Thank you very much to everyone who has reviewed, it's very good that you
like it, cos there's plenty more to come! Two chapters for ya this time as
I really won't have time for more this week - so no updates until Friday,
sorry, but I did warn ya I wouldn't be posting quite as often. (There
should be a new chapter pretty much every other day after that though.)
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Buffy pounded downstairs and entered the huge Hyperion library at a run. Giles, Wesley and a now clothed Angel were assembling tidy piles of books. Willow and Oz sat at the two computers tapping furiously as they surfed the net seeking relevant information. Fred, Xander and Anya were already seated in front of heaps of books while Gunn cradled the telephone, apparently attempting to summon Doyle and Cordelia back to the hotel from their five day long reunion 'date'. He was unsuccessful and wound up threatening Cordelia's answering service.
"So, any nice English books with lots of pictures for me?" Buffy half- kidded as she moved towards Angel.
He managed a cute half smile for her and handed her a small stack of books and followed her to the table with a pile of his own.
The gang sat in near silence for three hours as they researched, only the rustle of snack wrappers, the click of keys and the thud of abandoned books could be heard.
Until Xander began making a noise like an excited monkey in a banana tree which brought him to everyone's attention.
"Anything?" Giles said hopefully as he stretched out his hand for the heavy tome Xander held.
"Yeah, it all fits, listen up, 'and the sun shall burn black, day shall be as if night, a summer's day will be without light. The light warrior and the dark will unite, to save another world and bring their might, to end a long and terrible plight. Only then will the dark times be vanquished.'
Giles gently tugged the book from Xander's fingers and scanned the page for himself,
"Hmm, our writer was certainly no poet but it does seem clear enough. Though more details would have been very welcome." Murmured Buffy.
Giles frowned, "Well actually it's not that clear, we cannot be sure that this fellow is actually referring to this occasion, after all the sun has gone black before and will probably go black again."
Buffy goggled at Giles, "Well, yeah with an eclipse thingy for like a few minutes at the Mayor's ascension but this is showing no signs of going away."
"Well, I'm not sure we should jump to conclusions and in any case we now need to know about this other world that needs saving in order to regain our own sunlight." Wesley inserted smoothly.
For the past minute Xander had been twitching frantically, clearly dying to interrupt.
"Yes Xander?" Asked Giles finally.
"The book is in two sections, one with prophecies that could just happen whenever and another section of them that are due at fairly specific times and that prophecy is right near the end of the twentieth century chapter. I'd say that clinches things."
Giles hastily flipped over a few pages before he slowly nodded his head. "Yes I suppose it is unlikely that in view of this that there is another explanation. Now we just have to discover the meaning of this and then how to implement it."
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Buffy pounded downstairs and entered the huge Hyperion library at a run. Giles, Wesley and a now clothed Angel were assembling tidy piles of books. Willow and Oz sat at the two computers tapping furiously as they surfed the net seeking relevant information. Fred, Xander and Anya were already seated in front of heaps of books while Gunn cradled the telephone, apparently attempting to summon Doyle and Cordelia back to the hotel from their five day long reunion 'date'. He was unsuccessful and wound up threatening Cordelia's answering service.
"So, any nice English books with lots of pictures for me?" Buffy half- kidded as she moved towards Angel.
He managed a cute half smile for her and handed her a small stack of books and followed her to the table with a pile of his own.
The gang sat in near silence for three hours as they researched, only the rustle of snack wrappers, the click of keys and the thud of abandoned books could be heard.
Until Xander began making a noise like an excited monkey in a banana tree which brought him to everyone's attention.
"Anything?" Giles said hopefully as he stretched out his hand for the heavy tome Xander held.
"Yeah, it all fits, listen up, 'and the sun shall burn black, day shall be as if night, a summer's day will be without light. The light warrior and the dark will unite, to save another world and bring their might, to end a long and terrible plight. Only then will the dark times be vanquished.'
Giles gently tugged the book from Xander's fingers and scanned the page for himself,
"Hmm, our writer was certainly no poet but it does seem clear enough. Though more details would have been very welcome." Murmured Buffy.
Giles frowned, "Well actually it's not that clear, we cannot be sure that this fellow is actually referring to this occasion, after all the sun has gone black before and will probably go black again."
Buffy goggled at Giles, "Well, yeah with an eclipse thingy for like a few minutes at the Mayor's ascension but this is showing no signs of going away."
"Well, I'm not sure we should jump to conclusions and in any case we now need to know about this other world that needs saving in order to regain our own sunlight." Wesley inserted smoothly.
For the past minute Xander had been twitching frantically, clearly dying to interrupt.
"Yes Xander?" Asked Giles finally.
"The book is in two sections, one with prophecies that could just happen whenever and another section of them that are due at fairly specific times and that prophecy is right near the end of the twentieth century chapter. I'd say that clinches things."
Giles hastily flipped over a few pages before he slowly nodded his head. "Yes I suppose it is unlikely that in view of this that there is another explanation. Now we just have to discover the meaning of this and then how to implement it."