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Author's Note: I apologize for it taking me so long to update, but I moved and I started my full time job. Thanks to Kati for proofing these and thanks for the reviews!
Chapter 14
Angelus and Buffy made there way to Giles' rooms, where they could hear a heated discussion going on, they paused to listen.
"Just because she is immortal does not mean we can continue to use her, she is no longer the slayer." Giles exclaimed, rounding on an older man with graying hair.
'Angelus?' Buffy thought and he looked at her questioningly, 'Do you know who that is?'
'Quintin Travers, head of the watcher's council.' He told her and she looked at then newcomer with interest.
"She doesn't know she's not the slayer, so why not use her?" he asked and Angelus growled lightly, Buffy placed her hand on his arm to stop him from going in. "Think about it! A slayer that is immortal and completely obedient to the Council."
"You have never read my watcher's diaries have you?" Giles asked, "Because if you had you would have realized that she is too strong willed to be controlled."
"Surely you have fixed that by now?" he asked, slightly indignant that the slayer wasn't a lap dog.
"Surely he hasn't." Buffy replied, stepping into the room, followed quickly by Angelus who was in game face. "But since I'm not the slayer anymore, I would have no quims about killing you." She whipped out her sword and turned to wink at Giles, before advancing on Travers, who cast a glance at her and then Angelus and then bolted from the room. Giles burst out laughing and then the other two joined in and that's how Duncan and Methos found them.
"Should we be concerned?" Duncan asked Methos, who just shrugged and waited for everyone to calm down, while glaring at Angelus.
"Did you see his face?" Giles asked a bit of Ripper in his voice. "God! Can we do it again, but this time cause bodily harm?" this just set the three back into fits of laughter, they finally settled down enough for them to start talking, about ten minutes later.
"Now, Buffy," Methos said looking at her, "What have I told you about playing with your sword?" he indicated the sword that was still in the slayer's hand.
"Cut the head off the one that asks dumb ass questions?" Buffy replied and smiled sweetly, while Methos looked anxious, Duncan just smirked and Angelus looked at little too happy at the prospect of Methos losing his head. "Or maybe it was cut off the head of the annoying vampire?" she looked slightly confused and smiled when Angelus and Methos both glared at her.
"So," Giles asked, clearing his throat and directing the attention to him, "Was there something that you needed?"
"Ya," Buffy replied, looking at Angelus, "We think we know what the monster in the chamber of secrets is."
"Oh?" Giles said, very interested and already in watcher mode.
"Ya, a basilisk." Angelus supplied and Buffy nodded.
"And how did you come to this conclusion?"
"Well, I can hear it."
"What do you mean that you can hear it?"
"Well, I was walking and I heard this voice," she said, while Methos, Giles, and Duncan exchanged looks, "Don't look at me like that I'm not crazy! Besides Harry Potter can hear it too." She told them smugly. "So, anyways I followed the voice and practically ran into Potter and his two friends, so I figured that he must hear it too. We talked it over and came to the conclusion that parselmouth is such an uncommon thing that it just might be it."
"Well, if it is a basilisk in the chamber, then you must be prepared for a battle," Giles told her, "it won't be easy."
"I know." Buffy said smiling slightly and everyone grew uneasy, because it was the smile of an 'I got a plan.' "I have a plan," everyone groaned and her smile got bigger, "I will need Methos and Angelus."
"Great." Angelus said, unenthusiastically, and Methos nodded his agreement. "What do we have to do?"
"I need you to distract the basilisk while I figure out how to kill it?"
"Why us?"
"Because neither of you will die if the damn thing stares at you and this way there is a chance that one of you might not come back." She told them and the guys looked disappointed that they asked at all.
"I suppose you have a plan that goes further than that?" Giles asked and Buffy simply nodded, her mind immediately going into battle mode.
"Ya, they are going to distract and I am going to kill."
"With what?" Giles asked and Buffy whipped out her sword. "Sorry I asked."
"You can't expect to go up against a basilisk and win with that itty bitty sword!" Duncan said and everyone nodded his or her agreement.
