow asked as she fazed beside Tara, and blinked when the oven growled at her, "Don't growl at me you piece of junk!"



"Baita!" The oven spoke causing Willow to stare at it, "Jigoku ni ike!"



"What the fuck is it saying?" Faith nearly shouted and kicked at the phone, which was trying to jump up on the table.



Buffy looked at the small translator and shook her head, "You don't wanna know." She knew if she read what the oven was saying, then Willow would possibly go nuts.



"What's it saying?" Tara asked hoping it wasn't anything too bad.



"Umm...well, it said 'Whore' and then 'Go to hell'." Tara's eyes went wide when she heard a soft low growl from Willow's direction.



"Get away from my sister!" Anya threw a knife at the oven.



"Boku no shiri ni kisu siro!"



"What did it say?" Anya snatched the translator from Buffy's hand and read, "Kiss my ass." which caused the older princess to growl, thus causing Xander to back up beside Tara and watch the explosion about to happen.



"You sonvabitch!" Both Willow and Anya screamed as they attacked. Willow's energy blast hit the phone sending it out the window, soon followed by the oven from the energy from Anya's own blast. The demon grabbed the princess and fazed them outside, where they continued to beat the machines up.



Willow picked the phone up, tossed it into the air, and with every ounce of strength she had, kicked it. The phone -very well built as it was, or it just could have been Dawn's doing- stayed together as it flew toward space, where it would most likely give some other poor fool problems. The oven on the other hand wasn't so lucky, since Anya called for Adam and Oz -who appeared beside the prince and awaited her order. "Crush it!"



"Yes, ma'am!" both guardians spoke as they rose into the air, and one at a time fell on to the oven, flattening it against the ground. Once the oven was flat as a sheet of paper, Anya nodded to Willow, "If you'd be so kind as to rid us of this junk."



"Sure thing princess." Willow smirked, picked the flattened oven up, and hurled it into space.



Now that the excitement was over for the day, or so everyone hoped, Willow and Anya marched into Dawn’s lab, and demanded the small scientist to fix the roof, since it was her fault to begin with. Dawn programmed several small robots to fix the hole in the roof, while Anya and Willow kept a very close eye on them until they were finished. Neither one was going to take any chances with anything of Dawn’s that was built out of metal, no telling what they’d do if left unsupervised.



Fifteen minutes later the robots disappeared and Willow fazed she and Anya into the living room where Buffy, Faith, and Hallie were discussing allowing Buffy to learn to cook. After the long discussion where everyone –but Dawn- reluctantly agreed to let Hallie teach the blonde officer to cook better, Buffy bounced around happily and ran into the kitchen.



“Just make sure you don’t leave her alone with either the microwave or the stove, okay?” Faith said as she hurried outside, hoping to avoid any other bad happenings for the day.



“Willow, could you please go into town and get some milk?” Hallie turned to the redhead just before going into the kitchen.



The demon nodded and grinned, “Sure, that won’t be a problem.” She watched as the young princess stepped into the kitchen, and took the offered money from Xander, squeezed Tara’s ass, and fazed out, leaving behind a blushing young woman.



Hallie began putting the things she needed on the counter beside the stove, and started asking for certain things, and Buffy handed them to her as she watched. Both girls were so wrapped up in making supper that neither one saw Miss Kitty -in her child form- standing behind them, staring up at the countertop where the carrots were. "Onions" Hallie spoke as Buffy handed her the item, "Potatoes?”



"Here they are!" Buffy chirped -once more- handing the item to the small princess.



Hallie sliced the potatoes and allowed them to fall into the frying pan, “Sugar?” she asked causing Buffy to grab the small bowl of sugar and hand it to the small princess, and watched as she dipped out two tablespoons and scatter it over the pan. “Soya sauce?”



“Here it is.” Buffy said as she handed over the small bottle of dark liquid, and watched as Hallie poured out two tablespoons, “What are we making again?” Buffy asked as she handed the princess a bowl of sliced meat.



“It’s a Japanese dish called Nikujaga.” Hallie nodded to the cookbook, “I was going to make Sashimi, but I didn’t think anyone would want to try that.” She shrugged, “But it does seem like a popular food from Japan.”



“Oh.” Buffy’s eyes were half way glazed over, which signaled Hallie to slow down on the information until the blonde officer was ready for more. “What’s that?” the officer asked after a few more seconds.



“It said that you can mix it into your food, its something called Wasabi.”



“Why’s it green?” Buffy asked poking at the green paste with a butter knife, halfway afraid that it was about to bite her.



Hallie shrugged, “That’s just it’s color, I’ll tell you about it later, okay?”



“Yeah, sure.” Buffy nodded happily and went back to watching the princess cook.



"Meow..." Miss Kitty glanced from the girls to the countertop, before placing both her small hands on the counter and pulling herself up. Seeing the carrots just a foot away the kitten reached out with her right hand, and lost her balance, causing her to fall to the floor and revert back to her kitten form. Hallie turned around putting her hands on her hips, "That's what you get for trying to eat now." she said shaking her head, "You know you're suppose to wait until everyone is at the table."



"Meow..." Miss Kitty's voiced as she stood and shook her small furry head before hopping up on to the princess' shoulder, in hopes she'd get a carrot if she "buttered up" the young princess.



A few miles away Willow stood in the middle of a small walkway as she took a drink of water, after hurrying back from the store with a gallon of milk for Hallie. Screwing the cap back on the water bottle the redhead started forward, before she stopped when the birds began chirping wildly and flew from their nests, "Now what do you want?" she asked feeling a presents begin to appear behind her.



Zero appeared a few feet in the air, and floated down to the ground, "Willow..."



"Yeah, that's my name," Willow turned glancing over her shoulder, and started to fully turn when ten jelly like tentacles shot out of the ground. The redhead flew into the air, only to have the tentacles wrap around her, and pull her back down to the ground as she struggled. Zero hovered over as she laughed in her mechanical voice, "Hey! Let me outta here now!" She shouted throwing her head forward as small energy needles shot out of her hair, and hit Zero in the face, "Serves you right!" Willow laughed.



"To make a scar on a woman's face..." Zero began speaking, causing Willow's laughter to stop, "Is cruel." the robot said as the metal began melting away to reveal an exact copy of another Willow.



Willow's eyes grew wide, "It looks like me? Is that my clone?"



"I'm just gonna borrow your body and memory." Zero's mechanical voice changed to that of Willow's as she smirked.



"That's what you think!" Willow growled as she began fighting the tentacles, feeling the resistance, the tentacles pulled the demon-girl to the ground and completely encased her in a jelly like dome. "What the hell!" she shouted as Dr. Clay's ship rose up into the air over her and Zero's heads.



"I assume you have completed the duplication process?" Clay's voice asked over an intercom.



Zero nodded and smiled up at a section where she knew a camera sat, "Yes, I have Doctor."



Clay chuckled as he looked over the copy of Willow, "Now would you look at that," he mumbled to himself, "Even Dawn won't be able to tell the difference between you and the real one." An alarm began going off causing the doctor to glance down at the copy of Willow's red gem. White lightning began sparking in all directions right before the duplicate gem exploded. "What the hell is the meaning of this?" Clay shouted, watching Zero fall to the ground, "There isn't anything that can't be duplicated by Lady Tokimi's power!"



"There is no answer found in Willow's memory either." Zero said as she stood, and formed a new left hand.



"Dawn's computers will detect us if I stay any longer. Since we can't duplicate the gem, we have no other choice but to take hers. We'll deal with the others after we get Dawn."



Zero nodded, "Understood." she said raising her left arm up, and making a fist as she called to Willow's gem. Willow grit her teeth as her gem began glowing, and fell back on to the ground when the gem obeyed Zero, and appeared on her wrist.



Doctor Clay watched as the gem stayed on Zero's wrist, and sat down, "It looks to have worked this time, but... I was going to dispose of her now...but she would be worth in taking my time to study her." Clay lowered the ship back to the ground as an evil smirk crossed his face.



Zero watched as Willow was pulled into the ground, where she knew Willow would be transported on to the ship. "Tara!" Willow shouted just before she was completely pulled under, the last thing she saw was Zero-Willow smirking.



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There's 33 and I'm working on 34, which i'm a quarter of the way through. What the phone was saying to Buffy was...



Anata wa baka yaro desu - Which means... You're a f***ing idiot.



Damare, baka - Shut up, stupid!



Dame yo! - Stop that!



I think that's it, if not let me know, and I'll put in the translation ^_^

[Viximon]

Ey! So you had move? Where?

He he, sorry about missing a update but I'm here again.

Still I'm enjoying the fic so far. The electrodomestic quarrel was so much fun...

Love the Zero part.But, how you dare to leave the chap at this point >__< arg.



hope to read more soon. Great work

By the way, had you read about the 3 ova's? Will you follow those too?



See you, take care

[ceridwenfaylinn]

Hi koibito

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"Oh! This is so cool!" Buffy giggled like a maniac, which caused the others including Tara to step back, "It's a telephone/answering machine/fax/copier!"

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Hehe, that was funny

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"Anata wa baka yaro desu!" the phone growled at Buffy causing the blonde officer to blink and look at the translation. Her eyes widened "What? How could you say that?" "Damare, baka!" "Why you..." Buffy gritted her teeth as she read the translation, and hit the machine, "Dame yo!" The phone once more growled and stood up on small metal legs as the front of it snapped at the officer, causing Buffy to back up, pull her pistol, and shoot the phone, which caused the others to run into the room. The group didn't run to far ahead since seeing as Buffy was already heading their way, all the while screaming about an attacking phone. The blonde officer shot over her shoulder as she passed by the group, with the phone hot on her heels, Buffy may not be the brightest person in the galaxy, but she knew phones weren't suppose to attack you, nor were they suppose to have small metal legs to chase after you with.

