Oni or Tenshi?

[viximon]

I'm with ceridwen. Dawn is such a perv Funny chap.
It was so hilarious with Buffy translating bubble-lenguaje.

Aww and Willow/Zero so touching; she couldn't hurt Tara, how sweet. Now is demostrated her feeling really run deep.

Don't make us wait longer to read next chap. Nice work BTW. See you around

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Hey koibito, glad you liked the last chapter and what Buffy was up too Sorry for making you wait so long for this chapter, but you know all the work I've been doing >_< Well hope you like this chapter Aishiteru ren'ai

Viximon - Yeah, Dawn is a perv ^_^ Glad you liked the last chapter, and I thought having Buffy translate Xander's talk would be funny Sorry about making you wait so long, but I've been doing a lot of work lately, and I'm hoping that it'll be over with pretty soon so I can get back to working on my fics ^_^



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: There is a surprise for at the end of this chapter, and hopefully everyone will like it...actually there are 3 surprises...and for one I'm still trying to figure out how to explain it >_> <_< >_< ^_^ Anyway, hope you enjoy


Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Good In Zero

While Dr. Clay continued laughing at Dawn’s expense, Tara and the others were finding it very hard to navigate through the Galaxy Police Battleship, and were getting lost more than finding a way to Willow. The group came to a four way intersection and stopped, “Which way?” Xander asked looking from one path to the other.

“Doesn’t this place look familiar?” Anya glanced around spotting a small yellow paint mark next to the right path.

“Hey guys, I think we should go this way.” Buffy pointed down the forward path and smiled happily when Tara nodded and passed her in a sprint with Xander and Anya behind her, “Come on Faith! We don’t wanna be left behind.”

“But…” Faith sighed and shook her head, she agreed with Anya, where she was standing did look familiar, “Alright, I’m coming.” she sighed once more as she took a black marker out drawing a large X on the wall and ran to catch up with the group knowing something was odd about that certain path way.

Three floors up and two doors down sat a room with only a single window, allowing the starlight to shine through onto a small bed where Zero sat with her head down. The copy of Willow had been sitting like that since she’d returned, she hadn’t even reported back to the doctor just had went straight to her room and sat in silence. Yes, she had seen the Galaxy Police ship twisting and turning away from the laser cannon fire, and she’d also see Miss Kitty come into view, but she had stayed where she was. She knew they were there for the real Willow, and most possibly to kill her for what she’d done, but what did they know? Her orders were to get Dawn and bring her back to the ship, but that had soon slipped her mind when she had…fallen?… for Tara. Had she fallen for Tara? Yes, she believed so, but what good would that have done her then or even now? Just look at what had happened, Anya speaking like she would have killed Tara, if she couldn’t do it when the blonde was sleeping, what made the princess think that she could do it when Tara was awake?

Zero glanced up and stared out the window, she could see the passing planets and had to wonder if the people on those planets had the same thoughts like she did. She was sure they did, how could they not? Anyone faced with those kinds of feelings usually at some point questioned or even doubted their thoughts of love for another person, or even if that person loved them. But she wasn’t doubting her love for Tara, it was Tara’s love for Willow, did the blonde love the demon, and if so, why hadn’t she said anything to her, or even Zero herself? One thing was for certain though, Zero wasn’t going to go back to being a metal robot for Clay to order around. No, she was going to stay Willow even if it pissed the doctor off to no end. She was Willow now, and no one was going to take that away from her, not even Doctor Clay. The reflection in the window caught her attention causing Zero to raise her hand to her cheek, and feel the wetness there. She had been crying and didn’t even know it, if that wasn’t a sign that she was more than a robot then she didn’t know what was.

Taking a deep breath Zero rose from the bed and clenched her fists, it was time she paid the doctor a visit and tell him where to get off at, no matter if he was with Dawn at the moment she didn’t care. And if Dawn said anything about it, well, she’d just meet one of Zero’s attacks now wouldn’t she? The door slid up allowing Zero to step into the hall and turn left toward two huge double doors at the end where she knew Clay would be.

“Will you stop laughing and tell me what the hell you want!” Dawn almost growled, Clay’s laughing had began to get on her nerves, and now she was getting pissed. Clay blinked and stopped his chuckling to stare at the small scientist in surprise. He was calling the shots, how dare she tell him what to do!

“Look its time for me to shine! So shut your damn mouth! Once the Lady has you she will give me whatever I want, and then no one will stab me in the back!”

“What’s your problem?” Dawn shook her head, “Don’t you know why they ran you outta the academy? You didn’t love science enough, you only wanted the fame, but a real scientist only thinks about his or her work. That’s why you were thrown out!”

Clay gritted his teeth, and grinned when a thought occurred to him, “You said you didn’t remember anything from over 20,000 years, correct?” he asked just as his eyes widened, “Don’t touch that!”

Dawn had sat down in a green chair and was now holding a small silver and gold vase, “This is your favorite, right? You know how I knew where to find you? This right here,” she pointed to the same small sigil on the vase as the tattoo on Zero’s butt, “you also painted it on the goddess’ forehead, that’s how I knew this was the bridge, and this,” she raised the vase, “is your favorite. You were always one to put this little sigil on your favorite things.”

“Stop it! That’s a very expensive vase! It’s priceless!”

“Woops.” Dawn dropped the vase causing the old scientist to grab his chest and scream, but calm down when he saw his enemy had caught it, “Now tell me what I want to know! Or I will drop it.”

Clay sighed, “Give me the vase.”

“No.”

“Fine.” Clay moved to a small button, “Your sister dies then…and so will the others on board.” he said with his hand hovering over a small purple button.

“Don’t!” Dawn shouted and lowered her head, “Fine…” she sat the vase on the floor, as a green slime covered her body up to her neck. “What the hell?!”

Clay grinned and chuckled, “Now lets see what’s in the head of yours.”

“Hey don’t you know a woman has to have her secrets?” she shouted as the substance covered her head, but broke away as an energy blast exploded.

“Zero, you’re here.” Clay turned, “Keep an eye on her.”

“Don’t move.” she said with her hand pointed at Dawn.

“Very good.” The old scientist started toward the control panel.

Zero turned her hand toward him, “That goes for you too doctor.”
Clay stopped dead still and slowly turned around to face his robot, “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” he asked then stopped as he thought about it, “Ah, I know, we need to erase the memory you have at the moment, then you’ll be back to your old self.”

“This is my old self, and I don’t want my memory erased…I am Willow now, and no one, not even you is gonna take that away from me!”

“What!?” Clay shouted taking a step back, “You can’t be serious…look Willow’s memory is interfering with your own, we need to erase it.” he took another step back and quickly slammed his hand down on the control panel activating the energy gun at Zero’s side. Zero screamed as the blast hit her, sending her into the far wall where she bounced back onto the carpet.

“You bastard!” Dawn shouted as the hardened green substance broke and she lunged forward punching Clay in the face, knocking him back. He rose quickly with a purple eye and a bloody nose and hit a pink button as Dawn started toward him again. The ship shook as a loud alarm sounded and red lights began flashing, “Huh?”

“The ship will split and everyone on board will be killed.” Clay laughed and stopped when he saw Dawn readying her fist again, “No! Stop! He shouted holding his hands out, “If you want to stop it the deactivation switch is over there.” Clay pointed to a statue of a woman with robes and ran as Dawn turned around.

Hurry up Dawn! Willow said through the link, I don’t wanna die here!

Dawn nodded as she stumbled forward and touched the statue, “Pervert!” she growled as the robes opened to reveal a naked woman, and a keyboard. “C’mon…” she began typing and slammed her fist on the keyboard hard enough to split the statue, “It’s a decoy! You sonvabitch!” she screamed and stumbled to the right as she searched for another way to stop the ship, knowing what would happen if she didn’t, and it would be worse than a quick death.

Earlier…

The group had rounded another corner and came to another intersection, “I know this is familiar…we’ve been here before!” Anya said as the group looked around.

Faith sighed shaking her head, “This is the same hallway,” she pointed to the mark she’d left before, “See that, I made that just before leaving.”

“But how?”

“Don’t know little brother, but it seems like we’re going in circles…but how, like you asked, is what I want to know.”

“Tara, I think we should go this way.” Buffy said pointing to the same hall they’d taken.

“That answers that.” Faith said just as the alarms began blaring all around them and the shutters slid down trapping them in. “Well shit!”

“No! Damn it!” Tara shouted as she hit one of the doors, and banged her head against it, they were so close.

The group stumbled as the ship shook, “What’s going on?” Xander asked glancing around and saw that Faith had a worried look on her face, “What?”

“Umm…this ship will split in two sections causing a major distortion in space.” she said remembering the talk about the ship at Headquarters.

“Shit!” The young boy squeaked with wide eye.

“You mean to tell me there’s going to be a distortion with an electrical field and everything?” Anya asked with eyes the size of plates, and turned to Tara, “You know what she’s saying, right?”

“Yeah…” Tara lowered her head again.

Buffy stared blankly at the others, “Huh? Whatcha mean?”

“It means we’re going to be sucked into a black hole you dolt!” Anya screamed at Buffy with clenched fists, as the others waited for the blonde to catch on.

Buffy put her right index finger to her lips and looked at the ceiling before her eyes went wide, “Oh wow!”

“No it’s not “oh wow”!”

Buffy nodded to the princess, “Yes it is, this will be the first time I’ve been so close to one!” she giggled and cocked her head when Tara groaned and banged her head against the steel door once more, “What’s wrong?”

“We’re going to die, you twit!” Anya growled falling into Xander’s arms.

“That’s bad…I don’t wanna die!” The blonde officer shouted once everything had settled into her brain and she figured it out, “Faith do something!” she cried hugging the dark haired officer and squeezing the breath out of her lungs.

“S-stop! Can’t…breath…”

“Oops…” Buffy lightened up on her squeezing but kept a firm hold on her lover, “I’m sorry…but do something!”

“Do what?!” Faith asked throwing her hands in the air, “Look, we’re trapped here, how the fuck am I suppose to do something?”

The blonde officer shrugged, “Don’t know, but do whatever!”

Faith sighed lowering her head, how was she going to do anything if they were trapped at the intersection, and the bridge was somewhere above them? She didn’t know, and to tell the truth she was scared, how were they going to get out of this with their skin intact? All she knew about black holes were what the GP Academy had taught them, and she wasn’t sure if they were correct…how did they know when a person sucked into the distortion got skinned alive before their lungs exploded? Maybe that was just something they told the rookies to keep them from getting too close, but she sure as hell didn’t want to see if it were true.

The ship rocked again sending everyone to their knees as the bridge split from the rest of the battleship. “Damn it!” Dawn shouted seeing no way to stop what was happening, that damn Clay had screwed her and the others over but good! “I’m so sorry guys…I tried…”

“Shit! Tara! Noooo!” Willow screamed as she ship shook once more and the distortion began forming the black hole. The redhead began pounding against the glass with no luck as to it breaking any time soon and sunk to her knees as her eyes filled with tears.

Back at the intersection Tara, Xander and Anya were using their Juraian energy to form a barrier around their group and were quickly becoming tired as the black hole inched closer. Anya screamed in pain from a backlash of power and fell to her knees only to be helped up, and held by Faith, Buffy grabbed on to Xander as he weakened and fell to his knees, “I’m sorry…I can’t hold out…” Tara whispered as Faith caught her and screamed when the energy broke, allowing the black hole to swallow them.

In a small escape pod several miles from the black hole Doctor Clay watched as most of the battleship disappeared and laughed, “That will teach her to fuck with me!” he said throwing his head back and let lose an evil laugh that would have made Glory run in fear. The laughter stopped when a small red light began blinking along with a high pitched beep, glancing at the screen his eyes went wide, “No, it can’t be!” he looked up at the black hole and saw a bright shining light shooting toward the ships bridge, and magnified the image. Inside were Tara and Xander, both had formed the Light Hawk Wings with Anya, and the two officers inside with them, “How can this be?” he asked turning the ship, “I’d better report this to the Lady Tokimi!” Just as the ship shot forward a loud ‘Meow’ filled the pod and the ship form of Miss Kitty rose up in front of him. “Shit.” the doctor growled when the ship used a tractor beam and pulled him toward the bridge.

Once the group had landed back on what was left of the ship they had ran for the hatch, and jumped through just as Miss Kitty landed with both Clay’s ship and Yukinojo, “Willow!” Tara shouted running toward the fallen Zero and kneeled down.

Zero giggled weakly as she looked up at Tara, “I always want to be called that…I’ll always want you to call me that…I love you Tara.” Zero said blushing, “I’m going to die, you know…”

“No.” Tara shook her head, “You’re not.”

A few feet away Dawn handed Buffy a small box with a wicked smile, “This is a present for Clay, and tell him it’s worthless and not priceless, will ya?”

“Right!” Buffy saluted as she turned and tripped, causing the room to fill with the sound of glass breaking, “Umm…Dawn…” the officer stood with the help of Faith and turned around with a flattened box.

“Don’t worry Buffy, I also put a tube of super glue in there too.”

“Alright then.” Buffy perked up as she turned and tripped again, crushing the broken vase even more and causing Dawn to shake her head, that girl could trip on thin air! How did she ever make it as a Galaxy Police Officer?

“C’mon Tara, put Willow in the second tube.” Dawn turned with a smile as Tara lifted Zero into her arms and stared at the small scientist.

“Huh? What’s up?”

“I’m going to merge the two Willows back together.” Dawn began typing on her phantom computer.

Zero stared at Dawn, “What do you mean “back together?””

Dawn stopped typing and smiled even bigger, “When I made Willow I had to split her into two separate beings, cause one was just too hard to handle.” she explained as a bright smile lit up the robot’s face.

You big fat liar! Willow said through the link causing Dawn to turn and wink at her.

I’m not fat…but what should I do? Let her die? You don’t want that, now do you little sis?

But look at her!” Willow cringed, She’s all emotional! And besides, how you gonna do it? She‘s a robot.

Well you see when she copied you she made a complete copy, and she turned into you, no metal whatsoever was left in her body.

You’re kidding me!

Dawn chuckled shaking her head as she turned around, You’re just afraid…you’re afraid she’s another part of you with your real feelings. You aren’t used to showing the feelings you have, and now that Zero has shown hers, your just afraid that she really does have the other half of your feelings. Now be a good girl and let me merge her with you…otherwise, she’ll die.

Willow crossed her arms and huffed, but looked down into Zero’s green eyes, eyes that were just like hers and were now shining with tears and sighed as she lowered her head, Fine.

Good girl.

“Damn you Dawn!” Could be heard across space as Dawn laughed.


Two day later back on Earth…

Anya sat in the living room knitting another sweater for Xander, and hoping that he’d like it as Willow floated down from the rafters. The princess had to grin, Willow was more quite now and would blush at the mention of Tara’s name, she and the others had gotten used to teasing her just to see her face go as red as her hair, and didn’t want to see it end, but knew it would once Willow learned how to rein in her feelings once more. “Tara’s coming back.” Dawn said from the lab door and watched as Willow blushed, and ran out the front door giggling.

“But Tara won’t be back for at least another hour.” Faith said from the recliner with Buffy in her lap.

“I know,” Dawn winked with a grin, “But I can’t help but tease her just a little.” she said causing the others to laugh.

Anya stood from the couch and stretched, “Guess I’ll go wait at the steps for Xander, he should be getting back any time now from my sister’s training.”

“You know…” Buffy trailed off kissing Faith’s lips, “I think something wonderful is going to happen today.” she smiled.

“And what would that be?” Dawn asked as she started back to the lab.

Buffy shrugged, “I don’t know, but I have this feeling something is going to happen and its going to be wonderful.” she snuggled up to Faith’s chest and closed her eyes.

“Don’t look at me.” Faith said without looking at Dawn, but knowing the scientists eyes were on her, “I don’t know what goes through her head, and half the time I either don’t want to know, or don’t care…all I care for is if she loves me the way I love her.” Faith leaned back closing her eyes with a smile as Buffy’s whispered “I love you” reached her ears, “I love you too my little trouble maker.”

Dawn shook her head with a smile and slipped into the lab, “Ah, those blood tests must be finished.” she said to herself when a soft beeping sound filled the large room. She’d taken the blood samples from everyone in the house and had started testing them, Tara and Xander’s had been top of the list, but after Buffy had continually gotten into her DNA locked lab door she had to know what was what. Now as she sat on the floating pillow she brought up the blood tests on her phantom computer, and began reading. Hers as always showed everything she knew it would.

Subject: Dawn (no last name)

Age: Specified as over 20,000 years

Race: Unidentifiable

Date of Birth: Not specified

Living Family Members: Willow (sister)


Anya, and Hallie’s blood was what it should be, that of Juraian royalty, Willow’s showed what she knew it would, that being of her sister. Faith’s blood was the usual for anyone from the Zion colony, Tara and Xander’s showed that of Juraian royalty, but with more power than what she’d first expected. Now to Buffy’s blood sample, the scientist clicked on the file and read before blinking and rereading what the screen showed. “Great Goddess!” her scream filled the room as her eyes rolled back and she fell off the pillow unconscious.

Subject: Buffy Summers

Age: 19

Race: Unidentifiable

Date of Birth: Not specified

Living Family members: Joyce Summers (Mother and current GP Marshal) Willow (Sister) and Dawn (sister).


Halfway up the steps Anya sat down and waited for Xander to finish his training, and let her mind wander. When she’d approached him in the bath she knew it was the wrong thing to do now that she had taken in the customs of Earth. She shouldn’t have said “Let’s have sex!” no, what she should have said was “I love you, make love to me.” Now it was time for her to say it correctly, but she knew if Xander wanted more time she could give that to him, and unless she was reading the signals wrong he loved her too, and wanted to make love with her. Now all she had to do was wait. She didn’t have to wait long since she heard she whistling from behind her, and with a smile she stood and turned around. “Hi Xander.”

“Oh hey Anya, what’s up?” The young man asked carrying the boken practice sword and smiled at the princess.

“Well, I just wanted to talk with you while we walked back to the house.”
“Okay, whatcha wanna talk about?” Xander took the princess’ hand making her smile as they began walking down the steps.

“I don’t really know how to say this softly…or rather break it softly to you,” Anya spoke making Xander cock his head to the right and start to worry, what was she going to tell him? He lowered his head when the princess sighed, “Look Xander, I love you, and I want to make love to you, but if you need more time I can give you that…you do love me right?”

Xander blinked, and blinked again as he stopped, “Y-yes Anya I do love you…but the question is: Are you in love with me?”

“Yes, I am.”

“I’m in love with you too.” Xander grinned pulling the princess into a hug, “I love you Anya, I’ve loved you for a while now.”

“Good, cause I’ve loved you for a while now too.” She said copying his words with a grin, “Now let’s get back and help Hallie with supper.” she started forward but stopped when Xander didn’t move, “What’s wrong?”

Gently pulling the princess toward him, Xander leaned down and brushed his lips across hers, silently waiting and hoping she would kiss him back. He couldn’t help but smile into the kiss as Anya pressed her lips into his just a little harder, and wrapped her arms around his neck as he lifted her up off the ground.


Just a short ways below the fields Willow leaned against a tree and giggled, “When am I gonna get back to normal?” she asked giggling at the thought of meeting and walking back to the house with Tara. For the past two days Willow had endured the teasing from everyone except Tara, all she had to do was smile at her and Willow would blush as bright as her hair and stutter out something before running off. It wasn’t her fault either, it was the merging with Zero that had caused her emotions to go haywire, and really Willow didn’t mind it she just wished the others would quit teasing her. The demon’s sensitive ears picked up the sound of footsteps causing Willow to stand straighter and smooth out the white dress with pink flowers she was wearing. A smile lit up her face when Tara appeared emerging from the trees and walking her way, “Hey Tara.” she called giggling.

Tara smiled and waved as her eyes raked over the dress Willow was wearing it was just a simple dress but it made the blonde’s heart beat faster, “Hey Will, why are you out here by yourself?”

“I was just wanting to walk with you back to the house, you know to give you some company…not that I’m saying you’d want me around all the time, and not that you don’t enjoy the peaceful quietness of the walk, but I thought you’d just like someone to walk with you today…if you don’t I can always faze back to the house and leave you in peace.”

“Willow, don’t worry, I’d like it if you’d accompany me back to the house.” her lips quirked in a half smile as she thought ‘today?’ yeah, right, Willow had been coming down for the past two days to walk with her, and she wasn’t complaining at all. The blonde took Willow’s hand and began walking toward the house as her mind drifted off, and an even bigger smile spread across her face, “Come on I wanna show you something.” Tara said gently pulling Willow into the trees and up a small slope. They walked for ten minutes down a twisting and turning path and up a couple more slopes before Tara stopped, “Look.” she whispered pulling Willow in front of her.

Willow’s eyes widened as her breath caught in her throat, they were standing on top a tall hill overlooking a valley with a large pond and a house…Willow blinked and took a better look, it was actually the lake beside the Maclay house she was looking at, and smiled softly as the sun began setting, the reddish light bouncing off the lake and over the valley. “This is beautiful.” Willow whispered leaning into Tara’s chest as she watched the sky light up with light, medium, and dark red, and pink and purple colors as the sun set.

“Yes it is.” Tara nodded as she softly spoke, “My mom brought me and Xander up here several times before…” she trailed off but Willow knew what was left unspoken and turned.

“I understand,” The demon gave Tara a sad smile as she cupped her cheek, “and I’m…I ’m grateful that you showed me something that you hold close to your heart. It’s beautiful up here, just like you.” Willow leaned up and placed a gentle kiss on Tara’s right cheek as her left hand caressed Tara’s left. When she pulled back Willow saw the tears shining in Tara’s eyes and couldn’t help what she said, “I love you Tara Maclay no matter if you are Juraian royalty.” As soon as she said it Willow didn’t care she had to get her feelings in the open, and leaned back up but instead of kissing Tara’s cheek again she brushed her lips against the blonde’s, “I’m in love with you.” she spoke once more and waited.