"Just like I can't be expected to go against the council," she said looking at Giles, "Or beat two immortals that have been trained warriors since they were born," she looked at Methos and Duncan, "or the Scourge of Europe who has killed five slayers?" she questioned finally and everyone slowly nodded their agreement, besides Angelus and Methos would be down there to help out.
"Well, then let's get to it." She told them and everyone started anxiously towards the girls bathroom.
"Hello, I'm Moaning Mrytle." The ghost said and everyone said hello or a variation and Moaning Mrytle took off when she got a good look at Angelus or rather no look at him in the mirror.
"Open," Buffy commanded and Angelus and Methos looked slightly freaked that she was no longer speaking in English; Giles was frightened when the bathroom sinks started to move and the sink fell into the floor. Buffy looked down and then jumped, no hesitation could be seen from her, Angelus and Methos slowly followed, while Giles and Duncan peered over anxiously.
Suddenly two wolfhounds bounded past them and jumped straight into the hole, without thought or anything of the sort.
"Well, I think Annile and Liam felt left out." Duncan said to Giles.
"Yes I do believe your right." He took off his glasses and began to clean them, rubbing them so hard that Duncan thought the glass might disappear or pop out. Duncan looked at Giles and then the hole and then back to Giles.
"Bottoms up." He said in mock salute and then jumped in.
"Bloody hell!" Giles heard, whipping around to see Draco Malfoy standing there, before Giles could do anything, Draco jumped into the hole following everyone else down.
"Well that was bloody great." Giles muttered to himself. "Bloody git." He jumped into the hole, cursing Draco the entire way down. He landed on a pile of bones and in a tunnel of some sort.
"What the bloody hell do you think you are doing down here?" Giles heard and made his way towards the very angry voice of his slayer. "If the basilisk bites you." she trailed off and thought for a moment, "Hell if the basilisk bites you it will probably die." Draco looked ready to retort, but the angry growls from Methos, Angelus, Liam, and Annile stopped him form doing so. "Anyone else?" she asked sarcastically, peering into the darkness.
"Yes, actually." Giles said, stepping forward. Buffy threw up her hands in exasperation at the entire situation, now she had to protect innocents!
"Well then take mini-Spike and find a way out." She told him and then almost as an afterthought, "Take the over grown boy scout too." She told him and Duncan looked hurt, while Methos and Angelus smirked. "Or you can take one of the kids, but I don't want you getting lost down here and you know how boys are." Giles, Duncan, and Draco started to laugh at Angelus and Methos's un-amused expressions.
"Alright, on second thought, let's all stick together, we can figure out how the hell to get out of here later." Buffy told them, taking the lead and selecting a tunnel to follow, Annile and Liam following close behind, casting an uneasy eye behind them at Methos and Angelus ever now and then. Draco looked at the elders of the group and took off towards Buffy. Giles and Duncan restrained Methos and Angelus from ripping the boy limb from limb.
"Down boys." Duncan muttered and laughed when he received two very angry glares. "C'mon, let's leave Dopey and Grumpy together." Giles and him followed them, leaving Methos and Angelus alone.
"C'mon then Dopey." Angelus said and started to follow them, but was stopped by Methos.
"Why am I Dopey?"
"Because I am so much more smarter than you." Angelus told him and then smirked, "Besides I pull Grumpy much better than you do." He told them and they began to debate who was Grumpy and who was Dopey, neither of them noticing that they were no longer following Buffy, but had selected another tunnel.
Meanwhile..
"Where did they go?" Buffy asked, when she had finally turned to see if they had followed her.
"With those two, it is always a question as to where they are." Duncan told her and Buffy just looked anxious.
"We can't wait around, who ever has opened the chamber will be down shortly and we need to kill the basilisk before they get down here." Buffy told them, leading them forward into the tunnel. "They could be down here any.." she trailed off as they entered a great hall with snake statues adorning both sides of the walk way.
