Hey everyone here is the next update I hope you enjoy it, sorry that the chapter took so long to put out, college classes are so hectic my poor brain melted and I only have the rest of this week before I start classes again. Alright enough of my whining let's get started with chapter 3. You know the drill V, please say the disclaimer.
Voldemort: (rolls eyes) Very well, Voldemort's Hikari1 does not own Harry Potter or Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the Fates, she only ones her three characters, the other Potter siblings, as they are of her own creation.
Thank you V, alright let's get this chapter going, roll clip!
--Chapter 3--
--Dreams and 16th Birthdays Part 2--
When Harry fell asleep that night he found himself in a familiar mindscape and the three women he had seen in his dream yesterday were sitting at a table playing some type of card game. Harry judged from the concentrated looks on their faces that it was a very intense game they were playing.
"Ah, Harry welcome back, got any threes Atropos?" Clotho asked.
"Go fish," Atropos said and Clotho cursed under her breath in another language before turning to look at Harry who had walked over.
"Where exactly is back? Is this my mind?" Harry asked.
"Some what, this is your dreamscape basically it's what you dream in between dreams or where you go when you don't dream," Clotho said.
"So how do I get out?"
"Well right now you need your sleep and you need to meet the next person, come along Harry it's time to go say hi," Lachesis said as she got up and guided Harry to a tall red door that Harry had not seen when he entered the dreamscape. Lachesis opened the door looked in and nodded before pushing Harry through the door and then rejoining the other two to finish their card game.
-Sunnydale, CA-
Harry once again found himself in a place he did not recognize but he did realize two things about the place he was in and that was that it was dark and it was a cemetery. Harry shuddered at the memories of his fourth year before turning when he heard a noise and saw a group of four people speed walking through the cemetery.
"Buffy, slow down, he's injured, ain't like he gonna be able to disappear very well," The red head of the group said.
"I don't want to take the chance," The blond girl of the group said. "Besides you said he only appears for a week every month, chooses a victim each night and then disappears till the next month, right?"
"Yes, but you don't even know where he is."
"Oh yea, the blood on the opening of the crypt says otherwise."
"The blood could be from a vampire…"
"Vampires don't have blue blood."
"They do if they're royalty."
"That doesn't count and you know it."
"I hate it when you're persistent and you're right."
"Don't you always, so how to do I beat this thing?"
"Give me a minute to find the book, and shouldn't we send Spike and Angel in to check that he is in there first? After all they are vampires, they have the most likely chance of actually exiting the place alive, unlike you and me."
Buffy turned to look at the two guys with them and smiled at them. They both sighed and their shoulders dropped before they walked over to the crypt and into it. A large roar a few minutes later had them both running out followed by a strange looking creature that had a large mouth filled with sharp fangs too numerous to count, and it's body looked like a mixture between a slug for the lower half and an ogre or giant for the upper half (1).
"Wow, that thing reminds of the leech picture that was in science class," Buffy said before flipping away as the creature tried to grab her. The one called Spike quickly grabbed the red head and moved her away as the creature tried to go after her.
"You alright Petals?" Spike asked and the red head nodded as she was set down and began looking through a book bag she had slung around her shoulders.
"Keep him busy guys!" The red head exclaimed as she ducked behind a headstone and Spike quickly rushed into the battle to help distract the creature with Buffy and Angel.
"Come on Rose faster, we can only dodge for so long," Buffy said as she drew a dagger out of the boot she was wearing and slashed at the creature causing it to roar in pain.
"I've got it, the creature is a mixture between a leech, a slug, and an ogre, it lives off the blood of humans or other creature just like a leech does and it has the strength of an ogre but it has the same weaknesses as all slugs and leeches do." Rose said.
"You wanna tell us what that is; none of us actually pay attention in class besides you."
"It can't stand salt; you throw salt on it and it'll start to convulse and whither away like a slug."
Rose quickly dug through her bag and soon drew out a large bag of salt. She quickly opened it and threw a skateboard she had been carrying with her to the ground along with her bag before running out from behind the headstone and yelling at the creature.