Tara had at first thought she’d heard wrong, but seeing the love in Willow’s eyes told her different, “Do you know how long I’ve waited for you to say that?” she asked pulling Willow closer to her and pressing her lips to Willow’s in a slow kiss as she wrapped her arms around the demon’s waist. Willow wanted to bounce around in joy but knew that would ruin the kiss and settled for slipping her arms around Tara’s neck and pulling her even closer. Willow opened her mouth Tara understood and quickly took the invitation, slipping her tongue into Willow’s mouth running it across the demon’s teeth and the roof of her mouth, and felt Willow suck on her tongue before pushing hers into Tara’s mouth and began her own exploration. Tara moaned tightening her hold on Willow as she brushed her tongue across Willow’s as the demon pulled back, “I’ll take that as you’re in love with me too.” Willow smiled causing the blonde to laugh and nod.

“Yes, Willow, I love you, and I’m in love with you, I have been ever since you tried to kill me at school…”

“You sure?”

Tara nodded, “Yes, I thought you were hot then…and I still do, I love you Willow and no one can say any different.”

“Good, cause if someone tries to take you away from me they will meet the business end of my energy blade!”

“Well I have my energy sword they’ll met if they even think about touching you.”

The sun completely set allowing the full moon to light up the area and the path back to the rode where Willow and Tara walked hand in hand back to the house, both with a bright smile on their face.

*******

There's 37 and I'm working on 38...hope you enjoyed the surprises

[ceridwen]

Hey

An update!!! YAY!!!

Ok, where do i start? Well... great chapter, and long too

“You mean to tell me there’s going to be a distortion with an electrical field and everything?” Anya asked with eyes the size of plates, and turned to Tara, “You know what she’s saying, right?”

“Yeah…” Tara lowered her head again.

Buffy stared blankly at the others, “Huh? Whatcha mean?”

“It means we’re going to be sucked into a black hole you dolt!” Anya screamed at Buffy with clenched fists, as the others waited for the blonde to catch on.

Buffy put her right index finger to her lips and looked at the ceiling before her eyes went wide, “Oh wow!”

“No it’s not “oh wow”!”

Buffy nodded to the princess, “Yes it is, this will be the first time I’ve been so close to one!” she giggled and cocked her head when Tara groaned and banged her head against the steel door once more, “What’s wrong?”

“We’re going to die, you twit!” Anya growled falling into Xander’s arms.

“That’s bad…I don’t wanna die!” The blonde officer shouted once everything had settled into her brain and she figured it out, “Faith do something!” she cried hugging the dark haired officer and squeezing the breath out of her lungs.

Oh God, you can always trust Buffy to make you laugh like crazy

A few feet away Dawn handed Buffy a small box with a wicked smile, “This is a present for Clay, and tell him it’s worthless and not priceless, will ya?”

“Right!” Buffy saluted as she turned and tripped, causing the room to fill with the sound of glass breaking, “Umm…Dawn…” the officer stood with the help of Faith and turned around with a flattened box.

“Don’t worry Buffy, I also put a tube of super glue in there too.”

“Alright then.” Buffy perked up as she turned and tripped again, crushing the broken vase even more and causing Dawn to shake her head, that girl could trip on thin air! How did she ever make it as a Galaxy Police Officer?

Yup, Buffy's grrrrrrrrrreat!!!!!!

“You know…” Buffy trailed off kissing Faith’s lips, “I think something wonderful is going to happen today.” she smiled.

“And what would that be?” Dawn asked as she started back to the lab.

Buffy shrugged, “I don’t know, but I have this feeling something is going to happen and its going to be wonderful.” she snuggled up to Faith’s chest and closed her eyes.

“Don’t look at me.” Faith said without looking at Dawn, but knowing the scientists eyes were on her, “I don’t know what goes through her head, and half the time I either don’t want to know, or don’t care…all I care for is if she loves me the way I love her.” Faith leaned back closing her eyes with a smile as Buffy’s whispered “I love you” reached her ears, “I love you too my little trouble maker.”

*sighs* Awwwwww... that was so beautiful.

Subject: Buffy Summers

Age: 19

Race: Unidentifiable

Date of Birth: Not specified

Living Family members: Joyce Summers (Mother and current GP Marshal) Willow (Sister) and Dawn (sister).

O_O um.... Buffy is Willow's and Dawn's sister?????? uh.... O_O

And the whole W/T scene at the end, wich is too long to quote, was sooo good... cute, moving, hot and just plain beautiful, definitely awww worthy

Willow and Tara finally got together, YAY!!! *happy dance*



Again i say grrrrrrrrreat chapter.

[viximon]

ops, yeah. Time has passed indeed. I'm so happy you're here again.

Zero was just so cute and aaaww. She had been the little push Willow needed for confess to Tara.
And Anya and Xander come together at last too.
Wonderful work. Ha haha ha. Buffy being related to Dawn (and Willow) was great. Poor Dawn Speaking about Buffy, she and Faith are weird but adorable couple too.
Keep it up

See you around

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Konwa koibito. Glad you liked the last chapter, along with Buffy being Buffy, and the scene between Faith and Buffy. Uh-huh they are sisters...and I had a hellva time trying to explain that one >_> <_< >_< And yup, Willow and Tara finally got together...that scene was actually not a problem I was just thinking about someone *waggles eyebrows* Well, here's the next chapter.

Viximon - Yeah, I wanted to use Zero's merging with Willow as an advantage, what with Willow getting her uncontrollable feelings. And everyone comes together at last...finally ^_^ Also I wanted to give Dawn a stroke, and using Buffy was one of the best idea's I had...*shrugs* You're right, Buffy and Faith are a weird couple...but then again, there's always some kind of weirdness in any couple...or at least from what I've seen with my friends...hopefully they won't see that... Here's the next chapter.


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-Eight: Three Sisters?


The lights had dimmed and the machinery had toned down to a low hum as they worked away on the different things they were made for, and only one person knew exactly what they were doing. That person just happened to be still laying on the floor of the lab from her earlier fainting spell, and didn’t look as if she’d be waking anytime soon. The different species in the habitats seemingly watched over the small scientist as she lay there unmoving, except for the occasional twitch of her fingers and the steady rise and fall of her chest. The screensaver on her computer flashed different pictures of everyone in the Maclay house, some were just of one person, and others were of the whole group. Dawn had made the screensaver just after everyone had come to live there, and it made her happy to know that if she or Willow ever needed help the family would be there for them. The family? No, that wasn’t right, it should be their family, cause that is what they had become over the months…a family. Something Dawn had always wanted, and had started by making a sister she named Willow, but now it seemed to be she had another sister, one that the scientist would have never figured to be anywhere near a relation to her…Buffy. But how? How was that Buffy is her and Willow’s sister? Dawn didn’t know, but when she woke she’d find out even if it killed her.

A soft groan drifted over the lab as Dawn began to stir, she slowly opened her eyes and blinked in the dim light before sitting up with a pounding headache. The scientist rose from the floor and slouched down on her floating pillow as she hit a few keys on the keyboard bringing up the last file she had been looking at. Buffy’s file appeared on the screen causing Dawn to shiver, how the hell was that girl even related to her? How could someone as bubble-headed as the GP officer be her sister? Even Willow was smarter than that, although she hardly ever showed but Dawn knew it was there if she’d just allow it out. Thinking of that Dawn had to wonder just why Willow didn’t read anything other than those manga…it looked like she had two things to figure out now, and began typing.

The night gave away as the moon lowered in the sky and the first rays of the new day began to light up the sky, drowning out the stars as the sky lightened to blue. The birds stood from their nests as the owls and bats flew back to their homes to await the nighttime once more. The fish began jumping out of the lake hoping for, and catching their breakfast as the insects lazily floated over. In the yard two frogs croaked as they hopped toward the lake, and a rabbit came out of hiding and made his way up the stairs toward the carrot fields. On the porch Anya shuddered when she saw the rabbit and hid behind Xander, causing the boy to grin. Willow had spotted the frogs a moment before and had clutched on to Tara’s arm making the girl softly laugh. She and her brother had fallen in love with the girl of their dreams, but both girls came with fears that were unusual. How could anyone be afraid of a frog and a bunny? Both were harmless, and useful to the world. A frog helped keep the insects at bay, and rabbits were very good when fried. If a person were to be stranded in the woods with no way out, all they had to do was go hunting and get a rabbit…also a frog if a person liked frog legs.

Each sibling kissed their new girlfriend and headed off toward the fields for the morning, and then they’d be going to practice with Nikko. Willow and Anya watched the loves of their lives disappear up the steps and sighed, right before Anya shrieked and grabbed the demon, “Save me!” she whimpered as a small furry brown and white rabbit hopped toward the two, his little pink nose twitching.

Willow blinked and giggled just a little before stopping and doing a double take at the edge of the porch, and squeezed the princess, “Only if you save me!” she said scooting the both of them back against the wall when a young bullfrog croaked and hopped toward them.

Faith stood at the door smirking as she shook her head, “Ohhh! A bunny!” Buffy shouted, causing both the demon and princess to jump as the blonde ran by -nearly flattening the frog in the process- and scooped up the rabbit, “Aww, he’s sooo cute!” she said petting the rabbit.

“Buffy, you nearly killed the frog!” Faith sighed as she stepped forward and picked the bullfrog up and turned toward Willow, “You girls wanna hold ‘em?”

“Hell no!” Willow shouted and fazed away with the princess still holding on to her for dear life, and a little pale from the vision of Buffy getting eaten by the seemingly “cute” bunny.

Hallie jumped when her sister and Willow appeared in front of her as she let out a small squeak of surprise, “Don’t do that!” she said holding her small hand over her heart, “You nearly gave me a stroke.” she shook her head and quirked her eyebrows, “Why are you two hold each other?”

Like a flash both demon and princess shot away from the other, Anya smoothed out her robes as Willow stretched and popped her back, “Nothing, just giving the princess a ride back.”
“From out on the porch?” Hallie asked a skeptical, “Isn’t that just a bit too lazy?”

Anya blushed as Willow cleared her throat, “Well, it was faster, and I wanted to help clean up after breakfast. So I had Willow to faze me inside.” the princess lied, not wanting to tell her smaller sister of the bunny attack…might give the young girl nightmares, and Anya didn’t want to do that.

“Oh!” Hallie brightened at the thought of spending more time with her big sister, Anya was always with everyone else but her, and she had begun missing her sister, “Okay, Anya could you get the dishes from the table and bring them to the kitchen to be washed?”

“Sure.” Anya nodded and watched Hallie disappear through the kitchen door, and turned to the redhead, “Thank you for getting me away from that…that horrible creature!”

“No problem princess.” Willow grinned and picked up a manga as she headed for the living room, “We’ll get to the chores in a bit, okay? I wanna finish this comic.” Anya nodded as she collected the dishes and took them into the kitchen.

Down in the lab Dawn still sat at her computer typing away as she continued to run tests, the small scientist typed in the Science Academy’s address to begin her search there. Dawn was just happy that no one had deleted her from the database and hoped her password still worked. The user name and password screen popped up causing Dawn to smile, they hadn’t even changed the look. She typed in P.Dawn in the green user name box and bigsis in the blue password box. The screen blinked for a moment and a purple “Thank you, you are being connected” screen popped up. Within a few seconds Dawn was able to access the academy’s database and began her search.

“What’s this…?” she asked herself as the files on Willow began to fill the screen. Dawn glanced over them, Energy Tests, IQ Tests, School Records, Invention Records, Computer Intelligence, Language Study, Split Sample Stored, and Request of Sample for Testing, all appeared on the screen. Dawn’s eyebrows shot up, “Split Sample Stored? What the hell? I never took another sample and stored it.” she murmured and clicked on the file.

As per requested I have taken a sample from Willow’s growing tube and stored it for future use. Although I have not the clue as to why Professor Dawn would want another sample of Willow’s stored, but I have seen the request paper Glory handed me, and it has the good professor’s signature at the bottom. I just have to wonder why the professor wanted someone other than herself to do this, she is the caretaker over Willow, and it is known that she will become upset if another even touches the baby…but I have my orders. Glory took the sample and I watched the student store it in the freezer, still I wonder why?

“Well damn!” Dawn growled as she read the small file, and looked over the others, “Sample testing? Huh? What the hell?” she clicked on the file name and shook her head.

As it has been nearly a thousand years we, the council, have decided to look into Dawn’s files, and found that she had requested for a second sample of Willow to be stored. We found the sample, and in doing research we found that it could be used in testing for pregnancy. It has been requested by a young scientist named Hank Summers that he be able to use the sample on his wife. The council discussed it over, and have agreed to allow the scientist his request. His wife, a one, Joyce Summers had been having trouble and the doctors found that Hank cannot produce a strong semen. Our only concern is that of the sample begin harmful, but our tests have found nothing to prove this, Dawn was too much of a great scientist to allow anything to harm the young Willow. Hank thanked us, and proceeded with the experiment.

One month has passed, and we have been told of the success, Doctor Hank Summers is now a father to be. We are happy for he and his wife.

Today was a splendid day, for one Buffy Summers has been born in the Academy’s hospital! She was weighed as 9 pounds and 4 ounces and she was eighteen inches in length. The young Summers has her parents looks, none of either Dawn’s nor Willow’s is present, but now the problems begin, will the baby Summers have the same powers as Willow? We do not know as of now, but Hank has agreed to test his daughter.

Buffy has just turned one month old, and we regretted to inform her mother of Hank’s death. The scientist had been working on a sample taken from Buffy when the laboratory exploded, but from his research we find that none of Willow’s powers are within the baby, and she and Joyce are allowed to leave at any time they wish.

Joyce accepted the offered job at the Galaxy Police Headquarters, and is currently packing she and Buffy’s things. The Summers woman and child will be missed by all, but we know it is too painful to stay here, and hope that she finds love once more. Our prayers are with her and the girl.[i/]


Dawn stared at the screen for a moment before her genius brain kicked in and it hit her as to how exactly Buffy was her sister. Glory for some reason wanted another sample and either forgot about it, or decided she didn’t need it -a though which made Dawn scowl. [i]Yeah, that bitch didn’t need it after what she did![i/] The scientist thought shaking her head and getting lost in the thoughts from a happy time.

Science Academy several hundred years ago…

Dawn paced back and forth like an expectant father as she watched the timer on the two tanks count down the last remaining minute. It was nearly time for her little sister and Miss Kitty to be born, and she was ecstatic about it. She was finally going to have a family, even if it were one she had to make using the egg of another woman, and the Masu. But it didn’t matter to her, not as long as she finally had someone to teach, raise, and most importantly love. An alarm sounded making the scientist stop in her pacing, turn and rush toward the tank. Dawn watched as the water slowly drained and the door opened, allowing her to see the small baby Willow lying at the bottom, and looking at her with the brightest green eyes she’d ever seen. The scientist smiled as she crouched down and picked the baby up, unhooking the tubes, and rose to the sound of cheering as she turned around and saw many of the Academy’s scientists in the room. Dawn smiled even bigger as she raised the little one up, “Everyone, meet my baby sister, Willow!” she proclaimed loudly and proudly, causing more cheers to erupt in the large lab. A young woman hurried over silently asking with her green eyes, and Dawn nodded before handing the woman the child, “Here’s your daughter Sheila.”

“She’s so beautiful.” Sheila whispered and chuckled when baby Willow yawned and stuck her thumb in her mouth, “Thank you for allowing me to help raise her.”

“I’m happy to have you helping raise her, after all she is your daughter.” Dawn grinned leaning down and placing a soft kiss on Willow’s forehead. She raised back up to see the love in the older woman’s eyes and knew she’d made the right decision when allowing the woman to help raise the baby. After they’d lost Professor Ira, a damn good man and scientist, Sheila had been devastated, and withdrew into herself. When Dawn approached her with the idea, the older woman had agreed and had only asked to help raise her, and Dawn had seen no problems with that request.

The second tank beeped as the water drained, Dawn walked over as the door rose and picked up a small kitten, “Well, hello there Miss Kitty.” the scientist grinned.

Later that day Sheila had approached Dawn, and had asked her to move into her home so they both could be with the baby. Dawn had liked the idea and as soon as her work was finished, rushed home and began packing with Sheila’s help as little Willow slept. The days had seemingly passed very quickly and before long Dawn was teaching young Willow how to use her powers. First had been the meditation when she turned two years old, something for which both Sheila, and Dawn herself were happy to do cause Willow was a very active child, and was always getting into some sort of mischief. At the age of three Dawn -with Sheila’s help- had began teaching the child to fight in self-defense, and had marveled at how quickly Willow learned. Year four Willow had showed interest in Dawn’s phantom computer, so the scientist had taught the girl everything she knew, and the Sheila had stepped in and taught the young girl even more.

By age five Willow could read at a third grade level, and had bypassed everyone in her First Year classes. Age six was when Dawn had taught Willow how to faze through the walls, which caused problems, especially when she’d learned that she could scare the hell out of people just by appearing through walls, and right in front of them. Willow had fun with it until both Dawn and Sheila had gave her a stern talking to. By the time Willow reached nine and was in her Third Year classes she could form an energy blade and throw energy blasts. When Willow reached ten an explosion occurred in the lab Sheila had currently been working in, and took the woman’s life. At that point Willow had become distant, even from Dawn, and had buried herself in her studies, it had taken Dawn nearly a year to get Willow back to her old self, and then knew Willow would never be her old self again -not after having her mother taken from her in an explosion. It was then that two years later everything went to strait to hell.

The flames rose up covering the front door, and blocking her first escape route out of the house. The young redhead back up and started toward the kitchen, only stopping in the hallway to look up the stairs, “Dawn! Where are you?” she called as she backed away from the evil laughing coming from above. A pair of hands reached out, one wrapping around her waist and pulling her back and into a dark closet, as the other covered her mouth, “Ahhh!” Willow screamed and struggled.

“Shut up fool!” Dawn growled at her little sister before pulling her into a hug, “Do you know who did this? Did you see them?”

Willow shook her head, “No, I couldn’t see anything…all I heard was laughing.”

“Damn!” Dawn cursed as she gently pushed Willow away and looked into her green eyes that were currently shining with tears, “Look, I need you to get outta here, take Miss Kitty and get the hell away from here.”

“NO! I won’t leave you!”

“You have to!” Dawn said with a stern voice, “Look little sis, you need to get out, who ever has done this wants you. Now go!”

“Okay.” Willow nodded, not wanting to but knew her sister was right.

Dawn watched as Willow fazed away, and counted to one hundred before silently creeping out the door and up the stairs, and into Willow’s room. The scientist growled when she saw Willow had left her computer on, and the connection to her files, “Shit!” she cursed and tapped a few keys before turning the computer off. She jumped when she felt something appearing behind her, quickly bringing up an energy sword Dawn turned and nearly cut Willow’s head off, “Dammit! What the hell are you still doing here?”

Willow grabbed a small stuffed teddy bear, “I forgot Mr. Bear.”

“Oh hell! Okay, you got him, now go!” Dawn screamed and watched as Willow tried to faze but couldn’t.

“And where is the small fry going?” Glory’s voice filled the room right before she stepped inside, “I think she should stay.” she smirked holding her hand out, and with a force brought Willow to stand in front of her.

“Bitch!” Dawn lunged toward her student, and found she couldn’t move, “What the hell have you done?”

“What I have been waiting for all these years.” The woman laughed as she brought a knife up, and quickly stabbed Willow in the chest.

“NO!” Dawn screamed, tears filling her eyes as she watched her little sister fall to the floor in a heap, “I’ll kill you!”

“Now, now, professor. If you were to do that now, then who would save Willow?” She asked with a smirk, “I know every file on Willow is in the database, now give me the password so I can save her.” The blonde sneered when Dawn shook her head, “Fine, then we’ll stand here and watch her die!”

“Fine!” Dawn sobbed, “The password is bigsis, you bitch!”

Glory typed the password into the computer, and brought up Willow’s files, and found the appropriate method of healing the dying redhead, and clicked on it. “Ah, the beauty of our fine culture, eh? When we’re dying all we have to do is look up a file and find the correct way to heal.” Glory smirked, “Now, I’ll have full control over little Willow here, and you’ll be my prisoner…forever!” Glory’s laugh filled the burning room as Dawn fell into unconsciousness.


Dawn blinked and wiped the tears from her face as she sat up straighter, “Well, at least I know how Buffy can be mine and Will’s sister…but…” The scientist trailed off, and began hacking into Glory’s database, the database she’d downloaded before the ship had exploded.

In the living room Willow lay on the couch and laughed at the characters’ face in the manga as she turned the page. “Will, it’s time for the chores.” Faith said from the doorway causing the redhead to rise from her place, and put the manga on the coffee table.

“Okay,” Willow nodded following the officer outside, and headed for the small flower garden beside the house where Anya was currently working, “Hey princess, need some help?”

“Sure, can you grab the weeds I’ve been pulling and put them in the thing over there.”

Willow nodded with a giggle, “Umm, Anya, this is a wheel barrel.” she said picking the weeds up and tossing them in.

“Oh, okay thanks for telling me.” The princess smiled as she de-weeded another section of the flower garden, “You know if Earth had the technology like Jurai there wouldn’t be any weeds in the different kinds of gardens the Earthlings have.”

“Yeah, I know, but I’m going to assume that the emperor and your mothers don’t think Earth is suitable for that information just yet.”

Anya sighed and nodded, “Yes, everyone knows that Earth is a backwater planet that has to grow on its own, without the help or intrusion from Jurai.”

