Master Slayer

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the Idea.

AN: Spoilers for Season 7 of Buffy (with an assumption that Buffy and Spike had sex during touched or Chosen, which ever floats your boat) and for Angel Season 5 up to episode "Damage". Also, Gunn got the legal stuff downloaded into his brain by making a deal with Angel not the Senior Partners so he still has sole rights to his soul. (I know horrible pun but it is 4am and I just can't bring myself to change it)

Prologue

May 20, 2003 L.A., California, United States of America

Hyperion Hotel

They were arguing again. The Scooby gang plus Kennedy, who seemed to think that sleeping with Willow gave her more say than any of the other baby slayers, was trying to tell her what she should do with her life again. The only ones not joining in the fight were Dawn and Faith. Both of whom had apologized for what happened earlier that week.

Buffy felt that the newbies needed more training in which demons to hunt and which to leave alone before sending them out on patrol without her or Faith and the Scooby's had taken the stance that the only good demon was a dead demon, minus Angel of course. She really just could not take any more, not today. Not when Spike, you know the demon they had been trying to get kill for the last year, had died saving the world less than 10 hours ago. She was tired, she was injured, she was angry, but most of all she was heartbroken. Moreover, she wanted to get the hell away from these ungrateful wretches that she used to consider her friends. She felt like she was seeing them truly, for the first time and she didn't like what she saw.

"We need food and more medical supplies. We'll talk about this more when I get back," she said abruptly, cutting off Kennedy's current rant in the process. "Immediate needs must take priority. Giles you are in charge. Faith, Carmen (a rather outgoing newbie, from Argentina, that Faith seem to get along with best), and Nadia (a quiet girl, from Romania, who had only shown up about a week before Caleb but a fierce and innovative fighter that Buffy thought showed a lot of promise) your with me. If we plan to get more than one meals worth of food for this many people I will need help carrying the groceries. Grab a few weapons that are easy to conceal and meet me at the SUV." Then she walked away to follow her own advice.

Packing up her mother's SUV with mementoes, clothes for her, Dawn, and Spike, weapons from the abandoned hunting store, the few books that Merrick had left her when he died, and money from the abandoned bank teller drawers (not the safe unfortunately the manager had remembered to lock that up before skipping town); then leaving it outside of town at a storage facility had not seemed like over kill to her. Therefore, when people started leaving Sunnydale in droves that is what she had done. However she knew that the others would most likely have called her paranoid, so she didn't tell anyone she had done so until she asked Robin to stop the bus and let her retrieve it. Dawn had been ecstatic and Faith just thought that she had done a damn smart thing, but the others looked at her as if she had betrayed them by not telling them she had done thusly. Oh well, It was probably just sour grapes because she had the stuff that was most important to her and their stuff was buried in the crater that used to be Sunnydale. (Except for Giles of course whose stuff was still in his flat in England) Though none of the potentials had arrived with more than a back pack full of clothes, toiletries, and personal mementoes a few of them had had the presence of mind, or maybe just the same sense of paranoia that Buffy had, to grab their bags and some basic emergency medical supplies and stow them on the bus. But still out of the 18 new slayers, 2 chosen slayers, 1 witch, 1 watcher, plus Xander, Dawn, Robin, and Andrew; only Dawn, Buffy, Faith (who had a fake ID that Angel had provided her with before she left LA) and 5 new slayers (including Nadia and Carmen) had any clothes, toiletries, medical supplies, ID, or money with them. It was not a good place to be. I figure that means I will have to stop by the place I got my fake drivers license the summer I ran away and get enough ID for the Americans at least to get access to their social security numbers, birth certificates, passports, and bank accounts. Oh well I will have to bring that up to Willow maybe she and Giles can go while we are shopping. That would allow Xander to stay here with the girls and Giles and Willow can provide Griffith with the information he needs to make IDs for everyone.

