Warning: I do not own the rights to the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spin-off series Angel, its dark horse comics continuation series, or any of the characters created by Joss Whedon and others in the Buffyverse.
15 years +, Mild to Strong Violence, Sexual References.
F/F, F/M, M/M, Other +

Being back in some distorted version of Sunnydale had well and truly spooked Buffy Summers and although it was nice to see some version of where she once called home, she was just as much in a rush as everybody else was to get out of Sunnydale 2.0 which of course meant doing the thing Buffy did best; patrolling.
As she walked into one of the endless amount of cemeteries within her hometown she began hearing footsteps, making her take out the wooden stake from her jacket pocket as she looked around the cemetery to see signs of anyone before she hears a bottle breaking from behind a gravestone to her right.
Buffy began walking over cautiously, making sure whatever was behind this tombstone was not going to get the jump on her only for the slayer to be left shocked to find Sid the dummy sat there with a crate of beers in one hand a bottle of beer he had just opened in his other hand.
"Sid?" Buffy said to the man stuck in a puppet's body, shocked to see him again after so many years. "What are you doing in…well Sunnydale…sort of?"
"Drinking away my sorrows slayer, wish I could say it is good to see you, but I would rather it be anywhere but here." Sid replied to her.
"Can you even drink or get drunk?" Buffy asked him as he stood up, leaving his bottles of beer on the ground.
"Nope! But I can still remember what it was like and call me crazy, but it makes me feel better while stuck in this hell." Sid admitted, "You're new around here though? What did you do to piss of the great shadow demon?"
"I knew it!" Buffy said with excitement, realizing Sid's words proved Tristan's innocence.
"This is not one of your enemies to get excited about staking slayer." Sid snapped at her, clearly unamused with her response. "This thing is older than us both and boy it can hold a grudge."
"What could you have possibly done to annoy something that's been dormant for eons?" Buffy wondered.
"I guess you have not run into any of the demon's children then." Sid guessed, knowing he was right. "I only managed to kill the one and it got me a first-class ticket straight to here the minute it woke up."
"Wait, this thing has children? How is that even possible?" Buffy questioned the man within the dummy.
"Well not technically but over the centuries it's been stuck inside…well inside of chicks like you pretty much, he started favoring certain creatures who continued his evil doings as crazy as that sounds!" Sid revealed to the slayer. "Most of them do not even know what a shadow demon is never mind it's adopted them but never mess with a parent's kid none the less."
"How do you know so much about the shadow demon?" Buffy wondered, beginning to doubt if she could trust this one-time ally or not.
"When your stuck in this hell hole you get to reading, books about the thing is easy to find which I find rather narcist but hey this thing has existed longer than that word so who am I to judge." Sid informed her. "Point is it does not like people playing with it's toys and you played with his favorite so you're in all kinds of trouble."
"Tristan? But if Tristan died the shadow demon would never have been fully freed surely, he should be thanking us for that not condemning us to whatever the hell this is." Buffy responded, struggling to understand the shadow demon's anger towards her.
"Your son which is weird saying well he was nothing more than a vessel, I am talking about your first big kill Buffy, the original big bad, the master." Sid explained to a stunned Buffy. "He's playing us all like puppets…yes I get the irony so do not say it…this is one big game to him and the only way to get it is to play along."
"Then I guess I have no choice but to play along, so, considering you know so much what do I do first?" Buffy answered the magically possessed dummy.
"Keep walking ahead and try not to wind up dead again!" Sid said as he ushered his wooden arms to indicate for the slayer to walk further into the cemetery.

Buffy Summers had search through all the cemeteries in Sunnydale many times before but never had she patrolled in the town since her, her friends, loved ones and fellow slayers went to war against the first and to be back in her hometown was all kinds of strange for the legendary slayer as she continued to walk through the cemetery in search of whatever Sid was telling her to seek out.
"Well if is not the slayer, long time no see Miss Summers." The Master greeted her as he appeared from out of the shadows, leaving Buffy shocked once more by another face from her past. "Every time I see you, you just keep getting older and yet I remain the same."
"I would not boast about staying the same especially with that fruit punch face of yours," Buffy snapped back at the king of vampires. "Although I never get tired of kicking the ugly right out you!"
"You are not in your world anymore slayer, the same rules do not apply." The Master replied to her as he began walking closer to his enemy. "The shadow demon has set up a rematch between the two of us and spoiler alert if I win, I get to return to your world and make it my own once more."
"Hate to break it to you big guy but I surpassed you a long time ago so this fight is going to be just as short as the last time you came back from the dead." Buffy warned him, knowing she could take the master vampire.
"I am not foolish enough to think I can win against you by myself this time around slayer, which is why I got a little help from a witch." The Master revealed to her, as a big ball of blue and purple cosmic energy appeared within the cemetery.
"What the hell is that?" Buffy asked as she noticed the ball of cosmic energy randomly releasing bolts of purple lighting towards random graves, one bolt at a time.
"The slayer shall die as the dead rises again!" The Master stated with a cruel laugh, as zombified people began climbing out of their own graves, much to Buffy's horror.
The Master wasted no time in using Buffy's state of shock against her as he charged towards the blonde haired slayer, ready to battle to the death with the assistance of some magically reanimated corpses but before he could get near the slayer he felt a punch come across his face as he crashed onto the ground to find Spike had appeared from the shadows.
"Yeah here's the thing if your going to tag team this one then I guess I have to tag myself in." Spike said, as a furious Master began to slowly get back onto his feet, while the zombified corpses began slowly marching towards the slayer and the vampire with a soul.
"Well I have got to give it to this shadow demon," Buffy told Spike as she pulled out the wooden stake from her jacket. "At least he is making this game interesting…you take the zombies; I never get tired of killing the Master."
"Sure, thing Buffy," Spike replied as he began walking towards the zombies, ready to fight by the slayer's side, as always. "I just hope the others are having as much fun as us."
Buffy locked eyes with The Master, ready to battle him one last time, knowing it would not be long until he was defeated at her hands once again and became nothing but dust and bones like he was before, as Buffy and Spike was more than ready to take on this latest level of supernatural torment, knowing they were both going to make it out to the next level.