Willow loaded the last of the weeds on the ground and got down on her hands and knees beside the princess, “When do you think Earth will grow enough for Jurai to begin helping? I mean the Earthlings are pretty smart…well, most of them anyway.” she said as she began pulling the weeds and tossing them over her shoulder, hitting the wheel barrel without looking.

“Well…” Anya trailed off as she pulled on a stubborn weed, “From what I have seen it will be a long time before Jurai makes its presents known. I mean right now what with all the warring going on…you know Jurai doesn’t get into any war unless absolutely need be.” she gave a hard tug on the weed, pulling it out of the ground and smiled before throwing it over her shoulder.

“True Jurai is a peaceful planet, that’s one of the reasons Glory wanted me to destroy it…” Willow trailed off tears filling her eyes, “I’m sorry, you know, it truly wasn’t my fault that I did it…Glory had somehow learned to control me…”

Anya raised up and did something no one would have ever thought she’d do, she wrapped her arms around the demon and pulled her close, “Will…that was a long time ago, and to be truthful I hated you for a very long time for taking my sister away from me, but I’ve gotten over it. Now I have my sister back, although she is much older, but I also have found a boy that I’ve fallen in love with.” She felt her own tears stinging her eyes, “You know I have you to thank for that. If it weren’t for you, I’d have married my sister and never would have had the chance to meet Xander.”

Willow sniffled and raised her head from Anya’s shoulder, “You mean that?”

“Yes. Look at it this way, if Glory hadn’t of gotten control over you, and then in turn had you to attack Jurai where my sister chased you here…then you wouldn’t have meet Tara either. So, I guess we both have that bitch to thank for something, and I have you to thank for leading my sister here, to Earth.”

The demon smiled and nodded, “Yeah you’re right.” she wiped the tears from her eyes, “Thanks princess.” she whispered lightly squeezing Anya, “Well, I guess we’ve given everyone enough of a show,” she glanced over to Faith and Buffy who were watching the exchange with wide eyes, “Let’s get these weeds outta here.”

“Sure.” Anya winked with a smile as she went back to de-weeding.

“Wow,” Buffy whispered, inching her way closer to Faith, “That was sooo beautiful!” she wailed grabbing Faith in a hug, and squeezing the breath out of her lover, “I can’t believe they’ve finally made up!”

“Can’t…breath….Buffy!” Faith gasped out and fell to the ground when the blonde let go with an “oops”.

Back in the lab Dawn began printing out the files she’d need when telling the family about what she had found, and that Buffy was she and Willow’s sister. Dawn sighed as the pages came out of the printer, why hadn’t she had known? The only way Buffy could get past the DNA locks on her door were if she had Dawn’s DNA, and when the blonde kept getting into the lab, Dawn had to find out. But thinking back on it did she really want to know that bad…? Yes she did, when ever something wasn’t known to her, Dawn had to find an answer, even if it meant that she wouldn’t like what she found. Did she like what she’d found? Actually in a way, yes she did, it meant that she had another younger sister in her family, and in a way, no, cause she would at some point have to tell Joyce Summers -and that could take some explaining on her part. That was just one problem, now that she’d went though Glory’s database she’d found many things on Willow, and none were good. How was she going to get Willow to face the problems she was having, and keep her from running away? Well, she knew Willow wouldn’t go far from Tara, but she would run, and Dawn knew her sister needed help in restoring certain parts of her brain. With another sigh the small scientist picked up the freshly printed pages and headed upstairs to wait. Glancing at the clock Dawn saw that it was just about time for Tara and Xander to be back, and then she’d tell them about Buffy, and afterwards she’d confront Willow about her problems.

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There's 39 and I'm working on 40...hope ya enjoyed.

[ceridwen]

Hello

Well, u already know what i thought of this chapter, but oh well....

Faith stood at the door smirking as she shook her head, “Ohhh! A bunny!” Buffy shouted, causing both the demon and princess to jump as the blonde ran by -nearly flattening the frog in the process- and scooped up the rabbit, “Aww, he’s sooo cute!” she said petting the rabbit.

I know i've said this a million times, but i just LOOOOVE Buffy!

The whole explanation about Buffy being Dawn's and Willow's sister was great, i mean, i was really easy to see that happening.

And the part about Willow and MKF being "born" was soooo cute

And the whole Willow/Anya interaction is kinda um... well, weird, but funny, what with liking each other but not wanting the others to know

Willow? Whats wrong with Willow? Noo... i dont like the sound of that

Now u have to update real soon!

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Hey koibito...Okay, I'm glad that I got the explanation on Buffy being Dawn and Willow's sister...that was one thing I was worried about. And I'm happy that you like the last chapter. As for what's wrong with Willow...well, you'll see...anyway, here's the update, finally!


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-Nine: Willow’s Problem

As Dawn stepped out of the lab she smiled at Hallie before glancing at the clock, she still had thirty minutes before everyone returned. The small scientist sat on the couch with a sigh, should she confront Willow about her problem in front of the others, or should she wait until she was alone? Dawn knew her sister most likely would just roll her eyes and walk off if they were alone, and figured that if at least Tara were around then Willow would listen… but the redhead would be embarrassed and tell her she had no problem if in front of Tara. How was she going to do this without her sister running off? If it were her, Dawn knew she’d feel the same, but at least she would want help, however Willow wasn’t exactly the same as her. With another sigh Dawn leaned back and closed her eyes feeling a headache coming. The scientist wanted to choke Glory for what she did all those years ago, and what she’d done to her sister. How could that witch do something like that? Hadn’t she been a good enough teacher, and taught her student everything she should know? Yes, she had, but to Glory it wasn’t enough, she wanted more. Dawn cursed herself for not seeing what her student was capable of sooner. How could she had been so blind to what Glory was doing?

“We’re back!” Buffy’s voice entered the room as the front door opened with the blonde officer stepping in, “C’mon Faith! We need a bath.”

The dark haired officer entered behind her lover and stopped when she spotted Dawn, “Whatcha doin’ outta the lab?” she asked surprised since the scientist only came out of the lab for baths and to eat, other than that she stayed in the lab, “Something wrong?” Faith asked again when she saw the look on Dawn’s face.

“You could say that.” The scientist stood and motioned for the officers to sit, “Where are the others?”

“Willow fazed herself and Anya up to the fields about fifteen minutes ago to help Tara and Xander.” Buffy explained sitting in Faith’s lap, “They should be back any minute now.” As soon as Buffy said that the door opened once more allowing three young women and a young man to enter, “See? There they are.”

“Yeah, here we are, now whatcha want?” Willow asked as she, and the others approached.

Dawn sighed, this wasn’t going to be easy, “Take a seat.” she said motioning to the couch and chairs, and waited. Once Willow was on Tara’s lap, and Anya on Xander’s, Dawn sat on the coffee table, “Well, there are two things we need to discuss, or rather one, and the other is more of a surprise than anything.”

“What is it?” Anya asked, she was getting the feeling that Dawn really didn’t want to talk about it, but for some reason knew she had to.

“Okay, well, remember those blood samples I took?” When the others nodded she continued, “I ran some tests, number one, I wanted to know how Buffy could get past my DNA locks on the lab door…and what I found was a shock…Willow, meet your half sister Buffy.”

“WHAT?!” The entire group -minus Buffy- shouted, the blonde officer blinked, “I don’t have any sisters…” she trailed off.

Dawn sighed, and began to tell the group what she’d found when searching the Science Academy’s records. Once she finished Willow had gone pale, if it hadn’t been for Tara’s arms wrapped around her waist, Dawn knew her sister would have fainted, “Really?!” Buffy shouted, “I have sisters!” she squealed and in a flash she was latched on to Willow, “Oh, my sister! I missed you so much!”

“How the hell can you miss a sister that you didn’t even know you had?” Faith asked watching Buffy turn and latch on to Dawn. She grinned when Dawn began to look uncomfortable and gasp for air, Buffy only let go of the small scientist when she was -just barely- pulled off by Tara and Xander. Dawn fell back, landing on the coffee table and sucking in air like she’d just ran a race.

“I can’t believe it!” Buffy shouted happily as she once more latched on to Willow, “You’re my sisters! Wait till mom hears this!”

“Mom?” Willow blinked, “As in the Marshal of the Galaxy Police?” That didn’t sound like a very good idea to her, would Joyce lock her up? Would she tell her not to get near her daughter? Even though she didn’t show it, Willow liked Buffy, and it would hurt if Joyce tried to force her from being friends with her daughter. “You think it’s a good idea to tell her? What if she forces you to come back?”

Faith shook her head, “Don’t worry about Joyce, she loves Buffy, and would never do that, even though at one time you had been a wanted criminal.” Faith held her hand up, “Let me finish before you start growling at me…however, we now know it wasn’t you, it was Glory. So, don’t worry about it, okay?”

The demon sighed, but nodded her head, if Faith was sure that Joyce wouldn’t force Buffy to come back, then everything was fine. “Willow,” Anya smiled, “don’t worry about being locked up either.” the princess said as if she had read Willow’s thoughts, “The statue of limitations expired, so as of now no one has any right to arrest you and put you in the GPX subspace prison.”

Willow shivered, she remembered hearing about the Subspace prison and the rumors weren’t nice. When she was still under Glory’s control she’d taken Miss Kitty and stopped on the Zirconian planet, a planet where a person -any person- could relax and not worry about police. There she’d heard that once in the Subspace prison no one could get out, and would stay until they either went crazy, died, or was killed. It wasn’t just being killed by other inmates, everyone had a big cell where they stayed twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and was never let out. The ones that killed the inmates were the guardians of the prison, men and women who’d work fifteen hour shifts and do as they pleased during the shifts. Afterwards she’d avoided the Galaxy Police for all she was worth, she may have been Glory’s underling, but she wasn’t stupid. “That’s good.” she finally said with a slight smile at the princess, “I…what I had heard about that place scared the hell out of me.”

“It scares even me,” Buffy spoke, surprising the group, “yes, I know what you’re thinking, but even though I’m an officer I still don’t like the Subspace prison.”

Dawn watched the group for a moment as she wondered about Willow, should she confront her here and now, or just wait? The scientist leaned back and felt something touch her hand, glancing down she saw a manga and made her mind up, “There’s something else.” she said getting everyone’s attention once more, “Willow I know about your problems.”
The redhead stared at her sister, “I don’t have any problems!” she spoke quickly and turned her head. Tara quirked her eyebrows, that didn’t sound too convincing, what kind of problems was Willow having?

“Yes, you do.” Dawn said and held out a piece of paper, “Here take this.”

Willow turned and looked down at the paper before slowly reaching out for it, and taking it from Dawn, “What the hell do you want me to do with this?”

“Look, I’m going to be straight with you sis, but I want you to answer me this…do you or do you not remember growing up with me?”

Willow sighed, she should have know that was coming, but what could she do now? With a shake of her head Willow answered, “No, I don’t remember.” It was the truth, she did not remember anything other than that of being with Glory, anything before that, nothing, it was a blank.

“So you don’t remember how smart you were, or how good you were with computers, or learning the things Sheila and myself taught you?”

“Mommy? What do I do now?”

“Well, Willow, what you need to do is choose File, then Save, and then type in the name you want to call your paper.”

Willow nodded with a bright smile, “Okay!” she said, and did as the older woman told her. The afterwards she jumped up and wrapped her arms around her mother, “Thanks mommy.”

“You’re welcome darling. Now get ready, we need to go meet your sister.”

Willow shook her head, “Mom? She was my mom…” she trailed off causing Dawn to smile, the scientist knew all it would take was the right trigger, and Willow would remember something.

“That’s right, I asked Sheila to be your mother, and she agreed.” Dawn couldn’t help but grin, her sister would finally remember things from growing up. The happy grin faded once the thought of Glory entered her mind, “Willow, tell me this, why haven’t you been using your computer I made for you?”

“What computer?” Willow asked confused, she didn’t remember any computer, not that she would be able to use one any way.

Dawn knew this was where everything became slightly harder, “You were so good with computers, Sheila and I taught you everything you know about them…and then I made you one like my phantom computer. All you have to do is hold your hands out and ask for it to appear and it will. Try it.”

Willow was torn between looking like a fool if Dawn was lying, and actually finding something that she’d forgotten about. Feeling a nudge she glanced over and saw Tara nod and smile at her, “Go on sweetie, try.” she whispered.

With a firm nod Willow held out her hands, closed her eyes and thought about a phantom computer appearing. “Wow! Cool!” Buffy’s excited voice caused her to open her eyes and see a red transparent computer in front of her.

“Good.” Dawn was as excited as Buffy, her sister was returning…no not returning, just relearning things that Glory had blocked out, “Okay, sis, now here comes the hardest part of all.” The small scientist sighed, she only hoped that Tara could keep Willow calm, “I was looking into Glory’s files and I found out a lot of things…” she trailed off and couldn’t help but sigh once more, “You can’t… Why is it you only read those comics? Why don’t you read novels like you use to?”

Willow’s eyes widened before she narrowed them, “Because I don’t want to!”

“No,” Dawn shook her head, “Willow, I want you to read that piece of paper I gave to you.”

Willow glanced down at the paper in her hand, letting her eyes scan over the words, and shook her head. “Why should I? I mean I don’t know what half of these words mean, so why should I try to pronounce them?”

“Give the paper to Tara.” Shrugging her shoulders, the demon handed Tara the paper, “Tara, please tell me what is on that sheet of paper.”

The blonde glanced down at the words, her eyes going wide as her head whipped around to look at her girlfriend, “Will?” she asked slightly confused, “Why won’t you read this?”

“Don’t want to.” The demon shrugged, “Like I said why should I try and pronounce those words when I don’t know what half of them mean.”

Dawn sighed, “Tara please read the paper out loud.” She hated to do it, but knew Willow needed to live up to what she’d found out, then, and only then could she help…and only if her sister allowed it.

Tara looked between Willow, Dawn and the paper, she sighed, why didn’t Willow want to read this? Could what was on the paper be true? There was only one way to find out, and Tara could only hope that it didn’t hurt her girlfriend…but knew it most likely would. “Willow cannot read.” Tara spoke aloud, and shook her head, “That’s all…those three words are repeated over and over.”

“Tell me the truth, you can’t read can you?” Dawn asked already knowing the answer, “It’s why you didn’t want to read in the first place, and that’s why you only read those comics, you’re not reading, you’re just looking at the drawings.”

The room was silent, all were waiting on Willow’s response. Willow for her part just stared at her sister for several long moments before lowering her head, “No I can’t, you happy now?!”

“No, Will, I’m not.”

“Why are you trying to make a fool out of me? Why are you letting everyone here know this? Couldn’t you have talked to me in private?” Willow asked in a whisper.

Dawn knew her sister was hurting, and knew Willow was thinking she just wanted to make her look stupid, so she had to get that out of her head as quickly as possible, “No, I’m not making a fool of you. I just wanted to have help, I know how you get when you don’t want to listen…you’ll just faze away…and I thought if everyone where with us that you wouldn’t leave, or that I’d have help in getting you to stay. I want to help you, but I can only do that if you allow it. I’m not going to force you into anything you don’t wanna do, but I remember that you use to love reading, and writing, and typing on your computer. I just thought you’d want to do that again.”

Everyone in the room stayed quite, knowing that it was between the two sisters, and not to interfere unless need be. Buffy couldn’t take the silence after several long moments, “Will, why can’t you read?” she asked quietly as she took her sister’s hand and interlaced their fingers.

“It was one of the things Glory blocked from me. She said it was something that was worthless to me, and said that I would never need to know how to read. She called me a mistake, that I should have never been made, and she made sure to tell me how worthless I and my reading was, along with everything else…even my sense of taste.”

“Wait a minute…you can’t taste?” Faith asked, “That bitch took that away from you too?”

Willow nodded, “Yeah, she said something as useless as me should not have to know what taste is…and she blocked that sense. Please don’t let Hallie know. It would hurt her to know that I couldn’t taste her food.”

“Don’t worry about that.” Anya spoke firmly, “We won’t tell Hallie a thing about this.”

“You are not a mistake!” Dawn growled, her eyes flashing in anger, “That bitch just wanted to hurt you, so she lied!”

“Dawn is right.” Xander glanced around the room, “Isn’t that right?” he asked the others getting nods all around, “Look Will, you may have been made but you’re a person just like us…well not exactly like us, cause you know, the powers, but still, we love you…and you love us, one more than the others. But hey, you’re in love with her, so yeah you would.” Xander blushed shaking his head, “What I’m trying to say is that no matter what Glory told you, just remember it was all lies. Cause I know, we all know you weren’t a mistake.”

“Sweetie, do you believe Xander?” Tara asked cocking her head to the left, “Because it’s true you know. Just look at Dawn, if she would have thought that then you would have never been born, neither would have Miss Kitty, and we would have never met… I love you, Willow, and I know in my heart that you are not a mistake.” Tara slowly leaned over, and left a short but sweet kiss on the redhead’s lips, “I meant what I said, do you believe me?”

Willow nodded, her eyes shining with tears, how could she have gotten so lucky to have found this beautiful woman who loved her. Not to mention she now had a real family, everyone in the household were her family now, although, Dawn was a given, as was Buffy now. Still, she now had three more sisters and a brother, not to mention Nikko and Mr. Maclay. “Yes.” She finally said smiling through her tears, “I do believe you.”

“Good.” Tara grinned, kissing her girlfriends cheek.”

“I can give it back to you, but only if you want.” Dawn said causing Willow to flinch, “I’m not going to hurt you, I would never do that. It’s up to you…”

The room fell silent once more, letting Willow think about what Dawn was offering her. After a minute or so Tara -just like Buffy a few minutes before- couldn’t take the silence, “Will, what is it that you want?”

The demon shrugged her shoulders she was afraid to look at Tara, she was afraid to know what the blonde thought about her now. Now that Tara knew she couldn’t read nor taste would she laugh and turn away from her to find someone who wasn’t as stupid as she? As if reading her thoughts Tara spoke once more, chasing her fear out the door with a shotgun, “Willow, I love you no matter what, and if you want to stay as you are then I won’t say a thing. However if you want to let Dawn help you, I’ll stand behind you every step of the way.”

“Yeah, same here!” Xander piped up with a boyish grin, “Look Will, it’s like Tare said, it’s your choice, do as you please.”

Anya smiled, “I’m with them. What ever you want, we’ll stand behind you.”

“Yeah! I love you sis! I’ll agree to anything as long as you want it! And so will Faith!” Buffy turned giving her lover a hard stare, causing the dark haired officer to nod, “See?” Buffy asked smiling brightly, never seeing her lover sigh.

“I don’t want anyone standing behind me.” Willow spoke shaking her head, and causing the others to lower their eyes, “I want you all to stand beside me, not behind me.” she smiled, “Isn’t that where family is suppose to be, beside not behind?”

“Yeah!” The group shouted, smiling, Willow’s smile grew bigger when Tara wrapped her arm around her shoulder’s, “Do what ever you like, sweetie.”

Willow looked around the room, and saw only love for her, even from Anya, and nodded to Dawn, “What do you have to do…sis?”

Dawn shouted happily as she jumped into the air, “Just follow me into the lab…everyone can come along as well.” she said knowing that Willow might not want to go in by herself.

[ceridwen]

Hello

This update was so

Poor Willow... i dont think i like Glory at all >_<

Oh, but this:

“Really?!” Buffy shouted, “I have sisters!” she squealed and in a flash she was latched on to Willow, “Oh, my sister! I missed you so much!”

“How the hell can you miss a sister that you didn’t even know you had?” Faith asked watching Buffy turn and latch on to Dawn. She grinned when Dawn began to look uncomfortable and gasp for air, Buffy only let go of the small scientist when she was -just barely- pulled off by Tara and Xander. Dawn fell back, landing on the coffee table and sucking in air like she’d just ran a race.

Oh boy, Buffy's just priceless, lol.

And Willow's gonna be fixed, YAY!!

Ok... so, when's the next update? Hmm?

Soon, pretty please.

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Hey koibito, I'm glad that you liked the update...and hopefully this one will be just as good Aishiteru koibito ^_^


Note: Sorry this is sooo late but I've been having trouble...and I do mean I've been blocked and just really finished this chapter. However I am working on the next chapter little by little and getting it there...I've actually gotten at least a page done in what spare time I've had today...so hopefully it won't be long before the next update comes out ^_^

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 Forty: Fixing the Problems

As soon as Willow entered the lab door she felt a small chill run up her back, and forced down the memory of finding Tara in nothing but her underwear, and running from Dawn out of her mind. The large room was bright as if the sunlight was streaming through the windows, and knowing her sister like she did, Willow knew that there was a simulator hidden somewhere in the lab. The simulator was the first thing that Dawn had made sure was up and running, and had set it for Earth time. It would mimic the rising sun in the morning and throughout the day, until it began to turn dark, and allow the moonlight to shine as stars began appearing overhead -just like outside. No one knew, but Dawn loved having something as close as possible to what the weather was like, and had also set it up to mimic the day. If the sun was shining, then the lab looked the part, cloudy, rainy, windy, snowy, what ever the day was, it was exactly like that in the lab -only difference was that there was no water, nor cold breezes. The small scientist wanted it to look as if she were inside a glass lab, and allow the weather to give her ideas and determine her mood.

Another thing that she had added to the simulator was the sounds, birds chirping, the wind blowing, even the fish jumping out of the lake. It relaxed the small scientist, and allowed her to work more progressively. Now as everyone entered the lab they found it was like outside, only cooler from the air conditioning, and slightly relaxed, but only slightly. No one would even thing about letting their guard down completely, seeing as how they really didn’t know if Dawn would try to catch them for some weird experiment or not. “Don’t worry,” Dawn suddenly spoke up causing the group to jump, “this is to help my sister. I won’t do anything to any of you.” she’d read the mood of the others, and just wanted to help them relax a bit more. Besides, she was telling the truth, and she wasn’t going to jeopardize helping her sister, anyway, if she really wanted them, she could get them without stepping foot outside the lab.

