Title - Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: Love's Energy - Part 2
Author - Shane A. Hopkins
Rating - PG (New Zealand rating)
Historians Note - This story takes place between the Season 5 episodes 'Fool For Love' and 'Shadow' (I think cos I haven't quite decided)
Disclaimer - What I don't own. Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and 20th Century Fox own Buffy the Vampire Slayer and everything related to it What I do own. Everything not owned by the above mentioned people / companies is owned by me but you may use any of it as long as you give me credit, the only exception to this is Quinton Everett III as this character is based on me you can't use it without getting my approval first.
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Love's Energy - Part 2
The next day the weather was back to it's sunny normal and in the Magic Box things were going about as good as usual.
"Anya has that book I ordered yesterday come in yesterday?" Giles asked the woman behind the counter.
"This dangerous spell book here?" asked Anya Emerson. The shop assistant and ex- demon held the book in question between her forefinger and thumb as if it had a contagious disease.
"Yes Anya that one, it's for a customer." Giles replied to her.
"Yes, I believe that is the book I asked for." Quinn said startling everyone in the store due to the fact that no one had heard or seen him enter.
"Wow a sorcerer." said Anya in what passed for her amazed voice.
"I notice that our two resident witches aren't here reading innocent spells." Quinn said looking round with a small smile.
"So this book is for you, hmmm I think it may be underpriced." Anya commented.
"Actually Anya that book already has a 40% mark up on it, despite the fact it was a special order, so I wouldn't go complaining about it if I were you." Quinn told her with a smile.
"Yes Anya, please don't keep saying things are underpriced in front of the customers." Giles said with a scowl
"So how would you like to be paid for this book?" asked Quinn picking up the book, looking at the price of $150 before flipping through it.
"Cash." replied Anya instantly before Giles could open his mouth.
"Cash it is then." said Quinn pulling a very thick wad of hundred dollar bills out of his pocket and flicked three out onto the counter. "Here keep the change."
Anya was speechless, Giles managed to stammer out, "O-oh my." Quinn just smiled.
The door jingled and in walked a beautiful blonde woman who looked like she had a purpose. "Hey Giles we need to get to training." She said to the still stunned older man. "Giles.hey Giles you ok?" she said snapping her fingers in front of his face.
"He's just a little stuned at the tip I just gave him." Quinn said.
The blonde woman shot him a suspisious glance.
"Sorry where are my manners, my name is Quinton Everett III, but you can call me Quinn." Quinn told her with a small bow.
"He's a sorcerer." interjected Anya.
"Yes I am, but you would be Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer would you not?" Quinn asked her.
"Yes I would, but how did you know?" Buffy shot back at him.
"We had to study Slayer Lineage at Wizard Uni, and part of the course was to try to pick the next slayer, and might I say you got a lot of people annoyed by surviving the drowning that The Master gave you, over half the class lost a meritorious mark over that." Quinn told her with a smile.
"So you're a sorcerer are you?" Buffy asked him suspiciously.
"Yup would you like a rose like the one I gave your little sister yesterday?" Quinn said, snapping his fingers and pulling a throne less rose out of thin air and offered it to Buffy with a smile.
Just before Buffy took the rose the door jingled as Willow and Tara walked in and smiled when they saw Quinn at the counter.
"Quinn, hi did Giles get the book you wanted?" asked Willow while walking over to the table and sitting down.
"Yea, he got me a copy and in return I gave him a hefty tip." Quinn said with a smile as he walked over to the table and showed them the book.
"W-wow." Tara said in amazement looking at the cover.
"I know, ain't it cool, the cover changes depending on who looks at it, so what do you see, Tara Maclay, practicing witch?" asked Quinn with a mischievous smile.
"A woman frozen in place with something coming after her." was her answer.
"And Willow?" Quinn asked looking at the red headed witch sitting beside Tara.
"I see two witches with their palms pressed together." she answered.
"And Mr Giles?"
"I see a round table with two women seated at opposite each other." he answered after a few second looking at it.
"Yes, the book knows the future." Quinn told them all before getting up and turning and nodding at Giles "Thank you very much for getting this for me, but I really must be going" and with that he walked to the door, which opened for him, and walked out.
"Well that was different." Giles said with a bemused look on his face.
"Yes well all differentness aside we should be training" Buffy pointed out indicating both Giles and herself.
Buffy began to walk to the door to the training room.
"Yes Quite." said Giles as he followed her.
Once they had left, Willow turned to Tara and asked, "Did you really see that on the book cover?"
Tara nodded before asking "Do you think that book from yesterday has grown more spells?"
"Let's find out." came Willows reply.
She got up from the table and walked across to the bookshelves and picked up the book she had been looking at the day before, and placing it on the table in front of Tara, who picked it up and opened it to the page after the one they had been on.
"So where do you think any new spells would be?" Willow asked
"I dunno." Tara replied flipping over a few more pages.
