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Part 15
Jack stumbled to a halt, momentarily surprised when the military humvees rounded the corner at speed towards him. The two vehicles screeched to a stop beside him and the window rolled down to show the last person he would have expected to see.
“Jacob what the….. What are you doing here?”
“Hello to you too Jack, General Hammond thought you could use the help let me give you a lift we’re heading back to the shop”
“Hell no” Jack roared “ I had to leave Daniel and the others, we’ve got to go back and get them”
“Jack just shut up and get in”
Jack clamped his lips shut as he glared at Jacob, looking past him he saw Sam sitting forward on her seat. Her eyes urged him not to argue, though the brightness in them he saw that she too wanted to just go get their friends. But her military background meant she’d follow orders first no matter how badly she felt. She laid a hand on her father’s arm, Jacob looked over at her his face softening, as she watched his eyes glowed and Selnac came forward. He smiled at her then turned back to face Jack, who recoiled slightly before a neutral look came over his face.
“Selnac”
“I know that you wish to rescue your friends Colonel O’Neil but we must regroup and plan a strategy. Please enter theicleicle so that we can return and apprise the rest of your group of what has happened”
Jack wavered for a second then hauled open the back door and jumped in slamming it for good effect.
The drive back to the magic shop was fraught with hostile silence, when they arrived Jack got out and angrily strode into the shop followed closely by Sam, Jacob and another of the Tokra. The rest of the air force guards melted into the darkness as they went to patrol the nearby streets.
Buffy saw Jack come in and launched herself at him, landing a punch on the jaw. Jack reeled back with the blow conscious of Giles restraining the slayer from coming after him.
“What the hell happened Jack, where is Xander and Spike. If you’ve done anything to hurt them I’ll make you wish I’d killed you”
“Ow ow and ow and what the fuck do you mean if I’ve hurt them. I fucking had to leave them like I had to leave Danny. I had no fucking choice you stupid bitch. Do you think I wanted to leave my lover like that, damm Jaffa were everywhere. It’s a miracle I got away, we’ve got to go back and get them”
Jack fingered his sore jaw, “ And why does everyone want to hit me, seems like every time I turn around someone socks me”
Buffy broke away from Giles, taking a deep breath she exhaled slowly as she walked over to Jack.
“Okay I’m sorry I punched you, but I have issues with people who don’t look after my friends.”
Buffy stuck out her hand and Jack eyed it warily, giving his jaw a last poke he sighed and shook hands.
“Okay apology accepted”
The group seated itself around the large table, Sam introduced her father and the other Tokra, a man named Lendra to the scoobies before they started to form their battle plan. Willow and Tara sat close together, Tara watched Jacob and Lendra quietly before stuttering out a question.
“You..you..you’re not entirely human are you, either of you”
Jacob raised an eyebrow questioningly at her, smiling paternally he let Selnac answer for him. The scoobies jumped in their seats as the older mans eyes glowed and a deep rumbling voice echoed from him.
“You are correct young one, I am called Selnac. Jacob is my host, I am one of the Tokra as is my companion. Lendra’s symboite is called Radic”.
Sam laid a hand over her fathers, “To cut a long story short, my dad was dieing and so was Selnac’s host. They came to an agreement and now they share the same body.”
Jacob’s eyes stopped glowing and he resumed speaking for his symboite.
“I am grateful for the time I’ve been given and the excellent company I’ve gained”
Sam smiled, but Jack thumped a fist down on the table anxious to make plans to rescue Daniel.
“If the introductions are out of the way now, I’d like to get down to getting Daniel, Xander and Spike back”
“Well lets mount up and go get em”
Buffy looked set to go now without them but Giles laid his hand over hers and she subsided, though she glared a little at Jack.
“Buffy they may not still be there”
“Jack what happened and I mean every little detail, leave nothing out no matter how unimportant you may think it to be.”
Jack sighed in irritation but related the story to the others, about how they were ambushed by Jaffa and a Goa’uld with the crystal. How Daniel, Spike and Xander had been knocked out and captured by the Jaffa. As he went on Jacob and Lendra gave each other worried looks, Jack noticed and threw up his hands, he hated it when the Tokra did that, it always meant trouble.
“And what….. you two aren’t inspiring confidence there you know. What do you know that we don’t”?
