Title- It's About the Power

By- Kirstee

Timeline- Set after Buffy "Storyteller", After Angel "Salvage", and the beginning of the DoTM series

Side Note- In my story Angel has a soul again, there is no evil Cordy, and there is no C/C lovechild because you know EW. So let's just say once the Beast was destroyed all of that bad crap went away. Hey it's my story.

Disclaimer- I own none of these characters. They belong to Joss Whedon and his Co also Lynne Ewing.

Summary- Catty runs away to a small town called Sunnydale. The rest of the daughters go to Angel Inc. for help in finding her. Buffy/Angel/DoTM Crossover.

"Goddess" the lead guy said and an evil glint in his eyes.

A few Potentials had run into the foyer to see what the commotion was about. They stopped as soon as they saw the newcomers faces.

The place felt dark as if all hope had been sucked out of the room. "Stay away from her" Buffy said going to stand by Catty. She had her game face on.

The leader was taller then Buffy. He looked down at her.

He laughed right in her face. Then turned back to his "gang" who laughed along with him. Buffy's gaze also went over to his gang, there was one girl Buffy really noticed in the gang, all the others looked a lot alike.

The girl was a dead ringer for Drusilla.

Buffy risked a glance over at Spike. His eyes were wide as he looked at the girl.

On her chest were 5 letters. S- T- A- N-T. They looked like they were carved in there.

Buffy made an expression that showed disgust as she looked at the girl red and purple chest.

The leader finally turned back to Buffy.

"What are you going to do about it?" he said a smirk on his face.

"This" Buffy said and set a fist upwards towards his chin. It connected and he flew back into another member of his group. The leader struggled to stand up. Buffy came running to beat him out of her house but another member stood in her way. He swept his hand up in a motion to Buffy, who flew back into Catty.

That did it.

The foyer became chaos as Spike went at the one who attacked Buffy. Kennedy attacked another. A few Potentials joined the fray but most backed away, scared. Dawn went over to Catty and Buffy and helped them up.

Catty seemed to have gone catatonic. Her eyes were wide and she was saying something. But no sound came out, only her lips moved.

"Catty!" Buffy yelled. No reaction. She began to back away slowly away from them all. She was heading towards the kitchen.

Buffy was about to go after her when something gripped her from behind. The leader spun her around and looked down cruelly.

His eyes were been a deeper shade of black and Buffy could just sense the evil-ness coming off of all of them.

"Don't be leaving so soon" he said. His hand reached down to her. As he grew closer, her world grew darker. Her eyes squinted as she waited for it to come. Why was she losing hope? She could crush these kids! But she still didn't move as she stared into his uncaring eyes.

Then something jerked her and the leader went flying. Instead of staring into black eyes she now stared into blue.

"Spike" she said as she breathed a sigh of relief. The world suddenly came flooding back to her. She nodded a thanks and went over to her previous captor. Spike went off to help Dawn who was trying to fight one off.

Buffy picked him up from where he had crashed into the mirror. She held him by the collar of his shirt and punched him. His head whipped back and forth.

"Do you know how much I hate thralls?" she said as she punched him again.

"People.." she punched him again. "Are always trying to do that! WHY?!" she punched him again.

Then a scream echoed from in front of her. It was ear-piercing.

It was Willow. Buffy got up, the guy she had been previously beating lay unconscious on the ground.

The scene in front of her was horrible.

Willow floated a few inches from the floor. Her eyes flashed between green and black.

Then Buffy looked over to where Willow was focusing on. Kennedy was looking deep into the eyes of the girl who resembled Drusilla. There was a dim gray have surrounding the two. Buffy knew whatever was happening was bad.

Buffy ran to Willow. The last thing they needed was for Willow to become Big Baddie again.

Buffy was almost there but Willow's head turned sharply around. "Back" she said and Buffy was thrown back again. She crashed against the wall and slumped to the floor. Dawn ran over to Buffy.

Willow turned back to the girl and Kennedy. She muttered a few Latin words and a black ring went around the whole room. All of the Atrox were thrown out of the house.

After the last one had flown out the door slammed shut and Willow fell to the ground and so had Kennedy. Buffy had managed to get up with the help of Dawn. She went over to Willow and looked to see if she was ok. Her eyes had returned back to green.

She was coming back to consciousness and saw Buffy looking over her.

"Oh God Buffy I'm so sorry" she said as tears began to form in her eyes.

"Shh." Buffy said "It's ok"

"Kennedy!" Willows eyes suddenly went wide. Buffy and Willow both looked over to where Kennedy had fallen.

A group of Potentials were crowded around her. Buffy helped Willow up and they straggled over to Kennedy and the group.

Kennedy had curled up in a ball and her face showed absolutely no emotion.

"Kennedy" Willow whispered. She knelt down to her lover.

There was no response.

Willow gathered Kennedy in her arms.

"What's wrong with her?" Willow asked Buffy, her bottom lip trembling as fresh tears fell. She was distraught.

"I- I don't know Will" Buffy said.

"Maybe we should take her upstairs..." Dawn said from beside Buffy. Willow looked forlornly down at Kennedy. Then looked back up at them. She nodded.

Willow was to weak to carry Kennedy up so Spike picked her up and layed her down carefully on Willow's bed. Willow kneeled by the bedside and lovingly brushed a few strands of the girls dark hair out of her face.

"Kennedy" she whispered again. She kissed her forehead and followed Buffy and the rest out.

"Buffy what are we going to do?" Willow said frantically as soon they walked into the kitchen. Dawn, Spike, and Anya were already there, Xander was on his away, and Giles was still out looking for a few more Potentials.

It was time for Buffy to step up and be general again. "I think we need to find Catty, these people, Atrox she called them, are after her. Plus she seems to know about them, and we know nothing so if we find her then she can probably tell us what happened to Kennedy" Willow nodded.

"Okay me and Spike will go look for Catty, Willow and Dawn look through the book see if you can find anything on this Atrox, get Xander to help you when he comes, Anya call Giles and see if he knows anything"

Everyone went off in different directions after Buffy finished. Spike and Buffy went out the back door while Dawn, Willow, and Anya went towards the living room.

"Do you think we will find anything?" Dawn asked Anya quietly so that Willow couldn't here.

"Doubtful" Anya said not even trying to be quiet "I mean 1,000 years of being around demons and I have never heard of them"

Willow looked back at them her expression was saddened. Anya felt a twinge of sympathy.

"Oh but ya know demons they love to change their names and stuff" she said quickly "I'm sure I know something about them or Giles's old musty books might actually be useful" Anya gave Willow a bright smile.

Willow couldn't help herself as Anya's smile became infectious. "Thank you Anya"

"No problem" she said happily her smile still on her face, she walked over to the phone to call Giles.

Dawn and Willow went to the bookcase where they took out some of the darker books out. They began to page through them and as each page went by with no result Willow's mood became worse.

"Nothing!" she said as she flipped through the last page of the book. "Goddess! I hope Spike and Buffy are having better luck"