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Black Mastiff (The) by Keefer

Xena | Alternative | Mystery | Novella - 58 pages | Finished | May-98
Cast: Xena, Gabrielle, Menalus, Telamon, Lucius, Jeral, Cunilus, Da, Saltus, Argo, Celes
Links: Tom's Xena Fan Fiction Page

While Xena and Gabrielle investigate multiple murders in a small town, Xena must face more dark memories from her past.
Not for animal lovers that's for sure. - Fluffy - Sep 30th, 2003

This was a tragic sad pitiful story that actually blew me away because I wasn't expecting it to unravel the way it did. It started off in the usual way where Xena is called in to aid some kingdom or friend or town that needs her. There are so many fan fiction stories out there like that where she owes a favor to someone, in which it will typically lead either to figuring out or accepting her attraction to Gabrielle or it will lead to confrontations with bad guys who will pull the lovers a part or any number of scenarios found pervasively in Xena fan fiction. But with this, first of all, it deals with something beyond the physical world, or so it seems, because Xena, being the ever pragmatic, logical warrior, needs lots of proof while she racks her brains out over the mystery of who or what is killing off the villagers and why their faces are all frozen in terror long after they've died, and that's when there's this story inside the main story that emerges and we are told a story by Xena from her past that just tore my heart out. This was a very surprising and heartbreaking account that could've easily been written as a back drop of Xena's dark past - a stand alone story, rather than something the warrior recalls, that's how powerful it was. I highly recommend this. This tragedy stayed with me a really long time. - Karon Reiter - Jul-01-2011

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Xena \| Alternative \| Mystery \| Novella - 58 pages \| Finished \| May-98 Cast: Xena, Gabrielle, Menalus, Telamon, Lucius, Jeral, Cunilus, Da, Saltus, Argo, Celes Links: Tom's Xena Fan Fiction Page
While Xena and Gabrielle investigate multiple murders in a small town, Xena must face more dark memories from her past.
Not for animal lovers that's for sure. - Fluffy - Sep 30th, 2003 This was a tragic sad pitiful story that actually blew me away because I wasn't expecting it to unravel the way it did. It started off in the usual way where Xena is called in to aid some kingdom or friend or town that needs her. There are so many fan fiction stories out there like that where she owes a favor to someone, in which it will typically lead either to figuring out or accepting her attraction to Gabrielle or it will lead to confrontations with bad guys who will pull the lovers a part or any number of scenarios found pervasively in Xena fan fiction. But with this, first of all, it deals with something beyond the physical world, or so it seems, because Xena, being the ever pragmatic, logical warrior, needs lots of proof while she racks her brains out over the mystery of who or what is killing off the villagers and why their faces are all frozen in terror long after they've died, and that's when there's this story inside the main story that emerges and we are told a story by Xena from her past that just tore my heart out. This was a very surprising and heartbreaking account that could've easily been written as a back drop of Xena's dark past - a stand alone story, rather than something the warrior recalls, that's how powerful it was. I highly recommend this. This tragedy stayed with me a really long time. - Karon Reiter - Jul-01-2011