Title - Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: Love's Energy - Part 3
Author - Shane A. Hopkins
Rating - M15+ (New Zealand rating)
Notes - Contains Low level violence
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 3
"So that's all it did, it grabbed her and crashed through a window?" Buffy gently asked Tara.
The gang was all at Buffy's house. Half an hour earlier Tara had pounded on Buffy's door sobbing and barely understandable, after letting her in Buffy had called Giles and the rest of the gang.
"Y-yes, Willow was w-worried that it was hurting innocent people and the t- thing hissed from the shadows that sh-she didn't have to worry about that." Tara told them still sobbing slightly.
"Don't worry we will find her." Buffy vowed "I won't let anything happen to her."
"What what if it's already." Tara began before she lost her grip and began sobbing uncontrollably.
"Don't worry Tara, you'd know if anything happened to her, you're too close to her heart and she's too close to yours for you not to." Giles reassured her "You, out of all of us, would know if anything had happened."
This seemed to cheer Tara up enough for her to almost stop sobbing.
"I'll go out and check some of the usual haunts, maybe beat up Willie see if he's heard anything." Buffy said as she stood up. "Anya, Giles go to the store and see if you can find out what this shadow creature is, Xander stay here and keep an eye on Tara and Dawn." with that she turned and walked to the door followed a few seconds later by Anya, Giles and Xander who shut the door after they left.
"Hey Tara it'll be alright Will's a survivor." he said gently as he walked back into the living room and sat down on the couch next to the still upset witch. "Did she ever tell you about the time when ."
"Where am I?.Is anyone there?" called Willow into the pitch black darkness that surrounded her. When there was no answer she began to run through how she had gotten here, where ever here was, she remembered something grabbing her at Tara's and crashing through the window, things started to get a bit hazy from then on.
Willow remembered the thing carrying her across lots of grass before she lost consciousness weather through some magic or something else she didn't know, the next thing she knew she was here in this pitch black darkness.
She realized that she couldn't feel her arms and hands, she knew she still had them because she could feel her fingers on her face when she rubbed her eyes, so she could obviously still move her arms.
She tried walking, but after a few minutes of walking in a straight line and not hitting anything she gave up and sat down.
After another few minutes of nothing she started to run through the spells she had memorized trying to find one that could help her out, but nothing came to mind.
Buffy was patrolling the Restfield cemetery when she heard a very faint rustling coming from behind her. As she turned around something rushed her at speeds she could barely have kept up with, the next thing she knew she was slung over the thing's shoulder and there was a lot of grass rushing beneath them.
With an unusual detachment Buffy noted that there was something not quite right with the grass, it was green maybe too green but that wasn't all that was wrong. Suddenly she realised what was wrong.
The thing wasn't leaving any footprints and with that thought fresh in her mind she lapsed into unconsciousness.
Willow was humming a chant to calm the mind when a voice in the darkness startled her.
"A spell will not help you Witch." the voice hissed the last word as if it were a curse
"Who are you? . What do you want?" Willow called straining to see where the voice had come from.
"I want all witches to die a thousand deaths for what they did to me." came the hissing voice in reply.
Willow hugged her knees in the pitch black darkness and began to feel very lost.
"Tara where are you?" she asked the darkness not really expecting an answer
"Willow is that you?" a voice came out of the darkness.
Willow knew that voice, "Buffy? Is that you."
"Yes, where are you I can't see a thing." came Buffy's voice
"I'm over here . Follow my voice." Willow called trying to pinpoint where Buffy's voice was coming from.
"I'm coming." came Buffy's voice from somewhere close to Willow's left.
"Buffy . I'm here." Willow said reaching out to her left.
Her fingers came into contact with something, with a small start she realised that it was someone's hand.
"Buffy is that you?" she asked in the direction of the hand
"Yes, and that's you?" came Buffy's voice from the area above the hand which by this point had grasped hers. "Where are we?"
"I don't know, there seems to be nothing here." Willow said in Buffy's direction. "Do you have a flashlight?"
"Actually I have, I'd forgotten about it." Buffy replied as a light that seemed extremely bright to Willow's eyes appeared on her chest.
In the reflected glow Willow could see Buffy's face which reflected her relief at finding someone else in the darkness. "I never thought I'd see you again." Willow almost sobbed hugging Buffy.
"Don't worry the gangs looking into it." Buffy reassured her.
"Tara, is she alright?" Willow asked a bit worriedly.
"She's a bit upset but Xander's looking after her." Buffy told her.
Buffy began to shine the light around their surroundings, but because there was nothing for the light to hit they still couldn't see anything.
"Buffy, how did you get here?" Willow asked.
"I was in Restfield when something rushed me and grabbed me and the next thing I know is I'm here." She answered still shining the light around.
Suddenly the light found something huddled in the darkness, it was human shaped. Buffy grabbed her stake, just in case, and rushed forward with Willow close behind. As they reached the form Buffy realised that it wasn't anything alive, in fact it looked like a mummy, all shrivelled and brown.
