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CHAPTER 5- Apocalypse? Big Deal!

Felicity could hear them. One they came around that tree they would see her and drag her to Voldemort. Run! Her brain was screaming but her feet wouldn't obey.

This is it- no chance of fighting. Fifty fully-grown male wizards and their evil ruler against on teenage girl, she didn't stand a chance. She closed her eyes a waited.

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"Do something!" Robinette was screaming

"I...I can't" Dawn admitted, "Maybe they wont see her."

"How can they miss her?" asked Skylar dully

"They can't" sighed Dawn

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"Over there" shouted a death eater

'This is it'

"Stop! Kill her, kill her quickly!" another frantically shouted

"Avada Kedavra!" several voices shouted

Felicity saw the green light of a killing curse head towards her and squeezed her eyes shut, bracing herself for the blow.

But all she felt was a sharp tug on around her waist and fell backwards.

She opened her eyes as Robinette threw herself on top of Flick where she lay on the floor.

"Can't breath!" stammered a voice from underneath the pile of hugging slayers, who quickly moved to help their watcher up.

"I save your life and what thanks do I get? You try to suffocate me!"

"What happened?" Flick asked "One minute I was there, the next I'm here."

"I opened a portal and pulled you through and then closed it immediately after we came through.

"I think one of the hooded guys saw me as I started to open the portal cause he kept pointing and yelling to kill you before you got away...at least I think he wanted to kill you, may have wanted to kill me. You never know with evil lackeys."

"Dawn" Robinette tapped her watchers shoulder. "We should get Jaden back now, oui?"

"Oh my God, I totally forgot about her! Wait, she should be back now anyway, it's 12.30. I'm going to fetch her and then, I'm going to kill her. You lot go to bed. The less witnesses the better."

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Jaden was walking through the forest when she heard something. She turned around, stake raised, only to have something grab her wrist.

"Come on" said Dawn "the portals just here. We're going back to the castle."

Without waiting for a response, Dawn pulled Jaden through the portal.

"You were supposed to be back at 12"

"And?"

"It's 12.30"

"Oh. Sorry I guess I lost track of time. Wont happen again, promise." But Dawn didn't believe Jaden's casual promise.

"Do you have any idea how...Oh, forget it. We've got more important things to worry about. Flick had a run in with a bunch of death eaters that were in the forest."

"What, is she OK?" said Jaden, shaken badly at the news.

"Yeah, I sent her and the others off to bed. You should probably join them, we're meeting with Dumbledore tomorrow morning and it would be best if you get some sleep." Seeing that Jaden still looked shaken, Dawn spoke in kindlier tone. "Jade are you OK?"

"There were death eaters in the forest? Was he-who-must-not-be-named there too?"

"Say his name. Names are power, remember that. Not saying a name is giving someone or something power over you. Yes Voldemort was there, but he doesn't know that you and the others are slayers. Your safe, don't worry."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. When you became slayers I told you I'd keep you safe, and I intend on keeping that promise."

"Thanks."

"But Jaden, if you go looking for trouble like you did tonight I can't try to keep you safe from it. It could have been anyone of us out there tonight. One of us could have died, we're not invincible and you have to realise that or you'll end up dead"

"Sorry." And this time Dawn could tell the scared looking slayer really meant it. "I'm going to bed. See you in the morning."

After Jade had gone, Dawn too went into her room. She flopped down onto her bed with a sigh. How was it possible that she just aged twenty years in an hour?

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"Did you find them?" hissed Voldemort

"Yes, my Lord...but she apperated away."

"That's impossible! You can't apperate inside Hogwarts. She? It was a girl?"

"I believe so, my Lord, we did not get a clear look at her before she disappeared."

"She could not just disappear you fool! Cruico!"

"Ahh! She did my Lord. I swear it, Jaines, Smites and Martoil saw it too." The death eater panted

"How? How did she do it? Very well you may go, but I do not take it well if my servants fail me twice."

"Yes, my Lord. Thank you my Lord."

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"...One of my slayers almost got killed. Are you telling me you didn't know Voldemort was in the forest? Why the hell not?" Dawn's eyes were flashing and she sported a glare Spike would be proud of. It was the night after the forest fiasco and Dawn hadn't calmed down.

"Miss Summers I am very sorry. The forest is not all on school grounds. From what you and Miss Newman say, this took place outside of school grounds. It is not possible for Voldemort to set foot inside the school boundaries."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive."

"Well that's something, I suppose."

There was a knock at the door. "Come in, Severus" Professor Dumbledore called.

"Yes, Severus, I was in the middle of a meeting with Miss Summers."

"You were there last night." Accused Felicity.

"Severus works as a spy for the Order of the Phoenix. He tells Voldemort, what we have previously agreed on."

"We figured as much."

"You did?" Snape sounded surprised

"Well, duh. I heard what you told Voldemort, you didn't tell him we were slayers and you knew the truth. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out."

"Try telling that to Potter." Snape muttered

"What was that, Severus?"

"Nothing, sir."

