Buffy thrashed in her sleep as her dreams took a rather unfun turn.

On a stone dais stood a man, looking rather haggard and uncertain, like he didn't know how her got there. then there were flashes of the past, or well of what Buffy assumed to be the past. The man fell through the veil he had been standing in front of and a raven haired boy tried to get at him, only to be held back by a man. Then she was back in the present and the man was checking himself over and looking at the veil.

The dream then switched to a room filled with green and grey, there was a battle raging on and in the middle of it all was a blonde boy, using what looked like a wand, throwing curses as good as Willow could wandless. Two boys around him fell and he looked horrified.

Another switch and she was on the grounds outside of a castle, Willow and Xander were there, But Willow and Xander were fighting, which shocked Buffy 'when did Xander learn to fight?' There were huge creatures like looked like death, only minus the scythe. The raven haired boy was here as well and so was the blonde one, they were both throwing light at the death creatures and yelling warnings at Willow and Xander.

More scenes pummeled her mind and they took an even darker turn, there was a man, if he could be called that. He had red eyes though, which was what she had noticed first. The second thing she noticed were the chained up people and the third thing she noticed was that they were being tortured in the most inhuman way possible. This man wasn't using a wand even though he had one, she could see it sticking from his pocket. He was using knives and lighter and matches and whips and every other freaky bondage and fetish thing that she had only seen Willow in her Vamp state even think of. There was horrible loud screaming and broken sobs, that soon quieted to harsh, labored breathing. The man looked her right in the eyes and moved, she flinched as she saw a girl bleeding profusely on the floor from various cuts and burns

Buffy was woken up by her sisters insistent shaking "Buffy wake up!" Dawn said. "The dream is over"

"But there was screaming" Buffy said groggily.

"That would be you" Dawn said to her.

"But there was a girl" Buffy prompted, it had all felt so real to her.

"That would be me" Dawn said, folding her arms.

"It wasn't you" Buffy snapped to harshly, she so couldn't imagine her sister in the situation and she so didn't want to.

"Whatever wake up, Giles called. He said he'll meet you here in an hour. Important slayer stuff." Dawn told her rolling her eyes.

Buffy began the morning ritual of looking in the mirror to make sure she was actually there, alive and all. She touched her face and flinched away from her reflection. She slipped on a loose shirt and pants, light incase of immediate slayage. When she came down the stairs the gang was already there. "Where's Giles?" Buffy asked.

"Not sure" Willow said "He brought us all down here...Well, me and Tara and then poofed"

"Yeah, the G-man went AWOL and didn't even leave us the research doughnuts" Xander sighed.

"I'm here" Giles said "and don't ever call me that"

"So Giles, what's the deal with the all the importance" Buffy asked.

"A powerful new evil is rising" Giles said with a doughnut half way into his mouth and his nose in a book.

"Well, as Sunnydale is on a hellmouth that would tend to happen" Buffy said "What are we dealing with this time?" flashes of her dream returned to her and she sat up intently.

"It's not here on the Hellmouth, it's there on another hellmouth" Giles said distractedly and flipped the page while trying to sit down.

"Where on another hellmouth?" Buffy asked, But Giles didn't answer her "Giles share"

"What? oh sorry" Giles said, looking up from the book "In England".

"Oh that Hellmouth" Anya said, stretching from her position next to Xander.

"There's more than one Hellmouth?" Xander said "What did one die and the next one was called? is this a slayer type thing?"

Giles shot Xander an annoyed look "of course there's more than one Hellmouth, there's one in Cleveland too" Giles said.

"So why isn't there more than one Slayer?" Willow asked "Er...I mean...Why wasn't there more than one Slayer, you know before Buffy died....twice".

"Yeah really, why wasn't the prophecy 'one girl to guard each Hellmouth' instead of 'one girl in all the world'" Buffy said "it probably would have made things easier".

"I...Don't know" Giles said.

"B-But this Hellmouth...in E-England...it's...getting Rumbly?" Tara said speaking for the first time from her place next to Willow.

"Yes" Giles said "As I was saying, big new powerful evil".

"Great, just the way I like my evil, big, new and powerful" Buffy said. "With a side of ugly, I hate hott evil"

"And nothing in the way of Nerds" Xander said "there's...no Nerds right?"

"The Candy?" Willow asked.

"The people Will" Xander said "the trio of pains in the asses".

"Oh them" Willow sighed.

"As far as I know, they have nothing to do with this" Giles said.

"Besides, this is in England, they are over here. In Sunnydale" Anya said.