6x04: Noble Ways
Previously on Angel: Spike with his new fire power, Angel and Missy cuddleing on the couch, Spike looking over his new zippo, and Spike and Illyria kissing.
In a cave darkly lit by torches sat a cloaked vampire with brown shaggy hair and a scar over one eye, he sat indian style chanting in a large pentacle drawn on the cave floor by blood with a strange symbol in front of the pentacle. The symbol was that of an outline of two feathery wings partually closing in on what looked like a wooden stake with horns at the tip and fire at the bottom. The vampire continued to chant as the fire became dimmer but the pentacle began to glow as well as the symbol, the vampire trailed off a little when he noticed the symbol had started to form a black mist above it, the vampire stared at it as the mist started to shape and mold into a figure.
" You have awaken after millennia's of sleep my father." Said the vampire with a Romanian accent in his words.
" Ish tok. Voich jak warn. Oik ill ba inch, ma voyer." [English Translation: It is different. This World. But it will be mine, my son.] replied the figure in a deep voice in a forgotten language.
" Yes, I will gather your followers right away." The Vampire said standing up, he bowed to the figure then motioned towards 12 girls who were chained to the wall, all bound and gagged. " A feast for your awakening." He said with a slight grin and he left the cave. The girls looked onward with fear, their muffled screamed unheard. A shadow fell apon them of the figure, and then two large shadows like wings came from the figure....
Meanwhile:
Missy walked through an LA cemetary, a stake clutched in one hand. She wore a pink t-shirt with a picture of 'Hello Kitty' on it and faded blue jeans with black sneakers, she looked around and sighed and looked at her cellphone which was clipped on the waistband of her jeans and sighed even louder.
" It's almost 1 am come on vampys come out and try to freaking eat me already!" She said sitting on a tombstone, then a vampire rose out of the ground of the tombstone she was sitting on. Once his head was visable he grinned, shaking dirt from his hair.
" Okay!" He said with a growl. Missy rolled her eyes, stood up and smiled, her foot taping the ground. The vampire quickly lost his own grin and said a short 'no!' before Missy kicked his head clear off his body which was still underground.
" Oh yeah. Real strong." Missy said sitting back down.
" I thought you would have had enough fun playing soccer with that newbie vamps head." Said a voice behind Missy.
" Tall, dark, and handsom standing right behind me or a stalker who smells like Aqua Velva?" Missy asked with a grin not looking behind her.
" I don't smell like Aqua Velva!" Angel said whiney sniffing his wrist. Missy laughed and stood up turning around to face him. Angel smiled back and walked up to her wrapping his arms around her waist.
" What brings you out on a night like this?"
" It's perfect out, no sunlight, thing to kill, and the soft sernide of people beating the crap out of each other from blocks away."
" Gotta love that enhansed hearing huh?" Missy asked with a giggle.
" Best why to evesdrop on people." Angel said with a grin.
" Hey have you been listening into my phone conversations?" Missy asked holding up her stake playfully. " I can take care of those pesky ears then...."
" It wasn't on purpose!" Angel said holding up his hands. " I accidently heard you talking to your friend Rona or something on your cell before patrol a week ago."
" What'd you hear?"
" Oh nothing...." Angel said folding his hands behind his back. " Just that you found the perfect guy, strong and handsom, great personality, kinda dead."
" You know what the weirdest thing was? She really didn't care about the whole being dead thing." Missy said shrugging, " I guess one of the orginal slayers dated a vampire too."
" Uhh yeah I guess." Angel said sulking a little.
" Maybe it was some sort of rebilious thing." Missy said poking her chin with the stake. " Like a 'take that world' thing. Must have been some pretty pathetic vamp."
" I-" Angel started to say then stopped.
" What?" Missy asked looking at him.
" Er nothing. C'mon let's get back to patroling." Angel said holding out his hand and Missy took it.
Meanwhile:
Gunn sat on a crate in the factory reading a car magazine, glancing up everyonce in a while at Illyria who sat on the conveyer belt and was studying sticker that she pulled off the wall earlier. Spike lay on the iron walkway above her, just zoning out while flipping his liter on and off.
" We really need a TV." Gunn said looking back at his magazine.
" We would need money to buy items. We have no money." Illyria said not taking her eyes off the sticker.
" Unless Spike could pawn off a few more of his stuff." Gunn said glancing up at the pyromaniac vampire.
" I sold my crappy apartment, and I managed to swipe some cash out from an ATM machine, let's see you try ta do better." Spike said with a slight yawn.
" You don't happen to have a radio then do you?" He asked tossing his magazine across the room.
" Nope." Spike replied.
Gunn sighed and stood up walking toward the door. " Where're you go'n?" Spike asked.
" Too quiet I'm gonna find some action. Be back later." He said leaving out the door. Spike and Illyria remined quiet and still for a few seconds untill Illyria quickly jumped up onto the walkway and straddled Spike quickly starting to make out with him.
" Why do you keep our attraction to each other from the others?" Illyria asked sitting up.
" It might.... Freak them out a little." Spike said unsurly.
" Freak them out?" Illyria asked confused.
" How can I explain this...." Spike asked himself thinking it over. " Okay, your like this ex-powerfull goddess right?" Spike said sitting up and leaning his back against the office wall, Illyria glared at him for a minute for reminding her of her powerless.
" But you had to kill one of our friends to live in this world. Everytime someone sees you it reminds them of Fred, so they have to think of you and me of me like dating Fred...." Spike said.
" You were attracted to Fred?" She asked, Spike shifted uncomfertably.
