Author's Note: Well, it looks like I guessed wrong. Part two onwards was
my best guess as to what was going to happen to Buffy and friends at the
end of the series, all written well before the final episode came out.
As I don't want to have to re-write my whole story, here is the 'Itsumo'
version of what happened in the final episode of Buffy the Vampire
Slayer.
Sitting in the Principal's office, Willow chanted softly,
looking down at the Slayers weapon that was laying there before her. The
words seemed to flow out on their own, until with a final phrase the axe
flared to life.
"Oh.. my.. Goddess," Willow gasped out softly, her eyes wide.
The power channeled through her and out, reaching each and every
corner of the world, and for just a moment she felt that great power
within her. And all around the world, the potential Slayers awoke to
their own power.
"You're a goddess," Kennedy murmured, looking at Willow in awe.
Willow smiled back at her weakly, "And you're a Slayer." She
felt as limp as a wet noodle, all the strength just rushing out of her,
but she managed to pass the axe to Kennedy and say, "You'd better get
this to them."
"Right," and Kennedy was off like a shot, carrying the axe
firmly.
Willow sat there cross-legged for a few moments, then she simply
fell sideways. "That was neat," she murmured before just passing out.
In the caverns of the Hellmouth, the tide was beginning to turn
against the heroes.
Things had gone pretty well, at first. The uber-vamps hadn't
been expecting to face an small army of Slayers, and once Kennedy passed
the Slayers' axe to Buffy, the vamps fell easily. But there was an army
of the ancient vampires, and the Slayers were young, untested. And then
Buffy was stabbed from behind.
"B!" Faith cried out, running to Buffy's side.
"Take this," Buffy handed her the axe, fixing Faith with an
intense gaze, "lead them, for me."
"I..." Faith met her gaze steadily for a moment, many things
passing between them, all unsaid. "They won't know what hit 'em," Faith
vowed, taking up the weapon.
"Would you bloody well work," Spike cursed, grabbing the amulet
he wore and shaking it angrily. Light flared from between his fingers, a
beam cutting across the darkness of the cavern to shine on where Buffy
lay.
The Slayer's eyes popped open wide, then slowly, painfully,
Buffy pulled herself to her feet. Blood running down her side she limped
over to Spike's side, reaching out to take his hand. Light danced around
their fingers, and Buffy sighed softly, "I understand."
"NO flippin' way," Spike started to say, when Buffy put her
finger to his lips.
"It's not your call to make," she said to him softly. Light and
energy danced all around them, growing, but then it leveled off,
somehow.
"We're not enough," Spike frowned.
A light shot out from the amulet right up through the cavern
roof. Laying in the hallway the blonde haired woman's body blazed, and a
ghostly form rose up from it, looking about in confusion. She gracefully
dropped down through the cavern ceiling, a spirit made up of glimmering
light, her face both purely human and yet slightly demonic.
"Anya," Buffy whispered softly.
Anya reached out a glittering, almost transparent hand and
grasped at Spike's, seemingly becoming much more solid as she did so.
"I'm sorry," Spike started to say, when Anya cut him off.
"It doesn't matter anymore," Anya said intensely, "Let's just
stop this thing, before it tries to hurt Xander again."
The three shared a serious glance, then they all nodded at once.
Buffy finished off the circuit, grasping Anya's hand firmly in hers, and
the three of them suddenly exploded in a wash of purest mystical fire.
The power passed over the other Slayers quite harmlessly, but the
uber-vamps screamed and died as it struck them.
"Buffy!" Faith cried out, even as she began to work at getting
all the other Slayers out of the violently shaking cavern.
"Go," Buffy cried, "we've got to see this through to the end!"
The First Evil materialized inside the triangle that the three
of them had made, her expression one of shock and disbelief. "NO," the
false Buffy cried out, "you can't do this. This was meant to be my
place, my time!"
"Just watch us," Spike growled, his body glowing from within.
All three of them shown brighter and brighter, while the First cried out
in their grasp.
Faith pushed the younger Slayers in front of her as they all ran
up the stone stairs, quickly running into Giles, Andrew and the others
who were coming towards the source of the noise and violence. 'Most run
away from this stuff, not towards it,' was the thought running through
Faith's head, 'our lives are not like other peoples.'
"Buffy?" Giles asked, his eyes wide.
Faith, her eyes dark with grief, simply shook her head no.
"Buffy!" Dawn cried out tearfully, but Xander quickly grabbed at
her, keeping her from running on towards where the seal was.
Willow jerked, and Kennedy reached out a steadying hand to grasp
her shoulder. "What are they doing..." Willow murmured, then her eyes
widened. "We've got to get out of the school," she said intensely, "and
as far away as we can, right now!"
"But why?" Kennedy blinked.
Giles, having shared a few different kinds of crisis with Willow
over the years, didn't ask questions. "Lets go," he quickly began to
usher the others outside.
"The school bus," Principal Wood barked, "get everyone into the
school bus!" and Giles, the Slayers, Xander, and the others began to
pile inside. Thankfully the engines started up on the first try, and
they were off.
They only had to go for a few blocks when Willow relaxed a bit
in her seat. She said softly, "That should be far enough, I think."
Faith looked back, and her eyes widened. The entire school
seemed to simply fold inward, imploding, then the sink hole began to
spread outward. "Maybe we should start it up again?" she asked, grabbing
at the wheel.
The collapse began to slow, then gradually came to a stop, only
swallowing up the houses and buildings that were closest to the high
school itself. Giles looked over at Willow and softly asked her, "What
happened down there?"
"Buffy, Spike, and Anya formed a new seal for the Hellmouth, a
stronger seal than ever before," Willow murmured softly.
"And the First?" Faith asked.
With a grim little smile Willow said, "It's trapped in the seal
itself."
"What?" Kennedy blinked.
"The three of them have become a living prison for the First,"
Willow said softly, "trapping it away from the world forever."
"As long as no one messes with the seal," Faith said
thoughtfully. She smiled sadly over at Giles and Dawn, "I think I'll be
sticking around, help keep an eye on things."
Tears glittered on Dawn's cheeks as she looked towards the
sinkhole, but her voice was steady as she said, "I think Buffy'd like
that."
Kennedy took Willow's hand gently in hers and softly asked her,
"Do you plan on sticking around here, too?"
Willow opened her mouth to answer, then closed it again. She
thought of the power she had wielded in using the Slayers' weapon, the
sense of purpose that she had felt then. A purpose that seemed so much
greater than any she had considered for herself before.
"I don't know," even Willow was faintly surprised by her answer.
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