The Omega Series
by tainted_blood_chylde
Rating: PG
Tortmagh ran quickly through the undergrowth, how the hell had that thing gotten here? How had it found them? Let alone broke through their perimeter defences. He quickly climbed the rock-cliff, it was a difficult task, even for a Camen demon like him. And the fact that he hadn't lost any of his youth or strength since he was six hundred, wasn't helping in gaining him an edge over his pursuer. The stories were true. The Final Days had begun, he ran along the lava river side, jumping carelessly from rock to rock, he had to stay away from it. If it got him, then all the mystical passwords to the underworld would be lost. It was gaining quicker now. He could hear the screams of his fallen comrades.
Comrades in deed. If need be, he would abandon them all here and save himself. Luscian wouldn't hear of this, he wouldn't forgive such a failure. He vaulted up the final pilar and jumped ready to fall into the light stream. Something threw him off course. It was her! That thing that had torn apart his armies and feasted on their flesh.
"Please! Leave me! Think of what an alliance we could make, I'm more valuable to alive than dead, please spare me" he begged. "Think of the rewards that Luscian will give for my safe return, just please.. please don't hurt me!" he pleaded with her.
"You know, that's the difference between me and my mothers" she said in a honey sweet voice, it sent shivers down his spine, even her voice screamed out a raw power, a power that reached out and pulled everything black into it, he could feel the pull on himself. He gulped.
"I know when to make a man beg, and give in to what he wants.. and when to make him scream.. and beat him for being such a weak pathetic bitch!" she shouted before grabbing him by the neck and hoisting the large demon that was easily twice her size into the air. She saw his eyes widen in fear, she loved this, that look, it was like a drug for her. He opened his mouth to curse her in some other tongue, she used that chance to suck all the energy from him. He slowly faded from red black, to a pale grey, she dropped him. He fell to the floor like stone.
It took a moment, this was usually her weakest moment. Soon his memories would bleed into hers and she would know the codes for accessing the other worlds and she would seek out more challenging prey. But for now.. she would feast. She turned and smiled at the small group of human slaves the demons of this world used to serve them. A bit scrawny.. but they would do.
"Nothing" Faith said as she climbed back up to the street surface.
"You sure? This was the address given in the database, unless they heard about the latest big bad and decided to run the hell outta here" Gunn said surveying the piece of paper.
"Either that or they went out for a midnight snack, but from what I can tell, there's nothing down there. Hasn't been for a few weeks at least" Faith said, scraping the sewer off her leather jacket. "I'd have smelt it if there was" she added.
"So how's that working out for you?" Gunn asked politely, Faith gave him an uneasy stare. "The being a vampire thing I mean" he elaborated.
"Yeah, I got you the first time" she said sarcastically. "It just is, I mean, it doesn't make me any less of who I am. I mean, at first yeah, I had all these insecurities, about if I was really me, or if I was just come kinda cloned version of who I was before, and no, I am me. I really can't explain what it feels like, I can feel it" she said, the two of them exchanging a knowing look.
"The demon, the darkness, I can hear its thoughts, its wants. It doesn't go away, and what's frightning is that it's also a part of me" she continued as they got back onto the bikes.
"Yeah but isn't there anything you miss? You know now you're a vamp, you ain't gonna be able to do so much" he questioned.
"Being able to bang B freely? That I'd liked to have done. But I can't, moment of perfect bliss and all" Faith said smiling. "Nah, you get used to it, and in some cases, it's actually pretty cool" she smiled before throwing on her helmet and speeding off down the highway to their next location.
Buffy finished beating the large demon with the metal rod in her hand, it faked attacking her from the left while his companion charged at her from behind, swiftly she turned and impaled the creature through the chest and then kick it in the head, the blow, snapping the large creature's neck. She had no idea what species they were, still she killed them effectively and didn't spend too much time admiring her handy work.
"Buff! Look out!" Xander shouted as he tossed her a double-sided battle axe from Angel's Mantle piece. She smiled and turned on her final opponent. Quickly she left out an enraged yell and started hacking furiously into the creature. Moments later the beast was dead.
"Uh.. Buffy, I think it's dead" Dawn said as she watched her sister relentlessly severe limb upon limb from the creature's body and then moved onto his friends. "BUFFY!" Dawn snapped, still the older girl continued to hack away at her victims.
"BUFFY!" the whole group, consisting of Wesley, Fred, Willow, Xander and Dawn said in unison.
