ultimate sacrifice

Chapter 7

"Where have you guys been?" Giles started right in on them as soon as the library's double doors opened.

"we were all grounded." Xander huffed as he passed Giles.

"Grounded for..." Giles was confused. Then remembered that he had called them all and no one was able to talk.

"The food fight yesterday," Willow went on. "The one that we didn't start...principal Synder." Willow winkled her eyes, ready to growl. "Had to blame someone, so he blames us." Xander threw his backpack on the table and stretched out by leaning back in one of the chairs and proping his feet on the table. Giles glared his direction.

"Sorry, bad habit." He put his feet down off the table.

"It's all my fault." Buffy comment, "Well, I mean he always thinks..."

"He called all our parents and got us grounded." Willow added.

Giles sighs then looks over at Buffy, "You too, I take it." she just nodded. "Well, I have something on this Sunnterra person. um...was person."

"So who is she?" Buffy asked him. "What is she some kind of god of some short?"

"It's..." Giles sighs, sits on the edge of the table. he takes his glasses off and starts to clean them. Something he natually does often when there is something difficult to talk about.

"What Giles, who..." Buffy asked seeing his reaction. He blinks as she walks closer up to him. "Must be something or someone bad. huh."

"It's uh...um..." he sighed softly, Buffy could tell that he didn't want to tell her something. "Another slayer."

"A really old one." Xander joked, Giles glared at him "well, Spike's really old." That got the attention of everyone there. "Well he is...sorry." He shurged his shoulders.

"Anyway," Giles went on shaking his head. "Sunnterra was an old slayer."

"What? A dead slayer, I'm lost." Buffy shook her head. Not really follwing the train of thought. Why was she brought back to life...is she...the monster...

"Giles what's going on?" Willow asked as she walked up to him and looked over his shoulder at the page he was trying to read from. From the look on his face Buffy know that is was not good. Willow reached over and took the book from his hands. "Let me," she whispered to him.

"Says here," Willow cleared her throat. "She was killed by a vampire in 1800's." The frist thing that came to Willow's mind was Angel, is that why this was so hard for Giles to tell her? or is there more, that he's not sharing...what ever it is. something's not right about this, I feel it.

"Why would Spike want..." Buffy felt a tingle on her wrist. She hadn't told Giles about last night. I should but what does that have to do with this. um...

"Whouldn't that mean that she's still alive?" Xander asked trying to break the tenstion he was feeling in the room.

"A vampire slayer dug up by a vampire, that doesn't make any since." Willow walked pulled out a chair at the table and sat. "Why?" she looked down at the book again. "She was a ruler of..."

"Of what?" Buffy sounded worried now.

"A group of slayers," Willow read still glancing down at the page, not believe what she was reading. How can this be...I thought...

"There are groups of slayers, I thought there is only one." Xander called, confused at what he was taught.

"Says her that this group was here till..." Willow continued but when she read the line with a name in her head, she froze.

"The witch of Drusilla killed her." Giles added.

That was it, Buffy thought to herself that's what he didn't want to tell me. That means that...she closed her eyes for a second. That Angel was involved in all of this. Can I deal with him again, I mean...he's changed. A few times since... she took in a breath, exhaling slowly but her chest wouldn't push out the air. Her heart was still grieving for him. She still missed him.

"Drusilla like in the Dru that is Spike's girl?" Xander questioned, stating the obvious.

"Why would he want?" Buffy thought, there's got to be more to this than just that, but what...revenge for him or was it all Dru's idea. They would bring them back and the group would defeat me. Slayer against Slayer...battle of the slayers...Just what Sunnydale needs...

"Revenge maybe?" Willow Stated, reading Buffy's thoughts. "To get back..."

How does she do that? To much time together I guess. I hope that she can't really read all my thoughts then I really be in big trouble with all of them.

"I think...um..." everyone looked at Giles, "that's...um..." he turned to another book, opening it to show all of them. He placed his finger on the pic. "What he wants."

"Oh," they all gasped at the pictures.

"The jewels of..." he commented, before Xander interupted like he always did.

"A grave digger." Xander smiled "For..." then he thought about the necklace that Buffy had on. could it be the same one? oh, that's just rediculus. but...

"That's..." Cordelia gasped, not way. "That's like the one thing that..." Cordelia walks up closer the get a better look. "that can kill the slayer?" Everyone glances at her outburst. She shugged the thought, then a dark thought came to her mind, A scary one, one that would change her world forever. That that was the same necklace that was on Buffy. No way...is that... It can't be can it? if it is, can it be stopped. If not then we all die, and I'm to good for that..."Hey, that looks like the new piece that Buffy's wearing." she blurted out before she could stop herself. There it's out there in the open.

"New piece?" Giles cocks his head to look over at Buffy confussed at what the word meant. "What is she talking about?"

"Um..." Buffy sighed. "this." She put her hands up to show him her new bracelets and then the new necklace. He almost fell over in shock. He whipped his head to the necklace and then to the book. Then he once again took off his glasses and started to clean them. Buffy could tell that he was really worried now. Could this be the necklace that kills her..

tbc...