Chương 38: Ch.37
As the new day began and the sun rose I finally decided it was time I got up and Alice seemed to agree as she came over with a bucket of water and pooped it on the girls, waking them up with jolts.
I chuckled as they looked cranky. Alice held her nose saying. "Wake up and take a shower. You smell like sex and semen and your literally laying on my arts supplies."
I got up and brushed the wood splinters off me before summoning clothes with magic. Alice shook her head. "Nuh uh, shower for you too!"
I chuckled and agreed. "Sure but I'm not exactly going to be prancing over time Buffy's hows bare assed in front of Dawn. Buffy'd kill me."
Buffy who blew the frazzled hair out of her mouth said. "You got that right, last thing I need is a CPS worker asking her if she ever saw you naked."
I chuckled and nodded making towels for them to cover up with. Faith asked. "No clothes?"
I shook my head. "You may have destroyed the last of our clothes. I merely summoned what I'd had at Buffy's to me. As for both of you, I'm willing to carry you but what would the neighbors think?"
Alice snorted. "You are the neighbors. You bought most of the block."
I shrugged. "Then they'll be fine. It's daylight so I won't have to worry about plucking Spike's eyes out and a fence separates the other properties from this one so no humans can see them. Dawn's a girl and Willow has Tara so it's fine. I'll repair the house in a bit after our shower."
Alice raised an eyebrow saying. "Showers, you're not sharing one with them or you'll break her house as you continue where you left off!"
I shrugged. "Fine, fine, you caught me. I'll shower in the downstairs bathroom and they can take the ones upstairs. Then I'll fix our house and you and I can-"
She raised an eyebrow and I smiled. "Do some art."
She wasn't apposed to that and neither slayer reacted as they would if she were a vampire so it was all good. We did just that as well. It took a bit of time to repair the damage to the house even with magic as it only had a few walls and a roof remaining.
After it was repaired I reinforced it a bit and repaired the wards that had failed under my extreme physical strength and the slayer essence. Then I joined Alice in the basement and went slow and steady for my now human mate. It was very enjoyable even as her body gripped me and I released a torrent inside her tight passage.
She was tired out and panting after the first time but went for one more as I'd used her other passage. When I released a second time now in her womb she asked me sweetly. "Do you think it's ok if we had children now my love?"
I looked her over worried before nodding. "If that is what you want I'd deny you nothing."
A vision hit her and I watched as she smiled and a tear gathered in her eyes before she told me. "It would kill me to have a child with you. My body isn't strong enough much like Bella's was. He would tear his way out, our son."
I shook my head. "Then we cannot, not yet at least. I'll look for a way to safely give you what you desire, but please don't ask that of me."
She nodded. "I know, I'd never ask you to watch me die for something that can be avoided. Find us a way and I'll accept it."
I pulled out of her and she moaned and laid on my chest saying. "I'm not too sure bout the beard."
I nodded. "Unfortunately I'll have to use magic as metal razors break when I tried to cut it."
She nodded and I relaxed with her. Both Buffy and Faith were eating right now, something I no longer needed to do as I was fueled by my own power and that of the nature energies in this world now. They however were having a feast as their bodies needed the energy and nutrients to replace all they'd burned up in our bout of sex.
Even now when they walked I could see them wince every now and then. I'd done a number on them and they weren't all good sore either as it turns out. While Alice and I showered now I listened to the humans tear down the last of the houses and get ready for the next phase of the building plans.
Over the next few days Giles took Willow and Tara to Devon and I told him to warn them about using my talisman I'd left them now that I was a bound god it packed a hell of a punch even if I myself didn't necessarily have access to that power.
He promised to relay my message and I gave him the file with the compounds plans warning him it'd be starting soon. He agreed and we settled on the order of Taraka for hiring the work out.
With that he left again and things settled down. I repaired the magic shop and took the shattered ward stones out, replacing them with smaller ones as I didn't have access to anything nearly as big. Anya thanked me and continued running it while doing her vengeance gig on the side.
Xander kept with his job and schooling while Buffy kicked her schooling into high gear and started training Dawn to defend herself. I bought a place for Faith to do her own women's self defense classes for the community on the side of her slaying.
I bought Alice an art studio next to the magic shop where she didn't have to worry about the house collapsing durning the rough times Faith and Buffy needed release or when I got extra frisky with them.
