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Chapter 30: The Great Adventures of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb

"…POP! Goes the weasel!" Faith finished muttering the song.

"Don't you know another song?" Buffy asked annoyed as she continued walking around the mausoleum.

"Not one as annoying as this one" Faith commented turning on another cigarette and blowing out the smoke. Buffy gave her a glare and Faith shrugged. "We have been in this lovely mausoleum for thirty minutes Buffy, and you still haven't opened it"

"Oh! If you are so ingenious why don't you try finding an entrance to the damn thing?" Buffy hissed angrily continuing to look between the bushes.

"Are you sure it's locked?" Faith asked going to the door and trying to force it.

"Yes, I kicked it, yelled at it, tried forcing it and I even spit it" Buffy said glaring at the black door.

"I've heard our saliva can be very useful in door openings," Faith said dryly.

"Hey if they like our blood, why not add another ew substance of our body!" Buffy said half angry half annoyed.

"Kinky B" Faith smirked and winked before approaching to the door and studying the lock in its front. The blonde slayer glared at the dark haired one and continued her bush search.

"You do know that lock isn't the thing stopping us from going inside right?" Buffy's voice came with a muffled tone because of the bushes around her.

"Yup, but I just wanted to try some tricks I learned in the last few years" She said pocking the lock with her smaller knife.

"… I really don't want to know why you wanted to go out of your" Her blonde head appeared from the bushes and she started to break out from the bush-nest. "..room" She finished.

"To bring food to my room, a glass of water, one or two books" Faith said ignoring the comment.

"You read?"

"You think?" Faith asked amused, looking at Buffy.

"Touché" Buffy said dryly. "It's definitive, I can't find a way in"

"How many kicks did you give? 'Cause to be honest with you B, I can't see any bumps, or signs that you even touched it, even less kick it" Faith said examining the door.

"About a few kicks, which my feet are regretting badly" She whined.

"Well what if we both give her a couple of kicks?" Faith asked stepping back and checking the distance she would need. Buffy shrugged and muttered something that sounded like 'what the hell', or something like it. She stood next to Faith and the black haired slayer started counting. "At count of three… one, two, three!" Both slayers took the necessary impulse and kicked as hard as they could the door, which, this time caused some damage, but not enough for opening the black wooded door. But this time, both slayer instead of landing gracefully on her feet like Buffy had done when she kicked the door, both slayers received a small electric shock and were thrown to the floor "That was …"Faith couched from her awkward and dusty position on the floor "…fun."

"I think it got mad at us" Buffy muttered from her own piece of dusty pavement.

"Do you want to try again?" Faith asked brushing her clothes and standing up. Buffy copied her actions and shrugged.

"Do you think the electric shock will be harder this time?" Buffy asked before they counted.

"I don't know…" Faith said staring at something in the door. "I think we only need to hit it once again, try not to stay in touch with it for much time"

"Alright, may I do the honors?" Buffy asked and Faith rolled her eyes. "One, two-"

"At the count of what?" Faith asked and Buffy glared at her sister slayer.

"At the count of three, one … two…. Three!" Both slayers jumped and kicked almost successfully the door, almost, the electric shock they received could had killed them, if they had been in touch with it more than a few seconds. Again the slayers found themselves lying on the floor with strange positions, once again filled with the dust and dirt of the floor. They heard the long cracking of the door, some seconds of complete silence, ignoring of course the constant sounds the wind made when it touched the trees and after the silence they heard another long cracking of the door, which remind them of the horror flicks they used to watch on a not so busy Saturday night. The door finished cracking and fell hitting the floor of the insides of the mausoleum with a dry sound. "…oop's" Buffy muttered staring at the cloud of dust the door had raised. Faith now being a bit more cautious grabbed a rock from the floor and threw it inside. The sound of the rock hitting the floor and the echo of it's sound made Buffy glare at Faith. She hushed her and Faith rolled her eyes.

"If there was anyone there, then I believe they must already know we are here, unless they are deaf," The dark haired slayer explained. "Plus I was testing if we could get inside without getting fried, my hair is not liking it at all" Now it was time for the other slayer to roll her eyes and continue to walk to the fallen door of the mausoleum. As she got closer she slowed down and stepped carefully inside of the long marble themed room. She coughed softly because of the dust around and she signaled for her fellow slayer to come in. "Did you bring a flashlight?" Faith whispered to avoid the echo of her own voice. Buffy searched in her backpack and threw a flashlight to Faith who grabbed it and turned it on.

