Authors Note: I just made a huge story change in this chapter. As you
can probably tell, the Master was originally gonna have a bigger part.
Well, I've got a big idea for the rest of the story's direction.
Here it is.

Chapter Eight: Time to Leave

Rinoa sat on the ground, shaking at the site of her blood. Squall was smiling, distracted by
the cracking ground. Rinoa stared blankly at the many vampires in the room, cheering and cackling
at the site. She had faced many vampires before, but never one she had cared about. Day after
day, slaying almost mechanically, she'd never thought about something like this happening. How
could she deal? It was too late. She had failed her objective, and now, her friends would pay the
price.

Just then, the crack in the ground stopped growing. It was just large enough to fit a humanoid
figure, nothing else. Then, an elderly bald vampire with clawed hands and a deep red mouth.
It was him.

"Ah, good to see you, Master." Squall said.

"Where am I? And who are you? And wheres that little bitch, Buffy?" The Master asked confused.

"Youre not in your dimension anymore. And Buffy doesn't exist here. We do, however, have a slayer
with us." Squall said, pointing to Rinoa. The Masters mouth watered.

"You say this girl's a slayer?" He asked, smiling with excitement. He started to head towards
Rinoa, but an arm shot out to grab him.

"Um, yes, Master, but before you feed, let me give you this. It's a... very special piece of
jewelry..." He smiled, handing the Master a gold bracelet. The Master accepted it, not knowing
that it was the famed Odine Bangle.

"Why thank you, son. Now, Let's eat!" He yelled out. Then he picked up Rinoa by the neck and spun her
around.
"no..." Rinoa started to cry. And soon the Masters teeth were at her neck. But before they could
pierce her skin, the Master felt an arrow fly into his heart from his back.

"Oh shi..." The Master said as he got dusted.

"Not quite what I planned, but it'll work." Squall whispered under his breath as he picked up the
Odine Bangle and then fled. Other vampires started to panic and run into different directions
in the fray. The rest of the gang were free and started to slay whatever vampires they could see.
But who shot the crossbow?

Rinoa was gathering herself, scrambling to her feet. When she heard a familiar cry.
"THERE!" sure enough it was Fujin, followed by Rajin, Seifer, and Edea, who looked quite different
in her black t-shirt and shorts.

"Look guys!" Selphie pointed them out to the others.

"Hey guys. It's been, like, forever, ya'know?" Rajin Commented as everyone greeted each other. Most of the
vampires had cleared now. Edea quickly noticed Rinoas wound and rushed to her.

"Oh my, we're going to need to fix that, won't we?" Edea said picking up Rinoas arm. She pulled
a roll of white bandage tissue from her pack.

"So like, what are you guys doing here?" Zell asked.

"Well, Rajin, Fujin, and I had felt extremely horrible about the things we had done to you guys
and we wanted to do something good for a change. Then Edea took us in and had told us about the
recent appearence of vampires. We saw this as an opportunity to cleanse ourselves of our past, so
the four of us formed a vampire resistance group. It has grown considerably in the past two years.
We now have teams in every city." Seifer explained.

"So, is Cid in the resistance? I mean, he, like, retired." Selphies asked enthusiastically. The
group became queit. Then Edea looked up.

"He's... sort of sick." Edea said. "I'll explain later. Right now, I say we focus on getting out
of here."
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"So you are THE SLAYER?" Seifer asked in awe.

"Yep. That's why we were there. And Quisty..." They became silent.

"So. What is wrong with Cid exactly?" Irvine asked, breaking the foreboding silence.

"He..." Edea tried to make the words come out. "He was attacked by a demon last year. A Legacy
Demon. He's..." She paused once again. "Slowly turning into one. We had Doctor Odine freeze him
until he can find a cure. I didn't want him to, becuase I'd have to live without him, but he
told me that if he didn't, hed hurt me, and he didnt want to do that..." She wiped her eyes.
"Anyway, Before Fujin killed him, Squall gave the Master something. What was it?"

"I, I think it was an Odine Bangle." Rinoa said, holding her throbbing arm.

"NOT GOOD!" Fujin yelled.

"Why?" Zell asked from across the room, his feet propped on a table.

"Well, You see, the Odine Bangle has a different effect on vampires then it does on sorceresses.
Instead of nullifying their power, it removes it and transfers it to the next wearer. If it is
taken off, the process starts again. It removes then gives, removes then gives. So, since Squall
has the Odine Bangle and is no doubt wearing it..." Seifer explained, but was interrupted.

"Then he's the new Master..." Rinoa said, more frightened then ever before. What she couldn't
accomplish today was now modified times ten. Would she overcome this obstacle, or die?