I began working with Xander on the compound while they built it. He'd been promoted to foreman on that job and he'd be transferred to the school job when he finished it. We worked side by side to build it with magic and mundane items.
The ward system was in every single facet of the compound as we built it. Other than that I'd repaired Faith's wrist bands and made a pair for Buffy like I should've done. When I told them about the special stakes being the only things that can kill me other than a god item like the troll god hammer they wanted to destroy them but found it impossible.
So instead they locked them away in the pocket dimension where the massive pile of diamonds and the huge ward stone lay until it's time to put it in the compound. So besides the warding I was busy making and repairing weapons for the coming fight and occasionally helping the girls on patrols.
Weak willed and simpleton demons seemed to stop fighting and try worshipping me when I helping the girls on their fights. I found it rather dull while the girls were confused.
Sighing I was forced to tell them. "Demons can see the divinity of what I am. I'm no he'll god but they can tell I'm not necessarily a god of goodness either. I'm a god of nature and nature is neither good or bad. They can feel that and try to get in good with me. Hence this."
I waved my hand at the three vampires and a fungus demon bowing and shaking. They shrugged and staked the vampires before chopping the demon's head off. I lit it aflame with a simple fire spell and we left. From then on they tried not to bring me on their hunts.
The summer passed as the compound was finished. It was three stories high and a large basement matching the whole buildings length and width under it. There were a hundred and fifty rooms with accompanying baths and hundreds of wards to power the hot water system.
It was mostly magic based but it had seventeen generators that ran off magic to pick up if the regular electricity ever went out. The grounds weren't apart of the ward scheme but it had a football fields worth of training area and a massive magical barrier on the fence surrounding it. Everything it was made out of was blessed purified and warded.
If I was still just a hybrid with two old ones in me I'd be unable to walk the ground at all. As it was I was completely fine. I put the final touches on it the day before I, Faith, Buffy and Alice were to go to the announcement for the new school opening.
I placed the giant ward stone in it's place and it all came alive. The electricity kicked on and I felt a massive power vacuum as the stone charged up and activated everything. There were about a hundred smaller stones the size of basket balls all around it as power breakers to prevent what happened at the magic shop and Buffy's house from happening again.
The First would actually have to come in the flesh now to be able to damage the wards on this place. With that I sealed it all up and left the basement. It wasn't time yet to reveal it to the group. As I left the cloaking wards kicked on and it went invisible.
It had repelling wards as well to prevent anyone that didn't know it's exact location from finding it or even going near it. It would actually take some effort for me to even damage the place now as I'd reinforced everything that was used to be nearly indestructible.
The furniture was a different story as I'd simply bought it all with Alice and installed it. Now Xander was working on the school so all good things in time I guess. The next day we went to the grand opening. I was officially a P.E. teacher. Buffy had gotten her masters degree and was working on her doctorate now and was the school councilor.
Faith had become the biology teacher while Alice was the art teacher. When the school officially opened Dawn was given a cellphone to call us in emergencies. Unfortunately the first day in school was a Tuesday so she was forced to make that call when a talisman brought back the dead.
Luckily P.E was actually only four classes long so I had a minute to help Buffy save her and the students involved. Buffy even got praised from the principle for her ability to help the students who were troubled as they actually went to class afterwards.
Unfortunately one of them actually made a mom comment and set her in a mood. I had to spend a few hours showing her she looked nothing like an old women and that if she wished to be a mom all she had to do was ask. She was durable enough according to Alice that she'd survive a kid with me.
I hadn't found any headway on that front other than empowering her with magic's like Willow was and that was risky all on its own. I'd felt said witch draw on my unique powers a few times as they were apart of her and yet connected to me.
She'd done so only with minor plant based things but I wasn't too worried. Back on Buffy she mentioned seeing Spike down there and I told her. "He's found a way to get his soul back. I can feel him and it. It's like a form of torment for the demon inside him as it doesn't understand what the soul feels."
Buffy was stunned asking. "How?"
I shrugged. "Last time I thought to reach out and check on him he was in Africa. Probably the demon trials the watchers journals wrote about. A sort of tournament to the death where the winner gets whatever they come for. For some it's their soul back, others a spell or much worse. It varies but it's supposedly only for evil sort of creatures. Anything inherently good is either rejected or killed outright for going there."
