Willow's Savior
Chapter 7
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. Joss Whedon does, the lucky guy.
Authors Note: Rated R for a few curse words and talk of sex. About the same as an episode but better safe then sorry. Takes place after Spike got the chip and there is no Tara.
The Codra Demon
Over the next month and a half the time I spent in Spike's company became the highlight of my day. For the most part, we continued with my self-defense training but occasionally we would take a much needed break and go out instead. Sometimes we would go to a movie while other times he'd take me out to a club. Once we even traveled to Los Angeles for dinner since I got reservations at one particularly nice restaurant. Spike began to hang out more with the Scoobies, other than just on patrol, and the others seemed to be gradually warming up to him. Overall everything was perfect, or at least as perfect as it gets on the Hellmouth. It couldn't last for ever as we all found out a few nights later while on patrol.
It was only Buffy, Xander, Spike and I because Anya and Giles needed to finish taking inventory at the store. As we were walking down Kingston Street on our way back from Grovewood Cemetery we came upon a demon grabbing an unconscious blond woman. Before any of us could take more than a step in it's general direction, the demon started getting fuzzy around the edges, then it just vanished taking the woman in it's arms with it.
"I thought I'd seen everything that the Hellmouth could throw at us, but that was just nuts." Xander exclaimed after picking his jaw up off the ground. "Tell me I'm dreaming. It's all that chocolate I had earlier. Demons can not disappear into thin air, it's just not right!"
"If there are more demons who can do that we won't stand a chance against them." I stuttered still in shock. As usual Buffy took charge of the situation and herded us all back to the Magic Box so that we could describe the demon to Giles, in hopes that he would have some answers.
As we entered the shop Anya and Giles looked up from the shipping log they were immersed in. Taking one look at our concerned faces they put it away behind the counter and met us halfway across the room.
"Are you all right?" Giles asked. "You all look pale."
"We're fine, Giles. But this wonky demon just kidnapped some woman right in front of us and then disappeared into thin air before we could stop it.
"Start at the beginning. What did this demon look like?"
"It was a purple/maroon color." I volunteered.
"Yeah, and it had glowing yellow eyes. Definitely disturbing." Xander added on.
"Kind of scaly too, almost like a lizard."
"And it had a weird mouth. It was just an opening with a flap of skin hanging over it, almost like an overbite. Gave me the wiggens." Buffy shuddered. Unbeknownst to the rest of us, while we were giving our somewhat colorful description to Giles, Spike was drawing a rough sketch of it.
"It looked something like this, mate." Spike spoke up handing the drawing to Giles across the table. "Not perfect mind you, but this is all I can remember."
"Hmm… purple you said?" Giles mumbled looking over the crude sketch, while absent-mindedly tapping his pen on the table. "Well, it is definitely a Grinska class demon, but which one I do not know. I have some old tomes on Grinska demons upstairs. While I am getting them down why don't Willow and Xander try to find any missing persons reports in the police records."
Xander and I spent the next few hours going over local articles and police reports, while the others searched through various sources referencing the various types of Grinska demons. Once we gathered again to share our combined information it was close to one o'clock in the morning and we were all grumpy.
"Willow, Xander, why don't you start us off."
"Well there have been five women kidnapped in the last two weeks. Two of them were accompanied by their boyfriends when they were snatched. When the distraught men reported what had happened the police held them for questioning, before releasing them due to lack of evidence." I explained while passing around copies of the transcript of the two questionings.
"The victims are each between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five and have blond hair. All were taken late at night while on their way home." Xander expatiated further. "None of their bodies have been found, which we believe to be positive because if he had just wanted the girls dead, he could have killed it at the scene."
"Any particular hunting ground?" Buffy asked.
"No. Three were within a ten block radius of each other, but the last two were across town at the time of their abduction." I answered, grimacing at the lack of useful information. "So what did you find out about the Grinska Demon?"
"Quite a bit actually. Although none of it is encouraging I'm afraid." Giles continued to explain. "It seems that the ability to 'telephase' is unique to the Codra. It is a Level 4 class Grinska Demon. The Codra are imperious to all metal weapons except ancient Capelium, which is an alloy made thousands of years ago. Since demons of this type were thought to have become extinct millennia ago, the art of forging Capelium has fallen into obscurity, although I did find the specifications for making both the metals and crafting the weapon. This medieval fighting blade is the only known way to kill a Codra Demon. It is imperious to all other weapons and can phase through solid matter as well as teleport short distances. Using the blade to cut off the head is the only proven way to kill it."
"So give us a list of the ingredients and we'll begin to hunt down the elements and blacksmith equipment we'll need." Buffy said. "We don't have much time to waste. Who knows if these girls are still alive and for how long they will stay that way."
