A/N: I have decided that I will try and release two or three chapters per week during the summer vacation. Regardless, I will not put out less than that many. If everything goes as planned, I should finish this story by my 17th birthday in October. I keep all of my ides in my idea notebook, and I've been putting all of the good ones I've had, as well as those that have been suggested to me, so if you have some, feel free to suggest them. Anyway, here's the newest chapter. I'm intoriducing a popular character from the show, although this character will likely have more alterations than the other main characters in order to fit in with my AU. I hope you all like it!

A few days later, and nothing out of the ordinary had happened, which surprised me, as I thought that Dracula would of attacked by now. Me and Buffy had been patrolling every night, sometimes with help from the others, but other than a few minor vampires and other such creatures, really standard stuff for the Hellmouth, nothing bad had been happening.

I was leaving the library after school after finishing training with Giles for the day. I pulled out my iPhone and called Willow.

"Hey," I greeted her. "Where are you?"

"Me and Amy will be there in one second!" said Willow apologetically. "We will meet you in front of the school!"

"Ok," I replied and walked to the front of the school.

While I waited, I started drawing on my arm with a magic marker, as I was quite bored. Me, Willow, and Amy had heard about a special withcraft group that met at the coffee shop every week, and we had decided to go to the meeting today.

After awhile, Amy and Willow walked up behind me.

"About time!" I jokingly said as I stood up and grabbed my backpack. "Are you guys ready to go?

"Yeah!" they cheerfully exclaimed.

We began walking to downtown. As we did, I lightly touched where I had covered my arm in magic marker doodles with my finger and magically drained all of the marker in away into my finger, where it was no longer visible.

After awhile, we arrived at the coffee shop, where a group of about ten girls around our age was sitting in a circle. We walked up and introduced ourselves to them.

"Welcome, sisters," said one of the girls. "I am Saffron, the chair of this club."

"Uh, hi," I greeted her. This seemed kind of off and cheesy to me. I'd give it a chance though…

Me, Willow, and Aym sat down with them.

"Now, sisters," began Saffron. "The meeting shall begin. Please close your eyes and meditate."

"What the heck?" Amy whispered in my ear.

"I know," I whispered back, closing my eyes. "Just go along with it."

"Sisters with the darkness," began Saffron, in a voice that sounded like an attempt to chant, "we walk with the wolf under the full moon. We are the daughters of guya. We walk amongst the spirits into the night's blackest heart."

I opened one eye and watched her as she droned on. I was beginning to think this was incredibly stupid, but, not wanting to be rude, I would stay til the end of the meeting."

"blablabla deepest core," concluded Saffron. "I think we should have a bake sale!"

Everyone opened their eyes somewhat abruptly.

"ooh!" excaliemd another girl. "A bake sale would be fun!"

"I think we need to focus on the guya newsletter," said some bitchy looking girl. "we need to get the message out to the sisters."

"A abake sale would be fun!" said another girl.

"we need to get the decorations for the bockinal," chimed in another rgirl.

Me, Willow, and Amy just kind of looked at each other.

"Um, I have an idea, maybe" I said.

"What's that?" asked Saffron.

"Well," I began, "as we are a wicca group, perhaps we could try some spells and other things of that sort."

Everyone starting laughing.

"Yeah, and then we could fly around on our broomsticks," sarcastically said Saffron. Everyone laughed again.

"Um, I think…" mumbled a shy girl in the back of the group.

"Hold on girls, shush," meanly said Saffron as she put her hand up. "Yeah, Tara? You have something to add?"

Tara shyly and nervously shook her head no.

Saffrons' mean look went away as she turned back to me.

"Some sterotypes aren't very empowering, Erika," she said.

They then went back to talking about stupid crap that no real witches like us cared about.

~~~later, after the meeting~~~

Me, Willow, and Amy were walking home.

"That was kind of dumb," said Willow.

"Yeah," agreed Amy.

"They're a bunch of wanna blessed be's," I sarcastically said. "They'd probably run away screaming if they saw a real witch."

After that, we all went our separate ways and went home. A few hours later, I got dressed in black shorts, a black sleeverless top, black tenshoes, and black fingerless gloves to get ready to go patrolling with Buffy. I walked out the door to meet up with her at the graveyard.

"Hey," she cheerfully greeted me when I saw her.

"Hello," I replied.

We then began patrolling.

"So, I guess there were no real witches in your witch group, huh?" Buffy asked after I told her what had happened.

"Yeah," I replied. "Oh well, it would have been difficult for anyone to approach my level, or even Willow and Amy's level, in magic anyway, so I doubt there would have been much of a chance for me to get more powerful through it anyway."

"Oh well," said buffy.

Just then, we saw a vampire rise from its grave.

Buffy quickly went over and dusted it before it was even out of the ground.

"Tonight is an easy night," she said, walking back towards me.

"I wouldn't be too sure of that," I replied, looking off into the distance.

Buffy then turned around and saw what I saw. It was dozens of angry vampires coming right towards us!

"You ready?" I asked Buffy while taking a fighting stance, my eyes on the h whored of vampires in front of us.

"Definitely," she calmly replied.

We then dashed towards all of them at full speed!

I backflipped over two of them and kicked them from behind, knocking them to the ground. When I landed, I clenched my fist tightly, and black electicity-like magic swirled around it then disappeared. One of the vampires then got up, and I punched him in the chest with my fist, and it went right through him. He then turned to dust around my arm. I threw a bolt of lightning at the other vampire still on the ground, and he caught fire and burned.

A group of about five vampires then began running up behind me, hoping to surprise me. I calmly turned around and watched them come at me.

I calmly aimed my hand towards a large tombstone that they would have to run past to get to me.

"Shatter!" I yelled as they went by it. The tombstone exploded into a million jagged pieces of stone, killing all but one of the vampires. I then ran towards the reamianing one and engaged him in hand to hand combat. He was tough, but I was tougher, and managed to dust him.

The fight continued like this for several minutes. Eventually, though, me and Buffy were able to defeat all of the vampires.

"Good job Erika," said Buffy.

"Thanks," I replied.

We then patrolled the graveyard for a few more hours before going home.

~~~meanwhile, at the clock tower from earlier in the story~~~

"Yes, this place will do nicely for this operation," Dracula said with a grin as he walked inside. "Of course, it is not as nice a place as where I am currently hiding, but it will do."

He then walked up stairs to the very top.

"Gentlemen, please, come in," Dracula beckoned.

Just then, several creatures entered the room. They were all very pale and white, and wearing business suits. They had empty, soulless eyes, and their mouths were stretched open in creepy, evil grins. But, most scary of all, they were all levitating!

"You shall base your operations here," Dracula instructed them. "Sunnydale is yours for the taking. I, however, must see how Erika reacts."

Dracula then placed a small wooden box on the table and opened it. As he did, something came from the breath of every person in Sunnydale, all of them who were sleeping at the time. All of these things, which looked like mist, then came towards the tower and went into the box. After this happened, Dracula closed it.

"It's all yours," Dracula evilly grinned at the gentlemen.