The Warlock of Sunnydale

by makoto x chelia

Michael, a new to the craft Warlock found himself in a desperate situation with a Vampire, and fate decided to allow him to live, by meeting Buffy Summers. Now Michael, the new Warlock in town uses his new found powers to protect himself, and his friends from the evils of the world.

36. Chapter 36

Hello, and welcome to the last of the four parter!

DocSlendy; Indeed, it is very exciting!

hellspam; Hehe, I'm glad that you liked it. Well, if it did drag those emotions out, then it must mean that I did something right. Aah yeah, I haven't seen Logan, but I know what happens, and I can't wait to see it.

Guest 1; Yeah, that actually would be funny. That's the reason he couldn't get another girlfriend, not that he'd want one now, he just attracts Slayer's. Even Kendra could be attracted to him, and when reaching Season Seven, the potentials all flock to him, damn he'd have quite the difficult time with them.

Demon Hunter9137; It really is hitting the fan now. So much goes on in this chapter, it is quite packed but a good kind of packed. Yeah, it always makes me happy to hear words like that, gives me a good thing to think about, and motivates me.

Guest 2; Thank you! I'm glad that you're liking him as a character~ That would be a pretty cool story idea~ Thanks for the idea~

Well, that's it for the lovely reviews, so let the chapter begin!

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Prophecy girl part four

On the rooftop of the school, Michael, Xander, Harmony, and Dawn all stood together. While Michael and Xander were in the front, Harmony and Dawn hung behind, all ready to fight off the Vampires that was going to come for them.

They each could hear the sound of the Vampire's growling, their hissing, and how they sounded like they were going to break down the everything that they held dear to them. Xander's hands shook, while Harmony felt like she was going to die. Dawn, wasn't that frightened, and in her childlike mind, she held a firm belief that Michael was going to protect them, since he was a Warlock. She just hoped that she was right.

"Alright, Xander. Harmony, and Dawn. They are going to come now, but don't worry, we'll fight to the best that we can. Dawnie, we'll protect you, you won't get hurt, I promise to try my hardest to keep you safe."

It was a promise from him, and when Michael promised, he rarely, if ever, broke them, and they weren't going to break now. It, wasn't going to break, nothing was going to break this promise. He wasn't going to allow any harm to come to Dawn.

"Michael…"

Dawn's small voice carried to his ear, so he turned his head, and gives her a small comforting smile, then returned his head back to the way the door was, hearing the Vampire's footsteps coming closer by the second.

Vampire's began coming through the entrance to the roof, coming out in two's as that was all they could get through the door.

"Come on then!"

Michael went forward first with his sword, and swung overhead as a firing signal for the fight to begin.

The Vampire ducked out of the way, but Michael brought his foot up like an uppercut, bringing the Vampire's head up, staggering backwards as the Vampire grunted with some pain etching itself into the Vampire's chin and showed on his distorted face.

"Die!"

Using that chance, Michael swung for the neck again while spinning his body, this time cutting right through the neck, the Vampire's head rolling off as it exploded into dust, Michael continuing on as a Vampire tried to pounce, the spinning boy using the spin to add strength, cutting the stomach of the Vampire flying through the air.

"Grrrr! Damn you bastard!"

The Vampire screamed out as the cut went deep into the body of the Vampire, it falling to the ground.

Michael went over, and cleaved off its head without mercy, cutting off its life, by the head, the Vampire's body turning into nothingness through the dust, the high winds blowing it around as Michael was confronted by another Vampire.

"Try this!"

The Vampire came in with an uppercut, but Michael summoned a fireball to his hand, throwing it like he would a ball.

The Vampire tried to move out of the way, but Michael directed the fireball via telekinesis, the ball of flames ending up in the Vampire's stomach, blowing him away with the intense flames.

Producing a stake, Michael manipulated it via telekinesis and launched it towards the chest of the Vampire. The Vampire raised his hands to protect his heart, but Michael put quite a bit of telekinetic force behind his attack, and forced the stake right through the Vampire's hand, like butter, and stabbed it in the heart, dusting it straight away.

"Come on Warlock!"

Michael was confronted with another Vampire. This one had a sword in his hand, and swung for Michael. The blonde brought up his own weapon, parrying the blade of the Vampire, remembering what Angel taught him, and moved forward.

He pushed the Vampire's blade away, and swung again, hitting the cold steel of the Vampire's blade with Michael's own, forcing the Vampire to stagger on its feet, Michael using this chance to put his hand upwards, sending a telekinetic blast towards the Vampire, knocking him off its feet.

"Time to die!"

Scrambling to the Vampire on the ground, Michael appeared over it, and swung for the neck, tearing it off the body, dusting the Vampire.

Seeing the blade that the Vampire left, Michael bent down, picking it up, and holding it tightly in his hand, his free hand at that, as two Vampire's came towards him with their teeth shown on display for Michael to see, trying to frighten him, but it didn't.

Looking at the blades, and the Vampire's, Michael smirked dangerously.

"Okay boys, let's play."

The Vampire's growl, and both charge for him.

Michael rushed forward and then fell to his knees, skidding across the ground, and held the swords left and right, using the charging of the Vampire's to his advantage, cleaving off their heads and their bodies exploded into dust behind him, Michael standing up epically.

"Time to party."

With a smirk, Michael went forward to combat some more Vampire's.

"Here!"

Xander wasn't as skilled as Michael, but swung for the head all the same which was something he would be able to do, as it was the most simplest thing in the entire world, the moon reflecting off the blade.

The Vampire retracted its body using it's Vampire speed that they naturally get when turning into a Vampire, avoiding the blade, but received a cut to the throat, however only a small amount of a cut, barely grazing the skin.

"Damn brat!"

The Vampire yelled and charged for Xander again. He pulls away, while swinging like a novice. The Vampire dodges the sloppy blade work, and moves into Xander's close quarters, grabbing his arms so he couldn't swing the sword.

"Hey, Vampire bastard! Take this!"

Harmony opened up the bottle of holy water she had, and splashed it into the Vampire's eyes, Xander never believing that he would be glad that Harmony was around to save his life like this, it wasn't something he expected.

"Aaah, you bitch!"

The Vampire cried out as his eyes began to smoke from the holy water. This gave Xander a chance to push the Vampire away, who grabbed his eyes in pain. This allowed Xander to bring up the blade he held, swinging it for the head of the Vampire, cutting it off and he cheered to himself.

"Head's up indeed."

Quipping quickly, another Vampire came and went to grab him, but he had the knowledge to bring the blade backwards, pointing the pointy bit towards the Vampire, and ran it through the Vampires stomach, embedding deeply into the Vampire's torso.

"Grrrrrr!"

The Vampire growled out as Xander moved the blade from his stomach, and brought the sword to the Vampires neck, cutting off the head instantly. The Vampire's body blew away into the dust, Xander taking a relaxing breath.

"Aaaah!"

Harmony cried out as a Vampire wrapped its arms around her, surprising her and frightening her as well.

"Harmony!"

Michael yelled, and went to help her, but a few Vampire's crowded around him and he couldn't get his magic through the blockade of the Vampire's that had appeared before him, the blonde gritting his teeth, finding himself worried for Harmony.

"I'm going Michael!"

Xander went to go and help her, Michael being surrounded by a few Vampire's, so he tried to help and fight off the Vampire, but a Vampire came and intercepted him, blocking his path to Harmony, him also gritting his teeth.

"No! Help me please!"

Harmony pleaded as the Vampire tried to bite her neck. She resisted the best she could, shaking her body around again and again, but she couldn't get out of the strong grasp the Vampire was having, he was too strong for her, and she couldn't do anything other than wait for the Vampire to bite her.

"Hey!" Dawn yelled, and slammed her small foot into the Vampire's knee at the back, forcing his hands to drop from Harmony's body, freeing her from said Vampire's grasp. "You don't get to do that!"

Holding the stake in her hand tightly, she went to his bended knee back, and stuck the Vampire in the back. At first, she thought that she got the heart, but she had missed, the Vampire groaning out in pain from the stabbing.

