Chapter 3
AN: This chapter was a bit rushed and not as well planned as I had no internet while writing it and was bored. Thank you Guest for your review I never seen Angel's wrist stakes but I haven't seen all of the first season, I only watched Angel cos I liked Wesley when he was on Buffy so the episodes before he came I never watched.
Disclaimer: I don't own Angel
"Repeat it one more time" Xander said
The group were all back in the cave again, sat by the back wall in a small semi-circle. Both Wesley and Gunn were leaning against the wall, eyes slowly shutting but quickly forced open each time they shut, feeling shattered after fighting the vampire.
"We've explained it five times already" Cordelia said getting fed up with him, often looking over to Gunn and Wesley.
She felt shattered just like them even though she didn't have to fight the vampire. She did run through the tunnels though, not something she did often while being a Higher Power, and stop Wesley setting fire to the vampire. In hindsight she probably shouldn't have tried to stop him, the vampire still would have died if she didn't, but she was scared, she wouldn't tell them this but she was. Her friend saying one word set a vampire of fire, burning its flesh which made her want to puke each time she remembered the smell or seeing the skin melt off the vampire, and stood there staring straight at it not blinking the whole time, if that didn't make her scared she didn't know what would.
"One more time, I just don't believe it" Xander pleaded
"I set fire to a vampire, a wooden stake didn't kill it and Gunn produce a metal stake from his wrist which did kill it," Wesley said sharply, "Now please, I'm shattered so can't you stop talking and let me get some rest"
Gunn nodded his head in agreement, really wishing to get some sleep soon but couldn't until they stopped talking.
"Ok" Xander said fairly shocked
"Um sorry to keep you two up," Tara said quietly, "But shouldn't we get some wood to start a fire"
"Don't worry, we can go and look for some while you three stay here, we haven't had the chance to get out of this cave yet," Xander said, standing up, holding a hand out for Tara, "Come on Tara let's get some wood"
"Ok, keep together and don't take too long," Cordelia said as they walked off, "You two go to sleep I'll keep watch"
"You sure" Wesley said feeling something on his shoulder
"Yeah and anyway Gunn's already asleep"
"Guess I'm staying still then" Wesley said, closing his eyes and already asleep as Gunn started to snore loudly.
"Great," Cordelia murmured to herself, "At least I won't be able to fall asleep"
Despite Gunn snoring Cordelia found herself starting to fall asleep so laid down flat on the floor, becoming dead to the world.
"Cordy, Cordy wake up" Someone said shaking her
"Go away Wes" Cordelia replied
"Something happened to Tara and Xander" he said
"Fine what happened?" she asked, rubbing her eyes as she sat up, trying to wake up
"Well we were looking for wood," Xander explained, "There were no tree around so we went searching but couldn't find any at all, then Tara said something I didn't understand and the ground started to shake and a pile of wood burst out of the ground"
Looking around she saw a huge pile of wood over to the side as well as a fire burning next to her.
"How did you carry that much wood? That must have taken all night"
"No it didn't, only took one trip"
"But how?"
"Xander said ventus, a huge breeze came which picked up all the wood and dropped it here" Tara said
"I guess ventus means wind then" Cordelia asked looking at Wesley
"Yes it's Latin for wind, same thing with the fire"
"Makes sense, you used to break wind all the time in junior school"
"Hey that wasn't me," Xander said defensively, "it was Harley, he just blamed it on me"
"Keep telling yourself that so," Cordelia said, changing the subject, "What would Tara have said?"
"Probably Lignum as it seems we have powers of the element as Gunn has metal that would mean it's the Taoist elements but Xander has Air which is a Wiccan ones" Wesley explained
"What's the difference?" Xander asked
"The Wiccan elements are Fire, Water, Earth, Air and Spirit" Tara said, "And the Taoist elements are Fire, Water, Wood, Earth and Metal"
"I thought Xander had wind" Cordelia said
"He has Air which would probably let him control it as well as being able to suffocate someone by taking their oxygen away but that would take practice" Wesley said
"Ha told you" Xander told Cordelia
"One thing I didn't say Lignum" Tara said
"What about Terra?" Wesley asked
"Yeah"
"So that Earth, Gunn's Metal, Xander Air, I'm Fire so you're either Water or Spirit" Wesley said looking at Cordelia
"That explains why you could touch him" Gunn said
"What?" Cordelia asked
"If your Water that is, remember when coming back I touched Wes and said he was burning but you slapped him and you didn't get burned"
"That's the prophecy" Cordelia said to herself
"You said you were going to tell us it when we were all here so now's your chance" Xander said
"Five new to this world,
Five elements,
Thought to have been lost,
Come back to fight, and that's all I remember"
"That basically covers what we already know, we're not in our own dimension, we each have an element even though it's combination of both Taoist and Wiccan elements and we've all died but have been brought back to life" Wesley explained
"So what now?" Tara asked
"The Power sent us here for a reason even if I can't remember" Cordelia said
"Maybe we should find a town," Gunn said, "Maybe someone could help us"
"Who would believe us" Wesley said
"Someone would and we can't stay here much longer, we need to find food as I'm starving"
"We should go now then," Xander said, "It was light was me and Tara got back so there should be no vampire around"
"Maybe but a stake through the heart didn't kill one maybe their fine in sunlight too" Wesley said
"Let's hope not, we only know two ways to kill them here which is your powers," Cordelia said looking at Gunn and Wesley, "and we don't know if metal will come out again and Wes don't set fire to them"
"Ok we'll need to incapacitate them then instead while you try to get metal and if that doesn't work we leave"
"Alright let go," Gunn said trying to summon a piece of metal now just in case but having no luck, "You might need to stall it for a while" he told Wesley
"We'll deal with that when it comes to it"
AN: Hoped you enjoyed and sorry for any spelling mistakes. I'm going to wait for another review before I make the next chapter so if you enjoy this review