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            A glowing ball of flame slowly started to show in the pitch-black environment that he was in. As it came forward toward him, a velvety voice was heard coming from the now intense light. "You have done well my White Knight, you're friends came right on time. Trust the sword it will help you along your way. This will be the last you here from me, for it tis time for you to awaken'. AWAKE!"

            Xander sat up without hesitation only to be suddenly enveloped in two pair of arms. "Well hello there sleepy head. It' looks like those big nasty cloaky things didn't get cha after all." She smiles at him.

The other set of arms moved back a bit embarrassed, "Boy toy, I'd yell at'cha and tell you not to do it again, but you being …well you, would probably do it behind my back. Next time, just don't be an idiot and call for backup."

That surprised Xander. Faith actually was being sincere about her concern for his health. About to say something Xander realizes something. "Hey, looky!!! My arm. It's not all broken and that. It's a miracle."

"Naw… Xan, the Nurse there did some special thing etc."

"Really Buff? Hmm. Hey Madam Pomfrey. Get your little nurse tush in her."

The school's nurse enters the room perplexed. "Mr. Harris you really shouldn't be out of…umph." She is interrupted by Xander giving her a large hug and kissing her on the forehead. "Miss P, you're a lifesaver, or an arm saver, whatever comes first. Thanks."

"Er…uh yes…your welcome." The abolished nurse exits the room, still surprised and slightly wavering with an embarrassed grin.

As she leaves Xander turns around. "Buff, now that we're alone, can you tell me what the hell went on out there?"

Buffy and Faith turn to each other. "It was a planned attack." They said together.

In minutes, the entire situation is revealed. As the Dementors came down the alleyway, the two girls split up. Faith going down a slight alley way stopped for a moment when she overheard two voices discussing something. On closer examination it was revealed that they were Voldemort's so called Death Eaters. They said they released ten of those creatures to make their way to the school in order to stir up havoc. When she entered the alley way though to confront them, they vanished. Not surprised Faith turned around and was instantly knocked back by one of those Dementors. Two of them, one on each side. 

Buffy was facing two of her own on the other side of town, and like Faith, both began to get the crap beaten' out of them. Then something in both snapped. From their observations, it could only be said they each went into a berserker rage, hitting the creatures harder and tearing them apart. Buffy thinks it might be due to the original Slayer versus the ultimate evil, but this was only a hypothesis. Afterwards they rushed into the forest, finding Xander and each smashing a Dementor's skull that were retreating from him. As they finish, they felt a presence so they turned around to the smiling face the school's headmaster.

"How are you feeling Mr.Haris?"

"Hey the D-man. I'm doing as fine as I can be with Ms. P doing her hocus pocus." Dumbledor smiles at his muggle lingo. "Yes, she is our little miracle worker. I've gotten the story from young Malfoy on how you not only broke your arm, but how you unselfishly led away four of them. The school thanks you, as would the parents of the students you saved. And I personally would like to send you my thanks in person." His eyes twinkle.

"Thanks D-man. Was anyone hurt?"

"Sadly, yes. Two students were hurt by the two that got away. Fortunately Professor Snape was able to dispatch those two before any serious injury." Xander nods.

"Unfortunately Hogsmede didn't fair to well." He gave Xander the paper. The bottom part stated that while two people were killed, a few were injured as well. He then turned the paper over and smiled at the main headline though. Just like usual, while papers may use deaths as a secondary theme, they had to go and use the Mystery as the headline.

In large bold letters at top, the headlines read, "Four Dementors on Rampage later Found Torn Limb From Limb By Unknown Entity."

"They still are looking for the people or things that could take out one Dementor much less four! Its… well… a complete mystery. But I have work to do so I shall take my leave of you." With a smile and a twinkle in his eye, he nods to the group and leaves."

"Now, to go home. We still have one more thing to discuss…"

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            "Xander and I have narrowed it down between six people who are potentially the new slayers who we're looking for." Xander nods to Dawn's facts. "It'll make our job easier because these are the girls we need to get closer to. There's Chow, Hermione, Luna, Ginny, Gabriel, and a Lana who all display at least some example of what we're looking for." Dawn states.

The other girls nod. "Good, that makes our job easier. Time to step up the pace."

"Ok, now. That's done, I have a question for you Xan, what the hell's up with the sword?"

 "Well…" And then Xander goes and explains to Buffy what's happened and what he found, she nods and Willow raises an eyebrow, a thought forms in her head but she holds it to herself. "Ok, we can't concentrate on that now. This is what's up people from me and Faith's info." They then explain the whole story about Voldemort to the rest of the Scoobies.

"Now here's what we're going to do now. As long as we're here we'll try to keep the place safe, but once we confirm the slayer's identity, we're gone. This may be a large problem, but I have reason to believe that they have means to combat it for a while, but we'll keep an eye on it. And speaking about eyes, Xander, you have a package that came in…"

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She sat alone on the back porch with her coffee cup in her hand She was watching the little Trisiks gathering beans for the winter. She was still concerned of her actions toward the Dementors. It almost felt like murder.

"Xander… what do you want?"

"Faith, I just came out to enjoy the sun and…"

"Bulls#@t, I know Buff…B told you I had trouble dealing with it. You seem to be the analyst of the group. All the Slayers get a visit from you if something goes wrong. Hell, I've even seen Giles and Robin talk to you. And besides its raining out!" Faith smirked.

"I always take care of my Slayers, ALWAYS! And besides if you didn't want talk you would have left already."

"You're Slayers?"

"The drop dead gorgeous Slayer that needs to talk to someone now. And I'm it, so talk!"

"I didn't think you would want to talk to me, after our past…" she put her head down.

"Faith, we had this discussion, when you came in with Willow to help, I forgave

everything you ever did before that. Now stop stalling." Xander exclaimed. Faith looked up realizing he really meant what he said, so started talking…

            After an hour Xander had her laughing up a storm about a certain famous WWE wrestler who got his can kicked by a petit blonde Slayer. Faith for her part was looking at him through different eyes.

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            "Problems yet again?" "Yes sire. The Dementor's cause a little chaos but only two ever approached the school. The populace of the town took the brunt of it and only two injuries occurred with students."

"Well, what went wrong?"

"We're not sure, the four Dementors sent through the town were later found, torn apart limb from limb. Two of the six were destroyed at Hogwarts. The other four, missing in action. Nothing has ever occurred like that."

            The second in command slammed his fist to the table. "It has to be that damn Potter. He always screws up our plans. That's the only cause for it. First get in touch with our contact, Codename Chimera. He is to exit the school as soon as possible. We are assembling everything we have for one massive attack. We are putting that school down by any means necessary!!!"