"You missed the heart sweetie! A little to the left! And don't tell your sister that I let you do this, she'd totally kill me!"

Michael told her as he cut down a Vampire from their left hip to the right shoulder, sending him down to the ground. He turned around and sliced off a Vampire's head with one of his swords, thrusting his other sword behind him, stabbing the Vampire in the throat, on the right hand sword, and then twisted the blade so it cleaved through the head of the Vampire, dusting it.

"O-Oh! Okay!" Dawn pulled the stake out, and moved to the left. "Take this! I'm the Slayer's sister, after all!"

With a quick quip, Dawn pushed the stake into the Vampire's heart, dusting said Vampire, clapping at her own achievement, Harmony doing the same.

"Wow, that was awesome! Even a little girl can do it! You must be really talented to do that!"

Harmony cheered as Xander pushed the Vampire away, using his head to collide with the Vampire's head, giving him a headbutt. Xander and the Vampire groaned. But Xander retained his sense of self, and readied himself, forcing his hands to raise the sword, and swung for the head.

The Vampire tried to block the sword, but Xander cut off his hand, the boy wincing at the sight, but pressed forward with the blade, swinging for the neck, and cut off the Vampire's head, the Vampire's body turning to dust on the ground.

"Hey, watch out!"

Dawn yelled as she gave Harmony a stake, turning to the left and saw a Vampire lunging for her.

"O-Oh crap!"

Harmony didn't know what to do, and just stuck the stake out in front of her, shaking her hand.

Michael looked on, and blew out "Confuse!" as he parried a Vampire's attack, a gust of green smoke going for the Vampire that charged for Harmony. The Vampire didn't see the smoke, and it hit him from behind, the Vampire's mind becoming muddled and skidded, right onto Harmony's stake, the girl actually slaying the Vampire's life.

"H-Hey! I did it, Blondie Bear! I was amazing!"

Harmony cheered to herself, and to Michael, who was busy fighting off some Vampire's.

Xander, and Dawn looked on, smiling weakly, as they thought.

"Why does he keep saving her life?"

"Why would Michael save her life, again?"

Xander and Dawn couldn't help the sweat drop that rolled down their faces, Harmony and Michael none the wiser with what they were thinking about.

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"Enough!"

A confident voice said as the Vampire's stopped for some reason.

Michael and the others looked on as Darla came out of the entrance to the roof, wearing her cocky smirk on her face. Colin was behind her, Dawn's eyes widening when seeing him with the Vampire faced Darla.

"C-Colin…?"

Dawn couldn't believe what she was seeing right now, Harmony sensing danger, pushed Dawn towards her body.

Xander looked at Darla, and she looked, different to before, and he didn't know why that was.

Michael knew something was different to her as well, as the Vampire's bowed down towards the small Vampire boy, Michael not recognizing him, but Dawn did, and she looked devastated to see the boy with them.

"Hello again lover."

Darla greeted Michael with a wave of her hand, a dark smile on her face.

"Darla, it's always a pleasure…wait, no it really isn't. So, what do you want bitch? You aren't here for something else, are you? I'm not going to be accommodating you though, so I'm sorry if you don't like that, but that's how it is."

Michael cocked the swords he had in his hands, Darla smirking and looking towards them, her hands crackling with purple lights, Michael not seeing it as her face turned back to its human form, showing a wide smile.

"Nahahaha, I don't think so~" Darla held up her fingers, and flicked her fingers. "Disarm~"

Using magic, to Michael's shock, the weapons flew out of Michael's hands before he could even put up a spell to block her own spell, shocking him even more, not only for the magic, but the quick succession that she used her magical abilities.

"W-When did you gain such power!? You've not shown it before!"

Darla smirked at the desperate face Michael made right now.

"Because The Master wants you, he imbued me with magic, and a special someone to you as well. But, not just normal magic. I had to go through so much to receive the power I have right now. It was painful, but it was worth it. I have never felt so strong before, and when you join the fold, you and I will be able to rule by Masters side, and we'll be able to make love with one another. Wouldn't you like that sweetheart?"

Michael showed a disgusted face as Harmony tightened her expression.

"Oi, you bitch! I won't let you touch my Michael! He's my Blondie Bear, you whore! I won't be having someone who is like a cheap knockoff of me, come onto my sweetie pie like this! Die bitch! Jump off the roof and kill yourself ugly Vampire hooker!"

Michael slapped himself in the face, as did Xander, and Dawn (though she didn't know what a whore and a hooker were), and Darla merely giggled to herself, finding it extremely funny, even when she was called a 'whore' and a 'hooker', finding it ironic as that was what she was before becoming a Vampire.

"Funny, I didn't know you actually could speak, so why don't you, shut your mouth bitch?"

Darla put her hand outwards, and made a ball of flames in her hand that danced like true flames in the wild, firing it at Harmony.

"Aaah! Please don't hurt me anymore!"

Harmony cried out, and went to move, but Michael put his hand out, muttering "Blow away." and an unusually natural gust of air came along, blowing the fireball away from Harmony before it could touch her, it hitting the ground before Xander, Xander gasping at the sight.

"It's magic given to you, Darla. It can never compare to innate magic like myself, and even if it is was the same raw power, you haven't had years to get used to it, harness the energies inside of yourself, and become one with them, as well as learning a multitude of spells that could go along with your raw power. You might've gained magic, but I'm a Moonglow, and I won't be losing to you!"

Michael tightened his eyes and went forward with his hand being blasted with some magic. Darla pulls back, and puts her hand up, summoning some magical power to her hand too, and wordlessly blasted with some magical power.

The two powers collided and created a shockwave, knocking Xander, Harmony and Dawn to the ground, Michael being able to stay on his feet, Darla being able to stay on her feet as well, as the Vampire's around her.

"I'm coming!"

Colin couldn't wait anymore, and pounced on the down Dawn, getting on top of her, and restrained her movements.

"Iyaaa! W-What are you doing!?"

Dawn demanded, trying to get away from the Vampire boy, but it was difficult. He was very strong for a boy his age, a standard for a Vampire. He couldn't allow her to go, looking down at her with a wide arching smile on his face.

"Shhh, it is okay Dawn." Colin soothed, putting a hand to her face, as Dawn wriggled around, her eyes leaking tears of a large kind. "Don't worry, I'm going to make you like me, I am going to make you a Vampire, and we'll be able to be together, isn't that a good thing Dawn? We can be together now…"

"G-Get off me! I-I don't even want to be a Vampire!"

She struggled as Michael looked, his eyes tightening.

"Get off her!"

Michael channelled bolts of magic into his hands, and went to fire them off at the Vampire child, but Darla came in, jumping at him, grabbing him by the back of the head, and forced his body upwards, giggling "Not yet lover~" and then threw Michael towards the other side of the roof, separating him from the others.

Michael rolled on the ground, and stopped himself from going over the side of the roof, lifting himself up with magic, seeing Darla stood there, her hands crackling with bolts of light from her fingers, Michael doing the same.

"I'm getting by you, one way or another, you bitch."

"Hmmm, could this be like when Buffy had a date with that Owen chap?" Michael's eye twitched, not wanting to mention that guy. "Ow, did I hit a sour spot then? Sorry blondie. I didn't mean to. But it is okay, I will look after you. We'll become a strong couple together, and have lots of fun sex. Isn't that what you want? Ooh, I do hope you're a virgin, I like taming them from virgins. First, I think I will start with your erection. I'll suck that dry and-"

"Suck on this then bitch!"

Michael flicked his hand forward, and shot off a bolt of white light of highly destructive magical power that could even seriously wound a normal person.

"Sorry lover, but I can't have that happening now~"

Darla put her hand up, erecting a quick barrier and defended herself from the blast, not even penetrating her barrier, only for her hand to shoot off her own bolt of purple light and dropped the barrier at the same time.

"In your dreams, you bitch!"

Michael retracted his body, putting his hand up, and shot off some more light towards the incoming bolt, cancelling each other out. The roof shook from the magical battle that they had, as their wild battle began.

