As they researched they found nothing and soon came to the conclusion that there were no books on this prophecy here. That this prophecy must be in some other book in which Giles surprisingly didn't have. Buffy was feeling better and the wound had healed a little and she was practicing battle tactics and whittleing stakes for the oncoming battle. For about half the day it was quiet and nothing happened. Then Angel decided to go to his place to get something to eat. Once he left is when the comotion began.
First the exits were blocked then the fight began. The leader stepped forward and pointed to Buffy and yelled. "Bring her and put the rest in there," he said pointing to a cagelike compartment in the back of the library. "No killing...attack!" Willow, Xander and Giles were surounded by five vampires and they didn't have any weapons. They were quickly defeted and shoulved into the cage where they could only watch as Buffy tried to keep them at bay. She had two stakes and lashed out at two of them. The stakes entered them and they burst into dust.
The vampires kicked away the stakes and circled her. There were ten of them and one of her. It wouldn't be long before shere numbers would overwhelm her. She decided to get the ball rolling and kicked out at one sending him back into another vamp and they crumbled to the floor. She was about to tackel another when one kicked her in the back on her wound. She screamed out and crumbled to the floor. She could feel the wound throb and blood began to seep out of it as she felt the searing pain. Then she turned onto her back just in time to see a fist coming down and connect with her face and then her head swam and she felt like a ton of bricks hit her. Then total darkness overwhelmed her. The leader walked over with a grin on his face and said, "Now we wait!"
Angel had been walking back when he felt something in the pit of his stomache. Something was wrong and he knew he had to get back. He began to run and the feeling got worse the more he ran. Finally he saw the school and felt like he was gonna be sick. He burst through the doors of the library and his heart sank. Buffy was lying on her back her arms tied behind her and a huge bruise on her face. As he rushed towards her he stopped and growled when he saw the leader step out and his minions came from their hiding places. Four attacked Angel from behind and held him as he walked towards Buffy with a daggar in his hand.
He pulled her chin up and put the knife on her throat. Angel was struggling as he shouted at him. "Leave her alone!" But he just laughed and traced her throat with the blade. Teasing him letting him know that with a flick of his wrist his world would be shattered. "Oh leave her alone, thats original. Besides I wouldn't kill her...yet." He mocked with a grin.
"Is it Manall?! Is it?!!?"He said as he uproared with a burst of anger knocking them down. He approched him and saw Buffy move and her eyes flickered open. "You would expect me Maloch to back down to you!?"
He brought her up to her feet and she winced in pain as he brought the daggar to her throat. "You won't kill her you said so yourself Manall would kill you." Angel said slowly walking forward.
"She's your weakness not mine, she's the only colateroll I have to keep you away. Good enough explanation for you?" He said coldly.
Buffy looked at Angel and mouthed the words 'I love you' and nodded and he knew what she was gonna do. She smacked her head into Maloch's face and he stumbled back. She flung her self towards Angel and he picked her up carring her to the cage knocking down a few minions. Angel broke the chain that held her hands and she fought off the minions while he tried to open the cage.
Giles tried handing him the key that he had but it was too big to fit through the small spaces on the door. So he began kicking at it and after about ten kicks the door flew off the hinges into the wall. They ran out and he looked back to Buffy. She wasn't at full strength to begin with and was flat on her back, with all the undead guys over her it didn't look good. Angel rushed back and plunged through them and forced his way to her. Then they got up and were back to back. "You ok?" He said while fighting off a vamp.
"I'll live." She said doing the same.
"Well thats not very reasurring." He said as he pulled her arm and ran out of the library.
"What are you doing?" Buffy said as he pulled her along as he ran. She couldn't keep up and almost stumbled so he stopped a picked her up and continued. As they got to the parking lot Willow, Giles, and Xander were in the car,(Giles was driving now)and they motioned for them to hurry. He got to the car and put Buffy in the back seat and opened the front door.
"What?" Giles said as he was shoulved into the passenger seat. "Sorry Giles but we gotta move, buckle up." And they shot out of the parking lot over the curb and peeled out on the highway.
The vamps ran out onto the road and one got hit by a truck. The truck stopped and the other vamps attacked the driver and woman in the passenger seat. "God look at that don't they have any mercy?" Willow said watching them drain the two innocent people.
"No." Angel said looking back at her for a second then back at the road. "Buffy you ok?" He said after looking back at her in the rearview mirror to see her tired face gazing out the window. "Yea I'm fine." She said smiling and sliding her hand over the seat to his shoulder. He grabbed her hand and they stayed that way the whole ride to her house. He held her hand and thought 'God I could have lost her tonight' but he would never let her go, not without a fight.
Ok, sorry but this is not the conclusion to "Turn of Events." But it will be along soon.
