Chapter 10
With loads of the stealth that we have mastered over the years Angel and I head to the grounds and once outside the castle run under a tree where we won't be seen.
"So what's the game plan?" Angel asks.
"I'm going with slice and dice, it works on most demons I've ever come up against and since we don't know what this is," I trail off.
He nods, "Agreed, but we have to make sure it isn't anything like the Hydra demons that re grow anything you cut off. Only way to kill those is a poison."
"I thought those were myths?"
"Is anything ever a myth?"
"True," I tell him. "I think this might involve Voldermort. Harry rubbed his scar like when Voldermort is near."
"Maybe, but lets just focus on killing the demons. Do you have any idea where they are? I can smell them nearby, but my senses aren't good enough to track them anymore."
"Have I ever told you that smelling thing was gross?" He glares at me, "Right not the time, they're approaching the castle from the west. Should we wait for them or go in for the ambush?"
"I vote ambush, less chance of anyone seeing us."
I smile at him and we both run towards the west side of the castle, only as we see start to see the demons outlines, we also hear professors throwing spells at the demons. The spells aren't doing anything, I've never heard of a magic resistant demon.
"Shit, Angel any ideas?"
He gives me his signature half smile and pulls out a potion from his duster, he found it in the room of requirement, pocket and drank half of it handing me the other half to drink. "Nothing happened," I tell him in a duh tone.
"It makes us nonexistent to anyone not of the supernatural variety, except for witches and wizards. So the teachers won't be able to see or hear us."
"Then how can I hear and see you and where the hell did you get it?"
He blushes, "I think because of our connection, the fact that you're the slayer and I'm human with vampire strength, or because we aren't from this world. And I kind of stole it from Snape's storage room.
I laugh at him and we start to run towards the demons. We get closer and I notice that they are about a dozen of them. They were green and very big with a lot of muscle. Looking closer Buffy noticed it had no eyes and a tail along with spikes on its back. Instead of a right hand they had a claw.
"Do you know what they are Angel?"
"Haddyn demons, they kill children as a competition."
"So what like the more kills you get the more valuable bachelor you are?" Angel gave her a look. "Okay guess I was right, so slice and dice it is."
Angel takes out his broadsword and I take out a scythe we had found in the weapons cupboard that had said Gryffindor on it. We charge and begin to fight in a synch I have only ever had with Angel
The demons weren't ready for them and hissed as Angel chopped the head off of one of their numbers. I laugh at one of them standing over the dead body and slice it in half.
I look around and notice that one was about to cut Angel's arm off and stab it in the heart before it can do damage, but it had already made him bleed.
"Thanks," he tells me.
"Anytime." I say back. I jump up as Angel slides under me and cut the legs off of another one and in turn I go back and cut its head off.
Twenty minutes later there are three demons left and I can tell that Angel and along with myself has gotten tired. We both look at each other and finish another one off as another one comes and throws me onto a nearby rock. Angel rushes to my side and he takes his wand out and stuns it allowing me the window to go and dice it.
With one left I stand back and watch as it runs at full speed after Angel and with a simple side step falls into the lake and drowns.
I take out my wand and whisper a small spell that makes the dismembered demons disappear. Angel runs up to me and we kiss and for the first time I look and notice professors staring at us oddly. Well staring at the spot where we are and how the demons suddenly were butchered.
"Oops," I laugh as I point them out to Angel.
"Hey that's what the potion was for."
Laughing we use a nifty spell to clean our weapons off and get back to the Room of Requirement. As we change back into our robes I notice that we are covered in demon blood. I squeal in disgust as Angel chuckles. We head to the showers to wash up before heading back to the common room, praying that nobody will be there to see us coming in.
We walk in hand in hand and to our luck nobody is in the common room, sans Harry and Ron who are glaring at us. "Where the hell did you two disappear to?"
"Um," I say not sure what to say.
"You weren't fighting the monsters were you?" Harry asks his voice full of concern.
"Why would you think that?" Angel says looking at us both to make sure all traces of the fight washed away in the shower.
"Because you both are bloody talented at weapons and fighting," Ron answers. "Plus you both act as if the world is on your shoulders."
I laugh and Angel joins in, "Seriously Ron neither of us has a death wish, we were in the Room of Requirement since the demons would have had no idea we were there."
"Oh," Ron says hoping we could have given him more gossip. "Well why didn't you bring us along?"
"We were too caught up in the fear," Angel says. "Once we were safe we realized how stupid we were, but Buffy was too scared to leave and wouldn't let me leave her sight.
"Scared Angel, seriously? If I'm so scared next time you can kick demon butt on your own."
"Just an excuse love, you were braver than the adults."
Ron looks at us accusingly, but drops his glare. I sigh in relief as Harry speaks up, "Did you hear the professors say what it was?"