"Huh?" Buffy said, turning away from her kill. "Did you say something?" she asked innocently.
"Well that was a complete waste of time" Faith said, coming out of the elevator and leaving her helmet on the table. "What's going on here? You guys have a party without me?" Faith asked as she looked over at Buffy, whose green sunflower dress was completely covered in orange slime.
"Buffy, kindly decided to kill our midnight meeting" Wesley explained.
"The Dolbis Brothers?" Gunn asked in shock.
"The very same" Wesley said, turning back to his book. Buffy squirmed.
"Harmony!" Fred called.
"Yeah" the petite blond said as she flounced in, smiling widely.
"Have Harry from the floor below to clean up this mess, and send a bucket of the finest Orisbian Sea Slugs to Duke Boerk along with our deepest sympathies" Gunn instructed her.
Harmony cast a shy look at the slayer, she saw the carnage and smiled meakly, muttering something about getting right on it and left the room.
"She's...?" Faith began.
"Yes, Harmony is one of the former Sunnydale High students killed by the Mayor's lackies during the ascension. She doesn't feed off human blood anymore though and chooses solely to work here for Wolfram and Hart" Wesley explained. "Up until last week, she had been Angel's private secretary" he added.
"Great.. any other surprises?" Buffy smiled sarcastically.
"No, no. And if there are, I'm sure you could quickly dice them up into sizeable chunks to be served during lunch" Gunn answered, laughing slightly.
"Said I was sorry about that" she muttered.
"No you didn't" Dawn frowned.
"What?" Buffy said, frowning back.
"You didn't apologise, you just went all apocolyptic gal and started hacking him to pieces" Dawn answered, pointing to the demon below her feet.
"Whoops.. sorry bout that" Buffy said, handing the axe to the cleaner who had just entered the room and stepped carefully out of the remains below her feet.
Faith looked at Buffy, her gaze crossing over her soaked dress, it was almost see through. She smiled to herself and muttered some comment about how Buffy needed to change.
"Here are some clothes of mine" Fred said handing Buffy the neat pile. "I keep them here for when I'm working late in the office and don't get time to go home" she smiled. Buffy nodded politely and took the clothes. "I mean.. I know you probably don't like the style, I don't really have a style, but I'm sure they'll fit and they can do until we get you guys settled in the hotel" Fred added and stepped back to beside Willow.
"Come on B, I'll got put them on you" Faith smiled cheekily.
"Where's the nearest shower?" Buffy said quickly. Gunn pointed to behind him, a small door. Buffy and Faith exchanged glances and ran like over excited school girls into the bathroom.
Oracles
So here's the thing, you think you're pretty safe out there in your happy normal little world. You probably think your problems are the worst most terriblest thing in existance and you're too selfish to really take the time to make a difference or think about anything other than you that might be important. Well I'm here to change that perception. You see.. you people have it all wrong. You think this little reality you have created could actually last, that things like me aren't real. That you are the masters of your own universe. You can think whatever you want. But sooner or later.. that little image of your perfect little world will be ripped from under you. And I'M gonna be the one holding the carpet. Enjoy it while you can. It won't last long. my mothers may try and stop me, you can put it all on their shoulders the way you have put it on the shoulders of girls like them for centuries. But I have the scythe, and they are running out of time. For I am the Omega, I killed the First, and am now seeking my rightful place. This whole place, this demension, this reality.. are nothing but illusions. So I'm going to make that way again. I'm going to put it back into the nothing. I'm going to unseperate the light and dark, the sea and the air, the land and the tide. I'm going to send hell itself into the abyss. Everything comes full circle, and I'm going to make history. End.
Faith climbed out of the shower, she put a towel around Buffy, it was killing her not being able to do more than kiss her. Faith quickly turned away from Buffy, they'd gotten too close that time. They'd almost gone further than usual. Almost gone the full way. If she'd still been human, Faith would have been sighing quite deeply, she remembered this. Fortunately, she didn't need to breathe. She turned and painted on a smile, Buffy seemed almost normal if not for the slight look of disappointment on her face.
They dressed silently, Faith always hated this part. The awkward silence, each of them too frightened to utter a word for fear that it would lead them back to the sweet taste of heaven they'd been enveloped in only moments ago, or to another full scale row. Faith detested arguing with Buffy, she loved her, and not being able to give her what she wanted, to take what she wanted. Was slowly driving a wooden stake into her heart.
"Your back clean enough now?" Faith teased with a smile.
