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Xover: BtVS/Xmen/Interview with the Vampire Symmary: Two points of view from bitter enemies, hold more in common than they would like to admit. Characters: BtVS-Kendra, (Mr.Mboto, Buffy, Willow, Giles, Spike and Angel/us mentioned only) XMEN-Storm/Gambit, Cecelia/Kurt (Wolverine mentioned briefly) IVWV- Louis De Pointe Du Lac, (Lestat and Armand, mentioned) Disclaimer: Buffy, The Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Weldon and 20th Century Fox. Xmen belongs to Marvel Comics. Interview with the Vampire belongs to Anne Rice. The character of Garak and The Nemesis Dominion are my own creations. Timeline: Buffy (Between What's My Line 2 and two weeks before Becoming 1). Xmen: (3months before XtremeXmen 1) ~~~ 4am New Orleans. New Orleans city by night, beneath a plethora of wilting stars, zodiac planets and dark spaces, two people play their lives as if they were one. A man and woman walk quickly, throwing agitated gazes over their shoulders, down a labyrinth of narrow roads in the now, desolate, Latin Quarter. Something or someone is following them. Their pace quickens, halting and rapid, down the winding streets, they pause briefly, their breaths hard and fast. "Dom, slow down, please!," she gasps, holding onto him for dear life. "I think we lost them." "Cody, they're not the only ones lost here," he hissed, looking frantically for a way out. "Damn it! We should've stuck with that chick, Trinity and the cop. I-I'm all turned around." The man hole cover they're standing on, suddenly lurches up. Doms fingernails unintentionally bury deep on the skin of her arm. She yelps in pain, as he releases her, drawing blood. There is no time for retribution, for without warning.. CLANG!! The cover thrusts up again. They lose their balance, fall to the ground. The manhole cover flips off its hole. Horrified, they scramble from it in the direction they've just come. Then, half way out of it comes... Trinity. Or what semblance she used to be. She is a bloody mess. Marks of some gothic torture are savagely inflicted, she looks at them barely conscious, her eyes intense and traumatized. The girl hesitates as if gathering strength, the horror that emanates as a voice is barely human. She cries out, futile in its warning. Trinity screams, a guttural sound of endless terror. Some monstrous force pulls her down, The road seems to vibrate with her paralyzing scream and end a few meters away to their left. They too follow where the sound ended. The man takes no chances, he grabs his girlfriend and they begin to run in the opposite direction at speed. She trips, briefly, sprawls and comes up running as he hauls her back up. "Come on! Come on!!" As they flea, the manhole covers explode one by one in their wake. The two desperately look back, to see the covers flip over and over, catapulted into the air, a bright light bursting through the blackness. The road looks like bullet holes punched by a cannon. They increase their efforts, just as the last manhole they crossed, barely misses them as it mushrooms upward. The shock sends both of them sprawling to the ground. In front of them is another cover, it trembles and rocks, before long is deathly still... BAM!! The manhole cover explodes off the hole, sails twenty feet into the air and clatters to the ground some distance away. The couple's horrified reactions as they watch something emerge from the hole. Temporarily relief to see a police officers uniform, then horror as he rises above them like some horrific sphinx. In his arms he holds the body of the girl. Her neck is broken, her eyes rolled up and white. He drops her to the ground, and takes pleasure in watching them realize that's what their fate will be. His own face is human, but it shouldn't be. He feigns concern, even mimicking the facial expression. "What? You thought I was here to help you?" Shadows gather above, around and below him, forming a tight net that blot out the stars, the moon and the night itself. And for them, the world ends. << Back Next >> |