Title - Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: Love's Energy - Part 5
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 5
All around Buffy the blackness was almost flickering and in patches she could see bits of her living room. She glanced to her left and saw Dawn looking scared so she ran towards her but the faster she ran the further away Dawn was.
"Buffy!" yelled Dawn running towards her.
"Dawn! . I'm coming!" Buffy yelled to her. At the same moment she realised that she wasn't just yelling because of the distance there was an immense din of white noise that seemed to be coming from behind her. She glanced over her shoulder and promptly tripped and fell rolling to what passed for ground in this place.
About half a mile in the distance Willow and Tara were floating about half a metre off the ground surrounded by a crackling blue energy haze similar to the one they had seen earlier, there was also a faint outline of Antoinette Rangier behind them.
Dawn saw her sister trip, but she couldn't see what had made her look over her shoulder and therefore made her trip all she could see was a bright blue haze in the far distance.
Willow could feel her life-force mixing with Tara's and affecting the area around them. She could feel her love for Tara and she could feel Tara's love for her. Their feelings were almost tangible, she could feel her worries about Dawn and Buffy, she could even feel immense power emanating somewhere off to their left in a far distance, she could feel Buffy's fears for Dawn and she could feel Buffy's fears for her and Tara.
Tara looked into Willows eyes and she knew exactly what she was thinking and realised she could feel the same things Willow could.
"Willow concentrate on my mind." Tara whispered somehow knowing that her fellow witch could hear her.
"I am." Willow whispered back.
The energy field increased, the patches through which they could see the real world increased in size and number.
"We must feed the energy to both each other and into the area surrounding us." Antoinette Rangier told the two witches, she didn't seem to be yelling or even speaking at all it was as if the words were reaching their brains but bypassing the normal methods.
The entire area was ionising Buffy could feel her hair beginning to stand on it's end, she suddenly felt a presence to her left and upon looking at it she found she was sitting next to a patch that led into her living room.
"Can we get out that way?" Dawn asked in her ear.
Buffy looked startled as she hadn't heard her coming "I don't know, try it." She told her grabbing Dawn by the collar and pushing her towards the patch.
In the Summers living room Anya was still cradling Xander's head despite the fact that he had quite recovered.
"We should try and find out where the Gonathol would have taken them all." Giles said sitting on the couch.
There was a flash and suddenly Dawn was sprawled on the floor in the middle of the room, Giles rushed to her side and helped her to sit up.
"Oh." Dawn groaned as Giles helped her up. "Buffy?"
"No, it's Mr Giles, what happened?" he asked with a concerned look.
"We were in a place with no light, Me, Buffy, Willow and Tara and a ghost of a slayer." Dawn told them.
"A slayer ghost?" Giles asked with a interested look at the area where Dawn had appeared.
"Yea, we were all together then we weren't." Dawn said looking confused.
"Go on." Giles prompted.
"The next thing I knew I was alone for a few minutes then things started to happen holes appeared in the blackness and then I saw Buffy in the distance and beyond her a blue haze." Dawn said hurriedly.
"So you had no idea where you were?" Giles asked.
"No. but Buffy, when I got to her she pushed me through one of the holes and then I was here." Dawn finished.
Buffy was running towards Willow and Tara when there was a pulse of light that threw her back about ten feet. When she sat up the only light that was visible was that created by the slayer ghost. She ran to Willow's side.
"Uhh . I don't want to do that again too soon." Willow told her as Buffy helped her to sit up. "Tara!" she yelled scrambling to the other witch's side.
"She's alive Will, she's just unconscious." Buffy said as she felt for a pulse.
"The demon is called a Gonathol Demon, it's power is rooted in this place, which according to Antoinette is called the face of night." Willow told her while making Tara comfortable.
"That face of night?" Buffy asked with a quizzical look.
"Yes, it is created every four and a third million years when certain galaxies are aligned the planet Earth is covered in complete and utter darkness and everything ceases to exist hence you can walk and not hit anything." Antoinette said again her voice by-passed the regular channels. "Somehow the demon has been able to gain access to it and has deposited us here."
"So he's got an all access pass huh?" Buffy said.
"And the spell we just did will attract him here, and he'll be looking to kill us all." Antoinette pointed a ghostly finger over Buffy's shoulder.
Buffy turned round but saw nothing.
"BUFFY!" screamed Willow.
Buffy glanced at where Willow had been a second earlier but she was no longer there, she was being dragged away by the Gonathol.
"Hay asshole, you picked the wrong group of people to screw with." Buffy yelled after the demon as she launched herself at it.
