Going back to the begining.: The war begins.
by Peaches Girl
Buffy reached the middle of the fire escape and looked directly across the alley to the building facing her. She saw Faith and they both gave a nod in agreement.

The time had come to set their plan into action. She saw Faith do a silent count off with her hands and when they reached three, they both jumped off the fire escape and landed solidly on the ground in front of the AI team.

Angel was stunned and jumped back a few steps as the two hit the ground in front of them. Spike did a double take switching his view from Buffy to Faith and back to Buffy again before he began to laugh out loud.

“Should have know you’d come to the rescue love. Nice to see you again pet.”

Angel’s confused look turned to anger as he heard Spike’s laughter. “Shut up Spike! What are you doing here Buffy? You shouldn’t be here. This isn’t your fight.”

Buffy gave him an angry look. “Deal with my being here Angel. I’m apocalypse gal…remember, thought you could use the help.”

“Yea big guy, I don’t think you guys are going to be able to take on this thing by yourselves. There are only four of you; I don’t think you’ll last twenty minutes against that.” Faith pointed over her shoulder at the droves of demons running their way.

“Guys, I don’t think we have time to argue about this. I hope you brought more help than just the two of you.” Gunn finally spoke up before he stumbled and fell to the ground hard. He tried to pull himself back up but the blood loss had him to weak to move.

Buffy looked to Faith and with a nod Faith whistled loudly behind her. “Take your positions ladies” she yelled.

The sight was awe inspiring and Buffy couldn’t help but laugh at the expressions on Angel and Spike’s faces.

Girls appeared from nowhere. They lined the roofs of the buildings surrounding the alley with crossbows. There were girls hanging out of windows with weapons and some came out from behind them in the alley as well.

A few girls came in and pulled Gunn from the alley even though he was protesting loudly that he wanted to stay and fight.

Illyria stood behind Angel with her head cocked sideways. “These two have immense power, I can feel it. What are they?”

“That’s not important right now.” Buffy bit off loudly, partly at Illyria but mostly at Angel. She was mad that he wasn’t happy to see her.

Buffy then noticed vibe she got from the woman. She wasn’t a woman but she wasn’t a demon either. She would ask Angel later about that.

The first of the demons came at them like a wave that crashed ashore from the ocean and it pushed them all back a few paces. It happened so fast that Buffy barely had time to turn around to face them in her fighting stance before a demon rushed at her hitting her hard in the stomach and sending her sailing to the ground.

She faintly heard Angel scream her name before the demon grabbed her by her coat and hauled her into the air. When she was fully upright she swung the scythe and decapitated the demon. He released her and she went crashing back to the ground fully expecting to feel the hard pavement on her ass but was surprised to feel someone catch her before she landed.

She felt the cold strong arms around her waist then felt the familiar shock of electricity that those hands always gave her when they touched. She didn’t even have to look to know it was Angel who caught her. She sucked in a deep breath and pulled herself from his grasp. She turned and gave him a smile then swiftly moved away to continue the fight.

They battled waged on for what seemed like hours and they were all feeling tired and sore. The demons kept coming and coming, there seemed to be no end to. The more they killed the more that came at them.

Willow did her job well with the protection spells but that didn’t stop the amount of demons approaching or the weariness of the warriors trying to keep them back. They needed some help and Buffy was hoping that Willow would step in and find out where these demons were coming from.

At the far end of the alley Willow saw what she had been looking for. It was a portal, and not just an ordinary one. It was at least ten feet high and twenty feet across covering almost the entire entrance to the alley itself. She needed to get it closed and stop the demons from coming thru.

She closed her eyes and tried to think of a powerful enough spell to close it and try to pull as many demons back with it as possible. When she opened her eyes she was startled by the creature that stood before her. The woman looked like Fred but not how she remembered last.

“Who are you?”

“I am Illyria. I shall aid you in closing this portal. Do not fear me witch. I will not harm you.” She crouched down next to Willow to get a better look at the portal.

“Sure….ok….how do you suppose we do that?” Willow was confused, she did hear that Fred was killed by the god who took her body over but it still looked so much like her. She was waiting to hear her start talking physics and ramble about ancient languages.

“I can feel your power. If we use both our energies it should be simple.” Illyria stated this like Willow should already have known what to do.

Willow nodded her head and reached for Illyria’s hand. Illyria pulled back at first then relaxed and gripped Willow’s hand in a bone crunching grip. Willow gasped at the roughness but closed her eyes and began to chant.

The air around the portal began to crack and sizzle and a bright light began to form in the air above them. The light took on the form of a mist and it descended upon the demons coming out of the portal. The wind picked up, and as the colored mist moved around the demons it began to pull back and the portal itself started to shrink in size.

The wind whipped faster and pulled the demons back towards the closing portal until most of them were back inside and the portal finally closed in on itself.

Willow and Illyria let go of each other and both fell to the ground exhausted. The spell worked and it only left a few demons scrambling around trying to find a way out of the alley and away from the warriors who were now plowing them down with little effort.

Willow retreated back to the alley where the rest of the Slayers were. She was grinning from ear to ear as she finally reached Buffy and the rest of the gang.



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