They all met in the Magick Box the next day, all except the charmed ones who couldn't leave their duties back home. Buffy, Dawn, and Joyce were the last to arrive. The others looked shocked at seeing Jenny and Joyce alive but not as shocked when they saw Spike walk in from the sunlight unharmed. Giles cleared his throat. "Well it seems we have a lot to talk about. Why don't we go around the table and tell everyone what happened."

Everyone looked reluctant to start so Spike smiled and said. "Those Oracle blokes offered me a gift. At first I said I had wanted Buffy," no one seemed too shocked by that, "but they told me she wasn't meant for me." He looked at Buffy. "Oh and by the way you're not meant for peaches either, they said that when your union took place it would bring balance to the world. They called you their hope, that you alone would stop the coming darkness, and then they made me human."

Everyone was talking at once; Giles shushed them and looked at Buffy. "Well it seems we have another apocalypse on our hands. The Oracles asked what I wanted most in the world and well I told them I wanted Jenny alive and well." They all looked at Jenny and smiled.

Faith went next. "They offered me a choice; they told me I could live a normal life and then die a normal death. I turned them down. So they restored to life everyone I killed."

Tara told them she hadn't been able to decide so they would give her, her gift at a later date, Willow told them about her choice and how she chose to cure Oz, who by the way is very happy and will be coming home. Anya's wish was simple, the Magick Box restored, and Dawn told them about how she was no longer the Key. Buffy's gift was fairly simple to see her mother alive and well.

When they looked at Xander, he shrugged his shoulders. "They asked me if I knew how important I was to the group, when I told them I was normal they said that I was all that they made me to be." He looked at Buffy and Willow, "they said that we were destined to meet so that you Buffy could have normal friends." He stopped talking long enough to gather his thoughts. "Then they offered me my gift," Xander stood and pulled the Sword of Merlin out of its holder his clothing was transformed to the cape and tunic, "they said my destiny was to become the White Knight, and that Giles would be able to tell me more about that." He looked at Giles and gave one of those Xander smiles. He then turned and started talking right to Buffy. "They told me that as the White Knight my union to the slayer would bring balance to the world."

After he finished speaking not a sound could be heard everyone was shocked into silence, Willow stood and walked over to Xander to check out the sword, while Buffy just looked lost. Finally Jenny looked up. "I've heard tales about the White Knight that Merlin saw being born. My Uncle told me that the Knight would have no strength or power until he received that which was his, the Sword of Merlin."

Giles nodded his head and went to get a book, returning to the table he opened it. "It says that the White Knight is a descendant of Merlin's union with Morgana and that he would form a union with a slayer and they would be the world's great white hope. Separate they are strong but when together they are unstoppable..." Giles was interrupted by Buffy who got up and stormed into the training room, Faith got up and waved Willow back. When she walked into the training room she found Buffy beating the stuffing out of the punching bag. "B. What's the prob?"

Buffy looked at Faith. "I keep wondering how much of my life is planned for me, and how much of it is through my own choices. Angel was my choice, god I loved him so much but then he left, apparently he is not meant for me. Then my best friend tells me that a union between us would bring balance to the world and that were destined to be together, forgive me if I'm a bit upset."

Faith had sat next to Buffy. "Well Buff it seems to me you got two choices, you can either accept that you and the X-man have destiny together, or you can bitch and moan about it. But either way Xander is a good man, he has loved you for a long time. You should give him a shot." Faith stood and left the room to let Buffy think things through.

Meanwhile down in the basement Anya and Xander are having a talk of their own. Anya walks to Xander and sits next to him. "So you're meant for Buffy, is that it then our we over?"

"Anya, I don't know what to say or do."

Anya looked at him with understanding, you don't live as long as she had without finding a little of that. "Well then I'll make it easier for you, go to Buffy make the world a better place." Then she turned away, Xander sighed and stood up, he went up stairs and sat next to Giles. "Have you learned anything else?"

Giles looked up at Xander than over to the door Buffy had just come out of. "The darkness the Oracles spoke of was something called the end of days. It is simply the final apocalypse, this is not a battle, this is a war. An all out war between good and evil. The book talks of the Slayer who has died and her white knight; they will take on forms of their ancestors to defeat the darkness. Merlin will inhabit the body of the white knight but the books don't tell who will inhabit the body of the slayer."

"Everything you have heard about the origins of the slayer is wrong." Spoke a new voice from the shop door. A woman with hair as dark as ravens wings stood their, she looked ancient but young at the same time, her eyes seemed to change color at will.

Buffy walked towards the front of the shop Faith falling in beside her. "Who are you?"

The woman looked at Xander and smiled. "Tell me dear boy you don't recognize me? Oh well in my life I have had many names but I think my real name will do here. Allow me to introduce myself, I am Morgana."

Willow sputtered. "The Morgana?"

Morgana Turned to Willow. "I sense great power from you; yes I am Morgana."

Giles looked up. "What did you mean earlier when you said that the origins of the slayer were wrong?"

AN: Mahwah I am leaving it here for now tell me what you think. Should I continue?