Buffy hit the demon in a tackle that would make a gridiron player proud, the demon dropped Willow and tried to hit the attacking slayer with a rather nasty looking fist. Buffy dodged the fist and somehow managed to get the demon to hit himself in the chest. She looked a bit confused because she had no idea how she had done it. The demon lunged at her Buffy easily moved out of it's way and tripped it so it landed on what passed for the ground. The demon didn't move.
"Huh?" Buffy grunted with a frown.
"Careful he could faking it." Willow warned still laying where she had been dropped.
"Did it breath? 'cos it isn't now" Buffy commented watching the complete lack of breathing.
"Yea, I think it did." Willow told her as she sat up.
The Gonathol suddenly disintegrated leaving behind only a fine white powder.
The darkness around them suddenly stopped being darkness.
Dawn was sitting on the couch when suddenly Buffy was standing in front of her with Willow sitting on the floor next to Xander and Anya and Tara laying at the foot of the stairs.
"Buffy!" cried Dawn happily as she stood up and hugged her.
"My word." Giles exclaimed as he walked in from the kitchen and saw Tara lying at the stairs.
"Tara!" Willow cried as she rushed to her side.
The second Willow touched her they were enveloped in a blue energy haze and Tara awoke.
"Wow." Anya said before turning to Xander. "Why can't you do that?"
To which Xander replied with a scowl.
Willow and Tara were oblivious to the world around them as their lips drew closer together the blue colouring in the energy became solid and obscured the view of anyone that wasn't them.
Their lips met and there was a rush of energy that flowed between them that
intensified the feelings that existed between them.
Buffy and Giles looked at the ball of blue energy in amazement. Giles moved forward to look but Buffy stopped him shaking her head because she realized that this energy was what had saved them.
Inside the blue energy ball Willow pulled away from Tara and the energy began to fade into nothingness.
"Tara, I love you." she whispered.
"I love you too." Tara whispered back.
**THE END**
NEXT MONTH IN BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER FANFICTION BY SHANE HOPKINS.
Murder, mayhem and mystery as The Master crosses over from "The Wish" universe to take Tara hostage in order to blackmail Willow into becoming his lackey again.
Stay tuned for - Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: Bargaining Chip
Same Buffy Time. Same Buffy Channel.
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 5
All around Buffy the blackness was almost flickering and in patches she could see bits of her living room. She glanced to her left and saw Dawn looking scared so she ran towards her but the faster she ran the further away Dawn was.
"Buffy!" yelled Dawn running towards her.
"Dawn! . I'm coming!" Buffy yelled to her. At the same moment she realised that she wasn't just yelling because of the distance there was an immense din of white noise that seemed to be coming from behind her. She glanced over her shoulder and promptly tripped and fell rolling to what passed for ground in this place.
About half a mile in the distance Willow and Tara were floating about half a metre off the ground surrounded by a crackling blue energy haze similar to the one they had seen earlier, there was also a faint outline of Antoinette Rangier behind them.
Dawn saw her sister trip, but she couldn't see what had made her look over her shoulder and therefore made her trip all she could see was a bright blue haze in the far distance.
Willow could feel her life-force mixing with Tara's and affecting the area around them. She could feel her love for Tara and she could feel Tara's love for her. Their feelings were almost tangible, she could feel her worries about Dawn and Buffy, she could even feel immense power emanating somewhere off to their left in a far distance, she could feel Buffy's fears for Dawn and she could feel Buffy's fears for her and Tara.
Tara looked into Willows eyes and she knew exactly what she was thinking and realised she could feel the same things Willow could.
"Willow concentrate on my mind." Tara whispered somehow knowing that her fellow witch could hear her.
"I am." Willow whispered back.
The energy field increased, the patches through which they could see the real world increased in size and number.
"We must feed the energy to both each other and into the area surrounding us." Antoinette Rangier told the two witches, she didn't seem to be yelling or even speaking at all it was as if the words were reaching their brains but bypassing the normal methods.
The entire area was ionising Buffy could feel her hair beginning to stand on it's end, she suddenly felt a presence to her left and upon looking at it she found she was sitting next to a patch that led into her living room.
"Can we get out that way?" Dawn asked in her ear.
Buffy looked startled as she hadn't heard her coming "I don't know, try it." She told her grabbing Dawn by the collar and pushing her towards the patch.
In the Summers living room Anya was still cradling Xander's head despite the fact that he had quite recovered.
"We should try and find out where the Gonathol would have taken them all." Giles said sitting on the couch.