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Oh boy... *wipes tears*

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"Meow..." Miss Kitty glanced from the girls to the countertop, before placing both her small hands on the counter and pulling herself up. Seeing the carrots just a foot away the kitten reached out with her right hand, and lost her balance, causing her to fall to the floor and revert back to her kitten form. Hallie turned around putting her hands on her hips, "That's what you get for trying to eat now." she said shaking her head, "You know you're suppose to wait until everyone is at the table."

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Awwww... MKF is always sooooo kawaii!!! just like you darling



That was a great chapter... I would've had to quote all of it... but i think better not



I'll be patiently waiting for the next update







Aishiteru koibito

Edited by: ceridwenfaylinn at: 4/9/05 2:12 pm

[Stormforce]

Viximon - Yep I had to move, but at least it wasn't that far...plus I'm still in the same city...which is good I suppose. Sorry about leaving the chapter where I did...but here's the update ^_^

Ceridwenfaylinn - Hey koibito, glad you liked the last chapter, as for quoting the whole thing....nah, better not ^_^ And here ya go, the update.


Oni or Tenshi?
Pairing: Eventually W/T, B/F
Rating: PG-13-R
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em

Chapter Thirty-Four: What's Happening?

Earlier….

After Willow had fazed out of the house to get the milk, Dawn had appeared in front of the still blushing Tara, and the smirking Xander. The dark haired boy jumped a foot in the air and let out a girlish scream, which caused everyone but Tara to blink. Xander chuckled, scratched the back of his head, and pointed at his sister with a shrug, “It was Tara, not me.” he gave the blonde a sweet-as-can-be smile added with a I-love-you-my-sweet-sister look causing her to sigh and shake her head.

“Yes, Dawn, what do you need?” Tara asked after turning away from her brother -a bother that was pushing his luck.

The small scientist looked both the siblings over for a moment, “I need you to follow me to the lab…I want to do some more tests on the Light Hawk Wings.” Dawn turned, ignored the glare Anya was sending her way, and headed back into the lab.

Xander glanced at his sister and sighed, if she went then so would he, but the young man was really hoping that she wouldn’t. His hope flew out the window when Tara gave him a slight nod and followed Dawn. Even though Willow and Anya had promised lots of pain if she did anything like before, Xander was still a little spooked about even looking at the lab door, much less going in, but followed anyway.

Now…

The siblings sighed once more as Dawn continued typing away on her computer, and couldn’t help but feel the coldness of the lab, especially since they had been -once more- stripped down to their underwear, and strapped down on one of Dawn’s round lab tables. Xander glanced at his sister when he saw her head shoot up, and her eyes stare at the ceiling, “What the…?”

“What’s wrong, Tara?” Dawn asked keeping her eyes on the computer, as Xander cocked his head to the right and blinked in confusion at his sister.

“It’s funny…I thought I heard Willow calling me.”

The scientist shook her head, “You’re just hearing things.” she shrugged as a metal arm sat a round crown with eight lights on the siblings head’s, “You know you can’t hear anything down here…really now, if they can’t hear you and Xander screaming, do you really think you’re gonna hear something from inside the house?”

Tara sighed, the small scientist was right, “Yeah, you’re right.”

“Of course I am.” Dawn chirped, “By the way, did either of you have any luck?” she asked as the lights on the crowns began blinking on and off.

“Nope, neither of us could get the Light Hawk Wings to show up again.” Xander shrugged.

Tara nodded, “And we’ve tried a lot of times… It was probably just an accident, or they were created by Tsunami’s power.”
“Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.”

“No.” Dawn shook her head, “I don’t think so. Those Wings were definitely generated by the both of you.”

“How do you know?” Tara quirked her eyebrows and saw Xander blink.

Dawn stopped typing and crossed her arms as she faced the young man and woman, “Both of you were completely blocked from any and all outside power, and that includes Tsunami’s power too…”

“Tara, Xander.” Hallie’s voice echoed throughout the lab as she entered, her eyes widened when she spotted the siblings tide to the tables, and ran around the corner, “Guys, its supper time.” she said peeking around the corner of a large fish tank with a blush on her face.

A smile lit up Tara and Xander’s faces as all the lights on the crowns blinked on at the same time, and then continued to blink in pairs of two, “Great! I’m starving!” They both chirped happily causing Dawn to shake her head.

“Well, it’s probably all mental; normally you don’t need things like the Light Hawk Wings in your daily life anyway.” Dawn began pressing the buttons to allow the siblings to leave -much to their relief. The siblings hurriedly grabbed their clothing and began dressing as fast as they could.

“Quick question,” Tara spoke up as she pulled her shoes on, “Did you really need to strip us of our cloths?”

The giggle she heard answered her question, “No.” That proved it.

“I knew it!” Tara lowered her head with a sigh, and bolted toward the door with Xander hot on her heels as he pulled his shirt on.

Upstairs Hallie, with the help of Buffy and Faith was sitting the food on the table as the siblings rushed out of the lab, closely followed by Dawn. Tara leaned against the wall, and inched away as Xander kept his eyes on the scientist as she moved toward the table, "I'm starving!" Dawn shouted sitting down, "This looks great!"

"Thank you, Dawn." Hallie and Buffy chirped before hurrying off to get the rest of the items.

Anya, who had just came from washing up, saw the siblings and approached them, "Xander, Tara, are the two of you all right?" she stopped in front of the young man and began running her hands over his chest, "Is everything still in working order?" she asked rubbing his crotch, causing him to jump.

"Hey!" Xander shouted, "Don't worry we're fine, nothing but a few tests." he chuckled and scratched the back of his head.

"That's good...no telling what more she has in store for you both!"

Dawn narrowed her eyes and leaned back in the chair with her arms crossed, "What'd ya say?"

Anya placed her hands on her hips, and eyed the small scientist, "You know damn well what I said! Just remember, you hurt Xander or Tara and I'll make damn sure Willow and I do worse than last time!" the princess growled, grabbed Xander's arm, and pulled him over to the table to sit down next to her.

Tara glanced around the room, and quirked her eyebrows, "Hey, where's Willow?" she asked, knowing that the redhead was usually first at the table.

"She isn't back yet." Faith said as she sat a plate of carrots on the floor for Miss Kitty, "And let me tell ya, it's not like her either."

"Don't bother waiting on that sister of mine." Dawn shrugged when Tara glared at her, "Hey, just give her the leftovers, she'll never know the difference."

Tara shook her head, there was no way she would do that to Willow, "I'm gonna go look for her." she said stepped past Anya, "If you all want to eat, go ahead, me and Will can eat later." The tone in the blonde's voice caused even Buffy to stop and blink, maybe they should wait on Willow before eating.

"Umm..."Faith watched as Tara disappeared through the door before glancing around at the others, "Don't know about any of you, but I can wait for Tara and Willow to get back." She may be a Galaxy Police Officer, and a brave one at that, but she was not going to piss off any of the Juraian Royalty, especially one that could call forth the Light Hawk Wings.

In the forest by the house a blur was streaking through the trees at an incredible rate, startling the wildlife nearby. Within a few seconds the blur was through the forest, and bouncing every twenty foot over the water, and within fifteen seconds after she'd started, Zero was standing on the dock in front of the Maclay house. The robot clone, for just a moment, stopped and stared at the house before fazing to the window. Zero pressed her back against the wall, and inched her way toward the back door.

Glancing around to make sure no one was around Zero slowly looked inside and saw Dawn, Hallie, and Buffy laughing at something on a small theater like screen, Dawn, she smirked, She isn't aware of anything. The smirked grew on the robot's face, Well then, I'll just take you to the Doctor now.

As soon as that thought crossed her mind Tara stepped around the side of the house, and stopped, "Will, what are you doing out here?" she asked causing the robot to turn. When Zero set her eyes on the blonde she froze and a dark red blush cover her face and neck, "Everyone's waiting." Tara glanced back toward the kitchen, "Supper's ready."

"W-what's happening?" Zero whispered to herself, "Why is my heart beating so fast?" she covered her face with her hands, "And my facial capillary vessels are open all the way!" Zero stared at the ground for a moment before looking at Tara once more, Tara Maclay, I've known her since I duplicated the data, but I had no idea about this kind of reaction.

The robot's mind was spinning a hundred miles an hour as she stared at the blonde, which caused Tara to cock her head and raise her right eyebrow, "Willow?" she asked in a soft voice, not knowing that it had made Zero's heart to speed up, and her blush to darken, "Are you okay?"
Zero shook her head to clear it and raised the gallon of milk, "Yes, I'm fine." she said walking toward the still confused blonde, not watching where she was going caused Zero to trip, and fall into Tara. With the training she had, Tara was able to quickly catch the redhead before she fell to the ground. Holding Zero closely, Tara helped her to stand straighter, "Thank you baby." Zero grinned and held out the milk, "Here sweetheart, I'm sure Hallie will be happy with this, don't you?"

"Uh...yeah..." Tara stared at Zero for a moment, what was up with Willow? A blush appeared on Tara's face and creped its way down her neck when she felt Zero press her breasts into hers, and began to lightly caress her cheek.

"Does your father have any of that sake left?" Zero asked quietly, "We could go drink it together." she whispered in Tara's ear before she kissed the blonde's lobe.