"Hang on, there's one" Willow said stopping the other witch at a page with scrawling words that seemed to be moving as they looked at them. "Should we see if we can try it?"
"I-I don't think we should without knowing what it does first"
"What what does?" asked Dawn coming up behind them, having entered the store while the two women were looking at the spell.
"Something you shouldn't be looking at Dawn." Willow told her trying to stand in between her and the book and failing.
"Wow a spell, are you two gonna try it?" she asked excitedly
"No we are not and you really shouldn't be looking at it" Willow said in her sternest voice
"What does cosh a nee goo th rentoth mean?" Dawn asked sounding out the unfamiliar words.
As she finished there was a popping sound and a puff of smoke above the book and the words on the page disappeared.
"NO!" yelled Anya from behind the counter
"Dawn!" called Buffy as she ran through the door followed closely by Giles. "What did you do?" she asked shooting her an evil look.
"I read the book." Dawn answered looking a bit scared
"She read a spell that appeared in this book since yesterday" Willow told them as she held the open book to Giles.
"What were the words she spoke?" Giles asked a bit angrily
"It went something like cosh a nee goo th rentoth" Tara said
"I release thee to . punishment?" Giles said after a few seconds to translate the words in his head.
"No, it goes I release thee to revenge" Anya corrected rather testily.
"So after she said that there was a pop and a puff of smoke over the book and the words vanished?" Giles asked making sure he knew what happened.
Dawn, Willow and Tara all nodded in answer.
"It sounds like that Molock guy." said Buffy. "You know from four years ago?"
"Yes it does, but it's not Molock, he's in his own book." said Giles with a frown. "So I have no idea who or what this was, we should look into this."
Hours later when they had exhausted their resources Giles suggested that they should call it a night and make a fresh start in the morning.
Buffy had said that she was going to do a couple of sweeps before calling it a night and Willow and Tara had gone to Tara's place.
"I still think we should try a spell to find whatever it was Dawn released." Willow said for the third time since they had left the Magic Box.
"But what sort of spell, we don't know what it was that was released." Tara replied.
"I don't know but I just don't want whatever it was to be out there hurting innocent people." said Willow with a slightly worried look on her face.
From the darkest corner of the room came a hiss followed by a hissing voice that said "You don't need to worry about that little girl."
From that shadow came a shadowy form that swooped out, knocked Tara over and grabbed Willow and crashed through the closed window.
"WILLOW!" screamed Tara
To be continued.
Author - Shane A. Hopkins
Rating - PG (New Zealand rating)
Historians Note - This story takes place between the Season 5 episodes 'Fool For Love' and 'Shadow' (I think cos I haven't quite decided)
Disclaimer - What I don't own. Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and 20th Century Fox own Buffy the Vampire Slayer and everything related to it What I do own. Everything not owned by the above mentioned people / companies is owned by me but you may use any of it as long as you give me credit, the only exception to this is Quinton Everett III as this character is based on me you can't use it without getting my approval first.
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Love's Energy - Part 2
The next day the weather was back to it's sunny normal and in the Magic Box things were going about as good as usual.
"Anya has that book I ordered yesterday come in yesterday?" Giles asked the woman behind the counter.
"This dangerous spell book here?" asked Anya Emerson. The shop assistant and ex- demon held the book in question between her forefinger and thumb as if it had a contagious disease.
"Yes Anya that one, it's for a customer." Giles replied to her.
"Yes, I believe that is the book I asked for." Quinn said startling everyone in the store due to the fact that no one had heard or seen him enter.
"Wow a sorcerer." said Anya in what passed for her amazed voice.
"I notice that our two resident witches aren't here reading innocent spells." Quinn said looking round with a small smile.
"So this book is for you, hmmm I think it may be underpriced." Anya commented.
"Actually Anya that book already has a 40% mark up on it, despite the fact it was a special order, so I wouldn't go complaining about it if I were you." Quinn told her with a smile.
"Yes Anya, please don't keep saying things are underpriced in front of the customers." Giles said with a scowl
"So how would you like to be paid for this book?" asked Quinn picking up the book, looking at the price of $150 before flipping through it.
"Cash." replied Anya instantly before Giles could open his mouth.
"Cash it is then." said Quinn pulling a very thick wad of hundred dollar bills out of his pocket and flicked three out onto the counter. "Here keep the change."
Anya was speechless, Giles managed to stammer out, "O-oh my." Quinn just smiled.
The door jingled and in walked a beautiful blonde woman who looked like she had a purpose. "Hey Giles we need to get to training." She said to the still stunned older man. "Giles.hey Giles you ok?" she said snapping her fingers in front of his face.
"He's just a little stuned at the tip I just gave him." Quinn said.
The blonde woman shot him a suspisious glance.
"Sorry where are my manners, my name is Quinton Everett III, but you can call me Quinn." Quinn told her with a small bow.