"Ok now what?" Faith whispered.

"I don't know" Buffy said after some seconds of complete silence.

"You what!" Faith whispered again glaring at the other slayer.

"I-I assumed-"

"You assumed…" Faith muttered and continued glaring.

"I assumed we would see something that would lead us to the caves underneath" Buffy whispered glaring back at the other slayer.

"Oh yes, I can see the sign 'Slayers please do come in, make yourselves comfortable in our secret hiding place!'" Faith said sarcastically.

"Hey! That happened once!" Buffy said. "Not those exact words…"Faith rolled her eyes and started looking with her flashlight.

"You are truly amazing B" Faith said sarcastically. Buffy rolled her eyes and looked for another flashlight in her bag. Both slayers went their own way in the big mausoleum; each looking for a sign or evidence there was an entrance to the caves underneath the marble crypt. "I think CSI is looking for new faces this year" The dark haired slayer said glaring at the back of the blonde one after she had finished looking out for hidden doors.

"Really?" Buffy asked absently still examining the floor near the tomb. "Aha!" She said victoriously after a while of ignoring Faith's sarcastic remarks.

"What?" Faith asked razing her eyebrow. "You just realized that the last fifteen minutes have been a total waste of our time and that we are in the wrong mausoleum and we are heading back to the headquarters to then go to another weird tomb?" She said breathing again normally. "Because let's admit it B, if this was a secret hiding place, then wouldn't there be people guarding the entrance, or at least a person or demon, or spiritual entity would have come out of it?"

"This is not a military fort," Buffy whispered as she pulled out of of her belt the axe she had hanging in it.

"I know it isn't" Faith said rolling her eyes.

"Your eyes will turn into a blender machine if you continue that way" Buffy said. "And to answer your millions of questions, this is not the …. Main entrance" She said, starting to hit the chains that kept the tomb closed. "We are going to enter in the connection of the tunels that lead to the caves system and then go to where we really want to go"

"Oh we are going to crash into the evil dude's party?" Faith said with her eyes glittering from joy. Buffy finally broke the chains and Faith helped opening the tomb. Inside there was a hole in which a person would normally and perfectly fit, unless this individual happened to be a Turok vampire…. Like the one they could see through the hole, waiting for them. The beast growled in anticipation. "What the hell is that?"

"That, is one of the puppets of the First" Buffy said with disgust. "I guess this entrance is blocked" She said stepping back. "Faith?" She called turning around to see Faith staring at the two Turok vampires in the front door.

"I guess we won't use that one either" Faith muttered as Buffy placed herself besides Faith.


"Graham saw them entering the cementery and that was the last time our teams saw them," Hermione explained in the dark room they were all sitting in. "Do any of you know why they are there?" The Scoobies, to whom the question was being directed to, stayed in silence. "Giles?" She asked and the watcher just continued cleaning his glasses.

"I'm afraid I cannot tell you," He answered wearing his glasses on.

"We are working as a team, if they went on a suicide mission, then they will need our help, none of us can afford to loose the slayers, if we do, then the First will have an easier job, with one of the potentials upstairs that will be called for her duty" She said angry.

"They left enough clues for all of you to know where they are, yet not to dollow them. I'm afraid the only thing we are all left to do is watch and wait for our turn" The watcher said softly yet with enough strength to know his decision was final.

"Watch and wait?" Hermione asked incredulous, sharing the feeling with most of the wizards. "If they make a mistake, Giles, then we are doomed"

"Do not be so anxious of leaving to war, use the time we have to make plans, I'll give all the help I can in the matters of Buffy's wishes and the potentials" The watcher said more relaxed than he was inside. "I assure you, they'll be back in a couple of hours"

"If they are not here in an hour we will go and search for them, even if you don't help us," Hermione said determined.

"It's your wish, but I believe you would make a terrible mistake" Giles said after shrugging.

