Chapter Six – Out of Time
Xander Harris had set to pacing the Magic Box in Buffy's absence. It had been nearly twenty-four hours since any of the Scooby Gang had seen either the Slayer or her sister, not to mention that they also hadn't seen their annoying vampire or his brother too. Anya had only made the matter worse when she replied to his consent whining that maybe they had been eaten or something, causing Xander to burn a tail along the floor. Willow and Tara were doing everything in their power to calm the agitated carpenter, while Giles customarily cleaned his glasses for the one- millionth time.
"Where could she be?" Xander groaned and looked back out the front window.
"Xander, please calm down. Tara just did a spell that tells us that they are both alive and well" Willow snapped in frustration.
"Yes, but they are out there with an evil hell goddess after Dawn" he snapped back.
"This is getting us no where you two. Well if you say that, then we have to be worried about Spike and James as well" Giles sighed.
"Why would we have to worry about the evil undead and the uber brat?"
"Because James is the other half of the Key"
"Huh?"
Giles was really starting to get annoyed. So to the group he went over what he had with Buffy more then a month ago. He explained that both Dawn Summers and James Castles were together the Key, but apart they were the opposite halves of Light and Darkness. It seemed to be Xander and two witches that seemed the most interested, but for Anya she just seemed to ignore and go back to dusting the shop. Without her, Giles continued the story. They needed to make sure that Glory did not find out the Key was split in two, so that if she managed to get a hold of one teen, her plan wouldn't go anywhere. That also meant that the other half would be safe from perimeter termination.
"So... what do we do?"
"Wait to inform the others. From what I know, only Buffy knows the truth"
Just then the door burst open and Buffy stomped in, completely in a huff. Her appearance was having become haggard from post-crying and angry.
"You helped her brake in here last night?" she growled and seconds later she was followed by Spike, then Dawn and then James taking up the rear.
"Well you had no bloody right to keep that from them, it is their lives that are in the balance luv" he replied
"Exactly" both teens piped up simultaneously.
"Quite" both Spike and Buffy snapped at them, which led to a irritating silence.
"Okay, this is just odd" Xander mumbled. "Where have you been?" now he was asking Buffy the one question that had been on his mind for hours.
"At Spike's" she said nonchalantly and sat down heavily. "And before you start ranting on what I'd be doing with a vampire like him, I took Dawn and myself there because... because we just found out last night that both our parents are dead"
Her blunt words hit home, leaving the Scoobies speechless. Giles stared wide-eyed, Willow and Tara gaped and Xander twitched while Anya said nothing.
"I'm so very sorry" Giles was the first to speak and for all of them.
"I feel like I should be crying" Buffy muttered.
"Crying? Pet, you've been doing that all night – " James admonished and then Dawn finished the sentence for him. "And when you weren't crying, you were kissing Spike"
They slayer and the vampire turned suddenly so glower at the two teens, who had clapped their hands over their mouths and red blushes were begging to appear. Buffy didn't dare turn to face her friends, how were at the moment far more speechless then the first announcement. But slowly she had to turn around and face the music, all the time trying to laugh as Spike stepped behind her protection.
It was Xander of course that had to go and open his big fat mouth first.
"What you kissed that creepy evil thing! Good god Buffy, I thought you learned with Angel!"
Spike growled at the mention of Angel, Buffy had begun to turn green and James bristled the moment that Xander had called his brother a thing. Without thinking James strode forth and slapped him across the face. The already red-faced Xander gasped and glared at the boy in front of him.
"William is not a thing!" James hissed at him. "And when it comes to Buffy she can do was she goddamn well pleases to do. Do you own her? No you don't, your just here friend and in being her friend you are suppose to support her with anything, wither it be good or bad. Are you jealous that she found someone better then Captain Cardboard or is only that she found someone that wasn't human? You sicken me, to have said that to her not long after we finally managed to calm her and Dawn because of their mother and father's death. Now I demand to know what your problem is, if your man enough"
"Its just – its just" Xander sputtered helplessly before turning tail and fleeing the Magic Box, Anya following.
When they where gone, the attention was now turned on Giles, who now resembled a drowned fish. He had been cleaning his glasses since Buffy and the other had gotten in, and had only just now realized what he was doing. Slowly he replaced his glasses and sighed.
"Giles?" Willow asked the frowning watcher carefully.
