Founder's Child
A/N: amount of years since the school was founded may be a little higher than in the hp book, but I need it to be the amount that I have put. Sorry about using the wrong word for Angelus, but I can't really spell so I'm mostly relying on people to tell me, or my spell checker to pick up wrong words. I've gone and fixed it, just so you know. Thanks again for the reviews. Also down below is the definition for the word that I did use, someone asked for it.
Scrounge: verb; scrounged, scroung·ing; alteration of English dialect scrunge to wander about idly; 1 : STEAL, SWIPE; 2 a : to get as needed by or as if by foraging, scavenging, or borrowing b : FINAGLE, WHEEDLE — often used with up : to search about and turn up something needed from whatever source is available; also : to actively seek money, work, or sustenance from any available source (A/N: weird that I actually used that)
~*~One Week Later—Sunnydale—9 pm~*~
"It's here, it's here," Buffy said running down stairs from her bedroom knowing that Giles would still be up reading one of his books in the living room over a hot cup of tea.
"Dumbledor replied your letter?" Giles said trying to find out what Buffy was so excited over.
"Yes," Buffy said happily before shoving the letter in his face, saying, "Read."
Dear Ms. Summers,
If I am correct on assuming that you are the slayer, I would like to invite you to teach a dueling class starting after Christmas holiday. You would of course have a co-teacher that could do magic so that the students would get to learn that part of dueling.
Sincerely,
Professor Dumbledor
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry"So," Buffy said excitedly. "Do you think I should take it?"
"Of course," Giles said rereading the letter. "And I have heard that the Hellmouth may be opening up somewhere near, so you need to go anyways."
"I'll have to send another owl to Dumbledor to get the details on how we're going to get there," Buffy said turning to go upstairs.
"We? You're going, I must stay here," Giles said as Buffy turned to stare at him like he was crazy.
"Yeah right. You're coming, too. I don't need to fight another hellmouth, much less alone."
"No, you need to do this without me."
"When I disconnected myself from the council you said that you'd help me like a watcher. This is another one of those times when I need you to help me. It's not like Destiny really wants to help me again. She's still kinda pissed that the council made her have a watcher cause she's technically sill on Earth and able to help the fight. She doesn't want to be pulled into this, again."
"This battle isn't aimed at the slayer. It's aimed at a Slytherin."
"What?" Buffy asked not knowing that Slytherin was one of the Hogwarts houses.
"Slytherin is one of the Hogwarts houses, named after one of the founders, Salazar Slytherin. But in this case it's aimed at his daughter, instead of at the house or it's members," Giles said closing his book as Buffy sat down in one of the living room chairs.
"You're going to need to tell me as much as possible if I'm going to go teach there."
"I don't know that much, just a few things that have been mentioned in some of my books."
"I don't care. Just tell me, this is one of those infrequent times where I'll actually want to learn something, so I'd go with it if I were you," Buffy said with a laugh.
"Well, ok, where do you want me to start?" Giles asked.
"The beginning, how was the school founded and stuff like that," Buffy said settling in her chair.
"Ok, the school was founded by four wizards, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Raenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin, about a 125 years ago. Each house is named after them, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Slytherin didn't like those of non-magic back ground so all of the people in his house are all of magic backgrounds. The founders all had another thing in common besides the school."
"What was that?" Buffy asked with interest.
"Their children. Their children were all best friends, and somehow they had all gotten turned, though they kept their souls," Giles said. "When the founders found out that their children were vampires they sent them away from the school to protect the students. In turn as each founder left the school they died for no apparent reason. The children suddenly started appearing a while ago, Dumbledor was taking over as headmaster of Hogwarts. At the time only one had been able to keep their soul."
"Which one?" Buffy asked knowing that the one that had been able to keep their soul would be very important.
"She had been a slayer, and kept slaying even though the council had gotten a new slayer. Slytherin's daughter was one of the most powerful vampires known, and the world was lucky that she had been able to keep her soul and stay on the side of good," Giles said looking up at the clock, 10:30 pm.
"It's like Destiny, she was a slayer and now she's a vamp, but cursed with a soul like Angel had been," Buffy said also looking up at the clock.
"Yes like Destiny," Giles said softly almost too soft for Buffy to hear. "You should go to bed soon, I need to go somewhere in the morning and you'll have to look after the shop for me."
"Ok," Buffy said with a small yawn before going upstairs to bed, calling behind her, "'Night"
"Good night," Giles said following her upstairs before going off to the room that had been set up for him after Buffy had been brought back from the dead a year ago, he had been using that room since the final battle so that he could make sure that Buffy was alright.
