Chapter 13
After school, the others were on their way to the Magic Store,
where they supposed to meet up with Giles, their immortals comrades and Buffy. As Lissy opened
the store's front door, while laughing about a comment that Lee made about
their math teacher, a wooded column fell out of no where and nearly hit Lissy's
head. Taken by surprise, they looked at the store and it was a huge rack.
"Giles?!" Clay yelled as Lee and Karlie rushed inside to find the others.
The rest of the others slowly walked into the store while looking
at the huge mess such as broken windows, books everywhere on the floor, some
broken merchandises, chairs, and flipped tables. Clay and Greg picked up and placed
some of the bookcases out of the way. A few seconds later, they heard a moaning
sound behind the counter where the cast register was. Lissy rushed towards the
direction and spotted Giles who was badly hurt. She yelled out at someone to
helped her and Greg rushed to helped Clay to take Giles somewhere to sit.
"What happen here?", a voice said behind them.
"Buffy! We don't know. We just got here and we just-"
"What happen here?", she repeated as she walked towards Giles.
"They took it!", Karlie said as Lee and herself came from the back after the search.
"Took what?", Clay asked, frowned his brows.
"Balthatzar found out that we had took the scroll and the bloodstone.", Giles said in between breath. "His servants
came and took it."
"Where's the others?", Greg asked trying to clean the open wound
above Giles's right eyebrown.
"They took them. They were out number and they
took them away. One of the creature said that they could be useful for
Bathatzar�"
Immediately, Giles passed out. Lissy mentioned that Giles needed
to go to the hospital as soon as possible, Greg turned and looked at the
Slayers wondering what they should do. Because they usually listened and took
direction, councils and advices from Giles. Lee looked at Karlie who looked at Buffy and
who was looking at a sharp weapon on the ground. She quickly picked it up and
looked at the others and then turned her attention to Giles.
"Here's the deal.", she said as she began to give direction.
"Clay, take Giles to the hospital. Greg tried to clean up the mess. Lee and Kaz, you'll
help Lissy to work on some spells and start to have an idea and plan on how
to get into the ritual without been caugth. While I'll be searching for some weapons,
to see whcih ones shall be useful."
"Buffy?", Lee asked as Buffy took out a bag and opened a trunk
fill of deadly weapons. "What do you mean?"
"Balthatzar already got the idea that we're going to attack and
stopped the ritual before its start. So he need some group of demons or
vampires or something of that sort for a look out."
"I don't want to disappoint you sis, but where do we start?" Kaz asked her. "We
don't even know where to start looking for, and beside we don't know where
the ritual is going be held�" Buffy turned her head slowly and looked at her as
she walked towards Karlie, Lee and Greg, with an hopeful eyes.
"Karlie, I know what you mean and trust me. I know what I'm doing.
In fact, I know where the ritual is going to be held." Buffy loaded a gun, and
took out a bag, before turned her head towards Karlie. "All we need is a plan
on how to get there without being caught and stop the ritual without getting
none of us and our friends hurt."
"How do you...? I mean where and how you know it going to be?" Lee
replied looking at her and wondered where she got the where about.
"Lee, I have my ways and this time. I'm not saying how and who told
me." A silence ruled for a few moment, before she turned to Clay. "You better get him to the hospital
right now and we better get started, cause we got at least then 5 hours."
Immediatly, Clay took Giles to the hospital; Karlie and
Lee were helping Lissy; Greg were cleaning out the place. Buffy was looking at
the weapons, wondered if it would be useful for the battle tonight and placed
it in the bag. At the same time, she was thinking about the dream she had and
hated the feeling for not telling her close friends about who told her where
the ritual was going to be held. Her biggest regret and guiltiness were
especially not telling her family about her destiny, cause it could be the last
night she would see her family again and she could possibly take her last
breath.
*****
The sun slowly set as the moon rose up to the darkness night,
waking up the creatures of the night and his fellow's followers and minions. Bekah, Ryan,
Tilky and Andrew were held in the a far away forest from the city where the
obese parasite, Balthazar would performed his ritual. They were held
up against each tree barks and theirs hands chain around the tree, made it
impossible to get away.
Steve and Drusilla weren't far behind to watch the others vampires torturing their
old allies. Tilky and Ryan were beat down to the ground till they coughed out
their own blood. While Bekah, who had to witness everything, only got to see her
friends beating up and being a victimes of several hitting also. And for Andrew, he was
trying to stood up from the beating. Drusilla skipped her way towards him
who never though that one of this day he would held capture.
"Andrew got beat up!", she sang along.
Steve only looked from afar as Drusilla hit Andrew non stop till
he faced the dusty ground. Bekah almost led her tears which were falling down
her cheeks while looking at her 3 other friends laying helpless from the
situation. She looked at Drusilla and then towards Steve.
"I don't know what can make you this fucking evil Steve and I
definitely don't know how you could get it on with that bitch you call
Drusilla�"
Before she could continued, Drusilla slapped her across the
face, leaving a bloody mark on her cheek, and pulled her hair to make her
looked into her eye which was burning with the fire of hell. For the first time
in centuries, even when she was ally with Drusilla, Bekah never saw those eyes
more evilly like before.
"Shut up you worthless piece of trash! Without me, you're nothing! You heard
me! NOTHING!" Drusilla yelled in her face, with much more furry in her voice.
"Without me you'll be dead right now! I was the one who made you drink and if I
haven't made you what creature you are right now�"
"STOP THIS!", Steve screamed. "Drusilla, stop bitching at her and you Bekah, shut the fucking hell
up if you know what's good for you!"
Looking at Steve, she turned her eyes and head slowly at Bekah who
was looking at her with anger in her eyes. Drusilla slowly smiled. "You're lucky
that Steve isn't in a killing mood. Cause if he is, you would be screaming for
your death!"
As much as she wanted to, Bekah couldn't jumped on the heartless
immortal, because of the chains around her wrist. Never in her life, she
hated someone so much and want to get a revenge for what Drusilla did to her
and letting her family tortured and died by that evil vamperess. All she could
felt was the pain and anger and almost showed off a tear, but knew that she had
to be strong and not let Drusilla win.
As Drusilla walked off with an huge smile across her face and laughing, Steve
looked up at Bekah who was badly hurt from his so-called-lover and turned
towards Ryan, Tilky and Andrew. As Andrew was about to say something to make
Steve felt worse about himself, a vampire threw a bucket of red and
warm blood all over his face.
"Come on Andrew! We know that the bad vampire side is still in
there�", one of them say with a laugher.
"We know how much you wanted a taste of the blood dripping slowly
on your face!", another one said.
Andrew was fighting not to have a taste, but he knew that the
vampire instinct was still inside of him. His comrades were screaming and
telling him to fight and not to sink into their level. Steve couldn't take it
anymore. He was tired. He was confused. He didn't know what to think or imagine.
"Cut this bloody shit out!" Steve said as he walked towards the
2 vampires to get away from Andrew's face and then threw a bucket of water to
waste it off. "No wonder they gave us vampires a bad name. LOOK AT
YOU GUYS!"
"What's wrong with you, Steve? You didn't want him be part of us
or what?", one of them said.
"Or maybe he's working for them secretly?". Suddenly, Steve threw a
stake at the other vampire's heart and took everyone by surprise.
"If anyone EVER have doubts about me EVER AGAIN, will end up like
him; into DUST! Anyone got a problem with that?", Steve yelled out
before the other vampires nodded. "And beside, I heard that Balthazar have a better plan to torture
them�"
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