Tara blinked, "Drink it together?"

"Yeah," Zero nodded, "You drink from the bottle, and then I drink from the bottle, it's like indirectly kissing."

"Eh?" Tara's eyes went wide as her blush darkened, what the hell was up with Willow? Sure she was forward, but never like this, and that was starting to worry the blonde. Turning her head, Tara saw a blushing Zero back up when their lips almost touched, "Oh! Anya." Tara scratched the back of her head and grinned when she saw the princess at the back door looking at them with her eyes narrowed.

"That is enough!" Anya shouted, "It's time to eat, not to screw around!" the princess blinked when she saw Zero turn with a blush and a goofy grin on her face. Why is she covering her cheeks? And just why is her eyes so wide? It's like she's a school girl in love. What the hell is wrong with you?" the princess shook her head, rolled her eyes, and went back inside the house. Hell if she knew what Willow's problem was, and she really didn't care, just as long as the demon didn't try to get Xander, -he was hers and the demon better know that- then whatever.

"Come on Willow, let's go eat." Tara smiled and started into the house, where she'd wonder just what was going on.

Zero watched Tara disappear into the house, clenched her fist, and squeezed her eyes shut. What is it about her? Why am I feeling these emotions? Is it that girl that has caused me to feel this way? Zero crossed her arms over her chest, and never noticed Dawn watching from the doorway.

The scientist quirked her eyebrows and "hmmed" before disappearing back into the house, only to reappear a few seconds later with Hallie, Faith, and Buffy beside her. The four girls stared at the redhead with wide eyes, before ducking back inside when Buffy quietly spoke, "Oh my." None of them wanted to be caught watching Willow, there was no telling what she'd do.

After supper Dawn had asked everyone to come into the living room, and sit down. Zero, not wanting to blush again, fazed up onto the rafters, and watched from there as the small scientist placed a small round yellow ball with two large round eyes, a small mouth, and two birdlike feet on top of Anya's head. "Wow, what's this?" Buffy asked as the eyes on the object blinked one after the other.

"Don't touch that!" Dawn growled when the officer went to poke it, causing Buffy to jerk her hand back. Seeing the officer step back Dawn smiled and began typing on her phantom computer, before turning back to the princess, "Now, stretch." she said grabbing Anya's cheeks, and pulling them outward causing the small machine's eyes to blink on and off as its mouth stretched out. "Close your left eye." Anya closed her eye causing the machine's left eye to go black, "Now your other eye." the right eye on the machine went black as the left lit back up. "Now open your mouth." Dawn instructed, and watched as the machine's mouth opened, "Wider!" Anya opened her mouth wider causing the machine's to widen even further, "Now smile."

Anya smiled causing the machine to smile, "What's this all about?" the princess shouted angrily.

"Just checking your life form data from the time you began living here." Dawn grinned as she typed on her computer, "Now be a good princess and sit still for me." Dawn said as she gently poked a pressure point on Anya's right breast, causing the princess to lean her head back, "Wow, you're responsive. Worthy of a princess Jurai!"

"Dawn!" Anya shouted as she quickly stood and glared at the small scientist.

"Hey, easy now, I was just kidding."

Up on the rafters Zero watched what was currently going on with her arms crossed, So that's Dawn. The genius scientist even Doctor Clay can't compete with.

"Sister dear, your next!" Dawn spoke looking up into the rafters.

"And just why in the hell should I bother with that?" Zero asked turning to faze and stopped when she came face to face with Dawn -who'd actually used her powers and fazed next to the redhead, "Huh?"

"Sit down." Dawn spoke which caused Zero to lower her head, and faze down to the couch. She waited as the scientist placed the small machine on top her head, and began typing on her phantom computer. Zero watched the screen and wondered just what was coming up, but knew that Dawn shouldn’t be able to find that she wasn’t the real Willow, “What’s this?” Dawn’s voice caused her look at the scientist, as Dawn leaned down when the screen began blinking “I knew it!” Zero began to worry that something gave her away, and tensed up.

Leaning forward just a fraction Zero watched Dawn’s face, and readied herself for a fight when she saw no emotion showing, “What? What is it?” she asked as Dawn turned and leaned down close to her, “Well?” she asked again just knowing a fight was just ahead of her. Zero also noticed the others out of the corner of her eye, and hoped that no one would interfere when she was pointed out as an imposter.

Dawn looked her sister up and down for a moment, causing Zero to worry even more, that is until Dawn poked her left breast, “Your breasts are sagging.”

Zero stood up as quick as a gunshot, ignoring Faith and Anya's snorts of laughter, she never saw Tara staring at her breasts and cocking her head to the right. The blonde thought Dawn was nuts, there was no way Willow's breasts were sagging, Where is she getting that Willow's breasts are sagging? I don't see it, they're actually well rounded, and firm... Tara blink, and lowered her head as a blush covered her cheeks, I really am becoming like dad and Xander!

"Sagging?!" Zero shouted as she clenched her fists and glared at Dawn, after a moment everyone stopped what they had been doing, Faith and Anya quit laughing, Tara's face went pale as the blush faded, Xander jumped behind the couch -joined by Hallie a second later- and Willow and Dawn looked over at Buffy and the child-like Miss Kitty. The kitten girl had caught the small bird-like machine when Zero had stood, and was now tossing it back and forth with a very happy -and giggling- Buffy.

It was like Dawn had touched an electrical wire seeing as her hair stood straight up, "Stop it you bubblehead!" She shouted hurrying forward, "I told you not to touch that!" her scream was drown out as the machine exploded, sending Miss Kitty to the floor where she reverted back into a kitten, and leaving Buffy's face covered in soot as she turned her wide eyes toward Dawn and shrugged sheepishly. The scientist shook her head and sighed, "Will you never learn?" Dawn stepped by the blonde and disappeared into her lab mumbling about finding a brain for Buffy.

Faith chuckled and helped her lover to stand, "C'mon, let's get ya cleaned up."

"Let's go to bed, Xander." Anya spoke taking the young man's arm and pulling him up the stairs, "Hallie, you should go to bed also." the princess' voice floated down from the second story just before the bedroom door shut. Following her sister's advise, or more like order, Hallie ran up the stairs with Miss Kitty in her arms.

"Willow, you okay?" Tara stood placing her hand on Zero's shoulder causing the girl to blush and nod, "You sure?"

"Yeah, I'm fine..." Zero trailed off wishing Tara would move her hand, and at the same time wishing she'd wrap her arms around her waist and never let go.

Tara carefully watched the girl who -she thought- she'd fallen in love with, and couldn't help but think that something wasn't right about the way the demon was acting. The blonde shrugged it off thinking that Dawn had gotten to her, "Okay, you ready for bed?"

The question turned Zero's face red as a beet as she thought about sleeping in the same bed as Tara, "Umm...in a bit...I think I'll watch something." Zero fazed away from Tara to the couch never seeing the crestfallen look Tara sent her way before slowly climbing the stairs, and disappearing into her room.

For just a moment Tara stood in the darkness of her room before turning the light on, she knew something was not right with the way Willow was acting, but she didn't know what it could be. All she knew was that Willow hardly blushed, and had more nerve about her, and her sexual advances, but now she was blushing had hardly did anything to her that could be concidered sexual. She had been acting strange ever since coming back from the store, so what had happened between the time she'd left and returned? With a small sigh Tara began undressing and couldn't help but notice how empty the room felt without the demon in her bed. Pulling a white t-shirt over her head the blonde turned the light out and slid into bed, only to let her mind wander back to Willow.

Downstairs Zero flipped through the channels at an inhuman speed as her mind tried to process what she was feeling. Her finger paused in mid-air as she felt a pulling, and fazed outside just above the Maclay house, Zero! Capture Dawn! Doctor Clay's voice echoed in her head as she stared into the night sky. If anyone would have glanced out their window and watched, they would have spoted Zero speaking to the sky for several minutes before disappearing.


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There's 34 and I'm working on 35 ^_^

[ceridwen]

Hey

Good chapter...

I hope someone finds out that's not Willow

I want Willow back

Update soon

[viximon]

Awwww, sweet Willow (orZero-Willow) not able to contain her emotions towards Tara. So cute.
Love when Tara think she heard Willow's yell. That's love!

You still me here waiting for more.
Keep it up

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Hey, ya changed your name ^_^ Umm, anyway, hey koibito, well, after this chapter they'll know that Zero is not Willow...and Willow won't be back for a couple of chapters...*ducks head* sorry... Here's the update.

Viximon - I just remembered I didn't answer your question about the 3rd OVA...yeah, I'm planning on going straight through, that is if Suncoast ever gets my order in...right now its on back order, and won't be in for who knows how long...but if it don't come in before i finish up the 2nd, I'm gonna do one of the movies...should be interesting ^_^ And here's more of Zero hardly containing her emotions


Oni or Tenshi?
Pairing: Eventually W/T, B/F
Rating: PG-13-R
Disclaimer: Really, if I owned either seires I'd be rich, which is something I'm not...so I don't own 'em.

Note: Just lettin' ya know this is a cliffhanger.... ^_^


Chapter Thirty-Five: The Orders

The sun was already up when Tara rose from her bed, and cursed her luck, she was late. After Willow began sleeping with her she didn't need an alarm clock and had gotten out of the habit of setting hers. Now since Willow wasn't there, she'd overslept and was now late in getting to the fields, but why didn't Xander wake her?

"Damn! I'm late!" Xander's half awake voice filled her room, now she knew why he didn't wake her. "Tara, come on, we're late."