"Hey slime ball, come and get me if you think you're fast enough!" Rose yelled before picking up her skateboard and taking off in the direction of the cemetery exit.
"Rose, what are you doing?!" Buffy yelled as the creature took off after her followed by Buffy, Spike, and Angel took off after the two.
"I honestly have no clue, I'm making it up as I go along," Rose yelled back as she reached the street, jumped on her skateboard, and started heading down the street with the slug creature still after her.
"My sister is nuts!" Buffy yelled as the three reached the street and began taking off after the two with Spike and Angel starting to speed up using their vampiric speed.
"Spike get ahead and see if you can get Rose to turn around and throw the salt at the creature," Angel said. Spike nodded and quickly sped up passing the creature who tried to grab him only to miss and he caught up with Rose.
"Having fun Petals?" Spike asked and Rose glared at him before giving a slight smirk. "So what's next?"
"Not sure, I'm trying to figure out how to throw the salt at him without getting eaten alive," Rose said when her eyes widened and she shifted over to the side of the street where a bus bench was located. She quickly grinded on the bench and flipped her board around so she was heading in the direction of the creature. She quickly opened the bag of salt and smirked at the creature as the bag began to hover in front of her.
"Open wide slug boy!" Rose exclaimed as she threw her hands toward the bag which flew at the creatures open mouth. The salt fell out of the bag and down the creature's throat drawing a loud yell of pain from the creature. (A.N.- If any of you have seen the anime Bleach, I do not own, think the roar/ yell is like that of a Hollow's yell and if not well just use your imaginations for a type of deep sounding scream of pain and anguish.) Rose stopped her skateboard and Spike, who had turned around stood besides watching as the creature seemed to convulse and cave in on itself before it began expanding at the same time as Buffy and Angel reached them.
"Uh oh, I know that kind of look, that's not a good look, everyone hit the deck!" Buffy exclaimed and the four quickly ducked down as the creature exploded covering them in slime and blue and red blood, the red blood probably being from the creature's last meal.
"That's just gross," Angel said as the four stood back up and began trying to shake and wipe the slime and blood off themselves.
"Tell me about it, I now feel the need for a long relaxing hot steam bath and then a long dip in a Jacuzzi," Buffy said.
"You would," Rose said as the four began walking down the street till they reached the outside of what looked like a book/ knick knack store. "You think Giles will be mad that we're about to mess up his carpet?"
"More than likely and we'll probably be made to clean it too."
The four of them sighed heavily before entering the store and getting stared at by the occupants of the building.
"What on earth happened to you four?" An older man with glasses and a heavy British accent asked as he walked over.
"Yea I thought this would a quick stake and get out." A young man with wavy black hair said from his seat at a table.
"The creature was a mix between a slug, a leech, and an ogre, we threw some salt into its mouth, it swallowed and then-" Buffy explained only to get interrupted by Rose.
"It blew up and flew at us," Rose said calmly as she wringed her hair out of the blood and slime. There was always a calm air around Rose after she and anyone who was with her, usually Buffy, Angel, or Spike, had faced a demon, no one quite figured out why she could always speak so calmly about death as she did.
"That's just gross," A young woman with long brown hair said as she watched the four try and get relatively clean.
"Well at least you weren't there then huh," Spike said as he removed the long leather duster he was wearing and tried shaking it out.
"Stop, you're going to ruin everything in here, now all four of you go down to the training room, change, and place your clothes in the washer so they can be cleaned," The older man said.
"Yes Giles," Buffy and Rose said as the four walked through a door behind the counted and down a set of stairs. Around half an hour later they came back up, both Rose and Buffy holding towels trying to squeegee the stuff out of their hair and into the towels.
"So besides our lovely little exploding slug any new news?" Buffy asked as she and Rose took a seat in two empty bean bag chairs.
"Actually yes, there is a small notice of importance that I was to tell Rose three days before her 16th birthday, although now I suppose that it is two days since you lot didn't give me a chance to tell her, what with the slug like demon you just killed running about," Giles said.
"Sorry Giles, what's so important about anyway?" Rose asked.
"Well it is actually about your birth parents. Buffy's mother gave me this letter that she received from the Watcher's council the day you were given to the Summer family."
