Forewarning so as to be forearmed . . .that's the hope!

Yukiko

“Okay that is quiet enough, everyone!” Setsuna shouts, bringing the argument to a halt and quiet incidentally jockeying herself (and her husband) into being the peacemaker here in a moment, I HOPE!

This . . .could still tank, folks.

Setsuna

And after a few minutes I manage to calm down the young Drow woman enough to where she no longer tries to just glare at Rei (who is more than willing to return the favor) but instead is at least willing to hear me out. I take Willow to one side of the room while my husband (playing his part) takes Rei and the others to the other side to at least appear to sooth ruffled feathers and such.

My husband felt better about doing his task than mine since . . .it had been observed that I had a better repoire with Willow than he had, odd as it sounds.

I . . .guess that my reincarnation as Sailor Moon has something to do with it

Good, considering I really did not feel exactly comfortable with that part of Rei’s plan; her acting the part of the “bad cop” in order to . . .basically throw Willow out of sorts and manipulate her feelings. While Rei plays a pretty impressive “iron fist” I hear, I really don’t like how hurt Willow’s emotions will be when she realizes. . . things.

Oh well, I find I feel better about being the “peace maker” and a balm to the poor girl’s feelings. Not to say that what I’m going to have to do or say to her will be anything like easy, but…

At least I can at least soften the blow. I can see that things are coming back to her and what lies . . .

. . .

Okay, let us just not beat around the bush. She is realizing (yet again . . .somehow the Hellmouth or SOMETHING or Somebody must have clouded the issue . . .maybe) what all this means.

Or maybe, just maybe her bruised ego rose up to blind her to the truth of the matter. I don’t know… I can understand to a point but then again . . .

Maybe it’s a Western /late 20th century/Valley Girl/Gods know’s what thing that I—a product of the Silver Milenium, just can’t understand now…

Well, to business and we’ll play it by ear and lend a sympathetic ear and heart!

”Shit, I really messed up didn’t I?” she whispers to herself, the events coming back and crashing down upon her anew . “Oh what am I going todoand . . .”

She goes into something of a frenzy of “Willowspeak” (run on sentences with words with little to no spacing between). VERY difficult to follow such hyperactive talk, but IF I can understand the general slant?

. . . .

She wants to run away and hide under a rock. Hide and avoid the accusations and shouting she’s sure her friends will now throw her way now that her terrible mistake (and it WAS a horrible mistake) HAS COME to light due to our . . .ill advised “intervention”.

It had seemed to be the thing to do at the time, our tactics, in our defense. I do have to admit that Rei (who is also a rabid Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan like . . .I was and still am during my Sailor Mar’s incarnation) was rather spot on about gentler measures having basically failed. Willow . . .alas, is an addict of magic, the brand she used to be able to practice.

Oh, Gods and Goddesses, did she grow VERY addicted to the Dark magicks later on

I must say, I find myself mystified as to why she has her “realization anew” --why anew I have ask myself if something with the Hellmouth temporarily erased her initial realization a few moments ago I have questions about for LATER—but that is not for ciphering out right now.

While not exactly breathing down our necks, there is a trial that poor Willow shall soon have to face here, alone. Something that will happen SOONER (not good at all) rather than later, when she’s a least better informed about she’ll be facing in a trial that will decide the fate of her very immortal soul!

YES! That is what Buffy’s “tertiary goal” had been here, one and all! In case you have not already figured it out, Buffy’s friend here still has some VERY Dark (as well as very Light) Powers interested in swaying her to their camp. Apparently there believe that she still has much to offer them; still has Potential. Right now, as a drow female she might not be able to access the magical might her TV counterpart had displayed which could/would have utterly destroyed this world but I am sure there are ways around Rayne’s rather stopgap, over the top measures.

Yes, in the TV show witchcraft appeared to involve petitioning various entities which could be considered (where considered) deities in the ancient times of Western Society. Not too terribly much of a stretch that if swayed into it Willow could dedicate herself to ONE particular diety, as a priestess.

Yes, to regain her access to her addiction--and YES she was and I’ll wager still IS addicted during this timeframe . . .just had been smart in hiding it from her friends until it came to a head—then things could turn out badly for . . .well, possibly everyone on this Earth eventually!

Unless we (or Buffy) should be forced to nip things in the bud, for the greater good….

. . .

