A.N. In case you didn't guess, I'm English and so is my spelling!

Thanks to Christos for your suggestion and to Anne, Kenra and Blondi gurl (I liked your slayer suggestions) for your support! And also thanks to Akalea – I'll try harder with the grammar etc.

Slayers get called when they are 13. Robinette and Jaden are 14, Ginny and Skylar are 15, Dawn, Flick, Harry, Ron and Hermione are 16

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CHAPTER 3- The First Hogwarts Slayer

"I'm so bored," sighed Jaden

"Me too, I haven't slayed anything since we left LA!" Felicity moaned.

"At least you've actually killed something more than a stupid boggart; our class did that in our first year!"

"What? Do you guys actually ENJOY slaying?" Dawn asked, slightly worried

Felicity answered for them "No, it's just, we have this power and its different fighting for real than training. I mean, don't you think we should have some field experience?"

"Yeah, besides, training is Bor-ing!" said Jaden

"I don't know...I'll talk to Dumbledore, he mentioned some vamps gathering in the forest."

"Vamps? Gathering? Apocalypse?"

"Nah, vampires are drawn to the slayer and we've got four here so they were bound to pick up on it. I'm surprised that they haven't tried to attack you guys..." Dawn mused "When the students come back, we should find the slayers as quickly as possible; they're targets too."

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"So, this is the forbidden forest. Do all magic schools have them?"

"Shhh" came the reply in four voices

"What? If the vampires hear us, then they come to find who's making the noise and it saves us the job of trying to find them. Think of it as bait, only different...and anyway you were the ones who wanted 'real-life experience' not me. Oh look; vampires...ATTACK!"

The slayers spit up with Skylar and Jaden double-teaming one of the vampires and Felicity and Robinette separating and going after two more vamps.

Dawn looked around. There were five vampires at the moment, but she could hear a couple more approaching. 'The slayers were doing quite well for their first time out,' Dawn noted 'Skylar and Jaden make a good team, and Felicity is holding her own' Skylar and Jaden had already dusted one vampire and had moved onto their second, as had Felicity.

One vampire separated from the group and crept up behind Dawn, only to be staked as she swung her arm over her shoulder without looking back. Skylar and Jaden had moved into fighting back to back against two vampires, they were having a little difficulty, as the vampires seemed quite experienced, but the slayers weren't in any immediate danger. Felicity was having no problems. She had the most experience out of the girls as she had been in the final battle in Sunnydale so this wasn't as new to her, she was throwing kicks and punches like a pro!

'Robin is the one likely to have the most problems' thought Dawn, looking around for her newest and youngest recruit. 'Where is she?'

"Ahh" Dawn heard a high-pitched scream in the distance and set off at a run. Robinette had been forced away from the group by two vampires. She had managed to stake one, but two more had appeared in its place. She had dropped the short sword that she was fighting with long ago, but one the vampires, a male who looked to be about 25 when he died, had picked it up and raised it to swing at her.

"Any last words?" Robinette closed her eyes and braced herself for the hit, but it never came. She opened one eye and saw Dawn, stake in hand, surrounded by a cloud of dust.

"Rule 1: Don't Die, Rule 2: Never give up." She said pulling the young slayer to her feet and kicking a vampire away at the same time. "You OK?" at her nod, Dawn handed Robinette her sword and she decapitated the remaining two vampires with two strokes of her weapon. "Nice, very nice," Dawn approved, "come on, I think the others will have finished by now."

As they returned to the group, Felicity was just staking the last vamp. "You guys OK?" she panted

"We are good," replied Robinette

"What happened to you? Where did you go?" asked Skylar, concerned

"One of the vampires forced me to go deeper into the forest" replied the French slayer

"Lets go back to the castle, Skye, and get you patched up."

"What?"

"Your arm, it's bleeding- you must have got cut in the fight. Part of the slayer deal is a high tolerance for pain, I bet you didn't even notice."

At Skylar's sheepish grin the others laughed.

"That was sooo cool! When can we do it again?"