Jacob sighed and leant over the table clasping his hands together, he glanced sideways at Lendra and the other Tokra shrugged his shoulders as if to say, “you may as well tell them”
“Okay, we know who the Goa’uld is that has your friends. His name is Nefu and at one time he served in Ra’s temple as a priest, that is, until he was chosen to be a host.”
“So he’s old, we’ve faced Goa’uld from that time before”
“That’s not the problem” Jacob looked around and took a deep breath “ The problem is that he was a priest, one that knew magic”
Sam leaned forward her eyes searching her fathers “You mean you know about magic, how?”
Lendra caught her attention and answered for Jacob, “ What you call magic has been in existence for eons. It is an extremely rare occurrence to find so much of it in one place. On all the worlds the Tokra have explored we have never found even a slight amount, certainly nothing like what can be tapped into here.”
Giles toof hif his glasses and thoughtfully chewed on the end,
“The earth must stand at a crossing point between dimensions, the fabric of space is very thin here, it would be why the Hellmouth has so much power.”
“You said he had a crystal Jack, do you have any idea what he was doing with it”
“Well I don’t know, he just chanted and light sorta just flowed into it like it was being sucked up in a vacuum cleaner. ”
“Is it possible that Nefu was trying to absorb the power of the Hellmouth”
Jacob looked concerned, Giles just looked appalled.
“Yes it is, it would be a powerful weapon if he could control it”
“More than that, if he absorbs the power of the Hellmouth, he could quite possibly destroy the earth”
“How could he do that Giles”
“Well the balance of power between the Hellmouth and the demon dimensions is quite stable most of the time. We have had other beings try to open the Hellmouth in order to use that power for their own gain. If Angelus had been able to do it the earth would have been overrun by demons, but if Nefu is trying to siphon off that power it could be disastrous. Take enough power out and the dimensions would collapse the earth, killing the planet and unfortunately everyone on it at the time”
“Well isn’t that a cheery thought, ok…how do we go about first, finding this guy and our friends and two…how do we stop him”
Willow’s clear voice broke the silence, “I could try a scrying spell Giles”
“That’s a fine idea Willow, you and Tara get the ingredients from the shelves and I’ll see if Spike or Xander left anything here we can use to focus the spell with.”
Giles left the room and soon returned with a brush, pulling some dark hair from it he handed it to Willow, who placed it in an ornate metal bowl. Tara sprinkled some sweet smelling powder on the hairs, before taking a large bottle of water from the counter. After uncorking the bottle she murmured softly while she carefully filled the bowl to the brim.
“Let he who we seek be revealed in the blessed waters, alecath glithnimodel esstipathe”
The water shimmered, sparkling lights glimmering under the surface till the light coalesced into a mirror. There was Xander, despair written over his face as a hand gripped him painfully by the hair. The scene moved back and the assembled group could see that Xander was being forced to watch something.
Tara whispered words of power over the water and the scene rotated until the group could see over Xander’s shoulder. Crowded around the bowl the onlookers gasped as they watched a man who could only be Nefu take a Goa’uld snake from a sealed container. Nefu stroked the wriggling Goa’uld, showing it to Spike who struggled in the grip of the Jaffa guards.
In the absolute silence of the vision they could clearly see the revulsion on the vampires face. Spike struggled furiously, his demon coming to the fore to snap and snarl in frustration. Nefu lips curled up in a gut wrenching smile, pure malevolence in his eyes as he ordered Spike’s head to be held still. The vampire tried to wrench his head away but was restrained by another of the Jaffa. Nefu held the Goa’uld up and as his lover and friends watched in horror the symboite entered his body through his ear. Spike howled, even in the silence they could see his agony, feel Xander’s pain, Willow crumpled in on herself, her bond with Xander nearly rendering her unconscious. The be vae vampire’s pain was so great he literally threw his guards off, the Jaffa were knocked to the ground to sprawl at his feet. Spike threw his head back, hands around his throat as he struggled with himself. Eerie lights flickered in and out of his eyes, amber, blue and the horrible glowing eyes of the Goa’uld.
Willow fought her pain, Xander’s pain, as she chanted gathering power into the very centre of her being. Red hair flew up away from her tear-streaked face, her eyes turning a chilling total black as she exerted her power. She rose the energy around her forcing the others back from the bowl. White fire flew from her fingertips as she concentrated a mystic blast through the mirror’s surface to strike at Spike. It struck him like a lightening bolt straight to the heart, he screamed and fell to the floor, his body turning rigid as they watched. Only his eyes showed any life, the lights still changed in them only now the glowing light was weaker the blue and amber stronger.
