Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original Buffy characters or the idea of BTVS. What I do own is the idea of this story and Kayla, Angela and any other new characters you may come across.
I thought my story may need a prologue to explain a few things. It is not going to be detailed for the specific reason that this is a background to my story, not the actual story. The paragraphs are not directly after each other, one might be ten days or ten years after the other… so just remember that it is just a back-story.
Eyliena
"This is SO not working, Will." Buffy said as she fought off another rouge slayer. "I don't think we should have cast that spell on the potentials."
"Hang on there, Buffy. I need time to work up the spell."
"Willow, I am hanging on… by a thread. Too many rouges in too few days."
"Am I tiring you out?" The girl fighting her sneered.
"You know that if I had all my strength, I would thrash you ass." Buffy panted.
"And yet," The girl retorted. "You aren't."
"Yeah, but you just wait a little longer, then the power you don't deserve will be gone."
"Got it!" Willow called out. She ran from the site of her ritual as a blinding light appeared and sizzled out. Buffy grinned as the girl continued to hit her, but her feeble attempts were no longer effective. As soon as she realised Buffy was not being hurt, the girl took off, and Buffy watched her leave.
"Ha!" Willow said triumphantly from behind Buffy. "The cops can deal with her now."
"I don't think they call them 'cops' in this country, Will." Buffy joked.
"Buffy." Willow said seriously. "These rouge slayers are becoming a BIG problem.
"I know." Buffy agreed. "If I knew that this was going to happen after we cast that spell to make all of the potentials slayers, then I would never have suggested it."
"Maybe I could make a counter-spell." Willow thought out loud.
"Maybe you should start working on that." Buffy stated as she turned to leave.
The scooby gang, consisting now of Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Dawn, Faith, Wood, Kennedy, Rona, and other slayers, who had been found along the way, sat in a darkened room. The room was filled with the glow of candles and sunlight filtered in from underneath the door.
"You know what this spell means, right?" Willow asked as she sat down on the wooden floor. She indicated to all the slayers that they should sit down in a circle around her while Xander, Giles, Dawn and Robin Wood stood around awkwardly. "I couldn't actually reverse the spell on all the slayers without them physically being here, so all the slayers that have already been called will still have their powers, but no new slayers will be called until one of the original slayers dies." Everyone nodded their heads expectantly.
"Damn, that means we're still gonna have to chase around those girls who have a yen for causing trouble." Faith said.
"Yeah." Buffy said. "But we can't do anything more. There is no way to reverse the spell." She placed the scythe in front of Willow and Willow positioned her hands on it.
"Here goes nothing." She breathed. On either side of her, Buffy and Faith touched their hands to the scythe and the circle of slayers joined hands. As Willow began to chant and the scythe started to glow, Buffy and Faith fainted suddenly, falling on top of each other while still holing the other slayer's hands and touching the scythe.
"Buffy! I've got it! The answer!" Willow exclaimed as she moved slowly over to Buffy. Although Buffy had kept her youthful rigour, Willow was not so lucky as she got older. "Buffy." Willow said excitedly. "I can help you to choose your own slayers. You can activate potentials yourself." She took the scythe from its hanging position on the wall. "You'll need this, though." Buffy looked confused, but Willow's excitement was infectious and she smiled at her old friend, wondering what the genius had come up with this time.
Faith and Buffy stood staring each other down.
"I've had it with this life, B." Faith stated. "I just wanna settle down somewhere now that there are no more slayers that need straightening out. I'm too old to keep running after slayers all around the world, and so are your friends."
"But Faith," Buffy protested, not wanting to lose her friend and companion slayer just because she thought that she was too old. "It's your destiny-"
"To be the slayer, B? I can still fight the demons from wherever I am, and you can send your newbie slayers to come train with me, it can be like a slayer school, but I just can't bear to be one of the two who choose the fate of little girls anymore." Buffy looked downcast.
"If you have to, then you have to." Buffy relented. "There was a time when I didn't want to be the one and only chosen one, either."
"I guess we're both just really slow at revealing our true feelings." Faith said sombrely as the two original slayers embraced in a tight hug.
"You have to promise to take good care of Willow, Xander, Dawn and their families, though." Buffy warned her.
"B, of course I will. They're like family to me, and I know that you will come to take care of them whenever you can, as well. Just remember, you're not the only slayer any more, you're just the only one who chooses the slayers."
I'm thinking that that will do for a prologue. Got it? Rouge slayers that have to have their powers taken off of them, Willow revoking the spell made on the slayer lineage, Willow casting a new spell that made Buffy and Faith able to choose their own slayers from the list of potentials and Faith opting to stay and be domestic rather than to go in search of potentials.
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