4 and ½ hours later

When Faith, Carmen, Nadia, and Buffy walked in with what appeared to be enough food to feed the entirety of the US Army for a week the last thing they expected to find was the bloody chaos that was awaiting them. As Buffy rushed to help with the wounded and find out what happened she failed to notice the four dead bodies off to the side of the lobby. It would only be later that she would find out what happened and how it cost 3 baby slayers and her little sister Dawn their lives.

It seems that some of the council raised slayers, led by Kennedy and egged on by Xander, had decided that they didn't have to wait for Buffy and Faith's approval to go out and fight. They had gone on patrol and found what, based on their descriptions, Buffy identified and a clan of Bracken Demons (a notoriously peace loving species) in their great arrogance and desire to fight they had attacked the family while Dawn tried to protect them only to find herself pushed to the outside of the group by the horde of Slayers (and one carpenter). While the slayers were so busy "defeating" the family of pacifist demons, two Polgara demons came at them from behind. Dawn was dead before they even realized there was a problem. At the end of the fight the two Polgaras, Family of 6 Bracken Demons, three Slayers, and Dawn were all dead and the other slayers had taken many injuries. Buffy's grief and rage knew no bounds when she heard not only the story but also Willow, Xander, and Giles defending the girls and their actions.

Buffy could take no more so she gathered her beloved sister in her arms and carried her out to the garden behind the Hyperion and dug her sister's grave. When she was done, she silently without a word to anyone climbed the stairs to the room that she and Faith had decided to share that night. When Faith got there, she took one look at her grieving sister slayer, then she took off her shoes and jacket, then climbed into the same bed to wrap her arms around the now sobbing older slayer.

Dreamscape

Faith and Buffy found themselves standing up high, on top of a mountain, looking out over crystalline blue water on three sides. The forth side showed forested areas. It was beautiful but they could feel it about half way down the eastern ocean facing side of the mountain was a source of great evil and it was getting stronger.

Faith and Buffy looked at each other and simultaneously said, "Hellmouth"

Then whoosh they were soaring over the trees going inland from the tip of the peninsula they had just been on to settle briefly in front of a sign Tauranga Airport. Then whoosh they were going up like a Google map zooming out until again they paused this time looking down at the shape of a two-part island. They looked down and saw a little avatar representing each of them standing on a mountain on the north island of what was now labeled New Zealand, exactly as it would be on a map.

End dreamscape

When they awoke breathing hard both girls had already come to the same conclusion, the two of them were being shown a newly awakening hellmouth.

"Clearly we need to go but do we take any of the others with us?

"No I don't think so. I mean if we were supposed to wouldn't they have been on the island in the dream with us?"

The next morning Hyperion Lobby

As Faith and Buffy came down the stairs, they saw Carmen, Nadia, and Amanda sitting on the circular couch facing the stairs with their bags packed and laying at their feet. "We got assignments also. We're supposed to hitch a ride with you to New Zealand, help you set up at the hellmouth, then Amanda takes the south island and Carmen and I take Australia," explained Nadia.

"So are we heading for the airport or what?" asked Amanda as they all loaded their bags into the back of Buffy's SUV. "Can't, to many weapons to get through airport security and we wouldn't be able to take the car with us. Plus, none of us has a whole lot of what I would call real money with which to start a new life. So we could drive to the docks and finding a very nice man who is willing to take 5 girls across the ocean in his boat in exchange for one slightly used SUV or we could stop by my dead beat dad's and force the seven years of alimony and child support that he owes out of him. Then use that to buy passage on a cruise ship heading in the right direction. Which do you prefer?" replied Buffy.

"Dead beat dad it is" said Faith.

"In that case we need to stop by Wolfram and Hart to and see if Gunn and Wes are willing to come with us and play the intimidating evil lawyers/muscle. If they are it should help make things go smoother and provide me with non-violent threats, he hasn't been around in the last decade or so. Therefore, it is unlikely that he would take and threats of bodily harm from me, or any of you, seriously. I hope that if we offer to put it in writing that this is a one-time payment and wipes out any parental rights or child support debts he owes Dawn, or me whose death he doesn't need to know about, He will be more willing to make the payment. We should also sell the SUV and have a cab take us to the docks. Less to transport means we have more options open to us."