FIC: Legend: chpt6

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Legend: chpt6 

By Sam

E-mail: Shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxxxx 
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters commonly associated 
with Buffy the Vampire Slayer; they are used without permission. No 
copyright infringement is intended.
Archive: Just ask
Pairing: B/W 
Note: Warning to any Angel fans, the brooding vamp, A.K.A. soul 
boy, is now at the mercy of Vlad "show no mercy" Tepes,
which is not a good place to be. feedback is greatly appreciated

Chpt6: Tribulations

Angel awoke, every inch of his body ached, slowly he became aware of 
his surroundings. He tried to break free of the chains that held him 
to the wall, but he was unable to do so. The events of last night 
that brought him here were a blur, he remembered encountering Vlad 
Tepes and Spike and fighting with them, but pass that everything was 
hazy. The last thing he could recall was being knocked to the ground 
by Vlad only to have something very heavy strike him in the head, 
after that he only remembered a few moments ago when he woke up. He 
continued to struggle trying to break free of the chains but he 
couldn't, that's when he noticed her. Accrosed the room from
him were a series of makeshift cages, all of them were empty except 
one that held a very terrified Anya.

Giles paced back in forth in the waiting room of the trauma center, 
the worry clearly showing on his face. What happened last night, He 
thought to himself. First there was the call from Buffy that Willow 
had been attacked but was O.K., Then came a call from Xander that 
Spike had attacked him and Taken Anya. That had been several hours 
ago and now he was at the hospital with Buffy and Willow, the three 
of them waiting for Xander to get out of surgery. He was a nervous 
wreck, he had always looked at the group as if they were his own 
children and now two of them had been attacked, putting one of them 
in the hospital. Then to make matters even worse the sun had been up 
for a few hours and Angel had never made it back. He was still trying 
to piece together everything that had transpired last night, but one 
thing was for sure Vlad Tepes had made his move.

Back at Giles place Wesley and Quentin were going through every book 
they had at their disposal, they had to find something that would aid 
the slayer. The problem was the same one they had encountered from 
the beginning of all of this, there simply were no prophecies on Vlad 
Tepes Dracul, and besides the normal way of killing vampires there 
were no hints on how to defeat him. Every account they could find of 
were a slayer or someone from the council faced him had the same 
result, the Master Vampyre had won. Both of them knew that they had 
to come up with something soon, before any more of the group aiding 
the slayer fell prey to the Master Vampyre. As the two of them 
continued to muddle through their books Megan sat of in a corner in a 
trance, she was once again trying to reach out with her mind, to try 
and learn something of Vlad Tepes and his plans. As she did this 
Cordelia sat alone on the couch, she had wanted to go to the hospital 
with the others but she couldn't bring herself to leave the
house. She was hoping by some miracle Angel would make it back there 
or at least call, but deep inside her she knew that it was only 
wishful thinking.

Angel was talking with Anya, so far he had been able to determine 
that she had not been hurt but Spike had done a number on Xander. 
However their conversation was interrupted when Vlad and Spike walked 
into the room. Spike walked over to the Fire place and started a 
fire, as Vlad walked over in front of angel slapping him hard 
accrosed the face when He got there. 

He then looked at Angel, "How dare you betray your brethren, I
shall teach you the price of such treachery"

Vlad then walked over to the fire place and pulled a long sword from 
the mantle, he proceeded to stick its blade into the flames. Turning 
towards Angel as he held the weapon in the fire, "Shall we
begin"


Buffy had her armed wrapped around the redhead who had leaned up 
against her shoulder and fallen asleep in the waiting room. The 
slayer motioned for Giles to come over and have a seat next to them, 
and he obliged.

"What is it Buffy"

The slayers eyes filled with sadness as she spoke, "They almost
got her last night."

"But they didn't, you stopped them before they could harm
her"

"What what if I was a few seconds later, What then", a tear
rolled down the slayers cheek as she finished speaking, even the 
thought of something happening to Willow hurt her.

Giles could see what the blonde was going through and tried to 
comfort her, "It didn't happen that way, she is here with you
and she is safe. Don't let yourself get caught up in what if this
happened."

"I can't help it, I love her so much, I don't know what I
would do if something ever happened," Buffy was starting to cry,
and 
Giles put his hand on her shoulder in a effort to comfort his 
surrogate daughter.

