Hi everyone! Here is Chapter 5 of my story! I hope you enjoy it! I would like to thank Buffy21 for all of her kind reviews! And vampireluv! LOL! If you want ur name here send me a review! I really hope you like this chapter and if you get confused, I'm sorry! But, don't stop reading! I'll try and explain everything as it goes! As you can tell by the chapter...the spell goes bad! Some things will get confusing because it's hard to explain how the spell didn't work. BTY the last sentences in the paragraphs are quotes that pertain to this chapter...maybe...you get it right? Enjoy! R&R!
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Aftermath: Life After Sunnydale
Chapter 5- Scythe Spell Goes Wonky
"Dead? How can she be dead? I can't believe this!" yelled Denise. Everyone was starting to cry, except Xander and Buffy of course, who both were stunned. Buffy had no clue how to explain this, neither did Xander. The only thing that came to both of their minds was to run to Giles and tell him what has happened. Or maybe even to tell Willow what happened. "Willow. We have to talk to her and see if she's okay." Buffy said holding back tears that were swelling in her eyes. Xander looked up at Buffy. Their eyes met and instantly they came up with a plan to fix the chaos that was happening around them. Xander walked over toward Chloe's still, cold body and gently picked it up. Buffy and Xander heard the hum of the bus creep up behind them. Buffy and Xander were not sure who it was in the bus, but they knew they had to control all the people around them. Buffy rushed to the bus to see who was in it. The bus doors opened slowly and Robin was sitting in the front seat. "Buffy are you and the girls ready to go?" Robin said with a smile on his face. "Robin, something's wrong." Xander rushed up carrying the body of Chloe that was dangling in his arms. Robin's face quickly turned from smiling to horror. Buffy ran to the group of girls who were all terrified. "Come on girls, we have to get home." All the girls' eyes were swollen with tears. They quickly gained their senses and rushed to the bus. Buffy looked around to see if anyone was left. Denise, Vi, Rona, and Hope were all four terrified of what was to come. So was Buffy. "More will come with me, a lot more."
The ride home was very silent. Everyone stared at Chloe's lifeless body. Buffy and Xander couldn't wait to figure out what was happening. The bus abruptly stopped at Buffy's house. Everyone quickly jumped out and rushed to Buffy's door. Giles opened the door with a smile. "How was patrol, girls?" Horror showed on his face when he saw Chloe's lifeless body appear behind Hope's head. "Oh bloody hell. What in the bloody hell happened?" Giles asked quietly as if to hope and pray this didn't happen. "I don't know, but I know it has to do with the spell." Buffy said assertively. "Where is Willow? She might know what is happening." "What do you mean she might know what is happening?" It was now around midnight at the Summer's residence. Buffy finally finished telling Giles the events of that night. Giles was stunned. He couldn't believe this was happening. "I'll get in contact with Willow. Thinking of it, she was acting strange earlier. She was lashing out at people for no good reason." Buffy was surprised by Giles' statement. Xander decided to put his two cents in. "And the incident that happened this morning." Buffy had no clue what Xander was talking about. After all she is the one who goes to work and misses everything. "This morning she yelled at me for not getting up and then collapsed on my floor. She came to and had no clue what happened to her." "I fear something terrible is about to happen." Giles said with a bone-chilling voice. "Your answer lies in your witch."
Buffy was desperately trying to fall asleep. She wanted to get everything off of her mind. The spell, Chloe's death, the vamp's words, the fact that more were going to die. She wished she knew how to prevent the deaths from happening. Thankfully, Buffy fell asleep. She drifted off in her dream. She was back in Sunnydale. In Sunnydale High. She was on the first floor near her office where she was a counselor. She was walking down the creepy hallway that was filled with paper. She saw a flash of light appear from one of the rooms close to where she was standing. She knew instantly what it was. She ran down the hall and kicked down the doors that led to the room. She saw another flash of blinding light. Then, she saw the most beautiful thing. She saw Willow, who was performing the spell. The spell turned her into a Goddess or maybe the most powerful witch. Buffy knew instantly she had to stop Willow who was performing the spell. Buffy ran up to the scythe to destroy Willow's spell, but her hands went right through the scythe. She knew she couldn't stop it. Buffy then had no clue why she was dreaming this dream. If she couldn't stop it, then why be shown what happened? Willow then handed Kennedy the scythe and she rushed downstairs. Buffy couldn't exactly hear what was happening. Willow sat on the floor and smiled. Willow looked like she was out of breath. All of a sudden a ghostly figure appeared in front of her. Willow's face went pale. "Tara?" Willow's mouth formed. Buffy couldn't exactly hear what was happening. "She's feeling the aftermaths."
