Summary: Joy Peters is a teenager with strange powers. What she doesn't know yet is that she is actually the new slayer. Well...after a tragedy strikes her home, Joy is relocated to none other than the infamous Sunnydale, CA where she, rather reluctantly, joins the Scooby Gang. Life is tough fitting in to a new school, making new friends, and oh yea...falling for a familiar bleached-blonde Vampire who's so desperate to prove himself good! Giles has trouble keeping the new slayer concentrated on her training and Buffy has trouble keeping the new slayer away from Spike. There will be action, adventure, romance, drama, angst, humor, and horror (at least I'll try to include all of them).
The setup for the series is as follows (I hope it's not too confusing. I'm just kind of molding everything to how I want it, or need it I guess. If you're confused about anything then just ask me.)...The town's as it is in the end of season 6, but with the new school and principal (it is not Principal Woods, but someone sort of like him without the whole "Spike killed my mom" drama). Warren's gang is over (they bothered me), and Tara was never killed and Willow doesn't go bad; she and Willow are happily still in love and they're both in college, living with Buffy. Angel is in LA but his crew has recently broken up, and now he's been given a new mission by the Powers: prepare the new slayer. He never had a son. Spike and Buffy had their sexual tryst (which is what they both agreed it was) and they are long past over. Spike never got his soul, and he is still tamed by the chip in his head. After Xander's and Anya's failed engagement, they are still experiencing feelings, but are unsure as to what those feelings are. Faith ran off to LA where she got herself in some serious trouble and has been arrested more times than she can count. There is not going to be any 'potentials' or end of Sunnydale. And Giles has been in England but has just returned with some news about a new slayer, which he has been given orders to find and to train. Oh yea, and guess who comes back to Buffy? Riley Finn (and he's very unmarried). However, it's not all champagne and roses when Angel joins them and her old feelings resurface.
So, there it is in a nutshell. I know it's not at all right with the series, but that's why it's a fanfiction. It's my own little made up story of how I think it would be fun. Please, all I'm asking is that you give it a chance. Thanks!

Chapter One: In Trouble Again

High school. What good could be said about it? The halls were always filled with enemy jabbing and gossiping. The classes were dull and useless. The food was probably poisonous. The girls were much too competitive for their age. And the guys were well...anything but stimulating. But that was life.

"Take it back!" A girl's angry voice rang out across the schoolyard signaling the first fight of the year. Her demand was followed by a forceful punch.

"No!" Her female opponent's rather-frightened voice replied with an attempt at equal vigor.

"Don't be an idiot Kelly!" Some random onlooker begged the weaker fighter to reconsider her smug tenacity.

"Listen to your friends, Kelly! They're smarter than you and their looking out for your own good!" The first voice threatened again and again followed her words with a hard attack.

The fighting opponent, Kelly, wouldn't listen to reason and so kept up the fight.

If an unaware passerby happened to walk across the front lawn catfight, they might think the battle looked evenly matched. The two girls were of about the same stature, both small in size, petite and a little on the shorter side. However, if another passerby who knew more about the two students happened to walk by, they would have more understanding as to the serious threat Kelly was facing. Joy Peters was an excellent fighter, no matter her small size.

In another minute Kelly was face down on the ground, her perfect, white cheerleading skirt covered instantly with unflattering streaks of grass and dirt. But she was not safe yet. Her fighting partner pounced on her, taking advantage of Kelly's on-the-ground position. Grabbing her by the hair, Joy pushed Kelly's face into the ground forcing her to literally eat dirt. Pulling her head backwards, Joy screamed again.

"Take it back bitch!" Joy was repetitively shoving the cheerleader's face into the ground making her groan in pain.

"Get off me you freak!" Kelly flailed her arms in vain in an attempt to throw her attacker off of her back where Joy was mounted.

"Take it ba-" Joy was suddenly pulled by her arm off of the helpless brunette who was being smothered by the grass. Joy tried to wriggle free but more strong hands came to hold her back and when she turned around she realized that one of the people holding her was a teacher.

"Miss Peters," The teacher's stern face turned into an even more serious frown. "I should have known."

