Midnight Red
By Starswirl M.
Pochacco989(at)hotmail.com
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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, except the ones that are invented. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the property of Joss Whedon, WB, Mutant Enemy, and so on . . . anything that is similar to any other fan fiction is TOTALLY coincidental. (I borrowed one or so scenes only to create a mood, I give full credit to the writers and junk if I can remember their names, please don't sue.)
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OTHER STUFF YOU NEED TO KNOW: 2 stars ** means inner thinking. This fan fiction starts sometime after Angel has turned evil ... (Brackets) will show up as a narrative on my part, I felt it would add some appeal tell me what you think. Another thing and I promise you (the reader) this is the last unless I have more stuff you need to know before reading this, when I'm writing events that happen in the Show, I'm gonna write it differently, or writing it the way *I* think it should happen.
Okay I'm done, now you may enter the fanfic ;)
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Part 4
"You what?" Willow exclaimed.
"I killed him, I killed Principal Snyder." Replied Buffy.
"But you couldn'tave. Yes, I heard he was murdered but Principal Snyder died in Sunnydale. You were in Cairo."
"I did though, I mean kill him. Last night, I went out with Shawn after curfew."
"You went out after curfew, are you crazy?!? But it's a good thing you didn' get caught!" Willow interrupted.
"I know, I know but Shawn checked if the teacher' were asleep or not. We were walking and we went into a back alley, it was really dark." Buffy was recalling events from the night before. "Ohmigosh! Shawn! It's was really dark and I couldn't sense him near me. It was silent, too silent, and then he attacked me!" Buffy was in a trance.
"Who attacked you?" asked Willow.
Without answering, Buffy continued "I fell to the ground, I couldn't see anything. Then he charged at me with a bat. AHH! Ow!! I got up. He came at me again and I was able to knock the bat out of his hand. I got his side and he's down. I kicked him, kicked him hard. Harder then any I've kicked before. Dim light." Buffy's eyes widened.
"Buffy? Buffy?" Willow waved her hand in front of Buffy's face.
"Oh no! It's him, Snyder!!"
"Buffy!" This time Willow yelled at Buffy.
Buffy snapped out of the trance and was back. "What?"
"Buffy? You scared me there for a second."
"Why? What did I do?"
"You were in some sort of a trance. You just kept going on about how you were fighting Principal Snyder."
Buffy remembered "That's was happened though, I did and I killed him." Tears began to streak down Buffy's face.
"Buffy, you didn't kill him, you didn't"
"I did, I know it, it happened last night."
"It's not possible"
Buffy wandered of to her own world and kept on babbling about she killing Principal Snyder.
"Buffy! Listen to me, you didn't kill Snyder!" said Willow.
** She been through a lot, no one can blame her for acting like this. It must be one of those thing that a slayer faces, ** Thought Willow.
Buffy finally listen to Willow's reasoning and dried up her tears.
The rest of the morning was quite quiet and calm, but when noon came, things started off lively again. (Pun. I'm sorry just had to) Today was an off day where students could enjoy Cairo without those corny tours, some students went out to do more sight-seeing, some stayed in for the fabulous free room services the hotel offered.
Buffy still felt confused about her encounter with Principal Snyder the night before. She went to visit Shawn to see if he was okay, since she figured Shawn was probably got freaked out by Snyder or whoever that person was and ran back to the hotel, she knocked on the door.
"GO AWAY!" Yelled a rough voice coming from Shawn's room.
Figuring it was Shawn's roomy, she said "It's Buffy, I'm a friend of Shawn's"
"This isn't Shawn's room. Go away, whoever you are!!" Said the voice.
Buffy check the room number, ** 107, yep, but this is Shawn's room. Weird. ** "Hello? Um.. This is Shawn's room though."
"I was supposed to be his roommate, but Shawn never past the boarding gate at the airport because he got pneumonia and wasn't allowed to come to Egypt with the class. I'm busy now please leave me alone!"
Buffy found this very disturbing and she left for Willow's room.
"Buffy. Are you feeling better now?" Willow said as she opened the door. Luckily Serena wasn't there so the 2 of them could discuss slayer business.
