Chapter 15
Note: Okay, to answer one of the questions. Who is Meteron? You see.. I made a mistake _ it's suppose to be Metatron, not Meteron. Metatron was the first Archangel ever created. As theory has it, Metatron may have created Lucifer. And I also heard from another theory that before Lucifer fell, he was Lucifael. I'm just trying to incorporate what I think may have happened. (P.S. don't be offended by the religious subtext, because truth be told. I'm agnostic. I just find all religious texts to be really interesting.)
Oh and another thing kiddies! I changed the rating from pg-13 to R, so you're going to have to check out the R section now. sigh. I wish that on default fanfiction.net would just put GR instead of GPg-13. it's just... really annoying for me the change it every time I want to go look around for fics!!!!
OH! AND REMEMBER : NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 17 does not mean banned from anyone under 17. Suitable being the key word here. Psh. besides anyone over 12 is considered a teenager or young adult, not child.
Have fun, please R&R.
~~~ ***The group cautiously entered his mindscape, the whole place was dark, like those haunted movies where there was never ending path in the forest of black twisted trees.
The group hurriedly scattered and hid behind some trees once they saw the monsters come out of the darkness and head towards the road. As William was running as fast as he could, he tripped in his haste and fell. Unexpectedly, Nemiphoren appeared out of nowhere and caught up with Will before the other monsters. The group was taken back by his appearance; he looked like street gangster with blue tinted skin and two brown horns poking out of his bright red hair. Buffy cried out, trying to warn Will of the demon. However the demon didn't attack the boy. Instead, it scooped up the little boy from the ground and continued to run while carrying him. Moments later all sorts of beast, demons, and monsters chased after the two running figures.
At that moment, unknown to them all, the Creature smiled as it watched Buffy and her group of friends chase after the demons. 'Well, well, what do we have here? It seems that we have guests. I can't have them waking Will up from my wonderful world of pain I've created just of him. I think I should give them. a 'proper' introduction.'
Buffy nodded towards the others and followed after the group of demons. Eventually the dreary landscape of the dark forest disappeared and so did the monsters as Nemiphoren and Will ended up in a field of flowers. In the middle of the field stood another copy of Buffy, Angel and the Scooby team (excluding the Angel investigations team). Nemiphoren stopped and started to run the other way once he saw the group. Will yelled at the demon soul.
"No wait! We're safe! It's Buffy and the others; they'll protect us. Nemi stop!"
Nemi shook his head, "Things aren't what they seem. We have to get out of here."
"No! Nemi! Let me go!" Will cried out as he wiggled out of Nemi's grasp and ran towards the group!
"Will! Stop! This isn't real! They're going to hurt you. Don't get any close. Damn!" Nemi cursed as he chased after Will's swiftly disappearing figure.
The fake Buffy held out her arms, "Come my precious William. I'm here for you. I'll take care of you."
The other replicas gave Will frighteningly plastic smiles, but Will didn't notice. He was too happy to see Buffy once again.
Nemiphoren profusely cursed as he soon closed in on Will and then gabbed Will before he could reach the replicated Buffy.
The false Buffy gave Nemiphoren a blank look, "Nemi, you know it's not nice to deny Will what he wants. Give him to us."
The other imitations held out their hands. Nemi gripped Will even harder, "Not this time. This isn't going to happen again."
Will winced at Nemi's grip, "Ouch. Nemi, you're hurting me."
Nemi didn't respond but he loosened his grip a little. During this time, he had kept his attention on the fake Buffy the whole time and he hadn't noticed the fake Xander slip away from the group and sneak behind him. Suddenly Nemi blacked out and dropped Will as Xander smashed him over the head with a heavy metal staff.
The replicas narrowed their eyes and gave sinister smiles at the same time as Xander raised his metal staff and speared Will through the upper right leg.
The real Buffy and the group came just in time to watch Xander spear Will through the leg. Buffy screamed as she charged at the fake Xander, but only found herself running right through him, like a ghost. ***
~~~
Aoide sighed forlornly as she stared at her mug of tea. She had just told Leng who she was and how she came to associate herself with William and also the strange things that had been happening the last few days. Leng nodded, knowing that Aoide wasn't lying to her.