"Only on the bloody Hellmouth"
The funerals for both Joyce and Hank Summers took place a week latter after the Italian government was able to deliver Hank's body to Sunnydale. It was rather somber like most funerals, but held at night in order for Buffy to feel as though there was nothing to fear. Dawn spoke little and was comforted by the company that Spike and James came to give. Buffy hadn't spoken with Xander since that night, but was doubly supported by those that were still around her.
The problem with Glory was getting worse. After two weeks they all found out that Glory knew that Dawn was the Key, at least she didn't know about James. As the months flew by, they had come into many scrapes with the dysfunctional goddess and a creepy demon follower of hers named Doc – it was a battle of strengths, how was strong and who wasn't strong enough. Then Tara came up with the brilliant idea of a magically protected safe house that she and Willow would create. Giles figured out after hours of research that in the end that she would need to take the blood of both halves in order to open the portal she needed. But as the days went on, Dawn began to get more and more frightened.
"Buffy, what's going to happen?"
"I'm not sure Dawnie," the slayer said with sincerity, looking at the floor.
"She's getting closer isn't she? I know that Glory's just one step away... but I can't be confined like this any more. School's out for summer now and being stuck inside is driving me crazy"
"It wont be that much longer, I promise"
"But you've been telling me that for months!"
Dawn jumped up in frustration and ran from the room. She threw herself down on her bed and sobbed pointlessly into her pillow. This place wasn't home – it didn't even look like home... it wasn't even close. All she had her bed with a few trunks of cloths – everything was still at their old house. She knew that James didn't like this either as he felt detached at not being able to go back to Spike's crypt. No longer wanting to be in a downer, Dawn got back up and left.
"Whew" she moaned as she stepped outside into the summer heat.
The heat was so terrible that it threatened to knock her off her feet.
"So luv, you sneaked out of the house too?"
Dawn whipped about to find James standing under a nearby tree going through an old box. Upon her investigation, she found that it had pictures in it.
"You want to meet my family?" he whispered. "William's too sentimental to look at them with me any more"
Without a word she sat down beside him and they went through the pictures.
"This is my mum"
His mother was, for the lack of any better word, beautiful. Her appearance was young and regal for the stories she had heard from him about her later years. But there was hint of something special about her that anyone could notice.
"And my father"
His father was slightly different. The man was handsome, although he looked nothing like either of his sons he seemed to glow. He had a firm, but warmhearted smile that broke her heart. She wished she could have really known her father and then she realized that neither had James.
"I sorry" she said picking up another picture.
"Don't be sorry pet, I have my memories. They may not have been real, but that's not what counts. It's about what you feel in side that matters. Look at this one," he smiled. "It was taken a year before William was turned"
The picture he handed her was of Spike and James. It wasn't one of those regular Victorian photos that you usually see, but one that bore two smiling brothers without a care in the world. Though you could see the hint of sadness in Spike's eyes.
"So, what else do – "
But she never got to finish her sentence because she was suddenly thrown to the ground. Looking up she saw Doc looming over her for a second before James hit him in a flying tackle. She screamed and turned to go for the house when another one of Glory's minions launched itself out to grab her.
"Dawn!"
James was thrown against the tree and then Doc brought his fists down on the back of James's head. She was as the crumpled to the ground.
"James!"
"No need to shout for your little friend" Doc smiled evilly. "He won't be able to save you"
They dragged her forward and then with a snap, they vanished. Reappearing on the other side of town right into Glory's hands. She didn't look like a god by any chance. Her hair was hideous and had that snotty look to it like she had just smelled something disgusting, but her face brightened as she saw them approaching with Dawn.
"So you brought me my Key" she grinned. "Four more days till I go home. Aren't you happy for me"
Dawn viscously spit in Glory's face glaring at her and then she reverted to Ben. Doc suddenly took a hold of him before he could think of running and Dawn just gapped at him. As the young man thrashed wildly, Dawn recognized him as the same doctor she had met in the hospital while her mom was still alive.
"Let go me!" he shouted. "I won't do it!"
"Oh don't be like that Benjamin" Doc admonished gently. "You are just the host for the Great Glorificus, and are in no position to be saying such things. Minions! Put then in the storage room until Ben here reverts back to our mistress"
They were dragged off and thrown into a room that was dimly lit and then bolted shut.
"So, you're the Key" Ben sighed look at anything but her.
"You're in on this!" Dawn snapped bitterly. "I just thought that you were just some nice doctor, but you're Glory!"