"Well, as I was saying to Miss Summers, Voldemort is obviously hiding in the forest. I fear that he may actively try to over power Hogwarts and the ministry before the school year is up."

"So we've got an apocalypse on our hands?"

"Yes, I'm afraid so Miss Summers."

Dawn sighed. "Right...is that all, can we go now?"

"Miss Summers," Professor Snape began, "I am not sure that you are aware of the severity of the situation."

"Oh I'm aware. I've lived through several apocalypses, 10 at the last count I think.

"Anyway I've fought vampires, demons, friends, hell gods and the First Evil. While your wizard may not be a walk in the park, he can't be much worse than that, now, can he?"

"Friends? Hell Gods? First Evil?" Snape stammered

"Oh right, you're not familiar with the Sunnydale history are you? At some point, nearly all of my friends have been evil, one nearly destroyed the world. But she's really sorry about that and she's recovered from her little 'I need power' stage now, well mostly. She still has relapses but she hasn't tried to kill me or take over the world for over two years now.

"A crazy hell god kidnapped me a few years back so that she could use my blood in a ritual. But my sister rescued me and defeated the hell god. Then Buffy, that's my sister, died to save the world; again, but don't worry we resurrected her- my sister I mean, not the hell god.

"And the First was basically what all evil comes from. He wasn't corporal and, believe me, that's never good. We fought him for nearly a year while he tried to kill all the potential slayers. He's the reason Sunnydale is no longer on the map and why the potential slayers were activated.

"So I'm sure you can gather, professor, an apocalypse is a fairly regular occurrence for me, no biggie, see?"

"Err, yes, of course." Snape still looked completely stunned.

"Good, now that's settled, I have a suggestion. What with the upcoming fight-of-our-lives and all, maybe we should call in the cavalry?"

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After the slayers and their watcher had left Dumbledore's office, Snape turned to the headmaster.

"Ahh, yes Severus. What was it you wanted to see me about?"

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"Meet in the training room in an hour guys- I think we're gonna need to train a tad more than we originally thought don't you?"

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"Where's Felicity?"

Robinette, Jaden and Skylar were playing a game of exploding snap in the common room.

"She's in her room." Skylar said without looking up

"She said she had the head-pain."

"A headache" Jaden corrected as Dawn went up the stairs.

"Flick?" she said pushing the door open. "How you doing?"

"I'm fine, just a headache, you know."

"Really?"

Felicity sighed

"Thought not."

"Everything's so weird. It wasn't this hard with the First. We just went to battle, became slayers and killed the Ubervamps. Now it's this thing which everyone is afraid of and it's who killed thousand of people-"

"So did the First. Voldemort is part of the First if you think about it. Your strong, Flick, you can defeat this."

"Or die trying, huh?"

"Nope- they'll be none of that negative thinking on my watch, missy."

"But what if-"

"Ah, ah, ah. Think positive. You can't focus on 'what if's' you gotta concentrate on what IS"

"Thanks, D"

"No prob. What are friends for, if not to comfort each other in the face of an apocalypse?"

"You bring up an excellent point." Felicity joked

"I do don't I? We'll get through this. We're like the junior Scooby's or something- Hey! We can be the Scrappy's!" (AN: This is for Matt)

"The Scrappy's?"

"Yeah." Said Dawn enthusiastically. "You know Scooby Doo had a nephew or something called Scrappy. He was Scooby Junior, so we're the Scrappy's. Get it?"

"Right." Flick wasn't nearly as excited as Dawn at their new nickname. "Puppy Power." She muttered.

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"It's the Dark Lord," Professor Snape was telling Dumbledore, "he has found a prophesy that the 'boy who lived is to be helped by the key in his mission to defeat the Snake Lord.' He doesn't know the whole prophesy, even what he does know has not been translated word-for-word, but the meaning is positively right."

"Oh, dear. I have worried about this."

"That the Dark Lord will want the key?" Snape was surprised

"No, not specifically. I worried that Voldemort would try to get power through some kind of ancient source." Snape flinched at Voldemort's name, but Dumbledore ignored him and carried on speaking.

"Severus do you know what the key is?" Snape shook his head. "It is a ball of magical energy which is very powerful. It can cause dimensional walls to crash down making portals as well as many other things. It is one of, if not the most powerful objects in existence."

"We have to find it."

"No one knows where it is, it was said to have been briefly activated nearly three years ago. But we don't know for sure. And neither could Voldemort. We may never find it, but we do have a secret weapon in this battle, Severus. One we didn't have last time."

"What?"

"There is currently a very powerful Wicca and four slayers downstairs who will be students here. And two more slayers will join them at the start of term.

"By forming an alliance with these girls, we have in turn formed an alliance with over a hundred more slayers, including the most powerful slayer to ever exist; as well as joining forces with another Wicca, a vampire with a soul and a powerful, inter-dimensional law firm.

"I think that this is going to be an interesting year, don't you Severus? Very interesting indeed."

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I've Reached 5 Chapters! Yay! The 4th chapter was shorter, but I'm going to try to keep them above 2000 words in the future. What do the readers want to happen in the rest of the fic?

Please review and tell me.