Slayer, Shadow, Darkness

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Serenity woke up the next morning and rolled over. She looked at the clock and immediately began to change. She and Joey were late for school. After she dressed into her uniform, she banged on Joey's door like every other day "JOEY! We have to go in five minutes!" she yelled through the door. She heard faint mumbling, and she knew Joey was moving around inside. "Hurry up, JOEY!" she yelled again before running downstairs.

"Dammit Serenity, why'd you forget to set the alarm?" Joey yawned as he walked alongside his little sister. "I had something else on my mind," she said, thinking back to the events the night before. "So?" he asked. "So what?" she asked back. "So what did you have on your mind?" he pressed on. "Not here, Joey. We should meet up with the others first," she said before speeding up. "Hey! 'Ren! Dammit, what's up wit her?" he asked himself.

-Classroom, lunchtime-

"Brian, do you remember that day, you called us all over to your place and your sister told us about monsters and slayers?" Serenity asked the American teen. "Yeah, why? You wanna know more?" he asked, looking out the window. "Brian...I was attacked last night," she said quietly. He and everyone else in the room turned and looked at her. "WHAT! Why didn't you say that last night!" Joey screamed. "Probably because she'd knew you do this, Wheeler," Marik muttered. "SHUT UP YA PSYCHO!" he yelled walking over to him.

"JOEY! Let her finish," Brian interrupted "Go on, Serenity," he said sitting across from her. "I was walking home from the store and I was attacked by a vampire. It was the second time he got to me-," she said. "SECOND? WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME!" Joey shrieked. "Joey, shut up and or I'll make you shut up," Tea threatened him. Serenity sighed, "The first time was before all this stuff started. If I told you I was attacked by a monster, would you have believed me?" she asked her brother. He kept silent, and she continued. "The first time, he attacked me with two other vampires, then before they could bite me, a man saved me,".

"Man? What did he look like?" Brian asked her gently. "Tall, dark, brown hair, wearing a black coat," she described perfectly. Brian stared at the door, thinking about this. "Anyway, the vampire came after me last night andanother man came to save me, at least I think it was a man, he was wearing a cloak and a mask, I couldn't tell. Anyway he wrote a symbol in the dirt and clapped his hands together, and a sword came out of the ground in front of me. He told me grab it, and I did...then something happened to me. I don't know what, but I felt something in me I've never felt before. Next thing I know, I'm cutting the vampire's head off," she finished. Now everyone was surprised. "You killed a vampire by yourself?" Tea asked her. She nodded, "And before the cloaked man left, he called me something," she said quietly.

"What did he call you?" Yami asked. "He called me...Slayer," she answered him. Silence filled the room. "As in vampire Slayer?" Ryou asked. She nodded and Brian climbed off the desk and walked around the room. "You don't believe me, Brian?" Serenity asked her friend. "I believe that what happened, happened. But I don't know about believing you could be a Slayer," he said walking near the door. "Well we could ask your sister, have her test Serenity," Tea suggested. Brian nodded, "Or...I could test you," he said leaning against the wall.

-Library, After School-

Giles sat at the desk in the librarians office pouring over books on ancient magicks. He covered everything from Dark Magic to Black Magic, but couldn't find Shadow Magic. He had seen magic blades, magic books, and magic stones. He sighed and walked out to the library's main area. "How goes it, Giles?" Xander asked, taking a bite of his candybar. "W-well it seems that there is no record of anything called Shadow Magic in any of the usual references," he said adjusting his glasses. "I would think not, Watcher," a raspy voice entered the room. Xander and Giles looked to the side to see on the second level. a figure in a red cloak with a black mask.

"Who or what are you andwhat do you want?" Xander asked, standing quickly. "Who I am is not important, as to what I am, I'm human. Don't worry about that, Cyclops," he said agitated. "What do you want?" Giles asked calmly. "I've come to give you some help, Watcher. You're looking for Slayers in this town aren't you? As well as Shadow Magic?" the figure asked him. "Yes, how did you know that?" Giles asked him, walking over to him. The figure looked down at Giles, "I've been watching you all lately, and I must say...I'm a little disappointed," he said.

