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CHAPTER 4
RESCUE
Buffy tried not to think what these uber-demons were going to do to her. She especially didn't want to think what they were going to do to Dawn. The Slayer shut her eyes tightly preparing for the end, but it never came. "Away!" she heard a familiar voice shout.
"Willow!" Buffy thought as she felt the demons blasted away from her. The slayer jumped to her feet and assumed her classic fighting stance. Willow had arrived just in time flanked by Amanda and Talia, two of the other Slayers.
"Need some help?" Willow asked.
"You have no idea, Dawn you ok?" Dawn stood behind the witch whose hands were now crackling with energy.
"Yea, can we just kill these things and go home?"
The gray demons had regrouped, and were now circling Buffy and the others.
"We must eat!" one hissed
"We will take!" another howled.
The arrival of Willow's reinforcements had bolstered Buffy's confidence and she was ready. "Is that all you guys think about? You must be male demons."
One of the things sneered. "We start with you!"
The creature leapt at Buffy, but this time the Slayer was ready. She rolled and kicked the thing under the chin sending it flying upwards. Talia joined the mix beheading another with her sword. "Weapon," Buffy cursed to herself. "Why didn't I think of that? The stress is making me sloppy." Willow took action frying some of the things with attack spells. The battle just a few short minutes as the combined strength of the witch and three slayers was more than a match for the pack of demons. All of the things were dead and with the exception of a few minor injuries the five young women were all okay.
"What were those things?" Amanda asked.
"I don't know but they were real nasty," answered Buffy.
Dawn was still visibly shaken. "Dawnie you okay?" asked Willow.
"They were going to, they were, were."
Buffy put here arm around her sister. "Shh it's okay, it's over now. What the hell is happening around here?" she asked as she looked around. "It feels so, well evil."
"I hate to interrupt here," Talia said. "but don't' you think we should get back to the hotel? I don't like being out here.
"Right," Buffy agreed. "Let's go."
The battle at the hotel was not going well. It seemed like for ever monster Spike killed six more took its place. "Bloody hell!" he shouted as he saw a really ugly monster with four mouths come at him. He was ready for the attack but he didn't have to be as a familiar looking girl decapitated it. "You?" Spike was stunned to be staring face to face with that loony slayer that had cut off he hands, Dana he thought her name was. She just smiled at him and went back to work. "Oh well," Spike thought, "can't let have girlie have all the fun. The vampire grabbed what looked to be a flying shark with legs and impaled it on his blade. "There's more fun to be had."
Angel felt another fist across his jaw. He had lost count of how many Hamilton had actually landed on him. He also was glad he didn't have to breathe considering the demented lawyer was not crushing his neck. "You will die when this is over Angel. Your son will die. Your friends will die."
"Are you going to talk me to death?" The vampire spat.
Hamilton smirked, "I am going to enjoy this."
"Not as much as I will ugly!" a voice shouted followed by a blow that spun Hamilton around. "Saving you from that creep is getting to be a habit Dad". Connor had fought his way to his father's side.
"Believe me I don't mind," Angel replied. The father son conversation was interrupted by more disgusting creatures and the two warriors rejoined the fight.
Buffy and the rest of her group had run into a few more packs of vampires, and various demons, but had made almost back to the Hyperion unscathed. They were almost there when they saw it. "Oh no," Buffy breathed. The hotel was overrun by what had to be over a thousand assorted monsters. "Willow, we have to get in there!" she cried.
"I don't think we can Buffy, there's no way we can fight through all that and there is too much action in the hotel. If I try to teleport us we might appear in front of a sword, or claws, or teeth, or,"
"I get it Will, but we have to do something!"
"I can get you in Buffy."
"Who said that?" The slayer turned around to the source of the voice. "you?"
A female figure dressed in white now stood before her, with the newcomer a tall dark haired male with a very wicked looking sword in his hand. "Hello Buffy," the woman smiled. "It's good to see you, let's go save our vampire."
The good guys were holding there own but odds of nearly a thousand to about 150 were starting to show. A few more slayers were down, some injured, but some dead. Angel couldn't tell about many of them save one poor girl who got her head snapped around by Hamilton who was once again headed toward Angel. "All right," the vampire thought, "You want some more, you got it."
Spike and Faith fought as a team back to back. They had battled their way to the entrance of the infirmary, and were defending the wounded with seven of the slayers. "If one of these things get past us our friends in there have had it!" Faith cried.
"Don't have to tell me that pet," Spike replied. No sooner than those words were spoken, a huge clawed green demon that looked like a cross between a rhino, and a well Spike had no clue rammed into them both knocking them down clearing the way for a humanoid demon with an axe and armor to run through into the infirmary.
"No!" Faith screamed as she saw the thing headed for its target, Robin Wood.