"I think, but I'm getting more confused than ever." Said Buffy with a weird look on her face.
"Why's that?"
"Well remember I said that I went out with Shawn Ferguson."
"But he never left Sunnydale- -I overheard his parents talk to the teacher about him being sick or something."
"Yeah, I just came from his floor and that's what his roommate said. But I went out with him last night and that's when the event happened."
"That's strange.. have you talked to Giles about it?" asked Willow.
"No but that's what I'm gonna do. Can you please come with me?"
"Sure" Willow said as she jumped up and the 2 of them headed for the lobby.
They boarded the elevator and a strange feeling came over Buffy.
The elevator went to a sudden halt. An almost inaudible creek. Suddenly the elevator dropped at a high speed! The 2 screamed realizing the elevator was out of control!! Any second now the they were going to hit the bottom, any second now. Still screaming, Willow tried to push the emergency stop button but the turbulence was too much. Down and Down ... then they stopped and the image of the lobby opened up.
They both thought *Had this been my imagination playing tricks on me? But we both experienced it!?!!*
Still partly shocked they left the elevator and reached a lobby chair.
"W-wh-wh-What happened?" Willow said still shakened.
Ignoring her, Buffy urgently left for the phone. Willow followed.
BBRING BBRING! Rang Giles home phone. "Hello?" said the sleepy watcher.
"Giles it me."
"Oh hello! So you heard about Snyder?"
"Yes but that's not what I'm phoning you about. Giles there's something really strange going on here."
"What happened?" Giles asked attentively.
"Well first, there was that encounter with the creepy warning dude and this black cat. Then I went out with this guy and I ended up beating Principal Snyder to death. I, then find that Snyder really did die, but he died in Sunnydale and I got really confused. So I went to the room of the guy I went out with, and I find out that the guy I went out with, Shawn, never left Sunnydale." She paused to take a breathe. "Just now as Me and Will were coming down here to phone you on the elevator, and we dropped rapidly from her floor to the lobby and we were sure we were going to die. But we ended up in the lobby safe and sound, and we're sure that we didn't imagine it!"
Giles paused contemplated the events mentioned by Buffy and then answered "This also puzzles me. I'll as you say pull some strings and I'll be there in a day. Alright?"
"Good! But what do I do if anything like that happens again?"
"Just stay put until I get there." Giles hung up.
"Buffy? What did Giles say?" Willow asked.
"He says he's gonna come over."
They head for Buffy's room, running up the staircase since they didn't quite trust the elevator anymore, and were going to observe their past events carefully to try to make some sense of it. Buffy opened to the door, and they stood in shock. Angel sat on Buffy's bed.
"Willow go back to your room. GO!" yelled Buffy as she pulled out a stake.
"But, but, but. I'll go get Xander." Willow ran straight for Xander's room.
"Hello lover." Said Angel.
Seeing that the room's blinds were shut, Buffy said coldly "What are you doing here Angelus?"
"Whoa, I'm Angelus now? What a warm welcome. Well I'm just dropping by to see how well you were doing- -Okay, actually no, What I was REALLY going for was how you were handling one of my old Pals Oblivon. But I figured, what the heck. Why not pay you a visit."
Buffy shut the door and ran for the blinds. But her attempt failed when Angel caught what she was gonna do and tripped her. Buffy fell to the ground with a thud.
"I wouldn't have done that dear." Angel taunted as he hovered over her, trapping her by his weight.
Struggling to free herself, she decided to knee him. But her efforts to do so misfired.
"Oh Buffy, your turning me on. But THAT will have to wait."
Angel gave her a violent kiss and left. "Be seeing you."
Watching where Angel had exited, she began to wonder again, since he had went in Cordelia's closet. She followed but when she opened the door, nothing was there, except Cordy's clothes.
She heard a pounding on the door, "Buffy! It's Us!" Said Xander.
Remembering that she had locked the door she opened it. And there ran in a stake-crazed Xander. "Where is he, lemme at him!" then he stopped, realizing how stupid it looked, since there was no Angel.
