ff:The Blue Dragon part 2

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Title: The Blue Dragon
Chapter Two: Dragon Song.
Rating NC-17/R
Disclaimer: All BTVS characters belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Summary/ Timeline: It is Buffy's and the scooby's senior year of high school
and Snyder gives Buffy a new assignment at school. Meanwhile on the streets
of Sunnydale there is a new demon running loose.
Pairing: Buffy / Other (female) 
Thanks: Cheryl Hill

The Blue Dragon
Dragon Song

There were some things that Buffy just wouldn't tolerate and people using
her boyfriend as a chew toy was differently one of them. Buffy hit the demon
full force knocking it hard against the ground. The girl quickly bounded out
of way just in time to miss Buffy's roundhouse kick. With a blink of the eye
she began to fade in and out of sight. Moving like people do in strobe
lighting. The girl was trying to retreat but Buffy landed another kick
square in the chest sending her flying towards the dead end of the alley.
The demon tried several more times to get away only to meet the hard end of
Buffy's foot or fist. 

Buffy had to re-adjust her tactics. The demon was still wearing the
bulletproof vest, and she had to place her kicks to its head, neck, shoulder
or legs. The demon was taking a hell of a pounding and if Buffy wasn't so
over wrought with anger over Angel's attack she would have realized the
demon was not fighting back. It was trying to get away. It wasn't just
Buffy's pounding that was slowing the demon down. Something else was wrong
with it. Her phasing was irate and she was shifting colors. 

Finally Buffy pinned the demon down and ripped open her shirt. Instead of a
bulletproof vest she follow blue scales. Not over the complete chest just
randomly patched across the girl's body. Picking a point without scales
Buffy rammed her stake in. The demon howled in pain and blue blood began to
pour from the wound. Buffy braced herself for the retaliation punch. Most of
the demons she fought went crazy when she wounded them. Instead this one
cried. Her blue glowing eyes turned yellow and she cried. Startled she just
stared. Then she heard the sounds of Angel waking up and she ran to his
side.

The slayer carefully helped her lover to his feet and when she looked back
at the demon she found the girl was gone. She thought about following the
blood trial but Angel was hurt and needed help. 

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"And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the
Devil and Satan. Revelation 12:9-10" Giles quoted

"Giles I am not in the mood, my boyfriend was almost eaten." Buffy screamed

"Poetic Justice if you ask me." The watcher stated. 

"Giles you're not helping, just because its favorite food this week seems to
be vampire doesn't mean next week it won't be Librarian." Willow reasoned. 

"Yes, yes of coarse you're right, we need to know what the creature is
doing." Giles replied.

"So you think it's a dragon. So how come it doesn't have a tail? Or, I don't
know, more dinosaurish?" Buffy asked. 

"That is why I was quoting the bible. What we think of as a dragon the bible
actually refers to as a leviathan or sea serpent. In this reference the
dragon is not a sea serpent, how did you put it... dinosaurish, it's a
reference to Satan." Giles explained.

"So dragons are the devil you say." Xander joked. He received dirty glances
from everyone.

"I think it means that dragons are demons." Angel explained.

"Ones cast out of heaven in the last battle to be exact." Giles added. 

"I am still not getting this." Buffy said

"You remember the wood cutting you showed me the other day, well in the
middle ages there were many done similar to it. Here is a another wood
cutting of St. Michael killing the Dragon." Giles showed them the picture.
(If you want to see the picture go to
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/resumeandarticles/page23.html) "Notice that the
dragon in the picture has both human and demon features. No two drawing are
the same but all of this form of dragon from that time period, about the 3rd
century AD, show a human shaped dragon figure battling the saints." 

"Giles I get the strangest feeling about this thing. This girl isn't evil,
well not exactly, are there ever good dragons in mythology. I mean, come on,
Satan as a description." Buffy asked.

"Actually Pre-Christian mythology often lists dragons as protectors of the
people. In the Arthur legend, Arthur was Arthur Pendragon, Arthur of the
dragon. His symbol was the red dragon. In truth many scholars believe the
mythology behind Saints slaying dragons is really a metaphor for
Christianity overthrowing Pagan beliefs." Giles lectured.

