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How to Save a Life

Chapter 7: The Final Battle

"So here's the part where you make a choice," Buffy went to as she stood in the living room of her house, in front of the potential Slayers and her friends, "What if you could have that power…now? In every generation, one Slayer is born…because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman," Buffy pointed at Willow, who sat nervously on the couch by the window, looking around at all the girls that now had their eyes on her, "Is more powerful than all of them combined," Buffy did not miss the whimper of nervousness from the witch but continued anyway, "So, I say we change that rule. I say my power should be our power. Tomorrow, Willow will use the essence of the scythe to change out destiny," Buffy paused, taking the time to look at all the girls' faces of shock and confusion, obviously wondering whether it could be done and whether they were ready for it, "From now on, every girl in the world who might be a Slayer, will be a Slayer. Every girl who could have the power, will have the power…can stand up, will stand up. Slayers…every one of us. Make your choice. Are you ready to be strong?"

That speech was just a memory now, as the blonde haired Slayer lead the whole group into the high school, where in the basement stood the Hellmouth.

Willow had the scythe in her hand now, and made her way towards the Principal's office, which sat directly above the seal to the mouth of Hell, bringing her potential girlfriend with her.

--Flashback--

Willow sat at her desk, working intently at her laptop and looking through the books that she had out. Kennedy laid out behind her on the bed, playing with her girlfriend's hair, twirling it around her fingers.

"I really wish she hadn't said that about me." The witch sighed as she looked through the books.

"What, the thing Buffy said?" Kennedy questioned, playfully thinking, "I think its true," when she heard Willow squeak with uncertainty, the dark haired potential sat up and turned her girlfriend to face her, "I'll be with you, to keep you grounded."

"Yeah, well you might have to keep me stabbed-ed," Willow sighed, "If I go to the bad place."

"You're saying I might have to kill you?" that was not something that Kennedy wanted to do, if anything, she would do anything to save Willow from the dark side, "Bite me."

"I will. I mean, I do…mean it," Willow paused as she got back on track of where she was, "The darkest place I've ever been, this is what lies beyond that. This is too important for me to…"

"Buffy believes in you." Kennedy sighed, cutting the witch off. She had heard a little about what Willow was like when she took in too much magic and went on a path of vengeance.

"You know, Buffy: Sweet girl, not that bright."

"Hey, I'm the first one to call her out when she's not making sense," Kennedy pointed out to her girlfriend, she believed in Willow so she trusted Buffy in what she had said just earlier, "In fact, I'm a bit of a brat. I've always sort of gotten my ways. So you're gonna make it through this, no matter how dark it gets. Because now…you're my way."

After that, Kennedy laid a kiss on Willow's lips before letting her get back to work. Willow really did need to make sure she understood the spell that she was going to have to use tomorrow.

--End of Flashback--

Willow placed herself on the floor of the Principal's office, with a semi-circle of white candles lit in front of her. Kennedy had come to set all this up for her, while she made sure that Buffy was ready for this and that everyone was in place for the attack. The potentials, the two Slayers and Spike were going to be in the Hellmouth itself while the rest were split into groups around the hallways, ready for if the vampires escaped from the Hellmouth and wanted to get to the sewers.

"They should be in place," Willow looked up at Kennedy, who was watching her on the other side of the candle half-circle. Willow made herself comfortable on the floor, the scythe now placed in front of her, and placed her hands on her knees, "Ok, magic time. You ready to, heh heh, kill me?"

"Starting to be." Kenney nodded her head but it was a complete lie, she was unsure whether she would ever be able to kill her girlfriend, no matter what the situation.

"Good. Fun. Great," Willow nodded nervously, as she prepared herself to say the spell, "Brace yourself."

"Come on, red," Kennedy whispered, encouragingly, "Make it happen."

--

The seal had been opened, everybody who should have been there, were now in the Hellmouth, staring down at the large group of Ubervamps below. They had not seen them yet, luckily, but it would not be long until they did.

"Not to be a buzzkill," Spike started as he made his way down the steps into the mouth of Hell, looking at the amulet that he had around his neck, "But my fabulous accessory isn't exactly tingling with power, love."

--Flashback--

Just after Dean had left, Buffy stayed in the basement, spend a few moments alone so she did not have to see the Winchester leave, nor hear the sound of the Chevy Impala's engine as it pulled away from the curb.

