Chapter 2: Awake
Okay you guys get to meet Ellexria in the flesh GET EXITED!
The vampire's body lay on the simple bed, in a simple black dress that came down to her knees; her breathing had become ragged and quick. "It is almost done," Illyria said, staring down at what would soon be her sister's body. Angel paced agitatedly back and forth at the foot of the bed.
"I still don't know if this was entirely wise," Eve said.
"We didn't ask your opinion, Eve. The only reason you are not dead is because my son dragged you out of that collapsing building," Angel said angrily.
"The only reason you aren't dead is because I drew all these runes!" she spat, gesturing at all black marks that covered the building. They also ran up and down her arms.
"Why didn't we kill her?" Gunn asked. Eve spun around and stared at him. He was still worse for wear.
"We need her, she is the only one who has hidden from the Senior Partners and lived," Angel said.
"Only because you killed Lindsey!" she screamed, leaping from the couch where she had sat next to Gunn.
"Hey!" Gunn yelled in protest clutching his gut wound.
"Listen pet, we are only telling you this once more. The demons he went up against got the better of him, we had nothing to do with it. Not our fault!" Spike told her.
"I don't believe it," she muttered, but none the less sat back down on the couch.
"Believe it," Angel said.
"Oh, don't you go all high and mighty on me! I was the liaison to the Senior-"
"It is time," Illyria whispered. Even though it was a whisper it carried through the entire room bringing with it a wake of silence.
Ellexria arched her back and her brain went into a spasm as her new body accustomed its self to the new demonic energy that inhabited and controlled it. Her hands tensed and made fists, her back fell and her breathing slowed and became even and steady. Amethyst streaks ran through her black hair, her skin acquired an odd purple tint to it.
Her eyes flew open, with a CRACK what looked like purple ice clouded her iris. She sat up and looked at her surroundings. "Where have you taken me?" she demanded.
"This is our safe house," Angel said.
"You're welcome," Eve muttered.
"Why is it covered in runes of demonic origin?" Ellexria demanded.
"What?" Eve demanded. "Lindsey taught them to me…"
"Yes but they are of my creation, I recognize my own work the years has not changed them," Ellexria said. "Only I can change them…"
"He said he learned them from Shadowhunters," she spluttered.
"No he learned them from Shadow's," the great demon told her. "Do you have demon blood?"
"A little-"
"Did he?" She asked.
"… no,"
"You say he is dead?" Eve nodded. "Good he needed to die, to much power for a human, they are stupid and unpredictable. Yet you mourn for him. It oozes from every poor in your frail body, it makes you weak. You became susceptible to take over. Why do you make yourself so vulnerable?" Ellexria asked her.
Eve's lip trembled, tears brimmed in her eyes.
"They are a self destructive raise," Illyria said.
"Where is my sarcophagus? I need my armor," she said turning to look at her sister.
"Follow me," she said, she rose and headed for the small rotting door. Ellexria swung her legs off of the bed and fallowed out of the dark room.
"It reeks with emotion," Ellexria noted.
"That is something about this world that you do not get accustomed to," Illyria said.
"Who was appointed my Qwa'ha Xahn?" Ellexria asked her.
"We had no time, we had to find someone we, more over Angel, could trust, and he volunteered for it. You haven't met him yet," she said.
"Who is my Qwa'ha Xahn?" Ellexria repeated.
"Angel's son, Connor," Illyria told her. "He came to make sure we weren't all dead, and then he saw your sarcophagus and demanded to know what was going on. After Angel told him all we knew, he volunteered willingly, he said he wanted to help. Connor isn't with us right now, he had 'Family Dinner,' to get out of his house he clams that he has a 'Date,'" she said. "Spike and Angel disapproved."
"Pathetic," Ellexria whispered.
"Agreed," Illyria said. "I think, once the world quivers at our feet again, I will keep Spike as a pet," she said softly.
"He has potential," Ellexria pondered at the idea. "Where is your power stored?" Ellexria asked her.
"Wesley had it, it should be in his old apartment," she said. "But according to Eve if we leave the Senior Partners will kill us," Illyria told her sister.