"Where's Angel?" Asked Willow.
"H-h-he left. I know this sounds weird you guys but he left through Cordelia's closet." Said Buffy.
"I knew it." Xander tried to crack a joke under the tension. Willow then elbowed him.
"Have you checked how?" said Willow.
"Yeah, but there's no way he could have disappeared because there's no way out of the room except the door and window."
"But considering our stay here," Willow was cut off by Xander.
"What, What happened?" asked Xander.
Willow explained the past events and then added. "Buffy I know I should have told you this early, like before that elevator ride, but I have had strange thing happened to me too. But this was only on the first night. You see, there's this picture hanging in our room, it's of a guy sitting on a chair and petting his black cat, well more like a kitty. I don't think you've seen the picture because Serena and I decided to take it down after that night. Well that night the black cat out of the picture jumped out. We both saw it. It's was really creepy. But then this cat jumped out of the picture and jumped out of the window. We thought it was just our imagination but the strangest thing out of the whole thing was when we turned on the light the cat was really gone."
"That's uncanny, I mean like everything you said." Xander said.
"But considering everything that had happened.. I think this Angel thing would receive a 10 on a scale from 1 to 10. 10 meaning the extreme wiggins." Stated Willow.
"Yeah" Agreed Buffy. "I just wish I knew what was going on."
Just then there was a P.A. announcement, "Good afternoon students of Sunnydale, for the remaining student in the hotel, lunch is going to be served in the Dinning Hall. This is the first time this broadcasting system was in use, since we had technical difficulties early."
This announcement was wired to every student's room and the floors they were staying, just so the students of Sunnydale would know special events or went meals were served. This was the first time that the announcement had broadcast.
"I never knew there was a broadcasting meal thing." Stated Willow.
"Me neither. But hey I heard lunch, anyone gonna join me?" said Xander.
Willow nodded.
"Buffy?" asked Xander
"No.. thanks, I don't feel like having lunch right now. But maybe I'll join you later." Said Buffy.
So Willow and Xander went off to the Dinning Hall.
The day went and there was the same broadcasting system thing for dinner also. So the 3 of them figured it was gonna stay. (Even though it was kinda annoying.)
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12:45 am
It was curfew and everyone got ready for bed. Cordelia then tried to take this time to be friendly to Buffy.
"Buffy?" Whispered Cordelia.
"Yes?" Buffy was just about to fall into slumber.
"Did I wake you?"
"No, but I was happily sleeping a second ago." Buffy said sarcastically.
"I'm sorry."
*What? Cordy actually knows that word? Feeling kinda guilty for being mean, Buffy quickly added "It's okay." kindly.
"Well I was just thinking, since you've been pretty nice to me even though I've been a bit of a ---- well that's not the point here. The point is I'm sorry for being all nasty and stuff to you, like the past year."
Taking this into consideration, Buffy paused for a moment and then decided to give Cordelia a chance. She's been more than a bit of a -----well you know, but I forgive you."
"Thanks." Admitted Cordelia. "Hey were you really popular in your last school?"
"Why?"
"Well you know L.A., I'd kill to live there.. but then my parent have this thing, where they don't want me to go there or live there because of this bad experience they had about weird-faced people attack or massacre as they called it oh my gosh! I haven't realized this but I think they saw vampires. Oh my gosh! That is like so ironic."
Cordy talk on and on and on and on and on and on, and on about herself. But her voice faded away as Buffy slowly drifted to slumber.
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The Next Day
Giles arrived on the excuse of lack of chaperones and the slayer and her slayerettes got down to business. Giles analyzed every significant detail of the group's strange occurrences and resorted to his laptop. Finally, after more then a semester, Ms. Calendar got Giles to use a computer. Also, Ms. Calendar got Giles a program complete with all his collection of the occult. (Buffy, Willow and Xander each took a chance in casually teasing him about it). Giles told them that he would get back to them when he found this Oblivon creature.
The rest of the day passed quite swiftly, without any strange disturbances.
