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Chapter 10

Andrew sighed as the guy, Pike, moaned and moved around on Merrick's couch, 'Why did the guy have to vomit on his shoe?'

Bobby looked at Pike too; he was more than a little impressed that he had the balls to slam his car into a vampire but he needed to temper that courage with some damned wisdom before he killed someone.

Merrick looked at Buffy and said, "You did an incredible job Buffy, it seems our training methods work well together; you could be one of the greatest slayers but this is also why the Council cannot know of you, if they find out how independent you are they would do everything they could to make sure your independent streak was broken."

Buffy groaned; the more she was hearing about this Watchers Council the more she was starting to be annoyed by them.

A couple of hours later, Pike groaned as he got up his head was pounding; he had just seen his best friend, Benny, rip the throat off one of their friends and grabbed a mug and drank the blood like it was foaming mug of beer and then Benny came over and said, "Join me man, this is incredible." He ran away from Benny's laughter and then he saw some people fighting against the creatures and he couldn't remember what happened afterwards.

As he got up he saw a bunch of sleeping kids; one of them was that bratty Valley girl, he looked behind him and saw two older men talking. He groaned, 'No more drinking, like, EVER!' as he snuck out when Bobby called, "Kid, get back here."

"Uhh, what?" Pike asked confused.

"You could've killed my grandchildren with that stunt you pulled," Bobby said with a bit of anger, "What were you thinking?"

"I just saw my best friend tear the throat out of another friend and drink his blood like a, a Vampire!" Pike growled out, trying to ignore his pounding head.

Bobby whistled and nodded, "That's bad kid but if you're going hunting you better learn that the best hunters learn to accept aid and, I might add, getting drunk is never a good thing before you start a hunt, now what's your name?"

"Uhh, Oliver Pike," he said, scratching the back of his head, trying to ignore the look Bobby was giving him.

"Okay Oliver," Bobby said, "If you want to help us you can learn from Merrick and myself, is that alright?"

Pike nodded and Bobby waved him over and muttered, "You might want to apologize to my grandson for throwing up on his shoe."

"Oh," Pike winced as he looked at Andrew, who was sleeping and nodded, 'Goddamn it, not the best way to introduce myself to people.'

Andrew moaned as he got up, he looked at Pike, who smiled sheepishly at him and waved at him, and he muttered, "You gonna throw up on me again?"

"No," Pike said, "And sorry about that, I just had a bit too much to drink."

"And you didn't mean to come on to me?" Andrew said with a bit of a laugh to his voice.

Pike stammered out, "I must've been more drunk than I thought to come on to you."

Andrew laughed and said, "It's alright," and sat down next to Buffy, who was just getting up.

Buffy smiled and said, "Hi, it's nice to meet you again Pike and I'm sorry about the other day."

"It's alright," Pike said, "It's in the past."

"Thanks," Buffy said as they began to talk about some things.

Andrew walked towards Merrick and Bobby and sat down next to Bobby, "Hey kid, how are you feeling?" Bobby asked concerned, after all it was his first real hunt last night and was, in truth, worried about both of them.

"I'm fine grandpa," Andrew said softly, "It's just that those vampires were faster than what I expected and uglier too."

Merrick nodded and said, "Modern society has cast the vampire in a certain romantic light and some vampires use this to draw prey in from the lonely and the neglected. Quite a few vampires are monsters."

Andrew nodded as he listened to Merrick, who looked at the clock and said, "Because you and your sisters don't have school today we will be training all day."

Buffy looked up and said, "But there's a dance tonight at the school that I was going to go."

Merrick looked thoughtful; it seemed like Buffy still wanted a normal life and he wished he could give it to her but it seemed destiny didn't want her to have a normal life and a dance, it seemed, she could go but something was nagging him: such a dance could possibly attract vampires, especially if they were guided by a master such as Lothos.

"Uhh," Buffy said, "Merrick, are you alright? You kind of spaced out."

"No, I'm not alright," Merrick said, "I'm afraid this dance shall attract vampires."

Buffy groaned, "Lovely, just lovely," and muttered, "Stupid vampires."

Bobby said, "Then we shall prepare for the leeches and defend the kids as best as we can, we can't be feeling sorry for ourselves."

"Alright," Buffy groaned, "So what do we do until then?"

Merrick got up and tossed a sword to her and said, "We train Ms Summers, we train," he looked at Andrew and tossed a book for him and said, "You Mr Singer, you must be ready to learn how to cast a spell tonight."

Bobby glared, he wasn't still sure about magic but he'd make sure Andrew didn't make any deals with the Devil or spirits.

Andrew nodded and walked into the library, followed by Bobby who was going to make sure his grandson was safe and as they walked out toward the books Merrick placed for Andrew, Bobby picked up a book that said 'Elemental spells.'

Pike kept an eye on Andrew and said, "He's nice, you two dating?"