Dawn continued to struggle with Colin while crying out for someone to help her, anyone to help her at that, as Xander and Harmony recovered from being knocked over by Darla and Michael's bolts of magic.

"H-Hey, get off her!"

Xander went to get the boy off Dawn, but a Vampire came in, and tackled him to the ground, forcing him to fend off that Vampire. Harmony also was pounced on by a Vampire, struggling with said Vampire the best that she could.

"Colin please! Don't do this to me! I thought that you were my friend!?"

Dawn pleaded, but Colin didn't listen, trying to bite her, but she was resisting the best she could do.

"I'm sorry, but isn't that what you want? Don't you want us to be together? Remember, we've been meeting a few times since the day we met. You always looked happy when we got together. Didn't you enjoy that?"

"I thought you were human! You lied to me! You told me that you were my friend, you lied to me, so leave me alone!"

Colin chuckled deeply at the desperation that Dawn was having right now.

"Yes, that's right, I did. I couldn't tell you, because you'd reject me. But you can't now, can you? The Master has promised to me that you will be my Queen. You'll lead a large force of Vampire's in this new world."

"I don't want to be a Vampire! Get off me you freak! I want Buffy! Michael! Buffy! Help me! Michael! Help me please!"

She cried again, and again, wanting to escape, but Colin was more physically stronger than she ever could be as a young girl. But Colin didn't care about that, and loved seeing Dawn writhe under him, exciting him, and he couldn't wait to turn her into his Vampire girlfriend.

"You'll like being a Vampire, trust me. And if it is Michael you're worried about, Darla is going to turn him too."

Dawn began crying as she saw Michael magically duelling Darla as he yelled "Dawn! Dawn!" again and again, wanting to go and save her, but Darla wouldn't move, and she was a surprisingly strong opponent to face off against.

Turning back to Colin, she gained an inner strength she didn't think she had, glaring at him.

"Sorry, Colin, but I'm not into Vampire's like you! Warlock's are more my thing!"

Dawn pushed Colin, but Colin swiped Dawn across the face, making her cry out.

"Don't you dare say that you cow! You're mine! Don't you dare think you can get away from me! I won't be losing you to anyone! You're my girlfriend, you're not that Warlock's, or anyone else! You're mine, you're mine! I won't lose you to anyone! I'm taking you as my Queen, and you're going to keep your mouth shut you idiot!"

Dawn cried and continued wrestling with the Vampire boy, looking around for anything…and then she saw it.

She saw inside of Michael's bag, but sticking out a little bit, was a bottle of holy water.

Her hand wouldn't be able to reach it, but she didn't have to have a hand right now.

What she needed, was magic…and fortunately, Michael had taught Dawn in the past how to use some telekinesis, though Buffy doesn't know about it, and she wasn't going to know about it as far as Dawn was concerned.

"Come on…move, I did it once…I did it once…I can do it now…I can move it…I can do it…I can do it…" She chanted inside of herself again and again as she used her best concentrating and what Michael taught her to do to manipulate the bottle of holy water, the bottle twitching when Dawn concentrated. "I-It moved…n-now, I can d-do it!"

Mentally being somewhat relieved, Dawn did her best to use some telekinesis while wrestling with the small Vampire boy.

The bottle began lifting up, Dawn trying her best. It floated toward the back of Colin, up high above him. When hovering there, Dawn looked towards Colin, and her face lifted up into a wide grin that couldn't be surpassed.

"Hey Colin?"

She called, wanting to make a statement, a joke, a point, whatever it was, she didn't know, but she wanted to say it.

"Yeah?"

He answered, as her smirk grew to exponential levels.

"Need a drink?"

Colin became confused as the holy water fell from the sky, landing right on the boys back, burning him with the water that was holy, making the boy cry out and lose his grip on Dawn, pulling away slightly.

"Aaaah…"

He cried as Dawn put her feet together to where his stomach was.

"Hah!"

Grunting, Dawn kicked forward, and pushed the Vampire boy fully off her, his back smouldering from the water, and it didn't help when he landed on his back, his body erupting in new sensations of pain and torture the likes he had never seen before.

"It hurts! It hurts! It really hurts! Make it stop! It hurts!"

The Vampire boy couldn't make the pain go away, his body moving closer and closer to the edge, trying to make himself feel better than he did right now, but that was proving to be quite the difficult thing to do.

Dawn got to her feet, and bravely she went forward with her fist tightened, and made it to the Vampire boy. Seeing that he was near the edge, Dawn's hand tightened even more, and tapped the boy on the shoulder, him looking up at her with teary eyes.

"Sorry, I think our date is off. But, I hope you don't-" She punches him across the face, and with enough force, she sent his body off the side. "-fall for me!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

The Vampire boy fell all the way down to the ground, knocking himself out with the pain erupting inside of his body from the pain of his back, and his head colliding from the ground, Dawn smirking in achievement.

"Take that, Colin. No hard feelings, but I don't like you anymore."

Dawn let her feelings out, her hands tightening with new resolve.

"G-Get the hell off me!"

Xander continued to struggle with the Vampire, so Dawn went over to him, and grabbed a stake off the ground.

Using the chance of being stealthy, she plunged the stake into the back of the Vampire, where the heart was, and dusted the Vampire, saving the boy.

"Here."

Xander looked towards Dawn, impressed with her right now.

"Damn, you're awesome you are. Like a mini Slayer."

Dawn smiled at the praise, her cheeks turning red.

"Hey! Don't forget about me already! I need help too!"

Xander and Dawn looked towards Harmony, seeing that she was close to getting bitten. Since she wasn't that strong, she had no idea what she was going to do.

Xander sprung into action, and took the stake off Dawn, plunging it into the Vampire's back, saving Harmony from getting eaten.

"Ooh thank God, I'm alive, and not a Vampire."

Harmony breathed a sigh of relief, her heart beating faster than she thought that it would.

But then her mind recalled something, and she didn't want to even think about what happened with Michael right now, worried for his well being.

"W-Wait, what about Blondie Bear!? We have to save him, don't we!?"

Remembering Michael, the girls and Xander looked towards Michael, to see that he was having a heavy duel with Darla, the Vampire girl having such a strong willed and powerful magic, Michael was caught by surprise that she was this strong.

"Serpents now appear! Hiss, writing, striking near!"

Michael summoned a snake from the ground. It rose from the ground like it was in stealth mode, and went towards Darla, attempting to wrap around her body. Darla looked down, and then smirked towards Michael.

"This old trick again, my boy?" Michael's eyes became wide when he saw Darla running her finger across the wrapping snake, magic dancing on her fingers. "Burn, with the flames of intensity. Burn, and don't return."

Using her magic, the snakes body incinerated from the inside out. Tightening his eyes, Michael put his hand forward, and chanted a spell.

"Obstruct!"

Using the same spell he used against a Witch, he threw a grey glue like substance towards Darla's eyes. Darla retracted, summoning her magic. But before she could, she got hit in the eyes with the glue substance.

"D-Damn this shit already!"

She complained as her fingers went to the glue, using fire from her magic to burn off the glue. As she did, she was caught by surprise when Michael unleashed a powerful bolt of lightning that would be capable of piercing her, and possibly dusting her.

"Die Darla!"

He shouted, and just as the lightning was about to hit, Darla used her natural reflexes as a Vampire, and narrowly escaped the bolt of lightning, said lightning going into the air, and fizzled out, Darla returning to her feet.

"Seems like I was able to dodge it cutie pie." Michael released a pant, Darla catching it. "Ooh my, it seems like that you've been using quite a bit of magic hunny. But you're running low on it? I feel like I've got plenty to spare!"

Michael knew that wasn't the case, as he could tell that she was burning out fast. She didn't have the same expertise that he did. While her spells were powerful, she wasted energy on them, and she was burning out faster than he was, it was only a matter of who was going to run out of energy first, Michael was going to make sure that it was her, and not him.

Michael hummed in thought, wondering what he was going to do now, and turned to the skylight, nodding to himself, and put his hand there.

"Shatter!"