"Don't say that!'' Ben suddenly yelled at her, then quieted when he saw the hurt look on her face.
"I never wanted this. You don't know what its like. I was created for the sole purpose of Glory being here in this world. But I have a life! She's been taking that away from me for the last year. When she uses you to open the portal... when she goes home... I die. You see, I'm just about as real as you are"
Dawn was silent for a beat.
"So you haven't been helping her?"
"Hell no! I wake up wearing dresses in places I don't remember being. I can't even get my job done; she even got me fired. If anything, I'd help anyone that that cow down a notch"
"How long do you think it'll last before Glory comes back?" she asked, brighten at an idea that had just popped into her head.
"I don't know, it happens every so often"
"Do you think that you could get out of here? Like get them to let you out? Then you could go find Buffy, tell here what's going down"
"Do you think it'll work?"
"Well of we both want to life, it'll have to"
It was two actually on the day of the ritual that Ben was able to make his brake for it. He didn't stop, went directly for the location Dawn had given and had run. But finding the slayer wasn't as easy. The hours ticked by and he was just glad that Glory hadn't thought of waking up. When he got to the Magic Box, he found that the slayer and her friends were already in full swing, but waiting for the knowledge that held them back.
"But Giles, we don't know where she is?" Buffy cried out angrily. "It happens tonight and we still don't know what to do"
"I do"
They turned all turned to stare at Ben who stood awkwardly at the door.
"Who are you" James snarled, being the voice for everyone.
"He's that doctor from the hospital," Willow said.
"Why are you here? Where's Dawn?" Buffy demanded.
"I'm Ben, Dawn sent me here to aid you before she comes back. The ritual is going take place tonight and that means we both die"
"What do you mean 'until she comes back' and that you'll both die?" Giles asked.
Ben moved into the shop and didn't look too opposing at all. Well who could with eight people gathered around him?
"By she I mean Glory... I'm the host of Glory, so I am Glory"
"What!?"
Within seconds Buffy had Ben by the throat. He wheezed for breath and flailed in her arms.
"Please... don't bring her out... we have to save Dawn"
He was dropped.
"Explain. Now"
"I am Glory, but I'm Ben. I am really Ben, well right now. I told this to Dawn and so I'll tell you. I was created for Glory so that she could live in this world. I hate her, she's horrid, but by leaving this world, she'll kill me. So your sister and I have something in common, if the ritual is allowed to take place, then we both die"
"So the only way to kill Glory is to kill you right?" Anya asked bluntly.
"Yes"
"There could be a way to separate them"
Everyone turned to Tara in confusion.
"Well... if we use the Dagon Sphere that Buffy got earlier this year, it could bring the two apart. Glory needs Ben to live, but Ben doesn't need Glory. He is a human that was created... just for her, he is himself – she's just a roommate"
Anya stood smiling holding up the Dagon Sphere, have gone for it the moment that she hear Tara's words.
"No!"
Suddenly they found themselves with Glory, she having taken back the shared body.
"Never, never, never" she shrieked as Spike and Buffy took to restraining her, and she couldn't fight back from being weakening by the sphere.
James took the sphere from Anya and smiled at the terrified hell goddess.
"Let me do the honors" he said stepping forward. "You want to know something? I'll tell you. By using Dawn you wouldn't have been able to get home anyway"
"But she's the Key" Glory protested and continued to struggle in earnest.
"No, she's not... she's only half"
"What do you mean half?"
"You don't do your homework, do you? It's exactly how I said it. There isn't just one Key any more but two, you'd need the other half to complete the ritual"
"You! It you!''
"Yes, it's me. Now say goodbye"
"No!" Glory screamed one last time before James brought the sphere right up to her face.
Her features began to blur and run together and then Sanding before them was Ben and Glory. But that didn't last long because Glory let out a cry of agony before exploding into small particles of orange light. But Ben didn't look too gratifying; he looked sickened to his stomach.
"You're the Key too?" Ben asked James, a horrified expression crossing his face.
"Yes. Didn't I just say that?" James replied irritably.
"Oh no"
"What?" Buffy asked, feeling the wave of horror that washed through them all.
"The minions... they don't know. They'll start the ritual for her – no matter what, wither you are there are not to open the portal, they bleed her to death"
Hey everybody! Ho was it? Hope it was good enough for you. Well yah for me, I just past grade eleven and it's off for the summer for me! Hope you all have a good summer. Lots of hotness and relaxation. Later!