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Part 5
Nighttime
** Just floating away. Carefree. Serene. ** A gentle voice was guiding Buffy. ** Float away and never return. **
Buffy suddenly woke up, with a violent jerk. Something touched her hand. Soft, fluffy but eerily cold.
"Meow?" It was the black kitten that visited her a couple of nights before.
Though Buffy was ready to fight when she woke up, she gently picked up the small fragile kitten and petted it.
"Hey kitty" whispered Buffy to the cat. "Hmm... you seem like the only thing that's making any sense to me right now. You see..." she quietly whispered to the cat her troubles and the kitten seem to dose away and cuddled up in her hands. "I knew I was boring you, sleep now." Buffy drifted off to slumber herself.
The next morning
RINGGGGGGGGGG! PLEASE WAKE UP. BREAKFAST IS SERVED AT THE STUDY HALL, rang the terribly annoying P.A. system.
Buffy and Willow were standing in line for Breakfast.
"Hey Buffy!" Willow chimed in.
"Uh, hey yourself. We're in a cheery mood aren't we?" Buffy said.
"Well... yeah."
"Share..." Buffy said mischievously.
"Share what?" Xander interrupted will his mouth full from a blueberry muffin.
"Well Willow was just about to share a certain something that's making that wide smile on her face." Explained Buffy.
"Oh... um never mind Buffy, I'll tell you later. I've got to go." Willow's face had a hovering mysterious glow and she disappeared into the crowds of hunger students.
"That was weird. Oh well forget her." Said Xander. "So let's study for that test we have tomorrow k? We have a lot to catch up... I bet no time for slaying now right?"
Buffy was now very certain something was definitly wrong. First Willow being totally cold and mysterious around Xander. Xander actually caring about school and saying "Forget her" indicating Willow and ----
Interrupting Buffy thoughts, Giles said "Um.. Buffy. Can I see you for a moment?"
Giles led her to that study hall's mini library and said "I think I've found this Oblivon fellow."
"Well what are we waiting for? The sooner I get the thing out of my mind, the sooner I can get on with my life." Buffy said eagerly.
"Well the thing is you can exactly 'get rid' of it." He said. "You have to, well beat it at it's own game."
"And how do I do that?!?"
"It says here.." referring to the book in his hand, "Oblivon is the master of illusions and all of memories--"
"That was that voice said..." Buffy said in realization.
"Yes, what else did it say"
"Well... I dunno... It's very misty right now."
"Anyway, Oblivon has the power to deceive and kill mortals of all kinds. It is usually summoned by a demon to do it's bidding. I've tried to find anything that leads to destroying it, but the writer of these books of old don't say anything useful at all. But there was a passage where it said that the number 39 and an anhk, the egyptian sign of life, that can harm it."
"Can you show it to me?" asked Buffy.
Giles found it for her in the mini-computer that Ms. Calendar gave Giles.
Buffy read the passage out loud, hoping there was a clue to destroying it. "13, 39 oh the new great almighty shall rise. Overcome cruel Obilvon, thus destruction of gold, of truth and loved of one. She'll die in dawn. Protecting Anhk of life. To slaying the one. And Chant the 39 and 39 and 39 of separation. Please page of addition. Will Lose the most of dearest and own thus insanity... What?"
"Exactly Buffy." Said Giles. "I'm as puzzled as you. But we have to find and destroy it quickly as possible."
"Yes.. but why?"
"Because, if we don't... you'll reduce to a psychotic... episode Buffy."
"What? But can't you do something about it?" Buffy exclaimed.
"Seek and Destroy."
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For the afternoon, the group (Buffy, Xander, Willow, Cordelia, and Giles) was researching on how to destroy Oblivon.
"Nothing. Geez! I wish that these books weren't so damn cryptic!" Said Giles.
There was a knock. It had startled everyone.
"Buffy I think it's for you." Said Cordelia without answering the door.
Buffy looked outside. No one was there. She walked through the door and suddenly everything changed and a trail of roses was in front of her. She followed them and it led to a small, glowing silver statue of an angel. Images flooded her with love, hope, affection, then despair. Suddenly something came at her, hitting her unconscious with one blow. Darkness.
The End?
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