Visitor

Episode 7 (Part I)

Erie, Pennsylvania:

            It was morning in at the house. Sunlight streamed in through the blinds of Jake's room. It glistened off his face. His eyes slowly opened. He slowly sat up and slid some pants on. He opened the blinds and looked outside. It had snowed overnight. The sun glistened off the snow, making it bright. He smiled then left his room.

            He walked into the family room. No one was there. He heard a noise in the kitchen and walked in. Cindy was there making breakfast.

            "Good morning," she said smiling.

            "Good morning," Jake answered back.

            "I'm making French toast and bacon for breakfast," she said.

            "Sounds good to me," Jake said.

            "Stephanie already left, so it'll be just you and me for breakfast," she told him.

            Jake walked over to the table and pulled out a chair. He sat down. Cindy brought over a plate full of French toast. Jake got up and got two forks and the syrup. Cindy brought her food over and sat down too.

            They sat eating their breakfast in silence. Neither of them had anything to talk about.

            They finished their food and Jake cleaned the dishes, while Cindy went upstairs to take a shower. Then, he went back to his room and got dressed. He had to go out and search for a part-time job again today. He really didn't want to, considering that it had just snowed.

Sunnydale, California:

            Willow lie in one of the hospital rooms in the council base. She was in a coma and had been for a few weeks. The magik-draining ritual had really done a lot to her.

            Buffy walked into to see how her friend was doing. She had a smile on her face.

            "Willow," Buffy began, "I know you can't hear me, but I forgive you for all the pain and destruction you have put us all through. You are my best friend and will always be my best friend."

            That's when Willow started to move.

            "Willow?" Buffy questioned.

            Willow was moving more violently. It was like she was having a seizure. Buffy started panicking.

            "Willow! Willow! Wake up!" she shouted.

            The shaking increased, until it finally stopped abruptly. Suddenly Willow's eyes shot open and she sat up.

            "Oh my god, Willow, you're awake!" Buffy exclaimed happily.

            Willow's pupils suddenly grew larger. Magikal energy flew from her body and hit the far wall, creating something like a movie screen.

            Buffy was in shock. She had thought Willow had been ridded of magik. The vision on the screen showed a man getting taunted by some kind of demon. It was inside a house and it had recently snowed. The demon was talking to the man. The house was separated from the outside world so that no one could interfere.

            Suddenly the magical screen disappeared and Willow's pupils returned to their normal size.

            "Buffy, I'm scared," Willow said.

            "Willow, oh my god! It's you!" Buffy cried happily.

            "It's happening!" Willow said.

            "What is?" she questioned her friend.

            "He is here on earth," Willow said.

            "Who is? What are you talking about?" Buffy questioned.

            "I can feel him. He will destroy us!" Willow exclaimed and then passed out.

            Buffy had no idea what Willow was talking about. All she knew was she had to tell Giles what she had just seen and been told.

Erie, Pennsylvania:

            Jake went into the closet near the front door and pulled out his coat. He slipped it on. He reached for the doorknob and pulled the door open. There wasn't any snow outside. It was just darkness.

            "I so do not like the looks of this!" Jake exclaimed.

            A powerful gust pushed Jake backwards and the door slammed shut. A figure began to form in front of the door.

            "I left Sunnydale to get away from this kind of stuff," Jake said.

            The swirling mist formed into a figure. Two feet touched the ground. It was a man. He looked a few years older than Jake. He had a long beard and had a moustache. He smirked at Jake

            "Jake!" he bellowed.

            "Ok," Jake said, "Whatever you are, how do you know my name?"

            "You've made a terrible mistake leaving your friends. You have changed your destiny," the man spoke again.

            "Changed my destiny?" Jake questioned.

            "You were not supposed to live her. Your fate was to die at the hands of the queen vampire. You have changed that by moving here. You messed things up and now you must pay!" he roared.

            "Jake!" Cindy shouted from the top of the stairs, "What's happening down there?"

            "Cindy, stay up there!" Jake shouted.

            "No, no!" the man spoke, "Let the girl come down and join us! She is the one that helped you change your destiny. You both must pay."

