Title - Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: Love's Energy - Part 4
Author - Shane A. Hopkins
Rating - M15+ (New Zealand rating)
Notes - Contains Low level violence and one swear word
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 4
"WILLOW!" yelled Tara into the pitch black darkness that surrounded them.
From the darkness came an answering call "Tara?"
"Willow!" Tara exclaimed running towards the voice dragging Dawn behind her.
After a few seconds Tara and Dawn could see a light that seemed to be running towards them. Tara sped up and soon ran right into Willows open arms.
"Dawn? Is that you?" asked Buffy coming up behind Willow and noticing that Tara wasn't alone.
"Buffy!" Dawn cried as she ran to give her sister a huge hug.
"How did you two get here?" Buffy asked looking at Tara then at Dawn.
"We were at our house when this creature crashed through the door, we're gonna need a new one by the way, and the creature grabbed us and flew out the window in the living room, which we are also gonna need a new one of." Dawn answered as Willow and Tara broke their embrace.
"So neither of you knows how you got here?" Buffy asked, "This is going to be hard to find our way out."
"Willow . I-I'm s-scared." stammered Tara.
Willow hugged her girlfriend tightly and instantly they were surrounded by a blue haze of energy identical to the one Tara was enveloped by earlier that day.
"Buffy look." Dawn said.
"What the fuck." Buffy said in utter surprise.
Dawn raised her eyebrow at her sisters language while Tara and Willow pulled apart and the blue haze disappeared.
"What?" Tara and Willow asked in unison.
"Did you two not notice the blue energy that was around you?" Buffy asked staring at the two witches in amazement.
"No." Tara and Willow answered in unison.
They looked at each other and said in unison "Thirty-five."
"How are you doing that?" Buffy asked them.
"Anya, wait." Giles called after the woman as she ran up the path to Buffy's house. "the demon could still . why do I bother?" he gave up calling after her and ran after her. He stepped through the rubble that had been the front door.
"Xander!" Anya cried as she ran to her boyfriend's side and cradled his head.
"Uhh Anya is that you?" Xander said as he returned to the conscious world.
"What happened? . Where are Tara and Dawn?" Giles asked looking around.
"Uhh that shadow thing ." Began Xander.
"The Gonathol Demon." Anya supplied.
". it grabbed Tara and then the world disappeared." Xander finished.
"Oh dear" Giles said with a very worried look on his face. "That means it has all three of them"
"Four of them actually, Tara psychically connected with Willow and she saw Buffy there with her, so that means that it has all four of them." Xander said sitting up.
"Oh dear." Giles repeated.
"We found something over that-a-way." Buffy said pointing back the way they had came.
"Something Dawn shouldn't see." Willow pointed out.
"Yea but we can't worry about that now." Buffy retorted.
"What is it?" asked Tara
"A corpse that looks like it's been here a while." Buffy told her.
"That would be mine." came a ghostly voice from the blackness that still surrounded them.
"Who's that?" called Buffy and the other three moved behind her.
"I am Antoinette Rangier, the chosen one." came the voice again.
"A Slayer?" Buffy asked.
"You know of Slayers?" Antoinette's voice coming from their left.
"I am the current one." Buffy told her.
"Ahh I should have known you have the aura of power." Antoinette's ghostly form was becoming visible she appeared to be wearing what looked like rags that had been made into clothing. She had blonde hair down to her shoulders and a cheeky smile.
"How did you come to be here?" Willow asked the ghost.
"I was helping two witches to trap a demon that escaped from what my watcher called a demon dimension, and I was trapped in here when they must have succeeded and trapped the creature on a piece of paper." Antoinette floated to a sitting position on the ground. "I walked for months and couldn't find anything but by that point I had no energy left so I sat down and I must have died a few days later."
Buffy's flashlight chose that moment to give out. "Damn" she cursed hitting the flashlight against her hand.
"Do not worry Slayer" Antoinette said and she began to glow providing all four of them with enough light to see. "My watcher called the demon a Gonathol she said that it could kill all the witches in existence if it got to it's full strength."
"Wait why does it hate witches?" Willow asked the ghost.
"Enough chit chat." came the hissing voice that Willow had heard earlier.
Suddenly Buffy and Dawn vanished. Willow and Tara were left alone in the glow of the ghost.