Buffy looked at the ghostly figure herself. It was in fact Tara. "Willow. You have no idea what you just did." Tara said sadly. Buffy was amazed she could actually hear what Tara was saying. "The spell was a disastrous idea." Tara had golden colored tears running down her face. "Why? I don't understand." Willow said distressed and with exhaustion in her voice. "You have disrupted the line of slayers. You've made every girl who was to be a slayer one of them, and you've even made girls who were only suppose to be a potential slayer a slayer. Thus, disrupting the line. Doing this will cause many deaths. You don't know when or who, but many will die." Tara stopped crying and put on her serious face. "Willow, did you not think this wouldn't happen?" "Tara? How can you say this? You're scaring me. How can this be?" Willow was too exhausted to cry. Tara's figure disappeared. The whole room started to shake. Xander and Dawn rushed in the room and quickly picked up Willow. "The whole building is about to collapse, we have to run!" Dawn said quickly while helping up Willow. Buffy stood in the doorway of the room and watched Dawn, Willow, and Xander run out of the building. About three minutes later she saw herself run out with the scythe. Buffy, the real one, ran downstairs to see the man she loved. By the time she got downstairs he was gone. Buffy knew what happened. He turned to dust. She looked down and saw the amulet on the ground. She walked down to grab it, but the shaking of the building made it fall down a crater. "No! I have to get that amulet!" Buffy yelled. "Buffy, don't worry about that. I'm right here pet." Buffy abruptly turned around to come face to face with Spike. She reached out to touch him and then she opened her eyes. She found herself in her bedroom. She now has her answers. Willow knew about the spell's aftermaths and Spike is alive, or she hoped he was. "No, you don't, but thanks for saying it."
"Buffy? Your saying that Willow knew that this was going to happen?" Giles asked with hesitation in his voice. "I don't know, but I had a dream about it, and you know my slayer dreams, some never lie." Buffy said. The front door of the house opened and Willow walked inside. Her eyes looked swollen. Buffy and Giles knew that she was crying. "Willow, I have a question. Did you-" "Wait. Let me explain." Willow said cutting off Buffy. "I thought this might happen. Tara warned me right after I performed the spell. I decided to keep it from everyone because I was hoping that the statement Tara made wasn't true. I'm sorry for keeping this information from you, but I didn't remember reading anything about after effects when I read up on a spell similar to the one I performed." Giles and Buffy looked up at Willow. "What do you mean similar?" "Well, the actual spell hasn't even been tried before. Actually there was no such spell, but I had to take a similar spell and change it around." Giles was disappointed in what he just heard. "Then why is the spell having an affect on you?" "Because whenever I was evil, it has always been a small part of me still. So, whenever I was made a 'good' witch, parts of the evil are lashing out every now and then. That is what I figure anyway." "Is there any way to tell who will be next?" Buffy asked Willow forcefully. Buffy hated the fact that Willow was keeping this valuable information from the Scooby gang. "I'm thinking since Tara said I disrupted the line, age has something to do with it, maybe even skill." "So, I guess we need to compile a list of ages and who is better at patrolling." Buffy and Willow shook their heads in agreement at Giles. "More will come."
