Annabelle catches up to Jennifer a few moments later when she sees Jennifer lying out in the middle of the street where the sun is still shining down.

As she slows down and gets closer, she sees two all too familiar puncture wounds on her neck.  A check of her life signs indicate the new Slayer is dead.

Killed by a vampire under the rays of the sun.

Annabelle immediately draws her wooden stake, ready for action, and slowly turns a full circle looking for Jennifer's attacker.

Seeing no one, she squats down, vainly trying to find a pulse.  Finally she stands up again, looking around for any clue as to what happend.

"Stupid, stupid girl!  Why did you run?!  Did you see the ghost of your dead watcher like I did?  But you didn't have a watcher did you?  And even if you did, there should be no ghosts from the past with First Evil now defeated."

Annabelle get no answer from the dead girl or anyone else.  No one springs to attack her or anything else.

It's just the two girls; one living, one dead out on the street.

Annabelle walks back to the Summers house to tell the others what she found.

"Jennifer is dead.  She's lying in the middle of the street a few blocks away, with a vampire bite wound on her neck.  And I found her underneath the sun."

"That doesn't mean anything. She could've been drained in the darkness and her body could've been thrown into the sun for some reason. People don't actually weigh all that much to vampires."

He'd be more inclined to believe someone threw her then the idea of a daywalker.

"That's probably what happened.  It's late in the day, plenty of shady places for a vampire to emerge." Annabelle said half heartedly.  She was thinking more about why Jennifer ran, than how she died.

"I don't suppose anyone heard her talking to herself upstairs did they?"

"She probably just freaked out at the idea that she was the head slayer now, and tried to run away. Unfortunately for her, she didn't understand that running off in a city full of Turok Han was likely to be her final mistake. By the way...learn from it. None of you run off by yourselves. It won't end any better for you guys."

Mike knew if they all run during the day, they could leave HIM behind. He rather hopes they don't. But wait...

"Annabelle...do you feel any stronger? Since she died, you may have awakened as a Slayer."

Annabelle closed her eyes and took a deep breath as if she were trying to get in tune with her body.  Getting no apparent results, she walked over to the sofa and lifted one side of it several inches off the floor.

"Apparently not, a sofa is just as hard to lift as before,"she says putting it back down. "Although my watcher said a Slayer's powers do not usually appear all at once when she is called.  Jennifer is not............I mean.................was not a naturally created Slayer.  She got her powers as a result of a magic spell."

Annabelle pauses for a moment after talking about Jennifer.  "We really should go get her body and give her a decent burial as much as circumstances allow. Then get on with the business torching the high school"
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A half hour later, Jennifer's body has been gathered out of the street and buried in Summers backyard.

Everything here has been taken care of, they're all packed up and ready to go.

Annabelle climbs into the bus by way of the back door which is just a couple of yards from the Summers house.

"Let's get going.  We can stop of at the nearest petrol station on the way which should have all we need."

Mike sighed, not really wanting to go out in the sun...so he grabbed every blanket he could find. Especially the thickest ones, and put them over his head. Like, more then one of them.

"If we must."

He looks kinda silly with blankets over his head and body.

Graham escorted Meredith into the bus then nodded to Daniel as he took a seat.  "I think we are ready to roll out."  Looking around at the others, he adds, "Not sure what is still working around here.  No one was here when I got into town.  Don't even know if the gas stations will still work with electricity being out."

Annabelle takes the front bus seat right behind Daniel in the driver's seat.

"Oh Good Lord, he's right.  Best to look for an older petrol station that doesn't have an electrical pump system.  And if that doesn't work, we don't have to have gasoline.  Any liquid flammable substance will do.  What is that one that people who can't afford a gas grill use?  You know, the one you spray on the chalky black rocks before you light the match to get the fire going? Right then, we'll go the local market and stock up on that.

About a half an hour later, the group was approaching the high school.  They had managed to find working gas pumps at a less modern gas station/convenience store which had empty gas containers in stock, giving them the supplies they needed.

As they approach, they see nothing out of the ordinary, the front of the school looks the same as when they left it.

"So our plan is to have Mikey seal off the sewer exits, while the rest of us seal off the upper exits and then set fire to the place?" Graham asks while looking at the others.

Mike nods.

"Once you get me to an underground entrance point, I'll handle my end to seal the underground off. But the idea is to let the fire and sun do the dirty work."

He'll do his part...

"Why not kill two birds with one stone?." Annabelle says picking up a petrol container in one hand and a carrying a box of matches in the other.


