Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Buffy TV Novelisations 06 by Xander Years 02 # Jeff Mariotte

Author:Xander Years 02 # Jeff Mariotte
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-06-29T11:03:29+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Both creatures growled. This was not a simple fish-family reunion, then. Their intentions seemed hostile at the very least.

Buffy didn’t waste any time. She gave one a quick kick, and it reeled back. Continuing her spin she lashed out with the same foot, catching the other beast in the chest. Its legs flew out from under it and it hit the floor. She snatched up a metal garbage can, hurled it at the first one. It swatted the can away as she would a fly.

She needed a weapon of some kind.

There was a lacrosse stick in a corner. She had never really understood lacrosse, but she understood a long solid object with two ends that could be used to jab and strike. She grabbed the stick, swung it into the head of one of the creatures. It roared in pain, fell away. She swung again, driving it home on the other’s skull. Then, spinning around, she took a couple of swings worthy of Mark McGwire into the ribs of the first one she’d hit. It’s feeling the pain, she thought.

This just might work.

Which was when the other monster caught her from behind, buried its long teeth into her arm, lifted her in the air, and slammed her into a bank of lockers.

Buffy was dazed, just aware enough to know that they were about to finish her off.

But they didn’t, because then Coach Marin was there, helping her up and dragging her away to safety.

And, as if scared of a fair fight, the two creatures hit the floor, sliding toward the still-open grate. They dove head-first down the drain, and were gone.

The last time she’d been in Nurse Greenleigh’s office, it was to be reprimanded. This time it was to be bandaged. She sat in the same place as Cameron had, a few days earlier. Nurse Greenleigh, dressed in her white nurse clothes, looked like she had never moved away from this spot.

“I don’t think that this’ll need stitches,” the nurse said. “But you might want to have your family physician take a look at it.”

“How are you?” Giles asked her.

“I’m definitely feeling the burn.”

Coach Marin flanked Giles. The librarian turned to him. “Well, the good news is, it would appear none of your team actually died.”

“But the bad news is, they’re monsters,” Buffy added.

The coach seemed genuinely upset. “How could this happen?”

“Are you saying you don’t know?” Giles asked.

“Well, you work so hard, you start winning suddenly … you think it’s just you, you’re inspiring the boys to greatness. But in the back of your mind, you start to wonder.”

Giles didn’t seem convinced. “You never asked the boys if they were taking anything?”

“Maybe I was afraid to,” the coach admitted.

After school, Xander, Buffy, and Willow met in Willow’s computer classroom. Willow sat in front of one of the machines, which is fitting, Xander thought, because she actually knows how to use them. He and Buffy were feeling their way toward the twentieth century while Will had already jumped into the twenty-first.

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