"Great but how does that help us. Ok so this girl has scales, and ate
vampires, is she a good guy or a bad guy, do I slay or not slay is the
question?" Buffy stated.

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Two days later.

Buffy was sitting outside on a bench. She was waiting for someone. She was
waiting for a friend even though she or her friend wouldn't admit that's
what they were to each other. She was actually worried about this particular
friend a great deal. She had wanted to talk to Willow about said friend but
she had promised not to say anything,

Cordelia Chase sat down next to her on the bench. "Hi" The brunette
cheerleader managed. Cordelia was extremely embarrassed by her current
predicament. She didn't like the feeling of owing someone something and she
felt like she owed Buffy big time. 

"Hey, so how's it going?" Buffy asked

"Ok I guess, I got a job." The cheerleader answered.

"Great! Where?" Buffy asked

"Dress Shop after school. Of course I am hoping no one I know ever sees me
there." Cordelia stated. She didn't like being poor.

"I wouldn't worry about it. Did you get moved into the apartment ok? You
know I would have helped you and your mom move in." Buffy said honesty.

"It's not like we had much to move in. Besides you've already helped us
enough." Cordelia stated. Buffy had found them sleeping in a car late one
night on patrol. The IRS had booted them on to the street with little more
then a handful of belongings. Mrs. Chase had borrowed her sister's car and
that was all they had left. Buffy had taken them home. She and Cordelia
spent a week trading off the living room coach and floor while Cordelia's
mother slept in Buffys' bedroom. Finally one of Mrs. Chase's relatives lent
them enough money to rent a small apartment and buy a used car. Buffy was
the only one who knew the truth. It was during this time that Cordelia found
Xander kissing Willow and ended up in the hospital. 

"You know he misses you." Buffy said about Xander.

"I know, I just can't deal with that right now. Buffy my whole world has
been turned upside down." Cordelia admitted as she looked at the trees and
grass. Anywhere but Buffy's face. "Look I don't really want to talk about
it. So what's up on the slayer end of life?"

"Well I'm looking for a dragon." Buffy said with a smile.

"Dragon, like big green monster?" Cordelia asked

"No, like small female, blue scales, blue eyes, likes to bite my boyfriend."

"Huh?"

"She bit Angel. Drank a lot of his blood. I don't know Cordy other than the
hurting Angel part I don't think she's evil. " Buffy said a little sadly.

"You do attract the oddest people, or is that demons, and speaking of odd
scanky beings here comes your friend. Miss I'm a big ho." Cordelia stated
pointing out Faith. 

"Cordy be nice." Buffy whispered then said, "Hi Faith what's up?"

"Yo B, I have got to show you this, I am talking weirdville."

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Buffy followed Faith to the warehouse district. Entering into one of the
buildings. Buffy immediately knew she was looking at a nest. Or what was
left of a nest.

"Looks like you have already slayed?" Buffy asked puzzled.

"Not me. It's the way I found it. Now check this out." Faith said leading
Buffy. On the floor in the corner was a vampire, an undead not dusted
vampire. Its throat had two puncher wounds. But that wasn't the odd part.
>From the puncture wounds a thin line was formed of what looked like stone.
The vampire was turning to stone. In its hand it held a blue scale which was
dripping blue blood. Buffy ripped away the vampires shirt and follow the
lines of stone as they moved toward its heart.

"How long ago did this happen?" Buffy asked the dying creature.

"Two days slayer, I hope you kill it. Kill her." It spat out. 

"Describe her?" Buffy asked trying to calm herself.

The vampire didn't answer, instead the stone line reached its heart and it
exploded into dust.

"I have go find Angel." Buffy said as she took off running.

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Angel had been asleep. A deep sleep. And now he was awake. Awake with two
teenage slayers staring at his neck. He wondered if his victims felt this
way before he bit them. 

" I need to see your neck" Buffy said hurriedly. Buffy was relieved to see
only healing fang marks. 

"It's healing a little slow Buffy but I'm ok. Do you want to tell me what
this is all about?" Angel asked patiently

"The dragon, it turns vampires into stone. Faith found one of its victims
holding this." Buffy held out the scale. 

