Heart (1/?)

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Title: Heart (1/?)
Author: Lowdex
Feedback: Any comments or suggestions send to: lowdex@xxxxxxxxx
(this is the first fanfic I'm attempting to finish!)
Summary: Don't know yet-I'm making it up as I go along
Spoilers: Up to and including the fourth season
Disclaimer: The characters of Buffy Willow Giles and any others from
BTVS are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy etc. No
infringement of any kind intended.
Part 1

<<Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump>>

The heartbeat was steady and strong. Its echoes reverberating around the large cavern, bouncing
off of one jagged wall only to be deflected by another. The source of the sound was as elusive
as the sound itself. As the beating continued on in its constant fashion, a shadow flitted
around the enclosure to finally settle, moments later, in the middle of the room. The torches
placed haphazardly around the cave barely illuminated the figure. A dark cloak wrapped around
a skinny frame hid all but its hands from the light.

If one dared to look closer, the cloak resembled more of a living fog than a piece of clothing
for it swirled around, never settling in one place for more than a moment. Its ends trailed off
until one couldn't distinguish where the darkness began and the shroud ended.

The hands that peeked out were blistered and decaying. Ribbons of flesh were either missing or
hanging on by only the slimmest of margins.

<<Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump>>

The heartbeat continued on unabated. Its owner, blissfully unaware of either the figure or the
cavern where dark magic hung like a moldering perfume.

A soft chanting could be heard coming from the figure, growing exponentially louder with each
passing minute until it rivaled that of the heartbeat. As the chanting rose in volume, the
heart started beating faster and faster and faster until everything stopped . . .

No chanting, no beating.

For the space of time that it takes a normal heart to beat once, there was absolute silence. . .
silence everywhere except in the breast of the dark figure where there was a beat so faint, it
would have been missed were it not for the absolute hush that had fallen.

Just as suddenly as the beating had stopped, it started again, albeit sounding weaker than it
had before. In contrast, there was now only silence coming from the figure's chest. Without
seeming to move, the shrouded body began melting into the surrounding darkness, leaving nothing
to mark its passage save for a slightly sickening smell in the air.

<<Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump, Tha-Thump>>

to be continued...(Buffy will actually be in the next part)