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Buffy turned to Oz.

"You're right. Why not check the kitchen, grab whatever it is that's smelling good in there, and take it up to your room. I'll come find you in a bit. And if you ARE Oz... I'm sorry. We'll fix it, I swear."

She looked around.

"Xander?!" she yelled.
"Where the HELL is everyone disappearing to? Dawn's M.I.A. and Xander freaked out... and... and..."

She put her hands to either side of her head.

"Ok, the yelling is not doing much with the helping of the headache."

Kennedy lies on her bed. She feels a strong pull, almost like a weight rising from her. But her body would not move. Was this something from beyond the physical world? was something trying to help her.....or hurt her?

She faintly hears Faith's voice, but has trouble making out the words. Faith! Faith! I hear you! But her lips did not move. Her body stayed asleep, or that's what it looked like.

[[[Even though maybe 10 minutes have passed in the actual RP? -_-]]]

Andrew slowly opened his eyes. What had just happened? Where was he? Why was he moving?

He suddenly realized that he was being carried by a large, exceptionally handsome man named Angel. Andrew quickly jumped out of his arms. He didn't really remember what had happened before he had passed out.

"I'm not gay!" he whined to no one in particular as he ran downstairs.

Buffy walked into the hallway, intending to go to the den and check Giles's special book collection, when Andrew came running down the stairs.
She backed up, saying, "Woah - you're up.. you feeling less girly?"
She smiled and winked to show she was just kidding, and looked closely at him.
"You're all sweaty." She grimaced.

Faith finds herself sleeping on what sounds like a forest, but her vision seems very limited as the trees and air fade inside dark shadows. She rises from the ground, not too sure as to what happened or how she got there. Her head swiftly turns about as she can hear a familiar shout in the distance.

“Kennedy!”

She sprints through the blind forest, following the screams. Her journey stops when she finds a strange looking facility. It looks likes a temple of some sort. Vines did their best to hide its boulders. The ground to the temple was swampy. Faith takes a deep breath and slowly makes her way to the swampy ground. She leisurely places her foot into the swampy water, in search of an actual floor. Her leg sunk just below her knee before she found it.

Faith makes it across and toward the entrance of the temple. She can still hear the screams. That was definitely Kennedy’s voice. The passage way was dark, very dark. Faith kept her hand against the wall as she slowly made it through. She can see some light at the end of the passage way. The light flickers a bit. It’s from a torch.

Her eyes tripled in size as she sees a nightmarish figure covered in fur, almost like a monstrous wolf. It’s arms elongate and hands end in wicked claws. It looked like it could easily bite her arm right off and use it as a toothpick. Even if Faith was a slayer, she knew sheer power when she saw it. While it held onto the torch, another one stands up straight. This one had fur darker and more wild looking. Its eyes were as red as blood. In one hand, he had a small circular trinket of some sort; the other, a knife, which was quite laughable since it really did not need a weapon. They both howled.

Faith tried to stay as discrete as possible. She noticed the person standing in the middle of the room, on some type of alchemy symbol or something, was Kennedy, crying. She would not move. Eventually, the two monstrous beasts disappeared. Must have been when Faith was looking at Kennedy.

She rushes toward Kennedy.

“Kennedy! It’s me, Faith! I’m gonna get you outta here!” But nothing grabbed onto Kennedy. She was just standing there, crying.

“It burns! It burns!” Kennedy shouts. Faith notices her right hand, the only with the strange symbol on it.

“Oh God!” The symbol looks like it was recently burned onto her flesh. She tries shaking Kennedy from her spot, but it almost seems impossible.

“It’s still burning!”

“Kennedy! How are the holding you down? Tell me?” She stares into Kennedy’s eyes. She just stared right through her. Faith waved her hand in front of Kennedy, but nothing. Suddenly, Faith can hear the beasts returning. Before Faith has time to run and hide, she can hear them talking as if they were right in her ear. Imagine the shock when she realized the voices were coming from Kennedy.

“This is hopeless,” said one voice. She sees the beasts return to the room. They looked right through her, to Kennedy.

“Yes, but it is the only option left,” said the other one. This was weird because Faith can hear them howl through one ear but talking through another from Kennedy. Overlapping. The beast with brown fur does a gesture with his hands, and Kennedy drops.

“See! She is too weak. Pathetic!” The one with red eyes looked like he was ready to lung at her.

“No! She needs to go back before it’s too late.”

The words linger inside Faith’s mind as she suddenly wakes abruptly.

She realizes that it was a dream. Or was it? She can still feel the swampy cold water around her legs while Kennedy still lies in bed sleeping. It felt like it was only twenty minutes. Either way, Faith gets up and runs down the hall still feeling tweaked out with what she saw.

Faith raced downstairs, finding Buffy researching by herself. She still felt weak, and she was sweating.
"B, I think I know what's happening to Kennedy. Those beasts things, the Gauru, I think, I think they're trying to communicate through Kennedy."

Faith sat down on the couch, trying to catch her breath.

Dawn decided to go searching for Buffy and found her with Faith. "Hey Buffy" she said and realized Faith was all sweaty. "Hey are you ok?" Dawn asked Faith as it looked like she was having a fever or something. She looked at Buffy and shrugged. "Is there anything that I can do to help anyone?" she asked. She still had no idea as to what was really happening but she would find out.