New World

Chapter 1

AN: Ok, this is my first Angel fic so the character will probably be out of character but that should improve with time. I label this under Angel even though some Buffy characters are included but it's more focus on the Angel characters. This chapter is more just to set things up so my favourite character (Wesley) isn't included much in this chapter even though he is the main character for this story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Angel or Buffy

"We must do this and we must do this now" A voice said before they slammed their hand down onto the table.

All heads raised and looked down to where the person sat, near the end of the table.

20 people where sat around a table in a massive hall with book cases around the edges expect for where the giant double door were. The doors were white, almost everything in the room was white including the people's clothing, with patterns around the outside showing branches, leaves, flowers and a few doves. The only colours in the room were from the patterns, containing green and pink, and some of the books, which were pale blue.

"Why now?" Another voice asked, concern evident in their voice, "Can't we let them have some peace"

"I'm sorry Cordelia but Nicholas is right" A loud voice boomed from the front of the table

"Please sir" Cordelia begged

"No" He said harshly, "This is being done for the greater good, it must be done now"

Cordelia bowed her head in defeat, knowing she couldn't change their minds, once the greater good reason is used there is no way to change it.

She heard whispering coming from the front of the table and a sigh.

"Ok Cordelia we have come up with an idea," He spoke more softly now, "you can go with them but that means we won't send the vengeance demon but you must make this choice now and you will no longer be a Higher Power anymore if you decide to go. We will be forced to make you forget most things, you'll remember who you are and you're past as well as most of the prophecy but nothing else that you have learnt as a Higher Power. Do we have a deal?" He asked

"Yes, yes please"

"Very well it shall be done"

"Thank you Luke"

"We'll miss you Cordelia" Luke said in a slightly sad voice before Cordelia's world went dark.

The first thing Gunn felt was cold, then that his back and stomach was aching.

"Tara" He heard someone say close by to him

Neither the voice or name was familiar to him so he decided to slowly risk opening his eyes.

The light felt like his eyes were burning so snapped them shut quickly. Knowing that he needed to get up and find out what was happening, he opened his eyes again even slower this time.

Lifting his head up and letting his eyes have time to adjust, Gunn saw he was near the entrance of a cave. It wasn't as bright as his eyes had told him, outside the cave the sky was a dark reddish blue colour with only the moon giving out a small amount of light but when he looked up at the moon Gunn knew something was very wrong. The moon was blood red, lighting up everything in a red glow as if everything was covered in blood.

"Gunn" He heard

This voice he knew but never thought he would see her again. Turning around slowly so he was facing into the cave, almost pitch black compared to outside, he saw her.

Cordelia.

"Cordy" Gunn said in disbelief, squinting slightly while looking into the dark. "Is that really you?" He asked

"Yep it's me Gunn" She said stepping forward and wrapping her arms around him.

"It's so good to see you again" He said wrapping his arms around her

"Well at least someone is"

"What do you mean?" He asked dropping his arm to his sides and stepping back.

Now that Cordelia was in the light, he could see a bruise starting to form on her right cheek. Apart from that she looked just the same as the last time he saw her with her hair shoulder length and wearing the same clothes she wore last time, grey trousers and shirt.

"Where did you get that bruise?" Gunn asked raising a to touch her cheek

"Before I say that what do you last remember?" Cordelia asked

"I remember going with Angel, Spike and Illyria to track down some kind of demon nest. We were ambushed and thats all I remember apart from waking up here"

"Ok I should probably tell you all together but two of them won't listen yet," Cordelia said before taking a deep breath, forcing herself to tell him the next part, " You died Gunn."

"What I died?" Gunn asked shocked, "So is this like heaven or something"

"No this isn't heaven or hell or anything else, you're alive again Gunn but we're not in the same dimension anymore"

"But I didn't go through a portal to get here"

"The Powers sent us here, we're all involved in a prophecy but I can only remember half of it"

"We could really use Wes right now" Gunn said

"He's here too so is Xander and Tara" Cordelia said seeing Gunn get a blank face," Their friends of Buffy"

"Oh right" Gunn said, "Have you told Wes this prophecy yet?" He asked

"Well no, both Tara and Wes have been dead longer that you and Xander so they're not that with it yet"

"Ok," Gunn said as both him and Cordelia started to walk into the cave, "Cordy?"

"Yeah" She said looking at him

"Where did you get that bruise?" He asked

"Well I really should have listened to Xander as he's gone through the whole thing with Buffy coming back from the dead so he knew not to get to close or to crowd Tara and Wesley but I ignored him so Wesley hit me. I know I should have listened to Xander, it would have stopped him from say I told you, but I really wanted to check on Wesley."

"You know Wes wouldn't do that normally"

"Yeah I know, he is really freaked right now. You don't remember how you died but he does as well as remembering that he was in heaven, same with Tara"

"Ok," Gunn said after a few seconds, "So anything else Xander said not to do"

"Nope he just said give them time"

AN: So please review and tell me what you think, I'll try and post the second chapter as soon as I can.