We can seal off the exits by setting a fire in front of them.  The vampire can take a petrol can and set a small fire at each underground way. Meanwhile we'll split into two groups up here.  One group goes about encircling the whole building with petrol, the other sets a small fire at each outer door, then move on to the next one. Graham and I can set the fires at each door, Merry and Daniel can take care of the circle of fire around the building."

Several minutes later, the heroes have split into three groups.

Michael has been safely transported to the nearest underground entrance and now stands at the ladder that leads up into the gym locker room where he entered before.

Daniel and Meredith are walking around the building spreading gasoline in a circle to begin the outer rim of fire.

Graham and Annabelle are that front entrance to start blocking off each entracne with smaller fires.

Mike got to work...he'd be alone, but he'd also be able to use his full strength and speed underground without having to wait for the humans to catch up to him.

Off like the flash, he'd arrived at his entry point. The first thing he did, for extra insurance, is seal the bottom of the cover he'd used to enter the school in the first place.

Then, he'd light a fire under it. The turok han could probably rip that cover off, even with his sealing, but they'd find a nasty surprise if they did, for there were lots of flammable things down here...

Annabelle steps into the front entrance, and starts dumping gasoline (or petrol as she calls it) on the floor.  "I'll get the fires going if you can keep an eye out for Turok-Hans or any other beatie that might impede our progress."

Then she steps back and pulls the box of matches out of her pocket, striking one against the box, she tosses it into the flammable liquid and quickly head back outside.  "That's one way they won't escape, on to the next one."

Down below:

Mike successfully seals off the underground entrance to the high school, then gets his fire going.  His mission complete, he starts heading back down the tunnel.

He makes it to the next tunnel and turns when he sees two vampires suddenly in front of him.

They're regular vamps, not ubervamps.  Both just stare at him for a couple of seconds, then one speaks up:

"Are you MIchael Smith?"

"I am. And if you don't want to be on the wrong end of the Turok Han up there, you'd better clear out of here. I've tried to seal them from getting down here, but that doesn't mean they can't break through anyway. We're preparing to torch the school and leave them to the sun to deal with."

He'd normally be more worried about the two vampires in front of him, but realistically, there's nobody for them to eat around here anyway, so they'll have to move on on their own.

One vamp looks overhead.  "Right, that won't be a problem.  We're gonna dust you pretty quick, then get out of here!"

Both vampires pull out wooden stakes and step towards Mike.



OCC: Mike now has two vampires coming at him, each holding a wooden stake.  If he wants to fight, post his moves in the combat thread, he has iniitiative.  If he wants to run, he can spin around and run down the opposite way of the tunnel he just entered which won't lead back to the spot he started the fire.

Unfortunately, Mike is badly off his game at the moment, and both his offense and defense is unusually ineffective, as he tries to deck both vampires with a fist and they both evade his punches.

The first vamp growls and moves in with his stake aimed at Mike's heart.  "Goodbye loser!  Stinkin' vamp with a soul!  You make me embarassed to be undead!"The stake brushes past Mike's chest, leaving a splinter in his shirt.
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But it's not that easy to finish him off, for he's quite strong...

He hasn't quite found his offensive game yet, but his defense tightens up considerably. Mike fails to connect with the two vampires once again.

The first vampire drives his stake to Mike's heart again, but misses by a mile this time.

His partner tries another tactic as he aims a kick at Mike's midsection, but misses as well.


OCC:Back to the combat thread, no hits on either side this round.

Nodding his agreement, Graham grips a stake and keeps his eyes peeled. Without looking at Annabelle, he says, "So I know a lot has happened in the last day or so, but I wanted you to know that I knew Buffy and her friends from college and, um, well, if you want to talk about their, um, well your loss, you could um, talk to me. If you wanted to that is. Or if you don't that, is um, okay too I guess." Graham sneaks a peek back at the fire starter to see how she is taking his eloquent offer.

Annabelle pauses for a minute, then goes about her business of lighting the next fire without saying anything.

As she steps out and walks towards the next door, she starts to talk; "I can not say I am grieving too much for Buffy and her friends because I unfortunatley didn't know them that long.  I arrived in Sunnydale one afternoon and a little over 24 hours later...............I died.  And now.............they're dead.  I'll miss Mr. Giles most of all.  He saved me from those horrid bringers."

"FREEZE!"

Annabelle and Graham turn to the sound of the voice behind them and see two Sunnydale police officers!

Both have their pistols drawn and pointed at the two of them.  "Well, well, well, look what we have here." says the first cop.  "A couple of sociopaths that think burning down a school is okay.  If you two have any brains, you'll give up and come along quietly.  We've already got your two pals who were spreading gasoline around the buidling."

