Summary: Sage comes, says Oz is her stepdad, she's related to Angel, Darla,
Drusilla, and Spike. The Scoobies go into super-research mode. We learn
that when Drusilla was human she sacrificed her baby, Madeline, to save the
world from coming to an end. Sage goes and hangs out at Spike's crypt to
sleep. Sage offers Spike a drink, but he keeps saying no.
A/N: And now, I'll start the plot! I want to thank Slyslayer13 for her review. I thought my story sucked and I was about to delete it and this was in the Recycle Bin, but then she gave a review and it made me a very, shiny, happy person! Good reviews make me think about the sequel, since I already have written all the chapters, and I'm trying to get at least 20 reviews from this story so I won't be so depressed. I would also be mightily happy if I got a million US dollars from somebody for a good cause. I was going to post one chapter a day, but then certain siblings read this story and started telling me a bunch of problems I had. And when sometimes it looks like there's a period in the middle of the sentence, it's one of those three dot things, FF.net is just messed up with those. And now I'm gonna change the three dash things that keep showing up in the story, because FF.net messed them up too. My floppy disk was messed up so that is why this chap is coming out late.
~*~
Chapter Two
Four Famous Vampires
~*~
"Good mornin' Sage," Spike said, shaking her awake.
"What?" she groaned. "Oh, yeah. Morning. What time is it?"
"Eight," Spike said. "Anya's here, to pick y' up."
"Cool," Sage said. "Wanna drink?"
"No," Spike said.
"Boy, you're getting annoying," she said. "I think I'll ask Willow how to make a vamp feed on you."
"Get out," Spike said. "Now."
"Sure," Sage said. Then, she got out of bed and walked out with Anya.
"So," Anya said. "What'd you do with Spike?"
"Um.talked, and I offered him a drink, but he said no," Sage said.
"And you slept in his bed?"
"Yeah," Sage said. Then added quickly, "Alone. He said vamps didn't need to sleep, and cause he was my older relative and stuff he ordered me to sleep."
"Oh," Anya said sadly.
"Why ya so sad?" Sage asked.
"It's not that.interesting," Anya said. "Most girls that go over there do something."
"He's my great-whatever-uncle!" Sage said. "That makes him an impossible candidate."
"You didn't even think about it?" Anya asked.
"No," Sage said. "I don't think dating a vampire is that.sweet."
"Tell Buffy that," Anya muttered.
"What?" Sage asked.
"Never mind," Anya said.
"Okay," Sage said. "So how'd researching go?"
"How's it going," Anya said. "We've called Oz so many times the phone bill will be like a thousand dollars, we've read through every book Giles has, and we've checked the Internet. And out of that, there's nothing."
"Nothing?" Sage asked.
"Nothing," Anya said. "Do you have any books?"
"No," Sage said. "I'll check," she looked into her backpack and began to dig through it at they walked down the sidewalk. "Oops," she stopped right in place.
"What?" Anya asked.
"Obviously, Dad packed a few extra books in my backpack without me knowing," Sage said. She began to pull out three books. One with a red leather casing, another with green, and the last one with black.
"Vampyr," Anya said, reading the title of the first one. "The Vampyr Codex. Very interesting."
"Creature Reproduction," Sage said, looking at the black one. "And prophecies. What an interesting tale, but no thanks."
"I'll take it!" Anya said.
"Have it," Sage said, thrusting the book into her hands.
"The Werewolf: Volume One," Sage said, turning the red book in her hands. "What does that have to do with this? I so hope that I'm not related to a werewolf."
"You don't know?" Anya asked.
"What?"
"Your dad? Oz?"
"What about him?"
"He's a werewolf," Anya said gleefully.
"A WEREWOLF?" Sage yelled.
"Shh," Anya said. "You're not supposed to go around yelling about werewolves."
~*~
"So she didn't know?" Buffy said on the phone. "How come you didn't tell her?"
An eerie silence.
"It didn't feel right," Oz said. "Only three days a month. When Sage was tiny she hated mythical things. I didn't want her to be scared."
"Oh, and here's another question," Buffy said. "You haven't been gone that long. How could she had been your daughter like more than ten years ago?"
"She wasn't," Oz said. "A spell in Seattle. We lived there. It was making her grow fast. Modifying memories. I stopped it. She thought I was her dad. I have the legal documents. No harm."
"And you didn't tell her this either, did you?" Buffy asked.
"No," Oz said. "She hated witchcraft."
"Are you ever gonna tell her anything?" Buffy asked.
"No," Oz said. "She doesn't need to know."
"I didn't need to know there were vamps and stuff, but I know anyway," Buffy countered.
