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Summary:When Buffy jumped into the portal to save Dawn she was certain she would die, and she was okay with that because her sister would live. Dawn would be safe and have a chance at a normal life, for that Buffy would be willing to die a hundred times over. Death was her gift and she wasn't afraid. But she wasn't ready to wake up on Chulak were snake demons rule over everyone as gods. What is a slayer to do?
New World, New Life, Same Mission
Pain. . . Pain was the first thing Buffy became aware of as she woke. A different sort of pain than the soul searing pain she'd felt in the portal, but no less encompassing. It felt like her aches had aches, and she wasn't sure what to think of that. Opening her eyes she had to close them again quickly as light from the burning sun threatened to sear her eyes. Opening her eyes again, slowly this time, she looked around her. She was in the middle of what looked like a desert, different than California's deserts, it looked like the pictures she had seen of the deserts in the Middle East. Sand dunes and nothing else as far as she could see. Sitting up she sifted her hand thru the sand, it felt different to the sand she was used to finding on the beach. Buffy felt conflicted, on one hand she was lost in a strange place with no food or water, and no way of knowing which way held safety. At the same time she felt strangely at ease, it almost felt like she was coming home. Which wasn't possible, she'd never lived anywhere like this in her life.
Standing up Buffy turned in a full circle as she tried to decide witch direction to go. She couldn't see anything that indicated civilization, she couldn't hear anything but the wind either. The only thing Buffy could see that might help her avoid going in circles as she walked was the sun. With a shrug Buffy headed in the direction of the setting sun. With nothing to do but keep walking Buffy had plenty of time to think, something she usually tried to avoid as much as possible, about her life.
At first her thoughts revolved around her family, her friends, Riley and Angel. She thought about things she regretted doing and what she regretted not doing, thought about what she would do differently if she could. Her thoughts turned in her mind one chasing another in an almost chaotic manner. She continued this line of thought for the rest of the day until she noticed the sun was setting and an unbidden memory surfaced in a rush and she was no longer looking at the sunset on a strange world but she was sitting in a cemetery with Merrick her first watcher.
/flashback/
Buffy was sitting on the base of a statue in the cemetery looking bored as she watched the sun set. Idly she wondered what she was doing here. She wasn't an idiot so she knew following a crazy old guy with horrible fashion to a cemetery to find vampires was probably a bad idea, but she'd done it anyway. Sighing she thought about just leaving, she didn't need to be here and she certainly didn't owe this nut job anything either.
As if the man knew what Buffy was thinking he turned to look at her and said. "Be patient Buffy, as soon as the sun is finished setting a new world will awaken and you will see that I'm telling the truth. Then we will begin your training as a Slayer, the chosen warrior of god."
"Yeah, Whatever. I'm out of here!" Standing up Buffy grabbed her bag and was about to leave when a hand punched out of the grave right next to her. Buffy couldn't help but scream as she scrambled away from the person digging itself out of the grave. As he straitened she could see he wasn't a man at all, his face was crinkled and his eyes were a fierce yellow, and as he smiled at her she could see two razor sharp teeth in his mouth. She couldn't believe it, it couldn't be real this was something from a movie. As he moved forward with a growl to grab her by the shoulders she moved instinctively and punched him in the face before sending him flying away from her with a solid kick to his midsection.
"Buffy! You must stab him in the heart with this!" Merrick called to Buffy as he tossed her a stake.
She caught it easily and adjusted her grip without thought as the vampire charged her again she ducked under his swinging arm and straitened enough to swing her hand up and plant the stake firmly into his chest where his heart was. Time seemed to momentarily slow as she saw his face change from anger to surprise as his skin started to change to the color of ash and it started to crack until he seemed to collapse into himself as nothing but a pile of ash. Buffy stared at the pile and the stake in her hand in shock for a moment stunned that she was able to do that. Where had it come from? She turned to look at Merrick with a look of wonder on her face.
"How is this possible? How was I able to kick him like that or or stake him like that? I mean I've never done anything like that before but it felt like I'd been doing it all my life. I didn't even have to think about it." Buffy said as she looked at Merrick desperate for answers that she knew he could give her.
