By Gaz Destiny
~*~Ten Minutes Later~*~
"Oh, wow, this place is like so cool," Dawn said as Destiny led her up to the castle still in cat form.
Destiny mewed and ran up the steps. Stopping briefly just as the door opened. Harry, Hermione, and Ron walked out the door having planned on going on a short walk to talk about what was going on. Destiny walked down several of the steps towards Dawn as if to tell her that she needs to stay close till they were inside.
"Hermione, what did you find out in the library yesterday?" Ron asked closing the door behind him.
"NOTHING, there's not a bloody thing on her," Hermione said exasperated. "Only that she was a slayer, and a witch, but nothing that I didn't already know."
"Hermione, such language, I didn't know you even knew that word," Harry said joining Ron in a laugh.
"Excuse me, but could you guys like open the door for me, Kitty's impatient to get in, and this shoe box is kinda heavy," Dawn said, her American accent catching their attention immediately, and the name 'Kitty' got her a sharp hiss from Destiny. Dawn quickly said to Destiny, "Fine, Dez, I won't call you Kitty, but it fits you so well."
Destiny took on a cross look and jumped up on the railing, sitting down, only to look even more cross that she wasn't inside yet.
"Dang, vamps with magic can be such a drag," Dawn complained at Destiny, only to have Destiny shift in unhappiness over the situation of her not being inside. Then, to Harry and gang, she said, "Could you guys please open the door, she's getting really angry. And she's not that much fun when she's angry, actually she's usually in the mood for a good dirty, sickening kill by the time she's angry."
"You're talking mice, right?" Ron asked, his voice filled with uncertainty.
"Mice? Her?" Dawn struggled to hold in a laugh at the thought of Destiny hunting mice. "If you let her in, she won't be going after the life-size stuff."
Destiny responded by changing into an icy bird, just the opposite of a phoenix.
"Here," Harry said opening the door just before Destiny flew inside.
"Thanks," Dawn said squeezing past them and inside to find Destiny already back in normal form.
"Thanks," Destiny said brushing off her long black sweater and velvety black mini skirt, doing nothing to her white blouse except for straightening it. "I don't happen to like being a bird that much."
"Yeah, sorry 'bout that," Dawn said putting the shoebox down on a bench.
"Could you go get those three kids we ran into, the one with the black hair is named Harry," Destiny said quickly as she moved into the shadows where there was no chance of light from the doorway getting her.
"Ok," Dawn said before walking out the door briefly, coming back with Harry, Ron, and Hermione behind her.
As soon as they were all in, Dawn shut the door quickly knowing that Destiny would be telling her to do so in a minute or two.
"Hello," Destiny said coming out of the shadows, sounding strangely sane. "Guys, I want you to meet Dawn. She's the one you'll be helping out when I'm not around."
"Oh, so these are the guys you've been talking about. Where's Draco?" Dawn asked.
"How'd you know he wasn't here?" Destiny asked a little put out.
"The smirk, non of them have a smirk on their faces," Dawn said with a laugh.
"I never said that he always smirked," Destiny said taking her insaneness back on.
"I know, the book did," Dawn said in between laughs.
"What book…oh, that book…I thought I erased that from your memory," Destiny said stamping her foot.
"You didn't do very well then," Dawn said now stifling her laughing to a bare minimum.
"Niblet, that you?" Spike's voice echoed through the entrance hall as he came up one of the dungeon staircases.
"Spiky," Dawn said running over to him and giving him a tight hug.
"I thought I told you not to call me that, doesn't do well in front of others," Spike said returning the hug.
"Sorry, but I thought you were dead," Dawn said finally letting go. "Well…I mean…dead as in not undead anymore."
"I get it, but why'd you think that, pet?" Spike asked surprised.
"Because Destiny told me so," Dawn said realizing that Destiny had lied to her.
"You knew I was lying about that, so don't look at me as if I had told you the world was coming to an end," Destiny said with a stiff-Giles-like-voice.
"YOU TOLD HER I WAS DEAD!" Spike yelled walking quickly over her about ready to attack.
"You bloody know as well as I know that the old group can't, under any circumstances get back together. It's. Too. Dangerous," Destiny yelled back. "Though you are the only one I know for sure isn't dead. God, for all I know Sunnydale is a pile of rubble, disintegrated for all I know, I've been there once, while they were packing up the Magic Box, there's nothing there that's worth destroying this dimension for."
"You could have at least told her I was still alive, seeing as we're both supposed to be bleedin' watching over her," Spike said barely keeping from vamping out on them.
"You told me to tell her, make me the bad demon," Destiny hollered back. "It was my demonic way of getting back at you for betraying me so many times, though now I know, next time your going to whatever hell dimension we're supposed to go to, and you know what, you'll be there very soon."
"Like you could ever do that," Spike retorted.
"Easy, and you'll see how easy in a couple of months," Destiny said flames burning in her eyes, just short of having smoke come out her ears.
"STOP IT!" Dawn yelled her voice echoing off the walls for a few seconds after. "Now what?"
