AN: Thanks for all your reviews. So BTVS doesn't belong to me. That's all now on with the story. By the way, if anybody didn't know what MREs are they are Meals Ready to Eat.
Walking into the Summers household, Faith and Shane looked freshly showered. They had gotten back late that afternoon and only had time to shower. Faith had improved greatly with sensing others. Shane had taught her some moves to help her fighting style. Shane had felt maybe something was upsetting Buffy, while Faith noticed the same thing with Tara. Both had decided that they will talk to them after the meeting. Buffy went to start the meeting when she was interrupted by Shane.
"Hey, where's Riley?" Buffy flinched at the question.
"He left while you were out training." Buffy answered simply.
'Bastard.' Shane thought angrily
"Anyway, Giles, what did you find out from the council?" Buffy asked eagerly wanting information on Glory.
"Well, um, the Council is coming here." Giles said nervously knowing the gang wouldn't take it well.
"What! No. They can't come here. Bad things happen when they come here." As expected, Buffy flipped.
"So I take these aren't entirely good guys?" Shane asked having no clue who they were.
"Not really. They were set up to watch over the Slayer but they don't care if she lives or dies. They even have this test where they take away a slayer's power and have them fight a vampire." Buffy explained.
"Plus they didn't seem to care if any innocents got killed when their wet work team was shooting full auto in L.A." Faith added her two cents.
"Yes, but back to the point, They will be here maybe by tomorrow." Giles said.
The next day, Faith and Tara were sitting in the backroom of the Magic Box. Willow was in class and Tara was skipping to talk to Faith. Tara knew how Faith felt but she knew that Faith would listen to her problems. Faith knew that it had to be serious, whatever Tara had wanted to talk about, for Tara to skip school to talk.
"Faith, I'm worried about Willow. She has been doing a lot of magic and I think it might be getting control of her. She uses magic for everything. It's starting to scare me." Tara said with some fear in her voice.
"Tara, be honest, has she used magic on you?" Faith said with barely contained rage.
"No, but she isn't listening to me about taking it slow." Tara explained hoping that Faith's anger would dissipate some.
"I don't know what to say. I think you have to ask yourself if you would leave if she doesn't get it under control." Faith stated with caution.
Tara opened her mouth to answer but was interrupted by a commotion from the front. They rushed out and saw three guys and one girl patronizing Giles. They were all wearing tweed suites and their attitude screamed that they were better than everyone. Both of them knew that these had to be he people from the Council. The oldest one looked over at the duo coming out of the back. He looked taken back at the sight of Faith and also a bit frightened.
"Giles, you want to introduce the other tweed heads?" Faith asked not trying to mask the insult.
"You would do well to mind your elders or you will find yourself back in jail." The oldest said to try and threaten the once rouge slayer.
"Try it. I got bigger guns on my side." Faith said with her trademark smirk feeling very confidant.
By this time, Shane and Buffy had walked in. They were finishing talking about Riley and all that the soldier's leaving had done to Buffy. Both noticed the tense atmosphere and Shane figured that these were the Council goons. Buffy had tensed too as she didn't trust them not to do anything especially when she spotted Travers.
"Um, yes, well this is Travers and some of his people." Giles nervously said.
"We are here to evaluate you, Buffy, and talk to your friends before we give you the information." Travers said feeling he had the upper hand.
Travers had a smug smile at Buffy's lack of confidence. Unfortunately for him, Shane growing up with a war god for a father had never liked when information, especially when it was a life or death situation, was held back. So she did exactly what came natural to her when she was angry, Shane grabbed Travers' tie and slammed his face into a table. She was holding him there with her right arm across the back of his neck and she kicked the watcher that rushed her over the counter. The others were too scared to actually do anything and Travers was helpless to the hold.
"Now, you are going to tell us everything or I'll break every bone in your body." The war demi-god seethed in his ear.
"Get off me, you animal." The head of the Watcher's Council ground out.
"If this is the way you want to do it." Shane said as she grabbed at his index finger.
"Shane! Stop this is not the way to go." Buffy said being the first of the gang to come out of their shock.