"You tell her whatever," Oz said. "You decide. I don't really care. Sage is fourteen now. Time to learn about the big baddies."
"Thanks for sneaking the books into Sage's backpack," Buffy said. "They're our last resort."
"What books?" Oz asked.
"The three leather books," Buffy said. "One about vampires, creature reproduction, and werewolves."
"I never put any books in her backpack," Oz said. "Can I talk to Sage?"
"One sec," Buffy said. Off line Oz could hear Buffy yell, "Sage! It's Oz!"
"So?"
"She said she'll talk to you," Buffy said. "The girl throws off good grudges. Plus, she said she's only talking to you in case you die tomorrow and this could be the last time she talks to you."
"Okay," Oz said. "I deserve to be grudged."
"Hello," Sage said.
"Hi, kiddo," Oz said back. "How do you like Sunnydale?"
"Way better than Tibet," Sage said. "The people speak English here, and I get to learn juicy stories about everything you did when you guys were younger. You owe me ten bucks."
"What?"
"I offered Spike a drink," Sage said. "He said no."
"Oh," Oz said blandly "How's Spike, anyway?"
"Very cool," Sage said. "I slept at his crypt last night. It was very ghetto. I offered him a drink again, and he said no. According to Anya I should've slept with him, but I told her that was nasty."
"Good for you," Oz said. "Anything else?"
"Yeah," Sage said. "Any more secrets you might like to tell?"
"Yes," Oz said, but Sage had already hung up.
~*~
"I found something!" Giles exclaimed, marking a page in The Vampyr Codex.
"What?" Dawn asked excitedly.
"Yeah," Sage said. "What about me?"
"What about her?" Xander asked.
"I cross referenced my files for The Vampyr Codex and the Codex and this is what I got. From the Codex: 'An innocent girl borne in France, will have the blood of four vampires running through out her vein. One will give birth, another will be allies with a Slayer, a souled vampire who helps the helpless, and one who stopped an apocalypse."
"That doesn't make any sense," Buffy said. "Darla, Angel, Drusilla, or Spike have never stopped an apocalypse."
"But then from The Vampyr Codex it tells of a young girl who sacrificed her baby to stop an apocalypse. This baby was a child with miraculous powers that were being used to end the world by demonic forces, and the mother had to sacrifice her. After, the mother began seeing things as a form of taunting by the demonic forces and she went crazy. She was told she was a child of Satan, and was then turned by a vampire. The vampire lives unto this day, a famous vampire," Giles explained.
"So Drusilla stopped an apocalypse," Sage said before anybody could say anything. "What about me?"
"See, the child that Drusilla sacrificed was born of four famous witches. And she became a witch quite quickly herself when she had reached the age of seven months, and became the first baby to be sacrificed to end an apocalypse. Now, I think Sage is like this. She was born of four famous vampires. She began turning into a vampire when she reached the age of fourteen years. She will become the first vampire to be sacrificed, not killed, to end an apocalypse. The second persona to be sacrificed who was born from four famous people with magical value." Giles explained.
"I'm gonna turn into a vampire?" Sage shrieked.
"Possibly, yes," Giles said. "Now, the sacrificing must also go as so. Your parent-"
"You mean real parent, or step parent?" Sage asked.
"Your current parent," Giles said. "Must be the one to kill you."
"So, I'm slowly dying?" Sage said. "Oh my god, I have to call my dad!" then, she ran out of the room to the telephone.
"Is there anyway we can stop this?" Buffy asked Giles.
"There is one way," Giles said. "You have to kill all four of the vampires. Darla, she's already dead. But you'd have to kill Spike, Angel, and Drusilla."
"What about the bowing?" Xander asked. "Sage said vampires were bowing to her."
"She's like an icon," Giles said. "This apocalypse would end human kind, not all kind. The Hellmouth would open and all demons would roam the world, the world adapting to a demonic habitat. She'll be a queen, a god, or a goddess in this case."
"So how long is this gonna take?" Buffy asked.
"I would say five days," Giles said. "Sage, she's already changing. Soon, we'll need to invite her in every time because the spell won't accept her because she keeps changing. But she'll lose her soul when the transformation is complete."
"We have to get Oz over here," Willow said.
"Right," Anya said. "I can teleport him here, as soon as I call him."
~*~
"Hello?" Oz said.
"I'm turning into a vampire!" Sage cried.
"What?" Oz asked.
"It's this prophecy, whatever, that Giles found. And I'm gonna cause an apocalypse, and.and I don't wanna die!"
"Sweetie," Oz said. "Let me talk to Buffy, Giles, Willow, anybody for that matter."
"What about me?" Sage cried. "I'm still human! I'm still a somebody!"
"Yes, you are," Oz said. "But I might be able to get over there in time to say goodbye."
