Moving on...: Mysterious Girl
by redsirena
“You're all gonna die. But you knew that already. Cause that's the cool reward for being human. Big dessert at the end of the meal. Don't kid yourselves, you guys. This whole thing is all about death. You think you're different 'cause you might be the next slayer? Death is what a slayer breathes, what a slayer dreams about when she sleeps. Death is what a slayer lives. My death could make you the next slayer” BUFFY ANNE SUMMERS

Rona and Vi are walking through the cemetery nervously, holding stakes, being as quiet as they can be.
Something behind them steps on a branch and makes a cracking sound, and the girls turn to look. It's Spike—in vampire visage. He punches Rona to the ground. Vi tries to stake him, but Spike catches her hand and grabs her, and twists her arm behind her back. He puts his arm around her throat, growls and goes to bite her neck. Vi screams. Spike stops before biting her, looks up, and lets his vamp face fade away. Vi squeaks with fright. Still holding her, he looks up, and talks to people in front of him.
SPIKE
OK, these two are dead. Why?
RONA
I'm dead because he's a vampire. I don't have slayer strength, slayer speed—i-it wasn't a fair fight.
SPIKE
Vi, do you think I care about a fair fight?
VI
(tentatively) No, no sir. You don't play by the rules, and I have learned a valuable lesson of some sort. (Spike twists her arm behind her back) Ow!
BUFFY
OK, Spike. (he lets Vi go; she walks up to Molly and Kennedy who are standing near Buffy) You're right. You don't have slayer strength. But that doesn't mean that you're not strong. You have inherent abilities that others do not have.
MOLLY
(taking notes on a pad) Not like you do.
BUFFY
No, not yet, but it's there. You have the potential. You have strength, speed, instinct. You just have to learn to trust yourself. Rona, what did your instincts tell you to do just then?
RONA
(frankly) They told me to run.
BUFFY
Vi?
VI
(rubbing her wrist) They told me to run. They're still sort of telling me to run.
BUFFY
Don't fight on his terms. Your gut's telling them to run, run. OK? Regain the higher ground. Make the fight your own. Spike, what did your instincts tell you to do just then?
SPIKE
Hunt. Kill.
BUFFY
(to slayers-in-training) Instinct. Understand his, but trust yours. You were chosen for a reason.

In the shadows stood a girl she had been watching them as they fought… she had been watching them for a long time. She had heard the last words that Buffy had said, “you were chosen for a reason” and it wouldn’t leave her mind. She knew what she had to do, she knew she had to join them, and she also knew that she must keep her secret.

Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Anya are gathered around the dining room table. Andrew is standing behind Xander, and Dawn is leaning on a doorjamb.

BUFFY
And she's sure?
WILLOW
Positive. Althenea said the seers located another potential slayer here in Sunnydale. Someone that already lives here.
BUFFY
(sighs) Oh, God...
ANYA
All these girls flocking to town, and this one's already here and under our noses?
XANDER
Wait, the seers couldn't find out her name or, like, her address or anything? Am I getting the definition of seer wrong?
BUFFY
I was gonna take the girls out tonight, a little show and tell, but maybe now I shouldn't.
ANDREW
They were so excited. (softly) You're gonna break their little hearts.
BUFFY
This town is lousy with Bringers. I don't want to risk that they find this new girl first.
WILLOW
No, you should go. I can do a spell to find her tonight. I just have to get together a few ingredients. But you-you shouldn't skip your training, it's too important.
BUFFY
(looks at Willow) You think you can handle it?
XANDER
No problemo.
WILLOW
I've enchanted this map (gestures to a map on the coffee table) so we can track her basic location. We'll have to hot-foot it, but I'm betting we find her tonight.
Willow is sits in front of the lit fireplace. She's got a mortar and pestle on the hearth and her ingredients are laid out. Dawn, Anya and Xander are also in the room. As she recites the spell, Willow throws each item she mentions into the fire.
WILLOW
To light the aura of the new, skin of snake and chrysalis too.
To indicate the fresh reborn, tumbleweed and rosebush thorn.
An egg that means the life to come.
Take this, oh spirit, and my spell is done.
As Willow finishes the spell recitation, an orange haze emanates from the fireplace. Everyone in the room wrinkles up their noses and starts coughing.
XANDER
So did it work then… where is she?
WILLOW
she’s (Stares at the map) at the cemetery
DAWN
Oh! Should I call Buffy and give her the heads up.
XANDER
Yeap go ahead, we can’t afford to lose another one

