Finally this chap is up, chap 21 already. I think this story will end at the 30th chapter , but I don't assure anything because my predictions tend to be unacurate. So I'll just leave it like a thought.
Thanks like always to Allen Pitt, for beta-ing this chapter and for her suggestions.
The poll results were.......... you'll find out later on this chapter.
CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 21: Easy as 1, 2, 3
"It is easy carrot" The blonde girl said for the forth time to the wizard.
"Wiccan magic is not to be played with" Ron said.
"By amateurs" She continued smiling. "It seems that you didn't pay much attention to Professor Binns on his history of magic classes did you?" The wizard blushed. "Our ancestors first started to use wiccan magic, but then an idiot created the wands and well wizards decided to practice wand magic and left behind the wandless magic"
"You don't have a wand?" Harry asked frowning.
"Of course I do, but I don't really use it" She said bringing from the shelves some bottles and a book. They were now in the house of the girl, which was like a normal house of a muggle. It had most of the electric artifacts muggles used. With also some magical devises. She moved a carpet from the wood floor and placed it over the table near. "Wiccans have to have more precision, more..." She bit her lip looking for the word. "Concentration, focus, you name it" She opened one of the bottles and started making a circle around herself. She sat in Indian position. "Well first of all, don't get scared of what's going to happen alright?" The two wizards nodded and Xander sat on one of the couches looking worriedly at the witch. "Lesson number one, do not I repeat do not interrupt me"
"Are you sure this is easy?" Ron asked looking at her worriedly.
"Even when I do appreciate your worried feelings I'm started to get annoyed, so for the fifth time this is easy, easy as 1, 2, 3!" She finished merrily as she grabbed the book and passed the pages quickly. "First I'll locate them on this map, then we'll apparate there after I prove that there's nothing weird or dangerous on that zone, and of course then the carrot will be with his girl" She finished grinning.
"Wait! You said you were going to bring them through earth" Ron said confused.
".... I did?" She asked confused.
"Yes, you did" Ron answered.
"Well uhm, if you want to do that we would need two other wiccan because I would get drained and probably I would fell into coma if I would do it alone, so I think I'll stick on this plan" She said and she licked her finger after continuing passing the pages.
"Alright"Ron said after a while uncertain.
"We are caught in a moment and I won't let it go" The witch mumbled singing. She continued humming the song and evetually saying some of the lyrics.
"She had many songs stocked in her head when she stayed with us" Xander explained.
"Finally" She muttered loudly. She left the book in front of her and looked at the many bottles found near her. "Uhm guys why don't you sit? This is going to take a little while" The two wizards sat on the couch. "You guys are lucky that I went yesterday to Madame Fungáry" She said as she separate the bottles she had and stood up taking those she wouldn't need to their place. "So let's start with this, but before that, uhm, if you want anything to eat I have some food on the refrigerator some floo over the fireplace in case you want to order something.... Uhm what else" She scratched her shin. "Use the tv in my room not this one because it might break the concentration, and if you guys are allergic to incense then get the hell out of here" She took a deep breath "Now see you stooges later" She winked and then she started the 'ritual'. After some time she went into some sort of trance and the wizards got bored of watching her.
"Do you think she'll find them?" Ron whispered trying not to interrupt or disturb Mandy on any way.
"She will" Xander answered.
"But what if-" Ron started
"She will Ron, she will find them alive" Harry reassured.
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"Getting tired lover?" Angel, more like Angelus asked to Buffy who was sitting on her bed looking at the window.
"You are not him," The slayer said without looking at the soulless vampire. "He can't come into the house, you should know that" She looked at the vampire on the door who went inside. "It was a good trick what you did with Willow, making Cassie appear, making mom appear, Draco's and Harry's father and Ron brother's, those were nice tricks"
"Don't you include your high school friend?" The vampire asked smirking. The slayer looked at the creature using her ex boyfriend's form.
"You made Spike do that," The blonde explained.
