Buffy paced the sun room distracted with worry and frustrated because she couldn't help her friends, she kept trying to call the essence back to her but it didn't seem to be working. She huffed out a breath, and sat down on the couch next to Xander.

Willow who had been pacing since the moment the group had orbed away stopped and stared at the others. "If they're not back in to ten minutes we go after them."

Xander just nodded his head and continued to stare off into space, while Cole just stared out the window wishing Phoebe was already home and next to him.

Then the three of them heard the familiar orbing sounds and turned expectantly, to see Leo and the Charmed Ones, standing there, looking surprised that Tara wasn't with them.

Willow was up out of her chair. "Where is Tara, Leo?

"I don't know she defeated the Source, then we all orbed away together. I can't even sense her."

Willow looked shaken. "Does that mean she's dead?"

Leo shook his head. "No, if Tara were dead, I would be able to tell no matter what or who was blocking my senses." They looked at each other, than sat to wait not sure what to do.

Tara open her eye's and looked around, she couldn't believe what she saw. She was lying in a grass field. The sky was blue without any clouds, and there was a rainbow not to far from where she lay, but the most shocking thing was the small boy sitting not more than two feet away from her, he had the blondest hair she had ever seen and his eyes weren't a single color, they were a rainbow of all colors, and the colors were changing, even as she watched in wonder. They were huge, like small saucers in a child-like face. And they were about as ancient as anything Tara had ever seen before. They were eyes that had seen at least seven-hundred eons, not seven years.

The child smiled showing a pair of perfect white teeth and waved his stubby little fingers at her. "Hi Tara. We're glad you're awake."

We're? The use of the plural had Tara looking around, looking for the others that the boy-child referred to. As near as she could tell, they were alone. No one else was within sight.

The boy giggled again at the frantic search. "No, no, no. You don't understand."

Tara turned back to the little boy, not quite ready to speak yet, and lifted a brow questioningly.

Speaking patiently, and gesturing to himself with a careless wave, he said, "We. As in the us that is right here."

The being saw the confusion on the witches face and smiled sweetly. "It's okay, Tara. It doesn't matter. What's important is that we're here for a reason."

Tara was not amused. Pissed off...confused...not amused. "And just who the hell are you?"

"Sorry. We could tell you, but we won't. You wouldn't believe us."

Tara gave a slight smile. "Oh, why don't you let me be the judge of that? You'd be surprised at just what I am capable of believing at this point and why not tell me where we are."

Tiny shoulders lifted dramatically in a deep sigh only innocent children were capable of pulling off, but he wasn't a child. And Tara, even as new to this as she was, doubted the innocence, no matter his appearance.

"Okay. But don't say we didn't warn you. We're the Omega. And you're nowhere"

They were all there, the wonders that were them, though she was only being shown one merged vessel for easier communication. Explaining to her just what the vessel was, and who they are, would take far longer then they had

The decision was made among them to explain the where a little more - the 'who' would never be able to be explained in ways she could understand. That was too immense for her to ever hope to grasp."

"We told you - we're nowhere. In a place that doesn't exist. We're...in between realities. And we're here, we brought you here"

Tara narrowed her eyes. "So you're the Elders\Powers that have been ruling our lives, do I have something's to say to you."

The entities heard the tone, saw her belief in what was right, and her loathing for the Powers\elders - a disgust they just so happened to share. She was enraged, like she had never been in her life. In an aged voice that belied the youthful exterior, the combined entities told the Witch what she wanted to know.

"We're not the Powers\elders, Tara. Relax. We currently hold them in just as much contempt as you do. We are the Omega. We are the creators of dimensions. Weavers of destinies. To quote from the book that your people love to preach from, we are that we are, we are the beginning and the end. We have been called many names by many people the All, gods and goddess, but the name that sticks the most is the name a wizard gave to us The Omega. The Powers\elders have been useful in watching over the realities, and we have allowed them to continue in their rolls. In truth, they are not even aware of our existence. Their cause was our cause for more eons than we can count. But they have become lax in their duties of late, and arrogant in their assumptions that they are infallible."

Tara's head was swimming with all this information, as she looked at this small child, that wasn't a child. She knew with out really knowing that this was gonna be bigger than anything her and her friends have ever faced. She thought of Willow, her cousins and friends.

"The Slayer, the charmed ones, nor you is their creation, you are ours. You are not their warriors, you and the other are ours. They have perverted the role you all were meant to play. And we don't mean just you and the Charmed Ones or even the slayer, we have noticed a change towards our warriors over the past several centuries, but when we chose the five of you, we gave all of you more than the others. Made you all more pure in your power. They tried to fit all of you into an outdated mold that had worked for millennia on others with less potential and power. Never realizing that it wouldn't and couldn't work."

"So what you're saying is, the elders\powers have tried to strip us of all you gave us, including holding back powers till THEY thought we were ready for them, or even hiding that prophecy that says we will fight them. Setting ridicules trials and things that we had to pass to be deemed worthy."

Tara could have gone on but the boy held up his hand. "The groundwork has been laid, Tara. We're going to open a portal for you - but this one is a little different than the one we used to bring you here. It is a portal between realities, not just between realms. We're afraid there isn't much we can do; it will be a bit painful. And the effects will be felt in all dimensions. Undoubtedly it will shake things up a bit. But that will work in our favor. It will allow us to announce our presence to the beings that will hunt us - or try to hunt us - when they realize we exist. The battle that is coming, as you know Tara, will be against the elders\powers, themselves."

She felt the pull of them coming around her as she slipped one again in to unconsciousness.

In the manor, Piper was flipping through the book trying to find a spell to locate Tara, the spell to call a lost witch had failed, as did everything else they had tried. Leo came in the room as the ground started shaking, everyone dashed into a doorway just as a portal opened and Tara came falling out of it landing on a table and breaking it.

T.B.C.