Welcome to the Hellmouth Ch. 3: Emicia
Summary: Members of the Veritas Project investigate weird occurrences in a certain town called Sunnydale, California. Once there they find themselves up against their greatest fears and uncover the ancient legend behind the city of Sunnydale.
Disclaimer: I only own Conlan Halliwell, even if he is based on the Charmed Ones; I still made him, so I own him!
A/N: Tara did not die in this story. The bullet just grazed her shoulder and she just went to the hospital and got herself on medication to heal.
Buffy was healed as well and then alerted the authorities about a mad killer on the loose. Warren was sent on death row, and killed, Andrew and Jonathon are missing in action.
The demon came hard and fast, smashing Conlan towards the wall. He used his power of levitation to stop before the wall, and flip his body around.
Tara and Willow then came running around the corner and started chanting, "Servatis a periculum, servatis …"
The demon swatted them aside just like in Conlan's premonition. It rushed at Elisha who, during the spell ran to the blonde ones side. It began to swipe at them, but Conlan was to fast and flicked his arm away from them, sending the demon hurtling away from them.
He landed on the ground, to see Elisha and the blonde one reach behind the bookcase and pull out swords. Buffy, who Conlan learned her name by scanning her mind, rushed at the demon and started slashing it.
It batted her away and she crashed into the bookcase. Elisha took her sword and began rushing the demon as well. Before she could attack, it formed a fireball and threw it at her, Conlan quickly shouted, "FIREBALL RETURN TO SENDER!"
The fireball orbed out and flew back towards the demon. It hit him and sent him flying. "A Charmed One's offspring; Impossible! I'll be back!" he groaned, and disappeared.
Conlan lowered his defenses and looked around at the damage to the shop. Buffy and the two witches, he found named Willow and Tara were still unconscious. Elisha, Dawn, and he where the only ones still standing after the attack.
Elisha looked at her crush and asked, "How the hell did you do that?"
Conlan muttered, "Let the object of objection become but a dream, as I cause the seen to become unseen." The destruction of the shop disappeared like the demon did.
"Again, I ask how the hell did you do that!"
Conlan said, "I will explain it, once they awaken."
A few minutes later, Buffy, Willow, and Tara awoke, and looked around the shop, wondering where the demon and destruction went. Elisha gave Conlan a deathly glare and he began his explanation. When he was done, they all gasped, Tara and Willow began bombarding him with questions.
He answered them all stating, he was created not born so he handle all these powers that he had been endowed with. Soon he had to show the crowd all of his powers. Once done, he looked at Elisha and asked, "Would you like to go out with me, maybe to the dance this Friday?"
Elisha looked at him and shyly nodded. Buffy, Dawn, Tara and Willow went into research mode to see who the demon was. Conlan silently chuckled, and held out his hands and called, "Book of Shadows."
A thick ancient tome appeared in his hands. He set it down on the table on top of the books they were looking at, shocking them. He looked at the cover and flicked his hand at it.
The pages flipped themselves to where they landed on a page about the demon; Willow looked at it and read, "Imenia, servant of the upper demon Emicia. He does whatever Emicia tells him to. His powers consist of fireballs, shimmering, transmogrification, and conjuration."
"All right, so this demon works for this other demon, named Emicia?" asked Buffy.
"I guess so," began Tara, "can you find information about Emicia in this book Conlan?"
Conlan nodded, saying "I imagine so. Here let me try." He flicked his arm again at the book and it flipped to a page on Emicia.
"Ewww," let out Dawn, "he is ugly!"
She was looking at the picture of Emicia. It was a hulking demon with blue skin. It had two black horns, red eyes and yellow rings around his arms. She began reading, "Emicia is an upper level demon who takes pride in terrorizing the cities on top of Hellmouths. His powers consist of teleportation, fireball throwing, spitting acid, laser vision, and telekinesis. In order to vanquish him, you must chant, 'From time to pass of sticks and bones, let only good comprehend, return thy evil from whence thou came, Emicia with these words, we waste your voids.'"
"Oh, great," began Conlan, "that spell needs my mothers in order to cast it. It is in plural so they are needed to chant it. So we can't vanquish this demon."
"Does it have to be your mothers or can it be any multiple witches?" asked Willow.
"I guess we could do it with multiple witches. Why don't we summon him up and try it out?"
"What do you mean summon? As in bring this demon that wants us dead here?" ranted Elisha.
"Yes, but we can take precautions to it. Do you have any pyrite crystals?"
Willow nodded and went behind the counter and retrieved them. Conlan nodded and chanted a silent spell over them empowering them. "Ok, when I summon the demon, I will orb the crystals and form a circle around him and prevent him from harming us. We will then chant the spell and the demon will be annihilated," Buffy was a little hesitant but she nodded, "Ok, Willow, Tara, I need your help to summon this demon. Dawn would you close the door please?"
They nodded and walked over to Conlan as Dawn walked over to the door and switched the sign and locked the door. Conlan clasped hands with Tara and Willow, "Repeat after me, 'Magic forces black and white, reaching out through space and light, be he far or be he near, bring us the demon Emicia here."