Using his magic, he caused the large glass to shatter, no one below noticing anything, and large pieces of glass floated around him. Darla looked impressed as the sea of the glass around him, and saw how he controlled them with precision.

"My, it seems like you've got some telekinetic skills."

She praised as some Vampire's came from the roof access area.

Michael's eyes went towards them, and with hand movements, he launched the glass with his mind.

"Sharpen."

His white light shot out of his hand, and hit the glass, making them sharper than they should be, and caused them to spin like a buzz saw, and headed for the necks of the Vampires in question.

"Shit! Cover yourselves!"

They saw the glass coming, raising their arms to protect themselves, but the glass sliced through the arms like a knife through butter, causing them to scream as blood gushed out of them, and then their bodies turned to dust when the glass lopped off their heads, killing them.

Darla looked on, surprised, Xander and the others being in the same situation.

"Damn, have to admit, that was awesome."

Harmony and Dawn couldn't disagree with Xander, believing that they'd be safe with Michael around, especially with the power he had. But he was running dry, and he couldn't do much to sustain his power, besides tapping into the dark side of his powers, and that was a last resort.

The glass turned its attention towards Darla, all pointing at her dangerously. Michael's eyes blackened even more, showing his willingness to fight against the girl that was before him, not going to lose to her for anything.

"Fly, converge."

With his spoken command, all of the glass flew at Darla, coming from the front of her, Xander's eyes widening.

"Hah, it's like something out of Marvel comics."

"Nerd."

Xander's face turned into a scowl at the words of Harmony.

Darla's body twitched as she put her hands outwards.

"I call upon Minerva, Goddess of protection. Surround me, with your mightiest wall."

Calmly, Darla raised a hand upwards and from her hand, a barrier erupted. It sounds her body, and expands a little outwards, keeping her safe from the incoming assault from the pieces of glass, and indeed, that's what it does.

"Damn her, and her protective shield!"

Xander cursed, Michael not showing any emotions as the glass bombarded the barrier, but it didn't even dent it. Michael had to admit to himself that Darla had become quite the strong magic wielder in the time that they hadn't seen one another, but he wasn't going to stop yet.

"Hahahahaha! Seems like you're not going to beat me, are you!?"

Darla boasted, her power going to her head.

Rather than be worried or even answer her, Michael placed his hand out and something came from his bag, to his hand. To the others, it looked like some salt, or sand, but Michael created some white light in his hand, using his other hand to sprinkle some of the sand or salt over the white lights, chanting.

"Be now dissolved, I demand, o powerful shield! No longer defend the contents from our hands, hear me!"

Chanting that out, the salt or sand mixed with the lights, dissolving into it, and then he shot it towards the barrier Darla had created.

As it touched the barrier, the white light spread all over the barrier, and then broke it apart, Darla's eyes sent reeling.

"T-This is-"

"Dissolving sand." Michael confirmed as his remaining glass went at her. "Using it on some magic lights that I can summon like you can…you can use it to dissolve powerful barriers. If it is far beyond your own power, then it would be near impossible. But with this, you've been stopped, you bitch."

Darla's eyes broadened with fear, and she pulled away, but a piece of glass went across her face, cutting her skin. She raised a hand to her face, her own blood running down her cheek. Darla barely could contain her anger, summoning bolts of purple magic around her.

"I won't lose to you!"

Darla raised her spirit, and shot forth powerful blasts of magical energy. Each of them were wide, and strong, crushing the glass, shattering it with the power she held inside of her Vampire body, but some got through, cutting her skin which made her cry out in agony.

"I repel thee!"

Using this chance, Michael put his hand forward, and a white ball of energy was made. With a throwing motion, Michael released the orb of magic, and hoped to penetrate the Vampire with blonde hair…but.

"I repel thee!"

Under her own magic, she made the same sphere, only hers was purple, and she threw it at Michael's magic, them colliding in the middle, causing a large shockwave that shattered all nearby glass, shaking the building, and dropped the likes of Xander, Harmony and Dawn to the ground.

"Aah, damn it!"

"Blondie Bear!"

"Michael, help!"

Michael looked behind to see that the shaking was causing them to fall to near the side of the building, so Michael's eyes focused, and stopped their movements with some paralyzing magic, tabbing into his darker magic, his hair turning blacker than it usually was.

"Middle."

With a single command, Michael forced their bodies to the middle of the roof, keeping them safe. His hands then pointed downwards, and created black sparks, firing them downwards, causing the building to not shake anymore.

Darla looked on, her eyes showing how pissed she really was.

"Damn you Michael! I really hate you!"

Michael's uninterested eyes went towards Darla, not impressed with her right now.

"Well, that's funny. You've been calling me lover for a while now, and you've been saying we're going to have some awesome sex. Is that how you see love, you little Vampire girl?"

Sending a daring smirk towards her, Darla lost her shit, and summoned quite a lot of magic to her hands. It cupped in her hands, a dense sphere of magic, that looked quite powerful. The purple sphere wasn't any spell in particular, but it was a high concentration of her overflowing power, Michael noting how unstable it was.

"You know what? I've had enough of holding back! I'm going to take you to the edge of death and make you scream! Then I'm going to turn you into a Vampire!" Darla's crazed eyes went towards Dawn, the girl flinching. "And I'm going to start, with you!"

"Aaaah!"

Dawn let out a cry, as Michael's eyes changed darker, his protective feelings for Dawn reaching higher levels, jumping in front of the girl as Darla released the large ball of energy towards Dawn herself.

"Not my Dawnie you bitch!"

Michael's hands surrounded themselves with darkened energy. The intense aura around him cracked the ground below him, and he used that intense power to fire it forward, towards Darla's energy attack.

"N-No!"

Darla panicked as Michael's energy hit the sphere, and had a struggle. The intense winds coming from the attacks, almost blew off the entire area on the top of the roof, the stuff that weren't anchoured down blew off immediately, landing around the school, denting the earth.

"D-Damn, this is really powerful stuff!"

"Michael! Please be okay!"

"Blondie Bear! Help us already to not be blown off!"

Xander, Dawn, and Harmony had no choice but to hold down onto a nearby vent, so they wouldn't be blown away. It was difficult though, Michael couldn't use his magic to protect them right now, it being difficult to even just fight against the sphere Darla had created.

The struggle lasted a minute or so, but Michael eventually was able to break down the sphere, draining both Darla, and Michael, but Michael had the higher reserves than Darla did, Darla panting from the energies leaving her body.

"Tighten!"

Michael, with his remaining energies, shot off some black lights towards her, wrapping around her clothes, and forced them to become tighter, so she wouldn't be able to move. Though she couldn't breathe, due to being a Vampire, she still felt the tightness constricting her movements, her eyes going towards Michael.

"D-Don't you…"

"I said…not my Dawnie, you bitch!" His hand glowed as a sphere came to be known there. "I repel thee!"

Darla tried to move, tried to use magic, but she couldn't do either. From fighting Angel and Amy before, and her battle with Michael, plus dropping his barrier from beforehand, she was tapped, she was drained, and Michael's spell made sure she wouldn't be able to move at all.

"Nooooooooooooo!"

Darla was hit in the centre of her body, and was blown off the roof, flying off towards the schools parking lot, her body smashing against a car, knocking her out, drawn to a zero with power, unable to do anything.

As soon as she was gone, Michael dropped to his knees, panting. The winds around them had stopped being so dangerous, allowing Xander and the others to rush over to him, Dawn and Harmony hugging him, while Xander looked on with a proud smile.

"You were amazing Michael!"

"Awesome Blondie Bear!"

"Totally cool dude."

Hearing the praise of the three, Michael felt his body finally being able to relax itself again, but it wasn't going to last long, Michael felt the power of something, coming towards them, but he didn't know what that was. All he knew, he was worried.

---

As that happened, Angel and Amy see the light coming out of an adjoining tunnel where Buffy was with The Master, or where he was, Amy's confused eyes going towards the lone Vampire that was with her, seeing his shocked face, and knew something dangerous had happened.

She didn't want to ask the question, having some thoughts about it all the same.

"Angel, what's going on?"