"He's a sorcerer." interjected Anya.
"Yes I am, but you would be Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer would you not?" Quinn asked her.
"Yes I would, but how did you know?" Buffy shot back at him.
"We had to study Slayer Lineage at Wizard Uni, and part of the course was to try to pick the next slayer, and might I say you got a lot of people annoyed by surviving the drowning that The Master gave you, over half the class lost a meritorious mark over that." Quinn told her with a smile.
"So you're a sorcerer are you?" Buffy asked him suspiciously.
"Yup would you like a rose like the one I gave your little sister yesterday?" Quinn said, snapping his fingers and pulling a throne less rose out of thin air and offered it to Buffy with a smile.
Just before Buffy took the rose the door jingled as Willow and Tara walked in and smiled when they saw Quinn at the counter.
"Quinn, hi did Giles get the book you wanted?" asked Willow while walking over to the table and sitting down.
"Yea, he got me a copy and in return I gave him a hefty tip." Quinn said with a smile as he walked over to the table and showed them the book.
"W-wow." Tara said in amazement looking at the cover.
"I know, ain't it cool, the cover changes depending on who looks at it, so what do you see, Tara Maclay, practicing witch?" asked Quinn with a mischievous smile.
"A woman frozen in place with something coming after her." was her answer.
"And Willow?" Quinn asked looking at the red headed witch sitting beside Tara.
"I see two witches with their palms pressed together." she answered.
"And Mr Giles?"
"I see a round table with two women seated at opposite each other." he answered after a few second looking at it.
"Yes, the book knows the future." Quinn told them all before getting up and turning and nodding at Giles "Thank you very much for getting this for me, but I really must be going" and with that he walked to the door, which opened for him, and walked out.
"Well that was different." Giles said with a bemused look on his face.
"Yes well all differentness aside we should be training" Buffy pointed out indicating both Giles and herself.
Buffy began to walk to the door to the training room.
"Yes Quite." said Giles as he followed her.
Once they had left, Willow turned to Tara and asked, "Did you really see that on the book cover?"
Tara nodded before asking "Do you think that book from yesterday has grown more spells?"
"Let's find out." came Willows reply.
She got up from the table and walked across to the bookshelves and picked up the book she had been looking at the day before, and placing it on the table in front of Tara, who picked it up and opened it to the page after the one they had been on.
"So where do you think any new spells would be?" Willow asked
"I dunno." Tara replied flipping over a few more pages.
"Hang on, there's one" Willow said stopping the other witch at a page with scrawling words that seemed to be moving as they looked at them. "Should we see if we can try it?"
"I-I don't think we should without knowing what it does first"
"What what does?" asked Dawn coming up behind them, having entered the store while the two women were looking at the spell.
"Something you shouldn't be looking at Dawn." Willow told her trying to stand in between her and the book and failing.
"Wow a spell, are you two gonna try it?" she asked excitedly
"No we are not and you really shouldn't be looking at it" Willow said in her sternest voice
"What does cosh a nee goo th rentoth mean?" Dawn asked sounding out the unfamiliar words.
As she finished there was a popping sound and a puff of smoke above the book and the words on the page disappeared.
"NO!" yelled Anya from behind the counter
"Dawn!" called Buffy as she ran through the door followed closely by Giles. "What did you do?" she asked shooting her an evil look.
"I read the book." Dawn answered looking a bit scared
"She read a spell that appeared in this book since yesterday" Willow told them as she held the open book to Giles.
"What were the words she spoke?" Giles asked a bit angrily
"It went something like cosh a nee goo th rentoth" Tara said
"I release thee to . punishment?" Giles said after a few seconds to translate the words in his head.
"No, it goes I release thee to revenge" Anya corrected rather testily.
"So after she said that there was a pop and a puff of smoke over the book and the words vanished?" Giles asked making sure he knew what happened.
Dawn, Willow and Tara all nodded in answer.
"It sounds like that Molock guy." said Buffy. "You know from four years ago?"
"Yes it does, but it's not Molock, he's in his own book." said Giles with a frown. "So I have no idea who or what this was, we should look into this."
Hours later when they had exhausted their resources Giles suggested that they should call it a night and make a fresh start in the morning.
Buffy had said that she was going to do a couple of sweeps before calling it a night and Willow and Tara had gone to Tara's place.
"I still think we should try a spell to find whatever it was Dawn released." Willow said for the third time since they had left the Magic Box.
"But what sort of spell, we don't know what it was that was released." Tara replied.
"I don't know but I just don't want whatever it was to be out there hurting innocent people." said Willow with a slightly worried look on her face.
From the darkest corner of the room came a hiss followed by a hissing voice that said "You don't need to worry about that little girl."
From that shadow came a shadowy form that swooped out, knocked Tara over and grabbed Willow and crashed through the closed window.
"WILLOW!" screamed Tara
To be continued.