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Chapter 9 :
Angel was in a deep brooding mood -again, what a change- he was pissed about the whole situation, more than just a bit. They were laughing about him, Angel the souled vampire. Why weren't they laughing about Spike, the damned chipped vampire. A neutered Vamp, ha that was something to laugh about. But even if Spike was a neutered Vamp that would not be enough to trust him. He would watch him and he would show them how wrong they were.
Still giggling Buffy told them to sit down and began to research. Some about the portal that caused the arrival of the Tortallians, the rest to search for some cause of Drues return.
Alanna and Angel were snapping at each other. Angel was thinking of Alanna as danger. She had put a spell on him. He tried to argue about it with Giles and Buffy who told him, it was his own fault, he shouldn't have tried to wreck the basement, he should be happy that Alanna caught him and not Buffy, who would have been seriously pissed.
Spike, Buffy, Raoul and Alanna were grumbling, they hated such things, they wanted to do something not to do research in some old books.
Daine and Oz excused themselves after a while, to work on the wolf, as the full moon would arrive soon and they had to get every talk done before it.
Later the gifted Tortallians Jon, Alanna and Numair were also out of research, to train magic with Willow and Tara.
Spike and Thayet started to make dinner, a grumbling Anya had to help them, and a noisy Kitten tried to help them, while Xander, George, Raoul, Gary and Giles went out to get some weapons and more books from the Magic Box.
At the dinner table later that evening Willow and Oz were nearly bursting with joy. Willow liked the magic lessons, she had much more control and was much faster as two days before, she liked learning and loved magic. Oz had good hopes to get his wolf under control, maybe he could be around everyone at full moon now, and even better, maybe the wolf would come out at request, and he could be a better help in the fight against evil.
Buffy was getting restless, she hated to sit and do research. She wanted to go out and slay something the number of people in her house wasn't good for her nerves and with two vampires she felt a slightly tingle everywhere in the house, even if she knew, who it was it was getting on her nerves. And Angels brooding as well as Spikes taunting weren't good for her either.
Giles noticed her impatience and as everyone was done with dinner, he paired them up for the evenings and nights work. "Buffy, Alanna, Spike and George go on patrol this night. Daine, Oz, Raoul and Gary please go into the kitchen cleaning up the mess. Willow, Tara, Jon and Numair do some more magical training first. Kitten can go with Numair or Daine. Anya, Angel, Xander and I will start research. After kitchen duty you can join us at research. Numair and Jon, if you think it's enough training for Willow and Tara for tonight please join the research, too. We need Willow for the computer part of it."
Buffy, Alanna, Spike and George supplied themselves with weapons for the night, while Daine, Oz, Gary and Raoul went to their kitchen duties. Numair and Jon lead Willow and Tara into another room, and the rest was settling themselves down with the books.
After kitchen duty Daine and the others joined the research party. In the end Daine was the one who found something. "Look, here, that could have something to do with it!" She exclaimed. "A spell to get some supernatural help from another world. Summons the best fighters. The rest is in an unknown language for me."
She handed the book to Giles, who was reading it carefully translating everything twice, after that, he started to clean his glasses, twice. "Well, please get the magicians."
Gary rushed to them, asking them to come to the room. Giles handed the book to Willow who was translating the text as well. She wrote it down for Giles, they compared their versions and then they were sure. Willow couldn't suppress a giggle. "Poor Drue."
Giles started to explain. "This is an ancient spell, he should open a portal to summon some fighters from another world, well if you translate it without care, you could mistook the part about the destiny of the fighters. There are some rarely used words in it. I think Drue had translated them wrong and had misinterpreted the whole thing. I think she summoned you, because she thought she would get supernatural touched fighters for the dark side, who even frightened the gods. But this spell summons fighters for the bright side, fighters who where the favourites or champions of a god. "
He continued. "What I do not know, is why it get you. Well you are great fighters, but what have you to do with the gods of your world and the supernatural ?"