Dawn sat down on her floating pillow and began typing as a metal table rose out of the floor, soon followed by several gray and black machines. All machines were steadily beeping, and all had wires hanging to the floor. A large ten foot tall, ten foot wide screen slowly rose up showing nothing but static as Dawn stopped typing and turned, “Willow, please sit on the table over there.” she nodded toward the metal lab table and rose, hoping her sister would follow.

With a nervous glance at Tara, and seeing her girlfriend smile and felt the blonde squeeze her hand, Willow took a deep breath and slowly approached, “What do you want me to do?” she asked hopping up on the table and began to wring her hands together.

Dawn turned, and gave Willow a comforting smile, “Tara, if you like you can help.” she said and watched her sister sigh as Tara quickly moved to stand beside her.

“What do I need to do?” Tara asked, taking Willow’s hand once more.

“Well, you can take this,” Dawn handed the blonde a small tube, “all you have to do is squeeze a little of the gel out, and rub it on these.” she held up the wires, and pointed to the small pads at the ends, “Afterwards, I’ll show you where to place them on Will’s body.” Dawn turned around, “Anya, would you like to help?”

The princess nodded, and moved to stand beside the scientist, “What can I do?”

“Take these papers to my computer, and input the data into .//Willow. Cure. If you would like someone to help, just get one of the others…not Buffy, if you know what I mean, and have them to call off the data numbers and letters. Then call me when you’re done.”

Anya turned and looked at the other three in the group, she knew Xander’s eyes would most likely glaze over, and no telling what Buffy would tell her to input, so that left Faith, “Faith, would you like to help?”

“Sure.” The dark haired officer grinned, kissed Buffy’s cheek, and hurried over to the princess.

“Hey! What about us?” Buffy asked pointing to herself and Xander, “I wanna help, and I’m just Xander wants to too.”

Xander for his part didn’t know what to do, any thing to do with computers and he knew he’d screw something up, and that wouldn’t help a bit. “How about me and Buffy go feed your…pets?” he asked slightly confused as to what the animals were, but shrugged knowing he and Buffy wouldn’t cause any trouble doing something like that.

“Umm…” Dawn stared at the young man for a moment, he wouldn’t get into trouble, but would Buffy? As she thought it over she figured that if Xander were with her then the blonde officer couldn’t goof up, “Okay, sure, the feed is by the habitats, knock yourselves out, and we’ll call you when everything’s ready.”

“Okay.” Xander nodded, taking Buffy’s arm gently and leading her toward the habitats, the young man shook his head trying to ignore the officer’s protests about wanting to help her newly found sisters, “Nah, right now we should just let them handle it.” Xander grinned cocking his head to the left, making him look like an over grown boy.

Buffy stared into his eyes and with a sigh nodded, “Fine you win, but I still think we should help them.” she said and picked up a twenty pound bucket and began climbing the ladder rungs to the top of a thirty foot tall fish tank. Xander saw nothing in the dark tank, and stepped closer, peering into the dark water. The young man stifled a scream as he jumped back clutching his chest when the thing in the tank latched on to the glass. Xander stared wide eyed at the long seven inch pointed teeth, and took another step away from the glass as a chill ran down his spine at seeing straight down the beast’s throat. The creature let go of the glass with a loud pop as it swam backward and to the side giving Xander a good look at it’s body…what part of the body he could see that wasn’t still hidden in the darkness. Brightly colored ten inch wide scales covered the things body, with foot long spikes along it’s back. The creature even had two front…paws…? With five inch long talons that looked sharp enough to slice though even the toughest metals. Xander watched as the water began to turn a slight red color, causing the creature to raise its large head and swim toward the top. “What ever this is it smells like its been dead for a week in the burning sun!” Buffy’s disgust laden voice called down, “Have you seen what the hell’s in this tank?” she asked again as a loud splashing sound could be heard, “Never mind! I saw it!” she screamed and slid down the thirty foot tall ladder with eyes the size of plates, and hurried over to Xander. She turned when Xander pointed toward the tank, and like he did a few minutes before, stifled a frightened scream.

There, back in front of the glass was the creature chomping down on what ever meat Buffy had dumped into the tank. Both watchers slowly backed away toward another tank as the creature’s mouth opened and closed, its long teeth tearing the meat into small pieces. Buffy shrieked as the creature finished its meal, and latched back onto the glass, “Shit!” she shouted and bolted toward another water tank, peering inside the blonde officer saw nothing in the dark inky water and shook her head, “This one’s yours, I’ll get the one over here with the nice little squid swimming around.” she said and grabbed another bucket before climbing to the top.

Xander shrugged and picked up his bucket and turned to look into Buffy’s tank. The sound of a bucket falling to the floor filled the area as Xander let out his own shriek when he’d seen a ten foot round eye staring back at him…little squid? That wasn’t so little, “Umm…Buffy you sure you don’t want my tank?” he called up, his eyes never leaving the eye that was currently staring at him.

“Hell no!” Buffy’s voice called down as she shook her head, “Just look behind you! I want no part of that!”

“Eh?” Xander turned and let out another shriek at seeing another large eye staring at him, the eye was connected to the largest octopus Xander had ever seen. The young man slowly leaned down to retrieve the bucket, noticing the eye following his every move, “Great, a stalker octopus.” he couldn’t help the shiver that ran up his spine as he climb the ladder. At the top Xander opened the bucket and felt his stomach turn, what ever Dawn had in the bucket really did smell like it had been dead a week. Covering his nose and mouth with his shirt, Xander slowly tipped the bucket over, allowing the bloody water to pour into the tank.

“Get offa me!” Buffy screamed, slapping at a rather perverted squid tentacle, “Shit! It’s one of those tentacle monster squids!” she shouted slapping at the limb as it slid down the front of her shirt, copping a feel of her breasts in the process, “I said get offa me!” she repeated, grabbing a second tentacle that happened to be trying to slip inside her pants, “Damn it!” she growled, pulled her pistol, and fired, hitting the groping limb and causing the tentacles to quickly return to the water.

“Help me!” Buffy turned and shook her head with a sigh, why did Dawn have these things in her lab? After Xander had poured the meat into the tank, and turned at Buffy’s scream, he felt something cold and slimy wrap around his waist. Glancing down with a confused look on his face, Xander saw a tentacle and began trying to shove it off of his body. Hearing Buffy shout something about tentacle monster, the young man wondered what that was until he felt a second tentacle give his ass a firm squeeze. Turning around Xander grabbed the tentacle around his waist and shoved it down, not knowing that it would take the chance given, and rub against his crotch, “Ahh!” he let out a scream just as Buffy began firing at her attacker, “Help me!” he shouted once the squid had retreated, giving the officer the chance to turn and fire at Xander’s attacker. The tentacle around Xander’s waist, and the second that had currently been trying to slip inside the back of his pants, let Xander go and with a splash submerged back into the water.

The sound of shoes sliding down a ladder could be heard for several feet around the tanks as both Buffy and Xander hurriedly made their escape from the perverted sea creatures. “What the hell?!” Xander took a deep breath as his eyes scanned the top of both tanks, making sure those tentacles weren’t coming out again.

“They’re what’s called Tentacle Monsters, and they tend to rape anyone, male or female just for the hell of it…I guess you can say its in their nature.” Buffy replied grabbing the young man’s hand and quickly moved away as she spotted the rather large eye of the squid getting closer to the glass, “Trust me when I say they aren’t something you wanna mess with. Add to that they are very observant and will be sneaky about getting what they want.”

Xander allow himself to be pulled away from the tanks, all the while keeping his eyes at the top, hoping he wouldn’t see a tentacle reaching out for them, “Do you think there are any more of those things in here?” He asked once Buffy had stopped, and glanced around noticing there were no other tanks besides the one that had held the Masu in it, and the one across it with small fish swimming around inside, “You think those are dangerous?”

“Yeah, actually I do.” Buffy nodded as she stared at the fish, “Look here.” she pointed to one of the grayish fish, “See the teeth?”

“What are these, piranha?”

Buffy shrugged, “Dunno, but you can have this tank.” she said and backed up to stand beside the broken Masu tank.

“Fine, but if one of those bites me on the ass as I leave, it’s your fault.” Xander grinned, letting the blonde know he was joking, and started up the ladder with the bucket in hand. Xander reached the top, and lifted the bucket up, allowing the bloody water and raw meat to fall into the tank, and keep falling. “Damn, this is like a bottomless bucket, I wonder why?” he asked just loud enough for Buffy to hear.

The blonde officer had leaned against the Masu tank with her hands behind her head as she stared up at the ceiling, but upon hearing Xander’s question she let her eyes travel downward and to the tank. Buffy blinked several times hoping to clear her vision, but soon realized what she was seeing was actually there, “I think I know why.” she called up watching as a twenty foot long fifteen foot tall piranha rose up from the depths of the water and into her site. It seemed for a moment the large fish sniffed the water and shot upward as the water began turning pink, and then slightly red, “Xander, watch out!” she screamed just as a splash was heard mixed with Xander’s frightened scream, “Xander!” Buffy hurried over to the ladder and began to climb up, but was knocked to the floor as several gallons of water spilled over, along with a body.

Xander’s eyes were wide, his cloths soaked through, and his body shaking, “Kiss…”

“Huh?” Buffy blinked, “Kiss? I ain’t kissin’ you.”

“No,” he shook his head, “It…it kissed me.” he groaned standing up and pulling Buffy along with him, “Why does Dawn have all these weird things in here?”

“I don’t know, but I think you have an admirer.” Buffy smirked causing Xander to turn and see the large piranha staring at him, “I think it likes you.” the officer giggled.

“C’mon, let’s go…I’m sure they’re about ready any way.” Xander bolted when the piranha kissed the glass.


Back with the others…

As soon as Xander and Buffy had disappeared to feed the specimens, Dawn had began thinking if she should have warned them about the squid and octopus. Nah, they both knew that her -pets- as Xander had called them, were dangerous, so they didn’t need to hear it again. “Dawn,” Tara spoke, “I’ve finished putting the gel on, now what?”

“Well, now we put them on Willow.” Dawn approached and took a couple of the wires, and placed them on the redhead’s temples, “Now these others will go on her chest and back, don’t worry they’re just for reading her signs like blood pressure, body temp, oxygen levels, heart rate, pulse, and brain waves.” she explained adding the rest of the wires, “Now, sis, I want you to lay down and relax, Tara can stay here until everything’s ready.” she smiled and hurried over to Anya and Faith, “What’ve you got?”

Anya stood and stretched before handing Dawn the printed out sheets of paper, “Well, this is what began printing out, what does it mean?” the princess asked slightly confused with Faith leaning over her shoulder to get a better look at the paper in Dawn’s hands.

The small scientist read over each sheet as quickly as she could and nodded, “This is what I will be doing, more or less they are the combinations to Willow’s mind, everyone has a certain set of numbers and letters as a combination.”

“And just what does that mean?” Faith asked even more confused than before, and cocked her head to the left as if that would help her understand easier.

“If someone wants to gain control over a person, then they need the right combination of numbers and letters to access another’s brain. However, if they input the wrong combination, then the person they are trying to control will either go insane or just flat out slip into a deep sleep.

Faith’s eyebrows shot to her hairline, “You mean Will could go into a coma?”

“No,” Dawn shook her head, “Simple fact is that I know what I’m doing, and have done this before. So there is no worries about that, okay?” Seeing the princess and officer nod she smiled, “Good, now if you would please wait over there we’ll be starting in a few minutes.” she said sitting down on her floating pillow and bringing up the program she’d be using, “Now all I have to do is set these commands.” Dawn mumbled to herself and began typing at a speed that would make Superman’s flying look slow. After five minutes of inputting the commands she stood up just in time to see Buffy and Xander come speeding around the corner…Uh-oh looks like I should have warned them, Dawn thought seeing their dripping wet cloths, and the rather spooked looks on their faces.

“What the hell happened to you?” Faith asked as her lover approached, her shoes making a squelching sound as she stepped, “What’d ya do, go swimming?”

“No, we fed the things in the tanks…now let’s never speak of it again.” Xander sighed wringing water from the tail of his shirt.

Dawn sighed, it was true that she should have warned them, but they should have known the creatures were dangerous, oh well, it couldn’t be helped now. “Okay, everything is ready, Tara you will need to step back and let go of Willow’s hand, please.”

Tara glanced from Dawn to Willow, the demon gave her girlfriend a brave smile and squeezed her hand, “I’ll be fine.”

“Okay.” Tara leaned down placing a quick kiss on Willow’s lips before stepping backwards toward the others.

Willow tensed up when Dawn began turning the machines on and tried to relax, she knew keeping her body tight as a bowstring wouldn’t help, “Please sis, relax.” Dawn whispered and smiled, “This won’t hurt a bit, and it will be over before you know it.” she squeezed the redhead’s shoulder before sitting back down on her floating pillow, “Here we go.” Dawn whispered to herself, but knew her sister could hear it.

The lights on the machines began blinking on and off as a steady beeping sound filled the room, the commands and combinations flashed on Dawn’s phantom computer. Images flashed on the bigger screen too fast for the others to completely make out what they were, but could see that it was Willow’s memories. Dawn smiled, the combinations to the memory section were working, and were unlocking, allowing Willow to remember all those years ago before Glory took everything. The memories were coming to an end when Tara caught a glimpse of herself and Willow at the top of the mountain over looking the house, and she began to wonder if Willow could take it all without some sort of backlash. The blonde glanced at Dawn knowing that if anything like that were to happen then the scientist would know what to do, but it still didn’t stop her from worrying. The screen went blank, and shut off just as another machine rose out of the floor, paper printing from a small opening in the bottom center. The group watched as Dawn began reading the print outs, and smiled as she nodded her head, please with what she saw. The combinations to reading and writing were working perfectly, now all that was left was the senses sections. Another series of print outs soon found their way into the scientists hands and with a hop, Dawn shouted happily as all the machines sunk back down into the floor where they would wait until next needed.

“How do you feel?” Dawn asked quietly, and motioned for the others to stay quite, “How’s your head?”

Willow tightly closed her eyes and slightly shrugged, “I’m alright I guess…but my head is pounding.” she couldn’t help but grin as she opened her eyes and saw a piece of paper with her name on it…a piece of paper that she could read. “I feel tired too.”

Dawn nodded, “That is to be expected, as is your headache. All you need is rest, a good meal -which I’m sure Hallie is readying as we speak- and more rest…but first, read this for me.” Dawn handed her sister a sheet of paper and helped her to sit up, “Tara if you like you can help her stand.”

In a flash Tara was standing next to her love, and took her hand to help her stand up off the table, “What’s it say?” she asked, curious as to what Dawn handed the redhead.

Willow looked down at the paper and smiled, “I hereby degree that I, Willow can now ready any thing and everything within site.” she giggled and turned to Dawn, “Did you have to make it sound like that?”

“Well, you were always reading everything you could get your hands on…if I’m not mistaken you were very fond of those cheesy romance novels.” Dawn smirked with a shrug, “Anyway, I assume that you’ll be reading those manga things instead of just looking at them now, huh?

“They are funny…” Willow yawned, “I think I need a nap.”

Tara nodded, “Come on, we can lay down in my room and take a nap before supper.” she said with a half grin, moving Willow toward the others, and with Buffy’s help escorted her out of them lab.


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There's 40 and there's no exact date for 41 but I am working on it ^_^

[ShyTemptress]

DIBS!!!

~*~Kristen~*~

[ceridwen]

Hello

Well, you already know what i thought of this chapter, but it case u've forgotten, it was really funny what happened to poor Buffy and Xander... you know i just love Buffy

Also, its really good that Willow got fixed cuz... well, she just didnt deserve what Glory did to her so... yay!!

Now i can only wait for the next chapter which i hope will be up really soon, right? Yes? Ok, good.

[viximon]

AAGHHHHHHHH
I missed a lot. (viximon goes away crying) Lucky me, I'm back.
I had been out of the country and I loss a little computer contact. Sorry.

Anyway, sweet chaps, that last one was nice, all more like normal lives now and such.

Good work
See you around

PS: Sorry again by my absence
Take care

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Hey koibito, well, I'm glad you liked it...Hopefully this chapter will be just as good

Viximon - Yep, but methinks the somewhat normal lives are about to get goofed up again...but not much...

Note: O_O Been a while...I'm sorry to all who are reading this... If I'm not blocked, I'm working my butt off and i hardly have time to type...but here it is....finally!


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 Forty-One: A Memory


Hallie had watched as Tara helped Willow up the stairs and wondered what had happened. It was unusual that any of the others were in Dawn’s lab, especially knowing what went on in said lab, she may be a child but she wasn’t stupid. The young princess knew what went on inside the house and lab, but she chose not to talk about it knowing that the others would mask it over and not tell her the whole truth -even if she knew what was going on. “What happened to you?” the princess asked when she spotted Buffy and Xander in their soaked clothing and squelching shoes.

“Dawn’s pets.” Xander said knowing that Hallie would understand cause she had seen what things were in the tanks.

“Tentacle bastards!” Buffy grumbled shaking her head, causing water droplets to fly, “I hate those things!” she whined stomping her foot on the floor in a huff. “Those things are nothing but trouble!” the officer growled out before stomping up the stairs with Faith behind her, the dark haired officer trying to hold in her laughter. Even though Faith hated the monsters too, she still couldn’t help but find the humor in Buffy being soaked and groped by one -even if she had the urge to go toss a very powerful grenade into said monsters tank for even touching her girl.

Anya blinked as she looked from the retreating officer to Xander and back to an empty stairway, “Did she say something about tentacle bastards?” the princess blinked once more before her eyes widened, “Tentacle beasts?!” she shouted staring at Xander and watched his head lower, “She did! Xander did they touch you? Are you hurt? They didn’t get in your pants did they? You know what is inside your pants is mine, not theirs!” As the princess continued asking questions and speaking of things that were hers, Xander tried to hide the blush on his face that was turning brighter and brighter with each passing second. “…and further more, you are never going to be feeding those monsters again!” Well, Xander thought, at least Anya wasn’t on the embarrassing things any more.

“Believe me,” The young man interrupted, “I don’t plan on going near those tanks any more, so don’t worry.” he said, turned, and hurried past a giggling Hallie and up the stairs, he really needed a change of clothing.

“Hey! I’m not finished yet!” Anya shouted and hurriedly followed her boyfriend.

“That answers what happened to Buffy and Xander,” Hallie giggled to Miss Kitty, “but it doesn’t tell me what happened to Willow.” The young princess sighed and shook her head, maybe they would tell her, if not she’d ask Dawn, Dawn might actually tell her. Hallie grinned with a gleam in her eyes and trotted off to finish the cooking.

Upstairs…

Tara had quickly opened the door to her room, switched the light on and lead Willow over to her -no- their bed, and gently sat her down and lay her back. The blonde then turned toward the door but was stopped by a hand on her arm, “Don’t leave, please.” Willow’s voice was tired and weak, and just loud enough for Tara to hear. Even so, Tara smiled, she would have known what the demon was saying either way.

“I’m just gonna turn the light out and I’ll be right back, okay?” she whispered not wanting to irritate Willow’s headache.

“Okay, sure,” Willow grimaced from the pain flooding her head when she looked up, “that would be a good idea.”

It took no more than a quick second for Tara to shut the light off once she saw Willow squeezing her eyes shut. A soft but arousing moan filled the room, signifying the darkness felt better than the light. Stop it Tara, just stop it! Will’s in pain and you’re getting aroused from her moan! Softly sitting on the bed, Tara kicked her boots off and lay back, resting her head against the headboard, and gently guided Willow’s head onto her lap, “Feel better?” she asked stroking the red locks of hair.

“Hmm…much.” Willow answered with a slight smile in her voice, “But I always feel better when I’m with you, you make me the happiest person here…” the demon trailed off as her hand caressed Tara’s pant clad leg, “I’m also happy for my healing, you know…I should be feeling a lot better by the time Hallie calls us down to eat.” Willow then giggled causing Tara to cock her head to the left, “Seems like Buffy and Xander had a run in with some nasty monsters in the lab.”

“How do you know that?” Tara asked slightly confused, she’d heard something about tentacle beasts, but what are those? “And just what are they?”

“How I know is easy, my hearing…I can hear a lot of things even if they’re far away or in the next room…as for what they are… Tentacle monsters rape any living thing they can, and some are quite nasty about killing the person either during or after…you know…” she trailed off, glad that Tara couldn’t see the blush creeping up her neck and face. Although the redhead couldn’t figure out exactly why she was blushing…maybe it was still some of Zero’s emotions running through her body.

Tara blinked and shivered, “I thought those things were just something in the things my dad reads…they’re real?”

“Very real.” Willow stifled a yawn, “The reason they are drawn about on Earth is because some of the artists and writers are from other planets…they just come here to get away from everything in their home world.”

“Get some rest, Will, I’ll wake you once it’s time to eat, okay?” Tara said having felt Willow stifle that little yawn. The words barely made it past her lips when she realized that the redhead had fallen asleep.

Downstairs twenty minutes later…

Buffy, sitting on Faith’s lap, was currently flipping through a thousand and some odd channels on the television, still griping about what had happened in the lab -which fueled Anya on even more. Xander sat next to the officers with the princess -who was still griping about the lab- next to him.

“Good evening to everyone!” A bright and perky voice spoke as soon as Buffy found channel one thousand one hundred and thirty-seven, “My name is Mitsuki and I am here tonight with a very special item for sale.” The green haired young woman motioned toward an orange suit with black stripes down the side, and silver shoulder and chest plates “What is this special item, you ask?” Well, let me tell you about it!” Mitsuki bounced up and down, causing Xander’s eyes to follow her large bouncing breasts.

