Down the Rabbit Hole
"So, this is 9, where's the ¾ part." Faith spits out, annoyed by the current situation. The five of them, Faith, Willow, Xander, Dawn, and Buffy were all carrying luggage. The rest of their items were supposedly dropped out at their new home base for this particular mission. Willow shrugged.
"Beats me. I still think there is no such thing. I think the tickets we bought were a scam. We were swindled."
Dawn stood by them and sat on her luggage case in front of a large pillar. Mumbling to her self a woman with another cart accident bumped into her. "Sorry." She said in a heavy British ascent as she sped off. Dawn fell back, expecting to hit the wall and instead found her self, hitting the ground.
Buffy weren't to look at the direction where Dawn let of a scream and saw only Dawn's legs sticking out of the brick pillar. "I think that's how we get to our train." Xander mumbles as Buffy rushes to help her sister up.
Walking up to the train conductor, Willow stops. "Um, excuses me, is this the train to Hogsmede?" The conductor looked at them and raised an eyebrow. "Yes it is, but I thought we closed the…never mind, tickets please."
The train ride was rather pleasant. Scenery rushed by the scoobies almost as fast as the last few months had. After the defeat of the first, gathering new slayers who had been awakened was their first priority. They seemed to have collected all the American ones when Giles was called back to Britain to take control of the Watcher's council as it rebuilds.
Soon Giles let them in on some info that a new one might have awoken near a school next to a village of wizards, which the thought first caused them to laugh. Giles though as always shook his head and told them that unbeknownst to them, wizards and witches had their own private matters. Unlike Willow though, who was wiccan, their power came through themselves and was focused by their wands. Wiccans or as they call the human wizards get their magic from the earth itself.
Their current plan was to infiltrate the what seemed to be average private school and find the slayer. They had no idea how they were to do this but in the mean time they had the cover as business people opening a new shop Giles bought. Above the large shop was to be their homes.
The Magic Box Too would be to them a sort of general store, having various items from books, to ingredients to some special items. Like the first one but with the items geared for these people who use them more often. They had no idea the different lives theses people lived. Especially the robes which Buffy thought were completely hideous looking.
Silently staring out the window, Faith was interrupted by Xander sitting next to her. "So, what's the real reason you decided to come back with us? It's not that you didn't have anything to do as you said, was it." Xander asked, in one of his more serious times.
Faith gave him a small smile. "Can't put anything by you boy toy. It didn't work out between me and Woody. He was so up tight all the time and too attached to helping the other slayers that I began to feel I was getting in the way. So I told him it was either the girls or me and well, I'm here and he's back home. But it's five by five so no need to get teary eyed on the bad girl here." She smirks as Xander shakes his head. "So as usual you scared off another guy." Faith gave him a dirty look, which tuned into a smile as he quickly heady out of her private room.
In another room, Willow, Dawn and Buffy were all watching the passing scenery. "So, everyone in town will know magic?" Dawn asked. "Yep, and we won't have to worry about monsters for a bit. Those big bad boogie men don't enjoy being friend by us nasty magic users." Willow smirked. "And anyways, they all will think we're normal human's anyways." Buffy continued. "And we're going to keep it that way. No use alerting the natives that the slayer's here." She finished in a serious tone as Dawn rolled her eyes.
Xander then chooses that moment to enter. "Hey ya girl, I hear we're almost there. How are ya doing...hey, snacks…" Xander quickly finishes as he sprints to the next car hoping to get some food. The girls then look at each other and burst out laughing.
It's nighttime when they arrive at the village of Hogsmede all lit up with the robed inhabitant s starting to leave for home. After a few minutes of circling they finally find their base of operation in a large 3-story building.
Xander didn't immediately go in. He noticed a billboard with many job opportunities. One was for a janitorial job at the school while the current janitor was on leave. He smiles.
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That blasted Potter had managed to make it out of his master's grasps again, the cloaked man thought. But no matter, no one would survive Voldemort's wrath for long. And anyways, he knew something most people didn't which is why his master is allowing him this time to destroy the only thing that give hope to the world, Hogwarts and especially it's current head, Dumbledor.
Smiling he calls in the death eaters assigned to him. "We're going to start soon enough. For all those who wish to know. We're going to tear the place apeart from the in side out. There is no way they will know what's happening ior what's going to come after them next. Voldemort shall rise up again!!!"
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Harry Potter shot straight up in his bed. It wasn't a nightmare that startled him as much as the strangeness of the dream. AT first he thought it was another insertion by Voldemort but ended up much differently. He saw glimpses oh what looked to be monsters of all shorts attacking the school followed by an approaching darkness. It was about to overshadow all when five figures clocked in light fought back the darkness. It was unlike any dream he ever had, it was almost, prophetic…