Angel's eyes lowered to the ground, not sure what they were going to do.

"It's too late. He's gone up."

Amy's eyes broadened, gasping.

"N-No, then that means Buffy and Michael are…"

"I can't smell Michael down here, but Buffy, yeah I can smell her."

Amy's usually shiny eyes couldn't comprehend what was happening, grabbing Angel by the hand and rushed forward, yelling "Come on!" as she was terrified of what happened to Buffy, not wanting it to become true.

They break into a run for the Master's lair. Angel gets there first, looks around and spots Buffy. He scrambles down to the floor and rushes to her as Amy stops and stares at Buffy in the pool. Angel reaches her and quickly pulls her out of the water. He holds her and tries to listen for breathing.

Nothing.

He looks up at Amy, the girl shaking her head, and he hated doing this, but he didn't have a choice right now.

"She's dead!"

Amy looks down at them and swallows hard as tears prickle her eyes.

Amy comes down to Angel and Buffy, not wanting to believe what was going on right now, even if it was very real, even if she wanted to reject it, Buffy was dead, she was gone, and she couldn't even think about how Michael would take this, never mind herself right now.

"No. She's not dead."

Amy tried to deny it, but Angel listened closely, not hearing anything, a silence that shouldn't be happening.

"She's not breathing."

Amy looked at the wet Buffy, her mind spinning.

"But if she drowned, uh, there's a shot! CPR!"

Amy came to that obvious conclusion, and Angel saw how that might work. But there was a problem.

"You have to do it. I have no breath."

Amy knew that wold be the case, at least she suspected that the air he took into his own lungs weren't something that would be able to give life to anyone, the air being contaminated, possibly.

Amy looks on the ground, seeing Michael's jacket, bent over, picking it up, and lays it over her. Amy kneels down by her face and looks at her a moment, then puts her mouth on Buffy and blows into her lungs.

She lets go and begins to pump her chest.

"C'mon. C'mon!"

She pleaded with her again, but she didn't see anything happening.

Amy breathes into her lungs again and continues to pump her chest.

"C'mon! Breathe! Breathe! Come on! Michael needs you Buffy! We need you! You're the Slayer, come back for God sake already!"

Angel looks down in sorrow for Amy and Buffy at the same time, along with Michael losing someone that he loved, then looks back up.

Amy keeps pumping on her chest. She did it with reckless abandon. She wanted to do her best with everything that she did, and she wasn't even sure if that was enough. She didn't know what to do right now, she wasn't sure what to do.

"C'mon! Buffy please wake up!"

After another moment, Amy stops pumping, panting.

Angel believes she was lost, placing a hand on Amy's shoulder, trying to comfort the girl.

"You did, all you could, Amy."

She was dead, and she wasn't going to come back.

"No…I can't have her die now…w-what about everyone else…it can't happen."

Amy looked like she was going to die right now too, so upset for Buffy, her family, her lover Michael, and whoever else needed Buffy. If only she could've done something, then it would make more sense for this day to be saved rather than it be broken down like this.

"I'm so sorry Amy…you tried everything, it just…didn't happen…"

Amy shook her head, crying her eyes out. She went to Angel's side, and collapsed onto his chest, sobbing her poor soul out. Angel did his best to comfort her, rubbing the back of her head, attempting to console her.

"Gaaaah!"

A second later Buffy opens her eyes wide and draws a breath. She lies still for a moment as she looks around with her eyes, her mind slowly trying to process what was going on right now, she couldn't even think straight right now.

Amy and Angel naturally withdraw for a moment, but then Amy's eyes broadened with excitement.

"Buffy!"

Amy exclaimed, shedding tears of pure happiness right now.

She turns her head to the side and coughs out a bunch of water. Amy and Angel look at each other and smile.

She looks up at Amy, surprised to see her.

"Amy?"

Amy smiles at the girl, glad that she was back again, giving her a wide smile and wanted to hug her, but didn't know if she should or not.

"Welcome back."

Buffy smiled, looking around at Angel. She then looked back at Amy and tried to stand up.

Amy and Angel help Buffy up, seeing how she was a little uneasy on her feet.

"Easy. Easy."

Amy soothed, as she looked around, now standing up.

"The Master?"

Her voice called, trying to make sense of what she was trying to think of right now.

"He's gone up."

Angel told her, as she looked up. Her eyes brimmed with renewed life, her life being something that was truly marvellous right now. She felt, strong, powerful. She felt like, she had finally committed to her destiny. She died for the cause, and now she was back, she wasn't going to lose to The Master anymore.

"Michael?"

"I-I don't know Buffy, I really don't know at all."

Buffy took in a breath, wondering where he would be, and what he was doing. Her first thoughts were of him facing off against The Master. She didn't know why that was, but she felt like she was right, and he was facing The Master, or would face The Master, and she couldn't allow it, not wanting him to get hurt.

Buffy starts to go towards the pipe that would take her out of the place.

"No. You're still weak."

Amy tried to convince her, but Buffy shook her head, her hands tightening, very tightly.

"No. No, I feel strong. I feel different." She looks back at them, showing her strength. "Let's go!"

With renewed strength, Buffy walked forward, the others following after her.

---

In the library, they pile more things in front of the door. Jenny, Cordelia, Willow, and Giles try their best to keep out the enemy's that were trying to get in, but slowly, but surely, it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep them out.

The Vampire's try their best to get in, but Willow, Jenny, Giles, and Cordelia are able to keep them off for the moment, using what they can to get them out of the library.

Willow found a nearby stake, and saw an opening through the window, so she stuck the stake through, and got the heart, slaying the Vampire.

"Hey, I just slayed a Vampire!"

Willow, on her first Vampire slaying, felt amazing right now, having done something she had never really done beforehand.

"Well done Willow, now why don't you slay the others?"

Willow gave Cordelia a blank stare as a Vampire's hand came through the hole.

Jenny grabbed the stake out of her hand, stabbing the hand coming through. The Vampire cried out in pain, retracting the hand, Jenny smiling in achievement too, glad that she was able to stab a Vampire and slay it.

Giles looks at the back of the library and sees Vampires trying to get in. Grimacing, he knew he had to do something about it.

Giles points towards the back.

"They're coming in through the stacks!"

Jenny looks towards Willow who caught the eyes, nodding at one another.

"C'mon!"

"Right!"

Jenny and Willow run to the back of the library. They ran towards the stairs, and went up them, not noticing the green tentacle like appendage that was slowly rising from the ground, ready to ensare at any second.

"The bookshelves!"

Jenny announces, Willow going towards it too.

They lift a bookcase against the French doors that lead to the stacks and lean against it.

"My office..."

Giles goes to secure his office, leaving Cordelia alone at the main doors.

The tentacle inches toward Willow's leg. Another Vampire punches through the other library door window and grabs Cordelia's arm. She screams.

"Somebody help!"

No one came when Cordelia shouted, so she took charge.

Cordelia hits the Vampire's hand and then bites it.

The Vampire screams and lets go, Cordelia wearing a confident smile on her face, proud of her achievement.

"See how *you* like it!"

She taunts as Willow from the back struggles with the door she was leaning against with the bookcase, Jenny pleading that something, someone would be able to come and help, but she didn't know what was going to happen now.

"This won't keep 'em out for long!" She looks down and sees the tentacle wrap itself around her ankle and screams loudly. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Help me for the love of God! Don't let anything happen to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Jenny immediately grabs hold of her, and tries to pull her away, up and from the creature that was coming for her and Willow.

"GILES! GILES!"

Giles comes running out of his office in time to see a huge, green, multi-headed and tentacle Demon burst through the floor.

"The Hellmouth!"

He exclaims as Cordelia moves away from the door, looking at the creature with wide eyes, Cordelia can't believe what she's seeing.

The creature has three heads and reaches all the way to the ceiling, just nearing the skylight where Michael and the others were, but they were busy trying to keep themselves safe and sound right now, not seeing what was going on down below.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Come on! Help me!"