"But I still have no idea where William disappeared to." Aoide said as she shook her head.
"I can do a tracing spell." Leng announced as she headed to the coffee table. "Can you go find a map of L.A? Using that, I should be able to pinpoint where William is. The sooner we find him, the better. Something is very wrong right now. I don't know what, but we have to get him before it's too late."
Aoide nodded as she ran over to the closet and pulled out a large road map of L.A. and returned to Leng's side. Leng had started to pull out some herbs and potions out of her purse as she prepared for the spell.
"This won't take long. Get ready to leave."
~~~
Lucifer leaned against the old stonewall as he fiddled with his fingers, contemplating the predicament he was in. Finally he spoke, "You know I'm gradually getting weaker as the centuries go by. I can't fight off you guys for much longer. And you probably won't be around to save my ass the next time around."
Michael nodded, looking down at the dirt floor, "I know. You didn't have to oppose Metatron you know! You should have just kept your damn mouth shut."
"And what?! I was the only one there who had the balls to stand up to him! Metatron being the first Archangel does not give him the right to rule over us! We were all created equally in different ways. You've got the strength. dammit! You're probably even stronger than the last time I saw you!" Lucifer yelled at Michael, then he took a few deep breaths and calmed down once more.
"God never appointed anyone to be the leader. Metatron was just a messenger that he used to check up on us."
Michael shook his head, "You could have been redeemed, but no. you had to attack God's son!"
"I thought that God was the one who forced me to fall, I didn't know it was Metatron until a fallen angel told me about what the hell was going on. He always had a grudge against ME! Just because I like humans more, I told him that they couldn't be innocent and stupid forever. He wanted it that way so it'd be easier to rule them! So go figure. he forces me to fall and I have to spend eternity guarding the gates of Hell and humans hate me! Oh the irony of it all!"
"That's not how the Bible tells it." Michael retorted.
"Bull! The Bible only knows what Metatron tells 'his' seers. You know that! You think he going tell the seers, " I didn't like Lucifael and his stupid sentimental feelings toward humans, so I decided to dumped his sorry ass in hell. And P.S. I am also a corrupt power hungry archangels that wants all humans to follow me like zombies."? "
"Your sarcasm isn't helping."
"Quit your idiotic stoic act! Deep down inside, you know what happened, but you're still in denial." Lucifer shouted at Michael, his voice was tired, but determined.
Then, both archangels fell into an uneasy silence, unsure of what to say to the other anymore.
~~~
***At first Will had screamed as Xander pierced his leg, but now he was whimpering as he tried to reach out towards the fake Buffy.
"Please." He cried out to her, "Please help me."
Buffy was looking down on Will
Condescendingly, not moving another inch to help him. Then Willow appeared with an ax in her hand. Her boots came down upon Will's hand, crushing it into the ground, causing him to scream again as he tried to retract his broken hand.
Willow growled at him, "If you don't stop moving little boy I can't make a clean cut."
In that instant she brought her ax down and severed his right arm. The pain was unbearable, his brain was practically blanking out as the white shooting sparks channeled through his whole body. The real Willow shrank back, "No.. I would never do that, why would I do that?! That's not me!"
Lorne took pity on the traumatized witch and hugged her, "It's only a nightmare, it'll soon be over, it's okay. it's okay."
Then the false Giles pulled out a shotgun and aimed at Spike's left leg.
"You should have stayed away from Buffy like you were told," He said and fired. Will gripped the ground with shaking hands, unable to vocalize the pain he was in.
The real Giles took out his handkerchief and started to wring it in his hands. "I-I wouldn't, I mean, oh. God."
Then the fake Dawn walked forward, not saying a word as she plunged a dagger into Will's stomach.
The real Dawn started to cry again and ran into Gile's arms, "Make it stop. Please make it stop, I can't watch anymore!"
The real Willow gasped as she saw a fake Tara appear, she was holding a candle and a few drops of burning hot wax fell onto his skin, causing it to blister, burn and peel*.
