Travell, both astral and mechanical

Air Date: 22/2/2004

Wednesday, 4:00pm, leaving the casino.

Chat to Red Cloud, he offers neutral ground and cant yet chose a spirit guide because "forces are at work"(tm).

Little girl gives miichae a bracelet.

Wednesday, 10:00pm, at night on the road....

His arm yanks around your throat and pulls you back. "Quick!" he calls to his friends, "I got her!!"

Your hand automatically flips up and grabs his arm, allowing you to gasp for what little air your burning lungs can suck in. "Nice... try." you gasp, as you snap forward, pulling the vampire off his feet and over your back and throwing him onto the stone floor.

You drop to your knees and drive the stake into his chest.

*poomf* Dust.

Standing up straight, you smile dangerously at the three remaining vampires who guard the large wooden door.

You dont have time to deal with these losers one by one, you have to get inside now.

Maybe that vamp had a good idea. "Yeah, come on...." You put your hands on your side and lean forward, trying in vain to catch your breath. "Come on." you croak between breaths, "dont come one at a time... all rush me." It's a great idea.... why dont vamps ever do it? Losers.

The vampires shift uncomfortably but stay close to the door. Damn. The one time you want them to rush you....

"Look at me." you pant, "Hurt. So... out of br.. breath.... Come on... You'd munch me easy.... if you all worked together." The vamps just look at each other, confused and stay guarding the sodding door. Even when you tell 'em how to beat you they dont listen. Why doesnt anyone ever listen to you?

"It's not a damn Hollywood movie...." You chuckle to yourself, you've obviously been spending too much time around Giles. "Come on!"

You look up, hoping, but they stay glued to the bloody door. With a sigh, you break into a sprint and charge the door. The two vamps on the sides pull back but the one in the middle, she freezes infront of the door.

Damn. Soft squishy padding.

You commit yourself fully to the charge and hope that the door isnt barred on the other side.

The eyes go wide on the vampire frozen infront of the door as you see her realise your plan just a little too late.

You lean into the charge and push as hard as you can with your legs just before contact.

*THWUMP*

You shoulder into her chest and she smashes back into the door with a grown and the cracking of bone. The door splinters, creaks and thankfully rips from its hinges, spilling yourself and the vampire onto the crypt floor on the other side in an explosion of dust and dead bug husks.

"OooOoww" the vampire complains, but you roll off and jump up onto your feet. No time to deal with these losers, you gotta keep moving.

You look round and spot the big Evil at the grave. Bugger, too late! He's got the cover off and is reaching inside.

You tense to run up and tackle him, but the vampire girl snaps a hand over and grabs your ankle, pulling you off balance. Looks like you gotta finish these losers first afterall.

Your hand is empty. You must have lost the stake on the way through the door and through soon to be dead-er girl. You hear a warcry scream as one of her friends from outside comes diving in to tackle you to the ground. You shake your head and curse, naturally he finds courage now and not 10 seconds ago.

Time to improvise. You grab the arrow from the flesh in your left arm and yank it free. Just aswell it doesnt hurt you now.

You spin onto your back, raising the wooden arrow to meet his incoming tackle.

*Thump*

You awake with a start as you are thrown forward and the seatbelt digs into your chest. "Wha.. errkpmmf?", you offer helpfully.

Michael sits in the drivers seat, cooly spinning the wheel to the left and then back to the right as the car careens wildly over the road before grinding to a stop on gravel.

You look over at him, letting your eyebrow ask the question.

"Something ran out onto on the road." he reports matter of factly while checking his mirrors, "I cant see it now though."

"Anything that needs my special touch?"

"You mean did it have horns, claws, scales and a tail. Oh and something to destroy the world in the other hoof?"

"Is that a lame attempt at a joke?"

He ignores you, but adds "It had 4 legs and looked about as big as a dog. I dont think we need slayer powers here." He flips the engine off and undoes his seatbelt. "I think it just had the fight of it's life. Im going to check the car. Pretty sure I didnt hit it."

Your legs pipe up at the idea of getting out of the car. 'That'd be nice' they say. 'Yeah yeah, I hear you', your brain replies. "Think I might stretch my legs too."

Michael points to the back of the car. "Donuts if you want 'em."

"Err. Pass."

Michael gets out of the car and starts walking round with a torch checking everything out. You move off, away from the road and Michael and the torch.

The stars out here are beautiful. No lights, no moon, just huge vastness of stars and desert shrubs quickly dissapearing off into the darkness, even from your Slayer senses. Looking up, your senses magnify the beauty of it as your hunters eyes adjust to the dark. You scan the infite sky and for a brief moment, lose yourself amongst the vastness.

Unbidden a memory of the Primal Slayer appears in your mind. Your eyes tell you that you are one little thing amongst vast limitlessness. Your brain tells you that you are the One, atleast here on this planet.

Are all those stars like this planet? Is there 'The One' on each of them? Is it one per planet or one in all the universe. Suddenly you want to know. You want to be bigger and know it all. Maybe you are _THE_ One.