That night during patrol, Buffy was being extra careful not to get one of the potentials killed. She was patrolling with Shannon, Nicole and Kennedy. Shannon, Nicole, and Kennedy were fearful of what might happen to them that night. Faith was with the group also to help Buffy if something happened. The girls had seen no action tonight. The five of them all were on their toes. None of them wanted to be surprised. Buffy heard some unexpressed snarling. Faith turned around to look at Buffy. Buffy knew that Faith heard the snarling also. Only two of the three potentials heard the snarling also. Buffy knew instantly who was next to be 'killed' or 'leave' or whatever happened to them. At first Buffy and Faith thought the snarling was a vampire who they could dust in three seconds flat. "Nicole! Stick with the group!" Buffy whispered loudly. Nicole seemed to not hear Buffy, even ignored her. Unanticipated, a demon jumped out from behind the large oak tree. Nicole was standing right next to the tree the exact same time the demon jumped out. The demon grabbed Nicole by her shoulders and pressed Nicole against its chest. Or what looked like a chest. Nicole started crying out. The demon had a tight grip on her that she couldn't budge out of. "Help me! Please!" Nicole yelled. Her eyes were starting to swell with tears. The demon had small red horns penetrating out of both corners of its head. Its nose was slightly larger than normal and its body was slightly disfigured, like it was kicked in one side and never repaired. So, its right side was bulging out slightly. It was the most disfigured creature that Buffy and Faith has both seen in their slayer lives, besides Balthazar of course. Buffy and Faith quickly memorized the horrific face, so they could explain it to Giles. Now, they had to figure out how to free Nicole from the grip of this terrible beast. Faith and Buffy started to run toward the beast, but something unexplained happened. Light glittered through Nicole's eyes. She held up her hand and Buffy and Faith stopped instantly in their tracks. "You don't know when or who, but many will die"
"Wait Buffy and Faith! Don't be alarmed." "Nicole? What is happening to her?" yelled Shannon. Buffy and Faith were speechless. Neither of them had an explanation to give to Shannon. "Buffy, I need help! Help me!" Nicole suddenly started squirming in the arms of the demon. The bright light that Nicole was giving off quickly faded. Buffy and Faith were startled to think that Nicole wasn't the next potential to go to wherever they were going. Shannon and Kennedy rushed to Nicole. The demon lashed out at Shannon and Kennedy with its bulky, blue arm. Shannon and Kennedy both fell hard to the ground. "Buffy help her!" yelled Shannon who was rubbing her hand against the back of her strawberry blonde hair. Buffy couldn't help but just stare at what was happening right in front of her eyes. She was remembering everything that the vampires, Chloe, and Tara was saying. "Maybe," thought Buffy, "Nicole isn't the next to go." Buffy couldn't feel her feet move. She tried so hard to lift up her right leg so she could quickly stab the demon and save Nicole. "Buffy! Faith! Help me!" Nicole cried once more. Kennedy quickly jumped up and ran toward the demon. The demon once again lashed out it huge arm and Kennedy and sent her flying across the park. Instantly her body slammed against an oak tree and she smashed painfully to the ground, which caused her to yell in great pain then to pass out. Shannon, who hasn't moved since the first hit, was still on the ground. Faith knew instantly something wasn't right with Shannon. Shannon pulled her hand toward her face. Crimson blood was covered on her hand. "Oh shit." Shannon said before passing out. "Chloe was dead."
Faith quickly ran double-time up to Shannon's body. Faith picked up Shannon's body and wiped the back of Shannon's head. Crimson blood shown on Faith's hand. Shannon's eyes abruptly sprung open, which startled Faith. "Faith, hey. What's happening? I'm not the next one am I? Aww, damn I am! I can tell by the look in your eye." Shannon's body rose up from Faith's grip. Shannon stood up straight. "Buffy! Why aren't you trying to get Nicole out of that demon's hands? She's fucking screaming your name! Help her now!" Shannon's face was red with fury. Her teeth were grinding. Instantly, like a magic trick, Shannon's face was a pale white and she smiled. "Well, I guess that's my cue! Got to go now! Oh, but don't cry for me. Please! It will only make it harder for me to leave with the other hundred girls who are now going with me." Buffy started in amazement at Shannon. Buffy started to tear up at the sound of 'other hundred girls'. Shannon's body hit the ground roughly and violently that the ground beneath Buffy's feet trembled. The demon looked at Shannon's body. Finally coming to her senses, Buffy grabbed the stake that was in the back of her jeans and ran toward the demon that still held Nicole in it's hands, or what looked like hands, more like claws. Unanticipated, the demon quickly vanished. Buffy's feet came to a halt quickly so she wouldn't knock Nicole down. Nicole quickly fell toward the ground with a loud thump. "Okay, that was weird." Nicole said between breaths. "You don't know when or who."