"And now he's being a guest on my humble home" The vampire said grinning wildly. "I think I might try some of the plays William used to do with your other dead boyfriend," He said leaning on the wall. "He now might make an study of both sides of the experiment"
"I've been thinking" The slayer said standing up. "I've fought against you before didn't I?" The vampire grinned widely. "You are the first, you were the one that tried to make Angel kill himself"
"Yeah, and unfortunately I couldn't," He said. "Slayer let me explain you this, it's easy, really easy.... Easy as 1,2,3" He grinned wider. "I will kill your friends and after I'm done with them I will kill you slowly," He said still grinning and on a way that resembled how Angelus spoke disturbingly. "Your watcher and that girl were really nice to kill, I enjoyed it, I really did. And sweety that's only the beginning" Just as he said this he left. Disappearing. The slayer stayed still for a minute and she heard some one on the door. On the open door. Draco was in the door with his eyes wide open in shock and his lower lip trembling a little bit.
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"They are not dead damnit!" The slayer snapped after the rush of questions everybody made at the same time. They were now on the fixed living room. All of them. Including dear Mr. Brown.
"Didn't you hear what he say?" Draco snapped. "Either is that or he holds them prisoners"
"Draco?" The slayer asked.
"What?"
"I enjoyed Giles and Hermione's dead," The slayer said. Draco frowned and looked at her confused. "I'm sorry to bring the reality to your eyes but people lie, specially evil people, or evil firsts" Willow's eyes soften. "I can say all I want to say but that doesn't make it real, he said that just to scare us"
"How do you know Buffy?" Anya asked from the couch. The vengeance demon hadn't said a word since Draco yelled what the first had told Buffy.
"Because he can take the dead form's," The slayer said simply.
"And what better way to taunt us.." Willow said understanding.
"than to appear on their forms" Buffy finished. "So as you see Dragon boy, they are alive, and I doubt he has them"
"Miss Summers, how do you know he takes the dead's form? Didn't he appear to you as that vampire?" Brown asked raising a confused eyebrow.
"The vampire wasn't him, the vampire was sired by Spike but Spike only did that because of what he did to him" The slayer defended.
"But it is in the vampire's nature" Brown continued. "What if that entity makes the vampire go back to his olds ways, to William the Bloody's old ways?"
"Then we'll try bringing Spike back" Willow said confidently.
"And what if it doesn't work?" The watcher asked with some satisfaction on his eyes.
"I will kill him" The slayer finished seriously. "Do you have any other doubt?" She asked coldly.
"No, I think I understand everything right now" He said smiling a bit. He stood up and whined a bit when he stood. "I'll be going to sleep right now" He grabbed his coat on the back of his seat. "Good night" He smiled and then turned and left.
"Good Night" Anya said. As he left she added. "I don't trust him, there's something wrong with him"
"That's an unanimous observation," Draco said.
"What are we going to do with Spike?" Dawn asked after some minutes of silence.
"We have to find him," Buffy said-
"Before the first finds a way to let him as William the Bloody permanently" Anya added.
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"When do you think she send this?" Ron asked Harry. They were both on the balcony of Mandy's house, staring at the sunset waiting for Mandy to finish the spell and Xander to finish watching Dragon Ball, repeated episodes. Ron had a parchment on his hand, the same parchment Xander had brought.
"Two days ago? Yesterday?" Harry guessed. "I told you she was alive," Harry said proudly.
"I don't understand why she code wrote it," The wizard admitted.
"Maybe she knew that there was someone inside the Council, transmitting information outside" Harry suggested.
"But the letter was coming to us" Ron added. "Why would she code it if she was sending the letter to Sunnydale?"
"The letter was also sent to Xander" Harry said.
"Why did she send a letter to Xander instead of us?" Ron asked somewhat jealous.
