Chapter: 4
"Buffy you think we need a bigger bus?"
"I think we 're going to need several buses soon."
A week had already transpired since the events at Sunnydale, correction, the town formerly known as Sunnydale. Now it's nothing more but a giant crater, any traces of it lying buried beneath the dusty soil of its pit. Once it had been home to Buffy, Xander and Willow as well as numerous other friends and fellow citizens. Some of the best memories resided in that town, in places that the original three trekked, through course of their adventures. Places like Sunnydale High, Giles's Apothecary Shop, Buffy's residence and the Bronze were frequent gathering for the Scobby Gang. Of course like a double-edged sword, it had its dark side. That dark side was the Hellmouth, a place where vampires, demons, gods and all those that fell in between would congregate. A place where a psychopathic robot rose up in an attempt to find him a wife, adult minds warped into those of teenagers, where Vampire Bosses threatened to exterminate the Slayer. The mayor of Sunnydale, a demon himself, vied for global enslavement but ended up in fragmented remains all across the original Sunnydale High. From a rogue Slayer to singing Broadway musical, living in Sunnydale had been the life of the Chosen. The Chosen who died not once, but twice to save mankind, did her battles away from the public eye as the world is not ready to see the true self. No one besides a few would ever know that they had defeated the First Evil. Its demise, through an immense sacrifice by Spike, would cause a cascade sinkhole effect throughout the perimeters of the town, leaving it as a giant crater spoken before. This indeed was the life of the Slayer but now it seems that the Higher Power has brought a reward forth. Unfortunately, it won't be able to fit into a bus.
"Right, so does that mean we can commandeer a greyhound bus?"
Buffy looked at Woods in question.
He smirked," Just a thought."
Xander called out has he loaded up last of the supplies and a few more chosens. The bus stood by a Shell station of their first official stopover to pick up new slayers. As luck would have it, they found approximately seven more girls that held latent signs of power. However convincing them of who they were took some doing. A night out in some unruly corners had soon given the girls some eye widening experience, a new insight to what truly the world has in store for them.
"Alright the supplies and slayers are boarded. Buffy any last minute potty break?"
"Xander!"
"Well sorry, but you made us stop thrice!"
"As I recall, it was once and it was you that stopped twice for the call of nature. God knows what the bushes must have saw!" She crinkled her nose while Xander facial appearance looked like that of a raspberry. Buffy then faced back to Robin.
"We should get going to the next place but we really need some sort solid plan. We can't just scoop each and every single slayer off the face of the earth. Its way too time consuming."
Woods could only nod in agreement as they stepped back onto the bus. The yellow bus departed the station and headed off to the next location. Forty minutes passed by before Giles initiated a 'senior staff' meeting at the back of the bus. Faith was at helm so she had to get the heads up a bit later but for now, the seniors began to talk about the next course of action. Buffy spoke up first.
"Giles we need to get a better plan. Retrieving new slayers like this is going to take a long time."
Willow spoke up after, "Agree and we can't take each and every slayer. Some are not even of age yet for their strength to manifest itself."
Giles listened to each of their words, but he could not come up with anything.
"It does seem somewhat of difficult task but The Coven has resided us with this until further notice and as you know there is not much of The Watcher's Council left."
Woods didn't like the answer.
"That may be but look at us. How can we go on like this to a day-to-day business? We need a central place of operations and deployment."
"You sound like an old boyfriend I had."
"Oh and what was he, some sort of military man?"
"Actually he was. He worked for covert military organization.
"Oh."
The seniors remained in an awkward silence even when Andrew spoke obnoxiously loud, vehemently defending Wolverine's mutant powers against one of the girls choice of Cyclops. Admittedly Xander was eaves dropping over their discussion when it occurred to him.
"Why don't we open up a school?"
All of them just stared at Xander and he rather sheepishly continued his idea as it came to his head.
"I was just thinking that we can open some sort of private school as a front to gather in slayers and train them. We have the brains and the brawns," looking at group, "And I'm the sure some sort of funds can be obtained by the Council and Coven, later by tuition fees."
They regarded Xander's idea, Giles being first to answer.
"While do think its rather improper to extort money under subterfuge, it is a clever idea. Ingenious actually."
Xander gave his trademark goofy smile as Buffy smiled in approval and Willow gave him a sisterly hug. He soon got up glowing.
"Well if you all excuse me, I must go and inform Faith and relieve her of driving duties. I must say I think I'm getting good at the brains department…"
At moment the tires of the bus soon dove into a pothole, causing Xander inside to trip and fall unceremoniously face forward. Faith called out back not noticing.
Author's Note: Thank you for the review FeralElektra ! Yes the chapters do seem a bit short but I'll try do lengthen them in time! Now on with the show!