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A MONTH LATER

Greg was at the slayer school once again helping with the training of the newer slayers and well he didn't seem to be fighting back at all as Buffy and Faith shouted stuff to help the new slayers out with the fight. One of the slayers seemed to get annoyed at the fact he wouldn't go down and nail him right in the private area. Greg took a few moments before he nailed her with a knee to the chin, knockout her out cold. "What was that? I told you before you are only meant to help them train not hurt them." Buffy said as Greg just walked away.

Faith turned to Buffy "Well B she did kinda ask for it. I mean I ain't a guy but damn that looked sore to say the least. Hell I think she was luckily just to get knocked out."

Greg was sitting at the steps of the stairs outside, trying to claim down as he knew he was close to losing it. Suddenly a man appear to his right and Greg just stared at him. "Come on, Greg, don't have time for an old friend. Same but you have to know that plans are moving quickly then anyone thought would happen. Also who would have thought you would be playing nice with slayers of all people."

"Shut up and go." Greg turned away and head back into the school as the man disappeared once again.

Buffy looked for Greg Maybe I am being too hard on the guy, I mean he hasn't done anything to me and he has been great with the girls here. He was standing by the locker room. "Look I'm sorry about in there but we have to be careful with the new slayers." Buffy said

"Look just safe it, I mean I have been here for about a month but nothing but nice and still I get treated like crap from you. Without much of a reason too. So you don't like me but I am here and I have to stay here." Greg was about to walk past Buffy when Buffy pushed him against the wall.

"Look it's not don't like you, I-I-I don't trust you. I mean Dawn has been hanging about you any chance she gets and well I am her only family and I worry about her."

"Seriously is that why you have been a bitch cause in case you haven't notice I have been trying to stay away from Dawn cause of you. I mean every time she walks into a room I leave it, I make excuses when she comes to the basement why she needs to leave and I spend most of my being a moving punching bag for the newies in there. Why don't you just give me a break, I can't help it if Dawn wants to be my mate but I am trying my hardest to push her away which isn't really fair on her but well life sucks doesn't it." Greg said before he returned to the training room. He saw the Slayer that hit him getting up and walked over "Look I'm sorry for knocking you out but you were warned about that stuff when you first had a training session for me. Just don't do it again."

"She would be a fool to try that against you but it is effective against most vamps and demons." Faith said which sorta lighten the mood.

Dawn and Willow was working on trying to find out what that demon that attacked Buffy and Faith was in the graveyard. They had been looking for about a month but with not much luck. "God, this is getting really annoying now." Dawn slammed her book down as she put her heads in her hands. "Why do we always have to face demons that don't have a wiki page or something."

Willow laughed "If it was easy then the demon would likely be dead by now, now think of it as a fun game of hide and sneak. The demon is hiding in one of these many books and we have to find it. You know it will be our little fun game."

"Thanks for trying to make me feel better and I'm sorry for losing it there. It's not really the demon, it's Greg. I mean I kinda get what he is going through being young and being here and all but he just seems to not want to talk to me at all. He seems really cool as well." Dawn replied as Willow closed her book and turned to face Dawn.

"Something people have there own problems to deal with. I mean none of us know much about him except what Giles said about him being a great ally to the school. We don't know what is going on in his head and well when he is ready I am sure he will talk to someone."

"I can't really blame him for being so closed off given how anything that goes wrong at the moment, Buffy blames him. Well I just thought someone who you know actually treat me like a person. Hell we barely see him eating or anything."

The door opens and Giles walks in as he was reading a book "Well I have to say that it looks like I have finally found that beast that attacked Faith and Buffy and well it's the devil."

"Wait you are talking about the actually devil, you know the king of hell and all." Dawn said as she looked confused.

"Well not quite, it seems like the beast is actually a demon called luciferous which is appears was taken by middle age England to be the Devil. Really it's just another demon, well actually one of the stronger, most feared and one of the hardest to kill demon." Giles takes his glasses off as he puts his fingers to the top of his nose. "There were thought to be long gone but it looks like the first had something up it's selves after all."

"Well I don't like the sound of that, I mean you thought the ubervampires were bad and now we have to face the devil, just when I thought me and Kennedy to have a holiday as well." Willow said.

"Well I guess we should gather the ours and tell them what this thing is cause it's going to take everything that we have to beat this demon and even then it will be a tough fight." Giles said as he put the book on table "Actually I better go and see if there is anything else about these demons." Giles went back to the other room as Dawn and Willow went to get the others.

Greg was sitting in a bar as the bartender handed him a whiskey "Keep these coming." Greg said as he handed over what looked to be few 100 dollar bills to sort his tap. Greg down the whiskey before the bartender refilled the glass. "Oh if I was you I would duck." Suddenly about four vampires jumped through the window as they walked up to Greg.

One of the girl vampires jumped the counter and grabbed the bartender. One of the guys went over to a group of girls as the girl puts the bartender up against the wall before she turns to the leader. "Can I kill this one, I am really thirsty, Jimmy."

