Willow's Pangs of Guilt

[ILLYRIAN]

DISCLAIMER: I do this as a matter of courtesy, that Joss
Whedon created the names for the series Buffy The Vampire
Slayer. Several times I have pretended it was based on truth,
never did I really consider that the story was indeed based on
fact.

My story was to be set just after Buffy Willow and horny Anya
( I don’t mean horny as a demon might be.) saw Xander fall into
the mission.

So there I was, doing research for a piece of fan-fic I thought of
writing another for the Tales of the Slayer. I started by trying to
find the year that the Spanish inhabited the land where Sunnydale
could have been, thinking it was just another story, false, an
invented name, about an invented person, never for one instance
thinking it was based on truth. What I found, it caused me to
rethink my beliefs.

I remembered in the episode Pangs about a priest. Angel told
Giles that the priests ancestors came from those times. It
was while pinpointing a year for my story that I followed a link
to the Archbishop Juan de Zumarraga, from there to a Alfonso
de las Casas of the Spanish city Madrid, his writings included
a section about a cousin of Bartolome de las Casas. That cousin,
Gregor (not the proper name but I don’t like the Spanish version
of that name) anyway this Gregor had witnessed that in the
year fifteen hundred and two a young squaw had risen from the
ranks of the other squaws in her tribe.

This squaw did not lead a tribe but she was spoken of, as she
possessed great strength. Gregor wrote of the medicine men of
the Chumash, The Cherokee and The Apache who travelled from
their lands to learn how a simple squaw could heal overnight. Of
how she was told to live near by but not with them.

This is where my mind went into overdrive as that squaw, that
Indian squaw set her teepee (or tepee) in a land surrounded
by hills, from her tepee appeared a light that lit those lands at
night, so I searched the maps finding that that area in modern
times. From the description of where her tepee was sited that is
where the school is. Considering it to be a massive coincidence I
was a bit curious, then it hit me, it hit me hard. Land surrounded
by hills? that is a valley. How-ever, with a light illuminating the
area day and night, could that be known as sunny? Valley =
vale = dale = Sunnydale?

Sitting back, looking at what was written. Thinking that I must
be seeing truths in the fictional story, where in fact only tales
of what was, was written. I then read the last three lines which
were about Gregor, how he mentioned of The rulers of Ottoman
wanting what was Constantinople reborn. That set the alarm
bells ringing big time, as I knew that was about the country
Turkey, after Constantinople the city was renamed Istanbul,
yet before being Constantinople the place was known as
Byzantium.

Oh - My - God!!

Wanting to confirm my thoughts I ran an internet search for
the Chumash Indians and yes they did exist, at the time that
the Spanish invaded America. All those things the spirit of the
Chumash said happened to them, it did happen! Also some-one
did speak up to try and save the Chumash Indians, Bartolome
De las Casas.

To Be Continued

 

[ILLYRIAN]

Willow's Pang's of Guilt

Willow's Pangs of Guilt

"What is it Willow?" asked Buffy. Willow was lying on her bed
reading a book about the Franciscan Monasteries in the
Californian region. "Willow?" "Sorry Buffy." "Whatcha got
there Will?" "Nothing and from the look of it I ain't gonna get
nothing." Willow glances up to see Buffy looking very puzzled.
"Yeah, I know, that was a double negative with a third over-
riding those two." "Exactly what I thought," said Buffy, trying to
sound convincing. Willow peered at Buffy, she almost smiled.
"If I knew what you meant, I'm sure I would have thought that,
I think," said Buffy. Willow allowed herself to smile.

"Look! that's it!, that might be it?, we need to go and see Giles,
now." Quickly Willow ran to the payphone, "Giles, Willow, I
need to see your books on magic, I need to know of the secret
properties of the pentagram. Buffy will be with me." She hung
up the phone before Giles could answer her.

Politely knocking on Giles' front door, Willow and Buffy waited
for the door to be open, "What? you knocked? why?" Buffy
walked in. "Willow?" asked Giles. "Sorry for hanging up on you,
I was a bit excited." "Thank you, I put all the books I could
think of that may have secrets of the pentagram, what is this
about?" Willow spoke as they went to the books he had put on
the table. "Willow, what is it we are looking for and why?"
asked Giles. "I started by trying to understand why the monastry
was built over, I found that the books from the Anthropology
Department were not very helpful. While I was thinking of other
avenue's to look in, this idea came to me. By locating the Hell-
mouth as the central point of the pentagram, where the church
the Master was trapped in was located and the monastry as a
point of the pentagram."

