"So what is happening?" Dawn asked as they walked down the street with Giles.

"Honestly Dawnie…" Buffy tried to come up with a way to respond that didn't sound completely mental. She failed. "Well you'll just have to see it to believe it I think."

"This is the Queen?" A girl asked as they walked upon a group in the middle of the park.

"Queen?" Dawnie asked laughing. "Sure…queen." Buffy grabbed Dawn's free hand.

"Are you showing disrespect upon the Queen?" Giles asked with a glare.

"No no, no disrespect." She replied flipping her hair. "She is my cousin and stuff…right? Hi, I am Cordelia" She extended her hand out to Buffy.

"the respect thing really not that big of a deal. Just be yourself." Buffy replied shaking her hand awkwardly. The redhead snickered behind her hand.

"Hey!" She exclaimed pushing back the guy who had pushed her. "Ohh..Ohh..I'm Willow" She reached out and hugged Buffy. "I'm kind of awkward but I can't help it, I'm sorry."

"That's our Willow, quirky and cute!" The tall guy with shaggy black hair smiled and ruffled her hair. "I'm Alexander, Xander, whichever you prefer."

"Okay…" Buffy said trying to take it all in. "So how do we get wherever it is we are supposedly going?"

"I'm going to open a portal right outside the wards of the castle. Then we hurry inside the wards and we will be home free." Willow announced.

"Castle? Does that make you a practicing witch?" Buffy asked exchanging a look with Dawn.

"Yes. Actually a couple years now." Willow beamed proudly.

"Mhm" Dawn acknowledged edging closer to Buffy.

"Any other little tidbits of information we should know before going into some portal to who knows where with you guys?" Buffy asked.

"You don't seem as disturbed as I would have thought." Giles said looking at Buffy strangely as if trying to analyze something.

"yeah well I'm good with the wacky, we both are." She pulled Dawn closer. "So lets do this." Willow reached into her satchel and pulled out some sands and vials with weird ooky looking liquids and started pouring and chanting. Her eyes turned black, and her red hair became rooted with dark brownish black colors, and then bam, big swirly purple portal. Willow and Xander went through first, then Cordelia.

"Your turn Elizabeth" Giles said. Buffy just shook her head and climbed through with Dawn, followed by Giles before it closed up.

"Woah…Toto I don't think were in Kansas anymore" Dawn stated staring at the sight in front of them. It really was a huge majestic castle. It had a drawbridge and a moat. What was really shocking though was all the crazy looking creatures wandering around, and the fact that there was no sun. When you looked into the air there was three moons.

"Lets get you inside" Xander stated corralling them towards the entrance. Inside was even more overwhelming. Everything was huge and magical looking. Really everything was going great….until…

"Buffy…" Dawn whispered. No one noticed or heard but Buffy even though there were people just as close. Over the years Buffy had taught Dawn things that were just inherent to her. She directed down the hall. Buffy nodded towards Dawn, another one of their codes.

She fell back from the group and headed down the hall that Dawn had indicated. It was darker and more off course than what the rest of the castle at least seemed like. It seemed to lead underground, the walls started to get wet the farther she went, and got darker and darker until it was pitch black. Buffy's eyes automatically adjusted but she could still tell that this definitely wasn't a Princess Diaries type of royalty.

"Slayer…." A vampire leapt out at her.

"Awhh Slayee" Buffy pulled out one of the many stakes she had hidden on her body and the fight commenced until she finally got the upper hand and then poof.

"awhhh" A lulling voice came out of the darkness. "Sunshine came to ruin all my fun. No more play things for tea, ashes to ashes..the sun will shine across the sea and all my fun will disappear." She started moaning and shaking. Her hair was dark, and her eyes were mystical and her skin was flawless porcelain white.

"Dru…" A male voice followed her out of the darkness. Buffy found herself inching back, she wasn't afraid to take them on, but she didn't know where Dawn was and she wasn't about to risk her little sister when she didn't know how many vamps were around.

"Who is your new friend" He wrapped his arm around the vampire who insisted on speaking in riddles.

"Buffy Summers, and you are?" She asked slowly moving back towards the opening.

"Angel" He replied. He was tall, dark and brooding. His hair was perfectly styled and dark brown, his eyes made her weak in the knees but she knew he was clearly bad news. She tried connecting their names to something Giles said earlier. She desperately wished she would have paid more attention when he was talking earlier. She felt like they were cornering her. "So what are you doing here? Of what importance are you?"

"Nothing important, really, I just…time for me to go" Once he got close enough she kicked him hard enough to send him and Dru sprawling onto the ground before taking off and running back the way she had came. She could hear him coming after her, it only strived to push her faster, it was getting lighter and she was closer to knowing where she was until next thing she knew she was flat on her back.

"Woah! Oh this isn't good, are you okay your majesty?" Xander asked helping her up.

"Your majesty?" She heard Angel's voice from behind them. She jumped in front of Xander to protect him.

"Look, I don't know what you think you can get from me, but I will have wood through your heart so fast you'll be dust before you can say goodbye to riddle girl." Buffy said pulling out her stake.

"Woah…impressive." Xander stated. "But he isn't…I mean..Vampires aren't good but he isn't bad."

"What the hell do you mean?" Buffy whirled around keeping one eye on Angel. "And avoid the cryptic because I hate cryptic."

"Just that…he has..it is really complicated and I am so not the one supposed to explain it to you." Xander said. "Maybe you should go and give the Queen some space and…make sure our other guests are occupied so they don't surprise or upset the Queen." He gave Angel a look that made him smirk and walk back the way he had came.

"Where the hell is my sister? I want an explanation. Now!" Buffy demanded.