Welcome to the Hellmouth Ch. 4: Investigating
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!
Conlan focused on the area surrounding him. He saw dust piles on the boxes of candy that were there from the 1970s. He grimaced when he thought of how all that candy could have gone to waist, yet he went on with his duty. He walked crouched over towards the sounds he heard.
He came to a ledge and looked over it.
"He should have called for us by now." stated Dawn
"I know. Buffy, something doesn't feel right about this. We need to get over there and see what's going on." Elisha demanded.
"No, we told him to call us when the coast is clear. Obviously, it isn't clear yet." Buffy argued.
"Buffy… my gut tells me something is not right, please can we go see what is going on?" Elisha asked with pleading eyes.
"Fine, I'll go. You two need to finish your homework." Buffy commanded with a finishing tone in her voice.
Elisha glared at Buffy, but she knew the argument was over. She walked over to the table loaded with homework and began working on to. Buffy watched them get to work, and then headed out the door to the warehouse.
Buffy had barely waked 500 feet before she heard something behind her, "Elisha, I told you to stay behind at the shop."
Elisha walked up to her and said, "True, but two slayers are better than one."
"Fine, but know this, I couldn't use slaying as an excuse not to do homework when I was your age, and neither can you. "
"Agreed, so what is the plan, I mean you don't have any weapons at all…"began Elisha.
"Yes, I do. I always carry this sword around with me. Willow and Tara enchanted it to shrink when I am not using it and grow when I do." Buffy explained showing the sword.
"What about me?"
"Slayer rule number one always …" began Buffy.
"Carry a stake. I know." Elisha finished, she looked around and saw a table with chairs up on top of it. She walked over to it, and broke off each leg creating 4 stakes for herself.
Buffy smiled and they continued to walk. Soon they came across the warehouse. They saw a door, but they decided to go up the fire escape. They got to the top of the roof and went into the roof access. They made their way down the stairs and onto a level of the warehouse. They saw a soft light coming from the far right corner of the upper level.
Conlan heard people approach him as he monitored Emicia's movements around the group of demons he had around him. He looked over his shoulder to see Buffy and Elisha walk towards him.
'Sorry' he said in their heads, 'I got distracted watching what he was doing.'
Buffy and Elisha jumped when they heard his voice in their heads. They glared at him, and then crouched down next to him.
'They have been talking about how they should bow down before Emicia.' began Conlan
"Will you stop doing that?" whispered Buffy
"Fine, what do you think we should do?" he whispered back.
"I don't know…"
"Listen to this." Elisha demanded cutting Buffy off.
They turned and listened, "The slayers and her band of friends now have a Charmed Ones' offspring in their mists. I was lucky to escape the wiccans and his spell. Yet I feel…" began Emicia
"The Charmed Ones and their offspring are dead. How can one be alive now?" demanded a demon.
"They made him magically you retard. How else could he have all their powers?"
That shut the demon up, allowing Emicia to continue, "As I was saying, the witch has a crush on the younger slayer. So I say that we kidnap her and end the threat of the witch."
"How do you propose we kidnap said slayer. I mean slayers aren't easy to capture." retorted another demon.
"I am all over that. See." Emicia flicked his hand behind him causing a curtain to open.
Buffy had to grab Elisha's wrist to keep her from jumping down onto the ground floor. Buffy couldn't believe Emicia had captured and bound Elisha's family and was using them as leverage to get her to get to Conlan.
Emicia's eyes flicked up when he heard the grate moving. He saw the trio squatting down there. "Ah… the group I wanted to see. Get them."
The group of demons rushed at the stairs.
"Go, I can hold them off." ordered Conlan.
"Not without my family." spat Elisha.
"Can we do this later? They are kind of on us now." asked Buffy.
The demons came at them and Elisha and Buffy lashed out at them. Conlan held out one hand and said "Efday", the other, "Shokran", made a triangle with his hands and shouted, "Amenophus!"
A bright light shot forth from the triangle hitting all the demons and throwing them back down the stairwell. Elisha and Buffy saw them go and they jumped down off the landing onto the bottom floor. They then ran over to Elisha's family and tried to pull them down, but to no avail, so they turned and fought off the demons that were on them.