Numair began explanations. "Well, Alanna was the chosen of the Goddess, Jon is the Voice of the Tribes and was spared and given back to Alanna by the Dark God. Thayet is Jon's wife and helped Alanna to get a magic artefact for Tortalls benefit. George was the King of the Rogues and he is the husband of Alanna and helped her. I am one of the biggest Mages and had contact with animal gods and I was helping to defeat Ozorne who was hated by the gods. Raoul and Gary are two of our greatest knights. And Daine is the most supernatural part of us, she is the chosen of the Graveyard Hag, one of our goddesses, she was the main force of the gods to punish Ozorne, she had much contact with the badger god and the most important point of all, she is the daughter of Gods of Weyryn the god of the hunt and the green Lady a smaller goddess for birth and herbs and housework. And Kitten is a dragon, so she is a magical creature and out of the realm next to the realms of the gods."
"Well, so we know, how you came to this place, but how do we send you home?"
"Great, more research" Xander groaned.
"Well, we will translate the texts below to figure this out. Hopefully the clue is in there."
So Willow and Giles started to translate the next pages in silence with the help of Tara. After that they were a bit taken aback. Giles tried to explain it to the rest. "Well, we know how you will get back to your realm, we even know, that you would not have to worry about the time and the events in your realm, cause you will get back, some minutes after you left- a year in the world you are summoned into should resemble an hour in your world. That's the good news. The bad news you can not get back by any spell. You have to fullfill your deed here and then the PTB will send you back. But we did not even know, what you are here for."
Willow had an idea "I think you are here to help us, help us close the hellmouth. One of the prophecies about the next month could be about this: Giles you know which, the one we couldn't figure out. Because of the thing about winged Kittens and a chosen one married to a thief and the daughter of the hunt and so on. And I am starting to babble and will stop now."
"I think you are right, maybe that is their deed."
On patrol, they were on the hunt, Spike and Buffy had picked up the scent of a demon and they were following him into the graveyard. The fight was short, Alanna beheaded the demon, as Buffy who had distracted him, flew into a tree and hit her head. Spike was at Buffy's side in a second, trying to get her conscious again. Alanna joined his side and used a drop of her violet fire to wake Buffy. After that they dusted a couple of vamps and beheaded another demon. Alanna was getting really noisy. "So how long are you two together, I mean a vampire and a vampire slayer as a couple. Sounds strange."
Buffy was snapping. "We are not an item. We are just friends." "Yeah lad and that's why he was so terrible worried about you passing out and yesterday about you being in the risk of being attacked by Alannas healing power or Angel."
Spike was nervous, what would the slayer answer to that.
"Well, he cares for me that does not . " Alanna cut her short "Girl he slept in your room yesterday, you trust him blind, and I can see you drooling at him, every time he has his back to you."
"Ok, ok, I like him, more than a bit, but hey, Vampire slayer here, staking his kind." "But you love him" "Yeah. I do. But I am afraid. Afraid he could turn all grr and bloody like Angel, if I give him attention." Buffy had forgotten George and Spike, walking behind her and Alanna.
After her last words, Spike gave her a hug. "Buffy, I had waited so long to hear those words from you. Don't be afraid, I love you and I have no sodding soul to loose, I love you without soul. And even removing the chip can't change that."
Buffy and Spike were kissing now, forgetting everything around them. Alanna and George were seeing some vamps approaching the kissing couple and both went to attack. George throwing really sharp stakes, the way he was used to throw his knifes, Alanna beheading Vamp after vamp. As Buffy and Spike awoke from their kiss they just saw Alanna beheading the last vamp and several heaps of dust around George and Alanna.
Both were shocked. "Sorry, you have saved us. Now, do you see how dangerous it is?" "No," Alanna responded, "it was just your first kiss in love. Will get better, I had to fight side by side with my loved ones, too."