"They do not know I have come back, I can get it easily," Ellexria told her. "I will change my appearance when I leave this place to look as my host did."
Illyria, pushed a black door open, Ellexria's toom lay there. "Have you already marked your armor?" Illyria asked her.
"I did shortly after you died, I felt vulnerable, so I invented runes of sealing and power, but I did end up falling as well," she said. "But they serve the purpose of containing my powers properly," Ellexria said as she drew up to her coffin. She absently fingered the knot at the back of her throat that held the dress up. She tugged at the knot and it came undone. Ellexria slammed her hand on the sarcophagus and the ghostly metal crawled up her arm, solidifying and twisting around its old masters new body.
Where ever the ghostly smoke went it left behind the familiar silvery metal and dark mauve leather, covered in black twisting runes. Something materialized in front of her face, before it had time to fall she had snatched it out of the air. It turned to dust in her hand. "My old stele, it is obsolete," she said. The old weight of her armor pressed down on her skin, reminding her of times where she and her sister ruled, side by side.
She opened her eyes and looked down at her old armor. "Those are unique," Illyria said scrutinizing the runes that covered the armor.
"Once we get the marking stele I will do the same to your armor," Ellexria told her. "We must get your power back it plays a key roll in my plan," she said.
"What plan?" Spike asked from the door way.
"The plan to get Illyria her powers back, save my demon people from the annoyance of Shadowhunters, and confront them about Valentine," Ellexria said unfazed by his sudden appearance.
"You are planning to do what now?" he asked.
"I must retrieve Illyria's power from Wesley's house so she can teleport me to New York to confront the Shadowhunters about killing my people and Valentine, also I need a stele to upgrade Illyria's armor so her powers will stay," Ellexria told him.
"I don't think so," Angel said appearing behind Spike his arms crossed tightly over his chest.
"You have no say in this," Ellexria told him flatly. "Now you can try and fight me on this and die, or you can accept your fate and make it so I don't kill too many of your precious people," she said. "You are just a vampire you should worship the ground I walk on,"
Her sharp ears picked up the faint click as someone turned the front door knob. "Someone has entered," she said flatly.
Angel and Spike both went ridged. Illyria had heard it too, so she was undisturbed. "Who's here?" Eve asked, appearing behind Angel.
"Go watch Gunn, we'll handle this," Angel told her.
"Hey! You guys here?" an unfamiliar voice asked.
"We're in the room with the sarcophagus," Angel called back. A boy, with lank brown hair and flat green eyes came to stand next to Angel.
Ellexria cocked her head to the side and analyzed him. "You are my Qwa'ha Xahn?" she asked him.
He jumped and turned to look at her. "You- You are awake and… purple!" he told her.
"Your face flushes, your body temperature increases, your pupils dilate, it is so strong I can taste your lust in the air. You, half breed, are not fit to be anyone's Qwa'ha Xahn, let alone the Great Demon Queen," she told him. "Especially while being ruled by your human emotions,"
"It's the outfit," he muttered lamely. Angel rolled his eyes. "I thought we fixed that."
Ellexria walked forward and circled him. "You reek of humanity," she muttered.
"There is a good reason for that-"
"Yet you are the son of two half breed vampires," she murmured to him. "You are impossible. Yet I smell demon in you, it is faint, but it is most definitely there."
"What exactly do you do again?" Connor asked her.
"I am Ellexria! Queen of all demon kind, with my sister by my side we unite them! I show them their real strength, and yours is, subsequently limited," she hissed.
"Okay, well then-"
"In this partnership I have jurisdiction, not you," she said smoothly.
"Ellexria was just telling us about how she was going to get Smurf's full powers back,"
"Well isn't that good, you know get Blue Thunder all charged up?" Connor asked.
"No, they- as far as I can recon- will try the whole apocalypse thing all over again," Spike said. "You don't have a special plan up your sleeve do you?"
"My plan was Illyria's plan," Ellexria said. "My new plan is to stop Valentine, save my people and regain my throne,"
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