            Cindy came running down the stairs and into the family room. She saw Jake lying slouched on the floor.

            "Oh my god, Jake, What…?" she shouted.

            That's when she saw the mystical man standing in front of the door.

            "Witch, it is your fault that this man's destiny has changed?" he shouted.

            "Oh my god!" Cindy shouted, "The wizard of destiny!"

            "You both will pay for what you have done!" he shouted and waved his arms.

            Cindy collapsed to the ground. Jake crawled over to her. She was out cold.

            "What have you done?" he yelled in anger, "How dare you hurt her!"

            "She no longer possesses magical energy. She's now just a normal human like you!" the wizard smiled, "And as for you! You will be banished to another dimension!"

            "What?" Jake questioned.           

            "That's right! You are going to the same dimension that the slayer's friends are in, but don't worry. You won't know anything. That's because your soul will be in my possession!" it smirked and raised his arm.

            Jake fell to the ground too, right next to the woman that had helped him these past few weeks. Both were out cold. The wizard waved his arm again and Jake's unconscious body disappeared from the house.

            The wizard smiled at the woman's body and disappeared himself. Cindy lay unconscious, not knowing what had just happened to her friend. The house was returned to normal time. Everything was normal except that Jake was now gone.

Sunnydale, California:

            Buffy rushed to Giles' room. She had to tell him what she had just witnessed. She knocked on the door several times. Finally, Giles opened the door.

            "How can I help you, Buffy?" he asked.

            "Willow…demon…magik…help!" she blurted out.

            "Slow down!" Giles demanded, "Say again."

            Buffy managed to calm down and started again, "I was visiting Willow, when suddenly she sat up and her eyes opened. Her pupils grew large and energy flew out of her and shone on the wall. It created an image of a demon taunting a man somewhere in a house, surrounded by snow."

            "What!" Giles exclaimed.

            "Then Willow said that he was here on Earth and that she could feel him. That's when she passed out again. I had no idea what she was talking about," Buffy finished.

            "This doesn't make sense," Giles said, "I thought Willow was out cold."

            "Well, so did I," Buffy told him, "I guess we were both wrong."

            "I'll have to run this demon by Quentin," Giles said, "See if he knows what Willow was talking about."

            "Alright, just get back to me when you figure this all out," she said and smiled.

            "Oh no, you are helping with this one, missy," Giles told her.

            Buffy was a little angry, but she followed Giles to Quentin's office. Giles told Quentin everything that Buffy had just told him.

            "Do you know what kind of demon this could be and where it is?" Giles questioned.

            "I'm not sure," Quentin told the Watcher, "It has to be a powerful demon if Willow can feel it."

            Giles finished his conversation with the council head. He and Buffy left the office.

            "Willow should be out of her coma by now, right?" Giles asked.

            "I think so," Buffy answered.

            "Go see and if she is, ask her about what she told you earlier," Giles told her.

            "Will do!" Buffy exclaimed and headed for the hospital part of the base.

            It took her a few minutes to get there, since it was on the other side of the base. When she walked into the room, Willow was sitting up.

            "Willow! You're up!" Buffy exclaimed and gave her friend a hug.

            "Buffy, it's terrible," Willow said.

            "I know. I saw the vision thing," Buffy told her.

            "Vision thing?"

            "Yea, you sat up and magik created a movie-like screen on the wall."

            "Oh."

            "Will, what's going on?"

            "The wizard of destiny is here in this dimension."

            "The wizard of what!"

            "The wizard of destiny. He is the reason that certain things happen in someone's life. Just like it was your destiny to be the slayer. He is angry that someone's destiny has been changed and not by him," Willow told Buffy.

            "Whose destiny has changed?"

            "I'm not sure," Willow said, "Some guy."

            "Well, that helps," Buffy said, "Look, I'm gonna go get Giles. I'll be right back."

            Buffy left the room really quick. She returned a few minutes later with Giles in tow.

            "Willow," Giles began, "Buffy told me that someone called the wizard of destiny is in this dimension."

            "Exactly," Willow said, "I could feel him entering this world."

