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WILLOW: (To Giles) Remember that little spat we had before you left? When you were under the delusion that you were still relevant here? You called me a "rank arrogant amateur." Well, buckle up Rupert... 'Cause I've turned pro.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Season 6, Grave
Something stirred in the darkness. It was a shape that was large and a soul that older than the Earth itself. Something stirred and it was angry. The Mind that kept watch over the Holy dead angered at the thought of its space being violated by creatures of such low estate. It called itself Anubis, the guardian of the dead. In orbit around the sacred moon there were five ships that did not belong. Anubis sent a wave of sentinels to destroy them and was shocked that the intruders survived.
"Slayers!" Anubis roared to himself. In the cold darkness, tentacles hundreds of meters long flailed in impotent rage. Slayers have come to defile this sacred place, this holy ground for the rightful rulers of the world. That was unforgiveable. If Slayers were here, now, then the situation in the outside world had become even worse than they had imagined before they had agreed to the long sleep. Anubis did not need the stars to be right to perform his final duty. One by one, he began to awaken the Old Ones so that they could plunge the Universe into an eternal Hell of brutal suffering.
On Arrakis, Leto II was curled into a tight ball in the stone basement of the Keep. He could feel the Old Ones awakening half way across the Universe. He knew what they had in mind. A Universe of eternal darkness lay ahead if his slayers failed. Leto scanned the timelines with his prescient senses. Every possible future was a vision of blood and suffering and death. No matter where Leto looked all he could see was a universe in flames and the shadows of the Old Ones everywhere.
Moneo Stood outside the doorway that lead to Leto's inner sanctum and eyed the spastic movements of Leto's wormlike body and his low persistent moaning. The Fish Speaker that stood with Moneo pressed her face next to the portal that looked inwards to Leto's keep.
"What is wrong with God?" she asked. Her face turned to him with a simple expression.
"God is afraid." Moneo replied with a barely subdued terror.
On the bridge of the flagship "Memories of Dawn", Lisa Mandrake was slammed against the main control panel as a thing with six legs tried to kill her. The pain from her broken arm caused her to wince. She could see white bone poking out through the skin. Her Reverend Mother training helped her block the pain. She rolled to the side to avoid the stab of the creature's stinger. She jammed her Lexan knife upward into the creature's armored belly and pushed the knife backwards until it was nearly split in half along its length. Around her, six other slayers were fully engaged in savage hand to hand combat.
The creatures appeared moments after Motorria figured it all out. Surayya had come to a mentat prime computation that the Old Ones were awakening. It was Motorria with her newly found genetic memories who realized that magic was needed to resurrect the Old Ones. If magic was being used then the defense system must be down.
Reverend Mother Surayya Raisa brought both arms up and blocked the blow from the armored humanoid. She jammed her elbow on its throat and began to crush its windpipe.
"Now Moto!" Surayya screamed to the other Slayer.
Reverend Mother Motorria Swati wiped the daemon blood from her knife as she knelt and completed the pentagram. All the lights went out on the bridge as a green white glow emanated from the floor.
Motorria felt an icy coldness at the base of her spine. Her naturally happy go lucky sprit disappeared as the full memories of Willow Rosenberg spread itself like a dark phoenix across her soul.
The eyes of Motorria Swati turned as black as an open grave. Motorria smiled. The blood of every slayer on the bridge ran cold. Motorria laughed as she disappeared in a whirlpool of smoke.
Surayya pushed the body of the dead intruder off of her as she tapped her throat microphone.
"Fleet Commander to all ships." She said. "Evacuate Tailos now! Repeat, evacuate Tailos Now!"
"This is it." She thought to herself. "The final assault has begun."