When they reached Buffy's house they quickly walked into the living room and practically fell onto the couch and recliners that surrounded a round coffee table. All except Gile of course. He went straight into the kitchen to call Jenny and see if she was alright. Buffy and Willow were on the couch with their leaned back, looking up at the ceiling. "Buffy, I'm gonna go to sleep now would you like to join me?" Willow said drowselly as her eyes drifted shut. Buffy sighed in response and shut her eyes also. Angel had sat next to Buffy and was looking at the door listening to the screams that had been rising and falling from down town. Of course the others couldn't hear them, they were much too far away for human ears to pick up on. And mabey it was best that they didn't they needed to rest and hearing screams would not be too soothing.
About ten minutes later Giles came in with a grim look on his face. "All of the phone lines are down." He said loud enough to wake Buffy, who had slid down the back of the couch onto Angels shoulder. She looked at Angel and Willow, she too had slid down and was resting on Buffys shoulder.
"Hey Will I can't feel my arm," she said gentley pushing her off of her now tingleing arm. "Ok I'm up but I'm not awake." Willow said as she sat up rubbing her eyes. "That was way too short a nap for me." Xander was sitting in one of the recliners but was now was sitting on the floor leaning on the chair with a little drool on his lower lip. He slowly opened his eyes and registered that he heard voices.
"Have you people ever of a good nights sleep?" He said as he wiped his mouth as he pulled himself up into the chair. "Well sorry for having a major crisiss that must be overted before we die Xander." Buffy said as she stood and stretched her arms over her head. "And besides..." "Listen," Angel said walking to the door. "Someones coming," and with that everyone listened and heard a faint scream.
"Someone better be awake here cause I need help!" A womans voice said from down the street. "Jenny!" Giles said as he burst out the door with the others following close behind. They ran out in the street and saw three very ugly undead chasing Jenny and gaining on her heals. She saw them in the street and ran towards them as fast as she could, while Angel and Buffy braced them selves for a fight. Buffy and Angel with stakes in hand walked forward as Jenny ran past them to Giles and the others. Buffy intersepted the first one with a stake in the heart that should've made it burst into dust, but just smiled and pulled it out. "No, no slayer these don't work on us...thanks to manall we are invincible." He said as he tackled her to the ground. One attacked Angel and the other chased Giles, Jenny, Willow, and Xander into the house. Buffy tried everything she could to take the vampire out but nothing seemed to faze him and he just laughed every time she staked him. "Get to the house!" Angel yelled as kicked the vamp he was dealing with to the ground. Buffy would've gladly done so but the demon had her on her back and was choking her while he laughed at her attempts to knock him off her. She slowed down as she began to get dizzy and went limp.
The third vamp had come back from the house after realizing that he could not enter, and now Angel was battleing two of them. "Buffy?!" He shouted over his shoulder, there was no answer he looked back quickly to see why she hadn't responded. He saw the vamp over her moving towards her neck, and his senses numbed. He turned to the other two just in time to recieve a powerful kick, but he punched back not even fazed from the blow. He knocked the other out with his head and ran back to Buffy. The vamp had his fangs in her neck and was draining her, Angel tackled him from behind and they rolled across the street into a driveway. Angel pulled out a metal post from the ground and staked the vamp as he was tring to get up. His eyes went wide as he fell to the ground, he hadn't killed him but he had definitly hurt him. He turned back and saw the others recovering, he picked Buffy up and rushed towards the house.
"Open the door or its coming down!" Angel said as he ran up the front yard. The door opened and he burst through and winced as his anger wore off and he began to feel the wounds that he had been delt. He set her down on the couch and he fell next to her on the floor as he examined his wounds and hers. "Good Lord...how much blood did she lose?!" Giles said holding a hankerchief to her neck to stop the bleeding. "No more than a pint...her pulse is pretty strong." He said looking at the jagged tare in her neck where the vampires fangs had been ripped from her neck when Angel tackled him.
"Her pulse?" Giles said wondering how he had been able to get her pulse in all the comotion. "I could feel it when I carried her, and I can hear it." He said as he stood to go into the kitchen for the first aid kit(he'd seen it when he was over one time when Buffy had tended to his wounds). "Wow super blood sucker." Xander said when Angel had left. "Xander!" Willow said elbowing him in the ribs. "Oh ya I forgot he can hear me cause he's super blo..." He was cut off by Willows hand over his mouth. He struggled and got his mouth free and took a deep breath, "od sucker." He said finishing the rest of his insult in a snide tone. Angel entered but didn't even look at Xander as he sat down next to him in front of Buffy. She was begining to stir and was trying to recover from practically being choked to death.
