"Did you get a sample of the blood?" Hermione asked, as she stood over a microscope slide with a clipboard.

"No Serena is out there getting a sample now" Momiji said. Momiji watched Hermione from the wooden stairs that led from the kitchen to the basement. Around the basement there were tables and vials everywhere, there were shelves with potions and herbs, and bookcases with numerous books. Years ago Abby had converted the basement in to a type of lab. There were books of science and books of magic, there were also books about demons and angels, there were books of everything that had to do with the underworld.

There were also computers, machinery, and laptops all over. On the shelves that were behind the stairs there were the most dangerous books, the books filled with evil magic and of dark spells.

At the moment Hermione was trying to create an antidote for a werewolf bite; in the last few months they had come very close and even had a treatment for those who had been bitten after only a few hours.

"Why is this am important matter?" Hermione said, "We always find blood around the house maybe someone was training."

"No one in the house has black blood Hermione," said Momiji.

Hermione's head snapped up and she looked at Momiji, she removed her large glasses and leaned against the desk. "So what do you think this means?"

"The virus" Momiji said. Hermione stared at her; "or it could be something else I don't know about."

"Not everyone uses the virus Mo," Hermione told her.

"No but everyone supports it don't they?" said Momiji; she stood from her place on the stairs and went to the bookshelf where behind the stairs. She looked at the very top and used her powers of telekinesis to bring it down and into her hands.

She walked over to Hermione's workspace and placed it next to her. "What's this?" Hermione asked her.

"A book on spells, potions etc." said Momiji as she went back to the steps. "The virus came from that book or at least it came from one of its sister books."

"The sister books?"

"Abby told me about a set of books was given to the three main women who train slayers; these books gave information about demons, angels, potions, vanquishing spells and usual spells, you know the works," Momiji said. "The virus that has been going around came from one of those books."

"What makes you think that?" Hermione asked.

"Well when we found the first infected body I began searching through everything we had," Momiji said.

"Don't you remember Herm that was when she locked herself in her room and in the attic for almost three weeks" Serena said as she came down the steps holding a vial with black blood in it. Serena walked to Hermione and handed her the vial "We were worried about her and had to slip food into her room."

"Oh I remember that," said Hermione. Hermione began to pour some of the blood into five different trays.

"Anyways, I stumbled upon this book and found an illness with the same symptoms that the infected get," Momiji told them.

Serena picked up the book and began looking through the book; "Where is this exactly?" she asked.

Suddenly the pages began to turn on what seemed their own. It turned to the page that depicted this virus Momiji was describing Serena looked over at Momiji and cocked an eyebrow. "Show off" she said simply.

"What can I say I have control now," said Momiji with a smile.

"It doesn't name this virus," said Serena.

"No but it has to be the same" Momiji told her.

Hermione placed one of the trays into a giant white machine; "Maybe but what is made of?"

"Herbs, plants, deadly poisons," Serena read out loud.

"No plants would take over the mind and body this fast," said Hermione. "It was probably genetically altered to reproduce and destroy the body cells faster."

"Can we find the other people who have these things?" Serena asked.

"No I've looked," said Momiji. "I haven't found one yet."

"Yet?" Hermione asked.

"Yes yet I will find one believe me," Momiji told them. She stood up and went up stairs; they heard her walk into the hallway next to the living room and go up stairs.

"She'll find one too," Hermione said.

"Or she'll try until it drains her." Serena put the book down and jumped up onto the table, her legs hung about a foot off the ground. "Are we going out tonight?"

"Sarah hasn't said anything to me about it, I had every intention of staying here and working," said Hermione as she put her glasses back on and began to look at the slid under the microscope again.

"You always work," Serena said.

"And why is there a problem with that?" Hermione asked. Serena shrugged her shoulders then she let out a heavy sigh. "If you're bored go talk to Sarah, find out what our next assignment is."

"I think I will," Serena said. She jumped down from the table and slowly walked up the stairs and closed the door behind her, Hermione heard it slam. Hermione heard Serena walk in the direction of Abby's study where she knew Sarah was.

Hermione stared at the slid for a few minutes, what she saw was good and her progress was excellent. But in truth she was really thinking about what she was staring at; she was thinking about Momiji. Momiji had been acting strange for the last few months more juvenile than usual. She was seemed to always be in a state of unrest lately, no matter what anybody said she wouldn't listen. Momiji had also been obsessing over things for the past few months.

