I knew that I said this chapter would be up within a day or so of the last one. The problem is that I have all these other ideas running through my head which could be used to start other stories. I know that these ideas would not pan out, and only deter me from writing this story (See my attempts at Battlestar Galactica Fanfictions in my profile for what I'm talking about). So, I've come up with a solution. In the next week or so, I'll be putting up a couple of new fanfictions. The purpose of these fanfictions is for me to just put down my ideas in a story format. Each chapter in the fanfictions will be a different idea. These fanfictions should be pretty good just for reading a collection of short stories of varying kinds. There'll be one fanfiction in each category: ie, there'll be one in Battlestar Galactica for Battlestar Galactica ideas, and there'll be one in TV crossovers for BSG/whatever crossover idea and BtVS/whatever crossover ideas. When I get ideas for other genres, I'll put em up in there. I highly recommend checking these out once I start, because I think they're some pretty good ideas. The first one I'll be putting up is a plausible way to make a BSG/BtVS crossover work.
Anyway, here's the chapter
Chapter 44 Never-endingSummers Base Camp – Sunnydale, California
Daniel had had enough of this. Looking down at the battered and bruised body of the blonde vampire that they captured, they still hadn't gotten anything but rubbish. She wouldn't say anything as to why she and the other vampire wanted Connor, or why they had been waiting to take him. He knew that it obviously had something to do with The First, as everything else that had happened in his life over the past five years had something to do with The First. He was even a werewolf because of The First. He knew that they needed to get information out of the vampire about why she was there before they could get anything out of her about The First. He and Skye had even questioned the vampire about Illyria and Inanna, as it was most likely that their abduction of Rhonda and Nicola was linked to the vampires somehow. The vampire had only replied that she knew nothing of anyone called Inanna or Illyria. Daniel had kept Skye from staking the vampire, she was furious. They had suffered a major blow, and Daniel knew that maybe Skye wasn't one of the best people to be questioning the vampire after her best friend had been abducted, and that maybe he wasn't too up for it either after Nicola had been abducted, who he had fought with side by side against The First for three years. He was thinking about wolfing out in front of the vampire and doing some serious damage, but he didn't trust his wolf side not to kill her, so he was keeping himself at bay.
"It will be easier for you if you talk vampire," Skye was saying, while leaning over the vampire and dripping holy water onto its skin a drop at a time. Daniel had to say, he was impressed with the vampire, she hadn't spoken a word in the last ten minutes. They really needed Connor to wake up, maybe he knew who the vampire was, but as of yet, he hadn't even showed the signs of coming back into consciousness.
Daniel saw movement in his peripheral vision and saw Oz coming towards him. Usually it was difficult to read Oz's face, but he knew that this time, something was wrong.
"Three of Amanda's team are dead. Two of them were killed by Illyria, as she took Rhonda, the other died from her injuries. Cassia couldn't save her," Oz said while looking down.
"Shit," Daniel replied. They were losing people by the handful, and they couldn't afford it.
"At the rate we're going, there's not going to be any of us left in two weeks," Oz said. "We've got to go after them, we've got to find them somehow," Oz said.
