Unexpected Aka Necromancer's Beginnings

DeBrant

"Buffy? Buffy, this is Giles..."

"Giles. Good. Any news on the necromancer?"

"Well, not exactly, but I do have something. I looked up necromancers in every book I own, and from that, I was able to figure out some common traits and identifying marks which might help us to find the young man or woman who might be able to help us against the one who visited you."

"Well?" Asked the Slayer over the phone line. Riley was sitting on the bed, waiting for her to finish getting ready for their date. He was doing hand movements and everything. They were a bit late for the reservation.

"Yes, well, it seems that they share certain physical characteristics. While they can be male or female, they all have blue eyes, such as the one you saw, and black hair. Also, as you noticed in your dream, they possess bright white streaks at their temples. I'm looking for more, but hopefully what I have found so far will help you..."

"Okay, Giles. Gotta go!"

"Oh, um...okay... Good luck Buffy..."

The click told Buffy she could hang up, and she was relieved to. But when she turned around, she found Riley befuddled and worried.

"Necromancer? What necromancer? What's going on, Buffy?" he asked, trying his best not to sound like a soldier as he did.

"Well, I had a dream, and the man in the dream might be a necromancer, so Giles did some research. Now, he's convinced that not only is one coming here, but that there's a necromancer already in Sunnydale and that he or she was one of my classmates."

"Okay..." Riley answered. There is very little to say to a comment like that.

"Anyway, he just told me what to look for on a necromancer-"

"Big horns and scary teeth?" Riley asked with a smile.

"No" Buffy answered with a bit of somberness, "Necromancers are human. Remember how I told you that every evil isn't necessarily demonic? This is one of those times..."

"Oh" Riley said, a bit crestfallen.

"Anyway, so far, Giles says to look for blue eyes, black hair. Maybe white streaks." Buffy said, walking over to the door.

Riley looked up. "Do you want me to call it in, look through profiles?"

"Not really" Buffy answered as he got up from her bed and they walked out, "You see, supposedly, the necromancer is only activated when another one comes by, so any changes in looks wouldn't be in the records. And it might have just happened."

"Do you know the gender?"

"No" Buffy answered, sighing, "Could be either..."

"So, pretty much, you have nothing that could be looked up..." Riley said, obviously disappointed at not being able to help.

"Well, he didn't say that those things would have been recent. I just thought of that because I'd never seen more than a few with that combination, and the specific one I'm thinking about couldn't possibly be it. So you could ask them to look up any Sunnydale residents from my graduating class that have blue eyes and black hair."

"What about the white streaks?" Riley asked.

"Well, I would have noticed that. It's not as common. Perhaps that's one of the changes they go through when they're activated."

Riley then proceeded to call into the Initiative's headquarters. He quickly gave them the parameters of the search, and then tucked the small phone back into a hidden pocket in his outfit.

"Alright, let's go..."

And they did.

Part 5