Buffy! Giles is Vanishing.

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Angel had just been shot with the arrow. Buffy, Giles, Wesley
and Xander were in the library.

Buffy! Giles is Vanishing. part 1 of 2 parts

Giles and Buffy were talking to Wesley, blaming him as the
council would not help Angel. Buffy was becoming very upset
with the council.
"Buffy! look at Giles, he is vanishing," said Wesley. Buffy looked
to Giles, she saw his body was transparent, "Is this something
to do with what happened to Angel?" she asked.

Wesley looked troubled, "What happened to Angel is probably a
distraction. This could be something else entirely," suggested
Wesley, "A poisoned arrow to get Angel, this is completely
different."
Willow walked into the room just in time to see Giles vanish.

"What just happened?" Willow stood, almost fixed to the ground,
"Where could he be? where has he gone? has this sort of thing
occurred before?" asked Buffy. Wesley looked at Willow, "What
do you think?"
"The answer will be easy, knowing where to look to find the
answer, that is the hard part."

"You know what books are here better than I do," said Wesley,
"I cannot think what book to look at first, the best place to ring
would be the council. I am not to sure if Buffy or I should ring
them, not just yet anyway."

The three of them had been looking through book after book for
several hours. "What about a locator spell Will?" asked Buffy.
"Already tried one, it was no help. It stated that Giles was here,
in the library. It went to the very place that he vanished at."
Buffy looked at Willow. "What could that mean?"

"Anything really, basically he is here just not in mind, body,
spirit or soul," she replied.
"It could be a test, like when you were tested Buffy," said Wesley.
"What good will that do us?" asked Buffy
"We will have something to look for," stated Willow, "I'll go and
have a look in the Pergamum Codex."

Three more pizza's and a bottle of coke later Wesley was starting
to look like Xander, judging from the amount of gas in the coke
he was starting to sound like him, except for his need to
apologise on a regular basis.

Willow wandered into the room, "Any of you guys fancy
attempting to break a code?"
"It will break the monotamy of looking for something in these
books," said Wesley.
"Is the code in letters or numbers?" asked Buffy.
"I don't know, that sounds like school work."

"Xander, you are in a school," said Wesley. Xander took a quick
look about, "I hate it when you think you are in a nightmare,
then some one tells you you're not even asleep. Count me in
Will, what is it about?" Willow looked at him, "You are joking right?"
"No! I am fairly sure I am being serious," said Xander, "Why?"

"Why would I ask you to try and break the code if I already
knew what came after the code?" asked Willow.
"Gotcha! hmm, this is all Wesley's fault, if he hadn't have talked
to me, I would still think I was in a nightmare, and I would not
have answered you."

"What is the code?" asked Buffy.
"There is a number followed by a colon followed by another
number on most of the pages," said Willow. "Lets have a look,"
Xander leant over Willow's shoulder, "So, 17:42? is that the
first one?" asked Xander.

"Nope, just one of many," said Willow. "I liked what you were
on about the other week Will. about that razor."
"The razor? oh right Occam's." "That's the one Will. Fits me a
treat, where the simple answer is usually the right one, and if
it's not, I don't have to take the blame," said Xander.

"It is the only theory we have, I reckon we should do it," said
Buffy. "Oh come on? really?" asked Wesley. "I agree with
Wesley," said Xander, "Can you imagine how bad the watchers
head boy would feel if I was right, to have the school idiot be
cleverer than him?" Xander smiled to him, "What's this? no
smarter than thou come backs?"

Three and a half hours later, they were trying to sort what the
words were. Willow walked to the library table, she put the
Codex down then an open exercise book.
"What you got Will?" asked Xander. "There is an answer here,
more questions though. It could be, "˜Test of VS to W, W is here.
He does not watch the fountain of 4 in Navona. If answer is
right in 4D's. The CO is the CO, Next test revealed.'"

"Oh no! not another test?" asked Buffy. "You could be right,
test of Vampire Slayer to Watcher, Watcher is here? What do
you think?" asked Wesley.
"Oh come on, you're not taking his answer seriously are you?"
asked Xander.

"Seriously? no. But simply? like Occam's Razor simply, then yes,"
said Buffy.
"Is this one of the Watchers Councils tests?" Willow looked
straight at Wesley, "I would not have thought so," he replied,
"The last test was to test the slayers ability on how to figure
things out, why another test and why test Giles, I am the
Watcher here."

"He does have a point you know," admitted Xander. Buffy
glanced at Xander, "If Xander is right, and it isn't the Watchers
Council, who is it?"
Wesley went to where Giles was last seen, "We cannot do that."
"Aren't you getting sidetracked? This has nothing to do with
Giles the question is about Navona," said Xander.

Saturday faded to become history, Sunday morning changed
from the future to the present. Cordelia opened the doors of
the library.
"Here you are, what are you doing on a Sunday morning with
these losers?" Wesley smiled, "The same as I was doing Friday
evening, trying to find Giles. He is in Navona, where ever that is."

Cordelia looked to Willow, then she had a look at the books on
the table. She looked to them, "Losers." Cordelia headed for the
doors, opening one she faced them, "I realise it is hard for you,
but you could try commonsense. I am surprised at you Wesley.
Try an encyclopaedia, the Piazza Navona in Rome." she left.

Xander went into the stacks and brought an encyclopaedia to
them. "Here it is, the Piazza Navona. What was it? He does not
watch the fountain of 4? what could that mean?"
"The fountain, it is of four rivers, what else has four rivers?"
"The only one I can think of Wesley, is where Charon took the
newly dead."

