Beta Note (WarmTea)- It is totally my fault this chapter took longer to get out. Lots of drama kept me from being able to beta and post. Please review for Kari, she really appreciates the feedback.

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"What!" Hel was furious. "You mean to tell me that my two best minions were defeated by two miserable little humans!"

Fenrir sighed. "Now Hel, calm down. It's not that big of a deal."

"Fuck its not! They are mine and she has no business killing my property!"

Hel paced the cave. "If I ever meet her I'm taking her eyeballs as souvenirs."

"We will just have to kill them to make up for your loss. They will all taste oblivion... which tastes just like red bull…which is disgusting!" Jormundand added from the corner.

"God, Jormundand, shut up. I don't want to hear your whining right now. Of course we're going to kill them. But now we have to make their demise excruciating. I want them to pay for what they did to my children." Hel turned to pace to the other side of the cave.

"And we're not going to do that with red bull." Fenrir added.

"Aww, I knew there would be a catch." Jormundand moaned.

"You do have five more left. The death of one shouldn't matter that much." Fenrir tried to duck as Hel threw a nearby book at him. "Hey! I'm not the one who killed them. Throw shit at the slayers, not me. I didn't do anything."

"Plus, greed is still alive; it's just got a broken arm is all." Jormundand cowered as Hel aimed several throwing knifes at his head. "Stop, don't! Father said that you had to be NICE!"

Hel ran at Jormundand and pinned him to the cave wall, pieces of decaying flesh falling on his face. "Hey, guess what. Father isn't here right now. That means that he isn't here to stop me from doing whatever I please to make you shut up. Now, are you going to be quite, or do I have to slit that slimy little throat of yours?"

Jormundand whimpered. "Hel, please, no, not again."

Hel pushed away from her reptilian brother. "That's better. Now go. I don't feel like looking at you right now."

"Where am I supposed to go?"

Fenrir stood up from the divan he was lounging on. "Honestly, do we have to everything for you? Just leave while you're intact."

Jormundand slithered out of the cave with his figurative tail between his legs.

"So they could just disappear and reappear without any kind of spell or artifact?" Giles asked Buffy and Faith after they explained what had happened in the graveyard. They were back at Buffy's house, reporting what had happened on patrol. Willow and Tara were looking through some books, trying to figure out if the demons that had attacked them were tied to the three demi-gods. Xander and Anya were upstairs sleeping, Dawn was supposed to be getting ready for bed, but kept trying to sneak back downstairs and hear what was going on, and Spike and Angel bickered quietly nearby.

"Yeah. I never saw anything like it before." Buffy leaned into Faith.

Faith grinned. "Not that it made any difference. We kicked their asses!"

"Yes, but I do think it would have been wise to bring back the remaining demon back here for questioning." Giles polished his glasses. "Perhaps then we could have figured out more about the three gods that have taken residence in Sunnydale for now."

"Sorry Giles. We weren't really thinking about that when we left it there." Buffy shrugged. "Maybe this will get them to come out and attack us themselves."

"Yeah, b-but would that be a good thing?" Tara asked. "I mean, we want to figure out everything we c-can about them, but wouldn't a full-scale attack be kinda bad?"

"We can take them. Pfft, they don't have anything on us, not the Slayers." Faith grinned and spun her knife in the air. "I bet they would go down in one hit."

"Actually, I think Tara is right." Willow remarked. Tara smiled softly "We don't know enough about Fenrir, Hel, and Jormundand to be able to take them down. I mean, Glory was a god, and look at how much trouble she was."

"Yeah, but she was a hell-god. These blokes are just small fries compared to Glory." Spike said.

Angel snorted. "Spike, that really bugs me."

"Piss off."

"That's exactly what I'm talking about. Why do you still have a British accent? I don't go around speaking like an Irishman."

"Oh stop it. Spike hasn't been around as long as you have; he just hasn't lost his accent yet." Dawn said before she realized she wasn't supposed to be downstairs.

"Dawn, bed. NOW." Buffy pointed upstairs.

Dawn grumbled as she went back to her room.

"What's this, the only person I've got defending me is little nibblet over here."

"Angel, stop teasing Spike. Spike, don't start about the pink shirt again." Willow cut Spike off just as he was opening his mouth.

"Light red!"

"Get over it, you ponce."

"Ok, that's it. Spike, Angel, go to your corners. NOW." Buffy yelled in the same tone of voice she used on Dawn. Angel and Spike grumbled, walked to separate corners of the room and sat facing the wall.

"Honestly, can't you two be in the same room with each other without bitching like an old married couple?"

"So, what do we know about these minions?" Faith decided to draw the subject away from the two vampires.

Willow sighed. "Not much. All I could find was a passage in The Tome of Akein saying that Hel has seven minions, which correspond with the seven deadly sins. It looks like you ran into sloth, which would be the one you killed…"

"That why it seemed like it was in slow motion half of the time." Faith cut in.

"And greed. The bad thing about that is now there are five uninjured minions left, and one with a broken arm."

"Hmmmm. There might be a couple of books in the council's library, but I don't think that we are at the stage where we need to contact them." Giles commented.

"Those fucking bastards. I hate how they try to control any slayer they can get their greedy little hands on." Faith grinned. "Yeah, let them try to control the both of us, lets see how far they get."

"Perhaps we should try a more non-violent approach with the council this time…" Giles began.

Buffy cut him off. "I agree, except replace the word non with extremely, and after violent out blood-explosion extraordinaire."

"Oooook..., Buffy are you all right?" Tara asked.

"Who me? I'm fine, I'm fine, really. I just have a lot, you know, pent up energy right now." Buffy looked at Faith. "You feel it too?" Faith nodded. "You know, guys, I think that all we need is some sleep. Yeah, sleep. Faith lets go upstairs and sleep." The girls got up and practically ran upstairs to Buffy's room.

"Good lord, those girls are getting less understandable every day. I wonder what has gotten into the two of them now."

"Oh, we have no idea, Mr. Giles. No idea at all." Tara nodded.

Willow looked at Tara with a twinkle in her eye. "You know, I think that maybe we should follow Buffy and Faiths lead, you know, go upstairs and get some sleep?"

Tara stood up. "Oh, yes. I think we need to go get some, some sleep." They got up and headed for the staircase.

Willows voice trailed behind her as they walked up the stairs. "Umm, maybe we should go tell dawn to put on some music. Some very, very loud music so that she can't hear anything. Not that there's anything to hear… But you know, just in case something loud is going on for people upstairs to be woken up by."

"Honey, you're babbling again." Tara kissed Willow, which was the only way she knew how to stop the constant flow of words coming from her mouth.

"Mmmm, you always know how to shut me up."

"Hey don't get me wrong, I love Willow-babble. I can just think of a few more things I like to hear from you. Oh, wait a second." Tara opened Dawns door, "Dawn? Hey, will you do me a favor? Put on headphones and listen to some really loud music for a while, will you?"

Dawn grinned. "No problem." She rolled over to grab her I-pod from the floor.

Tara closed Dawns bedroom door. "There we go. All taken care of."

"I don't tell you how much I love you enough. You know that?"

"I know. I love you too." Tara grinned. "Why don't you come in here and show me exactly how much you love me?" She backed into their room.

Willow smirked. "Dawn better have that music up loud."


TBC…

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