Xander Harris had set to pacing the Magic Box in Buffy's absence. It had been nearly twenty-four hours since any of the Scooby Gang had seen either the Slayer or her sister, not to mention that they also hadn't seen their annoying vampire or his brother too. Anya had only made the matter worse when she replied to his consent whining that maybe they had been eaten or something, causing Xander to burn a tail along the floor. Willow and Tara were doing everything in their power to calm the agitated carpenter, while Giles customarily cleaned his glasses for the one- millionth time.
"Where could she be?" Xander groaned and looked back out the front window.
"Xander, please calm down. Tara just did a spell that tells us that they are both alive and well" Willow snapped in frustration.
"Yes, but they are out there with an evil hell goddess after Dawn" he snapped back.
"This is getting us no where you two. Well if you say that, then we have to be worried about Spike and James as well" Giles sighed.
"Why would we have to worry about the evil undead and the uber brat?"
"Because James is the other half of the Key"
"Huh?"
Giles was really starting to get annoyed. So to the group he went over what he had with Buffy more then a month ago. He explained that both Dawn Summers and James Castles were together the Key, but apart they were the opposite halves of Light and Darkness. It seemed to be Xander and two witches that seemed the most interested, but for Anya she just seemed to ignore and go back to dusting the shop. Without her, Giles continued the story. They needed to make sure that Glory did not find out the Key was split in two, so that if she managed to get a hold of one teen, her plan wouldn't go anywhere. That also meant that the other half would be safe from perimeter termination.
"So... what do we do?"
"Wait to inform the others. From what I know, only Buffy knows the truth"
Just then the door burst open and Buffy stomped in, completely in a huff. Her appearance was having become haggard from post-crying and angry.
"You helped her brake in here last night?" she growled and seconds later she was followed by Spike, then Dawn and then James taking up the rear.
"Well you had no bloody right to keep that from them, it is their lives that are in the balance luv" he replied
"Exactly" both teens piped up simultaneously.
"Quite" both Spike and Buffy snapped at them, which led to a irritating silence.
"Okay, this is just odd" Xander mumbled. "Where have you been?" now he was asking Buffy the one question that had been on his mind for hours.
"At Spike's" she said nonchalantly and sat down heavily. "And before you start ranting on what I'd be doing with a vampire like him, I took Dawn and myself there because... because we just found out last night that both our parents are dead"
Her blunt words hit home, leaving the Scoobies speechless. Giles stared wide-eyed, Willow and Tara gaped and Xander twitched while Anya said nothing.
"I'm so very sorry" Giles was the first to speak and for all of them.
"I feel like I should be crying" Buffy muttered.
"Crying? Pet, you've been doing that all night – " James admonished and then Dawn finished the sentence for him. "And when you weren't crying, you were kissing Spike"
They slayer and the vampire turned suddenly so glower at the two teens, who had clapped their hands over their mouths and red blushes were begging to appear. Buffy didn't dare turn to face her friends, how were at the moment far more speechless then the first announcement. But slowly she had to turn around and face the music, all the time trying to laugh as Spike stepped behind her protection.
It was Xander of course that had to go and open his big fat mouth first.
"What you kissed that creepy evil thing! Good god Buffy, I thought you learned with Angel!"
Spike growled at the mention of Angel, Buffy had begun to turn green and James bristled the moment that Xander had called his brother a thing. Without thinking James strode forth and slapped him across the face. The already red-faced Xander gasped and glared at the boy in front of him.
"William is not a thing!" James hissed at him. "And when it comes to Buffy she can do was she goddamn well pleases to do. Do you own her? No you don't, your just here friend and in being her friend you are suppose to support her with anything, wither it be good or bad. Are you jealous that she found someone better then Captain Cardboard or is only that she found someone that wasn't human? You sicken me, to have said that to her not long after we finally managed to calm her and Dawn because of their mother and father's death. Now I demand to know what your problem is, if your man enough"
"Its just – its just" Xander sputtered helplessly before turning tail and fleeing the Magic Box, Anya following.
When they where gone, the attention was now turned on Giles, who now resembled a drowned fish. He had been cleaning his glasses since Buffy and the other had gotten in, and had only just now realized what he was doing. Slowly he replaced his glasses and sighed.
"Giles?" Willow asked the frowning watcher carefully.