“This is an TMPS short for Tentacle Monster Protection Suit!” Buffy and Xander shot up, their full attention on the screen, “Say you are battling monsters out in space, or on another planet, and one of those perverted tentacle monsters appears before you. What do you do? You can’t run for fear that the monster will grab you from behind, and shooting them hardly does the trick. Well, that is when you need your own TMPS! This suit, fit for male or female, has high-impact armor, insuring that it can take what ever is thrown it’s way. For the males it highlights the crotch area, showing off your package nicely, and speaking ‘Look what I’ve got that you can’t have!’. For the females, the suit fits tightly to show off your curves, ass and breasts! It speaks ‘Look how hot I am!’. That’s not all! It also comes with it’s own matched helmet and utility belt that you can keep several grenades and ammunition stored. I can guarantee that this suit will keep your ass, and other holes, covered from even the most viscous of tentacle monsters! And it can be yours for the low price of two thousand universal dollars! Order yours today and never worry about being the victim of perverted tentacle beasts again!”

A number flashed on the screen, and in an instant Buffy and Xander both were up and sprinting toward the phone, “What’s the number!” Buffy shouted, getting to the phone first.

“0099-48932-17250-36173-50091.” Xander called off the intergalactic number and waited, bouncing from one foot to the other, and looking like a little boy on Christmas.

“What sizes do you have?!” Buffy asked quickly, “Good! One suit will fit all, cool!”

The phone was snatched from her hand, “I want seven of those suits! Six adult and one child.” Anya spoke into the receiver and waited, “How will I be paying for those…just a moment.” The princess reached into her robes and pulled out a credit card, “Yes, I will be paying with a Universal Juraian Credomatic credit card.” She waited a moment, “The number is A1900F-2284Y7-365PQR-55JMW5. Yes, this is princess Anya of Jurai, oh yes, please deliver those too… Xander give the nice lady the information she wants.”

Xander took the phone, telling the operator the address all the while nodding, “Yeah, that is an Earth address…is there a problem? No? Okay, that’s good cause we really need those suits.” he glanced at Buffy, “No, no, there aren’t that many tentacle monsters here…it’s just that we live with someone who keeps them as pets!”

“WHAT!?” The shocked voice of the operator blared into Xander’s ear causing him to let out a pain filled scream, and drop the phone.

Buffy grabbed the falling phone from the air, “Yeah we know that’s dangerous, but this is a scientist we’re talking about and she does tests on them.” The officer shivered thinking about the monsters, “Yes, please rush deliver those, no telling if they’ll get loose anytime soon…two days? Great! We’ll be waiting! And thank you very much!” The blonde hung up the phone, “It’ll be two days.”

“Good, that’s good…Anya?” Xander turned, “Why seven?”

The princess turned with a grin, “One for everyone of us.”

“But there’s eight here right now…not counting dad and grams…”Xander trailed off confused.

“Well,” Anya’s grin widened, “Mr. Maclay doesn’t stay here all that much, and my sister doesn’t come down until we eat…and Dawn, well, she can fend for herself if those things get her!”

Faith laughed, “Besides, I’m sure that Nikko can kill one of those monsters with no problem.”

No one had known Hallie had been standing at the kitchen door and had overheard them, “Well that was something I knew… but what about Willow?” The little princess asked herself, “I wonder if she was helping them fight off those monsters…?” she shrugged and hurried back to the stove, now was not the time to wonder about that, she had to finish cooking.

“Meow…” Miss Kitty glanced at Hallie’s back and then to the door, and finally looked up at the counter -where she knew lay some nice carrots. Instead of changing into her child form, the kitten crouched down, her tail swaying back and forth, and jumped. She landed on a the small barstool and stopped, glancing around again she saw that the young princess still had her back turned, and once more jumped. This time the kitten landed on the counter two foot away from her prey…the carrots. Crouching down once more, Miss Kitty’s tail once more swayed back and forth, and she pounced. “Meow! Meow!” The kitten wiggled in the small hands of the princess.

“Now I’ve told you, you have to wait until we all eat, Miss Kitty.” Hallie giggled shaking her head and placing the kitten back on the floor.

“Meow…” The kitten let out sadly, as she watched Hallie pick the bowl of carrots up and place them next to the sink before washing her hands. She would just have to wait…but she wanted one now! “Meow…”

The minutes seemingly flew by as the group in the living room continued to watch the Juraian news, with Hallie in the kitchen currently finishing up the cooking. The lab door opened, allowing Dawn to step out and sniff the air, “I can’t wait to eat Hallie.” The scientist called out, causing the others to jump and glare at her, “Well, if you’d all pay attention just a little more then you’d know I was here.” Dawn smirked, knowing that the glares from Anya and Faith weren’t just from being startled.

“Thanks Dawn.” Hallie said as she carried out the silverware, “Would you mind helping me set the table?”

“Not at all.” Dawn smiled and started whistling a perky tune as she skipped toward the kitchen to help the young princess, “You might want to wake Tara and Will.” she said as she picked up the plates and brought them to the table. Hallie nodded, and turned only to hear Dawn groan just as a plate shattered into pieces when it hit the floor. Turning around the young princess saw that Dawn had her eyes squeezed shut with her hands pressing on each side of her head.

“Dawn, you okay?” Hallie asked hurrying to the scientists side, and placing her small hand on Dawn’s shoulder. She didn’t know what was going on, but it didn’t seem as if the scientist liked it all that much.

Upstairs a few minutes before…

A small groan escaped Willow’s throat as her hands tightened around Tara’s body. The blonde opened her eyes and blinked the sleep away as she looked at the demon. Willow had a twisted look of horror on her pretty face as beads of sweat appeared, soaking her red hair and causing it to stick to her forehead. “No…” the demon whispered tightening her hold on Tara once more. Tara gasped, the pressure of Willow’s arms squeezing her forced the air out of her lungs, “Will, wake up.” she quietly spoke as she shifted to turn over on her side, “Come on Will, wake up.” The blonde jumped when the demon growled and suddenly kicked, “It’s a bad dream, sweetie.” Tara said when she finally turned on her side and slipped her arms around Willow’s waist.

Willow looked around the small village she was standing in the middle of, her red glowing eyes taking in everything from the small homes to the people standing in front of her with weapons. Some carried swords, others carried bows with arrows pointed directly at her, while more showed up with staves, and spears. A feral grin spread across the demon’s face as she called up a small energy ball and squeezed it, forcing it into a three foot long energy blade. She knew she was surrounded on all sides, and several archers stood at the windows, safely inside the homes, all ready to let loose a barrage of arrows once the redhead moved. If she were to get the Sage’s Stone for Glory she’d have to cut a path right through the villagers, and get to the small shrine at the other end.

The villagers stood tense, none knew what the demon was waiting for, why hadn’t she attacked already? From the stories they’d heard the demon was ruthless and would not wait for anyone to attack her first, so why was she waiting now? The villagers wished she would just leave, they were no threat to her and they had nothing of value, or at least that’s what they thought. To them the Sage’s Stone was only a beautiful red rock one of the children had found one day after the fields had been plowed. No one knew it had been used in one of the Universal Battles to restore all wounds for the persons on one side of the fight. Over half of the men jumped as Willow screamed out a battle cry and charged forward. Arrows flew in all directions as the demon attacked, four men went down in the span of two seconds as Willow swung her blade from right to left.

One arrow hit Willow’s shoulder causing her to turn and throw an energy ball toward the house it came from; the energy ball hit causing a loud explosion and a rain of debris. The demon flew into the air, ripped the arrow from her shoulder, and sneered down at the villagers. Her blade disappeared as she called up an energy ball in each hand, and threw them toward the houses. Explosion after explosion occurred as the deadly energy balls hit their targets, after only a minute the village was nothing more than rubble. Two more energy balls flew toward the group of villagers, throwing the men in all directions as they exploded.

Willow slowly floated to the ground and surveyed her handy work. Not a single home was standing, none of the village men were standing, and the only sound was that of the pain filled cry’s of said men. She could see many of the men weren’t breathing and grinned, served them right to get in her way. Willow smirked and slowly made her way to the shrine where she could see the stone shining brightly against the sunlight -her laughter filled the air as she picked the stone up and held it toward the sky.

“NO!” Willow shouted, making Tara jump, “I’m sorry…wasn’t me…” the redhead whispered, tears slipping down her face as she slept.

“Will, wake up.” Tara said as she gently shook Willow, “Come on love, it’s a bad dream.”

Willow opened her eyes, and slowly looked into Tara’s, her vision was slightly blurred from the tears, “I’m sorry, it wasn’t me…it was her.” she whispered burying her face in the blonde’s neck as sobs shook her small frame.

The bedroom door flew open and slammed against the wall causing Tara to jump once more, “Damn!” she shouted in surprise, but had no time to verbally reprimand the intruder seeing as how she was pressed between Willow and the intruder‘s body. Slim arms wrapped around both girls, “Shh, don’t worry about it Will, that happened a long time ago.” Dawn’s voice whispered across Tara’s head, “It was Glory’s doing, not yours, you had no way to fight against her controlling.” Dawn gently stroked Willow’s hair, and gave Tara a pleading look.

“I’ll go see how far along dinner is.” Tara said having read the look the small scientist was giving her, and slipped from between the two girls, “I’ll be right back.” she leaned down leaving a soft kiss on Willow’s cheek, “I love you.” With one final look at her girlfriend, Tara slipped out of her room and closed the door. She hated to leave Willow, but figured that Dawn could help her better than anyone since the small scientist seemed to know what the dream was about. However Tara knew it was something about Willow’s past especially hearing Glory’s name, but what was it? Would Willow even tell her?

“What’s wrong?”

“Shit!” Tara jumped again, turned and glared at Xander, “Why do you have to sneak up on me?!”

Xander chuckled and shrugged, “Sorry, but what’s wrong? Dawn tore outta the room like she was on fire.”

The blonde sighed, “Will had a -from what I could tell- very bad dream, and I guess since she and Dawn have a mind link Dawn knew.”

“Meow!” Miss Kitty bounded up the stairs as fast as Dawn had and fazed into the room.

“Guess she knows about it too.”

“Yeah, come on, I think Hallie needs some help… I’m sure we’ll find out what happened.” Xander gave his sister a boyish grin, and took her hand, “Love ya sis.”

Tara smiled, “Love ya too bro.” she giggled and let Xander lead her down the stairs, but her mind never strayed away from Willow.

Back inside the bedroom Dawn lay beside her sister, her arms wrapped around Willow’s waist as the redhead squeezed her eyes shut -forcing more tears to fall, “Why…? Why did I do that?” she asked, her throat dry causing her voice to come out rough, “Why did I follow Glory’s orders? It was my fault… I killed thousands of people…”

“It wasn’t you.” Dawn whispered rubbing her sister’s back, and kissed her forehead, “It was all Glory’s doing, she’s the one to blame, she is the one who forced her will over you…she is the one who killed all those people, not you.”

“But…”

“No, no buts, Glory took you away from your home, controlled you, and forced you to do her bidding. She’s to blame not you, never you, you’re still my sweet little sister.”

“Meow…” Miss Kitty cried softly so as not to scare her creator and master; the kitten too, remember everything that had happened while her master was under Glory’s control. A memory forced it’s way up from the depths causing the kitten to cry. It had been exactly one week after Glory had gained control over Willow, exactly one week of hell. Willow fought against the controlling with everything she had, and was beaten black and blue over it. Exactly one week of pure beatings and torture for Willow, being slapped, hit with fists, clubs, and metal pipes. By far the worst was Willow being hung by her wrists in the center of a room, stripped down to her panties, and being constantly hit with a whip. Her back looked as if she’d been drug over broken glass and sharp rocks, over and over again, even Glory herself couldn’t tell where one wound ended and another began. Every time Willow screamed out in pain, Glory would only hurt her more saying she had no reason to feel pain. If finally got to be too much for the young girl, and she’d begin passing out, only to awaken to more torture. It came to a stop when Willow uttered no painful screams, nor fainted. Yes, it had been exactly one week of nothing but torture for all three, Willow having to endure it, Miss Kitty -locked in a cage- having to watch, and Dawn knowing what was happening, but was powerless to stop it.

After allowing Willow’s wounds to heal -after only a week- Glory sent Willow on her first mission: steal the Sage’s Staff and kill any one who got in her way. The redhead had nodded, picked up Miss Kitty and fazed away. The planet Koisei was a peaceful planet no wars had ever been fought on it’s soil, no blood had been spilt in hatred -that is until the day Willow appeared in the town holding the Sage’s Staff. Willow had said nothing as she surveyed the area, and spotted the shrine, her footsteps were sure as she made her way along the dirt path. Once inside the staff was no where to be seen, “Where is the staff?” she ground out, grabbing the shrine priest and lifted him off the floor.

“What are you doing?!” A guard shouted and ran toward her with his sword drawn.

Willow threw the priest to the floor, side stepped, formed her energy blade, and cut the guard down. “Where is it?” she turned her red glowing eyes to the priest.

“It was taken to the capital.” he said backing up, and sighed when eight more guards rushed through the doors after hearing the other scream. Many men had died by Willow’s blade and energy blasts that day, as the sun set that night the sky turned red, telling everyone on the planet that blood had been drawn in hatred, and spilt on the peaceful planet’s soil…

That was the day Willow had lost her blood innocence.

“I remember too…” Willow sniffled as she raised her head and looked at the kitten, “I remember all too well what that day was like.” she held out her hand motioning for Miss Kitty to climb on the bed. The kitten climbed on the bed and then settled between Willow and Dawn, and began to purr as the two young women stroked her fur.

Fifteen minutes later Tara ascended the stairs and quietly stepped over to her bedroom door, she leaned close to the door and listened -hearing nothing she opened it and softly smiled. Miss Kitty lay between Willow and Dawn on her back, and sleeping with the sisters on either side of her -both sleeping. Dawn had her arm around Willow’s waist as if protecting her from something, and if Tara thought right -which she did- it was from the dreams. Not wanting to disturb them, Tara closed the door quietly and headed back down stairs to eat. Even though the blonde wanted to comfort the redhead, she knew that Dawn had every right to be there now; the small scientist may had been locked up but she knew what happened to Willow. Sitting down she glanced around the table to see everyone looking at her, “Where is Willow and Dawn?” Hallie asked as she began passing around the bowls and plates.

“They’re both sleeping with Miss Kitty between them.” Tara said taking the offered plate of rolls from her brother, “Willow had a bad dream…” should she tell them, or should she let Willow? It was hers to tell, but knowing the demon she’d never talk about it, Tara took a deep breath and spoke again, “It was when Glory had her under control.”

Xander lowered his head and let his thoughts run free for just a moment, “I’m guessing we not say anything about this tomorrow, other than we missed her at supper, huh?”

“Correct,” Anya nodded, the demon and the princess had been getting along better, although they still fought -and the princess had to wonder if that was just out of habit now, “if Willow wants to talk about it then we’ll be here, if not, then that is her choice. However I’m sure she’ll talk when she’s ready.”

Not much was said at the table other than the chores for the next day, as always Hallie would stay at the house and with Willow’s help clean and do laundry. Tara and Xander with Anya’s help would sweep the shrine courtyard, and then wash it down. Faith and Buffy would leave early the next morning and head to Galaxy Police Headquarters to hand in their report and come back to patrol the solar system. As the group finished, Anya and Xander cleared the table while Tara and Hallie washed and dried the dishes. The two officers thanked Hallie for the meal and hurried off to get some rest for the next day. A half hour later Tara sat on the couch to watch the weather and sighed, it was going to be another hot day, “You going to bed Tare?”

“Yeah in a bit Xander.” The blonde smiled at her brother and watched him and Anya head up stairs, “Night guys.”

“Good night Tara.” Hallie stifled a yawn as she hugged the other girl.

“Night.” She watched the small princess disappear up the stairs and yawned as she lay down on the couch. She couldn’t go to her own room cause she didn’t want to disturb the sleeping girls inside, even though she just wanted to wrap her arms around Willow and fall asleep. Within a few minutes the blonde was asleep and dreaming about a certain redhead.


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There's 41 and I'm working on 42...hopefully it won't take me that long to get it out. ^_^

[Stormforce]

Eh...double post...sorry >_<

[viximon]

Stormforce!! Welcome back. I missed you.
I'm so happy to read about you again. Take care my friend and don't give up.

The chapter started so good, and then nightmare appears. Poor Willow. The things she went trough. And poor Dawnie and Mrs Kitty too.
Luckyly all them have now a caring family who support them. I'm sure with Tara help, Willow will move on, though the past will still hurt anyway, it will be more beareble ( Did I spell that right?)

I want to see Wills reaction to Hallie cooking now. More sweet scenes with Tara and Willow. More funny things with Buffy, Faith; Anya and Xander...I want more

Keep it up. See you next time pal.

[WillowRulez]

Welcome back! I noticed I didnt leave feedback on the last couple chapters - sorry.
Was so happy to this fic on the first page again! Loved the bit about Buffy and Xander running like crazy to the phone to buy the anti-tentacles-rape-suits hehe.
Willow's nightmare... guess it had to come sometime hm? Good that everyone is there for her and feels compassion. Can't wait for more! Especially WT goodness

[ceridwen]

Hello

Im glad you finally got the chance to update..... it was a long wait, but well worth it

This chapter was both funny and cute.

“Good evening to everyone!” A bright and perky voice spoke as soon as Buffy found channel one thousand one hundred and thirty-seven, “My name is Mitsuki and I am here tonight with a very special item for sale.” The green haired young woman motioned toward an orange suit with black stripes down the side, and silver shoulder and chest plates “What is this special item, you ask?” Well, let me tell you about it!” Mitsuki bounced up and down, causing Xander’s eyes to follow her large bouncing breasts.

This part was quite funny... and the whole buying of the suits but its kinda too long to quote ... actually... that whole bright and perky thing sorta reminded me of that part on Battle Royale when that woman was explaining the rules of the game to the kids...

“Meow…” Miss Kitty glanced at Hallie’s back and then to the door, and finally looked up at the counter -where she knew lay some nice carrots. Instead of changing into her child form, the kitten crouched down, her tail swaying back and forth, and jumped. She landed on a the small barstool and stopped, glancing around again she saw that the young princess still had her back turned, and once more jumped. This time the kitten landed on the counter two foot away from her prey…the carrots. Crouching down once more, Miss Kitty’s tail once more swayed back and forth, and she pounced. “Meow! Meow!” The kitten wiggled in the small hands of the princess.

Awwww.... i just melt at the cuteness that is MKF

But Willow having nightmares... Why does Willow have to have nightmares? At least she's got ppl to help her thru it... but i still dont like it
Fix it, please... pretty please

I trust that all will be well soon enough and there'll be lots of in the not so distant future

Keep up the good work.

[Stormforce]

Viximon - I missed being here. I'll make sure to take care and I won't be giving up anytime soon ^_^... About the nightmare, I'm sorry, but I wanted to show some of what had happened in Willow's past... What she, Dawn, and Miss Kitty went through. And yep, they do have a caring family that will make everything more bearable...methinks that's right...half the time I need a spellcheck *blush*... And here's the chapter with Willow's reaction to Hallie's cooking

WillowRulez - Thanks for the welcome back...but it seems that I was gone again >_< As for the feedback, it's cool, I know that alot of the time some can't leave it as much as they'd like too. Glad you liked the part with the tentacle monster protection suit, even I had a hard time writing it cause I was laughing. True the nightmare had to come sometime, and like I told Viximon, I wanted to show what they went through.

Ceridwen - Hey ren'ai, I really hope the wait was worth it... As for the chapter, I'm glad that you liked it. As for the nightmare, don't worry, I'll get it fixed...

Note: Here's this chapter... Sorry I was late, but things have been happening, then I haven't been feeling well...which sucks cause it's summer...almost. Anyway, guess what, The next chapter is almost done! So the wait won't be long


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 Forty-Two: Breakfast and Memories


A soft sleepy groan, then a painful moan came from Tara as she awoke and rose into a sitting position, her hand went to the back of her neck and massaged the tense muscle, “Damn,” she whispered with another groan, “Should have slept somewhere else…maybe the floor? It would have been better.”

“Good morning.” Hallie chirped coming out of the kitchen with a stack of plates. As the little princess set the table she glanced up and stared at the blonde, “Why did you sleep in here?” she asked setting the last plate down, hurried back into the kitchen and returned with the silverware, “I think you would have had a better night’s sleep in your bed.”

Tara grinned and nodded, yeah, she sure would have slept better in her bed with her arms around Willow, “Yeah, but I didn’t want to disturb Will or Dawn…after that nightmare I figured that they needed to be alone…and maybe Dawn could have helped Willow.”

The little princess thought about that for a moment, “What about you?” she asked cocking her head to the right, and causing Tara to think she looked just like Miss Kitty when she did that, “I mean, sure, Dawn could have helped, but, I think Willow also could have used you last night too.” This caused the blonde to blink, “What I mean is…oh! This isn’t coming out right… Okay, look at it this way, put yourself in Willow’s place, now think who would you most want with you during the night? Xander or Willow?”

“Well…umm…”

“See? Dawn may have wanted to help, and I’m sure she did. Yes, they need to get closer because of them being sisters, but, I think last night Willow needed you more than she did her sister.” The young princess was on a roll now, and she wasn’t about to let go until Tara saw what she had done wrong with the best intentions. “How do you think Willow is going to feel this morning when she wakes up and you’re not there? I shall tell you, she’s going to feel that you don’t love her anymore cause of what Glory made her do, and that’s just it, isn’t it? Glory made her do all those things so long ago, it wasn’t Willow, it was Glory acting through her.”

Tara sighed, “Oh damn!” She shot up from the couch and bolted towards the stairs.