" I uh I guess...." He said looking towards the door to see if Gunn would come in, when he looked back at Illyria she was Fred, wearing a red speg. strap tanktop and black sweat pants. " What are you doing?" Spike asked her a little freaked out.
" Do you not like me like this?" She asked sounding like Illyria still.
" Your not you, luv." Spike said sternly.
" But you said I remind everyone of Fred."
" That's cause you just look like her and everyone saw her before she died and you kinda killed her." Spike said a little quickly.
" You loved her?" She asked, starting to change back into Illyria.
" I'm love's bitch baby." Spike said placing a soft kiss on her forehead.
Outside the factory Gunn walked down the street boredly, waiting for the sun to rise, it would only be a while more, maybe an hour or so. He yawned and streched his arms out and crashed right into someone.
" Oh sorry." He said opening his eyes looking at who he had run into, it was a young woman, in her early twenties. She had matted black hair to her shoulderblades and her clothes and face was very dirty, one dirty hand covered over her neck, dried blood was around her colarbone and her hand. " Holy shit are you alright?"
" Oh god help me please!" Said the woman hystrically, tears running down her face.
" What happened?" Gunn asked even though he knew it was a vampire who had caused this. 'Better this then break'n out the vamp lecture so early in the conversation' he thought to himself.
" A-A creature.... Oh god... It was-was so horrible. Wings.... Blood.... Fangs...." She mumbled incoherintly.
" It's okay, I'm here, noth'n here to get you now...." Gunn said conferting her. He lead her back into the factory and helped her sit on a crate.
" Bloody hell! What happened?" Spike asked looking down from the catwalk, Illyria had already gotten off him the second she heard the door open.
" Spike, there should be a first aid kit in the office." Gunn said quickly. " Gotta fix up these wounds first."
" A Vampire attack?" Illyria asked bluntly standing up. Gunn looked at her with an annoyed look but she kept her emotionless stance.
" No-yes." The woman said confused.
" Take it you know 'bout Vamps then." Gunn said grabbing the First Aid kit which Spike tossed to him, then walked up to him.
" Not much of a surprise. Sunnydale only took 3 years to really figure out 'bout vamps much less other demons." Spike said shrugging and sitting on the conveyer belt. " So what's her name?" He asked Gunn.
" Alex Boreders." Replied the woman instead, letting Gunn put a bandage over her neck.
" Kay, all finished." Gunn said nodding, " Okay, so what happened?"
" I-I was kidnapped, a few days ago. B-By this vampire. He held me hostage in a cave with some other girls. W-We were all chained to a wall. Then he-he did some sort of thing, I don't know.... A spell or a ritual or something.... And then this...." She paused and cringed, tears forming in her eyes again, " Creature.... Just appeared.... And it...." She started crying again, " It killed them all! Blood was everywhere! Then-then it bit me but it let me go, it just smiled.... Horrible fangy bloody smile..." She trailed off, wrapping her arms around her legs and shoving her forehead into her knees. Gunn looked up at Illyria and Spike, a look on his face that just screamed 'we need to talk'. A few minutes later they had all joined in the office area, in a small circle of conversation.
" The bite on her neck was a vampire, no doubt about that." Gunn said whiping the blood from his hands.
" So then what's the problem?" Spike asked raising a brow.
" The bite was freaking huge man!" Gunn said wide-eyed.
" Huge?" Illyria asked.
" Yeah, like, let's say if Spike bit someone, the puncture wounds would be about a dime sized each. But the ones in her neck, god they were as big as nickles." Gunn said shaking his head.
" That is unusual." Illyria said, her mind intraced in thought.
" Yeah tell me 'bout it. And when I saw her outside she was muttering on about wings and blood and fangs."
" Think it might just be some blood sucking demon other then a vampire?" Spike asked.
" Dunno. Maybe I should try'n get her to sketch out what she saw?" Gunn asked. Spike tossed him a pad of paper and a pen.
" Good luck, cause she looks like hell." He said looking out the dusty window to Alex who was just starting to come out of her fetal postion.
Meanwhile....
Angel ran through a wooded area outside of LA, he quickly dodged trees, bushes, logs, whatever got in his way. His game face was already on, golden eyes looking at everything that moved past him. Finally he saw what he was after. A young woman, with very short blonde hair running a head of him, she looked back at him very worriedly but continued to run untill she tripped over a log landing in a pile of dust as Missy was standing in front of her, stake out. Angel stopped abruptly infront of her and chuckled.
" Thank god I don't have to breathe." He said losing his game face.
" Longer make out sessions and no heart attacks, it's a double plus!" Missy said with a giggle.
" Think we should head back now? Sun rise will be up in a while." Angel said looking up at the sky.
" Come on let's explore, have some time to ourselves." Missy said grabbing his hand and taking off behind some more trees. " You know.... You could always move in with me, get out of that stinky factory." Missy said slowly looking up at him.
" We've only been going out a little over a month now." Angel said looking at her.
" So? I mean come on, you and Spike fight like an old married couple, either your going to decapitate him, or he's going to roast you, and there's no where for any of you to really sleep in there. Vampire or not, you need sleep. Why don't you stay with me and the others go off and find places to stay? And don't you call me Yoko, I just think it'd be a big stress reliever." Missy sighed.
" Gunn would be the only one to have any luck finding a place, Illyria wouldn't know how to take care of herself, and Spike's got a creepy thing with basements.... If he can't find anywhere to stay he'll probably crawl up under some poor family's water heater... Not to mention none of us have any money. Wolfram and Hart was kind of our major source of cash." Angel said shaking his head.
