AN: hope the first chapter was okay. i know it was short but the coming chapters will be longer. comments are welcome. hope the second chapter is exciting.

Chapter 2

Back at a house just on the outskirts of town a redhead was looking through a book of spells with the look of upset in her eyes. All of a sudden the redhead threw the book down and placed her head in her hands. She had been looking for a way to help her friends track down all of the, now, active slayers. After a minute an older looking British man walked in with two cups of tea.

"I would appreciate it if you wouldn't take your anger out on my books, Willow" The man said as he handed the redhead a cup of tea.

"I'm sorry Giles, I just can't focus. I don't know what it is, but I sense that something is happening here… and in California." Willow said the last part with a look of despair on her face.

Both sat in silence until they heard the front door open, and a voice yell, "Hey is anyone here?"

Both Giles and Willow knew that it was Buffy and Faith back from patrolling.

Willow was the first to speak up. "Yeah we'll be right down." As Willow started to get up as Giles asked, "Do you think there is a new evil or is it just a feeling?" Even before she answered Willow knew that Giles was just asking to make sure that she was okay, because she hadn't been quite right for a while. Willow gave the man a look that told him that it was a new evil, but also that she was okay.

"Let's go see if Buffy and Faith found anything while they were out." Willow wanted to be in a space where Giles wouldn't ask her if she was alright. She knew that he was keeping an eye on her, but she didn't want him to have to ask her if all was well in the world.

"That is an excellent idea. Perhaps they found something that might explain your feeling." Giles said. That caused the redhead to smile and forget about how she was slightly upset.

Downstairs the gang was all together, Xander, Dawn, Kennedy, Buffy, Faith, Robin, and unfortunately Andrew. Willow and Giles walked in to see them talking about how Dawn had aced the final in her college Mythology class. Robin started talking about the time he first met Dawn at Sunnydale High, which is now a crater, and how he accidentally mistook Buffy for Dawn's mother.

"Hey remember when we first got here and we thought that we would have it easy." Faith had piped up reminding everyone what had happened three years earlier.

The gang had moved to Cleveland five years ago after turning there hometown into a crater and defeating the First. Soon after arriving they found a house that was big enough to fit all eight of them, Dawn was living in a dorm at the college. After establishing a place of residency they all went looking for jobs. Robin became principal of the nearby high school. Xander was still working in the construction business. Giles owned his own shop, just like the Magic shop. Buffy helped Giles with the shop just because she didn't want to deal with another Double Meat Palace. Dawn finished high school and was going to local college. Faith was working at a local gym as a kickboxing instructor, she and Robin were also dating. Kennedy was helping Faith at the gym, she and Willow were still dating. Willow finished college and was now working at the local pet shelter as the manager. Andrew stays home because he doesn't have any skills other than baking (and some other skills), and he was still making up for killing Jonathan. Well that's what he says, the truth is no one will hire him.

"Sorry to interrupt this happy moment but-" Giles was cut off by Buffy who had a slight worried feeling in her voice. "Is there something wrong Giles?"

"Heavens no. I was just going to ask how your patrol went. There's nothing wrong." Giles stated in a way so as to calm the extremely tense slayer down.

"Oh, no just a couple of vamps who were a couple." Buffy said strangely as she turned to look at Faith. "Yeah nothing to worry 'bout Giles. It was funny though. They wanted to get married." Faith said as she started to laugh at the thought of the vampires walking into a church to get married.

"How could they get married? They're dead." Kennedy said with a kind of curiosity. "That's just what I said!" Faith piped up in a sort of way that could be interpreted as a challenge, but Faith knew that the young slayer knew not to challenge her because of the ass-whooping she got the last time she did.

"Alright you two back down we don't need to start a fight here. Faith you don't need to use that tone with Kennedy." Robin finally chimed in before Faith pulled a battle axe on Kennedy. "I wasn't gonna do anything. I was just saying that that was what I said. Nothing more." Faith started to get defensive when Robin accused her of having a tone with the young slayer. Then she looked into his eyes and she knew that she should get back on topic.

"We didn't find anything else. Hey are there any Hot Pockets left? I'm starved!" Faith asked as her stomach growled at her. "No, sorry Faith. Andrew ate the last one about ten minutes before you got home. I heard him mumble something about eating it before you did I think." Xander was always thinking of ways for someone to hit Andrew, but this time it didn't work 'cause Faith just brushed it off and went to the kitchen to find something else to eat. Robin followed her so that they could have a moment alone.

After the meeting was over everyone dispersed to their rooms, all except Willow. "Are you coming up to bed baby?" Kennedy asked with a look in her eye that told Willow what she wanted to do, but Willow just shook her head and made some comment about looking for spells. Kennedy just shrugged and walked upstairs to the room that she shared with Willow.

I need to figure out why I have this feeling. Willow just started looking into books that she has looked in over 20 times, but she still believes that soon a clue is gonna drop into her lap.

At the same time a girl was running through the park just a few blocks away from the witch. It wasn't long before what was chasing her had caught her. The girl had tripped over a tree's root and she stared into the monsters eyes just before it attacked.