Re: FF: Mage

[Sensei Ferret <senseiferret@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ferret does happy dance, while pulling out flask of
kool aid.

Sam! This story is sooo awesome. I need more and
soon.<grin> I love the au and can't wait till Dawn
finds out.

Write more, and soon. Hehe - and get the modem fixed
please... The world of chaos is going sane without
you.

The Kool Aid addicted Ferret signing off now.


--- Sam I Am <shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mage
> 
> By
> 
> Sam
> 
> Title: Mage (1/?)
> Email: shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxx
> Rating: R
> Disclaimer: BtVS belongs to Joss.
> Spoilers: Everything up to and to include the gift
> Pairing: Buffy/Willow Tara/Amy
> Thanks: special thanks to Coy, and Melissa.
> Notes: Buffy learns the true nature of her gift and
> is forever changed 
> following her sacrifice to save her friends and the
> world from Glory.
> Feedback: I thrive off of it so Yes Pleaze
>
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> 
> Buffy woke up only to discovery that she had no idea
> where she was or how 
> she got here. She sat up on the cot she had been
> sleeping on and surveyed 
> the area.
> 
> She was in what seemed to be a small room with no
> windows or doors. All the 
> walls were pained a dingy black and there was hardly
> any furniture in the 
> room. There was a second cot on the far side of the
> room, a small wooden 
> table with two chairs sat in the middle of the room
> and that was it. <Where 
> the hell am I? >
> 
> She got up off the cot and walked over to the table,
> as soon as she reached 
> it a small bowl of fruit, two glasses, and a pitcher
> of water appeared. 
> <Okay starting to freak out here. >
> 
> She sat down at one of the chairs and picked a peach
> out of the bowl.
> 
> "Good you're finally awake," A voice replied from
> the shadows.
> 
> Buffy turned her head to the left and saw a young
> man sitting on the other 
> cot, <How come I didn't notice him before. >
> 
> The young man got up and joined her at the table;
> "You didn't see me earlier 
> because I didn't wish you to."
> 
> Buffy stared at the mysterious stranger for a
> moment, he wore black robes 
> with red trim, but that was nothing compared to his
> physical appearance. He 
> had long flowing white hair, and hazel eyes that
> seemed almost hypnotic. 
> "Who are you, and why'd you bring me to wherever
> this place is," Buffy 
> demanded.
> 
> "My name is insignificant to your situation and I
> did not bring you here, 
> you came of your own free will."
> 
> "That's impossible, why'd I come here?"
> 
> "You don't remember do you?"
> 
> "Remember what," Buffy asked wondering if this
> strange man could be anymore 
> cryptic.
> 
> "How you came to be here, tell me child, what is the
> last thing that you 
> recall."
> 
> "Why should I tell you that," Buffy demanded her
> voice filled with 
> frustration, "I don't even know who you are, and
> don't call me child, from 
> the looks of things your about my age."
> 
> The man leaned back in his chair, what seemed to me
> a small lighting storm 
> danced momentarily across his eyes and a plate of
> roast beef appeared in 
> front of Buffy, "Eat child you need your strength."
> 
> Buffy jumped back in her chair, "H-how'd you do
> that?!"
> 
> "Eat, and I will tell you all that you need to
> know."
> 
> The man picked up the pitcher and poured water in
> his and Buffy's glasses, 
> "I am Draco Syria arch mage of shadows and prisoner
> of the Powers that Be."
> 
> He paused for a moment to take a sip of water then
> continued, "The place 
> that you see has been my home for over twenty-five
> hundred years."
> 
> "What are you?"
> 
> "I am human just like you."
> 
> "You can't be, people don't live that long, are you
> some kind of demon or 
> something."
> 
> "Just like a slayer, anything they don't understand
> they assume is a demon 
> or God," Draco replied with a slight smirk.
> 
> He took another drink of water and gazed into
> Buffy's eyes, "This place is 
> in-between realities, it exists between life and
> death, between light and 
> darkness. The only reason I still live is because
> time does not exist here. 
> It is my punishment for the things I have done."
> 
> Buffy tightened her grip on her knife as she stared
> back into the mage's 
> haunting eyes, "P-punishment?"
> 
> "Yes, but you need not be afraid, I am no longer the
> man I used to be, I 
> haven't been for the longest time."
> 
> "Then why are you still here?"
> 
> "The world as I knew it has forever changed. I
> cannot return to it and I am 
> not dead so I cannot pass on," Draco lowered his
> head in sorrow and forced 
> out the words, "So it is here in this place that I
> am condemned to spend all 
> of eternity."
> 
> Draco stood up and walked back over to his cot, "Now
> tell me what is it you 
> have done that the Powers That Be would send their
> Slayer to this place."
> 
> "I don't know," Buffy sobbed, <I don't want to spend
> eternity here, I didn't 
> do anything to deserve this>.
> 
> Draco sat down on his cot and faced Buffy, "It will
> come back to you in 
> time, perhaps it would help if I told you my story."
> 
> He leaned back against the wall, and once again a
> small lighting storm 
> momentarily appeared in his eyes, then it was gone.
> 
> Buffy sat there looking at the empty cot, when Draco
> reappeared in the chair 
> across from her causing her to fall out of her
> chair. Buffy got up of the 
> floor and glared at Draco as she retook her seat.
> 
> "Sorry I did not mean to startle you, I am not used
> to having company here. 
> So where shall I begin, how about if I tell you what
> it is that I did that 
> deserved such a horrible punishment."
> 
> Buffy just nodded at him unsure if she wanted to
> hear about something so 
> wrong that the powers that be condemned him to this
> place for all eternity.
> 
> "I was the most powerful mage in all the know realms
> but my life was clouded 
> in darkness. It surrounded me and I fed of off it. 
> The darkness corrupted 
> my power and my soul and I used what was a gift from
> the Gods as a tool for 
> destruction and my own gain."
> 
> Draco leaned in towards Buffy; "I have struck men
> down with a mere thought, 
> laid waist to villages with my powers. In my time I
> was known as The 
> Destroyer. It was I who brought death and
> destruction wherever I went, and 
> all who knew me feared me and trembled at the
> mention of my name."
> 
> Buffy could feel her pulse quicken as she listened
> to Draco speak, she 
> 
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