He then looked at the slayer, "I want the two of you to come stay
at my place with the rest of us until this is over, she will be 
safer there, after all it is much harder for a vampire to get into a 
house than it is a dorm."

Buffy looked at her watcher and smiled, "Thanks."

Buffy then looked over at her love, she leaned her head up against 
the redhead and softly spoke, Don't worry Wills, I won't let
anyone hurt you"

Angel screamed out in pain as Vlad once again ran the red hot blade 
accrosed his chest barely cutting into the top layer of skin. This 
had been going on for over an hour now and Angel's chest was
covered with a series of rather nasty slash marks complete with third 
degree burns that the red hot sword had caused. The master Vampyre 
paused for a second and looked at Spike, "William you know what
the 
best part of this is"

"Hearing him scream" Replied the blonde vampire.

A smiling Vlad replied, "No, it is amusing to hear this traitors 
cries of pain but I think the best part is that I can do this forever 
and he won`t die from it," when he had finished speaking he
once again ran the burning blade accrosed the traitors chest as his 
victim screamed out in anguish.

Giles was getting back up to start pacing the room again when a nurse 
walked in, "Excuse me are you the ones here for Alexander
Harris"

Buffy softly shook Willow easing her out of her sleep as Giles 
answered the Nurse, "Yes, is He O.K.? Can we see him?"

The nurse walked over to them and motioned for Giles to sit down. He 
took a seat on the couch next to Buffy and waited for the nurses 
answer.

"He has been injured pretty bad, but the doctors expect him to
make a full recovery. It however is going to take a while for that 
to happen and he will need your help while he recovers. I should 
warn you before you go see him, the injuries he sustained were 
serious and he might not look like his usual self"

"How bad is He," Questioned Giles his voice showing all the
concern of a worried parent.

"His left leg is broken in three places, and there is a hairline 
fracture on his hip. Three ribs were broken and the rest of them 
bruised, His right shoulder has been dislocated and the Right arm 
broken. Also he is covered with bruises, and has some swelling in 
the facial area along with a broken jaw, so he will not be able to 
talk that much for awhile," The nurse paused for a second to let
the information sink in and then she continued, "There was some
internal bleeding but the doctors were able to stop that. All of 
this has put him in a great deal of pain, so he is heavily medicated 
right now. I'm going to take you to see him, but you can only
stay 
for a few minuets and he will be fairly much incoherent"

Megan jumped up out of the corner and rushed over to the table that 
Quentin and Wesley were doing their research at. "I had a vision,
I saw the Master Vampyre"

Both of them men immediately stopped what they were doing and gave 
Megan their full attention. Quentin looked at her, "What was it
that you saw?"

"I saw the missing vampire that had been helping us, He is in
great pain. I believe that Vlad Tepes is torturing him. I also saw 
the girl that was taken, she is being held inside some kind of
cage."

"Was there anything else" Quentin questioned.

"Yes, everything then faded and I saw Vlad Tepes standing over
you laughing"

Vlad had been torturing him for hours now, his pain was so great 
that it even hurt to breath. Angel wasn't sure how much more he 
could take, he silently wished that his tormentor would just end it 
and kill him. Angel watched as Vlad had put the long sword up and 
produced a dagger from his belt, "Well I see that you survived
round one, lets see how you deal with this," snarled Vlad his
voice
laced with hate for the traitor.

Vlad then walked over to Angel and looked over the vampires body. 
His chest and abdomen were covered with the slash marks that had made 
over the last couple of hours. Vlad Smiled as he took the dagger and 
rammed it into Angels left shoulder. Spike then walked over carrying 
a large silver tray that had a cloth draped over it. The blonde 
vampire sat it down next to Vlad, who removed the cover revealing the 
twenty daggers that laid upon the tray. Vlad grabbed one of them and 
Angel howled out in pain as the dagger was rammed it into his other 
shoulder. Vlad then looked at Angel, "Two down, nineteen to
go", He then turned at Spike as he picked up a dagger, "Take
the
girl's cage to another room, I am growing tired of her
sobbing"

Anya sat trembling in her cage, she could no longer see what was 
happening to Angel from the room spike had pushed her cell into, but 
she still could hear his cries. She was terrified by what she had 
witnessed, even as a vengeance demon she had rarely seen torture of 
that magnitude. She feared that when he was done with Angel that she 
would be next, she curled up in a ball in a corner of the cage, her 
body still trembling and continued to weep.