"Jaden, it's not a game. This was a training exercise. The only time that you should fight is when you have to or in training."

"Oh come on, loosen up I mean we just made these guys turn to dust LITERALLY- and you guys are saying that you didn't enjoy yourselves?"

"I didn't enjoy it, I just, I mean..."

"You feel satisfied?"

"Yea" said Felicity, glad that Dawn understood what she was feeling. One look at Skylar and Robinette showed that they felt the same.

"That's how Buffy said she felt after a night patrolling...Faith just said she felt hungry and horny!"

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"Hey guys!" Skylar called, coming into the common room that was part of the suite that Dumbledore had given them for their stay. Until they could be sorted at the beginning of term in a week's time, they couldn't access the four houses so were staying in a separate part of the school.

Despite being from Germany, Skylar only had a slight accent and spoke fluent English. When asked about it, she had said that it was because her mother was English and she grew up learning both languages.

"Hey guys!" she repeated

"What's up, Skye?" Felicity asked

"We got an owl from Ron and Harry inviting us all to the Weasley's tomorrow."

"Cool, it'll be nice to get out of the castle. What do you say Dawn?"

It still amazed Dawn that these girls looked to her for guidance; after all, she was the same age as one of them and only one or two years older than the rest. "Yeah, sounds like fun!" she said and image of a dark haired boy with glasses coming into her mind.

"You just want to make goo-goo eyes at Harry again." Flick teased. She knew she'd got the right idea as Dawn's face started to redden causing the slayers to laugh.

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"What time is it?" Harry asked calmly

"10 minutes since you last asked," said Ron laughing, "they'll be here any minute. Calm down!"

"They're here" Ginny called, bounding down the stairs. Ron gave Harry his 'see, I told you so' look, to which Harry just rolled his eyes and went to meet the guests.

"Hi Harry" Dawn exclaimed throwing her arms around his neck. Neither wanted the moment to end, but Dawn moved on and gave the same, albeit briefer, welcome to Ron and Ginny.

After everyone had said hello and been introduced to the rest of the Wesley family, they split up. Jaden, Skylar and Robinette went up to Ginny's room and Flick and Dawn stayed downstairs with Ron and Harry.

"...So you fly around on brooms and try to get the balls in the hoops? So it's like basketball, then?" Ron was trying to explain quidditch to Flick.

"What's basketball?"

"Never mind"

"If you want to try it, we've got some brooms in the shed. I could teach you." Ron offered

"Great! Coming Dawn?"

"No way! Got this thing about heights every since a crazy hell god tried to sacrifice me. Funny story, remind me to tell it to you some time."

"Riiiight. OK, Harry are you coming...or will you stay will Dawn?" Ron was smirking as he spoke

"I'll stay here, you two go on."

Felicity and Ron left the room smiling and sharing knowing glances with each other.

"Sooo...Can I ask you something, you don't have to answer, it's just I was wondering about what you said in the Leaky Cauldron..." Harry trailed off unsure how to ask his question.

"Yes." Dawn prompted him.

"You said you knew what I was going through, how? Sorry, it's just..."

"I understand. You know what I said about the hell god? Well, she kidnapped me and used my blood to open a portal to a hell dimension. All these creatures were flying about and destroying everything and the only way to stop earth turning into another hell dimension was for the blood flow to stop. I was supposed to jump."

"Supposed to?"

"Yeah. My sister, Buffy, caught up with us and jumped in my place. It killed her. She was dead for 3 months and then Willow, my friend, she's a Wicca, did a resurrection spell and brought her back to life."

"A resurrection spell? Did it work?" Harry's eyes shone with hope

"Oh it worked. We thought Buffy was in hell, but we were wrong. She was in heaven. She was at peace and we ripped her out. It was nearly a year before she pulled out of her depression and started to live again."

"Oh." Said Harry, the hope fading

"He'll be happy Harry, I promise you he's in heaven."

Harry smiled weakly "Happy, huh? I should let him go. Thanks"

"For what?"

"Everything...for understanding."

"No worries! So how does Ron feel about Hermione?"

