Nancy grabbed a few more stakes and stuffed them into her Slaying bag. She waited to 
her the familiar honk of Oz's van out front to whisk them all away onto patrol. Probably 
another sleepless night of hunting Sunnydale's undead residents. She grabbed a few more 
crosses just in case she couldn't get a clean kill and drank a vile of Holy water. It was 
general procedure, white hat rules. Before patrol drink Holy Water. They might kill you 
but they can't turn you. Then the honk sounded from down stairs.

She grabbed her bag and flipped the light off in her room and headed down the stairs and 
out the front door. She jumped into the back with Larry waiting to hear what Giles was 
planning for tonight. They were a small group but it was all Sunnydale had left as a 
defense.

"Tonight we are just going to be going downtown and through the major parks, Nancy 
did you ever do the research I asked to do on vampire holidays this month?" Nancy shook 
her head and rolled her eyes only Larry noticed that. He snorted. Giles was always 
making them research one thing or another. 

"Not yet. Planning to do it when I get home.. tomorrow morning. Sir." She said making 
Oz and Larry laugh. Giles made a "I don't know why I put up with this" sound and stayed 
quiet. 

Oz made a left turn onto main street and speeded up. "Bloodsuckers." he mumbled using 
as few words as possible. Oz was just like that. The vamps jumped back as the headlights 
caught them in the eyes. Oz whipped out his crossbow and aimed it at them and Giles had 
a stake. Larry opened the door both he and Nancy ready with a cross. 

"I've got them! Get the girl!" Giles said loudly and they jumped down from the van and 
grabbed the girl in a bright blue dress. Nancy thought she recognized her as Cordelia 
Chase. They pulled her into the van and Oz sped away. 

Great another preppy brain dead moron to protect. Nancy thought to herself and sat back 
against the inside of the van. They would be going to the library now. Another night of 
patrol ruined by somebody who didn't have enough sense to stay inside. 
~*~ 
Cordelia lay on the library research table. Oz, Larry, Giles, and Nancy stood over her 
looking down 
at her like she was a crazy woman. 

"How's she doing?" Oz asked, probably thinking about how Cordelia could be a possible 
recruit. 

"Her pulse is strong.." Giles said and set her hand down. 

"What was she doing wearing that? Everyone knows vampires are attracted to bright 
colors." Nancy 
said hand on hip. This girl had to be insane. 

Larry spoke up, "That's Cordelia. Better to look good then feel alive." Nancy shook her 
head. 

Giles stared at the raven haired girl on the table. "Ah, go and, ah, watch the perimeters in 
case they 
follow." he mumbled as if not knowing what else to do. 

Nancy, Larry, and Oz grabbed different weapons and headed outside. As soon as they 
were out the 
stacks door Nancy made a disgusted sound. "Why would they follow us for her? They 
know the 
boundries." She said in a annoyed tone. 

Oz shrugged. "Maybe they really want her, all easter bunny looking." Nancy laughed. 
"Okay split up 
then, Larry take the emergancy exit, Nan stay here. I'll go out front." Nancy and Larry 
nodded and 
followed Oz's instructions. 

Nancy stood at the door and ran her fingers over her smooth stake. She'd spent a long 
time sanding 
down this particular stake, it was sharp. Her favorite. She almost laughed, she had a 
favorite Stake. 
Not a favorite band, tv show.. although she was particular to that Felicity show when she 
could catch 
it.. but she did have a favorite stake. Yeah she was just a normal teenager. 

She became alert hearing a sound from where Larry had been, a struggle. She ran towards 
the 
sound, turning the corner in time to see Larry struggling with three vampires and then see 
them shove 
his own stake into his chest. Larrys shocked expression fell on her and she stared in 
horror as he 
slipped to the ground. "Bastards!" She growled and they turned around to glare at her. 
"Oz over 
here!" She screamed out in warning hoping he would get there in time. 

The Vampires leaped at her and the first one a big burly guy took her down. She thought 
she 
recognized him as her old chemestry teacher. Her head hit the ground with a crack and 
she felt the 
vamp moving towards her neck. She brought her knee up to his groin in the move every 
girl knew. 
The vamp grunted in pain and moved away from her. She was dizzy from her blow to the 
head but 
she heard Oz there fighting with the vamps. 

She got to her feet unsteadily and saw a blurry vision of the vamp she'd kneed quickly 
recovering. 

"Bitch" He growled low in his throat. He sprung at her again and she brought her stake up 
aiming for 
what she hoped was the heart. She felt the impact throw her back against the school wall 
and then 
the guy was gone. Dusted. 

Oz had taken care of one of the vampires but was now struggling with the last, the one 
Nan 
recognized as Larry's killer. She came up behing two struggling for power and brought 
out a vile of 
Holy water. She tossed on the vampires skull and down his back. He hissed in pain and 
moved back 
knocking her onto her backside yet again. Bruises tomarrow. The smell of burning flesh 
hit her 
nostrals just before Oz finally staked the burning sake of dead flesh. 

"Shit Giles," Nancy swore under her breathe and got to her feet running into the library 
with Oz on 
her heels. Giles was leaning over Cordelia Chase's corpse. Nancy halted at the top of the 
stairs. 
Damn. 

~*~End Prologue 2~*~ 
Nancy and Oz stood in the side room in the library sharpening stakes and 
thinking quietly. Giles came in rushing about with a book and the 
necklace he had taken off of Cordelia's corpse in his hand. "I found it! 
Here look!" He held the book out for Nancy and Oz to see. "It's what, 
um, Cordelia was wearing. It's the, the, uh, symbol of, of Anyanka." 

"Don't think i know her." Oz said and went back to sharpening his stake. 
Nancy shook her head in agreement. 

