Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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History.
This story is set a few months after Buffy died in the Gift. Giles has reluctantly returned to England to await a new slayer. Dawn is now living with Anya and Xander. Spike to honour Buffy's memory has taken over the duties as protector of Sunnydale as the news of the death spreads more and more Vamps and Daemons are coming to Sunnydale.
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Angel was cover in the blood of the Cavlar beast, which he had been hunting down in the sewers of LA for the past two weeks while trying unsuccessfully to come to terms with the death of Buffy. As Angel walked through the doors of his hotel he looked up to see a group standing by the check in desk. Instantly he recognised them as lawyers from Wolfram and Hart.
"You know I have someone working on a spell to keep out people like you." Said Angel as he slipped out of his long black coat to show the long deadly axe hanging at his side. Angel smiled to himself as he saw fear flash through the lawyers eyes.
"Don't worry about this." Angel said as he threw the axe down on to one of the seats. "So what have I done to honour the presence of the all mighty Wolfram and Hart?"
"We are here with a client." Said one of the lawyers. "He wishes to employ the services of Angel Investigations."
"Sorry." Said Angel. "But I'm a bit picky about who I work for."
"But we are willing to pay." Said the lawyer.
"Sorry again no sale." Replied Angel. Angel was beginning to get tired of these creeps always in his life.
"Not even for me?" asked a voice from behind the counter. Angel looked over to where the voice had come from to see a tall man with tied back black hair and a small beard, he was dressed in a black suit which looked to Angel like it cost more money than he had seen in his entire immortal life.
"My name's Nick Lance." Said the man.
"I know who you are." Replied Angel. The man standing in front of him was the richest man in the world. Every one knew who he was, Nick Lance had even brought the city of New Haven after it had been closed down by the government over some sort of life threatening contamination. Now New Haven had become one of the largest industrial cities in the world thanks to the Lance Corporation.
"I'm here to ask you if you for any information about a place called Sunnydale." Said Lance. "I heard that you stayed there for a while."
"That's true." Said Angel as he watched Nick Lance come around from behind the counter with two glasses in his hands. Angel recognised that one of the glasses contained blood. "But why do you want to know about Sunnydale?"
Nick Lance handed Angel the glass with the blood in it. Angel took a sip of the blood enjoying the nervous looks on the lawyers' faces.
"Ever since the Slayer died." Said Nick Lance carefully watching Angel's reaction at the death of the Slayer. "My scientists have noticed a large increase of demon and vampire activity in the area of Sunnydale. But I guess you already know that. My concern is that several of my employees have gone missing in that area recently."
"And what does that have to do with me?" asked Angel sarcastically.
"I think it has a lot to do with you." Replied Nick Lance. "I sent them to Sunnydale to investigate reports of an attempt to reopen the Hellgate."
Angel almost choked on his blood.
"B-but the Hellgate can never be reopened." Said Angel. "It was closed by Buff- I mean the Slayer."
"That may be true." Replied Nick Lance. "But my men have disappeared for some reason. I need you to take me to Sunnydale to find them. I'll make it worth your while."
"And what could you possibly have that would get me to work for you or Wolfram and Hart?" said Angel eyeing the lawyers.
Nick Lance glanced over at the lawyers. Immediately they stepped aside to allow one of them to walk over to Angel carrying a large briefcase. The lawyer then placed the briefcase on to the table and backed away. Nick Lance then leaned over and popped the locks on the briefcase. Angel glanced down at the contents of the case.
"There is one hundred thousand dollars in that case." Explained Nick Lance. "Call it an advance. I have one hundred thousand dollars waiting for you for each of my employees that we find. Dead or alive. So what do you say are you willing to have Angel Investigations work this case."
Angel thought for a second about the offer. As Wesley was the one who was truly in charge of Angel Investigations Angel was reluctant to accept the case. But Nick Lance was offering more money than anyone had before. And five hundred thousand dollars would do wonders.
"Let me talk to my partners and I'll get back to you." Said Angel finally.
Nick Lance looked a little disappointed as he stood and held out his hand to Angel. Then he smiled.
"Don't take too long." Said Nick Lance. "Remember that there are lives in danger. I contact you tomorrow night."
Nick Lance then shook Angel's hand. Angel watched as Nick Lance and the lawyers from Wolfram and Hart walked out of the hotel. Once the doors had closed Angel's attention turned back to the case full of money.
"So do you think he'll do it?" asked one of the lawyers as she opened the door of the limo to allow Nick Lance inside. "He'll do It." hissed Nick Lance as he sat down. "I need him to be in Sunnydale when I close the Hellmouth. Only his blood can start the procedure then after that the sacrifices will begin." "Wolfram and Hart have already come up with the necessary documents for you to sign that states that you were elsewhere and have no knowledge of the events in Sunnydale." Said the lawyer. Nick Lance turned to the lawyer his face was now no longer that of the owner of Lancecorp but was now it showed his true form of the One the demon vampire. "Good the last thing I need is the questions about the disappearance of everyone in Sunnydale when I buy the town." Hissed the One. "Now can you tell me where the best place I can find top quality blood? I'm getting more than a little hungry." "I know the perfect place." Said the lawyer as she tapped on the driver's window. "Nothing but the best for a client of Wolfram and Hart."