"One hour Giles" Hermione said determined and she started reached the map on the table. "Now, about how we are going to attack…"


"Now I understand why you didn't want to give me the hammer," Faith said while she found herself fighting to avoid the claws of the vampire. After struggling with the vampire she managed to push him, making him hit the wall hard. Mean while, Buffy was swinging her troll's hammer from one side to the other, having managed to hurt the vampire a couple of times but not enough to weaken him considerably.

"If you want you can have a go" Buffy said as she got a chance of being separated from her own vampire, and threw the hammer to her sister slayer and received an axe in return. She continued, swinging once again the axe when the vampire was distracted by the previous hit. The axe passed freely through the vampire's neck, making him explode in dust.

A horrid scream was heard in the mausoleum when Faith hit the vampire's head, full force, with the hammer. She continued to kick the now on the floor vampire, managing to almost immobilize him. Almost. Faith turned to grin at Buffy.

"So it seems you don't know how to use this hammer B" Faith said victoriously watching how Buffy rolled her eyes. Buffy stoped rolling her eyes and widened them quickly and with a sudden movement she pushed away Faith, making her stumble and fall into the floor.

"Oh shut-" Buffy kicked the vampire on the abdomen. "Up!" She grabbed her axe that was in the floor and she decapitated this vampire also. "I knew you needed some training," She muttered and Faith glared at her shortly. "We still have another one down there" She signaled the hole in the tomb.

"And who knows if he called more of his friends" Faith muttered.

"Then we have to make something about it" Buffy said determined. "Is there anything in here that we can burn?" Faith raised her eyebrow quizzically.

"I suppose the benches," She said signaling the benches at each side of the tomb. "But they are way too big to enter into that"

"Then we'll make some…" Buffy walked towards the bench with her axe. She swung it and cut the bench in two, then into quarters "...modifications"

"Wasn't I the disturbed slayer?" Faith asked watching at her destructing sister. "The one with the destructive instincts, I feel you are taking my place in society," Faith added dramatically.

"Don't lower your self esteem, I'm just going through a phase of my life" Buffy said comforting the other slayer. "Your destructive instinct are a matter of attitude" She grabbed one of the benches quarters after breaking whatever had them stuck to the floor. "I'll leave the pyromaniac activities to you" She said tossing the piece of wood.

"First we have to make sure Mr. Fangs over there is actually there," Faith said reasonably. She broke the part of the bench's arm. She turned on a match and tried turning on the piece of wood that used to be the arm. With no success. "We need something like gas to turn on this thing" She glared at the piece of wood.

"What if we tie a piece of cloth in it" Buffy asked.

"Like a cave lamp?" Faith asked. Buffy nodded. "We might as well give a try" She looked at Buffy expectantly.

"My jacket is ruined anyways," She muttered to herself as she tore the scratched sleeve. They tied the sleeve to the piece of wood and Faith turned on a match and Buffy another while Faith grabbed the 'lamp'. It burned the fabric, yet it didn't turn on. "Ok I quit" She turned on a match and she threw it inside of the cave. The match's light wasn't powerful enough to let them see a lot, and it also turned off quickly. "I say we jump"

"I second that motion, even if it's the most stupid thing I've ever heard" Faith admitted. "So grab your weapons tightly and prepare for the inevitable" Faith climbed and prepared to jump first. "I'll go first" She said. "One" She started counting but before she finished counting she dropped herself inside the hole. Buffy climbed quickly after her and jumped into the cave's tunnel. Both fell with a thud and they stood up searching with their senses for any vampire near them. They felt a lingering sensation of power coming from both sides of the tunnel they were in.

"Do you consider wise that we separate?" Buffy asked after they had accustomed themselves to the darkness that surrounded them.

"I think it's the only way," Faith muttered. Buffy handled her the hammer and Faith grabbed it.

"In case you find one of those vampires, if they are more than two, run" Buffy said seriously.

"I-"

"Don't give me the crap you can handle them, I don't care, promise me Faith if they are more than two you'll run away" Buffy said grabbing Faith's forearm strongly.

"I promise" Faith agreed after some seconds of mental debate.

"If you find Glory, when she gets distracted, try to escape" Buffy muttered.

"I can kick ass B" Faith said, starting to get mad because of the limitations.

"Hers you can't, not now at least" Buffy said overprotectivly. "She's the goddess that wanted to kill Dawn, Faith" Buffy whispered. "She's mortal now, but that doesn't make her less powerful, just more vulnerable"

"What else do I have to run from?" Faith asked annoyed, yet a bit touched by the concern of the other slayer.

