The Spell Unspoken
by Nykademis
And Introduction of Sorts
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The Spell Unspoken/ An Introduction of Sorts 8/?
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Anya stomped her foot in agitation. "Your keeping things from me I know you are. Her mate was here and now she's gone. Or is she?" Anya looked around hoping to see the residual glow from the mystics power.
Willow looked around as well. She saw a slight lightening of the air around Buffy and Dawn. She nudged Hakida to see if she saw it
to.
"It's her" Kida whispered for Willow's ears only. "You can see the glow"
"Why does she enjoy taunting Anya?" Willow whispered back slightly proud of her ability.
"Anya used to taunt her as a Demon. But she never figured out her name so Anya would come up with things to call her. Everything thing from Snow White, to Mrs. Magic Cloud Woman" Kida clarified laughing silently at the gestures Dario threw Anya's way.
"And your sure your mates not Bricu? You whispered in front of everyone just like she does" Anya grouched catching sight of Willow and Kida's quiet conversation. "There should be no secrets in this house. Information could save lives you know"
"Or destroy them" Dawn chimed in staring Anya down "Let her have her secrets from you"
"Hey not you too" Anya whined.
"Okay, now we have to get down to business" Buffy interrupted before things got out of hand "This new big bad. Made a new type of vampire. These new ones are half demon"
"Oh so you'll need a silver threaded stake to slay them. I could sell you one. It wouldn't be cheap though" Anya smirked at Kida finally finding something she could do for the slayer that the Mystic hadn't already. Or so she thought.
"Already got one. Kida here upgraded Mr. Pointy last night" Buffy pulled out the silver and wooden stake to show. "He even came with nifty rings"
Willow and Dawn rushed to fawn over the new and improved stake and it's accessories. Even Xander joined in, leaving Anya to pout for once again being bested by the Mystic.
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"Where's Spike?" Dawn asked out of nowhere.
"He's afraid of Kida" Willow said happily.
"Well he's not afraid-" Kida shrugged "He just has somewhere better to be right now"
"Oh" Dawn nodded slowly "He's somewhere else"
"Not missing him actually" Xander said taking a seat next to Buffy "You missing him?"
"Nuh uh" Buffy smiled at his normal antics.
Anya pouted harder. Everyone was happy except her. She was beginning to dislike Willow's little friend.
"Okay big bad" Xander rubbed his hands together "She makes demon vamps"
"Yeah. She likes to throw a wrench in the works every once in a while" Hakida relaxed against the island "They just have to be killed different. But she does tend to travel with lower witches. She calls them apprentices, they do her bidding. All the small labor. Alone they're not much to worry about, but when they get together, watch out"
"Big bang" Willow asked raising her brow.
"Yeah. Real big bang" Kida rubbed her brow "I just wish I knew who stole her heart. It could be this Troika gang you were talking about, or a Greften Demon looking to get his original form back-"
"You mean it could be anyone or anything?" Buffy dropped her head to the table.
"Yeah. Hell it could be Vampires trying to walk in the sun again" Hakida shrugged "We could do a revealing spell to see what they're plans are"
"Couldn't we do a revealing spell to find out who they are?" Willow asked confused that Kida hadn't come up with it herself.
"Not when they're holding a Gemmed Heart sweetie" Kida smiled sadly "It would be like Anya trying to see the residual glow, after all TPTB took her decerning eyes"
"Dammit" Anya crossed her arms tighter around her chest "I can't believe they took that too. I was wordering why I couldn't tell how
powerful a witch Willow could be"
"Your sure about all this?" Buffy folded her hands and peered back at Kida.
"Yes. I've actually met Janamunta before. She's actually very nice when she's sane. Well anyway these witches have the power of your average Wiccan. Levitation of small objects, your usual-" she was cut off by a knock on the door "Were you expecting anyone?"
"No" Buffy stared at the door with a worried frown "Do you feel that?"
Willow nodded with a dazed look on her face "It's raw, just so.....so....God Buffy the power. That's raw power"
"Yeah it is" Kida looked at Willow in a slightly different way. The girl was more powerful than she suspected.
"Should we answer the door" Dawn asked with a shaky voice.
"If you don't she'll just break it down" Kida shrank back into her stool "She's out there. Janamunta"
"Oh shit" Buffy and Xander chorused.
Anya hurriedly opened the door.
The woman before her stood tall and proud. She reminded Anya of the many depictions she'd seen of Cleopatra. She wore a crown that was no more than intricate beading in her hair. But she wore street clothes. A black short sleeved blouse unbuttoned down the front, revealing a gold silken tank top. She wore long black pants with a slight flare and gold sandals.
"I'm looking for the Mystic"
The voice resonated in Anya's head for a moment before she realized the woman had spoken.
"The annoying one with the braids? She's in the kitchen" Anya stepped back admiting the woman into the house.
Janamunta didn't hesitate over the threshold as she entered. The woman standing behind her however did.