The fake Anya was next, she was holding a wicked looking sword and plunged it down into Will's groin. Then she said, "It's what vengeance demons do dear, after all Buffy and Dru wanted revenge on you for being unfaithful to them ."
The real Anya was silent as she watched this, this time truly having nothing to say. Knowing that in the past she had actually done deeds like this to unfaithful men.
Finally the fake Buffy walked forward as the imitation Scoobies backed away from Will's body. The fake Buffy slowly crouched down over the semi- conscious Will. Her nails slowly grew longer and sharper until they looked like five pairs of sinister looking knives. Then she plunged her right hand into Will's chest and pulled out his still warm beating heart.
"You won't be needing this anymore." The fake Buffy said in a menacing tone as she started to back away. Will's weak hand reach out and the edge of her pants and he pleaded to her, "Please. give it back.it hurts. hurts..."
Will's voice gradually became softer as his eyes glazed over and his body fell limp and cold. The fake Buffy tore her pant leg away from him, walked away with the other imitation Scoobies and disappeared. The real Buffy screamed as she ran over to Will's side. She reached out and realized that he had suddenly become tangible.
She quickly shook his shoulders. "Will? Spike. please! No.. it.. noo.."
Buffy didn't realize that she was crying until she saw her tears splash onto Will's cold cheek. She then reached out and picked up his body. Slowly she stood up and walked towards the real Scoobies holding his corpse. Before anyone could say anything Buffy shook her head. "I know that they weren't us. But it's too late."
As Buffy finished her last word the field of grass and flowers started to whither and from the ground rose bones and rotting flesh. Then the lush green hill became black as the skies turned red and rained blood upon them.
Cordy screamed when she realized that she was standing on a skull. She quickly ran over to Angel's side and held his arm in a vice grip. Giles ended up taking off his glasses and shoving them into his pocket. The others were all panicking in their own way. And then the situation suddenly became worse when Will's corpse disappeared from Buffy's arms. She started to look around frantically for him, trudging through the sharp jutting bones and fighting the urge to throw up from the smell of rotting flesh. Anya was the first to notice as they began to sink into the ground that started to swallow them up. It was useless trying to pull out, since the struggling managed to pull them in even faster. Eventually the group blacked out as they were swallowed into the ground. ***
~~~
Leng called out after some intense concentration, "I found him. Let's go."
Leng stood up as she highlighted the hotel where he was at and took the map with her. They grabbed the keys to one of the BMWs that William owned and ran down to the parking garage. Once they got out of the elevator, Aoide blipped the car and they got in, speeding towards their destination.
~~~
***Buffy, the Scoobies, Angel and his team gasped for breath as they woke up. They had blacked out once they sank into the ground. They were expecting to wake up in the hotel, but no, they were in some strange place where everything was gray colored. Dawn suddenly noticed Nemiphoren's slumped over figure that was cradling Will's lifeless body. Suddenly Nemi woke up and looked down at Will, checking his all-white eyes and shaking him a little. Buffy's demon senses were tingling as she turned around and saw Dawn walking over to Nemi.
"No Dawn! You might get hurt!" Buffy yelled out to her.
Dawn ignored Buffy's cry and sat down next to Nemi, Nemi looked at her and then looked back down at Will, "Hey Niblet."
Dawn smiled softly at the endearing name. "Is he dead?"
Nemi shook his head, "No, although I wish he was right now. This is too much. It's like being slowly tortured physically and mentally for him. If I could, I would put him out of his misery right now. Put him at peace, instead of being torn apart bit by bit. But I can't. I can't hurt him."
Buffy now stood behind Nemi and she spoke up, "But we saw him die."
Nemi shook his head, "No, he can't die in that world which the Creature created for him. He just feels horrific ranges of pain and the Creature feeds off of it. After each episode of his 'dying', it starts all over again. It may be a different dream, but they always end up with him going insane and dying. It just keeps repeating and repeating. It'll never stop."
"We have to find a way to get rid of this Creature," Dawn said urgently.
Nemi shook his head, it's not that easy. It's latched onto him because of his suffering, if you take away his suffering, then it'll go away. But. that. I don't even know if I can bring him back. He's." Nemi stopped, not wanting to finish the sentence, but the others knew what he meant.