Shane stayed like that for a moment but eventually let him go. Taking a deep breath to calm her rage, she returned to Buffy's side. Anya had checked on the Watcher, that had been kicked over the counter, and helped him get back to his feet. Tara looked a little freaked out about the whole exchange. Faith was smirking at the head Watcher. Giles had taken to subtly smirking too. The Watchers had all looked at Shane like she was a demon and one even went as far to hold a cross in her face. Faith and Shane couldn't hold in their laughter at that and both ended up clutching their sides.
"What is this? You associate with murders and demons. What kind of Slayer are you, Miss Summers?" Travers yelled trying to regain some of his dignity which ended the laughter but pissed off the two demi-gods.
"I'm not a demon but you will get us all the information on Glory. If by tonight, it's not here then I will finish what I was about to start and Buffy won't stop me. Don't think an Ocean will stop me." Shane said with a clear threat in her voice.
Buffy had left to go home and check on her family. After Shane's threat, the Watchers had left to, hopefully, gather the information. Buffy had thought back to what just happened, 'Shane looked so scary. I know she will go through with her plans if they don't give us the information. The most upsetting thing is that I almost didn't stop her. If her way gets us information faster, then I can't fault her. I want to keep Dawn safe and the only way to do that would be to get as much info on Glory as we can.'
Buffy was broken out of her thoughts when she walked into the living room. There sitting calmly in a chair was Glory. Buffy's immediately went into slayer mode thinking of her family. Glory started going on about how she wants Buffy to give her the Key. Buffy's attention was drawn to the doorway behind Glory, when she spotted Dawn. She tried to make sure that glory focused on her and make subtle movement towards the fireplace to grab a poker. Glory had turned her attention to Dawn and Buffy stepped up her attempt to grab the poker.
"Your sister stole my Key. Have you seen it? Touch it, Blondie, and little sis is dead." Glory said without turning around and her threat made Buffy stop and she continued this time facing Buffy, "I'll kill your family and your friends if I don't get my key. Next time we meet someone you love dies."
Glory left shortly after that. Buffy was walking to the Magic Box and she was running late. After what happened at her house, she had some thinking to do. She was startled when out of seemingly nowhere when five men all in medieval armor caring swords. Buffy dodged one running at her and threw him into a guy behind her. Another brought his sword in a downward slash that she caught and ripped it out of his hands and kicked him in the stomach. One went to charge but was turned and struck with a fist. Buffy saw Shane and felt better about her odds. She got caught in a duel with two of the crusade like warriors. She was in a stale mate with both swords pointing towards the ground to which she slide it upwards and struck him in the chest than a fist to the face knocking him out. The next one kicked in the leg tripping him and kneeing his head to knock him out.
The last two had attacked Shane. She pulled her own custom sword from her back. She got into a stale mate with one and ended up inches from his face. With a quick decision, she head butted the armored man. They both stumbled back and the other attempted to stab her in her confused state. Buffy kicked him in the knees and held a sword to his throat. Shane finished the last guy with a kick to the stomach and a kick to the back of his neck.
"Now, let's see what you are." Buffy said as she pulled the helmet off and was floor when she saw he was human.
"Why did you attack?" Shane asked unaffected of his race.
"The key is the link. The link must be severed." He said over and over until Shane just hit him to shut him up.
"How did you know I was here?" Buffy asked as she turned.
"Just felt like this was the place I needed to be." Shane answered simply as they walked into the Magic Box.
"So are you ready to give up that information on Glory?" Buffy asked when she saw the delegation from the council.
"Despite earlier threats, I'm not sure if you can properly deal with Glory." Travers said feeling more confident than he really was.
"Really, how about I start at your fingers and work my way from there." Shane stated advancing on him.
"Shane, wait a few more moments. He just upset that the only real people with power don't work for him. You see, he has got this information but he just wants us to beg for it. Glory stopped by the house today. She only came to talk and no one got hurt. I realized then that we have the power. You want to come over here and demand us to do what you want. At any moment, I could get that info by force and I'm sure Shane and Faith would be happy to give your men the ass kicking they deserve. So what you are going to do is give me the info and get your asses back to England." Buffy demanded at the end.
"Nice speech but what I have isn't anything you would expect." Travers then continued with, "Glory is a god." Shocking every one of the gang except one.
"Sweet! Things just got a whole lot better." Shane exclaimed with genuine excitement leaving everybody thinking.
'She really is insane.'
AN: So review and tell me what you think and any suggestions.