Underground:

Mike got into his combat flow, and proceeded to get to decking the other two. He fared better, but not quite enough as his punches barely missed both vamps.

"You hold him, while I stake him!" shouts the first vamp.
Mike's defense was impeccable, but the second vamp's attack was amazing as he lunged forward grabbing Mike by the waist.

"You moron!  I meant grab his arm!  How can I stake him with you blocking his chest!  Aw, screw it!"the first vamp says as he drives the stake into his partner's heart from behind.  The second vamp turns to dust.  Instead of a solid vamp holding him, Mike now has a lot of dust on his clothes.

"Never liked that guy.  Just you and me now chump!"

OCC:Back to the combat thread.  Mike has only one vamp to deal with now.

Annabelle gave her best deer in the headlights look.  Talking their way out of it was not an option seeing as how she had a petrol can in one hand and a box of matches in the other as the police accused them of trying to burn down the school.

She inched closer to Graham. "We can not let them take us."she whispered out of the side of her mouth just loud enought for Graham to hear.

Undeground:


"I get you guys are soulless, but killing your comrade before your enemy is slain...you won't live to regret it."

And Mike lauches a pair of bonecrunching punches that smash into the other vampire, and follows it up with a sweep, which knocks him on his ass. And then he draws a stake of his own.

His defense wasn't perfect, but the best defense is a good offense.  And offense doesn't get better than this.

The other vampire is flat on his back, too dazed from Mike's attack to even plead for mercy.

OCC: One vampie in front of you, laying on his back.

Underground:


And then Mike went all out to finish the job, going to stake his prone opponent, who should be less able to defend himself now. He will learn the folly of staking allies as he joins his ally's fate in dustdom.

Mike's stake plunges into the downed vampire's chest, making a crunching sound, then the undead exploded into dust, leaving Mike alone in the tunnel.

Mike shook his head. He wasn't even hostile to these two till they attacked him, but such was the path of the soulless. He had bigger fish to fry, and he would've let them go in his haste to kill the Turok Han, but they forced the issue.

Meanwhile, there's enough flammable stuff to get a good fire going. But he could only wonder how his allies were doing.

Then Michael had to pause for a moment to listen to the sound coming above ground.

Sirens. Police? No wait, fire trucks!!  Yes that was the distinctive horn of a fire truck he heard.  Not only is the fire department still in town, but sounds like they intend to put a stop to the group's flaming Turok-Han purge.

Mike hadn't expected that. Still, if the authorities had seen fit to get involved, it meant his mortal friends were most likely in the custody of authority...and he was on his own, for he couldn't do a thing about it till nightfall. And that would be several hours. At any rate, he'd still sealed the underground entrance to the school, and the Turok Han's mobility would at least be compromised.

Of course, if the firefighters went in after the Turok Han on a 'rescue mission', they'd likely get themselves eaten. But it was too late to do anything about that...

Or was it?

Underground:

Michael pondered his options. The manhole cover he was dropped off at was covered by shade, so he could get back to the surface that way.  But getting to into the high school would be a problem.  There was a side entrance to the school several yards from his original entrance point.  But the sun was still shining down there.   If he jumped far enough, he might make it to the side entrance with minimal sun exposure.

Sirens were getting louder, fire department would be here soon.

OCC: If Michael wants to get inside the school, he needs to make a dexterity plus acrobatics roll to see how far he can jump to the side entracne.  If he gets at least four success levels, he succeeds and only take 2 points of sun damage. Failure means he didn't jump far enough and had to run the rest of the way, taking 20 points of sun damage.
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Annabelle casually reared her arm back holding the pertrol can as she hurled it at the cop intending to knock his gun out of his hand.  Her throw failed miserably, coming nowhere close.  She was ready to dive for cover if he opened fire but he did not.

The cop holstered his pistol and pulled out his baton as he stepped towards Annabelle.  "Watch him."he shouts to his partner who still has his gun on Graham.

"Well, well well.  Throwing flammable liquid containers at officers of the law.  You need to learn to learn to respect authority girl."he says to Annabelle, smiling as he taps his baton in the other hand.

OCC: Cop with baton coming at Annabelel, second cop still has his gun on Graham.

Mike was a being of fearlessness and strength. In his spare time, he could make Michael Jordan envious.

He takes a FLYING leap! And lands with barely a ray or two of sunlight hitting him before he's in the school!




