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Author's Note: Read the other notes as to when this event takes place. And I am truly sorry that this is such a long story, it just kept on growing against my will..
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Part Twenty
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"I go a question that no one might want to hear: what do we do with Whistler if he doesn't wake up? Is there a Plan B?"Xander asked in the van as they approached Navidad from the highway.
"Good point, I didn't want to hear it,"Willow replied as she shot a look at Xander."Whoa.Deja vu...think I said that to you once."
"We shake the little pissant until he wakes up,"Spike said as he moved his long legs a bit."Get your legs back on your side of the seat you Irish dog."
Angel growled at him."I'm not the one that's trying to take all the space back here you, Scar boy."
"Will everyone shut up back there?"Giles said from the front seat of Oz's van."In the case that Whistler does not wake up by the time we get to where Buffy is, we will use the rapier. Hlin, are you all right?"
"I am fine, Watcher. Just a little dazed, that's all,"Hlin replied from her seat behind him."i must say, Watcher, it is amazing that you have managed to keep your sanity as long as you have in dealing with these young ones."
"How old are you, Hlin?"Willow asked curiously. Hlin smiled sadly in the darkness of the car, not knowing that Willow could see her face.
"I would be five and twenty years come next Saturday,"Hlin said softly. She shook herself and her voice grew stronger."Everyone knows that the figures must be placed in a safely in front of the fortress. Where they cannot be easily found or crushed."
"Yes, we know that, but what are they supposed to do?"Xander asked."I mean, they don't even look like they could do much except cut the feet of the vamps that step on them."
"They can, and will do so much more, boy,"Hlin said."They are special and they will protect us all, with the *possible exception of the vampires in this car if they do not stop their endless bickering!*"
Angel and Spike glared at Hlin, then stopped. Angel was about to say something when the van swerved to a stop.
"Got another question, why's Cordelia the one that's driving?"Xander grumbled. Cordelia shot her man a look.
"Because I'm the one that is even remotely aware of this lame holed up, bad-exscue-of-an-ashphalt highway,"she informed him haughtily. "And I stopped because I want you to get a look at that!"
Peering down from the van windows, an orange glow lit the skies against the dark back drop of a mountain and the dark waters of the Pacific Ocean. Giles walked out and took out a pair of binoculars to look at what was going on.
"Damn, can't see anything, it's too dark!"he cursed. Angel took them from him.
"I see a whole bunch of vampires, maybe fifty gathered in front of a building, maybe the town hall? No, it looks like a closed off garden or park. There's a pile of wood gathered around the building, which seems to be burning. And they're just standing there. Looks like they're waiting for something,"Angel said as he handed the binoculars back to Giles."But why? What are they wait for?"
"Was it at the center of the town, this building that the vampires gathered in front of?"Hlin asked. Angel nodded. Hlin looked at the vampire then at the town."Plans of the town said that there was a town hall that is connected to another house, one that is further by the mountains and the sea, through an underground passage."
"By why? Why connect the town hall to another house by a route underground?"Willow frowned. It was too weird for her computer-like mind to understand.
"Pirates,"Hlin answered."This area is near Mexico. And this town is a small and isolated coastal village."
"So the town hall would be the safest place to gather the women and children, and allow them to go through a hidden passage underground to a safe house, where they could escape either by foot or sea. Ingeneous,"Giles whispered. He noticed everyone's looks."What?"
"And now the vampires are using it. Great. Now what?"Xander griped.He looked at Giles, Hlin and Willow."Well, Brain Trust? What now do we do?"
Hlin smiled coolly."We look for the other house. The Slayer's Mother said that Buffy was calling from a place where there were lots of trees, water and a mountain. Which means-"
"That Buffy had escaped from the safe house,"Willow said excitedly. She ran to the driver's seat of the van. "Let's go! I'll drive!"
* * *
Joyce woke up in her bed room."Whoa....what was the name of that truck that hit me?"
It took a moment to register what had happened to her. She was arguing with Giles. Buffy was going to be found. Liam standing behind her."That boy is going to get a beating. Okay, Joycie, so now what. You have no idea where they went. What to do. Where Buffy is. Not a good start. Now what?"
Joyce leaned back against her bedframe."Everyone will have the weapons. I have my axe, so weapons are not a problem. Giles, Angel, Liam, Hlin all know where they're going. But I don't so how do I find...No, not me, I won't find Buffy. But maybe Oz will find Willow!"
* * *
The sleeping form of the lupine Oz chained on top of Joyce's land rover was heavy.
Joyce started the car slowly and drove slowly, as if it was a normal thing for a woman to have a chained-up-and-drugged-up werewolf on top of her car.
When she saw that she was outside the town limits, she stepped on the pedal harder.
* * *
Buffy fought off another vampire that had come up from behind her. She was getting tired, and the vampires kept on coming after her. She had to do something to prevent the vampires from taking her to that ritual where everyone would take a one trip to oblivion. She looked at the circle of flame around her before she was distracted by another attacking vampire.
Lilith watched as the Slayer grew tired and prepared her Ritual to evoke Gaia's favor.
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Willow parked fifty feet away from the mansion that had a huge fire behind it.
"Doesn't anyone here not smoke?"Xander coughed. As he leaned against the van.
"Lilith is evoking a ritual to attract Gaia's attention! We must hurry! It is eleven o'clock, we must stop her! Are the figures planted?"Hlin asked hurriedly. Cordelia nodded. Giles and Angel then appeared beside her.
"Small clay things all planted safely and ready to go."
"So how do we get into the building to save Buffy?"Willow asked in a coughing voice.
"That's easy, we take you there,"a voice growled from the darkness. Screaming Willow turned to find herself and her friends surrounded by a group of vampires."Look here, we got the Slayer's friends and the traitor. Shall we eat them now? Or take them to Lady Lilith?
"She was expecting them,"shrugged one."And I really don't want to get eaten. Better take them to her."
From Spike's hiding place, he saw that the Slayer's friends were taken into the building.
Spike then spied into the van.
* * *
"Lady Lilith, we bring you those that were expected. The Slayer's friends,"presented a vampire as he knelt before her. Lilith ignored him as she cleaned the altar that stood before the only entrance to the atrium. She could still see the Slayer doing her mad fighting dance, though she was begining to move ever more slowly.
"My Lady Lilith,"the vampire began again. A tentacle of hair shot out and absorbed the energy of the vampire quickly, leaving only dust. Her hair swirled around like angry snakes before they settled down.
"I heard you the first time, vampire," Lady Lilith said as she turned from the altar she was standing near. She faced the Slayer's friends.
"You're not the Lilith that Whistler fought!"Willow exclaimed. She looked at Giles in confusion. Then Hlin screamed.
Pointing in shock, Hlin cried,"By the Gods! You're-"
Lilith smiled coldly as her hair settled down."I was Mana-kai. Now I'm a monster."
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