"Wouch," she said in an attepmt to say 'ouch'. Angel smiled and she looked up and focused on his face. "Blood losage?" She asked as she brought a hand to her neck, which throbbed from being strangled and bitten. "Ya a little bit." He said helping her as she sat up. "Giles I couldn't kill them, no matter what I did. We gotta...find a way...to kill them." She said as she slipped out of consiousness again. "I know." He said as he rubbed his head, a sure sign he was stressed. "Giles she'll be ok don't worry." Jenny said placing a hand on his shoulder. "She's a strong girl." "I know that, but I don't know how to help her...I don't know how to kill them."
"Maybe if we could drive to the library we could find out how to beat these things." Willow said from her place next to Angel. "No chance, they just slashed the tires on her moms car on their way out." Xander said from the door where he was peering out one of the square windows in the front door. "Vamps, gotta make an exit." "No transportation, their cornering us. We've got to get out...but they'll be waiting." Angel said as he joined Xander at the door. "We should find a place to sleep and leave tomarrow, if Buffy and me are at full strength we have a better chance at surviveing." Angel said as he looked at the others. They all nodded and split up to different places in the house to sleep. Xander and Giles slept in the living room on the couch and recliner. Willow slept in Buffys room, Jennt took the guest bedroom and Angel lay Buffy on her mothers bed. He stroked her hair and sat down next to her, vampires really didn't need to sleep for days at a time so he wasn't particularly tierd. But decided that he would after a while after he was sure things had calmed down outside with the vampires. He watched her breath and listened to her heart beat. Just knowing she was alive made him feel at ease and content. So finally after about an hour of watching her sleep he too sank down and rested his head on a pillow. Slowly he fell asleep and let peace and quiet sweep over him.
"Well then we wait, humans have to eat sometime!" Manall shouted at his minions that had failed him. "They'll leave the house for supplies if the cowards don't face me sooner." "Well we need some insurance...I don't care which one you get just get me one of the people in that house. Time to go fishin." Manall said from inside Floyds body. "I assure you we will not fail you master." One of the minions said. "I know, because if you do I tare your head off and eat your heart. Have fun!" And with that they left with a fearful look in their eyes.
At the house two hours later Xander and Giles were startled awake by someone banging on the door. "What the hell!?" Xander said as he got up and walked to the door. He opened it and a young girl was outside. "Can I...can I come in?! Their right back there.!" She said pointing to the street where two vampires were unning towards her.
"Ya, sure, hurry!" Xander said as he pulled her inside. "Why thank you." She said as her face shifted and she slammed Xanders head into the wall. "Come on in boys." She said to the two vamps outside, they walked in and easily knocked Giles out with a knockout punch. "Come on boys if we don't get the slayer then take whoever you can get." The female said as she tossed her long blonde hair over her shoulder. They quickly made their way up the stairs knowing that their entrance hadn't gone unnoticed. The two males went to the guest room and Buffy's room while the female went to the master bedroom(Buffy's mom's room).
She opened the door and peered into it as she moved with a catlike stealthness. She didn't see anyone in the room and was begining to think that the slayer had escaped when she heard a small voice behind her. "You woke me up from a really good dream and a cranky slayer is a pissed off slayer, and a pissed off slayer is a deadly slayer." Buffy said as she emerged from behind the closet door.
Angel had woke her up when he heard the brake-in and she had told him to look after the others. Evidently she had gotten plenty of sleep and was ready for a fight. "Well slayer at last I have my chance to take you out." The vamp said as she turned to see Buffy. "And so will many others after I kill you." Buffy said as she pulled out her stake from her wrist sheath. The vamp lunged and they both fell to the floor kicking and strugglling. Buffy was about to stake her when she finally pinned her but she kneed her in the back of the head and they fell apart from eachother.
The vamp pulled out a surenge and Buffy's eyes widened and she backed up a step. "Oh no, I've spent enough time out of comition today I don't even want to know whats in that!" Buffy quiped with an annoyed look on her face. The vampire took a step closer and Buffy delivered a round house kick that knocked the girl off her feet. She quickly bent over her and plunged the stake into her heart. After she turned to dust she took the surenge in her hand and walked into the hall way. She stepped on some dust as she walked out and knew the good guys won. She looked up to see Angel and Willow coming towards her and gave an annoyed smile. "My mom's gonna kill me cause you got dirt on her carpet." She said putting a hand on her hip and pointing the stake at them accusingly.
"Sorry but we couldn't get them to stand over the ash tray while we staked 'em." Willow said with a playful smile. They walked downstairs and Angel got Giles and Xander on the couch and love seat. He caught sight of the surenge in Buffy's hand and looked up at her. "What's this?" He said taking it from her. "Oh the vamp/chick couldn't take me so she tried to cheat," she said but then she saw the worried look on Angel's face. "But she didn't get close enough to stick me with it." Angels face didn't change at her reasuring words.