" Why don't you just call Buffy for money? The new watcher council has lots of connections too, they can set you guys up somewhere." Angel winced for a second. " What?"
" It's nothing...." Angel shrugged it off but Missy persisted. " Look, I don't want to ask Buffy for money, there's a good chance she'll end up coming down here which will #1 Make Spike kill me and #2, Be weird on so many levels."
" Fine...." Missy sighed again. " I'm just watching out for you and the gang." She said with a smile and ran her finger over Angel's chin.
" We'll find something." He said again and kissed her lightly on the forehead. " Hm?"
" What?" She asked, Angel slowly walked around her towards a rocky area in the ground where tree branches covered over something.
" Hey, there's an entrence to a cave or something in here." Angel said brushing away the brances. " I smell blood." He said seriously looking at Missy.
Meanwhile:
Gunn sat down across from Alex, both were quiet. Alex was sitting indian style with the pad in her legs and she was drawing the creature she saw on it for Gunn. Gunn shifted uneasly and decided to attempt to make conversation for the 4th time, the first 4 she either mumbled things incoherintly (she was still under some shock he thought) or was silent.
" So.... How do you know about vampires? Does all of LA know by any chance?" Gunn asked raising a brow.
" My younger sister Kennedy is a slayer...." Alex said barely in a whisper.
" Really? Cool, one of our friends is a slayer too, Missy. Did you just find out about your sister?" He asked.
" No. I knew about Kennedy for nearly a year now, some of the things about Vampires and Demons I had already figured. We lived near Cleveland where there was another Hellmouth thingy." She said. Gunn smiled that she was acually making conversation. " Are there any showers in here?" She asked looking up at him.
" Huh? Oh um yeah, there's a small public shower area in the back there." He said nodding to a back area.
" Not gonna sneak up on me while I'm in there are you?" Alex asked standing up, a small smirk on her face.
" Na, I'll stay out. Hell, as a bonus, I'll keep Spike out too." Gunn said with a laugh. Alex giggled and walked into the back room. Gunn took the liberty of grabbing the pad of paper, he looked down at it and got chills down his spine. The creature looked like a vampire, he had his game face and everything. He was bald, and the ridges over his head were more prononced, and his fangs poked out more over his lips. His ears were pointed slightly and he wore a tunic, strong muscular arms and legs with a long sash around his waist, and most surprisingly, two large black wings, just like angel wings, protruding from his back. He spotted Spike walk around a corner and called him over, " Take a look at this." He said handing him the pad of paper, Spike took one look and dropped it, taking a few steps back.
" No bloody way...." Spike said shaking his head feircly.
" What? You know what it is don't you? What is it?" Gunn asked shoving the picture back in his face.
" It's the Turok-Kun, or an Ubervamp...." Spike said looking away from it.
" But you said you killed them all when you died." Gunn asked confused.
" I did! That's why that can't be it. Sides this thing has wings, the Ubervamps I killed didn't have any." Spike shook his head. " It's gotta be a trick. Maybe this Alex chick is just some demons lacky. Try'n ta spy on us or catch us off gaurd to slice off all our heads."
" No way. She said her sister was a slayer. Kennedy or something." Gunn said tossing the pad back on the crate.
" Kennedy?" Spike asked intrested. " I know her. Back in Sunnyhell. She was one of the first potentials or someting that Giles brought back. A bit of a brat." He said shrugging.
" Um okay. Anyway, think we should find Angel? Tell him about what we got so far?"
" If you can find him sure." Spike said not really caring and walked away.
Meanwhile:
Angel and Missy walked through the dimly lit cave, looking at drawings on the cave walls.
" Angel these are drawn with blood." Missy realized looking over a few of the drawings. There were four on her side: A large cloud with a sun over it. The same cloud was cut in half with a strange figure falling from it from the second one. Then 4 figures, all unusal looking vampires, all most neanderthal like, but one with two wings from its back and holding a heart in its hand. And finally a girl with long hair and markings over her body and face, she was holding a wooden stake in her hand. " Is this the blood you smelled?"
" No, this has been here for thousands of years..." He said looking it over. " I can smell fresh blood further down." He shook his head and pointed to three drawings on his side of the cave wall. One of the winged vampire facing off against the girl with the stake. Then one of the girl with blood from her neck and heart with the vampire across from her with the stake through his heart. And finally 4 graves with a black mist over them and another girl seperete from them with a star over her. " Well I think it's safe to say the stake girl is a slayer, and those demons are vampires exepet for the winged one. Maybe it's a different demon. But I don't know what the others are." Angel took a step to the side as Missy walked up to the wall and took out her cell phone. " Gonna have the cave wall use your anytime minutes?" Angel said raising a brow.
" What? No.... I'm going to take a picture of it...." Missy said shaking her head and took a picture of the wall with her picture phone, then turned around and did it again.
" You can take pictures with cell phones now?" Angel mumbled lowly with surprise.
" Hey incoming call." Missy said after she took another picture. She talked for a while then turned it off, " That was Gunn, we better get back to the factory."
Meanwhile:
Deep inside the cave the same vampire from before stood in front of a burning fire, thumbing through an old book silently. A pale bony hand came out from the shadows behind him and grasped around his neck rising him into the air, dropping his book.
" Toch ich varis tok lis atevial." [English Translation: I will be leaving this cave now.] He mumbled, as shadow still cascading over his face.
" B-But I have satsified your hunger have I not?" Choaked the vampire, " I have brought you at least 20 virgins just today."
