Ok heres chapter 23 and its time for Spike and Buffy to explore Phobos's castle.
Chapter 23: The corridors
"Is it jus me or are we going round in circles?" Buffy asked sighing heavily.
"Its these corridors," Spike explained. "Their rearranging themselves to make sure we go… well wherever they want us to I guess,"
For nearly half an hour now Buffy and Spike had been wandering the corridors of the castle. They had entered with no resistance finding a group of bringers already defeated at the main gates and had been attempting to locate the throne room to this castle ever since. "So far with very little luck.
"Guess that means we're heading towards a trap then?" Buffy asked not really caring.
"Yup," Spike answered.
"Say whatever happened Wesley Cordelia and everyone?" Buffy asked.
"Aside from Cordelia? All dead," Spike answered simply.
Buffy stared at him in shock not sure what was more shocking the fact that her friends even if they weren't exactly close friends were dead or how little Spike seemed to care. "How?" She asked finally almost afraid to ask.
"You heard about Fred right? Spike said without waiting for answer. "Well a few months after that. Angel comes up with this little plan to take down Wolfram&heart. The plan worked fine and dandy. Except the only ones to make it out alive were me and Angel,"
"Has for Cordy well she's been in a coma the whole time I was staying at L.A and to the best of my knowledge still is," Spike finished waiting Buffy to respond.
"Wow," She said after long moments. The two continued in silence for another ten minutes until they reached an intersection complete with tall stone archways and three new routes to choose.
"So what do you think? Left. Right or straight ahead?"
Spike stared down each of the routes in turn first left. He focused his vision slightly to see a group of bringers blocking the path. "Well we can't go left," He looked to his right to see that another group of bringers were blocking the route. "And we can't go left either. Guess that just leaves…" He looked ahead to see a third group blocking the final route. "Straight ahead,"
The two charged into battle dropping Bringers left and right. Spike grabbed one of their swords and stabbed several of them through the chest. Luckily bringers were essentially human so tended to fall pretty easily. After a few minutes of fighting the two were standing in the middle of group of either dead or unconscious bringers.
"Well that was fun," Spike said looking over the defeated drone warriors. A soft clapping interrupted the two thoughts. A man with long blond hair wearing heavy looking green shoulder pads and sky blue robes appeared from the darkness of the corridor directly in front of them.
"Bravo! Bravo!" The man applauded. "The legendary slayer and the infamous William the bloody. I am so glad to see you both live up to your reputations,"
"Who is this ponce?" Spike asked staring at the man confused.
"I don't know but we don't have time for this," Buffy said preparing to walk off.
"Fine you go and I'll deal with this twit," Spike suggested. "Shouldn't take much more than a minute, "
"Are you sure?" Buffy asked.
"Go," Spike insisted. "You do wanna save ol dark and broody don't you? I'll take care of Blondie locks here and catch up in a minute," With that Buffy left giving Spike a quick smile before she went.
"Alright mate lets have a go," Spike said loosening is muscles and preparing to knock this idiot into next week.
"Well if you insist," The man replied smiling cruelly.
He pulled his head back has if he were convulsing in pain or perhaps it was pleasure. Spike couldn't really tell. The man's chest and arms suddenly exploded from his clothing bulging into muscles far to big to be in proportion with the rest of his body. A massive tail came out of the robes which tore away revealing no legs the tail instead was simply connected at the waist like a snake. Finally the head became more pointed at the chin and ears with a shock of dusty blonde hair falling down the neck. The teeth became a row of razor sharp fangs. His face now had red markings around them almost like a party mask and the eyes turned yellow like a 'reptiles.
Spike raised his eyebrows has he stared up at his new towering and far more powerful looking 'opponent. "Right. Guess I should've known it wouldn't be that easy," He sighed.
Next chapter coming soon. Until R&R please.