Chapter 7
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. Joss Whedon does, the lucky guy.
Authors Note: Rated R for a few curse words and talk of sex. About the same as an episode but better safe then sorry. Takes place after Spike got the chip and there is no Tara.
The Codra Demon
Over the next month and a half the time I spent in Spike's company became the highlight of my day. For the most part, we continued with my self-defense training but occasionally we would take a much needed break and go out instead. Sometimes we would go to a movie while other times he'd take me out to a club. Once we even traveled to Los Angeles for dinner since I got reservations at one particularly nice restaurant. Spike began to hang out more with the Scoobies, other than just on patrol, and the others seemed to be gradually warming up to him. Overall everything was perfect, or at least as perfect as it gets on the Hellmouth. It couldn't last for ever as we all found out a few nights later while on patrol.
It was only Buffy, Xander, Spike and I because Anya and Giles needed to finish taking inventory at the store. As we were walking down Kingston Street on our way back from Grovewood Cemetery we came upon a demon grabbing an unconscious blond woman. Before any of us could take more than a step in it's general direction, the demon started getting fuzzy around the edges, then it just vanished taking the woman in it's arms with it.
"I thought I'd seen everything that the Hellmouth could throw at us, but that was just nuts." Xander exclaimed after picking his jaw up off the ground. "Tell me I'm dreaming. It's all that chocolate I had earlier. Demons can not disappear into thin air, it's just not right!"
"If there are more demons who can do that we won't stand a chance against them." I stuttered still in shock. As usual Buffy took charge of the situation and herded us all back to the Magic Box so that we could describe the demon to Giles, in hopes that he would have some answers.
As we entered the shop Anya and Giles looked up from the shipping log they were immersed in. Taking one look at our concerned faces they put it away behind the counter and met us halfway across the room.
"Are you all right?" Giles asked. "You all look pale."
"We're fine, Giles. But this wonky demon just kidnapped some woman right in front of us and then disappeared into thin air before we could stop it.
"Start at the beginning. What did this demon look like?"
"It was a purple/maroon color." I volunteered.
"Yeah, and it had glowing yellow eyes. Definitely disturbing." Xander added on.
"Kind of scaly too, almost like a lizard."
"And it had a weird mouth. It was just an opening with a flap of skin hanging over it, almost like an overbite. Gave me the wiggens." Buffy shuddered. Unbeknownst to the rest of us, while we were giving our somewhat colorful description to Giles, Spike was drawing a rough sketch of it.
"It looked something like this, mate." Spike spoke up handing the drawing to Giles across the table. "Not perfect mind you, but this is all I can remember."
"Hmm… purple you said?" Giles mumbled looking over the crude sketch, while absent-mindedly tapping his pen on the table. "Well, it is definitely a Grinska class demon, but which one I do not know. I have some old tomes on Grinska demons upstairs. While I am getting them down why don't Willow and Xander try to find any missing persons reports in the police records."
Xander and I spent the next few hours going over local articles and police reports, while the others searched through various sources referencing the various types of Grinska demons. Once we gathered again to share our combined information it was close to one o'clock in the morning and we were all grumpy.
"Willow, Xander, why don't you start us off."
"Well there have been five women kidnapped in the last two weeks. Two of them were accompanied by their boyfriends when they were snatched. When the distraught men reported what had happened the police held them for questioning, before releasing them due to lack of evidence." I explained while passing around copies of the transcript of the two questionings.
"The victims are each between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five and have blond hair. All were taken late at night while on their way home." Xander expatiated further. "None of their bodies have been found, which we believe to be positive because if he had just wanted the girls dead, he could have killed it at the scene."
"Any particular hunting ground?" Buffy asked.
"No. Three were within a ten block radius of each other, but the last two were across town at the time of their abduction." I answered, grimacing at the lack of useful information. "So what did you find out about the Grinska Demon?"
"Quite a bit actually. Although none of it is encouraging I'm afraid." Giles continued to explain. "It seems that the ability to 'telephase' is unique to the Codra. It is a Level 4 class Grinska Demon. The Codra are imperious to all metal weapons except ancient Capelium, which is an alloy made thousands of years ago. Since demons of this type were thought to have become extinct millennia ago, the art of forging Capelium has fallen into obscurity, although I did find the specifications for making both the metals and crafting the weapon. This medieval fighting blade is the only known way to kill a Codra Demon. It is imperious to all other weapons and can phase through solid matter as well as teleport short distances. Using the blade to cut off the head is the only proven way to kill it."
"So give us a list of the ingredients and we'll begin to hunt down the elements and blacksmith equipment we'll need." Buffy said. "We don't have much time to waste. Who knows if these girls are still alive and for how long they will stay that way."