Suddenly the group felt a jolt as they felt themselves pulled from Spike's mindscape. *** ~~~
Aoide waited in the car as Leng ran upstairs to where William was and found the group surrounding him. She knew that they were probing his mind. Quickly, she doused both candles and picked up Spike's unconscious form and walked out the door.
Buffy and the other gasped as they really woke up this time, only to find a very tall Asian woman carrying Spike out of the room.
Everyone quickly ran after her departing figure. Angel got to her first.
"What do you think you're doing?!"
"I'm saving him. He's going to die, if you haven't noticed already. You should have never taken this so far!" Leng yelled back, standing her ground against the master vampire.
"He's our friend!" Dawn cried out as she walked over.
"I don't think friends try to kill each other with slow, agonizing deaths." Leng said as she glared at Dawn and the others.
"We didn't know that this would happen!" Giles cut in.
"Then you should have researched it before you started playing with such forces!"
Buffy put her hand on Leng's shoulder, "We need to help him."
Leng shrugged Buffy's hand off and backed a few steps, she narrowed her eyes and spoke to them in an icy, hateful voice, "Haven't you done enough already? It's best that you stay away from him, permanently."
Then Leng swiftly turned around and walked out of the hotel with Spike in her arms.
~~~
Michael suddenly sat up as he felt a slight tingle in his mind.
Lucifer looked at him, "What is it?"
"Leng got William back, I need to go."
"Wait a minute." Lucifer said as he held his hand out.
Michael paused for a second.
"If you forget everything, how can you help me in the final battle?"
"The forgetting potion doesn't work on archangels. I'll schedule a meeting with you sometime."
Lucifer nodded. "Alright."
Then in a flash of light, both archangels disappeared and went on their separate ways.
~~~
Michael tapped Leng's shoulder, "I need to talk to you before you give him the spell."
Leng nodded and they went into another room, out of Aoide's earshot.
Leng looked straight at Michael's violet colored eyes, "What is it?"
"After you give William the forgetting potion and un-exorcise me, I need you to do another spell."
Leng raised an eyebrow. "To?."
" I want you to do a spell that makes me repulsed or hate Buffy. I need to keep William as far away from her as possible. If this fiasco ever happens again, we won't be able to save him."
Leng nodded. "Yes, that is a good idea."
~~~
(the next morning)
William shakily woke up with a groan and rubbed his aching head, "What happened?"
Leng was sitting at the foot of his bed. "You got drunk last night. Luckily Aoide picked me up from my lecture as you were throwing up in the bathroom."
William frowned as he looked down at his bed sheets with is clear blue eyes, "I don't remember."
Leng rolled here eyes, "Well that usually happens when you're drunk."
William shook his head, " I never get drunk."
"Aoide told me that what you told her when you tried to out-drink some 300 pound guy at the bar last night."
William looked at her sheepishly, "Oops?"
Leng shook her head, "You're place is a mess and you are a mess. I'm going to ask Owen to have Dillon come down here."
"I don't like Dillon, he's anal."
"God, you're even picky about manservants. Stop being such a baby. fine I'll call Jeff." Leng told William in an annoyed voice. "I cancelled your meetings for today. Owen took care of everything while you were away on the business trip."
"Business trip?"
"The company in Kyoto.?"
"Oh my god. I can't remember." William groaned as he gripped his head.
"Well then, you better work 10 times as hard now making up for the missed time." Leng said as she walked out of his room.
"Where are you going?!" William called out.
"I'm leaving."
"Already?! But you just got here!"
Leng pretended to examine him in worry, " I was here for about a week."
William gave her a weird look and them mumbled to himself, " I must still be drunk."
Cont.
*yes, I know that's the name of a Stabbing Westward album
additional note to clear things up: when Spike's eyes are completely violet = Michael is in control / when Spike's eyes are blue with a purple tint = Michael and Spike are in control / When Spike's eyes are completely blue = Spike is in control.
Sorry if there were spelling or grammar errors, I was trying to get this Section of the story finished up before the season 7 premiere.