"I think we are there." Giles said, going into watcher mode and trying to capture every single detail to the chamber. Draco stood in awe over what the founder of his house had built. Duncan looked clearly unimpressed, like he had seen better or had helped create something that was better than that. Buffy walked towards the statue that was in the middle and looked at it, she could feel the evil resonating off of the statue.
"Alright, get out of the way, whatever you do don't move or look at the basilisk." She commanded, before turning back to the statue.
Unknown to them was that on top of the statue stood two boys and one girl, who were looking on in interest.
"What do you suppose she is doing?" the boy asked.
"Clearly Ron, she is going to figure out how to call the creature." Replied the girl and both boys looked at her in annoyance know it all!
"Open." Buffy commanded and the statue mouth began to open.
"What did she say?" Ron asked.
"Open." Harry replied.
"No thanks." They heard they whipped around to find Professor Peirson and Angelus.
"We can explain." Hermione began, but was saved the trouble, when they heard something very heavy hit the floor.
"Come forth." Buffy commanded and the basilisk uncurled itself, looking to her for instruction, "Come bow before me." She said and the snake made it's way towards her. Annile and Liam tried to leap forward, but were held back by Giles and Duncan.
"No!" Harry shouted and the snake stopped, confused. Buffy looked up in surprise.
'Angelus! Methos! Get them out of here! He's confusing it.' She told them and Angelus and Methos grabbed the kids and shoved them into the tunnels.
"Look at me." She commanded and it did so, "Good, now bow." The creature laid its head before her and Buffy whipped her sword out, and prepared. "Tell me who has been opening you?"
"A young girl, with red hair, she smells of power, but it is not hers."
"Whose is it?"
"Lord Voldemort." The snake said and Buffy nodded and then lopped the head off, killing the snake instantly.
"You can come out." She called and waited for the group to assemble. "You are so in trouble," she told the four students and then looked around, "So, anyone knows how to get out?"
Later: Buffy's Room
Buffy answered the knock on her door, expecting it to be the terrible trio or Draco demanding answers, but was surprised when it was Methos.
"Yes?"
"I was wondering if you would go to Hogsmeade with me on Saturday."
Author's Note: I apologize for it taking me so long to update, but I moved and I started my full time job. Thanks to Kati for proofing these and thanks for the reviews!
Chapter 14
Angelus and Buffy made there way to Giles' rooms, where they could hear a heated discussion going on, they paused to listen.
"Just because she is immortal does not mean we can continue to use her, she is no longer the slayer." Giles exclaimed, rounding on an older man with graying hair.
'Angelus?' Buffy thought and he looked at her questioningly, 'Do you know who that is?'
'Quintin Travers, head of the watcher's council.' He told her and she looked at then newcomer with interest.
"She doesn't know she's not the slayer, so why not use her?" he asked and Angelus growled lightly, Buffy placed her hand on his arm to stop him from going in. "Think about it! A slayer that is immortal and completely obedient to the Council."
"You have never read my watcher's diaries have you?" Giles asked, "Because if you had you would have realized that she is too strong willed to be controlled."
"Surely you have fixed that by now?" he asked, slightly indignant that the slayer wasn't a lap dog.
"Surely he hasn't." Buffy replied, stepping into the room, followed quickly by Angelus who was in game face. "But since I'm not the slayer anymore, I would have no quims about killing you." She whipped out her sword and turned to wink at Giles, before advancing on Travers, who cast a glance at her and then Angelus and then bolted from the room. Giles burst out laughing and then the other two joined in and that's how Duncan and Methos found them.
"Should we be concerned?" Duncan asked Methos, who just shrugged and waited for everyone to calm down, while glaring at Angelus.
"Did you see his face?" Giles asked a bit of Ripper in his voice. "God! Can we do it again, but this time cause bodily harm?" this just set the three back into fits of laughter, they finally settled down enough for them to start talking, about ten minutes later.
"Now, Buffy," Methos said looking at her, "What have I told you about playing with your sword?" he indicated the sword that was still in the slayer's hand.