"We're trying to get some information out of the vampire, but she's not talking," Daniel replied while looking back at Skye, who was now trailing holy water down the vampire's forehead. He thought about what had transpired since they had come here, first they had lost Michaela to Inanna, and now Nicola had been taken. They hadn't done this badly in their years fighting against The First in all the years their group had been together. "Maybe we wait until Naomi and Brett get back and ditch this joint and go after Nicola ourselves," Daniel suggested, thinking that it was a good idea. In all their years fighting against the first, they were successful because they used 'guerrilla' tactics for the lack of a better word. They emerged from the darkness, hit out against The First, and then faded away again. They were never in the one place for too long, and therefore never vulnerable like they were now. As long as they had Naomi, they'd be able to make an effort at getting Nicola back. Although he knew that Naomi didn't like performing spells and liked staying on the psychic side, he knew that she would. They'd have to rely on her as their resident witch, seeing as Michaela was gone now. He noticed that Oz didn't give much of a reaction, but he expected that from Oz. He knew Oz well enough to know that he didn't agree with Daniel's suggestion, wanting to stay here. From all that Oz had said about this group here, Daniel knew that he believed that they were getting somewhere. From where Daniel was standing, it just appeared that the entire group was just getting played by whatever higher force decided to come along. He didn't know how long it had been since they had heard from Cordelia, their only contact with the higher powers which may actually be on their side, but he guessed that it was in the order of a week or two. She had just disappeared without any trace or word at all, just gone. Maybe she was off doing bigger and better things, Daniel didn't know and he didn't care. The Powers That Be always did nothing for them, and they weren't going to start now. It was time to take matters into their own hands, and go back to using Guerrilla tactics like they had before, they'd survive then.
Daniel heard muffled sounds from his side and turned to see that Skye was now standing behind the vampire, pulling its head back and using her hand to keep it's mouth closed. The vampire was struggling against its bonds and moaning through clenched teeth. He knew what she had done; poured holy water down it's throat. He watched as Skye released the vampire's head and it fell forward the vampire gasping and moaning in pain.
"Tell me, where did they take her!" Skye exclaimed as she powerfully backhanded the vampire, almost breaking its neck. "Where!" she further exclaimed.
"Where's Connor?" the vampire croaked back. The vampire was met with a fist to the face as a response.
"Why do you want him?" Skye exclaimed again, giving the vampire another backhand. Daniel watched as Skye paused, waiting for the vampire to reply. He knew that she was going over the top a bit, but he also knew that she, like everyone else, needed to vent. He was, however, shocked to see Skye give the vampire a roundahouse kick across the face, sending the vampire and the chair it was bound to onto the floor and making the vampire unconscious. Skye then dashed past them and ran out the front door. He followed Skye out the door, only to see her let out a loud and hoarse scream of frustration.
Sunnydale – California
They had searched as long and as hard as they could, with no luck. Willow was no where to be found, and that worried Buffy greatly. They were now missing their biggest hitter, the most powerful person they had, and she was missing. It wasn't a good thing that she may be a walking time-bomb half the time, but she was still missing. Their best chance at doing anything effective against The First, and she was gone. Buffy knew that Willow had done something great for the rest of them, the area surrounding the park where she and The First had fought looked like a demon graveyard, without the demons being buried. Buffy guessed that Willow had taken out a good nine tenths of Sunnydale's current demon population, and it was obvious, as they hadn't encountered a single demon while looking for Willow. Her, Naomi and a few Potential Slayers had scoured a section of Eastern Sunnydale, and were now heading back to the base camp, as were all the other groups.
Buffy felt as if they were losing this fight. She knew that it was bigger than anything they'd done before, and worst of all; everyone was looking to her for guidance. The more decisions she made, the more she felt as if she was taking the wrong steps. It seemed as if they were always one step behind, and there was no way to catch up. She knew that this was the case and that others sensed it. That's why they were all out combing Sunnydale in the early hours of the morning: Willow knew it and she tried to fix it by going on the offensive. Still, she needed to be strong for those that she was leading; like the Potentials. She tried to imagine what it was like being one of them caught up in the middle of this, but she knew that she couldn't place herself in their shoes. They weren't Slayer, let alone evolved Slayers like her and Faith. Deep down, Buffy knew that she could get herself out of almost any situation because of her new body, new skills and abilities, which she hadn't fully explored yet. She knew that she couldn't even begin to imagine what it would be like to be in the middle of this fight without Slayer strength, speed and reflexes, because it was a part of her and it had been for the past seven years.
