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'I don't like this at all' "Why the bloody hell are you doing this to me Drew" shouted Spike smashing the bottle he had been holding into the wall, looking down at his hand he noticed it was bleeding, sighing he put it to his mouth and licked what hadn't dripped to the floor with his tongue. 'Don't even taste bloody good anymore' thought the blond vampire slumping to the floor. "I just need a good plan, that's all, a good plan' he whispered while on the ground.
"So, who did the reading last night, today we shall find out. Tell me Dawson what is the Columbian exchange?" 'Right, so I need to go patrolling tonight and see Giles about training, or I could go to the Bronze' Buffy thought as she got side tracked from the lesson. "Ms. Summers, you were going to tell me why Matriarchy was important to the native tribes of America?" Professor Whitlocke was looking at her, as well as half of the class. "Oh, well it was an integral part of their tribal culture" she stated smiling. "Very good Ms. Summers, I thought we had lost you for a minute there. Right as Buffy said matriarchy is the tradition were the women were the head of the family…" as the history teachers voice faded to the back ground Buffy thought 'Good for you Native American Women, stand up for yourself' before her mind drifted to more fun topics.
The day was going by quickly for most everyone, as the students counted down the minutes until lunch Giles was sitting down to a cup of tea and did not notice the spider crawl over the book he was reading at the moment. "I don't like this, not one bit, not at all" stated Xander looking down at his lunch tray. "Yeah, I generally don't want to eat something I can't tell what it is" stated Willow, looking at the goop that was on her friend's plate. "Want to go to the vending Machine?" asked the girl. "Yeah, vending machine" repeated Xander dumping whatever it was on his plate into the trash. "Why, won't, you, work, you, foul, device." Shouted Anya hitting the machine that had taken her dollar and not given her any goods. "What's the matter Anya?" inquired Xander as he approached his destination. "Let me help you with that Anya" stated Xander stepping next to the girl. Giving the vending machine a solid punch which hurt his hand Xander managed to knock down a packet of animal crackers. "This is not what I wanted, but thank you, I shall not condemn you to a life in a dimension more uncomfortable than this one" Anya said smiling at Xander then walking away.
After their escapade with the vending machine the duo returned to the cafeteria where they sat down at a table and were soon joined by Buffy. All was going well up until the point were a student fell to the ground writhing. "Nice going Celia" laughed her friends. "We know you want to get Nathans attention, not sure this is the right way thought" they stated. Not until Celia stopped moving and the whites of her eyes showed did they become over concerned. There was a rush toward the fallen girl; more screaming and the paramedics were called. "Seems like it's some sort of toxin, entered through the blood stream, do you have her medical records for the girl in the school?" asked the emergency operator. "Yes, yes we do, let me check the school nurse's office, I'll send them over to the hospital immediately" stated principle Snyder, who turned to face the countless policeman waiting for answers.
"But its Friday night tradition Buffy, we go to the football game and then the Bronze" stated Willow as they walked to their last class of the day. "Alright, I'll come to the game, patrol a little and then head over to the Bronze, I'm sure that Giles wouldn't mind that" said Buffy happily going to Pre-Cal class. Noticing Nux also heading in the same direction she bumped into her on purpose to see if she acted strangely. She looked down at Buffy; the girl was not much taller than the blond, only an inch or so. "Excuse me" she said blandly, because Buffy had stopped Willow collided with the girl and dropped quite a few of her books. Leaning down Nux promptly picked up the text books and handed them back to Willow. "Thank you, oh, Nux, would you maybe help me with my math homework over the weekend. I really need a hand" asked Willow. "Sure thing, here's my number" said the other girl calmly writing her number on a piece of paper and handing it to Willow; then walked into the Calculus class across the hall. "What's with that Willow, asking someone for help, especially that someone?" Buffy said with disdain. "Well everyone needs help with something" stated Willow walking into their math class.