"Well I guess there isn't any reason why you can't, since the boss said we couldn't kill Greggy boy here but he never said about anyone else in the bar." The vampire called Jimmy puts his arm around Greg as Greg looks at him.

Just as the girl was about to bite the bartender Greg finished his drink, "I wouldn't if I was you." Greg said as he looked at his glass.

"Oh and why is that?" The girl vamp looked over to him with a smirk on her face.

"Cause if you kill him then no-one will be here to pour my drinks."

Greg knocked the two vamps behind him down before he quickly grabbed the girl and snapped her neck which made her bust into dust, the other vampire that was with the girls came over and nail Greg with one of he chairs. Greg sweep the legs of that vampire before he used one of the broken chair bits. The other two vamps got up, Greg just looked at them which makes them back off. Greg cracks his neck before he takes another chair and sats at the bar and looks at the bartender. "Well I never said stop pouring, did I?" Greg held out his glass as the bartender, clearly still in shock, pours the drink. Greg finishes the drink before he steps away "Sorry about the bar, pitty kinda liked it here too."

"Look sonny what ever trouble you are in, you have steer clear of it. Also you are still welcome here." The bartender hands Greg his money before "and drinks are on the house, least I could do for saving my life."

Greg put on his hoodie before he nodded to the older man. Greg then leave the bar as he looked about to make sure he wasn't followed. Greg then put on his helmet and got on his bike and headed out of there.

Giles was standing in the living room of Buffy's home as Buffy, Faith, Willow, Kennedy, Dawn and Xander was in the room. Giles had his glasses off and was cleaning then before he looked about the room. "Now what we are dealing with is a L..."

"errrr Shouldn't we be waiting for Greg? I mean for the moment he is helping us fight this thing and he should know what is." Dawn spoke up.

"Well I am quite sure that Greg will be able to catch up, Dawn. I know that I will let him know what the beast if if he doesn't show up. Anyway this is actually a Luciferous which is about as deadly as a demon can get. Think about the first only a little younger and well able to break you in two with a single punch. However from what I have found out about them, they are not the smarter of demons. So maybe we could use that to out advantage." Giles said as he put up a map of the city in the living. "Now first we should find out where the beast is staying. Faith, Buffy, you find anything"

"Well Me and B there have been checking all of the crypts in the graveyard and apart from the vampires it doesn't seem to be there now." Faith said before she cracked her neck.

"Well I actually have send Greg out to a couple of local demon spots to see if he could find out anything but as of yet he hasn't has much luck either from anyone that has lived that is." Giles puts his fingers at the top of his nose as he thought about what Greg had left in his wake.

The front door opened and Greg walked in and was about to make his way to the basement when Giles ask "So did you have any luck this time?"

"Sorry, G, Vampires don't seem to be on the pay roll of the first at the moment. Anyway I need a shower." Greg went down into the basement as everyone else was quiet in the room.

"Well I don't think there is much more that we can do at the moment, Buffy, Faith you should head out for your patrol, I'll will make sure that Greg heads out in a little while." Giles said as Faith and Buffy got their stuff to go out slaying.

Faith and Buffy was about to head out when something felt a little different then before. Faith looked at Buffy with a confused look on her face "Can you feel it?"

"No, that is what worries me, that feeling that has been with me since Greg arrived is gone and we know that he is here." Buffy said as she took out a few stakes from the drawer and hands some to Faith. They both head out of the house as they started patrol.

Giles went down to the basement and put a chair at the door to make sure that no-one could come in before he made his way down the stairs. Greg was sitting on the cot as he thought to himself What the hell have I gotten myself into to now? Greg catch Giles coming down the stairs as he stood up and cliched his fists. "What do you want?"

"Well I am just coming down to make sure that you remember your end of the deal. I mean I brought you here cause you seem to be one of the few things to have ever had any success with the likes of Luciferous and things of that depth. I just want to make sure that you don't just think this is a trip out for you." Giles said

Greg rolled his shoulders "Firstly I am not a thing despite what you tell yourself to make your guilt go away at night, I am a human being just like you, only a lot stronger, faster and well petty much every way better then you. Also I do know that I was brought here to fight and well that thing cause me so much pain that I will get payback on it. pity it took you years to get me near this thing. If you are talking about telling them why else have I been out most of the day and night. someday soon we will need to tell them sooner or later. Now if you don't mind I think it should get back out there and well be a boy scout." Greg walked past Giles before he left the basement.

Buffy and Faith was already in the graveyard as they came up to another large group of vampires that were hanging out. The Vamps looked at Buffy and Faith and began to circle them before they both began to have a bad feeling again. "Look now I don't know if you know but we are kinda the Slayers, you know the ones that you normally either attack or run from so to have you doing this is kinda well weird." Buffy said as she and Buffy got back to back.

