AN: It's been quite a while hasn't it? Sorry about that everyone I just get a bit discouraged when I get no reviews, reviews give my lazy ass the push I need heh Anyways enjoy this chapter and please review especially if I take too long to update :) Again I own nothing of BtVS or AtS
An abandoned factory
"Crexa Corbus Spiria Lexis!" Amy chanted as her body glowed with power.
"Amy!" Buffy yelled running toward her only to be stopped by a giant yellow barrier.
Faith stopped next to her and Giles, Dawn, Andrew, Xander, Robin, and Willow filed in behind making a sort of mini circle.
Amy turned around to face them. She had her vampire face and her eyes were pitch black with power. Black and purple electricity surrounded her arms and she raised them. The portal was starting to open.
"No! She's opening the portal!" Giles cried.
"Then we need to kill her before she kills anyone!" Buffy said hitting the barrier.
Faith joined Buffy in hitting the wall with all her strength. Everyone else started hitting the barrier with their weapons.
Amy laughed mirthlessly, "it won't work."
"You won't get away with this!" Willow screeched.
"Don't worry Will, you'll be the first one I kill," Amy threatened, "that's why I left the shopkeeper alive. I knew you'd come here."
"Bitch you ain't hurting Red!" Faith yelled.
"And what are you gonna do to stop me slayer?" Amy yelled. Her power intensified and she let out a yell. Suddenly the portal opened and a flash of black light enveloped Amy.
Her hair turned black and ugly veins appeared on her ridged face, much like what happened to Willow.
"Oh no," Xander said, "I don't think I can save us from this."
Suddenly the barrier went down and Amy raised her hand. Faith moved instantly as Buffy yelled, "get down!"
Amy shot out a purple electric shock out directly at Willow. Faith tackled her out of the way yelling, "watch it Red!"
"Xander get Dawn out of here!" Buffy cried.
"Andrew stay down!" Giles yelled pushing the boy to the ground.
Buffy ran at full speed towards Amy who simply lifted an arm and sent Buffy flying.
Faith stood up and shot her with the crossbow. Amy stopped the arrow in midair with her palm and turned it around so that it flew towards Faith instead. Faith jumped out of the way.
Angered, Amy shot out electric shocks in all directions. Andrew screamed covering his head as Giles covered him protectively. Faith did the same thing with Willow while Buffy did a few masterful flips to dodge them. Xander pulled Dawn out of harm's way then jumped over another shot.
"That enough!" Amy screeched lifting both of her hands.
Everyone cried out as their bodies froze solid. Amy lifted her arms and they all stood up and froze in their spots. They all grunted as they tried to move their bodies to no avail.
"Now you can't dodge me," Amy said chuckling evilly, "this is the end."
Suddenly two figures jumped out of the portal, one man and one woman. The man stood up facing the gang and they all gasped when they saw who it was.
Spike smiled at them as he lifted his hands and bright flash of white light surrounded them. They were suddenly all free. They looked at Spike in confusion as Buffy breathed out, "Spike."
She sounded like she wanted to cry and Spike wanted to hug her but he remember Anya. He turned his attention to her and when he did that so did everyone else. They hadn't seen her face yet because she was facing Amy.
"Thanks for opening the portal for us," Anya said with a wink.
"What!" Amy cried.
Anya lifted her hands and another flash of white light filled the room. Amy screamed in terror as the light enveloped her. The portal rumbled as it closed. Amy's body turned to dust and it flew into the portal and it closed with a loud grumbling howl.
Buffy and the gang were completely frozen in shock. Spike turned around to face them.
"S-Spike, how..." Buffy started.
That's when Anya turned around.
"Anya!" Xander cried. Gasps went around the room once again as Xander shot out towards Anya and pulled her into a tight hug. Anya returned the hug clinging onto him for dear life.
"I don't understand, you two died, how can you be back without being resurrected?" Giles said.
"We weren't resurrected," Spike said, "we were ascended."
"Ascended? Like the mayor?" Faith said.
"They don't look like giant snakes," Willow said.
"There's such a thing as a good ascension," Spike said.
"I thought I'd never see you again," Xander said holding onto Anya's waist as she walked to stand beside Spike.
She turned to him and placed her hand on his eye patch. "I want you to see me fully then." Her hand glowed white and Xander gasped.
"What kind of magic is that?" Willow said in shock.
"When we died we went to Hell, I was in different Hell than Anya," Spike said.
"Then how come you didn't come back all delirious like Angel?" Dawn asked.
"Because three centuries into it I escaped and busted Anya free," Spike said. "Anya and I have been running and escaping for the past century until we found a portal in a Heaven and Hell in between."
Anya moved her hand away and removed Xander's eye patch. Everyone's breath hitched not wanting to see an empty eye socket, and their jaws dropped when they saw an eye there.
Xander's hands flew to his face as he blinked rapidly. "Oh my God! How did you...oh my God!"
"There were two angels there in that other dimension," Spike said, "they took out our demon cores and replaced it with guardian cores."
"Guardians?" Dawn said.
"I've heard of them but I always thought they were a myth," Giles said.
"Nothing's a myth in our world Giles," Faith said. If there was anyone she didn't have a nickname for it was Giles and mostly because she actually felt a certain amount of respect for him.
"We used Amy to open this portal so that we could redeem ourselves by protecting the world," Anya said.
Buffy stepped forward tentatively, "s-so you're really back?"
Spike smiled at her and nodded.
Anya caressed Xander's cheek and said, "we're back." She kissed Xander's lips just as he started to cry.
"Oh my God!" Willow cried running forward and hugging Anya and Xander. Anya hugged her back despite herself. As much as she tried to dislike the witch, she just couldn't.
Buffy touched Spike's hand tentatively and gasped, "you're not cold anymore."
"I'm not a vampire anymore," Spike said, "you can call me William if you want."
Buffy shook her head as tears spilled from her eyes, "no I like Spike."
Spike couldn't hold back his tears any longer, "I've missed you Buffy. You're the one that got me through each day of torture, just you."
"God, Spike!" Buffy breathed out wrapping her arms around Spike's neck and hugging him tightly.
"Well damn look at the teary reunion," Faith said sarcastically though they all knew she was just being jealous, "can I split now?"
"And miss this wonderful moment?" Andrew said excitedly running past her and hugging Anya.
"Andrew!" Anya cried.
Andrew started crying, "I can't believe you died for me, I can't thank you enough."
"I'm actually surprised that I missed you," Anya said smiling.
Giles still looked worried but he kept his thoughts to himself. Although he never liked Spike, he was very fond of Anya and he was happy she was back.
"Let's get out of this place and celebrate," Dawn said hugging both Spike and Anya at the same time.
"If someone else is paying I'll go," Faith said with a shrug.
"I'm paying," Xander said happily.
"Cool, let's hit the road," Faith said.
"Hey let's go to Anya's!" Andrew said.
"What?" Anya said.
"Xander and I opened a bar for the slayers at the academy," Andrew said.
"We named it after you," Xander said taking Anya's hand.
"There's a slayer academy?" Spike said cocking an eyebrow.
"And a watcher one too, I'm attending that one," Dawn said.
"I actually knew that," Spike said remembering Joyce's message.
That seemed to remind Anya as well and they gave each other a small nod.
"What? What? Is something wrong?" Giles said worriedly.
"No, no sod off old man," Spike said having always disliked the watcher just as much as he did.
"We need to tell you guys something," Anya said, "but let's go to the bar and catch up. We'll tell you when we're all relaxed."