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Nefu looked wildly around, searching for the source of the blast, his eyes narrowed as he felt the existence of the scrying spell. Reaching around his neck he grasped the crystal, as he began to chant they could see the crystal’s green light spilling out between his fingers. Willow was saying words of power under her breath as she tried to gather enough power for another bolt but something was wrong.
The crystal in Nefu’s hands brightened, Willow felt her power ebbing away, she could do nothing as feltfelt the magic drain away. She fell to the floor, Tara cradling her in her arms, as she lost consciousness the mirror too faded away to a clear pool of water. Same ame to when Radic came forward in Lendra’s body and sank to his knees beside her exhausted body. He gently touched her brow and reverently intoned
“Purity and light, young one you are something I never thought to ever see in all my long life.”
Giles too moved to hold Willow’s hand, rubbing her cold fingers between his warmer ones as he smiled gently at her.
“Willow how did you do that, it’s incredibly difficult to work an attacking spell through a scrying spell. Its something I’ve never seen before, I wouldn’t have thought it was even possible.”
Willow let the two men raise her to her feet and accompany her to a chair before answering.
Tara stood behind her lightly stroking her shoulders as she felt her limbs trembling slightly.
“I don’t know how I did it Giles, I think my bond with Xander had something to do with it. I couldn’t stand it, he was in such pain……watching Spike and that……thing.” She glanced apologetically at Jacob and Lendra “I acted on instinct I think, I gathered power and sent it into Spike, or rather to the part of Spike that needed it the most, the William part I think, though the demon would know how to use it too. Hopefully they will be able to fight off the’uld’uld”
“Did Nefu bar you from helping Spike more, he was doing lots of chanting there and that green crystal was glowing more at the end”
“No Buffy, he did more than that, he seemed to siphon off my power. I couldn’t do anything to stop him, and I could feel that crystal sucking my power into it.”
Sam pulled a small device from her jacket and turned it on, carefully checking the readouts she walked around the shop softly talking to herself.
“Its very strange, the level of energy has been depleted, and it’s going down in a constant if slow manner.”
“Gods he’s siphoning off the Hell mouth’s energy”
The sound of Jack checking his guns and ammunition was loud in the suddenly quiet room. Buffy ran to the weapons cabinet and pulled out a crossbow and sohrowhrowing knives.
“Ok we’ve got to stop this guy, does anyone have an idea of where he is”
“Willow you know where they are don’t you, I’ve sehat hat place before too”
“Yes Buffy your right it’s the Initiative base”
Teal’c stood behind Jack, the giant black man’s calm manner seemed to soothe the Colonel.
“I understood that the Initiative base had been destroyed”
Sam shrugged her shoulders “That base was extensive so part of it could still be operational”
“Ok we know where we’re going, who’s coming with us”
Buffy stepped forward grinning “Your not going without me Jack, how about Willow, Tara and Giles stay here and see if they can figure out a way to stop the magic side of this thing and we’ll go rescue our boys.”
Jacob and Lendra joined them, “We’ll come with you, there are things that cannot be allowed to happen and your friend being taken over by the Goa’uld is one”
Buffy squared off against the two men “No one hurts Spike, you got that, he may be a vampire but he’s part of my family and I’m not letting anyone dust him”
“Buffy if Spike is indeed taken over by the Goa’uld he will be nearly invulnerable. The demon gives him immortality but the Goa’uld will give him extended healing and resistance to the sun. He’ll take an already powerful ancioucious race to another level, he’ll be what they call a Daywalker”
Giles snapped to attention at that phrase. “A Daywalker, there have been references to that name in the ancient texts. There has never been one, but vampire lore says that one will come among them on a day when the power of the world wanes, the green light of day shines on he who walks in the lighnd tnd the end will be nigh…It’s a end of the world prophecy.”
Buffy twirled her knife, “All the more reason to go now”
She turned and headed out thor, or, Sg 1 and the Tokra in hot pursuit, they collected their military escort on the way and headed off in the humvees. Jack checked his weapons again, his fingers sure as they ghosted over his equipment. His mouth was set in hard lines as he breathed deeply to compose himself.
* I’m coming Danny, just hold on love I’ll be with you soon*
tbc
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