FIC: Warrior... Slayer (1/?)

["Shadow" <Shadowlander1@xxxxxxx>]

Title: Warrior... Slayer (1/?)
Author: Shadowlander
Email: Shadowlander1@xxxxxxx
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters commonly associated with
Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Xena: Warrior Princess; they belong to
others and are used without permission. No copyright infringement is
intended.
Pairing: Faith/Willow; Xena/Gabrielle
Rating: NC-17 - to be on the safe side... I've been told I write steamy
sex/love scenes although I usually put off writing one as long as
humanly possible. :)
Summary: A journey of redemption... or just further proof that I do not
handle boredom well.
Notes: This is for Rod, who demanded more Faith/Willow fics or he was
going to hold his breath until he passed out... or something to that
effect, you never can tell in regards to that particular mad Brazilian.
<big grin> I have no idea how Xena snuck in there, she just did and
demanded fight scenes with Faith... or that could just be all apart of
my active imagination working in overdrive again. Also to all the Xena
fans out there... ignore everything after season two, you know when they
started doing stupid stuff to our warrior babes. :)

WARRIOR... SLAYER (1/?)

Somewhere beyond time and space -

"Oh, isn't THAT just great!" The guardian of time and space sneered as
she watched the events play out before her from one of the more
troublesome realities. "Infinite number of possibilities and this is
the universe that gives me the most trouble", she grumbled to herself,
erasing the scenes with a wave of her hand. "They just HAD to be gifted
with curiosity, couldn't be content with worshipping rocks... no they
have to question EVERYTHING!" She continued, pacing the massive hall of
her celestial palace, "next thing you know the ungrateful rug rats are
going to be sticking their noses into my business. I can see them now,
sling-shooting themselves around the sun in starships trying to travel
backward in time and wanting to visit parallel universes."

"They aren't that bad, Eon", an amused voice said with a laugh bringing
the agitated guardian out of her ramblings on the inconsiderateness of
the human race.

"Oh really?" Eon replied, stopping in her restless prowling to give her
quest a disbelieving look. It wasn't often the guardian got visitors to
her palace at the heart of the space/time continuum. Usually some deity
or other wanting a favour in the form of bending the rules on no time
traveling or reality hopping, granted she had been known to bend her own
rules a bit when the cause was worthy enough. Like that Ebenezer fellow
and young Timothy, both mortals benefited greatly from a little time
travel and a peek into another reality. However just because she let
one or two deities get away with breeching her wards between time and
space; didn't mean she was going to let all of them do it, there was a
reason the wards where there in the first place. Still that didn't stop
the occasional visit from one of the older entities that, like her,
existed outside of time and space. "Need I remind you how you are
remembered?"

Aphrodite leaned back in her chair as her laughter filled the massive
hall, "Eon, I have never cared what my own family thought of me much
less the human race. They grew beyond us, as it should be... but that
does not mean I stopped caring for them." She said, growing serious
after a moment, "none of us have", she added quietly, remembering the
various times throughout the history of man where she feared the most of
their survival.

"I don't doubt that", Eon agreed, knowing exactly what the Goddess of
Love was remembering. It wasn't all that hard to figure out really,
after all Aphrodite has only cried exactly four times since the dawn of
man; the last time being during what the mortals of Earth called World
War II. "But I can't keep bending the rules, not even for you. The
'quick' fixes are not enough, I am going to have to address the problem
at its root source once and for all."

"Daddy won't like it."

"Oh yeah like I've cared what 'Junior' has ever thought", Eon grunted,
using her pet name for the King of the Olympians. "Although I doubt he
is going to notice what I'm doing; not if he's up to his old tricks of
enlightening every female that has struck his fancy."

"Okay... none of the other gods are going to approve. You are not
allowed to mess with the internal workings of a reality", Aphrodite
amended with an amused smirk, "it keeps you from being too powerful."

"Yeah like I want those crazy rug rats of yours making up legends about
me and demanding things. You know there is a reason I live out in the
middle of nowhere.... I'm not a people person."

"You're not even a person... you are an entity no one has ever heard of,
although why you are constantly being called 'Father Time' is beyond
me", the Goddess countered with a laugh enjoying the rare times she ever
found a good enough excuse to spend time with the guardian.

"You've been hanging out with Athena in that Library of hers again,
haven't you?" Eon asked, with an amused smirk, out of all the deities
she has ever had to deal with, Aphrodite got on her nerves the least.
It probably had something to do with the Goddess' total disregard for
what others thought of her. "Okay, so the others may put up a fuss if I
intervene personally", she said, after a moment returning to the task at
hand. "Fine... I'll just barrow a chapter from the 'Mount Olympus
Rulebook for Interacting with Mortals'... I'll appoint champions."

"Uh oh."

"What? It worked for your family over the centuries... sort of", Eon
questioned at her quest started to rub her temples warily.

"Why do I get the impression you're only doing this to annoy Daddy?"

"Because a vast wisdom lays behind that beautiful face of yours and that
damnable half-brother of yours needs to be taken down a peg or two",
came the reply, filled with mischief. "Besides I don't want to be
bothered with this problem again, I do have other matters to attend to.
Chaos and Tapestry have hundreds of new universes to create and I have
to be there or nothing will get done. "

"Okay, okay I'll take your word for it", Aphrodite said, admitting
defeat knowing that Eon was still a bit peeved at the God of War for his
one little experiment with a very unstable "ultimate weapon" some ten
billion years ago and was just waiting for her revenge. "So... who do
you have in mind?"

"Well since I do want this matter to end once and for all and I do have
another little 'hiccup' in time that has been annoying me... I'm going
to kill two birds with one stone, so-to-speak.", Eon said with a
secretive smile. "A family reunion is in order I think, you're little
girl is coming home Aphrodite and she's staying this time."

End Part One.

Thanks to Shyfox who was kind enough to beta this and demand for lots
more. And whom was kind enough not to make any threats against my
prized Xena t-shirt and Gabrielle doll if she didn't get the next part
in the next ten seconds... that I know of anyway.



Shadow -
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