"You have to," Sage said.
"Of course I'll come," Oz said.
"No," Sage said. "You have to come, because you have to kill me."
End of Chapter Two
A/N: And now, I'll start the plot! I want to thank Slyslayer13 for her review. I thought my story sucked and I was about to delete it and this was in the Recycle Bin, but then she gave a review and it made me a very, shiny, happy person! Good reviews make me think about the sequel, since I already have written all the chapters, and I'm trying to get at least 20 reviews from this story so I won't be so depressed. I would also be mightily happy if I got a million US dollars from somebody for a good cause. I was going to post one chapter a day, but then certain siblings read this story and started telling me a bunch of problems I had. And when sometimes it looks like there's a period in the middle of the sentence, it's one of those three dot things, FF.net is just messed up with those. And now I'm gonna change the three dash things that keep showing up in the story, because FF.net messed them up too. My floppy disk was messed up so that is why this chap is coming out late.
~*~
Chapter Two
Four Famous Vampires
~*~
"Good mornin' Sage," Spike said, shaking her awake.
"What?" she groaned. "Oh, yeah. Morning. What time is it?"
"Eight," Spike said. "Anya's here, to pick y' up."
"Cool," Sage said. "Wanna drink?"
"No," Spike said.
"Boy, you're getting annoying," she said. "I think I'll ask Willow how to make a vamp feed on you."
"Get out," Spike said. "Now."
"Sure," Sage said. Then, she got out of bed and walked out with Anya.
"So," Anya said. "What'd you do with Spike?"
"Um.talked, and I offered him a drink, but he said no," Sage said.
"And you slept in his bed?"
"Yeah," Sage said. Then added quickly, "Alone. He said vamps didn't need to sleep, and cause he was my older relative and stuff he ordered me to sleep."
"Oh," Anya said sadly.
"Why ya so sad?" Sage asked.
"It's not that.interesting," Anya said. "Most girls that go over there do something."
"He's my great-whatever-uncle!" Sage said. "That makes him an impossible candidate."
"You didn't even think about it?" Anya asked.
"No," Sage said. "I don't think dating a vampire is that.sweet."
"Tell Buffy that," Anya muttered.
"What?" Sage asked.
"Never mind," Anya said.
"Okay," Sage said. "So how'd researching go?"
"How's it going," Anya said. "We've called Oz so many times the phone bill will be like a thousand dollars, we've read through every book Giles has, and we've checked the Internet. And out of that, there's nothing."
"Nothing?" Sage asked.
"Nothing," Anya said. "Do you have any books?"
"No," Sage said. "I'll check," she looked into her backpack and began to dig through it at they walked down the sidewalk. "Oops," she stopped right in place.
"What?" Anya asked.
"Obviously, Dad packed a few extra books in my backpack without me knowing," Sage said. She began to pull out three books. One with a red leather casing, another with green, and the last one with black.
"Vampyr," Anya said, reading the title of the first one. "The Vampyr Codex. Very interesting."
"Creature Reproduction," Sage said, looking at the black one. "And prophecies. What an interesting tale, but no thanks."
"I'll take it!" Anya said.
"Have it," Sage said, thrusting the book into her hands.
"The Werewolf: Volume One," Sage said, turning the red book in her hands. "What does that have to do with this? I so hope that I'm not related to a werewolf."
"You don't know?" Anya asked.
"What?"
"Your dad? Oz?"
"What about him?"
"He's a werewolf," Anya said gleefully.
"A WEREWOLF?" Sage yelled.
"Shh," Anya said. "You're not supposed to go around yelling about werewolves."
~*~
"So she didn't know?" Buffy said on the phone. "How come you didn't tell her?"
An eerie silence.
"It didn't feel right," Oz said. "Only three days a month. When Sage was tiny she hated mythical things. I didn't want her to be scared."
"Oh, and here's another question," Buffy said. "You haven't been gone that long. How could she had been your daughter like more than ten years ago?"
"She wasn't," Oz said. "A spell in Seattle. We lived there. It was making her grow fast. Modifying memories. I stopped it. She thought I was her dad. I have the legal documents. No harm."
"And you didn't tell her this either, did you?" Buffy asked.
"No," Oz said. "She hated witchcraft."
"Are you ever gonna tell her anything?" Buffy asked.
"No," Oz said. "She doesn't need to know."
"I didn't need to know there were vamps and stuff, but I know anyway," Buffy countered.
"You tell her whatever," Oz said. "You decide. I don't really care. Sage is fourteen now. Time to learn about the big baddies."
"Thanks for sneaking the books into Sage's backpack," Buffy said. "They're our last resort."
"What books?" Oz asked.