~*~Same Time—Hogwarts ~*~
"Hagrid, Hagrid, you in there?" a girl that looked to be about sixteen said in a soft English accent matching those of the students, her voice soft and angelic quite the contrast to her shining silver hair and eyes.
"'Ho's out there?" Hagrid called before opening the door.
"It's me Destiny," the girl called back. "I need you to do me a favor."
"Destiny, what a surprise, I thought you'd gone to America," Hagrid said opening the door and moving aside so that she could come in.
"Ow," Destiny said stopping an inch before she came in. "Who cast a no-vampire spell? It hurts, I can't come in now, until you invite me."
"Dumbledor did a few years ago when the Sorcerer's Stone was being hidden in the castle," Hagrid answered. "You can come in, since I know you, an all."
"Thank you," Destiny said stepping in rubbing her head slightly. "Just so you know that spell hurts almost as bad as sunlight. That's not a good thing. You'll get yourself enemies that way."
"Tea?" Hagrid offered as she took a seat at the table completely ignoring her last remark.
"No thank you," Destiny said pulling a letter out of her pocket. "Hagrid I need you to do me a favor. It's very important."
"What kind of favor?" Hagrid asked unsure what to think.
"I need you to deliver this letter," Destiny said standing up and handing Hagrid the letter. "It's very important that Spike gets this."
"Alright," Hagrid said putting the letter in his pocket. "I'll give it to him at breakfast, tomorrow."
"No, that's too late," Destiny said a look of worry flashed briefly over her face. "He needs to get it immediately."
"If it's that important, why don't you deliver it 'urself? I'm sure he's still up," Hagrid asked.
"Can't, there's a boundary spell on the castle blocking the children from getting in. Rowena put it up before she left," Destiny said walking over to the door. "We can't get in to our home. We're trying though."
"The children, they're here?" Hagrid asked worriedly. "I mean I knew that William was here, and you, you're obviously here, but the others, Thorn and Rowen. I didn't know."
"Their not, but they were here a few months ago while I was in America helping to close the hellmouth. They tried to get in, but couldn't so they left to find me, but it seems we keep missing each other," Destiny said softer than before, though she did let a little laugh out. "They'll be back by Halloween. The prophecy will be fulfilled."
"You have to go and tell Dumbledor," Hagrid said urgently as Destiny reached for the doorknob.
"I haven't seen him yet, and he won't let me in," Destiny said with a voice that sounded as though she knew exactly what was to come. "His only goal is to protect the students, not save me from the fate the my father secured for me when stupidly he sent me away."
"Then I'll take you myself, this is important," Hagrid replied walking towards the door.
"It doesn't matter how many people invite me in, until he or the next headmaster invites me," Destiny said shaking her head slightly. "He controls the spell as has all the headmasters before him since the founders left."
"Then I'll get him to come down and talk to you after sun down tomorrow evening," Hagrid said trying to find someway for her to talk to Dumbledor. "He'll invite you in once he has the chance to talk to you."
"That won't work, have him meet me at the edge of the forest in three weeks. I won't be able to meet him until then; I have to stay in the forest and patrol," Destiny said as a sword appeared on her back, held by a golden strap.
The sword was made of pure silver, enchanted to last forever, and as light as a feather. The hilt was made of several snakes twined together, then the snakes twisted around the top half of the sword in a braid like way, with one the went straight down the front. Rubies sat in the eye places of the snakes, emeralds and diamonds (the colors of Slytherin) were used for the diamond shaped pattern on the backs of each snake, except one. The snake that went down the front of the sword stopping half way down had a diamond pattern consisting of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and amber (the colors of Slytherin/Gryffindor).
"Slytherin's sword," Hagrid said softly as Destiny pulled it out of its sheath and held it in front of her.
"Specially made by my father, Salazar, to go with the one that Gryffindor made for William," Destiny said running her finger along the blade leaving a tiny trial of blood behind. "Do you think that this is enough to keep anymore demons from attempting the apocalypse?"
"O' 'course," Hagrid said taking a sip of his tea. "But why should you have to worry about that? You should be having fun."
"That's not how the council sees it, they take it as an offence of the highest kind that a slayer would let herself be turned. So, they're making me keep up my slayer duties, even though I'm technically dead. They made William by watcher, because he turned me, imagine William a watcher," Destiny said opening the door and stepping out. "Sorry to leave so soon, Hagrid, but duty calls."
"Good bye, Destiny," Hagrid said following her out.
"Good bye," Destiny said before disappearing into the forest her silver hair shining in the night sky.
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Gaz