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"Ginny! That's the third plate you've broken this week!"

"Sorry, mum." Ginny's face started to turn red.

"I don't know what's gotten into you. Everything you touch you break!"

"Mum!" Ginny gripped the chair in embarrassment.

"Why can't you be more careful? Is it so much to ask just for you to-"

The wooden chair that Ginny had been holding had broken under her grip

"What?"

"Whoa"

"I think we've found our first slayer, Dawn." Felicity had barely spoken above a whisper, but everyone heard her.

Noise broke out over the table as the slayers and Ginny's family all started arguing.

"Slayers don't exist"

"Of course they do!"

"Bloody hell"

"What?"

"How do you explain how she was able to break the chair?"

"She's got a point, that's just not normal."

"The slayer's a myth!"

"What's a slayer?"

"Oh my God!"

"Let Dawn explain!"

"The slayer is one girl chosen to fight. She is given the strength and skill to fight the vampires and the demons. I think Ginny may be a slayer."

"But the slayer's a myth!"

"Err, excuse me, I'm a slayer, so are Jaden, Skye and Robin. Are you saying we don't exist? Trust me it's real and I have the scars to prove it!"

"How can you all be slayers? The myth says that it is ONE girl."

"Firstly, it's not a myth. Secondly, that all changed about three months ago.

"My sister, Buffy, was this generation's original slayer. She was drowned by a master vampire and was dead for a few minutes before she was revived. But that was enough, a new slayer, Kendra, was called and there were two slayers. Kendra died after a bit, and the Faith was called.

"I guess the second part of the story starts about a year ago. The First Evil and its lackeys, the bringers, started tracking down all the girls with the potential to be slayers and killing them and their watchers."

"Watchers?"

"They guide the slayers and train them. The watchers council was here in England before it was blown up."

Recognition dawned on some faces. "It was in the Daily Prophet," Mrs Weasley explained, "They said a special, muggle council's headquarters was levelled in a massive, magical explosion."

"Yea it was, there are only a handful of watchers left. Anyway, the bringers were trying to kill all the potentials so that there would be no one to continue the slayer line when Buffy died."

"But no one tried to kill Ginny."

"The best we can figure it is that all the magical energy around witches shielded them from the bringers location spell. It's shielding you pretty well from our magic. I can only find out the rough area a slayer is in and how many there are.

"So anyway, Buffy started gathering the potentials to our house in Sunnydale-"

"Wait, Isn't Sunnydale on the hellmouth?"

"That's right. We had an army of 40 girls and the First had thousands of Ubervamps, they're like super strong vampires, so we did the only sensible thing and opened the hellmouth for a final battle.

"We have a friend, Willow, and she is the most powerful Wicca in the western hemisphere. During the battle, she performed a spell where all the girls who had potential to be a slayer actually became slayers. Aside from the potentials in the hellmouth, there are about 100 other slayers who we hadn't found; and you, Ginny, are one of them."

"I can't be a slayer, I mean, I'm just me, just Ginny."

"I did not believe it at first Ginny, but it is true. You are feeling stronger, oui? And you are faster are you not?"

"Ginny, we didn't know it was you at first, but we know that there are two slayers attending Hogwarts, and now I know, I can feel the power coming from you. But you don't believe me. It's OK- most of the others didn't, but there is a test."

Dawn hadn't finished speaking before she pulled a dagger out from her belt and threw it hard, fast and strait at Ginny's face. Ginny caught the knife between her palms inches before it would hit her face.

"Wow!" "Cool, Ginny!"

"Err, Dawn, we've got trouble." It had gotten dark as Dawn had been talking and there was a group of vampires standing at the open door.

"Ahh!"

"Why aren't they coming in?"

"They can't come into a house without an invite."

"Great I'm in the mood for a good fight," said Jaden clapping her hand together and receiving funny looks from everyone "What? I am."

"Fine, fine," Dawn said, "go kill. But do it quietly. And, I can't emphasise this enough, DON'T DIE!"

