Chapter 5: The Scoobie and Fang Gang
Next they were off to Muggle Studies with Professor Wells. Oddly enough Andrew wasn't in his classroom, but Dumbledore was. " Professor what's going on? Where's Professor Wells?" asked Harry once he entered the class.
" If you would all be so kind as to follow me, there will be a presentation in the Great Hall." Dumbledore spoke quickly to the class. He went out the door and turned the corner heading to the Great Hall.
Once they got there they noticed that all the other students at Hogwarts, along with the staff were already congregated in the Great Hall. The hall had been cleared of all the tables, and now had rows and rows of benches, of which the students only took up half. Upon arriving Hermione noticed that there where a couple of people there they had never seen in there entire life.
"Once you all settle down we'll start bringing in the rest of the guests. Your parents have been invited to attend this presentation as well, letters were sent to them at the beginning of term. So if you will please all settle down." Dumbledore told the school, and the guests. Once everyone settled the parents filled in the rest of the rows as did the staff.
" Thank you Professor Dumbledore for letting us take the time to talk to the students, staff and parents. We know how parents feel when they have no idea what's going on especially when it involves their kids. Thank you parents for showing up, it shows that you are really involved with your children's life." Andrew addressed the audience.
"We have asked you to come because this year you have a Slayer among the students. Don't worry she is hardly a threat unless you happen to be a vampire, demon, or are trying to end the world. I would like to explain what a Slayer is, and give you information about the people who are going to be involved in helping keep her trained, along with those people who will be popping in and out of Hogwarts at regular intervals." Andrew looked around at the parents who looked a little nervous.
"First I would like to introduce you to Rupert Giles, and Wesley Wyhdam-Pryce both of which are collegues of mine on the Watcher's Council and will be dropping by Hogwarts every once in a while to check up on the progress of the Slayer. Don't be fooled though Watcher's Council is just a name, all we do is help train the Slayer and keep her focused. Being a Slayer is a tough job, therefore-" Andrew was cut off by Draco Malfoy.
"Yeah right tough job. Oh look there's a vampire, boo hoo I broke a nail." Draco and his friends started laughing.
" I'll have you know being a slayer is a very tough job indeed as you'll see in a minute but if you have any objections, I suggest you say so now." Giles retorted he hated people who thought that Slayers were nothing more than helpless girls.
" Yeah I have an objection! How can a girl handle this job?" Draco stood up and stomped on to the stage.
"Well, you obviously have been mistaken, therefore I pose this challenge to you, Mr. Who are you?" Wesley asked Draco as he walked up to him, Giles, and Andrew.
"Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." Draco snapped.
"Well Mr. Malfoy there are two vampires in the audience with you right now. If you think its so easy I want you to go and find them. If you want you can have someone assist you." Wesley challanged Draco. He knew that this kid was no where near smart enough to figure it out on his own.
"For the parent's out there don't worry these vampire wouldn't harm a fly. They both have souls and are fighting the good fight." Andrew assured the parents who looked as though they were in mortal danger.
It took Draco a good 20 minutes before he asked for help from his friends Crabbe and Goyle. After a couple more minutes Wesley decided to call his defeat for him. " Well Mr. Malfoy you've had 30 minutes to find two vampires. If they weren't soul'd and if this had been out in public you would of been killed by now. Angel, Spike please come up here." Wesley looked at Draco and knew by the look on his face that calling him out was one of the worst things you could do.
"Wouldn't harm a fly Wesely bugger that! I was pure evil at one time or another. I harmed many flies in my day." Spike whined.
" Get over yourself Captian Peroxide, where not here to listen to you whine on about your life. Your good, you've been good for a while." Angel retorted back to him.
"My gosh look!" Ginny Weasley and Tara McClay both yelled and jumped up in shock at the same time. Everyone's attention was now turned to the girls. " Sorry, but I couldn't help but notice the similarities between Draco Malfoy and the blonde haired Vampire" Ginny Wealsey told the audience.
"The vampire's name is Spike and the red haired girl is right there are many similarities between them, actually they look almost identical! Sorry for interupting." Tara McClay a resident of Sunnydale, California, and part of the Scoobie gang replied. Actually now that Tara looked at the red haired student she noticed many similarities between her friend Willow Rosenburg and the student also.
With the girls reactions people were now starting to whisper among themselves. They were extremely identical for one, both looked exactly the same. Same hair, same eyes, and same expressions. The only thing they didn't have in common was the fact that Spike was a vampire and Draco wasn't but that could be easily fixed.
" Ok well, lets keep going.Thank you boys for showing such courage. Anyways, I would like to present to you Buffy Summers, and Faith the two original Slayers." Andrew stepped back and let Faith and Buffy take the spotlight.
"Thank you for having us today. I'm so excited to see everyone here and willing to learn about Slayers. As for you Mr. Malfoy being a slayer is harder than you think, during my reign I've died twice. I've been lucky to have friends that care about me and were able to bring me back." Buffy looked over at Xander and Willow. They always looked so cute together, unfortunatley for Xander, Willow figured out that she was gay.
