by  nedwards 1. Chapter One All characters from the Dune Universe are property of the Frank Herbert Estate. All characters from the Buffyverse are Property of Joss Whedon. Everything else belongs to me.     When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences of custom and training. The question then becomes, what latitude then do you give to people whose main focus in life is to battle the dead?   Bene Gesserit variant of Lady Jessica quotation.         Buffy dreamed that she was running in the sand. In her dream, she wore a white armored suit that covered her whole body. In her dream, she ran for kilometers and was not tired. She watched in a haze as kilometer after kilometer of tan desert sand undulated before her as she crossed the hot arid distance of the planet known as Dune. Her blonde hair was tied back into a bun. To the naked eye, she moved like a blur. Buffy stopped suddenly in front of a cave sending up a plume of sand Read more text

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by nedwards 1. Chapter One All characters from the Dune Universe are property of the Frank Herbert Estate. All characters from the Buffyverse are Property of Joss Whedon. Everything else belongs to me.   There is no guilt or innocence in you. All of that is past. Guilt belabors the dead and I am not the Iron Hammer. You multitude of the dead are merely people who have done certain things, and the memory of those things illuminates my path.   o Leto II to His Memory-Lives After Harq al-Ada       They didn’t need a cage this time. The ritual of resurrection had not been performed for over ten thousand years as time passed in this universe. The last time it was used six vampires were sacrificed and the terrible creature they brought back had to be held in a locked metal box. The Senior Partner had better plans thanks to the ingenious humans that had come to infest the galaxy. An ancient monster with the ability to see the future would be resurrected and trai Read more text

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by nedwards 1. Prolog All characters from the Dune Universe are property of the Frank Herbert Estate. All characters from the Buffyverse are Property of Joss Whedon. Everything else belongs to me.   TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Wer Read more text

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