Luckily Anya recognized the blessed stone that hung around the woman's neck "Your a vampire you stay outside"
Janamunta turned when her prote'ge' wasn't admited "She will assist me"
"She won't enter this house" Anya argued back. She didn't care if the woman was an Immortal High Witch. She was more afraid of what Buffy would do to her for admitting a vamp into her house.
"You dare resist me?" Jana opened a bejeweled hand towards Anya.
"Leave her alone it's me you came to see" Kida said from the kitchen doorway.
Buffy and Willow stood behind her ready for anything.
"Do you know where my heart is?" Jana asked simply.
"No" Kida stepped forward, the Slayer and the Witch in tow "But I'm trying to find out"
Jana considered for a moment. She sniffed the air "More chosen? The Slayer and-" she sniffed again "A possible High Witch"
"High Witch!?" The entire group chorused before turning to stare at Willow.
The girl blushed under there scrutiny.
"Three of the Goddesses chosen, searching for one heart? Or is that 'all' you are searching for little one?" Jana smiled at the girl.
She'd become fond of her when they'd first met "Where is your mate? Why is she allowing you around such great beauties as these?"
"She know's I won't betray her" Kida smiled back. Though the High Witch was a tad insane, she still held bits of the personality she possesed when she wasn't...well.......posessed.
"Ah. She has trained you well" Jana laughed as the dark child blushed.
"I'm not trained. I'm just loyal" Kida argued over the laughter.
"She's whipped" Anya mumbled.
Jana turned towards the ex-demon "You are an annoying little waif"
"Finally someone says it" Kida mumbled. Willow poked her "What? She is"
"They search for the sun" Jana said bringing her gaze from Anya to the Slayer "The Children of the Night. They are searching for
the sun again" she pointed to Buffy and Willow "Champions. Your work is clear"
"I don't take orders from High Witches. Well possibly Willow, but that's it" Buffy smirked back at her friend.
"Stop creating your demons Jana" Kida commanded.
"I need them to find my heart" Jana seemed to lose all semblance of sanity "They must find my heart"
"We'll fine your heart. But your lacky's are making our work harder" Kida argued back.
"I must go" Jana turned and walked out of the door. Once on the stoop she turned back and gestured to Anya.
The woman flew back several feet before striking her head on the wall "Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow"
"Hey!" Buffy screamed.
Jana raised a brow "You didn't hear what she was thinking. It was quite rude" She turned again waving to ther vamp companion "Come Leah, we have another engagement"
The vamp took a step towards the High Witch and they both vanished in a flash.
"Well that was weird" Xander deadpanned from where he held his complaining girl friend.
"She was making sure we didn't want it" Kida shoulders fell slightly.
"Want what? Her heart?" Willow asked watching as her friend seemed to droop before her eyes.
"Yeah. I know she's insane but it still hurts when someone you considered a friend doesn't trust you" Kida rolled her shoulders "I just woke up and I need a nap already"
"That's makes two of us" Buffy chimed in rolling her shoulders as well "Meeting insane High Witches sure takes alot out of a girl"
"So naps it is" Xander lifted Anya off the floor "Still got open guest rooms?"
"Next to Dawn's" Buffy said climbing the stairs.
Kida and Willow followed at a slow pace. Xander with Anya in his arms brought up the rear.
"So I'm the only 'not' tired one" Dawn said feeling forgotten "Might as well join the club"
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"I didn't know ex-demons were so aero-dynamic" Dario laughed appearing in Kida's bedroom.
"Did you tell Jana to throw that woman?" Kida began to run her fingers through her hair.
"No. Jana heard her thinking that she didn't seem very strong for an Immortal High witch" Dario sat behind her mate taking the hand and resuming the motion with her own. "I wouldn't do that to anyone. Even her. What's bothering you love?"
"Am I trained?" Kida asked tilting her head back to meet Dario's eyes.
Dario began to laugh in the strange humming frequency of the Mystics.
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Willow sat up suddenly. She could hear the humming again. She threw on a pair of boxers and rushed to the slayers room.
"Buffy" Willow whispered excitedly "Buffy can you hear it?"
The slayer who moments ago, had been sleeping peacefully leapt to attention "What? What's wrong Willow?"
"Nothing Buffy. Can you hear it? That humming sound?" Willow steadied Buffy's face between her hands.
Buffy had been looking around for any signs of trouble stilled instantly when the Witch touched her face. It was then she heard it.
"Yeah. But it sounds like laughter. Not singing like you said" Buffy looked at Willow subconsciously conveying her love in her gaze.
Willow missed it completely in her excitement "I know but last night it sounded like singing. I wonder if Kida knows what it is"
"I have a feeling your about to go ask her" Buffy deadpanned pulling on a tank top over the bra Willow seemed not to notice was all she had on, that was visible above the light sheet she was under.
"Yeah come on" Willow bounced up off the bed and waited patiently as the slayer rummaged around briefly for something to put on her lower self. She didn't Buffy to know out right that she was admiring the rippling muscles in her legs as she walked. Willow found her friend amazingly attractive and was desperate not to let on about it.
