The first demon lunged at Faith and she defended his attacks with ease. Robin defeated one and Xander and Andrew took on the last. Dawn had already started walking through the maze as the others were finishing off their attackers.

"Dawn, wait up!" Faith demanded, as she began to follow Dawn.

Everyone began to walk after Dawn as well, but before they even reached the first turn of the labyrinth a spiral of white lights appeared. The lights subsided and a man with blue skin appeared.

"Well this is quite a group. A Slayer, the former Key, the son of a former Slayer, and I don't see a purpose for these tiny men. Have you come to stop the brothers?" He laughed. "You are the champions?"

"You know what, pal. We're stronger then we look." Dawn said, feeling the same amount of annoyance with the muscular man as the rest of the group.

"Oh really. I smell human blood on the hands of at least two of you're friends."

"Yes, but they aren't the people that did that anymore. Well, maybe Andrew."

"Hey!" He squealed. "I am reformed."

"Shut up, monkey."

"Look as fun as this verbal ping pong is, blue boy, we really need to find these scrolls, kill the brothers, which will save our friends that are infected. So you can help us or get the hell out of our way. We are running out of time."

The blue man laughed, but waved his arm causing a stone with a piece of paper to appear. "You are not completely worthy, but those you are trying to save however, they are extremely important to the world. So I will help you. They only way to stop the demon of lust is to stab him with a knife of his own flesh. The other two oracles who protect the other labyrinths will have to enlighten you on how to defeat the others."

"Where in the hell can do we find something like that? We really don't have to go to hell, do we?" Xander asked.

"No, tiny man. It is here." He waved his hand and in front of the paper lay a pointed object, very much resembling a stake. It was green and very slick. "Use this the same way you would use it to kill a vampire. If done correctly he will disintegrate in to nothing but a puddle. Beware he is extremely powerful and will probably receive help from his brothers. Good luck." He disappeared the same way he had arrived, in a spiral of white light.

"That guy was seriously giving me the wiggins." Dawn said.

"Right there with you, Dawnie." Xander replied.

Faith walked over to the stone that held the key to saving her friends. She picked up the demon stake and read over the paper. "The scrolls say everything blue man told us."

"What do we do now? I mean the only way to find these guys' lair is to cast a locator spell. Unfortunately, Willow is otherwise occupied." Robin said, going over to stand next to Faith.

"Well, Dawn can open a portal. A locator spell should be a snap." Xander offered.

"No, I was able to open the portal so easily because something was allowing me to. All that was was me being able to read a different language. Even Andrew could have opened the portal."

"Hey, I have more power then just knowing demon languages. I used to summon them. Not that I will ever do that again. Cause I'm…"

"Guys, we don't need a witch." Faith said turning the scroll over. On the back of the paper was coordinates to someplace. "Are these the coordinates to any of the other hotspots?"

Dawn looked down at the paper Faith was holding and then at the papers in her hands. "Nope. It must be the demons lair."

"Does anyone else think that this is just to easy?" Xander asked.

"If it is, that's good. The quicker we figure this mess out, the quicker we save everybody." Faith retorted. " Now niblet, get us out of here."

Dawn chanted again and the portal opened. The gang was now standing back outside the warehouse.

"Let's go. We've got to find the other two weapons." Faith commanded as they got into the SUV. "And we have to hurry."

End note: Sorry it is so short, didn't want this chapter to be to dire. Wanted to save the direness for the next chapter.