“Tell everyone breakfast is ready!” Hallie shouted at her, hey, if the blonde was going upstairs then why not ask her to get everyone down to eat?

At the same time upstairs…

Soft snoring could be heard, but it wasn’t Tara’s, neither was the feel of the body her arms were currently wrapped around, what the hell? Willow’s eyes shot open, and focused on the person in front of her, Dawn? What the hell was she doing in here, and where was Tara? The demon blinked, then as realization dawned on her she sighed. The nightmare, Tara knew about it, but how much did she know? Is that why she didn’t come back last night, she found out just what she’d done and now didn’t want anything to do with her? Willow’s emotions were going haywire, and she felt like she was going to cry. Why the hell did Glory have to do that to her? She had found the one person she loved with every fiber of her being, and now she didn’t know if Tara still loved her or not.
Just as Willow finished that thought the door flew open, causing her to jump, and knock Dawn on to the floor, “What the hell?” The scientist growled and raised up.

“Sorry Dawn, but you gotta go, now!” Tara grabbed the shorter girl’s arm, dragged her to the door, and all but threw her out before slamming the door. Turning around the blonde smiled, and in two steps covered the distance between her and Willow, “I love you.” she said as she wrapped her arms around the demon, “I shoulda been here last night, but I thought that you’d want to be with Dawn…” Tara trailed off and leaned back, “She understands better than anyone what happened.”

Well that tossed the “Not loving her anymore” thought out the window, “It’s okay, I mean it would have been better if you would’ve been here, but I understand.” Willow grinned, “But, if you do that again, I’ll start sleeping on the rafters.”

“What?!” Tara blinked and shook her head when she heard a slight giggle, “Liar!” she growled and slipped her arms around Willow’s waist again before covering the redhead’s lips in a kiss, “You know,” she grinned leaning back, “If you do that I’ll just have to find a way to get up there and sleep with you.”

“Ooh, sounds kinda nice, you being on bottom and me sleeping on top of you, but don’t you think that it would be more comfortable here on the bed?”

Tara nodded as she laid back, “Much more comfortable, ‘bout like this.” she said and pulled the demon on top of her, “Yeah, now this is much better.”

Willow sighed and kissed the blonde’s collarbone before laying her head on Tara’s chest, “I…it wasn’t me…”

“Don’t,” Tara softly stroked Willow’s back, “I know it wasn’t you that did all those things, it was Glory controlling you, and doing those things herself.” she whispered, “It’s her I don’t like, not you…cause it’s you that I’ve given my love and my heart to.”

The demon smiled and nodded, “Tara…” how could she say it without sounding crazy? “I knew you were special when I first saw you as a baby…know why?” she asked, but didn’t give the blonde time to speak, “Cause you saw me, no one else could ever see me when they passed by that cave, but you did, it was then I knew you were special. Know what else…I watched you grow, and as you grew into a beautiful young woman I began falling in love with you. Umm…” Willow shifted and raised up just enough to look into Tara’s eyes, “I…you… I once thought you stole my heart when you were a child…but now I know different… I gave you my heart then, and I can only hope that you still want it.”

“I love you Willow, and I would not think of ever hurting you…I want you and everything that comes with you.”

“So you still want my heart?”

Tara giggled and nodded, “Will, I never gave it back.”

“Oh!” Willow grinned as she lowered her head and in one swift move captured the blonde’s lips in a soft kiss, “I love you too.” She said pulling back and lying her head on Tara’s chest.

“Tare, Will.” Xander’s voice drifted though the door, “Hallie says it’s time to eat…better hurry before we eat it all!” The young man laughed when he heard a thump from inside the room. As soon as Willow had heard that she pushed herself off of Tara, and rolled over, allowing the blonde to plant her feet on the floor.

“Xander!” Tara shouted through the door, “If all the food’s gone when we get there, I swear I’ll kick your ass up and down the steps to grandma’s house!”

The young man chuckled, “I’d like to see you try sis, you’re not even dressed!”

Xander jumped back as the door flew open, “Not dressed huh?” Tara smirked, “Listen little brother,” she whispered, “This is a special morning.” she very slightly nodded her head towards Willow -who at that moment had just fazed into a pair of tight jeans, and a tight blue shirt that showed off her mid-section.

“Huh?” Xander blinked, then it dawned on him, “Oh! Right! Yeah, sure we’ll all be waiting on you girls.” He grinned and hurried off to tell the others not to touch the food.

The blonde shook her head, but grinned, how could her brother forget about that? He was really turning out to be like their father. “I’m ready.” Willow said as she stepped behind Tara and wrapped her arms around the blonde’s waist. Tara leaned back into the demon’s arms and sighed as she turned her head enough to leave a quick kiss on Willow’s earlobe. The redhead smiled then sniffed the air, “What’s that?”

“That, love, would be breakfast, and from what I can smell is bacon, fried potatoes, sausage, eggs, biscuits and toast.” Tara grinned then cocked her head to the right, “Will, couldn’t you smell the food before?”

Willow nodded, “Yeah, but since I couldn’t taste it, it never made a big impression…but now it does, and I wanna try it.” she said grabbing Tara’s hand and pulling her toward the stairs. Guess I won’t be changing clothes now The blonde thought but shrugged it off, she could always change later.

Downstairs the others watched as Willow pulled the blonde to the table and grinned as they sat down, “Good morning girls.” Nikko spoke from her seat at the head of the table, the older woman smiled and winked at Willow -causing her to blush as bright as her hair- she was not going to miss this for anything.

“Morning grams.” Tara said as she began picking up different plates and passing them around, “Here sweetheart,” the blonde began placing different things on Willow’s plate, “You’ll like this.” she whispered, and waited until all the plates were passed around.

“Well, let’s eat.” Nikko said as she picked up her fork, the older woman kept her eyes on Willow as the demon wondered where to start. The oldest princess of Jurai had had a visitor early in the morning, her sister Hallie, and was asked to join them for breakfast. When she’d stepped inside the house she had heard Dawn and Xander talking, and asked what was going on. Xander had then explained Willow’s situation thus causing the older woman to nod and smile. She knew something had been wrong before, but could never place the feeling, and now that she knew she just had to know the demon’s reaction.

Willow’s eyes had widened as she bit into a piece of bacon, she had never tasted anything like it before, not that she could remember that is. Then came the ham, sort of sweet, but also salty, Willow’s mouth watered from the taste, “This is great!” she grinned, “No,” she shook her head, “This is better than great!” the redhead bounced in her seat before digging her fork into the scrambled eggs, “Oh! Mmm! Wow!” her smile grew bigger as the forkful of eggs hit her taste buds followed by the potatoes, then the sausage.

Tara giggled as she grabbed a piece of toast from the large stack and spread grape jelly over the bread, “Here, try this, you’ll like it.” she handed the toast to her girlfriend.

“Hah!” Xander snorted, “Grape jelly? Yeah right, Tare!” The young man grabbed another piece of toast, and the strawberry jelly, “You’ll like this even more!” he said spreading the jelly on to the bread and handed it to Willow.

Anya shook her head, “You both have no taste, no offense.” the princess said spreading another kind of jelly on a biscuit, “Here, you’ll just love the raspberry jelly.”

“Grape? Strawberry? Raspberry?” Buffy blinked, “Hell no!” she shouted as she spread a much darker jelly on a piece of toast, “Here ya go Will, this is blackberry, it’s better than the others.”

Faith rolled her eyes, “You’re all wrong!” she snorted, “Here Will, this is even better.” the dark haired officer grabbed a biscuit and the little honey bear, “You’ll just love honey…and it has more uses than just on bread.” she winked passing the piece of bread to Willow.

Tara shook her head, “No, she’ll like the grape best.”

“Strawberry!”

“Raspberry!”

“Blackberry!”

“Honey!”

Nikko quietly chuckled as she leaned back in her chair to watch the “children” fight, and caught Dawn’s eyes. The small scientist rolled her eyes with a sigh before she went back to enjoying her breakfast. Hallie blinked, just what was going on? The young princess watched as her sister fought with the others at what was better. Wait a minute. Hadn’t Willow had all those before? If she had then why were the others fighting over it now? The princess’ eyes went wide as it finally occurred to her, her eyes turned sad for just a moment before the happy sparkle came back. So Willow couldn’t taste before, but now she could, that made the small princess happy. Shrugging her shoulders with a smile, Hallie began eating again.

When Tara had handed her the toast with grape jelly on it, Willow had smiled and nodded, but before she could even bite into it Xander had spoken up. Then Anya, Buffy, and finally Faith. Now the redhead had four pieces of toast and a biscuit with different things on them, and blinked at the arguing going on. Eh, oh well, she decided to finish eating. With each bite of toast and or biscuit the demon wanted more.

“We’ll just ask Will!” Buffy finally shouted in a huff as she crossed her arms over her chest, and settled her eyes on Willow. “Huh?” she blinked, there was nothing left on Willow’s plate!

“Well, which is better? The strawberry, right?” Xander asked staring at the demon’s empty plate.

Willow looked up, then at her four friends and girlfriend, “Umm…”

“Sweetie, just tell them you liked the grape best.” Tara smiled knowing she’d just won.

“No way!” Anya shouted shaking her head, “You like the raspberry, right?”

“We all know it was the honey.”

“Nope.” Buffy shook her head with a smirk, “It’s the blackberry!”

Willow blinked, “Umm…” she trailed off, “I…umm…I like them all.” she said with a smile, “Can I have some more of each?”

A chuckle caused everyone to turn and stare at Nikko, “Yes Willow, you may have some more.”

Tara blinked as she glanced around the table at her brother, Anya and the two officers before she finally leaned back and laughed. “Here.” she finally spoke as she spread some more grape jelly on another piece of toast, “Have all you want.”

“Yeah!” Xander said as he happily spread the strawberry jelly on some toast.

Anya, Buffy and Faith fixed Willow another piece of toast, or biscuit with their choice, and watched with a smile as the demon made quick work of them.

Several minutes later, after Willow had polished off the toast and biscuits, she leaned back with a happy grin, “Thank you, Hallie, that was wonderful.” she said causing the young princess to giggle and nod.

“Hey,” Hallie slightly cocked her head to the right, “Would anyone like chocolate cake for dessert tonight?” she asked, and received enthusiastic nods from everyone except Willow, “What’s wrong?”

Willow had a look of deep thought on her face for a moment, “Chocolate?” she glanced around the table, “Umm…what’s that?”

“EH!?” Dawn blinked, “C’mon sis, don’t you remember? Chocolate was your favorite food!”

“It was?”

“Yes!” Dawn nodded, “I had to hide every bit of chocolate to keep you from eating it all!” she laughed, “I remember…hang on.” The small scientist opened a small sub-space pocket and reached in, “Now where is it…?” she mumbled, “Ah-hah! There you are!” she grinned pulling out an old photo album, “Here we go.” Dawn then took a small picture from the album and handed it to Willow.

“Gah!” Willow blinked before trying to keep it away from Tara, but no such luck. The blonde effectively snatched the picture out of her hand, and promptly giggled.

The photo showed a young Willow, no more than the age of four, sitting on top of a table in nothing but a pair of panties, and holding two handfuls of chocolate cake. The redheads face was covered in the dark chocolate from her forehead to her chin, with some of the icing dripping down on to her chest and stomach. “This is so cute!” Tara laughed as she passed the picture to Nikko.

Willow blushed bright red and covered her face with her hands, “Nooo! Why did you have to show them that?” she squeaked out, cutting her green eyes toward her sister in a glare.

“Don’t worry little sis,” Dawn smirked, “I have more where that came from. We’ll just have to set up a time to show them to everyone.” she said with a giggle, “They are family after all.” The young scientist thought for a moment, “You know, I could always show them a memory of mine. I remember you weren’t too fond of clothes.”

“No! No you won’t!” The demon shook her head with wide eyes, even if she didn’t remember too much of her childhood, she sure remembered that part of it.

“What?” Buffy glanced up from the picture with a smile, “You were so cute.”

Dawn leaned back in her chair, “Well, when Will here started school she hated wearing clothes. I’m not kidding, I would get calls from her teachers telling me she had chucked her clothing off and thrown them away!” she laughed, “After that I made her promise not to take her clothes off, I should have been more specific.”

“Why?” Tara and Anya asked at the same time.

“Well, taking off, and fazing out of clothes are two different things. I got a call two days later, the teacher telling me that Willow had caused a rebellion in class. Sheila got the same call. So we meet in the hallway halfway to the classroom, and could hear the kids screaming and laughing. We get there, and Will is standing on top of a desk stark naked, and proclaiming herself “Queen of the Classroom”. Five minutes later found the three of us back in the hall, Sheila holding Willow, and me asking what happened to her clothes. Little sister here shrugged. If it wasn’t for another scientist, we’d have never found them. Willow had fazed out of her clothes, fazed outside, flew up, and tied her clothes on the flagpole before fazing back to her class.”

Everyone at the table erupted into laughter, everyone that is except Willow; the redhead buried her face in her hands an groaned, “Why did you do that?” Faith asked chuckling.

Willow, with a sigh, raised her head and couldn’t help but grin, “Fine, I’ll tell you, they made me itch.” she said like it was the best excuse ever, “And I do mean all over.”

“She said she was allergic to the clothing, and wanted nothing to do with anything that covered her body.” Dawn grinned, “Sheila and I knew better, our little one had no allergies what so ever. So we knew she was at least making that up.”

“Hey!” Willow half shouted in mock hurt, “There was something in those things that made me itch!” The demon crossed her arms with a glare at Dawn, “Hmm… I remember something about you.” she smirked, “A black portal, a whip cracking, and a woman dressed in nothing but a tight red leather thong bikini, yelling out: “Lick my boots!”, as the whip cracked again.”

Dawn’s eyes widened, “Don’t tell that!” she half shouted with a blush.

“Why wouldn’t I?” Willow asked smirking, “You started this.” she laughed, “Yes, I remember that woman chasing you around the lab, cracking that whip with a passion as she told you to “Lick her boots”. I also remember you screaming for the others to get the portal open again, as you ran from her, and slid under the newly opening portal- causing the ‘Whip-woman’ to run right into it.”

“Damn!” Dawn cursed, “The lab techs, not to mention Sheila, wouldn’t let that go! They teased me relentlessly… You were in on it too!” The scientist accused with a glare as her sister chuckled.

As the laughter finally died down, Tara stood from the table and stretched, “Guess I’d better get changed and get to the chores.” She leaned down, placed a quick kiss on Willow’s lips, and hurried upstairs.

Xander leaned over quickly kissing Anya, before he stood, “Let’s see…” he seemed to think for a moment, “Ah, yes, we have the courtyard to clean today.” Glancing at his grandmother confirmed what he knew to be correct, “Thank you for the wonderful meal Hallie.” he said and hurried out the door.

“Yes, thank you sister.” Nikko stood patting Hallie on the head, “Anya?” she glanced up, “Xander and Tara could use some help with the courtyard if you want to help.”

Anya nodded, “Sure, thank you for breakfast, Hallie.” she kissed her sister before turning toward Willow, “Would you like to help us today?”

Willow nodded, “Yeah, but it’ll be later, cause I gotta help with the housework.” she stood and began gathering the dishes as both Nikko and Anya walked out the door.

“Thank you, Hallie!” Tara called as she sped through the front door, hoping to catch up to her brother.

“Buffy, let’s go.” Faith said standing, “Thanks for the great breakfast little princess.”

Hallie thought she’d never get rid of the blush, sure everyone always thanked her, but she’d always blush from the praise, “You’re welcome everyone… where are you going?”

“We have to make our reports.” Buffy smiled as she hugged the young princess, “We’ll be back in time for supper! Can’t miss one of your meals!” the blonde turned, grabbed Faith’s hand and bolted outside to their ship -she knew they couldn’t be late, or otherwise they’d be in trouble.

As the demon helped Hallie with the dishes she glanced outside, and couldn’t help but think what a beautiful day it was going to be. Dawn brought the last of the plates into the kitchen before heading off to the lab. Willow nodded to herself, yes, today was going to be beautiful. However, thoughts can always be misleading, and those thoughts for that day were about to be turned around. The Maclay household was about to be turned upside down, inside out, and every which way but loose before the day was over!

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There it is...now the next won't be long ^_^

[ceridwen]

Hey

The little princess thought about that for a moment, “What about you?” she asked cocking her head to the right, and causing Tara to think she looked just like Miss Kitty when she did that, “I mean, sure, Dawn could have helped, but, I think Willow also could have used you last night too.” This caused the blonde to blink, “What I mean is…oh! This isn’t coming out right… Okay, look at it this way, put yourself in Willow’s place, now think who would you most want with you during the night? Xander or Willow?”

Um... no comment

Awww.... how cute is it that Tara stole Willow's heart since she was a kid

And Willow's baby pix.... so adorable

Fazing outta clothes... i wish i could do that sometimes >_<

*Sits and patiently waits for next update*

[WillowRulez]

Hihi, wanna see more Willow baby pics! Too cute.
I thought it was really good that Hallie put Tara in her place hehe. Even though she had good intentions Willow might (and well, we saw she almost did) take it the wrong way. But yay, Hallie fixed it before it could escalate.
The jelly moment was too funny as well. And wow, Willow can eat a lot!

[viximon]

Hello there Stormforce. How are you?
I'm just happy to read more about you and your fic.
I specially loved that part when Tara kicked poor atonished Dawn out of the room. Priceless. Tara and Willow are sooooo sweet.
The war to get Willow choce food and that was hilarious too.
Oh, and don't forget the blackmail latter.
Really I loved it. I like the fic still, pretty much. I had missed it.
Now I just have to wait next chapter patiently Just don't make us wait too long .
Take care, friend, see you around

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen: Hey ren'ai, was it worth the wait?

WillowRulez: Glad you liked the baby pics, there's more on the way after this update. As for Hallie putting Tara in her place, it needed to be done, otherwise Tara would have never figured it out. The jelly part was fun writing, I could actually them fighting over it, and then seeing how much Willow had actually ate! Hope you like this chapter. ^_^

Viximon: I'm good, how you doing? Sorry for the long wait, but like with FFX-3, I've been sorta blocked. Glad you liked Tara kicking Dawn out of the room, I would have done the same thing too ^_^ Hope you like this chapter. More will be coming, and hopefully it won't take long.

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 Forty-three: Visitors?

The sleek silver spaceship known as the Yukinojo blasted into the atmosphere at nearly warp-drive. As Yukinojo hit space it automatically went into subspace, just missing a huge blue and gray ship with two large wooden shields on either side. Neither Buffy, nor Faith noticed the large ship, as they were too busy ripping the others clothing off -and tossing the articles all over the cockpit.

Two women, one with floor length pitch black hair, and steel gray eyes; the other with light blue floor length hair and bright crimson colored eyes. Both women blinked as the silver ship barely avoided crashing into them, and sighed. “Buffy and Faith.” They both spoke shaking their heads with another sigh as they turned and stared down at the Earth, “So this is where the princesses are.” The dark haired woman said, her voice as calm as the wind before a tornado dropped down.

“I cannot believe they’d be here!” The blue haired woman -nearly- wailed with tears shining in her eyes.

“Now, now, love.” The other woman softly smiled as she wrapped her arms around her lover’s waist, “You forget, I once lived on this planet.” She kissed the nape of the other woman’s neck, “It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s a beautiful planet.”

The blue haired woman relaxed into her lover’s arms, and nodded. “What do you think the girl’s will think of the news our husband brings?” she asked turning in the other woman’s arms, “I would think they’d be happy to leave here, wouldn’t you?”

“Yes.”

“By force if he deems it.”

Steel gray eyes darkened, “If he tries to take them by force, he is in for a fight.” The dark haired woman spoke, “He’d best “ask” them to leave here, and not trying to take them by force.”

“I know, I know, my love, but you know how he can be.”

“That I do.” The steel gray eyes darkened even more as the woman thought back to how she was taken from her home, and her family.

With one more sigh the blue haired woman gently pulled away from her lover, “Let’s go, love! I wanna see them!” she squealed happily, pulling the other woman with her.

Down on Earth…

The new day had began, baby birds chirped from their nests -waiting on their mother to return with food. Fish were jumping out of the lake, catching their breakfast, and the bees hovered over the flowers. Up at the once shrine water splashed on the stone courtyard, wetting it down for a good cleaning. Anya wiped the sweat from her face before pulling the old fashioned steel cup from the water bucket, and tossing more water. Tara and Xander were at the other side of the courtyard; the siblings sweeping as fast as they could, and wishing Anya would just slow down for a moment.

The soft sound of clicking could be heard, at first it was far away, but with each passing second it got louder and closer. The siblings and princess at first ignored it, but once the clicking grew louder, all three looked up, and saw a beautiful dark haired woman approaching. As her right foot touched the top step, Anya’s bucket fell to the ground -spilling water everywhere. The princess’s eyes went wide as her left hand went to her chest, “Can we help you?” Tara asked noticing the look on Anya’s face, and slightly tensed, as did Xander.

“I would like to see the woman of the shrine.”

“Mother Funaho!” Anya spoke with surprise lacing her voice, causing both Tara and Xander to blink, “If you’re here, then that means…” she trailed off, her eyes going even wider.

“Yes, she’s down at the house.”

“Gotta go!” Anya shouted, hurried toward Funaho, kissed her cheek and sped down the steps like the hounds of hell were nipping at her feet. “Why?! Why the hell didn’t she come up here?!” The princess’s voice drifted up, then, “Damn it! Willow! SHIIIIITTTTT!”

Funaho shook her head, just when did Anya start speaking in such a manner? It was very unbecoming of a princess, “Now, about speaking to…” Funaho was cut off.

“Hang on!” Both siblings shouted, “Grandma! Someone’s here to see you!” they both shouted tripping and landing on the steps.

