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Part Eighteen
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Angel jumped out of the van as Willow skidded to a stop. He raced towards the place where Willow had last seen Whistler.
When Willow came into the Summers house screaming about demons attacking Whistler, everyone snapped into a frenzy. Angel had managed to calm Giles down enough to make him think to search for a reason why the rapier was so important and with his help, he was able to hold Buffy's mother from coming with him and Willow. It wasn't easy, but after Giles' bruised shins and a kick into Angel's groin, they managed to calm her down and convice her to stay at home with Cordelia.
Angel opened his senses to try and find the traces of Whistler's scent.
"Angel?"Willow whispered. Angel spun around, growling at her. Surprised, she stepped back, holding the cross in front of her. He growled at it.
"Willow, I told you to stay in the car,"he said."It may not be safe here for you."
"Like it might be for you?"she retorted."Besides, Look!"
Angel spun around and saw what had caught Willow's eye. There was a body draped over the garbage cans of an alley near Willie's place. Both ran towards it, but Angel with his speed, got to it first.
"Is-is it Willie or Whistler?"Willow asked. Angel turned the body over and saw the familiar bright red aloha shirt under the leather coat.
"It's Whistler. And those vampires did a pretty good job on him. Let's get him to Giles,"Angel said as he lifted Whistler's badly beaten body."I guess you mouthed off to one person too many, friend."
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"I don't get it. Why beat up Whistler?"Cordelia asked as she sat down at the kitchen table. She was busy assembling water guns to hold holy water."I just don't get."
"Maybe he mouthed to one demon too many?"Xander replied as he started pouring water into the assembled guns.
Giles shook his head."Willow, you said that Whistler called the demon Lilith. And an Immortal. She was after the rapier, but why?"
Willow shrugged."I have no idea what's going on. It was too dark to see, but that they were vampires. If that was Lilith, what was she doing around Willie's?"
"And what's an Immortal vampire like her doing near that dump of a place?" Spike asked as he took a loud sip from his straw from an orange container."I mean, why would she be there?" He took a louder sip then burped.
When he heard silence, he looked around to find everyone looking at him."What?"
"We're-uh-trying to figure out what you're trying to say,Spike"Willow said hestiantly. Giles nodded and then gave him a look.
"And that you're being quite rude in sipping that juice loudly,"Giles added."And burping while at it."
Spike placed the container down on the counter hard as he stepped up to the Watcher."You're not my old man, Watcher. So you'd better stop acting like it, I can throw you out of here if I want."
Xander stood up with water gun in hand."Try it, Spikey boy."
"Stop this,"Joyce commanded as she stepped into the kitchen with a box of garlic."Or else I get my axe."
Spike settled down and moved away from Joyce as she made her way to the sink. Giles cleared his throat.
"So is this Lilith an Immortal vampire? Aren't all vampires Immortal?"he asked."Is this one special?"
"The point that Spike is trying to make, in his own inept way, is that Lilith should not have been near Willie's,"Angel announced as he came from the basement."Lilith should have had a minion bring her someone to eat. She shouldn't have to go hunting. She should have stayed in place, and let the others bring her...people."
The humans pondered that distrubing thought."So, then where's Buffy?"Joyce asked quietly as she looked up from the garlic that she was peeling."If this Lilith has Buffy, and she near Willie's. Where is she? Not near that deserted town, I think."
"Who knows? But there are too many things that are puzzling me,"Giles mused.
"Everything puzzles you, G-man. So give,"Xander said as Giles gave him an annoyed look.
"To sum it all up:Buffy's going to be sacrificed tomorrow night for a ritual that will destroy both human and vampire.Why? Furthermore,Hlin was told that Whistler and Spike were not to be harmed, as well as this Lilith demon. Why? Also, the same demon is after the rapier that Whistler recognized over ten thousand years ago. Why? There are too many whys and not enough answers," Giles ended frustratingl."Why destroy both human and vampire? Why is that rapier so important?"
"Why not?Xander quiped. Everyone glared at him."What?"
"Let me eat him,"Spike growled."That way we won't have to put up with his nonsense."
Everyone ignored him. Joyce sighed."And all it boils down to is that we have no idea what is going on and we don't know where on earth Buffy is."
"Add to the fact that a bunch of vampires are in town..."said Willow as she drifted off and ran to her laptop. Her fingers flew over the keys. Giles looked over her shoulder.
"Willow?"
"I'm hacking into the coroner's reports. From what we know, there's been a bunch of vampires coming into town, Right?"
"Right."Xander agreed.
"But from what we know,there hasn't been *any* vampire activity in town. No deaths from vampire bites or anything,"Willow said excitedly."Not even that girl we thought was Buffy. See? She died from a broken neck with no nite marks."
"That is odd,"Angel said as he looked at Spike.
"Don't look at me,Irish. I've been having the stuff that Mum's been giving me."
"So if they aren't hunting here, then where?"Cordelia asked.
"They must be wherever Buffy is,"Xander said as he looked at Giles for confirmation.
"So then where is she?"Joyce asked again.
"I know not where she is, Lady Mother,"Hlin said as she entered the kitchen."But I do know where she might have been taken to. Where is Whistler?"
"He's in the basement, beaten,"Angel answered as he took a step closer to Hlin."Where's Buffy?"
"Will he survive?"
"He'll live,"Angel answered curtly."Where's Buffy?"
Hlin looked at him coolly and then looked at Buffy's mother."The ritual calls for a sacred place that is near the six elements."
"Isn't there only four?"Xander asked. Hlin looked at him impaitently.
"There are six:earth, water,air,fire,metal and wood. The Western thought does not include wood and metal."Hlin looked at the Watcher."The deserted town, Navidad, is deserted because it there was a problem with the water table there. It conatined a toxic amount of sulfur and radiation. It was originally a mining town."
"Water, metal and fire,"Giles whispered."An empty town. Easy to go through the underground tunnels. Near the mountains?"
"Surrounded,"Hlin confirmed."There is a house on the mountain that the satalites located."
"Buffy's there. Let's go,"Willow said. Hlin stopped her with a hand.
"You plan to go into a den of vampires? Without planning something? Are you suicidal?"
Giles agreed."We must plan on how to rescue Buffy. We have this night and the day to get her."
"And it won't be too late to help her,"Joyce whispered. She looked at Giles."We won't be too late."
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