Slayers and Guardians (Worlds Colliding Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Book One

chapter 10 - Nightmares

Into every generation, there are Chosen Ones. A Slayer will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. With each Slayer comes a Guardian. They are protectors of the innocent.

Day One

Morning - Francis House - Zoey's Room

Zoey was having a nightmare about having passive psychic powers such as empathy, precognition, retrocognition, or psychometry, levitating, traveling through astral projections by way of meditation, invoking curses or blessings, conjuring or channeling spirits, and illusion-casting, having all of these dreams after having been told that she and her mother Layla were gypsies by her Aunt Jenny. Having powers that they hadn't been able to tell because they had always been wearing their necklaces that were spelled to keep their powers locked away as long as they were wearing them. Zoey was having these dreams because she wasn't wearing her necklace, which was laying on her bedside table, allowing her to have these dreams for the first time, because this was the first time she had slept without her necklace on.

Zoey was slowly waking up. "No. No!"

Layla was trying to wake her up. "Yes." Zoey suddenly woke, looking at her mother with wide eyes. "It's time to get up for school."

"Mom?" Zoey asked.

"Are you all right?" Layla asked.

Zoey sat up. "No. Uh, yeah. Yeah, I'm--I'm fine."

Layla sighed worriedly. "I know school sounds trivial compared to what we just learned from your aunt Jenny. But we have to keep living, Zoey." Zoey nodded. "You had dreams last night too, huh? I had them, too. First time I've slept without the necklace on."

Zoey nodded in agreement. "Yeah, me too."

"The nightmares are one of the things that Jenny mentioned," Layla explained. "Like visions warning us about the future. What did you see?"

"Us becoming a lot more powerful with a lot more powers than I ever thought possible," Zoey answered.

Layla nodded. "Me too. Believe me, Zo, we will figure all of this out, I promise. Just until then, we have to keep living."

Zoey nodded, both of them nervous and worried about this secret that they had just discovered.

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Sunnydale High School - Hallway

The girls were walking through the halls.

"So Brady, Brooke and I are pumped to see our dad," Buffy explained. "We're on for this weekend."

"So, do you see your dad a lot?" Willow asked.

"Not a whole lot," Brooke answered. "He's still in L.A. He, like, comes down for weekends sometimes."

"When did they get divorced?" Alice asked.

"Well, it wasn't finalized till last year, but they were separated before that," Buffy answered.

"Yeah, if anyone knows how divorced parents go, it's Zo," Carmen told them. "Remember, Zoey and Amy? Amy's witch of a mom cheated on her husband with Zoey's dad, and her dad cheated on her mom Layla with the witch mom? Ruined both marriages when Zoey told Amy, her dad overheard, and that's why he left. Remember, Catherine blamed Zo and tried to kill her for it."