12. Top secret!
This one was astonished, as he saw the four girls with Sarah, who was hold tight from one of the girls. "Sarah?" he asked confused. "Hey, Monsieur Londres!" she greeted him and lifted her free hand. "You are her 'Watcher'?" Alicia wanted to know. Monsieur Londres looked at Sarah. She shrugged only excused. "Uh, yes, I am, but..." "May we come in?" Hannah asked politely. Monsieur Londres only nodded and let the girls in.
Alicia pulled Sarah into the house. "Would you perhaps let me go now?" Sarah asked angry. Alicia let her go hesitated. Monsieur Londres turned to Sarah. "Sarah, what does the whole thing mean? You know very well that you have to keep civilians out of your doing." "Of course I know that. You have inform me about it often enough! But say that to them! I helped one of them and they thanked me like this way..." Sarah told bitterly and made a gesture. "Please, Monsieur Londres, explain them what I am..." With that Sarah dropped herself with a deep sigh in an armchair.
"Well, yes, uh, Sarah is... well, she's the Slayer!" "She already said that! But what does that mean and what is the Watchers Council?" Alicia replied. Monsieur Londres threw a reproachful glance at Sarah. This shrugged only again.
Then Monsieur Londres continued, "All right. You already know about that. The Watchers Council is a meeting of all Watchers of the Candidates and of course also the Watcher of the Slayer. With other words, me." "Candidates?" Catherine asked. "There are many Candidates on all over the world. Many even don't know anything about their life as Candidate. So am I before. Candidates are girls, which wait for, to be promoted as the Slayer. Potential Slayers. But this isn't really a good job. I can assure you. Well, it's much better to be a Candidate." Sarah uttered ironically.
"Sarah was a Candidate before, that's true. She didn't know anything about it until recently. Because of the death of the previous Slayer, one of the Candidates must be chosen for the new Slayer. We know that it would be Sarah by our clairvoyants. So we searched for her and informed her about it. And since then she's the new Slayer and killed vampires, so as her appointment prescribe it." "Is there only one Slayer in the whole world?" Hannah asked surprised. Monsieur Londres nodded and said solemn, "In a book, which is only reserved for us Watchers, is written in holy letters: Into each generation a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world. A Chosen One. One..." "He likes to hold this speech." Sarah interrupted him grinning. She got a punished glance of her Watcher for that. But this made her only to grin more. "Anyhow, Sarah is the Chosen One in this generation. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer." Monsieur Londres said finally.
"Well, it really seems to be that you don't tell us lies... There are really vampires here. They exist. Wow!" Alicia murmured. "Well, I'm not exactly so glad about it..." Sarah replied shrugging. "These beasts must be destroyed." Michelle noticed and thought with fear about, what would have happened if Sarah wouldn't have helped her. She was now very furious with the vampires that would do something to her. "Of course they must be destroyed. And I'm there for this reason..." Sarah replied with a sigh. "I'll help you with that!" Sarah smiled tired and meant, "No, Michelle, that's impossible! You shouldn't be involved in that. It's bad enough that you know about it at all." When she saw Michelle's disappointed face she meant conciliatory, "Believe me, it's really better for you. It's not so easy to handle with these beasts!"
"Maybe they can help you anyway..." Monsieur Londres said. "Sorry? But you always said that..." "Well, maybe that's a little bit different here..." "What should there be even different on it? How could they be any help for me? They don't have my strengths..." "That may be true, but they have the will for fighting..." Sarah sighed and thought by herself: "I probably would never make head of Monsieur Londres."
Then Monsieur Londres explained the four girls what they have to do when they meet a vampire. They listened attentively.
When they all set off home, they still couldn't believe it at all. Sarah, classmate of Alicia, Hannah and Catherine and Michelle's lifesaver, was the Vampire Slayer!
They took Sarah up to her home. Sarah wondered why she never met with the also fifteen-year-old Michelle before in school. Michelle explained that she goes at another school than her older sister. Then they said goodbye to Sarah and promised once more that they wouldn't ever talk anyone about that. But they would like to talk about it on the next day after school, because of Michelle. Sarah should tell them exactly everything.
So Sarah climbed up the roof through the window in her room. Her parents didn't even notice her disappearance. So she went to bed with mixed feeling and fell asleep short time after that quite contented.