"Now what, what?" Destiny asked confused as Spike put an arm around her shoulder.
"No what do we do?" Dawn asked in her somewhat impatient sixteen-year-old attitude.
"Huh?" Destiny said still confused. "Oh, I get it."
Then as if hit by a brick she started singing 'Where Do We Go From Here?' from when the Lord of the Dance demon came to Sunnydale.
*Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
The battle's done and we kind of won
So we sound our victory cheer
Where do we go from here?*
"Stop it, love, we don't need any reminders of the annoying Lord of the Dance," Spike said softly as she laid her head on his shoulder.
"But she's singing it right now, and I wanna sing along," Destiny wined like a four-year-old.
"Who?" Dawn asked knowing that it was someone from Sunnydale.
"Your friend, Little Gazzy," Destiny said surprising Dawn cause Gaz hadn't been there when the song and dance thing had happened. "She's on her way to the Magic Box to see if she can get an Amulet of Darkness and the Amulet of Daylight, I know the second one but the first one is just a blank in my mind."
"It's an amulet that was once owned by You-Know-Who," Hermione said not surprisingly to anyone besides Dawn, and obviously the now insane Destiny.
"You-Know-Who, who?" Destiny asked thinking it was a knock-knock joke.
"You know, pet, Mister Dark Lord," Spike whispered in her ear.
"You mean mister meanie?" Destiny asked scrunching up her face in unhappiness.
"Yeah, him," Spike whispered back.
"Oh, ok," Destiny said as some of the insaneness from their argument wore off.
"Why would someone want that?" Harry asked reminding them that him and his friends were still in the room.
"Gaz collects amulets, all kinds, she already has the Amulet of Darkness, the Amulet of Narcasia, the Amulet of Drusilla-," Dawn said being interrupted by Spike.
"She's got Drew's amulet?" Spike asked. "Drew's not going to be too happy 'bout that. She's been looking for it for years."
"Yeah, she's got it, but she's very good at protecting and using them," Dawn said.
"She uses them?" Spike asked a bit of worried-ness taking over his face. "Cause that's not good."
"Yeah, she's needs the Amulet of Daylight to track you down, Dawnie," Destiny said smiling. "After that last battle she's getting worried that you died, nothing like a good friendship."
"Oh, is there anyway I can send her a message that I'm ok?" Dawn asked barely not jumping up and down.
"Nah, waist of time, she'll be here a few days after Buffy," Destiny said before her big bag of Jelly Bellies appeared in her hands and she started eating them again like there was no tomorrow or anything in the future.
"Buffy's coming?" Dawn asked still surprised.
"Yeah, she's, she's, um, she's," Destiny said trying to remember something.
"She's going to teach that dueling class with you after Christmas," Spike filled in for her.
"Yes, and I have to, um, something before Christmas," Destiny said back to the insaneness.
"Go get her," Spike said.
"Yeah, you know, I should really get a personal assistant," Destiny said de-scrunch-a-tizing her face.
"Don't you already have one?" Spike asked confusing the already confused Destiny.
"Huh?" Destiny said cocking her head to the side.
"You know, the kid, Draco," Spike said getting a look of realization from Destiny in return.
"Oh, ok, yeah," Destiny said nodding her head, before waving her hand making Draco appear in front of them instantly.
"Why am I here?" Draco asked coldly as he spun around to face Destiny and Spike.
"So that you can show Dawn around," Destiny said beaming slightly, before turning equally cold to say, "Like you promised."
"Fine," Draco said in an uncaring, but not so cold, voice.
"So you're Draco," Dawn said only to get Draco spin instantly around to face her.
"Come on, let's go," Destiny said grabbing Spike's hand.
"But-," Spike started.
"No, let's leave them to get to know each other. We cannot control if the four of them get along, plus, she will be able to learn to be like both the Slytherins and the Gryffindors," Destiny argued as she pulled him slightly away from the room.
"But-," Spike started again.
"You were always saying how you wanted the Slytherin and Gryffindor to get along, that's why you made the effort to make friends with me so long ago, REMEMBER?" Destiny said emphasizing the word 'remember.'
"Fine," Spike said giving her a slight glare before the two walked off leaving the 'new and improved' gang to touring the castle.
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Hey…this took me a really really really long time to get out…but it's only gonna start going up hill from here.
A sneak preview of upcoming stuff:
--two new characters, both best friends of Dawn, one having gone to Hogwarts for a really short time
--vacation, both Christmas and Easter, maybe a short trip to Tokyo to dis the sailor scouts, (pre-appology to those that are die-hard sailor moon fans and are gonna hate me for this)
--Destiny turns bad, of course that's aleardy been forshadowed but I just thought it would be nice to remind you
--and a bunch more that I have yet to come up with
--plus a really kewl battle, and a little (like one or two chapters) of Buffy and Spike, though they DON'T stay together (sorry to those of you that were expecting it, but this fic is already pre planned)
~*~ Gaz Destiny ~*~