As the slayers ran out of the door wielding various weapons that had been pulled out of sleeves, from around ankles and from inside belts, the Weasley's looked on, astonished.

"I know this must be a bit of a shock..."

"That's the understatement of the bloody year" Ron muttered

"Where do you come into this?" Mrs Weasley demanded, "You're not a slayer are you?"

"No, I'm not a slayer. Due to the lack of watchers and huge numbers of slayers, I was asked to be a watcher to all the slayers who are also witches."

"Because you're a witch." Dawn nodded. 'Telling them the whole truth may be a bit much right now'

"So what do I do now?" Ginny asked in a small voice

"Absolutely nothing!" Mrs Weasley was shouting. "No daughter of mine is going to be a slayer, risking her life everyday, because that's what she will be doing isn't it" she gestured to the girls fighting outside, "those are just girls, they can't fight evil! They'll be dead within a month!"

"Mrs Weasley, my sister has been a slayer, the slayer, for nearly eight years. She started when I was nine years old- that's how old I was when I was first kidnapped. I promise you Mrs Weasley, Mr Weasley that I will do everything in my power to make sure Ginny doesn't get hurt, just as I promised that to the other slayers parents. And let me tell you, I never break my promises.

"Evil is drawn to the slayers power. Ginny's a target for vampires, demons and God knows what else. It will be better if she can protect herself."

"What about Hogwarts?" Dawn smiled at Ginny; at least she was considering it.

"As far as that is concerned, nothing changes. You go to Hogwarts and take your normal classes and then in the evenings you train with me and the rest of the slayers, speaking of which HEY! Is everything OK out there?"

Flick's voice called back quickly. "Just Peachy! We'll be done in a minute! Ha! Take that! That'll teach you to mess with a slayer!"

"No-one at the school will know that you're a slayer. There's a whole secret identity thing. It's really important that you don't tell anyone that any of you are slayers or that I'm a watcher.

"While you're at Hogwarts, you'll be trained in hand to hand combat and how to use the weapons, then when I think you're ready, you will start patrolling with the rest, NEVER on your own. Once you've finished at Hogwarts you can decide if you want to be a slayer, if you don't we'll leave you alone knowing that you can protect yourself if the need arises. If you do want to be a slayer, then you can either go to LA to the slayer academy and placed where you are moat needed, or you can stay here, get a job and then patrol in the evenings. You retire when you want to. It's not a job until the death, a slayer's life expectancy isn't 18 anymore- there's no reason why it should affect your everyday life. Think of it as an extra-curricular-activity. "

"Ginny, love," said Mr Weasley as the tired looking slayers came in, "it has to be your decision."

"Arthur! How can you say that? She's just a baby! Look at those girls! They're exhausted! How can you even think about letting her do this?"

"We're OK, Mrs Weasley, really. Problem taken care of." Skylar smiled reassuringly.

"It's quite fun really."

"See?" said Mr Weasley. "She's not a baby, Molly, hasn't been for a long time. What if Dawn, Felicity and the rest of the slayers weren't here tonight? We would have been attacked by vampires and powerless to stop it. You heard what Dawn said, the evil is drawn to the slayers; she's a target. We can't force her, but if she is trained, she'll be safer. Won't she?"

"Dads right, mum." Fred murmured

"Yes, she'll put herself in danger if she doesn't train to control whatever powers she has" agreed George

"And us." Continued Fred

Mrs Weasley nodded, her eyes watering "Ginny, you don't have to, you know that? We'll find another way, I promise you..."

"She doesn't have to make a decision now, she can think about it over the summer if she wants to."

"I don't need to. I've made my decision." Ginny declared, her voice wavering slightly. All the people in the room, wizards, slayers and mystical balls of energy looked at the youngest Weasley to see what she had decided.

"I'm going to train; I want to be able to protect myself...and my family. I'll be a slayer."

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Wow, 12 pages! Chapter 3 done, finally!

Sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes. I've done a spell check, but it's really not my strong point.

I still don't know who my other slayer will be and I'm getting a touch of writers block.

Please review with any suggestions!

Kiara x x x