CHAPTER: FIFTY: EYGHON
Monday: 12:15am12th July 1999
California: Sunnydale
After a small location spell, Olivia found the Slayer fighting a group of three vampires in the Sunnyrest Memorial cemetery. Olivia watched, hoping that the Slayer would be taken out by the vampires instead of Olivia having to do the work, but as luck would have it, Buffy defeated the evil trio.
Buffy spun quickly, having sensed another presence that was making her senses go off. She saw Olivia and narrowed her eyes.
"Come to kill me?" Buffy asked.
Olivia smiled. "Something like that."
Olivia threw a handful of dust at the Slayer who sneezed and fell to the ground, deeply asleep. With another spell that made Buffy's slight weight even less, Olivia carried the Slayer to an abandoned factory and tied her tightly to a table.
She opened her bag up and took out several items. The first was a pot of black ink. Next were some tools, needles that Olivia would need to mark the Slayer with Mark of Eyghon. She opened the pot and set it aside the table, about to begin when the Slayer stirred, startling Olivia. The spell was supposed to hold for an hour. It had barely lasted twenty minutes.
Buffy struggled against the bonds that held her securely in place. She turned her head and glared at Olivia.
"Do you really think that this is going to win Giles back?" Buffy asked. "Cos honestly, as romantic gestures go, this one really sucks."
"I'm sure you know all about seducing Ripper," Olivia said testily.
Buffy rolled her eyes and tensed as she saw Olivia dip one of the needles into the ink. She'd had a strange phobia about needles ever since Giles had shown her the needle he had used to take her strength from her on her eighteenth birthday.
"I don't know where you get this idea about Giles and me," Buffy said, her voice wavering nervously. She was still groggy from whatever sleeping spell Olivia had placed her under, and she was in a vulnerable position, something she never liked. "We're friends. That's it."
Olivia rolled her eyes.
"You've got no idea, do you? You've got no idea about who he really is," Olivia said.
"I know enough. And I know that he's not the Ripper that you knew. He's so much better than that. He always was," Buffy said. "And just because you can't get over it, you shouldn't be trying to drag him down with you."
Olivia didn't reply. She merely poked Buffy with the first of what was to be thousands of pinpricks. Buffy flinched and bit her lip to keep from crying out.
"What the hell are you doing?" Buffy asked angrily.
"What, this?" Olivia asked innocently. "This is your initiation."
"You know what? I'm really not interested in joining your club," Buffy replied.
"Too late. I already voted you in. If you think of it karmically, this is really big for your soul," she said. "Taking my place with the demon, giving so that others may live."
"I'm gonna kill you. Will that blow the whole karma thing?" Buffy asked angrily.
Olivia shrugged and continued tattooing the mark of Eyghon in the middle of the small of Buffy's back. Buffy blinked back tears at the pain and silently prayed to the higher powers that she would come out of this alive.
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Monday: 12:30am12th July 1999
California: Sunnydale
A small dot hovered in one spot on the map of Sunnydale. Ethan and Giles stood up, simultaneously grabbing weapons.
"You know the way?" Ethan asked.
Giles just nodded silently and the two men headed out the door. Both of them could only hope that they weren't already too late.
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Monday: 12:30am12th July 1999
California: Sunnydale
Olivia stepped back and admired her own handiwork. "I think I missed my calling as an artist," she commented.
Buffy scowled and tried to ignore the pain radiating from her lower back.
"You're definitely missing something."
Olivia smirked and stood up, pulling the Slayer's shirt down to cover her lower back.
"Well…I hate to mutilate and run, but…that mark's like a homing beacon. Eyghon will realise that we've got a new member, and, he'll come to destroy you. With any luck, it'll jump to your body," Olivia said. "Ripper's probably on his way, but…he'll be too late. He'll probably be forced to kill you."
Buffy watched in dismay as Olivia turned tail and ran.