Oh Gods, I don’t even want to tell you how sick to my stomach that makes me feel right now. Before, as Sailor Pluto I’d feel . . .but now?

No! Not going there right now and going off on tangents!

And as such, that is why I actually grab Willow by the shoulders (ignoring how her elfin chainmail must be digging into her skin as I do this) and shake her a few times to get her to slow down and NOT even think about running OUT of the Libarary and into a trial she has no idea is coming.

Hey, WE only know about said trial because Buffy told us just moments ago if you must ask, but that’s just not important right now?

”Calm down damnit!” Setsuna shouts in almost uncharacteristic anger, giving a shake to the girl in question to emphasize the point. Usually, the young woman in twin ponytails had been more . . . serene up until this point. “Listen to me PLEASE!”

However, Willow’s hysterics coupled with a loaming and DIRE deadline for the girl in question Willow so such deviations can be understood and even forgiven, eh? Well, maybe not but still it IS understandable how listening to a young teenage girl turned Drow Elf could prove to be a bit . . .er . . .vexing?

Blinking a bit in surprise in whatever the case, Willow stops her patented “Willow Babble (trademark pending) and nods an affirmative.

Rei and the other Champions look on silently, letting the young (if albeit by reincarnation) princess of the Moon do her duty.

Buffy the Angel looks on, clearly trying not to fidget. Clearly, she would LOVE to do this task herself but she had REALLY pushed the envelope with her Superiors back in her Office by going in by her lonesome and personally intervening with Willow over the Chaos Gods earlier in that Warhammer 40K universe segment. This part had to be done by the Champions or else! Willow had to have SOME say in her fate, what with her being a “free willed” entity and such. Too much divine intervention (or whatever) kind of spoiled things, alas, much to the frantic angel’s wishes to the contrary.

Willow had gotten herself INTO this mess and now it was up to her (after a bit of helpful advice and such from the Champion’s) to get herself OUT. But BOY is Willow going to be tempted!

With gold, silver, power . . .and perhaps even sexual favors of all flavors?

Eh….well, some of those entities are kind of . . .eh . . .kinky like that. Wouldn’t do to go into details about that, what with that being kind of WAY above what the mods would allow in the website here, I’m sure you’d understands.

Anyway…

”Good,” the woman who had been known as Sailor Pluto in another time/age but now found herself being known as Sailor Moon sighs. “Now, you may have ‘fucked up’ in your attempts to help with bringing Buffy back to life, running away could make the situation even WORSE because . . .”

And so the Princess of the Moon regales the young teenager turned Drow female with how one little act of impatience on her part had pretty much snowballed MUCH further and far reaching here. Instead of going into interesting (if not exactly pertinent) details about how her television counterpart had eventually (later) gone onto E-bay of all things and found that magical artifact—this Willow had bypassed that and tried to do a quick “end run” by beseeching the spirit world directly after consulting with a shop owner or three in what passed as the darker corners of the magic vending district of Sunnyvale.

Instead, Setsuna touches on how Willow had inadvertently places a debt upon her soul by her using some rather dark magical rituals in her quest. Now, while the Dark Side didn’t have total claim on her soul this whole ordeal had brought Willow’s existence to the attention of a LOT of entities (they fancied themselves “gods” and “goddesses”, but other Entities would beg to differ) who could use the service of such a . . .unique individual.

Willow’s mind, albeit being rather young at merely a young teenager, worked in rather refreshing ways. Ways that if properly harnessed through binding Willow (body, mind and soul) to Their cause, would bring them much Power and Prestige.

Willow was a “techno-pagan” and had ideas and such capable of bending magics and technology the Powers so VERY much wanted, now; “Light” and “Dark” both. None of which as Setsuna pointed out Willow would probably want to serve since they aimed to dominate completely and utterly Willow, basically removing her free will and making her their pet.

In the end, these particular Entities might market themselves as being “Light” or “Dark”, different from each other but ultimately self serving in the end.

And if Willow went into this trial of temptation without any forewarning, her odds of not being “collared” and “harness” like some domesticated animal (or perhaps a pet) did not look good at ALL! Kind of like that one “Moon goddess” which had tried to force a certain young warrior princess turned elf (i.e. Nightfall) into a shamaness, Rei remembered (re: 69858).

1. That elfin lass had only avoided such a fate through her sheer pigheaded.

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