SUNNYDALE CEMETERY - NIGHT
Holding up a flashlight and looking around, Buffy and Spike lead the slayers-in-training around the cemetery into a crypt
BUFFY
A vampire is an animal. Sometimes they run in packs, sometimes alone. Who can tell us where we are?
RONA
It's a nest.
BUFFY
How can you tell? (hands flashlight to Spike)
KENNEDY
Only a vamp could live like this.
BUFFY
Ok then, if you want to stay alive, you have to spot and identify a nest on site. Look around, all of you. Look for signs that just last night maybe a dozen, two dozen vampires were right where we're standing. Go ahead.
The girls reluctantly break up and start looking around the crypt.
RONA
Buffy, I think we found something.
MOLLY
(stares with her mouth open, then) It's a body.
BUFFY
(walks over, kneels to take a look, pulls on its shoulder, then lets it go) It's not a body. It's leftovers.
The body starts to move, then growls as it looks back over its shoulder at Buffy. It's a vampire now.
Buffy, stake in hand, is having a face-off with the vampire while the girls watch from behind her.
BUFFY
No one's safe. Not here, not ever. See this guy?
KENNEDY
B-but he was dead a minute ago.
BUFFY
That was a minute ago. Now... (punches him in the face)
VAMPIRE
(angrily) Hey!
BUFFY
... he's the enemy.
The vampire lunges at Buffy from across the room.
A noise is heard outside as four more vampires enter the crypt

KENNEDY: see more evidence this is a crypt… more vampires
SPIKE: Quit your talking and start fighting (shouts Spike as he punches a Vampire in the face)
All the girls run at the other vampire and start kicking and punching

AT BUFFY’S HOUSE
DAWN: Couldn’t reach her (said Dawn as she came into the living room)
WILLOW: Well we better pray that she reaches her in time

SUNNYDALE CEMETERY
The fighting has moved outside and Buffy has just finished off her vampire and is taking on another one
MOLLY: Buffy help (screams Molly as a vampire pins Kennedy to a tombstone)
BUFFY: I’m coming (she shouts as she tries make her way to the girls, but is stopped by two vampires) Spike
SPIKE: I’m a little busy slayer (Shouts Spike who has just been kicked into a tombstone)
As Buffy and Spike struggle to defeat there vampire, Kennedy is slowly being strangled to death. However a girl quickly appears behind the vampire and hits he over the head with a brick. The vampire falls and clutches his head, before it can respond the girl has killed him in the face so that he has fallen backwards
MYSTERIOUS GIRL: Grab his arms (she yells at the other potentials)
Once they have the vampire pinned down the girl stakes the vampire in the heart and it turns to dust.
MYSTERIOUS GIRL: Well it looks like I got here just in time (she turns and stares at Buffy, who in turn stares back)

BUFFY’S HOUSE
Everyone is back at Buffy house and Willow has just told Buffy about the spell, all the scobbies are in the living room talking to the girl.
BUFFY: What’s you name? (Asks Buffy to the girl)
MYSTERIOUS GIRL: Rayne (replies the girl, as she pushes back a strand of her brown hair)
SPIKE: The was some bloody good fighting you showed back at the cemetery
RAYNE: Thank you, I’ve been fighting since I was a little child… (She said with a blush, looking at their faces she continued) I grew up in a rough neighbourhood
BUFFY: Well is was impressive so all I have to say is…. Welcome to the team
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