She closed her mouth before sighing. "Oh. Well in that case I don't feel so bad."
I shrugged. "So long as you're not feeling him I'm fine with his suffering. After all the only things that can haunt his soul is his victims. Though being near the hellmouth like he is isn't a good idea either. The First has been active and he's gotten back at us for my hurting him before. If he's feeling sneaky he might try tricking or influencing Spike. With enough give he could probably mess with Spikes chip as well."
Buffy nodded. "I'll head down there with Faith tonight to see about getting him to move out and away from the hellmouth. His crypt is still available I'm sure. Clem moves out into a nice mausoleum a few weeks ago."
I chuckled and handed her the notes she was keeping on the kids she's seen. The next night a subterranean worm demon was on the loose and the girls were all hands on as they found out the person it was after had made a wish to Anya.
Spike joined us for the search and we found Anya at the bronze trying to make another wish. Sighing I watched the love hate fest of Xander her and Spike go down while the girl who made the wish in the first place asked. "Is there anyone who hasn't slept together here?"
I chuckled. "Well, the blonde guy, Xander and Anya haven't slept with me or Buffy. Faith here slept with Xander once a long way back but she's well over him. As for me, I've only slept with Faith and Buffy here as they're both with me. Spike wishes he was with Buffy and Anya if you ever try to grant said wish I'll make sure you're the last vengeance demon to ever walk this earth as I'll have killed you and your entire order to change it back."
Said demon shivered when she saw I wasn't kidding and shook her head annoyed. "I don't grant men wishes anyway. Besides who'd be dumb enough to piss off a second god in this town."
I shrugged. "There's always someone I'm sure."
Buffy snorted. "It would take a reality altering wish to get me to do such a thing anyway."
She looked at Spike who looked annoyed now and shrugged. "Vampires just don't do it for me anymore."
I chuckled. "Still a vampire love. Just a little extra as well. No longer part demon though so I guess it's a holy vampire? I don't really know, but it's still apart of what makes me well, me."
She nodded. "And it's only you that does it for me anymore."
I smiled and Faith smirked. "Oh really?"
Buffy blushed and I told the human who made the wish. "It's complicated. Now, Anya, be a bad vengeance demon and undo your magic. Make him a regular worm if that's what it takes but leave the puppy eating demons out of the wishes I think."
Buffy looked at me annoyed and she told Anya. "He's kidding, turn the nice abusive human back into a human again. If he wants to continue to be a prick after this he can go to where all humans do when they get violent, jail. There he can find himself a big man to beat on and he'll become the woman then."
The human girl liked the sound of that saying. "God I wish that happened to him."
Anya smirked. "Done! See, I'm understanding and more or less reasonable. He's in a Mexican jail meeting his future husband right about... now. There no need to reverse the wish as a new wish over ruled it."
I shrugged. "Well that was boring. Oh well, let's dance while we're here and enjoy the rest of the night."
Buffy asked. "What about Dawn?"
I pointed to a table not far away. "She followed us trying to be sneaky. You can relax though she's wearing her new necklace."
Buffy still wasn't too happy but we went to the dance floor and had some fun while Xander hit up the scorned women. Spike left after making nice with Anya. After several dances and some drinks we headed home where I treated Alice to some one on one time and Faith got her pleasure/revenge for Buffy's comment.
The next day after work we went to the airport to pick up Willow who Giles sent back. During the same call to inform of us off it I gave him access to the last account for the operations he was busy with.
Buffy had woken up a couple days ago with a nightmare as she told me. "From beneath you it devours."
I'd sent the final message that morning and he contacted the order of Taraka who were already on it. So there we were in the airport with a giant white and yellow sign welcoming both Willow and Tara back.
I saw them step out of the gate area and noticed the others didn't react. Sighing I told them. "Willow's here guys."
They turned to me and I sighed telling Willow and Tara who had seen only me. "Willow you need to release the spell you've accidentally made. It's making you unable to see the rest of the gang and vice versa."
She frowned and tried to deny it until Tara took her hand and told her. "It'll be ok sweetie. I've forgiven you, they can to."
Willow relaxed and the spell went away revealing them to each other. Willow apologized. "Sorry my anxiety and my subconscious are working against me."
