His head ached as his now crimson eyes surveyed the mayhem around him.
The red cloak swirled as he leaped clear of the roof of a collapsing building and then dashed across a girder of an adjacent construction site using speed, strength, agility, and stamina he didn't have before the night had changed him.
It was a long night that had already had more than its fair share of chaos and now there was another mess just starting.
A glint of gold from the clawed gauntlet on his left hand shimmered as he evaded the massive beast that was chasing him.
The distinctive, triple-barreled pistol spun as he flipped through the metal bones of a soon to be skyscraper and fired, each shot sending sparks off the carapace of his foe.
He wished the night had never happened as his mind wandered for an instant to how it had all begun.
xXx
Xander Harris had been rather annoyed at losing prime sleeping time by the trolls orders.
He was also rather annoyed that without toy guns, he needed a backup and ended up spending a lot more than he had planned and nearly emptying his road trip fund with the few pieces he needed along with some clothes he'd had and a few old sheets to cut up.
Not to mention modifying and old and broken waterpistol to look unique for the character.
Vincent Valentine would truely walk the earth thanks to the magic of the chaos spell upon the parts of his equipment coming from Ethan's.
xXx
He rolled, leaping atop the top edge of a vertical girder that had just been uncovered by a swipe of the monsters claws only to pause and fire all three shots in his weapon before leaping clear to reload.
Something about the beast had triggered a memory as his dark red cloak swirled around him and his armored hand easily slipped three more bullets into firing position.
Then he blinked as he realized just what he was up against and slipped a cellphone that had previously been just a piece of plastic from one of the pouches on his belt.
xXx
Vincent had gotten separated from the ghost girl and the others when he'd "liberated" a shotgun and a large box of shells and a slightly smaller box of slugs from a hardware store after noticing that Cerberus didn't seem to have the stopping power on several of the monsters he was up against.
Then there was the idiot who called himself a wizard that was in the process of leveling large portions of the town by calling down meteors in a way that reminded him of another silver haired psychotic. Then a second thought made him realize that Sephiroth had never ranted like this nut.
As he entered pursuit of the lunatic, a small portion of the raven haired gunslinger wondered just how he'd ended up with Clouds apparent gene for saving people.
And when the walking, magical engine of destruction took his show on the road, the ex-Turk had hijacked a motorcycle from someone that was rather short, obnoxious, and annoying before chasing after the wizard.
xXx
"Come on, come on," Xander Harris muttered to himself as he fired the large handgun with one hand while tried to reach Giles with the phone in his other.
He blinked as the monstrosity turned its attention to a police car, swatting it through the second story window of an office building.
It was after the creatures eyes locked on him once more that he finally got an answer.
"Giles!" he yelped.
"Xander?" came the confused response.
"Quick question," the teen answered as he watched the beast plow through a bilboard to come at him, "How do I unsummon something?"
"Unsummon?"
"Yeah, I've had a small run in with a rather powerful spellcaster," the dark haired one stated quickly as he leaped down before the building was destroyed and landed in a crouch atop an ambulance.
"Can't the caster get rid of it?"
"The caster was the first thing it ate."
"Kill it then?"
"Well, if you have any ideas how to handle something that requires some serious magic to kill I'd like them now!"
"Where are you then?"
"LA," he shot back, "Just turn on the news or follow the explosions, screams, and roars."
A brief pause.
"Dead Lord," came the stunned comment from the brit.
"Get Will's to explain," the gunslinger yelped as he was narrowly missed by a wave of debris, "Tell her that Abraxus summoned a Tarrasque."
He leaped for cover as the creature smacked a police helicopter out of the sky to slam into a gas station.
"Call me back," Xander yelled before hanging up the phone again.
His eyes locked ont he monster, "Hey ugly!"
"Over here!"
xXx
Giles had frozen after he managed to decipher what the red head had babbled when told what Xander had said.
Abraxus was apparently a magical character from one of the games that the boy had player before he found out the truth, and what was said about the Tarrasque terrified him.
Aparently Ethans pranks was turning into a fuck up of epic proportions.