"There's this guy, his name is Caleb, he's the leader of the hooded creatures that went to jail when you were still there" Buffy explained and then finished with a grin that the other slayer could hardly see. "You can get his ass absolutely kicked"

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Faith went carefully though the tunnel, waiting for a light to indicate her the end of the dark journey, she walked carefully, trying not to make a sound in case there was a demon, or one of the vampires in the tunnel. Faith saw a dim light at the end of the tunnel and walked faster until she reached a safe place, in which she could see the interior of the cave, which didn't look much like a cave except the walls that were obviously rock formed. Faith looked inside of the apparently empty cave and as she started going inside she caught a glimpse of a dark dressed man in the middle of the room, the reason she had not noticed him before was because of his kneeled position in front of what looked like an altar. In the altar looking thing, there was what Faith assumed was, a weapon. The shinny weapon looked stuck into rock made altar and the light coming from it was the main cause of the dim lighting of the room.

Faith carefully walked inside of the room, and sensing nothing evil coming from the man kneeled in the room she spoke loudly enough for the man to hear. "Who are you?" She asked. The man made no moves that indicated he had heard her. "Hello?" She tried again coming closer to the man. She stared at both sides in case she had passed something else in the cave. "Excuse me sir" She touched the man's back and in a surprising speed the man grabbed her hand in his back twisted it and managed to stood up while throwing the slayer to the floor while he still held the hand of the slayer, now twisted on her own back. She heard the sound of a blade coming out of its shell and she felt the cold metal in her neck.

"Haven't you heard it's rude to break into someone else's property?" The man said with his hot breath traveling through the slayer's neck. She shivered unwillingly, but did not move her face away, knowing she could cut herself with the dagger on her neck.

"Caleb I presume" Faith stated with a dangerous glint in her eyes, ready to kick the man's ass if it was needed.

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She started running after a few minutes of walking, she ran to the tunnel's end, but as she saw the light at the end of the tunnel she slowed down to examine her surroundings before attacking, if it was necesary to attack and if she had a chance of returning alive. The cave she went into was about twenty feet tall. She saw a few Uber vamps walking around some carrying things from one side of the cave to the other side that was hidden because of the uniform walls of the cave. She saw one of the vampires coming down from a long rope stairs coming directly from the cave's ceiling. The vampire closed the hatch he came from after getting inside and then continued his clumsy way down.

"I was waiting love," The bleached vampire said from behind. She didn't even bother to turn.

"Where is he?" Buffy asked annoyed continuing to stare at the uber vamps activities.

"As if I would tell you," The First said changing from Spike's form into her own. "You should be glad I helped you get rid of him"

"I know he's still alive" Buffy said turning to face the First.

"Alive?" Buffy/First asked smugly. "He'll never be alive again, it doesn't matter if he has a soul or not" Buffy glanced away to watch how the vampire shad stopped working while she was distracted and were walking towards her. "He'll never be alive again," Buffy/First repeated. "Nor will you ever be, this time, I'll make sure you won't come back"

One of the primitive vampires grabbed Buffy's forearm and threw her into the middle of the room, in which, she was soon surrounded by at least four of his kin.

"It's a pity you know?" Buffy/First said from the tunnel's door. "You were so close finding him" The First glanced at the place the vampires had been formerly carrying things to. She saw a copy of the seal in the school's basement, or at least what she thought was a copy. But what shocked her was the form that was hanging from long chains coming from the ceiling. Spike's bruised figured stared blankly at where she stood. "Well we are almost done with him" The First finished. "As we are with you" The vampires started closing the circle they held Buffy in. "Finish her" The First ordered and then disappeared.

"Come then, brutes" Buffy defied waiting for the attack, three of four of the vampires attacked at the same time, giving Buffy the opportunity of jumping and passing over them. She looked at the tunnel's entrance where she had left her axe, she made a risky turn avoiding the claws of the vampires. She was tackled by one of them before she had a chance of grabbing the most powerful weapon she had brought. She kicked the vampire off her without sending it too far. She brought out a knife from her belt and prepared to attack. There was no way she would get out of this without a fight.