Title: Night Becomes Us
Part: #5
Disclaimer: The characters from the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer are not mine, they are the creation of Joss Whedon's genius and Mutant Enemy.If you plan on posting this on your web site please include my name and the disclaimer, and notify me.
Rating: PG
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"You saw her?" She asked sternly
"Yea Adrene, she tossed our Empata Demon out a 10 story building."
"So, she could be just one of his childe's"
"...she did it without her hands."
"Hmmmm" Adrene mumbled A stocky vampire in the corner of the room grumbled something about how she should just go look her self. Hearing this she asked,
"Excuse me.. I'm sorry I thought I heard you say something" in a mockingly polite tone.
"Why don't we just go over there and find out?" he said louder. The group parted as she stalked back to the vampire. Adrene looked up at him with cold black eyes. She stared up into his eyes and imagined her glare of burning anger would melt his eyes in their sockets.
"It seems the hired help has a head full of ideas. And I know from experience ideas can be burdensome....Let's see if I an help with that." Adrene thrust her arm out, and siezed the trembling vampire's neck..With a swift upward movement she ripped his head off. The two parts of his body burst into dust.
"Oh dear look what I've done. All my toys seem to break. I'm sorry babies, I love you all dearly but I will not tolerate stupidity. I know you understand. When the sun sets want all of you out there and I want more than
just reports, I want that girl!"
The pack of demons and vampires filed out of the dimly lit room, while Adrene and one vampire remained. The Vampire was about 6 feet and was dressed in dark pants and a light tee shirt. He had dark brown messy hair and beautifully full lips. His eyes were blue and he had a strong jaw.
"Adrene" he whispered
"My Adrene" he growled He lifted a hand to her bleach blond hair, brushing it aside he stroked her exposed neck and put his lips to it.
"We need her. I want her with us. She'd make our group so much stronger." Adrene replied lost in her thoughts.
"Right, but what about Spike? You know if he knew about us he'd start messing up our plans. They are too close now." Eddie said as he turned her around to face him.
"I fear this." She replied
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Spike checked his wounds and realized they were almost healed.
"Guns, how pathetic. If I had to count the times I've been shot, well that would be boring." Stalking out of his apartment he headed for the club section in his part of the city.
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Across the continent, Giles waited as the tone on the phone rang and rang. He prayed Buffy would answer, even though he knew she would have picked up by now.
Willow had been helping Giles catalogue his entire library and she'd developed a search program that alerted them to up-coming prophecies. Unfortunately there were so many, they had begun to ignore the 20 or so that appeared daily. Out of boredom Willow browsed the list.
"You know, this is kind of like reading the headlines from trashy magazines, while waiting in line at the supermarket. I mean, listen to these; "Rat people take over Madagascar" "Rivers will turn to wheat" "Vampires will receive their slayer" geez what does that mean?! Buffy is received by vampires everyday."
"I'm sorry Willow, perhaps digitalizing archaic texts was.....receive their slayer, did you say?"
"Uh lemme scroll back," Willow clicked on the link and read the brief section that the computer had taken the sentence from.
"She shall be reborn again and again each time resounding the power. Elettricitaa doth be her visage. The one alone who speaks to power. And the hommunos nocturna (vampires) shall receive their slayer into there arms...."
"Dear lord, Willow. I don't think we should ignore this one."
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She dreamt....
Crackling energy orbited Selene. It hurt at first, then she grew warm by it. She was on a desert, it was gray and windy. She looked at her hands they bled painlessly-then the blood disappeared. She heard the whispers and then condensed to be a familiar male voice.
"Hello pet." Spike said as he appeared and walked forward. Filled with concern and thought of his brutally handsome body turning to dust, she ran towards him.
"Spike! The sun, it's all over you!"
He reached up and brushed he hair from being whipped into her eyes, "oh love, the light is from the only sun I see. And that sun cannot hurt me."
"What do you mean?" she said full on trepidation and mesmerized by his blue eyes.
"Baby, you're the only sun I see," He grabbed her face and kissed her passionately. "Are you ready for this fire?" Spike said in her thoughts as they kissed.
Sun light cracked into her eyes ending her sweet embrace with dream-Spike.
After a shower, she centered herself on a white mat in the approximate center of her studio apartment. Sitting in lotus position, she concentrated deep within herself, centering on an image of a white orb she imagined.. Her eyes opened and they were green, commanding the air around her to condense, a ball of white electricity hovered in front of her raised hands. Working it as if it were clay she whispered to it in her language and focused hard to keep it stable.
"Kreme lat ti nada, kreme may me por nada" She repeated the words she had memorized from the leather book that was half in a vampiric language. Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard glass shatter in another room. The electricity dissipated in a painful flash, it threw her to the floor but she remained concious. Her door was knocked down and several demonic figures
rushed the room. All female, they appeared as some sort of unified task force. Selene jumped to her feet and fended off the first blows delivered by the leather clad demons. Knocking punches left and right and sending two flying into her glass table she was finally knocked down. Rage boiled in her, the table had been a present to herself. "Ly me say kulnoool, far suk!" A slash of air flew at the females knocking them down. Picking herself up she examined the ashen demons, a cold hand clenched on her throat. Adrene's vampire raised her up to meet him eye level. She was taken aback at how drastically sensual yet commanding his eyes were.
She began to lose consciousness as his grip sealed off air and blood from her head. A smug smile covered his face until he noticed that it seemed she was weighing less and less. Selene was using the energy to support her feet, but was having trouble since it was hard to think straight.
"Spike" Selene whispered
"Spike can't save you now pretty baby."
"I beg to differ, mate" Spike replied from behind. He punched the vampire out and swooped down over Selene's sputtering form. She picked her up and carried her effortlessly to her bed.