"That looks like it's been here awhile." Buffy said looking at the object in disgust
"What was the spell Dawn said?" Anya called to Giles from the table in the Magic Box.
"The spell went cosh a nee goo th rentoth." Giles replied from behind the counter.
"Ah.Ahh Ahh I found it, I found it!" Anya called happily.
"You did?" Giles asked in a surprised tone coming over to the table to look at the book Anya was reading.
"This spell." Giles began reading the page, ".was used in the late 10th century to trap a creature called a Gonathol Demon from the neither regions of a large demon dimension when it got free onto our plain of reality, The page containing the creatures essence was lost during the early 12th century, The spell should it ever turn up again should be destroyed in living fire and should never be said as this will reverse the spell and provide the creature with immunity to any future capturing spell." Giles looked up. "We could have a problem."
"How? . We find, Buffy kills, all's well" Anya told him.
Giles scowled at her and replied, "The creature is much stronger than Buffy."
"Xander!" Dawn cried happily as she came down the stairs in the morning sunlight.
"Dawnster." Xander replied as he carried two mugs of coffee towards the living room.
"Where's Buffy?" Dawn asked looking round.
"She went out on a hunt last night." Xander said looking at the clock. "Actually she should have been back by now."
"Tara!" cried Dawn as she looked into the living room to see Tara, still asleep on the couch, surrounded by a blue haze of energy, Xander dropped the mugs and rushed to Tara and tried to reach her but was thrown over to the other side of the room by an unseen force.
"Tara!" Xander yelled at the insensate witch who promptly woke up.
As she woke up the field of energy faded into nothingness.
"W-what.w-where?" she stammered as she looked around and saw Xander and Dawn looking worriedly at her.
"You were surrounded by a field of energy, are you alright" Xander said coming near her nervously.
"Y-yes, but Willow, she's in trouble and I think Buffy's with her, we have to go tell Mr Giles." Tara said standing and starting towards the front door.
She was halfway there when a shadowy figure crashed through the door and grabbed her. The form flew round the room knocking Xander into a wall rendering him
unconscious before grabbing Dawn and crashing through the nearest window.
Dawn had no idea what was going on, one minute she had been standing in the living room of her home and the next she knew she was in an area of complete and utter darkness, she couldn't even see her own hand.
"Uhh . Dawn is that you?" came Tara's voice from next to her.
"Yea." Dawn replied "W-where are we?"
"I think this is where Willow and your sister are." Tara replied reaching out for Dawn's hand.
"She's here?" Dawn asked excitedly.
"Somewhere." answered Tara.
To be continued.
Author - Shane A. Hopkins
Rating - M15+ (New Zealand rating)
Notes - Contains Low level violence
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 3
"So that's all it did, it grabbed her and crashed through a window?" Buffy gently asked Tara.
The gang was all at Buffy's house. Half an hour earlier Tara had pounded on Buffy's door sobbing and barely understandable, after letting her in Buffy had called Giles and the rest of the gang.
"Y-yes, Willow was w-worried that it was hurting innocent people and the t- thing hissed from the shadows that sh-she didn't have to worry about that." Tara told them still sobbing slightly.
"Don't worry we will find her." Buffy vowed "I won't let anything happen to her."
"What what if it's already." Tara began before she lost her grip and began sobbing uncontrollably.
"Don't worry Tara, you'd know if anything happened to her, you're too close to her heart and she's too close to yours for you not to." Giles reassured her "You, out of all of us, would know if anything had happened."
This seemed to cheer Tara up enough for her to almost stop sobbing.
"I'll go out and check some of the usual haunts, maybe beat up Willie see if he's heard anything." Buffy said as she stood up. "Anya, Giles go to the store and see if you can find out what this shadow creature is, Xander stay here and keep an eye on Tara and Dawn." with that she turned and walked to the door followed a few seconds later by Anya, Giles and Xander who shut the door after they left.
"Hey Tara it'll be alright Will's a survivor." he said gently as he walked back into the living room and sat down on the couch next to the still upset witch. "Did she ever tell you about the time when ."
"Where am I?.Is anyone there?" called Willow into the pitch black darkness that surrounded her. When there was no answer she began to run through how she had gotten here, where ever here was, she remembered something grabbing her at Tara's and crashing through the window, things started to get a bit hazy from then on.
Willow remembered the thing carrying her across lots of grass before she lost consciousness weather through some magic or something else she didn't know, the next thing she knew she was here in this pitch black darkness.
She realized that she couldn't feel her arms and hands, she knew she still had them because she could feel her fingers on her face when she rubbed her eyes, so she could obviously still move her arms.
She tried walking, but after a few minutes of walking in a straight line and not hitting anything she gave up and sat down.
After another few minutes of nothing she started to run through the spells she had memorized trying to find one that could help her out, but nothing came to mind.
Buffy was patrolling the Restfield cemetery when she heard a very faint rustling coming from behind her. As she turned around something rushed her at speeds she could barely have kept up with, the next thing she knew she was slung over the thing's shoulder and there was a lot of grass rushing beneath them.
