Prompt 490 - Bane - Dragon's Phoenix - In a Corner of My Soul - BtVS

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Title: In a Corner of My Soul, Hyena Spirit
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 490 - Bane
Rating: PG
Word Count: 588

The entrance to the hyena display, a tame display of jungle vegetation, was still marked with the quarantine signs that had proved so ineffective at keeping the students out. The doors had been locked when Giles had arrived. He could have picked them. It would have taken no more than a few seconds, but there was no need to let Weirick know his security was so breachable. Giles had waited for Weirick to open the display and let him in.

“Are we ready yet?”

“Almost.” Giles adjusted the last of the six mirrors he'd set up at the edge of the room. Once the angles were just right, the spells on each mirror would reflect off of each other, capturing an image of any magic floating about the room. After the transpossession, Giles would be able to review the images at his leisure. There, that was it. The mirrors were exactly placed. Giles turned to examine the rest of the set-up. The girl, Heidi squirmed against the chains that bound her at the center of the circle. She appeared to be screaming from behind the gag. The boy, Kyle, his arms spread-eagled against the wall, had been hung high enough that his feet didn't touch the ground. This would make him easier to manage once the hyena had taken over his body. “Alright,” Giles said. “Now.”

“I still don't see why we can't put the hyena into me.”

Gods but Weirick was obsessed. “Demonic energies are the bane or mortal life, and I understand that we are working with animal energies, but in this context, they function almost as demonic energies. The hyena's spirit will, sooner or later, tear apart the body it inhabits. I believe I can mitigate those effects but you'd do well to wait until I fully understand how.”

“And why should I believe you?”

As part of their alliance, Giles had given Weirick access to his mansion, well to certain rooms within his mansion. “You are welcome to check in on the boy as often as you'd like. The deterioration should begin to be visible in less than a week. Within two weeks he'll be dead unless we remove the spirit from his body.”

Weirick nodded as if taking in Giles' words. “Alright.” The blue and white painting his face seemed more silly than terrifying although Heidi screamed so loudly she could almost be heard from behind the gag as Weirick approached her. Although perhaps it was the machete she feared more than the man. Weirick raised the knife dramatically over Heidi. Heidi's chains rattled as she tried to move. Her blood splattered across the floor. Weirick stepped out of the circle. “YU BA YA SA NA!”

As Giles stared into the closest mirror, green energy flew across the room and settled into Kyle. Interesting. The spell was quite efficient. There was little extraneous energy.

“Did you learn what you needed to?” Weirick asked.

“It's a start.”

“You said I'd have a demon filling me with power.”

“A demon would burn out out in less than a day,” Giles replied. “Unless I can learn how to mitigate the effects.” The man wanted to hold Eyghon forever. It was absurd. No human frame could encase demonic energies for more than at most a day or two. Nothing Giles could do would change that. Weirick needn't know however. “I can arrange to transpossess you with a demon's energies for an evening. Next weekend perhaps? But it can't be in Sunnydale. And you'll need a specific tattoo.”