Nikko had been sitting at her table, quietly reading a book when she heard her grandchildren hollering. The sliding door flew open, “What is all that racket!?” Nikko half shouted staring at her grandchildren.

“She wants to talk to you.” Tara pointed over her shoulder, and saw her grandmothers face pale.

“Oh… Mother!”

“WHAT?!” Tara and Xander’s voice echoed around the once shrine as they blinked, and looked between Nikko and Funaho.

Ten minutes earlier…

Willow stood in the living room, her green eyes scanning over the room, “Dust!” she shouted, and fazed in front of the television with a feather duster. Hallie giggled and hurried off to gather the laundry, as Dawn came out of the lab.

“Hey, sis, put this on, will ya?” The scientist held up a half inch wide black belt, with a tail on it.

Willow quirked her eyebrows, “Now why in the hell would I wear that?” she asked taking the belt from her sister and looking it over.

“You see, the tail on it just emotion sensitive, I was hoping you’d try it out for me… I made it for you.” she gave the demon a sweet smile, as she batted her eyes, “Please?”

Willow rolled her eyes and sighed, “Will it blow up?”

“No.”

“Is it dangerous?”

“No.”

Willow took a deep breath, and nodded, “Alright, but if something happens, I’ll hang you with it!”

Dawn laughed, “Don’t worry, nothing will happen. All it does is allow what you’re feeling at the moment to show. It’ll twitch, sway, fuzz out, things like that.” she said watching Willow fasten the belt around her waist, “See,” she pointed, “It’s swaying, it means you’re happy.” Dawn quickly wrapped her arms around her sister in a hug, and just as quickly left for her lab.

Willow sighed shaking her head, and went back to dusting. As the demon placed the duster back in the closet, the doorbell rang, “Oi! Hallie, can you get that?” she asked, at that moment her hands were full, a bucket of cleaning supplies in her right, and a mop, broom, and towels in the left.

“Sorry, Willow, but I can’t… I’m up to my elbows in nasty looking water from a clogged up sink!” the small princess hollered back, “EWW! What is this, slime?!” she screamed, “It looks like that blob movie we watched… EWW! It stinks! What is this?!”

The redhead blinked, she hadn’t been putting anything down the sink… “Ara, I think Buffy was pouring the ship’s oil down the drain.” Wait a minute, when did Hallie go back into the kitchen? The demon hadn’t seen her walk by, then a look comprehension crossed her face. There was a small door leading from the kitchen to the laundry room, that must have been how she got back without her seeing the small princess.

“WHAT!?!” Hallie screamed, “She should know better!”

“Eh, well, Faith said it would be alright… Something about not knowing won’t hurt anyone.”

“DAMN IT!” The young princess screamed once more, surprising Willow at the language, “This is more than just oil! It’s MOVING!” Gagging sounds could be heard, “AHHH! SHIITT!” Willow’s eyes went wide, that girl was spending too much time with Anya… Way too much time, she was even starting to sound like her. Even the cursing, maybe she should sit Hallie down and explain that young girls shouldn’t use that kind of language. Then she blinked. Why should she? It was Anya’s fault after all for using it in front of her little sister.

“Well, damn.“ Willow grumbled, “Hey, Hallie, could you please not use that language?“ she asked, and began wondering if the little princess would do as she asked.

“Okay Willow, I won’t use it. Just that hearing Anya saying it made me want to too.” Hallie said rushing out of the kitchen, “This is nasty!” she cried, “I will have to speak with both Buffy and Faith about this. A sink is no place to be pouring used ship oil!” Hallie said as she hurried up the stairs, and disappeared, most likely to the bathroom to wash up.

Willow had watched as the young princess rushed out of the kitchen and upstairs, and sighed as the doorbell began to ring at a faster pace. “Oi! I’m coming!” Willow shouted as she moved towards the front door -keeping an eye on the kitchen door. If anything was to slither out of there, she’d faze, grab Hallie, and get the hell away, screw whoever was at the door! Let them fend for themselves.

“Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, RING!” the doorbell went, whoever was out there wanted in, or at least someone to answer the door.

“Damn it! I said I was coming! Don’t get your panties…or boxers in a twist… whatever you’re wearing.” Willow sighed, “Who the hell could it be at this time of the day?” she wondered to herself and opened the door. Only to have her eyes widen in surprise when a beautiful blue haired woman quickly pulled her into a hug.

“Hallie! Hallie! Hallie!” The woman shouted squeezing Willow as tears poured down her cheeks.

“Gahh!” Willow grunted as her new tail fuzzed out and went straight as an arrow, “Get off!”

The woman squeezed harder, causing Willow’s eyes to enlarge to the size of plates, and her face to turn red as a tomato, “Oh, Hallie!” The woman said in a tearful voice, never noticing Willow’s arms tense, and her hands grasping at thin air…to get away from her. Not to mention her tail was now crooked in four different places, making it look like a hillside.

As the woman began to wail, Willow’s tail went back to being straight, as she struggled to force the crazy woman away from her, “Hey! I’m telling you, you don’t understand! I’m not Hallie!” she forced out, pressing against the woman harder.

The woman’s tears stopped as she narrowed her eyes at the demon, and let go of her. Willow smirked as she crossed her arms, and the woman’s hands went to her chest, as once more tears shown in her eyes, “There. Now you’ve got it, right. I am Willow!”

The blue haired woman shook her head and cried out, “Hallie! You look like a punk!” Willow fell over from shock, and tears began -once more- pouring from the woman’s eyes.

Who the hell did this woman think she was? Coming in here, calling her Hallie, as if! She was no princess, and was very happy about that! As fast as light, Willow flipped up, “Hey, you!” she growled, her tail never left it’s straightness, and her hands balled into fists. As she looked at the tearful woman, she sagged, and quickly leaned back as the woman came face to face with her, and grabbed a hand full of Willow’s hair.

With a tug the woman began waving Willow from right to left, by her hair, “You used to have very soft, and very beautiful hair!” she shouted, “Now look, you’ve dyed it, and now it’s all hard and pointy!” she pulled Willow up, and let go of her hair.

“Umm…” Willow blinked.

“And your eyes, they look so mean!” she shouted, placing her hands on either side of the demon’s face, and stretched her cheeks, only to press them in, then stretch them out once more.

She just knew her face was going to be sore, “That’s none of your damn business!” Willow growled slapping the woman’s hands away. “You didn’t listen to a thing I said! Huh?”

The woman’s eyes were now large, and shining with tears…once more…as she clasped her hands in front of her, “Oh, I’m so sorry, Hallie.” she wrapped her arms around Willow in a surprisingly soft and gentle hug, “I’m so sorry… You must have had a tough life.”

“Umm… Hello? Is anyone in there?” Willow blinked, thinking the woman was in serious need of some help, “I’m not Hallie.” the demon spoke in a defeated tone.

The tapping of small feet could be heard, at least to Willow with her sensitive hearing, and she sighed, someone was coming -hopefully they could get the crazy woman off of her. “Willow, I’m sorry about that…” Hallie said as stepped into the hall and gaped, “Mommy!” she shouted happily as her eyes glistened with unshed tears, “It’s my mommy!” she cried out once more, gaining the attention of the blue haired woman.


With a look of surprise on her pretty face the blue haired woman smiled, “Hallie!” she shouted, and faster than the eye could see, shoved Willow away from her…and into the wall. The demon’s new tail crooked jaggedly, for all the world looking like a bolt of lightning, “It’s my baby!”

“Mommy!” Hallie cried out running toward the woman.

“Hallie!” The woman cried as she kneeled down, and caught her daughter in her arms. Both mother and daughter ignoring the poor, poor demon, who at that moment began sliding to the floor.

Willow pulled her face from the wall with a loud ‘POP’, then slightly turned her head toward the mother and daughter, her face redder than any tomato, “Don’t…mind me…really…” she said with a pain filled gruff voice, as she finally slid to the floor. If it wasn’t enough that her cheeks was going to be sore, now her whole face would be, and for what? For being -apparently- mistaken for Hallie, by her mother?! Damn, that woman really needed some glasses if she could mistake the demon of Jurai for her daughter. Wait a minute! Willow bolted up from the floor just as the mother and daughter walked towards the living room, if that was Hallie’s mother…then that meant she was one of the queens of Jurai! The demon’s eyes widened, what were their names? Think, think, think, pitch black hair… Funaho, blue hair… Misaki! That was it, Funaho and Misaki! Willow shook her head with a huge sigh, she could only hope neither one knew she was here, remembered her, or noticed who she was, if so, she was doomed!

What was it she remembered about those two? She leaned her back against the wall, her fingers of her right hand tapping against her leg, and her left hand rubbing her temple. As the began to think it over, and with her memories returning, she began remembering the story about them.

Funaho, the Earthling queen of Jurai. Yes, that was it! Funaho was originally from Earth, the king of Jurai had -for one reason or another- come to Earth, saw Funaho, and wanted her for his own. During that time, with the right sum of livestock and/or money, a child would be sold. But that is not what the king had done, he had threatened her family, and had taken her back with him. She bore him a child, the first princess of Jurai, now known as Nikko. But that was not all, Funaho had been a pawn, for the king had already been engaged to another. Misaki.

The blue haired queen of Jurai…the second queen, when she should have been first. Everyone knew of it, of course, but if one was to speak against it then they’d be in deep trouble. It was then the king had passed the law, any of Jurai’s royalty could have two wives, or a wife and a husband. This was his way of getting what he wanted, two wives and more children. Misaki had at first hated, and despised the young Earthling, but once she was told of what her husband had done -switched her hate toward him.

Now what was the rest about Misaki? Ah, yes, Willow remembered. The blue haired queen had been born into a noble family, and at birth her father had arranged her marriage to her cousin. All her life she had thought she’d marry him, however that would not be. On her tenth birthday the king had seen her, and wanted her. He took her from her family at that time, and had raised her to do what he wanted, and somewhere along the way, Misaki thought she was in love with him. Then he went and brought Funaho home, and she hated the woman for taking the man she loved away from her. Years later she heard the true story of what had happened, Funaho had not stolen him, he had stolen her from Earth. Now she hated him, but she nor Funaho could do a damn thing about it. But they could do one thing, move out of the royal bedchamber, and make the king’s life a living hell -and that’s just what they did.

Both queens hated their husband, they had found love in each other, and he had tried to take that away from them. One night as they both lay in their bed, the door opened, and in stormed four of the royal guards. Misaki had been held back as they forcefully drug Funaho out the door. Hours later the dark haired queen literally crawled back into the bedroom, her nightgown torn to shreds, her beautiful face marred with bruises and scratches. The king had wanted a child, a son, to take his place, and had forced himself on Funaho. That only made the two women hate him even more. Nine months later Funaho gave birth to a baby girl she named Kairi, the king turned and left the room, angry that the woman had not bore him a male child. As the years passed the king took little interest in the girl, but loved her, even though the child was not a male. Several more years passed, and the king began eyeing Misaki. One night he drugged her, and without her knowledge, slept with her. The two queens had no idea what had happened until the blue haired woman found herself with child. The two women stormed into the kings chamber and asked straight out, he of course smiled and nodded.

Nine months later Misaki gave birth to a baby girl she named Anya, and again the king stormed away, once more pissed that he had no male child. When the new child was only two the king proclaimed Kairi and Anya to be wed. This angered the queens, sure it was very legal on Jurai to marry that close into the family, but disliked it nonetheless. They both had hoped that nothing would come of it, but as the years grew Anya began saying she couldn’t wait to marry her half sister. Not long after, Misaki went missing again, and once more found herself with child. This time the two women stormed into the king’s chamber with their swords, and threatened his manhood. They told him in no uncertain terms that if he ever drugged one of them, or forced himself on either of them again, they’d cut his manhood off, and throw it to the sharks.

Again nine months later Hallie was born, and the king gave up on ever having a male child to raise as a prince. Not long after the birth of Hallie, the king thought about what he’d done to the two women, and apologized.

Afterwards he began acting like a father should, but never once touched either of his wives again, and they still gave him hell. But he deserved it.

Willow sighed once more, she finally remembered what had been floating around the Science Academy all those years ago. Both those women had been through hell, with their husband, and with her. She couldn’t begin to think of what they felt like when Nikko chased after her, then Anya following with her young sister. They must hate her. Maybe they won’t figure it out, maybe no one will tell them. The demon stood from the floor, rubbed her sore face, and slowly trekked toward the living room. Both mother and daughter were sitting on the couch talking. Not wanting to interrupt them, Willow put her arms behind her head, and leaned against the doorway.

As the two talked and giggled over what Willow and Anya had done to gain Tara and Xander’s attention, Willow became annoyed. The demon narrowed her eyes, and her tail swayed back and forth as Hallie told her mother of the ideas the two young women had had. Pretending not to know Tara, and blushing, only to have Buffy to interrupt and drag her off -all the while telling her she needed to take care of her cold. The annoyed expression never left Willow’s face, and that’s how Anya saw her as she entered the room.

On the steps several minutes earlier…

Click, click, click, click, the sound of her fast paced footsteps echoed into the trees as her breath came in quick gasps from the running. Sweat formed, and began dripping and rolling down her forehead and face as it caused her hair to become wet, and stick to her cheeks. The princess let out a groan as she felt more sweat rolling down her back, plastering her under-robe to her like a second skin. She was only half way down the stairs, and had another fifty to go, this was taking forever. If she didn’t get to the house soon, no telling what would happen…especially with Willow being there! It’s not that she didn’t trust the demon, because she did, with her life. Although she wasn’t about to let anyone know that, it would look bad for a princess of Jurai to trust the “Demon of Jurai”. No, it wasn’t that, it was her mother, that woman could cause the most calm, cool, and unemotional person to blow a gasket! Visions of the house exploding danced before her eyes, causing the princess to hurry her pace . Sure, she loved her mother, but even she was not immune to -what is known on Jurai as- “The Misaki Charm”. Charm? Yeah, right. That wasn’t charm, that was nothing but a purely played “Stupid Act”, her mother always knew what she was doing!

A third of the way down, twenty-five more steps to go, Anya slowed just a fraction, she could see her royal robes hanging on the clothesline. With a quick glance at her current state…more like her current dress; the sweat soaked robes, she decided to quickly change. Ten steps to go, and Anya prayed to Tsunami that no one would see her as she stripped off her top robe, then her under robe. Now in nothing more than bra and panties, her eyes scanned the front yard, no one was around. Good. She, as fast as she could, pulled her panties down as she hit the last step, and hopped to the ground. Her bra flew off as she sprinted toward the clothesline, wouldn’t her mothers have a stroke if they saw her like this! Hell, she’d probably get teased by Willow, that is, if the demon saw her streaking through the yard. “Yes!” Her happy whispered glee was barely heard by her own ears, as she came to a dead stand still in front of her clothing. Within seconds, from being highly trained to dress quickly, the princess was now fully clothed again -and in another few seconds she was at the door. Wiping the sweat from her face, and fixing her hair as best as she could; the princess opened the door…and saw an annoyed Willow. “Oh shit!” she whispered with a sigh, and quickly walked over to see her mother and little sister talking. Talking about her ideas to catch Xander’s attention.

[WillowRulez]

Haha, Anya streaking through the yard.
Really enjoyed the 'historical' flashback.
Did we already know that Nikko is Anya's & Hailie's sister? I might have forgotten but I doubt it. Cool development!

[ceridwen]

Sweet!!!

U finally decided to update eh?

Loved it as always... poor, poor Willow... and so very funny too

And just when did u add the last 2 paragraphs? Hmm?

Well... they were just as good as the rest of the update.

So... will Funaho or Misaki recognize Willow? And if they do... what r they gonna do to her?

Update soon.

[Stormforce]

WillowRulez - Yup, Nikko being Anya and Hallie's sister was a while ago, but it would be easy to have forgotten...it's been a while <_< Glad you liked the little flashback of the Queens, I wanted to give a little more insite as to who they were...or at least how the king can be viewed.

Ceridwen - Yes, koi, I finally updated ^_^ As for the last 2 paragraphs, eh, I figured I'd just add them at the spur of the moment. Umm, will Funaho and Misaki recognize Willow, well, I'm not telling <

Now, this is not an update, I do have one sorta worked on, but I've become blocked...again >_< and just can't get going to where I want to go. However, I'm trying. Hopefully it won't be that long before I can get the next one out.

[viximon]

Ups, I've been out of the country for two weeks and I miss the update. I'm here now though
That was a short but nice chapter, hope the next one don't make us wait so long.

Take care and see you around Stormforce

[Stormforce]

Viximon - Sorry about it being short, this chapter is short as well...been blocked. Enjoy.

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 Forty-four: The Past

Willow’s eyes were narrowed slits, she was grinding her teeth, her tail was waving back and forth, and her hands were behind her head. Her green eyes narrowed even further as Misaki giggled with Hallie, and then the door opened, allowing Anya to step inside the house. Thanking any god and goddess that might have been listening; Willow let her annoyance drop a notch, but kept her eyes narrowed. She growled. 

Anya sighed, “I know how you feel.” she whispered, and folded her hands in front of her like a good princess.  

“Sister!” Hallie shouted with a smile, “Mother is here! Where is mother Funaho?” she asked glancing around, “Oh, is she at the shrine?”  

Anya nodded, smiling at her little sister, and then to her mother, “Mother,” she began in a very regal and even tone of voice, “it is so good to see you. I have missed you and mother Funaho, and it was a surprise to know you both are here.” 

Misaki had started with a bright smile, her hands clasped under her chin, then Anya spoke, “Mother.” that annoyed her. The queen’s hands lowered, and the smile disappeared. As the princess kept speaking in her regal, even tone, Misaki’s eyes narrowed, and a frown crossed her pretty face. Soon she looked pissed. Anya backpedaled a step, her eyes wide, and the back of her hand close to her mouth, “Ahhh!” the scream came out in a slight whisper, and she let out a strangled laugh. The princess sighed as she looked towards the ceiling, “Willow,” she said, causing the oni to quirk her eyebrows and look at her, “I’m about to do something you’ve never seen. But I’m warning you, don’t laugh, you can tease me all you want later…just not now.” she spoke quickly and quietly as she clasped her hands under her chin, and forced tears to fall, “MOMMY!” she screamed in a very high pitched child-like voice. 

Willow fell to the floor from shock. 

“It’s my mommy!” Anya squealed again and took a baby step forward. 

Misaki’s demon-look turned into a happy, tearful smile as she held out her hands, “Anya! My baby!” The queen squealed just as loudly as Anya had, and wrapped her arms around the princess as joyful tears rolled down her cheeks. 

The oni rose from the floor, using the wall as support to hold her up, and laughed, “She’s calling her…she’s calling her mommy!” Willow giggled again, and in a flash found herself face to face with a very pissed off queen, again the demonic look graced her pretty face. 

“No one,” Misaki growled as she grabbed Willow’s face in her hands, “makes fun of my” she shoved her thumbs into Willow’s mouth, and pulled at the corners, stretching the demon’s face, “of my little Anya!” 

Willow struggled a little, placing her hands on Misaki’s and tried to push them away, but the queen was stronger…how was that possible? Maybe because she was a Juraian? “Let me go!” Willow slurred out. 

Hallie was bent over with a pen and a sheet of paper, as Anya sighed and shook her head, “I did warn you, Willow.” The princess said, “Hallie.” 
“Here! Read this!” the small princess held up the paper for Willow to see. 
“I’m sorry pretty lady.” The demon read from the paper and in another flash found herself wrapped in a bear hug. 

Misaki smiled as she squeezed Willow, and turned around, still holding on to the redhead, “You’re such a lovely young woman.” she said, and squeezed harder, causing Willow’s face to turn red.    

Willow struggled, her struggles turned into shock, and protests when she felt the queen’s hands cup and squeeze her ass, “Mother!” Anya shouted, the princess wasn’t in shock, no, she knew what her mother was capable of -and that didn’t shock her one bit. What worried her though, was the fact that Willow could, and most possibly would, destroy the house to get away, “Stop that!” 

“Oh, you’re no fun, dear.” The queen grinned like a shark, and squeezed Willow tighter, that is until, “Meow.” Miss Kitty trudged down the stairs sleepily, and yawned -and once more, poor Willow found herself face first against the wall as Misaki squealed, “How cute!” the queen hurried over and scooped up the kitten, “Aww.” she sighed as she nuzzled her face in the kitten’s fur. 

Anya shook her head, and hurried over to Willow, “Are you alright?” 

“F-fine…” Willow rubbed her face as the princess helped her up, “But your mother is…how shall I say this…odd?” 

“You’re telling me.” Anya whispered with a sigh. 

All three girls watched as Misaki nuzzled her face against the kitten and sat down, “Now, dears, please sit down and tell all of what’s been happening.” the queen spoke and scratched the kitten’s head. 

Up at the once shrine, Funaho sat at the small table, her eyes on her daughter as the first princess of Jurai poured two steaming cups of tea, “Here mother, have some tea.” Nikko slid the cup to her mother and sat down. 

Funaho smiled as she wrapped her hands around the cup, “Thank you very much, daughter.” she said and glanced out the window, “I’m back home…it’s hard to believe.” 

“This planet has gone through a lot of changes, hasn’t it?” Nikko asked as she, too, stared out the window. 

The queen of Jurai smiled at her daughter, “Come now, Kairi, how long will you stay in that disguise?” 

The old woman’s eyes went wide, “Huh?” she turned to her mother, and shook her head as she raised her right hand to her temple, “I can’t deceive my mother, can I?” she asked causing the queen to giggle and sip at her tea. Nikko placed her hands in her lap and closed her eyes. A light appeared around her hands and spread over her body, and within seconds, the old woman was gone, and in her place was the young first princess of Jurai. The graying hair had changed back to it’s original dark, “No one here has any idea as to what I really look like.” Nikko said as she grinned, then stopped. 

