one last chance

Chapter 8

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Chapter Eight

When she got to the school next morning Buffy told everyone to get together in her office over lunch. They needed to know what Spike had to tell them. Gathering in her office they took their usual perches and waited for Spike to speak.

"His name is Lokar. Think of 'im as the First and the Mayor got together and had a baby. He's not as bad as the first, but much worse than any demon you've faced. Including the Glory bitch." Spike looked pointedly at Buffy when he said this. She met his gaze for a moment before turning away. True to her word she hadn't treated him like anything more than a passing acquaintance sense the night before. "We don't know much about him. Cordy got a vision, told Wesley who did his research thing. Who called me."

"Well what did you find?" asked Giles, a little piffed at the fact the incompetent fool who had been sent to replace him had become a trusted advisor of sorts.

"He doesn't have to have a corporeal form. In his incorporeal form he appears as, for lack of a better description a black cloud. He can only be killed in corporeal form and there's no record of what it is. He can control the elements immediately around him, Wesley thinks but isn't sure he can also cast illusions, but this is limited to one person in close proximity."

"Why now, there hasn't been too much going on in the evil realm. Even Faith hasn't had problems on the hell mouth. So why now?" Buffy asked.

"Well evil fluctuates," Giles popped in, "After your defeat of the First two years ago it is only expected that evil will, how do you put it, lie low for awhile. That's why it's so important to find new slayers and train them now so they know how to face evil when it rises again. Good does the same thing. That's why instead of thousands of potentials being called these last two years only about two hundred have. I suspect, obviously sense this has never happened before this is only a theory, that as evil rises more and more slayers well be called." Giles looked like he had more to say on the subject.

"Before Giles gets into all lecture mode, again, what does he want?" Buffy cut in before her mentor and father figure could say more. The group turned to Spike wondering if he had the answers.

"Well all the big bads' are pissed about what you did. The First is still of licking in wounds. Its big take over throttled by a bunch of teenage girls, a vampire, a witch and a couple messily humans, all who decided to rewrite history and tradition and in general say bugger the rules." At that Spike smiled a bit proudly at the memory of what they did. Taking charge of their own destinies. "Lokar wants revenge. Pay back. He wants to kill you guys."

"So does every other demon and vampire in this world. What gives him a better chance?" Xander asked. He still retained some of his military training from his Private Ryan trip. He expanded those memories sense the Sunnydale days and often planned stragity with Buffy and helped trained the girls to plan attacks.

"He can use his illusions to influence demons. His illusions only affect one person at a time and only if their close to him but sometimes he can make you think it's real. You won't know he's influencing you. He can create an army and he will. And he's smart. He can plan and he can plot." Spike said, "Before I had a soul most of the time it was all instant gratification. It's that way for most demons. Not for him. He can wait. We think he's been planning this sense Sunnydale and only acting now."

"Do we know his plan? If we knew his plan we could counter plan. Like with protection spells to the slayers and around them. They wouldn't do too much, but they would give us a heads up… maybe the spells the shamans gave me would be useful. I'm almost done translating them."