Dislcaimer: I don't own any of these characters.
Chapter Six
"I knew it!" Anya shouted, leaping out of her chair. "I knew it! I always told you all that bunnies were no good but no one would believe me! Ha! Serves you right...
"Anya, all it says is that the bunnies are the slaves of this demon," I explained. "That doesn't mean that the bunnies are all behind this and it's all their fault.
"Yes it does," Anya replied. "Without it's slaves this Bogiekwor demon guy wouldn't be able to do his work.
"Good point, but if the bunnies are slaves that implies that they don't actually volunteer to do their work, so it's not really their fault," I said.
"Here we go again, trying to defend bunnies," Anya said, sitting down, folding her arms, and rolling her eyes.
"Sorry..." I said quietly.
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I stared at Buffy's sister who was now lying on the ground in a crumpled heap. Was she dead? I didn't see anyone rush over to help her- but then again, who really would want to get near Buffy? Why had she even been brought here if she had these anger management problems? What the hell was going on?!?!?!
Then I saw Xander enter the room.
"Buffy!" he said, starting towards her. "We heard you scr-
"Don't get near her," Hermione advised quietly.
"What?" Xander asked, confused.
"She killed Sunshine!" Harry cried before laughing hysterically.
"What?!" Xander screamed. "She killed Dawn?!
"Well, she hit her really hard," Hermione told him.
"Wow... Back to the library I go..." Xander replied, edging out of the room.
"So they all went to the library?" Draco asked. "That's so stupid... The library... What an awful hangout...
As Xander completely left the room, whispers broke out and eventually grew into everyone talking loudly with each other about these freaks that had just joined our school.
I noticed Hermione staring off into the distance, a dazed look on her face. A small grin crept up her face. Uh-oh. What was she thinking?
"Hermione, what are you thinking?" I asked somewhat warily to the grinning girl.
"Don't you think it might be interesting to see why they chose the library as their hangout?" Hermione inquired. "I mean, you know how Dumbledore said that not all of them were human? Obviously Buffy isn't, but that still leaves the rest of them. Maybe they're library monsters or something and they feed off of books! Whatever they are, we might be able to discover the truth if we go to their home and I have a feeling that the library will be just as good as one to them.
"Wow I have no idea what you just said but I'll go with you to the library if that's what you mean," I replied, confused.
"Harry, are you in?" Hermione asked our dazed friend who was busy making sculptures with his food.
"Sure," he mumbled.
"Let's go!" Hermione shouted while we stood up. I dragged Harry off behind me.
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"She hit Sunshine! I mean, Dawn!
"What?!" Willow cried, stunned. "Buffy did? What?!
"According to the little children she hit Dawn and now she's nothing more than a crumpled heap on the ground," Xander explained sadly.
Willow and Tara jumped up out of their seats. Giles whipped off his glasses. I stood up straight from the bookcase I was leaning against.
"Is she dead?" Giles asked.
"This has gone way too far," Willow said.
"We should keep on researching this thing so we can find out how to stop it," Tara said.
"I'll check on Dawn," Giles said, walking briskly out of the Restricted Section.
"Wait, I'll come with you," I said. "She could be dangerous."
I followed Giles out of the room.
We walked quickly through the hallways and reached the Dining Hall quickly. When we stepped inside, the first thing I saw was Buffy being the only person standing up in the whole room. All the students were talking avidly with each other. Suddenly the old headmaster guy stood up.
"Settle down," he said. "If you all will please settle down we will take Miss Summers out of the room and into a place where she will not harm anyone else."
The old guy turned to his left where a very large man with a bushy beard was sitting and whispered something to him. The big guy nodded and stood up. He started walking towards Buffy.
"Wait a minute, Professor Dumbledore," Giles said, holding up a hand and walking towards the Bumblebee guy. I followed.
"We were just researching on what is going on with Buffy since she obviously doesn't act like this," Giles explained quietly to the old guy. "We discovered a demon called Fijikwor that causes the people that it possesses to feel a lot of one particular emotion. We think that this demon is the one that is causing Buffy to act in this strange way. Right now Anya, Xander, Willow, and Tara are researching to find out how to get this demon out of Buffy's body."
The old guy nodded slowly nodded once and then stopped moving. I stood there waiting for him to do something but he just sat there like a doll or something.
"Hello?" I said, waving my hand in his face. "Did this old bloke die here or something?"
"Calm down, Spike," Giles said paternally. "He just gets like this sometimes."
"Ah..." I replied, still puzzled at the old man's strange actions.
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"Okay so it says that the only way for this person to get rid of this demon is to feel a lot of the exact opposite emotion," Willow explained after reading from the book. "So I guess the only way to get Fiji-man away is to make her really happy...?"
"I guess," Tara replied.
"But what would make Buffy really happy?" I wondered. "Like, if we gave her something? A present...
"Well I have no idea," Anya replied, sitting back in her chair as though giving up.
"Would Giles know?" Willow wondered.
"Oh, yeah, like Giles would know better than we would what makes Buffy happy," I said sarcastically.
"He has known her for as long as we have," Willow pointed out.
I shrugged.
"Well we should still tell him that we've figured out how to get it away," Tara suggested.
I nodded and started leaving the library, motioning for everyone to follow me.
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The doors to the Dining Hall burst open suddenly and four figures walked through and straight up to Dumbledore. It was some of Dawn's sister's friends. They started talking to the old guy and the white haired guy who had tried to get Dawn away from me. Stupid asshole.
Just then I realized that Harry, Hermione, and Ron were all gone. Those morons! Where the hell were they?!?!?!
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"Lets not go," Hermione said, stopping in the middle of the hallway.
"Oh, come on," I moaned. "Why not?
"Because they probably aren't doing anything interesting and we'll just interrupt whatever they're doing," she explained.
"You're scared of them, aren't you?" Harry guessed.
Hermione's cheeks turned pink.
"Oh, fine, so I am! But you can't blame me! Did you see how Buffy was acting?! I have every right to be scared!" she shouted, turning to walk up another staircase.
"Where are you going, then?" I asked.
"Up to the dorm," she said, turning and going up the stairs. She stopped and turned around and added, "To hide.
Harry and I rolled our eyes and followed her reluctantly up the staircase.
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"Will all the students please go up to their dormitories so we can sort this out," Dumbledore commanded, standing up. Although he was speaking to all the students, he was staring at Buffy who was just standing there, her whole body turning a bright red color as though she might explode.
I turned and followed my colleagues to the Slytherin common room. I was a little bit disappointed that I had to leave, but it was probably better that I did so before another one of Buffy's cronies lashed out on me again.
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A/N: Ok, nothing much really happened in that chapter. I'll try and post again soon!
And to the people who think I hate Anya: I don't! I love Anya! It's just that she's not always the brightest person, so I just kind of wanted to show that...