.Giles and the two girls had just returned from the hospital, and 
given the group a report on Xander's condition, then a rather shaken 
up Quentin briefed them on what Megan had seen, his voice filled with 
anxiety as he mentioned her vision of his own demise. The Slayer 
then walked over to the table and looked at the council members and 
turned to Giles, "It's going to be dark soon, I had better
get ready for patrol"

As soon as Buffy spoke Willow jumped up from her chair and rushed to 
the slayers side wrapping both her arms around the blonde. 
Desperation filled her eyes as she looked at Giles, "You
can't let her go out, not after what happened last night. She 
doesn't have anyone to help her now," pleaded the redhead.

Giles turned and faced Quentin, "She's right, slayer or not,
We can't allow Buffy to go out there by herself with Vlad Tepes
and 
his vampires roaming around"

Quentin looked at the slayer then to Giles, "I tend to agree, but
we just can't sit around and wait for him to come to us, what
would
you suggest"

"I'll go with her. After all, My magic is coming along
rather nicely," Piped in Willow. She was terrified at the
aspect of
going out with Dracul running around, but there was no way she was 
going to let Buffy go out there alone.

"No you won't," Responded Buffy as she hugged Willow ,
"There is no way I am going to allow you to go out there. I
couldn't 
go on if anything were to happen to you. I need you here, where I 
know your safe." 

Giles looked at the two of them aand then spoke, "I'll go."

Before anyone could respond Wesley spoke up, "So will I"

Quentin looked at Wesley and Giles, "Then it is decided, Giles
and Wesley arm yourselves up. You're going on parole with the
slayer."

Angel had daggers protruding all up and down his arms and legs, one 
of the daggers had been completely run through his right hand. The 
vampire was now openly weeping from the immense pain that racked 
through his body, as he pleaded with the Master vampyre to kill him. 
Vlad held the remaining dagger in his hand and turned to 
Spike, "William I am having to much fun with this. I believe I
will stay in tonight, but I need to test the slayer. Send out some 
of my children to attack her, tell them that if she starts to get the 
upper hand, which I feel she will, that they are to retreat. Also 
could you send someone out to grab me something to eat, preferably 
someone young and have them to get something for you too"

"As you wish Master," said the blonde vamp, "I take it
you wish for me to stay here."

"Yes, I wish to talk with you about what we are going to do to 
capture the redheaded witch you told me about," as soon as Vlad
had finished speaking he turned away from Spike and rammed the last 
dagger through Angels other hand resulting in another plea for death 
from the traitor.

The three of them walked through the cemetery. Buffy was in front as 
Giles and Wesley followed, Giles was armed with a crossbow and Wesley 
carried two super soakers filled with holy water. As soon as they 
turned the corner into the first cemetery on their list of places to 
patrol six vamps jumped out in front of them. Giles let loose with 
the crossbow turning one to dust and immediately began to reload. 
Wesley opened fire hitting a vamp, sending him screaming to the 
ground. Buffy instantly attacked, connecting a roundhouse on one 
vamp and caching another with a leg sweep. She then dropped to her 
knees staking the vamp she got with the leg sweep and dusting him. 
The other vamp then jumped on her back before she could get back up 
only to be hit with a barrage of holy water from Wesley. Giles then 
fired his crossbow at one of the vamps but missed his mark. As Buffy 
took up a fighting stance the two remaining vamps looked at one 
another and ran away. The slayer looked at the two men, "Well I 
never had them run away like that before."

The others sat there watching Willow as she paced back and forth 
accrosed the room saying her prayers to the Goddess on Buffy`s 
behalf, they had somewhat of an idea of what she was going through, 
they too were all worried about the slayer, Giles, and Wesley. They 
also knew that the feelings of concern that swept over them were 
nothing to what the redhead was going through, sure they cared about 
the group that was out patrolling and hoped for their safe return, 
but she was in love with the slayer and at night in the Hellsmouth 
that could be a very hard thing to deal with, especially knowing that 
the master vampyre was also out there.