They went back to the house and the others. The research party told them about their info, and after that, the 4 on patrol duty showered, first Spike and Buffy than George and Alanna. (For everyone with a sick mind, there are two bathrooms in the Summers house)
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Chapter 9 :
Angel was in a deep brooding mood -again, what a change- he was pissed about the whole situation, more than just a bit. They were laughing about him, Angel the souled vampire. Why weren't they laughing about Spike, the damned chipped vampire. A neutered Vamp, ha that was something to laugh about. But even if Spike was a neutered Vamp that would not be enough to trust him. He would watch him and he would show them how wrong they were.
Still giggling Buffy told them to sit down and began to research. Some about the portal that caused the arrival of the Tortallians, the rest to search for some cause of Drues return.
Alanna and Angel were snapping at each other. Angel was thinking of Alanna as danger. She had put a spell on him. He tried to argue about it with Giles and Buffy who told him, it was his own fault, he shouldn't have tried to wreck the basement, he should be happy that Alanna caught him and not Buffy, who would have been seriously pissed.
Spike, Buffy, Raoul and Alanna were grumbling, they hated such things, they wanted to do something not to do research in some old books.
Daine and Oz excused themselves after a while, to work on the wolf, as the full moon would arrive soon and they had to get every talk done before it.
Later the gifted Tortallians Jon, Alanna and Numair were also out of research, to train magic with Willow and Tara.
Spike and Thayet started to make dinner, a grumbling Anya had to help them, and a noisy Kitten tried to help them, while Xander, George, Raoul, Gary and Giles went out to get some weapons and more books from the Magic Box.
At the dinner table later that evening Willow and Oz were nearly bursting with joy. Willow liked the magic lessons, she had much more control and was much faster as two days before, she liked learning and loved magic. Oz had good hopes to get his wolf under control, maybe he could be around everyone at full moon now, and even better, maybe the wolf would come out at request, and he could be a better help in the fight against evil.
Buffy was getting restless, she hated to sit and do research. She wanted to go out and slay something the number of people in her house wasn't good for her nerves and with two vampires she felt a slightly tingle everywhere in the house, even if she knew, who it was it was getting on her nerves. And Angels brooding as well as Spikes taunting weren't good for her either.
Giles noticed her impatience and as everyone was done with dinner, he paired them up for the evenings and nights work. "Buffy, Alanna, Spike and George go on patrol this night. Daine, Oz, Raoul and Gary please go into the kitchen cleaning up the mess. Willow, Tara, Jon and Numair do some more magical training first. Kitten can go with Numair or Daine. Anya, Angel, Xander and I will start research. After kitchen duty you can join us at research. Numair and Jon, if you think it's enough training for Willow and Tara for tonight please join the research, too. We need Willow for the computer part of it."
Buffy, Alanna, Spike and George supplied themselves with weapons for the night, while Daine, Oz, Gary and Raoul went to their kitchen duties. Numair and Jon lead Willow and Tara into another room, and the rest was settling themselves down with the books.
After kitchen duty Daine and the others joined the research party. In the end Daine was the one who found something. "Look, here, that could have something to do with it!" She exclaimed. "A spell to get some supernatural help from another world. Summons the best fighters. The rest is in an unknown language for me."
She handed the book to Giles, who was reading it carefully translating everything twice, after that, he started to clean his glasses, twice. "Well, please get the magicians."
Gary rushed to them, asking them to come to the room. Giles handed the book to Willow who was translating the text as well. She wrote it down for Giles, they compared their versions and then they were sure. Willow couldn't suppress a giggle. "Poor Drue."
Giles started to explain. "This is an ancient spell, he should open a portal to summon some fighters from another world, well if you translate it without care, you could mistook the part about the destiny of the fighters. There are some rarely used words in it. I think Drue had translated them wrong and had misinterpreted the whole thing. I think she summoned you, because she thought she would get supernatural touched fighters for the dark side, who even frightened the gods. But this spell summons fighters for the bright side, fighters who where the favourites or champions of a god. "
He continued. "What I do not know, is why it get you. Well you are great fighters, but what have you to do with the gods of your world and the supernatural ?"
