"Who sent you?" Xander asked.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Mandy answered.
"I sent her," A voice said, as the boys looked at the person they gasped in surprise.
"Buffy?"
CONSEQUENCES:
Chapter 26: Conversations with deadly people
"Come on Willow answer" Dawn muttered as she tapped with her fingers the table. She hung up the phone for the third time. She decided to try again.
"Were you able to…" Harry started but stopped as he saw her with the phone. Dawn just shook her head. "Oh" He said disappointed. She looked at the teenager biting her lips as she hung up again, but once again she gave one last try. "I'm sure they are fine, probably they don't have any signal where they are"
"Yeah, probably" Dawn said hanging up for the really last time. She smiled shortly and went back to the living room.
Harry went to the phone and looked at the numbers on the fridge's note's board. Willow's 0415 5547896 Buffy's 0415 6898741 Xander's 0416 7891234 He took the first one and tried twice without success. Then he tried with Xander's.
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"Pick that" Buffy said sighing. "It's annoying"
"Irritating more likely" Mandy said.
"Why are you doing this?" Xander asked to Mandy. "Why betraying us?"
"Is it for you so impossible to think a reason for me to betray you?" Mandy asked curiously.
"Why are you doing this?" He repeated.
"Can't you guess?" Mandy teased.
"Power, its always power, isn't it?" Draco said softly.
"Of course it is Dragon dear, you should know that better than anyone, shouldn't you?" Buffy asked smiling pleased. "It's in your blood to feel attracted for it, just like your father did, just like your mother did, just like your friends and family each and everyone of them did, you are no different boy, you are just another one with the desire and curiosity, with the instinct to know when to choose the winner's side, because at the end, there's no good side or bad side, it's the ones who win and those that are slaughtered" The slayer stated coldly. "The ones who order and the lackeys who follow"
"That's when you got wrong" Draco said equally cold. "I'm not like them"
"You are," She replied softly "you are just too scared to see it" Buffy finished.
"And at the end of this," Mandy added. "You will realize your mistake"
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"You should pick that," Buffy said smiling slightly.
"Amazing isn't it?" Xander said with distaste. "How can you impersonate a person so well, you even sound like her"
"Amazing isn't it?" Buffy replied mockingly. "The one I thought stupid was the only one paying attention, Amaranta, I think we misjudged him"
"Amaranta?" Draco asked.
"What, you really bought the Mandarine fiasco?" Mandy asked grinning. "And you tell me your father gave you the Mark?" She laughed. "Now I understand the failure of the Dark Lord, if he picked his subjects like that," She moved the wand still pointed at her. "I had once lackeys like you, well, you are prettier, but not too long ago I was worshipped," She said longingly.
"What happened? they realized their mistake and left you?" Xander said sarcastically.
"Your dear leader took that away from me, she took my body away" She said angrily. "And now I will take revenge starting to kill her lackeys"
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"I think I told you to answer Xand" Buffy said smiling.
"Hello?" Xander answered. He closed the phone and looked with hatred at the witch.
"Too late?" Mandy asked mockingly as he hung up.
"For you I s'ppose" Some one behind her said as she was hit on the back with a branch.
"Did you have any luck?" Ron asked when Harry entered.
"No, but I think I have an idea" Harry said smirking.
"What are we going to do?" Hermione asked.
"The phone is on, I know it is"
"Willow's isn't" Dawn said from the couch.
"But Xander's is" Harry replied. "He grabbed it before we left".
"Is he answering it?" Giles asked, as he got closer to the wizards.
"No, but we could use that… if we have some luck"
"Buffy?" Willow whispered as she entered into the house. She was getting creeped by the darkness. "Lumina" She whispered and a small lightball appeared on her hand. "That's better," She muttered to herself being able to see the room completely. She passed some boxes on the room, and as she did so she noticed the thin line of light coming from the half open door. She moved slowly towards the door.
"My, my, look what we've got here, the little dark princess has finally came to join us" A man said closing the door from which Willow came, he showed a wand like Draco's Harry's and Ron's and he smirked pleased to see recognition from Willow's face. "I'm glad my master kept his word, I won't have to explain myself or my instruments," He said gracefully looking at his wand.
"Who are you?" Willow asked grabbing the handle of the door.
"I believe my name, has no importance mudblood, but I do believe it would be polite of me to say, I have strict orders of not letting you out of this room alive" The wizard said.
