Episode 17- Lamyac's Ring by Buffyfan1973

Andrew and Willow are sitting in the magic box looking at the retrieved book. We can hear noises from the training room to indicate Spike and Faith are working out.

Andrew: "Lamyac's ring is said to bring power to a human untold. The strength and agility brought forth by this ring upon a soul entering it, a good soul, infuses the ancient Goddess who prepared the ring. Upon the infused rage of the Goddess the ring's powers can be used to end the world as we know it. The Goddess hails over the plane of Danzathar."

Willow: "That's it?"

Andrew: "Yeah, see it's the same ring." Just then Spike comes crashing through the door having been finally beaten down by Faith.

Spike: "Bloody hell, this slayer shows no mercy. Well lookie here mates, it is the ring." He steps over to take a look as Faith walks out of the shop.

Willow: "We don't have much, I'm going to go see what else I can dig up now that we have a Goddess and ring name." The temperature monitor goes off.

Spike: "Oh hell, I'll go get the slayer." He races out the door.

Willow: "Andrew, take the book and run, this may be a set up, use that protection spell we all re-learned." He heads towards the door as three large demons rush in on Willow. He stupidly throws the book down and sprints off.

(cut to Spike catching up with Faith)

Spike: "Pet, school, now, Turok-Hans coming out." They race to the basement and are met by two uber vamps. One tosses Spike to the ground hissing at him as the other kicks Faith across the room. Caleb rushes out standing over her.

Caleb: "Your turn to be marked bitch slayer!" She kicks him twice knocking him backwards but he swings with a medal rod across her forehead and blood oozes causing both vamps to come after her.

Spike: "Come on slayer, you're tougher than that, only Buffy had to be saved all the time, get up I tell you!" He kicks one vamp off of her but Caleb strikes him across the back with the rod.

She pushes the other vamp off of her trying to get up but Caleb swings again, this time connecting across the bridge of the nose. Spike is back up clobbering Caleb as hard as he can with the heel of his boot just to be knocked down by a vamp.

(cut to magic box)

One demon has Willow down as another Blocks the front door which Robin is desperately trying to get through. The other is about to snag the book when a bright light swooshes into the middle of the room exploding the demon on Willow in a flash. The one at the door turns towards her and Robin rushes in decapitating it with a sword as the last living demon runs out without the book.

Robin: "Andrew is at the house with Dawn, we think Faith and Spike were set up."

(cut to basement)

Faith is now barely struggling to get up as Spike is about to be decapitated by the other vamp. Caleb hears footsteps rushing down the stairs and takes off.

Willow: "Illuminate," a bright sun ball beams into the room frying the vampires. As she speaks, she has a strange look on her face. It obviously was her new found protector again.

Spike: "Oh thank heavens," he gets up slowly. "Slayer took some bad hits to the head."

Robin: "Lets get her out of here." Willow kneels down beside Faith.

Willow: "Hey, open your eyes Faith, you need to go back to the hospital, don't argue this time. I'll stay with you, just hang on ok?" Faith strains to look at her but can only see a blurred vision and feels very weak from the extreme loss of blood.)

(cut to Summers home)

Andrew and Robin are re-examining the book as well as some printed sheets Willow got for them in the middle of the previous night while Faith was sleeping.)

Robin: "Ok Andrew, make an outline so Willow will have an easier time when she gets Faith home later today." As robin speaks Andrew writes.

A. Good soul sucked in ring by evildoer.

B. Soul of a living person.

C. depending on soul, Goddess may make a move for larger events.

D. Setting up of events must start at least one year before the capturing of the soul.

E. Ring must be removed from the vessel before he/she can be killed.

F. Keep ring in good hands as one searches out the good soul, if it falls back into the hands of an evildoer process will start over, or the Goddess herself, all hell will be unleashed.

G. Danzathar can not be totally closed if the Goddess is on this plane, upon her reentry to her plane, the tears of the truly frightened one will close it forever.

Robin: "Looks like Buffy had the right idea to close it but," he looks at Andrew as Willow and Faith come in.

Andrew: "The Goddess is already here," his face shows utter terror as Robin hands the notes Andrew had taken to Willow.

(cut to later that night.

Faith comes in still limping a bit but looking much better.

Faith: "Ok Red, what's the battle plan?"

Willow: "Well, we need to try and get the ring and Caleb taken care of before we get into this other stuff."

Faith: "Cool with me, you're the boss."

Willow: "Spike and Xander are out scouting around to see what we can find on Caleb and this Goddess."

Faith: "Good," she opens a beer handing Willow a Pepsi then sits down next to her.

Willow: "I sent Dawn and Andrew to look for Kennedy and Amy, they came back with nothing."

Faith: "They'll be back, baddie wanna-be's always return."

Willow: "You're doing better with the drinking?"

Faith: "Yeah, some, just killing another human and D, I just need something to help me relax and sleep and I'm tryin' to not do the sex stuff so much."

Willow: "I don't think you did it as much as people think but you know, when Buffy was worked up, when we were younger I used to give her massages, to help relax her muscles and and it, well it helped her sleep."

Faith: "Hey if you're offerin' I'm game." She gets up and lays in the floor. "so what else came with these massages," she laughs knowing Willow is blushing.

Willow: "You're bad Faith," she smacks Faith's arm playfully.

Faith: "Oh yeah? Well the kinda bad I am now is wicked cool and I heard it through the demon-vine that you might like that kinda bad." She flashes her brown eyes at Willow purposefully trying to be obvious with the flirting to see how the redhead will react.

Caleb is outside watching as Willow, blushing a little in Faith's direction, kneels down and begins massaging. He then fires a tranquilizer gun at them both.

(fade to black)