Note: Okay, to answer one of the questions. Who is Meteron? You see.. I made a mistake _ it's suppose to be Metatron, not Meteron. Metatron was the first Archangel ever created. As theory has it, Metatron may have created Lucifer. And I also heard from another theory that before Lucifer fell, he was Lucifael. I'm just trying to incorporate what I think may have happened. (P.S. don't be offended by the religious subtext, because truth be told. I'm agnostic. I just find all religious texts to be really interesting.)
Oh and another thing kiddies! I changed the rating from pg-13 to R, so you're going to have to check out the R section now. sigh. I wish that on default fanfiction.net would just put GR instead of GPg-13. it's just... really annoying for me the change it every time I want to go look around for fics!!!!
OH! AND REMEMBER : NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 17 does not mean banned from anyone under 17. Suitable being the key word here. Psh. besides anyone over 12 is considered a teenager or young adult, not child.
Have fun, please R&R.
~~~ ***The group cautiously entered his mindscape, the whole place was dark, like those haunted movies where there was never ending path in the forest of black twisted trees.
The group hurriedly scattered and hid behind some trees once they saw the monsters come out of the darkness and head towards the road. As William was running as fast as he could, he tripped in his haste and fell. Unexpectedly, Nemiphoren appeared out of nowhere and caught up with Will before the other monsters. The group was taken back by his appearance; he looked like street gangster with blue tinted skin and two brown horns poking out of his bright red hair. Buffy cried out, trying to warn Will of the demon. However the demon didn't attack the boy. Instead, it scooped up the little boy from the ground and continued to run while carrying him. Moments later all sorts of beast, demons, and monsters chased after the two running figures.
At that moment, unknown to them all, the Creature smiled as it watched Buffy and her group of friends chase after the demons. 'Well, well, what do we have here? It seems that we have guests. I can't have them waking Will up from my wonderful world of pain I've created just of him. I think I should give them. a 'proper' introduction.'
Buffy nodded towards the others and followed after the group of demons. Eventually the dreary landscape of the dark forest disappeared and so did the monsters as Nemiphoren and Will ended up in a field of flowers. In the middle of the field stood another copy of Buffy, Angel and the Scooby team (excluding the Angel investigations team). Nemiphoren stopped and started to run the other way once he saw the group. Will yelled at the demon soul.
"No wait! We're safe! It's Buffy and the others; they'll protect us. Nemi stop!"
Nemi shook his head, "Things aren't what they seem. We have to get out of here."
"No! Nemi! Let me go!" Will cried out as he wiggled out of Nemi's grasp and ran towards the group!
"Will! Stop! This isn't real! They're going to hurt you. Don't get any close. Damn!" Nemi cursed as he chased after Will's swiftly disappearing figure.
The fake Buffy held out her arms, "Come my precious William. I'm here for you. I'll take care of you."
The other replicas gave Will frighteningly plastic smiles, but Will didn't notice. He was too happy to see Buffy once again.
Nemiphoren profusely cursed as he soon closed in on Will and then gabbed Will before he could reach the replicated Buffy.
The false Buffy gave Nemiphoren a blank look, "Nemi, you know it's not nice to deny Will what he wants. Give him to us."
The other imitations held out their hands. Nemi gripped Will even harder, "Not this time. This isn't going to happen again."
Will winced at Nemi's grip, "Ouch. Nemi, you're hurting me."
Nemi didn't respond but he loosened his grip a little. During this time, he had kept his attention on the fake Buffy the whole time and he hadn't noticed the fake Xander slip away from the group and sneak behind him. Suddenly Nemi blacked out and dropped Will as Xander smashed him over the head with a heavy metal staff.
The replicas narrowed their eyes and gave sinister smiles at the same time as Xander raised his metal staff and speared Will through the upper right leg.
The real Buffy and the group came just in time to watch Xander spear Will through the leg. Buffy screamed as she charged at the fake Xander, but only found herself running right through him, like a ghost. ***
~~~
Aoide sighed forlornly as she stared at her mug of tea. She had just told Leng who she was and how she came to associate herself with William and also the strange things that had been happening the last few days. Leng nodded, knowing that Aoide wasn't lying to her.