06:43, Today: Michael Smith rolled 17 using 1d10+12. I believe I can fly... (I forget how many success levels that is, but it's more then 4...)

Front of the school:

Three fire trucks now pull up to the school as the confrontation continues.

Seeing the cop move toward Annabelle, Graham focused on the one holding a gun on him.  Waiting for a moment when the second cop was distracted by the man vs. Slayerette action, Graham rushed toward him, swinging his heavy duty flashlight dissarming the cop. The gun goes flying across the parking lot.

Annabelle steps back, not attacking the cop, just focusing on evading his attack as she tries to reason with him. She couldn't help but notice the sirens coming closer as the fire trucks came into sight.

"Oh God, the fire brigade is here too?!  You're sending them to their deaths!!  The school is overrun with vampires!!  And when the sun sets, they'll come out and kill us all!!  You've got to let this place burn!!!"she screams at the top of her lungs.

"Vampires?!  Okay, you kids are on drugs!  Let's cuff em' and get them into the car!"he shouts to his partner and misses with his baton swing at Annabelle's midsection.

The second cop, now deprived of his pistol, pulls out his baton and steps towards Graham.

OCC:Back to the combat thread for these two, one cop each attacking them, each armed with a baton, heroes have initiative. 
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Side of the school:

Mike successfully lands in front of the side entrance and quickly opens the unlocked door, taking only a little sun damage as his flesh steams for just a second.

Now to safely make it to the front entrance where the firemen will no doubt come in.  It's quite a few turns to get to the front, and what Mike encounters is in the hands of luck and chance.  Depending on where the ubervamps are congregating, he could run into none or an army of them.


OCC: Yep, five levels actually.  Only two points of sun damage to Mike.

(OOC:As I recall, stealth rolls can be done with acrobatics or crime...or both!)

Mike carefully moved forward, stealthily, the whole time. He didn't want to be seen by any uber vamps or any firemen. He'd have to deal with incoming on his own.

Inside:

Mike manages to make it to the front entrance of the school without incident.  He had to sneak past a few Turok-Hans, but his stealthy ninja skills combined with them not being the sharpest tools in the shed made it relatively simple.

He could hear the firemen outside, getting hoses and other gear ready.  They should be coming in any minute.

OCC: Out front

"I am not on drugs!"Annabelle shouted.  Clearly this imbecile couldn't be reasoned with.  She nailed a high kick at the cop's chest and then evaded his attack.
"Hey!  We'll just add assaulting a police officer to the charges druggie!!" shouted the first cop as he came toward her again.

Meanwhile, Graham and the second cop circle each other, Graham armed with his large flashlight, the cop with his own baton.

OCC: Back to the combat thread, both cops still up.  Lihwa can join in if she wants. 

Inside:

Mike watched as powerful bursts of water hit the recently set fire blocking the front entrance.  It would be out soon and the firement would then likely come charging in.

Then Mike's sensitive ears pick up the growling noise coming at him from behind.  He turns to see a Turok-Han coming towards him.  Just one luckily.  But even one is now pushover.

OCC:Combat thread time for Mike, one ubervamp coming his way.

Inside:


Sometimes, Turok Han were no pushover. Other times...

Pushovers is EXACTLY what they were. Launching a devastating one two combo, he followed it up with a most deadly staking. And any counter attacks it tried were utterly useless.  The ubervamp exploded into dust before it could growl in pain from Mike's punches.

Meanwhile, the fire at the doorway is just about out.




OCC: Mike is alone for now.  No more ubervamps have shown up.  That was impressive.  Next you'll probably roll a pair of 1s when you really don't need them.
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Out Front:


Clearly the local constabulary was not going to be reasonable. Best to finish this quickly and get out of here.  Annabelle looked below the officer's belt for half a second as she pondered her next (and decidedly unladylike) move.

"Thank God my mother isn't here to see this."she said as she drilled her fist at the cop's groin area. He let out a scream that would wake the neighborhood, then keeled over in a fetal postion, holding his groin area and moaning pain.

Deciding to move things along as quickly as possible (and avoid in more witnesses), Graham streaked in towards the cop with the baton, using his left hand to uppercut the cop and swinging his heavy flashlight in his right to parry the cop's baton.  "Say goodnight Gracie," he said, knocking out the cop so he could help Annabelle.

The second cop hit the ground unconcious, Graham turns to see that the other one was on the ground in pain.

The firemen were too busy fighting the fire to notice all this.

OCC:Both cops are out of the fight. 
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Annabelle ran over to the nearest fireman.  "Wait!  You can't go in there!  There's...............a gang..........on drugs................with lots of guns!!!  They're hiding inside!!  You're going to your deaths!"

