Chapter 3
Answer's from the Power's
Two days later
Everything finally fell into place for Akin. Xander and him never switched minds, they switched their very souls. And that's why he's been rapidly losing power all of the time. The soul is a very unique entity. And over time if a soul is trapped in the wrong body it causes cellular breakdown.
But something didn't seem right. The spell Akin used was only a standard spell of teleportation. It shouldn't have switched anything, only take someone from point a to point b. Unless someone interfered with the spell.
Now his teleportation spell incident finally made since. Akin never made a mistake on the spell. Someone else was responsible. Someone planned this. 'But why make Xander re-live my history.' Akin thought to himself.
With a sigh he could only think of one person who could answer his questions. Getting out of his Firebird, Akin walked up to Sheila's house.
In an upstairs bedroom over a dozen potentials slept in sleeping bags. One of them is Annabelle. As she hears a faint whisper in her sleep, she rolls over on her other side.
Annabelle- someone gently whisper's again.
Snapping out of her dream, Annabelle looks up and out of the window. As she does so she see's Alex. With a huge smile on her face she was about to yell his name, when he put his finger upto his mouth gesturing for her to be quiet. Moving over to the window, she opens it and silently slips out.
"Alex you came back." Annabelle said in a whisper, as she gave him a hug.
"Yes, I'm back. Now listen..." he said as he broke their hug. "I need you to do me a favor."
"Sure, whatever you need."
"I need you to go to a magic store called the Magic Box tomorrow. There are several ingredients I need for a spell." he said as he handed her a load of money and a list of what he needed. He had already tried to go there a day before, but he looked through the door and saw that Giles and aparrantly Kendra were working there. "Can you do that for me?"
"Of course."
"Where are the others?" he asked as he looked back into the room of sleeping girls.
"Well everybody else is asleep, but Kendra went out to get a new potential. I'm sure she's fine though."
Meanwhile
SUNNYDALE BUS STATION - NIGHT
A charter bus opens its doors, and a couple of people walk down the steps to exit the vehicle.
"Sunnydale." the bus driver calls out. "Watch your step. Next stop..."
The last person to exit is a young African-American girl, wearing denim overalls and carrying a backpack. She looks around and walks forward between parked buses to the bus terminal building. The sign overhead reads "OVERLAND CHARTERS". The girl looks at the building, but the doors are closed and no lights are on.
She looks around anxiously, and goes to the nearby pay phone, grabs the phone book, and start flipping through it. The page she's searching reads "SUNNYDALE" along the side, and "M MEERS-MONLAN." across the top. The girl runs her finger down through the names, searching, before she realizes that the page she needs has been torn out of the book.
When she looks up from the book, she sees a black-robed, hooded, eyeless man approaching her. She drops the phone book and turns to run, but sees two more of these men, the Bringers, coming toward her with knives in their hands. She backs up against the wall, panicked and breathing heavily, and sinks down to the ground.
Just then, the pair of Bringers between the buses are lifted off the ground and go flying apart, revealing Kendra, who had thrown them to the ground. The third Bringer runs away while the two Kendra attacked come back for more. One lunges at her with his knife, but Kendra grabs his hand and stabs the other Bringer with the knife he's holding. The stabbed Bringer doubles over in pain, and Kendra kicks him to the ground. Kendra continues to wrestle with the other Bringer, ultimately breaking his neck. Kendra then sees the one who started running away, and calls out to him.
"Hey!" she yells out as she bends to pick up a Bringer's knife at her feet. "Try picking on someone me own size."
Kendra hurls the knife at the fleeing Bringer, landing it in his back, stabbing him through the heart. With a moan it falls bonelessly to the ground and dies. Kendra then walks up to Rona, who is still cowering on the ground.
"Rona, right?" Kendra asked. Rona only nods. "I just got word you were arriving." she said as she offers Rona a hand to help her up.
"You're her!" Rona says in awe, as she takes Kendra's hand and stands.
"Her is me." Kendra said with a smile.
"You know, I thought, uh - they told me I'd be safe here. " Rona said still out of breath as she looks around the parking lot.
"Right." Kendra said with a nod. "Well, you are. I mean, you will be...safer...with me around."
"That's good to know."
Kendra turns and starts to walk away. "But de next time you're attacked..."
"Whoa, whoa - next time?" Rona asked as she follows up behind Kendra panicked. "You saying I'm gonna get attacked again?"