"Yeah, I know, give me a few minutes and I'll be out." The blonde hollered back as she pulled her pants on.

Downstairs Hallie giggled when she heard the siblings, and readied some toast before the two ran out the door. No one was going to go without breakfast, not while she was cooking, "Thanks, Hallie!" Xander grinned, grabbed two pieces of toast, swallowed them in one bite, and ran out the door.

Another set of running footsteps alerted the small princess of Tara's approach, "Thank you for breakfast." Tara smiled, stuffed both pieces of toast in her mouth and hurried toward the door.

"Wow, they are so much alike when they're in a hurry." Hallie giggled and began washing the dishes.

"Tara, wait up!" Dawn called out as she grabbed the blonde's arm, "Please, it'll only be for a few minutes just for another examination."

"Dawn, I can't, not right now." Tara shook her head, "I have to get to the fields and help Xander."

Dawn gave her best 'You-gotta-love-me smile and brought her hands to her chest, "But you promised to be my guinea pig, didn't you?"

Tara blinked once, and then again, before quirking her eyebrows, "Now that's a conversation I don't remember having."

"Oh, please, Tara, darling!" Dawn began rubbing her head against Tara's shoulder, causing the taller girl back up.

"Gotta go!" Tara said and bolted off toward the fields. Dawn -who was watching Tara- never saw Zero jump down from the roof with her arms out to her sides, and about to grab her, "Dawn." Tara spoke having come back, and causing Zero's face to go completely red in a heartbeat, "Do you have my gloves?"

"Oh!" Dawn gave a fake surprised cry when she pulled said gloves out of her pockets, "Now how'd they get in there?"

"Yeah, I knew it." Tara chuckled before glancing at Zero and wondering just what was going on with Willow.

"What are you doing there?" Dawn asked staring at Zero, and blinked when she didn't get at answer, for some reason, Willow was frozen and she for one didn't know why. "Hello?" she waved her hand in front of Zero's face and shrugged when she still didn't get a reaction. "Oh, well..." The scientist shrugged, "Go on to work Tara, I'll take care of her."

Up in space Doctor Clay was watching everything through a special camera, and wasn't liking what he was seeing. Zero wasn't suppose to act that way, hell, he didn't even know what that way was, "Damn that Dawn! She's not going to fall into our hands very easily if everyone's around." He narrowed his one good eye as the camera moved toward Tara, "Odd...she called that girl her guinea pig... I wonder..."

As the nutty doctor watched the house, Willow was fuming, her face had turned red from anger, and her fists were clenched. How dare that little freak Dawn call Tara her guinea pig! Tara was no one’s test subject, and now she wasn’t there to help stop her from getting the girl she loved, no she had to be trapped in a damn glass tube! The redhead was wishing that friggin’ Doc Clay hadn’t known how to incase her, but he did, and she was going to have a talk with Dawn about that. It wouldn’t do for another enemy to come along and be able to trap her while they did what they wanted to the others, even if she knew Anya could fight pretty good, but the princess would wear out too quickly. She also cursed Dr Clay again for stripping her of her clothes, now she was beginning to get cold. Dawn! Can you hear me? Willow hated to use it, but if it got her out of Clay’s claws, then she’d try anything. When no answer was forthcoming she sighed, seemed like the jerk had also blocked her mental link with her sister. Damn it!

Back down on Earth it was a little after lunch, and Xander hurried off toward Nikko’s home for his sword training, he knew Tara would soon be right behind him. It was one thing the siblings had learned early, if you were late for training, you got double. Tara was in the kitchen helping was the dishes, and Zero had fazed up to the rafters to lay down. Buffy had lay on the couch and was snoring away rather loudly within a few minutes, Faith had shook her head, before she -at a slow pace- had began doing arm curls with her dumbbells. Dawn sat down in the chair next to Anya and began reading, once she’d found what she wanted, she closed the book and headed toward her lab.

Zero opened her eyes and smirked as she fazed down next to the door, and looked around, no one paid any attention as she began pushing open the door, “Hey, Will, isn’t it your turn to do the laundry?” Tara’s voice came from the doorway, instantly turning Zero’s face red. The robot slapped both her cheeks before making a fist and hitting her left cheek causing Tara to blink and raise her left eyebrow. Again she had to ask herself just what the hell was wrong with Willow.

“Get a damn grip!” Zero quietly growled to herself before taking a deep breath, and calmed down enough for the blush to disappear. Smiling she fazed next to Tara, “Oh, really? Why don’t you come and help me with it? I’m sure we can have some fun.” the redhead grabbed Tara’s arm and immediately blushed from the contact. Tara opened her mouth to ask what exactly was going on with her, but quickly turned when Buffy rolled off the couch, causing her watch to go off.

The blonde officer yawned, "Oh my! Faith, we gotta a call, c'mon!" she said and approached Tara, as she grabbed her cube, "We've got to go for a while but we'll be back." Her clothes turned into the Galaxy Police uniform, just as Faith walked over with her own cube.

"Yeah, we'll see ya later." she grinned, and twisted the cube once more, causing her and Buffy to disappear, and fall right through the lake water where their ship Yukinojo was. Inside the ship Buffy held out her arms, and gave a short scream, "Yeah, know what you mean." Faith said just knowing what her lover was about to say.

"I'm all wet!" Buffy shouted, and barely noticed Yukinojo lowering from the ceiling.

"Where have you two been?" The computer asked in a voice that could only be explained as pissed off, but how could a computer be pissed? After all they were machines, right? Buffy blinked as she remembered her phone/answering machine/fax thingy...best not to go there, don’t need another computerized machine insulting her in a different language before it tried to kill her. "I've been sending signals to you since yesterday!"

"I hate being wet!" Buffy continued to complain as she took her jacket off and began twisting the water out of it while Faith chuckled.

"Buffy! Faith!"

"What?" The officers asked looking at the computer, "What is it?"

"We received an extremely important message from headquarters."

Faith sat down in the pilots seat, "Well, what is it?"

"Yukinojo, please play the message." Buffy said from behind the co-pilots seat, and still twisting water out of her jacket.

A small screen appeared with Cordelia appearing a second later, "Girls, it's me...and this is most likely news that you've already heard, but the new Galaxy Police Battleship Shunga has been robbed, by someone unknown. Now we have a report that the battleship has been detected in your area." As the message played back, Buffy was letting out small grunts as she twisted her jacked tightly, and Faith had leaned back in her seat as she read a magazine, "If anything happens I want you girls to contact headquarters immediately. Got that? Call headquarters, don't do anything else except calling headquarters, okay?" The screen blinked out.

"Roger! First class detectives Buffy and Faith is on the way to investigate!" Both officers saluted, before strapping into their seats, and starting the engine. The lake water began to ripple, and parted as the sleek silver ship exited and shot off toward space.

Dawn sat in her lab typing away on her phantom computer, and never heard the door appear. Zero slowly poked her head through, "Eee!" she squeaked when a small crab jingled, reaching up she tore the crab down, "Shhh!" she shushed it before lying it on the floor, and sneaking up behind the small scientist.

"Dawn, supper's ready." Tara called from the door, causing Zero's face to turn red.

"Didn't know it was that late." Dawn turned, "Oh, whatcha need sis?"

"Ummm...uh...just thought you might need my help with something." the robot smiled.

"Oh, how nice, you can input this data for me." Dawn said calling up three different screens beside the computer before getting up, "Thanks sis."

"Willow, are you alright?" Tara asked worriedly, she knew Willow hated the lab, and now she was inside it asking if Dawn needed help? Something just wasn't right about that, but for the life of her, Tara couldn't figure it out.

"Yeah, Tara, I'm fine...just gonna type this data in for my sweet, lovable sister." she smiled sitting down on the floating pillow.

That was it, now Tara really knew something was up, and started to ask, "C'mon, let's eat!" Dawn pushed her out the door.

It didn't take Zero but just a few minutes to type in all the data and hurry upstairs to the dining room, "I don't think Buffy and Faith are gonna make it back for supper." Hallie said sadly before glancing at Zero -who hadn't touched her meal and was staring at Tara with a goofy grin on her face, "Willow, don't you like the food?"

"Oh, no, it's not that, this is great!" Zero chuckled as she grabbed a fork, and began eating, "What's wrong with all of you?" she asked when everyone, including Tara, began staring at her.

"Nothing."

After supper everyone cleared the table, and helped Hallie clean up before going to bed, Tara for her part kept an eye on Zero-Willow noticing how the redhead fazed up to the rafters, and closed her eyes, “Willow, what’s wrong?”

Oh damn! Zero thought as she opened her eyes and looked down at the blonde, “Nothing, I’m fine…just wanted to, umm…stay in here a little longer, that’s all.”

Tara lowered her head, “Okay, but won’t you come to bed in a little bit?”

Zero heard the hopeful tone in the blonde’s voice, she hated to hurt the young woman, but she knew if she even sat one foot in Tara’s room she wouldn’t be able to control her emotions, “Yeah, in a bit.” she nodded and watched Tara as she disappeared up the stairs. Zero lay her head back, and stared at the darkened ceiling, what was she doing? She had orders to capture Dawn, not to become involved with the woman Willow loved. Tomorrow, tomorrow would be the day she captured the scientist and got the hell away from the Maclay house before she did something she’d regret, like falling in love with Tara. Little did Zero know that she had already failed, she was in love with Tara, she just hadn’t figured it out.

