Ch.21
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Angel tested out his broad sword freely with a few strikes dealt to the air, measuring the feel that he'd missed for awhile, but wasn't too surprised to hear Sair's cries coming towards his door.
"What the hell are you doin'? We've got to save Spike dammit!!" she yelled.
"Angel wanted us back here for a reason-" the CEO heard Wesley say.
"I don't give a damn about Angel! Spike needs us!!"
With that, the door was opened roughly to reveal Sair being practically dragged by Wesley and Gunn.
They both let her go and she stumbled forward towards Angel's desk, then turned to face her escorts.
"Screw you then!" she yelled.
"Sair!" Angel yelled and she turned towards him, "What's going on?"
"We shouldn't be here!" she yelled frustrated, but then caught glance of the sun outside, "Ahh!!"
She dived behind a chair and then realized, "Hey, how come you're not bursting into flame?"
"Special windows," Angel dismissed quickly, "Now what were you saying?"
The young vampire stood up and resumed her fury, "We should be saving Spike! There's no telling what Dorian will do to him!!"
"Sair, keep in mind, it is an hour before sunset. How do you suppose we save Spike if we're ash? And remember, these windows can't follow us outside," the older vampire retorted.
At this, the girl fell silent.
"Second of all," Angel started, "We need to have a plan of attack, we don't want to go in there unawares and get Spike, as well as ourselves, killed."
"….alright! You're right there," the young vampire admitted, "So what's the plan of action?"
"I was kinda hopin' that you could help me out on that one."
"How?"
"Well for starters, you know the place right?"
"Yeah a bit."
"Then help us out here."
"Oh," the vampire said, "Ummm….I got it! Can you guys get a blue-print of the place?"
"I remember the address," Gunn spoke up, "I'll go look it up."
He left, and within a few minutes returned with the desired printout. Everyone crowded around Angel's desk as the lawyer laid the blueprint upon it.
The picture depicted a very round room, very wide and a few back rooms, but that was it.
"Looks a bit weird for a building," Angel commented as he looked at it.
"Originally, it was suppose to be a cathedral, but the developers decided to not go through with it last minute," Gunn explained.
"So it would most likely be empty?" Wesley questioned.
"Probably."
Sair went up to the plan and pointed to the center of the building , the round room, "There, he's holding Spike there."
"How do you know?" Angel asked, looking up at her, "It'd be easier just to hide him in one of these back rooms.."
"Look," Sair said as she pointed to the sides of both rooms on the diagram, "They have windows. Dorian took Spike near dawn, why would he just let him burn up?"
"Because he hates him?"
"Well, there's that, but I know Dorian. He wouldn't just give Spike death, he'd most likely torture him first and he doesn't have any quick methods," Sair explained, "It's obvious that he won't kill Spike until I'm there."
"Why is that?" Wesley asked.
"Because Dorian has no need for him."
"Then what does he want?" Gunn queried.
"Me," Sair said.
"Why does he want you? And how did you come to that conclusion?" Wesley asked.
"There could be a thousand reasons about why he wants me, as for the other question, think about it. He could've just killed Spike and be done with it, but he didn't, because he wanted to lure me in," the young vampire answered.
"Well, whatever the case be, we're gonna get Spike out of there," Angel said, "We can get the Special Ops team out there and-"
"No!" Sair said suddenly.
"What?"
"You can't just have your lackeys' storm in there! Dorian would do away with them in a second!" the young vampire explained, "He's an immortal, and with the vampire that was with him, it'd be like sending your men to their deaths!"
Angel contemplated this, she was right, but then how were they suppose to rescue Spike and do away with Dorian?
"Wait a minute," Gunn broke in, "You said Dorian and the vampire that's with him. Who exactly?"
"I dunno," Sair said, straining to remember, "I think he called her….Mina! That's it! He shouted to her when he caught Spike."
The three others in the room exchanged worried glances.
"What?" the younger vampire asked.
"Mina is…" Wesley started but trailed off.
"Mina's an old vampire that Dorian hired us originally to find," Angel quickly explained.
"Oh…" Sair trailed, "Well, she's pretty powerful, but you guys'll be able to handle her in a snap."
"How do you figure that?" Gunn asked.
"Well, I got in a tussle with her for a few minutes and was gainin' the advantage just as Dorian told her to leave with him. If I can beat her up that easy, than you guys'll be fine."
"That's great," Angel said as he looked down at the blueprint, "Alright, so how do we attack?"
"We could use the roof," Wesley suggested.
"Or maybe the side entrances-" Gunn said.
"Maybe through a back exit?" Angel tried.
"Why not through the front door?" Sair said.
All three of them looked up at her, "What?"
"What?" she asked, "It's simple, easy, and Dorian wouldn't expect it."
"To use the main entrance?" Wesley asked.
"Exactly, I mean, if you were in his position, what would you think?"
Wesley thought for a moment, "To barricade the back entrances."
"Exactly."
"Damn she's pretty good for a thirteen year old vampire," Fred said from the doorway of Angels' office.
They all turned towards her.
"Um, Angel, I think I may have a binding spell," the scientist said as she walked in all the way.
"What?" Wesley asked.
"A binding spell for Dorian, maybe we can actually stop him since he can't be killed," Angel informed his comrade.
"Oh…"
"Well, it's not easy, but it's pretty simple compared to others," Fred started as she laid down the scroll she had in hand on the desk, "It would banish Dorian to a non-dimension."
"A what?" Sair asked.
"Basically a deserted dimension that has nothing there. Called 'non' meaning nothing."
"Ah."
"If I can follow through the chant well enough, this might just be the end of Mr. Dorian Gray."
"And it's full-proof?" Sair asked, "He won't be able to get out will he?"
"As far as I know, no."
"Somehow that's not really comforting me."
"Alright," Angel broke in, "Fred and Wes, you guys can get on that chant as soon as we get in, do it as fast as you can. Gunn will work on finding and freeing Spike."
"And what of you and me?" Sair spoke.
"We fight off Dorian and Mina as best as we can."
"Good enough for me," the young vampire agreed.
Angel turned to his weapons' wall, took down a katana, and threw it to Sair who caught it reflexively and held it at ready. Then he took down a broad sword for himself, and an axe for Gunn.
He looked to Wesley and Fred, who nodded and Fred produced a handgun out of her knapsack.
The vampire nodded and looked out the window, it was already sunset.
"Let's go."
Oooohhhhhh……WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN?!? YOU DON'T KNOW DO YOU?!!?! Sorry it took so long, but I wanted it to be nice and wonderful for you readers out there!