Angel looked at it carefully then bit it. "Blue gold, very rare." He said.

"Eww" was Buffy's only remark.

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Kelm was pacing on the front porch of 1630 Revell drive. She was trying to
decide whether to ring the doorbell. Worse still something she had eaten
didn't agree with her and her stomach was turning loop the loops. She had
been feeling sick for about two days and she didn't know way. 

The only person she thought of as a friend hadn't been around for her to
talk to. Buffy had not been in Ms. Wilson's classroom for the last two days
and Kelm was worried. Buffy had become very important to her on all kinds of
levels. So she was pacing and feeling sick and scared. 

It was while she was pacing that Faith and Buffy came into the front yard.

"Kelm, what's up?" Buffy asked startling the girl. Kelm jumped about four
feet and landed on the otherside of the porch. 

"Good jump!" Faith commented.

"Sorry" Kelm whispered.

"Are you ok." Buffy asked. She didn't like the coloring of the girls' skin.
Frankly she looked sick.

"I don't know. Are you ok?" Kelm asked shyly.

"I'm fine, why?"

"You haven't been in class much. And I missed you. And I was just worried
that's all. I'll go now." Kelm said moving to leave.

"Have you had dinner?" Buffy asked

"What?" 

"You know dinner, the meal after lunch. Faith and I were just getting ready
to order pizza, why don't you come inside and eat with us." Buffy offered. 

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Faith dove into the pizza when it arrived. Buffy tried to be a little more
discrete but she was as hungry as Faith. Kelm took a piece but only picked
at it. The girl sat quietly in the corner watching the two slayers in a
feeding frenzy. 

After the pizza was almost gone Buffy noticed Kelm. "Are you sure your ok,
you're not eating."

"I'm fine." Kelm said. Buffy got the feeling that Kelm was afraid of Faith.
The girl acted strange whenever Faith was in the room. 

"So is there something you need me to read?" Buffy asked

"No I just wanted to see if you were ok." Kelm said as she continued to peer
at Faith out of the corner of her eyes. 

"Hey I would love to stay and chat but I have meat to pack if you know what
I mean." Faith said standing up and adding a couple grunts and hip swings to
indicate what she meant. 

"Meat to pack? What are you running out of terms for sex?" Buffy said

After Faith left. Kelm came over and sat down beside Buffy. She felt
unusually calm beside the blond. 
"Buffy can I ask you a personal question?" 

"Sure, you can ask" 

"Are you and Faith like a couple?" Kelm asked

"No" Buffy answered a little surprised

"But Faith wants you." Kelm stated innocently.

"I guess, to be honest, I don't think Faith knows what she wants."

"And you're her friend?" Kelm asked quietly

"I would like to be. Faith had problems with the concept at times. Why are
you asking?"

"At school, I heard stuff, whispers that you and Faith did things together
in the library. I mean besides spar." Kelm admitted

"The rumor mill, got to love it. We're just friends." Buffy said.

"But you would still be someone's friend if they like... liked girls and
stuff right. You wouldn't... I don't know..." 

Buffy immediately thought of Willow. She had known for sometime that Willow
was either bi or gay. Only Buffy was fairly sure Willow wasn't ready to deal
with that fact anytime soon. She wasn't ready to deal with that fact anytime
soon. She could so fall in love with Willow and she really wasn't ready to
deal with that.

"Kelm, I know there is a point you're trying to get at but I need more info,
so spill." Buffy explained

"I think I'm gay. I know I'm kinda different and that's why Ms. Wilson hates
me, but I don't want to be gay too. It's too much. I just want to be like
everyone else. Have friends like you do, I was kinda hoping you would be my
friend. And when I heard about, you know, you and Faith well I thought you
might... Sorry it's stupid." Kelm said

"I think that is the most I have ever heard you say. Kelm you are my friend.
And if you're gay then you're gay, but I'm not." Buffy stated. 

"I know." 

"I am still your friend, you did hear that part right?" Buffy joked.

Kelm smiled and there began throwing up blood. Lots of blood.


"I wear the cheese it does not wear me." Bald Man, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.