"They're trying to capture you, if they wanted to kill you why would they drug you?" He said knowing his point was made. It was getting serious and they had to stop Manall tonigh. "If we don't take Manall out tonight he will be at full power soon." Angel said turning the needle in his hand. "Ya, and if he gets Buffy's body then we're really in trouble. Unless vampires or demons get us, and that won't be fun..." Willow looked up and saw Angel and Buffy looking at her with the usual 'oh-you-made- me-feel-better-look'. "Sorry I was just thinking out loud." She tried to smile but it was a poor attempt and failed.
Just then Xander flew up and fell off the couch with a thud. "Aaahhh!" He yelled as he slowly came to and saw that all was well, "Bad guys gone?" He asked felling his sore head. "Dusted." Buffy replied while helping him to sit up on the couch. "Who invited them in?" Angel asked as he sat next to Xander and looked up to Buffy. Xander sheepishly looked at him and gave a goofy smile, "Well I thought they were after her...sorry." "Well did she ask you to invite her in?" Buffy asked sitting next to Angel and taking his hand.
"Ya, i guess I should've known what she was cause of that." He said silently cursing himself for being so foolish, especially when all of his friends were asleep in the house. "Vampires their just so...so...bad..in a really bad way, no offense of course." Willow said giving Angel an original cute, sad smile. "None taken," Angel replied as he returned the smile understandibly. Then they looked up to see Jenny coming down the stairs rubbing her eyes. She saw everyone assembled in the living room and smiled. "Hey how did everyone wake up before me?" She said as she sat down across from Giles. She looked at him and saw a huge bruise on his face, "Rupert, oh my gosh what happened to him?" She said rushing over to him. He was still out cold and would be for a while longer.
"Oh he probobly got in their way." Xander said massaging his head. "Who's way?" Jenny said looking at everyone. They were either exausted or injured in some way. "You mean you didn'twake up at all when the three vamps came in here and tried to kill us?" Willow said looking at Jenny with one eyebrow raised. "No I didn't...you dusted them right?" "Ya, no problem." Buffy said waving her stake in the air. Then she stopped and looked at her hand. "Wait the ones earlier we couldn't dust, what gives?" She said glanced at Angel with a puzzled look on her face.
"I don't know, mabey its because they were in a dweling. I didn't even think about that." He said remembering the fight earlier with the unstopable vampires. "I didn't think I just staked." Willow said from her seat. "Well you guys sure didn't make much noise, I slept through the whole thing." Jenny said as she looked in the mirror on the wall running her fingures thruogh her hair. "Buffy I could use a hair brush and a miracle." She said turning and guesturing to her messy hair. "The bathroom next to the guest room, it has the whole nine in it." She said with a smile. "Thanks." And with that she disapeared up the stairs. "Well I say we take this Manall guy out. Mabey bait a trap and real him in?" Buffy said standinging and putting her stake in her sheath. "What will we use as bait, I mean he doesn't drink blood and has stooges to do his dirty work." Xander said standing and following Buffy as she walked to the window to look outside. Buffy turned and smiled, "Well he wants the slayer, lets use that to our advantage. Plus I would never send you guys into a trap. I'm more experienced." She said in a superior tone.
"No way!" Angel said joining the others at the door. "Buffy if you put yourself in a trap he may overpower us, then what?" He said looking at her with worried eyes. "I don't know mabey we could go to his lair, hit him where he doesn't expect it?" "We'd be overpowered, we'd have to make a deversion on the surface to get some of his followers out of their hide out. But even then..." He said knowing he didn't have to finish his thought. She sat down again, she felt so helpless and he hated himself for not being able to do something. "This sucks, if there is a suckiest thing ever this is suckier." Buffy winned while she crossed her arms and got up and started paceing the room. "I'm on deadboy's side. No trap. We can do without you becoming a main course Buff." He said as he gave Angel a friendly pat on the back.
"Now is not the time Xander Don't push me." Angel said giving Xander the I-could-snap-your-neck-like-a- twig look. "Ok, ok, you don't have bite my head off like that." Xander said taking a step back, then he realized what he had just said and clapsed his hand over his mouth. "It's all in the words you choose Xander. And most people think before they say them." Willow quiped as she pulled Xander away from Angel. Buffy thought back to when she had first read the prophecy and her head shot up. "Angel!" She said as she stopped pacing. Angel jerked his head up at her outburst alarmed. "What is it?" He said walking over to her.
"In the prophecy it said all thoughs who have gone against him will be no more. Since you put him away last time I think you qualify for that category. If he sees you he probably won't hesitate..." "Shhh, no don't worry he's not gonna try anything. He knows I'm alive if he wanted me dead he would've done it already." He said holding her shoulders as he tried to stop her from panicking.
"Ok, but I...don't know how to stop him, or those super vamps...and if I don't..." She didn't bother to finish the thought she just held onto Angel like he was a life preserver and she was drowning. She would find a way she had to. She would get this Manall dude no matter what.