A/N This chapters short, even compared to my other short chapters. sorry. Also...if you wanted to review...That would be cool...even if you hate it (although if you hate it, I'd guess you probably stopped reading a while ago...). I'm one of those people who likes to get bills just because they're in the mail and getting mail is fun. : )

Chapter 8

"They have the prophecy." Inanna entered the glacial palace wearing a thick, fur-lined coat. "Why did we have to meet here again? You know I'm a warm weather person."

"You know that I hate that stupid bikini thing you always wear when we go to your sand castle!"

"Fine. We're meeting there next time, but I'll wear something with a little more cloth to it!"

"You better be!" Inanna and Gugulanna glared at each other for a brief moment before starting a conversation again.

"I've prepared the vampires. They've captured the slayer, therefore detaining her and Angel, as he is currently searching for her."

"Good. She's set to escape soon?"

"Any minute now."

"Good. Where will she meet up with him?"

"They should both hit the main room of the factory at the same time."

"Hmmm. And from there?"

"Set up a little something that will have them running to Sunnydale immediately."

"Good."

Buffy lunged towards the cage kicking the first vampire through the bars even as she bent them outwards and easily slid through them.

"Shit!" The comic reading vampire jumped up and ran.

"Yes! The third vampire reached out as if to grab her, but instead she grabbed his extended arm and slammed it back against the bars, hearing the bone in his forearm crack. He ignored the pain and grabbed her with his right arm, attempting to go in for the bite. She let him get close than picked him up and tossed him across the room. He crashed into the cement wall, but quickly got up un-hurt. "Cement won't kill me, girl."

"I haven't been a girl in a very long time." She smiled sweetly, "And I know cement won't kill you, but you see, I don't happen to have any wood on me. Do you?" She pretended to perk up at the idea that he might offer her a stake.

"Stupid Blonde!" He murmured approaching her again.

"Stupid Brunette!" She said happily as she kicked out and nailed him with the wooden heel of her boot.

The first vampire sat up groggily.

"Shoulda' stayed down." She sighed, than staked him with her shoe.

Entering the large room in the front of the building she waved confidently at the vampires, "You know, I use to hate ruining my shoes for slaying, but really? It's kind of funny. Like, staked with a shoe?" She laughed at her own dumb joke simply because she knew no one else would.

There were about 15 vampires and all of them lunged towards her. The boarding across the front windows suddenly broke open and sun streamed through the building turning all of them to ashes. Buffy coughed slightly. And looked around.

"Buffy."

"Angel." Buffy smiled brightly. "Come here often?"

"Like, staked with a shoe? Not even sort of funny Buffy."

"Yes it was! How dare you insult my sister like that?" Dawn rushed through the front door of the factory into Buffy's arms. "Buffy!"

"Dawn. Oh, God, Dawn. Is it really you? Really, really you?" She held her sister fiercely.

Dawn clung to her sister, "They let me come back Buffy. They really let me come back."

Angel interjected, "They who?"

"A guy, a god; he took me in all my green blobiness and made me me again."

Buffy took a step back from her sister and asked doubtfully, "God?"

"Yea. Gogo? Gigi Lana? No, Google Ana? Well, something like that. He had a friend too. Lentil? Entil? Enlil, maybe," she attempted the name, biting her lip in frustration that she couldn't remember for sure, "anyway, he said that I would no longer have the powers of the key. One hundred percent human. That's me! Anyway . . . He's in Sunnydale if you want to talk to him."

Buffy and Angel answered in unison, "Sunnydale?"

"Finally something's happening! This apocalypse was getting as bloody boring as watching the news!" The man made of marble spoke from his seat on the cloud.

The woman looked sideways at the man, "There's no need to cuss."

"Yes there bloody hell is! I'm stuck up here 'till those two figure out how to make a good porn!"

"I can't believe I liked you better than Angel."

"Of course you liked me better than that wanker!"

She only raised her eyebrows at him. They both watched on in silence.

TBC