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Tuesday July 11, 2000 We're moved in and mostly unpacked. Across the globe from Connecticut to New Zealand. We're living in Dunedin. It's the second largest city on South Island, the urban area is slightly smaller than Hartford in population. It'll be a good opportunity for Mom ... I hope. The school year is different here. We'd be in the middle of summer vacation back home, but here the next quarter (they call it "term") starts in a couple of weeks. Monday August 7, 2000 We've been here almost a month now. Mom seems to like her new job. She's been kind of busy, but we've set aside Wednesday night for together time. The first few days of school were hard, but I'm doing fine now. I've been exploring the town. It's easy to get around by bus, the public libraries are good (one of them has the Reed Rare Book Collection), and I found this great bookstore. I might even like it here. Sunday May 6, 2001 I've been having these nightmares the last few weeks. There's always a girl about my age fighting some sort of monster. Most of the time she wins, but sometimes she dies. There are different types of monsters, but there's one type that seems to repeat. It has fangs and a wrinkly face, and when she kills it, it turns to dust. I haven't been getting as much sleep because of the nightmares, and Mom's been noticing. I think she's starting to get worried. Thursday May 10, 2001 I had another nightmare last night. This girl was on top of a tower and she jumped into a vortex. It vanished and she dropped to the ground. I think she died. Somehow it seemed more real than the other nightmares. Then today I discovered I'm suddenly stronger than I used to be. A LOT stronger. Something strange is going on. I need to find out what it is. Tuesday May 15, 2001 This guy walked up to me today and said he needed to talk to me about my destiny. I hadn't had much luck figuring out what was happening so I decided to listen to him. I figured I'd be safe enough even if he was just some weirdo. He said I'm a Slayer and it's my duty to fight vampires, etc. He told me that a new Slayer is called when the previous one dies and my nightmare a few days ago was probably about her death. He said that he's my Watcher and his job is to train me and record everything that happens so other Watchers can use the information for future Slayers. His name is Dan Lucas and he's in his mid-thirties. Just slightly older than my mom. He reminds me of a family friend back in Connecticut. Mr. Lucas also told me I'm supposed to keep this Slayer stuff a secret. I told him I had to tell my mom. It sounded like this required either telling her or lying to her a lot and I couldn't lie to her about something like this. I pointed out that she could help me keep the secret from everyone else. He didn't look enthusiastic but he agreed. Mom and I have always been close. So she'll believe me when I tell her about this ... I think. Wednesday May 16, 2001 Told Mom about the whole Slayer business. Slayers, Watchers, duty, super strength (I showed her that part), etc. I think she believes me, at least mostly. She asked me about Mr. Lucas, whether I trusted him. I told her I wasn't sure yet, but he did seem to know things I needed to know. She told me to be careful and suggested that Mr. Lucas pose as my martial arts teacher. It's a good idea and it's not that far from the truth. Saturday May 19, 2001 I learned something from Mr. Lucas about the Reed Collection. It turns out that several of the books there are important mystical works. This should help with our research. And I have a good excuse to browse through the rest of the collection. Saturday June 2, 2001 Dusted my first vampire last night. I didn't think it was going to take this long. He was about to snack on this woman when I interrupted him and then staked him. Thursday October 4, 2001 Had another nightmare last night. The girl I saw die in a nightmare back in May was in a coffin and had to dig herself out. I asked Mr. Lucas about the dream and he said he'd look into it. Thursday October 11, 2001 Mr. Lucas said that the girl in my dream last week was the previous Slayer (Buffy Summers) and she was resurrected somehow. I asked him if that meant there were two Slayers now, and he said that there were three. Buffy had "died" before but that time it only took CPR to revive her. Friday May 10, 2002 It's been one year since I became a Slayer. So far there hasn't been that much action. I've dusted a vampire occasionally (very occasionally), but nothing much seems to be happening here. Not that I'm complaining, it just seems odd. Mr. Lucas said that vampires and demons