Buffy asked. "Why could only you see them?"
I chuckled. "I'm a god love and while you have slayer essence in you, it isn't you. Think of it like this, I'm a quantum superposition for supernatural things. If I looked I'm sure I could peek into all sorts of realities if I could tap into my full powers. As it is spells like this are beneath me."
Willow snorted. "Thanks for the confidence booster."
I raised an eyebrow. "Even if I couldn't see you I'll always be able to tell where you are. A part of me, my magic, is apart of you. Like a sister or a child you have a bit of my essence in you and with that we'll always be able to tell where each other are at."
Both slayers with me moved towards her and I stopped them holding them back. I sighed. "Relax loves, she can't hurt me unless she goes full dark again and that's only pain. She'd have to kill herself to attempt to kill me. No mortal can channel the full power of a god and survive. See, we're all friends here. Like a sister I said."
They calmed as there eyes went back from there odd feral look to being their own. Sighing Buffy apologizes to Willow. "Sorry Wills, slayer thing. We can't really control it."
Alice spoke up. "Hence the human me. I would be long dead now if I were still a vampire."
Both Faith and Buffy flinched but Willow smiled. "No biggie. I'm sorry to with the whole accidental spell. I'm not entirely sure how it happened but I understand at least."
They all hugged and we went home. Willow liked the yellow crayon Xander had used as a reference. It broke the ice with them. Tara and Willow settled into their old room and Buffy slipped out to join Faith and Alice in our bed. The next day there was a body at the school job site. It had been flayed of skin and Willow had immediately declared her innocence.
Sighing I told Buffy, Xander and Faith. "It wreaks of demon. The smell resembles the demon you killed at the burger place. Paralysis poison. A bit stronger and certainly a different demon all together but it should help narrow down the search."
I sniffed the air saying. "There's a blood trail. I can follow it back to its nest if you want."
Buffy shrugged and tapped her wrist bands. "No time like the present to kill a demon."
I nodded and Xander asked. "What about the body?"
I sighed and kneeled down touching the ground. "I'm sorry for your death. Know that your murderer will be destroyed. Let What was will be again as the cycle continues."
The earth seethed a bit and absorbed the body and all physical traces. Standing I told them. "His body will be used by the earth to continue life elsewhere. Such is the cycle of life. As for the demon, let's make my words honest. Xander, you coming with?"
He shook his head. "I've seen enough bodies for today. Go have at it."
I nodded and told the girls. "Keep up."
I ran and moved at slayer speeds as they followed. Soon enough we were near the cliff in the woods where the demons lair was. I walked over and kicked a bigger whole into the lair entrance as I wasn't about to crawl into a demon's pit.
I hopped down into it and both girls shrugged and followed me. They activated their wrist bands as their swords popped out ready for use. Gnarl, the demon, was in the shadows watching us. As soon as it saw me it knew it was screwed. "Filthy godsy, you're not allowed to harms the Gnarl, we's are protected by's magics's."
I snorted. "I'm not gonna touch you filthy demon. They are. Now die like you've lived, as filth."
I raised a hand and flooded the cave with a light spell. Something resisted but I overpowered whatever it was. I told Buffy and Faith. "Stab it's eyes out to kill it. Be careful it's paralysis claws can penetrate the protection spells on the bands."
They moved as one and pinned it down stabbing it's eyes out. A quick end to a slow killer. As we left I stopped and the cliff collapsed some as the cave was caved in. With that we left back to the house to give the good news to the team.
Willow was relieved to be cleared and disgusted at a creature like that actually doing something so vile: it was Dawn who found it's image and showed everyone happily.
She'd moved all the information from the library at the gym to the laptop so I saw no need not to put away the books in the library into the pocket dimension until they could be stored at the compound.
Towards the end of the first week working in school Buffy came to me with a problem. One of the students was predicting they'd die. I eat said student after cleaning the coffee stain off of Buffy's shirt. She was in the library with Dawn when we found her.
Sighing I looked her over with my senses and found what would kill her. "She's a bit of a psychic nothing on Alice's or my level but enough to get a basic view of her own future and feelings of others. As for what she's talking about, she might not know what it is but she has a heart defect that'll kill here if she doesn't get a transplant soon."
Buffy frowned in worry. "What can we do then?"