"We shouldn't get more separated, we should all go" Harry said.
"But wouldn't it be better if someone stayed back, maybe they'll come before us" Hermione tried to reason with him.
"No, we are in this situation because of it, if they arrive they will have to wait" Harry said decided, he put on his coat.
"I'm staying behind" Hermione said decided also.
"I'm going with you" Dawn said also wearing her coat.
"No, you are staying here" Giles said. "Your sister wouldn't like-"
"I don't care, I'm going with Harry" Dawn said. Harry looked unsure at the watcher. The watcher just sighed.
"I'm going with you, mate," Ron said. Harry nodded.
Fifteen minutes later Harry, Ron and Dawn left the Summer's residence.
"Should I try now?" Ron asked.
"Yes," Harry agreed as they continued to get inside of the wooden area.
They heard a distant beeping sound near and they saw some figures in the dark. They distinguished Draco's blonde hair from the rest.
"Buffy's there?" Dawn asked softly when she saw her sister.
"Weird, I don't see any of the potentials she was with" Harry whispered back.
"But what are they doing in the middle of a clearing?" Ron whispered.
"I don't know" Harry answered truthfully. They were about to show themselves but something stopped them.
"…You are just another one with the desire and curiosity, with the instinct to know when to choose the winners side, because at the end, there's no good side or bad side, it's the ones who win and those that are slaughtered" Buffy said on an unfamiliar cold voice. "The ones who order and the lackeys who follow"
"That's not Buffy" Dawn said stopping.
"That's when you got wrong" They heard Draco answering, "I'm not like them"
"You are," She replied softly "you are just too scared to see it" Buffy finished.
"Who is she?" Ron asked trying to figure who she was.
"And why isn't Mandy trying to stop her?" Dawn asked.
"Because Mandy's with her," Harry said blankly.
"And at the end of this," Mandy added. "You will realize your mistake" The witch finished confirming Harry's statement.
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"You should pick that," Buffy said smiling slightly.
"Ron, turn the phone off" Harry hurried.
"I-I can't find it" Ron said looking on his pockets.
"You let it fall?" Dawn asked horrified. "Now, Buffy won't buy me a new one" She muttered angrily.
"Well try finding it!" Harry hissed.
"…How can you impersonate a person so well, you even sound like her" They heard Xander saying with full distaste.
"The First" Dawn mumbled.
"Amazing isn't it?" Buffy replied mockingly. "The one I thought stupid was the only one paying attention, Amaranta, I think we misjudged him"
"Amaranta?" Draco asked.
"Amaranta?" Ron mouthed.
"I didn't know that was her name" Dawn muttered looking frowning at Amaranta.
"Neither of us did" Harry said trying to catch the conversation.
"… you tell me your father gave you the Mark?" She laughed. "Now I understand the failure of the Dark Lord, if he picked his subjects like that," She moved the wand still pointed at her. "I had once lackeys like you, well, you are prettier, but not too long ago I was worshipped," She said longingly.
"What is she talking about?" Ron asked.
"I don't know" Dawn whispered.
"What happened they realized their mistake and left you?" Xander said sarcastically.
"Your dear leader took that away from me, she took my body away" She said angrily. "And now I will take revenge starting to kill her lackeys"
"Found it!" Ron whispered successfully when he found the celphone under some branches. "How can I turn it off?" He wondered after touching some bottoms.
"Give me that" Dawn said grabbing the phone from his hands. She stood up and Harry grabbed her quickly.
"They can see you!" He whispered. Harry turned and saw Xander's eyes wandering on their hiding place.
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"I think I told you to answer Xand" Buffy said smiling. They saw Xander grabbing the cel phone inside his jacket.
"Hello?" Xander answered. He closed the phone and looked with hatred at the witch. Harry moved slowly grabbing one of the larger branches, trying to make the less movement possible.
"Too late?" Mandy asked mockingly as Xander hung up.
"For you I s'ppose" Harry said from behind her said as he hit her back with the branch he had. She fell immediately.
"Always playing the hero Harry" Buffy said looking at him amused. "We will talk, when you are ready" She said before disappearing.
"Are you two ok?" Dawn asked worriedly while she came avoiding pinching herself with the branches.
"Yeah" Draco said looking at Mandy. "What should we do with her?"
"Should we leave her to the house and interrogate her?" Ron wondered.