Numair began explanations. "Well, Alanna was the chosen of the Goddess, Jon is the Voice of the Tribes and was spared and given back to Alanna by the Dark God. Thayet is Jon's wife and helped Alanna to get a magic artefact for Tortalls benefit. George was the King of the Rogues and he is the husband of Alanna and helped her. I am one of the biggest Mages and had contact with animal gods and I was helping to defeat Ozorne who was hated by the gods. Raoul and Gary are two of our greatest knights. And Daine is the most supernatural part of us, she is the chosen of the Graveyard Hag, one of our goddesses, she was the main force of the gods to punish Ozorne, she had much contact with the badger god and the most important point of all, she is the daughter of Gods of Weyryn the god of the hunt and the green Lady a smaller goddess for birth and herbs and housework. And Kitten is a dragon, so she is a magical creature and out of the realm next to the realms of the gods."
"Well, so we know, how you came to this place, but how do we send you home?"
"Great, more research" Xander groaned.
"Well, we will translate the texts below to figure this out. Hopefully the clue is in there."
So Willow and Giles started to translate the next pages in silence with the help of Tara. After that they were a bit taken aback. Giles tried to explain it to the rest. "Well, we know how you will get back to your realm, we even know, that you would not have to worry about the time and the events in your realm, cause you will get back, some minutes after you left- a year in the world you are summoned into should resemble an hour in your world. That's the good news. The bad news you can not get back by any spell. You have to fullfill your deed here and then the PTB will send you back. But we did not even know, what you are here for."
Willow had an idea "I think you are here to help us, help us close the hellmouth. One of the prophecies about the next month could be about this: Giles you know which, the one we couldn't figure out. Because of the thing about winged Kittens and a chosen one married to a thief and the daughter of the hunt and so on. And I am starting to babble and will stop now."
"I think you are right, maybe that is their deed."
On patrol, they were on the hunt, Spike and Buffy had picked up the scent of a demon and they were following him into the graveyard. The fight was short, Alanna beheaded the demon, as Buffy who had distracted him, flew into a tree and hit her head. Spike was at Buffy's side in a second, trying to get her conscious again. Alanna joined his side and used a drop of her violet fire to wake Buffy. After that they dusted a couple of vamps and beheaded another demon. Alanna was getting really noisy. "So how long are you two together, I mean a vampire and a vampire slayer as a couple. Sounds strange."
Buffy was snapping. "We are not an item. We are just friends." "Yeah lad and that's why he was so terrible worried about you passing out and yesterday about you being in the risk of being attacked by Alannas healing power or Angel."
Spike was nervous, what would the slayer answer to that.
"Well, he cares for me that does not . " Alanna cut her short "Girl he slept in your room yesterday, you trust him blind, and I can see you drooling at him, every time he has his back to you."
"Ok, ok, I like him, more than a bit, but hey, Vampire slayer here, staking his kind." "But you love him" "Yeah. I do. But I am afraid. Afraid he could turn all grr and bloody like Angel, if I give him attention." Buffy had forgotten George and Spike, walking behind her and Alanna.
After her last words, Spike gave her a hug. "Buffy, I had waited so long to hear those words from you. Don't be afraid, I love you and I have no sodding soul to loose, I love you without soul. And even removing the chip can't change that."
Buffy and Spike were kissing now, forgetting everything around them. Alanna and George were seeing some vamps approaching the kissing couple and both went to attack. George throwing really sharp stakes, the way he was used to throw his knifes, Alanna beheading Vamp after vamp. As Buffy and Spike awoke from their kiss they just saw Alanna beheading the last vamp and several heaps of dust around George and Alanna.
Both were shocked. "Sorry, you have saved us. Now, do you see how dangerous it is?" "No," Alanna responded, "it was just your first kiss in love. Will get better, I had to fight side by side with my loved ones, too."
They went back to the house and the others. The research party told them about their info, and after that, the 4 on patrol duty showered, first Spike and Buffy than George and Alanna. (For everyone with a sick mind, there are two bathrooms in the Summers house)
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