Founder's Child

A/n: Sorry this took so long. My gram kept deleting it by accident on me. Finally got it rewritten. It's shorter than usual, but anywho, here it is. ^_^

~*~Sunday 12pm, October 18—Sunnydale—Magic Box~*~

"So, Giles, what should we do with the stuff in the store?" Buffy asked as she brought some of the books from upstairs down and put them into a box.

"Take it with us, there's about nothing else we can do with it," Giles said as he wrote letters to their suppliers (for whom I'm still looking for) to inform them that the store was closing. "Luckily we have more than enough money to pay for it and not have to sell everything."

"What?" Buffy asked confused, Giles hadn't been making much sense lately, something that Buffy had yet to explain.

"Just pack everything," Giles said grabbing his coat. "I'll be back. I have to go deliver these letters."

"Bye," Buffy said as he shut the door and went off.

Suddenly, a beautiful bird that could only be called a phoenix (the mythical creature that didn't exist, at least in Buffy's eyes, though she had seen some strange things) landed on the table. It had come in through one of the open windows upstairs. Buffy looked at it with mild amusement that the one thing that she could trust wasn't real, was real.

"Can you please shut the curtains? Make this place a little darker," the phoenix, which had now turned into a parrot, said.

Quickly, Buffy went around closing the curtains so that the room was almost pitch black. Then, she turned on some lights so that she could see.

"Thank you," the parrot said, as it became Destiny. "I need to talk to you."

"It must have been important, if it brought you from you trip to Paris," Buffy said as Destiny started looking at some of the talismans that hadn't been packed yet.

"I wasn't in Paris, I was in England, at the new hellmouth, " Destiny said simply as she picked one up and put it around her neck looking in a mirror to see how it looked. "I'll take some of these if you want."

"They're expensive," Buffy said practically telling Destiny to go.

"Doesn't matter. I've become a rich little girl. Here I'll pay you in wizard money, you'll be needing it," Destiny said throwing about twenty galleons on the table in exchange for five of the talismans. "The gold ones are worth the most."

"Why don't you just pay me in regular money and I'll change it when I get there," Buffy said quickly.

"Because you'll need to buy a train ticket to Hogsmead and muggle money won't get you there. Know what, I'm going to go talk to Dumbledore soon, I'll just offer my services to get you there, k?" Destiny said turning back into the phoenix before Buffy could reply and left through the open window, taking the talismans with her and leaving the wizard money.

~*~A few hours later—Sunnydale~*~

"She left you with this much for those talismans?" Giles asked after Buffy had told him about Destiny coming by.

"I told her to pay the normal price," Buffy explained.

"No, she paid more than she had to," Giles said looking at the golden wizarding money in his hand. "She didn't even have to give us one of these. Those talismans together only cost twenty-five sickles."

"Twenty-five what?" Buffy asked seeing as she didn't know anything about wizarding money.

"Sickles, their like these galleons, except they're silver, there's twenty-seven of them to every galleon, and then the lowest coin is a bronze one, I'm not sure what it's called or how many there are to a sickle. I'll have to reread Hogwarts: A History before we go," Giles said putting the money back on the table.

"Oh k," Buffy said not understanding a thing that he was talking about, except the part about rereading a book.

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Sorry about the shortness of this chapter, but it's taken me all weekend to get it out. Hope you like it. And thanks to all the peeps that left reviews. Remember; leave a review and read my fic "Angel's Vampire Slayer." ^_^

Gaz