Chapter 3: Vampire Ashes

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A pale girl of about twelve with two black braids wearing a black dress with mary janes was walking in a graveyard at what seemed to be midnight. She had small shovel in one hand and a bag in the other. She looked intently at each grave stone and then stopped in front of one that had rotting flowers beside. "Pugsley I found it." She called out into the night.

There was no reply and the girl knelt down on the grave. She shoveled some dirt into the bag before sealing the bag and standing back up. Suddenly there was a girly scream and a boyish yell of "Wednesday!"

The girl slipped the bag into her pocket and began walking on the direction of the yells. She walked slowly and confidently. She stopped in front of a tree where a boy was tied to it along with a willowy blonde girl who was crying. There were about five vampires standing around laughing. "Oh Pugsley," the girl sighed, "how could you get captured by vampires. Please tell me it wasn't because you were trying to save her."

"No I was—" Pugsley started to say but the vampires noticed her.

"Well lookie what we have here boys an innocent little girl." The lead vampire said.

"Don't insult me." The girl raised an eyebrow, "Now I have nothing against vampires. I fully support Darwinism. But you can not eat my brother. If he dies, he will die by my hand."

"With explosives right Wednesday?" Pugsley asked.

Wednesday nodded her head slightly. "So let go of my brother please."

"Make us little girl." Another vampire sneered.

Wednesday shrugged, "Very well." She put her hand behind her head and pulled out an axe which she threw at the ropes holding her brother hostage.

The blonde girl immediately rushed toward Wednesday and grabbed her in a hug. "Thank you. Thank you."

A look of fear appeared on the smaller girl's face, "Please let go of me." The blonde just buried her face in Wednesday's hair and started crying. Wednesday made a small sound of distress and tried to push the girl off. Suddenly Wednesday's eyes snapped open and she shoved the girl so hard that she flew into the air for five feet.

"Shit she's a slayer." One of the vampires said who was holding onto Pugsley.

"Mmmm child slayer blood bet it's delicious." The leader said.

"Hey Pugsley didn't Granmama say that she was low on vampire ashes?" Wednesday asked.

Pugsley smiled. "Yeah." Then he bit the vampire's hand that was holding him. The vampire shouted making the other vampires turn. Wednesday quickly pulled out a crossbow from her sleeve and in quick succession shot all five vampires in the heart.

"Come on Pugsley let's collect these ashes. Maybe Granmama will build me a new doll for my guillotine." Wednesday said putting the crossbow back up her sleeve.

"Think she'll make me more black powder for my dynamite sticks?" Pugsley asked before scooping the dust into the bag that his sister handed him.

"Not if I tell her you got captured by vampires."

"Aww Wednesday…"

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No one spoke for about five minutes before Xander spoke up, "Correct me if I'm wrong but did her potential get activated because that other girl was hugging her?"

"Well technically she was facing the supernatural and she was stressed." Willow said delicately.

"What does the computer say about her?" Giles asked.

Dawn turned to face the computer, "Her name is Wednesday Friday Addams. She lives on Cemetery Lane, New Jersey. She's twelve years old. Her parents are named Morticia and Gomez and I'm guessing that fat boy was her brother Pugsley. And oh wow…" Dawn leaned in closer to the screen.

"What?" Buffy asked.

"Well apparently her parents tried to send her to a public preschool but she got expelled because she wanted to play a game of Is there a God?" Dawn continued. "Which involved her cutting the brake line on her school bus to see if God would save a bus full of children?"

Once again the group was stunned into silence. "Hey B can I have this one?" Faith asked slowly.