Harmony felt a surge of adrenaline, washing whatever they had drugged her with out of her system, as she screamed as loudly as possible when faced with the freakish snakeman. It was like graduation all over again, but she didn't have Xander there to tell her what to do.

"I love when they scream," the creature hissed out just before it slowly opened its mouth wider and wider while advancing on her as she struggled in the grips of two frat boys wearing black robes.

The cavernous mouth lunged for her only to get a large hammer that someone had thrown right in the mouth. As it reared back, choking as the hammer had wedged itself sideways, Harmony looked around and spotted Xander bashing a couple of frat boys in the head with a shield he had strapped to his arm.

The blonde almost sighed in relief, before remembering what he'd told her to do in this situation. Jerking her right arm around to get the black robed frat boy in the right position, she immediately kicked just as hard as she could, remembering to use her heel and not the bridge of her foot.

The frat boy's scream was even louder and higher pitched than hers had been, reminding her that she was wearing high heels.

The boy on the left got his foot speared with that heel next, letting her get free as he collapsed, cradling his bleeding foot.

Harmony looked around for a weapon, hoping she didn't find a sword or spear, because those required a lot of complicated moves that she'd barely practiced with, when the creepy snake guy coughed out the hammer practically at her feet. "Thank you," she said politely as she scooped it up, happy that she had an easy to use weapon that wasn't nearly as slimy as expected.

Xander slammed the edge of his shield into the throat of a black robed cultist, not sure if it was fatal but quite sure it put him out of the fight, before slamming the face of the shield into someone else's face, shattering their nose and possibly more. There were too many enemies for him to do anything but attack them as brutally as possible.

'Really wish Buffy was here,' he thought to himself just before the skylight shattered and an orange skinned woman in a metal bikini that reminded him a little of Princess Leia's iconic look joined in, blasts of green energy from her hands striking the recovering demon and driving it back.

Harmony managed to free one of the girls by taking out the two black robed cultists via blunt trauma. The girl immediately clung to her, making her drop the hammer.

"Damn it Cindy, I know I'm like, super attractive, but now is not the time to come out of the closet!"

Xander felt something strike him in the temple and rolled with the blow, his vision darkening as he blocked with his shield from the ground.

"I've got the mage, take down the cultists!" a young man's voice called out.

A large dark skinned man who looked like he was at least half made of metal and a green rhino plowed through the crowd, barely missing Harmony and Cindy.

"Seriously, let me go," Harmony demanded, "you haven't even bought me a drink first!" She managed to throw Cindy off her and scooped back up the hammer, turning and nailing the metal clad man with a loud clang.

"Hey! We're here to rescue you!" he defended himself.

"Then you wouldn't be attacking Xander!" Harmony yelled and started hammering at him which he had to use both arms to block.

Green tentacles quickly wrapped around her as a giant green octopus appeared out of nowhere.

"Hell no, I know these movies and I don't want to be in them!" Harmony yelled as she once more lost her hammer and leaned down to sink her teeth into a tentacle.

Xander managed to make it to his feet but was driven back by a series of rapid blows by a metal staff as he struggled to protect himself and pull out his knife.

A black shadow wrapped itself around Xander before being blasted back as it came into contact with the silver blade, turning into a goth girl in a cloak and leotard as it hit the wall.

"Raven!"

The attack on Xander redoubled in intensity, but the increased speed and strength of the blows actually made it easier to deal with as he reflexively deflected the attacks and slid in close, knife spearing for the heart of the attacker, cracking some sort of trauma plate and knocking them on their ass.

"Argh!" a green skinned teen clutched his arm where the blonde girl had bitten it.

"Stake!" Harmony called out, having lost the hammer and needing a weapon.

"Catch!" Xander turned, a wooden stake sliding out of his sleeve which he threw to the blonde former cheerleader.

Harmony snatched it out of the air and spun around, slamming it home in the chest of the stunned snake demon.

The demon looked down at its chest in disbelief for a moment before limply falling to the ground.

"You killed him," someone said in horror.

"It," Xander corrected, "she killed it. It was not an alien or a meta, it was a demon summoned by this group of idiots."

The police flooded into the room.

"Alex," Detective Miller said, "we got your call, but it looks like we're late to the party."

"Arrest him!" Robin ordered. "He was in on it!"

Xander gave Detective Miller a look so dry he felt like taking a drink from his flask.