Buffy looked at him and said, "He's my brother you perv," and shuddered, shook her head and grabbed the sword Merrick gave her.

Andrew began to study the books and read constantly, he could hear Buffy's sword hitting against the training dummy.

He gulped, from what Merrick had said about Lothos is that he was powerful. He hoped the spell he was learning would be enough to help Buffy and his friends.

Pike was whittling stakes, he knew from vampire lore that stakes could kill them; he was doing his best to whittle enough stakes for the fight tonight. He looked at Buffy train and thought, 'She's good, she moved like spider chick,' he finished the whittling and walked in and saw Andrew reading the books and looked at them, "Magic, is that real?" he asked.

Bobby snorted, "Unfortunately it's real and I have seen its effects on people and it's usually evil."

Pike watched Andrew study and muttered, "This family isn't your typical family.' He sat down and watched as Andrew began to say the spell, Andrew held out his hand out and a small flickering flame appeared in his hand.

"Cool," Pike said while Bobby snorted a bit at the small display.

Bobby said, "Remember Andrew: magic is the last resort so don't go using it for every little thing, okay?"

"Yes Grandpa," Andrew said as he looked at the flickering flame in his hands, he never believed this was possible, this was so cool but he decided that he couldn't abuse this gift.

As they made a possible plan for how to defend the gym where the school was being held Bobby sighed, Merrick told him that this breed needed invitations to be allowed in a home but he was sure public buildings were exempt from that rule because of the general invitation to the public.

Pike looked at Buffy and rubbed the back of his head, "You need someone to take you to the dance?"

She looked up and said, "Yeah and I do owe you one for the bad words."

Andrew sighed as they went to work preparing the gym; Bobby suggested that they burned the school gym down, which was shot down by the rest of the group as it was unnecessarily destructive. Dawn would stay home with their parents; she let out a pout as she wanted to see what was happening.

"Dawn," Andrew said, "It's gonna be dangerous, what do you think mom and dad would do if you died?"

She looked at him and wailed, "What do you think they'd do if YOU died Andrew! They love you and they'd be devastated if you and Buffy both die, I want to be with you."

Andrew hugged her and said, "You have to stay where it's safe. Buffy, Grandpa and I have enough to worry about without you being in danger."

Dawn sobbed as she hugged Andrew, she wanted to be with her big brother and sister, it didn't seem fair that they were going to go into danger and she would be safe.

Buffy hugged her too and said, "Please Dawn; be good and stay home tonight, please?"

"Alright," Dawn pouted, "But you guys better come back alive or else mom and dad are going to be asking me questions."

"Alright," they both promised and hugged Dawn and watched Merrick drive her home.

Bobby wondered if these vampires had the same weakness to dead man's blood? But he had a feeling that maybe holy water could be effective as he snapped his fingers and said, "Andrew, you and I are going to the church and a store to pick up some of those big water guns."

Andrew looked confused but he began to understand what he was saying; 'Super soakers, would that actually work against vampires?' but he supposed that holy water in super soakers would be good.

Buffy said, "It's time that we get ready ourselves, we got to prepare for anything that could happen."

"Are we even sure they'll attack the dance?" Pike said confused.

"Even if they don't Merrick's right; we can't take the chance that they won't. I mean we're in the suburbs, the school's going to have the largest gathering of people; I mean most of the students are going to be there," Buffy said, "It's what I would do if I was blood drinking monster, I mean teenagers: it'd be like a buffet for them."

Andrew nodded and they waited for the dance to begin. Buffy sighed; a couple of days ago she was basically a normal girl and now she was a mystical fighter for good and Andrew's grandpa, who they thought was fairly normal, turned out he was demon hunter.

As Andrew got up he went to think about the fight; if there was one that is, he wondered if they killed this Lothos: would it be over or would it be just the beginning?

A couple of hour's later Merrick came in and said, "It's time, are you all ready?"

Buffy sighed, "Yes we are."

They headed to school and walked in, Andrew was always nervous at large gatherings, he preferred smaller groups. As he sat down at one of the tables, drinking some punch as he watched Buffy on the dance floor with Pike, he was looking around, where was Buffy's ex?

As Buffy danced with Pike she smiled, "Thanks for this favour, I really didn't want to come here alone and besides, I wanted to show up my formal friends."

Pike grinned as they danced and said, "Its thanks for not browbeating me about the van and besides, it's a good way to pretend to be normal kids."

"Yeah, like I'll know what normal is again," Buffy said as they kept an eye out for vampires.

Bobby sighed as he watched the building, he and Merrick were keeping an eye out but he wished his grandkids could have a normal life but it seemed like a Singer's life would always be drawn to hunting or hunting would be drawn to a Singer.

Merrick looked at Bobby and said, "It'll be alright. They are strong kids, stronger than they should be but none the less strong, despite their age. Whatever they choose to do I believe they shall excel at it."

