A/N: Sorry about the wait, been a hectic new year. I haven't seen buffy for a while, so I might be a bit off with some of the characters. And I know last chapter wasn't real good, but I tried to rush it out, so I apologise for any mistakes. Oh, and just so you know, I know absolutely no latin. Anyway on with the chapter.
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Harry groaned and pulled his pillow over his ears. However, to his great dismay, it never helped. "Argh!" He picked up the pillow and hurled it at the source of the noise: Ron.
"DIE YOU EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS!" Ron shouted as the pillow hit him, a random spell shooting out of his now drawn wand.
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As Harry and Ron entered the great hall for breakfast they were surprised to see a grown man and woman sitting at the Gryffindor table, both wolfing down food at a rate close to Ron's. Melanie was sitting beside the woman, talking animatedly with Hermione.
"Who are you?" Ron grunted, looking suspiciously at the man.
"New teacher assistants" he mumbled out in-between bites of food.
"Oh," Ron, still looking suspicious, just shrugged to Harry and sat down anyway.
"Have you seen the new edition?" Hermione asked Melanie, who nodded and grinned.
"Yeah, can you believe they included the-" Melanie stopped when Faith nudged her. She looked at Faith questionably, and the older slayer indicated outside. Melanie focused looked in the direction Faith pointed to and narrowed her eyes.
Faith stood and strolled towards the exit, catching Xander and Gile's eyes. The youngest of the two also stood and followed the brunette slayer outside.
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" What & Where?" Xander asked once he and Faith were outside.
Faith help up a hand to silence him and she slowly drew a small throwing knife from her pocket. Suddenly she spun and threw the knife. It sailed through the air until it collided with something invisible. Blood splattered out of an invisible wound as the creature fled, leaving a trail of purple fluid.
"What the…" Xander muttered, trailing off when a putrid smell reached his nose. He quickly pinched his nose close.
"Faith seemed to have the same idea. "We gotta after it!" Following the blood trail, Faith ran after the monster.
Xander sighed and took off at a run after Faith, and into the forbidden forest.
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"Welcome to your first Demonology lesson" Dumbledore announced to the 7th and 6th years that had gathered. "You will now split into two groups," He said as red line appeared in-between the students, " The students on the left of the line will be with Professor Giles learning fighting techniques, while the side on the right will be with me learning spells. We will switch sides halfway through the lesson."
Harry, Ron and Hermione headed to the right with Dumbledore. He noticed Malfoy smirking towards the back of the group, his two knuckleheads flanking him.
"Now, keep in mind, most of you won't be able to do these spells at first, considering they're very powerful and require a strong wizard to be able to cast them. The first one you will learn is Extamade (ex-ta-ma-dey). Now pronounce after me, Extamade"
"Extamade," the students said in unison.
Dumbldore nodded, "Good. This spell will burn a hole through the demon, so aim for the head or chest."
The students spent many minutes practicing this on wooden dummies that were conjured. It was no surprise to Dumbledore that only Harry and Hermione had perfected the spell. Ron was close, but just didn't have the endurance to use the spell repeatedly. The headmaster was just getting ready to send them over to Giles when Hermione raised her hand. "Yes miss Granger?"
"Sir, doesn't fire work against demons too?"
"Oh yes, how could I forget." Dumbledore said, " Fire will work against the weaker demons, but I seriously doubt that any of the demons Voldemort is working with will be weak."
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Faith growled as she ducked under sword that was aimed at her head.
She and Xander had followed the blood trail of the invisible creature, straight into three demons; sword & bow wielding demons.
She sidestepped another sword thrust and grabbed the demon's forearm & his upper arm. Before it could do anything she brought her knee up into it's elbow. A crunch and a scream later, the demon now had an arm that bent both ways.
Xander on the other hand, wasn't doing so well. He had an arrow sticking out of his left leg and was in a bear hug by a demon from behind, while the other one had his bow drawn, arrow aimed at the one-eyed ex carpenter's head. Raising his good leg, Xander scraped his heel down the shin of the demon holding him. As it loosened it's grip, he elbowed it's ribs and ducked, the arrow that was heading towards him hit the demon in the chest. It had a look of surprise on it's face as it fell backwards.
He looked up just in time to see Faith behead the last demon. Sighing in relief, a look of horror suddenly came across his face as he saw Faith eyeing the arrow stuck in his leg. "Oh No! No! Not agai- Aaaaaaaaagh!"
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Harry and co. (Hermione & Ron) stood in front of the tweed wearing professor as he explained stuff about demons that they had already learned last night.
"Since demons are stronger than humans, or wizards in your case, you'll stand more of a chance with a weapon." He pointed over to a large table that full of different types of swords, axes, crossbows, etc. "I want you all to go over and pick out a weapon that you want to use. I will then get you to use it in a practice match against another student. If I think that you won't be able to use it properly, then you will go back and get another one. There are charms up so no one will get hurt."
The students all rushed over the table, trying to find the coolest looking weapon.
Harry chose a sword that bore a striking resemblance to the Gryffindor sword he used to kill the basilisk. As he pushed through the crowd he saw Melanie standing there, hold two small Japanese swords (wakazashis or tantos, (is that what they're called, I can't remember)), one in each hand. Hermione and Ron joined him, the former carrying a crossbow and the redhead with a battle axe (like the one Gimli uses in lord of the rings).
"Hey Longbottom!" The turned to see Malfoy walking over to Neville.
As he neared, Malfoy suddenly swung his Broadsword at Neville, surprised when the blade went straight through him, no harm done. Malfoy smirked and laughed at the surprised and hurt look on the Neville. " What do you know, they've already activated the protective charms." The slytherins burst out laughing.
"Mr. Malfoy! Deten-" Giles started, but was cut off.
"Can I go against him sir?" Melanie said.
Giles looked at her annoyed, but nodded his head anyway.
"Humph," Malfoy sneered at her, before making his way up to small stage that Giles was standing on. He twirled the sword around a few times, then lunged forward, stopping a mere inch away from her eye. He was surprised when she didn't flinch.
"You done acting like a clown, or do I have time to grab something to eat" She said, earning a growl from the fullblood wizard.
Giles sighed and started cleaning his glasses. "Begin,"
Malfoy lunged at Melanie, who deflected his strike with her right tanto, and sliced through his neck with the other. Enraged at being made a fool of, Malfoy lunged again.
The Gryffindors and many of the other students burst out laughing at Malfoy's display of gracefulness as he charged of the stage and face first into the ground.
The doors of the hall burst open and Faith walked in, followed by a limping Xander who had part of his shirt tied around his leg.
While everyone's attention was drawn to them, Melanie hopped down from the stage. As Malfoy started to get up, she chopped him in the back of the neck, knocking him out. Making sure no one was watching she dragged him around the back of the stage where he couldn't be seen and went back to where the other students were.
"There was some invisible thing Giles. I wounded it and we chased it into the forest where we ran into some demon trouble." Faith whispered to Giles, who nodded and looked at Xander.
" Yep, she did it again," Xander muttered.
Giles turned to Melanie, who was standing innocently, "Melanie, since you've already proven that you can use those weapons, could you take Xander to the hospital wing."
She nodded and handed him her weapons before guiding Xander out into the corridors of the old castle. They headed through the halls, but after what felt life ten minutes she stopped turned to Xander. "You don't happen to have a map do you?"