- Dream Weaver
Chapter 15: Resurrection
As Drusilla motioned towards Buffy to stake her. Emilie heroically ran towards Drusilla, and tackled Drusilla to the ground. Emilie wrestled valiantly, trying to wrestle the stake away from Drusilla. In buying Buffy time to recoup and take the stake from Drusilla, in the rumble the stake pierced Emilie's heart and in a moment, Emilie crumbled to dust. Our hearts skipped a beat at the shock that Emilie sacrificed herself to save Buffy. Even Drusilla looked at herself in shock realizing that she had the dust of a fellow vampire all over her. Drusilla brushed herself off hysterically as the rest of us observed her in wide-eyed shock. When Drusilla saw the rest of us armed with stakes, she had the sense to flee in the night.
Our day of celebration, ended in a mournful tone as all looked at the spot where Emilie stood her last stand. Buffy finally broke out in tears and cried as the rest of us were saddened in a moment of silence. "First, Anya then Spike and this", I intoned. "Buffy's lost a lot more than that for the last seven years, she's been very brave for a big sister", Dawn told me and she then went to comfort her big weeping sister. After a few moments, the silence was broken by a dog barking in the distance. "I think it's time for us to leave", Giles suggested. "Good idea", said Xander. Dawn, Willow, Xander and I helped Buffy to her feet. Buffy was still sniffling and wiping the tears away from her face. "Are you going to be alright?", I asked Buffy. Buffy simply acknowledged with a nod.
"I want you all to witness a miracle", Giovanni the magician said. At that, Giovanni and Dr. Jacobi went over the exact spot where Emilie just perished, waved his wand and recited an incantation in ancient Hebrew. The wind suddenly blew intensely as lightning began cracking in the sky, Giovanni and Dr. Jacobi kept reciting undisturbed at the sudden change of environment. The wind circled up the dust remains of Emilie, howling and lightning struck the spot. There was an eerie glowing ball of light which eventually took form, until to everyone's astonishment, Emilie stood there. alive. Emilie was wrapped in a white blanket, she felt her chest. "Oh my God, I'm back and I've got a heartbeat!".
Our tears of mourning became tears of jubilee when we saw Emilie back. We all immediately ran to embrace her, happy that she came back alive. "How did you?", Willow asked Giovanni. Giovanni replied, "An ancient secret of the Bible Code!”. “So secret only the worthy will ever find it!", Dr. Jacobi added. "That's the greatest thing you could have ever done for me!", Emilie said with tears of joy trickling down her cheek as she embraced Giovanni the Magician and then Dr. Jacobi. Giovanni then pulled a white curtain out his hat and threw it over Emilie. He pulled it off and Emilie stood in white modern fashionable clothes, complete with a purse with ID.
We all climbed into the bus and drove off. Everyone on board was relieved, as we drove away from the stadium. We all headed north on Orange Blossom Trail back to my home in Apopka. Buffy and the gang would be staying at the Howard Johnson's hotel across the road from the fruit stand vendor and next to a gun range. I was dropped off at my home and we all made arrangements to meet again the next day. Upon coming home, I went online to check my e- mail. Nikki Lindholm, my longtime friend in Sweden would be coming to America tomorrow, to Orlando! I was astonished and called Buffy at the hotel who also got excited and passed on the exciting news to everyone else. Buffy called me back to let me know that we'll pick up Nikki at the airport
I slept after the long celebration was over. I dreamed a dream, in the dream I was in a meadow and Lucia appeared in a ring of lillipads in the middle of a pond, dressed in green and her majestic wings had ivy patterns on them and she wore a crown of laurels. Lucia walked across the pond towards me where I stood by a weeping willow tree. From behind the tree, as soon as Lucia approached and gave me a hug and a kiss. Lucia said, "I've got a surprise for you!" and turned her gaze from me to the willow tree. Anya, who sacrificed herself to save someone's life during the final battle of Sunnydale, long story, stepped out from behind the weeping willow tree holding hands with Spike. Both of them approached me together wearing shimmering white robes. "But the two of you are dead!", I said. "We died in your world but now we are finally at peace", Spike said.
