Disclaimer: All Buffy the Vampire Characters belong to Joss Whedon. Any character I add in is totally of my own crazy invention. Thank you.

Prologue:

"Are you sure she's here?"

Giles scanned the desert horizon, eyes squinted against the sunlight.

"Not she. They."

Willow shot an annoyed glance at Giles.

"There's more than one."

"In one place? That's rather unlikely,Willow. Now, finding one is hard enough, how can there be two in the same place, especially -this- god foresaken wasteland..."

Willow sighed and shot him an even more annoyed look.

"Giles, wouldja just take my word on this? I'm the one who woke the Potentials after all. I can feel their presence across the world. There are two here, 'kay?"

Giles sighed and took off his glasses to clean them.

"Fine, fine. But if you're wrong, you owe me a coke."

Willow grinned and shook her head as she drove on through the desert.

"You gotta quit watching Simpsons,Giles. It'll shrink your brain."

"No, there was only one demon that could do that, and it's not the Idiot Box."

Willow laughed a bit before letting out a sigh.

"So what's the demon that could shrink your brains? Just curious, cus' y'know, I like my brain how it is."

Giles gave a small, sad smile before looking at her.

"It was Anya."

Willow smiled a little and nodded.

"Yeah, she really could shrink brains just from her talking..."

They sat in silence for a while, just remembering the old vengence demon, both feeling sad that she had been killed in the last battle with the First about a year ago.

"I miss her too."

They sleepy voice came from the back of the buggy. Giles turned around to see Dawn's head poking out from the bundle of blankets in the back.

"Oh,finally awake are you?"

She nodded.

"Good. Now I can sleep. Your turn to deal with Willow."

Willow stuck her tounge out and stopped the buggy and let Dawn and Giles switch place. Two more buggies pulled up next to Willow. Xander was driving a blue one, wih Andrew in the passenger seat, the pile of blankets in the back were covering a sleeping Kennedy. The red one was being driven by Faith,with Jessica, a Slayer they had found about two months ago, in the passenger seat. The girl was about twelve years old, brown hair, and blue eyes. Jess though of Faith as a big sister, and was always trying to impress her.

Under the blankets was Alexis, a Slayer who was found in Germany. It was ironice that she had been friends with a potential that had been killed by the First's Bringers. Alexis was nineteen, and had a crush on Faith like no one would believe.

"Hey,Red, what's the hold up?"

Faith had her hair up in a ponytail and wore a black tank top, making her look very much the babe ready for action.

"Nothing,Giles just needs to sleep."

Faith rolled her eyes.

"I say we break for lunch,man. I am wicked hungry."

"Not yet. Let's give it another hour. I want to find these Slayers."

Giles got comfortable in the back,under the covers. and Dawn buckled herself in. Willow ruffled Dawn's now short cropped hair before starting off again. They had decided to cut it short so she wouldn't suffer the heat so much with how long her hair had been at the start of the trip. The others fell in line behind, and behind the other buggies, was an offroad truck for the new Slayers to ride in. They went on like this for two more days, switching drivers often,thers sleeping, switching cars and riders and so on.

"Shit, how much longer we gotta do this,Red?"

Faith had her hands behind her head and her feet on the dashboard while riding next to Willow.

"We're really close now, I can feel it."

"That's what you said a day ago! Sorry,but I'm fuckin' tired of seein' nothin' but sand,girl. And 'Lex is gettin' burned, not to mention poor 'lil Jess."

Willow sighed.

"I swear, they're around here somewhere."

"Yeah, they better be..."

Faith sighed and pulled the vizer of her hat down over her eyes. They drove around a quite large dune and Willow stopped the buggy. Faith pulled her vizer up and her eyebrows lifted up.

"Woah..."

She stood up in the buggy, getting a better look. Before them was a city of tents. People milled about in robes and other such clothing. There was an oasis a good twenty feet away from the west side of the tents, and Willow grinned as she looked up at Faith.

"I'd say we found it."