Hi I'm back, sorry for the delate, my excuse? Well my mom wanted to change me from my old school to another one. So I had to make the other school's test to enter, and I passed all that but at the end I talked to my mom and we decided I was going to stay in the same school. I also had some tests I had to do in my own school that had me sticked to a book all day.
Oh and I read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, I won't tell anything because there are problably lots of people who haven't read it, and some that haven't finished. All I have to say is that it's my favorite. I hope everyone enjoys it, because it's really a great book. Well now let's go with the story...
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"How?" Buffy asked standing up glaring deadly at the former goddess.
"After your watcher forced me to hell," She tried to stand up and she started to break the ropes. "In the lack of having an inexpert witch in the living world that would be stupid enough to try a resurrection spell and couldn't hold a proper barrier," She brushed away the broken ropes "I turned to some other sources and here I am!" She said merrily. "Now, I believe I commented before, I am starting to get hungry"
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CONSEQUENCES:
Chapter 28: The bubble around us
The slayer soon enough was ready to fight the goddess. As the slayer threw a force filled punch straight unto the goddess's face Glory got ready to throw a barrier on her own. Buffy got an electric shock that threw her to the floor.
"Still the same impatient slayer" Glory said smiling amused. "I said I was hungry, I shall give you the time that is needed for me to feed myself and when I do, I shall come here and have some desert, I've been wondering for ages what a slayer must taste like"
The slayer stood up glaring fiercely at the barrier and the goddess within. "I warned you about coming near me, I am ready to fight you and I will defeat you again, but this time you won't be able to come back ever" The slayer said venomously.
"No dear, this time, you won't be able to come back" Glory said smirking widely. "Now if you don't mind moving out of the way, I have some brains waiting for me" She looked at the joined group and she rolled her eyes. She turned to the window and with an amazing speed she hit and destroyed the wall, leaving the second floor room with a new window.
Five seconds later screams were heard coming from the lower floor.
"What should we do with them?" Dawn asked staring at the brainless potentials. Willow stared at the potentials with pity and sadness.
"If we get rid of Glory we could try to return their… memories, or whatever they lost, back to them, but if we don't get rid of Glory they will die as we will also" Buffy said coldly.
"I could try to-" Willow started.
"No" Buffy denied. "You won't face Glory, if there are more wizards I need you to be protecting the girls"
"We can take the wizards," Ron said proudly. "We were Aurors not so long ago-"
"There will be too many for all of you" Buffy said quickly dismissing the idea.
"Because of that Willow will need our idea-" Hermione suggested but was again interrupted by Buffy.
"Willow can do that alone, you will all do something else"
"When are we moving on, to attack them?" Dawn asked and surprisingly the slayer did not correct the 'we'.
"We should prepare ourselves a bit more, we don't even know exactly where they are," Buffy said.
"But we might have a clue" Giles muttered.
"No, we already proved they aren't there anymore" Buffy said understanding only what Giles was speaking of.
"I'll communicate with the Ministry, we cannot attack them alone" Harry established and his tone suggested he wasn't taking a no for an answer, but not that Buffy was going to stop him anyway.
"I might do something alike" Buffy muttered. "Willow could you please…" She stared at the brainless potentials and Willow nodded.
"..could you?" Buffy asked on the phone.
"We could try, even though it might be difficult we are already having a rough time as it is" A man said softly analyzing the situation and the proposition of the slayer. "She'll be there before the rest of us though, I'll make sure of that"
"I'm sorry" Buffy said as she brushed her hair away. "I'm sorry I can't help you"
"Don't worry, maybe you'll finish before us and you'll bring your girls to practice how to end a small sized apocalypse" Both of them knew this was impossible, that the possibilities of ending the one that seemed the biggest challenge for the slayer, would not end as easy as the man had implied.
"Yes, maybe" The slayer said after chuckling for a while with her old friend. The chuckles died in the phone and the sudden careless moment died to leave only the tension of what was bothering both champions. "I'm sure he'll come around"
"He'll be fine, we just need to .. Close this" The man said tiredly.
"I understand, if you don't come I'll understand" The slayer said feeling again the weight of the world on her shoulders, that had left for only a little while.
"I'll go Buffy, I wouldn't miss it for the world" The man assured. Buffy smiled fondly but didn't believe it.
"The world might be the price if we don't stop this" The slayer said as she heard the voices downstairs discussing some important matters. "Thank you, I have to go now,"
"Me too, don't die without saying goodbye" The man joked; yet she could still heard a note that indicated the worries of the man for her well-being.
