Chapter 6

In England, Gary and Beth await a call from Sarah. "She's been gone four weeks now, she should have called us," Gary fumed.

"Why didn't we just nab her here?" Beth asks.

"Fool, you know as well as I do that Sarah could not be harmed in this home, she said she was going to America right? Well that's where we'll have to go."

"And return without the girl? Abel will not be happy." Beth gets up and walks towards the front door. "You'll want to change first if this is going to work." Gary opens the closet doors and two limp bodies fall to the floor, covered in blood, the bodies of...Gary and Beth. "Well I'm ready." "Gary" turns around to see the form of Sarah looking back at him, Sarah walks over to the bodies and places her hands in the blood, as she does this, an archaic circle forms around the bodies waiting to be found.

Gary screams a blood curdling howl as if in agony. He then changes form into that of a young man, his hair was shaved and he wore a red shirt as well as white jeans. He sneaks towards the back as "Sarah" runs out of the house with blood on her face and hands for all to see. She mutters under her breath, "damn you wretched girl, where are you?"

"I grow tired of waiting on the word of Cain and Bane, I want the girl!"

The demon, Abel, leaned in the corner of the warehouse and glared at The Piper with distaste. "She is away from her home Piper, the magic you are so scared of doesn't apply. Why don't you look for her?"

"I might just do that! It would save me giving you the gem of Moondah," The Piper spits back. "Two weeks Abel, you have two weeks to find her."

If only they knew, Sarah was right under their nose.

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"Stories from the Ancient Greek world tell us of fantastic beasts such as the Minotaur, of cruel Gods who punish their own such as Zeus's torturous punishment of Prometheus, of feats of strength and bravery, of tricky labyrinths and the monsters they hold, all this and more. This is what we will be going through this semester." At the sound of the Minotaur, Dawn involuntarily shuddered, and with good reason having been cornered by one a couple of years ago.

Further back, Sarah scribbled away furiously, as the lecture was brought to a close, Sarah's eyes wandered the auditorium, her gaze held on the back of Dawn, why did she seem drawn to her? Yeah she's cute, but I've never felt this way about a girl before, about anyone before for that matter. Dawn looked around and Sarah averted her gaze. Yeah right, as if Sarah. Just keep your head down and stay out of trouble and you will do everyone a favour.

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"So this is the sort of thing Giles told us to call about right?" Willow babbles as she and Tara get into the house with their hands linked.

"I dunno sweetie, I mean sure a couple of people have "disappeared" but are you sure that would be Slayer biz? Even if we had an fully working and operational Slayer near by, which we don't, what would she do?"

"Five men and three women in the space of four days, seems a little nasty evil demonish thing to me." Willow stopped talking as the door opened and Dawn called that she was back. "Hey Dawnie, how was University?"

"It went ok, bit of a bore with the lecture, just telling us what we're gonna be covering."

"Ooh," Tara chips in, interested, "what do you have this semester?"

"Greek mythology including," Dawn shudders "the Minotaur, nice way to start off...just glad there's no practical."

Willow, Tara and Dawn all laugh as Willow and Tara unlink hands and set about preparing dinner.