" Okai Un loss." [ English Translation: Twenty, one loss.] He smirked beneath the darkness.
" W-What?" He gasped.
" Jade ill umbrea ich yo mey voyers." [English Translation: The Madin will lead me to my sons.] Rasped the creature, " Nobles."
" You-You want to see the other Nobles?" The Vampire seemed relieved when the creature lowered him to the ground. " There are only two so far."
" Tok mey yo iem." [English Translation: Take me to them.]
" Yes. I will take you to Angelus the Scourage of Europe and William the Bloody." The Vampire grinned evily.
Meanwhile:
Missy and Angel walked through the doors to the factory, where Alex sat on the conveyer belt holding the pad of paper close to her.
" Hey man." Gunn said nodding to Angel as he walked in.
" You wouldn't believe what we found." Missy said taking out her phone.
" Trust me, nothing could beat this." Gunn said looking over at Alex.
" Hey." Alex said with a friendly smile.
" Alex this is Angel and Missy, Missy's a slayer too." Gunn said walking over to Alex, she handed him the pad of paper.
" Alex was kidnapped by a vampire and this weird demon thing you should check out." He tossed the pad to Angel who looked it over, Missy looked over his shoulder and quickly looked through her picture phone and found what she was looking for.
" Angel look, the demon there matches the one we saw in the cave." She said holding out the phone.
" Cave?" Gunn asked raising a brow.
" Yeah we found this weird cave in a woods not to fair away from here, there were like cave paintings on the walls of demons and slayers." Missy said showing Gunn the pictures she took.
" Th-thats the cave I was taken too!" Alex said jumping up when she saw the pictures.
" What the hell is going on here?" Angel said rubbing his brow.
" I know of this creature." Said Illyria jumping down from the catwalk. Spike looked down over from below.
" How the bloody hell can you see from that far?" He asked raising a brow.
" Vampires have enhansed hearing and smell, they're sight is as dull as any mortals. I on the other hand-"
" Are a god." Spike, Angel, and Gunn said at the same time, cutting Illyria off.
" Do not mock me." She threatend under her breath and looked at the paper then the phone. " This creature is not as nearly as old as me." She then scoffed and looked at Angel then Spike, " I am surprised that neither of you two know of this creature. He is the essence of your being. A 'father' if you must say."
" What?" Spike and Angel said at the same time.
Illyria sighed, " This is the first vampire. An Angel known as Vicious who was thrown from the heavens above and landed to earth becoming a demon and loosing his wings. But then he made a deal with the only Angel to ever fall before him, and the devil gave him his wings. His four followers were thrown from hell, and landed to earth with their wings taken. Vicious spread evil through out where evil had not exicsted before. Then the slayer was born. The first slayer fought Vicious, their battle lasted four three nights and for three days untill Vicious tore out the slayers heart and the slayer then shoved a stake through Vicious's heart. The unison of evil and good then caused the slayer to die but her essence to be reborn again, and then Vicious and his followers died, their essences given to the corpses to be rise again and continue the ever lasting battle between the slayer and the vampires."
" Woah...." Angel said in a daze.
" I've heard this before, but I've always thought it was one of Drusilla's rambleings." Spike said sitting up.
" I suppose you do not know who the Nobles are either." Illyria said looking up at Spike as he jumped down from the catwalk to where everone else was.
" Um.... I do.... But they don't so how 'bout you enlighten us." Angel said crossing his arms.
" When Vicious and his followers were reborn into their corpses bodies they had arisen as vampires, simple demons who controlled the body of a dead corpse who's soul had passed over. The corpses had no memory of Vicious or the followers lives, only of their corpses lives, containing every memory and every emotion they have ever encountered. Every Fledgeling that Vicious's vampiric self had sired has been know has a Noble as they are from a Noble blood line. The Noble blood line of vampires have always been well known, Dracula, The Master-"
" Darla." Angel cut her off.
" Drusilla." Spike said thinking it over.
" Then Angel and Spike." Gunn nodded.
" Yes. They all contain a small portain of Vicious's essence. I would not be surprised if you also possesed the ability to speak Vampiric, I believe it is the only language that Vicious can speak. I have also reason to believe that after Vicious sired his first fledgeling his essence was seperated from his corpse and he was then laid to rest until next awakened."
" Which has already happened." Said a voice from in back. The vampire looked a head at the gang with a nasty smirk on his face.
" Who're-" Angel began then stopped, a strange feeling overcoming his mind and body, something was near him. Someone he knew.... And Spike felt is as well. Then suddenly a great winged figure flew from the rafters above, long angelic wings that were pitch black, he looked just like an Ubervamp, only with more facial features to identify him, and the wings. He wore the same tunic they wore as well. Spike and Angel, who would be expected to attack, instead both nealed to the floor saying in unison-
" Father."
To be continued....
Next time on Angel: Angel and Spike saying " Father", Spike and Angel attempt to attack Vicious but they get thrown back with out even touching him, " An ancheint enemy has awoken.", Vicious flying in the air killing random people, " And The Angel gang is going to need to call in the big guns." Dawn walkes into the Factory looking very Watcher like, " But can anything stop the father of all vampires?" Illyria, Spike, Angel, and Missy all getting beat down by Vicious.
(( HALLO! Sorry it's been sooooooo long updating! I've had mucho mundo writers block! Hope you enjoyed this portion of the fanfic lol. Btw when Illyria was recounting the story of Vicious and the First Slayer that should be in like flashback mode. I didn't know how to word that though.... hehe ))
Previously on Angel: Spike with his new fire power, Angel and Missy cuddleing on the couch, Spike looking over his new zippo, and Spike and Illyria kissing.