Giles glanced at them and sat down at the table. "Well, no. Um, Anyanka 
is a, sort of a Patron Saint of scorned women." Nancy's ears perked up. 

"What's she do?" she asked glancing at the book again with interest, she 
could be as scorned as anyone. 

Giles glanced up at them. "She grants wishes." 

Oz didn't even look up, "So Cordelia wished for something? Well, if it 
was a long, healthy life, she should get her money back." 

Nancy snorted. Giles made a exasperated sigh. "She said something about 
everything being different, that the... the world wasn't supposed to be 
like this. It was, um, better. Before." 

"So the world sucks because some dumb bimbo made a wish?" Nancy asked 
bluntly and stared at Giles and Oz's shocked expressions. "May she rest 
in peace.." 

"Yes well, she said the, uh... the Slayer was supposed to be here, was, 
um, meant to have been here already." Giles said removing his glasses 
and rubbing the bridge of his nose. 

"Certainly would have helped." Oz mumbled and set down the stake he'd 
been working on. 

Giles stood up. "Yes. I tried calling her, but, um... Look, I'm, I'm, 
I'm gonna have to... research this Anyanka thing further. Um, I have 
some more... volumes at, at home. You two, two get some sleep." 

Nancy and Oz nodded. "Watch your back." they said almost in unison. 
~*~ 

Oz was driving Nancy home when they spotted some vampires attacking a 
group of people. "off duty slayage." Nancy mumbled and Oz nodded. Nancy 
climbed over to the backseat and grabbed her slay bag and jumped out of 
the van as soon as Oz stopped. He was behind her as soon as he had 
grabbed a stake. 

Nancy ran into the group and staked a unsuspecting vampire before he 
could even think. The vampires turned and glared at her with demonic 
eyes. There was at least ten of them. They had her and Oz before they 
could even make a run for it. 

~*~ 

Nancy stood in a wooden planked cage next to Oz with about thirty of 
Sunnydales still living residents. They were in deep, there was no doubt 
about it. The Master was up in front of at least 50 Vampires yapping 
away about some vampires ruling the earth crap. Nancy could care less, 
she was too busy trying to figure out how the hell to get out of here. 

"Bring the first!" The Master bombed which brought Nancy back to earth. 
Two of the guard vampires, they grabbed one of Cordelia's friends. Nancy 
vaguely thought of her name as Victoria. The vampires started to drag 
her out, Oz jumped at them trying to get them to drop the screeching 
girl beating on them with his fists. They threw him back and he crashed 
into her sending a few people to the ground. 

Nancy and Oz watched in disbelief as the vampires put her on the spidery 
looking thing. The Master was still babbling and that redheaded bitch 
was eyeing Oz like candy. 

The Machine that Victoria was strapped in started to make sounds, and 
move slowly. The spidery forks came up and impaled themselves on 
Victoria's body. Nancy watched in shock as red liquid started being 
sucked from her still alive body. Still alive, for the freshness." She 
thought she heard the master hiss. "Welcome to the future." The master 
said taking a wine goblet full of the blood. He drank it and all the 
other vampires yelled "To the future!" 

Nancy heard the whizz of a crossbow bolt fly through the air and saw The 
Master move with reflexes like a cat pulling Xander in front of him. 
The bolt imbedded itself in Xander's shoulder. 

"Uh oh, Puppy got out." The redhead purred from where she was perched. 
Everything exploded into violence. 

Somehow they got out of the cage Oz ripped off part of the cage itself 
as people took flight running out of the room. She noticed the blonde 
girl with a crossbow backhand the redhead and bit back a cheer. Somebody 
crashed into her back she went flying to the ground all the air shooting 
out of her lungs. She could feel the vampire *she assumed it was a 
vampire* beating on her back as if trying to crush in her ribcage. Then 
the weight was gone and Oz was helping her up. 

"C'mon we gotta get out of here.." he said and pulled her to her feet. 
Her head was swimming but she followed the bobbing bleached blond. She 
saw the blond girl who had backhanded the redhead get her neck snapped 
by the Master and the one the red bitch had referred to as puppy go up 
in dust. Hm. He was a vampire.. couldn't be. was that the netorious 
Angelus? Oh well didn't matter now. 

Nancy tripped over what looked like used to be a human and went crashing 
to her knees. This was not her night for staying upright. She growled at 
her own clumsiness and crawled to her feet again and stumbled out of the 
factory. 

"Let's get to Giles and see what the hell happened." Oz said coming up 
behind her. "I think the vans only a block away." He said offering her a 
shoulder to lean on. Her world was all blurry from the current blows to 
the head she'd taken. 
~*~ 
Nancy and Oz entered Giles apartment after what seemed like a eternity 
of finding the van and driving. The place was thrashed. Giles was 
sitting in the corner with his head in his hands, "I tried. I tried. God 
forgive me, nothing helps." 

Nancy went and leaned down next to him. "Giles?" Giles stared at her 
with sad eyes. "I tried Nancy. It didn't help." 

Nancy nodded. "That's alright Giles." 

"I tried crushing Anyanka's power source, it didn't help." Oz shook his 
head. "Giles?" He handed Nancy a ice pack and some Tylenol, she pressed 
it to her sore head. The phone rang. Giles stood up on shaky legs and 
answered it. "Yes, hello? Mr. Giles speaking. The watchers council? 
WHAT? Yes, I'm sure. No. Your sure? Absolutely? Good lord." Giles talked 
like that for a few more minutes and Nancy tried not to go to sleep. She 
probably had a few concussions on concussions. 

Finally Giles hung up the phone looking rather pale. "Nancy?" He asked 
as more of a question. Oz stared at him from where he was seated looking 
exhausted at the table. 

"Yeah?" Nancy asked warily. 

"Your the new Slayer." 

~*~End Prologue 3~*~