Hermione had become worried, she thought that perhaps it was because of Abby's deteriorating health but now it seemed like it could be something else. Hermione remembered the first time that she had met her sister-like friend. Abby had pulled up into the driveway with Momiji in the car, at first Serena and Hermione hadn't known what to do but after they all looked at each other for a few seconds it became obvious.

They had become more like sisters then Hermione and her own sister had been. Hermione remembered her sister's face like she remembered the sun. Leah had been older then Hermione by ten years, yet they looked almost alike. The only thing that was different was that Leah was extremely tall and strong, where Hermione had been average in both attributes.

Leah had been tall and strong, with wild silky brown hair and bright green eyes, she had flawless skin and a beautiful figure. Abby had told Hermione that Leah had been a slayer as well but had been killed back when the vampires and werewolves had been fighting. The slayers had tried to intervene but they had only been slaughtered.

Hermione had been five and Leah had been fifteen; Hermione didn't remember much before that but she did remember that last night she had seen Leah. That night Hermione had experienced her first vision; she had witnessed the death of her sister by the hands of a vampire with dark brown hair. After Leah's death Hermione's powers truly manifested, she frequently saw places and things that she didn't understand or know of, it took her a while but she soon realized that she was seeing the future. She had also begun to feel people's emotions, and read their minds, which had been a trait Serena and Momiji had also been given. Hermione had also become abnormally strong, like Leah had been.

Hermione's mother didn't know what to do with her, but she did her best to teach Hermione everything; unfortunately her father hadn't adapted as well. He had become a drunk and an abusive one, after Leah had died. He never hit Hermione though, most likely because he was either afraid of her or because her mother had kept him from it.

Her mother tried to hide it from her but Hermione would feel the anger and fear from her bedroom when her father returned home. To try and block out the emotions, Hermione had concealed herself to her room and read books; she had read thousands by then and had become home schooled by her mother until she was nine.

Nine had been when her life was changed forever. One night her father had come home drunk as usual. Rather than just hitting her mother he had hit gone straight to her room and begun to beat her. When her mother had tried to stop him he beat her as well and threw her into a bookshelf; he had been about to begin on Hermione again when Abby had showed up.

She hit him with a spell that had thrown him against a wall and unconscious. Abby took Hermione and her mother to a hospital; Hermione had only minor injuries, but her mother hadn't been so lucky. She died twelve hours after being brought in, but only after making Abby Hermione's guardian.

Years later when Hermione had asked Abby how she saved had them both just at the right time. Abby had said she had been watching them for months before she made her move. When she had seen her father coming home drunk more than usual she knew something was going to happen. So she had entered the house and ran to Hermione's room.

Abby had taken her to her home and introduced her to Serena, and then later to Momiji and it was there that she had been for the last years of her life. They had become her family, and she loved them dearly. But Hermione didn't forget her past; she visited her mother and sisters grave every month. And on occasion she visited her father's as well, Hermione had been a few thousand miles away in Rome when he had died but she saw it like she had been there herself. Sometimes it haunted her but she knew that there was nothing she could have done to prevent his suicide.

A knock on the basement door broke her from her thoughts. "Hermione!" someone yelled.

Hermione instantly knew that something was wrong by the feelings that she was getting from this person. "Yes, what is it?" she yelled, Hermione threw her glasses on the table and ran up the stairs. She threw open the door to face one of the young slayers in training.

"Serena and Sarah need to see you immediately in the study" the young girl with black hair and dark eye shadow told her, "It's urgent."

Hermione ran past her and into the kitchen, she turned to the right and went into the hallway. She walked at a fast pace into the study that was at the end of the hall. She threw the door open and became panicky as she felt the emotions coming from the room.

"What happened?" she asked. She saw that Blake, Serena, Sarah and Momiji were all in the room.

"Hermione we have a very serious situation" said Sarah in her English accent.

"What happened?" Hermione said, fear and shock upon her face.

Several Hours earlier

A private jet plane landed on a dark rainy runway. A set of stairs was placed at the door and a black limousine pulled up about ten feet away from the bottom of the steps. Slowly the door opened and two women got out one had bright pink hair and the other had nice slivery almost white blonde hair. They both walked down the steps side by side and waited when they got to the bottom.

Back at the top two men stood at the doorway of the plane. The first one had dark black hair and bright green eyes, his skin was pale and he had a muscular build. The other had dark hair, which looked green, his eyes almost looked catlike and his skin was a nice bronze color, he too had a nice muscular build. You couldn't tell that they were related they looked too different for that.

