Chapter 2: Night of the Living Dead
As she walked out of the cemetery Buffy had trouble keeping her shoes on, every step she took she stumbled. She had the sense as if she didn't use her legs in years, which in fact was the truth; Buffy was like a baby learning to walk all over again.
Buffy walked the neighborhood streets of Sunnydale and saw the barrels of fire and damaged homes. Theonly thought that playedin her head was, 'This must be hell.' The thought of her being in hell took her deeper in her state of shock than she was already in.
She stopped walking and looked around at her surroundings slowly. Buffy became startled when she heard the sound of harsh laughter echo Sunnydale. So upset by the situation, Buffy began to run off the street and in between houses. As she continued to run she lost her shoes in the grass, but for some reason she didn't stop to retrieve them.
When she finally began to slow down she was panting loudly and her feet hurt. She quickly looked around and in a moment her breath stopped. Buffy looked up and saw the street sign that was in the ground but lying at a forty five degree angle, 'Rivelo Drive'. Buffy looked down the street and began to walk in a daze again.
Buffy was hesitant when coming upon 1630 Rivelo. She didn't even recognize her own home. The house was dark, boards of the porch floor were missing, the living room window was broken, and the room that was Dawn's had three big wooden boards covering the windows.
Buffy slowly walked towards the ghost house and became cautious to where she stepped. Once she got through the front door she noticed the floorwas dirtyand was covered with old brown leafs. The banister of the staircase was half broken off.
She turned her head and looked into the living room and noticed the glass of the broken window on the floor the hard way; Buffy stepped on a piece of glass in her bare feet and suddenly jumped and staggered away, moaning in agony. She stumbled to the ground and grabbed her foot and noticed the blood beginning to come from her skin. Then for the first time she noticed her knuckles, they were bloody and in some places she could see her bone. In her mind she had a flash of the memory just a few hours ago of her crawling out of the grave and her hands ripping at the coffin lid and screaming but hearing nothing could come from her voice. Then as quickly as she had the flashback the memory ended.
Buffy slowly got up on her feet, ignoring all the pain that she had from her wounded body and traveled back into the hallway. She looked up the stairs and started to travel slowly up the stairs as if there was someone pushing her to see what was on the second floor. The floor boards creaked with every step Buffy took.
The second floor seemed smaller than Buffy remembered. All of the doors were completely shut. Buffy looked at her old room's door and started to become apprehensive, she didn't know if she should go inside because shefelt she was nolonger welcome. Ever since she laid her eyes on the house she didn't feel welcome. Her abandoned home had the feel of a motel, like many people had been through the rooms and took all the personal feeling out of a home.
Buffy turned the knob to her room and saw nothing in it but a mattress lying on the ground. She quickly shut the door; she thought there was no reason for her to stay in the room longer; all it did was upset her.
Outside a motorcycle roared down the street and Buffy seemed to quake in fear. 'What happened?' She thought to herself. 'Where is everyone? Where's Dawn? Am I in hell? Is this what hell is like?'
Buffy traveled back down the stairs and collided into a box. She stopped in motion to see what she bummed into and then she noticed it was something she was familiar with, her weapons chest. She lifted the chest and saw nothing inside, whoever had been in the house last seemed to take all the weapons. However, Buffy knew she had secret hatch. Buffy lifted a lid off the inside of the top of the weapons chest and saw a knife. Buffy grabbed the knife and stared at it…and remembered.
"Shallow cuts, shallow…cuts…let the blood flow free." The small crazy man with the knife mumbled as Buffy got to the top of the tower.
"Dawn!" Buffy yelled.
"Buffy!" Dawn shouted in pleaded.
"Dawn…" Buffy said softly as she remembered.
"Well, well, well…looks like Goldilocks is in the three bears home." A voice came from the door. Buffy quickly turned with the knife in her hand and saw three vampires in game face.
A/N: I know there wasn't a lot of talking in this chapter but there will be some more in the next. Also for you Spuffy people Spike will be discussed soon. I promise. I hope your enjoying the story.