"Even Buffy?" Bobby said with a smirk.

"All of them, I believe it should be their free will if they want to hunt or whatever they choose to do," Merrick said as he shook his head and sat in friendly silence.

Bobby sighed as he saw a large group of people heading over, he poked at Merrick's shoulder and Merrick frowned as he recognized Mr Pike's friend from when Lothos's right hand man grabbed him.

"Let's warn the kids," Merrick said as they got out, "But Ms Summer's senses should be able to detect them coming."

As Buffy and Pike went to sit down next to Andrew she began feeling ill, she said, "They're coming, I don't know how but they are coming."

They nodded and Pike handed stakes to them when Buffy smiled and said, "I got a sawed off shotgun in my purse and Andrew has a pistol, so we're as ready as we are ever going to be."

As they looked the door was kicked down and Lothos and his minions walked in, Buffy counted about ten. She looked at Andrew and he said, "I was reading about that: apparently they only make so many fledges because there is actually very little loyalty in their ranks."

Lothos smelled the air and he looked at Buffy and said, "You're as beautiful as Chad described."

Buffy paled, Chad? Like her ex boyfriend Chad? "I thought they weren't the same people?" she whispered to Andrew.

He looked at her and said, "They get the memories and, sometimes, the personality of who they inhabit."

As Lothos walked over to her and she looked at him, he was good looking but he felt wrong to her. He walked and hissed at her and she shuddered; he looked at the rest of his minions and said, "Take the rest of them but the Slayer is mine."

The dance goers were confused but as they saw the vampires reveal their demonic faces causing almost all of the students to panic and scream and start to run, Andrew groaned, "This is why I don't like big groups of people."

Buffy smiled as sweetly as she could and suddenly withdrew her shotgun and blasted Lothos in the chest, she knew it wouldn't stop him for long as he got up and said, "You're a disgrace to all other slayers," and smirked.

"Oh? Because I like to do things my own way?" Buffy said as Lothos ran towards her.

Andrew was doing his best to help Pike fight when he brought the super soakers that he and Grandpa bought and filled with holy water and he sprayed the one of the vampires in its face. He winced, where the water sprayed it started to smoke like it was hit with acid, he looked impressed; it worked pretty well but when he saw Chad he groaned; he hated the guy but he didn't want this to happen to him. When he sprayed Chad into the face and made a face as he melted his face and the scream he made was horrible but at least he turned to dust quickly.

The vampires began to back away from Andrew and his super soakers and Pike smiled, Bobby was so cool for having that idea to use that and kind of disappointed that he didn't think of it but, then again, he didn't know there was vampires two days ago.

Buffy was trading blows with Lothos and was knocked back into a table; Andrew panicked and sprayed him in the back with holy water causing him to hiss in rage. Lothos grabbed Andrew and held him up by the neck and said, "A slayer with friends and family? That's going against tradition or didn't her watcher tell you?"

Andrew grunted, "Lemme go!" as he kicked Lothos in the chest and tried to spray him again in the chest with his super soaker, only for Lothos to brush it away.

"Clever boy aren't you?" Lothos purred as he patted Andrew's shoulder, "What kind of childe would you make?" he chuckled at Andrew's pale look.

Buffy got up and she looked angry, she grabbed her fallen shotgun and screamed, "Keep your hands off my brother!" and aimed just like grandpa Bobby taught her too and fired.

Lothos barely had enough time to throw Andrew into Pike and avoid the gun shot, he took several unnecessary breaths and he growled, "Shameful that a slayer has to use guns."

"What can I say, I'm a twentieth century gal," Buffy said with a vicious smile as Lothos ran towards her. She punched him and knocked him down, grabbed a stake and shoved into Lothos's heart, she coughed, "Did I win?"

Andrew got up and groaned, "I think you did," as he looked around at the frightened people and some looked at her accusingly, "But I think we're about to get expelled."

Buffy muttered, "Crap, this is going to be fun to explain to mom and dad, isn't it?"

They walked out and met Merrick and Bobby and Andrew was suddenly hugged by Bobby "Andrew, your first hunt went good."

"Yeah, right up to the part where we got expelled," Andrew said apparently and groaned, "Now we have to explain this to mom and dad."

"I'm sure they'll understand," Bobby said as he hugged both of them, "And if they aren't, I'll offer to take you guys back with me for a bit."

TBC

So the next chapter is going to be what happened between the end of the movie and the beginning of the series. Andrew and Buffy will be spending those months with Bobby instead of Buffy being put in an asylum, also Merrick did survive, he's going to go rogue with Bobby and learn more stuff from the hunter community while Giles takes over for her. Also Giles won't know about Buffy's unique training until she shows him, also did you like the fight scene? I'll admit action scenes aren't my strength.

So what do you want to happen during Andrew and Buffy's visit with their grandpa?

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