"But I still have no idea where William disappeared to." Aoide said as she shook her head.
"I can do a tracing spell." Leng announced as she headed to the coffee table. "Can you go find a map of L.A? Using that, I should be able to pinpoint where William is. The sooner we find him, the better. Something is very wrong right now. I don't know what, but we have to get him before it's too late."
Aoide nodded as she ran over to the closet and pulled out a large road map of L.A. and returned to Leng's side. Leng had started to pull out some herbs and potions out of her purse as she prepared for the spell.
"This won't take long. Get ready to leave."
~~~
Lucifer leaned against the old stonewall as he fiddled with his fingers, contemplating the predicament he was in. Finally he spoke, "You know I'm gradually getting weaker as the centuries go by. I can't fight off you guys for much longer. And you probably won't be around to save my ass the next time around."
Michael nodded, looking down at the dirt floor, "I know. You didn't have to oppose Metatron you know! You should have just kept your damn mouth shut."
"And what?! I was the only one there who had the balls to stand up to him! Metatron being the first Archangel does not give him the right to rule over us! We were all created equally in different ways. You've got the strength. dammit! You're probably even stronger than the last time I saw you!" Lucifer yelled at Michael, then he took a few deep breaths and calmed down once more.
"God never appointed anyone to be the leader. Metatron was just a messenger that he used to check up on us."
Michael shook his head, "You could have been redeemed, but no. you had to attack God's son!"
"I thought that God was the one who forced me to fall, I didn't know it was Metatron until a fallen angel told me about what the hell was going on. He always had a grudge against ME! Just because I like humans more, I told him that they couldn't be innocent and stupid forever. He wanted it that way so it'd be easier to rule them! So go figure. he forces me to fall and I have to spend eternity guarding the gates of Hell and humans hate me! Oh the irony of it all!"
"That's not how the Bible tells it." Michael retorted.
"Bull! The Bible only knows what Metatron tells 'his' seers. You know that! You think he going tell the seers, " I didn't like Lucifael and his stupid sentimental feelings toward humans, so I decided to dumped his sorry ass in hell. And P.S. I am also a corrupt power hungry archangels that wants all humans to follow me like zombies."? "
"Your sarcasm isn't helping."
"Quit your idiotic stoic act! Deep down inside, you know what happened, but you're still in denial." Lucifer shouted at Michael, his voice was tired, but determined.
Then, both archangels fell into an uneasy silence, unsure of what to say to the other anymore.
~~~
***At first Will had screamed as Xander pierced his leg, but now he was whimpering as he tried to reach out towards the fake Buffy.
"Please." He cried out to her, "Please help me."
Buffy was looking down on Will
Condescendingly, not moving another inch to help him. Then Willow appeared with an ax in her hand. Her boots came down upon Will's hand, crushing it into the ground, causing him to scream again as he tried to retract his broken hand.
Willow growled at him, "If you don't stop moving little boy I can't make a clean cut."
In that instant she brought her ax down and severed his right arm. The pain was unbearable, his brain was practically blanking out as the white shooting sparks channeled through his whole body. The real Willow shrank back, "No.. I would never do that, why would I do that?! That's not me!"
Lorne took pity on the traumatized witch and hugged her, "It's only a nightmare, it'll soon be over, it's okay. it's okay."
Then the false Giles pulled out a shotgun and aimed at Spike's left leg.
"You should have stayed away from Buffy like you were told," He said and fired. Will gripped the ground with shaking hands, unable to vocalize the pain he was in.
The real Giles took out his handkerchief and started to wring it in his hands. "I-I wouldn't, I mean, oh. God."
Then the fake Dawn walked forward, not saying a word as she plunged a dagger into Will's stomach.
The real Dawn started to cry again and ran into Gile's arms, "Make it stop. Please make it stop, I can't watch anymore!"
The real Willow gasped as she saw a fake Tara appear, she was holding a candle and a few drops of burning hot wax fell onto his skin, causing it to blister, burn and peel*.