In a cave darkly lit by torches sat a cloaked vampire with brown shaggy hair and a scar over one eye, he sat indian style chanting in a large pentacle drawn on the cave floor by blood with a strange symbol in front of the pentacle. The symbol was that of an outline of two feathery wings partually closing in on what looked like a wooden stake with horns at the tip and fire at the bottom. The vampire continued to chant as the fire became dimmer but the pentacle began to glow as well as the symbol, the vampire trailed off a little when he noticed the symbol had started to form a black mist above it, the vampire stared at it as the mist started to shape and mold into a figure.
" You have awaken after millennia's of sleep my father." Said the vampire with a Romanian accent in his words.
" Ish tok. Voich jak warn. Oik ill ba inch, ma voyer." [English Translation: It is different. This World. But it will be mine, my son.] replied the figure in a deep voice in a forgotten language.
" Yes, I will gather your followers right away." The Vampire said standing up, he bowed to the figure then motioned towards 12 girls who were chained to the wall, all bound and gagged. " A feast for your awakening." He said with a slight grin and he left the cave. The girls looked onward with fear, their muffled screamed unheard. A shadow fell apon them of the figure, and then two large shadows like wings came from the figure....
Meanwhile:
Missy walked through an LA cemetary, a stake clutched in one hand. She wore a pink t-shirt with a picture of 'Hello Kitty' on it and faded blue jeans with black sneakers, she looked around and sighed and looked at her cellphone which was clipped on the waistband of her jeans and sighed even louder.
" It's almost 1 am come on vampys come out and try to freaking eat me already!" She said sitting on a tombstone, then a vampire rose out of the ground of the tombstone she was sitting on. Once his head was visable he grinned, shaking dirt from his hair.
" Okay!" He said with a growl. Missy rolled her eyes, stood up and smiled, her foot taping the ground. The vampire quickly lost his own grin and said a short 'no!' before Missy kicked his head clear off his body which was still underground.
" Oh yeah. Real strong." Missy said sitting back down.
" I thought you would have had enough fun playing soccer with that newbie vamps head." Said a voice behind Missy.
" Tall, dark, and handsom standing right behind me or a stalker who smells like Aqua Velva?" Missy asked with a grin not looking behind her.
" I don't smell like Aqua Velva!" Angel said whiney sniffing his wrist. Missy laughed and stood up turning around to face him. Angel smiled back and walked up to her wrapping his arms around her waist.
" What brings you out on a night like this?"
" It's perfect out, no sunlight, thing to kill, and the soft sernide of people beating the crap out of each other from blocks away."
" Gotta love that enhansed hearing huh?" Missy asked with a giggle.
" Best why to evesdrop on people." Angel said with a grin.
" Hey have you been listening into my phone conversations?" Missy asked holding up her stake playfully. " I can take care of those pesky ears then...."
" It wasn't on purpose!" Angel said holding up his hands. " I accidently heard you talking to your friend Rona or something on your cell before patrol a week ago."
" What'd you hear?"
" Oh nothing...." Angel said folding his hands behind his back. " Just that you found the perfect guy, strong and handsom, great personality, kinda dead."
" You know what the weirdest thing was? She really didn't care about the whole being dead thing." Missy said shrugging, " I guess one of the orginal slayers dated a vampire too."
" Uhh yeah I guess." Angel said sulking a little.
" Maybe it was some sort of rebilious thing." Missy said poking her chin with the stake. " Like a 'take that world' thing. Must have been some pretty pathetic vamp."
" I-" Angel started to say then stopped.
" What?" Missy asked looking at him.
" Er nothing. C'mon let's get back to patroling." Angel said holding out his hand and Missy took it.
Meanwhile:
Gunn sat on a crate in the factory reading a car magazine, glancing up everyonce in a while at Illyria who sat on the conveyer belt and was studying sticker that she pulled off the wall earlier. Spike lay on the iron walkway above her, just zoning out while flipping his liter on and off.
" We really need a TV." Gunn said looking back at his magazine.
" We would need money to buy items. We have no money." Illyria said not taking her eyes off the sticker.
" Unless Spike could pawn off a few more of his stuff." Gunn said glancing up at the pyromaniac vampire.
" I sold my crappy apartment, and I managed to swipe some cash out from an ATM machine, let's see you try ta do better." Spike said with a slight yawn.
" You don't happen to have a radio then do you?" He asked tossing his magazine across the room.
" Nope." Spike replied.
Gunn sighed and stood up walking toward the door. " Where're you go'n?" Spike asked.
" Too quiet I'm gonna find some action. Be back later." He said leaving out the door. Spike and Illyria remined quiet and still for a few seconds untill Illyria quickly jumped up onto the walkway and straddled Spike quickly starting to make out with him.
" Why do you keep our attraction to each other from the others?" Illyria asked sitting up.
" It might.... Freak them out a little." Spike said unsurly.
" Freak them out?" Illyria asked confused.
" How can I explain this...." Spike asked himself thinking it over. " Okay, your like this ex-powerfull goddess right?" Spike said sitting up and leaning his back against the office wall, Illyria glared at him for a minute for reminding her of her powerless.
" But you had to kill one of our friends to live in this world. Everytime someone sees you it reminds them of Fred, so they have to think of you and me of me like dating Fred...." Spike said.
" You were attracted to Fred?" She asked, Spike shifted uncomfertably.