Michael's voice breaks you out of it and pulls you back to Earth "No damage."

"You think they have a Slayer on that planet?" you ask, pointing to the third star on the left.

Michael shrugs, "If they dont maybe we can send them one of ours, huh? Im sure Mary 'd be happy to go."

So much for the One. "*sigh*"

"Lets take a break from the road, huh? 10 minutes rest then we'll move out."

"Im going for a walk. Ill be back in a bit." Knowing Michael too well you answer, "No, I wont go too far. Yes, I'll call if something happens. No, I wont take candy from strangers."

Michael shakes his head and wanders back to the car and you head off into the night, just for a walk, but also partly wanting to hunt.

........

You head back to the car, a little dissapointed. You can sense things out in the shrubs but they are all to wild and wary to catch so easily. The hunter is restless.

"Find anything?"

"No." you snap. "Nothing. Why'd you come this way anyway. We could have just taken the coast road and avoided all", your arm sweeps out indicating all around you, "this."

"Watchers. Most of the cities are along the coast. Thought it was best to take the long way around." He shrugs. "I guess they'll know when we arrive in Sunnydale, but no need to give them advanced warning of our arrival, eh?"

Thursday, 4:00am, Welcome to sunnydale

Park outside the Magic Shop and sleep in the car. Take turns, Jayde watches first..

Thursday, 9:30am, Bang!

Red car pulls up. Giles gets out and rushes into the magic shop.

Giles is frantically looking through books for info on the Amulet of Larn which is a Demon transformation thing. He's looking for rituals to destory it, things that involve earth magic and amulets and things on demon transformations.

Animal Vamp thing charges in and attacks. It morphs from a human/animal hybrid thing into a vamp/animal thing. It leaps at Giles who blocks the attack with the book.

Giles collapses.

Race to buffys house. Woosy. Front door.

Meet xander and dawn. Dawn isnt told anything and has to do homework. Xander goes upstairs to make sure monsters dont kill everyone. Buffybot says hi and is happy Jayde isnt a monster.

Everyone meets and introductions all round. W&T need more stuff to destroy the amulet. Plan is W&T&J get stuff, rest protect the house.

In car to magic shop, some explinations about vampire slayer lineage. Cloudy day, light rain starts.

Willow asks about the 'this universe' comment. Later says jayde.

Pick up stuff. Drive back. Filled in on amulet. Demon on road. Hit it with car. J dusts the demon while the others go inside.

Michael and J go upstairs to stop whatever broke in.

Legless bat demon thing. One axe swing and its gone!

Downstairs. Rituals all day and then patroling tonight. Help dawn clean her room.

Drop Dawn at school and then shopping. Then the demon tour of Sunnydale. Burnt out school, various graveyards, Willy's, UCsunnydale, hospital, insane glory minion tower, Bronze and other hightlights.

The pick her up in the evening. Flood of young food humans, err, I mean lots of people.

Ritual done, house cleaned. Other places yet to do. Plan is J & M & G patrol and other clennse the remaining houses.

Rain and thunder. Patrol 2 graveyards and 1 burnt out building.

Crazy russian guy. Was physisists, now looking for thor's hammer. Professor Vladimir Anatov.

Burnt out factory is clear.

Back home.

Tell people the story of Jayde problem. People arnt too convinced by the whole Faith Slayer part, but they do listen.

Next day. Giles and Glove guy. Meet at 3. Spell to locate remaining tainted demons.

Sewer dust spider monster thing. Saved by W&T.

Back home. J M G meet lightnig guy. Hes convinced that the Glove of Mygong isnt the one hes looking for but that it might have contacted the hammer or soething.

Friday, 9:30am, Bang!

Next day. J & Bbot spar with Michael.

Friday, 11:30am, Magic Shop

Giles comes in and chats about the 'changed universe'. He knows all of the facts, even if its glossed over a bit.

Weird news. Burnt scuba diver and drained person.

Drained person. thousands of punctures. open window. Terry Garner. No realtion to Jayde :). Room ransacked. Wax traces found on body.

Diver. Drag marks on the sand. 2 shoe patterns. Diver had an 'A' cut into his back. Was roasted on the shoreline. No accellerant. Weird. Paul Brunner.

G M & J go to check out the crime sites.

Beach happened at waterline. Was wearning the wetsuit. Mask & tank taken off. Died at about 4am. Dragged marks are deep and about 70cm and manmade and head to carpark. Carpark has lamp oil spilt on the surface.

Diver runs a dive school. Professional diver. Not much air used in the tank. Car missing.

Car found, dumped behind a forrest carpark. Waterlogged wooden splinters, old wood, looks like he recovered something.

Blood drained appartment scene. Terry Garner, bought out business in town recently. 6 months, arrivedd in sunndylales, 2 months after that he bought the business. 7/11 type grocery shop. 10pm last night was time of death. At 9am he withdraws stuff from the bank and visits his strong box. Weird. His movements are somewhat blocky when signing the withdrawl form, but the signature is close enough to match.

Was married, divorced about 1 year ago. Wife got most of the house, he kept a rental place in LosVegas. Employees liked him mostly.