"Considering he called it in, I highly doubt that," the detective said.

"We have evidence," Raven spoke up as she limped forward, having hit the wall hard and held up two books.

The detective examined the two books. "A demonic encyclopedia and... A book titled My Evil Plan?"

"Page 138 has the entry for Machida," Xander said, "I couldn't figure out how its allergy to corn stalks would help so I didn't mention them. The other book is a magical prank item. Think of what you want the title to be and the book changes to match it. The inside is all gibberish though."

"How did you find them so fast?" Detective MIller asked.

"One of the pictures of the missing girls was Harmony," Xander said as the blonde joined them with the bloody stake and hammer. "I used the enochian rune for Pilgrimage to find her and once I found her I found everyone else as well. Things were going pretty well until some dipshit attacked me from behind while I was trying to save the girls."

"That was really stupid of them," Harmony agreed, making the Titans wince, feeling the magnitude of the insult.

"Using Enochian runes to locate someone takes a very strong bond," Raven said, wanting to change the subject.

"You better not be falling for me," Harmony told Xander. "You are still way too poor and low class to be datable."

Xander sighed heavily. "The emotion doesn't have to be positive and fortunately you've annoyed me enough over the years for that to work."

"Good," Harmony said cheerfully. "Did I stake him right? You didn't have a lot of time to teach me, so..."

"You trained her?" Robin asked, rubbing at his chest.

"He trained our entire senior class," Harmony said. "There was an eclipse, like an army of vampires, and an even bigger snake demon."

"Our Mayor turned into an Old One during graduation," Xander said. "I didn't have a lot of time to train anyone."

"So, did I do it right?" Harmony asked hopefully, passing the weapons back to Xander.

"Cordelia couldn't have done a better job," Xander assured her, "but don't let her know that."

"Well duh, she'd murder us both," Harmony said. "Thanks for saving me again. It's been what... Four or five times now?"

"Something like that," Xander agreed with a shrug.

"You get kidnapped a lot?" Beastboy asked.

"I'm not talking to you, you put your testicles all over me," Harmony said.

"Tentacles, I used tentacles!" Beastboy defended himself.

"Yeah, and one of those tentacles is an octopus' penis," she said with a glare. "I've been to Sea World."

"I can see why you can use Enochian runes to locate her now," Raven said dryly.

"Well, I better go. It looks like Cindy has a thing for me so I have to let her down easy or get both of us really drunk," Harmony said before going to join the other girls who were giving their statements to the police.

"What do we do with the corpse?" Detective Miller asked.

"Drag it outside, it'll melt into goo by morning," Xander said. "It's not its actual body, that's still in whatever Hell it occupies. That was just a construct it was controlling. They probably had to sacrifice someone to create it."

The Titans looked to Raven who nodded.

"Did you guys steal anything else from my car?" Xander asked.

Raven winced and handed him his notebook and book on Enochian runes.

"Thank you," Xander said. "Do I need to give a statement or can I vanish now?"

"Dude, where'd you get the viking gear?" Beastboy asked.

"A display between the front entrance and here," Xander replied. "I was improvising."

"You attacked over a dozen cultists and a snake demon with just what you found along the way?" Cyborg asked in disbelief.

"And a couple of stakes and a silver dagger," Xander added. "I didn't have time to plan anything out or I probably would have driven through the place and hit it with my car."

"I'm glad all the displays are just reproductions," Cyborg said.

"If I'd known that in advance and how wide the hallways were I really would have driven through," Xander said.

"I'll kill you!" one of the cultists yelled as he threw the police officer cuffing him to the side and rushing at Xander, face beginning to deform as his fangs came out.

"Back!" Xander ordered, holding up the shield like a cross, causing the vampire to hiss and cover his eyes before a green starbolt slammed into him and he exploded into ash.

"I killed him?" Starfire asked, confused.

"It was a vampire, it was already dead," Xander said. "I'm guessing your energy blasts are either holy or concentrated sunlight?"

"I gain my power from the sun," Starfire said with a frown.

"A demonic spirit was animating a corpse, which made it weak to sunlight," Xander told her. "You didn't kill it, you just turned the corpse it was hiding in to ash and sent the spirit home to Hell."

"That is a relief," Starfire said, "killing should never be done on accident."