"That will help us big time!" exclaimed Buffy. "It will? how?"
asked Giles. "If what Willow's notion is, if it can be proved, the
council will take you back, they will want to take you back.
Giles?, who guides the slayer line? who controls it? where does
it come from? This could well point the council in the direction
of who or where at least where to look." Giles sat down, he
looked to Buffy then at Willow. "Before I contact Quentin with
those theories, the least we should do is get your theories
pointing in that direction. Clear the table, I have a detailed map
of Sunnydale and a few sheets of clear plastic to draw on,"
said Giles.

As soon as they were laid on the table Willow stated, "The
centre is to be the Hellmouth. As close as we can, mark where
the Master was." "Just a minute," said Giles, "If we can get an
old map from just before that earthquake, we should be able to
pinpoint exactly where that church was." "So the barrier the
Master wanted to breach, the barrier I always thought it was
there to hold the Master in, to stop him from getting to the
Hellmouth, so maybe it was there to stop everything getting to
the Hellmouth," said Buffy. "That helps Willow theory, the
church wasn't just built there, it was deliberately built there
to block entry to the Hellmouth," said Giles, "You two make a
start, I will find a map from before the "˜quake."

Marking the Hellmouth Willow marked where the monastery
was while Buffy located a position for the church. Using a string
to measure the distance between the Hellmouth and the
monastery it was moved to where the points of a pentagram
would be; the Police station and the courts, the hospital, the
fire station and the woods. Giles called to them from his bed-
room telling them he had just the map they wanted. As he put
the map on the table he saw the way both of them were looking
at him. "Well what is it?" "We have four of those points the
fifth is in some woods some where," said Buffy. "That is alright,
we simply need to go there and find what it is," replied Giles.
"Er guy's, I know what it is," said Willow, "There is a coven
that meets there, they are not Wiccan, they are Druid."

Twenty minutes later, Giles gave them each a cup of tea, "I have
been in touch with the council, they are very impressed." "I
wish you had left phoning them 'till later, I need some help from
them," said Willow. Giles looked to her. "I want to know the
exact location of a Native Americans tepee." "Willow? why do
you want to know that?" asked Giles.

"Get this you two, in the year fifteen hundred and two a young
squaw had risen from the ranks of the other squaws in her tribe.
She did not lead a tribe but she was spoken of, as possessing
great strength. The cousin of a priest wrote of several medicine
men of the Chumash, The Cherokee and even the Apache who
travelled from their lands to learn how a simple squaw could
heal herself overnight." Willow looked straight at them, "Sound
like a slayer?" Quietly, an astounded Giles agreed.

"Of how she was told to live near to the others but not with
them." "What would they caste her away from them?" asked
Buffy. "I don't think they did," said Giles, "That saying, keep
your friends close and your enemies even closer. They wanted to
keep her close but not with them. They wanted her close but not
to close, like an enemy." "So the In.. .." Buffy glanced to
Willow, "Native Americans, they knew about the slayer?"

Giles acknowledged, "They may not have known what a
vampire slayer was but it appears as though she was respected,
respected by the whole Indian nation, sorry Willow." "Thanks
Giles, that squaw set her tepee in a land surrounded by hills, it
states that a light lit those lands at night, so I need to know the
exact location of her tepee, I have a feeling I know where that
place would be in modern times."

Willow looked at a map, "From the descriptions of the land it is
either where the school is or where the church was. Which is
giving me all these other notions. When she sited her tepee all
that was around her was bare open ground, then it me, it hit me
hard. Land surrounded by hills? that is a valley. How-ever, with
a light illuminating the area day and night, could that be known
as sunny? Valley could be vale, that could be dale. That place
could well be Sunnydale?"

"I will ring Quentin again, this could have far reaching
consequences." "Is there some-one who has links with the
anthropology department?" asked Buffy. "I know who has,"
replied Willow, "Giles has." "Don't say that Will, you know
what he'd have over the doorway? A sign, "˜Welcome all you
bloody colonials, come in and learn some culture"€
"What year was that Willow?" asked Giles, "Just a thought,
there was a slayer in Madrid in the year fourteen ninety three."

And just so that the sequence of events in the series have not
been affected to much. How long was it until Quentin agreed to
re-install Giles as a watcher, without a hint of a disagreement?

THE END

 

[Vorchan]

Good story, Sir!
I liked the piece makeup and rendition regarding history- it is very fun to read, and wish that you'd continue with a sequel mentioning who guides the slayer line and who's behind it all.