On the drained body is Bees wax and Pollen. Trained desk opening killer bees!!!

No reports of swarms. Couple of bee farms.

Drat.

Pirate Angus McBride. Used to cut an 'A' into the backs of his crew. Was burnt to death by his crew one sunny day. Worked and died in the Carribian. Was back 'then' (tm).

Meeting back at the house.

Noone has any idea on the pirate thing, but the bee thing is wierd. Where would bees have come from? Not may places locally that they could be. Where would bees have come from?

Tara suggests that maybe its a bee amulet and a pirate amulet.

Noone looks convinced of anything.

Xander, Anya and J go looking for pirates and W, T & G look for bees.

Go visit Willy. Willy sighs at meeting another slayer. *sigh* "its a right of passage. We're looking for pirates."

"Man, you guys are desperate!! Some guy with a hood sold a ships lantern to Fard'ad'gar, lives at the city dump. Dont ask, its a plastic thing."

Various threatening follows but that seems to be all Willy knows.

Head off to the city dump. Wonderful smells! Find Fard'ad'gar and ask him about a ships lantern, but he flees!!! Jayde chases him and eventually tackles him to the ground/garbage. Yum. Spagetty all over all of us.

Fard'ad'gar gives them the lamp, which spills oil. Xander asks what happened at the beach. Fard tells people "You got the lantern, bugger off!"

Anya asks, "Isnt this where the hitting starts?"

Jayde, "Oh yeah... *pow*"

His story is that .. blah about lanturn. He ran and hid the gold here at the tip, but doesnt wanna say where. Jayde pounds on him 'till he spills the beans :).

Have gold. Have lantern. Have broken demon. Take gold and lantern, leave demon.

Back to shop. Anya wonders about the Lantern, but the others say that it shouldnt be used. Oh dear.

Lantern is magical in nature, probably cursed.

Found spell to make bee hive into vampire bees and then the wax can be used to create a duplicate of the person killed.

No link between these items.

Maybe its the item selling guy who sold the demons the amulet who is selling this stuff.

Giles suggests visiting Willys again.

Willy isnt happy to see Jayde again. He spills the beans about the russian guy meeting the artifact selling guy at the hotel 30 mins ago.

Goto swanky hotel and meet the Russian guy comeing out. Jayde grabs him b y the shoulder and says "You bought something?"

"Ah yes, my friends, from him" and he points to a guy in a hood heading to the elevators. J & G rush up to the guy.

"Oh bloody hell!" says Giles and punches Ethen in the face.

Collecting himself off the floor, Ethan replies "G'day ripper, nice to meet you too."

Hotel security rolls up.

Ethan suggests that people sit down in the lobby and chat.

Friday, 2:01pm, Ethan's hotel.

Chat to Ethan. Ethan says that you should rush after the russian guy.

Run after prof. He's rather helpful and hands it over.

Run back to the hotel and Giles is gone, but Ethan is there for a chat. Ethan chats to Jayde for a little, but it seems like the fact that Ethan is evil puts a halt on the conversation. Ethan says that he's not interested in power or destruction, but only in making life more 'intersting'. He tries some philosophical babble about Giles life being 'better' because he has 'bigger evil' to fight. Jayde doesnt buy it.

Ethan comments something about changing sides, and Jayde says that she's interested in somewhere between the 'middle and good' sides of the spectrum. Ethan is very interested in helping that because of the of the 'intersting changes' it would cause for the council and Giles.

Leaving it on that happy note, Jayde leaves.

Oh and Jayde is magically not covered in spag any more.

Friday, 2:31pm, Magic shop.

Jayde returns and seeeecretly researches who to make the syringe work. It seems that it 'extracts' the information from 'someone's brain. Eeeew.

Friday, 5:48pm, Magic shop, research finished.

Giles returns with a valve radio which can be used to transmit false news reports that profit the user, but cause death to someone else.

Jayde gives the syringe to Giles.

Giles explains who it is to the scoobies.

Friday, 6:18pm, Dinner + patrol.

Dinner + patrol.

Friday, 11:03pm, The Bronze.

At the bronze, band is on, so there is bouncer. Concert not dance music, so take a seat with Xander and Anya.

Anya mentions her experiance with universe changes etc what with being an _EX_ vengance demon. She says that its often tied to emotional energy linked with the thing, say like vengance etc. She also says that the energy to change something depends on how many people and things need to be changed. Given the change, it seems likely that more energy than just a single person's was used or maybe they had help.

Review the stories of Jayde and everyone else and there arnt many changes, but those changes are to magically aware people, which makes it harder. Making Mary's history as the Slayer would be reasonably easy, involving editing some memories and things like that. Removing the Slayerness from Faith or making Mary actually slayer strong is another issue. Check on the school background reveals that little change has happened (ie people who were killed in Maryville just left in Jadyeville). Anya was going to check out Jelousy demons. Contact the powers, err somehow?

Anya is good and helpful now and not evil any more.

Spot car accident. Go over and take the guy's contact book.

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