As Zero closed her eyes she never felt two pairs of eyes watching her from two separate places, Anya stood just out of site at the top of the stairs, and Dawn stood watching from the lab door. Both knew something was up, Willow just wasn’t acting like her usual self, add to that, Dawn couldn’t communicate with her through the mind link. The small scientist knew her sister could block the link, but never this strongly, she could always feel some of her sister’s emotions, but now she was getting nothing at all. Glancing up she shrugged at the princess and quietly slipped into the lab, maybe if she rechecked the data from the night before she’d find something.

Anya watched Dawn enter the lab then let her eyes rest on the seemingly sleeping demon, the princess felt as if Willow had changed. She could -just a little- feel the demon’s power, and what she was feeling now was nothing close to what it was just a few days before. A few days ago Willow’s power was stronger, and Anya knew that the demon could match her own Juraian power blow for blow, but now it felt weaker, the princess figured if they were to fight all out she’d win hands down. Anya didn’t like that at all, sure she really didn’t like Willow, but she did like it when they fought, neither of them would ever beat the other. With a sigh the princess turned and disappeared into Xander’s room.


The next morning started out slowly seeing as how everything in the fields could wait for a day, and Nikko’s training didn’t start until one in the afternoon. Tara stretched as she yawned and turned over to find Willow’s spot empty, but she’d already knew that, she hadn’t slept all that good, and knew the demon had never came to bed. Glancing at the clock told her it was nine thirty-seven, time to get up and get to the bath. The blonde stood, wrapped a light blue robe around her body, grabbed her clothes and headed her door. Halfway down the stairs she saw Dawn coming out of the lab and smiled, “Going to the bath?”


“Yeah, you too?” Dawn asked scratching her head.

Tara nodded stepping beside the small scientist, “Well lets go.” As she opened the front door she nearly ran into Zero and smiled.

“What?” Zero asked when Dawn kept staring at her.

“Come on!” Dawn grabbed her arm, “You’re gonna bathe with us.”

“What?” Zero asked blushing at the picture of a totally naked Tara, and felt a small amount of blood trickle from her nose.

“Yep.” Dawn winked at Tara, who was blushing at the picture of a totally naked Willow, and got a slightly goofy smile on her face as they entered the bathhouse.

Zero fazed out of her cloths and looked around, missing the glazed eyed stare of Tara, and the even goofier grin she now had, and slipped into the water. The robot sunk under the warm water and rose back up only to blush at the site of Tara undressing. The robe had been hung on the wall, and Tara was currently stripping her boxers off, leaving her in nothing but the nude. Ohhh wow! Zero thought as she watched Tara slowly sink into the water and come back up after a minute. Water droplets slid down the blonde’s neck and chest, over her breasts, down her taut belly, and finally dripping into the water just below her bellybutton. Zero could have stood and stared at the blonde all day, that is if it hadn’t been for Dawn jumping into the water and splashing her, “What the…” Zero blinked and blushed when she caught Tara looking at her and blushing. Oh shit! She caught me staring! Now what?

Little did Zero know Tara’s blush was from letting her eyes roam over Zero’s body from her neck to her breasts, over her belly, and just a little lower. Tara had caught herself trying to stare a hole in the water just below Zero’s bellybutton, and blushed, That’s it, I really am becoming like dad and Xander! Tara thought as she quickly looked up in time to catch the redhead’s gaze, Oh shit! She caught me staring at her! Damn it! What am I going to say? Just then Dawn jumped into the water taking the redhead’s attention away from her.

“Now this feels good.” Dawn sighed as she sat back in the water for a moment before hopping out to sit on the side of the bath, “Hey sis, hand me the soap.”

Zero glared at the scientist but gave her the soap, “Here.” she sat down in the water watched Tara begin to soap her body, Hmm…what a view…just keeping washing yourself Dawn, and leave me to my Tara-watching. she thought with a grin.

Five minutes later Zero felt a pair of arms pull her from the water, “C’mon sis, time to get clean.” Dawn grinned, and threw the soap to Tara, “Here you can wash her back.” Both girls blushed at the thought.

“O-okay.” Tara nodded taking her wash cloth and started running it over Zero’s shoulders and down her back, “What the…” she whispered when she saw a small yellow and blue tattoo on Zero’s ass. That hadn’t been there when they had visited the hot spring, so that left her to wondering just where Willow had gotten it, and when?

Dawn glanced over her eyes going wide, “Hey Tara, you gotta here too.” she said stopping the blonde from asking about the tattoo, and pointed to Willow’s breasts.

“Huh?” Tara went redder than before as the scientist pulled her around in front of the redhead.

“Now get her all clean.”

“Umm…I-I can do this part, you know.” Zero said and blushed as Dawn took Tara’s hands and placed them on her breasts. Both girls froze and stared at the other, that is until a crash startled them into turning their heads toward the sound.

“Ahhhhh!” Xander’s somewhat girly scream came from the other side of the bath, and continued to get closer.

“Xander! Get back here!” Anya’s shout filled the large bathhouse, “It’s time to have sex!” Xander rounded the corner and stopped dead still when he caught site of Tara’s hands on Willow’s breasts.

“Whoa!”

“Xander!” Tara screamed turning her head, “Get some damn cloths on!”

“Tara! Shit!” Xander screamed covering himself with his hands, and blushed, “Gotta go!” he sprinted by the three girls with Anya right behind him, naked as the day she was born and soaking wet.

“Xander get your cute ass back here! Its time to have sex!” She shouted running out the door.

Dawn cocked her head to the right and looked at Zero, “When did the princess start wanting sex?”

Zero shrugged, “How the hell would I know? Its not like I go asking her if she wants to have sex you know…that’s Xander’s job, and from the looks of it, I don’t think he wants to at the moment.” A slight squeezing caused the robot to glance down, and see Tara’s hands still on her breasts, “Ummm…”

Tara looked up, saw the blush covering the redhead’s face, glance down and see where her hands still were, “Yikes! I’m sorry! Uhh…gotta go!” she said and just like Xander -only difference was she grabbed her robe- ran out of the bathhouse.

“You know, Willow, its your turn to clean the toilet.” Dawn said drying off, and getting dressed.

“What?” Zero sighed, “All right.” she fazed into her clothing and fazed back into the house, never seeing the smirk Dawn wore.

Zero had scrubbed the toilets to a sparkling white and wiped the sweat from her face as she sat the cleaner back under the sink, “Wow.” Tara’s voice caused the redhead to turn around with a slight blush on her face, “This is different, you usually fight about having to clean any thing inside…but why are you doing Dawn’s chore?”

“What? It’s Dawn’s chore today?” Zero asked feeling like going into the lab, and choking the scientist before taking her to Doctor Clay.

“Yeah, today was her turn to clean, but I like that you’re doing it,” Tara smiled, “I’m glad that you’re helping inside the house too, but you know I don’t expect it all the time.” she winked and hugged the redhead before heading outside to help with the chores, “You coming?”

Just about to if you hug me again… “Yeah, I’ll be out in a sec.”

“Okay.”

Zero watched Tara disappear down the stairs and sighed, she needed to keep a tight control on her feelings, but it seemed like her feelings were getting the best of her. But how was that possible when she couldn’t exactly get away from the blonde? The robot shrugged, she didn’t have time to ponder that, right now she needed to get outside and help with the chores.

Tara smiled when Zero stepped outside, and handed her a broom before hurrying off toward the shrine steps to do her own sweeping. Zero’s eyes roamed over the blonde’s body as she ran, “Damn, how she fills out those pants.” she whispered to herself with a smirk before she began sweeping the walkway. “That damn Dawn is a cheat! Telling me it was my turn to clean the toilet…but oh well, at least Tara complemented me about it.” she giggled and quickly moved the broom left and right stirring up a cloud of dust, which she didn’t even notice.

Zero.

“I should clean the toilet more!” Zero giggled again as the dust cloud reached her waist.

Zero!

The dust cloud completely covered Zero’s body as she giggled more, “Oh yeah! That’s what I’m gonna do! Clean more, and get closer to Tara!”

ZERO!

“Doctor.” Zero stopped moving the broom and fazed away only to reappear in space above the Earth, “Yes Doctor?”

“Why haven’t you captured Dawn?” the doctor’s voice echoed in her mind, “I have been watching you, and it seems that the girl named Tara is getting in your way.”

“No doctor.” she shook her head, and winced as doctor Clay sent an image of what he wanted her to do.

“You understand, don’t you?” he asked with an evil undertone in his voice.

Zero lowered her head, “Yes, doctor, I understand.” her voice was devoid of all emotion except what sounded like sadness. Willow’s copy fazed back down to Earth and sat on a tree branch just above Tara and Xander, she smiled when the siblings began tapping each other with their brooms, and would turn away like it wasn’t them. Zero kept her giggles in check, she didn’t want to alert the two of her watching.

“You love her don’t ya sis?” Xander asked having stopped, and leaned on his broom to watch his sister’s reaction.

Tara grinned and nodded, “Yeah, that I do…but lately it seems like Willow doesn’t even want to be around me…”

“Didn’t look like it in the bath.” Xander smirked when a blush covered Tara’s face and neck, “Looked to me like you both were having fun, and in front of Dawn no less!”

“Well what about you? Don’t you love Anya?”

“Yeah, I love her.”

“Then why were you running from her…and giving me, Willow and Dawn a showing of everything you have.”

“Hey, you really can’t blame me…she just showed up, dropped her robe, and said, “Let’s have sex!” right before jumping into the water with me!” the young man coughed, “When there’s sex involved in my life it won’t be called sex, it’ll be called making love, and that’s what I want Anya to say. Don’t ya think that’s the way it should be?”