With an unusual detachment Buffy noted that there was something not quite right with the grass, it was green maybe too green but that wasn't all that was wrong. Suddenly she realised what was wrong.
The thing wasn't leaving any footprints and with that thought fresh in her mind she lapsed into unconsciousness.
Willow was humming a chant to calm the mind when a voice in the darkness startled her.
"A spell will not help you Witch." the voice hissed the last word as if it were a curse
"Who are you? . What do you want?" Willow called straining to see where the voice had come from.
"I want all witches to die a thousand deaths for what they did to me." came the hissing voice in reply.
Willow hugged her knees in the pitch black darkness and began to feel very lost.
"Tara where are you?" she asked the darkness not really expecting an answer
"Willow is that you?" a voice came out of the darkness.
Willow knew that voice, "Buffy? Is that you."
"Yes, where are you I can't see a thing." came Buffy's voice
"I'm over here . Follow my voice." Willow called trying to pinpoint where Buffy's voice was coming from.
"I'm coming." came Buffy's voice from somewhere close to Willow's left.
"Buffy . I'm here." Willow said reaching out to her left.
Her fingers came into contact with something, with a small start she realised that it was someone's hand.
"Buffy is that you?" she asked in the direction of the hand
"Yes, and that's you?" came Buffy's voice from the area above the hand which by this point had grasped hers. "Where are we?"
"I don't know, there seems to be nothing here." Willow said in Buffy's direction. "Do you have a flashlight?"
"Actually I have, I'd forgotten about it." Buffy replied as a light that seemed extremely bright to Willow's eyes appeared on her chest.
In the reflected glow Willow could see Buffy's face which reflected her relief at finding someone else in the darkness. "I never thought I'd see you again." Willow almost sobbed hugging Buffy.
"Don't worry the gangs looking into it." Buffy reassured her.
"Tara, is she alright?" Willow asked a bit worriedly.
"She's a bit upset but Xander's looking after her." Buffy told her.
Buffy began to shine the light around their surroundings, but because there was nothing for the light to hit they still couldn't see anything.
"Buffy, how did you get here?" Willow asked.
"I was in Restfield when something rushed me and grabbed me and the next thing I know is I'm here." She answered still shining the light around.
Suddenly the light found something huddled in the darkness, it was human shaped. Buffy grabbed her stake, just in case, and rushed forward with Willow close behind. As they reached the form Buffy realised that it wasn't anything alive, in fact it looked like a mummy, all shrivelled and brown.
"That looks like it's been here awhile." Buffy said looking at the object in disgust
"What was the spell Dawn said?" Anya called to Giles from the table in the Magic Box.
"The spell went cosh a nee goo th rentoth." Giles replied from behind the counter.
"Ah.Ahh Ahh I found it, I found it!" Anya called happily.
"You did?" Giles asked in a surprised tone coming over to the table to look at the book Anya was reading.
"This spell." Giles began reading the page, ".was used in the late 10th century to trap a creature called a Gonathol Demon from the neither regions of a large demon dimension when it got free onto our plain of reality, The page containing the creatures essence was lost during the early 12th century, The spell should it ever turn up again should be destroyed in living fire and should never be said as this will reverse the spell and provide the creature with immunity to any future capturing spell." Giles looked up. "We could have a problem."
"How? . We find, Buffy kills, all's well" Anya told him.
Giles scowled at her and replied, "The creature is much stronger than Buffy."
"Xander!" Dawn cried happily as she came down the stairs in the morning sunlight.
"Dawnster." Xander replied as he carried two mugs of coffee towards the living room.
"Where's Buffy?" Dawn asked looking round.
"She went out on a hunt last night." Xander said looking at the clock. "Actually she should have been back by now."
"Tara!" cried Dawn as she looked into the living room to see Tara, still asleep on the couch, surrounded by a blue haze of energy, Xander dropped the mugs and rushed to Tara and tried to reach her but was thrown over to the other side of the room by an unseen force.
"Tara!" Xander yelled at the insensate witch who promptly woke up.
As she woke up the field of energy faded into nothingness.
"W-what.w-where?" she stammered as she looked around and saw Xander and Dawn looking worriedly at her.
"You were surrounded by a field of energy, are you alright" Xander said coming near her nervously.
"Y-yes, but Willow, she's in trouble and I think Buffy's with her, we have to go tell Mr Giles." Tara said standing and starting towards the front door.
She was halfway there when a shadowy figure crashed through the door and grabbed her. The form flew round the room knocking Xander into a wall rendering him
unconscious before grabbing Dawn and crashing through the nearest window.
Dawn had no idea what was going on, one minute she had been standing in the living room of her home and the next she knew she was in an area of complete and utter darkness, she couldn't even see her own hand.
"Uhh . Dawn is that you?" came Tara's voice from next to her.
"Yea." Dawn replied "W-where are we?"
"I think this is where Willow and your sister are." Tara replied reaching out for Dawn's hand.
"She's here?" Dawn asked excitedly.
"Somewhere." answered Tara.
To be continued.