"Oh don't worry they won't be attack just yet. I mean it would be kinda annoying seeing as I just want a chat." Suddenly Celeb appears out from the bushes "Oh don't worry you killed him remember. It's just your neighborhood first poping in for a quick visit. As I see everything is going to plan."

"What you think we don't know what you are up to? Yeah nice move getting the devil on our asses but it's nothing that we can't handle." Faith remarked.

"Do you really think that is all I have planned you? Come on give me some credit, I may be older then anything you know but I still have a few things that are new you know. Anyway I think we should see how good or maybe bad you have gotten since our last meeting, oh don't worry big red is busy tonight so you just have those vampires to deal with." First walked away as Buffy and Faith were attacked by the vampires. Buffy an Faith starts to fight them off, they managed to get them to at least retreat and they take some with them.

Greg was walking the streets of Cleveland. He knew that there something amiss when he looked about the back allays and nothing was there. All the weeks that he has been down this way, there was always at least a vamp or two in those streets. It was kinda weird but suddenly the luciferous was standing at the end of the street as Greg just growled as the Luciferous just stared at him. "You caused me pain, now it's my turn."

The beast ran right at Greg as Greg tried for a roundhouse kick again but this time the beast was smart enough to grab his leg before tossing him down one of the alleys and into a dumpster. Greg stood up as The beast again ran at him, this time Greg flipped on the dumpster before he leaped onto the back of the beast. Greg tried to choke out the massive demon but it managed to slam into the wall a few times which made Greg let go. Greg was on the ground as the beast stood above him. "Pity, he thought you would actually be tougher, no matter." The beast then hit Greg with another shot that knocked him out.

Dawn and Willow was at the house in the living room. They both were eating popcorn and watching chick movies as Willow was trying to get Dawn's mind off her troubles and it seemed to be working. "So, how are things with you and Kennedy? I mean living here can't be too good for you guys." Dawn said

"Actually things are great, I mean I do worry about her when she goes out to patrol and all but well I guess I got use to it with having my best friend well die twice. Also I like staying here, it means that I can spend some time with you, Dawnie." Willow said nugging Dawn as she took some popcorn.

"Listen Willow, thanks for this. I know I haven't been all that great to be around but well lets just call it me making up for all the teenage stuff I had to skip. God knows that we have been through a lot over the past few years." Dawn got up as the film ended. "I am actually starting to worry about Buffy and them, I mean it's getting a little late without so much of a phone call."

"I am sure they are fine, I mean my senses aren't picking them up in damage. I am sure that they will be back soonish, I hope." Willow trying to hide the fact that she was always worried. Just as Willow said that Kennedy came up with Buffy and Faith. Willow ran over and give her girlfriend a hug and a kiss.

Dawn began to look confused as normally Greg would have been in at the same time. "Errr I don't mind to be a nag but well where's Greg?"

"Wait you mean he isn't here, brat?" Faith said with a kinda shocked look on her face.

"Yeah, I mean we have been over most of the hot spots and well he isn't anywhere that we could see. We guessed he came back here seeing how Buffy and Faith got catch up with the first."

"Oh my god, are you two okay? I mean the last time The first appeared, he brought that beast with him." Willow said looking worried.

"No, that was the really weird thing though. I don't know about Faith but it seem, well a little too easy. I mean we never took out everything that we were fighting but they retreated at random. It just seemed like it was a trap but nothing cam... You don't think?" Buffy said as Faith just turned to Buffy at the same time.

"Yeah, I think I do, B. Kinda makes sense to take out the person who caused the most damage in the first place." Faith and Buffy made their way to door as the other looked kinda confused.

"Hold the phone, what are you two on about?" Dawn said just before the two left the house.

"Well I have to say that I never expected this from the first but it was very smart" Giles said at the top of the stairs "Making himself known to you as it set it's beast on Greg. I mean it's basic divide and conquer tactic and well it's quite interesting that he choose try this now."

Dawn went to the door as Buffy grabbed her arm "Whoa, I know you are like Greg's biggest fan but you aren't going out there considering we know it's going to be a trap, Dawnie"

"Well it's not like he will be glad to see you is it? If he's hurt, at least someone should be out for his safety." Dawn said which kinda shocked Buffy.

"I told you before why I don't trust him but I am not going to leave him to be killed despite what you think." Buffy said.

"Well you kinda have a track record of that, B. I mean I don't remember you being all kind when you never trusted me." Faith said as Buffy looked at her "Anyway, it's a massive city, we are going to be a lot of help. How about we head over to the school and get some of the girls and get in groups. three people per group and two slayer min in a group should be enough, B."

"Okay fine but you are will me miss." Buffy turned to Dawn "I want one of the slayers that are set to head back home at the end of this week with us too. I am not taking any chances with this time and Dawn."

The scooby gang left the house to go look for Greg as Dawn had a really bad feeling about Greg, I can feel that something has happened to him and I can't believe I never told him.

TBC

A/N: Hope this is a lot better, the other charpers are kinda old sorry. reviews are always welcome.