Chapter 5
Giles had let Amy and Xander have a look in the Witchcraft books in The Magic Box and Willow had lent them all of her books. So Xander researched in The Magic Box as Giles trusted him more, and Amy researched through Willow's books at Giles' house. Her and Xander were sleeping at Giles' house for a while because Xander had no place to live and Amy's dad had mysteriously disappeared, leaving her with bills which she couldn't cope with at all so she'd had to sell the house and that had left her homeless. Giles was hesitant to allow them to stay there but he was persuaded by Willow. Xander slept on the couch and Amy slept in the spare room.
The pages of the ancient books rustled under Xander's fingers as he looked for something of more significance. So far he must have looked through at least a dozen books but he had found nothing appropriate, though, he continued to look, he came across a book which look identical to the one which Amy had found.
"Hm...that's weird." He said to himself and opened the book, the same strong smell reaching up to his nostrils and attaching itself in them. "Ugh!" He, however, endured it and started to look through it. It was all in strange symbols, an ancient language that not even Giles would understand. He put it to one side to show the others later and picked up another.
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"Well, Willow, I must say, you might not be quite the Witch you used to be but you really are something with this rat and computer." Giles complimented Willow, he obviously knew nothing about computers though, he always got somebody else to go on the computer for him, he'd stay as far away from computers as he possibly could because they didn't smell and he thought that the gaining of knowledge should be smelly, but some things needed to be looked up on the computer. The only time Giles was caught on the computer was when Willow was going to be burnt at the stake, along with Buffy and Amy, and there was nobody to help him.
Willow laughed at Giles's comment. "That's a mouse and computer, Giles." Willow gave him a joking don't-be-so-silly face with a smile. Willow was looking for strange events on the internet, such as the chasm news report which Dawn had found out about the previous day. They were at Buffy's house as that was where the computer was set up, Giles was looking through the reports Willow had already printed off, some of them were; acid rain in Mexico - not a cloud in the sky, Earth tremors in Chicago - knocking people's heads clean off their necks, and monster hurricanes in Vancouver (Canada) - lifting whole houses into the air.
"Hey! Here's something else: 'Our resources tell us that the tidal wave in mid-Brazil' oh my god, is that possible Giles?" Willow read the unbelievable information from the computer screen.
"Well, no, not really, it isn't."
"'was the cause of a large tornado which carried the water over halfway through Brazil, most of it fell in a lake but the tornado returned and swept the water into a tidal wave, killing 6 people and injuring about 32.' Oh my god, Giles! I can't believe this! I better print it off." Willow clicked something on the screen and the printer began to make an extremely noisy sound.
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Amy was sitting on the couch with the books on the table. She picked up a small leather bound book which absolutely radiated with Willow's energy.
"This must be Willow's Book of Shadows. Maybe she has something in here." Amy peered around to make sure nobody would see her reading Willow's personal and private property. She carefully opened the little book and read through it. There were spells for protection, spells for helping Buffy win fights, spells for Xander, and even spells to bring Giles back. Willow had spells for everything in her Book of Shadows! But nothing that was useful for this situation, a measly protection spell wouldn't last a minute when the Hellmouth was opened. So, Amy picked up another book and searched through it, finding a spell for opening the Mouth of Hell. "Cool."
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Dawn was visiting Buffy in hospital but Hope was nowhere to be seen. Dawn had been to the shops and bought a huge bag full of candy for Buffy and they were eating it all together and laughing. Buffy munched on a Happy- Nutter bar whilst Dawn unwrapped a green lollipop to suck on.
"Hey! Can I sign your cast?" Dawn asked excitedly, she had always liked signing people's casts.
"Oh, yeah, sure." Buffy pulled the blanket from off her fractured leg. Dawn removed a green gel-pen from her inside coat pocket. "Dawnie, don't you have blue? Or purple?" Buffy looked at her with sad puppy dog eyes.
