Buffy opened her eyes to find herself in the school library with Giles, Willow, and Xander staring at her in concern. " What?" She asked a little unnerved by their stares. " Are you feeling alright Buffy?" Giles asked her. " Yea why?" " Because you were just staring at nothing with a glazed look in your eyes Buff." " Sorry I must've spaced out for a minute there. I've been a real space cadet lately." Xander and Willow nodded in understanding.
" Buffy, can we please get back to the matter at hand?" " Sure G-man." " Xander I told you to never call me that again. " Giles snapped annoyed. " Uh- what were we talking about again?" " My run in with the mysterious Angel yesterday after noon when I was going to ..." She trailed off. She didn't want to mention Jesse. She felt guilty not having been able to save him. She knew that it upset Willow and Xander and she didn't want to do that. They had just met her a few days ago and already they were jumping on the bandwagon to help her.
" Right. And you said he mentioned something called the Harvest?" " Yes but this isn't the first time he mentioned it. He talked about it the night I met him." " O.K. I think I might have seen something on the Harvest in one of my books.
They spent the next two hours searching through Giles' books desperately looking for information. Suddenly Giles looked up in excitement. " I think I've found something!" He looked down and continued reading. " Oh dear." " Don't say that. That can't be good G-man." " Giles what does it say?"
Giles looked at Buffy concerned. " It says here: ' For they will gather, and be gathered. All that is theirs shall be his ... from the vessel pours life." He showed them the picture of a vampire with a star with three points on its head. He began reading again. " On the night of the crescent moon, the first past the solstice it will come." " Um Giles I hate to interrupt but that still doesn't explain what exactly the Harvest is."
" I was getting to that!" He snapped. " Some sixty years ago a very old, very powerful vampire came to this shore, and not just to feed." " He came 'cause this town is a mystical whoosit?"Buffy asked. " The Spanish who first settled here called it the Boca del infierno. Roughly translated, hell mouth. A sort of portal from this reality to the next. This vampire hoped to open it." " Bring the demons back." " End of the world." Xander stated.
Willow picked up where he left off." But he blew it. There was an earthquake that swallowed about half the town. And him too. Or at least there were no more vampire type killings afterwards." " And this Harvest thing is to get him out?" " Yes, like I said before he can draw power from the vessel as it feeds."
" So I dust any vamp sporting the symbol in that picture and no Harvest?" " Simply put, yes." " Any idea where this little get together is going to be held?" " They're going to the bronze." Xander answered for Giles. "Are you sure?" " All those tasty young morsels. How could they pass it up?" " Well since thats settled I'm going home." " For what?" " Supplies." She said smiling as she walked out the door.
Buffy silently made her way across the balcony in the Bronze. She almost didn't make it here tonight thanks to her mom suddenly growing a backbone. Thank god there was a tree outside her window. She looked down and saw Luke with a three pointed star on his forehead. " The vessel." She muttered. The vampire on duty heard her and pulled her to the middle of the balcony. He was distracted by Luke's actions and Buffy used that to her advantage. She slipped from his grasp and threw him over the balcony, where he landed in front of the stage. The room went silent.
" I'm sorry, were you in the middle of something?" Luke looked up at her full of rage. " You!" " You didn't think I'd miss this, did you?" Luke's face broke out into a dangerous smile. I hoped you'd come." She did a back-flip off the balcony and landed on a pool table. She grabbed a cue and staked a vamp as it rushed her.
" O.K. Vessel boy you want blood?" " I want yours. Only yours." She leaped at him and slammed her fist in his face. He stumbled back in pain but in an instant he rushed at her again. She met his face again, with a round house kick. She pulled out her stake and rushed him but he blocked her with a blow to the face. She skidded in a corner, badly hurt.
Luke closed in. She kicked him fiercely in the chest,sending him flying into a wall. She saw her chance and went in for the kill. Just then she saw a vampire grab Xander. She grabbed a cymbal and threw it at the vamp, beheading it. She barely turned back around before Luke grabbed her in a crushing bear hug. She twisted in his grasp, everything was going black. " I've always wanted to kill a Slayer." He told her.
She went limp in his arms. Luke looked down at her and smiled. " Master taste of this and be free." He said leaning in for the kill. She hit him so hard he didn't realize what had happened. " How'd it taste?" She grabbed the cymbal stand and held it like a weapon. Just then she noticed a window. She looked at the window then looked back at Luke.
As he advanced she swung the cymbal stand at him. " You forgot, metal can't hurt me." He sneered. " You forgot something too." She saw a flicker of doubt cross his face. " Sunrise." She swung the cymbal stand and busted out the window. Luke screamed and ducked down. " Its in about nine hours moron." She grabbed her stake and slammed it through his heart. It was over.
She walked outside to the others. " I take it its over?" Giles asked. She nodded. " Good job." They started to walk away and as Buffy followed them she thought she heard somebody calling her name. She shook it off as just her imagination and followed the others out.
" Buffy can you hear me? Buffy?" Dr. Price turned and looked at Joyce and Hank. As soon as she had passed out he had called them. " I'm sorry Mr. And Mrs. Summers. I'm afraid I can't wake her."