Part 3 Of Visionary
by Chaoseternus
Thank you to all who reviewed 1: Visionary 2: Bane Of Anubis
with regards to highlander: pokes toungue out and in a childish tone of voice says "Not Telling"
LOL! Youll find out in time.
And Now In Part 3: Slayer Hunt
Chapter 1: Gathering Storm
It was typical, Buffy thought, that once again she could kill the big bad because as always research had to come first, or as the Military types liked to put it, intelligence gathering.
Intelligence such as where the hell Anubis was, what he had done with the survivors of his fleet and where would he most likely be next.
All of which they needed to know before they could launch an ambush, before they could trap Anubis and put him down like the demon he was.
Demon…
Buffy wondered how the Ancients had been taken in, it had taken her long enough to figure it out and she knew Demons but they were supposed to be Ascendants, they were supposed to be intelligent.
The fact that Anubis had to use unnatural means to ascend alone should have rung alarm bells a mile wide but no, he ascended so he is a member of the club, doesn't matter how he did it.
Pity it wasn't just technology he used to ascend, if that had been true maybe he wouldn't be so much of a problem but you need a Soul to ascend and Anubis had to use magic to acquire one.
After all, all the highest levels of Demons had souls, and Anubis was many things but he wasn't a High Level Demon originally. Now, he was worse as he had learnt the value of technology as well as magic's but that would just make the kill more interesting.
He was no Glorificus true, but he was comparable to the First and he would require special handling to kill but she could do that.
It was finding him that was the problem.
He had realized somebody was hunting him, somebody who could potentially harm him and he had reacted accordingly.
They had reports of him on twelve worlds, simultaneously.
All bar one… well, maybe all would be false, the result of some craft holo-projector manipulation and their spies within Anubis's ranks were falling fast.
They didn't know where he was.
But a little voice at the back of Buffy's mind knew, it knew where the missing fleet had gone.
If you want to rule the Galaxy or destroy it then you needed to be where the money was and even with the destruction of the Sunnydale Hellmouth, the money was still on Earth. There was still Cleveland, Africa and London, three Hellmouths Anubis could use and none known on any other world.
No, she knew where Anubis was, he was coming here.
And that suited Buffy just fine.