She could not believe he had just done that, he had just walked away from the fight. Did he really not value his life? Did he really want to go to hell? Surely there was a way to save him and keep Sam alive too.

Sighing, she turned around almost bumping into a tall, dark haired man. She stepped away, ready to fight to see that it was someone on their side.

"Angel!" This was the last person she expected to see, she knew he had heard about their fight that they had coming, since Angel had been helping Faith, but she never thought he would come, "What are you doing here? Not that I'm not happy to see you, I'm just shocked. I didn't even hear you come…"

"Vampire movements," the ensouled vampire explained, "Anyway, heard about the big fight, I've faced the demon before, Ruby right?"

"Yeah, at least that's who had Spike," Buffy nodded her head, "She also holds Dean's deal, its getting all complicated and…"

"Dean?" Angel questioned, "You mean that guy that came out of nowhere? The guy that saved Dawn?" when he saw the Slayer nod her head, Angel frowned slightly, "What deal?"

"He's…you know what, never mind," Buffy held up her hands and closed her eyes, she could not think about the blonde haired Winchester right now, "So, you, here, why?"

"I told you, I've faced Ruby before…" when he saw the unsure look from the Slayer, he placed his hand into the pocket of his long black coat and pulled out an amulet from his pocket, while handing her the file that she had neglected to spot in his hands, mind you he had also forgotten about it once he saw the Slayer that he loved.

"Oh," Buffy took the file, looking at it, missing the amulet completely, "I'll have the guys go through that, see if there's anything new. Reliable source?"

"Not remotely," Angel shook his head and now made sure to pass her the amulet, "Also…"

"I can already tell you, I have nothing that goes with that." Buffy shook her head, looking up at her ex-boyfriend like he was stupid.

"It's not for you."

"Splainy?"

Angel tried to explain the best he could about this amulet made for a champion, somebody ensouled, but stronger than human. It was not for him, nor was it for Buffy, he was stuck on who else it could be for, but Buffy had an idea of who it would be for. Taking the amulet, she looked at it, examining it closely.

"I'll be with you in this," Angel now told her, seeing that she was looking at the amulet intently, "Shoulder to shoulder. I'm yours."

"No!" Buffy looked up at Angel, hearing his words.

"No, what?"

"No, you're not gonna be in this fight," Buffy shook her head, she could not have everybody in one place. Now she started to realise that maybe Dean was right in leaving, "I can't risk you. If I lose, if this things gets past Sunnydale, then its days – maybe hours – before the rest of the world goes. I need a second front," or maybe a third, she began to think to herself, "and I need you to run it."

--End of Flashback--

Buffy looked around at the large group of ugly vampires that were down here. She never expected this much.

"I'm not worried," she said, trying to psyche herself up for the fight that was about to happen, "I'm not worried."

"I'm getting zero juice," Spike spoke up again, holding the amulet and looking at it, "And I look like Elizabeth Taylor."

"Cheer up, Liz," Faith smirked at the peroxide blonde vampire, "Willow's big spell doesn't work, it won't matter what you wear."

Spike walked to the edge of the cliff, next to the blonde Slayer and looked over to see thousands upon thousands of the Ubervamps on the floor of the Hellmouth.

"I'm not worried."

All of the vampires were growling, everybody staring at them in shock. They were expecting an army, but not this.

"I'm not worried." Buffy repeated, once again.

"Really?" Amanda, one of the potentials questioned, looking towards the woma, "'Cause I'm flashing back to Xander's whole bathroom speech." Of course, the Xander being Xander, made a joke about the girls going to the bathroom before going to the Hellmouth, since they would need it when they saw what was there.

"Buffy…" A potential Slayer called out.

"I'm not worried," Buffy said once again, "As long as Willow can work her spell before they…" the group of Ubervamps turned their attention to the group of humans that stood on the cliff above them, "…See us."

--

"So, what do we do?" Sam asked, as they sat in a diner in the middle of nowhere, Sam was not even sure where he was, nor if Dean even knew where they were, "Just hope that nothing happens to her?"

"Look, if something does, then that Army is going to escape from the Hellmouth," Dean said, his voice hushed so nobody in the diner could hear them, "That means the whole world is going to be in danger. We can't let it happen."

