I know this had been done a lot but this is my take on it so thanks for reading.
It's also my first attempt at fanfiction (though I have writen before) so sorry if it's not the greatest and please let me know of any gramatical or spelling mistakes. Thanks again.
As I stand looking over this crater, which used to be a town, I finally see what has been happening all these hell filled years. The sun is setting, casting an eerie glow over the rubble, but that's not what I see. I see the dawn of a new era, the turning of a page. What we have all , unknowingly, worked so hard for these past 8 years. And who thousands before our little rag tag group worked for but never got realize. And I wonder where this started.
Did it start the moment Willow uttered the spell that gave all these girls full slayer power?
Or did it start when we formed the idea two nights ago?
But I know that's not true this started way before now.
Maybe that first time I died, fooling the laws of the nature into giving the world a second slayer.
Or when I was first called destined to be different than the others.
Or did it start way before in 1880 then when Spike was turned? After all it was he who closed the hell mouth and saved our little gang more times than we can count.
Possible twenty something years before that when he was born.
But what about Angel? He too helped bring about this new era.
Did it start when he was turned, or born?
But No. I know that's not right.
Did it start at least a thousand years before that when the Master first came about? As he was the catalyst that sped up this reaction 7 years ago when he killed me calling Kendra, and eventually Faith when Dru killed her, to her duty.
I look again at this creator we have created mostly Spike my mind reminds me and I grin a little at that- the vampire who constantly complained about helping out selflessly saved the world. Though it makes me cringe to think of him gone an Anya...
No I won't think about that now. Later. I will deal with my grief later.
Right now I need to bask in this feeling of finally making a big difference in this grand scheme.
I look around at the dessert that surrounds us.
And I know when started.
When those cowardly men forced this power on that poor girl who became The First Slayer.
They started a new era, The Era of The Slayer, but they also started the chain of events that lead to this newer era that is finally here and ahead of us-
The Era Of The Slayers
Not One but Many
And together we will change the world for the better.
And to realize I played a part, a big part, in this transformation-
That we all did: Me, Faith, Willow, Giles, Xander, Anya, Dawn, and Spike; All of us and more. And are some of us are lucky enough to still be part of it-
To see this new world.
It's Amazing!