" I uh I guess...." He said looking towards the door to see if Gunn would come in, when he looked back at Illyria she was Fred, wearing a red speg. strap tanktop and black sweat pants. " What are you doing?" Spike asked her a little freaked out.
" Do you not like me like this?" She asked sounding like Illyria still.
" Your not you, luv." Spike said sternly.
" But you said I remind everyone of Fred."
" That's cause you just look like her and everyone saw her before she died and you kinda killed her." Spike said a little quickly.
" You loved her?" She asked, starting to change back into Illyria.
" I'm love's bitch baby." Spike said placing a soft kiss on her forehead.
Outside the factory Gunn walked down the street boredly, waiting for the sun to rise, it would only be a while more, maybe an hour or so. He yawned and streched his arms out and crashed right into someone.
" Oh sorry." He said opening his eyes looking at who he had run into, it was a young woman, in her early twenties. She had matted black hair to her shoulderblades and her clothes and face was very dirty, one dirty hand covered over her neck, dried blood was around her colarbone and her hand. " Holy shit are you alright?"
" Oh god help me please!" Said the woman hystrically, tears running down her face.
" What happened?" Gunn asked even though he knew it was a vampire who had caused this. 'Better this then break'n out the vamp lecture so early in the conversation' he thought to himself.
" A-A creature.... Oh god... It was-was so horrible. Wings.... Blood.... Fangs...." She mumbled incoherintly.
" It's okay, I'm here, noth'n here to get you now...." Gunn said conferting her. He lead her back into the factory and helped her sit on a crate.
" Bloody hell! What happened?" Spike asked looking down from the catwalk, Illyria had already gotten off him the second she heard the door open.
" Spike, there should be a first aid kit in the office." Gunn said quickly. " Gotta fix up these wounds first."
" A Vampire attack?" Illyria asked bluntly standing up. Gunn looked at her with an annoyed look but she kept her emotionless stance.
" No-yes." The woman said confused.
" Take it you know 'bout Vamps then." Gunn said grabbing the First Aid kit which Spike tossed to him, then walked up to him.
" Not much of a surprise. Sunnydale only took 3 years to really figure out 'bout vamps much less other demons." Spike said shrugging and sitting on the conveyer belt. " So what's her name?" He asked Gunn.
" Alex Boreders." Replied the woman instead, letting Gunn put a bandage over her neck.
" Kay, all finished." Gunn said nodding, " Okay, so what happened?"
" I-I was kidnapped, a few days ago. B-By this vampire. He held me hostage in a cave with some other girls. W-We were all chained to a wall. Then he-he did some sort of thing, I don't know.... A spell or a ritual or something.... And then this...." She paused and cringed, tears forming in her eyes again, " Creature.... Just appeared.... And it...." She started crying again, " It killed them all! Blood was everywhere! Then-then it bit me but it let me go, it just smiled.... Horrible fangy bloody smile..." She trailed off, wrapping her arms around her legs and shoving her forehead into her knees. Gunn looked up at Illyria and Spike, a look on his face that just screamed 'we need to talk'. A few minutes later they had all joined in the office area, in a small circle of conversation.
" The bite on her neck was a vampire, no doubt about that." Gunn said whiping the blood from his hands.
" So then what's the problem?" Spike asked raising a brow.
" The bite was freaking huge man!" Gunn said wide-eyed.
" Huge?" Illyria asked.
" Yeah, like, let's say if Spike bit someone, the puncture wounds would be about a dime sized each. But the ones in her neck, god they were as big as nickles." Gunn said shaking his head.
" That is unusual." Illyria said, her mind intraced in thought.
" Yeah tell me 'bout it. And when I saw her outside she was muttering on about wings and blood and fangs."
" Think it might just be some blood sucking demon other then a vampire?" Spike asked.
" Dunno. Maybe I should try'n get her to sketch out what she saw?" Gunn asked. Spike tossed him a pad of paper and a pen.
" Good luck, cause she looks like hell." He said looking out the dusty window to Alex who was just starting to come out of her fetal postion.
Meanwhile....
Angel ran through a wooded area outside of LA, he quickly dodged trees, bushes, logs, whatever got in his way. His game face was already on, golden eyes looking at everything that moved past him. Finally he saw what he was after. A young woman, with very short blonde hair running a head of him, she looked back at him very worriedly but continued to run untill she tripped over a log landing in a pile of dust as Missy was standing in front of her, stake out. Angel stopped abruptly infront of her and chuckled.
" Thank god I don't have to breathe." He said losing his game face.
" Longer make out sessions and no heart attacks, it's a double plus!" Missy said with a giggle.
" Think we should head back now? Sun rise will be up in a while." Angel said looking up at the sky.
" Come on let's explore, have some time to ourselves." Missy said grabbing his hand and taking off behind some more trees. " You know.... You could always move in with me, get out of that stinky factory." Missy said slowly looking up at him.
" We've only been going out a little over a month now." Angel said looking at her.
" So? I mean come on, you and Spike fight like an old married couple, either your going to decapitate him, or he's going to roast you, and there's no where for any of you to really sleep in there. Vampire or not, you need sleep. Why don't you stay with me and the others go off and find places to stay? And don't you call me Yoko, I just think it'd be a big stress reliever." Missy sighed.
" Gunn would be the only one to have any luck finding a place, Illyria wouldn't know how to take care of herself, and Spike's got a creepy thing with basements.... If he can't find anywhere to stay he'll probably crawl up under some poor family's water heater... Not to mention none of us have any money. Wolfram and Hart was kind of our major source of cash." Angel said shaking his head.
