Ch 10-
"What do you mean 'something bad'? 'Something bad' Buffy has to bulk up on training or 'something bad' say your prayers?" I asked, unaware of the dangerous tone my voice had taken and my flashing emerald eyes.
"W-w-illow, please. I didn't plan this. Now please, control yourself. If I'm right about this, you can put me in the hospital if you're mad enough. So please control yourself." Giles stammered, backing away fromme.
"Sorry. Now what's going on? Cause what just happened is not an everyday occurance. I mean, yeah, I've levitated stuff before, but it took a ton of concentration. It wasn't second nature like it was today. But I've never read minds, or predicted actions, and the fire stuff I'm not even advanced enough to do, let alone Madeliene who has never done witchcraft unless I've missed a lot. I mean, witchcraft!! Bad bad bad. We're Jewish, not Pagan. Hanukkah, Passover, the dreidle song!! How did she do this?" I rambled until Oz sat me down, then sat next to me stroking my hand in efforts to calm me. It was working quite nicely.
"Willow, calm down. If I'm right, you parents and Madeliene's parents, not to mention you and Madeliene are in great danger. I want you to call your parents right now to check on them. Then call Madeliene's parents. Quickly now!!!!!!"Giles's ordered me, pushing me towards his office.
Dialing the number I memorized just in case of such emergencies I called my parent's hotel room. The phone rang twice before I heard a male voice say curtly into the receiver,"New York Police, Homicide Department."That was the last thing I heard before Buffy yanked the phone from my hands, then I fell intoa faint.
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Ch. 11-
~1 Week Later~
I couldn't believe what had happened. My parents had been murdered. Madeline's parent's car had crashed under mysterious ceromstances, leaving me with my parents house, the 2 cars, and nearly $2,000,000 in bank accouts, not including my trust fund. In other words, I had a whole lotta cash. I now also have custody of Madeliene. Since there were no other relatives and I was over 18 and willing, I had assumed custody of her, along with her parents New York penthouse,their 2 cars, their Florida condo, another $2,000,000, and Madeliene's trust fund. In other words, now I had an even bigger chunk of cash, 3 homes, 4 cars, and guardianship over a 5-year-old who could shoot fire out of her fingers. Needless to say,the press had a field day.
Getting out of my Saturn, then helping Madeliene out, I made my way up to my house. We had just finished a Dateline interview. The day before that I had given one to People magazine. All of the court sessions for Madeliene's custody were over with. I was finally done giving statements to the papers, and I could start getting ready for what was to come. I figured the best way to keep suspicion off me was to give several interviews, showing I had nothing to hide. Now I finally have time to analyze all of thisnew info.
We now knew why strange things were happening to me and Madeliene. Faith was now a bad guy. I had to fight someone who was supposed to be good. She was in league with the mayor, who was invincible. That made life suck a lot. They had some really bad thing going down on graduation day, called the Accension. That made life suck also. Madeliene and I were known as 'Chi Shamai'. It was Japanese for 'blood sisters'. See, a long time ago in Japan some thing really bad was going down. Something so bad that the slayer couldn't handle it. So two leeches fed off the slayer and two cousins ate the leeches, so they had slayer blood in them. Now, a thing to understand about slayers is that the power manifests itself in each slayer differently, and mutated slayer genes, well, lets just say they were lucky to not be growing extra fingers. Anyway, the older cousin gained the power of mind-reading and premonitions. The younger was able to shoot fire from her fingertips and freeze time. Both were incredibly strong fighters, could see in the dark perfectly, and had telekinesis. When the time came, the three defeated the monster. Only when cercumstances call for it are Chi Shamai initiated. I was very ticked to know that my baby cousin, who was now legally my daughter, was expected to just risk her life without a murmur. I let Giles know that very explicitly until Buffy and Oz calmed me down. But I was still seething.
Anyway, back to the present. Going inside, I made my way to the kitchen to make lunch.
"What do you want to eat, Madeliene?" I asked her.
"Rugrat Macaroni and Cheese." She said with a curtnod.
"Okay." I said as I pulled the blue box off a shelf already containing 6 other boxes. Ever since her parents had died(not to mention mine)Madeliene asked for the same thing every day at lunch. I made a mental note to buy stock in Kraft (tm) since kids seemed tolive off the stuff.
After lunch Madeliene and I got ready for our first training session with Giles and Buffy. Just building up pure strength and controlling the powers would take a lot of practice. We hadn't been able to start yet because of the funerals, interviews, and the avalance of calls I had been getting. Apparently Sunnydale High saw me as the new party hostess, since there would never be parental supervision. I told each and every one of them in my most serious voice to drop dead.
Once we were at the library I saw Giles suiting up in heavy padding to work with Madeliene.
"Isn't that a little over the top? You're twice as tall as mini Carrie here and wiegh way more." Buffy asked her watcher, looking confused.
"Buffy, Madeliene will be a stronger fighter than you once she's trained. Not only will she have strength but pyro tendencies, telekinetics, plus other gifts. She is in no way harmless." Giles retorted defensivly while strapping on more gear.
Giles must have briefed Buffy on how to train me because she and Giles were doing the same things with me and Madeliene. First, Buffy asked me to move a pen twords myself. I did that easily, more so than when I was using witchcraft. Then she had me move it in a circle around the table. I was as bit shaky at first, but mastered the task quickly. Next she had me wisking the dictionary from one end of the room to the other. I was pretty amazed to find myself doing that. But Buffy and Giles were even more surprised. Madeliene was doing just as well, maybe even a bit better, since her mind must be better at accepting this than olderpeople.
The next activity consisted of finding our fighting abilities. Buffy faught me and Giles guided Madeliene. Buffy and I were fairly evenly matched until I started trying to predict her moves, use telikineses, and really looking for hidden fighting ability. Then I got the upper hand. It was clear to see just how powerful this Chi Shamai stuff is. And Madeliene had me and Buffy rolling on the ground. Giles's could bearly stand on his feet and Madeliene hadn't even broken a sweat!! It was hilarious to see a 40-something guy being beaten by a 5-year-old.
Next, Giles had Madeliene test her time-freezing with insects, but she couldn't do it. Buffy tried to have me get a premonition, but I had similiar results. We weren't discouraged, though.
"Willow, Madeliene, this is so sweet!! I mean, now you can really help with patrol!! Oh, I can't wait to show you all the places you can hide a stake. There's like, 8 billion!!"Buffy rambled excitedly.
"Buffy Buffy Buffy Buffy. Madeliene will not patrol. Period. And when this graduation thing goes down, she will be safe in bed, not trying to kill herself." Ah, there's that icy voice again. "Willow, she isn't frail. She's going to be more powerful than Buffy for goodness sakes. You must let her help, or the entire world could go up insmoke!!"Giles protested.
"Giles, I lost my parents, I'm not losing the only bit of family I have left. She can train, but the only way she fights this thing is either a mile from the action or over my dead, rotting body." Maternal instinct sure makes you powerful.
In a rush of panic and tears, I grabbed Madleliene and ran to the car, trying to get the hell out ofthere as soon as I could.
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Author's Note-
hey, how is it? write me! sincerest thanks to cricket, who's helped me quite a bit. thanks cricket!! sorry about the delay. i had trouble getting this part together. anyway, more soon. bye!!!!!
-capricorn