Aug 4th, A Queen By Blood and A Queen By Fate
Title: A Queen By Blood and A Queen By Fate
Author: selonianth
Rating: FR15
Crossover: Blood+
Summary: Created for August Fic-A-Day. A young japanese girl shows up outside Slayer HQ one day asking to be let in.
Disclaimer: Don’t own Blood+ or Buffy, Asuka Katsura and Joss Whedon respectively.
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Saya stared up at the foreboding gates with a sigh as she reached for the buzzer beside it. She wasn't nervous, not for her own sake anyway. There were those who would seek to exploit her nieces and she couldn't protect them without exposing chiropterans to the world, a world that was just not ready to hear they weren't the top of the food-chain afterall. Especially since there were others who might be found out if chiropterans were revealed and the world was even less ready for that discussion.
The buzzer sounded off before a woman's voice filled the air, "Yes?"
"I'm here to speak with a Buffy Summers, I don't have an appointment but I need to speak with her," Saya replied, nerves steady as the rock under her feet, her nieces were the ones at stake and she would not fail them as she had her sister. Red Shield could only protect them by hiding them.
"May I ask what this is about?" The female voice questioned.
"My family's protection." Saya answered.
"Your family is in no danger from anyone here unless they have done something wrong," the voice responded.
Saya was getting annoyed she managed to keep her eyes from lighting but only barely. "Didn't say they were, now tell your queen that she is needed," the chiropteran queen ordered, power beginning to slide into her voice. Not enough to be inhuman as if Haji had tried it, but enough to sound authoritative.
A moment of silence then, "She'll be waiting for you at the door."
Saya gave an inward sigh of relief and stepped through the gate as it clicked and swung open automatically, swinging closed again once the chiropteran queen was on the other side. Walking purposefully to the manor she knew housed the ICS, better known to those in the know as Slayer HQ, Saya knocked on the large redwood doors.
The door swung open and Saya found herself looking down a couple inches for once at a green eyed blonde she was sure was Buffy Summers. This wasn't as much a surprise as it was a novelty. Saya had heard the queen slayer was just under 5'5" but having spent so much time with people who were so tall that actually being taller for once, even though it was only a three inch gap, was new.
"So you're the one who intimidated one of my mini's over the comm system," Buffy mused as she stepped aside to let Saya in.
Saya smiled sheepishly, "Sorry about that, I just really need to talk with you and she was in my way."
Buffy waved her hand in dismissal of the offense, "Don't worry about it, my... sister overheard the discussion and said the mini was being rudely dismissive, if someone turns up asking for us they're supposed to tell us, not argue whether or not you actually need us. So, what did you come here for? She mentioned something about protection for your family." Those weren't the exact words Faith had used but she was paraphrasing.
"Yes, I'm unaware if you can sense it or not but I'm not human. Neither are my nieces."
Buffy nodded, her slaydar able to detect her visitor as non-human, though she couldn't tell what she was, nothing she'd fought before at any rate, "We have an agreement with every government in the U.N. They leave demons to us."
Saya nearly growled, surprised at her own reaction to being called a demon, "That might be helpful. If we were demons, and I would appreciate not being compared to them again. I am, to my knowledge, the only adult of my kind alive. We are called chiropterans and we are a natural predator, not unnatural as the demons are."
"Predators of who?"
Saya winced inwardly. just because she didn't actively hunt them didn't mean she wasn't a predator of, "Humans." The slayer beside her froze but didn't move to attack so the chiropteran queen continued, "Technically. The best my friends have been able to work out is that my race evolved in a natural effort to reduce human numbers and almost two hundred years ago our species finally finished it's evolution when myself and my twin sister were born. I don't feed off humans and my sister is... I killed her to stop her, but that's a long story for another time."
Buffy's eyes softened, whatever the girl beside her was the slayer could tell the story behind her sister's death sucked beyond the telling of it.
Before Buffy could offer condolences however Saya spoke again, "One of the reasons my sister had to die is because some people in the American government tried to use her blood to scare people into calling them in because they would have had the only viable counter to what would be unleashed. It might have worked if they hadn't been betrayed by a man my sister thought loved her. You know the opera house that exploded a couple years ago? They bombed it to hide their involvement but my sister was already dead, and I wanted to be too, I didn't think chiropterans deserved to exist but Haji..."
Buffy could hear the heartbreak in the Japanese girl's voice and knew, "He talked you down then died, probably in some stupidly heroic way right?" Buffy smiled at Saya's reaction, "Call it a lucky guess. Now come on, let's talk about that protection."