"Maybe because Xander would be the best keeper of the letter" A feminine voice said behind them, they turned to find a yawning Mandy leaning on the wall. "You guys have the risk of having the letters to you and from you being watched," She continued. "Buffy was the same, the new baddies know about the wizarding world and they must understand the mail process, so if the slayer receives a letter it might be useful information for them" She grabbed some impulse from the wall to stand again and she motioned them to go inside the house, after they went inside she closed the balcony's door. "Xander!" The blonde girl called.
"So soon?" The muggle boy asked coming out of the witch's room. "So where are they?"
"Asia" The girl answered tiredly. "The last place I searched was the place they are now"
"Which part of Asia?" Ron asked.
"Akita Japan" The girl replied. "They are not in danger and the only thing I was able to read on their auras is that they went there on their own"
"Read on their auras?" Ron asked frowning confused.
"Not read exactly but what I felt is that they are not there because some one's making them they are there because of themselves" She explained. "Now I really need to sleep, tomorrow we'll talk about the other things I saw and felt, specially what I felt" She saw the worried expressions so she smiled tiredly. "Nothing bad just different, I'm kinda drained so I'm leaving now to sleep, blankets on the closet pillows on the truck, food on the refrigerator" She explained quickly and dragged her feet to her room. The silence fell into the room as the witch left it.
"So what's up?" Xander asked dropping himself on the couch.
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"Can I have that pancake?" Jonathan asked Dawn pointing at one of the many pancakes.
"No" The teenager said grabbing the pancakes plate and placing it over the table.
"What about the one below?" Jonathan asked licking his lips hungrily.
"No" The girl said after sighing. "I'm eating all of them," She explained slowly. "If you want food go and make yourself something" She moved rudely the plate and grabbed the honey near Jonathan. Jonathan looked embarrassed at the refrigerator and he walked slowly but resignedly to it. Buffy came into the room and grabbed the higher pancake on Dawn's tower. The teenager looked at her sister with shock and looked as her sister a.k.a. the slayer put some honey drops on her ex-pancake.
"They are yummy Dawn," The slayer said with food on her mouth.
"They were mine" Dawn hissed.
"You can make more, could you make more for everybody?" Jonathan closed the refrigerator quickly.
"Sure" Dawn said not so happy.
"Consider this as a little price for taking my boots" The slayer said merrily. "Jonathan come here we want to ask you some stuff"
"Alright" He said uncertain, Buffy pushed him a little bit and brought him into the living room.
"Do you think you could draw the seal?" Willow asked from her laptop. "Because I've been checking for symbols and maybe if I knew how the seal was like I would be able to find it, because did I tell you about the new web page I found that has this cool search panel in which I can even-"
"Will" Buffy stopped.
"Sorry" The witches said blushing slightly. "I tend to do that, anyways, do you think you could make a sketch of it?"
"I'm not very good at sketching" The boy said.
"Alright" Willow said disappointed. "You could always point it right?" Jonathan looked unsure but nodded anyways. "Good!" The witch said cheerfully. "Draco give me some of the books you were looking in" Draco grabbed three books of the pile of books in front of him and he gave them to Willow. "Now, look this books and if you find anything, tell us ok?" Jonathan nodded again and Willow put all the books on his lap. Willow went to her laptop again and submerged herself in The First's information search.
"Have you found anything?" Buffy asked to Draco.
"Not on the books I've been reading, the mentioned him once, but it wasn't really important" Draco dismissed.
"What did it say?" Buffy asked.
"Something we already know, it only confirms that The First is able to take any dead person's appearance"
"What about you Anya?" The slayer asked to the demon.
"I couldn't really find anything, most of the vengeance demons I know have forbidden to reveal any information to me," Anya said looking at her nails. "Not even Hally could talk to me"
"Oh, sorry to hear that" The slayer uncomfortably said.
"Maybe we should try searching for some information on the streets" Dawn said coming into the room Buffy was about to speak but Dawn continued. "Food's ready" She said boredly. She returned to the kitchen with Draco following her. Anya went soon after and Jonathan looked with longing where they have left.
