For Good or Bad, The Memories Remain.

Chapter 6

Disclaimer- I don't still own Buffy and crew, I just use them in my writing, just for fun, never for profit "Cause that's wrong!"

Spoilers- mid 4th season then everything takes a left turn off the charted path

Rating- May get to R eventually

Ghost. A myth. A legendary Slayer reputed to be Immortal. She appeared in the writings about 270 years ago. A Slayer of exceptional skill in Central Europe who was reported to be dead began showing up around other Slayers, frequently ether just before or just after their Watcher dies. The descriptions were never very clear but always similar; tall wraith-like figure moving with a level of combat skill beyond any the witnesses had ever seen. There are accounts of a particular Watcher receiving a visitor in the middle of the night carrying a bundle. The cloaked visitor brings the bundle in, lays it down and tells him in a whisper 'She didn't die alone; I was with her in the end. Bury her well, she earned it" and handed him a pouch containing 40 gold doubloons. When he looked up at the cloaked figure, all he could see was two pale blue eyes peering out as she turned away. Without another sound she vanished. She has also been seen holding the body of a dying Slayer or at funerals. She was rumored to be behind mysterious elaborate funeral arrangements for penniless Slayers. At one point she had been likened to a specter of death, a bad omen. As a young Watcher in training, he had studied the Slayer myths and legends. Ghost was one of the ones that most intrigued him since you would every now and then still get a report or a sighting, usually passed off as a too young Watcher with an overactive imagination. There were older legends of undying Slayers but the only one that seemed to resurface within modern times was Ghost. Sure it was every young Watcher's dream to stumble onto Genvieve the Invincible or amber eyed Johneen, the unstoppable Slayers of the 12th and 16th century who each were supposedly still reported to be slaying over 150 years after they were originally reported killed by their respective Watchers, but it's one thing to wish to find a woman of legendary power and beauty, and quite another to find a reputed harbinger of Death. He had gone through the records and tried to match Ghost up to a particular Slayer in the archives and, like so many before him had drawn a blank time and again until he stumbled on a fragment of diary misfiled in another journal. He never showed it to anyone since it was in his father's journal and figured it was left there for him. His father had been obsessed with Genvieve and had come across this fragment of a report the she was seen at a Slayer named Sasha Hannachen's last battle. When Sasha fell to a fatal chest wound, Genvieve went into a killing frenzy, slaughtering all the remaining demons. She then picked up Sasha's body and vanished into the fog. All of this was witnessed by a young girl that had been taken by the demons who was saved by Sasha. Many years later the young girl, now a woman with her own children, had one of her girls taken from the yard at twilight. Later in the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door; it was a tall cloaked figure holding the hand of her missing daughter. As she knelt down to her child, she looked up at the figure. What she saw shocked her; it was Sasha, looking exactly as she had on the evening she had saved her. 'How' she exclaimed. 'Easy, I'm a Ghost' the figure replied. This was the true origin of her nickname and the start of the legend. Giles had it only because his father's obsession with all things Genvieve. But what to do now? Her appearance has always been reputed to be foreshadowing of death. 'Is she here for me or is it Buffy?'

To Be Continued

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