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Possible spoilers for the film 'Kill Bill' - just a scene description
Chapter 2


Spike stood there trying to think………

“CHINESE equivalent of St Vigius? – Erm…let me think now………it’s something like the ‘Night of the Dragon’s Eye Moon’ or some such, they don’t have saints, why, what’s this all about?”

“Well, apparently Giles has just had some parchment that was sent to Wolfram and Hart translated from Chinese, requesting back the Seal of Clan Tang, High Order of Chinese Warrior Vampires, and they want it back by that date”

Spike sat down heavily on the sofa and swallowed, it was Buffy’s turn to frown. She came over and put her arm around his shoulders, asking,

“What’s up love?”

“It was me that stole it…”

“You?”

“Uh huh………oh god, we could be in for some REAL trouble now!”

“But I don’t understand – when did you steal – hold on, let me see who this is on the phone first……………Hello – Wesley, yes I was just speaking to him…uh huh, yes Spike does know………you think, okay, well we will see you in the morning then………HELICOPTER? Oh well, okay, if you insist – yes, I understand. Um, where will it pick us up………right, okay then see you later” Buffy put the phone down.

“They want us back at Wolfram and Hart ASAP, so he’s sending the helicopter to pick us up in two hours as time is of the essence, Giles is heading that way as we speak. Now, you were saying?………………………


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When Buffy and Spike walked into the office, Wesley, Gunn and Giles were all ready waiting for them.

“Angel’s still fast asleep, and we, or rather our science lady is working on something to try and counteract the effects of the drugs that Darla has given him – oh, and speak of the person herself, how are you doing, Fred?”

A slim dark haired girl wearing glasses and a white lab-coat knocked and entered the office

“Here we go, I’ll just administer this, it should counteract the soporific effects of the narcotic Darla gave him, so be careful, don’t anybody stick yourself with the needle, you’ll else you’ll be awake for a month! This has got cocaine, well, extract from the white poppy pod anyway, caffeine and artificial adrenaline in it, I’ve had to make it extra strong, to over compensate for his lack of circulation, he’ll need this and a pint or two of blood, and he should be fine”

“Excellent, right then, can we leave you to administer that and we’ll crack on here, Spike’s just about to tell us what he remembers about the Seal of Clan Tang” Wesley said, and Fred nodded and left for Angel’s room.

“You’ll have to forgive me if I’m sketchy in parts, it WAS over a hundred years ago…” Spike began

“Go on, just tell us what you remember, Angel might be able to fill in things you’ve forgotten”

“Huh, HIM – Actually, now I think back, it as all his bloody fault………It was February, 1900, we were in Hong Kong”

“We?” Gunn asked

“Angelus, Darla, Dru and me…”

“Oh, right, sorry, go on”

“Well, you see we HAD been living in the lap of luxury, thanks to me that is anyway, we’d been staying in the Emperor’s palace, not that he knew mind, it was just that it was so vast, it had hundreds of rooms we could just pick one and move about every couple of days, all we had to do was keep quiet during the day and hide away from his minions and that, and at night we’d be out hunting…and revelry, not get back till just before dawn…”

“Was the Emperor a vampire then?” Gunn asked

“No, he was just an ordinary bloke, well, like royalty to the Chinese, but he wasn’t a vampire, anyway, one morning, just before dawn, we slipped back into the palace via the dungeons, and we find some Chinese vampires, who were doing the same as us, living there – anyway, we weren’t having that, it was OUR territory…so we got rid of them…and I found this nice shiny trinket, picked it up. I didn’t know what it was – my first thought it was something I could give to Dru, and I was just about to put it in my pocket, when Peaches asks me what I got, I showed him, he took it off me”

“What, just like that, he took it and you let him?” Giles asked incredulously.

Spike looked indignant

“Yeah Rupes, just like that – what you’ve got to remember is, I’d only been a vamp for 12 years, I was still wet behind the ears! I wasn’t the hardened vamp I was yet to become, and it wasn’t Angel we were talking about, it was Angelus, anyway, he seemed pleased with it, believe me, it was far nicer having him in a good mood rather than a bad one, so, we get to our rooms, he announces we should party.

Earlier on that evening we’d raided an opium den…killed everyone in there, and had it away with let’s just say, the bag of opium we took would be worth millions today the amount we took from that den…but, I digress, they start to party. I didn’t smoke any of the stuff, I liked to be in control – but the others are carousing about, making too much noise and we are discovered, and we had to leave, those Chinese servants were all experts in the martial arts – it wasn’t the fight, it was just that there was too bloody many of them.

Anyway, the Boxer Rebellion is beginning outside, it’s chaos, people running about, things set on fire, and as every building was made of wood, not a place to stick around in – so we left. That’s all I know – I took the seal, but Angelus took it off me”

“And you’ve no idea where it is now?” Gunn asked

“Not a clue mate, you’d have to ask the poof”

“Right then, as soon as Angel’s awake, we’ll ask him” Wesley said, ordering coffee and sandwiches to be sent to the office.

“Ask me what?”

Angel walked wearily into the office

“Hey, how are you feeling?”

“Okay, look, lets crack on shall we, I’ve missed enough already, okay, Wes, get me back in the loop – what’s going on?” Angel sat behind his desk

“Right well um, yesterday morning, we had this piece of parchment delivered here, first mail………Giles had been here helping me put the daemonology books on a database, I showed him the parchment piece and he said he’d take it to Watcher HQ to get it translated” Wesley explained

“So Giles, enlighten me” Angel said, stifling a yawn.

“It was basically a threat – The great Tang Clan of Warrior vampires want their Seal back, their oldest vampire and clan chief Quong Ping Yip is no more, they need the seal for the investiture of Lin Pao Tan, the new head. And they say if they don’t get it………”

“What, what’ll happen?” Gunn asked looking from Giles to Spike to Angel

“Well put it this way…have you see the film ‘Kill Bill’?” Spike asked

“Uh huh!”

“Well, you know the bit where the Bride goes after Lucy Liu’s character, O-Ren, and she has to fight the Crazy 88 gangsters first?”


“Yeah” Gunn said, a little uneasily

“Well, it’ll be just like that, except there won’t be 88, there will be bloody eight million and bleeding 88, EACH – Chinese, there’s millions of ‘em!”

Buffy gave a huge sigh.

“So, I suggest we find it and give it back, pronto – they want it for the end of the month” Wesley said

“Great – so where’s the problem?” Angel asked

“Well, there isn’t one, just so long as you know what you’ve done with it” Spike said

“ME – what makes you think I know anything about it?”

“Because I took it, and you took it off me”

“When – I did nothing of the sort!”

“February, 1900, Hong Kong, start of the Boxer rebellion – we had to leave the Ming palace, thanks to you I might add, and we stumbled on those Chinese vampires, we dusted them, I picked up the seal they were holding, YOU took it off me”

“And that’s your story is it, why should I believe you?”

“Because it’s the bleedin’ truth, that’s why, and I don’t expect you to remember anything about it because you were off your face on about half a pound of opium”

“You’ve no idea where it is?” Wesley asked

“Not the first clue – it could be anywhere…where did we go after Hong Kong, Spike?”

“Prague”

“Oh...right, yeah…”

“Giles, have you got that piece of parchment with you?” Spike asked

“Er, y-yes, here”

Giles produced and envelope from his inside jacket pocket and handed it to Spike, who carefully unfolded it and began to read, a huge grin appeared on his face, much to the surprise of everyone else in the office……………





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