Part 8

"Where the fuck did she go?!" Angelus raged, as he looked at Anya. One minute his mate was next to him, the next minute, she was gone. He would rip whoever did this apart piece by piece.

"She was sucked into the same portal that Princess Barbie got sucked into." Anya explained. She could sense Buffy's rage and her urge for vengeance.

Angelus looked at Cordelia through saffron eyes. "What did you do?" Angelus asked slowly through a mouthful of fangs. He grabbed her hair and pulled her up to eye level, making it so that her brown, terrified eyes met his golden ones.

"I&I&I didn't do anything." Cordelia stammered. Here she was, the love of Angel's life, about to be killed by Angel himself. All over that blonde tramp too.

Angelus looked her straight into the eyes, and found that she was telling the truth. If she was lying he would sense it. "Do you have any way of locating her Anya?"

"Yes, although I can't sense her was well as before she was captured, her need for vengeance exceeds my own." Anya answered. "Something has taken her&"

"Powers." A voice answered.

All three heads turned simultaneously toward the door. In front of was none other than Drusilla. She no longer had on those frilly dresses or intricate hair styles she used to wear. She now wore a black halter top that stopped right below her breasts, read leather pants, and her hair was in a simple French braid.

"What are you doing here Drusilla?" Angelus asked cautiously. Why all of a sudden his family members seem to be coming to him he had no idea.

"I'm here because the End of Days is upon us, and mummy must be here for it." Drusilla replied. Strangely, she woke up one morning and no longer heard or saw voices in her head. She still had the visions, but the insaneness that was once there no longer was. So basically, she's sane.

"Why are you talking normal Dru?" Angelus asked. He'd gotten used to his insane childe's ramblings; it was unnerving him a little bit.

"I don't know. I just woke up one morning and bam I wasn't insane anymore."

"I hate to interrupt this family reunion, but um, did you say that Buffy lost her powers." Anya questioned.

"Yes, she did. The ten monks of the dimension of Glory's home owed Wolfram and Hart a favor. They took her power and trapped it into a stone that only she can break to receive her powers back. If anyone else broke it they would be burned alive on touch. Apparently, the lawyers supplied the ancient text that was used to free Glory from her human prison." Drusilla explained.

"I should've known that the little fuckers are responsible for this." Angelus growled.

"We will find her Angelus." Anya stated calmly. "Now that we know for a fact where she is storming in should be a breeze."

"No, she is trapped by a crystal magic binding circle that only the spell from the Black Chronicles. The ex-Watcher has it. We must go to them, and retrieve the book." Drusilla explained.

"All right let's go." Angelus commanded.

"What about her?" Anya said, pointing at Cordelia. Cordelia had been quiet recently trying to find out anything that would help her stop them.

"Oh right, well let me just&" Angelus began, but stopped when he saw Anya raise her hand to stop him.

"No, allow me." Anya said. She grabbed Cordelia's head and bashed it into the wall. Then she wrapped chains around her. "Okay now, let's go."

Angelus and Drusilla chuckled and followed Anya out the door.

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"What the hell&!" Gunn exclaimed as the door was kicked open by a very angry Angel.

"Right there with you pal. Wait a minute&Anya!" Xander shouted as he saw Anya with Drusilla and Angelus.

"Hello everyone, don't panic. I'm not going to kill you&yet. We just need a couple of books." Angelus smirked.

"Which book do you need?" Giles asked calmly. /Panicking never helped anything./ he thought.

"The Black Chronicles. Ever heard of them? We were informed that you have the book in you large selection of books Mr. Wyndam-Price." Drusilla stated.

"Here it is Angelus." Anya said as she found the book. She took it out and gave it to Drusilla.

"Bye, bye, we'll just be going now. See you later." Angelus said with a cocky grin on his face.

Angelus and Drusilla walked to Anya and together they teleported out of there, back to Buffy's penthouse. The Scoobies and AI gang just looked at each other in confusion.

"What the hell was that?!" Gunn repeated his earlier statement.

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It was an hour after they arrived at the penthouse that Anya had finally found the right passage.

"I found it!" Anya yelled. She really hated doing research. She had to do her share when she was a human and with Xander.

"It says that we have to have 4 people to do the spell, we only have three. And three of them have to be related. I mean as in blood related. This spell was originally designed for the Charmed Ones, until they died. Only you and Drusilla are related, also Darla, but I really doubt that she would do anything to help rescue Buffy." Anya explained.

"Who are we going to get to perform the spell with us?" Angelus asked frustrated.

"Me, mate." A voice said at the door.

Three head turned simultaneously to the door only to see William the Bloody, more commonly known as Spike.

 

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