A/N

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Chapter Fourteen

Max sat alone in a lounge room, he realized it was a dream status like the last time he met Whistler. Suddenly Whistler appeared behind Max, with out a word he sat down in the seat opposite of Max.

"Well, that was not how the Powers wanted you to use the magic that was given to you. Now seeing as it was your first day, and the day is still not up, we can replay the day. You have to be somewhere that is not in Snape's classroom. You have to change what you have done." Whistler said gravely.

"It's not like I caused something apocalyptic did I?" Max asked off-handedly.

"Well ya kinda nearly did."

"Your not ganna give me the "Magic is not a toy" speech are you?" Max said with mock seriousness.

"No, but at the rate you were using magic. It would be like trying to keep a candle alight outside on a windy day. Though you have control of your magic like you said you lack experience. With the magic comes a new persona. Be careful kid. Don't let the flame go out."

"Way to much cryptic crap, but you're saying that we're going to replay that whole day? Like the thing you did with Angel when he turned human?"

"In a nutshell yes. I assume that you also know that you can't tell any of our players about what you know about them. The odd occasional small things are fine; but no huge secrets."

"Gottcha, no revelations."

"Power is a gift that corrupts most. When the power goes out, light your own candle. You must have a key power source to know why." With those final words from Whistler Max was sent back.

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"Well now I was thinking about how we could get you to control your powers Max, and I thought the best way to do this would be to get Willow to train you, as your magic and hers are alike." Dumbledore suggested. Max was disorientated, thrust back into the past, which was now his present it was unpleasant.

"Max? Max earth to Max!" Willow said.

"Oh, oh right, yeah fine, zoned out for a second. Don't worry I got the power memo, I'm down with that. But some duels or something with Willow might be good. I lack experience." Max said. "Hey, Fawks…" Max cooed. His finger rubbed across the phoenix's throat it let out a soft trill.

"How did you know what his name was?" Dawn asked curiously.

"Good guess." Max said.

"How did you…?" Dumbledore started.

"Whistler." Max said curtly. "Buffy is acquainted with him." No one knew what to say to the boy. "If you don't mind Professor I might take a walk around school grounds?"

"That would be fine. You may go into classes if you please. Willow you could give the grand tour if you please." Dumbledore said.

"Yeah that's fine." Willow said. Everyone started to file out. Then Max remembered he shouldn't go with them.

"Umm, if you don't mind I think I'll find my own way around." Max said to Willow

"Yeah that's cool, will you be alright?" Willow asked.

"Yeah, I'll be cool. Oh and Xander…" Max said, Xander turned to look at him. "Don't open any doors." With that Max walked down the other corridor.

"Wonder what he meant by that?" Xander said.

"He is seriously strange…" Buffy said.

"Yeah, but he's kinda hot." Said Dawn.

"Dawn!" Buffy said with a touch of mock outrage.

"What? He knows about vamps, and probably knows us better than we know each other, TV and all. And he's down with the magic mojo. And did you see those muscles? Didn't see them last night." Dawn said, then more to herself she said, "But I did see that ass."

"Dawn…" Buffy said warningly. Willow chuckled a bit, Xander just shook his head. Willow led them off to the library then head around to the dungeons.

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Max went back to his room, he rummaged though his draws. He found CDs, Discman, Ipod, some more movies, he found a lot of junk. But what puzzled him the most was the fact that he had got all his electrical items with him. Maybe he could try and get them to work. He took out his Ipod and set it at his desk. He sat back and looked at it. He knew Hogwarts had a lot of charms on it and wondered if he could break through them. Then he had idea, what if he could create a tight small "bubble" around an object that could create an area that was devoid of all magic.

He stretched out his hands and concentrated on his Ipod and his goal. Light shone from under his hands. Then spell was done, he pressed the on switch on his Ipod and it worked. Cool he thought, he picked it up and it went off. He placed it back and switched on. He realized his space though created was not movable. He tried again, this time thinking of the "bubble" as a magnet. This time the room went dark and lights seamed to shimmer all around him, the light was everywhere, a rainbow like shimmer. With a strange pump sort of sound the color was removed around the Ipod. And the spell was done. This time when he picked it up and it kept working. He clipped it to his belt and decided, as he wasn't supposed to be using so much magic, that he would go out and find something to do.

