Knights, Werewolves, Vampires OH MY!!!!

Chapter Seven

Giles's apartment………

The book was not that thick, in fact the book looked less than an hundred pages long. And it hardly weighed anything. In fact the envelope on the floor seemed thicker and heavier to Giles. Bending down he picked it up, and discovered that is was done in parchment. Leave it to Travers to be so old fashion as to use parchment, thought Giles.

Opening the envelope, Giles found yet another parchment page inside, sighing he removed it, and started reading.

Giles,

In this book you will find the prophecy and research to date on a group of individuals who are suppose to make up the group of 3 which will lead to the group of six, that is if they are allowed to remain alive to do so.

From what you have told the council, the group of three has already been formed. Watch them carefully, if they turn towards evil they will make the Scourge of Europe seem like children playing.
You must also find out whom the other three are that will make up the group of six, they are counterpoints to the original group of three. The research show that they will be one woman and two men in this next group to join with the other trio.

We, the council, hold you and your Slayer responsible for this mess, and you had best make sure it doesn't get any worse, or everyone involved will be terminated with extreme prejudice.

B. Travers

Crumpling the note up Giles threw it across the room. Going over to a cabinet, he opened, and reached for a bottle of brandy, not even bothering to pour himself a glass, he just took a swift drink out of the bottle.

Looking over at the crumpled not again, Giles muttered, "Not bloody likely will I allow you or yours to kill the boy I consider my son, or any others in this matter, you bloody git."

Grabbing up the book and start reading the first page, he found the following:


White Knight brave and loyal
Red Beast who will become royal
Demon with a soul that is soil

Betrayed by love
Gifted by the whited dove
Given immortality from above

Trio now and forever bound
Through time enemies will hound
Until they are put into the ground

Lonely trio each will find another
Loved like a Father, sister or brother
United forever to love each other

Three will become six
This will be a tricks
This union must stick

Man who studied law
Man who looked and saw
Woman who cheered them all


Enemies within and without
False friends will cause doubt
Demon with time will have clout

Six must be saved
From united looker's raved
This group evil they must stave

Moon in line with King's planet
Earth in line war's planet
Love's world in line with Ringed Planet

Time will tell
Who should go to hell
With the ring of final bell

Grabbing a pencil and paper, he got busy deciphering the bloody confusing thing, and hoping that he can do it in time.

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After a while Giles got frustrated, and threw the pencil stub across the room. He had cross checked, even guessed at some parts, and it still did not make any sense to him. He had gone throw at least 3 tablets of paper, and the flying pencil was his third one of the evening.

Giving up for the night, he placed a call to Angel for them to come over in the morning, but all he got was the vampire's answering machine. Leaving a message, Giles called it a night, and went to bed.

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Across town, back at the hospital, the two girls were still upset and complaining. Buffy was also worried because her Mother had not shown up for the evening, and she couldn't get any answers over at her home. Scared and determine to find out where her family was, she decided to leave the hospital, and was trying to get Willow to follow her as usual.

"Come on Wills, we have to go check on them," whined Buffy in that certain tone that would cause Watchers, boyfriends, and glass to break under the pressure of it mighty force.

Sighing and knowing she would eventually agree, Willow just faced the inevitable, and capitulated, and agreed to leave with her. Besides, Willow thought, she didn't want to spend a night in Sunnydale hospital without a slayer to stand guard anyway, now that she was powerless.

Willow forgot how to stand and fight with her physical abilities, since she had started to rely so heavily on her magical abilities. Now she was handicapped, at least in her mind.

Gathering their things, they quickly left down a stairwell just a few doors down from theirs. The nurses paid a never mind to their leaving, use to comings and goings at night, and more concern of surviving the night, than their own patients. This was one of the reasons that Sunnydale Memorial had such a death rate.

Quickly walking into an alley way, and breaking up some wooden flats there, Buffy makes a couple of make shift stakes for her and Willow to use in case there was any problems on the way back to her place.

Walking quickly they arrive in time to see Buffy's mother pull into the driveway as they came upon Buffy's block. After a hour of walking home, both girls were tired from their injuries, and were sore all over. Quickening their pace, they made it to Buffy's yard just as Joyce and Dawn were getting out of the car.

Upon seeing her sister, Dawn just saw red all over again. She quick stepped it over to Buffy, who was expecting hug, not the re-sounding slap that she got. She heard it's twin being delivered to Willow also by Dawn.

Looking stunned at her sister, Buffy stammered, "What the hell was that for?"

Dawn looking shocked at the blank look on Buffy's face, could only get madder. "That was for sealing both Oz and Xander to that monster you call a boyfriend. If I have my say in the matter, I will tell you council to lock you away from humanity, both of you, for a very long time."

