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3) THE GUIDE IS FOUND
"Where've you guys been?" Xander was holding a half consumed mug of coffee when the girls entered. Dawn sat next to him and Willow next to Buffy.
"Visiting friends." Dawn looked at her sister then to the witch.
"HEY!" Xander feigned offence. ""Don't I get a meaningful look too?" Many people thought of Xander as a strange, quirky guy who never took life seriously. Dawn knew different, he took everything about life seriously but had known, from a young age, that his talent for making people smile had a great healing power. "Laughter is the best medicine" was a motto he lived by. She turned to him and did a very sarcastic meaningful look. He smiled, pleased with himself.
"Buffy buried her head in her hands. "When you two have quite finished" They straightened, "Dawn, you need to get ready for school tomorrow and you" she pointed a finger at Xander " have to get ready for work." Since Anya had left to practice her 'demoning', returning only to serve in the magic box, he had dropped the apartment and taken up residence at the Summers residence. All of the scoobies lived there now, a family with a missing member.
*****
Finally, he'd found it, the soul he'd been searching for, a bright whiteness in the world around him. He walked up to it and heard a voice on the edge of his consciousness. It was beautiful.
~ Why do you come to me? ~.
"Dawn Summers needs a guide."
~ She has the Slayer. ~
"A guide in magic."
~ Why do you come to me? ~.
"Because you are the wisest of all magic users there has been for a long time past."
~ I am dead, it is the natural order, it cannot be undone. ~
"It is something the powers themselves have decreed."
~ What do you wish to do? ~
"Take you back, you will live once again." The soul was silent.
~ There will be a price no offer comes without one. ~
Damn, he had hoped that the price would not have to be known. "There will be a price."
~ I will be fully alive, feel the breeze in my hair, the sun on my face? ~
"You will."
~ Then I will go freely ~
He reached up and plucked the ball of light out of the air. The guardians of the gate gave him no trouble as he left and he shimmered out of existence.
The huge, terrifying beast that was Cerberus padded over to Osiris and whispered into his ear. "I think that we had better keep this to ourselves don't you." The god nodded. It's hard to imagine a huge God of the underworld trying to whistle innocently, its even harder to imagine Cerberus succeeding, somehow they managed.
*****
Whistler arrived at the graveside. He snapped his fingers and a stream of dust erupted from the earth before the stone, rising to the light of the soul he held in his hand. He spoke,
"Body of a mortal, lately slain, Soul of a mage, now retrieved, Let them intertwine, become one body, Let the soul live again." He glanced at the epitaph,
"Tara Maclay Cherished Friend and true love We will always be under your spell"
He let go of the ball and it fused with the dust a shadow of a human body appeared, it became more solid as a person emerged from the ash. Another snap of his fingers and it was clothed. The first breath was taken.
Tara Maclay stood before him. Her eyes closed taking in the feelings of the new life she had been given.
*****
THE DAWN OF TIME, THE AGREEMENT OF THE RULES OF MORTALITY
{The law is set}
{Cannot be broken}
{For every life that is relit}
{A price must be paid}
{No one may escape this}
{It will preserve the balance}
{It will be penalty for cheating death}
The law had been set along with many others, never to be broken.
*****
.Until now.
"I - I remember all that has been said at this grave"
The demon nodded. "They have advanced since you departed. Willow's power is now rooted in her happiness, not draw from her hate." It was now or never. "Open your eyes Tara" she did so but the darkness didn't lift.
"This is the price I pay for resurrection." It's nothing to what the powers are going to do to me when I've done this.
"Tara" she turned towards the sound. "I have a gift for you, as a reward for the service you have given to the fight," A rumbling started to fill the air. "Accept this to help." The rumbling became a roar. " He reached out and placed his palm to her forehead. "The sensed vision and the magical power of the Zorrel Demon" A flash from his hand transferred the power that he had stripped from the demon's soul to the girls essence.
The world froze around him and the roar became the voice of the powers.
{Demon, you are breaking the sacred law.}
{The price will not have been paid}
"It will have been paid"
{Sight will have been restored}
"As a gift from me, the price has been paid, she will never see as a human again." He was arguing the powers, and winning, he would pay.
{The price has been accepted, she will not gain this gift}
"I WILL NOT HAVE HER LEADING A HALF LIFE she was taken when she had done more for the good than many others. She had half a life and the rest will not be ruined by a total blindness. She has been through hell and survived with no reward, this is not the balance."
Silence.
{She may keep her gift and you, your position to us. You are true to your cause; we will accept the loss of human sight as a fair price. Do not take your victory for granted, we are fallible, as you know but we are still the Powers"
*****
The world came flooding back. The newly resurrected Witch stood tall in the dark of the night, radiating a light that only a demon can appreciate. The new day was dawning and a new power was in the world. This was the guide.
Authors note.
The end of this chapter was written under the influence of being tired, in college, during exams and stress from other areas of my life but I'll look and make it a bit better, hopefully.
Also I'd like to add: to any and all who want to post this fic elsewhere I want it free to view and download no profit making and please email me first (I just like to know where my stuffs displayed I won't say no.)
