- Dream Weaver
Chapter 7: Ambush
The trap has been set, all radios were tested and our code names were Slayer 1,2,3 and so forth. Buffy was Slayer 1, I was Slayer 2, Giles was Slayer 3, Xander was Slayer 4, Willow was Slayer 5, Cordelia was Slayer 6, Angel was Slayer 7 and Emilie was Slayer 8. "Slayer 2 to Slayers 7 and 8, what's your twenty(Location)?". "My what?", Slayer 7 asked. "Your location?", I clarified. "Slayer 8 and I are heading to Slayer One's twenty over", Slayer 7 said. "What's your ETA?", I asked. "One minute", Slayer 8 replied. "All slayer units, stand by" , I ordered.
One minute later, Emilie drove up the driveway to Buffy's house. The Order of Aurelius and other vampires were already hiding in the bushes waiting to pounce on Emilie, thinking it was Buffy's mom, Joyce. Emilie popped open the trunk to get two bags full of what appeared to be groceries, Emilie heaved the bags into her arms, closed the trunk and was making her way to the house. Just then, the vampires came out and rushed at her for the moment of rapture when Emilie turned and said, "Looking for moi!".
I gave the signal, Buffy and the gang cam out of hiding as well as Angel, Giles and myself. The Order of Aurelius and the vampires who came to assist in the kidnapping found themselves surrounded. A battle ensued as Buffy and I with our allies produced wooden stakes and more wooden stakes from the decoy grocery bags. This time the vampires from the Order of Aurelius made one mistake, they came without their swords. It was hand to hand combat and both sides fought valiantly. Buffy staked the first one and it exploded into a cloud of dust.
I tapped another vampire on the shoulder and when it turned, I staked him, turning him into dust as well. After the long battle was over, nothing was left but dust and ourselves covered in dust. "You should've seen the expression on that vampire's face when it realized I wasn't Buffy's mom and I just staked him", Emilie said and then laughed. "Looking for moi!", Emilie kept saying with laughter. Buffy, Willow, Xander, Cordelia and Giles looked on in bewilderment. I just laughed with her as we both cracked jokes toghether. Angel said, "Have'nt seen Emilie laugh like that in a long time!". As we both rolled in the ground with laughter, Buffy said, "I think these two just lost it!". "They flippity, floppity, flipped!", Xander said. "They're all bubbly with laughter", Willow said. "They've been overwhelmed and stricken with uncontrollable humor", Giles said. "OK, chill you two it wasn't that funny!", Cordelia said.
After awhile, the laughter died down and was overwhelmed with hiccoughs. As I got up to undust myself, I looked around and noticed everyone had left. "Where are you guys?(hiccup)", I asked. I followed the footprints they had left behind noticing that they led to the sidewalk. Each front yard of bushes made a walled hedge keeping every house on the street apart. As I followed the tracks to the sidewalk, Buffy and gang jumped out from behind the hedge with Angel and Emilie's faces morphed into their vampire bestial faces and Buffy with an unarmed crossbow, they startled me with their loud, "BOO!" that I let out such a scream, that two girls from the house next to Buffy's house came armed with baseball bats supposedly to defend me.
They asked me, "Are you OK?". I said, "Yeah, it was just my friends playing a practical joke on me, that's all!". "Oh, ok, we just thought it was a gay bashing!", the two girls said as they walked back to their house holding hands. "Ooohhh kay", Xander said. "Well, looks like we just met the local neighborhood lesbians", I said still trying to catch my breath. It was Buffy's turn to laugh as well as the rest of the gang. I didn't take it to hard and came to appreciate the humor afterwards. Just then Buffy's mom, Joyce pulled up on the driveway. When Joyce climbed out of her vehicle, she asked, "Who's vehicle is that?". Emilie replied, "Oh that's mine". Joyce looked at Emilie with a look of bewilderment on her face. Joyce asked, "OK not only are you driving the same vehicle that I drive but you almost look just like me right down to the hairstyle what's up with that?".
"Hmm, maybe she's a copycat 'Joyce'!", I replied. "Who are you?", Joyce asked me. "Alejandro Reyes,II", I replied. "I met your daughter and her friends through Giles", I said. "What kind of work do you do?", she asked. "Security", I replied, "I work as a security guard in Florida but I'm doing volunteer work temporarily through Giles at the Sunnydale High library", I told her. "That's good to know", Joyce said. "Would you all like to come in for supper, I'm cooking", Joyce said invitingly. We all gladly accepted the invitation and had supper.
After dinner ended and had some lively conversation with Joyce, We all went to the Bronz while Joyce Summers stayed at home to cleanup. Oktoberfest was over and all traces of it were gone, performing that night was a famous actress/singer Traci Lords playing a song called, "Good and Evil". The song opened with a sound reminiscent of a horror movie and the band began playing. "Want to dance?", Buffy asked me. "I don't know how", I replied. "That's OK", Buffy said, "it'll be like a lapdance". Buffy danced provocatively to the music as though in a trance while the band played it's eerie Hallowenish tune.
Giles and Cordelia drank and chatted, but with the loud music I could'nt hear what they were saying. Xander and Willow danced while Angel and Emilie danced seductively with each other to the music. When the music stopped and the song ended, everyone stopped dancing and all turned including myself to the band and applauded as the lead singer and the group took a bow and left. Buffy was back to herself wondering what possessed her to dance and act so seductively. After awhile she stopped wondering and kept enjoying the dance club atmosphere of the Bronze.
Giles looked at his watch and then all of us did likewise and realized that time had flown by fast. We all proceeded to leave. Outside once we all took a whiff of the night air, we heard a young girl calling for help. We checked and sure enough it was another vampire, while the vampire was busy, Buffy produced a stake and pierced the stake into the vampire's heart causing the vampire to explode and vanish into a cloud of dust. "What happened?", asked the girl ho was just saved. "I guess we scared him off", Buffy replied.
The girl thanked us and we all volunteered to escort her to her house. She gladly accepted and I asked Buffy, "Do you meet all your friends this way?". "More or less!", Buffy replied. Deep down below in the hellmouth, the Master was furious. "I can't believe it!", the Master growled as he slammed his fist on the arm of his thrown upon receiving the news of his subject's defeat. "That Slayer and her meddlesome friends infuriate me by the moment", the Master said angrily. "I'll have to find a way to vanquish that hated slayer and those allies of hers", the Master growled.
"I have a plan, far better and yet far superior yet. A plan to pit out the slayer, her friends and all of Sunnydale!", the Master said. "What is it?", Darla asked. "It's a super weapon that in the past saved Sunnydale, but now it will bury it!", the Master said schemingly. Darla reflected for awhile and asked. "Is it something at the highest peak above Sunnydale, an old cannon?". "Yes!", the Master replied. "Now that sounds like more than fun!", Darla said and they with the rest of the vampires broke out in macabre laughter.
Once the laughter died down, the Master said, "Darla, I'll need to commission you and a few trusted subjects of mine to inspect to see if the cannon and it's ammunition still work". "Knowing how things were built in the 1940's, I'm pretty sure it still works", Darla said. "Well good", the Master said, "set up the cannon and aim it if possible at the Slayer's home". "You wish, my command", the vampiress said.