Mona had fallen asleep while watching over Nika, her head flopped to her shoulder and her mind was overwhelmed, a montage of Claudia and Sarah flooded her mind.

* "Stop the apocalypse?" Claudia asked

"Yes, it's extremely important." Sarah replied.

Shen looked as the figure from his dreams came into the home. Shen's eyes widened at the sight of the beast. He tried to scramble away but the ceiling collapes upon them and blinded Shen.

The figure, the horseman stood lookign down into the crater.

"Damn." He said to himself out loud.

"There is no real word for what we're called. As i have said, i was called a witch and a fallen angel, touched by the devil. What we are is neither good nor bad. We are both. What we do, our duty is to stop the apocalypse Claudia." Sarah explained.

"In 1907 The Horseman was defeated by one of us, it was sent to the hellmouth where it lay concealed beneath the earth. Then in 2003, the chosen one, Buffy Summers and potential slayers from around the world opened the seal which concealed the beast, releasing him.

I'm guessing, the best had some sort of spell upon him which blinded your sight. Until you were supposed to die. But when that vampire turned you, your essence was displaced, your visions came to you and drove you mad." Sarah explained.

"When you were turned, I mentioned it displaced your essence. This disallowed another of us to be given the burden. It is very important that this happen or the Horseman will win."

"You said there are others, though." Claudia reminded the ghost woman.

"Yes but they are in their own areas, it is just as important they be where they are."

"There is alot more to power than what you think. It's in your blood, our blood, our power."

"Will you surrender that essence to the powers that be?" Sarah asked.

Claudia felt weak in the pit of her stomach, then she was hit with a thought, how would The slayers know of her successor, they didn't even know about her. She had nothing sharp, so Claudia brought her hand to her motuh and bit down, blood emerged from the wound.

Falling to the floor Claudia used what was left of her energy to write the name MONA, in blood. She remembered what Sarah had said, her blood was her power before she ceased to exist and disappeared into oblivion. *

Mona woke up screaming, trying to catch her breath. A tear rolled down her cheek.

"That was...intense."

Bianca and Paige dragged themselves into the warehouse.

"I much prefer the poofing variety." Bianca said as she dropped the axe to the ground.

"I'm gonna stink for days. I can hear the shower calling me now."

"Away you go, I'll check in on Mona."

Bianca walked to the door of Nika's room and leaned up against the doorframe. "How's she doing?"

"Fine but we've got to talk." Mona stood up from the chair.

The pair walked out of the room and into the dark kitchen area. Mona leaned back against the table and tucked a stray hair behind her ear.

"It's about Claudia."

"What about her?" Bianca asked insensitively

"She was, not what we thought she was.."

"A vampire?"

"No, well yes, she was a vampire. She was something else too. She was the one who could stop the horseman. She came from a line of people who could do that. She showed me. There was this girl, Sarah, she was like Claudia. She showed Claudia what she was. Now there's another one out there. An apocalypse stopper. We have to find them."

"Ok, that's alot to take in. She how did she show you?"

"Her blood, it was magic. She sent it to me in my dreams."

"Oh.... of course."

"I'm being serious Bianca." Mona said irritated.

"Did you... did she show you who it was?" Bianca asked.

"No, well, sort of. I saw a man, that's it. All I can tell you."

"Ok, well that's better that nothing I guess."

Nika emerged from her bedroom and yawned, her shirt was teared and covered in blood.

"Oh my god Nika, you shouldn't be up. Are you alright?" Bianca asked.

"One of the benefits of slayer power." Nika smiled.

"Take a shower after Paige. We'll head out patrolling. These two already had their fun and then with the permadarkness there is gonna be vamps galore out there. And it'll be real night soon anyway."

After Nika had showered and changed, her and mona left to patrol. The pair sauntered down the streets of Jolten. The first signs of the rising moon appeared as it's white light began to show themselves. It was the first night of the full moon.

Within the depths of the building beside them, the two slayers heard a gut wrenching screa,. The slayers rin into the mouth of the small, poorly lit parking garage. The pair ran into the poorly lit building trying to find where the screams were coming from.

Nika and Mona found him, it was a man laying on the floor. He was groaning in pain. The pair walked up to him and Nika got on one knee beside him.

"Sir, are you alright?" Nika asked and rolled him over.

The man was about 20, he had dirty-blonde hair and his face was grimaced in pain.

"Leave, run. It's not safe to be with me." The man said.

"Why, what's wrong?" Mona asked.

The man's face changed, his nose and mouth grew elongated and his eyes turned bright blue. Hair sprouted from all over the man's face.

"Mona, he's a werewolf!" Nika yelled.

"No, you think." Mona snapped.

"Do you have anything silver?" Nika asked.

"We're not killing it, he's still human Nika!"

The man transformed even more as his clothes began to rip and tear.

"Well we have to do something!" Nika screamed.