"Yeah, sure, I have a purple." Dawn replied, placing the green pen back in her inside pocket and removing a purple one from it. On the cast she wrote: Dawnie XX and Buffy gazed at the purple signature until Dawn said, "Oh, hey, I gotta go. I promised Giles to meet him outside the entrance at four. I'll see you soon. Bye." The two sister hugged each other.
"See you Dawnie, take care of yourself and don't get into trouble." Buffy smiled at Dawn as she left and then Buffy placed her pillow back on the other one and lay down to try and get a bit of sleep.
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Hope wandered through the cemetery gates and peered around the deserted cemetery to make sure nobody was there. She saw nobody and felt the presence of nobody either so she crossed the cemetery to the crypt with the vines creeping up the walls. She pushed the door so hard she was afraid her arms would drop off but as soon as it was loose enough, it flew open. There were a few cobwebs accumulating. They really need to do something about that, Hope thought as she ducked beneath a large cobweb with a fairly big black spider in the middle of the web.
She crossed over to where she had seen the sister of Buffy Summers pushed the lid of the stone coffin off, the Slayer examined the lid and lifted it, sliding it off easily. There lay the vampire that's Buffy's sister had called Spike.
"Hello Spike, meet the sun." Hope said, Spike was a vampire, he definately deserved this. Suddenly a screaming Spike darted out of the coffin and ou t of the sunlight.
"Who are you?! Why are you in here?! What are you doing?!" Spike yelled at the British Slayer, who was standing there smiling at him.
"So many questions, so many good answers. I'm Hope. I followed the kid yesterday. I'm slaying you." She answered briefly.
"You're what?! You can't do that you aren't the Slayer!" Spike exclaimed.
"Actually, that's where you're wrong, I am the Slayer, prepare to be slayed." Hope leapt forward and came towards him, circling him. She reached for her cross and forced it in front of his face, making him walk backwards. in front of the coffin, she got her stake out and thrust it in his heart.
"Tell Buffy I love her." Spike exploded into dust and Hope blew the dust off her stake.
"That's one out of my way." She grinned.
"Buffy will not be happy about this you know!" Dawn stood at the open crypt door, looking very angry.
Giles had let Amy and Xander have a look in the Witchcraft books in The Magic Box and Willow had lent them all of her books. So Xander researched in The Magic Box as Giles trusted him more, and Amy researched through Willow's books at Giles' house. Her and Xander were sleeping at Giles' house for a while because Xander had no place to live and Amy's dad had mysteriously disappeared, leaving her with bills which she couldn't cope with at all so she'd had to sell the house and that had left her homeless. Giles was hesitant to allow them to stay there but he was persuaded by Willow. Xander slept on the couch and Amy slept in the spare room.
The pages of the ancient books rustled under Xander's fingers as he looked for something of more significance. So far he must have looked through at least a dozen books but he had found nothing appropriate, though, he continued to look, he came across a book which look identical to the one which Amy had found.
"Hm...that's weird." He said to himself and opened the book, the same strong smell reaching up to his nostrils and attaching itself in them. "Ugh!" He, however, endured it and started to look through it. It was all in strange symbols, an ancient language that not even Giles would understand. He put it to one side to show the others later and picked up another.
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"Well, Willow, I must say, you might not be quite the Witch you used to be but you really are something with this rat and computer." Giles complimented Willow, he obviously knew nothing about computers though, he always got somebody else to go on the computer for him, he'd stay as far away from computers as he possibly could because they didn't smell and he thought that the gaining of knowledge should be smelly, but some things needed to be looked up on the computer. The only time Giles was caught on the computer was when Willow was going to be burnt at the stake, along with Buffy and Amy, and there was nobody to help him.
Willow laughed at Giles's comment. "That's a mouse and computer, Giles." Willow gave him a joking don't-be-so-silly face with a smile. Willow was looking for strange events on the internet, such as the chasm news report which Dawn had found out about the previous day. They were at Buffy's house as that was where the computer was set up, Giles was looking through the reports Willow had already printed off, some of them were; acid rain in Mexico - not a cloud in the sky, Earth tremors in Chicago - knocking people's heads clean off their necks, and monster hurricanes in Vancouver (Canada) - lifting whole houses into the air.