The red cloak swirled as he leaped clear of the roof of a collapsing building and then dashed across a girder of an adjacent construction site using speed, strength, agility, and stamina he didn't have before the night had changed him.
It was a long night that had already had more than its fair share of chaos and now there was another mess just starting.
A glint of gold from the clawed gauntlet on his left hand shimmered as he evaded the massive beast that was chasing him.
The distinctive, triple-barreled pistol spun as he flipped through the metal bones of a soon to be skyscraper and fired, each shot sending sparks off the carapace of his foe.
He wished the night had never happened as his mind wandered for an instant to how it had all begun.
xXx
Xander Harris had been rather annoyed at losing prime sleeping time by the trolls orders.
He was also rather annoyed that without toy guns, he needed a backup and ended up spending a lot more than he had planned and nearly emptying his road trip fund with the few pieces he needed along with some clothes he'd had and a few old sheets to cut up.
Not to mention modifying and old and broken waterpistol to look unique for the character.
Vincent Valentine would truely walk the earth thanks to the magic of the chaos spell upon the parts of his equipment coming from Ethan's.
xXx
He rolled, leaping atop the top edge of a vertical girder that had just been uncovered by a swipe of the monsters claws only to pause and fire all three shots in his weapon before leaping clear to reload.
Something about the beast had triggered a memory as his dark red cloak swirled around him and his armored hand easily slipped three more bullets into firing position.
Then he blinked as he realized just what he was up against and slipped a cellphone that had previously been just a piece of plastic from one of the pouches on his belt.
xXx
Vincent had gotten separated from the ghost girl and the others when he'd "liberated" a shotgun and a large box of shells and a slightly smaller box of slugs from a hardware store after noticing that Cerberus didn't seem to have the stopping power on several of the monsters he was up against.
Then there was the idiot who called himself a wizard that was in the process of leveling large portions of the town by calling down meteors in a way that reminded him of another silver haired psychotic. Then a second thought made him realize that Sephiroth had never ranted like this nut.
As he entered pursuit of the lunatic, a small portion of the raven haired gunslinger wondered just how he'd ended up with Clouds apparent gene for saving people.
And when the walking, magical engine of destruction took his show on the road, the ex-Turk had hijacked a motorcycle from someone that was rather short, obnoxious, and annoying before chasing after the wizard.
xXx
"Come on, come on," Xander Harris muttered to himself as he fired the large handgun with one hand while tried to reach Giles with the phone in his other.
He blinked as the monstrosity turned its attention to a police car, swatting it through the second story window of an office building.
It was after the creatures eyes locked on him once more that he finally got an answer.
"Giles!" he yelped.
"Xander?" came the confused response.
"Quick question," the teen answered as he watched the beast plow through a bilboard to come at him, "How do I unsummon something?"
"Unsummon?"
"Yeah, I've had a small run in with a rather powerful spellcaster," the dark haired one stated quickly as he leaped down before the building was destroyed and landed in a crouch atop an ambulance.
"Can't the caster get rid of it?"
"The caster was the first thing it ate."
"Kill it then?"
"Well, if you have any ideas how to handle something that requires some serious magic to kill I'd like them now!"
"Where are you then?"
"LA," he shot back, "Just turn on the news or follow the explosions, screams, and roars."
A brief pause.
"Dead Lord," came the stunned comment from the brit.
"Get Will's to explain," the gunslinger yelped as he was narrowly missed by a wave of debris, "Tell her that Abraxus summoned a Tarrasque."
He leaped for cover as the creature smacked a police helicopter out of the sky to slam into a gas station.
"Call me back," Xander yelled before hanging up the phone again.
His eyes locked ont he monster, "Hey ugly!"
"Over here!"
xXx
Giles had frozen after he managed to decipher what the red head had babbled when told what Xander had said.
Abraxus was apparently a magical character from one of the games that the boy had player before he found out the truth, and what was said about the Tarrasque terrified him.
Aparently Ethans pranks was turning into a fuck up of epic proportions.