The man looked up at Nika, we was completely transformed now. He jumped on top of her thrashing. Nika screamed.

Mona walked up and kicked the werewolf across the back of the neck, he went limp.

"God Nika, grow a pair huh?"

Nika laughed and pushed the werewolf off of her.

"How long do you figure he'll be out?" Nika asked.

"For a while anyway." Mona replied.

Mona dragged, the werewolf behind her as they walked down the streets to return with the werewolf to the warehouse. Nika looked at the moon as it began to cloud over, but the cloud was red, the moon was becoming blood red.

"If it didn't mean the end of the world i'd say that was awesome." Mona commented.

The pair walked through the doors of the warehouse and dropped the werewolf onto the ground.

"Ladies! We've got company." Mona yelled.

Paige walked out "Bloody hell! Is that a werewolf?"

"It is, so we'll leave you three alone. I'd find somewhere to put him fast he might wake up soon. Bye." Mona smiled and walked away.

Nika shrugged and smiled, then followed Nika out the door.

The man woke up, it was dark and kind of cold. he went to move his arms, they were chained up. He sort of felt his surroundings, it felt like a bathtub. Then he felt his skin, he then came to a horrible realization... he was naked.

"Um hello!" He called.

Mona opened the door and light filled the room as she turned the light on.

"Hey sailor, see you're back to yourself." Mona smiled and walked over to the man. He tried to cover himself best he could. Mona unlocked the choins and threw the man a towel.

"Do I know you?" He asked.

"Remember the parking lot last night?" Mona asked.

"Oh, so you two, you didn't run." The man said.

"We're not exactly supposed to." Mona smiled.

"So, how about some clothes?" The man asked.

"Yeah, Nik and I thought you'd like some so we got you something last night. Not sure I'm too happy about that though." Mona smiled. "Follow me."

Mona led the man through the warehouse to her bedroom where the clothes lay out on the bed.

"Thanks." The man smiled and closed the door.

When he emerged he found Mona standing there. "So you gotta name?"

"Ben, Ben Jameson."

"So... I'm guessing you know what you are?" Mona asked.

"Werewolf, yeah."

"So how long have you been, howling at the moon?"

"Last night was my first time. I got bit while I was coming home from Miami a month ago. I hit what I thought was a dog, but it bit me and ran away. The guy tracked me down, he told me I was a werewolf and he was sorry for what he did, that he remembered me somehow and my liscence plate. He said he was starting to control it, but he had a relapse, flew off the wall. He said there was nothin g he could do for me and left. Of course I didn't believe him but lately I've started feeling wierd and I sort of just knew."

"Tough break." Mona said. "Yeah, I'm what you call a slayer, I'm super strong and stuff. I kill vampires and demons."

"So why didn't you kill me?"

"You're still human, most of the month." Mona said "So I guess I'll introduce you to everybody."

As night approched Paige and Bianca chained a towel covered Ben into the bathtub and handed him some sleeping pills in hopes it would keep him calm while he was chained up.

"See you in the morning" Ben said and waved as they walked out of the door.

Ben's chest widened, his head snapped back and fangs grew from his mouth. His face shifted and hair grew all over his face, he thrashed and yelled as he changed. He kicked the faucet and water began pouring from it. The bathtub was filling with water.

The werewolf thrashed yanking at his chains, the water growing higher and higher. The chains which were attached to the shower head and the feet of the tub grew tight. the foot of the bath was ripped off and the shower head came flying off. The water splashed onto the floor. Ben charged the door and broke through it.

The slayers turned and watched as Ben pushed the doors open and ran into the night. The girls ran after him sprinting through the city. A ginshot pierced the night and Ben fell to the ground. The slayers ran up to him and looked at the bleeding werewolf. The wound wasn't fatal, it just hit his leg. The werewolf just lay there wimpering and growling as the slayers tried to help as best they could.

A rugged looking man ran up to them. "What the hell do you think you're doing? Get away from him before he kills you." He brought his gun up to his eye to take aim.

'Who do you think you are?" Paige asked.

"The name's Caine little lady, and it'd be best if you stepped off and ran away."

"I'm thinking not. This is still a person, you can't just hunt him down like an animal." Mona said disgusted.

"Oh no, you're like that girl back in Sunnydale aren't you. Werewolf rights activists. You know you women are all the same. Bleeding hearts to the..." He fell to the ground, Mona stood over him her fists still ready to fight.

"Mona!" Bianca yelled.

"Can you honestly say he wasn't pissing you off?" Mona asked.

"No, but he's just a man." Bianca replied.

"Oh well, he had it coming." Paige said. "Let's just get wolfy back and away from this guy."

"Yeah I guess he'll need to be stitched up or something." Nika said.

"Sorry about this Ben." Bianca said and kicked Ben across the back of the head so he would again become unconscious.

The slayers walked away, Mona carrying Ben on her shoulders.

THE END