"We wanted to tell you to let Buffy and the others not to mourn us for we have been liberated into paradise and also tell Angel when you see him again", Anya said. "Just like you all celebrated our victory over the First Evil and the hell mouth and your reunion, We want you to celebrate our right of passage", Spike said. "Celebrate us for we laid down our lives for the common good and a greater cause, think of it as memorial day. a happy memorial day", Anya said. "We've paid our dues and now we've been rewarded with eternal life.the real kind!", Spike added. At that, Spike and Anya began to dance in the meadow at the tune of Russian Violins playing Bond's "Korobushko", whose sounds filled the air but neither the violins nor the players could be seen anywhere. Until I looked behind me to see four angels playing them.
I turned back to Lucia who silently smiled at me and shrugged her shoulders with a tilt of her head. In an instant, I awoke from the dream with the Soviet rhythm still ringing through my mind. I got up early while my family were still sound asleep. I showered, shaved, brushed my teeth, had breakfast and checked the fluids in my car and drove to the hotel to meet up with Buffy and the rest of our friends. Everybody was up and ready and everyone had their breakfast. So we all proceeded to the bus and from there headed to the airport to pickup Nikki who was flying to Orlando from Stockholm, Sweden. On our way to the airport, I began to tell Buffy and the Scooby Gang about the dream I had.
At first, everyone was pensive and then this overwhelming peace and tranquility fell over the bus. "So long as I know that Spike is happy in heaven, as well as Anya, I'm happy for them as well and I wish them all the happiness in the universe", Buffy said. Buffy flashed back to Sunnydale in 2001, when she sang, "I think I was in heaven". Buffy's memory flashed back again to an earlier scene when she confided to Spike that she found herself in heaven and that life on earth is hell. "Now Spike knows", Buffy said. "And Anya, too!", Emilie added who could now enjoy daylight after 107 years of darkness, as the immortal sidekick of Giovanni the Magician and Dr. Jacobi. Ultimately, we made it to the airport bearing handwritten signs that read, "Nikki" and some of us waved Swedish flags which Giovanni pulled out of his hat to those who wanted one.
Finally, among the passengers who boarded off the plane, we were approached by a young blond Swedish girl, it was Nikki Lindholm. We all greeted her and gave Nikki a great big group hug. Buffy and the Scoobie gang were impressed by the knowledge she had of Buffy's exploits. Nikki recognized some of us immediately while she neede to be introduced to some of the others. We all then proceeded to the currency exchange area so that Nikki could convert her Swedish currency to American currency. From there we went to the school bus and began to drive away from the airport.
We took Nikki to the same tourist attractions we took the day before only this time we were able to take the tour more efficiently while Giovanni the Magician pulled out a bouquet of blue and yellow roses as a gift to Nikki as well as entertain us with his magic tricks along the way, which became all the more exciting with Emilie helping him and Dr. Jacobi while she performed magical feats herself. We all had the time of our lives even better than the day before and I treated Nikki to the Goff's ice cream stand. We all sensed Nikki came for a divine purpose, only we didn't know exactly what it was.
After we went to the theme parks and other such attractions we all took a grand tour through the Orlando area. Nikki bought a lot of souvenirs from International Drive and really added more to the fun with a resurrected now immortal and magician's apprentice, Emilie. Later that evening, we went back to the stadium were Emilie was staked as a vampire and brought back as an immortal the night before after fighting Drusilla. This time a game was playing, this was also the same stadium that hosted the World Cup soccer Game back in 1994. Since there were crowds of people and of course increased security as well as a police presence, we figured, no vampires and in all likelihood no Drusilla. So we all bought tickets to watch a baseball game and had plenty of fun in the process. A week would go by without further incident.
One week later, one night we were at Lake Dot Park on Colonial Drive near Edgewater Drive. There was a lake with the full moon and the city lights from the night skyline reflecting on the surface of the lake like a mirror, as Emilie enjoyed seeing her reflection on the water. "This is so different from Sweden", Nikki said. "It's also quite different from Sunnydale", Willow added. "This is really, really worlds apart from England", Giles said. "This is very different from----", Buffy said and was cut off by another voice that said, "Los Angeles". "What?", Faith said. "Is it?", Buffy said. From the darkness, Angel appeared accompanied by Lorne, a green skinned demon with red eyes and horns along with a buxom blonde named Kate Lockley who was with the LAPD. "I assume those are the good guys", Principal Wood said. "It is and this is a lot better than prison", Faith said. We all gathered and gave Angel a group hug. "I'm so happy to see you again", Buffy said. "Me too", Angel said.