A/N: I Own nothing but these words I write. All recognizable characters belong to Joss and JKR
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3:20 am Sunnydale Cemetery

Celabe looked at The First with wonderment in his eyes. Always, his chosen Master had come up with the greatest idea’s. Here was his Master, showing yet again, its brilliance.

“So let me get this straight,” he began, his southern accent obvious to any onlooker, “To beat Ethan at his own game, you wish to bring about children to fight your battles, children, with out whom, an entire world would parish?”

At his masters nod, the corner of his lips twitched ever so slightly, forming a smirk. He clapped his hands together, the pleasure showing in his voice when he spoke. “Oh this will be a wondrous game”

Hogwarts, Unknown Time

Hermione Granger had fallen asleep in the library again. The dawn was approaching, and the librarian still hadn’t noticed that she was there. Something else had noticed though, something not entirely human.

The thing watched her, smiling as it crept closer to the sleeping child. The Powers That Be had great plans for this girl and her friends. That had been shown when they defeated the darkest wizard of all times together before the first year at Hogwarts was over. It was clear, that these children were important pawns in the Power’s game. However, The First had other plans for these children. And as a servant of the first, the thing decided that its Master deserved these humans more than The Powers.

The thing crawled forward on all fours. It looked human; its skin was a cream color of white. The nails were long, like claws and painted in dried up blood stains. The eyes were huge, like a child’s, but held the soul of a monster. The hair was long, fell to the ground as he crawled towards the young female. It wore nothing, and the bareness of it showed that it was, indeed male.

It took this time to speak as it approached the other creature. “A new toy for the master. It will be happy with me, tonight.” The thing said.

Hermione woke. A loud, ear piercing scream woke the school as the creature took off, his master’s new puppet in his arms….