"Wait I thought I was abandoned on a doorstep, you mean I actually have parents?"
"Actually no, I'm sorry Rose but what Buffy's, Dawn's, and your mother told you was true, that both your parents were killed, she just didn't tell you how they were killed."
Giles went on to explain what had really happened all those years ago and how he came to know all about Rose's predicament along with handing over the letter that Joyce had left him about Rose from when she was brought to the Summer family. Included in this letter was a photo that, like the girl from Harry's last dream, had blacked out spots on the photo except for the girl as a baby, the parents, and Sirius Black, although only Harry knew it was Sirius Black.
"So now I have to go to England and find the rest of my family all the while staying out of the way of a crazy psychotic killer who murdered my parents, the corrupt ministry of magic, and the headmaster of the school that one of my siblings attends?" Rose asked with wide eyes staring over her oval glasses at Giles who slowly nodded.
"Sounds like a regular day for you Petals," Spike said as he walked over and sat next to her.
"Oh I have nothing to worry about then," Rose said sarcastically. "Can I least take you guys with me, I would rather not have to face this whole problem alone."
"I wouldn't let you go without me," Buffy said.
"Neither would I," Dawn said.
"We're sisters, I don't care that you're adopted, we stick together, besides things wouldn't be as much fun around here without you."
"Thanks Buffy, well Giles what do you say, want to come back to England?" Rose asked.
"I have very little choice in the matter anyway, I'm both yours and Buffy's watcher, the Watcher council would have my head if I let you two go gallivant off to England alone, besides I just received a message from the Council saying that Buffy was needed anyway, apparently they were contacted by the Ministry of Magic to send the slayer over to get rid of some demons that have recently started appearing wherever attacks by the dark lord's forces are."
"Alright, trip to England and we get to fight demons, we never get a break, well Scoobies, let's head to our homes and get packing, judging from my letter I have to be in England before my birthday in order to get the wizarding bank on my birthday." Rose said with a smile before turning to Spike. "And you're coming with us too!"
"Well obviously, I can't exactly have my girlfriend go off to England without me now can I, you'd probably get lost within five minutes of you being there," Spike said.
"Hey that's not ver-"
Whatever argument or comment Rose was going to make was interrupted by Spike kissing her. The others rolled their eyes in amusement except Giles who turned away and coughed loudly drawing the two apart to glare at him.
"If you two don't mind, we had better hurry it up if you want to catch the plane before the sun comes up," Giles said. The whole vampire thing for both Angel and Spike hit Buffy and Rose like a ton of bricks before they were pushing the group out of the store.
"Come on, we have to get there before the sun comes up, hurry, hurry!" Buffy said urgently as the group all began heading to their homes once outside the store and the image began fading before Harry's eyes.
Harry looked around and found himself once again back in his own dreamscape with the three women still into their card game, although it looked like a different one now.
"Who was that?" Harry asked.
"Her name was said," Atropos said the three looking up from their card game.
"I know that but, who was she exactly, what do these two girls have to do with me? Why do they have a picture with my parents and Sirius in it? Why couldn't I hear what that guy Giles said about Rose's parents death?"
"Don't worry Harry all will be explained in time, but it's time to go now," Clotho said.
"You birthday draws near along with what is to come, but right now your family is waking up and soon they will wake you up too, we'll see you tomorrow night Harry," Lachesis said and the three faded right in front of Harry.
Harry woke up to the sound of pounding from Petunia yelling at him to wake up. Harry sat up in his bed and began wondering how these two girls could possibly be connected to him when a large barn owl flew into his room with a letter that held Dumbledore's familiar hand writing.
--TBC--
That's it, chapter 3 is done and another dream out of the way, Harry has one more dream before his 16th birthday what will his next one reveal.
(1) I have no clue if such a demon exists it just kind of formed itself in my mind, I think it's from watching too many specials on leeches and other bloodsuckers.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, one more dream chapter then it's the 16th birthday. I will also soon have a poll up to ask how Dumbledore should find out about the rejoining of the quartets and their new families. So I shall see you all in the next chapter, bye bye.
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