I chuckled. "Love, you're mates to a god. I may not be at full power but healing a simple heart defect is well within my power. Have her meet us after school and I'll heal it right up. If you don't want to go that route I'll pay for a heart transplant. I'm sure there's someone out there dying in LA or something by car accident that has what she needs."
Buffy shook her head. "That could take to long. I'll talk to her and see about the after school meeting."
I nodded and looked to another kid watching her. I told her. "Some would be demon summoners are looking at her as their first sacrifice for riches. Same deal those kids made a long while back when you beat them up at my old frat house."
She saw the kids watching her and told me. "I'll take care of it. I'm sure Faith is itching to kill something by now as well."
I nodded and left to head to the next gym class before it starts. Later that evening Cassy met us after school in the parking lot. She saw me and asked. "Can you really heal me?"
I nodded and told her. "Take my hand and you'll live passed Friday."
She didn't even hesitate as the healing spells took hold. I did a massive spell to repair it all without injuring her. I put a lot of power into it just to be safe and when it was done I released her hand saying. "Congratulations, you're healed."
She nodded. "I can tell. Thanks."
I chuckled. "Not bad for a precognitive. You should learn to keep those to yourself though. You seemed to have attracted some undesirables."
She nodded saying. "The councilor and my biology teacher will take care of it though."
I smiled and turned to Buffy and Dawn. "There, she's healed and she's even getting snooty with her visions. It's time we headed home. Tomorrow you'll have a demon to kill and some kids to get expelled. Maybe mention it to the principal when they go to take her."
Buffy nodded and we left and even dropped Cassy off at home. The next evening the girls broke up the cult worshiping a demon soldier. After they killed the beast all the students involved were expelled for attempting to ritually sacrifice another student.
Most were charged and sent to jail as they were seniors for the most part and therefore old enough to know what they'd tried to do was wrong. The few that got off with expulsion was because their parents were or had high powered lawyers.
In the end Cassy was saved and those that weren't in jail left town with their parents. The leader of the group went straight to prison even with his parents lawyers as he was in charge of it all and was the one to kidnap and try to kill Cassy.
With a happy turn of events for once I saved myself a headache the next day by switching out the magical letterman jacket one of my jock students was wearing. I could see it's presence effecting the females around it so I burnt it to ashes and replaced it with a new one the school had in stock.
They always ordered too many in case others needed to buy one later in the year. I wasn't about to risk my mates getting whammied by a toy artifact either way. With it out of the way now the next two weeks were peaceful as much as any on a hellmouth would be.
Peace rained until Anya screwed up with her latest vengeance fiasco. She'd summoned a demonic spider that killed a whole fraternity. I stayed out of it as both Buffy and Faith went to kill her. Willow summoned D'Hoffryn in the hopes to get Anya out of the vengeance demon fold while Xander went to stop both Faith and Buffy from killing Anya.
I merely watched them fight and when the head demon lord showed up I snorted. "Flashy bastard."
He didn't look amused but held his tongue and dealt with the situation. After he killed Anya's demon friend as the price for reversing the spider's damage he left, taking away Anya's demon powers and leaving her human again.
She and Xander parted ways while she told him she had to find out who she was without the demon parts. Peace came back for a while at least.
That lasted until one evening the girls told me they'd been seeing dead people. Both Willow, Alice and Dawn were seeing someone from their pasts that was long since dead. For Alice it was Carlisle, being a vampire even in another dimension, he was technically dead.
For Dawn it was her mother and what appeared to be a monster. It had managed to destroy the bottom floor of Buffy's house like a poltergeist would. Willow on the other hand saw Warren at first until it left.
Sighing I helped Xander clean up and repair the house. While we were doing that Buffy mentioned meeting a vampire in the graveyard that had told her that Spike had turned it. Sighing I felt out for Spike but found him clouded and blocked from my power like a shadowy cloak.
Frowning I told her. "Whatever it is it's able to block the connection I have with those of my bloodline. Vampires and I'd imagine werewolves as well. Buffy, there's only one thing in this dimension that powerful and able to fuck with a gods power, bound or not."
She frowned and I told her. "The First. It must be what's messing with you all. Besides it there's nothing I know of that could not even risk it where I'm involved."
Dawn spoke up. "So it was the first you all saw?"
