Chapter 2
AN: So here's the second chapter, I don't normal update them this fast, actually I should have update this now as I should be revising for an exam tomorrow so wish me luck for it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Angel or Buffy, I wish I did though if that counts
As Cordelia and Gunn walked over to where Xander was, Cordelia leading Gunn through the dark, he got a chance to look around. The cave was huge, about 20 foot high by 30 foot wide, and looked like a regular cave. The walls of the cave were brown, covered by a thin layer of water causing Gunn's clothes to stick to his sides because of the damp feeling covering the cave.
It didn't take long to reach the back of the cave, with two tunnels shooting off to the left and right, where he saw three people sat down. One of them, Xander, was sat near the entrance of the left tunnel as if to block the other two from bolting down that tunnel. Leaning his head against the wall with his eyes closed, probably trying his best to relax but his hands were betraying him as they fidgeted. The other two had their arms wrapped around their legs with their head buried into them. The two of them had their backs flat against the wall of the cave, cowering in fear.
Getting closer Gunn could recognise that Wesley was one of the ones cowering against the wall as well as a girl who had light brown hair going past her shoulders in length. He understood why Cordelia had ignored Xander's warning about getting too close, he would have done the same. Even now he wanted to go over and check he was fine but didn't want to freak Wes out anymore that he already is.
"Hey Cordy" Xander said opening his eyes and turning to face them
"Hey Xander," Cordelia said, "This is Gunn"
"Cool name"
"What's with the eye patch?" Gunn asked
"Evil priest poked out my eye as I'm the one that sees everything"
"You get visions like Cordy did?"
"Nope I see everyone's flaws and strengths as no one looking at me"
"Gunn it's not did, I still get visions. Well now I will, now that I'm human again and not a Higher Power" Cordelia said
"Um…G...Guys" A voice stuttered to the side of them
"Tara, Are you ok?" Xander questioned, rushing over to her, stopping just before he touched her.
"Yeah, wasn't there a guy here" Tara said looking to the right of her
Their all looked over to the place she mentioned, only to see no one there.
"Wesley" Gunn and Cordelia said looking along the wall, seeing him no where
"He must have went down this tunnel," Xander said, looking down the right tunnel, "I knew I should have blocked that tunnel"
Gunn went shooting down the tunnel, not hearing Cordelia telling Tara and Xander to stay there or Xander protests that he should go to.
The first thing Wesley thought was that he was in hell, definitely badder that the place they called heaven.
Heaven was as good as it could have been without Fred in it, true he had found peace there but nowhere could have been great without her. He had been hoping that Fred was there, in heaven, but they had told him that Fred's soul was actually trapped in Illyria so unless Illyria died Fred would never be able to get to heaven.
In heaven he didn't really have time, or was allowed, to be disappointed that Fred wasn't there. One reason was that there was an unlimited amount of alcohol but the main reason was the people he had met while he was there. Most of his family was there but didn't get on with them well, most of them were like his father, but he had finally gotten to meet Doyle and some of the people who helped Buffy, one of them acted very similar to Cordelia.
However, now he was here, in a dark cave running down a tunnel for reasons he didn't know why. He didn't know when he started running, only that the first thought he had was while running. Away from something, he wasn't sure but with everything he had seen there is a good chance that that was possible.
Looking ahead he saw that he was reaching the end of the tunnel and after a few strides he was outside. Instantly he knew something was wrong, the sky and moon was a different colour than normal.
Unfortunately, while Wesley was looking up at the sky trying to work out what was going on, he didn't notice the dark figure sneaking up behind him.
The figure stepped on a stick, producing a loud snap in the dead silent place. Hissing at himself quietly for blowing his cover, the person lunged knowing that his prey wouldn't turn around in time.
To his surprise though, his prey turned around quickly and delivered a right hook straight to the corner of his face. To shocked to move, the dark figure laid on the floor, due to the force of the punch, as his prey stood on top of him.
Wesley looked quickly for a peice of wood to use as a stake as the vampire just laid still on the floor. Finding anything was hard as he had to keep his eyes trained on the vampire knowing that his punch didn't knock him out, he knew he was too weak to knock out a vampire straight away with a single punch.
Recovering from his shock, the vampire stood up and lunged again. This time Wesley's punch missed so he was tackled hard to the ground. The vampire grinned having his prey now in his grasp, putting a hand on each shoulder so Wesley was pinned, and happily watching Wesley struggle underneath him. The vampire leaned in slowly and bit Wesley on the neck, starting to drawn the blood and life out of him.
