The petite blond hit the ground rolled jumped to her feet and jumped in to the battle spinning into a high kick she knocked the vampire back, whipped out a stake, smiled "My name is Buffy and your dust." She plunged the stake home and watched the vampire turn to ash "well another one bites the dust." She turned to her companions and smiled "There has been a lot of slayage the past few nights, I wonder what going on?"

Willow shook her head "I don't know Buffy they seem to be building towards something. Last night we slayed twenty, tonight about the same."

Maybe we should head back to the Magick Box and see what the G-man has to say." Xander said falling into step with the girls, "besides Anya's been nagging me to get home early enough to help with the wedding planning."

They continued to walk out of the cemetery never seeing the shadow that fell over them and they didn't hear the vampire "Not tonight Slayer but soon you will burn."

At the Magick Box Giles sat going over an old prophecy, trying to translate it, when he finished he looked up Anya "Oh dear I have finished the prophecy and it is not good. We need to find..." He was cut off as Buffy and the other's came in. Buffy hopped up on the table and looks at Giles "So what's the haps."

"Buffy I have finished the Prophecy perhaps you could sit down all of you," He waited as the others took their seats before he continued, "this scroll tells of the battle between the greatest Slayer and the vampire that could not be named. Roughly translated it states, The greatest Slayer will walk through the fire and only The Champion of the Slayer will free her. The three that are charmed will meet the champion on the mouth of hell and aid him. Only together can they face this fight, only together do they have the might. The nine who through deed are the closest to the Slayer will aid but only through Magick rite will the Vampire that can not be named be vanquished."

Willow looked at the scroll and then at Giles "What is the Champion of the Slayer?"

"The Champion is one man who was destined to aid the slayer in her duties, since no other slayer's champion surfaced we just thought of it as a myth. But it seems that in order to defeat this latest evil we are going to need him and these Three that are charmed whoever they maybe."

Willow stood all of a sudden excited "Could you mean the Charmed Ones Giles?"

Giles looked blank a second then nodded. "You could be right Willow."
Xander looked very confused and Buffy was just shaking her head, she held up her hand "Guys I have a few questions. Why can't this vamp be named, How do we find this champion, who are the nine, and just who in the hell are the Charmed Ones?"

Giles sat again and looked at the group around him "The Vampire that can't be named was never named because he is the first, the prophecy tells that the champion will reveal himself with the birthmark of the sword of the slayer on his back, which the council is sending. The nine I would think are Willow, Tara, Anya, Xander, Dawn, My self, Cordeila, Wesley, and Angel. They have shown through many deeds that they are the closest to you, and The Charmed Ones are three sisters who happen to be the most powerful witch's known to man." Just as Giles was about to go on Spike burst through the door with a shredded shirt and lots of bruises.

Xander looks up surprised. "What happened to you Dead boy JR."

Spike glares at Xander and turns to look out the window. Anya had zeroed in on the mark on his back shaped like a sword and in her don't beat around the bush way "Spike is the Champion."

Everyone was shocked into silence. Anya just rolled her eyes, "you said the Champion of the Slayer would have a birthmark shaped like a sword on his back and Spike has a birth mark like that on his back."

Buffy jumped up and spun Spike around and looked at the birthmark, Spike shook her off muttering "Bloody hell can't any body see I'm in soddin pain here."

Everyone ignored him and stared at his birth mark finally Giles said "Looks like we found are Champion. I always thought to myself of course that Spike had some kind of destiny and him being the Champion of the Slayer shows why Buffy could never kill him. They are destined to fight together, help each other out." Giles was interrupted again this time by Buffy passing out.

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