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i in no way or form own BTVS i'm not sure who does to tell you the truth
Xander's first destination after abandoning Ethan was Giles house he'd used the time of watching the shop burn to decide what he was going to say to the group. He wasn't going to say nothing they would of heard of some weirdness for the night they'd be suspicious if he knew nothing. He would take the tried and tested method of a useless comedic relief Xander who with his home made costume for the night spent the night stuck on a fire exit to them Xander was under valued they didn't realise he was the one who forced Angel into the Master's Lair or the C.P.R. was his idea even the good stuff he did was passed off as fluke he wasn't going to tell them of the merging but he was going to start learning Magic openly with a few control exercises which Harry never mastered anyway it would look like he was a budding novice not right away maybe a week or two bring it up saying he'd been studying by himself yeah that'd work a plan in the works already.
Buffy and Willow were already at Giles's and apparrently explaining to him their own weirdness events Buffy had spent the night as seventeenth century noble who kept screaming and running away in fear and Willow as a Leia Organa from Return of the Jedi a good compromise for her a camoflage raincoat and flappy eared hat even now Buffy could speak french a lot more fluently than before even if it wasn't perfect Whereas Willow got nothing from the spell Xander theorised it was the Slayer aspect retaining the memory they all got a laugh out of his story of being stuck on a fire exit for the night even Giles chuckled a little bit talking of Giles Xander when looking properly saw that Giles was previously a Magic user but had stopped casting for some reason and didn't have Wards on his apartment either when they mentioned they were going to research what caused the problem Xander inocuously mentioned seeing fire trucks at the costume store Willow was the one to mention the name of the place and that the owner was British this apparently got Giles on a Tangent of cursing epitaphs he went and got a crumpled photo showing a younger Giles and Ethan. "Was this him?" "um yes um it was Giles what does this mean?" Willow was great with her insatiable curiosity he wouldn't have to ask the awkwad questions himself the all awaited a reply Giles poured himself a glass of whisky sat down scratched his head then Buffy fed up of waiting shouted. "Giles!" he glared at her a rare enough thing for Giles to show any form of backbone to Buffy so she backed down. "You ah, have to understand this isn't easy for me when i was younger i and five friends as a group we ah' practiced that is Magic together." He scratched his head again and took a swig of the Whisky
"in our foolishness we tried out a lot of the heavier Arts nothing Evil just nothing good we obeyed no Law but ourselves we killed Demons some of the tougher ones that can only be killed through Magic called ourselves The Valour" he snorted at an insider joke obviously.
"It was also our groups rock band name." He chuckled darkly sipping his Whisky and pouring some more the Scoobies looked weirdly at the proclamation of a younger Giles in a Rock band.
"And then we found a book on rituals that intensified your Magic easier casting more Power we were addicted soon to such rituals damn the consequences and the last rituals did that damn us i mean it was called getting the mark of Eyghon." Xander took a deep breath something the others didn't notice he now knew where this was going he'd learned the facts of the Mark last night Giles carried on.
"If we had succeeded which we didn't we would of been able to Astral project ourselves to the Higher and Lower realms i can tell you thats a lot of Power in Magical terms and the side effect of euphoria wasn't bad either unfortunately in our haste we didn't research properly what we thought was a dream spirit was a mistranslation the book meant Demonic wraith essence of Dreams and we'd just bound ourselves to it killing our friend in the process." He grimaced at the memory and drank the whole glass of Whisky refilling it to the top his hand visibly shaked "Giles!" eeped out Willow the story wasn't over yet Xander knew it just got worse.
"We all save Ethan gave up Magic Ethan decided to use older Magic known as Chaos worshipping to become a magical Mercenary of sorts all bidders welcome good and bad." Giles had emphasised the word Bad. "I went into seclusion on a small island were a large Coven of practicing White Witches lived they helped me get over my Magic addiction thats when i learned my love of books learning dead languages i translated old books with accuarcy into more modern Languages not wanting others to fall into my trap i was recruited into the Watchers Council proper eight years ago the reason i wanted to help others you see to fight back the darkness is you see the Mark that is the Mark of Egyhon is binding within this year he will come for me and my soul." Xander felt sorry for Giles he honestly couldn't see a way out of this one.
Ethan Rayne sat in the hospital his Magic gone all that power now he knew he had nothing to lose he was going to heal up and find that boy whoever he was if it was last thing before Eyghon came that he would do was he would get his Vengance.!