It was a hectic night for Spike as he stalked the graveyards of Sunnydale. To Spike it seemed that every demon across the world had learnt about the death of Buffy and had come to Sunnydale to see if the rumours were true. So far Spike had already slayed six vampires and stopped a nasty Hogtroll from eating a bus full of students. For the moment at least it was quiet. Suddenly Spike heard the sound of crashing wood. Racing through the graveyard Spike came across three vampires breaking in to a crypt. "Out on a shopping spree?" said Spike as he pulled his stake out from his leather coat. "I do hope you've got me something really nice." "Is that you Spike?" growled one of the vampires as the three turned away from the crypt. Spike immediately recognised them. "Oh bugger." Said Spike. Standing in front of him was three vampires he had met in Australia, they had parted on bad terms when Spike had killed the fourth member of their team for making a pass at his then girlfriend Drusila. "So." Said the first vampire Spike knew as Adams. "The vamp that kills its own kind is you. I had thought that it may have been that Angelus you've told us about so many times." "Things change." Replied Spike. "Not much." Said the second vampire called Brett. "We should have guessed that it was you. Don't think we haven't forgotten about what you did to Jay….or Lex." Spike looked up at the huge Lex. "I see that, that nasty neck wound still there." Said Spike remembering that he had slit open Lex's throat when he came after Spike for killing Jay. Lex glanced down at Spike and growled. Suddenly all three vampires charged at Spike. Spike was slammed in to a tree by Lex before he could get a good shot on the vampire with his stake. Spike could feel the tree breaking under the weight of Lex. Spike quickly drove his knee in to Lex's guts. Lex groaned as Spike struck him in the groin. Spike then kicked away Lex but before he could do anything Spike was hit from both sides by Brett and Adams. The blow knocked the stake from Spike's hand. Spike headbutted Brett in the nose. Brett let out a roar as he let go of Spikes arm to cover his bleeding nose. Spike quickly used his freed arm and wrapped it around Adams's neck. Spike yanked Adams of him and as he had Adams around the head Spike drove his fist in to Adams's face. Seeing his brother Brett grabbed Spike's fallen stake and charged at Spike. Spike quickly span Adams around and lifted him up in time for Brett to drive the stake in to Adams's chest. Adams barely had time to make a sound as he turned to dust. Brett looked horrified as the dust of his brother scattered in the winds. Spike quickly grabbed the stake as it fell to the floor and was about to send Brett to the same fate when Lex slammed his huge body in to Spike driving him to the ground. As Spike and Lex rolled around the ground trading blows Brett grabbed hold of the stake. Brett then leaped on to Spike as Lex drove his fist in to Spike's face. Brett was about to drive the stake in to spike's heart when the crypt that they were raiding suddenly exploded in flames. Brett was thrown to the ground by the flying debris. Spike fought off Lex and glanced at the burning crypt. Spike could swear that he saw a figure form inside the flames, but before he could do anything about it he was struck again by Lex. Lex drove a double-handed blow to the middle of Spike's back sending him to the ground again. Lex then dragged Spike to his feet and held him tight as Brett walked up to him. "That's two of my brothers you have killed. I'm going to drive this stake in to your heart and spread the dust all over a pig sty……LOOK AT ME!!!" Spike just stared past Brett waving the stake in front of his face and in to the flames. The figure in the flames had gone. But Spike could swear that something was moving there. Suddenly Spike's attention was dragged back to Brett once Brett drove his fist in to Spike's gut. "I said look at me!" hissed Brett as Lex grabbed Spike by the back of the head and yanked head up. Brett raised his hand in the air and was about to drive the stake in to Spike when a hand suddenly shot out of the flames and grabbed hold of Brett by the neck. Brett tried to turn around when the hand closed around Brett's neck snapping his head cleanly off his shoulders. Seeing his last brother turn to dust Lex threw Spike to one side and charged at his brother's killer. Spike watched as Lex threw his huge body at his equally huge opponent. Lex was thrown through the air and crashed in to a large gravestone. As Lex tried to get to his feet he let out as scream as his chest ripped open in flames. Surprised at what he saw Spike turned back to Lex's killer and was about to thank his rescuer when he felt the same hand that had killed Brett grabbed him around the throat. Spike was lifted up in to the air by the most powerful and evil looking creature he had seen. Spike could not see its face as it was covered in a black and red mask surrounded by a mass of shaggy black hair. "You are not one of them." It growled in a deep powerful voice. "You are no interest to Brimstone!" Spike was then thrown through the air. Spike watched as the huge creature dressed in black and red armour walk away. Then suddenly he realised who it was. Brimstone the enforcer of Hell's rules and the most feared warrior of Satan's warriors. "Oh shit." Said Spike as he realised that Sunnydale was now truly in trouble.
To be continued.