Seattle:
"Oh look, it's raining again."
"Yeah, we kinda noticed that on our own Xander."
"So can someone tell me again, why are we here?" Xander looked at Willow as he asked.
"Well, Something's happening here, and Buffy and Giles want us to check it out. It's something bad, I can feel it."
"What ya feeling?" Faith's voice rang out through the rain.
"I'm not sure, it's old. Very old, the Earth itself is fighting it, and losing. Badly. It's sucking the life from the very planet around us."
"That's gotta be a pretty big vamp to do that." Xander trying in vain to lighten the atmosphere. Willow glowered, then smiled slightly at him.
"It's rising," Willow added. "Tearing through the barriers, it's coming........AAARRRGGHGHHHH." Willow collapsed as though she'd been struck by an unseen force.
Xander was immediately at her side, Faith was on guard, waiting for something to jump at her or the others. Nothing jumped, but something skulked into view.
"Mortals. Your time is at an end. Your ephemeral existance is at an end. You are food, you will be consumed by the Great one. He rises, and with his coming, so shall come your death......" As he spoke, a crossbow bolt struck him in the chest. He looked down, and laughed. "I am but the messenger, I shall be avenged by the death of your world." Then he turned to dust.
"He talked too much, and he threatened my girl, no one does that." Kennedy was next to Willow before Xander had even noticed her.
"He may have talked too much, but at least he was talking sweetie, we needed info, and he seemed all too willing to give us what we wanted." Willow looked into Kennedy's eyes.
"Well, yeah, but I turned the corner, saw him gloating, saw you on the ground, what was I supposed to think?" Kennedy kissed the witch lightly on the forehead.
Lightning filled the alley around them. It all seemed to be striking the ground just a few metres from them, but didn't go any further, in the lightning, a shape was forming, it looked like......... Nah, it couldn't be. Could it?
To be continued.