"Hey! Here's something else: 'Our resources tell us that the tidal wave in mid-Brazil' oh my god, is that possible Giles?" Willow read the unbelievable information from the computer screen.
"Well, no, not really, it isn't."
"'was the cause of a large tornado which carried the water over halfway through Brazil, most of it fell in a lake but the tornado returned and swept the water into a tidal wave, killing 6 people and injuring about 32.' Oh my god, Giles! I can't believe this! I better print it off." Willow clicked something on the screen and the printer began to make an extremely noisy sound.
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Amy was sitting on the couch with the books on the table. She picked up a small leather bound book which absolutely radiated with Willow's energy.
"This must be Willow's Book of Shadows. Maybe she has something in here." Amy peered around to make sure nobody would see her reading Willow's personal and private property. She carefully opened the little book and read through it. There were spells for protection, spells for helping Buffy win fights, spells for Xander, and even spells to bring Giles back. Willow had spells for everything in her Book of Shadows! But nothing that was useful for this situation, a measly protection spell wouldn't last a minute when the Hellmouth was opened. So, Amy picked up another book and searched through it, finding a spell for opening the Mouth of Hell. "Cool."
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Dawn was visiting Buffy in hospital but Hope was nowhere to be seen. Dawn had been to the shops and bought a huge bag full of candy for Buffy and they were eating it all together and laughing. Buffy munched on a Happy- Nutter bar whilst Dawn unwrapped a green lollipop to suck on.
"Hey! Can I sign your cast?" Dawn asked excitedly, she had always liked signing people's casts.
"Oh, yeah, sure." Buffy pulled the blanket from off her fractured leg. Dawn removed a green gel-pen from her inside coat pocket. "Dawnie, don't you have blue? Or purple?" Buffy looked at her with sad puppy dog eyes.
"Yeah, sure, I have a purple." Dawn replied, placing the green pen back in her inside pocket and removing a purple one from it. On the cast she wrote: Dawnie XX and Buffy gazed at the purple signature until Dawn said, "Oh, hey, I gotta go. I promised Giles to meet him outside the entrance at four. I'll see you soon. Bye." The two sister hugged each other.
"See you Dawnie, take care of yourself and don't get into trouble." Buffy smiled at Dawn as she left and then Buffy placed her pillow back on the other one and lay down to try and get a bit of sleep.
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Hope wandered through the cemetery gates and peered around the deserted cemetery to make sure nobody was there. She saw nobody and felt the presence of nobody either so she crossed the cemetery to the crypt with the vines creeping up the walls. She pushed the door so hard she was afraid her arms would drop off but as soon as it was loose enough, it flew open. There were a few cobwebs accumulating. They really need to do something about that, Hope thought as she ducked beneath a large cobweb with a fairly big black spider in the middle of the web.
She crossed over to where she had seen the sister of Buffy Summers pushed the lid of the stone coffin off, the Slayer examined the lid and lifted it, sliding it off easily. There lay the vampire that's Buffy's sister had called Spike.
"Hello Spike, meet the sun." Hope said, Spike was a vampire, he definately deserved this. Suddenly a screaming Spike darted out of the coffin and ou t of the sunlight.
"Who are you?! Why are you in here?! What are you doing?!" Spike yelled at the British Slayer, who was standing there smiling at him.
"So many questions, so many good answers. I'm Hope. I followed the kid yesterday. I'm slaying you." She answered briefly.
"You're what?! You can't do that you aren't the Slayer!" Spike exclaimed.
"Actually, that's where you're wrong, I am the Slayer, prepare to be slayed." Hope leapt forward and came towards him, circling him. She reached for her cross and forced it in front of his face, making him walk backwards. in front of the coffin, she got her stake out and thrust it in his heart.
"Tell Buffy I love her." Spike exploded into dust and Hope blew the dust off her stake.
"That's one out of my way." She grinned.
"Buffy will not be happy about this you know!" Dawn stood at the open crypt door, looking very angry.
