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"I still don't understand what's going on." Angel said. Willow had tried to explain the whole thing to everyone as best as possible, but it wasn't coming off right. She herself didn't even know what possessed her, and had no real idea about what the voice had been talking about.
"We don't really get it either," Willow said. She shyly looked at the floor.
Giles suddenly had an idea. "What was going on when this happened. I mean, it can't have been Angel's thing. That was hardly an 'end of the world'."
"Yeah, just the end of our lives." Said Spike, sarcastically.
"You're not alive at all, but be that as it may…" Giles looked back at Willow, "there has to have been something else that triggered this… thing."
"We were both just standing around here, and I just told Xander that…" Willow stopped dead in her tracks. Her speech picked up speed, "Anya… I was telling Xander that Anya is…" her voice got very slow again, "trapped in a hell dimension." Then she whispered to herself. "The demon."
"What was that?" Gunn asked.
"The first time that thing spoke through me it spoke of something it called the Quad-Nexus." Illyria hadn't really been listening, but at the mentioning of the Quad-Nexus she turned around. "It also said four different things to. The Witch, the Angel, the Demon, and the Vessel. When it happened we were talking about Anya, a former Demon. Could that have triggered it?"
"Tell me of this." Illyria said making everyone turn around shocked, they had all forgotten she was there. "The Quad-Nexus isn't unknown to me."
"Oh, Fred. I hadn't noticed you." Willow said with a smile.
"Fred is no more. I'm Illyria. She had fond memories of you, Willow, but she is dead." Willow wasn't given time to adjust to this new way of thinking, however, because Illyria just charged right on. "Tell me of this now. If a prophecy about the Quad-Nexus had been made then the world might just need saving again." Noticing Willows inability to continue she changed her face to look just as Fred's had. "Does this help?" Willow yelped a little bit. Then told them about prophecy as word for word as she could.
"The Grandka Shadow is a hell dimension," Illyria said to them. "reserved for demons."
"So Anya is the Demon in the prophecy… who are the others?" Giles said.
Willow was looking at pictures on the wall. Her eyes lingered on a picture of her in the arms of another girl. "Could the witch be Tara?" She turned around to Giles. "No.. I somehow know. The Witch is Tara."
Angel looked up. "Cordelia; could she be the angel? I mean, she had all that stuff with the Powers that Be and she…" He looked at Willow as he cut himself off. The look on her face told him yes.
"Funny," said Faith. "I'd have pegged Angel here as The Angel. I mean, he has the name down and he is all, well, goodie-goodie." Angel was going to counter her statement but Willow started talking first.
"I guess it's like a triggered memory. Before, since the it spoke through me I've felt like something had just slipped my mind, or I knew I was forgetting something, like when you know you didn't put something in your suitcase but you don't know what it is. As soon as I thought about them in regards to the titles given to them in the… thing I remembered. So, we have all of them but one."
Angel, Spike, and Gunn all looked at Illyria, who in turn turned to the wall. "Fred, the Vessel. My Vessel." Illyria turned to Willow then. "Is this true?" She asked.
Willow nodded. "No," Illyria said. "In the past the Quad-Nexus has always been four living woman, activated before just before the Temple resurfaced; each connected to the others. But all these woman are dead."
"THIS IS WHAT WE CALL A DEAD END." Willows head tilted back for a moment., then she looked at Illyria as if he knew her. ". I HUST BE BREIF, BEING WITHIN THIS GIRL'S BODY WILL HARM HER IF I STAY FOR TOO LONG."
No one could take their eyes off of Willow. The voice coming out of her mouth was totally separated from her, it didn't even sound like it was coming from her mouth. Not a bit of it sounded like her.
"THESE GIRLS ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF A FEW DISRUPTIONS OF FATE'S DESIGN. THE RESURECTION OF THE SLAYER IS ONE."
"Which bloody time?" Spike said.
"HER MOST RECENT. WHEN THE VAMPIRE KNOWN AS THE MASTER KILLED HER, AND ONE ALEXANDER HARRIS BREATHED LIFE INTO HER, THAT WAS SEEN, KNOWN TO BE PART OF FATE'S DESIGN. IT WAS THE FATE'S WAY OF BRINGING ABOUT A SECOND SLAYER,. HOWEVER, THE ONE I USE AS A VESSLE GREW MUCH MORE POWERFUL THEN WE EVER THOUGHT SHE COULD BECOME, AND SHE BROUGH BACK THE SLAYER AFTER SHE ENDED HER OWN LIFE FOR THAT OF THE KEY. ALL THE EVENTS AFTER THAT KNOCKED FATE'S PLAN OUT OF ORDER. ALSO, THE ACTIONS OF THE ONE YOU KNOW AS JASMINE SHOOK THEIR PLAN AS WELL, DIRECTLY INFLUENCING THE DEATH OF THE ANGEL, BUT IT WAS THE RESURECTION REALLY SEALED IT. HOWEVER, NO BLAME IS TO BE DELT, THE RESULTS WERE UNFORSEEN BY ALL, AND THE CHAIN REACTION SAVED THE LIVES OF HUNDREDS, EVEN IF IT DAMNED FOUR,"
Willow's body was clearly getting weaker. She sat down, which was the first time she had moved any part of her body other then her head at all since the voice took hold of her. "BUT I MUST SAY THAT THE FATES WILL REGAIN CONTROL AFTER YOU GET THE FOUR OF THEM TO THE TEMPLE."
"Last time we brought someone back we needed her body. Anya and Tara's are gone." Xander said.
"And Fred's is currently inhabited," Said Gunn motioning to Illyria.
"NONE OF THIS REALLY MATTERS. THE MOUTH WITH WHICH I SPEAK WILL KNOW HOW TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. MY TIME HERE IS SPENT." It was a good thing Willow was already sitting down, because the force with which the voice left her body this time would have knocked her to the floor. Her breathing was heavy but a smile stretched across her face. "We can bring them back."