"Oh Mr. Hawkins, thank God you came!" Kelly crawled to her feet with the help of a friend. "She's gone mental, I swear! If you hadn't shown up there's no telling what she would have done. She's a lunatic, Mr. Hawkins! She just started attacking me like a monster, honest, I have witnesses!" Her whiny voice droned on as she glanced to her friend for backup, who nodded obediently; the 'friend' seemed too afraid to cross the enraged cheerleader. Kelly continued, "She really should be locked up, Mr. Hawkins, she's not fit to be in a school an-"

"That will do Miss Lyle." Mr. Hawkins, the teacher holding Joy, rolled his eyes at the desperate girl who was furiously wiping at the stains on her outfit and trying to smooth out her mangled raven locks. "Miss Peters, come with me."

Joy followed, though not without some reluctance and a few shouted insults back at Kelly. A few minutes later she was slouching in a stiff, wood chair staring blankly across a large desk at the principal. No one had spoken yet but the disapproving frown on Principal Nelson's face was more than words.

"Look, I know what you're thinking," Joy rolled her eyes and spoke bluntly to the principal. She was obviously in no way shy of speaking to authority figures.

"What am I thinking, Miss Peters?" Principal Nelson entwined his fingers and rested his hands on his desk. "Please, amuse me."

"You're thinking what a screw up I am and how you're so disappointed in me-" She started her explanation.

"Alright, let's stop you right there." Principal Nelson leaned forward. "Miss Peters, you are a good student, at least you are when you try. I just don't feel that you really apply yourself to your schoolwork. At least that's how your last year was. I felt that last year you had some potential but you never...what's the word...utilized that potential. Don't let this year turn out the same, Miss Peters." He shook his head. "Don't let your high school years be wasted."

Joy shrugged carelessly, "I guess we'll see how it goes!" She shifted in her seat. "Is that all?"

"No, that's not all! That was just a sidetrack subject." Principal Nelson leaned back in his seat again. "Miss Peters, you know why you're here."

"Yea, I know. I was fighting," Joy crossed her arms over her chest. "And fighting's against school policy, ya-da-ya-da," Joy was also not very good at respecting authority, or rules.

"The school year's hardly even begun! I would really rather not expel you after only ten days of classes!" The principal sighed deeply. "I had hoped that you would outgrow your...uh...anger, over the summer."

"Anger?" Joy laughed. "I don't have an anger problem, well maybe a little of a temper problem. But you know what? You are so not going to put all this blame on me!" Joy's voice rose in vehemence. "This fight was not one-sided!"

"Miss Peters," The principal shook his head. "Do you really expect me to believe that Miss Kelly Lyle would start a fight?"

"Well, it's not fair that you automatically accuse me! Just because I'm not little-miss-perfect-head-cheerleader-have-my-own-posse-and-paid-for-boobs..."

"Miss Peters, I really don't think that's appropriate!" Principal Nelson almost laughed at Joy's comment but didn't for modesty sake.

"I'm not done," Joy cut off the principal and he raised an eyebrow and didn't let her finish her thought.

"Yes you are done, Miss Peters," He cleared his throat. "Now, with your record, it's not such an impossible idea for me to assume you started this afternoon's dispute."

"She deserved it!"

"Miss Peters," His voice held warning.

"She said I was a bitchy whore and that my boyfriend was a foreign delinquent!" Joy's voice rose again, cutting off the principal with no restraint. "Now, I may not be the most, umm, virtuous girl in school, but I don't sleep around! I would never cheat on Henri, he and I are very serious! He trusts me. Just because I choose to be a little on the flirtatious side-"

"Miss Peters, I really don't think that this is a fitting conversation for us to be having," Principal Nelson seemed uneasy and he fidgeted as his cheeks blushed.

"Look Principal Nelson, I am just not that kind of girl! Kelly had no right to say that about me!" She was enraged and the principal couldn't calm her.

"I agree," He spoke when she finally silenced, "She should not have spoke about you so harshly, but Miss Peters...you broke her nose!"

Joy shrugged and carelessly turned her attention to the fingernail-rip in her fishnet shirt, "So, she'll buy a new one!"

He frowned, "It wasn't fair of you to hurt her though."

Joy sighed resignedly, "Whatever, give me detention and get over it. I'm going to be late for work," She stood and prepared to leave the office.

"I'm afraid I can't let you off that easily this time," He glanced towards the doorway and she turned around slowly, not sure what he was looking at. She grimaced. It was her parents.

"Shit," She muttered under her breath and slunk back into the chair.

Aah, high school. What a vicious and wonderful life.