ALL THINGS NEW - PART 2
Part II: Sunnydale, March 23 1999
In an empty classroom at Sunnydale High School, the former vengeance demon now known as Anya Jenkins and the witch named Willow Rosenberg had just finished a magic ritual. A spell that, unbeknownst to Willow, had opened up a temporal fold but failed to return Anya’s necklace – the pendant that would restore her demon powers.
The redheaded Wicca apprentice was suddenly nervous. “That was...w-w-what was that?” she asked nervously, as the girl slowly stood up.
Anya ignored that, looking for her necklace. “Oh, it’s not here.” She pounded the floor, frustrated. “It’s not here!”
At this point, Willow would have made a few choice comments and then soon left. But she never got the chance to do so, as the room was suddenly filled with a bright light – and when it faded, D’hoffryn was there, lost and disoriented.
Willow couldn’t help it – she screamed. Then she turned to Anya and yelled, “Run! Demon! Run!”
Anya just looked annoyed and exasperated. “Oh, don’t be such a wimp!” Then she turned to her former boss and asked, “D’hoffryn, what are you doing here?”
The demon was still confused. “Anyanka? Is that you?” Then he saw Willow. “And Miss Rosenberg...”
Willow was now almost petrified. “I’m sorry – we didn’t mean to summon you! It was all a mistake! Honest!”
“You didn’t-” D’hoffryn then stopped and frowned. “You know, you look much younger than when we last met...”
The redhead was now confused. “What? I’ve never met you before! Uh, and who are you exactly?”
The Lord of the Lower Beings looked at her, not understanding the question. Then he looked again at his former minion and asked, “What is going on here?”
Anya shrugged. “Well, you refused to help me get my power center back – and I told you last night, if you wouldn’t help me then by the pestilent gods I would find someone else who would!” Then she snorted. “Not that this amateur has been any good...”
“Hey!” Willow shouted in indignation, forgetting her fear for a moment.
D’hoffryn ignored them, as the two girls started bickering. < What is Anyanka talking about? And why doesn’t Miss Rosenberg know me? This is... >
And then all of a sudden, the truth hit him like a freight train.
< The space-time continuum must have ruptured and sent me here, to this place and this era! > It was the only possible explanation. So D’hoffryn decided to test his theory straightaway.
Using his powers, he froze Willow with a quick hand gesture and quickly got Anya’s attention. “How do you feel about Xander Harris...Aud?”
Anya stopped fighting with the other girl, feeling momentarily both cold and confused. “Who? I don’t understand – your question is pointless, and makes no sense to me. And I haven’t been called that name in over a thousand years – so why call me that now?”
< She really doesn’t know, > D’hoffryn marvelled. The demon contemplated if he should tell the girl how she had been domesticated then heartbroken by the man in question. But then he thought, < I wonder... >
The lower being materialized a pendant on a necklace in his hand, and held it out for Anya to see. The girl’s eyes went wide, as she looked at her former boss. “Okay, who do I have to kill in order to get that?”
D’hoffryn chuckled darkly, as he knew Anya was speaking literally. This version of his former favorite had very little humanity in her yet, and the ancient demon almost started laughing his ass off at the opportunity the Fates had thrown his way.
He wasn’t sure what the outcome of his little fancy would be, but the master demon figured it would be worth it to finally get rid of Anya – and hopefully get the real Anyanka back.
< This is the perfect revenge, > the demon with horns and a goatee thought quickly. < I warned you, Anya! You were out. And now, you’ll never be... > “No one. Take it if you want it.”
Anya wasted no time, grabbing her pendant and putting it on. She was briefly concerned about why her old boss had changed his mind – but didn’t much care, as long as all this was on the up and up.
There was a rumble of light and sound, as the 18-year-old human became a vengeance demon again – much, much earlier than she’d been destined to. “Okay, I’m going to find Halfrek to celebrate! I’ll see you first thing in the morning, about the backlog of work...” Then the demoness vanished.
D’hoffryn just kept chuckling, as he too disappeared and Willow came out of her magic trance. And thus the residents of Sunnydale embarked on new destinies, without Anya Jenkins in their lives.
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Interlude I (1999)
History started to change, slowly with every passing day. And events never destined to happen, did so.
For example, the vampire version of Willow Rosenberg that had been summoned by the spell that afternoon was not sent back to her native dimension; as Anya was not there this time around, to tell everyone how it was done. Instead, the vampire Slayer known as Faith volunteered to stake her after the female vamp was captured, as no one else was willing to kill the creature that had Willow’s face.
Of course, other things more-or-less stayed the same; the Scooby gang soon found out that Faith had defected to the evil enemy’s side, after a sting operation involving Angel and a mage that owed the man called Rupert Giles a favour.
Buffy Summers, the other vampire Slayer still got her temporary psychic power and learned that her mother and Giles had slept together – twice.
The Box of Gavrock was still lost to the Mayor, the Big Bad of the year, who was planning to kill everyone at Graduation after using the Box to ascend into pure demon form.
But then, events definitely started to go differently.
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