"I guess they hired a vampire as muscle to help out," Xander said, carefully scanning the other frat members as they were being cuffed or loaded onto stretchers.

"Damn, I was hoping we didn't have any vampires thanks to the Teen Titans being a visible super hero group," Detective Miller said with a frown.

"They're like cockroaches, they're everywhere," Xander said, "and remember, their egos are as large as their intelligence is small. He could have been brought in from out of town, but you probably have at least a couple hiding out somewhere."

"Joy," the detective said.

"Did you come to our city just to deal with the snake demon?" Robin asked.

"Go fuck yourself," Xander said in a conversational tone, before turning back to the detective. "I don't have to fill out any reports do I?"

"Hey now, that's a bit harsh," Beastboy said.

"Asshole attacked me from behind while I was trying to rescue someone," Xander said. "I was fighting a mob of cultists so I could get to a demon and he decided to help the demon."

"The books in your front seat didn't exactly paint you as innocent," Cyborg offered.

"A demonic bestiary listing what I was facing and a book on angelic runes," Xander replied. "Those two alone should have made you pause to assess the situation. The joke book isn't even a factor, since it's not a notebook, but an actual book, old and bound in leather, so obviously not something I wrote myself."

"We were in a rush because of the screaming," Raven pointed out.

"I understand that," Xander said with a sigh, "but attacking the person fighting the villains is just too stupid for words."

There was an awkward silence for a few moments before Detective Miller spoke up, "I think we have enough for the reports and if not we'll let you know."

"Thanks," Xander said. "Let the museum know I shattered their front door and ran off with the hammer and shield. I'll pay for replacements."

"Insurance should cover everything, but I'll let them know you offered," the detective promised. "You go get some sleep, you've earned it."

"Minor concussion, couple of bruised if not cracked ribs, and multiple contusions," Xander said. "I'm going to order a pizza and sleep for about twenty four hours."

"Are you okay to drive?" Cyborg asked, concerned.

"Minor concussion," Xander repeated. "I wouldn't trust myself on the freeway but around town is fine."

"I'll send a patrol car with you," Detective Miller said.

"That works," Xander said, "thanks for the help."

"No, thank you," the detective said as Xander left.

"Well, that could have gone worse," Beastboy said.

"And it could have gone a lot better," Robin said. "We jumped to conclusions without accurate data."

"The monsters have been slain and the young women recovered," Starfire said firmly, "if mistakes have been made they can be learned from as they were not fatal."

"That's a good attitude to have," Detective Miller said. "Now if you'll excuse me I have a number of reports to file."

"I'll email you our after action reports," Robin promised as the detective left.

"Have you really been restraining people with your penis?" Cyborg asked Beastboy with a grin.

"Marine biology is completely different than land based," Beastboy defended himself, "it's not the same thing."

Raven found herself having a hard time not smiling as Robin joined in the teasing.

"Our new friend Buffy would have enjoyed this," Starfire said.

"She does specialize in demon hunting," Raven agreed, tuning out the boys.

"Alex was a most interesting warrior," the alien said. "If we had not bumbled the way we had I would have been interested in sparring with him."

"His fighting style is far too brutal for what we do," Raven said. "We fight to disarm and detain, he fights to kill."

"He fights monsters, not people," Starfire said thoughtfully.

"Yeah, there are several cultists who are going to be spending months in the hospital before they can be charged and that was with him going easy on them."

"Truly?"

"Robin has a broken chest plate because Alex's reflexes got the better of him after a blow to the head and he forgot he was facing a human," Raven replied.

"The blonde girl who was light in the head was trained by him for a short time," Starfire said. "Her attack on the demon was most impressive."

"Yeah, it was," Raven said, shuddering at how deadly the blonde airhead had been after just a little training from the demon hunter and was suddenly very glad he wouldn't be spending time with them... even if he did have a very nice butt.

Typing By: Abyssal Angel

Beta By: Abyssal Angel, Mist of Shadows and Kyrin Fireheart

TN: "That is a relief," Starfire said, "killing should never be done on accident."

And that is why Starfire is my favorite Titan. Note the qualifier there. On accident. She knows killing has to happen sometimes and when it does, it should only be done with great deliberation and purpose. Never casually or by accident if you can help it. Killing is a terrible thing at the best of times, even if on occasion it is necessary, especially in the defense of others.

She's also the only one who literally did nothing wrong. XD