Knights, Werewolves, Vampires OH MY!!!!

Chapter Nine

Far away, in some remote part of African continent, Spike head suddenly snapped up, and he grabbed it grunting at the pain of whatever was happening . Suddenly, as if he was standing in the room with him, Spike could hear his Sire's words, By Blood, by desire, and by my power as Master of the Clan, William the Bloody, childe of the Aurliues clan, I, your Sire, summon you to appear before me.

Sighing, knowing that the pain would increase until he answered the summons, Spike got up and started to pack. After that was done, he went to find Drusilla, and tell her what was going on.

As he entered her room, he noticed she was at the table having one of her tea parties with her dollies. Walking up he kissed her like the princess he thought she was.

"Sweet, I have to leave, Daddy has summoned me, and he used the Sire's Call, I have to answer it, right," asked a patient Spike.

"Of course you do, Spike my pet. Daddy has been wedded to the Dark Kitten and the Playful Wolf. The stars race into alignment, and you have a part to play. Time is against Daddy, and the Storm controls midnight, you must hurry, you must scurry my dear one. You must stop the bad Slay and the Witchie Tree from doing their deeds, or we all will fall down like blades of grass," said the crazed seer.

Sighing, and memorizing what she had said, Spike kissed Drusilla good-bye and left. He left word with the minions that they had created on how to protect her and keep her from the sunlight she liked to try to play in. Seeing to these things, Spike began he trip back to the states, it would take him about a week just to get to the coast unless he stumbled across a jeep somewhere.

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Feeling Spike answering the summons, Angel came out of his trance, and into a nightmare. Both his lovers were down, and bleeding from every hole in their heads. Rushing towards them, Angel was stopped by Giles with a stake in his hand.

"You bloody bastard, what did you do to them?" screamed Giles, waving the stake at him.

"First, I don't know, all I know is that they somehow got caught up in my Childe's summoning, and they helped. I don't know how or why, but I dinna do it on purpose. Second, put away that stake, you can't kill me with that any more, remember I am immortal now, and so are they," Angel yelled back.

Pushing the Englishmen aside, he went over to Xander and Oz, who were on the couch laying down at either end, and knelt by them in the middle as not show favoritism.

AS he knelt both boys were coming out of whatever stupor they were in, and gave Angel and Giles a slight grin to indicate they were fine.

"Dinna scare me like that again, you two," said Angel with a slight accent that showed his Irish background, and just how upset he really was.

Xander and Oz sat up and grabbed Angel in a three way hug, soft mummuring could be heard from trio, as they tried to comfort each other from the ordeal. After a few mintues of this they broke apart, and Oz and Xander went to get cleaned up from the dried blood on thier faces.

When they got back, Angel began speaking.

"I managed to make contact with Spike, and he is on his way, with Drucilla, or any of his minions. We will have to make sure he behaves in town, or Buffy will have a reason to kill him, if that is she is still the slayer by the time he makes it here."

"When will he get here, we are on a tight schedule," replied Giles. He was very uncomfortable with the idea that William the Bloddy, aka Spike, was someone that he might ended up bonded to. Hell to face facts, he was uncomfortable with bonding with Angel if it came to that, and he sorta liked Angel. At least way better than Spike.

How Ethan must be laughing at me now, thought Giles.

Catching the thought, and speaking before he could stop to think of why he shouldn't have, Xander asked, "Why would Ethan be laughing at you?"

"You heard me." inquired Giles.

Gulping and realizing what he had done, Xander looked at both Angel and Oz for guidance, and both gave him a nod to go own.

"Giles, I wasn't suppose to say anything yet, but since I put my foot in between my gums again, I will say this much, so far we have heard both you and Cordy perfectly. THe receiption of your guys thoughts is getting stronger and clearer as each hour goes by," explained Xander. The other two men just nodded in agreement with him, as Giles say there pondering.

After a few minutes of thinking, Giles sighed. "I guess it can't be helped. This is proable what they meant by the bonding with you. It was bound to happen according to the prophecy, and I must face the facts that I will be bound to two vampires."

"Giles, trust me, being bound to a vampire does have it plus sides, as I will leave for you to find out," Xander said. Trying something that he didn't know would work, he sent a silent message to Giles. Plus the sex is great, trust me, Hander thought at the older man.

