Once we were all together, and Kansas was still in her bed asleep, Sid started talking.
"We have a problem," he said quietly, "over the past few years, Slayers have been awakening at an astonishing rate. Since the Watcher's council was destroyed, there haven't been enough Watchers for every single Slayer. And what's worse, a lot of Slayers have been going missing lately, and I now know where they are going."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, " I said, "I have a few questions, first of all, what is a Slayer, second of all, what is a Watcher?"
I heard a voice behind me, "One girl, in all the world, who stands against the darkness."
Everyone turned around to see Kansas standing there. Instantly I understood. The super strength and speed, why she was special enough for a group of vampires to keep her alive, I just didn't quite understand why they wanted her.
She looked at Sid, "What's this all about? Why is everyone else up with their serious faces on? And why am I not involved?"
It hit Sid like a ton of bricks, "Um," he stumbled, but the regained his composure and cleared his throat, "maybe you should have a seat Kansas."
She looked a little angry but had a seat next to Sid. He was still standing, addressing everyone.
"Alright, I'll just go out and say it, I just saw a Vampire on the news. Now, it may be nothing, but I think something's amiss. With the Slayer influx, I think the vampires are upping the ante. The video shows a vampire single handedly take out an entire platoon of our American soldiers, " he stopped for a second to let it all sink in and cleared his throat. I looked over at Jung and Scot; they had a look of confusion on their faces. They must have been thinking the same thing as me.
"Now, I don't think this is some Middle-Eastern war effort in order to beat the infidels. They were just testing their weapon."
"That's not all," we all heard again, from the back. But there wasn't supposed to be anyone else left back there. We all turned, and I went for my shotgun. We all gave a sigh of relief when we saw Duncun walking out of the back room.
"That's not a vampire, not exactly."
"What do you mean?" Sid asked getting a little frustrated.
"Well, she is, in a sense," Duncun said, staying as grim and mysterious as ever, "I have reason to believe that this is some sort of new breed of vampire, in a sense, bred for combat."
Sid fell back into his chair and stared at the table for a long while, "Well…are you sure".
Duncun threw one of his, I could now tell, signature dark looks Sid's way, "Trust me."
I found this to be the perfect silence for my question, the question on everyone's mind. I looked over at Duncun, "Um, if its 'one' girl to stand against the darkness, then how are there a lot of them, or is that just some sort of oversight in the title?"
Duncun looked at me, and then looked to Sid to give the answer. He obviously knew the answer, but he apparently didn't like talking much.
Sid looked up, almost misty-eyed, "It all started with just one. When one died, another would be called. When the Sunnydale Slayer died, she was brought back to life and there were two. The Watcher's council didn't know what to do, except just put watchers on both of them. When the second one died, another was called, as if now there were two chosen ones to stand against the darkness. But something must have gone wrong.
"About a year ago, we noticed that Slayer potentials, girls who had the potential to be called but had to wait until a true Slayer died, were being hunted down and killed. But we noticed too late and the Watcher's council was also attacked and nearly every Watcher was killed or seriously injured. I don't know what happened after that, whether it was the Powers-that-be getting tired of seeing all their potentials destroyed, or some sort of uber-powerful spell, or what, but every Slayer potential in the world awoke as a Slayer.
"Suddenly we had hundred of Slayers running around the world. Girls who didn't know the first thing about the occult, normal high-school girls, were instantly able to bench press 400 pounds and get hit by a car and do more damage to the car than them.
"And now apparently, someone, or just the vampire population, or even worse, the entire demon populous as a whole has decided they aren't going to bloody well take it any more."
Everyone stayed quiet for a while, thinking about what had just been said.
Duncun just smiled, "I have a plan…"