Willow screams as the Hellmouth creature tries to drag her away from Jenny, but she keeps her hands tightly on the girls body, but her grip was slipping. Slowly, but surely, her grip was becoming less and less by the second, and she didn't like it. No, she hated it in fact, she didn't know what to do.

"GIIILES!"

Again, Jenny screams, needing his help right now, and she wished that Michael was around right now. At least, he was a Warlock, he'd be able to do something against this creature, unlike the near powerless her.

Giles grabs an axe from the table and rushes up the stairs to their aid.

"GILES!"

He swings it into one of the heads on Jenny's command, and the creature roars in agony as the women continue to scream.

Giles swings again with the axe and hits the creature.

The creature releases some kind of unholy noise from the hit, making it pierce even Cordelia's ears, the girl wincing at the sound. Willow didn't have that luxury however, as she was being dragged down more and more.

"Try this!"

He tries again, but this time it knocks him off of the mezzanine with one of its large tentacles and onto the large table below.

It breaks when Giles hits it, and one side falls over onto its end, leaving a huge spike pointing upward, their situation looking bleak right now.

---

The Master opens the roof access door and walks out. He looks at the view around him of the town at night and smiles. He exhales, walks to the edge of the roof and holds his arms out as he surveys the scene, looking towards the four of the people on the roof.

"My world! Oh, my beautiful world!"

Michael pushes Dawn behind him, as Xander does the same for Harmony. Xander stands next to Michael, as they all glare at The Master. Dawn shivers at the sight of the Vampire, Harmony doing the same. Xander's grasp on the sword he had made him feel tingly inside of his body,

"Hello, Master."

Michael greeted with a harsh voice, readying to fight him at any second.

The Master bows his head, gaining a wide grin.

"My, Mr Moonglow! Hello, it is the first time we're officially meeting, isn't it? This is amazing, so you're the famous Moonglow boy? I am honoured, Mr Moonglow…no, may I call you Michael? That would be better, wouldn't it?"

Michael's eyes glared at the Vampire, unable to tell if he was going to need to kick ass, or to run away. Right now, he was low on power, but his determination was strong, he was strong, and he wasn't going to lose to this Vampire, not ever.

"Tch, call me what you want, you son of a bitch. It doesn't change your fate."

The Master smiled at the provocative words.

"I see, so that's how you're going to speak to me? You're quite the naughty boy, aren't you? That, isn't how you should talk to me. I am going to be your new Master soon. Don't you even know that child?"

"Screw you!"

Michael launched a quick fireball at the enemy, but The Master smirked, and dodged to the side, the fire going up into the sky, and dispersing like a firework, The Master smirking even more at the display of magic.

"Well, since I haven't seen Darla, or Colin, can I presume you've killed them?"

Michael wasn't sure what happened to the child, but he knew what happened to Darla, giving a smile.

"They've been flung away from here. If they're dead or not, doesn't matter to you. But, what are you here for? If it is me, you can forget it. You're not getting me, and I won't let you touch these people either. Dawn, Xander, and Harmony aren't going to be touched by you, ugly fucker…say, do you have fruit punch mouth?"

Michael noted jokingly, pointing at his red stained mouth.

"Huh?"

The Master cocked his head to the side as Michael put his hand forward, and yelled "I repel thee!" and a white swirling up came from his hand, Michael throwing it towards The Master, the Vampire about to move, but Michael summoning a crossbow to his side, and shot off an arrow towards his chest.

The Vampire caught the arrow, just before it penetrated his heart, but then was slammed away from them with Michael's magical sphere of magic. His body hit a nearby vent area, and broke it apart, his body wrecking with some pain, Michael panting from having low energies. He was nearing low now, and he, even with his dark magic, didn't know if he'd be able to continue onwards.

"Y-Yeah, take that!"

Xander cheered as Michael handed him the crossbow.

"Xander, load it again and when you see a chance to shoot, do it. Harmony hand him the crossbow bolts then get out some holy water and when you see a chance, throw some at him. And Dawn, stay behind with these two. I'm going to go and face this bastard."

They didn't say anything, but they knew what was going to do, Michael walking forward as The Master stood up.

"So boy, you're going to face me, are you?"

"Yeah that's right. I'm going to be the one who dusts you, freak."

Michael growled out as he went forward with a bolt of magic heading for The Master.

The Master ducked out of the way, and put his hand outwards, capturing Michael with his paralysis technique. Michael couldn't move his body, and the Vampire looked joyfully towards Michael, the boy struggling to get free, but no magic he used got him free.

"G-Get off him!"

Xander took the crossbow, and shot off an arrow towards him, but the Vampire grabbed it with his spare hand, snapping it in half between his fingers.

"Silly boy, thinking that you'd be able to fire at *me*! Don't you know who I am!?"

Xander backed away, his own fears being realized.

Michael called a stake to his side, and went to shove it into The Masters chest, but said guy grabbed the stake, and twisted it away from his body, saving himself.

"Silly Michael. I can't be killed by you, you know that. But you know…" The Master leaned closer to Michael, and licked his neck, shivers going down the blondes spine. "…your little girlfriend, ended up like this."

"W-What are you talking about?"

Suspiciously, Michael's eyes fell onto the soulless ones of the elder Vampire.

His face grew into a sadistic grin.

"I'm saying, when your girlfriend came to fight me…I drained her."

The news hit Michael like a truck, he literally thought that his whole life had ended with a little bit of information he didn't want to believe to be true.

"N-No…"

Michael didn't want to believe it, he wouldn't believe it. His eyes ran cold, his blood frozen at the mere thought that Buffy wasn't around anymore. But…it made sense, with what he felt before. He didn't, and wouldn't, believe that she was gone, even when it was piling up against him that she very well might be dead.

But The Master held a grin on his face, getting off from seeing Michael slowly fall into despair.

"It's alright, I won't hold it against you if you cry. But, your little girlfriend, is dead." Michael's eyes broadened as tears sprung from his icy blue eyes. "She died, while thinking of you, Michael. Don't you, want to join her? She's gone to Heaven, or Hell right now." The Master pulled away as large tears ran down his face, his whole world crumbling. "Hahahahaha, she's dead, and she's not coming back, for you, or anyone! She's dead, little boy! Your Slayer, has gone from this world! She's deceased! How many other ways can I say it? She's gone, and she's not coming back!"

Now The Master yelled it, and the others heard what he said, not quite believing it.

"W-What did he say?"

Xander's mind couldn't comprehend what he was saying, not believing it.

"N-No! it can't be! She can't be dead! Buffy! Buffy!"

Dawn shed tears also, trying to wrap her head around it.

"Shhh, don't cry…"

Harmony, in an act of compassion wrapped her arms around the child, and whispered sweet nothing's into her ears, trying to control the girls fit of crying, but even she didn't know what else to say to Dawn, not sure how she should feel right now.

The most devastated, at least on par with Dawn, was Michael himself.

He couldn't believe it…

Buffy was gone.

How could it happen?

How could she be dead?

It shouldn't be happening, but it was. Buffy, was gone, lost to the world, and to him.

All of the memories he had of her flashed before his eyes. Her smiled etched into his mind, everything that she was, everything that she did, and everything that she could've been, was slowly slipping away, his hair turning darker, giving into darkness, from losing the only person he ever truly loved in his life.

Michael's killing intent came full force as a burst of magic erupted from his body, blowing apart of the roof off from the overwhelming power that he held inside of his body. The aura of magic he had ran into the sky, causing it to twist, the clouds converging around him.

The Master looks on, shocked, scared of what was happening.

"I-Inconceivable…t-this is…y-you can't…"

Michael's tear stained eyes went towards The Master, a terrifying grin caused the elder Vampire to flinch with fear.

"You made a mistake…you killed Buffy…you evil…I'll kill you!"

Michael walked forward, the ground, and building shaking with his power. Xander and the others could only watch on with grief in their hearts. Each step Michael took, The Master took one back, frightened of what was going to happen.

"Y-You, stay away from me!"

The Master put his hand upwards, trying to use his hypnotic powers on Michael…but it didn't work.

Gasping, The Master's eyes stained with fear when Michael appeared before him.

