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Part Eight
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As Spike held Joyce in his arms, he waded through the sewer tunnel carefully. He had nearly fallen before, nearly dropping her, and he was not about to repeat that experience again. Especially when the damn tunnels were littered with seaweed. He looked around warily, all of his vampiric senses alert. He smelled stale blood and dust all around him, along with the decaying scent of fish, garbage and human refuse. thought Spike as he took another step. He stepped on something squishy. He looked down and saw the hand of a dead man floatng up. Sighing, he hefted the unconcious Joyce closer to his chest. He was glad that she wasn't awake to see that. and he hadn't the faintest clue why.
Granted that she was the Slayer's Mother. And she had once hit him on the head with an axe when he had attacked the school. But she had also granted a wary welcome into her house. Then she had given him that packet of blood in Los Angeles after he had saved her life. But that was *not* the oddest thing that hads happened to him. It was the fact that she had not allowed him to die.
The Slayer's Mother had not allowed him, a vampire, the mortal enemy of her daughter to die under that pile of rocks. Then she drove off that demon that was about to use him for face powder, like it did to Rickster. She batted the demon with that iron pole like she did for her Slayer daughter. It was...weird. He looked down at Joyce's pain drawn face, but didn't see her. He saw a face from a time long past. He saw his mother's quiet face. he whispered. Then Spike shook his head, and he saw Joyce's face again. He frowned at her, staring at her. He felt something hit his booted leg, and looked down. It was a piece of garbage bobbing up and down. Grimacing, he looked around and started walking again until he reached the doorway he had just spied. he grumbled. Still, as he opened the door, her wondered.
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Buffy looked around the sewer tunnel she was in, finding nothing. There was seaweed all over the place, but other than the occasional piece of floating garbage, nothing. Buffy thought as she rubbed her pert nose. She took several more careful steps, she had stopped running because she had nearly tripped over debris. Then her foot hit something, she was about to look down when her walkie talkie sqwaked loudly.
"Buffy? You there?"Giles's voice rang out. Buffy frowned at her little black communicator, and took great gulping breaths while trying to smell anything. She placed her hand against her chest to calm her fast beating heart."Buffy?"
"I'm here, Giles. Jeez, did you have to put this thing on loud? It's enough to wake the dead down here,"Buffy scowled.
"Sorry, but I was wondering if you had seen anything yet. Gabriel had seen more bodies with gnawed necks, and all I have seen so far is an inordinate amount of debris and seaweed. Anything on your end?"
"Nothing but debris and seaweed, Giles. I'm going to move up..."she frowned as she got a closer look to what hit her foot."Oh, God..."
"Buffy? Buffy, what is it?"
Buffy stared at the thing she pulled out of the water."It's...it's a hand, Giles. I pulled up a hand! Ew!" She threw the hand as far away from her as she possibly could.
"Buffy...this means that you might be getting close to the monster's source of power!"Giles said excitedly."You're the closest one so far!"
Buffy frowned at the walkie talkie."And just how am I supposed to kill this damn thing? We still don't have a bead on how we can get rid of it, Giles!"
"Well, yes, but I'm sure that we could think of something. We always do,"Giles said encouragingly."I'll try and contact Willow now."
"Fine,"Buffy grumbled. She continued walking until she spied a doorway.
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Giles looked at his tunnel and continued down, his flashlight looking for anything. So far all he saw was debris, garbage and dead fish. There was no dead bodies, seaweed and alot of dust all around. He just couldn't understand it. Water was all over the place, and seaweed was on top of the debris. But there was dust all over the seaweed. It just didn't make any sense. Was the sewer tunnel so unstable that it was flaking? Giles shook his head. There was something missing, but he couldn't place his finger on it. He walked further on, and found another junction in the tunnels. This time there were two doorways. he mused. His head snapped as he heard sounds of water splashing and growling. Quickly he ducked into a doorway.
"Get the hell away from me!"growled a vampire as he struggled through the water, tripping on debris. He threw a rock at the smaller figure approaching him.
thought Giles as he closed the door tighter, but enough so he could see.
"Kappas be pretty! Pretty Kappas!"cackled the smaller figure. The vampire triiped and fell, he scrambled to get up, but Kappas pounced on him."Make Kappas pretty!"
The vampire screamed as he turned to dust when Kappas bit his neck. The small demon grabbed at the dust and patted it all aound itself, sliming itself with the murky water."Pretty Kappas now! Pretty!"
Giles kept quiet as the small demon continued on its way.
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