"Boy am I happy not to be on the cheerleading squad anymore" stated the slayer as she watched the half time show that was almost over. Giving the last kickstand the group of girls cheered and exited the field, they were soon replaced by the football players. The opposing team was truly terrible, and that was saying something, the Sunnydale high school football team was rubbish on its own. After a spectacular tackle by James of the opposing team a student apparently so unimportant that nobody knew his name was lying on the ground. When he failed to rise the game stopped and once more and then terror once the shaking boy with white eyes was revealed to all.
Meanwhile in the boiler room of the school building a lone figure was chanting in the semi darkness surrounded by candles and the sign of the pentagram incanting a spell "Let the light fade from their eyes, against all those who have sinned, on their head be it"
The next day it seemed that everybody was dressed for a war, or a winter snow storm, there if there was to be any bare skin to be seen Principle Snyder would force a scarf or hat on the unsuspecting child. "There will be no attack today sir, no sir" people could hear him say over and over again, yet at nine o'clock a girl and boy who seemed far too much into punk culture both fell to the ground convulsing. After being sent to the hospital where the rest of the afflicted students had been sent for study, in hopes that they could discover the cause of illness; "Go to your fourth period class!" shouted Snyder, refusing to give into whatever entity was plaguing his school. "Hey, Anya did you know the names of those kids attacked today?" asked Nux. "I have no clue mortal" said the ex-demon turning to try and find Xander. "Do you Willow?" the girl asked again. "The girl's name is Crystal and the boy was Ian I think" stated Willow turning to look at Buffy who gave her a knowing look.
"I mean why would she need to know their names, and why is she always wearing black and grey and stuff, plus the long sleeves, I mean it's wigging we out, you know" stated Buffy. "Well to be fair Buffy everyone is wearing long sleeves today, even you, and Nux has always worn that type of thing" said Willow slightly concerned at her friends behavior. "Your right, but anyway very soon I'm going to check out her house, see what's up there" stated the blond.
"Miss Lang, I feel really light headed, could I possibly see the nurse?" asked Nux in her English class. "Certainly Ms. Shepard if you're feeling unwell, please go with all those students being ill and all, I'd hate to see someone else get hurt" stated the elderly women ushering the black haired girl into the hallway. "Our, emo, goth, dyke girl is gone" laughed Bently a nineteen year old boy who had flunked classes in his senior year and had to tragically for him retake those courses. As Nux stepped toward the nurse's office but turned and looked directly into Bently's eyes, and that shout him up for at least the next week.
"Aktaro, sindell, let it be finished let them be raised" said the cloaked figure sinking into darkness.
"So light headed are we?" inquired the nurse. Nodding her head the women went into the next room to get an ice pack, hoping to avoid the girl from fainting. Meanwhile Nux got up and grabbed the papers off of the desk that related to the school sickness, reading halfway down the page she gripped the sheet and ran out of the room. Bursting into the library she ran up to Gile's office. Panting slightly with bated breath she knocked. "Yes, come in" was the cool reply she received. "Please read this and tell me that it's not what I think it is" Nux said handing him the paper. "Dear god, if this is true, the entire school is at risk" Giles whispered, "Where did you get this information?" inquired the older man. "Nurses office, it…" she stopped explain when she saw the look of reproach on Gile's face. "We need to get everyone out of here" said Giles walking briskly toward the Principles office. Their mission was interrupted by Buffy and Willow and the rest of her group. "They got another one Giles" she said looking distraught. "What was their name?" asked Nux bringing to everyone's attention that she was present. "Alfred, but what are we going to do? Do we even know what we are dealing with?" Buffy asked. "We think we know now, take a look at the middle paragraph" said the librarian handing her the now crumpled page. "The cause of seizure if arachnid toxin, are we talking about a huge spider, invisible of course" she rambled on. "No I'm afraid it's a lot of little spiders that could come from anywhere any time. I think they are being summoned by someone, to attack certain people" Giles informed the group.
