Trinities Chapter 03
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Chapter Three-Who's up for a patrol?
Once the sun went down, the Slayers decided to burn of some extra energy by patrolling. Buffy, Angel, and Xander headed off in one direction while Lily, Spike, and Willow headed off in the opposite direction. Xander didn't want to leave Buffy and Angel alone so he went with them while Willow wanted to learn more about the magic that Lily knew.
Buffy, Angel, and Xander were walking down the street talking about the prophecy while looking for vampires and other assorted baddies. "The 'three by three' line is bothering me, still," Angel said.
"I know, that's the only line that we can't figure out. Hey, how come Lily doesn't have a Watcher?"
"Giles said she was born into a family of them. So she's her own Watcher," Xander answered.
"So she's a Slayer, Watcher and Wiccan," Buffy said. "Those are three very…"
"Three?!" both Angel and Xander shouted.
"Vamp, behind us," Buffy said.
Meanwhile, Spike, Lily and Willow were doing much of the same as Buffy, Angel and Xander. "So," Lily said after a couple of minutes of silence, "Buffy's on her third shot at life."
"Third? Yeah I…Three!" Willow shouted. "Buffy's third shot at life, plus three of your past lives are kind of colliding. Three Slayers, we've got three Wiccans."
"Oh my," both Spike and Lily exclaimed.
An hour later when everyone was back at the Hyperion, they were all in a rush to talk. After the six patrollers all started at one, Giles stopped them all. "Buffy, you first."
"The three's, we've got an idea. Lily is a Slayer, a Watcher and a Wiccan, three very powerful things."
"Buffy's on her third shot at life," Willow said, "plus there are three of Lily's past lives colliding, three Slayers, three Wiccans, and I guess three Watchers."
"That's a lot of threes," Wesley replied.
"Six," Cory said.
"What?" Lily asked.
"That's six threes. Lily being a Slayer, Watcher, and Wiccan is one. Buffy's third shot at life is two. Three of Lily's past lives is three. Three Slayers is four. Three Wiccans is five. And three Watchers is six," the former May Queen answered.
"Wow," Lily replied, "I guess that's the whole prophecy. Anyone else hungry?"
"I could eat," Buffy answered.
"Only Slayers could be hungry at a time like this," Cory said.
"Actually," Xander said, "I could eat too."
"So could I," Willow chimed in.
"Me too," Dawn added.
"I'm rather hungry myself," Giles said.
"So am I," Anya replied.
"Me too," Gunn said.
"I'm a bit hungry," Wesley said.
"Yeah," Tara answered.
"Sure," Angel said.
"I'm starving," said Spike.
"I guess I am too," Cordelia admitted.
After everyone had eaten, Lily, Angel, Spike and Buffy went on another patrol. At the Hyperion, the assembled group was looking over the prophecy in both its' translated and original forms. "As far as I can tell, the prophecy is perfectly translated," Giles informed them.
"Is there any more of the prophecy?" Xander asked.
"No," Wesley answered.
"Do you think we figured out what it means?" Dawn asked.
"I hope," Giles replied.
"So," Gunn said, "this Lily was the first Slayer?"
"Yeah," Willow answered.
"So she's like old," Cordy said.
"Well, Lily is twenty-one, just like Buffy," Giles explained. "However, her soul has been around for thousands of years."
"She said that she's been studying magic for a long time," Willow informed the group. "She's really good at what I've seen her do."
"How does she fight?" Xander asked.
"A lot like Buffy."
"I'd hate to go up against the two of them," Xander replied.
"When do you think all of this is going to go down?" Dawn asked.
"I wish I knew," Wesley answered.
"Knew what?" Buffy asked as they entered the lobby.
"When the prophecy will all go down," Willow answered.
"No clue," Buffy said.
"Don't look at me," Lily added, "I just brought the prophecy."
"So, is there a place for all of us to stay in this place?" Spike asked. "Or is your hotel too small?"
"Could you try to be nice for, like, one minute?" Lily admonished.
"There's plenty of room for everyone," Angel answered. "Cordy, could you give everyone a room while we put all of this away?"
"Yeah," she answered like it was killing her to do so, "I guess."
"Thank you."
It was quite late, so after all of the weaponry was put away and everyone was shown to their rooms, the entire group settled in for the night.