Chapter 4: I Fall To Pieces

Spike woke up to find himself tied up in an unfamiliar crypt. "It's about time you woke up, sleeping beauty," Zieda said as she walked towards him. He looked up to see a short female vampire with long red hair. "Who the bloody hell are you? Untie me!" he yelled at her. To Spike's surprise, she just shrugged and said, "OK." She untied Spike's hands and ankles. He immediately started to fight her, thinking that the small girl would be no match for him; but he was wrong. Zieda quickly overpowered him and held both of his arms behind his back with her right hand.

"You're not as strong as you used to be, huh Spikey?" "What the bloody hell did you do to me?!" he yelled at her. "I poisoned you. Took all your vampire strength away. Now you're no stronger than just a mere mortal." "You stupid bloody mother fuckin' bitch!" His insulting curses at her earned him a kick in the balls, and he screamed out in pain. "Minions!" Zieda called and they came. "You creeps again!" "Take him to the dungeon until I'm ready for him," Zieda ordered. "Can we beat him up first?" Carl asked. "Sure. Why not." The minions seemed to get a 'kick' out of hitting a strengthless William the Bloody. Spike fought back, but it didn't help much because now all three vampires were stronger than he was. When they were done with him, they chained him up in the dungeon.

When Zieda was ready for him, she and her minions came into the dungeon. Zieda was carrying a large knife. Spike wasn't surprised, he had already assumed she was going to torture him and he had prepared himself for it. But he had no idea what was really going to happen to him. When Zieda noticed that Spike didn't look scared yet, she only smiled at him.

"So, you think you can handle this, Spikey?" she said as she held the knife up. "I've been tortured before. It's no big deal." "Oh, but this is something that's never happened to you before." She walked up to him with the knife, and to Spike's surprise, she didn't rip his shirt open to start cutting his chest. She held the knife on his left wrist, right above the chains. "So, what do you think boys? Should I just cut the hand off now or..." she said as she smiled at Spike evilly, "should I cut each of his fingers off, one by one?" "Cut his fingers!" yelled Mort.

Spike tried desperately to break free of his chains, but he couldn't. And even if he had, the vampires were still stronger than him; they would restrain him. Spike finally got scared; his fingers were about to be cut off and there was nothing he could do about it. Zieda chopped off the 5 fingers on his left hand with Spike screaming in pain each time, and then cut off his right hand. "What next?" Zieda asked her minions. "The feet!" yelled Tron. Zieda did the same thing to his feet. On one foot, she cut off the toes, and she cut the other foot off entirely.

And there Spike hung from the chains crying, without hands or feet. Zieda and the minions enjoyed watching the traitorous vampire suffer. Zeida gave Spike her evil smile again. "Does your dick still hurt from when I kicked it earlier?" she asked him in a fake sweet voice. "I'll just cut that off and make it all better!" "Oh gawd, please no. No, no. Don't do that. No, please," he protested with complete fear in his eyes. The minions only laughed.

Zieda pulled Spike's black jeans down and held the knife up to his penis and got ready to cut. "No! Please, don't do this. I'll do anything you say. You can take the chip out. I won't be a traitor anymore. I'll kill again. Just please, I beg you, don't do this!" "You say, you'll kill people again?" "Yes. I'll kill 'em all. Just don't cut off my manhood." "Will you kill the Slayer's sister?" The answer of course was no, but he thought of lying about it, but then he realized they would know that he was lying, and could possibly end with Zieda cutting off Dawn's body parts. "No, I won't do that," Spike said and accepted his fate. But that didn't stop him from screaming bloody murder (litterally) during the 'operation'.

Spike coudn't stop screaming and crying over the pain and the loss of his penis. Then Zieda finally cut off one of Spike's ears. It was last because if it wasn't, then Spike wouldn't have been able to hear himself scream as well. She said to him. "I suppose I could let you suffer the rest of eternity with a missing ear and no hands, feet...or sex. But I'm not that mean. And so, I think it's finally time to put you out of your misery." Then she took a stake, plunged it straight through his heart, and then Spike was nothing but a pile of dust.

Author's Note: I thought about calling this chapter 'Chopped Into Bits', but that would have given away too much information, right? Yes, I admit, I'm a sadist. But don't kill me. I had to choose an original way for Spike to be killed before he comes back somehow. I didn't want to do the unoriginal and overused, 'Spike accidently gets stake, or 'Spike dies saving the world' so I chose something that had never been done before despite how disgusting and cruel it was. It was not an easy chapter to write. But if you thought it was funny, then poop on you! (OK, actually I did think it was a little funny.) Read on to find out how the Scoobs react when they learn of Spike's demise.