Chapter Three: Are you worthy

The Van pulled up, to a very old looking temple, in the mountains,

"So our big plan is to go to a house in the mountains" Dawn asked

"Yes" Angel said

"Why?" Dawn asked not really impressed with the idea. "shouldn't we be killing demons and stuff"

"Because these monks are probably the oldest monks alive and can help us with our problem" Wesley said answering her question. "They can most likely tell us what we are facing"

"Cool" Dawn says. "At least now we had a plan"

"Well we had a plan before" Spike said. "It was to pick you guys up and then go…somewhere"

"See at least we have a plan now" Dawn said

Everyone got out of the van. Buffy looked at the temple.

"And remember don't touch anything Dawn" Buffy said almost ordering her

"I wont" Dawn said annoyed

"Do you think these monks practice the magic's?" Willow asked

"Well, we're going to find out, aren't we love" Spike said walking up to the door

Buffy walked past the boot of the van. As she did Harmony popped out of the boot

"Suspire" Harmony yells out as it opened

Dawn screamed and hid behind Wesley as she grabbed onto his jumper tightly

Buffy acted quickly. She grabbed Harmony by the arms and pulled her out of the boot onto the floor. She pulled out a stake and put her foot of Harmony to keep her down

"Wait, don't" Harmony yelled

Buffy realized it was Harmony.

"It's ok Dawn it was only Harmony" Wesley said to Dawn

Dawn let go of Wesley

"Oh" Dawn said blushing

"Give me one go reason I shouldn't kill you right now?" Buffy asked her

"Wait it's alright" Spike said moving in front of Buffy. "She's not evil"
"Thanks Spike" Harmony said as she stood up

"What are you doing here Harmony" Buffy asked

"Well" Harmony said. "I wanted to help out saving the world and everything"

Buffy looked annoyed witht hat idea. She then closed the boot and walked towards the rest of the gang

"Cool…and I brought Muffins" Harmony said picking up her basket of Pig Blood Muffins. She walked over to the rest of them "who wants some" she asked

"I'll take one" Xander said taking one and biting into it

"Ok, when did he start drinking the blood?" Harmony asked

"This has blood in it?" Xander asked with a stuffed mouth

"Duh" Harmony answered

Willow, Buffy, Wesley and Dawn made a face that almost looked like they were going to throw up. Xander spit it out and almost threw up.

"Next time…" Xander began to say as he covered his mouth as if he's trying to stop himself from throwing up. "…Warn us you … use blood"

"Sorry" Harmony said walking up to Spike and kissing him on the cheek "Hi blondy bear"

"Wait … you two are back together?" Willow asked

Buffy looked at Spike shiocked

"No" Spike said. "That's just what she calls me all the time. It's annoying"

"Whatever" Buffy said. "You should be together. You two dissever each other because you're so alike"

"I assure you were not anything alike" Spike said hurt

"Ok enough of the touchy feely stuff. Let's stop the world from ending already" Xander said as he watched Angel trying to open the doors of the temple

"The door's won't open" he said as he tried his hardest to pull it open

"Let me try" Spike said.

Spike pushed on the door's as hard as he could

"Nope they won't open" he said almost looking puffed out "Both ways"

"Over here" Wesley called out as he read some writing on the wall of the temple. "It says that to get into the temple you must prove you are worthy by using blood as the key"

"Blood as the key?" Harmony asked confused

Wesley pulled out a Dagger and looked at Angel

"I'll go first" Angel said understanding what Wesley meant

Angel took the dagger and slit his hand and dropped the dagger. He looked at the door and put his bloody hand on the door. The door then opened slowly. Angel walked in. As he did the door closed straight away behind him.

"I'll go next then" Buffy said as she grabbed the dagger off the floor.

Buffy slit her hand and also put it on the door. The door also opened

They each slit there hands and walked in. When they walked in the temple it was dark.

"Ok I can't see anything" Dawn said feeling her way around the room hoping to grab a hold of Wesley

"I can" Spike

"Oh me to" Harmony added

"Yes being able to see in the dark is not a privilege us humans have" Wesley said

"I can fix this problem" Willow said. "Abalieno Agilis Ppareo Abs Ubi Esse Desidero"

A light appeared in front of Willow and then the whole room lit up.

"Witches, always doing that hokey pokey stuff" Spike said as the room lit up

The light revealed a long hallway

"Look at these markings on the wall" Wesley said as he touched the wall with his hand. "They seem to be…"

"Ancient Calashian" Dawn interrupted

"Yes" Wesley said looking at her. "How did you know?"
"I saw it in some book recently" Dawn answered. "It said that no one can read it. So if we need to read it, we are really lost"

"On the contrary, I can read it" Wesley said

"What?" Dawn asked surprised and impressed

"What does it say?" Buffy asked

"There will be two tests in the upcoming hallway" Wesley read out loud. "Each for a single person. One is to do with fire, and the other is to do with moving quickly and spikes"

"I'll take the fire" Angel said as he stopped leaning on the wall

"I can move fast" Buffy said. "I'll do the spiky thing"

"Why is it that always the hero's get to do all the fun stuff?" Spike asked.

