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Angel's Vampire Slayer

Part 6

By Gaz

Rated: PG-13

Gaz, standing in the center of a large dark room filled with people, walks to the back, into the shadows, a perfect place for the creatures of the night.

Gaz:

The evil haunts her day and night

Guiding the powers that she has been given.

Now is the time when she shall be spared

And protected from the evil within.

Everything swirls around and disappears into were the story last left off.

Looking into his hand Giles saw that the necklace was still there, The cross was pressed tightly into his hand. Carefully Giles loosened his death grip on the cross and put it down on the night table. Then, he tried to go back to sleep, only to have a long night of remembering what had happened two hundred years ago.

#*#/~*~ Dream Sequence/Flashback ~*~/#*#

"Good afternoon, Master Giles," Jordan said to Giles who was standing on the other side of the front door.

"Is Victoria back, I need to talk to her?" Giles asked quickly.

"I'm sorry, Master Giles, but we know the same as we did yesterday, about where Miss Victoria is," Jordan said shaking his head sadly. "She's been gone ten days now and she hasn't sent any kind a message or nothin' yet."

"Thank you, Jordan," Giles said as the last bit of sun disappeared behind the horizon. "Please, send someone to inform me when there's a clue to where she is."

"Yes, sir," Jordan said looking behind Giles to see a young boy, about ten, standing there. "I'll do that." Then to the boy, he said, "Can I help you, boy?"

Giles looked back and moved out of the way as the boy came into the light from the house. He was a pale boy, a little short for his age, but looked very strong.

"Yes, I have brought something under order of my master," the boy said as he pulled something out of the leather purse hanging at his side and handing it to Giles.

It was one of the ruby rings that Victoria had been wearing the night she had disappeared. Giles took it gently, wondering how this boy had gotten it.

"My master thinks you shall like to have what's left of her," the boy said with a wicked smile. "He told me to tell you that she is gone now, and you might as well join our side before it's too late."

With that the boy turned on his heal and disappeared into the shadows.

$^$ Time Skip…Two Days $^$

"I'll miss you," Giles said putting two white roses onto the fresh grave before wiping his brow.

Though it was winter the sun was still hot as a cool breeze blew through the Thorn family graveyard. Before him stood the tall statue of Victoria that had been placed in front of her grave. It read: A life of searching for danger, only to die once finding it. Victoria Thorn 1784-1801 May she rest in peace.

#*#/~*~ End Dream Sequence/ End Flashback ~*~/#*#

~*~

"Hey, Giles. Are you ok? You don't look like you slept well last night," Buffy said as Giles walked into the library that morning. "I thought you went to bed early on Friday nights."

"Hello, Buffy," Giles said still half a sleep from the restless night he had had.

"So, I was thinking about going up to the mansion tonight and taking out the vampire lady," Buffy said as Willow, Xander, and Cordillia walked in.

"NO," Giles said quickly. Then, a little calmer, he said, "It would be too dangerous. Plus, if you kill her while she's in this state, she'll come right back after about five seconds, much more powerful and evil than before. She has to be brought back to her human state and then we can just let her die when her time comes."

"So, we wouldn't be killing her, we'd be saving her," Willow said after a minute or two of awkward silence. "Does that even work?"

"Yes, actually it does," Giles said.

"If that's so, then why couldn't we have done that for Angel?" Buffy asked quickly.

"These are different circumstances," Giles said trying to find a way to tell what he knew about Victoria to the others without telling how he himself HAD felt towards her. "She can never truly die. I think that is why she was chosen as a slayer."

"How is that possible without her being some kind of demon or something?" Xander asked.

"She's -" Giles stopped as lady, of about twenty-five, with ice blue hair walked in her head was bent so they didn't see her ice blue eyes till she looked up.

She was carrying a large pile of books in her arms, her long coat and leather boots made a soft swishing and clunking/clicking sound just a Victoria had when she walked around the warehouse last night. She came to a stop next to Cordilla who was sitting on the table.

"She's the angel of light and darkness, and she's the ruler of the light and darkness. She is the queen of all, so she cannot die or all would parish, the only way for her to truly die is if the world is sucked into hell," the girl finished for Giles. "Just as Angel wishes it to be."

"Who are you?" Cordillia asked hopping off the table and backing up.

"Oh, yeah, I'm Victoria," the girl said taking a deep breath. "I believe you're talking about my great, great, great, great aunt Victoria, the vampire witch in the family. She was the only one to figure out how to take her powers to the farthest extent possible."

"How are you related to the vampire lady?" Buffy asked her voice going, all, strange when she said 'the vampire lady.'

"I'm the great, great, great-granddaughter of her sister, Annabelle," Victoria said her face blank as if this weren't the best thing in the world or the worst. "Annabelle named her daughter Victoria, her daughter named her daughter Victoria, and it goes on like that till me. I'm like the first Victoria, in the way of powers and strange hair and eye coloring. I'm the only one with this kind of connection to her, so far."

"Yes, you look much like her," Giles finally said. "A perfect match if I do say so."

"That's what she said," Victoria said after five minutes of silence as if she had been contemplating what she was about to say. "I met her and Angel last year at Thorn Crest."

"You mean the old plantation is still there?" Giles asked surprised that it was still standing. "I thought it would be long gone by now."

"Actually it's just as grand and splendid as it was December 2, 1801," Victoria said quietly. "Everything is just as it was that day. Nobody dared to change it, with the witchcraft that Victoria practiced they were afraid that she would come back. So nobody has lived there for years. Till I came along. Then, my mother and I moved into it, I have taken Victoria's place, just as the prophecies said. I am a slayer and I am here to save the ultimate slayer from the fate she is now destined to."

"You're a slayer?" Buffy asked knowing that there could only be one slayer at a time. "But…but can't there only be one at a time?"

"Yes, but this is much different. I, like my aunt, am not just a slayer. I, too, am the ultimate slayer," Victoria said putting the books she was carrying down and taking off her long coat.

She was wearing a long dark blue dress with gold stars covering it, like the one Victoria had been wearing. Around her neck hung an exact duplicate of the rose necklace that Victoria wore. The ruby sparkled in the morning light coming through the window.

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Cliffhanger fun…lots of fun. Has vampire lady come to kill them all or is she not a vampire, but something entirely different?? Leave a review and maybe I'll be quicker to finish the next chapter. Actually I'm already about to start the next chapter, and I have like an hour left of study hall to finish it in.

^_^

Gaz