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"Angel, behind you." Gunn yelled. Angel jumped up, spun around leg in the air and kicked one of the Werkly Demons in the face.
"Arghh." The demon growled as he fell onto the floor. Angel picked up his sword and chopped his head off. He quickly spun around.
"Connor." He yelled and tossed his sword to Connor, who then stabbed another demon.
At this point in time the crew of Angel Investigations were in one of the biggest elementary schools, battling a small army of Werkley Demons. The team has been following this case for over a month when Cordy received a vision. The Werkley Demons have been invading schools and stealing the innocence of young children and causing them to walk around in a zombie like daze with no emotion. The have all ready hit four schools and right now LA was currently being over run with dazed out emotionless children. At this point the gang could restore the children's innocence, but they had locate the Keeper of the Innocence who was under heavy guard.
"Fred, NOW" Wes hollered and Fred fired a flaming arrow at the head of a demon and blew him up.
Cordy kicked a demon in the shins then stabbed it in the gut.
"Justine, to the left." Cordy shouted as a demon ran towards Justine. She swung her ax at it and cut him right in half.
Twenty minutes later, all of the Werkley Demon guards were dead or dying. The gang took a few minutes to catch their breath and regroup.
"Ok, Cordy and Fred gather all of the kids and put them in the gym with the others that we already have here." Angel instructed and the girls nodded their heads and ran off. "The rest of us, we need to locate the keeper."
"He is never far away from the guards, so he must be here somewhere." Wes said.
"We should split up." Gunn said
"Good thinking. Gunn, Justine and Connor, you guys take the first three floors, Wes, you and I will take the top 3 floors. Use the walky talky if you find something." Angel said and the group spilt up and began searching.
Cordy and Fred also spilt up. They decided that this would be the fastest way to get the children safely to the gym. Fred had the first 3 floors and Cordy had the top three. Cordy was checking the last room on the top floor. She burst into a room and came face to face with a giant Werkley Demon, who was holding a blue glowing vase like item. Cordy had found the Keeper of Innocence.
"Oh shit." She whispered.
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"Gunn, anything?" Angel barked into the walky talky.
"Nothing." Gunn responded
"Dammit." Angel and Wes were almost done searching the sixth floor and no one had seen anything. "Where the hell is he?"
"He has to be in the building. Cordy saw him here in her vision."
"Maybe he escaped while we were killing the guards."
"I doubt it. It's not safe for him" Wes began but Angel stopped him.
"Shhh." Angel said. His vampire hearing had picked up some sounds.
"What is it?" Asked Wes
"I think I hear him, at the end of the hall."
"Gunn, sixth floor, NOW." Wes said to the walky talky
"On our way."
Wes and Angel quietly went down the hall. The both looked in the window and found the Werkley Demon.
"What the hell is he doing?" Angel asked. They could see the keeper mumbling something incoherent.
"There may be some children in there. Perhaps he is casting his spell." Wesley responded.
Gunn, Connor, and Justine came around the corner.
"Ok, we think that he has some children in there." Angel began "We need to keep them safe. Conner, Gunn, and I will go for the keeper, Justine and Wes, grab the Jar of Innocence and the kids and get the hell out. We need the jar in one piece."
"If the innocence is released and the affected children are not in the same room, it will be gone forever." Wes explained
"Let's do this." Gunn said as the gang burst through the door and what they saw temporally froze them in their tracks.
The demon had Cordy held up against the wall. She was staring at nothing and showing no emotion. The demon had stolen her innocence. When he saw the intruders he threw her across the room. She landed hard against the wall on the other side of the room. She just lay there, staring at the ceiling.
"Kill him." Angel growled and the team went to work. Wes grabbed the Jar of Innocence and shoved it at Justine and she ran out of the room. Angel, Wes, Gunn and Connor all attacked The Keeper. He was also a Werkley Demon, but he was much bigger and stronger then the others they had faced. He was easily putting the guys down, but they jumped right back up.
The second that Angel saw Cordy lying on the floor, without the normal sparkle in her beautiful brown eyes, he saw red. He became a one vampire killing machine, at least more than normal. The Keeper easily knocked the other guys out, but he struggled with Angel. The Keeper managed to grab Connor's dropped sword and slammed into Angel's abdominal cavity.
"Son of a bitch, you bastard. That hurts." Angel grunted as he pulled the sword out and plunged into the demon. Angel's injury slowed him down for a minute, but he quickly pushed his pain aside and went after the demon.
The Keeper, shoved Gunn against a wall, Wes was trying to reload the gun with the flaming arrows on it. Connor had retrieved his weapon and was once again attacking the demon. Angel found his ax and with every ounce of strength he could muster he threw it at The Keeper who fell to his knees in pain. Suddenly a flaming arrow whizzed past Angel's head and landed in the heart of the demon. He died within seconds.
Angel rushed to Cordy's side and scooped her up in his arms.
"We need to get to the gym." He gasped. He wound was really hurting.
Gunn, Wes and Connor slowly followed. They all had received a decent beating and they all weren't moving too fast. For Angel, the journey to the gym seemed to take forever but in reality it took about two minutes. They rushed into the gym where Fred and Justine were waiting.
"Wes, Cordy, she's not…" Fred began then she saw Angel carrying an unmoving Cordy into the gym. "Oh God, is she?"
"No, she will be ok. The Keeper stole her innocence." Wes responded.
Angel sat on the bleachers in the gym, cradling Cordy in his arms. She just lay there, not moving or even blinking just staring out into space.
"Wes, we need to do this now. Angel said.
Wesley removed the spell and slowly began to read.
"Sahsumca. Bletfratin, Katinenin, Gerdbathim, Hobten, Merfedserin, Jadcudly"
Wes repeated those phrases 5 times. Suddenly a light came through the Jar of Innocence and shined brightly, lighting up the entire gym. Then the jar exploded. The gym was silent for a minute and then a wonderful sound filled the gym.
The sound of hundreds of children laughing, talking and singing had returned. The team of Angel Investigations cheered, with the exception on Angel who was staring at Cordy, waiting for a response.
Very slowly she closed her eyes. When she opened them again Angel saw that her sparkle had returned and they were full of love.
"Hey." She whispered groggily. Angel didn't say a word. He leaned down and kissed her lovingly on the mouth.
"Wow." She said smiling
"Are you ok?"
"Very tired and sore." She said
"Come on baby, let's get you home and into bed." He said as stood, up and carried her out of the gym.
"I think that I can walk."
"Not a chance." He whispered
On the way back to the hotel, the gang happily congratulated themselves about what they accomplished. When the arrived Angel gently lifted a sleeping Cordy into his arms and carried her to their room and deposited her on the bed. He crawled into the bed beside her, wrapped her in his arms and just watched her sleep.