"Don't worry if I do I'll find a way to hunt you down and give my farewells" The slayer smiled one last time before hanging the phone. She stared at it for a couple of minutes before taking a deep breath and leaving the room, ready to face whatever came in her way.
Harry went hurried through the long halls of the Ministry looking for Kingsley. "Sir!" He yelled as he had a glimpse of the Minister.
"Potter, w-what are you doing here you are supposed to be…" The Minister stopped himself at the worried eyes of the Boy Who Lived. "…It has started then" The black haired man looked at him confused. "We've been trying to communicate with your group for a long time Potter so it seems you didn't notice the change of air in that zone…"
"We have to keep them busy for a while, back-ups will arrive, but I'm not sure how much we'll have to wait for them" Draco said.
"Plus when the back ups start to arrive the enemy will already know of our plans and we will have to send the surprise factor to the trash" Hermione commented as she rested tiredly her head in her hands.
"Never count with the surprise factor" Buffy muttered annoyed. "We have to start moving them, we have to distract them if it's needed, but we have to do something, something that will give us some time"
"I think I might have an idea that could accomplish that," Giles said. "I've been looking in my books and I searched in the journals I've made this last couple of weeks, so it seems there's a place we didn't search completely…"
"What!" Harry stayed in shock for about five minutes.
"We are not able to apparate anymore near Sunnydale's area, nor we are able to use the Floo Network" Kingsley repeated.
"What about…"
"Portkeys?" Harry nodded. "No we can't even make them work"
"Then how… did I?" Harry asked.
"I assume you are able to apparate out not in" Kingsley explained. "The nearest we can apparate is not even Los Angeles, Phoenix is the nearest we can get"
"Why can't we apparate?" Harry asked.
"So it seems there is a barrier stopping us," He explained.
"What about the Floo Network?" Harry asked starting to pace around the room. "Why can't we use it"?
"First the Network doesn't work in Sunnydale, only in Los Angeles, and when the auror team tried to do anything with it, they got thrown out of it, again in Phoenix"
"And couldn't we use muggle equipment to go there? Buses? Airplanes if there are any?" Harry asked.
"There's already a team trying to get inside using the muggle artifacts, but still, we are going to have to wait hours to arrive the final destination" Kingsley explained pulling out some maps from his desk with several marks in them.
"But there are Auror teams already in Sunnydale, the ones I asked to send without Bu- The slayer knowing right?" Harry asked worriedly, not understanding the marks in the American map.
"Yes, we sent them, but Potter, if what the Ministry has been searching, with the files we have and the ones we have from the Council before it was destroyed…"He pointed the five blue dots in the sunnydale part "…five teams of old aurors won't be able to last very long"
"Well inside of the barrier we have the aurors, the potentials, the slayer…" Harry started counting with his fingers.
"Not enough" Kingsley dismissed.
"They've faced apocalypses with less than this before, and as far as I am concerned we are still alive" Harry snapped staring to get angry at the lack of information and possibilities they had.
"This one is different Harry"
"How come?"
"The ones from before… they were nothing compared to this" Kinglesy explained slowly.
"So a vampire trying to bring hell on earth was not important"
"No Ha- "Kingsley was once again interrupted by Harry.
"An exiled goddess trying to return to her homeland while making a ritual which again would bring Hell on Earth"
"Harry! Listen to me!" Kinglesly snapped standing up leaning on his stretched arms in the table. "The only reason why the Ministry was not involved with the previous apocalypses is simple, they were meant to be solved by the slayer" He finished uncertain of the ex-auror's reaction. "We cannot occupy ourselves with all the problems of the world!"
"Oh, so the slayer was supposed to stop one of the most powerful wiccas, who happens to be her best friend of destroying the world?"
"We are not here to discuss the previous involvement of the Ministry in the slayer's affairs, we are here to discuss a threat that will not only affect the muggles, or that will separate between continents, this is war Harry" Kinglesy said seriously.
"It is, but it really doesn't seem like you understand the concept" Harry snapped back.
"I-"
"I don't see you contacting the members of the American Ministry of Magic, nor any other for what I know, they should be aware of what's happening" Harry said stopping his pacing and glaring at the Ministry. "They probably could act much quicker than your Ministry because they must be prepared for a situation like this!" He snapped. The Ministry stared at him with anger being spelled in his face. "It was you who said we are in a war Minister so unless you want to loose it and let everyone die as the price of your failure I recommend you to start using the measures that are needed, now if you excuse me I'm going to try to return to Sunnydale" Harry left the room but with no intention to leaving immediately to Phoenix and find a way to reach Sunnydale.