"Die you evil bastard!"

The Master rose his hand, and swiped it across Michael's face, drawing some blood as his fingers cut his cheek. Michael's head bent to the side from the punch, then it returned to The Master's side, then The Master saw the cut on his cheek heal like it wasn't there at all.

"You took Buffy away from me…I don't…have anything…left now…and you, get to walk free while she has disappeared…" Michael grabbed The Master by the shirt, dragging his body to him, and placed a hand on his chest, ribbing his clothes open with telekinetic power. "Shhh, don't worry, I'm just going to take a little."

Michael thrusted his palm against The Master's body, light erupting from the chest of The Master, and flowed into Michael, Michael draining The Master's power for himself, tapping up his own reserves, while weakening The Master.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

The Master screams helplessly as Michael drained some energy.

When he was done, Michael threw The Master to the ground, looking up with completely black eyes, and barely any blonde left in his hair, evil slowly entering his heart.

"That's better."

Michael looks down towards the creature that was coming from The Hellmouth, it's large tentacles being swung around and attempting to drag Willow down into hell, Giles being stunned, Jenny keeping her hands on her body, and Cordelia couldn't do anything other than look on, purely shocked by what she was witnessing.

Directing his hand downwards, he muttered "Separate." and shot off light of black, hitting the creature holding Willow, breaking them apart, Jenny and Willow falling to the ground, not sure what had just happened.

"Time to die!"

With his power fully on display, Michael launched a very powerful bolt of red lightning towards the creature. The creature barely had any times at all from moving, and received the powerful red lightning wrapping around it.

"W-Who's…" Giles looked upwards, and saw Michael, with his black hair, worried. "Ooh no…"

Even Giles knew what this meant, and how grim it could be if Michael decided to turn on them, and could only watch as he incinerated the creature they had much trouble with. Jenny saw the same thing as well, and looked upwards to see him like he was, panicking.

"Michael! Michael!"

She called with panic, fear, but his hollow tear stained eyes and mind didn't register anything that they were saying.

Michael leans forwards, panting from incinerating the creature, feeling his reserves lowering again. But he didn't have time to do that, and drew power from anywhere that he could, and in his mind, Harmony and Xander seemed like batteries to him, having lost sense of reason, absorbed some of their energies, dropping them to the ground, refuelling himself.

Xander, and Harmony gasp at the sudden loss of energies, but Michael merely faces The Master, ready for a challenge.

"Ready to fight?"

The Master looks up, and now realizes that he shouldn't be afraid of the Slayer…but of Michael.

---

Outside, Buffy marches determinedly toward the school with Angel and Amy close behind, strolling towards the school.

Buffy looks, ready now.

She looks ready to fight, and whatever happens, happens. She knew what she needed to do, and she was sure that she was going to do it, however she was going to do it.

But she couldn't escape a feeling that something was wrong, she wasn't sure.

"So, how do you know where The Master's going?"

Amy wondered, but Buffy gained a slight smile on her face.

"I know." A Vampire tries to block their way into the school, and she gains a confident smile. "Oh, look, a bad guy."

She punches him on her way by, and he falls flat on his back, and continues walking towards the doors of the school. Amy looks down at the Vampire, Angel producing a stake, and finished off the Vampire from existence.

As they walked, Angel looks up, and notices that the clouds had changed, and something was different.

"Buffy, this feeling is…"

"Feeling…what are you…" Buffy pauses when she hears screams, sounding like The Master. "That's, him. Why…is he screaming like that?"

"Is that The Master's voice?"

Amy's puzzlement was only confirmed by Angel himself.

"Yes, that's the voice of The Master, but I don't know why…"

"It's Michael." Buffy began, knowing straight away. "I feel it…deep inside of me, I can feel it, he's…Michael, I'm coming."

Like a bullet, Buffy ran off towards the school, Amy and Angel tailing after her.

However, as they ran along as fast as they could, three Vampire's appeared before them, each wearing menacing faces.

Angel looks upon them, his eyes narrowing as he recognized who was before him, and what they could want.

"It's The Three."

"The Three?"

Amy pondered the thought, Angel nodding his head.

"These are The Masters most loyal servants, and some of his strongest."

Amy didn't exactly like the sound of that. The three Vampire's did seem stronger than usual, and even she wasn't sure what Buffy was going to do, neither did Angel, but he looked like he was going to do something and that was sometimes good, sometimes bad.

Buffy clicked her tongue.

"I don't have time for this. I need to get to Michael."

The Vampire's came a little closer to Buffy, and the other two, Angel stepping forward.

"Buffy, go on ahead, I'll deal with this."

"You sure?"

Getting his opinion, Angel put on his 'game face' and showed his willingness to fight.

"Go."

Buffy looked unsure, so Amy appeared next to Angel, and green lights appeared in her hands, readying her magic.

"I'm staying with him. Buffy, go and fight The Master, and help the others. I'll deal with these people, along with this Vampire here."

Angel didn't like the sound of that plan, turning his criticising attitude towards her.

"Amy, you're not-"

"Don't you dare tell me to not stay Angel." Amy cut him off, glaring, Buffy looking from left to right, feeling uncomfortable. "I am not leaving you with these three badasses. You're one badass, leave me to help you. Remember, I'm the Witch to your Vampire. We, can do this, together. We'll show anyone that we can do this."

Angel wasn't sure what to think right now. He didn't want to hurt Amy, he didn't want her to be hurt either. But then he saw her eyes, and how resolute, determined she was, and couldn't deny her, so he stood beside her.

"Alright, let's do this. Go, Buffy. Leave it to me and Amy."

"He's right, Buffy. Leave it to me and Angel here."

She looks at them both once more and then goes inside of the school, leaving Angel, and Amy to deal with the Vampire's before them.

Immediately, one of the Vampire's came for Angel, one of the three, and went to give him a kick to the face. Angel dodged out of the way, and brought up his own fist, going for a straight punch to the face, but the Vampire blocks, and pushes Angel away.

"D-Damn you!"

Amy watched as Angel dodged one of the punches of the Vampire's, and sent his own punch at him. But he retracted his body, avoiding some of the punches from the Vampire, and sent his own foot at Angel's face, knocking him down to the ground.

"Angel!"

Amy cried, not sure what she was supposed to do right now.

Angel rolled on the ground, as one of the big Three came over, and kicked him in the stomach. Amy gasped as seeing her boyfriend (?) coughing up some bile. When the Vampire did it again and the other two stood nearby, Amy couldn't stand by anymore, and put her hands outwards, channelling her magic to make it flow towards the enemies.

"Confound the senses and charge the air. Mist engulfs. Mind is fogged."

A burst of smoke forms around her hands. She points at the Vampire's with a shaking finger and the smoke streams out to surround it.

[Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!]

The Vampire's roar, confused, but Angel isn't, Amy tweaking the spell so it would save Angel from getting confused, allowing him to stand up, and take up arms, his fists swinging wildly outwards, punching each of the Vampire's, knocking them all downwards.

"Angel!"

Amy called, but Angel waved her off, and gave her a small smile, and then produced a stake from his coat, readying himself to face the Vampire's. Springing upwards, he went for the member of the Vampire gang that was in the middle, his hand clutching the stake tightly, and went to stake the Vampire before him.

"I don't think so!"

Before Angel could attempt to stake him, another one of The Three came charging at Angel, Angel gritting his teeth in mild annoyance. The member threw a precise strike against his face, but Angel ducked the punch, sweeping under his leg and knocked him to the ground. However, that allowed the first member time to grab Angel by the back of the head, and slam his face into the ground.

Amy winced as she saw Angel cry out, but she couldn't fight like he could...but that didn't mean she couldn't fight.

Rather than try and get closer, she produced a stake and used telekinesis.

As she floated the stake, two of the three held Angel's arms down, and began slamming their feet into him.

"So, a Witch for me."

Unfortunately for Amy, the last member of the three came for her. Using its speed, before she could even say anything, the Vampire grabbed her by the arms, restraining her from using any magic. She gasped, trying to escape, but she couldn't, and was held down by the large Vampire, her eyes displaying her great anger.

