It was a dark room.
There were many people around her, surrounding her; they all wore capes,
suddenly a strong and hard voice echoed in the room:
"Find her! Follow her! Look after her!"
"Yes, sir. Consider it done," she answered with a sparkle in her eyes.
The next moment she was gone, just vanished.


In Sunnydale
It was a day like any other.
The Scooby gang spent all day searching for the way to vanquish a demon.
Nothing out of the normal "Scooby gang way of life".
At night Buffy went to patrol, looking for problems where they are, as usual.
She went to the cemetery just in time to see a vampire getting out of the tomb.
She ran after him and the fight began.
She punched and kicked him but he just did not fall, "It's a strong one," she thought.
Then he grabbed a peace of wood to hit Buffy
but she dodged got the wood from his hands… he is gone.
Turned into dust.
Buffy was so distracted after the slay thing that she didn't notice a pair of shinning eyes
in the woods, looking at her, watching her, analyzing every movement she does.


The other day, she reported the slay to Giles and he took note of everything
"Did you write all the details?" she asked him
"Sure, Buffy, I did. I know you are concerned about the next Slayers and
want complete report at the books," answered Giles.
When they were about to finish Willow, Xander, Anya and Tara entered the room.
"You wanted us to come. We're here," said Xander with a bothered voice.
"What's wrong, Xander?" asked Buffy "We were about to have sex when you called"
said Anya "thank you for telling everybody about our sex life"
"You are welcome". Xander slapped his forehead with his hands just not believing
what he just heard "oh, of course it's Anya … very typical of her attitude,"
thought Xander. "I'd better proceed with what I called you here for" said Giles
"Yes, proceed" said Willow really excited with the reunion.
"There's something big coming. I don't know yet what it is but I feel darkness coming,"
"And the council called him telling him that something bad was going on" completed Buffy
"Thank you, Buffy" said Giles in disagreement. "So, why did you call us here?
What are we supposed to do?" said Anya who continues,
"If there's nothing else you want with us, me and Xander can go home keep doing it from
where we stopped" "Anya!!!" said Xander with an angry voice. "Ok, I will be quiet,"
completed Anya with an annoyed look in her eyes. "I can look for a spell to see what's
coming," said Willow "No!" said Giles with a firm voice, "It may be dangerous, and it's
possible that you will get hurt. I can't let you do that" "Let's wait for some news from the
council," colluded Buffy. "So… why are we here?" asked Tara "we need to decide this
night's patrol," answered Giles and completed "I want someone with Buffy to" "Me and
Tara will go" said Willow "It's been some time since the last time I went to patrol… it will
be fun" she was so enthusiastic that no one could say no. "Ok, Will, see you tonight"



Buffy's house … at night
The bell rang, Buffy rushed to the door, opened and ran taking Willow and Tara by the arm,
"Come on… let's go" "why are you in such a hurry?" asked Willow. "Slow down … we
can't go along with you running like that," said Tara already out of breath. "Ok, I'll slow
down a little" "Thank you very much," said Willow. "Let's go kick some vampire' butts,"
"hummmm…Ok," said Tara with a concerned look on her face. Arriving at the cemetery
they started the patrol watching over the tombs waiting for something to awake and start
action. They didn't have to wait much long. Soon enough two vampires appeared from their
back jumping over them. "Hey, that's not very honorable," said Buffy "well, we're
vampires, we don't need that," "Ok boys, what are you waiting for? Come and get me,"
They started fighting while Willow and Tara got to their feet. Willow looked at Tara and
asked: "The telekinesis spell?" "Ok" they joined hands and one of the vampires flied away.
When they were about to do the same with the other they just felt strong hands around their
heads, the next moment they were on the floor. Just about that moment Buffy killed the
other vampire, looked back to see her friends on the floor. She starts the fight kicking his
face, he was carrying a sword and with a good swing of it, he cuts her arm. "Ok Mr.
Vampire, now I'm pissed" said Buffy. She started a massive attack over him who looses the
sword. And the next moment he is facing the floor. But he looks like a lucky vampire; he
lands next to a spade. When Buffy is close enough he turns and hits her on the head. Now
it's Buffy who is facing the floor completely stunned. She recovers just in time to look back
and see the vampire turning into dust. She looks around and sees her friends still on the
floor and… no one else. She runs to her friends and wakes them up. They asked her what
went on but she just didn't know how to explain that. "Well you guys, the only thing I
know is that it wasn't me" "How are we going to explain that to Giles?" "I don't know how
to explain that to myself," "Can we just go home?" inquired Tara "sure, let's go. I'll walk
you home,"


The next morning at Giles house
"What do you mean with "I don't know what happened?"" "I just don't know, one moment
I'm facing the floor with the vampire standing there with a sword … ready to kill me, the
next moment he was dead," "We haven't seen anything Giles, we're sorry, but we were
knocked out" said Willow "I think this thing that is coming is worse than we expected,"
completed Giles. "Real dark times are coming" said Buffy a little downcast.


To be continued…