Immediately the heat was too much. My skin started to turn into a boiling mess of burning flesh… but as soon as Willow landed, we were fine. The fire around us was burning the air… the smoke almost intoxicating, but I felt nothing. My skin was cool and perfectly fine. I looked at Willow and she smiled at me.

"Let's do this."

The dimension was huge. I had been to another dimension… I called it heaven. This was different. I had expected something so different. It reminded me of a volcano… but, again, different. There was lava everywhere, though, when I touched it, it didn't burn me. Rocks, huge boulders, glowing red, stood out everywhere. At the end of the flat stone we were on, which stretched for miles, a river of magma flowed. I could barely see it from the blurry vision caused by the heat.

"There it is." I said, pointing.

"Buffy, look." Willow pointed to the other side. Demons were lining up. There were thousands of them. Above their heads flew a huge dragon-like beast. Sitting in a huge thrown before them was a huge demon… they were gods. "There are two of them. We have to make sure we stay hidden."

We squatted behind a big rock and listened. The god sitting down was angry.

"Who opened the portal?" He bellowed. "It is fatal to this dimension if the doorway is constantly opening. This is the third time this generation. Who opened it?!" He threw one of the minions in front of him into the molting magma. There was a high pitched shriek but the demon just crawled out and quivered on the ground.

I met Willow's gaze. She nodded and we worked our way away from them. Each time I put my foot down, the sole of my shoe would smoke, though the sole wouldn't show any kind of damage. The same thing happened with my hand as I touched the heated rock.

"Buffy." Willow turned back at me and folded her arms. "We need to hurry. First off, we have a problem."

"What?" She pointed up ahead. There was a bridge connecting two parts of the rock. Magma was flowing down and at the bottom of the pit was a river, black on top.

"We can transfer the soul into the magma being poured into the valley, but the magic will cause a channel. It will announce our presence to the demons."

"How long does it take to do the spell?" I asked, eyeing the river of lava. Willow looked up at me, ready to answer, but her eyes caught something and she just stared. I turned and tried to find what she was looking at. My eyes found it and my breath caught.

"Spike?"

Above our heads, standing on a cliff… was Spike. He wore his long leather coat, looking as if hell itself was just a fluffy bunny. His face was vamped and blood dripped from his mouth. He stood staring down. As I watched, he turned and looked at me. I ducked behind a rock but I knew he had seen me. What had happened to him?

"Buffy, we have to move." Willow started around the rock but once we were relocated, it was harder to see the river.

"Willow, we can't do the spell here." I said.

"We have no choice. We cannot let them see us… especially now that we know Spike is here."

She sprinkled a few herbs on the ground, whispering a spell to keep them from melting. I placed the broken blade in the center of the herbs and she closed her eyes. I kept mine open, knowing something was going to go wrong. She said a few words and then it seemed time stopped.

Blue flames lit off of the blade. Screaming filled the air and the metal of the blade melted into the rock. Lava appeared; moving the melted metal down to the river… it was done. Willow opened her eyes and nodded. Before she could say anything, a howl came from above us.

The dragon god flew above us. I grabbed Willow's arm and drug her to her feet. The dragon dove, landing in front of us. I pulled Willow the other way.

"Buffy, stop." I stood there, watching while Willow held her hand up to the dragon. The dragon immediately paused. Its eyes showed shock as stone irrupted from Willow, surrounding the dragon. The only thing showing above the shiny stone was a pissed off dragon head. It growled and stared at us. Fire began to flow from its nostrils, causing us to head in the opposite direction.

Screams from the other god pulsated through air. Demons surrounded us, causing me to hold up my axe. I looked over at Willow, who returned my gaze with a misty smile. She was ready.

"So… this is who opened the portal." The demon god stood before us. He was huge… towering over us by several feet. To him, we looked like tiny ants. Of course, that wouldn't stop me from destroying him if he got in my way.

"Slayer." A British accent came from behind me. As I turned to face Spike, a dread came through me. Would I have to kill him, too?

"This is the slayer?" The god turned to me… studying me from head to toe. "The human vampire slayer… known throughout the world, and yet more dimensions. This is she who protects the earthly world… fighting for her life and the life of every other human." He looked into my eyes, his red fire to the core. "She who destroyed our Glorificus."

I sighed. Of course this would be THAT dimension. "Yup, that's me." I said.

The god bent over me. "You are an idiot. You, what, dropped in to say hi? Unlikely, Slayer. Why are you here?"

"Trust me, I'm not big on the whole me being here thing either." I glanced around, taking note of every demon within reach. To my surprise, they all backed off. The only demons within my arms reach were the god and Spike.

"Why are you here?" He repeated.

"We are here by accident." Willow said. I turned to her. I had almost forgotten that she was here.

"Accident?" He asked. Now he was towering over her, casting his gaze over the whole of her. "My, my, do we have a powerful witch over here." He held up and hand but, once his claws got close to her, he pulled back as if he was burned. He growled and turned back to me. I looked over at Willow. She was looking over at Spike. Suddenly I had an idea.

"Willow, are you ready to leave?" I asked. She stared at me.

"We still need…"

I interrupted, noticing the god's confused expression. "I have it taken care of." I nodded and the foreign words flowed from her mouth. I bent and kicked the god, moving him out of the portal's way. I turned and saw the opening, inside Giles was waiting. Willow jumped. I turned, took a hold of Spike's coat and flung him, and I, through the opening, landing on the floor just as the portal closed.