"You're the Slayer, the one girl in all the world chosen to stand and fight against the darkness. Chosen by God to protect his people form vampires and the forces of hell. Buffy you are the most recently called Slayer of a long line. A line that started with Seenya the Daughter of Sineya. Seenya was the first slayer." Pausing Merrick looked at Buffy and motioned for her to sit down, "You might want to sit down Buffy, this is going to take a little while. Now where was I? Oh yes Seenyas story. In the beginning our world was ruled by demons, pure demons that we refer to as the Ancient Ones today. Some of the Ancient ones took pity on humans and turned on the others it helped to imprison the others and force them from this world so that it could be inherited by humans. Before the last demon left it mixed its blood with a a human and created the first vampire. This vampire preyed upon the living spreading it's evil until one vampire became ten, and ten became a hundred. Faster and faster new vampires where rising and the group of shamans who ruled over the people and gave their protection worried that soon there would be to many vampires for them to protect people. They knew that they had to do something to even the balance. One night with the blood and flesh of a thousand sacrificed sheep the shamans called on the old gods for help, and one of them answered. The god declared that if one of the shamans would sacrifice themselves it would bless the bloodline of that shaman and that the blessing would pass to all of that bloodlines descendents and that at all times there would be one chosen from that line who would be strong enough to stand against the darkness. Sineya was one of those shamans who were present and her family was the largest in the area, increasing the chance of the line surviving so she stepped forward and offered herself as a sacrifice. When the god accepted her sacrifice her turned back to those who waited and asked who would be chosen first. That is when Seenya stepped forward and declared, 'I am Seenya, Daughter of Sineya, and I will be the First of the Ones.' the god accepted that and he reached forward and touched her blending her essence with that of a demon whose energy originated from the same source that gives power to the vampires. And thus the first Slayer was created. She had great strength, stamina and predatorial instinct, but she had no watcher, no one to guide her and she slowly began to lose herself and in the end she no longer considered herself a part of humanity. The shamans watched Seenyas fall knowing it was to late to make a difference for her but determined to help future generations keep from losing themselves. And so they gave up their roles as leaders and sank into shadows and obscurity to protect and lead from afar as they looked after the Slayer and Sineyas line. Thus the Watchers Council was created. They guided each newly called Slayer and they kept records of all of Sineyas decedents recording dutifully who lived and who died. They kept a record of each Slayers abilities and over time they came to realize that the slayers had a sort of genetic memory ,amongst other things, this allowed each newly called Slayer to instinctively know how to use all the weapons there predecessors used and it gave them access to the memories of the Slayers who died before them, most of these memories were seen in their dreams. For thousands of years they have done this and that is why I am here now Buffy. I am your Watcher, and as a descendent of Sineya you have access to that genetic memory, although right now you can only access it unconsciously. You are the Chosen One Buffy. You are the Slayer."
Buffy sat quietly for a few minutes as she contemplated what she had been told then she looked at Merrick and asked,
"You will keep me from loosing my humanity?"
"I swear I will." Merrick said holding out his hand to Buffy. She took his hand and let him help her stand up, starting a partnership as old as human civilization itself.
/End Flashback/
Buffy gave a start as she came back to herself. Looking around she noticed that the sun had completely set while she'd been lost in her memory. She shook her head a little surprised that she'd even thought of it. After scanning around the area she decided there wasn't any place that looked good to sleep, and one sand dune was the same as another, so she just laid down where she was. She hadn't thought of Merrick in years but all of the sudden in this desert world he was all she could think of. Thinking of her relationship with Merrick brought tears to her eyes, the pain she felt at his death all those years ago seemed to emerge with a vengeance, this time it was shared with her pain in loosing Giles. And suddenly it hit her, she realized why her subconsciousness had brought up that memory. In this strange new world she had no Watcher. For thousands of years every slayer had a Watcher who was bound to them, at first the slayers tolerated the Watchers who kept them from loosing themselves, but in time the relationship changed and the slayers began to depend on it. The Slayers line evolved to the point where the Slayer needed a Watcher they became like two halves of one whole, the bond became so strong that when a Watchers slayer died they could never bare to bond another Slayer which is why there were so many of them. As for the Slayer, without a Watchers bond they would start to loose themselves just as Seenya had. That is why when a slayer lost her Watcher the council was quick to give her a new one. It was well known now that a Slayer needed a cause to fight for, a mission to live for and more importantly she needed a Watcher. Now in this strange new world she had neither, there was a void and for the first time ever it wouldn't be filled. There would be no new cause, no new Watcher, leaving Buffy as half a whole. In agony she cried, and with her cried the line of slayers for the loss of what had always been. Buffy wept for the knowledge of what she had lost and for what she knew she would become. She wept into the long hours of the night until sleep took her.
End chapter
AN/ okay I changed things up a little about how the slayer was made and how Buffy found out but these are changed I needed to make to help make my story work.
As for the actual cross that will happen in the next chapter.
Can you guess who she meets first?