" Why don't you just call Buffy for money? The new watcher council has lots of connections too, they can set you guys up somewhere." Angel winced for a second. " What?"
" It's nothing...." Angel shrugged it off but Missy persisted. " Look, I don't want to ask Buffy for money, there's a good chance she'll end up coming down here which will #1 Make Spike kill me and #2, Be weird on so many levels."
" Fine...." Missy sighed again. " I'm just watching out for you and the gang." She said with a smile and ran her finger over Angel's chin.
" We'll find something." He said again and kissed her lightly on the forehead. " Hm?"
" What?" She asked, Angel slowly walked around her towards a rocky area in the ground where tree branches covered over something.
" Hey, there's an entrence to a cave or something in here." Angel said brushing away the brances. " I smell blood." He said seriously looking at Missy.
Meanwhile:
Gunn sat down across from Alex, both were quiet. Alex was sitting indian style with the pad in her legs and she was drawing the creature she saw on it for Gunn. Gunn shifted uneasly and decided to attempt to make conversation for the 4th time, the first 4 she either mumbled things incoherintly (she was still under some shock he thought) or was silent.
" So.... How do you know about vampires? Does all of LA know by any chance?" Gunn asked raising a brow.
" My younger sister Kennedy is a slayer...." Alex said barely in a whisper.
" Really? Cool, one of our friends is a slayer too, Missy. Did you just find out about your sister?" He asked.
" No. I knew about Kennedy for nearly a year now, some of the things about Vampires and Demons I had already figured. We lived near Cleveland where there was another Hellmouth thingy." She said. Gunn smiled that she was acually making conversation. " Are there any showers in here?" She asked looking up at him.
" Huh? Oh um yeah, there's a small public shower area in the back there." He said nodding to a back area.
" Not gonna sneak up on me while I'm in there are you?" Alex asked standing up, a small smirk on her face.
" Na, I'll stay out. Hell, as a bonus, I'll keep Spike out too." Gunn said with a laugh. Alex giggled and walked into the back room. Gunn took the liberty of grabbing the pad of paper, he looked down at it and got chills down his spine. The creature looked like a vampire, he had his game face and everything. He was bald, and the ridges over his head were more prononced, and his fangs poked out more over his lips. His ears were pointed slightly and he wore a tunic, strong muscular arms and legs with a long sash around his waist, and most surprisingly, two large black wings, just like angel wings, protruding from his back. He spotted Spike walk around a corner and called him over, " Take a look at this." He said handing him the pad of paper, Spike took one look and dropped it, taking a few steps back.
" No bloody way...." Spike said shaking his head feircly.
" What? You know what it is don't you? What is it?" Gunn asked shoving the picture back in his face.
" It's the Turok-Kun, or an Ubervamp...." Spike said looking away from it.
" But you said you killed them all when you died." Gunn asked confused.
" I did! That's why that can't be it. Sides this thing has wings, the Ubervamps I killed didn't have any." Spike shook his head. " It's gotta be a trick. Maybe this Alex chick is just some demons lacky. Try'n ta spy on us or catch us off gaurd to slice off all our heads."
" No way. She said her sister was a slayer. Kennedy or something." Gunn said tossing the pad back on the crate.
" Kennedy?" Spike asked intrested. " I know her. Back in Sunnyhell. She was one of the first potentials or someting that Giles brought back. A bit of a brat." He said shrugging.
" Um okay. Anyway, think we should find Angel? Tell him about what we got so far?"
" If you can find him sure." Spike said not really caring and walked away.
Meanwhile:
Angel and Missy walked through the dimly lit cave, looking at drawings on the cave walls.
" Angel these are drawn with blood." Missy realized looking over a few of the drawings. There were four on her side: A large cloud with a sun over it. The same cloud was cut in half with a strange figure falling from it from the second one. Then 4 figures, all unusal looking vampires, all most neanderthal like, but one with two wings from its back and holding a heart in its hand. And finally a girl with long hair and markings over her body and face, she was holding a wooden stake in her hand. " Is this the blood you smelled?"
" No, this has been here for thousands of years..." He said looking it over. " I can smell fresh blood further down." He shook his head and pointed to three drawings on his side of the cave wall. One of the winged vampire facing off against the girl with the stake. Then one of the girl with blood from her neck and heart with the vampire across from her with the stake through his heart. And finally 4 graves with a black mist over them and another girl seperete from them with a star over her. " Well I think it's safe to say the stake girl is a slayer, and those demons are vampires exepet for the winged one. Maybe it's a different demon. But I don't know what the others are." Angel took a step to the side as Missy walked up to the wall and took out her cell phone. " Gonna have the cave wall use your anytime minutes?" Angel said raising a brow.
" What? No.... I'm going to take a picture of it...." Missy said shaking her head and took a picture of the wall with her picture phone, then turned around and did it again.
" You can take pictures with cell phones now?" Angel mumbled lowly with surprise.
" Hey incoming call." Missy said after she took another picture. She talked for a while then turned it off, " That was Gunn, we better get back to the factory."
Meanwhile:
Deep inside the cave the same vampire from before stood in front of a burning fire, thumbing through an old book silently. A pale bony hand came out from the shadows behind him and grasped around his neck rising him into the air, dropping his book.
" Toch ich varis tok lis atevial." [English Translation: I will be leaving this cave now.] He mumbled, as shadow still cascading over his face.
" B-But I have satsified your hunger have I not?" Choaked the vampire, " I have brought you at least 20 virgins just today."
