Title: Dawn of the Son

Author: Spichik453

Chapter 5

Dawn, Giles and Willow sat upstairs in Dawn's bedroom, pouring over the books that Giles had brought with him and the ones that Dawn had hidden in her closet. "Ok, so I'm thinking this next passage either says 'And the mouth will take up new residence' or 'eat grilled cheese at home'. The translation is a little bit rough." Dawn said.

"I'm going to say the first one is right." Willow said, making note of the translation.

"Willow, will you please read what we have translated so far?" Giles said, taking his glasses off and cleaning them.

"When the earth shakes and the son of the earth meets the daughter of the earth, the mouth will take up new residence to restore balance."

Dawn fell backwards. "Five hours and all we have is this cryptic message?"

"Well, we do have several more pages to translate. Perhaps those will be more helpful." Giles looked at the chaos that had spread across Dawn's floor. Every book was open, and paper with all sorts of notes were everywhere. He smiled remembering how the Magic Box's table used to look like when they were deep in research mode. With so many slayers needing experience when they were in research mode, each girl only got a book or two and then they spread out across the school. Stupid slayer school. Taking away the research from the Scoobies who then get tied up in administrative business. Giles had to admit that he missed the days when Buffy was the only slayer, and the only people he could rely on were the Scoobies. It was more of a family atmosphere then. With the founding of the school a couple years back to help with the training of the slayers and with the new council, that family had loosened. But here they were, and it was like old times, but with less books, and Giles suddenly looked around, there was no coffee. "Where is Buffy and Xander with the coffee?"

"Yeah, they went down to the kitchen like twenty minutes ago." Dawn noticing the same thing, but she corrected herself after looking at the clock. "No wait, like forty five minutes ago."

"Here we are!" Buffy announced coming through the door holding several mugs of coffee while Xander held several more.

"You guys were down there a lot longer than it normally takes to make coffee," Willow teased.

"Sorry." Was all Buffy provided, looking at her best friend a little bit red. "Did you guys get anything while we were gone?"

"When the earth shakes and the son of the earth meets the daughter of the earth, the mouth will take up new residence to restore balance." Giles repeated. "And we have no earthly idea what that means."

"Just once I would like to have a text that tells us the world is going to end next Tuesday from a demon named Bob who will do it by hitting everyone on top of the head with a giant hammer." Xander offered. In return, four pairs of eyes glared at him. "It would be easy to stop."

"We have been researching for five hours!" Dawn exclaimed. "I'm so in need of a break."

"Me too." Willow agreed.

"I think we all do." Giles said.

Willow smiled and looked at Buffy and Xander. "Except for Buffy and Xander who just spent nearly an hour making coffee."

Buffy and Xander were silent. "How about patrolling?" Buffy offered. "I don't know the cemeteries here, so having the gang together for a patrol would be helpful."

"Anything!" Dawn said, standing up.

"I agree." Giles said.

"Yeah, especially because you lied to me. This is nothing like Junluln." Dawn said.

Giles took his glasses off. "So it would seem."

"So, where's the best cemetery?" Buffy asked, to which Dawn only shrugged her shoulders. "Don't patrol much?"

"Thought you didn't want me to."

"Saddle up." Buffy said. "Weapons are in Xander's car. I guess we'll just go to the one that is closest."