Tara nodded, “Yeah, you’re right little brother.” she grinned and smacked his ass with the broom, “Just don’t go streaking through the bathhouse when everyone else is there too, okay?”

“Yeah, don’t wanna give Dawn any ideas!”

Zero fazed away from the tree branch to the cave Willow had been trapped in for so many years, and relived the demon’s memory from the first time she’d seen the blonde as a baby, to the day she and Xander had snuck into the cave and released her. It felt weird seeing and feeling what Willow did, and still does, but Zero couldn’t find any way around it. She just like Willow had fallen in love with the blonde, only difference was that she’d have to leave and become Dr. Clay’s servant once more, and Willow would be free to live her life. Zero sat down near the cave entrance, and sighed, was there a way around the order given, and if so, could she get away with it? She didn’t think so since the doctor was always watching, so he’d know if she did as was told, and there would be hell to pay if she didn’t do as ordered.

As Zero sat at the cave and began remembering Willow’s memories once more, the day passed by quickly and before she knew it was dark. Standing up, Zero fazed to the front porch of the Maclay house, sat down on the first step and leaned against the top one. Miss Kitty hopped up on her bent legs, staring at her, “Meow…” the kitten didn’t know why, but she couldn’t talk with her master through their link any more, and it was worrying her.

“I was given an order…” Zero whispered staring into the kitten’s eyes, “and that order was to…” she squeezed her eyes shut, picked Miss Kitty up and scratched behind her ears before putting her on the ground. “That order was…” she growled and fazed into the sky in front of the full moon. She looked down at the Maclay house where Tara’s window was as the wind picked up and blew her hair over her shoulders, with a deep breath she fazed once more, and reappeared in Tara’s bedroom.

The blonde was lying on her side facing the wall peacefully sleeping as Zero watched, and raised her hand, If that girl is getting in your way kill her. Doctor Clay’s voice filled her head, That is an order! A small ball of red energy appeared in Zero’s hand, and she made a fist forcing the energy into a dagger, as Tara turned over on to her back, Kill her! Doctor Clay ordered, and with a scream Zero brought the energy dagger down toward Tara’s head.

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There's 35 and I'm working on 36...hope ya enjoyed ^_^

[ceridwen]

Hey

That was a sweet chapter!

Very funny, hehe

Poor Xander...

You need to post the update soon.

[viximon]

It was so sweet of Xander that "I don't want to her have sex, I want her to make love with me"
And that litte hot moment in the bath, Tara and Willow staring each other!! Yep

But, now...killing? nop nop, no killing here. No way!!

Continue soon

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Hey koibito, glad you liked the last chapter, ah, what I did to Xander wasn't that bad, was it? >_> <_< ^_^...and here's the update...late, but at least its here ^_^

Viximon - I kinda figured that making love would be a lot better than just having sex...I mean sex is something with no love at all involved...glad you liked the bath scene...i loved writing it ^_^ Here's the update.

Note: Sorry about the lateness but I've been double working...getting up at either 4:30am, 5 or 5:30 and going to work, only to come home and pull up carpet, lay tile, fix the floor, fix windows...and whatever else there is that has to be fixed...so I haven't really had all that much time for anything else. But I've been finding time to at least work on the update...and here it is ^_^


Oni or Tenshi?
Pairing: Eventually W/T, B/F
Rating: PG-13-R
Disclaimer: Really, if I owned either seires I'd be rich, which is something I'm not...so I don't own 'em.

Chapter Thirty-Six: You’re Not Willow

Teardrops hit the floor in front of Zero’s feet as she stared at the energy dagger, and stepped back lowering her head. The dagger disappeared after she’d let go of it, and left a small black hole only a half inch away from Tara’s head, she couldn’t do it, and she had disobeyed a direct order from the doctor. But at that moment she didn’t care, Tara was too important to her, and not to mention to the real Willow trapped on Doctor Clay’s ship, and her feelings had gotten the best of her when she’d brought the dagger down, thus causing her to miss the blonde’s head.
“No…” she whispered in the silent room, and was thankful that her scream had not awoke the sleeping blonde, “I won’t hurt her…I’ll just go get Dawn and take her to the doctor.” Zero firmly nodded and fazed just outside Tara’s door. She leaned against the door with her head down and sighed.

“Couldn’t do it, huh?” Dawn smirked when Zero’s head shot up she hadn‘t known the small scientist was there.

“You!” Zero sneered, “You knew? I thought the link with you was cut!”

Dawn shrugged, “You weren’t acting at all like my sister does, plus there’s your tattoo, if I hadn’t been sure before, I was when I saw it in the bath. And yes, the link is cut off, that‘s what got me to thinking, since even when Willow blocks the link I can still feel some, if not all of her emotions, and I‘m guessing the gems are real too.”

Zero glanced at the gems she‘d taken from Willow, Yeah, they‘re real…” she smirked, “Doesn’t matter anyway, I won’t have to hurt Tara if I take you back with me.” Zero lunged forward as Dawn jumped down the first four steps, “Gotcha!” She smirked as her arms wrapped around Dawn’s waist.

“I didn’t know Clay was into sex dolls.”

“Huh?” Zero looked to the left only to see Dawn leaning against the wall, and down at the Dawn-doll in her arms before throwing it to the floor, “Damn it! Stay still!” she growled sprinting forward, and flew into the wall from an energy blast.

Anya appeared at the top of the stairs with Adam and Oz on either side of her, “I will not allow any violence in this house…unless its between you and me!” the princess shouted sending another blast of Juraian energy into Zero’s body, causing the Willow-look-alike to hit the wall again just as Tara and Xander appeared.

“What the hell is going on?” Xander asked with wide eyes, “Anya, you’re gonna kill her!”

The princess shook her head, “Adam! Oz! Capture her!” she ordered and watched as the guardian logs flew toward Zero. The copy of Willow held her hand out sending a wave of energy that knocked the guardians into the wall, “Tara! Xander! Watch out!” Anya dived toward the siblings and wrapped her arms around both of them, “She’ll kill you!”

“No!” Zero’s broken scream caught everyone’s attention, “Tara…” she whispered as tears began falling, “How…how can you say that?” she asked shaking her head, “I’m sorry Tara.”

“Willow?” Tara watched as Zero disappeared from site, “What the hell is going on around here?” she turned to her brother and saw him shrug.

“Wow,” Dawn blinked as she picked up Miss Kitty, “She’s one hellva copy, and we’re gonna go after her.”

Anya sighed, “Here we go again, just like with Glory…but don’t you think Willow’s copy has a better personality that Willow?”

“Maybe, but you just wanna leave Zero like that?”

Anya shook her head, “No, we better not what with how pitiful she looked.”

As the princess and Dawn talked Tara and Xander were looking back and forth between the two before finally settling their eyes on each other, “What are they talking about?” Tara stared at her brother hoping he knew what was going on, and felt like screaming to the heavens when he shrugged.

“Get dressed, we leave in a few minutes.” Dawn -just like Willow- fazed into her clothes and took Miss Kitty outside, “Now!” she shouted tossing the kitten into the air and watched as the kitten transformed into her second form with a long drawn out meow.

Within five minutes the small group were flying through space as Dawn sat at the control panel, making Anya wish the scientist had been there when they’d fought Glory, instead of being locked up. “Hey, did you say that wasn’t the real Willow?” Tara couldn’t help but ask having thought about it.

“I said something like that didn’t I? Oh well, no, that’s no entirely true…” Dawn was cut off when a screen popped up, “There’s a battle going on?”

“Isn’t that…?” Xander blinked as a silver ship swerved around several blasts of energy fire.

“Ahhhhh! I’m gonna die!” Buffy’s voice came thorough the speakers as several blasts of energy just missed the Yukinojo, “Faith, do something!”

“Yep, that’s them…” Xander answered his own question.

“I’m tryin’ just leave me alone for now!.” The dark haired officer’s voice growled.

“How the hell did they find their way to Clay’s ship?” Dawn asked then shook her head, “I guess anything involving them is always pure luck.”

“Yeah, but what kind of luck?” Anya asked watching the silver ship move from side to side, avoiding the blasts of energy.

Tara stood just behind Dawn and winced when Buffy screamed again, “Dawn do something! Help them!”

“Just hang on, Tara, I’m looking.” Dawn continued to type on her phantom computer, never seeing the Yukinojo get hit, and crash on the much larger ship.

“Damn!” Xander shouted.

“There we go.“ Dawn grinned and glanced around, “Well, damn, Tara I told you to wait.” she shook her head when she found the bridge empty, “I don’t know about her and that brother of hers, always rushing off.”

Down on the ship Tara, Xander, and Anya appeared and heard Buffy’s frantic screams, followed by explosions of energy blasts, and then Faith’s shout to run. The siblings and princess watched as the two officers ran by them all the while being chased by ten red, round, floating robots, that were shooting energy blasts, “Well, they are lucky.” Anya blinked and watched the robots turn and speed away from the two officers as they shot their energy pistols. “At least they aren’t hurt.”

“Take that, and that! Take some of this too!” Buffy shouted chasing after the machines and firing with Faith at her side.

“Fucking security bots!” Faith joined in the shouting as she fired her pistol at one of the robots that had just barely missed her ass with an energy beam, “Shoulda left us alone!”

“Well, we really should help them,” Tara shook her head watching the officers run back by them being chased by another fifteen bots, “they need it.”

Xander nodded as Buffy and Faith chased the bots back the way they came, “Yeah…” he agreed changing into his Juraian battle gear along with Tara and Anya, “Let’s go!” he shouted jumping at the bots as they started chasing the officers again.

