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Grandka North: Willow
"This city is even hotter then the flames out there. I tried to lean on a building for a minute and I burned my arm." Xander said.
"You shouldn't have been leaning on the wall anyways, Xander. We don't have time for it." Willow said.
"Wait," Xander said "There is something up there." he said. After walking for a while they hadn't seen any demons. Considering this was where every demon ever was supposed to go they all thought that was odd. Their questions were answered when a giant hand swiped all the buildings to the left of them away. The massive fire giant was back. It stood in a volcano-like hole in the middle of the stone city. It's face was less flame covered now, but flames still came from his skin in places. He had a scabbed over look that they guessed had nothing to do with the ice.
"About half a mile that way there is a building that isn't like the rest, it seems to be connected to… a something." Xander said.
"Thank you, captain Freak Eye, but there are more pressing matters at hand. Willow, freeze the human torch senior's face again!" Andrew said.
"He has a barrier around himself." she said. "I think it's a fool me twice thing. Incautum!" she screamed the last word and whatever barrier he had up before vanished. She waved her hand at his chest this time and said "INCIDO!" The wave rippled through the air until it hit the thing, cutting it in half. It fell back with a screech into the buildings behind it. It's flames went out, and it just lay there, finished.
"Wow. Score one for the good witch." Andrew said.
"I don't know, still kinda gives me the wiggins, all this power I mean." she said.
"So, lets go to the building connected to the thing." Xander said. They walked the rest of the way into the city and stopped at the foot of the building. Unlike the others it looked totally unaffected by the flames around it. It looked like a building you would find in a normal city, made of steel and glass. "So that fire thing was part of this world? Kind of like a device to cause these demons eternal pain?" Xander asked.
Willow could tell from the look in his eyes that he was asking because he didn't like the idea of those things toying with Anya. She didn't like the idea of them hurting Tara either. "Lets just not think about it. Lets just get our girls and go home. Willow ripped the doors off their hinges with a movement of her hand and they started up a set of stairs. After a few flights they reached the top where they saw a girl curled up in the corner, her face was hidden by her hair and her shoulder. Willow heard a whisper of the voice in her head. "the witch."
Suddenly it was as if the nickel dropped, and she knew. "Tara? Tara it's me, Tara come here." Willow said rushing to the corner and putting her arms around the cowering person in the corner. Tara looked at Willow and didn't smile, she started crying.
"I can't take anymore torment. I'm broken, don't you get it. You don't need to show me these visions of her face, I get it, I understand what I'll never see again." she said.
"No Tara it's really me. And Xander, and Andrew. Please look at me." Tara looked at Willow, the smallest amount of hope in her eyes.
"Andrew…"
"From the Trio, yes." Willow said smiling at Tara who was starting to believe. She had a feeling that sending the friend of the one who killed you for a friendly visit wasn't very good torment.
"I was a pure saiyajin but now--"
"Andrew, if you say Goko I'll throw you in a fire pit," Xander said.
Tara and Willow just smiled at each other. "I'm going to take you home" Willow said. "Ogaci Temraz, Renthou Clentha" she said. She had expected to feel something happen, a spinning upheaval, or a loud pop, but nothing happened at all. Willows face sank.
"What it is Will?" Xander asked.
"I don't know." was all she could muster.
Grandka South: Angel
Angel, Buffy and Spike kept walking in the snow. What seemed to be a city of ice and stone had sort of crept up on them, but they kept on walking. Spike slipped on some ice. "Alright there, Spike?" Angel asked.
He was about to call Angel a right git, but he looked down and saw a tusked face in front of him. "Bloody hell!" he said jumping up. "There, in the ice, a demon. Right ugly one too." Angel and Buffy looked at it, and started to realize that the place was filled with iced over demons.
"I think we should just hurry up and get out of here." Buffy said. "I don't want to meet whatever managed to incase that in ice." she said pointing to a house sized demon covered totally.
They all almost ran into a building that was snow and ice free. It looked nothing like the others they had seen. "This must be it. Buffy, you wait out here for a minute." She started to argue, but realized it was best, just in case.
Angel and Spike made their way into the building up a flight of stairs. Angel heard the voice say whisper "the demon," just as they got to the top of the stairs.They saw Anya sitting in a chair by a window.