"And that is where the Gods sought answers," said Wesley.
"I can't even think how that would help us," said Willow.
"Depends who has set the test, could it refer to us asking the
right question?" asked Buffy. Willow glanced at Wesley, "That
gives us something to work towards."

"Guys! there's a picture here," said Xander. He took the book
to show them, "Isn't this thing like a Cleopatra's needle? and
what is that at it's top?" asked Xander. "It is The Angel of
Peace," added Willow. "Angel? not my Angel," said Buffy, "I
couldn't see him looking to the fountain, oh!"Buffy! look!" ordered Willow.
The figure of Giles slowly appeared. He looked at each of them
as they continued to stare at him.

Sat in his office Giles listened while they told him how he had
been returned, looking at the code then looking to Buffy, "You
know what CO is don't you?" Buffy shook her head. "Who ever
did this it or they see you not as any of them but as The
Chosen One."

"What is the next test, when do we find out what it is?" asked
Willow.

To Be Continued

 

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Buffy! Giles is Vanishing.

Part 2 A leap of faith.

Willow was sat at Giles' house getting organised, ready to
start scanning all of his books, she opened one and was
casually reading it. Giles, thinking she was paying
attention to him began to tell her of his plans to leave
Sunnydale and go back to England. Willow held the book
for Giles to read, pointing to the section.
"What is all this about?"

Giles, surprised by Willow looked to the book. "That is odd,
it doesn't seem to fit with what was written before or
after it." He went into the kitchen, as he was closing the
fridge door.
"Uh Willow, can you read it out please."

"As the thrall will come, the thrall will surely go,
remember, strike twice, but we're sure you know.
The windows are there, until the walls cannot stay,
this dawn will not be the beginning of the day.
And soon, a leap of faith, you will want to do,
just know if you do, you will be returned anew."

She looked to him, "What do you think? anything come to
mind?" "That is the Pergamum Codex, so everything that
is in there is about the slayer. Now, taking it that is about
Buffy what it mentions about a thrall will, more than likely
be of a vampire. It is about what will happen."

"Ok, the thrall isn't said about much, what vampires can
do it?" asked Willow.
"All vampires can, or so I've been told. Most of them don't,
the ones we know like Angel and Spike seemed to like the
killing so it wouldn't be about them, Darla would lure
people with her beauty. Drusilla though, she has always
been that way, that and Dracula of course."

"Giles? you mean Count Dracula? You could be right
though, it is said he needs to be staked twice. What's with
the windows though?" asked Willow.
"I'm not sure, I am drawing a big blank here," replied Giles.
"I've only got one thought," added Willow, "It's the
windows of the mind."
Giles thought about her answer, "You might have some
thing there, keep going."

"That is from an old record, but thinking about it the
windows would only be there while the walls are, no walls
means no windows. What that has to do with anything
beats me," said Willow.
"So try a different approach, dawn isn't the beginning of
the day, so dawn could be a person, as in the name Dawn.
That, being with what you said about the mind. It could
mean that this Dawn is only a figment of the mind."

"There is another possibility," said Willow, "Dawn might be
real, or as real as it could be if she was created with
magic."
"Then that would leave us with a leap and being returned
anew, I think Buffy needs to be told this bit," said Giles.
"What should I be told?" Giles and Willow turned to see
Buffy stood by the bottom of the stairs.
"Willow just found this."

"What book is that?" "The Pergamum Codex," said Giles.
"Oh, that book, I don't like that book. Last time it was
you and Angel telling me The Master would kill me."
"Look at the bright side then, this time it says you will be
returned anew." "Oh goody," stated Buffy, "As long as it
isn't a Dr. Who thing."

"Although it did say about faith!, maybe Buffy will come
back as Faith!" exclaimed Willow grinning, "Hey Xander!
Buffy'll come back as Faith."
Xander opened his eyes looking just a bit lower than
Buffy's chin.
"Will come back, sorry, I thought you said is!"

Buffy glared at Willow, "I seem to remember when you
pretended to be a vampire you said, "˜ooh look at them.'
"That's true," agreed Willow, "Still if you come back as
Faith you won't need to say that."
"That's right Will," said Xander laughing, "Every one will
anyway."

"Giles? can I kill Xander?" asked Buffy. "Giles, Giles!" said
Xander, "Tell her no."
"Hmm? what? someone say something?" asked Giles.
"Was that what we have been looking for?" asked Buffy.
"I think so, it wasn't much but it may have given you a
warning of what you can expect, a vampire who will use
the thrall on you. Someone named Dawn who will be
created and about you taking a leap of faith," said Giles.

"There is one thing I don't understand," said Xander, "This
codex book, who wrote it? knowing who Buffy is and
knowing about her future."
"He does have a point," said Willow.
"For all we know, it could have been Nostradamus," said
Giles.
"All the quatrains were loosely written, yet this book has
been written specifically here. Mind you that may have
been a sign of the times," said Willow.

"Meaning?" asked Buffy. "Simple really, when he wrote the
quatrains it was illegal to do that stuff, he saw may
have been may have been accurate. Think about it, a
person from his time seeing a world war two pilot in a
breathing mask," said Giles, "A flying pig is a good
description."

"So, you think Nostradamus wrote the book?" asked Buffy.
"That is just a guess. And it was all to let you know what
will happen."

THE END