"Cordelia!!!" Angel yelled out as if waking from a dream.
"You ok Boss?" Harmony asked as she stepped in his office.
"Fine, just thought I heard something. Why aren't you at Cordy's funeral?" Angel asked.
"It's an open casket funeral. I can't see Cordy like that, besides dead people freak me out." Harmony said.
"Harmony, you are a dead person." Angel said.
"Hello I meant real ones. You know like Cordy." Harmony said as she walked back out the door.
"Yeah like Cordy." Angel said softly.
"Losing a friend really makes you think about your own mortality. Well not yours, But the lives of your friends I mean." Phil said.
"It's funny getting a lesson on mortality from someone who is already dead." Angel said.
"My right horn is a little lower then my left, you know just forget it. I'm Skip's cousin, Phil." The demon said.
"Well whatever you want I don't have time for it now. Get out!!!" Angel yelled.
"Oh I think you are going to want to make time for this. It's about Cordelia, her soul actually."
"What about it?" Angel asked.
"It happened right here, when I was guiding her to her next life. Then BAM!!!!" Phil shouted.
"What?"
"She was gone, that and I think the cats I ate for lunch were trying to come back up." Phil said.
Angel got out of his seat and was about to throw the demon out.
"What should I believe you?" Angel asked.
"The Powers That Be sent me." Phil said confidently.
"We have been fooled before." Angel countered.
"You know there are plenty of other willing champions out there. Maybe I'll go see what that Spike guy is doing. Frankly I don't know what The PTBs see in you. You're no champion." Phil said as he was about to leave.
"By the way Cordelia says she loves you." Phil said.
Angel ran to the demon and slammed him down to the floor.
"Now I'm getting that whole champion vibe from you." Phil said.
"Where's Cordy?" Angel yelled.
"I don't know and neither do the PTBs. When they don't know it's usually bad." Phil said.
"How bad?" Angel asked.
"We're talking apocalypse here." Phil said with a tad bit of concern.
"I've really had enough of those." Angel said annoyed.
"Well things are looking up then because this may be it, the last stand." Phil stated.
"Why?" Angel asked.
"You should know by now Custard. Cordelia has power. The very essence of it lies in her soul. You never saw the full extent of her powers. If the wrong people or demons got a hold of it there's no telling what would happen." Phil informed him.
"How do I find her?"
"I don't know, I'm just the messenger here. That's something you'll have to figure out. I would start looking soon too, you know before the world ends." Phil said as he disappeared.