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Master Slayer Chapter 1

Last time on Master Slayer

"So are we heading for the airport or what?" asked Amanda as they all loaded their bags into the back of Buffy's SUV. "Can't, to many weapons to get through airport security and we wouldn't be able to take the car with us. Plus, none of us has a whole lot of what I would call real money with which to start a new life. So we could drive to the docks and try to find, what is likely to be, one very gross and delusional man. That is willing to take 5 girls across the ocean in his boat in exchange for one slightly used SUV or we could stop by my dead beat dad's and force the seven years of alimony and child support that he owes out of him. Then use that to buy passage on a cruise ship heading in the right direction. Which do you prefer?" replied Buffy.

"Dead beat dad it is" said Faith.

"In that case we need to stop by Wolfram and Hart to and see if Gunn and Wes are willing to come with us and play the intimidating evil lawyers/muscle. If they are it should help make things go smoother and provide me with non-violent threats, he hasn't been around in the last decade or so. Therefore, it is unlikely that he would take and threats of bodily harm from me, or any of you, seriously. I hope that if we offer to put it in writing that this is a one-time payment and wipes out any parental rights or child support debts he owes me and/or Dawn, whose death he doesn't need to know about, He will be more willing to make the payment. We should also sell the SUV and have a cab take us to the docks. Less to transport means we have more options open to us."

Gunn had been more than willing to assist with there legal/money issues. Which was of great help and with his assistance Buffy got everything that her father owed plus late payment interest in one lump sum as long as she promised neither she nor Dawn would ever ask him for anything again. Considering she had no desire to be anywhere near him again, Buffy felt that she had come out the better in that deal.

But even better than that Wes had made sure that all 5 of the girls had access to research books and an ipad so that they could skype him with questions. Nadia called it a pocket watcher and it was all done at Wolfram and Hart's expense. A good use of evil resources was his explanation. He also got Fred to enable the ipads to access WR&H's demon database for emergencies when he wasn't available at the exact time that they needed him.

With the money from her father and the fact that Angel gave all of his team reasonable sized signing bonuses that they all promptly cashed and gave to the 5 reassigned slayers, the girls were actually able to get Visas and passports (a fake in Faith's case) and find passage for them and the Jeep (pulling a trailer carrying all of their stuff) within the month. Much faster than Buffy and Faith had originally anticipated considering they weren't exactly traveling light.

They had felt even luckier when Angel told them about this company that did passenger freight cruises. The company was called Maris* and it had a cruise that went from Los Angeles to San Francisco then crossed the ocean to Pusan, Korea before traveling down the coast of China until it got to Singapore. The Freighter would keep going but that was as close as the freighter would get them to where they needed to be. Then all they would have to do was drive across Indonesia take a ferry from Denpasar across to Darwin, Australia. From there they planned a nice scenic drive along to coastlands of Australia, dropping off Carmen in Perth and Nadia in Melbourne, to Sydney where they were to meet up with a freighter run by some non-violent demon clients of Wolfram and Hart. That, while not a passenger freighter, was willing to make some room on board for the three slayers and their stuff for the few days that it would take them to get to Tauranga. Especially since they were getting their legal fees for this run waived and they didn't have to deviate from the stops they would be making anyway. All in all, with stops to get the Australia bound-girls set up Buffy and Angel figured it would probably take them around 7weeks to get to Sydney then they would have a 3 day trip to Tauranga. At which point they would get a place set up for Faith and Buffy before heading south to set up Amanda.

On the voyage across the ocean Buffy had several weird, even for her, things happen to her. She could hear things that even Faith wasn't able to hear, thus causing Buffy to suffer several migraines. She started throwing up throughout the day. Normally this would be put down as sea sickness but she would throw up then be perfectly fine for several hours before getting sick again. The last thing explained the first problem but not the second. She had a detailed slayer dream, actually it was more a dreamscape conference featuring her, Whistler, and Sineya.

Start Dreamscape

Buffy looked around. The setting was familiar right down to the bonfire and Sineya the only difference from Buffy's vision quest in the desert was Whistler sitting beside her on the log.

"Hey Kid"

"Whistler, I am already on the way to a new assignment, what could the powers that be possibly need from me right now that would require your presence instead of the normal cryptic dream?"

"It's not what they need it's what you need. What you need to know specifically."

"How much do you know about the spell itself that created the newbie Slayers? Not the idea behind it but the actual mechanics of the magic."

"Not much. Just that it funneled the power of the scythe in to the potential slayers to activate their innate abilities." She replied.

"Yes and No. The scythe didn't really have any power of it's own. It was an object that acted as a magical channel, connecting the slayer line together and allowing the current line bearer to access the abilities of the slayers that came before them. As you know secondary powers vary from slayer to slayer based on a lot of different factors. For instance your prophetic abilities, when you were first activated, were more than 3x as strong as Faith's which are nearly nonexistent, but her resistance to the thrall of a vampire or telepath/empath powers far out strips your own. As with all things in life it is a tradeoff. The Scythe allows the line bearer who wields it to potentially tap into the power or ability of a slayer that came before them, one that they may not have on their own. When Willow used the scythe what she was really doing was making a direct connection from the first slayer, Sineya, to the line holder and activating their ability to spark the activation of the next slayer, what she didn't think of/or didn't know enough to think of was the effect channeling that much Slayer power would have on the current line holder."

"This sounds like something Faith should be hearing. So why tell me?"

"Because Faith was removed as the line holder shortly after you were brought back from heaven. While you were dead the title of The Slayer, note the capitals, fell to Faith, and she had to know that, but still she didn't try to get ahold of anyone to ask what she should do or if there was anything that could be done so that she could get out and take up her responsibilities again. To the powers that be that willingness to sit in jail, while showing remorse, also showed an almost complete disregard to what would happen to the world with its designated last line of defense sitting in a jail cell. She left the Hellmouth and by extension, the rest of humanity nearly defenseless despite multiple slayer dreams telling her that she was needed there. Because of this when you were brought back it was decided that while Faith would remain a slayer, potentially a very good one at that, it was not wise to keep the line flowing through someone who wouldn't be available to the world at large and wouldn't pass the line on to the next generation potentially for years, thus essentially leaving the world without a slayer for the length of her incarceration. If you should have happened to die again, that is. So the line was passed back over to you, to insure that if something happened to you there would be another active slayer that wasn't sitting in a federal penitentiary. All of that to say the spell was using you as its channel and power source and it's you that will feel the consequences both of the spell and of something else that Sineya is here to talk to you about."

"Why do I get the feeling that I am going to wish there was alcohol in this dream by the time your finished talking?"

"Probably because we both are. It goes like this….."

A/N: I know I'm evil to leave that kind of cliff hanger but I have to go into work now and the chapter is getting kind of long. So I figure better to post now and write more tonight at work then post again later this week and to post 1 super super long chapter next week. Sorry if you don't agree.

*Maris is a real company that does a route exactly like I described. I have not traveled with them so I don't know anything about what it is like besides what I read on their website. I anyone is interested it is .com