She points to the two downed cops.  "Look the gang has already assualted those two officers!  They need medical attention!  You need to get more police here! "


Annabelle Berkshire rolled 18 using 1d10+9. Persuade firemen not to go in.

Seeing Annabelle was stopping the firemen, Graham looks around to see if he could see the cop's car and possibly the rest of their friends.  However, the glare from the fire engine lights and that of the burning school almost blinded him.

18:59, Today: Graham Miller rolled 7 using 1d10+6. Look for cop car and friends.

With the fire at the front entrance now put out, the firemen now turn their attention to Annabelle.  "I think she's serious.  Let's get the fires out in the entranceways, then check with the police before we go further." Just then the fireman's walkie talkie makes a noise: "We've traced the smoke coming from the gym area, someone set a fire in the underground tunnel, it's out now."

The fireman answers as another cop walks up.  "This girl says there's a gang inside with drugs and guns."

The cop responds; "She's right.  We've caught two of them, we're about to take them back to the station." he says pointing to Meredith and Daniel who are both now wearing handcuffs and being put in the back of a police car.

He then points to the bus.  "Looks like they were about to leave town in that bus. We're searching it now.  Lots of supplies.  No drugs found yet, but we found some pretty creepy old occult books.  I think they're a gang of satan worshippers.

Meanwhile Graham looks around, but doesn't make much progress do to the blinding lights.  But he's close enough to the police car of the two cops they just subdued to notice the keys are still in it.


"Oh my God!  There's two officers down just like she said!"the fireman said pointing to the two downed cops.

The cop runs over and looks at the two unconcious cops.  "Okay, nobody goes in until we get back up." He points to Graham and Annabelle.  "You kids don't go anywhere.  We're going to have questions for you."
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Annabelle grabs Graham by the arm and pulls him through the front entrance and into the school building, out of range of police and fire earshot.  "We need to leave now and the bus is compromised.  Can you drive a police car?  If we are subtle, I think we can slip out of here in one.  Then we need to find Michael who could be anywhere now................she stops as she sees Mike a few yards away, covered in ubervamp dust.  "Oh, there he is!  We finally caught a break today!"

Mike, however, took note of the situation...and realized he was best off not being seen by authorities. Even if his friends saw him, he didn't want to be brought outside. Brought outside...in to the big sunny sun.

Using his natural stealth, he vanished back into the school.

Annabelle watched Mike move out of view of the authorities and followed him.  "We need to get out of here and get you out of here as well without you burning to ash.  The police are................wait a minute, what are the police doing here?  The town is deserted,shouldn't they have left too?  I know you do some strange things in America, but this is a bit peculiar."

"They're emergency personel. They're expected to go into dangerous situations like a nearly destroyed city. I wouldn't be surprised if the President of the United States puts in an appearance, as this is now an official disaster area."

Meanwhile, Mike keeps moving. He doesn't want to be brought into the harsh light of day, and the fact that he'd sealed the underground now looks fairly foolish.

The heroes' conversation is cut off as they hear the sound of heavy doors slamming followed by the sound of heavy chains rattling and clinking.  Somebody is locking up the school.  With them inside with the ubervamps.


OCC: Front entrance now locked up, no one will be coming or going that way.  Mike could try to break it down if they want to get out that way, but there is that pesky sun still out.  Other ways out of the school are still available, but there could be ubervamps between you and them.

Annbelle quickly surmised the situation, that they were locked in a building with dozens of Turok-Hans.

"They've locked us in!  With all those indestructible monsters!"

She charged towards the front doors, crashing into them in a futile attempt to break them down.  "Let us out!  Let us out!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.  "We're going to die!" she screamed.

Then she fainted dead away and crashed to the floor.

Now Mike had even more problems. Bad enough trying to save an innocent when she awake and healthy.

Now he has to do it when she's unconscious. He severely regrets sealing off the underground. Still, he might be able to save Anna the hard way in a pinch...if he breaks a window and pushes her through, she'll be safe in sunlight.

...Safe in sunlight. This could be his last stand, if he must face a horde without a chokepoint.

He dashes forward, picks up her body, and disappears back inside, away from the light.

Graham watches as Mike dashes forward and grabs the unconcious Annabelle.  The two of them head down a darkened tunnel, but then stop in their tracks.

Someone or something is standing infront of them.  Another Turok-Han?

The shadow steps forward, close enough for them to now see.........


Buffy Summers

To Be Continued.
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