"Giles! Help! Giles!" Buffy yelled while carrying Shannon's cold, lifeless body. Buffy was hoping this was the last girl that she would be carrying in her arms. Giles quickly ran downstairs to see Buffy carrying another dead potential slayer. Giles' whole body went numb at the sight of Shannon in Buffy's arms. "What happened?" Giles said in his 'I'm being serious British voice'. Buffy explained the story with the constant help from Faith, Nicole, and Kennedy. "The demon just vanished?" Giles said like he didn't believe the girls. He slightly arched his left eyebrow. "I'll research for the demon right away." On the spur of the moment, the phone rang. Buffy rushed to the phone and picked it up off of the receiver. "Hello? Willow? Are you okay? What's wrong?" Buffy paused and her face suddenly turned pale. "Giles and I will be right over." Buffy forcibly put the phone back on the receiver. Buffy looked over toward the couch where Shannon's dead body was lying motionless. Giles looked at Buffy for information about the phone call. Buffy's face was white as a ghost. Giles started to worry. "Buffy? What is it? Who was on the phone?" "Giles, we have to go over to Xander's and Willow's. Right now." Buffy walked toward the front door and opened it violently and walked out expecting Giles to immediately follow. Giles slowly stood and walked leisurely toward the door and closed it softly. "Oh, yeah. Well, that does destroy my plans. Maybe tomorrow." Shannon said.
"I can't believe this. I came home and she was shaking violently on the floor. Two girls in the same night? Is that really possible?" Xander said quietly. Xander, Giles, Willow, Buffy, and Faith were standing in an upstairs bedroom of Willow and Xander's house. The room happened to belong to Victoria. "It was like she was having seizures. She's been out since." Willow said suppressed. On the spur of the moment, Victoria started shaking violently. Her whole bed shook with her. "Xander hold her down!" Before Xander could grab Victoria she jerked up her hand and caught Xander by the throat, choking him. Victoria stop shaking. "Victoria! What are you doing?" Buffy yelled. Xander was gasping for air. "Buffy! This is the only way to keep him from making me stay on the damn awful planet! I want to leave! Don't make me stay here!" Victoria's face was pale and her eyes were red. "Victoria? Why are you next?" Buffy asked hoping that something was possessing her in order to take her. Victoria released her grip on Xander's neck. Her face returned to normal and her eyes did also. "I don't know. Please don't make me answer that question! I'm only 17! I don't wanna die! I didn't ask for this! I never asked to be a slayer! Please! Reverse it! Please!" Victoria said crying. Her taking in sharp gasps of air muffled her words. Willow walked over toward Victoria's bed and began to hug her. Victoria cried on Willow's shoulder. Giles, Xander, and Buffy looked at the scene that lay unfolded in front of them. She was only 17 and she was going to die. Victoria suddenly started shaking violently in Willow's grip. Willow let go of Victoria. As soon as she did, Victoria laid still on her bed. "Victoria? Victoria?" Buffy walked toward Victoria. She picked up Victoria's arm and let go of it. It quickly fell to the bed. Victoria was dead. "Chloe was dead"
The whole gang was panic-stricken by the events of this night. The sun approached the far east side of Cleveland. The vampires and demons of the night hibernated underground or in an empty apartment. The humans in the city were waking up to the sight of the sun peeking through their curtains of their homes. "Found it!" Xander yelled. He walked over toward the dining room table that was covered with worn, dusty books. He plopped the heavy, brown book in front of Buffy. "Is this your demon?" Buffy looked down at the old, tattered page. She stared at the demon for a couple of seconds. She studied every horn, eyes, and the way its legs looked. "Yep, good research Xander. Giles, your turn! Tell me bout that biyatch." Xander let out a small laugh followed by Willow. Xander walked over to Giles and handed him the book. "The demon Zermeke is summoned on by the most highest beings." Giles said. "It is sent to his destination with a job, once completed it returns to its home. If the demon fails, it goes back to the dwelling place of its summoner and offers its life in return for its downfall." Giles finished. He looked up and he met eyes with Buffy. Buffy and Giles both knew that the demon was sent to kill Shannon. "Wait, the demon grabbed Nicole, but still managed to kill Shannon. Why did Shannon's eyes glow?" Buffy managed to say quietly. "Did the demon have super glowy powers?" Xander said trying to cheer everyone up. The joke didn't seem to help. "According to the book, the demon Zermeke can suck the soul out of its victims and then it takes their body to show to the person who summons them." Giles looked up from the book to see everyone looking appalled by the information they just heard. "It's what the book says!" Giles said in his defense. "So, as soon as the demon realized that Nicole wasn't the girl it was suppose to kill it just vanished?" Willow asked. "Apparently so." Giles said looking from the book he now wanted to throw in the fire. "So, there is a pattern." Willow said happily yet with sadness. "You have disrupted the line of slayers. You've even made girls who were only suppose to be a potential slayer a slayer. Thus disrupting the line."