"Jonathan you can go to eat" The boy didn't need to be told twice, he practically jumped leaving all his books on the ground and literally ran to the kitchen not soon after it was heard. "You have to leave food to the rest you pig lover!" Anya yelled. Guess to whom?
---Buffy's POV
After a busy day, Dawn had already come back from school and Jonathan had pointed out 3 possible candidates to the Miss Seal 2003. Mr. Brown had been all day out, but I was already used to not having him on the house. Willow after a long while on the net had decided that The First was too vague for the searcher because most of the pages that appeared weren't for children, if you get what I mean.
Anya had found a little information on a demon bar, it seemed that she and Draco were very persuasive. Dawn was now angry with me for not letting her come with me to patrol. I did want some time alone. I needed sometime to think; many things had happened on such a short while that I was kinda worried my mind wouldn't digest it on time. I grabbed my coat and gave one last glance to the teen and the wizard staring tv on the living room. "I'll be back in a couple of hours!" I noticed before grabbing my coat and leaving the house. I heard a whatever coming from the living room after I closed the door.
I walked to one of the cementeries taking the long way, passing by dark alleyways lonely streets and also by teen gathering places. Best places for a vampire to get a snack. After some boring slays I directed myself without taking any detours to the closest cemetery. I jumped the door, even though it was open, sometimes it was fun to jump it without the stress of having a person about to be killed, a demon about to be slayed, or both. It was fun to just take advantage of my abilities not for the job.
I started humming a song 'Sweet' had made me sing while I was slaying a year ago. I walked and looked for some new graves. "I've been going through the motions," I muttered singing. I found a newbie ready to be slayed, and not stuck on anything. Minutes after I caught back my breath and directed myself to kill more newbies. "I was always brave and kind of righteous," I muttered to myself still singing.
"And I thought you didn't like that song pet" Spike said from behind me. I turned and looked at the blonde vampire. He looked the same he had when the First took him.
"What?! are you going to impersonate everybody I have dated that's dead?" I asked with sarcasm. "Don't you have a life?"
"Define life," The vampire said smoking a cigarette.
"I'm not in the mood for one of your little threats," I warned walking toward a tomb.
"I always wondered something slayer" The vampire started dropping the cigarette on the gourd, it immediately disappeared as it let the vampire's hand.
"And what is that?" I asked focused still on the grave.
"How is that you know a vampire is about to awake?" The First ask changing forms, he was now The Master. "I always wondered, what is what you sense that makes you know where the sleeping vampire is?"
"You can call it a hunch," I said grabbing the hand that was coming out and bringing out of his grave a male vampire. I grabbed with her free hand a stake and I dusted the vampire. I continued walking and as I turned all I saw was an empty cemetery.
---No one's PoV.
"Guys!" The blonde girl said entering to the house. She looked at the living room, which was empty, and she saw some bags on the dinning room on the other side she continued walking until she heard a voice that paralyzed her completely.
"... In due to this situation and this danger the girls are in- Xander do not touch that!" The girl smiled to herself and practically ran to where the voice was coming from, as she entered the kitchen she moved some, unknown for her, girls and she found herself in front of the man who had taken her father's position, the older man's face lighten up suddenly as he saw her and he was soon hugging the blonde girl who had thrown herself at him. "Buffy" He said as he let her go.
"You are alive," The slayer said seriously but you could see in her eyes the excitement of this statement. "Hermi-" She looked but stopped when she saw the bushy brown haired girl that was being covered over protectively by her boyfriend's arms. The witch managed to smile and the slayer smiled back that's when she noticed closely something she dismissed before. "Who the hell are this?" She asked looking at the girls surrounding the kitchen.
"Buffy" Her watcher started. "These are the potentials slayers"
"And the potentials slayers slash witches" A British girl said smirking.
"Oh Shut up Diane!" Another girl snapped.
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Next chapter explanaition for many many things, I hope you guys noticed some hints I sent on this chapter to 'predict' some stuff that might happen on the next chapters.
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