Maroon 5's "Harder to breath" started to play through his Ipod. Everywhere looked so different when it was empty. He decided this was not where he was supposed to go. He made his way outside, to the Quidditch field. When he first read the Harry Potter books he had always wanted to fly. He walked to a shed, t was locked but he solved that problem with a little spell. He laid it on the ground, and raised his hand over it, like he had seen in the movies.

"UP!" He yelled. Amazingly it sprung to his hand and he clutched it tightly. He mounted the broom, and kicked off; he wobbled a bit but eventually found his balance. The music kept playing in his ears, and it helped him keep his focus. He lent forward and the broom moved forward; slow at first then it started to pick up the pace. He flew around the pitch for about half an hour, but because he didn't have a watch he didn't realize how long he had been up there, until he looked at his Ipod. He decided it would be good to do a quick sweep over the forbidden forest. He pulled his broom up higher and glided over the trees. At first he saw nothing except for foliage. He assumed as it was day that nothing was really out there. Then he went towards the middle; the trees were closer together and it is denser, so obviously darker in this area. He noticed some smoke that he couldn't see from Hogwarts. He flew towards it and found a clearing. He stayed at the edge and went lower. Around a fire were, he pulled out his ear phones and let them fall around his neck. He could tell that some of the figures were human, and others were not so human. His demonology was bad but he didn't like the looks of any of the demons. He didn't think he could take all of them, because he still remembered fainting after fighting Snape. He tried to listen to their conversations but couldn't hear anything. He strained his ears and tried to do some lip reading. Then he realized that some times they spoke a different language, but sometimes he picked up Hogwarts, in lip reading. He decided it was time to go back and see the Headmaster.

He flew back at top speed but didn't make it back till it was lunch. He quickly put back the broom, and ran through the corridors. He bumped into heaps of students and one professor, lucky for him it was Cordelia. Finally out of breath he got to the gargoyle in front of Dumbledore's office. He quickly teleported past the gargoyle and outside the headmasters door. He knocked on the door rapidly, finally he go a reply to come in.

"Dumbledore we have a problem…" He started but when he saw he had company he shut up. "Oh, sorry I didn't realize you had company." Max said looking up he realized it Harry, Hermione, and Ron.

"It is quite alright. We were just discussing issues that need to be addressed." Dumbledore said vaguely. "And by the way you were banging on my door; I assume it is a dire problem you wish to tell me about."

"Yeah, but I don't know if they need to know." Max said indicating to the Trio.

"If it has relevance to Voldermort then I think Harry and hi friends have the right to know about it."

"Yeah, I guess we don't want a repeat of the Order of The Phoenix." Max said, he realized that he shouldn't have said that. "But that's not why I was here," he said trying to cover up, the Trio eyed him like he was a dead rat on the side of the road. "They have joined forces." Max started

"Who has joined?" Interrupted Hermione.

"You're a smart girl Hermione, but I was just getting started. Try not to interrupt me, no offence. Ok so the dark and the darker have massed. Demons and Wizards are allied. I was flying on a school broom over the forest and I found a clearing about around the middle and it has about 50 human looking evil dudes, and about 50 non-human looking ones, but I'm not sure it was hard to tell when they all look alike. I would assume they have a lot more. I think they're going to attack the school, probably tonight."

"Like at Halloween…" Harry said woefully.

"What Happened at Halloween?" Max asked curiously.

"Voldermort came to Hogwarts and gave me an ultimatum. Kill Hermione or he would kill Neville's parents and grandmother….I…I was to slow to react, and they killed them…"Harry explained a tear falling from his face.

"God…" Max said with sympathy.

"Then the next morning Willow found Neville in the boy's lavatory. Dead." Ron said.

"Voldermort?" Max asked.

"Suicide…" Said Hermione.

"Oh…I lost my best friend to that." Max said solemnly. "I think we need to talk to Buffy and all of them, we need to work out a plan, and then mount up." Max said changing the subject.

"Yes, it would do good to inform them…Max if you could find them?" Dumbledore asked.

"Sure," Max replied, "back in a jiff."

"Excuse me Headmaster; I know this might sound as a silly question, but what can they actually do. I know Allyson or Willow can do powerful magic, but what about the others…they aren't witches or wizards, what hope could they achieve against death eaters?" Hermione asked curiously.