Now on with the fic.
3) THE GUIDE IS FOUND
"Where've you guys been?" Xander was holding a half consumed mug of coffee when the girls entered. Dawn sat next to him and Willow next to Buffy.
"Visiting friends." Dawn looked at her sister then to the witch.
"HEY!" Xander feigned offence. ""Don't I get a meaningful look too?" Many people thought of Xander as a strange, quirky guy who never took life seriously. Dawn knew different, he took everything about life seriously but had known, from a young age, that his talent for making people smile had a great healing power. "Laughter is the best medicine" was a motto he lived by. She turned to him and did a very sarcastic meaningful look. He smiled, pleased with himself.
"Buffy buried her head in her hands. "When you two have quite finished" They straightened, "Dawn, you need to get ready for school tomorrow and you" she pointed a finger at Xander " have to get ready for work." Since Anya had left to practice her 'demoning', returning only to serve in the magic box, he had dropped the apartment and taken up residence at the Summers residence. All of the scoobies lived there now, a family with a missing member.
*****
Finally, he'd found it, the soul he'd been searching for, a bright whiteness in the world around him. He walked up to it and heard a voice on the edge of his consciousness. It was beautiful.
~ Why do you come to me? ~.
"Dawn Summers needs a guide."
~ She has the Slayer. ~
"A guide in magic."
~ Why do you come to me? ~.
"Because you are the wisest of all magic users there has been for a long time past."
~ I am dead, it is the natural order, it cannot be undone. ~
"It is something the powers themselves have decreed."
~ What do you wish to do? ~
"Take you back, you will live once again." The soul was silent.
~ There will be a price no offer comes without one. ~
Damn, he had hoped that the price would not have to be known. "There will be a price."
~ I will be fully alive, feel the breeze in my hair, the sun on my face? ~
"You will."
~ Then I will go freely ~
He reached up and plucked the ball of light out of the air. The guardians of the gate gave him no trouble as he left and he shimmered out of existence.
The huge, terrifying beast that was Cerberus padded over to Osiris and whispered into his ear. "I think that we had better keep this to ourselves don't you." The god nodded. It's hard to imagine a huge God of the underworld trying to whistle innocently, its even harder to imagine Cerberus succeeding, somehow they managed.
*****
Whistler arrived at the graveside. He snapped his fingers and a stream of dust erupted from the earth before the stone, rising to the light of the soul he held in his hand. He spoke,
"Body of a mortal, lately slain, Soul of a mage, now retrieved, Let them intertwine, become one body, Let the soul live again." He glanced at the epitaph,
"Tara Maclay Cherished Friend and true love We will always be under your spell"
He let go of the ball and it fused with the dust a shadow of a human body appeared, it became more solid as a person emerged from the ash. Another snap of his fingers and it was clothed. The first breath was taken.
Tara Maclay stood before him. Her eyes closed taking in the feelings of the new life she had been given.
*****
THE DAWN OF TIME, THE AGREEMENT OF THE RULES OF MORTALITY
{The law is set}
{Cannot be broken}
{For every life that is relit}
{A price must be paid}
{No one may escape this}
{It will preserve the balance}
{It will be penalty for cheating death}
The law had been set along with many others, never to be broken.
*****
.Until now.
"I - I remember all that has been said at this grave"
The demon nodded. "They have advanced since you departed. Willow's power is now rooted in her happiness, not draw from her hate." It was now or never. "Open your eyes Tara" she did so but the darkness didn't lift.
"This is the price I pay for resurrection." It's nothing to what the powers are going to do to me when I've done this.
"Tara" she turned towards the sound. "I have a gift for you, as a reward for the service you have given to the fight," A rumbling started to fill the air. "Accept this to help." The rumbling became a roar. " He reached out and placed his palm to her forehead. "The sensed vision and the magical power of the Zorrel Demon" A flash from his hand transferred the power that he had stripped from the demon's soul to the girls essence.
The world froze around him and the roar became the voice of the powers.
{Demon, you are breaking the sacred law.}
{The price will not have been paid}
"It will have been paid"
{Sight will have been restored}
"As a gift from me, the price has been paid, she will never see as a human again." He was arguing the powers, and winning, he would pay.
{The price has been accepted, she will not gain this gift}
"I WILL NOT HAVE HER LEADING A HALF LIFE she was taken when she had done more for the good than many others. She had half a life and the rest will not be ruined by a total blindness. She has been through hell and survived with no reward, this is not the balance."
Silence.
{She may keep her gift and you, your position to us. You are true to your cause; we will accept the loss of human sight as a fair price. Do not take your victory for granted, we are fallible, as you know but we are still the Powers"
*****
The world came flooding back. The newly resurrected Witch stood tall in the dark of the night, radiating a light that only a demon can appreciate. The new day was dawning and a new power was in the world. This was the guide.
Authors note.
The end of this chapter was written under the influence of being tired, in college, during exams and stress from other areas of my life but I'll look and make it a bit better, hopefully.
