Demon Weed, Part 5

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BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - DEMON WEED

PART FIVE - SPORTS DAY

"Hey, what do you girls think you are doing?" Cordelia stated emphatically to
the pupils.

"We are chilling out, Cordelia - get lost!" exclaimed a girl, exhaling smoke
into the breeze.

Coredelia replied "When the principal finds out you lot smoke, she will take
a mental!"

As Cordelia turned to carry out her duty, she was held back.

"Get Off Me!" demanded Cordelia

One of the girls approached the prefect.

"Listen, Cordelia - you don't understand how good smoking is..."

"You are weird, Gayle - the principal is going to know about this.  You are
in deep @#%$!" replied Cordelia

As Coredelia began to walk off, the girls laughed and joked trying to gain
her attention.

"Ha Ha! I bet miss 'Teachers Pet' never does naughty things."

Another girl within the group continued "Yeah. I bet the naughtiest thing
Cordelia has done is..."

Cordelia halted and turned to face the group of female smokers.

"... wet the bed!" the girl completed.

Cordelia saw red and stalked towards the group.

In a burst of rage, Cordelia removed the burning cigarette from Gayle.

"I can do this disgusting thing like the rest of you. This is just to prove
it!" replied Cordelia.

The prefect raised the cigarette towards her lips and sucked the filter. The
burning end glowed red and the ash sizzled. Her eyes dilated whilst the
cigarette burned furiously. The cigarette was then removed and a huge cloud
of inhaled smoke burst out from the mouth. Cordelia's lips pursed
automatically and finalised the remaints of smoke.

Cordelia, in a trance-like state, entered the bikeshed along with the girls.
Before the shed door was shut, Cordelia instinctively took another forceful
drag on the cigarette...


"On your marks, get set, go!" shouted a teacher as his gun fired into the
air. Immediately, the huddled group of pupils began to sprint through this
mini-marathon. Willow and her friends raced ahead of the pack into the
distance.

After half an hour of continuous running, Willow halted to lean against a
tree. Out of breath and panting heavily, her friends approached.

"This is tiring! How much longer?!" said one of her friends monosylabically
due to her panting.

"Not much longer, but I need a breather!" exclaimed the other

Willow had known her two friends, Sandy and Paula, since kindergarten and
fully trusted them - except the knowledge that she was a slayerette.

"Ok, lets head towards that stream." said Willow, finally regaining her
standard breathing pattern.

The girls headed towards an open stream hidden behind several bushes. The
water ran forcefully over the rocks and clashed with man-made damn ahead. 

As the girls sat on the banking, Sandy extracted a chocolate bar.  Peeling
the shiny wrapper, she offered her friends a piece.

"No! That would be cheating. This is supposed to be about stamina." replied
Willow

"Oh, come on Willow! Do you think Andrea is going to be particularly upset
with a little chocolate! I don't think so!" Sandy said, forcing a fragment
into Willows hand.

Swallowing her pride in the last statement, Willow began to munch on the
melting chocolate piece. It brought her relief and she fully enjoyed her
moment of rebellion of the rules. However, the offer by Paula was going to
take Willow by complete shock.

Paula extracted a pack of cigarettes along with a lighter, slid back the lid
and offered the two of them one.

"What! When did you start smoking?, Where did you get these?" Willow replied,
coughing on the recently-consumed chocolate.

"Yeah, Paula - I am dying for one!" replied Sandy as she extracted a
cigarette from the pack.

As both girls proceded to light up, Willow stormed to her feet.

“And where do you think you are going, Willow?!” asked sarcastically Paula. 

“I am getting away from you two morons. You both forgot pretty quickly that
we laughed at Melissa and Rachel last week for smoking.” Willow replied 

“Yeah, but this week we are thinking differently. Smoking is cool and we
both love it!” Sandy stated 

As Willow began to make way to the road, she was immediately held back by
Sandy and Paula. Paula obtained a hankerchief and forcefully inserted it into
Willow’s mouth whilst Sandy restrained her arms from movement. Willow was
now panicking, wondering what came over her best friends. They then secured
Willow to the ground with heavy stones, obtained near the stream. After a
frantic struggle, the two girls returned to finish their quickly diminished
cigarettes whilst Willow lay on the ground helpless. 

“In 5 minutes, you are going to feel great - and understand what we are all
about. Relax.” Paula whispered 

Paula obtained the orange-coloured pack of cigarettes and extracted three.
She hurriedly lit hers and exhaled with a sigh of relief.  Sandy took the
lighter and cigarette from Paula and followed suit.  After the gag was
removed from Willow’s mouth, the third cigarette was forcefully inserted and
the lighter was flicked to life...

“There you are, Darling - Where have you been?” Spike asked, sitting on the
chair in his abandoned home.

Drusilla had entered the house covered in blood and her face lit up at the
sight of Spike. As Drusilla motioned slowly towards Spike, she took the
burning cigarette from him and inhaled powerfully on the filter.

“Oh, I’ve been entertaining myself with the Initiative team...” Drusilla
replied, sitting on Spike’s knee whilst taking another puff...

The rain drops pelted down and springed off the moist soil of the woodland as
Riley crawled to a nearby home. Darkness was set to fall in less than an hour
- just enough time for Riley to think of a plan to obtain food for his
decaying body. He remained hidden behind the garden bush watching a small boy
play in his garden. The hunger began to boil inside him as he continued to
watch the boy. By now, his eyes had now became cloudy blue...

“Oh, hi Buffy!” said Cordelia, fidgeting in the library chair.

“Yeah, yeah!” groanded Buffy as she limped into the library, sighing in
relief when she sat in the chair. 

“My team just lost two-nil. I almost scored.” explained Buffy

“Tonight, I have decided to go and track this demon down. It said something
about the earth was already doomed. I might get some information from it and
stop whatever has invaded here.” Buffy declared

“Be careful, Buffy. If I am right, this hellmouth has reopened and the fight
between the two evils have begun.” Giles explained.

“Do you need backup, Buffy?” asked Giles

“No. I am fine. I don’t want to put any of you at risk. Talking about you,
where are Xander and Willow?”

“Oh, I know Willow fell unwell and went home. Poor baby!” Cordelia replied
sacastically while fidgeting with her hair staring into space.

“I’ll check round tonight. It is not like Willow to be off school.” Buffy
replied.

As Buffy turned to leave the library, she smelt the smell of stale tobacco
smoke even stronger than before.

END OF PART 5 - PART 6 COMING SOON!

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