are rare in New Zealand but that I'm here for a reason, and if I'm supposed to be somewhere else, I'll know it. Thursday September 12, 2002 More nightmares. This time it's a girl about my age being chased by hooded figures. They trap her and one of the hooded figures stabs her. Mr. Lucas said that the girls are potential Slayers. Girls who could become Slayers when the previous one dies. He said that attackers have been tracking down the Potentials and killing them. He said not to worry, the Watcher's Council is working on the problem. Tuesday November 19, 2002 Something terrible has happened. Mr. Lucas went to England for a meeting of the Watcher's Council and I've completely lost contact with him. I did some checking and found out there was an explosion in London. The same city he was meeting in. I looked through his apartment and tried some of his contacts but I can't reach them either. Monday December 16, 2002 It's been a month since I last heard from Mr. Lucas. I've managed to piece together some of what happened. I think that someone attacked the Watcher's Council and killed most of the Watchers. If there are any of them left alive, I haven't been able to contact them. I've rescued Mr. Lucas' mystical texts and I've been studying them to try to figure out what I'm up against. I haven't made much progress. I have this feeling that the real fight is somewhere else, but I don't know where. Sunday March 30, 2003 Still more nightmares. The hooded figures are back but this time they're led by this guy in a preacher's outfit. There seems to be this ... Presence next to him. It feels wrong ... scary ... evil. Saturday May 3, 2003 Still no word from any of the surviving Watchers. I wonder if any of them even know about me, or even whether there are any of them left. They couldn't all have been wiped out, could they? I had another nightmare last night. This time it was about the jaws of the earth opening up and swallowing everything. There was also an army of creatures. They reminded me of vampires, but they were different. Thursday May 8, 2003 I found something in one of the books in the Reed Collection. I hadn't seen it before because the book had been misplaced. Part of the book talked about a power called the First Evil. It included a prophecy about the "Thriceborn Slayer" using the "Scythe of the Guardians" in the final battle against the First Evil at "the gate of Hell." There's a Hellmouth in Sunnydale. And Buffy lives there and she's died twice. I think that's where I need to be. I have to talk to Mom and arrange a few things but I should be able to get there in a few days. Tuesday May 13, 2003 I'm here in Sunnydale. Looks like I got here just in time, there's a big battle tomorrow. Buffy is the leader here. She came up with a plan where we go down into the Hellmouth and then her friend Willow activates all of the Potentials. There's also this amulet that Spike (a vampire with a soul!) is supposed to activate that is supposed to help us. Sounds risky to me, but I'm not in charge. I talked to Mr. Giles (Buffy's Watcher) and let him know that I'm already a Slayer. He talked to Buffy and Willow to make sure that wouldn't affect anything. He also filled me in on some of the background and said that Buffy's been in lots of tough fights before and she usually finds a way to win them. Wednesday May 14, 2003 We won. Sunnydale is a big hole in the ground but we won. Willow's spell and Spike's amulet both worked. All of us Slayers, both old and new, held back the Turok-Han until Spike's amulet started working and cleared them away. It was my first real fight in weeks, but I did okay. I dusted a bunch of Turok-Han, including one that was about to attack Spike. We lost five of the new Slayers, Spike, and Xander's friend Anya. And we almost lost Buffy. She nearly got swallowed up in the collapse of the town but she jumped on the top of our bus just in time. We've started talking about what we're going to do next. There were more Slayers activated around the world and we're going to find them, explain what happened. Sounds like we're going to recreate a makeshift Watcher's Council. We haven't decided how we're going to structure it. I've also learned more about what happened the past two years. I have to say that I'd have been more useful in Sunnydale than I was in Dunedin. I liked being in New Zealand with my mom, but there wasn't much need for me there, at least not as a Slayer. I'll be flying back home soon, at least for a few days. I need to talk to my mom, explain the new situation, and tell her that I'll be leaving home. I'm going to miss her terribly but I think I'm going to be needed more elsewhere.