Xander was digging through the costumes, trying to find something decent. In backround he could hear Buffy going gaga over a noblewomans dress. Finally he found the perfect costume, from a book series he had read.
Red hair dye......Check
Fake chinese dragon tattooes on his wrists.......Check
Dual fake half/never fully healed wounds ........Check
Boots........Check
Hair dyed and clothed in his costume Xander Harris exited his home to see Buffy and Willow.
"Buffy... Duchess of Buffonia....I renounce spandex!" Xander said, bowing deeply.
"Welcome, My Lord." Buffy said, curtsing.
"Woah!" Xander said, glancing up the stairs at Willow. "Lanfear....Right?"
"Yep!" Willow said, her hair died a deep black wearing a white dress with a silver belt.
"Wha?" Xander said, feeling a cold shiver pass over him. As the shiver passed his eyes turned Blue-Gray, and he gave off an aura of command. The Dragon Reborn roamed the world again.
"Blood and Ashes, where am I?" Rand al'Thor said, spinning around, as he grabbed Saidin.
"Lews Therin! Rand! Whatever you call yourself now! Your MINE!" A femal voice bellowed from behind him.
"Lanfear?" Rand asked, looking at the dark haired goddess before him. "SHIT!"
"So there were no lasting effects?" Giles asked, cleaning his glasses.
"Nope," Buffy said.
"That's....not....entirely...true." Xander and Willow said simultaneously.
"Why is that?" Buffy asked, glancing at the two, before yelping and clapping a hand to her ass. Giles simultaneously began to float.
"WHat?" Giles said, bewildered.
"I pinched Buffy and Wills lifted you," Xander said uneasily
*WHAP!!*
"OWWWWWW" Xander yelped, rubbing his cheek, a red handprint decorating it.
"You deservered it!" Buffy huffed, rubbing the spot he'd pinched her.
"You know, Xand?" Willow said, glancing at him.
"Know what?"
Willow summoned up all her courage. "I think that Meirin loved you as much as I do. From what I can remember of her, she was practically inside the whole in the pattern they made. It tainted her, warping her mind."
"You...Love....Me?" Xander said, blinking rapidly as he understood some of Willow's actions the past couple of years.
Giles and Buffy looked on as the two grew closer, and a relationship blosomed before their astonished eyes.
Xander wove saidin, glad the taint was limited to only one dimension, and fire consumed three vampires. Beside him a beam of what appeared to be light made liquid, actually Balefire, fire so powerful that the more powerful the farther back in time person was destroyed. Vampire after vampire disappeared into dust motes at a touch of the thin beam of balefire. The two formed a powerful team.
When Buffy and Angel fought together the strengths covered the others weakness', the same happened with Willow and Xander. Apart each person of the two, two member teams was formidible, each team nearly undefeatable, but when all four worked together the gates of Hell shook. Buffy, Angel, Xander, and Willow all together, Buffy and Angel were the physical force that complimented the powers that Xander and Willow could call on.
Everyone was waiting in the library, the only exception being Xander who had called the meeting. The doors banged open to admit Xander carry a large wrapped bundle. "I had you gather here for something important. I have for each of you a special weapon."
Xander unwrapped the bundle, revealing several, various sized, objects. He took two,short, thin bundles and placed them in front of Willow. "Don't open them until I tell you."
Xander handed another bundle,really long and a handspan wide, infront of Angel.
Another long, thin, bundle was set in front of Buffy.
A shorter, threefinger wide, bundle was placed infront of Giles.
Sevaral, one foot long, hand wide, bundle were placed infront of Cordelia and Jenny.
Xander took the last bundle and placed it infron of himself. "Ok. Open 'em!"
Everyone gasped at their presents. Willow had two Wakutzi's, Angel had a 2 handed broad sword, Buffy had a Katana, Giles a one handed, doubled edged, straight sword. Jenny and Cordelia each had several knives, Xander had a one edged slightly curved sword. Each and every blade and hilt had a Heron on them.