"Why didn't the demon pick up Shannon's body and take it back to it's summoner?" Buffy asked challengingly. "I'll do more research on this demon. Right now Buffy, you and the girls need to get some sleep. It's been a rough night." Giles said sternly. "Are you sure you don't need help Giles?" "I've got Willow and Xander. Right you two?" Willow and Xander looked at Giles. "Aw, come on man. I've already been here for three hours! Sure, I loved doing this in high school, but now I want to sleep." Xander said complaining. He actually wanted to see if Hope was awake, but he couldn't tell anyone that they were, actually he didn't know what they were. "Xander! Two girls have died tonight and who knows how many more will perish in this awful situation!" Willow said strictly. Xander then came to his senses and he knew he had to stay and do the research thing. "Night Buffy." Xander said to Buffy. Willow made the same words with her mouth. "Night guys." Buffy looked up at Giles. He gave her a slight nod and she turned around and headed for her room. "The demon Zermeke is summoned by the most highest beings."
"Yeah Buffy, what are we going to do now?" Buffy was having another dream about Sunnydale and the events of the final fight. Buffy looked at the crater of what was once Sunnydale. She turned around to be almost face to face with Dawn. "Willow knows everything. How could you let her do this to innocent girls?" Buffy reached out to slap her, but before Dawn touched Buffy's face she vanished. "How could you do this to us Buffy?" Buffy turned around to see Shannon, Victoria, and Chloe standing on the edge of the crater. Behind them were all the other girls who were slayers. Buffy then figured they died too. "Oh, don't shed a tear. These are the girls who have died because of you and Willow!" Buffy couldn't count how many girls there were. "Buffy? How could you? Only thinking of winning did this to us!" Shannon yelled out at Buffy. "Many more will die! Many, many more!" Shannon continued. "Including me." Buffy heard a bone-chilling voice behind her. She turned around slowly to see Vi standing in front of her. "Are you going to protect me now that you know that I'm next? Well, too late." Buffy stirred awake. "More will come with me, a lot more."
Buffy jumped out of her bed and ran downstairs. "Buffy?" Willow said yawning. It was ten o' clock in the morning. Buffy jerked open her front door and ran toward Faith and Robin's house. "Open the door!" Buffy yelled while banging on the front door. The door opened slowly and Buffy pushed her way through. "Hey Buff-" Faith managed to say before Buffy ignored her. Obviously, Faith didn't have the same dream Buffy did. Buffy ran up the spiral stairs and almost kicked the door down to get into Vi and Rona's room. The door slamming against the wall made Rona jump from her sleep. "Buffy? What the hell are you doing?" "Vi?" Buffy ran up to Vi's bed and started shaking her body and calling her name loudly. "Vi? Vi! Wake up Vi!" Rona jumped out of her bed and grabbed Buffy. "Buffy? What the hell is wrong with you! Stop shaking Vi! She is fine!" Rona yelled so loudly that the whole house came into Vi and Rona's room. "Don't you see Rona? She's not okay!" Buffy yelled jerking away from Rona's grip. "Vi is dead! She hasn't moved at all!" Just then Buffy realized what words came out of her mouth. Her whole body froze in the position she was in. She became silent, still, and unemotional. "Victoria was dead"
"Vi is dead? It can't be!" Rona yelled loudly. She rushed to Vi's bed and whispered her name. "Buffy! How the hell did you know she was dead?" Rona walked over to Buffy and started shaking Buffy vehemently. "How did you know?" Buffy didn't say or do anything. She was so still. The realization came to her that many girls were dying because of her and Willow. "Rona! Stop quavering Buffy!" Rona stopped at the familiar voice. Rona's eyes were swollen with tears and her cheeks were flushed and burning with anger. There were tears running down her cheeks. "Vi?" Buffy slowly turned around to see a ghostly figure of Vi. "Buffy, I have one thing to say to you. I am here to tell you that I am the last girl to go. The last girl in this family that is. Only thirty more girls will leave this dreadful planet tonight. Then you will have no more deaths. Except that ones that you can't save." Vi said this with a slight smirk on her face. "Well, now that I've told you that, I have to go. By the way, tell Giles to stop looking for the cause of this and to stop looking up information about the demon Zermeke. The damage is done. There will be no more. Now, I am gone." Vi's figure suddenly disappeared. Buffy tried to form words, but could only form words in her mind. She finally managed to say, "It's over."
So conludes another chapter! I know the thoughts are all conjumbled! but I'm going to finally start telling you stories of life in Cleveland! I just had to get all this stuff outta the way! Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Don't forget to R&R!
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