This is my very first fan fiction so go easy on me ok! The idea is that 99% of the story is told from Willow's POV during the closing episodes of Buffy season 6, but each time a major event takes place when the other Scoobies are around the story also takes in their reactions, basically Willow-centric with a dash of Scooby Gang. Hope you like it! ******************************************************************************************************* All of the characters in this story are owned by Mutant Enemy and Joss Whedon, this story also includes situations from the end of Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 6 plus my own situations. *******************************************************************************************************

Chapter 9

Anya stumbled through the wreckage of her store. It was as though the whole place had been completely destroyed. All in the few minutes she was unconscious. Books were on fire, the stacks were destroyed and god knows what had happened to all the money. She found Giles partially trapped under the rubble from what had been the book stacks

"Oh my god GILES! Are you ok? Can you speak?"

"I… I can see." he muttered.

"Oh. It's a miracle!" she sounded very false, not understanding.

"No. I can see Willow. I know where she's going"

Willow was infact headed to destroy the world. The pain she could feel inside was too much to bear. The only way to stop it was to end it, to end it all. This was it. The final battle.

Willow had to keep Buffy out of the way otherwise she might try and stop her. Willow knew that Buffy had caught up with the fireball and saved the lousy remaining Troika, what Buffy didn't know was that they had now skipped town and gone to god knows where. Willow was glad to know that for the moment Xander was out cold from hitting his head on a tombstone and also Buffy and Dawn were stuck in a grave for the time being. That gave Willow a head start in destroying the world. She was on her way to Dead Man's Bluff, where the remains of an ancient demonic temple lay underground. The earth swallowed the temple up in the big earthquake of 1932 during a ceremony that would suck the life force out of the earth and then burn up the remains. Unfortunately for Willows plans she couldn't get to the bluff quite as fast as she wanted. She needed conserve her energy otherwise she could burn out during the spell and her plans would be ruined. This time he would have to make her way on foot, despite being the most powerful witch in the world.

On the way Willow became gradually more infuriated with having to walk. She was thinking over the spell she needed to bring fourth the temple, it would take very large amounts of power, last time it took a group of witches to barely start the spell. Of course Willow was no average witch anymore. Another problem weighing on her mind was Buffy. She was too dedicated to fighting the big bad in Sunnydale and could cause also threaten Willow's plans if she got free from the grave she was stuck in.

Willow would have to send some kind of army to keep Buffy busy though. But whatever she sent Buffy would eventually defeat it. This had to be something extra special, something that was truly life threatening. Then Willow remembered that Dawn was also with Buffy. So maybe she could get to Buffy through attacking Dawn! Willow could see Buffy and Dawn trying to crawl their way out of the hole they were stuck in and she decided that this was a good time to gloat about her plans.

"A little stuck are we Buffy? It's a shame really! I don't want you to miss the big finale. But it looks like you will. In the meantime I've sent some company for you. I know you always like to go out fighting and I took you out of the earth… now the earth wants you back" Willow trailed of with laughter just as several creatures burst out of the soil around Buffy and Dawn.

"Shit! Dawn I'm going to need your help on this one. I can't handle this alone." Buffy seemed genuinely panicked by the arising situation.

Willow had managed to reach and the Bluff and was looking around for the perfect place to begin her spell from. Her search was hindered by a voice screaming out in pain to Willow. It was Tara. Willow's eyes began to sting with tears as she could hear her lover calling out to her to stop what she was doing.

There was a small spark of Willow's soul within her that was trying to reach out Tara's voice but the dark witch inside was trying to force the humanity back down to where it could be kept away from her body's consciousness.

The physical manifestation of Willow, the magically addicted side to her personality, suddenly became very uneasy on her feet. She fell to her knees and began to retreat inside herself. The body was lying on the bluff shaking violently as the two sides to her personality began to fight for domination…