I shook my head. "You too Dawnie, Joyce's grace and soul are under my mother's protection. No being god or not has the juice or even the balls to fuck with what's hers. She's literally nature incarnate. If they tried she'd unleash powers even a thing like a hellmouth couldn't hope to compete with."
Dawn shook her head. "No, that's not possible, she was protecting me-"
I shook my head. "A ruse no doubt for you to believe it's words. It was the First Dawnie. I'm sorry but it's a simple fact. Not even it has the power to stand up to my mother. No god has the balls to try, demonic or not, she is the natural order of the universe. Of every universe."
Dawn folded her arms now. "Then what is this First and how do we stop it?"
I shrugged. "A demon, an old one. If you believe the rumors it was the first demon ever and it's connected to evil itself. It feeds of the evil in mortals hearts. It's truly unkillable permanently but I know a slayer who once went up against it and fucked it's existence up."
Buffy and the rest listened to me as I told them. "It's not exactly something I've read in a book or watcher's diary. More of my own connection to my counterpart. Vague information I can feel out. The slayer essence is in all slayers and travels splits and divides over time. But in the end it's all connected to her, the first slayers spirit and the goddess she's become."
Xander snorted. "A real looker-"
I waved a hand and sent him sprawling across the wall as I magically held him there. I growled. "Watch your tongue, that's my mate you speak of."
Buffy grabbed my arm and we shared a look as I released him. Sighing I continued. "The slayer in question managed to get to the dimension the first originated from. Don't ask me where as it's a foggy recollection at best. But she managed to get there and injured the First's essence, it's core, by sacrificing herself and imbuing her blade with the slayers essence. She injured it and for that it's been weakened and unable to reach out until now. I believe Angel was it's first contact with this plane since then."
Xander spoke up. "At the risk of vetoing thrown against another wall, hows that help us?"
I smirked. "The reason it's a vague memory is because the blade the slayer sacrificed her essence to strike at it still exists. It's out there somewhere and if get the chance it could be used again to injure the first once more."
Xander looked surprised. "Oh, then how do we find this blade?"
I shrugged. "Vague memories of a distant past aren't very forthcoming. It might not be any time soon when we find it but for now it's all I got. As for killing the First permanently that's not possible. It's connected to the evil in humans and therefore you'd have to wipe out the human race in every dimension first."
Tara spoke up. "Yeah, let's not do that."
I chuckled and continued to help clean up. Buffy spoke up. "Back to Spike, if the first is protecting him, what should we do? He has a soul now."
I shrugged. "Find him, pull him away from it's grasp and remove its influence on him. If I were in the same room as him I'd be able to help with that, the First isn't strong enough to deny my blood bond with those from my line. If you can get him here I can pull him back from whatever the first is doing to him."
Xander raised a hand. "Is anyone else creeped out by the fact that you can control vampires?"
I chuckled. "It's not control, not really. It's more like I can influence them or see what they're seeing and help them resist their urges but that's only when they're close. I'm not allowed my full power so it has to be close. Like the slayer essence can influence slayers I can influence vampires and werewolves."
Willow snorted. "Would've been handy with Oz, n-not that I meant you'd do something like that but I'm just saying it would've been nice not to have to stay up all night watching him during full moons."
With a few amens around I chuckled. "Sure, but then he wouldn't have tried anything with Veruca and you wouldn't be with Tara now."
Willow frowned. "On second thought I'm ok with it really."
I shrugged and sighed. "The werewolves in Tibet are using prayers to insane gods. Gods that usually take sacrifices with their prayers but have gone so long without it that once they wake up everything within their influence will be slaughtered. A problem for another time and the troll hammer to be sure. For now Buffy, you and Faith find Spike and bring him to me. I'll remove the First's influence on him as best I can. With his new soul again it'll be a challenge to get past the pain and torment it feels to influence him."
They nodded and grabbed a few stakes before leaving to Dawn's protests. "You guys can't skip out on cleanup too!"
I chuckled and told her. "Behave or I'll tell Buffy what you were up to before the First reared it's ugly head. I can see the damage to the house you tried to hide. Really, playing with a crossbow? You should know better after Miss Kitty Fantastico."
She blushed and got back to cleaning. Xander was measuring the windows to repair while I was fixing the wood parts easy enough.
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