“Hmm?” Funaho quickly turned her head and stared at the door. 

“Mother?” Nikko asked and glanced at the door, “Ah.” she chuckled, “Tara! Xander!” she half shouted, causing two thumps to sound out as the siblings quickly stood from their eavesdropping, “You both know when you’re done cleaning outside, that you have to clean the stairs!” 

Neither teen spoke as they hurried away from the door, both knowing they would be in more trouble for listening in. The first queen of Jurai giggled, “They really are something else. Quite the handful.” 

“Yes,” Nikko nodded, “you know, at first I thought I could send one or both of them for my place.” 

“Do you think they could fit in on Jurai?” 

The princess shrugged, “Perhaps… I do think they can, but it would be a lot of work for them to learn everything.” 

Funaho sighed, and the smile left her face, “I came here because we received a report from the Galaxy Police.” 

Nikko showed no sign of surprise and kept staring at the door, “When Willow was resurrected I knew that you’d be here sooner or later. However, it wasn’t at the exact time when she appeared,” she cut her eyes towards her mother, “I’m thinking the Galaxy Police report acted as a trigger, right?” a very smug smile appeared. 

The queen said not a word, only stared at her now empty cup, “Kairi,” she spoke glancing up, causing her daughter to quirk her eyebrows, “May I have another cup of tea?” she asked with narrowed eyes, “Where are your manners, daughter?” 

“Oh!” Nikko hurriedly stood, “I’m sorry, mother, I should have been paying more attention.” she quickly filled the cup once more, and sat back down. The princess rubbed her face, “Buffy and Faith submitted the report to the Galaxy Police months ago, didn’t they? So, what took you so long?” 

“I suppose it’s because Buffy and Faith were just like I heard about in the rumors. They write everything down…anyway, the report is top secret at the Galaxy Police.” 

Nikko sipped her tea, and closed her eyes for a moment, “Then it will go to the Juraian Supreme Council meeting?” 

“That’s right.” Funaho nodded, “This is not a private matter for the Royal Family anymore.” the queen took a deep breath, and squashed the urge to roll her eyes, “The king will be here soon, too.” 

The princess’ head shot up, her eyes wide, “Father will come?” she groaned, that didn’t sound good. “I thought the council would.” 
“Misaki and I are the representatives.” 

Nikko sighed, and smiled slightly, “So the Inspector General of Information,” she looked at her mother, “and the Supreme Commander of the Royal Bodyguard,” she thought of Misaki, “just had to come all this way?”

The queen, for just a second, narrowed her eyes as she stared at her daughter, “Royal trees lose their power once they find roots in soil.” she said and shifted her eyes towards the window where the tree Funaho could be seen, ““If we want to sustain their power we have to keep them charged by the other royal trees. During the passed 700 years the ships that were missing were your Funaho, Anya’s Ryu-Oh, and Hallie’s Tsunami.” she finally set her eyes back on her daughter. 

Lowering her head the princess blinked as she stared at her hands, “You’re wondering about my appearance, aren’t you? Would you like to know why Tsunami did this?” her eyes widened slightly as her mother kept staring. 

“The report also mentioned gems that are the source of Willow’s power, it says that they were imbedded in the master key to hold her captive.” 

“Well,” Nikko gave a goofy grin as she rubbed the back of her head, “those girls are thorough, aren’t they?” she lowered her hand, “So you already knew what to expect.” she said with a cocky grin, having a feeling she was right.  

The queen’s eyes went wide, “I don’t know what you mean! I wanted to see how you were doing.” 

“On Earth, my spaceship tree is the only thing that can sustain my life.” Nikko stood from the table, “When I found out that my tree hadn’t lost it’s power, I was quite surprised.” the princess stepped over to the window. “And even more, that Willow’s gems were the ones giving energy to my tree. And that means the gems have the same quality and power as the Royal Family’s trees.” 

Funaho had watched her daughter as she spoke, “Even before we read the report, at that time of the fighting Jurai’s trees also suspected this. Of course, about their power, her ship broke through Jurai’s defenses by herself and caused great destruction, so there is no doubt about it -her gems are powerful. But, your ship must have sensed this as well, right? And you, having fought much with Willow, mush have guessed this. Given that this is all true, her gems can create the Wings of the Light-Hawk, just like Tara and Xander can.” 

Now that had surprised Nikko, sure, sure knew Willow’s gems were powerful, but the Light-Hawk wings? That she didn’t know. “I see, you came to get Dawn?” 

The queen closed her eyes, and looked insulted, “We’ve come to check on Anya and Hallie, and I wanted to see you.” She opened her eyes, and then narrowed them, “You, who hasn’t even sent a word to your poor mother in so many years!” The queen paused for a split second, “700 years!” 

Nikko’s eyes were wide as plates, and she was biting her bottom lip, “Umm… I was going to go back to Jurai after my victory over Willow.” her voice was slightly high pitched as she gave a very goofy grin, “But something came up, and I, well…” she trailed off. 

Funaho sighed, “Oh, children! Once they find a boy or girl they never think of their mom. That’s the way it goes I guess.” her voice took on a slight hitch, “I guess the mother just gets in the way.” 

“Hey! Now, that’s not wha--” 

“Poor, poor Anya, you forgot about her, too.” The queen turned away from her daughter. 

Nikko cleared her throat, “So, by the way, have you already finished renovating the great hall at the palace?” she asked, hoping to steer the conversation in another direction. 

Funaho finished the rest of her tea, “Anya does seem to be happy here.” she sat her cup down, and stood, “Thank you for the tea, Kairi.” 

The first princess sighed, now her mother was upset with her, “If you would like to visit the home,” she began, hoping to get back on her mother’s good side, “I’ll have the children to show you the way, and I’ll be over there in a short while.” She spoke following Funaho to the door, “Tara, Xander!” she called in her older voice as she kept out of site, “Take your great grandmother to the house.” 

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Sorry it's short...I had tried to make it longer, however, I couldn't..I hate being blocked >_<

[ceridwen]

Hey

I loved this chapter, especially the first part.

The whole Misaki deal was sooooo funny

Poor Willow... and Anya...

I gotta admit i was a bit confused with the second part... the whole gems deal and stuff... and the Light-Hawk wings... but i know everything will be clear in the end.

So i'll just be patient...

[WillowRulez]

I just love the insanity of the whole story and the cute bits... okay, the whole deal
Hope you'll update soon!

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Hey koi, glad you liked the last chapter. Especially the first part, huh? Yeah, Misaki is funny, and there's more Misaki on the way As for the Light-Hawk wings and gems...well, I'm not sure how to explain that, just hope that it'll become clear in later chapters ^_^ Aishiteru koibito.

WillowRulez - Glad you liked it. There's more insanity on the way, when it comes to Misaki, you can bet on it Here's the update.


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 Forty-Five: Talks With the Queens


The clicking sound of Funaho’s shoes filled the air as she and the siblings walked down the stairs leading to the house. Every few seconds, she noticed, Tara would quickly glance at her and then turn away, and Xander was doing the same thing. The queen laughed, “Is there something on my face?” she asked, amused as she lifted her right hand to her face.

Xander squeaked like a little girl, and lowered his head, “N-no.” Tara stuttered out with wide eyes, and continued walking.

The first queen of Jurai glanced at each of the siblings, “I understand that it’s a very tender subject, but I heard that you lost your mother when you were young. You both must have felt very lonely.” Tara nodded, they had, very much so. “How is it nowadays?”

“Now?” Xander shrugged, “Now it’s crowded, but it’s something we wouldn’t change, would we?”

“No.”

The queen smiled, “But if we took Anya and Hallie back with us, wouldn’t that loneliness come back?” she asked, already knowing the answer, “Or, you both could come with us.”

“Umm.” The blonde had started, only to be stopped as Dawn hurried up the stairs.

The small scientist laughed, “Here Tara, you and Xander take this to the house, and look at it as you go.” Another giggle, “It’s baby pictures of Will.” She watched as the siblings glanced from the book to the queen, “Don’t worry, I’ll escort Lady Funaho to the house.” she winked, and looked up at the queen, “How are you? I’m Dawn.” the small scientist held her hand out.

Funaho walked down two steps, “It’s a pleasure to meet you, young Dawn.” she said, taking Dawn’s hand in a slight handshake.

“Hmm…” Dawn looked at the queen’s hand, the power she felt coming from the queen was immense. But how? The queen was of Earth descent, was it because of Jurai’s trees?

“Alright, we‘ll meet you at home.” Tara grabbed the book and took off with her brother right behind her.

The queen and scientist watched as the siblings hurried off, “Well, Lady Funaho, shall we?”

“Excuse me, Dawn.”

“Huh?”

“Could you call me ‘Little Funaho, I‘d like that?” the queen asked, with a bright smile.

Dawn sighed, rolled her eyes and shook her head, “I don’t believe this! Buffy even wrote that in her report!?”

“It took our Supreme Council four days to summarize Buffy and Faith’s report, during which time it was absolutely impossible to do anything else.”

“Whenever Buffy and Faith are involved, it always takes time.”

Funaho smothered a giggle, that was true, the Juraian Council had been reading every report the two GP officers wrote -and it always took close to a week. The dark haired queen sighed, “You know the reason why we are here, don’t you? What is your answer? Please tell me.”

Dawn turned away from the queen and shook her head, “My answer is no.” she said firmly and began walking down the stairs, leaving the queen to slightly smile and follow behind.

As Tara and Xander moved down the stairs, the blonde opened the album and laughed at the first picture. A four year old Willow kneeled on the floor, her little hands wrapped around a big fluffy carrot-shaped pillow. Miss Kitty at the other end of the pillow, with her front claws, and teeth sunk deeply into the end, and her back arched with her hair fuzzed out. The two -children- were fighting over the pillow, and neither looked as if they were going to give up any time soon. “Now that’s cute.” Tara pointed to the picture next to the first. Willow and Miss Kitty seemed to have fought too much, and had worn themselves out, both were snuggled next to the other, and sleeping on the carrot pillow. Miss Kitty on her back with her head hanging off the side, and Willow sucking on her right thumb.

Xander laughed, “That must be why she hates frogs.” he said staring at the third, forth, fifth, and sixth pictures. A three year old Willow stood beside a giant six foot tall man in a frog suit. The man had kneeled down, placing his hand on Willow’s head. The forth picture showed Willow’s frightened face as the suit’s mouth fell open, allowing her to see the man inside. The fifth picture showed that the head of the costume had fallen off, and right on to Willow’s head. It looked as if it was trying to eat her. Willow’s small hands tried to push the thing off of her. And the sixth picture showed the little redhead running away from the frog’s head, that she had pushed from her head, and onto the ground.

The blonde turned the page, and gave a soft smile, two pictures, almost identical, stood out. One, Willow, who looked to be five, or six years old, sat in Dawn’s lap with her head on her sister’s shoulder. Her green eyes drooping as she began to fall asleep as Dawn read from a small story book. The second, an older woman, that just had to be Sheila, held the small four year old in her arms as Willow began to doze. “She looks so fragile.” Tara murmured.

“Yeah, and Dawn…” Xander studied the picture, “She looks so gentle.” he paused for a moment, “Not at all like she is now, you know, what with all the capturing us for samples.” he shivered.

Just like her brother, Tara shivered, she did not need to be reminded of that particular incident, no way, no how. As she turned the page once more, she saw a picture of Willow holding a trophy with a banner saying “Science Academy Science Fair” behind the redhead. It looked as if Willow had won first place.

A look at the picture beside that one caused the siblings to blink, “What’s that?” Xander asked, staring at the picture. He shook his head, “Looks like some sorta robot.”

“Could be.” Tara shrugged. The picture showed a ten foot tall mechanical -robot?- with two glowing yellow eyes, and spikes along it’s arms and chest area. “Hmm…” The blonde reached into the pocket, pulled the picture out, and flipped it over. There was a newspaper clipping folded up on the back. Handing the album to Xander, Tara unfolded the paper and began reading.
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This is a first in Science Academy History! Willow Rosenberg, daughter to Sheila Rosenberg and Professor Dawn’s very own sister has done it! The young student, age 8, has just built a Death Drone for the Science Fair. The first one to ever be entered into the Academy’s Fair. The young genius made the drone from spare parts, and even some old soda cans she found laying around. Talk about recycling! The drone fully works, which the young genius was proud to give a demonstration of. The ten foot, three inch tall drone moves smoothly, like a well oiled machine, and took her orders freely. The machine will only take her orders, only knowing her voice print in it’s drive. “I’m a little worried.” Sheila told us as she continued to stare at her daughter’s dark blue and green painted drone. When asked why, the Professor told us, “Willow is a genius, yes, but she also has a temper. What if she sends that machine on a rampage?” Sheila then sighed, “No,” she shook her head, “my daughter wouldn’t do that.”

“No, momma, I wouldn’t.” Willow spoke as she approached. At this time I took the opportunity to speak with the young genius.

“What gave you the idea to build a Death Drone?” I asked, and watched as a sweet grin crossed her young face.

“Well, my sister said I couldn’t. I wanted to prove her wrong. Besides, it was a challenge, and I just love challenges, don’t you? Also, it was fun.”

Fun, she said it was fun! She is the only one in Science Academy history to build one at such a young age! Others have tired and failed even with their hundred and two hundred years experience, and now an 8 year old has built one. And readers, she finished it in a week! A week! How about that?

When asked what she would do with the five hundred thousand dollar prize, she had this to say: “Now I can build a bigger and better drone.” she laughed, like Dawn, some people had said, and had looked very worried.

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“Wonder if she still has that drone?” Xander grinned.

“Why?”

The young man shrugged, “Oh, just thinking we could have it re-destroy the school.”

“Uh-huh. You love working in the fields all day, and going to practice the rest?”

“N-no!”

Tara laughed, “Thought so.” she smirked as they finally reached the end of the stairs. Folding the paper clipping up, Tara placed it back where she found it, along with the picture. “Now, let’s see what’s going on in the house.” she said as they reached the sliding side door, and opened it.

A few minutes before the siblings walked into the room, Willow was draped across the back of the couch, next to Anya -who was sitting next to Misaki, and standing next to her was Hallie. Miss Kitty stood in her child form, her small fingers closed to make fists. The small kitten-girl placed her right fist in front of her left, and began rotating them around one another as she began singing, “Meow, meow, meow, meow.” over and over again to the tune of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. As the kitten-girl began to finish the song, she would raise one fist up, and bring it softly down on the other fist. As she sang the last part of the song, she took a bow.

Misaki clapped, “Oh, Miss Kitty, what a good trick, and so cute!” she said causing the kitten-girl to meow with a blush. The queen clasped her hands in front of her face as her eyes began tearing up. Misaki’s shoulders began shaking as he held back the urge to scream “Kawaii!”. Anya sighed, she knew what was coming, and Willow just rolled her eyes, looking bored to death. “You are such a cutie pie!” Misaki finally gave into her urge, and quickly kneeled from the couch, grabbing Miss Kitty in a hug and shaking her from side to side.

That’s when Tara and Xander came in.

“Hey Tara, Xander! Welcome home!” Hallie called as she hurried over to the siblings. With a “POP” Miss Kitty changed from a child back into a kitten, and hurried behind the princess. The kitten bounded across the floor, jumped into Tara’s arms, then up to her shoulder, and finally came to a rest atop her head.

“Tara!” Willow sighed, she just knew the blonde would get her away from the nut in the house. The demon began to rise, only to stop dead still as Misaki squealed.

The second queen of Jurai actually jumped over the couch to get to the siblings, “Oh, how handsome you are.” she stroked Xander’s cheek with her finger, and quickly turned to Tara. “Ooh, you’re hot.” the queen gave the siblings a once over, and as fast as lightning, grabbed them both in a hug. Letting her hands travel downward.

“Mother!” Anya screamed.

“Hey!” Willow shouted at the exact same time, her belt-tail going straight as a string, and stuck straight up behind her.

They both had seen where her hands were going, and neither of the girls like that. “Ooh, so young, so ready.” Misaki had mumbled, and again, as fast as lightning, spun around, grabbing her daughter and Willow, “Oh, darlings, I have enough hugs and love for the both of you too. Only Anya, you’re my daughter… Willow on the other hand, wanna go upstairs? We can invite Tara too.”

Willow began struggling, giving Anya the chance to get away from her mother, “Let me go.” The demon whined.

“Mother! You shouldn’t be doing that!” Anya shouted, watching the queen’s hands travel down Willow’s back, straight to her ass.

“HEY!” The demon jumped when Misaki squeezed.

Hallie had quickly moved to stand beside Tara, “So… that’s you mom?” the blonde asked, watching Anya pull the queen away from Willow, and both girls letting Misaki have a piece of their mind. Which didn’t seem to faze the queen at all. She only continued to stare at Willow’s chest, which was causing Tara to narrow her eyes.

The small princess nodded, “Yep, that’s our mom, Misaki.” she sighed, knowing how both of her mothers were. “Please, don’t let my mom get to you, she’s mostly doing it for the attention.”

“Tara, love,” The queen called out, holding Willow around the waist with her left arm, and covering her mouth with her right hand, “Willow here has just agreed to go upstairs, but on the condition that you join us.” she winked. “How about dear? Just think, a very experienced lover teaching two new, young lovers, and I can teach you a lot.” Willow continued struggling, wondering just why she couldn’t get away, could the queen be that strong? “Ooh! And perhaps Funaho would join us as well. That would be two very experienced lovers. Touching you, teaching you, making love to you.”

In an un-princess like move, Hallie let an “eep!” out, and covered her ears, “I’m outta here!” she screamed, “I have no desire to hear my mother talk about having sex with any one…even Mother Funaho!” The small princess bolted towards the kitchen, Miss Kitty quickly following, her mind couldn’t take the abuse of Willow’s cursing and death threats towards the queen any longer.
A very goofy grin crossed Xander’s face, a grin that any one could tell what he was thinking of, Funaho and Misaki. A pissed off look crossed Anya’s face as she watched Xander, then at once she cooled down, how long would it take him to figure out Funaho was his family? “Gah!” Apparently not long, Anya chuckled as Xander ran from the house, leaving his dear sister and Willow to fend for themselves -along with the princess.

“Well, dear, what do you say?” Misaki asked as she leaned towards Willow’s neck, intending on leaving a kiss.

Tara shook her head, “N-n-no…” Damn, there that stutter was, she hated that! The queen was only doing it for the attention, right?

“Ooh, how cute, you stutter! It makes you hotter.” The queen winked once more, pulling Willow tightly against her body, “Come play with us.” A blush crept up Tara’s neck and face, play with Willow, yes, play with the queen, no…play with them both? Damn, what did the queen think she was, a machine? Maybe a full blooded Juraian had more stamina than one who was only part. Wait, why was she thinking this? The blonde shook her head, damn Xander and his dirty thoughts. She just knew it was him she was channeling.

“Mother! That is enough!” Anya huffed out, grabbing Willow’s arm, and pulling her away from the queen. “Really, they will think you are a sex fiend.”

“Uh-huh, I saw that young man, and I’m sure you were chasing after him.” Misaki smirked at the wide-eyed look on her daughter’s face, “Thought so, you cannot keep anything from your mother, dear.” she turned towards Tara, who now had Willow draped across her shoulders, and looked as if she wasn’t about to let go anytime soon, “Now, about my offer, it still stands, however, I would love to know you better. Please, let’s sit and talk.” The queen jerked Anya down on the couch beside her, and watched as Tara had to literally pull Willow with her.

Back on the stairs…

Dawn and Funaho were slowly making their way down towards the house, Dawn had her hands behind her head as she looked off to the side. “What you are saying, is this: Jurai’s ships are powerful but can’t be mass produced. But Miss Kitty can be produced quickly and easily.”

Funaho kept her eyes forward, “It’s fine if the technology becomes only Jurai’s, but if not…” she trailed off.

“Humph.” Dawn cut her eyes toward the queen, “I don’t care who develops what, or Jurai’s circumstances. It’s not my concern.” The queen slowly closed her eyes as she fought back tears and stopped. Did Dawn not understand that if someone else, perhaps someone who hated Jurai, got a hold of her technology; then Jurai could be destroyed. Dawn walked down two more steps before stopping, “Well, I don’t want Tara and Xander to hate me, so…”

“Huh?” Funaho opened her eyes, and stared down at the small scientist.

Dawn turned around with a grin, “So, I won’t help anyone.”

“Thank you very much!” Funaho wiped the tears from her eyes, “Thank you very much, Ms. Dawn.”

“Lady Funaho?”

“Yes?”

Dawn clasped her hands under her chin, and spoke in a child like voice, “Please call me “Little Dawn, okay?” she said causing a surprised look to cross the queen’s face, before Funaho giggled. “I am little.” Dawn hopped down four steps to the turn of the last twenty-five, and turned around, “If you really wanna achieve it, you’re gonna have to force me into it.”

Funaho smiled as she stepped down next to Dawn, “The number one genius scientist in the universe, the second generation of Jurai’s battleships, Willow and Miss Kitty, and the original space tree Tsunami. Plus the boy and girl who can create the wings of the Light-Hawk, if I’m not afraid of them all combined, is that it?”

“I think Buffy and Faith alone will be enough.” Dawn turned around with her hands on her hips, “And there is no other sister but Willow, and I won’t create another Willow, nor will I create another Miss Kitty. I will not.”

Funaho smiled, “I see, you must be very proud of your sister.”

For just a moment, Dawn looked across the lake before turning her head to look at the queen, “But your great grandchildren are even greater. Great-grandma.” The scientist spoke softly with a smile. The roaring sound of engines interrupted the two women, and as they looked up to the sky; a large grey and silver space ship slowly floated over the mountains. “The King of Jurai is here.”