"The three leather books," Buffy said. "One about vampires, creature reproduction, and werewolves."
"I never put any books in her backpack," Oz said. "Can I talk to Sage?"
"One sec," Buffy said. Off line Oz could hear Buffy yell, "Sage! It's Oz!"
"So?"
"She said she'll talk to you," Buffy said. "The girl throws off good grudges. Plus, she said she's only talking to you in case you die tomorrow and this could be the last time she talks to you."
"Okay," Oz said. "I deserve to be grudged."
"Hello," Sage said.
"Hi, kiddo," Oz said back. "How do you like Sunnydale?"
"Way better than Tibet," Sage said. "The people speak English here, and I get to learn juicy stories about everything you did when you guys were younger. You owe me ten bucks."
"What?"
"I offered Spike a drink," Sage said. "He said no."
"Oh," Oz said blandly "How's Spike, anyway?"
"Very cool," Sage said. "I slept at his crypt last night. It was very ghetto. I offered him a drink again, and he said no. According to Anya I should've slept with him, but I told her that was nasty."
"Good for you," Oz said. "Anything else?"
"Yeah," Sage said. "Any more secrets you might like to tell?"
"Yes," Oz said, but Sage had already hung up.
~*~
"I found something!" Giles exclaimed, marking a page in The Vampyr Codex.
"What?" Dawn asked excitedly.
"Yeah," Sage said. "What about me?"
"What about her?" Xander asked.
"I cross referenced my files for The Vampyr Codex and the Codex and this is what I got. From the Codex: 'An innocent girl borne in France, will have the blood of four vampires running through out her vein. One will give birth, another will be allies with a Slayer, a souled vampire who helps the helpless, and one who stopped an apocalypse."
"That doesn't make any sense," Buffy said. "Darla, Angel, Drusilla, or Spike have never stopped an apocalypse."
"But then from The Vampyr Codex it tells of a young girl who sacrificed her baby to stop an apocalypse. This baby was a child with miraculous powers that were being used to end the world by demonic forces, and the mother had to sacrifice her. After, the mother began seeing things as a form of taunting by the demonic forces and she went crazy. She was told she was a child of Satan, and was then turned by a vampire. The vampire lives unto this day, a famous vampire," Giles explained.
"So Drusilla stopped an apocalypse," Sage said before anybody could say anything. "What about me?"
"See, the child that Drusilla sacrificed was born of four famous witches. And she became a witch quite quickly herself when she had reached the age of seven months, and became the first baby to be sacrificed to end an apocalypse. Now, I think Sage is like this. She was born of four famous vampires. She began turning into a vampire when she reached the age of fourteen years. She will become the first vampire to be sacrificed, not killed, to end an apocalypse. The second persona to be sacrificed who was born from four famous people with magical value." Giles explained.
"I'm gonna turn into a vampire?" Sage shrieked.
"Possibly, yes," Giles said. "Now, the sacrificing must also go as so. Your parent-"
"You mean real parent, or step parent?" Sage asked.
"Your current parent," Giles said. "Must be the one to kill you."
"So, I'm slowly dying?" Sage said. "Oh my god, I have to call my dad!" then, she ran out of the room to the telephone.
"Is there anyway we can stop this?" Buffy asked Giles.
"There is one way," Giles said. "You have to kill all four of the vampires. Darla, she's already dead. But you'd have to kill Spike, Angel, and Drusilla."
"What about the bowing?" Xander asked. "Sage said vampires were bowing to her."
"She's like an icon," Giles said. "This apocalypse would end human kind, not all kind. The Hellmouth would open and all demons would roam the world, the world adapting to a demonic habitat. She'll be a queen, a god, or a goddess in this case."
"So how long is this gonna take?" Buffy asked.
"I would say five days," Giles said. "Sage, she's already changing. Soon, we'll need to invite her in every time because the spell won't accept her because she keeps changing. But she'll lose her soul when the transformation is complete."
"We have to get Oz over here," Willow said.
"Right," Anya said. "I can teleport him here, as soon as I call him."
~*~
"Hello?" Oz said.
"I'm turning into a vampire!" Sage cried.
"What?" Oz asked.
"It's this prophecy, whatever, that Giles found. And I'm gonna cause an apocalypse, and.and I don't wanna die!"
"Sweetie," Oz said. "Let me talk to Buffy, Giles, Willow, anybody for that matter."
"What about me?" Sage cried. "I'm still human! I'm still a somebody!"
"Yes, you are," Oz said. "But I might be able to get over there in time to say goodbye."
"You have to," Sage said.
"Of course I'll come," Oz said.
"No," Sage said. "You have to come, because you have to kill me."
End of Chapter Two