They chanted that a few times, and soon a small whirlwind appeared in the middle of the room. Soon it began to take shape and Emicia appeared.
"I figured the Charmed Ones offspring would summon me sooner or later." He growled. He formed a fireball ready to throw at Elisha, when Conlan called, "CRYSTALS! CIRCLE!" pointing to the crystals then Emicia.
The crystals disappear and reappear in a circle around Emicia, forming a prison. He releases the fireball but it rebounds back at him.
Tara, Willow, and Conlan then began the chant, "From time to pass of sticks and bones, let only good comprehend, return thy evil from whence thou came, Emicia with these words, we waste your voids."
They chanted that rising in their pace and raising their voices. Smoke formed around Emicia's feet. He looked down and begins trying to stop it. He hits a wall of the prison and gets electrocuted. Soon his legs began to smoke, and suddenly burst into flame. It flew up his legs and across his body.
As this happened, they continued the chant. Soon Emicia's prison filled with fire and then the fire disappeared as well as Emicia, but there was not pile of dust where Emicia was standing. Suddenly he appeared next to them and said, "Thank you foolish witches, you have freed me from my eternal damnation. I will spare your lives today but I shall be back!"
Before Conlan could freeze him or cast the crystals back, Emicia disappeared. Buffy turned to glare at him, "Great, way to go. Now we have a demon loose on the Hellmouth. Do you know how many levels of bad that is?"
"Buffy, wait, I didn't know Emicia wouldn't be affected by the spell. If anything let me help by going to help catch him." Conlan pleaded.
"No, you have to go to school. Let us deal with him."
"Well, at least let me scry for him. It's a way to trace beings. Elisha is there any blood over there by the crystals?"
Elisha looked at me out of the corner of her eye and walked over to them, and saw some blood on one of the crystals. She picked it up and walked over to him. She handed it to him and he pulled out a napkin, small crystal on a chain.
He wiped the blood on to the napkin and then tied it to the chain. "Willow, do you have a map of the city?" he asked.
"Yeah, let me go get it." She stated, walking to the counter and walked back to him.
He laid the map out flat and asked, "Can I have complete silence?" upon seeing the nods, he hung the crystal over the map and began swinging it.
It swung around the city a couple of times when a person banged on the door, breaking Conlan's concentration. "Hey, let me in! I work here, I can't own money if you keep the door locked!"
The group sighed and Conlan folded up the map and placed it in his pocket. He picked up the Book of Shadows, and looked for a place to put it and decided to place it under the floorboards. Tara grimaced as he moved them but neatly put them back.
Dawn had gone to unlock the door to see a hassled Anya looking in. "What was that all about?"
"Sorry, we summoned up a demon and tried to kill him, but it escaped." Buffy explained.
"Really, what demon?" questioned Anya.
Conlan spoke up for the first time saying, "Emicia, he sent his minions on us to end us, but we sent him away then tried to vanquish the boss, but he escaped from his eternal damnation."
"WHAT!" raged Anya, "I CURSED THAT DEMON INTO THE DAMNATION YOU SPEAK OF, WHEN HE BROKE MY HEART! NOW YOU ARE TELLING ME, YOU SUMMONED HIM RELEASING HIM FROM HIS HELL! WHO THOUGHT UP THIS COCKAMAMY IDEA?"
"Um, that would be me." Conlan meekly stated.
"WHO ARE YOU?"
"I am Conlan Halliwell, created by the Charmed Ones."
"Oh, the Charmed Ones, one would have thought that they would have taught you to think before you randomly summoned up demons. Now we have to find him before he unleashes hell on earth!"
"Anya, back off ok? It was an honest mistake. Look, we can deal with this alright?" raged Elisha.
"No you don't understand. The longer Emicia is on Earth, the more powerful he becomes. If he gains too much power, he will destroy the seal protecting the mouth, and unleash evil onto the world permanently." Anya ranted.
"What? Why doesn't it say that in the Book of Shadows?"
"Because demons don't spill their MO to witches, no matter how much they torture them. I only know because I dated this one."
"Alright, is there any way to vanquish him?" asked Dawn. "The spell in the book didn't work."
"No not that I know of. I guess the slayer could take him, however I am not positive that could happen."
"Alright, let us handle this. You three need to get back to your homework. Conlan can anyone scry for the demon or does it have to be a witch?" Buffy ordered.
"Anyone can scry, as long as they concentrate and use the crystal."
Buffy nodded and took the map and crystal. She began to scry for Emicia while the teens went over to the table and began working on their homework.
Once they started, Buffy gasped as the crystal landed in a warehouse not to far away. The trio came rushing over and looked.
"I could astral project over there and see what's the what?" Conlan offered.
Buffy stared at him since she used her term, but nodded, "Be careful, and call us when the coast is clear."
Conlan nodded, and mentally prepared himself to project. He focused on the outline on the map picture and suddenly he felt the familiar sensation of being pulled up into the air and then felt himself land on the ground by a window on the upper level of the warehouse.