Two Juraian swords came to life as a blast of Juraian energy hit one of the bots, knocking it back into the blast from Faith’s energy pistol. Tara swung left and then right, taking out three of the bots, and knocking another to the ground, allowing Buffy to fire two energy blasts into it. “Thanks!” The blonde officer grinned, and giggled when three more bots fell down in pieces, followed by the last few once Anya’s energy hit them, “Wow! Why are you guys here?”

“Willow isn’t Willow, Willow is Zero, and we’ve come here to find Willow-Willow!”

“What the hell are you talking about?” Faith eyed Xander before turning to Tara, “Has he been smoking something?”

Tara shook her head, “No, he hasn’t…”

Buffy blinked, “So Zero took Willow’s place and you’re here looking for the real Willow?”

Everyone stared at the blonde officer wide eyed, just how did she figure that out from what Xander had said, especially if Faith couldn’t even understand it? “Yeah…that’s right.” Anya blinked before shaking her head, wouldn’t Dawn have a stroke if she’d heard that Buffy actually understood what was going on at the moment.

“Cool, we can help!” she chirped, grabbed Faith’s hand and drug her toward a hatch, “C’mon, let’s go find Willow, she might be in trouble!”

“Wonders will never cease with Buffy around.” Xander said as he followed his sister and Anya through the hatch and into the ship.

Inside the ship Dr. Clay had watched the going ons outside, and growled when the bots were destroyed. Narrowing his one good eye the doctor watched as the group entered the hatch, "That girl and her brother are good... for Earthlings." he said to himself watching the replay of their fight, "But they don't look good enough for Dawn to be so interested in them." The older scientist leaned back shaking his head, "I wonder why they are so special?" Shrugging his shoulders he shook his head once more, "At any rate there's no way they can get to me."

"That's why I told the wo wait for a while." Doctor Clay's eyes went wide as he spun around and laid eye on Dawn.

"You! How the hell did you get here?!"

Dawn ignored the question and placed her left hand on her hip, "Well, you certainly look older, Doc Clay...although that octopus head is just like the old days." she smirked.

Clay grit his teeth, wrapped his fingers around an energy pistol and drew, only to have it shot out of his hand by an energy blast from Dawn, "You're just the same, Dawn." Dawn chuckled placing her right hand on her hip and cocking her head, "While we were competing for the director's chair at the academy..." The older scientist stood, "But you know, now its your turn to feel how I felt when I was driven out of the academy." he tapped a foot tall nine inch round cup holder-like object with four green crystal balls on the desk in front of him. The object split into four seperate peices as a small two-inch round black plate with green and red lines rose up.

"Huh?" Dawn leaned to the right, nearly losing her balance.

Doctor Clay held out his right hand, "I recommend that you do not move. You see, if you do, this entire ship will blow up along with you pet guinea pigs...not to mention that precious sister of yours." Clay smirked as a clear tube rose out of the floor with a naken and very pissed off looking Willow inside.

"Oh, well..." Dawn scratched the back of her head with a grin, "It's a good thing it's not someone like Anya."

Clay turned around and stared at the younger scientist, "Perhaps you can tell me what those gems she was wearing are. Even her Majesty couldn't figure them out...and that is very surprising."

"Actually," Dawn spoke with a deep voice, "I don't know what they are either. They've been around since I was just a little girl."

To hear Dawn imatating his voice, or at least trying to caused the older scientist to grit his teeth, "Well, that is interesting." He said finally calming down, " By the way, it was surprising to hear you call that girl and her brother 'guinea pigs'. You know, I've never heard a human called that. So, Dawn, what is it you like about them? They don't seem like worthwhile material...they must be a couple of blockheads if you can trick them that easy."

"Actually, that's what I like about them." Dawn grinned, "And besides, just because I call them my guinea pigs doesn't really mean that they're my research subject, does it?"

Clay chuckled causing Dawn to quirke her eyebrows, "That's a good joke."

"Hey, there!" The small scientist growled, "I'm sure you didn't go to all this trouble just to talk about the old days, did you? What the hell do you want from me?"

"These passed 20,000 years I can't tell you how many times I thought that ever knowing you was the greatest misfortune of my life."

Dawn shrugged, "Old men are so full of grudges."

"That's all coming to an end today." Clay smirked, "The biggest pain of my life will become the goddess of good fortune."

"That's nice."

"I meant you, Dawn, my dear."

"Whatever."

"Whatever?!" Clay growled but calmed down quickly, "There's a place I'd like to take you, someone would like to meet you."

"Ooh!" Dawn shouted in a little girl's voice and jumped over to Clay, "Little girls turn you on!"

"What!?" Caly leaned away from the young scientist.

"Just as I thought!" Dawn shouted once more covering her breasts with her arms, "You're gonna take me to some secret club and then do all kinds of things to my young and beautiful body!" The small scientist put her hands on her cheeks, "And at the end you're gonna do something absolutely unspeakable. Oh my! Oh my! Old age has a way of distorting how you express love, you know?"

Doctor Clay screamed and backed away from Dawn -almost teleporting away- and stared at her with a frightened look, "I never said such things!" he shouted.

"Well, I do appreciate your feelings, really I do, but I think I'm just a little to young for you...maybe in another thirty or forty thousand years, but I don't think so."

In the tube Willow blinked and shivered to even think of anyone with the older scientist...even her sister.

"Dammit Dawn! Cut that out!" Clay shivered thinking about what she was saying... "Besides why would I be interested in something that I can't tell the front from the back?"

In the tube Willow fell to the side as her laughter filled the room, Dawn growled turned to face Clay and grabbed her shirt, "Take a good look, you bastard!" she shouted unbuttoning the top buttons.

"Ahhh! Shit! S-stop it!" Clay backed away, his eye going wide as he turned his head, "Look, the one who wants to see you is Lady Tokimi!"

"Who's that?" The only answer she received was the deep chuckle from the other scientist.

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Hey koibito, glad you liked the last chapter, ah, what I did to Xander wasn't that bad, was it? >_> <_< ^_^...and here's the update...late, but at least its here ^_^

Viximon - I kinda figured that making love would be a lot better than just having sex...I mean sex is something with no love at all involved...glad you liked the bath scene...i loved writing it ^_^ Here's the update.

Note: Sorry about the lateness but I've been double working...getting up at either 4:30am, 5 or 5:30 and going to work, only to come home and pull up carpet, lay tile, fix the floor, fix windows...and whatever else there is that has to be fixed...so I haven't really had all that much time for anything else. But I've been finding time to at least work on the update...and here it is ^_^


Oni or Tenshi?
Pairing: Eventually W/T, B/F
Rating: PG-13-R
Disclaimer: Really, if I owned either seires I'd be rich, which is something I'm not...so I don't own 'em.

Chapter Thirty-Six: You’re Not Willow

Teardrops hit the floor in front of Zero’s feet as she stared at the energy dagger, and stepped back lowering her head. The dagger disappeared after she’d let go of it, and left a small black hole only a half inch away from Tara’s head, she couldn’t do it, and she had disobeyed a direct order from the doctor. But at that moment she didn’t care, Tara was too important to her, and not to mention to the real Willow trapped on Doctor Clay’s ship, and her feelings had gotten the best of her when she’d brought the dagger down, thus causing her to miss the blonde’s head.
“No…” she whispered in the silent room, and was thankful that her scream had not awoke the sleeping blonde, “I won’t hurt her…I’ll just go get Dawn and take her to the doctor.” Zero firmly nodded and fazed just outside Tara’s door. She leaned against the door with her head down and sighed.

“Couldn’t do it, huh?” Dawn smirked when Zero’s head shot up she hadn‘t known the small scientist was there.

“You!” Zero sneered, “You knew? I thought the link with you was cut!”

Dawn shrugged, “You weren’t acting at all like my sister does, plus there’s your tattoo, if I hadn’t been sure before, I was when I saw it in the bath. And yes, the link is cut off, that‘s what got me to thinking, since even when Willow blocks the link I can still feel some, if not all of her emotions, and I‘m guessing the gems are real too.”

Zero glanced at the gems she‘d taken from Willow, Yeah, they‘re real…” she smirked, “Doesn’t matter anyway, I won’t have to hurt Tara if I take you back with me.” Zero lunged forward as Dawn jumped down the first four steps, “Gotcha!” She smirked as her arms wrapped around Dawn’s waist.

“I didn’t know Clay was into sex dolls.”

“Huh?” Zero looked to the left only to see Dawn leaning against the wall, and down at the Dawn-doll in her arms before throwing it to the floor, “Damn it! Stay still!” she growled sprinting forward, and flew into the wall from an energy blast.

Anya appeared at the top of the stairs with Adam and Oz on either side of her, “I will not allow any violence in this house…unless its between you and me!” the princess shouted sending another blast of Juraian energy into Zero’s body, causing the Willow-look-alike to hit the wall again just as Tara and Xander appeared.

“What the hell is going on?” Xander asked with wide eyes, “Anya, you’re gonna kill her!”

The princess shook her head, “Adam! Oz! Capture her!” she ordered and watched as the guardian logs flew toward Zero. The copy of Willow held her hand out sending a wave of energy that knocked the guardians into the wall, “Tara! Xander! Watch out!” Anya dived toward the siblings and wrapped her arms around both of them, “She’ll kill you!”

“No!” Zero’s broken scream caught everyone’s attention, “Tara…” she whispered as tears began falling, “How…how can you say that?” she asked shaking her head, “I’m sorry Tara.”