The fake Anya was next, she was holding a wicked looking sword and plunged it down into Will's groin. Then she said, "It's what vengeance demons do dear, after all Buffy and Dru wanted revenge on you for being unfaithful to them ."
The real Anya was silent as she watched this, this time truly having nothing to say. Knowing that in the past she had actually done deeds like this to unfaithful men.
Finally the fake Buffy walked forward as the imitation Scoobies backed away from Will's body. The fake Buffy slowly crouched down over the semi- conscious Will. Her nails slowly grew longer and sharper until they looked like five pairs of sinister looking knives. Then she plunged her right hand into Will's chest and pulled out his still warm beating heart.
"You won't be needing this anymore." The fake Buffy said in a menacing tone as she started to back away. Will's weak hand reach out and the edge of her pants and he pleaded to her, "Please. give it back.it hurts. hurts..."
Will's voice gradually became softer as his eyes glazed over and his body fell limp and cold. The fake Buffy tore her pant leg away from him, walked away with the other imitation Scoobies and disappeared. The real Buffy screamed as she ran over to Will's side. She reached out and realized that he had suddenly become tangible.
She quickly shook his shoulders. "Will? Spike. please! No.. it.. noo.."
Buffy didn't realize that she was crying until she saw her tears splash onto Will's cold cheek. She then reached out and picked up his body. Slowly she stood up and walked towards the real Scoobies holding his corpse. Before anyone could say anything Buffy shook her head. "I know that they weren't us. But it's too late."
As Buffy finished her last word the field of grass and flowers started to whither and from the ground rose bones and rotting flesh. Then the lush green hill became black as the skies turned red and rained blood upon them.
Cordy screamed when she realized that she was standing on a skull. She quickly ran over to Angel's side and held his arm in a vice grip. Giles ended up taking off his glasses and shoving them into his pocket. The others were all panicking in their own way. And then the situation suddenly became worse when Will's corpse disappeared from Buffy's arms. She started to look around frantically for him, trudging through the sharp jutting bones and fighting the urge to throw up from the smell of rotting flesh. Anya was the first to notice as they began to sink into the ground that started to swallow them up. It was useless trying to pull out, since the struggling managed to pull them in even faster. Eventually the group blacked out as they were swallowed into the ground. ***
~~~
Leng called out after some intense concentration, "I found him. Let's go."
Leng stood up as she highlighted the hotel where he was at and took the map with her. They grabbed the keys to one of the BMWs that William owned and ran down to the parking garage. Once they got out of the elevator, Aoide blipped the car and they got in, speeding towards their destination.
~~~
***Buffy, the Scoobies, Angel and his team gasped for breath as they woke up. They had blacked out once they sank into the ground. They were expecting to wake up in the hotel, but no, they were in some strange place where everything was gray colored. Dawn suddenly noticed Nemiphoren's slumped over figure that was cradling Will's lifeless body. Suddenly Nemi woke up and looked down at Will, checking his all-white eyes and shaking him a little. Buffy's demon senses were tingling as she turned around and saw Dawn walking over to Nemi.
"No Dawn! You might get hurt!" Buffy yelled out to her.
Dawn ignored Buffy's cry and sat down next to Nemi, Nemi looked at her and then looked back down at Will, "Hey Niblet."
Dawn smiled softly at the endearing name. "Is he dead?"
Nemi shook his head, "No, although I wish he was right now. This is too much. It's like being slowly tortured physically and mentally for him. If I could, I would put him out of his misery right now. Put him at peace, instead of being torn apart bit by bit. But I can't. I can't hurt him."
Buffy now stood behind Nemi and she spoke up, "But we saw him die."
Nemi shook his head, "No, he can't die in that world which the Creature created for him. He just feels horrific ranges of pain and the Creature feeds off of it. After each episode of his 'dying', it starts all over again. It may be a different dream, but they always end up with him going insane and dying. It just keeps repeating and repeating. It'll never stop."
"We have to find a way to get rid of this Creature," Dawn said urgently.
Nemi shook his head, it's not that easy. It's latched onto him because of his suffering, if you take away his suffering, then it'll go away. But. that. I don't even know if I can bring him back. He's." Nemi stopped, not wanting to finish the sentence, but the others knew what he meant.