"Is it just me or do you hear that noise above us?" asked Nux looking at the people around her. "Okay everyone stop for a moment and listen" as they did as commanded by the eldest of the group. A very slight clinking could be heard and at this a few spiders could be seen crawling out of an air vent. "They're in the air ducts, we gotta get all these people out" shouted Buffy running around in circles not knowing what to do. Sighing Nux turned to her left at pulled down the fire alarm. This caused all of the students to flee out of the hallways and into the light of day. The Slayer was the last out and could see the halls teeming with little crawling legs. Cringing the girl closed the door behind her.
As the chaos outside was breaking out into what looked like anarchy the Principle was trying desperately to keep order but the breakdown of a girl on the disappearance and the star football player on the Sunnydale team had the Scooby gang wondering if there could be any of connection between the mysterious spider invasion. Rushing toward Giles and Nux who seemed to be hanging around the librarian a lot, Buffy asked "So, what's the deal this time?" looking at him, hoping that he did not have an answer so school would be released for a few days. "I think that it is a cult, or possibly an individual person. This type of spell could be targeting certain people, I feel that it may have been working for a few days but it must have gotten out of hand" stated Giles looking over the mass of young people, almost searching for an unseen individual, something out of place. "We need to search the school grounds, this many creatures would require the person to be on campus, you know" Willow blurted out. "Nothing against you Willow, but I don't want to go back in there" said Xander pointing to the building. "No, Willow is right, do you know of anyone that is missing?" inquired Giles. "Yeah, Freddy Knoll, his girlfriend was talking about it" stated Buffy looking around for the boy, then back up to Giles.
Because Freddy seemed to be the only student missing Buffy and the gang plus Nux all pillaged Snyder's clothes that he had brought and entered the school. Although the lights were on, the halls were eerily dark due to the squirming bodies above. Everyone had taken a different route; Buffy's eventually lead her to the boiler room where she found the missing boy covered from head to toe with arachnids. Shining her bright flashlight on the body she jumped back seeing it. The spiders around the area vanished because of the lights, allowing the girl to haul the motionless body out into the sunlight.
After the police found the school the be clear of spiders they recommended not using the building for a week while a team fumigated the premise. However the Scooby's knew it was because Freddy had left the place that the spell had been broken. "Yes it seems that he had attempted to get all the people that he disliked, but he had cast too powerful of a spell, it must have first spread throughout the building then back to the source, the only way of explaining it too me" said Giles as they group walked away.
All the students covered their ears when Principle Snyder attempted to speak too close to the microphone. Currently the entire student body was seated in the school gymnasium waiting for an address from their headmaster. Giving a cough and a step back he started once more. "I have had it with these incidents, I know that we will not be able to meet here for a few day" stated Snyder, at this statement there was boisterous cheering that was quickly cut off by the continuation of the rant, "That however will not stop classes, they will be held at the park. And because we have already missed more days than the state allows, and because I have no plans of giving up my summer, classes shall be held on Saturdays as well" at the conclusion of this there was stunned silence.
"Can he even do that, really?" asked Buffy to Xander who nodded his head, not able to be heard above the band at the Bronze. At the corner with the couches Nux was instructing Willow how to complete problems dealing with points of inflection. "I think I understand this now" said the girl after Nux had completed almost fifty practice problems for her. "Happy to hear it" said Nux almost smiling whilst shaking out her cramped hand. "Hey I'm going to catch some fresh air" stated Nux getting up and leaving the cramped space. After she was outside she pulled out a pack of smokes but was unable to light it because a noise stopped her, turning around she saw a vampire wearing a short dress approaching the Bronze. "If hoping for a meal you're not getting" stated Nux pulling out a stake. After a short easy fight the vampire was turned to dust and the girl brushed herself off and went back inside. "Everything alright?" asked Willow "Nothing out of the usual, just a normal day in Sunnydale" she smiled "Getting a drink, you want one?" Nux asked as she and Willow moved toward drink area… (To Be Continued)