"You know Hermione, for such a smart girl you are quite thick." Max said, "They possess powers beyond your comprehension. Don't go prying into matters which you do not fully understand." Max said bitterly. He turned quickly and headed out. He had just walked a few paces from Dumbledore's office when someone else came from the stair way.

"How can you talk to her like that? You don't know her!" the voice said. Max turned around to see Ron standing there.

"Ron, I know her like you, probably more than you do. Don't get all protective on her; she just needs to know when to keep her nose out of things that aren't her business." Max said frankly. Ron's face heated up. "You too just need to get together if you are ganna and if ya not well that's what happens." Max said. Ron whipped his wand out, and pointed it at Max. "Oh come on I aint ganna fight you. I could kick your ass. Even with your new wand. Remember when you used to hex yourself in your second year. You have come along way but you aren't ready to fight me."

"Don't tempt me." Ron said his teeth clenched.

"So I won't…" Max said and with that he teleported Ron back into Dumbledore's office. Max turned around and placed his headphones on he switched his Ipod on and Linkin Park's "Nobody's Listening" starts playing. He strolled down the halls in search of the slayer and her friends.

- - - - - - - - - Zoom to the Scooby Gang

Buffy, Willow, Dawn and Xander sat in Angel's and Cordy's office. They were researching the prophesy, they had some of it translated but they were waiting Giles's arrival for more translated parts.

"This is getting no where…" Cordy said slamming her text book, everyone looked at her. "What? Well it isn't!" She said.

"I guess, we need Giles though." Angel said. The door opened and in came Giles with lots of books. "And we need one billion dollars." Nothing happened and everyone looked strangely at Angel. "What it was worth a shot, and look Giles, now if everyone will turn their attention to him." Buffy was the first to go up and hug Giles, using all her strength.

"Oomph, yes I still need to breath." A muffled Giles said.

"Sorry…" Buffy said guiltily. Dawn jumped up and threw her arms around Giles.

"Missed you…" She said quietly.

"And I you…" Giles replied. Xander did the manly thing and shook his hand and Angel too. But Cordy gave him a hug.

"Did you cut your hair?" Asked Giles to Cordy.

"Oh, a while a go…" She said with a laugh. She wiped away a stray tear.

"Well here it is, the Prophesy." Giles said putting a piece of paper on the table. It read.

When the Dark forces align a boy god will come forth

With him dark times will come to be

He will aid the marked one in his battle

The blood of an innocent will be spilt

The boy god will burn hells minions

White knights will fight death

If the marked one falls darkness will consume the earth

The Key will diminish, and the boy god will become

They read it over a few times. Dawn sat down staring into space….Buffy was the first to speak.

"Are we sure this is correct?" She asked Giles.

"Yes, we are." Giles said gravely. No one knew what to say they all sat in silence.

- - - - - - - Zoom to Max

Max couldn't find them any where, finally he decided to look in Angel's office, for some reason he hadn't thought of that place till now. He pulled out his ear phones as he approached Angel's office. He raised his hand and knocked. Angel opened the door.

"Yes?" He asked.

"Sorry, but we need your help, if Giles has arrived and everyone is ready, we have problems." Max said.

"Come in…" Angel said, "tell us what we need to know." Max stepped into the room

He could see they had gotten some bad news; they all were just sitting in silence. He decided to go and introduce himself to Giles.

"Umm, Giles?" he said

"Oh, yes, how did you know my name?" Giles asked.

"Good guess, I'm Max White by the way."

"Hello Max." Giles said

"Hi," Max said, then he addressed everyone, "umm, ok well, can I have your attention for a sec.?" Max said people looked up at him. "Ok so I can see bad news is something you don't want to hear, but we have a problem." People started to pay attention when he said that. "Demons and Wizards are allied."

"We know…they attacked at Halloween." Willow said blankly.

"Well, they are in the forest, and by the looks of things, it looks as if they're going to attack soon, very soon. Dumbledore would like to talk strategies with you guys." Max said. They followed him up to Dumbledore's Office…

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A/N

Well how was that? I know it's a lot to take in, but as always I love to hear from you guys, about stuff. Thanks again to all the people who reviewed my story and keep it up. An suggestions or anything you want to tell me well, you can review my story, well Happy readings everyone, and till next time see you round!