Author: selonianth
Rating: FR15
Crossover: Blood+
Summary: Created for August Fic-A-Day. A young japanese girl shows up outside Slayer HQ one day asking to be let in.
Disclaimer: Don’t own Blood+ or Buffy, Asuka Katsura and Joss Whedon respectively.
______________________________
Saya stared up at the foreboding gates with a sigh as she reached for the buzzer beside it. She wasn't nervous, not for her own sake anyway. There were those who would seek to exploit her nieces and she couldn't protect them without exposing chiropterans to the world, a world that was just not ready to hear they weren't the top of the food-chain afterall. Especially since there were others who might be found out if chiropterans were revealed and the world was even less ready for that discussion.
The buzzer sounded off before a woman's voice filled the air, "Yes?"
"I'm here to speak with a Buffy Summers, I don't have an appointment but I need to speak with her," Saya replied, nerves steady as the rock under her feet, her nieces were the ones at stake and she would not fail them as she had her sister. Red Shield could only protect them by hiding them.
"May I ask what this is about?" The female voice questioned.
"My family's protection." Saya answered.
"Your family is in no danger from anyone here unless they have done something wrong," the voice responded.
Saya was getting annoyed she managed to keep her eyes from lighting but only barely. "Didn't say they were, now tell your queen that she is needed," the chiropteran queen ordered, power beginning to slide into her voice. Not enough to be inhuman as if Haji had tried it, but enough to sound authoritative.
A moment of silence then, "She'll be waiting for you at the door."
Saya gave an inward sigh of relief and stepped through the gate as it clicked and swung open automatically, swinging closed again once the chiropteran queen was on the other side. Walking purposefully to the manor she knew housed the ICS, better known to those in the know as Slayer HQ, Saya knocked on the large redwood doors.
The door swung open and Saya found herself looking down a couple inches for once at a green eyed blonde she was sure was Buffy Summers. This wasn't as much a surprise as it was a novelty. Saya had heard the queen slayer was just under 5'5" but having spent so much time with people who were so tall that actually being taller for once, even though it was only a three inch gap, was new.
"So you're the one who intimidated one of my mini's over the comm system," Buffy mused as she stepped aside to let Saya in.
Saya smiled sheepishly, "Sorry about that, I just really need to talk with you and she was in my way."
Buffy waved her hand in dismissal of the offense, "Don't worry about it, my... sister overheard the discussion and said the mini was being rudely dismissive, if someone turns up asking for us they're supposed to tell us, not argue whether or not you actually need us. So, what did you come here for? She mentioned something about protection for your family." Those weren't the exact words Faith had used but she was paraphrasing.
"Yes, I'm unaware if you can sense it or not but I'm not human. Neither are my nieces."
Buffy nodded, her slaydar able to detect her visitor as non-human, though she couldn't tell what she was, nothing she'd fought before at any rate, "We have an agreement with every government in the U.N. They leave demons to us."
Saya nearly growled, surprised at her own reaction to being called a demon, "That might be helpful. If we were demons, and I would appreciate not being compared to them again. I am, to my knowledge, the only adult of my kind alive. We are called chiropterans and we are a natural predator, not unnatural as the demons are."
"Predators of who?"
Saya winced inwardly. just because she didn't actively hunt them didn't mean she wasn't a predator of, "Humans." The slayer beside her froze but didn't move to attack so the chiropteran queen continued, "Technically. The best my friends have been able to work out is that my race evolved in a natural effort to reduce human numbers and almost two hundred years ago our species finally finished it's evolution when myself and my twin sister were born. I don't feed off humans and my sister is... I killed her to stop her, but that's a long story for another time."
Buffy's eyes softened, whatever the girl beside her was the slayer could tell the story behind her sister's death sucked beyond the telling of it.
Before Buffy could offer condolences however Saya spoke again, "One of the reasons my sister had to die is because some people in the American government tried to use her blood to scare people into calling them in because they would have had the only viable counter to what would be unleashed. It might have worked if they hadn't been betrayed by a man my sister thought loved her. You know the opera house that exploded a couple years ago? They bombed it to hide their involvement but my sister was already dead, and I wanted to be too, I didn't think chiropterans deserved to exist but Haji..."
Buffy could hear the heartbreak in the Japanese girl's voice and knew, "He talked you down then died, probably in some stupidly heroic way right?" Buffy smiled at Saya's reaction, "Call it a lucky guess. Now come on, let's talk about that protection."