A small man appeared at the bottom of the steps. "Mr. Ambrose I knew that you were coming but I didn't know that you were bringing your brother as well," the man said.

"My brother called me and informed me to bring him," said Kusanagi. He walked down the stairs and to the limousine. He opened the door and stepped in followed by the other man and the two women. The man with the black hair sat next to Kusanagi and the two women sat across from them.

"The driver will take you straight to your brother's office, he wishes to speak with you on some important matters" the man said. "Enjoy your…"

But before he could finish his sentence Kusanagi rolled up his window and shut him out. "That wasn't polite," the black haired man said.

"I don't like him," said Kusanagi, "He's annoying."

"Still it wasn't polite" he said.

"People like that are the ones you're not polite to Daniel," Kusanagi said.

Half an hour later Kusanagi and Daniel were walking into their older brother's office. Darien was sitting behind his desk, when they walked in he looked up from his papers. "I see you got here in one piece," he said.

"Yes, what is so urgent that you brought us across the county for?" Daniel asked.

Darien looked at Kusanagi, "You didn't tell him?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

"No, I thought you should be the one to do it," said Kusanagi, he got up and poured himself a glass of scotch.

"Tell me what?" Daniel asked.

Darien opened his mouth, but before he could answer the door burst open and a woman with long black hair and violet eyes walked in. She was dressed in a tight dark brown strapless top with light brown pants, she had a long black robes over her other clothes, the front part of them were open, and they reached the ground. "How could you not tell me Darien?" she yelled. Her eyes flicked to the other men in the room but they focused upon Darien. "Why didn't you tell me?" she yelled again.

Jadeite ran into the room, "Rei calm down," he said.

"Don't tell me to fucking calm down, I want an answer," she yelled.

"Rei I didn't want to upset you," Darien told her.

"Failed there," said Kusanagi.

"Shut up," Rei yelled at him.

"What the hell is going on?" yelled Daniel.

Rei looked at him, "you don't know?" she asked. Daniel shook his head. "Bella is dead, murdered by three slayers." Darien and Kusanagi looked at her when she spoke her last words. "Yes I know how many there were," she said.

"You went to the great fire didn't you?" said Daniel.

"No she took spice," said Darien.

Rei rounded on him, "Fuck off!"

"Look at her eyes," Darien said. They all noticed that her eyes were no longer their beautiful violet but a brilliant bright glowing green. "She's taken a lot this time, Jadeite she needs rest."

Jadeite nodded and took her hand gently, "Come on love, let's go rest," he said and he began to lead her out of the room.

Rei broke away from him she took a knife out of her rode and threw it at Darien. She ran at him but before she could reach him Kusanagi got in between them and held her back. Jadeite ran to the door and called for Zoicite.

Zoicite ran in with a syringe, Darien got up from his chair and helped Kusanagi hold Rei down. Zoicite stuck the syringe into her neck, almost instantly Rei began to calm down. Slowly she drifted into unconsciousness; Jadeite picked her up and took her into his office to rest.

"How long has this been going on," asked Kusanagi as he leaned on Darien's desk.

"How long has she been taking spice," said Darien rhetorically "About two months, she's been trying to tap into her inner sight more efficiently."

"I thought that spice production had been stopped," said Daniel.

"It's too big of a cash crop to not produce it," said Kusanagi.

"I still don't understand what it is," Daniel said simply.

"It's kind of like a drug, it helps mortals reach a state of euphoria, with immortals it does more, it makes us reach a higher state of euphoria but it also gives us insight into the future and helps our senses become heightened," said Darien.

"With physics it gives us visions and hallucinations," said Kusanagi.

"And in your case changed your entire being huh," said Daniel.

Kusanagi glared at him, Darien looked at his brother. "Daniel leave us," he said. Daniel got up and left the room without a word, he stopped and looked back at Kusanagi and then disappeared through the door, "He doesn't understand."

"No, but Rei does," Kusanagi said. "I don't want another one of our family members to become like me."

"Rei is getting help," said Darien. "But the whole thing with Mina is hurting her state of mind."

"I see what is Mina's current condition?" Kusanagi asked.

"Not too good," Darien told him.

At that moment one of Darien's closest friends entered the room; Nephrite had dark brown hair with hazel eyes to match, his face was perfect except for a scar across his right eyebrow he was tall and muscular.

"Darien, Kusanagi we have a problem," he said.

"What's happened?" asked Darien getting to his feet.

"We've located another infected vampire."