"Anya?" Spike said. She turned around and looked at them. Her face didn't really change that much at all when she saw them.
"Wow, I was just thinking about you guys a few days ago. I didn't know if your souls, being fused to demon bodies would come here or go to normal human afterlives. Well, this solves it. How did you get past the Grakarcian? It lives just outside here." she said.
Spike and Angel looked at each other. "Buffy," they both said. "Buffy? How would she get here, regardless of all her weird slayer stuff and resurrection issues she is still human. Hey, wait for me!" she chased them down the stairs. They all stopped and took a moment to take in the scene. A giant ice thing had broken out of the frozen ground and was looking down at Buffy, who looked at Spike and Angel. Anya was the only one who knew what to do. She ran in front of Buffy as the giant as it prepared to cover Buffy in ice, and it stopped. "The Grakarcian won't hurt me. I don't know why, but it won't. How did you get here? Did you stake them both and somehow get pulled in with them or something?"
"No, none of us are dead… ok we are all dead… well I'm resurrected and they are undead but, damn it. We are here to take you home. Angel, what was that magical mumbo jumbo?"
"Ogaci Temraz, Renthou Clentha" He said with his eyes closed. Even the giant blankly stared at him.
Anya rolled her eyes. "Nice rescue mission jackasses, maybe Spike should click his ruby heels and say there's no place like home."
Grandka East: Faith
The four of them had found themselves inside a glowing gold orb floating above the treetops. The orb, provided by Dawn. Gunn filled Faith in on what had happened since they last met when Faith put her hand up to stop Gunn form talking. "the angel." She heard whispered.
"Dawn, stop the boat." Faith said. "We're there."
"How do you know?" Asked Giles.
"A little birdie told me. Dawn, take us down." The orb descended into the trees. A swamp was reviled, and also a building that seemed very clean for being in the middle of the swampy forest. They entered the building and up the stairs until the found Cordelia asleep on the floor. She woke up when they entered her room.
"Faith? Gunn, Dawn, Giles? What are…" she sputtered.
"Don't strain yourself angel, we're the rescue party. " faith said
"Oh thank god, I though you would never get here. One minute I'm saying bye to tall, dark, and mopey, and next thing I know I'm in hell, then swamp world." She stood up. "So, plane, train, or automobile?"
"None of the above," Faith responded. She and the rest of the group walked closer to Cordelia, "Magick. Ogaci Temraz, Renthou Clentha" Nothing.
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me."
Grandka West: Illyria
Yet another Demon fell to the ground. Illyria had observed that even when she killed them they started to heal. Part of her resented that. The path of armed demons had led her right to the building she was sure held Fred. Her suspicions were confirmed when she heard "the vessel," in her head. She walked up the stairs to great herself.
"Fred."
"What. Who are you?"
"I'm Illyria. The one who… the one who used you."
"You mean the one that killed me and sent me to hell?"
"Yes."
Fred ran at Illyria and started pounding on her chest. Kicking her, lashing out with all her limbs. Illyria just stared blankly at the wall.
"I'm here to bring you back." Illyria said without any emotion.
"Liar!" Fred screamed, still hitting her slightly bluer double. Illyria picked Fred up around the waist and carried her to the wall.
"Ogaci Temraz, Renthou Clentha." She waited a moment, and so did Fred, then she started beating down on Illyria again. "Ogaci Temraz, Renthou Clentha!" Once again nothing happened. "Something is wrong. Fred, I understand why you are doing this, but you have to stop."
"You made me die in Wesley's arms!"
"Just as he died in mine." Illyria said, for the first time emotion was in her voice. Anger had put an edge on it that forced Fred to stop.
"Did you kill him too?" Fred asked.
"No. I… I tried to save him. But I was too late. He was stabbed in his midsection, and he bled to death. His last words were to you, he wanted you to know he loved you." Illyria put her down and she sank to the floor. "I am trying to bring you back to the world of the living, but something is wrong."
Fred just looked up at her. "So, what do you want me to do?"
"This isn't the first time you have been stuck in another dimension. Hansom man save us from the monsters." Illyria said, looking at Fred, something like sorrow covering her face. "I never… I'm a god. I saw you as an ant that could be used to return me to my place. I think I regret it now."
Fred somehow knew that this was the closest thing to an apology Illyria had ever said, and was somehow accepting it.
"So, we wait."