Suddenly the group felt a jolt as they felt themselves pulled from Spike's mindscape. *** ~~~
Aoide waited in the car as Leng ran upstairs to where William was and found the group surrounding him. She knew that they were probing his mind. Quickly, she doused both candles and picked up Spike's unconscious form and walked out the door.
Buffy and the other gasped as they really woke up this time, only to find a very tall Asian woman carrying Spike out of the room.
Everyone quickly ran after her departing figure. Angel got to her first.
"What do you think you're doing?!"
"I'm saving him. He's going to die, if you haven't noticed already. You should have never taken this so far!" Leng yelled back, standing her ground against the master vampire.
"He's our friend!" Dawn cried out as she walked over.
"I don't think friends try to kill each other with slow, agonizing deaths." Leng said as she glared at Dawn and the others.
"We didn't know that this would happen!" Giles cut in.
"Then you should have researched it before you started playing with such forces!"
Buffy put her hand on Leng's shoulder, "We need to help him."
Leng shrugged Buffy's hand off and backed a few steps, she narrowed her eyes and spoke to them in an icy, hateful voice, "Haven't you done enough already? It's best that you stay away from him, permanently."
Then Leng swiftly turned around and walked out of the hotel with Spike in her arms.
~~~
Michael suddenly sat up as he felt a slight tingle in his mind.
Lucifer looked at him, "What is it?"
"Leng got William back, I need to go."
"Wait a minute." Lucifer said as he held his hand out.
Michael paused for a second.
"If you forget everything, how can you help me in the final battle?"
"The forgetting potion doesn't work on archangels. I'll schedule a meeting with you sometime."
Lucifer nodded. "Alright."
Then in a flash of light, both archangels disappeared and went on their separate ways.
~~~
Michael tapped Leng's shoulder, "I need to talk to you before you give him the spell."
Leng nodded and they went into another room, out of Aoide's earshot.
Leng looked straight at Michael's violet colored eyes, "What is it?"
"After you give William the forgetting potion and un-exorcise me, I need you to do another spell."
Leng raised an eyebrow. "To?."
" I want you to do a spell that makes me repulsed or hate Buffy. I need to keep William as far away from her as possible. If this fiasco ever happens again, we won't be able to save him."
Leng nodded. "Yes, that is a good idea."
~~~
(the next morning)
William shakily woke up with a groan and rubbed his aching head, "What happened?"
Leng was sitting at the foot of his bed. "You got drunk last night. Luckily Aoide picked me up from my lecture as you were throwing up in the bathroom."
William frowned as he looked down at his bed sheets with is clear blue eyes, "I don't remember."
Leng rolled here eyes, "Well that usually happens when you're drunk."
William shook his head, " I never get drunk."
"Aoide told me that what you told her when you tried to out-drink some 300 pound guy at the bar last night."
William looked at her sheepishly, "Oops?"
Leng shook her head, "You're place is a mess and you are a mess. I'm going to ask Owen to have Dillon come down here."
"I don't like Dillon, he's anal."
"God, you're even picky about manservants. Stop being such a baby. fine I'll call Jeff." Leng told William in an annoyed voice. "I cancelled your meetings for today. Owen took care of everything while you were away on the business trip."
"Business trip?"
"The company in Kyoto.?"
"Oh my god. I can't remember." William groaned as he gripped his head.
"Well then, you better work 10 times as hard now making up for the missed time." Leng said as she walked out of his room.
"Where are you going?!" William called out.
"I'm leaving."
"Already?! But you just got here!"
Leng pretended to examine him in worry, " I was here for about a week."
William gave her a weird look and them mumbled to himself, " I must still be drunk."
Cont.
*yes, I know that's the name of a Stabbing Westward album
additional note to clear things up: when Spike's eyes are completely violet = Michael is in control / when Spike's eyes are blue with a purple tint = Michael and Spike are in control / When Spike's eyes are completely blue = Spike is in control.
Sorry if there were spelling or grammar errors, I was trying to get this Section of the story finished up before the season 7 premiere.