She once again began struggling with the ropes. She'd tried freeing herself whilst Olivia had been tattooing her, but when Olivia had slipped several times and made the pain worse, Buffy had reluctantly lain still. Her wrists were aching and she could feel blood running down her hands from where the skin had been broken.
Her hands were cuffed under the table, the metal of the cuffs strong, but Buffy knew that with a few more minutes, she would have them snapped in two. Well, that as the theory of it at least.
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Monday: 12:34am12th July 1999
California: Sunnydale
Eyghon stopped in it's tracks and scented the air. It could smell new blood. It grinned evilly and turned around, heading back towards Sunnydale.
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Monday: 12:35am12th July 1999
California: Sunnydale
Ethan and Giles stormed into the abandoned factory, both men glaring when they saw Buffy on the table with Olivia nowhere to be seen. Giles and Ethan raced to her side Ethan putting a hand on Buffy's lower back in what was meant to be a comforting gesture. Buffy yelped in pain and Ethan immediately pulled away.
Giles pulled away from Buffy's bleeding wrists thinking that it was he who had hurt his Slayer by trying to pick the lock to the cuffs.
Tears pricked Buffy's eyes and Ethan knelt so that he was eye to eye with her.
"What hurts, luv?" he asked quietly.
"My back," she replied, gritting her teeth to steel herself against the pain of her back and her wrists. "God, it hurts so much."
Ethan stood and pulled her shirt up, paling as he saw the familiar tattoo. He swore softly and Giles went to stand, banging his head on the underside of the table as he did.
"What?" Giles asked, finally straightening. He too went white when he saw the tattoo. "I'll kill her."
Ethan put an hand on Giles' arm and shook his head. "Let's just get her the hell outta here before we try tracking down the evil one."
Giles nodded and knelt again, picking the lock and gently removing the metal cuffs. Ethan helped Buffy to sit up, and Giles quickly shrugged out of his button down shirt, leaving his undershirt on. He tore several strips from the blue material and wrapped Buffy's wrists as well as he could.
"You alright to stand?" Ethan asked.
Buffy nodded shakily and held onto both Ethan and her Watcher as she stood up.
"Home?" she asked.
Giles nodded and the trio began making their way out of the factory. The stopped short when a figure jumped in front of them.
"Deidre?" Ethan and Giles asked in unison.
Buffy swallowed hard. She recognised that name. And seeing that Deidre suddenly had glowing green eyes, Buffy could only assume that Eyghon had jumped into the woman's body.
"I've been waiting a long time for this." It's voice was deep, deeper than anything Buffy had ever heard. She prepared herself for a fight, mentally calculating what weapons the two men had brought with them. Giles slipped his Slayer a short sword and a small matching dagger.
Eyghon stepped forward and scented the air, knowing that three members of the Order were within striking distance. It could scent that there was a new one among them. She turned abruptly towards the Slayer.
"You!"
Buffy tensed and held up her sword. Eyghon lunged forward and tackled the Slayer to the ground, Buffy landing hard on her back and crying out in pain. She pushed past it and kicked the demon off her. Giles and Ethan moved to attack but were simultaneously flung into a wall.
"You're time will come," Eyghon said, turning away from them to concentrate on Buffy.
Buffy staggered to her feet and began a weak attack against the demon. She landed a good kick to the demon's stomach and sent the demon stumbling back. With renewed force, Buffy began attacking Eyghon, hitting, kicking and punching it into a corner.
Buffy went to deliver the final killing blow.
"You cannot kill me!" it cried with indignation. "It is against written rules."
"Well, what can I say?" Buffy asked. She swung her sword and cut swiftly across the demon's neck, sending Eyghon's head rolling. The body dropped and disintegrated into a pile of blue goo. "I flunked the written."
Quotes taken from: "The Dark Age" and "Prophecy Girl".
Ooo, so I wasn't wrong about Star Wars…yay me!
And to Mountain William: the BTVS/HP crossover…I'm in the middle
of writing two of them! *grins* Anyways, I'm off. Hope you enjoyed the updates!!
Toodles.
K.