Another new chapter up. Sorry that it took so long to post.

Alexa stayed close to Willow's side as the vampires and the slayer made sure the path was clear in front of them. "So how did you get involved in this whole thing?" she asked her, causing the red-headed witch to turn to face her. "I know the history between William and Angel. I don't really understand how you and the Slayer come into this whole thing."

"Well I'm friends with another Slayer," Willow began, as they continued to walk. "It's a really long story." She looked up to see that the others had gone around the bend and were out of hearing distance. "A complicated one."

"We have time." Alexa shoved her hands into her pockets of her duster and shot a glance over at her. "I'm just curious that's all."

"Don't you know what happened to the curious cat?" a voice called out, causing them to spin around to face a Demon. "He drowned himself."

"I think I remember hearing something about that once," Alexa said, as she quickly moved so that she was between the Demon and Willow. "Willow, get out of here. Go get the others. I'll take care of it." That got the Demon to laugh as it lunged at her, knocking her across the sewer into the wall. She landed hard with a thud and quickly transformed into her vampire face. "Now that wasn't nice."

"I really don't have time to kill you half breed," the Demon snarled at Alexa as it looked over at Willow. "The Master has taken interest in this one. She has power."

"Yeah, and so does a car battery." The Demon turned and hit Alexa sending her back to the ground again. "Hey! I said this before, but that's not nice." She jumped to her feet and slammed a kicked into the Demon's chest sending it back into the wall. "Didn't your mother ever teach you any manners of any kind."

"I killed my mother."

"Oh." Alexa shot Willow a glance before she pulled out her weapons. "Sorry to hear that."

"I will kill you to get to the witch."

"Then that's what it's going to have to be because she's not going to go with you willingly."

"Then that's how it'll be."

"Bring it." Alexa moved into a better position between Willow and the Demon. "Cause I'm always looking for a good fight." She swung her daggers around in her hands and shot him a smile. "Come on, I don't have all day." The Demon let out a growl as it lunged at her, only to have her quickly move to one side and slice its arm as it went by. "Oops, did I do that." He caught her with a back hand that sent her flying back and she landed at Angel's feet. "Hey, you. Took you long enough."

"Sorry, Spike got us lost," Angel said, as they looked at the Demon. "How long has it been tracking us?"

"For a few hours now," Alexa answered, as she got to her feet, as Spike and Faith came up to stand next to Willow. "But we now know what the Master wants with her." She then looked over at the Demon. "What? You really didn't think I didn't notice that you've been tracking us for a while."

"The Master was wrong about you," the Demon stated, as he looked at her. "He was wrong about you all. You will pay for making his life harder. All he wanted to do was rule and live life large."

"Doesn't everybody." Alexa shot a look a Willow who then began to softly began to chant the binding spell. "It's the all time way of life. I've wanted it." She then brushed off some dirt that had gotten on her duster. "It's not a nice way to live though. You kinda get bored of it after awhile."

"Do you ever shut up?" Alexa smiled as she moved back away from him, closer to Angel's side. "All you've done is talk. That has got to be annoying. I don't see how you can stand to have her around all the time."

"She's got many talents," Spike said, causing the Demon to turn to look over at them, giving Angel and Alexa the moment they needed to get the chains ready. "And she's smarter than she looks."

"I bet not." The Demon turned to get a punch in the face and it fell down on the ground. It growled as it started to get up, only to find that it couldn't for it was trapped to the ground by some sort of spell. It then turned its attention back to Willow. "How dare you attack me, Witch? The Master will not be happy with this. He had so great plans for you. You were to sit next to him and the girl. You were to help him rule the worlds."

"Worlds?" Alexa mouthed, as she and Angel wrapped the chain around the Demon. "He is thinking big. When he tried to do what he's doing, we only did try to take over this world, maybe that's why we failed. Because we stopped at just one." The Demon growled at them and she just shot it a smile. "Don't worry, we're not going to kill you just yet. We need you, believe it or not."

"I will not help you."

"Oh, I was asking." She then shoved him back towards where Spike was standing. "There you are, Master Spike, he's all yours." Willow shot her a smile as she came up to their side as Spike and Faith began to lead the Demon away. "Hey, that was a good binding spell. You are a good witch." That got her to blush. "Now let's get to where that Demon friend of ours can open that magical doorway and get our girl back."

"Sounds like a plan," Willow said, as they followed the others back to Wolfram and Heart where they met up with the others. "Now what?"

"We're going to fight a fight in which we don't know who we are up against," Alexa answered, as she picked up set of various weapons and began to put them in a bag. "When we go in, we go in strong and not back down. If we back down, we might not make it out of there alive." An eerie silence filled the area and she looked up to see that the others were staring at her. It's the truth. I'm not making it up." She then back to what she was doing.

"She's right," Angel finally said, as he came up to her side and began to pack up some more weapons. "These demons take a lot to take down. If there are more there protecting the master, we maybe outnumbered." He then paused and looked up at the others. "I only want those who want to go, to go."

"We understand, Angel," Giles said, as they looked around at each other. "You're going to need us."

"Thanks, Giles." They then took up their weapons. "Let's do this." They then headed off to where they would find where the door was.

TBC

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