Angel and I look at us and he shrugs, "Well we heard Professor McGonagall and Professor Kalderdash mention that it could be a distraction because the dem-onsters were too organized.
Okay so it was a lie, but we had thought that that may have been the case. Angel had never heard of these demons attacking in such large groups they were more of the loner type.
The door to the common room opens and I shiver, acting on pure instinct I pull Harry and Ron to the other side of the couch where we would be hidden, Angel follows us. Harry looks at my eyes and understands that it could be an attacker, Ron opens his mouth to protest but Harry slaps him on the head before he can talk.
"I know you're hiding," an unfamiliar male voice says. "I hear the heartbeats down here. Bring me the boy who lived and nobody gets hurt," it cries out. "Including your teacher."
"There are three vampires there," I tell Angel.
"I know," he sighs.
People start rushing down the stairs as McGonagall screams when the vampire slashes her wrist with a fang. Every one is screaming until one vampire tells everybody to shut up and calls Harry to come out again.
Gulping Harry steps up and Angel tries to stop him, "I can't let every one get hurt because of me," he says and shakes Angel off of him. He starts to grab him again using his superior strength but Harry was already in the sight of the vampires.
Harry stands up and goes to stand in front of the vampires, "I am the boy who lived. Now leave everyone alone!"
One of them, who looks to be the oldest laughs, "Oh so brave little boy, the master wants you," she chuckles in a very Drusilla like fashion.
"What master," Harry asks.
"You'll know soon enough." They let McGonagall, Hagrid, and Ms. Calendar, um Kalderdash down and gesture Harry to come closer. He does as they say and Angel jumps up.
"Use your wand," he yells towards them. "Hit them straight in the heart."
Another vampire growls and walks towards Angel ready to attack, but I surprise it and everyone else by staking it with my wand. Harry sees what I did and follows the lead.
However the oldest one is still left and looks extremely hungry and goes to attack me. Ron hits it with a spell which it quickly dodges and knocks him out before running over and knocking Harry out and grabbing him.
The professors charge after it, but it is smart and the vampire somehow reflects the spell back on them, stupefying them. The students scream again and Angel and I charge the vampire.
Eventually I push my cross, the silver one Angel gave me, into its face and she yells in pain. Using the moment to his advantage Angel takes his wand and uses stakes it before we both run to the people who are unconscious to make sure they are okay and suddenly Dumbledore opens the door asking what has happened and some fifth year starts to recount everything she saw.
The headmaster turns and looks towards Angel and I, he squeezes my hand. He studies us for a moment, "People are coming to help bring everyone to the hospital wing, Mr. McKinley and Ms. Summers you are welcome to come with your friends. With that he walks outside and suddenly the five people who are knocked out are floating towards the hospital wing and Angel and I quickly follow them.
We end up there before anyone else and Madame Pomfrey thankfully sees that we aren't hurt and decided that she doesn't need to take care of us, but after fixing the teachers up help my friends and leave the four of us be.
Harry and Ron slowly come to it and look at us, "Are they gone," Ron asks.
"Yeah, Angel staked her" I tell him and look at Harry, my voice rising. "What the hell were you thinking Harry Potter! "
He shrugs and winces in discomfort, "I wasn't going to let anybody get hurt or dead because of me."
Angel glares at him, "Don't you get it Harry it wouldn't have mattered! They would have still attacked others even with you. The female may not have but the others were fledglings and would have been too caught up in the bloodlust!"
"Whatever," Ron tells Harry. "Until we were hurt I remember you were wicked awesome with your wand. How did you know to use your wands?"
"Well they're wood," I say.
"And a stake to the heart kills vampires so it was just a substitution," Angel finishes.
"A horrible one, they aren't quit sharp enough," he tells me and I stifle a laugh.
"How'd you know that?" Ron asks and this time Harry answers him.
"Come on Ron in muggle culture vampires are the hit thing, a stake to the heart is common knowledge."
I smile and hug Harry and Ron telling them I'm glad they were okay. Just then Madame Pomfrey tells them it was okay to leave and we head back to the common room.
Harry looks uneasy and when I ask him about what the vampire whispered into his head. He takes his glasses off and cleans them in a Giles like manner, "They said they were after me, why would anyone want me? And I didn't know vampires did that, Dracula didn't."
"Just like that some of the innocence vanishes and I wrap my arm around him, "I don't know Harry but we'll figure it out. Oh and lots of other mythology says they can and I saw the look on your face."
He smiles and Angel looks at me with fear in his eyes. I return the look and we both sigh. We may not be in imminent danger but something was definitely coming soon. It may not be the big bad we were sent here to kill. But something was stirring and we had to protect Harry.
Guess our vacation was officially over.
So there's that chapter. And sorry about uploading chapter 8 twice, if you never read the real chapter 9 it is there now. Please review!