"Cut the head off the one that asks dumb ass questions?" Buffy replied and smiled sweetly, while Methos looked anxious, Duncan just smirked and Angelus looked at little too happy at the prospect of Methos losing his head. "Or maybe it was cut off the head of the annoying vampire?" she looked slightly confused and smiled when Angelus and Methos both glared at her.
"So," Giles asked, clearing his throat and directing the attention to him, "Was there something that you needed?"
"Ya," Buffy replied, looking at Angelus, "We think we know what the monster in the chamber of secrets is."
"Oh?" Giles said, very interested and already in watcher mode.
"Ya, a basilisk." Angelus supplied and Buffy nodded.
"And how did you come to this conclusion?"
"Well, I can hear it."
"What do you mean that you can hear it?"
"Well, I was walking and I heard this voice," she said, while Methos, Giles, and Duncan exchanged looks, "Don't look at me like that I'm not crazy! Besides Harry Potter can hear it too." She told them smugly. "So, anyways I followed the voice and practically ran into Potter and his two friends, so I figured that he must hear it too. We talked it over and came to the conclusion that parselmouth is such an uncommon thing that it just might be it."
"Well, if it is a basilisk in the chamber, then you must be prepared for a battle," Giles told her, "it won't be easy."
"I know." Buffy said smiling slightly and everyone grew uneasy, because it was the smile of an 'I got a plan.' "I have a plan," everyone groaned and her smile got bigger, "I will need Methos and Angelus."
"Great." Angelus said, unenthusiastically, and Methos nodded his agreement. "What do we have to do?"
"I need you to distract the basilisk while I figure out how to kill it?"
"Why us?"
"Because neither of you will die if the damn thing stares at you and this way there is a chance that one of you might not come back." She told them and the guys looked disappointed that they asked at all.
"I suppose you have a plan that goes further than that?" Giles asked and Buffy simply nodded, her mind immediately going into battle mode.
"Ya, they are going to distract and I am going to kill."
"With what?" Giles asked and Buffy whipped out her sword. "Sorry I asked."
"You can't expect to go up against a basilisk and win with that itty bitty sword!" Duncan said and everyone nodded his or her agreement.
"Just like I can't be expected to go against the council," she said looking at Giles, "Or beat two immortals that have been trained warriors since they were born," she looked at Methos and Duncan, "or the Scourge of Europe who has killed five slayers?" she questioned finally and everyone slowly nodded their agreement, besides Angelus and Methos would be down there to help out.
"Well, then let's get to it." She told them and everyone started anxiously towards the girls bathroom.
"Hello, I'm Moaning Mrytle." The ghost said and everyone said hello or a variation and Moaning Mrytle took off when she got a good look at Angelus or rather no look at him in the mirror.
"Open," Buffy commanded and Angelus and Methos looked slightly freaked that she was no longer speaking in English; Giles was frightened when the bathroom sinks started to move and the sink fell into the floor. Buffy looked down and then jumped, no hesitation could be seen from her, Angelus and Methos slowly followed, while Giles and Duncan peered over anxiously.
Suddenly two wolfhounds bounded past them and jumped straight into the hole, without thought or anything of the sort.
"Well, I think Annile and Liam felt left out." Duncan said to Giles.
"Yes I do believe your right." He took off his glasses and began to clean them, rubbing them so hard that Duncan thought the glass might disappear or pop out. Duncan looked at Giles and then the hole and then back to Giles.
"Bottoms up." He said in mock salute and then jumped in.
"Bloody hell!" Giles heard, whipping around to see Draco Malfoy standing there, before Giles could do anything, Draco jumped into the hole following everyone else down.
"Well that was bloody great." Giles muttered to himself. "Bloody git." He jumped into the hole, cursing Draco the entire way down. He landed on a pile of bones and in a tunnel of some sort.
"What the bloody hell do you think you are doing down here?" Giles heard and made his way towards the very angry voice of his slayer. "If the basilisk bites you." she trailed off and thought for a moment, "Hell if the basilisk bites you it will probably die." Draco looked ready to retort, but the angry growls from Methos, Angelus, Liam, and Annile stopped him form doing so. "Anyone else?" she asked sarcastically, peering into the darkness.
