Disclamer: I don't own any of these people.
They group sans Spike and Angel walked across the dessert, it was Dusk, but still too bright for the two of them to be out. "I like walking as much as the next leather clad gal, but can't you just whisk us to this plateau like to took us from the plane?" Faith asked Willow.
"No, I have to save my energy for this. We have to resurrect 4 people and we don't even have their bodies," she glanced at Illyria for a minute then continued. "It's going to be really hard, if it wasn't for the boosts I got from that voice I know I wouldn't be able to do it."
"Well, we don't have to worry about the sun anymore," Dawn said., "These clouds are going to block it out for a while." Rolling black clouds came from the east, looming like smoke.
"That isn't clouds, child." Illyria said. Her face showed signs of withdrawn fear.
"That's the first sign." Said Willow.
"Oh, the prophecy thing." Dawn said. "Well, the evil black sky blocks out the sun. How long will this last?"
"For a while, there are other signs that are going to happen before this clears, could be hours, could be days, but I'm betting on days." Willow said.
"It will be days. About a week, unless the Quad-Nexus gets to the temple. Well, it's supposed to stay there for a week, though no one has ever seen it vanish before the temple is occupied, if that was so the Earth would be here anymore." Illyria said.
Buffy, suddenly picking up on Dawn's almost forgotten though pattern called back to the house, telling Spike and Angel where to find them.
"I just don't like it, what if this black doom thing clears up, I mean the weatherman has been wrong before." Spike said on the way to the rest of the group.
"Calm down spike, this isn't a weatherman thing, it's a prophecy thing." Angel replied. When they finally got to the rest of the group they made their way to the plateau. When they finally got there Willow told them what they were going to have to do.
"This ceremony will be able to bring them back, but because they don't have bodies this will be done differently. They have corporeal forms in the hell dimension, so the only way to give them bodies here, we have to do it physically. The spell will split us up and take each of us to the Grandka Shadow--"
"You're sending us to hell?" Faith broke in. "I don't remember asking for a tour of Hades living room."
"I'm not sure that I'm down for that, either." Gunn added.
"Hey, this is to get back Cordie, Fred, Tara and Anya. I don't like it either, and I've already been to hell, but it's the only way to bring them back, and apparently to save the world." Angel said. This stifled any other arguments.
"We have to decide four people to hold a piece of the dragon heart, which will work as an anchor to pull them, and the rest of us, into the Shadow."
"I'll take one," Said Faith.
"Me too," Said Andrew, and after looking at the looks he received, "never mind."
"I wish to take one." Illyria said. "This is partly my fault."
"I'll take one." Angel said.
"And I'll take the last," Willow said, "So, I'm not sure how this will work. I just know we don't decide who goes with us, so everyone get weapons now." Everyone walked over to Xander, who was holding a bag of weapons on his back.
"Alright, there isn't anymore time to waste, the plateau is just beyond this hill, the four of us have to each stand on one edge of the compass that we will have to draw, everyone else has to stand in the middle. I'll say the words and that will take us there. Each of the leaders will know the incantation as well, so as soon as you find your charge say them, and you will come back here. Everyone understand?"
There were murmurs of agreement as they made their way over the last hill to the plateau, which wasn't really a plateau at all but a cliff overlooking a valley. Willow drew the compass with the ashes of the demons from the Hyperion, then stood on one of the points. Buffy, Angel, and Illyria followed suit. "Everyone else, in the middle." The rest of the group got in the center of the compass.
"Ogaci Temraz, Renthou Clentha" Willow said. The Compass was suddenly surrounded by a flaming circle. The compass started spinning very fast until everything was just a blur. Sudden cracks of lighting within the blurred wall of flames made Dawn scream.
"Hey Willow Wonka, I want out of the boat and out of the Factory!" Spike yelled over the earsplitting noise that was being caused by the spinning. The compass itself started glowing, and then with a blinding flash they were all gone.