FF: Realms (7/?)

["sam stoltz" <shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
well here is another part to Realms. I would like to thank 
Coy for making this all possible by beta reading my humble tale.

Sam
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Realms
By
Sam


Title: Realms: (7/?)
email: shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxxxxxx 
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I do not own any of the characters 
associated with Buffy the Vampire Slayer; they belong to Joss. I am 
only taking them out to play for a while. This is only met to 
entertain, no copyright infringement is intended.
Spoilers: Everything is fair game 
Archive: Gary, Bill, Quin, Stephanie, all others feel free to post 
them just send me an Email to let me know.
Pairing: B/W 
Note: Buffy and Willows night of passion is cut short when Ciarán 
comes seeking answers. Feedback is greatly desired, I thrive off of 
it. Hope you enjoy.
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Both Women jumped up from there seats when they heard Giles plea to 
run, Faith quickly rushed towards the door way to see what he was 
yelling about. She rounded the corner and spotted Ethan Rayne and 
another man standing in the door way, Giles was paying no attention 
whatsoever to Ethan as he focused all of his attention on the other 
man.  

Giles looked at the warlock, his body was visibly trembling from 
fear, "Ciarán, why have you come here, what do you want?"

Ciarán motioned his hand through the air and a unseen force tossed 
Giles aside. The warlock then walked into the house with Ethan in 
tow, His fiery red eyes locked on the ex-watcher, "Ethan tells me you 
went soft Rupert, what a shame, you had such potential."

Ciarán walked over to Giles and leaned down putting both his hands 
on Giles shoulders, "Tell me are you still the little researcher I 
used to know."

Faith couldn't believe what was happening but she was determined to 
put a stop to it. She screamed at the mysterious man who had somehow 
just attacked Giles, "Get away from him!"

Giles shot the Brunette slayer, who was slowly advancing towards 
them, a look of pure panic, "Faith no!"

Ciarán turned away from Giles and glared at Faith. "You're way out of 
your league little girl," replied the warlock as he threw his hand 
out towards Faith, sending her flying backwards through the hallway.

After Faith hit the ground she looked over into the living room at 
Joyce, "Run, get B."

It took Joyce a moment to comprehend what was happening but as soon 
as she did the she made a rapid break for the back door, only to find 
that it somehow had been sealed. She slowly walked back into the 
living room and saw that Giles and Faith were sitting on the couch, 
with the two men standing behind them.

"Come join us," replied Ciarán.
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Immediately after falling asleep in one another's arms Buffy and 
Willow found themselves in the dream world. They were in a rather 
large room lit solely by thousands of candles, their where small 
murals covering three walls that depicted the history of the slayers, 
with a rather large painting of the two of them that took up an 
entire wall. Buffy sat down in a rather large oversized chair and 
pulled Willow onto her lap, "I think it`s a pretty good likeness, how 
about you?"

"I agree, but why is it here, and where is here."

"Slayer, please allow me to explain," Replied Fey as she walked into 
the room via a hidden door, "This is Alexandria's castle, and you are 
in the hall of the Slayers."

"OK, now we no the where, so how about the why."

"To give you a sense of what you are and what you are becoming now 
that your full potential has been released. Look around you, each on 
of the pictures represents a slayer, each one of them is a 
predecessor to you."

Fey walked over to the large portrait of Buffy and Willow and pointed 
at it, "Do you know why unlike the other portraits you are not 
depicted alone or why the picture of the two of you is larger than 
the others."

"Tara told us she is to become the ultimate slayer, is that why," 
questioned Willow.

"Well done young mage, but that is only partially correct. Yes, Tara 
did tell you that your beloved is to be the ultimate slayer, however 
you must know that as soon as the two of you found one another The 
Powers that Be transformed her into the ultimate slayer. Also know 
that the reason you are in the picture is not because of her being 
this great warrior but because the two of you are soul mates."

Willow looked at Buffy, before turning her attention back to 
Fey, "If that is true why are all the others slayers shown alone?"

Fey`s immortal eyes filled with sadness, she walked over to the two 
girls and placed a hand on each of them. Fey looked directly into 
Willows eyes, "She is the only slayer ever to find her soul mate."   
A tear rolled down Fey's cheek as she turned her attention to 
Buffy, "Cherish the love you have with the young mage," Fey then made 
a sweeping motion around the room as if pointing out every single 
picture on the walls, "It is something none of your sisters before 
you where able to find."

Fey's words struck the slayer in her very core, she slowly looked 
around the room carefully studying each picture on the wall as tears 
of sorrow for the other slayers filled her eyes. Buffy tightly 
wrapped her arms around Willow, "I will," replied Buffy, "I will."

Suddenly Fey's eyes grew wide with alarm, "The watcher and the others 
are in grave danger you must return and get Tara then go to them."
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Giles could feel the waves of pain shoot through his body as Ciarán 
once again magically attacked him. "I'm not going ask again Rupert, 
tell me what you know of the Hellmouth."

"Never," cried out Giles in agony.

Ciarán gazed into the ex-watchers eyes for a moment before turning to 
take a quick glance at the two women who where had been restrained in 
chairs. "Maybe I have been going about this wrong. It would appear 
that their is nothing I can do to you to make you give me the 
knowledge I need."

Ciarán walked over and stood between Joyce and Faith, He pulled out 
a large silver dagger from beneath his cloak and sinisterly smiled at 
Giles, "So which one shall it be. Your slayer or your lover."

"Please, I beg of you....don't."

"Then tell me what I want to know or one of them is about to die."

Giles gazed over at Joyce and faith before hanging his head in shame 
over what he was about to do, "where do you wish me to start," 
inquired a broken Giles as Ciarán laughed knowing he had one this 
battle.
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Buffy looked at the door to Giles house which was ajar, she knew 
there was no way he would leave his house open like that, especially 
at night. 

"Willow you and Tara stay here, I'm going in."

Buffy silently crept into Giles house and immediately knew that 
something was wrong, the living room was littered with all of his 
books and furniture was tossed all over the place. She then stopped 
dead in her tracts, "Willow, I need your help."

Willow rushed into the house with Tara right behind her, Faith was 
lying on the floor, with Buffy kneeling next to her over her. "Oh, 
my god, is she..."

"No, but she is hurt pretty bad."

Faith`s voice was so weak Buffy could barely hear it, "B forget about 
me, I'll survive. You got to find them."

"Find who?"

"Giles and your mom, he took them."

Faith's words struck Buffy square in the heart, not only had someone 
trashed her watchers house and hurt her friend and fellow slayer, but 
they had taken Giles and her Mom, "Faith, who took them."

"Ciarán and Ethan."

Buffy stood up and faced Willow, her eyes where filled with rage 
towards this Ciarán, "Willow you stay here with Faith and Tara, I'm 
going to go get Giles and my mom back."

Tara carefully approached the slayer, "I d-don't think that....m-
might be the best thing to do. Fey told me that..... Ciarán is a 
very p-powerful warlock."

Willow comfortingly embraced Buffy, "Sweetheart she's right, look 
what he did here, we need to come up with a plan and possibly get 
some help."

Buffy considered what her love had said and knew the red head was 
right, "OK, but whatever we do we have to do it fast, I have a really 
bad feeling about all of this."

Willow thought for a moment and then it dawned on her, "Tara, I need 
you to try and contact Fey. Let her know what happened and see if 
she can aid us. Buffy take Faith to her room so she can get some 
rest and heal up, I'm going to call LA and try and reach Angel, he 
might just be able to help."

To be continued...............................