They were just finishing the patrol of the first cemetery when 
Buffy's slayer senses kicked in. She alerted the others and the 
three of them took up fighting stances. Four vampires were 
approaching from the left and Wesley took aim at them, as Giles 
pointed a loaded crossbow towards the seven vampires coming from the 
right. Giles fired and hit a vamp reducing him to ash as Wesley 
managed to get two of them with the super soakers. The vamps 
immediately rushed in for the attack ignoring the two men and 
concentrating on the slayer. Buffy leg swept the first one that got 
there only to be grabbed by two others. using them as support she 
lifted herself up off the ground and kicked a vamp that was in front 
of her square in the face sending him reeling backwards to the 
ground. She then stomped on one of the vamps foot as hard as she 
could, and when she did he let go of her. She then flipped the other 
vamp to the ground and staked him as soon as he hit. The vamp whose 
foot she had trampled on lunged at her but she gracefully rolled out 
of his way causing him to miss and land face first on the ground, and 
staked him from behind before he could react. A vampire grabbed her 
from behind as she got back up, the slayer broke his grip and spun 
around sweeping his legs out from under him only to get hit from 
behind by another vamp who was staked by Giles before he could do any 
more damage. As soon as Buffy hit the ground she was back up but so 
was the vamp that she had previously knocked down. Before she could 
fight him he was hit from behind by a well aimed shot of holy water. 
Buffy then turned her attention towards the remaining four vampires 
only to see them running away.

"Are you alright," Asked Giles, wanting to make sure the
slayer wasn't hurt by the blow to the head she had taken.

"Yeah, it's just a bump. How about you two"

"Were fine they seemed not to be concerned with us at all,"
Giles responded trying to figure out why Wesley and himself were 
ignored and while for the second time tonight vampires had run from 
them.

Four vampires entered the mansion dragging two young girls from the 
Sunnydale campus with them. Vlad who had just removed the last 
dagger from Angel looked at Spike, "William, it looks like our 
dinners here"

After the two of them had feed Vlad looked at Spike, "So the
Slayer and the redheaded witch are in love"

"Yes," answered Spike glad that the master vampyre seemed
very happy with the information he had given him.

"Then she will be the key to turning the slayer."

"Master, You wish to turn the slayer," Spikes voice was
filled with confusion over his master statement, usually they just 
killed the slayers, if they could.

"I see you are puzzled, let me explain. If I kill her another
will be called, then another. It never ends, I spent over a hundred 
and twenty years killing slayers and watchers only to have more pop 
up. However a slayer can only be called when the current one dies, 
so by turning her no replacement will come."

"I see Master, but I must tell you that by some sort of accident 
there is a second slayer"

"I am aware of that. Correct me if I am wrong but the second
slayer is in a comma"

"You're correct, Master"

"Then we will ensure she stays that way and allow her to die of 
natural causes, by then it will be to late, with no slayer to stand 
in our way we will have overrun the world ," Vlad paused for a 
second, "Now back to the witch"

They were headed back towards Giles house after having been attacked 
three other times by various groups of vampires. Both the men had a 
few bumps and bruises, but Buffy had several scratch marks and was 
bruised all over mainly because of one thing, each of the attacks 
followed the same pattern as the first two. The vampires would 
concentrate on Buffy, ignoring Giles and Wesley and as soon as they 
started to win the fight the remaining vampires would flee. When 
Giles finally put together what was happening he decided that it was 
best to get back to the house as soon as they could, the vampires 
were attacking like that for a reason. One to try and weaken the 
slayer and two to gauge her fighting skills and report back to Vlad 
Tepes. 

They were about a quarter of a mile from the house when three 
vampires jumped out from some nearby bushes and instantly converged 
on the slayer. Giles aimed his crossbow but couldn't get a clean 
shot without risking hitting Buffy. Buffy did a side kick knocking 
one vamp back and blocked a powerful right swing from the second 
one. the third one grabbed her from behind and Wesley went to fire 
his super soaker at the vamp only to discover he was out of holy 
water. Buffy kicked the second vamp in the face knocking him down as 
the first vamp was getting back up. She then elbowed the third vamp 
in the lower ribs breaking his grip. She grabbed the third vamp by 
the head and flipped him to the ground staking him as soon as he 
hit. That's when she felt the foot of the first vamp connect with 
her jaw knocking her flat on the back. As the vamp leaped on top of 
her she produced Mr. Pointy, and when he landed the vamp impaled 
himself on her stake and turned to ashes. She then flipped back up 
and barely managed to side step the remaining vampires charge. As 
the vamp spun around after having run passed her he was greeted with 
Mr. Pointy to the heart. The three of them then left the area and 
continued back towards Giles house. After they were gone a vampire 
who had been hiding the whole time emerged from the bushes and rushed 
back towards the mansion to report what he had seen to his master.