"Where did they go?" Willow asked the ghost.
"The demon separated you so they could not help, It knows that witches and a slayer were the ones who put it on a piece of paper." Antoinette replied
"B-but where are they?" asked Tara.
"I do not know." Antoinette simply said
"Willow!" Buffy yelled into the darkness surrounding her. "Tara! . Dawn! Where is everyone?"
"Buffy!" Dawn yelled into the darkness surrounding her. "Willow! . Tara! Where did everyone go?"
"The witches you worked with did they give you any idea what they were going to do to the demon?" asked Willow.
"No." Antoinette began. "they said that what they were going to do would trap the demon forever, which since you are here I assume that their promise didn't hold."
"W-when did this all happen?" asked Tara.
"It was the year 965." was Antoinette's reply.
"Well we can tell you that the spell lasted more than a thousand years." Willow said with a slight smile.
"This is a good thing, but this means that the old ways will have been lost and we have no hope of finding a way to trap the demon again." Antoinette said with a ghostly frown.
"Wicca still exists but mostly not in a magical form." Willow told the ghost in an effort to cheer her up.
"I-is there any w-way to get Buffy and Dawn back?" asked Tara a bit nervously.
"I do not know." Antoinette answered.
"The witches must have had and extremely large amount of power to hold a demon of that size and strength long enough to bind it to a page." Willow said voicing her thoughts.
"W-what about that blue energy haze Buffy mentioned earlier?" Tara asked. "Could we somehow use that?"
"I don't know, let's try and see what happens." Willow answered. "Why don't you stand there and I'll stand opposite you and we press our palms together and
concentrate on each others wiccan power."
Tara nodded and stood up while Willow moved opposite her and stretched her palms to Tara who met them with her own. The second their hands touched blue crackling haze of energy burst from their intertwined hands and spread out to cover the immediate area around them.
"Let me help." Antoinette volunteered as she floated towards the two witches. She placed one of her hands into Willow's and the other into Tara's and the energy expanded at a exponential rate till it engulfed the entire area.
"WILLOW!" yelled Tara over the din.
"TARA!" Willow yelled back.
To be continued.
Author - Shane A. Hopkins
Rating - M15+ (New Zealand rating)
Notes - Contains Low level violence and one swear word
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 4
"WILLOW!" yelled Tara into the pitch black darkness that surrounded them.
From the darkness came an answering call "Tara?"
"Willow!" Tara exclaimed running towards the voice dragging Dawn behind her.
After a few seconds Tara and Dawn could see a light that seemed to be running towards them. Tara sped up and soon ran right into Willows open arms.
"Dawn? Is that you?" asked Buffy coming up behind Willow and noticing that Tara wasn't alone.
"Buffy!" Dawn cried as she ran to give her sister a huge hug.
"How did you two get here?" Buffy asked looking at Tara then at Dawn.
"We were at our house when this creature crashed through the door, we're gonna need a new one by the way, and the creature grabbed us and flew out the window in the living room, which we are also gonna need a new one of." Dawn answered as Willow and Tara broke their embrace.
"So neither of you knows how you got here?" Buffy asked, "This is going to be hard to find our way out."
"Willow . I-I'm s-scared." stammered Tara.
Willow hugged her girlfriend tightly and instantly they were surrounded by a blue haze of energy identical to the one Tara was enveloped by earlier that day.
"Buffy look." Dawn said.
"What the fuck." Buffy said in utter surprise.
Dawn raised her eyebrow at her sisters language while Tara and Willow pulled apart and the blue haze disappeared.
"What?" Tara and Willow asked in unison.
"Did you two not notice the blue energy that was around you?" Buffy asked staring at the two witches in amazement.
"No." Tara and Willow answered in unison.
They looked at each other and said in unison "Thirty-five."
"How are you doing that?" Buffy asked them.
"Anya, wait." Giles called after the woman as she ran up the path to Buffy's house. "the demon could still . why do I bother?" he gave up calling after her and ran after her. He stepped through the rubble that had been the front door.
"Xander!" Anya cried as she ran to her boyfriend's side and cradled his head.
"Uhh Anya is that you?" Xander said as he returned to the conscious world.
"What happened? . Where are Tara and Dawn?" Giles asked looking around.