"Welcome to de hellmouth." Kendra said matterofactly.
"Yes I'm sure she's fine." Akin said as he turned to leave. "I'll be waiting for you outside of the magic box tomorrow. Let's say around two o'clock."
"Wait." Annabelle said as she grabbed his arm. "I was hoping that we could see each other after that. Maybe you could help train me or something."
"I'll see what I can do." Akin said with a smile as he jumped off the edge of the house. Annabelle looked off into the night where he fell, but he was already gone.
Turning Annabelle climbed back into the room. As she looked up she saw Sheila standing in front of her, with her arm's folded over her chest.
"And where do you tink you were going?" Sheila asked.
"I...I... was just getting some air." Annabelle stuttered. Sheila just narrowed her eyes at her.
"Okay...okay, I'm going to bed." she said as she got back into her sleeping bag. Sheila just looked from her to the window. With a shrug she walked to the door and shut off the lights.
The next day
Akin sat in a sacred circle with the ingredient's of the spell, sat about the room. He was happy that Annabelle was able to get everything for him and he promised after this was over that he was going to train her.
As he completed the german incantation, the room began to shake and bend, as if the very fabric of time was being disturbed. A force of invisible waves hit him knocking him to the floor. As he opened his eye's he saw that he was in an all white room. As he looked around he saw that the white room had no end. It was just an endless void.
As he stood to his feet he heard voices whispering in the nothingness.
"Akin." one of the voices said. It sounded almost like a man. "You have risked great peril in coming here."
"I need answers." he called out to it. "Why have you all allowed me to take possession of this boy's body? I served my time as the power's that be's champion."
As he said this there was another odd muttering. As if they were deciding what to tell him.
"You have no right to be here, asking questions." a new voice said. It belonged to a woman.
"I'm not asking for answers, I'm demanding them!" Akin shouted. As those words left his mouth an invisible force struck him sending him to his knees.
"Lesser being you will hold your tongue in the presense of the power's that be." the man voice said.
"In your presense." Akin spat out as he stood to his feet. "You cowards hide behind your magic's and dare not face me. I was once your champion and I died doing what you wanted. Now I demand to know what happened to Xander!"
Akin was flung forcibly into another wall, then their was an odd muttering again.
"Enough of your whispering, damnit!" Akin shouted out. "Tell me what you know."
"Very well." the female spoke. "We will tell you of the being known as Alexander Harris. He is being punished for destroying our champion."
"You did this?" Akin asked. "What on earth has Xander done to warrant your wrath?"
"We have told you." the man spoke. "He is responsible for the death of our champion."
"Nonsense." Akin said with a dismissive gesture. "Xander would never kill a human."
"Our champion was not human, but a vampire by the name of William the bloody."
"You've got to be kidding me. He was nothing more but an evil, soulless thing."
"Never the less if certain events had of occured he would have sought redemption and became our champion. Alexander was never supposed to go to Jamaica and find your mask. And now because of it he set forth a series of event's even we couldn't have predicted."
"Why was Spike so important?" Akin asked as he paced about the room.
"Because the First evil is back. William was a key component in defeating it."
"How was Xander supposed to know? He was only doing what he thought was right."
"And because of it the world is doomed." the woman spoke up.
"How do I get him back?" this question only caused the powers to mutter again.
"You must agree to become our champion once more." the man said.
"What!" Akin shouted in outrage. "I've already served as..."
"It is either that or the world will never see Alexander Harris again." the man told him.
"And if you don't agree, then she is doomed to die." the woman said as a image appeared. It was an image of Kendra. "Without the help of a champion, then she is meant to perish."
"Alright." Akin reluctantly agreed. "I'll be your champion once more."
"Very good." the man spoke again.
"Now where's Xander?" Akin asked.
"Only you and his family will be able to get him back. In due time you will find out how to get him."
"Oh and Hunter." the woman spoke. "From beneath you it devours."
With that cryptic message Akin opened his eyes and found himself to be back in his hotel room. Looking up to the heavens he silently wondered what he got himself into.
TBC...
Please review...
Also Akin was talking to Annabelle through telepathy,when he was whispering to her. I just wrote this chapter because people kept saying that it didn't make sense for Xander's mind wave's to leave his body. So I hope you are happy with this chapter.
And yes, Xander will be back soon.
