Chapter 1: Sunnydale
"So we're having a quiet week on the hell mouth. Am I the only one who finds this slightly worrying?", Xander Harris asked. "Actually I'm kinda enjoying the quiet.", Willow Rosenberg replied. "All I'm saying is that every time there's a serious lack of evil around that means something really bad is about to happen." "Maybe all the monsters decided to go on vacation.", Dawn said. The others looked at her. "Okay, okay, we're doomed.", Dawn sighed. "Well, I suppose I should probably still go out and patrol. Not that I actually expect to find anything.", Buffy said. The last few days the graveyards had been as quiet as, if you'll excuse the expression, a tomb. That left Giles, Buffy's Watcher, feeling extremely nervous and with good reason. As Xander had pointed out the evil creatures of Sunnydale didn't usually go to ground unless something really bad was about to happen. Buffy wanted to find out what it was before it got to be too apocalyptic.
The first eleven of Sunnydale's twelve cemeteries were completely empty. Buffy sighed. She'd hoped that she would have found something by now. However luck finally seemed to be on her side as she entered the last one. A group of demons were breaking into one of the tombs. The fight ended fairly quickly with one demon slain and one escaping. Buffy glanced down at the demon she'd just killed. He was holding some sort of amulet or talisman. She picked it up and studied it. It was a red stone set in silver with black lettering around it. Buffy carefully put it in her pocket. It looked like she and the rest of the Scooby Gang were in for a long night of research.