Suddenly his teeth were ripped from his prey neck as he was thrown off, landing on all fours to face who had stopped him.
Gunn stood in front of Wesley, to face the vampire, as Cordelia ran over to check Wesley. Blood was flowing out of Wesley's neck slowly from where the vampire's teeth had been ripped from and he looked pale and tired but apart from that he was fine. Putting pressure on Wesley neck, Cordelia watched Gunn kick the vampire in the head.
The vampire had tried to escape but Gunn pulled him back and started to punch him in the face. Knowing Gunn had no weapon, Cordelia went over to a tree and snap off a branch.
"Gunn" Cordelia shouted, throwing the bit of wood to him
Looking up quickly, Gunn grabbed the wood and plunged it into the vampire's heart. Weirdly the vampire didn't burst into dust but just went limp instantly, eyes looking up as if seeing nothing.
Standing up quickly, Gunn ran over to Cordelia and Wesley.
"Wes, Wes you ok man?" Gunn asked
Nodding, Gunn and Cordelia helped him sit up.
"Cordelia, Gunn what's going on?" He asked tiredly
"We're in another dimension, Wes The Powers brought you and Gunn back to life to complete a prophecy" Cordelia explained
"You died Gunn"
"Yep but I did survive the final battle thanks to Illyria," Gunn said, "she was mad after you died, killing almost everything in sight so me, Angel and Spike didn't have much left to kill. I just died after when we were tracking down a demon nest"
"Where is Illyria?"
"Not here" Gunn said, seeing Wesley nod sadly to that
"Ok let get back to the others" Cordelia said standing up
"Who?" Wesley asked being helped up by Cordelia and Gunn
"Xander and Tara"
"Tara as in Willow's girlfriend, the one who died"
"I think so who told you that?" Cordelia questioned
"Willow told me while you were possessed by Jasmine"
"Oh ok"
"Guys" Gunn said
"Yeah" They both said
"The vampire is getting up"
Turning around they could see the vampire staggering to his feet, pulling the stake out of his heart.
"Did you miss the heart?" Cordelia asked, staring at Gunn
"No I swear I hit the heart, he should be dust right now"
"Well he isn't so what are we going to do"
The vampire stood up straight, throwing the stake to the side, watching them intensely.
"Behead him"
"With what?" Gunn asked
The vampire was slowly walking towards them, enjoying watching them argue and try and find a way to kill him, the vampire thanking all that is unholy for there being no metal around. Surprised that they didn't know this, it was in all the fairy tale books as the way to kill the big bad vampire was metal through the heart not wood.
"Ignis" He heard the one he had attacked say
Ignis, Ignis. The vampire kept repeating in his head, sure that he had heard it before somewhere but he didn't get a chance to think about it anymore as he felt flames against his sides
Fire, the vampire thought, that bastard said fire but that should work not unless…
Not being able to continue the thought, the vampire let out a terrible scream as he felt he skin start to melt away.
Shocked by what Wesley had said both Gunn and Cordelia looked at him, who was just staring at the vampire, only turning back to look at the vampire when they heard it scream.
"Wes stop looking at the vampire" Cordelia said sharply, worried as he didn't seem to be blinking at all.
"Cordy what should we do?" Gunn asked panicking, making sure the burning vampire didn't charge towards them.
Getting fed up with this, Cordelia slapped Wesley around the face which finally stopped him staring at the vampire.
"What was that for?" He asked, rubbing the side of his face
"You wouldn't stop staring at that vampire and it burst into flames after you said ignis"
"That's fire in Latin"
"Yeah I guessed that"
"Guys" Gunn said as the vampire charged at him, still on fire
Slamming his fist into the vampire's chest, he was surprised to see him turn to dust and even more surprised to see a bit of metal coming out of his wrist.
"Cordy, did The Powers tell you anything about this?" Gunn asked showing her his wrist
"Nope, they didn't say anything about metal coming from your wrist or Wesley setting fire to things"
"Sorry Cordelia" Wesley said quietly
"I didn't want you to say sorry Wesley, I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at The Power for not letting me remember or telling me about this but just don't say ignis again unless you have to and Gunn don't touch us unless you're sure you won't stab us"
"Ok, should we go back to Tara and Xander," Gunn said patting Wesley on the back as he headed to the cave, "God you're burning English, how were you able to slap him and not burn your hand?" He asked Cordelia
"Don't know for sure but let get back to the others first"
AN: Hoped you enjoyed and please review, any tips on how to improve my writing would be appreciated