As they were walking, Buffy had an idea which might lead them to have the upper hand, even if it was for a moment. They needed to sweep this town clean, get rid of every single last vampire and demon which even set foot here, and keep them out. Hopefully, it would send a message to The First that it couldn't set up its base here as long as they lived. It was their job to keep the Hellmouth safe and closed. It was their job to stop the onslaught of demons to the rest of the world, although Buffy knew that demons and bringers had started attacking all over the world, she also knew that it could be a lot worse if it wasn't for them and keeping the demons coming out of the Hellmouth at bay. Hopefully, if they drove all the demons out of Sunnydale, and kept them out, they'd be able to use Sunnydale as a starting point for fighting back in other parts of the country, if not the world. It also occurred to Buffy that undertaking that course of action could cause The First to come after them itself, and in that case, all they could do was run or die.
They were almost back at the Base Camp when Buffy heard a god-awful scream coming from the direction in which they were heading. She raised her weapon and checked the potential slayers and Naomi, and began to run towards the sound. Within moments, Buffy was in sight of her home. She could see a bloodied Skye out the front, shrieking to the world, with a bloodied Daniel approaching from behind. From what she could remember, they didn't have that much blood on them when they had left to go back to the Base Camp.
"What's wrong. What happened?" Buffy asked, looking to Skye and then Daniel after Skye had stopped. Buffy noticed that Skye was trembling. "What's wrong?" she asked to Skye.
"She's gone. Rhonda's gone, and now I've got no one," Skye stated.
"Daniel, what happened?" Buffy heard Naomi ask him. Buffy looked to Daniel, and even she could tell that he wasn't alright.
"The two Old Ones showed up. They walked right through the barrier, came into the house and took Rhonda and Nicola. There was nothing we could do to stop them," Daniel replied.
"Oh god, Nicola," Naomi said.
"Connor went after them. Two vampires were waiting outside the barrier for him to come out. They hit him with some kind of dart, he's been out ever since. Skye took one of them out, the other, we've got tied up in the lounge room…. She's not speaking," Daniel explained as he took Naomi into his arms. "Is everyone else coming back?" he asked Buffy.
"Yes, they're all on their way back here now," Buffy replied. She knew that her plan wouldn't work now, to rid Sunnydale of demons. Everyone's morale was shattered, and she knew that it would be hard to get anyone to take action for a while now. Buffy could feel guilt spreading over her. It was partly her decision to send the badly injured ones back home, and this is the price they'd payed for it.
"It gets worse," Daniel said as he looked to Buffy. "All of Amanda's team is dead, Amanda's the only one left alive," he stated. Buffy took that as a bad hit, Amanda's team, although untrustworthy, were very good at what they did; keeping to the shadows and hitting out when the enemy least expected it.
"What are we going to do? We're going to go after them aren't we?" Naomi asked, her face void of emotion. Buffy knew that she was going into shock. Naomi and Nicola had been close, all of the girls of Oz's team had been. Now, Naomi was the only one left.
"Do you know where they took them?" Buffy asked Daniel.
"No idea, they jumped into a portal once they walked back out of the barrier," Daniel replied to her. Buffy looked at Daniel, and she could see that he desperately wanted revenge, and to find the missing members of his team. She felt helpless at the moment. Willow was missing, and now this had happened. Buffy was the Slayer, she was meant to be on top of everything, yet it clearly wasn't the case at the moment.
Somewhere in England
A portal opened in the middle of a field, in front of a cave. After a few seconds, two figures covered in blood came through the portal at an alarming speed, carrying two other people. They were Illyria and Inanna, and they had returned to where they had come from: the deeper well. The guardian of the deeper well, appointed by the Powers that Be, looked at the two Old Ones, and he instantly knew who they were.
"You can not come back here," he said. Illyria looked at him, and put the body that she was carrying down. She quickly approached him, and before he could react, snapped his neck. She went back to pick up the body she had dropped, but was called to by Inanna.
"Illyria, there is a problem," Inanna stated as her hand was outstretched towards the entrance of the Deeper Well, a blue energy field stopping her from entering. Illyria walked up to the field and placed her hand on it, surprised that the field was strong enough to repel her.
"It is the work of the magicks of the old time," she stated. "This will be a problem."
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