"Very clean.. your tongue is a much better replacement for the sponge" Buffy replied. Faith lowered her head uneasily, she hadn't meant to tease her like that, she just couldn't help herself.
"Sorry.. I hadn't meant..." Faith began, but Buffy dismissed her apologies, as usual.
"It's okay, just a little further than we'd agreed. I mean I enjoyed it, and that's exactly the point.. We can't go that far, I mean, not if you want..." Buffy lectured. Faith was begining to lose her patience, God she hated this talk, sometimes Buffy could be such a prude.
"Yeah, B, I got it. Well how bout we don't bother next time!" Faith snapped before heading out of the shower. God, she hated arguing, it's all they seemed to do now. Buffy stayed on to finish getting dressed and Faith went to check in with Wesley.
"I don't understand. How is he here?" Buffy said staring at Angel, was it really the first.
"We don't know. He just arrived two hours ago..." Gunn answered, tending to Angel's wounds.
"And he's?" Faith continued.
"Human? Entirely" Wesley answered. Faith and Buffy stared at Angel who gave them a weak smile.
"Are you sure?" Buffy questioned again.
"Absolutely, Fred did a full diagnostic, no more demon, no more bursting into flames, just human, just me" Angel smiled. Buffy was happy for him.
"How did this happen?" Faith demanded. "I thought he was dead" she said eyeing him up suspiciously.
"Yeah, I thought you guys had checked everywhere for him" Dawn questioned.
"Everywhere for a missing vampire named Angelus who was cursed with a human soul, yes" Wesley answered.
"Isn't that what I just asked?" Dawn said.
"No, we were looking for the Vampire in him. Not the man, as far as we can tell, whatever this woman did to him, she removed Angelus completely leaving only the human behind" Wesley said.
"So she's good? Going around killing evil demons.. seems pretty good if you ask me" Dawn said hopefully.
"Not quite, it seems, she is draining all evil into herself, and she isn't restricted to this demension alone" Wesley explained.
"So in English?" Faith said, rolling her eyes, she'd never cared much for watcher/slayer meetings when she was alive, they seemed just a pointless as now when she was unalive.
"She's trying to make herself the ultimate big bad, and she's going through every world there is to do it" Angel said, standing up.
"Well, then where is she?" Buffy queried.
"In Quortoh" Connor said, throwing down the head of one of the demon guards who patrolled the office buildings upper floor.
"Oh Boy.." Dawn said, taking in a deep breath and watching as Angel stood up, uneasily to greet his son.
Oracles 2
Okay, so I've sucked the energies from a few hundred demon demensions, I've absorbed the Key, everything should be going great. And it is, to a point, but something.. something's missing. I know, I know, I'm not ready to invoke the primalities of the slayer. I don't know, something.. just feels wrong. This wasn't the way Daddy had planned it. Course the whole being hacked in half by my lost toy wasn't part of the plan either. I just feel kinda empty. This isn't normal.. it isn't evil. It's mortal, it's human and weak and why the hell should I care if this whole destroying the whole universe thing is making me lonely? Cos of them. My Mothers. Their humanness and the soul they got stuck in me.. it's their doing. Haven't there ever been any times in your pathetic little mortal life where you've just stopped and be still for a moment? When all the ins and outs of your busy little fantasy world just went quiet and you can close your eyes and it's all gone? Just for a few brief moments.. everything disappears. That's what I want, I want to blink.. and have it all disappear, only I wanna make it so I don't have to open my eyes again and find it's all still there.
Dawn's Journal
So much has happened in the past six months it's unreal, I mean, six months ago the worst thing I had to worry about was Buffy cramping my style at school in front of cute guys. Now.. I have to worry about when my apocalyptic niece Omega come to visit. Whether or not I'm gonna get turned back into The Key.. and keeping my sister and her not so Vampish-Slayer girlfriend from sleeping together. And fending off the advances of my sisters not vampish-anymore ex-boyfriend's son Connor.
So to put it into a little bit more simpler terms.
The world is ending.
The First.. What we thought was gonna be the biggest bad of all time.. cause shockingly enough.. it was the first evil of all time. Turned out to not be the biggest bad of all..
Its minion Caleb had raped and tortured Faith for months.. gotten her pregnant, and then sent her to spy on us and the potentials.
But, there's always a but in these stories, they are never straight- forward. Faith was madly in love with Buffy.. she lost her nerve and went to confess her sins.