            "Why would someone like that be here?" Giles asked.

            "Someone here has changed their destiny and he has come to destroy the person," Willow told him.      

            "Who is this person?" Giles asked.

            "I'm not sure," Willow said, "I just know that it is some guy."

            "Is there any way you could possibly know where this guy lives?" Buffy asked.

            "He lives somewhere with snow and he just moved there," Willow told them     

            "Oh my god!" Giles exclaimed shocked.

            "What is it?" Buffy asked.

            "That guy is Jake," Giles said.

            "What!" Buffy exclaimed.

            "Jake is in danger of getting attacked by this wizard of destiny," Giles said.

            "How's that possible?" Buffy asked.

            "He changed his destiny when he met Cindy. My guess is that he was destined to live here and fight the forces of darkness, but when he met her, it changed everything," Giles informed the confused slayer.

            "Wait a second?" Willow asked, "Who is Jake?"

            "Jake is a guy who was helping us out for a few years," Giles told her, "But he left about two weeks ago."

            "Oh," Willow said.

            "Giles," Buffy asked, "How can we save him?"

            "Well..." Giles began.

            "You can't!" Willow shouted.

            "What? Why?" Buffy questioned.

            "You can't help him now," Willow told them, "You are already too late. The wizard has already gotten to him and Jake has paid his price."

            "How can you know that?" Giles asked.

            "I can feel his power," Willow told the watcher, "And I can no longer feel it. That means he is gone."

            "I see," Giles said and took off his glasses and began cleaning them on his shirt.

            "Is there anyway we can destroy this wizard or reverse his actions?" Buffy asked.

            "I'm not quite sure," Willow told her friend.

            "Buffy," Giles began, "We have to research this wizard."

            "Yea uh, research isn't really on my 'to do' list," Buffy said.

            "I know that you don't like it, but we have to if we want to save Jake," Giles said, "Willow, you need to come with us to."

            "Not exactly dressed for research," Willow said.

            "Oh right," Giles said.

            "She can come to my room," Buffy said, "and use an outfit of mine."

            "Thanks Buffy," Willow said.

            "Buffy, meet me in the library," Giles told her and then left.

            Willow and Buffy left a few minutes after him and headed for Buffy's room.

            "We're gonna hafta get you your own room," Buffy said as she opened the door.

            Buffy went to the closet and grabbed an outfit for Willow. It was a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, nothing too fancy. Willow went into the bathroom to change out of the black witch clothes she had on.

            "All better now," Willow said as she stepped out of the bathroom, "I don't look like an evil witch now."

            "That's good," Buffy said.

            The two friends left the room and headed for the library. When they got there, Giles was sitting at one of the tables reading a book.

            "What did you learn so far, Giles?" Buffy asked.

            "Well, this wizard of destiny has the power to do anything," Giles said, "He usually banishes people to other dimensions."

            "Well, that's where Jake would be, right?" Buffy questioned.

            "My thoughts exactly," Giles answered, "He rarely does anything but banish people."

            "What could this guy have done to awaken this wizard?" Willow asked.

            "I think that after Jake left us was when the wizard was woken up," Giles said, "Jake may have screwed up his destiny. I think it might have been to stay here and help us."

            "Yea," Buffy began, "But I think bringing that other witch into our lives sort of messed things up too."

            "I'm starting to piece things together," Giles said.

            "What do you mean?" Willow asked.

            "I'm starting to think that you were not meant to escape that dimension you were banished to," Giles told her, "Then when we got that other witch that messed everything up more. But what really angered the demon, was when Jake left Sunnydale."

            "I get it," Willow said, "That means that I am the reason that everything is messed up."

            "I assume so," Giles said.

            "But then why didn't the wizard come after Willow?" Buffy asked.

            "I think it was because she was too powerful a being to be stopped by him," Giles told them.

            "So," Buffy said, "He went after that person that screwed it up next, which would have been Jake."

            "Exactly," Giles said.

            "Well then how do we get him back?" Buffy questioned.

            "That is something we'll have to work on," Giles said.

To Be Continued