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Rita's gone. Kim's alone surrounded by dust that was once a vampire she knew and a rock that has decided to start glowing. Well that's just great.
Kim takes a deep breath and shakes her head. Dammit she should have been able to save her.
The rock now has a yellow glow to it and a slight hazy almost translucent figure appears. Its dressed in white… oh the cliche.
"I am the guardian of the crystal." It tells the room.
Kim can't help but roll her eyes. "No shit…" Ok maybe that was the wrong thing to say? By the looks of it ummm ok the guardian seems annoyed that Kim interrupted Him? Her? It? Whatever.
It clears its throat, gives her a look and gently picks up the broken yellow necklace at its feet. Holding it up for Kim to see. "I gave this to a slayer long ago. She was turned into a vampire."
Again nothing new to Kim. They had been over this part already.
"But I made a deal. The coin is a piece of the crystal."
Kim nods. Ok sure that was new. No wonder Trini didn't want anyone playing with the coin. And it made sense Trini had been a slayer. Logic is good but well Kim's tired and well screw logic. Plus this guardian is still yapping on and on.
"There was nothing I could do to stop her transformation. I could only do so much but…" It picks ups some of the vampire dust that had clearly once been Trini. "But as I told the past slayer I needed a guardian." It looks at the dust in its hand. "She was a good guardian. A very good guardian."
Kim can't take much more of this. "Yeah well No use crying over a vampire." Before whipping away a tear. That was not a tear by the way it was dust ok.
It just smiles at her. "Have faith in the unknown slayer. I know she was more to you then that."
"She was a vampire." Yes that sounded very convincing.
It gives her a knowing smile. "If you insist." The dust in one hand gets sprinkled onto the broken necklace. Truthfully it looked kind of comical. And if Kim were in the mood she would have laughed.
The being then rubs the dust into the necklace, a necklace that almost seems to be one piece again. "A good guardian is hard to find." It glances at Kim. "You would do but she is our choice."
"Not sure what she can do. She's dust."
"True." The guardian drops the now intact necklace, it bounces once, twice before landing in the dirt. And well nothing happens. It just sits there. Doing nothing but collecting more dust. Kim's not really impressed.
She's about to just turn around and walk away but for a split second she could have sworn that there was a slight glow. And did the necklace just move? Sure enough it starts to rock back and forth. It had a nice bounce to it. And the room is getting brighter. Something is clearly growing and forming into what appears to be a body?
Trini's on the floor, covered in dirt and sweat and naked . Oh so very, very naked . "Oh God that hurt."
Kim can't believe it. "Your your alive?"
Trini just nods, before coughing again.
"I told you it would all work out slayer." The crystal being says.
"I know but still." There's a red mark right where Trini's heart is. Right where the stake went in moments ago.
"You, you let this happen. But how? You died? You were dust."
The keeper of the crystal fills in that gap. "Rita killed the vampire in her. Not the human. The coin kept her humanity in tack. Plus being a slayer helped." The being glances at Trini again. "There will be residual side effects from your time as a vampire. We've talked about them before but just think of them as quirks, gifts if you will but you are very much human again."
Kim lets this sink in. "It was a curse? Rita broke the curse. That's why you never killer Rita before hand?"
"Yes. They were tied together. By Killing the vampire in her Rita set her free. Only the vampire that turned her could undo it all. But it would only work in the vicinity of the crystal;."
Trini nods again. "Zordon could probably explain it to you better but yeah." She closes her eyes. Taking a deep breath. Enjoying the feeling of air in her lungs. Her senses at the moment seem slightly dulled. But Human very much human. God she missed this. She puts a hand to her chest. Wow a heartbeat she missed that.
"Your human. Wow your Human and naked and…" Kim doesn't seem to bother with that fact as she crouches down and pulls the girl in for a hug.
She looks up at the figure hovering over them. "You have guarded the crystal not once but twice slayer. This is my gift to you. As the first time we made the deal I request that you keep it safe for as long as you can." It hands Trini the now fixed yellow coin necklace. "I ask that of you again."
Trini nods and places the coin necklace around her neck again. "Thank you."
The guardian gives a little smile "No thank you." before disappearing and if Kim didn't know any better so did the crystal?
Trini just smiles. "The guardian. Made me an offer I could not refuse."
Wow a vampire slayer, ex vampire and a crystal keeper. Not bad. "Cool. But hey lets get you cleaned up and dressed and home to my home but not in that order and food. You've got to try food again."
Trini just nods. In truth she's exhausted.
Kim looks her over again. "Wow your human."
Trini smiles at her. "I am. Thanks for not staking me. That would have ruined everything."
Kim takes off her jacket. Pulls Trini up, quickly covers her with her jacket before guiding her to the steps leading up into the store and then into the slowly emerging sunlight. "No problem. Thanks for not eating and turning me."
Trini nods "You had a funny after taste."
That stops Kim in her tracks. "What I…"
"I was kidding. Ex vampire humor."
"Your house or mine?"
Trini just gives her a look. "You've really to ask?"
"Mine it is. You'll like Zordon. He's a good watcher. Has our back."
"So I've seen."
"Also Jason, Billy and Zack aren't too bad."
Trini nods.
"Billy might hound you for days asking about vampire details."
Trini can't help but laugh. At last now she can escape into the sun if Billy gets to her.
"And you've got me… us slayers got to stick together. But I'm still going to kick your ass for that trick you pulled back there with Rita."
"Had to be done. Only way to save you. And I'd like to see you try, I'm still stronger then you." Kim can't help but laugh. Deep down she wants to know if Trini had really intended to kill her or not but that's a conversation for another time.
"Come on my vampire or should I say ex vampire."
"Whatever you say my slayer."
Two slayers.
The world hasn't seen anything yet.
And Zordon, well he's so screwed.