Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy.
A/N: Okay guys so here's the next chapter, sorry it took so long to get it up. Just been super busy. I already had it written just haven't had the time to type it and upload it. I didn't put that this was OOC because I think I do a pretty good job at keeping them in character. The Faith and Buffy convo towards this end was the most fun thing I've ever written. Please Review... I hope you guys like it.
Anya sat staring at Dawn's face.
"Wow that thing is huge!" Anya just continued to stare unblinking.
"Thanks for the encouragement." Dawn sighed and got up from the couch to pace the room.
"Anytime! So anyway what do you want?"
Willow stood up and handed Anya a piece of paper that had the symbol on it.
"I've seen this before, nasty group of demons. You don't want to mess with them. Thank god they're existinct you would be in mass amounts of trouble." Anya smiled and handed the paper back to Willow.
"They attacked us earlier." Willow said bluntly, she was getting aggravated with Anya.
"Oh... well good luck with that." Anya got up and began heading towards the door.
"So you're just going to leave? You're not going to help?"
"I'm busy and why would I help you? Just made sure I'm not here when they attack again. Because they will attack again. Gotta go." Anya moved even faster for the door.
"Coward!" Willow yelled at Anya's back. Anya opened the door to see Xander standing in the doorway.
"Anya." Xander said as a smile formed on his face.
"Xander." Anya rolled her eyes and stood waiting for Xander to move.
"What's going on?" Xander stepped inside and closed the door behind him.
"A demon attacked earlier, pretty scary one too. I called Anya to see if she's heard anything through the demon grapevine." Willow said from behind Anya.
"Ok, I've heard something, but not much. All I know is there's some all powerful someone in town and it's got the lower demons spooked. They're running and hiding. That's all I know now let me go before I summon a demon to kill you all." Anya stood tapping her foot, she was getting very impatient.
"You couldn't do that even if you wanted to." Willow threw back at her.
"I'll find someone to wish for your demise. I'm leaving n-" Dawn then cried out in pain and fell to the floor. Xander and Willow both rushed towards her.
"Are you okay sweetie?" Willow took her hand and helped her up.
"My back!" Dawn cried. Willow lifted up Dawn's shirt to reveal a bruise the expanded the length of her back.
"Oh my god!" Willow looked to Xander, they were both beyond confused.
"Cry baby." Anya rolled her eyes and opened the door to leave. A demon stood on the other side of the door.
"They're in there." Anya pointed to the livingroom. The demon punched Anya. She went flying backwards and through one of the closed livingroom doors.
"What the hell do I look like? One of the good guys." Her face transformed into the face of the very ugly vegence demon that she was.
"Two in one night!" Willow stood up ready for battle. The demon began heading towards Willow. He held out one of his hands and a sword appeared. He lifted the sword and swung.
"Protect!" Willow screamed and a barrier appeared between the demon and them.
"I knew you'd do that." a voice echoed throughout the room.
Willow looked around the room but saw nothing
"Not this time." Willow eyes grew darker until they were completely black. Willow began shaking but stood strong. The room slowly grew darker. Willow began muttering in latin and the shaking barrier grew stronger.
Dawn looked to Xander and then to Anya who was slowly making her way to her feet.
"We have to do something Willow can't hold both of them off forever." Dawn scrambled to her feet. She looked around to try and find a weapon of sorts then she saw Anya and got an idea, but she wasn't sure if it was going to work.
I wish the demon was gone!" Dawn screamed at the top of her lungs. Anya turned towards Dawn and granted the wish.
"Done." She clapped her hands and the demon vanished into thin air. They all stood in silence for a minute then Willow fell to her knees exhausted from the fight.
They all rushed to her aid.
"I'm fine. I'm fine." she sat down and crossed her legs and just tried to relax for a minute. She sat in the silence before a thought crossed her mind.
"How many? How many of these demons are there?" she looked to Anya who was looking around the room to avoid answering the question. Finally she looked to Willow and saw how serious she was, she sighed.
"Thousands. I don't know an exact number, but tons. This group of demons is what gave one of those bible guys the idea for Legion. Thousands of demons crontroled by one even stronger being of evil." Willow's eyes widened in shock. Xander's face grew more fearful and Dawn was too preoccupied with her back to be scared.
"Thousands." Willow whispered.
Faith out a hand to help Buffy.
"I can help myself." Buffy stood up straight and stretched a little bit to help rid her back from the pain.
"So I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say you're alive. You okay?" Buffy looked to Faith then began walking. Faith followed closely behind her.
"Five-by-five. I didn't really know why a giany ugly demon broke into the prison to kill me. Then I get to Sunnydale and every whimpy demon is running for the hills. Well this is California so runningfor the valley."
"Yeah some new big bad is in town and it has it out for us. Nothing new there." Buffy shrugged and continued walking on.
"Geez B, can't you stay out of trouble." Faith nudged Buffy in the shoulder.
"Me? Last time I checked you went all Prison Break. And you have the nerve to walk up here and say I'm the trouble slut." Buffy stopped, surprising Faith who had kept walking. Buffy turned to Faith and said calmly,
"Duck."
"Where? There's no water around-" Buffy cut her off.
"No, get down you idiot." Faith ducked down and Buffy flipped over top of her and staked the oncoming vamp.
"Just for the record so were clear, I'm going back to prison to do my time after this whole mess is figured out."
"Like I'm going to believe that. Last time I saw you, you were going all Alred Hithchcock's Physcho on Wesly. I can't trust you to just walk back into prison all willy nilly."
"Geez b thanks for the blast from the past. I've changed, I've found god so to speak seeings how I'm not religious. I turned myself in the first time, now I'll do it again. Besides I'm good now. I saved your life." Faith began walking kind of hoping she could just leave Buffy behind.
"Saved my life? I was fine, I totally had the upperhand. My next move was coming."
"What was your next move? Getting killed, because if so then you definitely had it down pact." Faith and Buffy continued walking with the intent of not stopping until they got home.
"Oh my god, quit your bickering you're giving me a headache." They both turned around to see Anya standing there.
"Anya! Is everything okay?" Buffy began to worry. What other reason would Anya be here.
"No. Another demon attacked."
"Is everybody okay? Anyone get hurt?" Buffy looked to Faith who also was slightly worried.
"That's not the worst part... Dawn's paralyzed."