“Willow?” Tara watched as Zero disappeared from site, “What the hell is going on around here?” she turned to her brother and saw him shrug.

“Wow,” Dawn blinked as she picked up Miss Kitty, “She’s one hellva copy, and we’re gonna go after her.”

Anya sighed, “Here we go again, just like with Glory…but don’t you think Willow’s copy has a better personality that Willow?”

“Maybe, but you just wanna leave Zero like that?”

Anya shook her head, “No, we better not what with how pitiful she looked.”

As the princess and Dawn talked Tara and Xander were looking back and forth between the two before finally settling their eyes on each other, “What are they talking about?” Tara stared at her brother hoping he knew what was going on, and felt like screaming to the heavens when he shrugged.

“Get dressed, we leave in a few minutes.” Dawn -just like Willow- fazed into her clothes and took Miss Kitty outside, “Now!” she shouted tossing the kitten into the air and watched as the kitten transformed into her second form with a long drawn out meow.

Within five minutes the small group were flying through space as Dawn sat at the control panel, making Anya wish the scientist had been there when they’d fought Glory, instead of being locked up. “Hey, did you say that wasn’t the real Willow?” Tara couldn’t help but ask having thought about it.

“I said something like that didn’t I? Oh well, no, that’s no entirely true…” Dawn was cut off when a screen popped up, “There’s a battle going on?”

“Isn’t that…?” Xander blinked as a silver ship swerved around several blasts of energy fire.

“Ahhhhh! I’m gonna die!” Buffy’s voice came thorough the speakers as several blasts of energy just missed the Yukinojo, “Faith, do something!”

“Yep, that’s them…” Xander answered his own question.

“I’m tryin’ just leave me alone for now!.” The dark haired officer’s voice growled.

“How the hell did they find their way to Clay’s ship?” Dawn asked then shook her head, “I guess anything involving them is always pure luck.”

“Yeah, but what kind of luck?” Anya asked watching the silver ship move from side to side, avoiding the blasts of energy.

Tara stood just behind Dawn and winced when Buffy screamed again, “Dawn do something! Help them!”

“Just hang on, Tara, I’m looking.” Dawn continued to type on her phantom computer, never seeing the Yukinojo get hit, and crash on the much larger ship.

“Damn!” Xander shouted.

“There we go.“ Dawn grinned and glanced around, “Well, damn, Tara I told you to wait.” she shook her head when she found the bridge empty, “I don’t know about her and that brother of hers, always rushing off.”

Down on the ship Tara, Xander, and Anya appeared and heard Buffy’s frantic screams, followed by explosions of energy blasts, and then Faith’s shout to run. The siblings and princess watched as the two officers ran by them all the while being chased by ten red, round, floating robots, that were shooting energy blasts, “Well, they are lucky.” Anya blinked and watched the robots turn and speed away from the two officers as they shot their energy pistols. “At least they aren’t hurt.”

“Take that, and that! Take some of this too!” Buffy shouted chasing after the machines and firing with Faith at her side.

“Fucking security bots!” Faith joined in the shouting as she fired her pistol at one of the robots that had just barely missed her ass with an energy beam, “Shoulda left us alone!”

“Well, we really should help them,” Tara shook her head watching the officers run back by them being chased by another fifteen bots, “they need it.”

Xander nodded as Buffy and Faith chased the bots back the way they came, “Yeah…” he agreed changing into his Juraian battle gear along with Tara and Anya, “Let’s go!” he shouted jumping at the bots as they started chasing the officers again.

Two Juraian swords came to life as a blast of Juraian energy hit one of the bots, knocking it back into the blast from Faith’s energy pistol. Tara swung left and then right, taking out three of the bots, and knocking another to the ground, allowing Buffy to fire two energy blasts into it. “Thanks!” The blonde officer grinned, and giggled when three more bots fell down in pieces, followed by the last few once Anya’s energy hit them, “Wow! Why are you guys here?”

“Willow isn’t Willow, Willow is Zero, and we’ve come here to find Willow-Willow!”

“What the hell are you talking about?” Faith eyed Xander before turning to Tara, “Has he been smoking something?”

Tara shook her head, “No, he hasn’t…”

Buffy blinked, “So Zero took Willow’s place and you’re here looking for the real Willow?”

Everyone stared at the blonde officer wide eyed, just how did she figure that out from what Xander had said, especially if Faith couldn’t even understand it? “Yeah…that’s right.” Anya blinked before shaking her head, wouldn’t Dawn have a stroke if she’d heard that Buffy actually understood what was going on at the moment.

“Cool, we can help!” she chirped, grabbed Faith’s hand and drug her toward a hatch, “C’mon, let’s go find Willow, she might be in trouble!”

“Wonders will never cease with Buffy around.” Xander said as he followed his sister and Anya through the hatch and into the ship.

Inside the ship Dr. Clay had watched the going ons outside, and growled when the bots were destroyed. Narrowing his one good eye the doctor watched as the group entered the hatch, "That girl and her brother are good... for Earthlings." he said to himself watching the replay of their fight, "But they don't look good enough for Dawn to be so interested in them." The older scientist leaned back shaking his head, "I wonder why they are so special?" Shrugging his shoulders he shook his head once more, "At any rate there's no way they can get to me."

"That's why I told the wo wait for a while." Doctor Clay's eyes went wide as he spun around and laid eye on Dawn.

"You! How the hell did you get here?!"

Dawn ignored the question and placed her left hand on her hip, "Well, you certainly look older, Doc Clay...although that octopus head is just like the old days." she smirked.

Clay grit his teeth, wrapped his fingers around an energy pistol and drew, only to have it shot out of his hand by an energy blast from Dawn, "You're just the same, Dawn." Dawn chuckled placing her right hand on her hip and cocking her head, "While we were competing for the director's chair at the academy..." The older scientist stood, "But you know, now its your turn to feel how I felt when I was driven out of the academy." he tapped a foot tall nine inch round cup holder-like object with four green crystal balls on the desk in front of him. The object split into four seperate peices as a small two-inch round black plate with green and red lines rose up.

"Huh?" Dawn leaned to the right, nearly losing her balance.

Doctor Clay held out his right hand, "I recommend that you do not move. You see, if you do, this entire ship will blow up along with you pet guinea pigs...not to mention that precious sister of yours." Clay smirked as a clear tube rose out of the floor with a naken and very pissed off looking Willow inside.

"Oh, well..." Dawn scratched the back of her head with a grin, "It's a good thing it's not someone like Anya."

Clay turned around and stared at the younger scientist, "Perhaps you can tell me what those gems she was wearing are. Even her Majesty couldn't figure them out...and that is very surprising."

"Actually," Dawn spoke with a deep voice, "I don't know what they are either. They've been around since I was just a little girl."

To hear Dawn imatating his voice, or at least trying to caused the older scientist to grit his teeth, "Well, that is interesting." He said finally calming down, " By the way, it was surprising to hear you call that girl and her brother 'guinea pigs'. You know, I've never heard a human called that. So, Dawn, what is it you like about them? They don't seem like worthwhile material...they must be a couple of blockheads if you can trick them that easy."

"Actually, that's what I like about them." Dawn grinned, "And besides, just because I call them my guinea pigs doesn't really mean that they're my research subject, does it?"

Clay chuckled causing Dawn to quirke her eyebrows, "That's a good joke."

"Hey, there!" The small scientist growled, "I'm sure you didn't go to all this trouble just to talk about the old days, did you? What the hell do you want from me?"

"These passed 20,000 years I can't tell you how many times I thought that ever knowing you was the greatest misfortune of my life."

Dawn shrugged, "Old men are so full of grudges."

"That's all coming to an end today." Clay smirked, "The biggest pain of my life will become the goddess of good fortune."

"That's nice."

"I meant you, Dawn, my dear."

"Whatever."

"Whatever?!" Clay growled but calmed down quickly, "There's a place I'd like to take you, someone would like to meet you."

"Ooh!" Dawn shouted in a little girl's voice and jumped over to Clay, "Little girls turn you on!"

"What!?" Caly leaned away from the young scientist.

"Just as I thought!" Dawn shouted once more covering her breasts with her arms, "You're gonna take me to some secret club and then do all kinds of things to my young and beautiful body!" The small scientist put her hands on her cheeks, "And at the end you're gonna do something absolutely unspeakable. Oh my! Oh my! Old age has a way of distorting how you express love, you know?"

Doctor Clay screamed and backed away from Dawn -almost teleporting away- and stared at her with a frightened look, "I never said such things!" he shouted.

"Well, I do appreciate your feelings, really I do, but I think I'm just a little to young for you...maybe in another thirty or forty thousand years, but I don't think so."

In the tube Willow blinked and shivered to even think of anyone with the older scientist...even her sister.

"Dammit Dawn! Cut that out!" Clay shivered thinking about what she was saying... "Besides why would I be interested in something that I can't tell the front from the back?"

In the tube Willow fell to the side as her laughter filled the room, Dawn growled turned to face Clay and grabbed her shirt, "Take a good look, you bastard!" she shouted unbuttoning the top buttons.

"Ahhh! Shit! S-stop it!" Clay backed away, his eye going wide as he turned his head, "Look, the one who wants to see you is Lady Tokimi!"

"Who's that?" The only answer she received was the deep chuckle from the other scientist.

[ceridwen]

Hey

An update at last

Cool chapter

I can always count on Buffy to make me

Hehe... Dawn was pretty funny too

Well... i just hope they get Willow back soon... i miss W/T stuff

Keep it up.