Dangerous Elements: Arrival
"Sunnydale," Phoebe's premonition ended suddenly. At her sisters puzzled looks she added, "We have to go to Sunnydale. I didn't see why but I got a feeling of a real need, and lots and lots of danger."
"Sunnydale. Sunnydale. Isn't that the place where the high school blew up a couple of years ago?" Paige asked. "'Cause if that's a regular occurrence, I say we stay here."
"Do you know when…whatever's going to happen will happen?" Piper quizzed her sister.
"No, so we have to leave now."
"What about our jobs? We can't just take off without any explanation at all." Paige added
"Do you have any holiday time or sick days?" Piper asked, helping Phoebe up from the floor where she had fallen.
"My holiday time," Paige complained, "I was planning to go away with that."
"It's not like you could anymore anyway." Phoebe stated.
Defeated, Paige sighed and called her boss. An hour later they were all packed and ready to go. Phoebe leading Piper, who was carrying their combined luggage, down the front steps. They loaded the luggage in the car and stepped back as Paige's luggage suddenly materialised in the trunk. They both turned at the sound of footsteps coming out of the house.
"Wahoo! Here we go!" Paige cheered.
"I thought you didn't want to go," Piper said, eyeing Paige.
"That, I was just playing the youngest child." Paige said grinning. "Now I can chant 'Are we there yet' and see how long you can hold out."
"That used to be my job." Phoebe grumbled. All three of the sisters burst out laughing as the car pulled away from the roadside.
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Buffy shuddered as she patrolled the cemetery. It was really quiet, too quiet for a Sunnydale night. Something had been spooking the local demons and vampires. She had not found a vampire to slay for the past week. They had looked in Aiden's files and information and discovered he had arrived in town in the past week. She could not help but feel that they were connected.
A familiar growling sound distracted her from her thoughts. She ran in the direction of the sound and saw a vampire, attacking the robed figure from the night before. She was ready to jump into the middle when the robed figure lifted his hand up, palm facing the vampire. Buffy was as puzzled as the vampire, but jumped suddenly when fire shot from his palm, burning the screaming vampire to a pile of ashes.
"Who are you?" She called, approaching the startled robed person. The robed figure turned to look at her and her question was answered. She was about to ask another question when he suddenly turned and fled, leaving her standing there surprised. She made to chase him, but was bowled over by a sudden gust of wind from the direction he had run.
"AIDEN!" She called, but it was too late. He was gone.
She turned and raced back toward The Magic Box, ignoring a voice calling to her. She needed to get the gang on it as soon as possible.
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The Halliwells, now in Sunnydale, pulled up outside one of the many cemeteries within the city limits. They sat there, absorbing the new atmosphere around them.
"Hey, what's that?" Paige asked, pointing toward a robed figure entering the cemetery.
"I don't know but maybe we should check it out." Piper replied thoughtfully.
The three sisters entered the cemetery where the robed figure had entered. After 5 minutes of wandering the cemetery, and Paige complaining about the eerie atmosphere, the found the robed figure. A blonde girl was approaching from behind him.
"Who are you?" The girl asked. As soon as the words left the girls mouth, had the figure turned in the opposite direction and ran. The girl began to run after the robed person but was suddenly thrown back 3 feet by a sudden, unexplained gust of wind. She sat up slowly, "AIDEN!"
The girl, still a little stunned, then got up and ran in the other direction, towards the main town area.
"Hey you!" Phoebe called after the girl, but was ignored as the girl fled into the shadows of the night.
"Come on." Piper said, tiredly, "Let's find a place to stay."
The three witches got back in their car; unaware that someone nearby was watching them.
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Buffy, with her legs on the table, leaned back and yawned loudly. At the dark glare from Willow, she put her feet down and went back to reading the book she was holding.
"Can I go patrol? This is so really dull." She looked pleadingly at Willow.
"Buffy, it's 9am. I don't think that there will be any vampires wandering the streets." Willow replied.
"But this is dull. We're not going to find anything anyway." Buffy stated, trying to get Willow to give in and let her go.
"Well we have to research. I don't think we will find anything either but we should look anyway." Willow told Buffy, shooting down any hopes Buffy had of getting out of research.
"What about Xander? Why isn't he here to research? Or even Spike! Come one Will, I am not the bookish kind of person. I need to go do something." Buffy complained.
"Xander is working and it is daytime so no Spike," Willow replied as the bell chimed.
"Well can't he just throw on his blanket and run here? I mean, if he bursts into flames at least then he'd be out of our hair." Buffy said rocking slightly in her chair.
Both girls turned at the sound of the bell above the door to see who entered, Buffy hoping it was someone to come take over the research so she could get out of there. Three women entered. They all looked similar so Willow gathered they were sisters. When the three sisters eyes fell onto Buffy, they froze.
"You. We saw you last night." One of them said.
"Excuse me, but who are you and were you following me?" Buffy asked as politely as possible, while itching for a good fight.
"I'm Piper. Piper Halliwell and these are my sisters, Phoebe and Paige." She replied indicating to the other two.
"Halliwell?" Willow gasped. Buffy turned to look at her puzzled, "The Charmed Ones, the three most powerful witches, of the non-evil variety, in the world."
"You've heard of us?" Paige asked.
"I've read about you, or at least the legend of The Charmed Ones, in only a thousand books! I have wanted to meet you since the first time I read about you." Willow exclaimed, her attitude near ecstatic. "I also went looking on the net to find some information about you. The most I found was your names."
"Wow." Paige said, shocked. "We're on the net!" Then she turned to her sisters with a puzzled expression, "I thought no one was supposed to know about us."
"Willow's a super-hacker." Buffy said in response to Paige's confusion.
"I hacked into the San Francisco Police Department computers once, investigating vampire attacks. Someone had a file on you locked away deep in the system." She explained, "But I thought the third sister's name was Prue." Willow stated, quizzically. At the look of the three, she realised, "Oh I'm sorry. I didn't realise."
"It's okay. We have to face it sooner or later." Phoebe assured Willow. She turned to Buffy "As Piper said when we entered, we saw you last night, in the cemetery. You were approaching a robed person, and then you went to chase him and you were thrown back by something. We called out for you but you didn't hear us or ignored us."
"I didn't hear you. I was running back here." Buffy informed them, "You do know it's not such a good idea to wander around Sunnydale cemeteries at night, don't you?"
"Because of the Hellmouth? Yes, found out that before we left." Piper told her, then asked, "What were you doing out at night if you know it's not such a good idea?"
"It's my job. I hunt the things that make Sunnydale not such a nice place." Buffy simply stated.
"You're the Slayer?" Paige asked, at her sister's confused looks she added, "I read about it in the Book of Shadows before we left."
"What are you?" Phoebe asked Willow.
"Me? I'm a witch. I can't do very much but I can do some things. Like floating something. That comes in handy when helping Buffy. My girlfriend is also a witch." Willow stated proudly.
Paige suddenly jumped and whirled towards the door. "Do you feel that?" She asked.
"Feel what?" Phoebe asked concerned.
"Something very strong." Paige replied, "I don't know what it is."
The door opened to reveal Dawn and Aiden walking in the shop.
"It's okay." Buffy told them, "It's just my sister and a friend."
Everyone seemed to relax a little, everyone except Buffy, Willow and Paige.
End of Part 2.
Ok I realise this isn't longer like I said it would be but at least you get more frequent updates.