Conlan jumped down onto the lower level, and froze all the demons. He then pointed to the Springfields and yelled, "Eximete!"
There was a flash of light and the Springfields fell down to the ground. Buffy and Elisha grabbed them and made for the door. Conlan flicked his wrists at the door and if flung open, allowing the slayers to escape with the hostages. When they were out, Conlan heard a growl. He turned around and saw Emicia extend twelve claws out of his fingers and the center of his hands.
"Oh, this isn't good," muttered Conlan, "not good at all."
Emicia dove at him but Conlan flicked his wrists at him, causing him to crash into a pillar. Emicia then rose and flung a fireball at him. Conlan used his power of empathy and channeled it right back to him. It hit him and he went flying backwards. Emicia was back up on his feet and charged again. Conlan noticed that the other demons were unfreezing and telekinetically threw them at Emicia, causing a demon pile-up. He then made the 70s candy boxes come crashing down on them. Seeing as though they weren't getting out of that anytime soon, Conlan took that opportunity to return to his body.
When he came to, he saw Elisha and Buffy come stumbling in supporting Elijah, Nate, and Sarah. They laid them down on the ground and tried waking them up. They used incense, herbs, and everything in the shop to awaken them, but nothing worked.
"Great," Elisha stated, "Emicia killed my family. I am going to kill that son of a bitch"
Willow who had been checking Sarah's pulse then stated, "No, their actually alive, their just in some sort of stasis. He wouldn't have killed them because it would make leverage pointless."
"So what do we do?" asked Dawn.
"Willow could you compile yours, Tara's, and Conlan's power and see if you can break the spell on them?" Buffy asked.
Willow, Tara, and Conlan joined hands and Willow began chanting a spell to awaken people in trances, "Awaken we beseech thee, rise up from your prison, by our wills, so mote it be." The witches chanted this quickly over and over again.
Soon white light began to envelope the chanters and then it shot forth into the sleeping ones. The light covered all of the Springfields and slowly faded away.
Elijah was the first to come out of his trance. He sat up and looked at his surroundings. Nate and Sarah soon followed suite and all of them began badgering the others about what happened.
Elisha held up her hand, telling them to be quite and then began to tell them, "the demon that is on the loose, is after my boyfriend, and Emicia, the demon, thought he could get to Conlan through me, and he thought he could get me through you guys. So he kidnapped you in order to kidnap me in order to neutralize Conlan."
They took this in and then Nate said, "Boyfriend? Conlan? Who is this?"
Conlan then stepped forward and stated, "I am Conlan. Conlan Halliwell."
"Ah," stated Sarah, taking in the brown haired, blue eyed teenager who had just addressed them, "and what part do you have in this who demon and magic world?"
"Well, my mothers were the strongest good witches in the world, present company excluded," he stated looking at Willow and Tara, "they were going to be killed by a demon, so they used their powers to make me and then infused me with their powers."
The Springfields took this in when the door busted in. "Damn it" yelled Xander, "I just replaced that door to!"
Emicia walked in and said, "Nice trick witch, but it won't work again."
Buffy then yelled "Willow, shield spell, Glory!"
Willow nodded and grabbed Tara and Conlan's hands, and chanted, "Enemies, fly and fall. Circling arms, raise a wall."
A blue barrier shot out of their hands and threw Emicia back out of the Magic Box. The group breathed a sigh of relief only to hear a smash coming from the outside and then see Emicia come back in.
"You just keep pushing me. Well my patience has reached its end." He brought up his hand and powered up a fireball. He threw it at Elisha and everyone batted their breath.
Conlan wasn't fast enough to stop the ball and was helpless to watch it fly towards his girlfriend. Emicia was pleased as he saw it near its target, yet when the flash of light was over, Elisha was still standing.
At the base of her feet however, was …
A/N: For the spell Conlan used to make the demons fly, was taken from the movie The Mummy Returns when Alex brought Evey back. I however used them there because I wanted to.