"Only on the bloody Hellmouth"
The funerals for both Joyce and Hank Summers took place a week latter after the Italian government was able to deliver Hank's body to Sunnydale. It was rather somber like most funerals, but held at night in order for Buffy to feel as though there was nothing to fear. Dawn spoke little and was comforted by the company that Spike and James came to give. Buffy hadn't spoken with Xander since that night, but was doubly supported by those that were still around her.
The problem with Glory was getting worse. After two weeks they all found out that Glory knew that Dawn was the Key, at least she didn't know about James. As the months flew by, they had come into many scrapes with the dysfunctional goddess and a creepy demon follower of hers named Doc – it was a battle of strengths, how was strong and who wasn't strong enough. Then Tara came up with the brilliant idea of a magically protected safe house that she and Willow would create. Giles figured out after hours of research that in the end that she would need to take the blood of both halves in order to open the portal she needed. But as the days went on, Dawn began to get more and more frightened.
"Buffy, what's going to happen?"
"I'm not sure Dawnie," the slayer said with sincerity, looking at the floor.
"She's getting closer isn't she? I know that Glory's just one step away... but I can't be confined like this any more. School's out for summer now and being stuck inside is driving me crazy"
"It wont be that much longer, I promise"
"But you've been telling me that for months!"
Dawn jumped up in frustration and ran from the room. She threw herself down on her bed and sobbed pointlessly into her pillow. This place wasn't home – it didn't even look like home... it wasn't even close. All she had her bed with a few trunks of cloths – everything was still at their old house. She knew that James didn't like this either as he felt detached at not being able to go back to Spike's crypt. No longer wanting to be in a downer, Dawn got back up and left.
"Whew" she moaned as she stepped outside into the summer heat.
The heat was so terrible that it threatened to knock her off her feet.
"So luv, you sneaked out of the house too?"
Dawn whipped about to find James standing under a nearby tree going through an old box. Upon her investigation, she found that it had pictures in it.
"You want to meet my family?" he whispered. "William's too sentimental to look at them with me any more"
Without a word she sat down beside him and they went through the pictures.
"This is my mum"
His mother was, for the lack of any better word, beautiful. Her appearance was young and regal for the stories she had heard from him about her later years. But there was hint of something special about her that anyone could notice.
"And my father"
His father was slightly different. The man was handsome, although he looked nothing like either of his sons he seemed to glow. He had a firm, but warmhearted smile that broke her heart. She wished she could have really known her father and then she realized that neither had James.
"I sorry" she said picking up another picture.
"Don't be sorry pet, I have my memories. They may not have been real, but that's not what counts. It's about what you feel in side that matters. Look at this one," he smiled. "It was taken a year before William was turned"
The picture he handed her was of Spike and James. It wasn't one of those regular Victorian photos that you usually see, but one that bore two smiling brothers without a care in the world. Though you could see the hint of sadness in Spike's eyes.
"So, what else do – "
But she never got to finish her sentence because she was suddenly thrown to the ground. Looking up she saw Doc looming over her for a second before James hit him in a flying tackle. She screamed and turned to go for the house when another one of Glory's minions launched itself out to grab her.
"Dawn!"
James was thrown against the tree and then Doc brought his fists down on the back of James's head. She was as the crumpled to the ground.
"James!"
"No need to shout for your little friend" Doc smiled evilly. "He won't be able to save you"
They dragged her forward and then with a snap, they vanished. Reappearing on the other side of town right into Glory's hands. She didn't look like a god by any chance. Her hair was hideous and had that snotty look to it like she had just smelled something disgusting, but her face brightened as she saw them approaching with Dawn.
"So you brought me my Key" she grinned. "Four more days till I go home. Aren't you happy for me"
Dawn viscously spit in Glory's face glaring at her and then she reverted to Ben. Doc suddenly took a hold of him before he could think of running and Dawn just gapped at him. As the young man thrashed wildly, Dawn recognized him as the same doctor she had met in the hospital while her mom was still alive.
"Let go me!" he shouted. "I won't do it!"
"Oh don't be like that Benjamin" Doc admonished gently. "You are just the host for the Great Glorificus, and are in no position to be saying such things. Minions! Put then in the storage room until Ben here reverts back to our mistress"
They were dragged off and thrown into a room that was dimly lit and then bolted shut.
"So, you're the Key" Ben sighed look at anything but her.
"You're in on this!" Dawn snapped bitterly. "I just thought that you were just some nice doctor, but you're Glory!"