"Uhh that shadow thing ." Began Xander.
"The Gonathol Demon." Anya supplied.
". it grabbed Tara and then the world disappeared." Xander finished.
"Oh dear" Giles said with a very worried look on his face. "That means it has all three of them"
"Four of them actually, Tara psychically connected with Willow and she saw Buffy there with her, so that means that it has all four of them." Xander said sitting up.
"Oh dear." Giles repeated.
"We found something over that-a-way." Buffy said pointing back the way they had came.
"Something Dawn shouldn't see." Willow pointed out.
"Yea but we can't worry about that now." Buffy retorted.
"What is it?" asked Tara
"A corpse that looks like it's been here a while." Buffy told her.
"That would be mine." came a ghostly voice from the blackness that still surrounded them.
"Who's that?" called Buffy and the other three moved behind her.
"I am Antoinette Rangier, the chosen one." came the voice again.
"A Slayer?" Buffy asked.
"You know of Slayers?" Antoinette's voice coming from their left.
"I am the current one." Buffy told her.
"Ahh I should have known you have the aura of power." Antoinette's ghostly form was becoming visible she appeared to be wearing what looked like rags that had been made into clothing. She had blonde hair down to her shoulders and a cheeky smile.
"How did you come to be here?" Willow asked the ghost.
"I was helping two witches to trap a demon that escaped from what my watcher called a demon dimension, and I was trapped in here when they must have succeeded and trapped the creature on a piece of paper." Antoinette floated to a sitting position on the ground. "I walked for months and couldn't find anything but by that point I had no energy left so I sat down and I must have died a few days later."
Buffy's flashlight chose that moment to give out. "Damn" she cursed hitting the flashlight against her hand.
"Do not worry Slayer" Antoinette said and she began to glow providing all four of them with enough light to see. "My watcher called the demon a Gonathol she said that it could kill all the witches in existence if it got to it's full strength."
"Wait why does it hate witches?" Willow asked the ghost.
"Enough chit chat." came the hissing voice that Willow had heard earlier.
Suddenly Buffy and Dawn vanished. Willow and Tara were left alone in the glow of the ghost.
"Where did they go?" Willow asked the ghost.
"The demon separated you so they could not help, It knows that witches and a slayer were the ones who put it on a piece of paper." Antoinette replied
"B-but where are they?" asked Tara.
"I do not know." Antoinette simply said
"Willow!" Buffy yelled into the darkness surrounding her. "Tara! . Dawn! Where is everyone?"
"Buffy!" Dawn yelled into the darkness surrounding her. "Willow! . Tara! Where did everyone go?"
"The witches you worked with did they give you any idea what they were going to do to the demon?" asked Willow.
"No." Antoinette began. "they said that what they were going to do would trap the demon forever, which since you are here I assume that their promise didn't hold."
"W-when did this all happen?" asked Tara.
"It was the year 965." was Antoinette's reply.
"Well we can tell you that the spell lasted more than a thousand years." Willow said with a slight smile.
"This is a good thing, but this means that the old ways will have been lost and we have no hope of finding a way to trap the demon again." Antoinette said with a ghostly frown.
"Wicca still exists but mostly not in a magical form." Willow told the ghost in an effort to cheer her up.
"I-is there any w-way to get Buffy and Dawn back?" asked Tara a bit nervously.
"I do not know." Antoinette answered.
"The witches must have had and extremely large amount of power to hold a demon of that size and strength long enough to bind it to a page." Willow said voicing her thoughts.
"W-what about that blue energy haze Buffy mentioned earlier?" Tara asked. "Could we somehow use that?"
"I don't know, let's try and see what happens." Willow answered. "Why don't you stand there and I'll stand opposite you and we press our palms together and
concentrate on each others wiccan power."
Tara nodded and stood up while Willow moved opposite her and stretched her palms to Tara who met them with her own. The second their hands touched blue crackling haze of energy burst from their intertwined hands and spread out to cover the immediate area around them.
"Let me help." Antoinette volunteered as she floated towards the two witches. She placed one of her hands into Willow's and the other into Tara's and the energy expanded at a exponential rate till it engulfed the entire area.
"WILLOW!" yelled Tara over the din.
"TARA!" Willow yelled back.
To be continued.