PROLOG-seven months later The gang has moved to Cleveland. They live in an academy near the city limits. The academy is for young slayers who want to learn to harness their power. The school itself is very large, and is set in the middle of a two hundred acre wooded lot. Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Faith and Kennedy, with occasional help from Angel, teach fighting and other skills, along with the basic school courses such as Math and History (of course, they teach the REAL history, not out of the textbooks). Most of the time Dawn helped, but she now attended a local college, majoring in language. Xander eventually learned to live without Anya, going one day at a time. Buffy is now starting a relationship with one of Dawn's college professors (Uh Oh!). Faith and Robin are now dating in a weird Faith kind of way, and Willow and Kennedy are still together, still as in love as they were a year earlier. And Giles, well, he's still the same old Giles.

Chapter One

"Dawn!" Buffy called "hurry up!" She impatiently tapped her foot against the wooden floor of the entryway. "I'm coming!" Dawn screamed down. After five minuets passed and still there was no Dawn, she yelled, "I'm leaving!" She heard thumping on the stairs and saw Dawn skid to a halt directly in front of her. "I made it with one minuet to spare." Dawn told her, looking at her watch. "At least you came this time." Buffy muttered. She opened the door and walked out to their new van. She looked in the van, and seeing no one there, she immediately turned to Dawn. "Where is everyone?" she impatiently inquired. "They are probably asleep, with all the SANE people." Dawn remarked with a yawn. Buffy walked up to the house and, opening the door, she called "Kyla! Paige! Everyone get down here!" She heard more thumping, and she saw Kyla and Jenny running down the stairs. "Where's everyone else?" Buffy asked them. "Well, Paige is in the kitchen, Lindsey was in the library," kyla started "and Kennedy is in her room." Jenny finished. They walked out the door just in time to hear her say, "I don't have time for this."

Upstairs, Kennedy was looking out the window into the front yard where she saw some of the girls getting into Buffy's van. It was less crowded now that some of the slayers were sent home across the nation. Some had stayed, of course, because they had no where to go, and since they lived in a small town that was very close to Cleveland, there was plenty enough evil to go around. More arrived daily. Kennedy had stayed for other reasons, though. Of course there was the fact that she had the chance to train with experienced slayers, and with the watcher that taught them everything they know, but there was another big reason that really seemed to stick out in her head. And it just happened to be standing right behind her. "Kennedy, we have to go." Willow said. "I think we should stay home today." Kennedy said, grinning mischievously. "Kennedy, you wanted to go shopping with the girls. You said they need to get out more. Now you and Buffy and Dawn and I are going with them so they can go shopping." Willow replied. "I wanted them to go shopping. I didn't want for us to go with them. And why do we have to take the vans? Why can't we take my car?" Kennedy whined. Willow sighed, "We can't fit all the girls into your car so we have to take the vans. Now if we don't go then Buffy is going to kill us." Kennedy pouted for a minuet before giving up and heading outside, Willow following just behind. Kennedy got outside and looked at the swarm of eager teenage girls next to the vans. Kennedy sighed, eyes wide "Oh no."

A.N.- hey everybody i have more then twenty chapters of this on another site and got really good reviews so i figured i'd try it here. please review!