"Your staring" Buffy muttered when she noticed Willow's gaze lingering on her, not that she minded.
"S-sorry" Willow blushed as red as her hair "I can't help myself. I am gay and you're kinda half naked-" Willow cut herself off before she could dig herself in any deeper.
"Thank you for making me aware of that Willow" Buffy was blushing herself "I think we better go ask about this humming thing before we have anymore embarrasing moments"
"Yeah" Willow was quick to agree.
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"What's that?" Xander sat up straight.
"What's what?" Anya said grumpily. She wanted Xander to lay down and give her orgasms but he wasn't complying.
"That humming" Xander stood and pulled his pants back on over his boxers.
"Humming?" Anya listened intently "That's the Mystic! They talk on a different range of hearing than humans. To humans and other Mystical Creatures it sounds like humming" Anya bolted out of the bed pulling on Xander's shirt over her complete nakedness.
"Um, An? Whatcha doin' your supposed to be resting? Resting as in being horizontal and still, not vertical and getting into trouble"
Xander caught the end of the shirt as Anya rushed past him.
"But Xander I wanna know who she's talking to" Anya whined as Xander pulled her into his arms.
"Well I'll just have to make you forget about being nosy for today" Xander grabbed Anya's buttocks and gave them a gentle squeeze.
"Oh Xander, why is it that you only want to give me orgasms when I wanna do something else?" Anya complained but made no move to leave the embrace.
"Because if I 'gave you orgasms' everytime you wanted me to, I'd never walk again" Xander explained as he stripped the shirt off her and laid her gently on the bed.
"Oh Xander" Anya said softly "You're such a romantic"
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Willow rushed into Hakida's room without bothering to knock "Kida what's that humming noise-"
Willow froze in her tracks at the scene she'd walked in on. Buffy came to a halt steps behind her.
Hakida had Dario pinned to the bed with her wrists trapped over her head as she held the other young woman in place by straddling her hips.
"What humming sound?" Kida said normally as if she wasn't straddling the love of her life.
"There was a strange humming sound. It kinda sounded like laughter. It's stopped now" Buffy said from behind Willow. She wished she could see the Wiccans face, it had to be as red as her hair.
"When I heard it last night it sounded like singing. You said it wasn't you. Now it sounded like laughing" Willow added. She wasn't exactly embarrassed, slightly jealous yes, but on the embarrassment scale she was 2 out of 10. 10 being mortified.
"Oh when Mystical beings speak to each other in the 'old tongue' as they call it, it sounds like a pleasant hum to humans and other creatures" Dario explained still trapped under her smaller lover.
"Oh." Willow looked at the other woman and blushed. Dario didn't look like she minded the position she was in, Willow didn't blame her.
Dario's eyes narrowed when she caught the loose thought "Hey Buffy did you know Willow's got it hot for you?"
Willow went from 2-10 in 1.6 seconds.
"I-I-I...........well I" Buffy turned to look at her friend "I'm glad, it makes hitting on her a whole lot easier"
Willow turned an astounded gaze to Buffy.
Kida was distracted by the turn of events so much so that it gave Dario enough leverage to throw her off.
Dario smiled through the harsh look Kida sent her way.
'You had no right to do that' Kida sent the private thought to her lover.
'It had to be done' Dario sent back without remorse.
Willow managed to mumbled a few incoherent phrases before backing out of the room.
Hakida rushed to follow her.
"Well, that was one hell of an ice-breaker" Buffy muttered to herself.
"Hey I'm sorry I did it that way. But Willow has an interesting way of thinking about Hakida" Dario confessed.
Buffy's look turned calculating "Your jealous."
"Damn skippy" Dario sighed "She'd give anything to make sure Willow's happy. But she won't embarrass her or do anything to make her feel uncomfortable. But my theory is Willow won't blossom if you don't rattle her every once in a while"
"Good theory. She's never failed me under-pressure. Wait she's never failed me at all. Maybe it's because we're always under pressure" Buffy frowned as she searched her memory "Definately a pressure filled life on the Hellmouth"
"So tell me Slayer, how long have you loved her?" Dario inquired.
"If I knew it'd probably scare me" Buffy realeased a sighed of resignation "I just never knew how to tell her. Especially after Tara, she was just so happy.."
"And now Tara is gone and you have your chance" Dario cut into Buffy's silence "I suggest you take it. Willow is a skittish type, if she fails upfront she won't try again"
"Your saying that if she thinks I don't love her enough, that she won't try to win me over?" Buffy rolled her eyes "I think I've known her a bit longer than you have. I realize that"
"Those are Hakida's words. And she's known Willow far longer than you have" Dario pointed out always having to have the last word.
"Yeah that would be a given" Buffy blew her bangs out of her face "So how long have you loved Kida?"
"If I knew it would probably scare me" Dario mimicked Buffy's earlier comment "Or maybe it's just forever"
Buffy laughed at the obvious. Hakida might have been trained, but she had Dario tamed.
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