Author's note: Hey everyone, This chapter and the next is dedicated to my dedicated BETA - Nessie345! lots of claps for Nessie!

just so you know, i've been having problems with spacing, so i'll take some chapters down for reditting sometime soon. After this update, this and chapter 12, i may be out for the rest of the week due to exams. so Ta till then!

Chapter XI - Back in Scooby Central

The Magic Box, Sunnydale:

Xander was hitting the books. Literally, his head had just plopped down on the text he was reading.

Willow looked down at her friend then turned back to Tara. They both giggled like school girls.

It was a Scooby research party, full blown. After all, even if Dawn was safely far away in LA, they still had to do something about Glory.

It had been six months since Buffy's... disappearance.

Xander, Willow and Tara were seated around the table buried in research and Anya was dancing around the shelves with a feather duster.

"Did you find anything?" Giles's voice called from the back. He had gone back there to find some old books.

"Xander did." Willow muttered.

"I beg your pardon?" Giles said poking his head out of the doorway. "I was under the impression that he wasn't doing anything vaguely productive."

"He isn't." Tara assured the watcher.

Willow grinned at her girlfriend then walked towards the brunette, and pulled his head back to take the book.

She paused. Right there, where Xander's nose had been was the perfect spell.

One to open a portal to one dimension and send the hell god somewhere else. The spell looked like it required a lot of power, but it was worth a try.

"Giles!" she called. The watched walked into the main room of the Magic Box carrying yet another stack of books.

"Yes, Willow, what is it?" he replied.

"I found it! Well, Xander did, but whatever! It's here!" Willow said brightly. She was excitedly pointing to the book and bouncing with triumph.

Giles leaned over.

"Let me see?" he said.

Anya leaned over as well to get a better look at the spell Willow had found.

"Wow," she breathed. "That's a hard one right there. It goes up with the reincarnation and resurrection spells."

Willow glanced at her anxiously.

"Is it really that hard?"

"Well yeah, I mean you are opening a door to only one specific dimension." Anya replied. "It's extremely difficult, just like trying to make two panda's mate-which I've heard is really difficult which is strange because-"

"Err, thanks, Anya." Willow said uncomfortably. She had a feeling she knew where that comment was leading.

Anya smiled brightly.

"You're welcome."

Giles finished re-reading the paragraph for what seemed like the millionth time and then looked up. He was clearly thinking hard. Rather absently, he whipped of his glasses cleaned them on his shirt and put them back on.

"It does seem rather," he looked back down at it. "Difficult, but, we should be able to do it. Anya, Tara, you and I."

"But Giles," Anya protested. "This is an individual spell-"

Giles cut her off.

"Anya, I'm sure-"

Anya spoke louder.

"It will be very horrible if you mess with that. Trust me, I've seen it done. This spell needs about as much power as a resurrection spell." she said rather huffily. "Plus you are not supposed to mess with stuff like this. It's like changing ingredients and substitution is hard enough. Trust me, Giles; I've seen what can happen."

Giles whipped of his glasses and cleaned them on his shirt.

"Which means our best bet is to get in close contact with Glory and have the strongest of us, magically, do the spell." Tara agreed after a moment, looking up from her seat. "It might need l-l-less power if she's close by?"

Anya nodded.

"That's what we should do." she confirmed, she was glad they were taking her advice for once.

"Xander could go round up Riley and some of his friends or something," Tara suggested a little shyly. "You know, to work the brawn?"

Giles nodded, repeating the glasses cleaning routine once more.

"That sounds like an idea." he said. "Willow, are you up for it?"

Willow looked up from the book, for a second she looked like she highly doubted she could, but then she realized she had to. She nodded her resolve face firmly in place.

"No problemo."

She was going to do this for Buffy.