" Yo B, your trippin' right? Don't give 'em all the oh I died therefore this job really must be hard type of stuff. Look your standing right here they're probably not that interested anyways." Faith looked at Buffy. " Now if you really wanna get them going let me tell them a story." Faith took over for them both.
" Look everyone your looking at two different examples of a Slayer. B over here has always been a goody to shoes, just like Draco said, though I never heard her complain about her nails. She went did her job and that was that. She was able to come in and take control of any situation. Me on the other hand I trained and was almost like B except for the fact that I had a little more fun until my Watcher was killed. I ran and became independant.Evil looked more fun though, and I hung out with the wrong crowd and ended up taking a few innocent lives just to get what I wanted.It took Wesley and Angel a long time to get me under control. I think Wes still has the scars and torture marks to prove it." Faith laughed.
" However when I took over for B during the huge apocalypse I got a chance to switch places. It was the hardest and lonleist that I've ever felt which is saying something coming from me. So I have to agree with most people in this room being a slayer is hard work, you can either follow the book and see where you go, or you can let the power go to your head and really mess up your life." Faith ended her speech and gave the mic back to Buffy.
Everyone was looking around. Most of the students had there mouths hanging open, the group of strangers just stared. They had never heard Faith talk like that.
"Um thanks Faith. I guess. " Buffy was looking around figuring out where to go from there. " I've noticed most of you looking over at this group of people over on my left hand side. These people are from Angel and mine's teams. I think I'll let Angel go first and let him introduce his group of people to you before we start with mine." Buffy handed the mic over to Angel.
" I wasn't told that I needed to make a speech so bare with me. I'm from Los Angeles, California. I currently run an evil lawfirm that's changing it's ways called Wolfram and Hart. My group of people, and myself will be at Hogwarts on occasion to check in to see how things are going. So I guess that I'll hand over the mic to someone who feels more at home behind it, my friend Lorne." Angel handed the mic to Lorne and walked away. He felt as though he was standing on stage in his underwear.
" Hi everyone, and thanks Angel for that great introduction. Please don't let my appearance scare any of you, I'm the sweetest thing most of you will ever meet. I have the ability to read people's aura by having them sing. So If Dumbeldore ever needs me I'm always on hand." Lorne said enthusiastically he liked Hogwarts and wouldn't mind coming back on many occasions. Lorne then gestured to the group from L.A.
" I'll just go down the line. You've already met Wesley, who I might add is a great guy, Spike and Angel. Next we have Charles Gunn, he's in charge of the firms attorney's and cases, he also likes to get down and dirty when necessary. I've always thought of him as Angel's right hand man. On Gunn's right we have the wonderful and lovely Winnifred Burkle-"
"You all can just call me Fred everyone else does."
" Fred is in charge of the science department at W&H. On Fred's right is none other than our own little miracle Connor Angel. Connor is the son of Vampire's Angel and Darla, and for those of you out there, yes that is impossible, but it happened and we haven't regretted it so far. That's it for the Los Angeles branch of this big team so I'll hand it over without furthur ado to the wonderful Buffy Summers." Lorne ended his speech and sat down.
Buffy took the mic from Lorne. The guy seemed cool and all but she just couldn't get over his apperance. She signaled the Scoobie gang to come up and then started. " You've already met some of the scoobie gang, Giles, Andrew, Faith and myself, but these are the guys and girls who work behind the scenes doing I think the hardest and most boring things, so its my pleasure to introduce you to my friends." Buffy walked to one end of the line.
"First off we have my sister Dawn Summers she's basically on research duty. On her left we have one of my best friends Xander Harris he does most everything even fixs the stuff we manage to destroy. On his left is our other best friend and might I say one powerful wicca Willow Rosenburg or as most of you will come to get to know her by Professor Rosenburg. On Will's left is Anya whose an ex-vengence demon who, why are you here?"
" I help with the research and sarcastic remarks."
"Ok, well um...Next we have Tara McClay also a powerful wicca and very important to the Scoobie gang because she keeps everyone grounded. Sorry I'm not as good at this as Lorne is, but please bare with me here. To Tara's left we have Nathaniel Osbourne or OZ for short. Before I move on OZ and I decided it was a good idea for parents and students to know that OZ is a werewolf but we promise to keep him away from the children during full moons. On non-wolfy days OZ is a great guy. That's it I'm done my list." Buffy handed the mic over to Giles.
"These two groups of people will be popping in and out so please be on your best behavior and help show them the ropes when they're here. I'm positive the students of Hogwarts will become great friends with everyone. That concludes this presentation. If you would please return back to class. Unless anyone has any questions." Giles looked around. He smiled when he got to the group of students they all looked like they were ready to chuck things at his head due to the fact that they did want to go back to class. He remembered that look when he was the librarian at Sunnydale High school.