Melaka Fray is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and Karl Moline for the 2001 comic book limited series Fray, a spin-off set in a futuristic setting of the shared fictional universe in which the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel are established, referred to as the "Buffyverse."

[citation needed] In Fray, Melaka is depicted as the latest in the mystical line of vampire slayers, chosen ones born with the strength and skill to fight the forces of evil, over 200 years in the future.

Melaka Fray, born in the 23rd century, grew up in Verzi (Riverside), a small ghetto-type district in Haddyn (Manhattan of the future).

[2] In her teenage years, Melaka noticed that she had enhanced physical abilities over everyone else, but chose to believe that she was good only at things like that.

Because of the low social status and the poor background from which her family came, she was forced to go “grabbing” for food, which earned disapproval from her sister.

The two sisters parted ways, with Erin joining "the laws" (i.e. the police equivalent) while Melaka continued her life of crime.

[2] At the age of nineteen Melaka was a professional thief hired by a “radie” (i.e. radiation caused mutant) named Gunther.

Erin refused to believe her, so Melaka returned home and rejoined Urkonn, where she discovered Loo's lifeless body in her apartment.

[5] Melaka led a small group of people, including members of the law, against an army of lurks, while Harth attempted to unleash the Old Ones on Earth.

Opening a chest, she was confronted with a bizarre "Spider-Monkey" creature which stole her scythe and led her through Haddyn to a building containing the Watchers' diaries.

Melaka insists that she won't kill another Slayer, though Willow claims she need only keep her captive until after the temporal rift reopens and closes again, trapping Buffy in the future.

Melaka ambushes Buffy at the site of the temporal rift claiming that she'll defeat her in order to "save the world" (the present).

Notably, she does not possess the usual psychic powers of Slayers such as prophetic dreams, as these abilities instead went to her twin brother Harth.

Indeed, when Buffy Summers accidentally travels to her time period, she finds it difficult to predict Melaka's moves.