" Okai Un loss." [ English Translation: Twenty, one loss.] He smirked beneath the darkness.
" W-What?" He gasped.
" Jade ill umbrea ich yo mey voyers." [English Translation: The Madin will lead me to my sons.] Rasped the creature, " Nobles."
" You-You want to see the other Nobles?" The Vampire seemed relieved when the creature lowered him to the ground. " There are only two so far."
" Tok mey yo iem." [English Translation: Take me to them.]
" Yes. I will take you to Angelus the Scourage of Europe and William the Bloody." The Vampire grinned evily.
Meanwhile:
Missy and Angel walked through the doors to the factory, where Alex sat on the conveyer belt holding the pad of paper close to her.
" Hey man." Gunn said nodding to Angel as he walked in.
" You wouldn't believe what we found." Missy said taking out her phone.
" Trust me, nothing could beat this." Gunn said looking over at Alex.
" Hey." Alex said with a friendly smile.
" Alex this is Angel and Missy, Missy's a slayer too." Gunn said walking over to Alex, she handed him the pad of paper.
" Alex was kidnapped by a vampire and this weird demon thing you should check out." He tossed the pad to Angel who looked it over, Missy looked over his shoulder and quickly looked through her picture phone and found what she was looking for.
" Angel look, the demon there matches the one we saw in the cave." She said holding out the phone.
" Cave?" Gunn asked raising a brow.
" Yeah we found this weird cave in a woods not to fair away from here, there were like cave paintings on the walls of demons and slayers." Missy said showing Gunn the pictures she took.
" Th-thats the cave I was taken too!" Alex said jumping up when she saw the pictures.
" What the hell is going on here?" Angel said rubbing his brow.
" I know of this creature." Said Illyria jumping down from the catwalk. Spike looked down over from below.
" How the bloody hell can you see from that far?" He asked raising a brow.
" Vampires have enhansed hearing and smell, they're sight is as dull as any mortals. I on the other hand-"
" Are a god." Spike, Angel, and Gunn said at the same time, cutting Illyria off.
" Do not mock me." She threatend under her breath and looked at the paper then the phone. " This creature is not as nearly as old as me." She then scoffed and looked at Angel then Spike, " I am surprised that neither of you two know of this creature. He is the essence of your being. A 'father' if you must say."
" What?" Spike and Angel said at the same time.
Illyria sighed, " This is the first vampire. An Angel known as Vicious who was thrown from the heavens above and landed to earth becoming a demon and loosing his wings. But then he made a deal with the only Angel to ever fall before him, and the devil gave him his wings. His four followers were thrown from hell, and landed to earth with their wings taken. Vicious spread evil through out where evil had not exicsted before. Then the slayer was born. The first slayer fought Vicious, their battle lasted four three nights and for three days untill Vicious tore out the slayers heart and the slayer then shoved a stake through Vicious's heart. The unison of evil and good then caused the slayer to die but her essence to be reborn again, and then Vicious and his followers died, their essences given to the corpses to be rise again and continue the ever lasting battle between the slayer and the vampires."
" Woah...." Angel said in a daze.
" I've heard this before, but I've always thought it was one of Drusilla's rambleings." Spike said sitting up.
" I suppose you do not know who the Nobles are either." Illyria said looking up at Spike as he jumped down from the catwalk to where everone else was.
" Um.... I do.... But they don't so how 'bout you enlighten us." Angel said crossing his arms.
" When Vicious and his followers were reborn into their corpses bodies they had arisen as vampires, simple demons who controlled the body of a dead corpse who's soul had passed over. The corpses had no memory of Vicious or the followers lives, only of their corpses lives, containing every memory and every emotion they have ever encountered. Every Fledgeling that Vicious's vampiric self had sired has been know has a Noble as they are from a Noble blood line. The Noble blood line of vampires have always been well known, Dracula, The Master-"
" Darla." Angel cut her off.
" Drusilla." Spike said thinking it over.
" Then Angel and Spike." Gunn nodded.
" Yes. They all contain a small portain of Vicious's essence. I would not be surprised if you also possesed the ability to speak Vampiric, I believe it is the only language that Vicious can speak. I have also reason to believe that after Vicious sired his first fledgeling his essence was seperated from his corpse and he was then laid to rest until next awakened."
" Which has already happened." Said a voice from in back. The vampire looked a head at the gang with a nasty smirk on his face.
" Who're-" Angel began then stopped, a strange feeling overcoming his mind and body, something was near him. Someone he knew.... And Spike felt is as well. Then suddenly a great winged figure flew from the rafters above, long angelic wings that were pitch black, he looked just like an Ubervamp, only with more facial features to identify him, and the wings. He wore the same tunic they wore as well. Spike and Angel, who would be expected to attack, instead both nealed to the floor saying in unison-
" Father."
To be continued....
Next time on Angel: Angel and Spike saying " Father", Spike and Angel attempt to attack Vicious but they get thrown back with out even touching him, " An ancheint enemy has awoken.", Vicious flying in the air killing random people, " And The Angel gang is going to need to call in the big guns." Dawn walkes into the Factory looking very Watcher like, " But can anything stop the father of all vampires?" Illyria, Spike, Angel, and Missy all getting beat down by Vicious.
(( HALLO! Sorry it's been sooooooo long updating! I've had mucho mundo writers block! Hope you enjoyed this portion of the fanfic lol. Btw when Illyria was recounting the story of Vicious and the First Slayer that should be in like flashback mode. I didn't know how to word that though.... hehe ))