Like I said before, all characters come from Joss Whedon or the ancient Greeks, with the exception of a few minor characters that either die, go to the hospital, or claw their way out of the ground. Also, please pardon my extremely lame pun somewhere when I explain a bit of history. That sentence made no sense but I don't feel like going back to edit it, so you'll just have to live with it for now.

Chapter One

Still Sunnydale, CA Buffy Summers' house

Dawn Summers sat on the couch in her homey living room and stared blankly down at her math book on the table in front of her. She had to do her homework, much as she hated to admit it, but she put it off for as long as possible. She picked up the remote and was about to turn the TV on when her older sister, Buffy, appeared beside her.

"Oh, no you don't," said Buffy warningly. "Whoa! Where'd you come from? I thought I was alone," said Dawn, slowly putting the remote down on the table. "I've been watching you," replied Buffy ominously, and she plopped down on the couch next to Dawn. She pulled out a magazine and started reading. "I'm just going to sit here until you do your homework. You should have been done hours ago, but since you put it off so long you might be up all night." "Don't tell me you always did your homework," retorted Dawn. "Well, no, I didn't, but I got in trouble, and trouble is bad. Then you'll have to come and see me and tell me why you're in trouble and that will seriously screw your home and social life."

Buffy acted as a part-time guidance counselor at Dawn school, the newly built Sunnydale High. Buffy and her friends had blown up the old one when they defeated a giant snake demon that had formerly been the Mayor. No one could say their class didn't graduate with a 'BANG'!

Suddenly, Buffy heard some frantic pounding on the front door. She jumped up and peeked out the window above the door. She saw a girl that looked like a freshman in college or a senior in high school. She looked extremely scared, but Buffy never could tell who was a vampire these days. Anyway, Buffy opened the door and the girl stumbled into the house without being invited. Buffy had never seen her before, and Dawn didn't seem to recognize her, so she most likely wasn't a vampire, because vampires had to be invited into private homes.

"Anyway, we were going to this empty lot. We were on a date, he was taking me there, then we were hugging and this...thing crawled out of the ground. It looked human except its face was weird. Then more came up, all around us. I screamed but I ran. But they took him. They got him on the ground and I think they were eating him or drinking his blood or something. They started chasing me but I ran fast and I know you can help, people tell stories about you in school, about how brave and how you kill these things or something like that. They say to killed that burned up animal- thing they found in the library. Ya gotta help me!"

Well, Buffy could tell this was a senior in high school, or maybe an older-looking junior. The 'animal-thing' in the library had been the charred carcass of a demon that some guys in a cult had conjured. They had tried to sacrifice a student to it, but Buffy got there in time to stop it. Buffy remembered the time she had almost been sacrificed to a giant snake- demon by some frat boys.

"Well, should I take you home?" asked Buffy kindly. "No," replied the girl, Lilly, weakly, "they might attack us or something." "Alright, you can stay here. We'll get you set up on the couch. You'll be fine." "Thank you so much!"