"Don't say that!'' Ben suddenly yelled at her, then quieted when he saw the hurt look on her face.
"I never wanted this. You don't know what its like. I was created for the sole purpose of Glory being here in this world. But I have a life! She's been taking that away from me for the last year. When she uses you to open the portal... when she goes home... I die. You see, I'm just about as real as you are"
Dawn was silent for a beat.
"So you haven't been helping her?"
"Hell no! I wake up wearing dresses in places I don't remember being. I can't even get my job done; she even got me fired. If anything, I'd help anyone that that cow down a notch"
"How long do you think it'll last before Glory comes back?" she asked, brighten at an idea that had just popped into her head.
"I don't know, it happens every so often"
"Do you think that you could get out of here? Like get them to let you out? Then you could go find Buffy, tell here what's going down"
"Do you think it'll work?"
"Well of we both want to life, it'll have to"
It was two actually on the day of the ritual that Ben was able to make his brake for it. He didn't stop, went directly for the location Dawn had given and had run. But finding the slayer wasn't as easy. The hours ticked by and he was just glad that Glory hadn't thought of waking up. When he got to the Magic Box, he found that the slayer and her friends were already in full swing, but waiting for the knowledge that held them back.
"But Giles, we don't know where she is?" Buffy cried out angrily. "It happens tonight and we still don't know what to do"
"I do"
They turned all turned to stare at Ben who stood awkwardly at the door.
"Who are you" James snarled, being the voice for everyone.
"He's that doctor from the hospital," Willow said.
"Why are you here? Where's Dawn?" Buffy demanded.
"I'm Ben, Dawn sent me here to aid you before she comes back. The ritual is going take place tonight and that means we both die"
"What do you mean 'until she comes back' and that you'll both die?" Giles asked.
Ben moved into the shop and didn't look too opposing at all. Well who could with eight people gathered around him?
"By she I mean Glory... I'm the host of Glory, so I am Glory"
"What!?"
Within seconds Buffy had Ben by the throat. He wheezed for breath and flailed in her arms.
"Please... don't bring her out... we have to save Dawn"
He was dropped.
"Explain. Now"
"I am Glory, but I'm Ben. I am really Ben, well right now. I told this to Dawn and so I'll tell you. I was created for Glory so that she could live in this world. I hate her, she's horrid, but by leaving this world, she'll kill me. So your sister and I have something in common, if the ritual is allowed to take place, then we both die"
"So the only way to kill Glory is to kill you right?" Anya asked bluntly.
"Yes"
"There could be a way to separate them"
Everyone turned to Tara in confusion.
"Well... if we use the Dagon Sphere that Buffy got earlier this year, it could bring the two apart. Glory needs Ben to live, but Ben doesn't need Glory. He is a human that was created... just for her, he is himself – she's just a roommate"
Anya stood smiling holding up the Dagon Sphere, have gone for it the moment that she hear Tara's words.
"No!"
Suddenly they found themselves with Glory, she having taken back the shared body.
"Never, never, never" she shrieked as Spike and Buffy took to restraining her, and she couldn't fight back from being weakening by the sphere.
James took the sphere from Anya and smiled at the terrified hell goddess.
"Let me do the honors" he said stepping forward. "You want to know something? I'll tell you. By using Dawn you wouldn't have been able to get home anyway"
"But she's the Key" Glory protested and continued to struggle in earnest.
"No, she's not... she's only half"
"What do you mean half?"
"You don't do your homework, do you? It's exactly how I said it. There isn't just one Key any more but two, you'd need the other half to complete the ritual"
"You! It you!''
"Yes, it's me. Now say goodbye"
"No!" Glory screamed one last time before James brought the sphere right up to her face.
Her features began to blur and run together and then Sanding before them was Ben and Glory. But that didn't last long because Glory let out a cry of agony before exploding into small particles of orange light. But Ben didn't look too gratifying; he looked sickened to his stomach.
"You're the Key too?" Ben asked James, a horrified expression crossing his face.
"Yes. Didn't I just say that?" James replied irritably.
"Oh no"
"What?" Buffy asked, feeling the wave of horror that washed through them all.
"The minions... they don't know. They'll start the ritual for her – no matter what, wither you are there are not to open the portal, they bleed her to death"
Hey everybody! Ho was it? Hope it was good enough for you. Well yah for me, I just past grade eleven and it's off for the summer for me! Hope you all have a good summer. Lots of hotness and relaxation. Later!