"You must complete these tasks to show that you are worthy" Wesley read

"Ok so now what are we supposed to do?" Buffy asked looking down the hallway that seemed to go forever

"There should be two staffs over there on the wall" Wesley said getting up and looking towards to staffs that each where held up on the side of the hall which just appeared. "As soon as you take the staff your task's begin. Angel take the right staff and Buffy take the left staff"

Angel and Buffy each walked over to a staff. As they took it off the wall they disappeared.

"Yep these monks do magic" Spike said

(Cut to Buffy)

Buffy appeared in another hallway. She walked down it. There was lots of Spikes on the walls and they seemed to be made out of crystal or some sort.

"Boy I hope those have nothing to do with it" Buffy whimpered almost. "And I'm talking to myself. I mean who actually talks to themselves in real life"

As she walked down the hall she found a place for the staff to sit. She carefully placed it on the hook.

"Now what" Buffy said as she looked around

Slowly whispers echoed the room

"Ok" Buffy said as she looked around as the walls slowly moved in towards each other

"Your test is run for our life as the walls close in and arrows shot from them" a voiced said that was hidden among the whispers

Buffy looked around as the walls slowly closed in on her. Picking to go straight ahead Buffy ran for her life. She ducked and jumped over arrows as they shot from the walls. She slowly got near the end of the hallway. When reaching the end, the walls stopped moving in towards her.

"Well, that was easy" Buffy said almost out of breath.

Then all of a sudden the spikes off the wall came off and formed a demons shape object.

"I spook too soon" Buffy said as it slowly walked towards her.

The Spiky Demon threw a punch towards Buffy. Buffy ducked and moved back against the wall. She tired to kick it but as she did her shoe got stuck in the spikes. Buffy pulled her shoe out of the spikes and her shoe ripped. Buffy looked around for a weapon of some kind

(Cut to Angel)

Angel looked around the small room he was now standing in. There was a plate of red vegetable looking things on the table.

"Ok" Angel said confused.

He looked around the room.

"Where's the fire?" Angel asked.

The sand on the floor started to move. A mini sand tornado slowly started to whirl and a sand man appeared in front of Angel.

"Hello" said the sand man

"Hi" Angel said looking around. "Can you tell me what I'm supposed to do for this fire test thing?"

"You must eat these chill peppers" the sand man said laughing and evil laugh.

Angel looked at the bowl of chill peppers unimpressed

"Is that all?" Angel asked. "Because I was told there was going to be fire in this test"

"The Peppers BURN LIKE FIRE" the Sand man shouted and laughed

"This is a stupid test' Angel said looking at the bowl again

"Well, we ran out of ideas. You no we're not the only one who makes up tests. There are a lot of testes out there and you can't copy other people. And besides, nobody likes pepper so eat the peppers and be done with it" the sand man said annoyed

"Fine" Angel said walking over and picking up a pepper

He put it in his mouth and swallowed. Angel waited for a second for something to happen. Nothing. Angel looked around and before he knew it he appeared standing next to Spike. Spike noticed him

"Finally the hero returns" Spike said looking at Buffy

Angel looked over to Buffy. She was covered in scratches and blood.

"What happened?" Angel asked her

"A test remember?" Buffy said. "I had to kill some sort of spike demons while running for my life as walls closed in on me. Not my finest hour but I lived. What did you have to do?

"Well…" Angel said

A monk appeared in the hallway

"Where did you come from?" Xander asked seeing the monk first

The monk walked up to them.

"Come with me, you are worthy" The monk said

The monk slowly walked back down the hallway. They all followed. They keep walking which it felt like forever until they came to a cave like room. There was a campfire on the floor. The monk sat down next to it

"Come sit" the monk said.

They all started to sit down

"No, NO" the monk almost shouted. "Only two may go on the journey"
Angel and Buffy looked at each other then walked over to the fire and sat down

"Why do they always get to..." Spike said before Willow nudged him in the stomach. "Right then, I'll be quite" Spike said

"You must each be an anchor to each other" the monk said as he sat down and started to throw powder in the air. "So hold hands"

Buffy and Angel looked at each other and hold hands.

"Now" the monk said. "Look deep into my eyes. Deep into my eyes"

Buffy started to get sleepy. So did Angel. They both slowly started to fall asleep. They fell to the floor still holding hands, but their eyes where still open.

"Uh…what happened?" Willow asked

"There in the dream world now" The monk said. "They will find the answers to the questions they want to know most"

Buffy's eyes slowly turned a yellow color while Angel's eyes turned to a red color. They started to float into the air as f they were getting picked up by someone.

"Bloody hell" Spike said standing back.

Whisper slowly filled the room. The monk chanted something in a demon laugh in the background. Then the whispers took form to a white wind shape. The wind surrounded Buffy and Angel then broke in two and went into each of them.

Buffy and Angel Screamed. The screams echoed the room. Then they stopped and slowly retuned to the ground still in a sleep like sate.

To Be Continued