Groaning at the metal image he got, not from Xander, but rather from the words he sent, Giles thought had and sent back, Stop that, I don't need to know that right now.

Grinning at the comment all three men just looked at each other and shrugged. Giles if he concentrated, could almost make out the words that the boys were saying to each other and to Angel.

"It's a start Giles, it's a start," said Xander.

Grinning and nodding at Oz, join Angel on the couch, and snuggled up the handsome vampire. Almost purring at the attention that he was getting, Angel had a hard time focusing on the problem at hand. Meaning the prophecy.

"Gentlemen, this all well and good, but we need to get back to the prophecy. I wish Willow was here, she could use that dratted box and find out when the planets are in their proper place like it said in the book,' fretted Giles.

Oz popped up from the couch, "Giles Willow is not the only one with mad computer skills. I fit that category, I just never used them in the research department because that use to be Willow's thing," the young wolf said.

"Good then you can get on the infernal machine and found out that damn date that we need," ordered Giles. Oz walked over to the machine, but not without first giving Angel a kiss.

The other two and Giles, got busy looking up time demons, and trying to figure out the stanzas that said:


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

They knew that the "united looker's" was the Watchers Council, but who the demon was an unknown. They really could have used Willow's help, but as far as they knew she was still in the hospital.

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After a couple of hours of research, and Oz doing the math and the computer work on the planetary alignment, Angel spoke up from reading his book, “I think I found it, The demon described here fits perfectly with the prophecy. He is called Tempest, and he is a demon/warlock that controls time with in a 24 hours period. Meaning he can cause time to repeat itself only during a 24 hour period, over and over until he gets the outcome he wants.”

“That means the last stanza means, that at the midnight hour, the final bell of the day, is when it will be decided who goes to hell. We must stop him before that then,” said Giles with a worried look. They were going to need Buffy for this, and he wasn’t sure that he could trust her not to hurt the boys.

Hearing the thought from across the table, Xander said, “Your right we can’t trust her, but we will need her until the Council decides on what to do about her.”

Turning further to look at Giles, “G-man, any idea when that team from the Council will get here to start the trial of Buffy?” he asked.

“Yes, they are to arrive the day after tomorrow to begin the investigation, and then start the trial if they feel the need for it. It can go one of two ways, they either do the trail to listen to everyone involved, including the Summers family as this will affect them as well, or just do a summary judgment, and declare Buffy guilty. I know the American idea is innocent before guilt, but in this case, is guilty until proven innocent.”

“Damn Buffy will have a hard time of this, won’t she>: Oz said.

“Its not like she didn’t do it to herself. What she did has to be punished someway, and redemption must happen,” Angel sadly commented.

Getting up and walking over to Angel, Xander gave the larger man a hug, and whispered into his ear, “None of that big guy, you don’t need to brood over Buffy, when you can drool over my sexy ass.”

Snickering, Angel swatted Xander on said sexy ass, “Quit that, go back to studying, we have to find a way to stop this demon/warlock from hell.”

Nodding Xander wandered back over to the books, but not before stopping and giving Oz and stomach clenching kiss.

Giles watched on amused, and a little turned on if he was to admit it to himself.

Sighing, Giles pulled another book from his personal collection, and began reading again.

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Unbeknownst to the Scoobie gang, the last few days were being reviewed by Tempest. He has arrived the night before, and saw the division in this reported unstoppable team, and wanted to know what was wrong and how to use it for his destructive plans.

Smiling at what he saw on the cloudy vision of time that he called up in front of him, he started to make plans on how to divide and conquer this team. He knew he was way out of his league if they joined together, but separately they were vulnerable to his attacks, and manipulations.

Sitting back, Tempest decided to tackle the girls, as they were the ones who wanted revenge, and he could lie to them and promise them what their hearts desire, without actually doing it.

But first he must pick targets for them to tackle, and this Cordelia Chase, and William the Bloody, aka Spike, would be perfect targets for the girls to destroy for him. With those two the six could not be formed and totally destroy him.

Smiling, he changed appearances to resemble a Greek God, and teleported outside, to hide behind some bushes, as he listened to the girls having a clandestine meeting, without Buffy’s mother knowing about, in one of the local parks.

As Tempest listen in on the conversation of the two girls, he knew that his plans would work, now just to appear.
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