"Yes, actually." Giles said, stepping forward. Buffy threw up her hands in exasperation at the entire situation, now she had to protect innocents!
"Well then take mini-Spike and find a way out." She told him and then almost as an afterthought, "Take the over grown boy scout too." She told him and Duncan looked hurt, while Methos and Angelus smirked. "Or you can take one of the kids, but I don't want you getting lost down here and you know how boys are." Giles, Duncan, and Draco started to laugh at Angelus and Methos's un-amused expressions.
"Alright, on second thought, let's all stick together, we can figure out how the hell to get out of here later." Buffy told them, taking the lead and selecting a tunnel to follow, Annile and Liam following close behind, casting an uneasy eye behind them at Methos and Angelus ever now and then. Draco looked at the elders of the group and took off towards Buffy. Giles and Duncan restrained Methos and Angelus from ripping the boy limb from limb.
"Down boys." Duncan muttered and laughed when he received two very angry glares. "C'mon, let's leave Dopey and Grumpy together." Giles and him followed them, leaving Methos and Angelus alone.
"C'mon then Dopey." Angelus said and started to follow them, but was stopped by Methos.
"Why am I Dopey?"
"Because I am so much more smarter than you." Angelus told him and then smirked, "Besides I pull Grumpy much better than you do." He told them and they began to debate who was Grumpy and who was Dopey, neither of them noticing that they were no longer following Buffy, but had selected another tunnel.
Meanwhile..
"Where did they go?" Buffy asked, when she had finally turned to see if they had followed her.
"With those two, it is always a question as to where they are." Duncan told her and Buffy just looked anxious.
"We can't wait around, who ever has opened the chamber will be down shortly and we need to kill the basilisk before they get down here." Buffy told them, leading them forward into the tunnel. "They could be down here any.." she trailed off as they entered a great hall with snake statues adorning both sides of the walk way.
"I think we are there." Giles said, going into watcher mode and trying to capture every single detail to the chamber. Draco stood in awe over what the founder of his house had built. Duncan looked clearly unimpressed, like he had seen better or had helped create something that was better than that. Buffy walked towards the statue that was in the middle and looked at it, she could feel the evil resonating off of the statue.
"Alright, get out of the way, whatever you do don't move or look at the basilisk." She commanded, before turning back to the statue.
Unknown to them was that on top of the statue stood two boys and one girl, who were looking on in interest.
"What do you suppose she is doing?" the boy asked.
"Clearly Ron, she is going to figure out how to call the creature." Replied the girl and both boys looked at her in annoyance know it all!
"Open." Buffy commanded and the statue mouth began to open.
"What did she say?" Ron asked.
"Open." Harry replied.
"No thanks." They heard they whipped around to find Professor Peirson and Angelus.
"We can explain." Hermione began, but was saved the trouble, when they heard something very heavy hit the floor.
"Come forth." Buffy commanded and the basilisk uncurled itself, looking to her for instruction, "Come bow before me." She said and the snake made it's way towards her. Annile and Liam tried to leap forward, but were held back by Giles and Duncan.
"No!" Harry shouted and the snake stopped, confused. Buffy looked up in surprise.
'Angelus! Methos! Get them out of here! He's confusing it.' She told them and Angelus and Methos grabbed the kids and shoved them into the tunnels.
"Look at me." She commanded and it did so, "Good, now bow." The creature laid its head before her and Buffy whipped her sword out, and prepared. "Tell me who has been opening you?"
"A young girl, with red hair, she smells of power, but it is not hers."
"Whose is it?"
"Lord Voldemort." The snake said and Buffy nodded and then lopped the head off, killing the snake instantly.
"You can come out." She called and waited for the group to assemble. "You are so in trouble," she told the four students and then looked around, "So, anyone knows how to get out?"
Later: Buffy's Room
Buffy answered the knock on her door, expecting it to be the terrible trio or Draco demanding answers, but was surprised when it was Methos.
"Yes?"
"I was wondering if you would go to Hogsmeade with me on Saturday."