"But you'll let her die."

"This is her fight."

"What?"

"Look, she told me to go," Dean's anger grew in his voice, as he glared at his baby brother, "She didn't want me there if I couldn't help her. If I wouldn't help her."

"Dean…"

"No, don't Sam, we're not going back," Dean shook his head, "She's fighting this on her own. I'm gonna be here if it all goes wrong. Besides, we have our own demon to kill."

Sam sighed as he looked at Dean. He knew exactly why Dean would not go back to help the Slayer, he did not want to see her get killed, he was too scared that he would lose someone else and Sam understood his fears completely.

--

While Willow sat in the Principal's office, saying her spell, Kennedy sat with her hand on her dagger, ready if she had to do the horrible dead of killing Dark Willow. She watched as her Wicca girlfriend placed her hands on the scythe in the middle of the spell.

Suddenly, a great power overcame her and Willow looked up to the heavens, as she and the scythe began to glow a bright white light.

"Oh…my…Goddess…" Willow spoke, breathlessly as she felt the power in her. All Kennedy could do was close her eyes as she felt all the powers of the Slayer becoming apart of her. She was no longer a Potential, she was a Vampire Slayer.

"Willow?" Kennedy finally spoke as she looked at her girlfriend in amazement. The red-head now had completely white hair, still glowing from the spell. She looked in complete ecstasy, still looking up at the heavens, "You are a Goddess."

Willow came down from the high the spell gave her and looked at Kennedy with a weak smile.

"And you're a Slayer," Willow spoke softly, picking up the scythe and passing it to the brunette, "Get this to Buffy."

The new Slayer picked up the weapon and climbed off the floor, running out of the office and down the school hallways to the basement, where the seal to the Hellmouth was. She realised that the seal was open straight away, so ran into it, she needed to get to Buffy as soon as she could. They would need the weapon to fight off all the vampires.

Once she got there, she realised that Willow had been a little delayed in the spell, by the looks of things, the vampires had attacked before the girls became Slayers, but they all had the power now. Every single potential Slayer now had the power to fight off the Ubervamps that came at them.

"Buffy!" Kennedy shouted over to the blonde 23-year-old Slayer, "Catch!" She threw the pre-Christian weapon through the air, towards Buffy, who caught it with ease and immediately began to kill every single vampire that came at her. She had a chance to look around at all the girls that were battling off each and every vampire a lot easier than they could just a few minutes ago.

Some of the vampires escaped but it did not worry Buffy too much, she knew her gang would help to stop them.

Spike fought off the vampires as much as he could but suddenly stopped when he looked down at the amulet that hung around his neck. However, Buffy had to ignore that fact that he was slowing down in the fight, she needed to stop as many of these vampires as she could, she needed to get to Ruby.

"Buffy!" Spike called out to the original Slayer, "Whatever this thing does I think…" The blonde vampire winced in pain as a burning sensation ran through his whole body.

"Keep the line together!" Buffy shouted out to the girls that were battling the vampires, "Drive them to the edge! We can't let them do…"

All of a sudden she stopped as she felt a blinding pain shoot through her. She looked down at her torso to see a long blade sticking out of it. An ubervamp had stabbed her from behind. All she could do was stumble forward, shocked at the fact a vampire had gotten the better of her, and then she collapsed to the ground, face-first.

"Buffy!" Faith shouted as she noticed that Buffy had fallen to the ground. She ran over to her friends side, who looked up at her, in pain.

"Hold the line." Buffy said weakly, passing the brunette Slayer the scythe and then groaned in pain.

She watched Faith go back to fighting the ubervamps, this time with the weapon, just as a blonde, young looking, female appeared, someone Buffy had never seen before. She knew straight away that this would be Ruby.

"Oh look," the demon smirked, her eyes turning black and then back to normal, making it obvious that she was a demon indeed, "Looks like the little Slayer can't save her boy. I'll be sure to say hi to Dean for you when I collect his soul in ten months time."

--

Meanwhile, somewhere where they did not know where they were, Dean and Sam sat in a motel room, looking at the news on the television. The older Winchester stood up, he was going to go to a bar, he had already decided, however he never got to the door as a wave of dizziness overcame him.

Before he knew it the world was going black and the last thing he heard was his brother calling out to him.

--To Be Continued--

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