HOWEVER... (yes also another annoying must have in the tales of heros) The First knew Faith was losing her nerve and drove Spike.. the now dead undead ex-lover of my sister.. into a fit of insane jealousy and he killed Faith. Turning her into a Vampire-Slayer- Vampire.
Buffy killed him for it, turns out she loved Faith as well.. The First's baby... jumped from Faith's body like a ghost into Buffy's.. making her pregnant instead. THe only vessel strong enough to give birth to it was a slayer, which Buffy was. Then Kennedy got called and went crazy... she tried to kill Faith and Buffy.
Then the time shifting happened. One second people were dead.. the next they were alive.. one minute Buffy was pregnant.. then she wasn't. You get the picture.
Anyway, it all ended with Angel being left human, Faith being left a vampire.. Giles, Anya and Andrew, god rest their souls, all dead. And Buffy not pregnant anymore.
In fact the "Baby" killed and ate the First, destroyed Caleb and then went on a mission to drain the evil out of every evil being in the entire world and every other demension connected to this world..
Making her the super big bad.
No we have to find her..
And I thought my life was hard six months ago... Jeez.
Omega wandered silently into the great hall of Korint, this was her last demon god, her last hurdle before she took on the underworld masters. Since her "birth" she had spent most of her time evading them, not that she really needed to. Her father, Caleb, had taught her to keep herself hidden, to never underestimate their strength. Afterall, the slayers had won the important battles since the war between light and dark began. Why else was the world still there? She gazed at the writings on the walls, carved with the bones of the ancients themselves. They were beautiful, their patterns intricate and silken, she smiled, these were more than pictures, they spoke to her. Sang to her.. she could feel them whispering through her core, as timeless and eternal as she was.
The doorway. This was where she was heading, this was what she had been aiming for. The bridge between the realms. Not just any realms. To all realms, to everything that should, could and would have been. She needed to have all of the dark energies from everywhere. Not just this version of reality. But of all the versions, every doppleganger, every possibilty and eventuality, were within her reach. These walls were made from the same fabric from which she had been created, that had created the First, her building blocks. She looked at the carvings and allowed her fingers to graze its solid frame. A wave of power shifted through her and she smiled, completely intoxicated. This was what she had been searching for, a power to match her own. An energy that could sing to her own and make her glow.
What is everything afterall if not energy? Humans, seek each other out to make these kinds of connections. Slayers, find it through their dreams of one another, every energy... reaches out for the one that will help it resonate that little bit better. Humans call it love.. Demons call it power. The angels called it music.. all want something to sing back to them, to give them.. bliss. Omega looked thoughtfully at the carvings and smiled, soon it would be over. She would have her eternal rest because there would be no end, no start. Just... blankness.
HSSSSSSSSSS!!! Dragthna hissed as he charged at her. Irritated she vamped out and lunged at him, she didn't even need the fangs to feed, there was no demon side inside her, if anything, her soul was completely human, because, whether it was fair or sane.. a human soul, is the fabric of what binds everything together. The same intangible essence that she herself was sprung from. Still, she just liked the way her victims trembled before her when she wore that face. Besides.. it was only fitting really, her first mother had one of those faces now.
Dragthna slithered across the floor, the great halls watch dog, Omega laughed, how many times had hollywood milked this one? She wondered bitterly as she looked at the large snake demon, it spat its poison at her and she rolled her eyes, she raised her hand and watched as the electrical bolts from her fingers encircled the demon in front of her, when she was done, she noticed the squealing demon was turned entirely inside out, and was now a large circular ball of wriggling, shrieking flesh, whose eyes stared up at her helplessly. Smiling silent she sighed, as much as she would to have loved to have experimented to see exactly how long an immortal beast like that could survive in that condition.. she really needed the last ingredient.
She lifted up the blade of Rowtak, a sword she claimed from the former world of the God Glory, she started viciously hacking and slicing into the beast, she let out a bloody roar, and started lashing out in a frenzy as the cool blade slide easily into flesh, she gave an exasperated gasp as she drew back to catch her breath before hacking into it again, the blood now oozing from the creature was making her task all the more difficult. Bit by bit, blood splattered the walls, blood seeped into those beautiful cracks in the bone and it started to glow, an ancient, warm glow, it engulfed her and when she was satisfied it the creature was dead, she lay down in the blood and bathed. Slowly her head fell back, and for the first time since she was born from Buffy's womb, six months ago. She slept. she was home.
...to be continued...