Óg Dìoghaltas

Chapter 1

Title: Óg Dìoghaltas

Author: JoeHundredaire

Rating: PG-13/FR15

Disclaimer: Right, I actually went and checked to be sure this time... after being passed around like a slut at a frat party over the past few years, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: the Series, and all associated characters now belong to Warner Brothers. With a myriad of writers, artists, and editors - and directors, now that we're getting decent movie and television renditions - actual rights are a nightmare when you go near a comic book universe. Suffice it to say that Marvel Entertainment LLC owns all of the property printed in their comics, along with the television and movie adaptations of said same property. Not mine, don't sue, and so forth and so on.

Summary: "Nice rack, Xander." "...because getting compliments on tits I shouldn't even have isn't weird at all. Thanks, Kennedy."

Joe's Note: After one of my Fic-a-Day story posts, I got an email from dogbertcarroll. I'll condense it down to the salient point in the interest of getting to what you all came for:

The basic idea is that Xander gets wounded post Sunnydale and (thanks to the chaos that still clings to him) healing him with magic is a bit complicated. Willow figured out it's easier to change him thanks to the chaos and turns him into a slayer. As a slayer he can easily heal wounds that will kill a normal human, and had an impressive rack. Which leads to a bit of drooling on Willow's part and some jealousy on Kennedy's. Willow tries to change him back once he's healed but can't get it to work right.

He wanted me to take it from there into the DC universe but that's really not my wheelhouse and my Lexipedia was too busy settling in back at home and catching up on her day job to hold my hand through even a one-shot. So I decided to keep the vague outline and the superhero theme, but spin it back in a direction I was more comfortable with...

Dedications & Thanks: To Alexander, Nicholas, MJ, Judedeath, James, Ken, Thyatira, Daniel, Vi9, William, Koby, Wil, Thomas, Christopher, Juan, Mitch, and Jess for sponsoring me on Patreon, and making it easier for me to spend more of my time writing.

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"I'm a girl."

"It was the only-"

"You turned me into a girl."

"I had to! Otherwise, you wou-"

"I hate to break it to you, Willow, but you're not a deity at all, much less a Goddess of Death! Who lives and dies isn't up to you! And so no, you didn't 'have' to do anything! You chose to do something! Just like I chose to step in front of that sword for Faith! I chose to sacrifice myself so that she could make the killing blow! I didn't have to. I could have let her die. One of the other Slayers would have killed the demon in her place. Might have had to sacrifice another Slayer on top of Faith to set things up the same way. We'll never know, because I made a choice. Because I realized that it was either me or one of them, at least one of them. So I chose to die so that someone else younger, faster, stronger, more powerful, more important to the fight... could live. But then you decided that my choices didn't mean anything to you, and so you reached in and took my free will away from me."

Stomping her foot petulantly, Willow Rosenberg crossed her arms over her chest. "Because it wasn't a rational choice. You know what you call someone who chooses to die before they're even in the prime of their life? Suicidal. You weren't in your right mind. So I decided to help you."

Xander Harris scoffed before waving dismissively at the reflection in the mirror he was standing in front of. "If this is your idea of 'help', I'd hate to see what you might do to me if you were actually trying to harm me. And..." Reaching up, Xander grabbed at his throat before whirling around to glare at the woman standing in the bathroom doorway behind him. "It's bad enough that I'm suddenly the wrong gender, even worse that I'm significantly younger than I should be... but why the fuck did you turn me into Merida?"