"She's a wandless witch, she could escape easily" Dawn said.
"Well, Willow could block her, couldn't she?" Xander said as he sized Mandy.
"We'll ask her when we find her," Harry muttered as he checked her pulse.
"Why, isn't she back at home?" Xander asked worried.
"She's not there, neither are her potentials" Dawn said.
"What about Buffy?" Draco asked. "She could trace Willow easily right?"
"She isn't with us either" Dawn answered biting slightly her lower lip.
"You work for the First" It was more a statement than a question.
"I thought of it as obvious" The wizard said.
"W-why are you doing this?" She asked nervously looking for ways to escape.
"They told me you'd be a true menace," He said looking at her with his eyebrow raised and looking at her with pure distaste "but the only thing I see is a little scared girl, you are probably waiting for your friends to save you aren't you?" He smirked. The door behind Willow suddenly slammed against her. She looked at the door with her eyes wide open. "Of course you are" He touched the point of his wand and smirked again. "They sent me, thinking this would be a challenge for this new body I'm wearing, but I did not realize you wouldn't even serve me for practice"
"Funny, I was starting to consider the same" Willow said with a much lower tone. Her eyes black as darkness and dark stripes falling on her red hair.
"Do you not get it Ms. Summers, this world will be ours, and there's nothing you can do to stop us, there's nothing you can do to beat us. How can you beat something that is on our own beings?"
"I won't let it happen" The slayer muttered angrily.
"It will happen eventually" Mr. Brown said giving her a sided smile. "And when it does, I'll make sure that you see it"
"Why are you doing this, do you really think you have a place on the world the First is trying to build?" Buffy snapped. "Do you really think that when he becomes corporeal and his little demons come, you will be what? A commander?" She asked sarcastically.
"I do not question the decisions of my master Ms. Summers, this world is filled with filth and trash such as sinful people like yourself" He said disgusted. Buffy moved quickly towards him and hit him on the face professionally with her already prepared fists. Mr. Brown only backed down.
"You disgust me," Buffy said in the same manner the watcher said previously.
"The feeling is mutual Ms. Summers" Mr. Brown mocked. He cleaned with his sleeve the blood pouring out of his lip. "A little feisty aren't you?" He mocked again.
"Say something else and I'll show you feisty" Buffy growled.
"Manners Buffy, we do not want our information meeting to end," He said seriously.
"Funny, I've been meaning to tell you this some minutes ago, the meeting is done" She hit him again, but this time she wasn't as fast as she was before. Mr. Brown had the opportunity of grabbing her wrist avoiding her fist hitting his face. Buffy stopped holding back as she tried to get out of his grip.
"That wasn't polite of you," He whispered angrily. "But I won't be polite either" He let her go putting her of balance, and he hit her and sent her to the floor.
"A little tough for a human boy aren't we?" Buffy said standing with one impulse.
"Who ever said anything about human?" He asked smirking. Buffy kicked him fast on the chest and with the same impulse kicked his face with the other leg. Mr. Brown stood up panting cleaning his nose's bleeding with his sleeve's border.
"You look human to me" Buffy said grinning widely.
"I am more than human Buffy" Mr. Brown said putting off his jacket and rolling up his sleeves over his elbows. "It was the second subject of our meeting, but due to the quick ending, I believe the proper introductions of our beings, were cut off as unimportant, when you decided to finish this information debate" He said as he cleaned again his bleeding nose with pressing it softly with his arm. He gave her a small smile and he copied her past move, surprisingly accurate, and kicked her with his feet on her jaw. "You also look human to me, but we both know you don't fit on that qualification," He said as he spit some blood on the floor.
"I'm not sure if I should take that as a compliment or as an offence" Buffy said rubbing her jaw. "It takes more than a pretty kick to hurt me honey," She said before throwing a series of punches on his way that he blocked gracefully, slowly passing from the blocking stage Buffy put him in, to attacking movements. He finished with her by throwing her once more to the other side of the room, hitting directly on the door, making it close completely.
Buffy stood up panting rubbing her broken and soaring ribs and he looked at him with shock.
"Who are you?" She asked as she continued panting.
"I've been called many things during my existence, the original name the ones who gave birth to me gave me I forgot it long ago, I wandered through darkness and the lackeys I found called me master, but after I discovered the real power, after I discovered my master and lord, I changed the title and he called me Caleb"
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