There was a flash and suddenly Dawn was sprawled on the floor in the middle of the room, Giles rushed to her side and helped her to sit up.
"Oh." Dawn groaned as Giles helped her up. "Buffy?"
"No, it's Mr Giles, what happened?" he asked with a concerned look.
"We were in a place with no light, Me, Buffy, Willow and Tara and a ghost of a slayer." Dawn told them.
"A slayer ghost?" Giles asked with a interested look at the area where Dawn had appeared.
"Yea, we were all together then we weren't." Dawn said looking confused.
"Go on." Giles prompted.
"The next thing I knew I was alone for a few minutes then things started to happen holes appeared in the blackness and then I saw Buffy in the distance and beyond her a blue haze." Dawn said hurriedly.
"So you had no idea where you were?" Giles asked.
"No. but Buffy, when I got to her she pushed me through one of the holes and then I was here." Dawn finished.
Buffy was running towards Willow and Tara when there was a pulse of light that threw her back about ten feet. When she sat up the only light that was visible was that created by the slayer ghost. She ran to Willow's side.
"Uhh . I don't want to do that again too soon." Willow told her as Buffy helped her to sit up. "Tara!" she yelled scrambling to the other witch's side.
"She's alive Will, she's just unconscious." Buffy said as she felt for a pulse.
"The demon is called a Gonathol Demon, it's power is rooted in this place, which according to Antoinette is called the face of night." Willow told her while making Tara comfortable.
"That face of night?" Buffy asked with a quizzical look.
"Yes, it is created every four and a third million years when certain galaxies are aligned the planet Earth is covered in complete and utter darkness and everything ceases to exist hence you can walk and not hit anything." Antoinette said again her voice by-passed the regular channels. "Somehow the demon has been able to gain access to it and has deposited us here."
"So he's got an all access pass huh?" Buffy said.
"And the spell we just did will attract him here, and he'll be looking to kill us all." Antoinette pointed a ghostly finger over Buffy's shoulder.
Buffy turned round but saw nothing.
"BUFFY!" screamed Willow.
Buffy glanced at where Willow had been a second earlier but she was no longer there, she was being dragged away by the Gonathol.
"Hay asshole, you picked the wrong group of people to screw with." Buffy yelled after the demon as she launched herself at it.
Buffy hit the demon in a tackle that would make a gridiron player proud, the demon dropped Willow and tried to hit the attacking slayer with a rather nasty looking fist. Buffy dodged the fist and somehow managed to get the demon to hit himself in the chest. She looked a bit confused because she had no idea how she had done it. The demon lunged at her Buffy easily moved out of it's way and tripped it so it landed on what passed for the ground. The demon didn't move.
"Huh?" Buffy grunted with a frown.
"Careful he could faking it." Willow warned still laying where she had been dropped.
"Did it breath? 'cos it isn't now" Buffy commented watching the complete lack of breathing.
"Yea, I think it did." Willow told her as she sat up.
The Gonathol suddenly disintegrated leaving behind only a fine white powder.
The darkness around them suddenly stopped being darkness.
Dawn was sitting on the couch when suddenly Buffy was standing in front of her with Willow sitting on the floor next to Xander and Anya and Tara laying at the foot of the stairs.
"Buffy!" cried Dawn happily as she stood up and hugged her.
"My word." Giles exclaimed as he walked in from the kitchen and saw Tara lying at the stairs.
"Tara!" Willow cried as she rushed to her side.
The second Willow touched her they were enveloped in a blue energy haze and Tara awoke.
"Wow." Anya said before turning to Xander. "Why can't you do that?"
To which Xander replied with a scowl.
Willow and Tara were oblivious to the world around them as their lips drew closer together the blue colouring in the energy became solid and obscured the view of anyone that wasn't them.
Their lips met and there was a rush of energy that flowed between them that
intensified the feelings that existed between them.
Buffy and Giles looked at the ball of blue energy in amazement. Giles moved forward to look but Buffy stopped him shaking her head because she realized that this energy was what had saved them.
Inside the blue energy ball Willow pulled away from Tara and the energy began to fade into nothingness.
"Tara, I love you." she whispered.
"I love you too." Tara whispered back.
**THE END**
NEXT MONTH IN BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER FANFICTION BY SHANE HOPKINS.
Murder, mayhem and mystery as The Master crosses over from "The Wish" universe to take Tara hostage in order to blackmail Willow into becoming his lackey again.
Stay tuned for - Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: Bargaining Chip
Same Buffy Time. Same Buffy Channel.