Angel and Hamilton exchanged massive blows, neither giving in. "You must know you can not win Angel," Hamilton taunted as he landed a punch to the vampire's temple. Angel responded with a roundhouse kick that snapped Hamilton's head back.
"Ooh that looked that hurt, what's the matter Hamilton some of that senior partner mojo not working right?"
The lawyer picked himself up off the floor and smiled. "No Angel my masters are just keeping some for themselves, but I still have more than enough to deal with you." Hamilton lunged at Angel in a blur slamming him to the ground. "For years I have heard my masters ponder as too which side you would be on for the final apocalypse," Hamilton said as he pressed his hands against Angel's head trying to crush him. "That will hardly matter if your dead."
Spike jumped up and was and was about to go after the creature headed for Robin when an explosion of light hit the middle of the Hyperion. "Bloody hell, what now?" he thought.
Connor was trying to break through a group of demons to get Angel's old office, the place he had been commanded to go in order to protect two guys named Giles and Andrew when the explosion of light hit. Connor looked to the source where he saw Buffy, her sister, and their crew, along with some tall guy in some sort of black armor, and another woman, who for some reason looked familiar to him.
The blast of light had distracted Hamilton enough to allow Angel to knock him away. The vampire was ready to start fighting again when he saw Hamilton staring at the center of the hotel lobby looking very furious. Angel turned to see what could piss off his opponent so badly, and his stomach immediately went into a knot. He saw Buffy, he saw Willow, Dawn, and two other slayers, they didn't affect him, He really didn't even notice the strange guy with a sword drawn in a battle stance, it was the woman in white that got his attention. "Cordelia," he whispered.
Buffy was ready for battle when they appeared in the Hyperion. She didn't know how Cordelia had brought them here. She didn't even know why Cordelia was here, or who the heck the guy was with her. All she knew was that they were back in the hotel and there were baddies to slay, but at the moment she didn't have too. Everything had stopped, All eyes were on her, well not exactly on her, more like at Cordelia who was glowing. The guy that had come with her was standing beside her sword in hand guarding her.
Cordy touched him on the shoulder. "It's okay Marcus, they will not harm me."
"Yes, my lady," he replied and put up his weapon.
Cordelia looked around and then spoke. "Wolf, Ram, and Hart, reveal yourself. The messenger of the Powers that Be commands it."
Angel was fixated on Cordelia. She was as beautiful as ever, but the voice that responded to her command was not. "We answer to no one's command messenger."
Three massive creatures appeared in front of Cordelia. Each one standing about ten feet tall, each with the body of a man, but each with a different head, one a wolf, one a ram, and one a hart.
"The senior partners," Angel whispered. Darkness seemed to radiate from them as they stared at Cordelia.
However she did not flinch, "You say no one commands you, yet you are here.
The Wolf growled, "We are here at our choosing, we wish to know what event could possibly bring the great messenger of the so-called Powers that Be here to this realm."
Cordelia smiled knowingly, "You know exactly why I am here. The Powers have called for an end to this conflict. For five years you have battled their champion." Cordelia motioned toward Angel.
The Ram snarled. "Their champion has always been weak. If not for the interference of the Slayers he would be dust."
"No", Cordelia stated, "He is here because he is a champion, as is Spike, Connor, the slayer army, and my new companion. I'm sure your liaison recognizes him."
The warrior with Cordelia looked directly at Hamilton, "Hello dear brother." Angel turned to look at Hamilton whose face was a pure expression of rage and hatred. The vampire turned his attention back to Cordy who was still holding her gaze with the senior partners. "The Powers propose a final battle to decide this conflict."
"Why would we want that?" the Hart asked. "We enjoy this conflict it suits us."
Cordelia laughed right in their face. "Yes, all your agents of the Black Thorn are gone. Your largest branch is in ruins, and you have sent two armies to wipe out Angel, both failing. Tell me, how does this, suit you?"
"The time of your deception is over demons," Marcus spoke to the senior partners for the first time and they actually looked a little disconcerted at the warrior. "Deceptions, conspiracies, lackey lawyers, and law firms, these weapons will not work in this battle."
The Ram smiled evilly, "We have weapons your feeble mind can not comprehend insignificant one."
Marcus smiled his own wicked grin in return. "I would not count on that, you know who I am, and why I am here."
All three of the senior partners spoke at once, "We know what you are, but it does not matter, we shall destroy you, and it begins now!" A dark vortex swirled around the senior partners. "Our army will finish its task, and now with the added bonus of eliminating the messenger of the Powers, Farewell insects, we leave you to your oblivion." The Wolf, Ram, and Hart vanished into the vortex and their army renewed its attack, its purpose to kill every thing in the Hyperion.
