Buffy booted another demon carcass to one side, wiped a trickle of perspiration from her forehead and sized up her next opponent. She and Angel were kicking some serious butt but the dozy demons just kept on coming. Their combined friends weren't doing too badly either. Giles and Wes certainly seemed to have struck up some kind of British union and were neatly covering each other's backs as they did battle with enthusiasm.

A clawed hand whistled a little too close to her face and she leapt back to dodge it, giving Angel a grateful grin as he sliced off the offending limb before springing sideways to avoid a thick spiky tail being swept in his direction, Buffy smirked; time to repay the favour already. She brought her sword down on the tail that lay wriggling on the floor for a few moments even after she had severed it. "Eeeww."

Angel rolled under a hefty swipe from a very pissed off demon and groaned as he got flicked by a lashing tail. "Damn, where is Cordy?" he groaned clutching his ribs.

Buffy leapt in front of him to parry yet another assault from the same demon, giving him time to leap to his feet again. "Dunno." She grumbled back, "But she doesn't get Doyle out soon I'll-"

The sound of pounding feet interrupted the beginnings of Buffy's rant and suddenly a few dozen fairly human looking demons of different shapes and colours loped across the room and streaked out of the door. The Quaazberoon demons paused to set up a high-pitched howl as they watched their tickets to greatness go bolting off down the street.

Buffy watched the demon half-breeds go with a small smirk. She leant towards Angel to joke; "They'll all be three states away within the hour!" Angel grinned as he scrambled over a corpse to stand next to her. "I'm betting on four states in half an hour."

Suddenly the yowls of fury stopped and the demons launched an attack more ferocious than before, Buffy and Angel were driven back by the sheer unexpectedness of it and were sent crashing to the ground under the weight of several demons. Buffy dropped her sword and Angel's arm was pinned in such a manner that he couldn't use his.

"Oh no, Buffy! She heard Willow scream before the world started to get a little fuzzy round the edges.

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Sorry for the shortness of the update, I didn't have much time today, hopefully I will do better tomorrow; well, there'll be an update of some description tomorrow anyway!