"I take it you know something on this...Shadow Magic? As well as the identities of the Potentials?" Giles asked him. "I do, Watcher, I do," the figure nodded "Two of the Potentials are students here, the other two, aren't. As for Shadow Magic, I suggest you go to another place of historical information besides libraries,". Giles took Xander away to talk in private. "Well what do you think?" he whispered to the young man. "Well, the way I see it, we have two options. One, we work our asses trying off to try and find them on our own, or two, we can take the easy path and listen to this guy," Xander said jerking his head to the right.

"What if it's a trap? Or a false tip?" Giles countered. Xander thought"What do we got to lose? We got nothing so far, Giles,". He gave up and turned to the robed figure only to see him gone. "Where'd he go?" Xander asked, looking around. Giles had his vision concentrated on something on the table nearby. "What is it, G-Man?" Xander asked. Giles picked up a brochure from the table, "Domino City Museum," he read off the paper. He checked his watch, "Xander, come with me," he said walking past him. "Where we going?" he asked following the older man.

They arrived at the Museum before closing time. Giles and Xander entered the main hall to find that Buffy, Willow and Dawn were there. "Giles? What are you guys doing here?" Buffy asked. "I might ask the same of you three," he replied. "We were told to come here," Willow told them. "Same here, was your person in red?" Xander asked. They nodded. "Okaay,"Willow said quietly. "So why tell us to come here?" Dawn asked no one in particular. A dull banging sound came from the left hallway, catching their attention. They cautiously walked down the hallway towards the source. Once they entered a room labeled Ancient Egypt, they saw dozens of glass cases with exhibits. "This is where the noise was coming from," Willow said softly, looking around.

"Jeez, look at all the stuff," Dawn told them excitedly walking along the display cases. "Dawnie, don't touch anything," Buffy told her sister. "I know, I've been to museums before!" she shot back. Giles walked around the room until he stopped in front of a large stone tablet. He read the description on the panel below it "Pharaoh and the High Priest, engaging in a...Shadow Game?" he read the last part again, unsure if he read it right. He looked up and studied the tablet. After a few minutes, "Buffy, everyone, I think I found something," he called them over. "What's up, G-Man?" Xander asked walking over.

They read the description and looked at the tablet. "Oh man, I don't believe it," Dawn gasped. "You see it too, Dawnie?" Willow asked, her eyes unmoving from the stone. "What? Someone wanna clue us in?" Buffy asked impatiently. Willow pointed to the sculpture "The Pharaoh and the High Priest...I have students that look exactly like them," she explained. Dawn nodded, "Yugi and Kaiba," she added. "You know those kids?"Buffy asked her. "Yeah, I have most of my classes with them, they're kinda cool," she explained.

"So what? Kids at school are really thousands of years old?" Xander wondered out loud. "It looks like it, but...how?" Buffy asked. "Excuse me, but the museum is closing," a voice startled them. They all turned around to see a woman with tanned skin, long black hair and piercing blue eyes. "Oh, I'm very sorry, we're just looking over the lovely collection of Egyptian artifacts you have acquired," Giles apologized quickly. "Well they are very popular, but I'm afraid you'll have to leave," she said gesturing towards the door. "Right, sorry once again, come along everyone," Giles said to everyone. Once they left the Museum, Ishizu closed and locked the front doors, then made her way back to her office.

She entered her office and immediately she noticed a large brown object on her desk. She walked over to it and picked it up. It was heavy, that was certain. She looked around and saw a note attached to it. She tore it off and unfolded it. She began to read:

Dear Miss Ishtar,

Please consider this as a token of our love for historical findings. Wrapped in this paper is an ancient book written in Samarian. We hope that this will be able to interest others into reading more about history.

Yours Sincerely,

W.R.H.

She tore off the wrapping and indeed, there was a book. It was bound in what seemed to be hard leather and the covering seemed a little disturbing. It looked as though it had a face or something inhuman, but she dismissed it right away. She opened it up and flipped through the pages. The paper inside was very old, and had frightening images of creatures not of this world. All the writing and drawings seemed towritten in red dyed ink. "What in all of creation?" she whispered. As she flipped through more, another note fell out and landed on the floor.

She bent down and looked at it. It had P.S. written on it. She unfolded this note and read it:

P.S.

By the way, Miss Ishtar, we're sure by now you're wondering what this book is. It's official title is the Necronomicon Ex Mortis...or tranlated, The Book of the Dead...