Turning towards the stunned Willow, "And as for you, I so glad you're without the ability to touch your powers, it's a fitting punishment to have them, and never be able to use them again. If I could have your powers for one day, I would bind you both to a chaos demon, just so you would know what those guys are going through right now," screamed a very upset adult-looking Dawn.

Grabbing her screaming daughter, and motioning the other two to get inside, Joyce drags Dawn back towards the car bit to allow the other two to get inside without further disturbance.

"Dawn, you have to calm down. Yes I know what they did was upsetting, but I screaming and hitting are not going to solve this problem, so calm down," demanded Joyce. Joyce feared for her younger daughter, for when Buffy came out of her shocked attitude, she could really hurt Dawn if she got angry enough, now that she was the Slayer.

She would also have to talk with Giles about why Dawn's eyes kept glowing green lately, but that was for another time, and place.

After Dawn had calmed down some, Joyce released her, and followed her into the house, where the two stunned older girls were sitting on the couch looking at them when Joyce and Dawn walked in.

"Mom, are you going to punish Dawn for what she did to the two of us," demanded Buffy, who was starting to show signs of getting angry over the incident outside.

"No, I am not. She only did what I wanted to do earlier tonight, but if she doesn't stop making those faces, I just might," said Joyce not even bothering to turn around to confirm if she was right about the face making, but she did hear Dawn gulp and knew she was right.

Sulking Buffy flopped back onto the couch and crossed her arms, for she knew her sister just won that round of the ongoing battle of sibling rivalry. Willow just sat there rubbing her cheek and shoot hate filled glances at Dawn.

"And as for you Miss Rosenberg, I would stop looking at my youngest so hatefully, we all know who is really to blame in this mess, and only one of us has magical powers to do what you did to poor Xander and Oz," snarled Joyce going into over protective mother mode.

Willow cowered back as she faced an angry mother in protective mode, she knew she couldn't stand up to Joyce, not even when she had magic did she dare to, and now she was more than afraid of the Slayer's mother. Buffy pulled back as well, surprise at the hatefully sound in her mother's voice, and the look of cold steel in her eyes was enough to make Buffy whimper in fear. Nothing that they had ever faced scared the two girls as much as Joyce did at that moment.

"Now as for you two, why are you here and not in the hospital? I know I heard the doctor say at least another few days there," demanded the older woman.

Looking at each other, Buffy started. "When I couldn't reach you at home at this time of night, I got scared and had to make sure that you were alright."

"Rupert made sure we made it home okay, and he has been giving me lessons on the sly on how to stake a vampire if I need to," smirked Joyce. Buffy got upset all over again, she should have been the one teaching her mother to protect herself, not Giles.

"Now as for you two, Willow, I am sorry, but you're no longer welcomed in this house. As of right now until forever if I have my way. If there is an emergency, this rule will not apply, but it had better be ending the world type of thing that seems to happen at least once a year. You can call Buffy, and meet either at the school over at Rupert's apartment. So I am asking you to leave. I will drive you home, and make sure you get inside, but this will be that last time you will enter my house," lectured Joyce as she laid down the new laws.

Turning towards Buffy, who had her mouth open to speak, "You, young miss, can just shut it right now. Your punishment is just as severe. You will no longer be allowed to associate with Willow her, except at school, and over at Giles. There will be no Bronzing for you, and your patrol time is cut back as well. If I find you have gone behind my back on this, I will make you life a living hell."

"When the council gets here, I will petition them to remove your powers, and then at least a year of counseling over there in England. This way I can separate the two you even further."

"Ladies, as far as I am concern, this so called friendship is at an end, and I will do my best to make sure it stays dead," command Joyce.

Stunned the two girls could only sit there in shock, both of them seeing the doom that Buffy's mother has condemned them to. Willow was now really scared, without Buffy she was totally alone in the world, especially now that Xander and Oz had turned their backs on her. She started to cry.

"OH please save you tears for those that care," snarked Dawn.

"Dawn, that is enough," said Joyce to her daughter, turning back to the girls, "But she is right Willow, dry up those tears, you will find no here cares about them, now get out to my car so I can drive you home one last time," commanded Joyce.

Getting up and running out of the house, Willow could be heard crying all the way to the car.

"Buffy you will not patrol for at least a week, because of your injuries, and you will go to school, spending time cleaning up the mess you help create in the chem lab. Thank God that is one bit of damage you caused that I am not paying for," Joyce told her daughter.

Sighing Joyce just shook her head at her oldest child, and left to drive Willow home.