"G-Get off her!"

Angel attempted to overpower his opponents, but he couldn't, and ended up getting a kick in the stomach.

"You're fight is with us!"

One of The Three announced, kicking Angel in the face. He winced at the kick, blood coming from his mouth. He helplessly watched as Amy was slowly being close to being bitten.

She continued to struggle as the stake floated behind him. Amy grinned when seeing that, confusing the Vampire slightly as to why she was smiling.

"What's with the smile girl? You're not, afraid, are you?"

Amy continued to smirk.

"No, I'm just wondering how your dust is gonna float in the wind."

The Vampire was confused, but then Amy released the stake, and fired a stake into his heart.

The Vampire's eyes widened in shock, letting go of Amy, as his body crumbled down to dust. Once completely in dust, the Vampire's remains blew around in the sky, Amy smiling to herself.

"My first Vampire kill, amazing."

She said, only to realize that another one of The Three came charging for her at a fast pace.

She gasped when she felt her body being tackled to the ground, pinning her down.

But now that Angel only had one to fight, he managed to grab the foot of the Vampire, and twisted it, causing the Vampire to grunt and he fell down to the ground.

"Hah!"

The Vampire's eyes widened when Angel plunged his stake into the Vampire's heart faster than the Vampire could even react. It's body erupted into dust, laying down on the ground.

"Aaaah! Get off me!"

Amy couldn't use her powers this time, as she was busy with pushing the Vampire away, but it was proving very difficult. It was simply stronger than she was, and she couldn't do anything but wait for her impending death that she was sure was going to come to her no matter what she tried, and what she was going to be able to do.

"Hey!" Angel appeared behind the Vampire, and swung his strong fist at the Vampire's face, punching him off her body. "Don't do anything to her again."

Amy's eyes turned appreciative, Angel helping her up to her feet.

"Angel, we've got one left, we should slay it now."

"Right, let's do this."

Amy and Angel faced the last of The Three.

It looked between Amy and Angel, baring it's teeth. Rushing forward, it swung for Amy's face, but Angel pulled her away, only for Angel to slam his open palm against the Vampire's face, knocking him backwards. Going forward, the Vampire lunged with a punch, but Angel blocked it, twisting into the Vampire, delivering a strike to the face with his below, knocking him even more back.

"Angel! Here!"

Amy grabbed a stake and threw it to Angel as the Vampire fell down to the ground.

Catching it, Angel spun it in his hands, and stabbed the Vampire in the heart, killing it.

Taking a breath, Amy smiled, and walked forward, then hugged around Angel's neck, a comforting embrace for the rough fight that they had.

---

Meanwhile on the roof, Michael with his dark powers in near full bloom, has his hand stuck out in front of him, black lightning being released from his hand. Travelling, the lightning was wrapped around the screaming Master, suspending him in the air, shocking him with more volts than most would be able to handle.

Watching on, was baffled Xander, a crying Dawn, and a dumbfounded Harmony. Each of them witnessed this, and weren't sure if they were happy, or scared of what they were seeing right now. Michael's power seemed to be off the charts, and even The Master couldn't do anything against this amazing power, though his power was quickly depleting, so The Master was out waiting the magic to drain, so he could gain access to Michael, in the meantime, he hoped his body would hold.

"How does it feel?" He spoke darkly, increasing the intensity of the lightning while draining his own magic, wondering why The Master wasn't burning up. "You said you wanted my power. You, could never handle my power, you worm. You're nothing, you will return to nothing. You killed Buffy, now I'm gonna put you through a worse pain than death itself."

With a sneer from the evil Michael, the Vampire couldn't resist the power shocking him, his voice betraying how much in pain he really was right now.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! PLEASE STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!"

The Master couldn't hold his voice back, he was in immense amounts of pain right now.

"Stop? Why would I stop? You didn't stop, when you killed my Buffy. Now, why should I stop?"

Michael gave a dirty smirk, showing how his power was slowly corrupting his mind.

Without Buffy, he didn't know what he was going to do. He failed to protect her, he failed to save her, and now he was in a world without Buffy…he couldn't do it, he couldn't live without Buffy being there.

He already had lost his only family, his Grandmother. He had only gained Jenny as his Aunt, but he hadn't formed a bond like that. the only true bond he had, was Buffy, and now she was gone, he didn't know what else there was…what was there?

He didn't have a family. His friends like Xander keep turning on him, and Buffy was gone. He, didn't have anything left to loose, and he needed to defeat the Vampire that took his love away, the only person that meant so much to him, and now he was going to make this Vampire pay for killing Buffy, he wouldn't be able to live.

"Silly little Vampire King. You like being top dog, don't you? You wanted my power, right?" The Masters cries told him what he really wanted, Michael giggling evilly. "Pain~" From his index finger, a black light heading towards the Vampire, running through his body, causing him to vomit blood from the pain he felt, the magic ripping through him, but not leaving a physical wound. "Seems like you've began hurting. Tch, well, it seems like I have to cause you more pain."

"GWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

The Master screamed again as the spell went right through him, more pain coming to his system from Michael's pure magical power.

"Oh my, it seems like Blondie Bear is now Black…Warlock guy?"

"Damn, is this something that…even I don't know what to say about this crap…"

Michael's body continued to release more and more power, and he was draining, fast. He was exerting so much power, but he didn't care right now. He didn't care, he had to make The Master pay for what he did to Buffy.

Michael hit his low, and his magic stopped, the Vampire dropping to the ground, in pain, but not dead.

"Hahaha...it seems that even with your power, you're not strong enough to kill me...or you would've done it already. Am I wrong?"

Michael panted, looking at The Master with narrowed eyes.

"I-I'll just take more from you, won't I? T-Then I will finish you..."

The Master smirked despite the pain, and stood up, Michael doing the same. He tried to summon some magic, but it didn't work, Michael was now drained of any magic, he couldn't even perform a basic spell, and that was something The Master enjoyed to see, walking closer to the confused boy that didn't know what to do.

"I don't think you'll be taking anything from anyone you punk!"

The Master punched Michael in the jaw, it twisting into a different shape as blood erupted from his mouth.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Michael threw a punch at The Master, but he blocked it, and twisted his arm backwards, breaking his wrist as he twisted the wrist, his mouth screaming for something, anything to make this stop. But it couldn't, The Master now has won. Michael couldn't do anything, and the others were frozen in fear, Michael's screams penetrating the heaven's above, and hell below.

"I'm not like the common Vampire!" The Master punched Michael in the face, a cry escaping his lips. "Tough Vampire's like me won't die from your torture techniques!" The Master kneed Michael in the gut bringing him down to his knees, tears escaping his eyes as the Vampire cupped his chin. "The creature you incinerated was already susceptible to magic attacks anyway, it was it's weakness, that's why you could burn it. Even your attacks, you'd have to sneak up on enemies to fire off your magic, and hope they don't move. You're not strong enough to fight against me little boy." The Master pushed Michael's chin away from him, then released his arm, and backhanded Michael to the ground. "You go for the hurt, not the kill, my boy. But don't worry, I'll make you into a Vampire soon, for my own army building. You've pushed me quite far, you've defeated my favourite Darla, but you're not man enough for me. Now sucking on your girlfriend's blood was a buzz, what would your blood taste like?"

Smirking down at him, Michael's eyes turned to rage, and lifted his good hand.

"I-I'll kill you!"

Michael went to stand up, but The Master punched Michael in the face, sending him down to the ground.

"Hah! This is pathetic boy! You're a Moonglow!"

"I-I've been fighting...Darla...if I was at full power...I-I'd kill you..."

The Master wasn't convinced, and kicked Michael in the stomach, causing him to cough up blood.

"If you say so, then I will believe you."

He mocked, and then proceeded to kick the crap out of Michael.

His kept kicking Michael in the stomach, standing on his wrist which was already broken, and caused him to vomit blood up. The others tried to get involved, but The Master used his powers to keep them in their tracks. They couldn't do anything other than watch Michael get the shit kicked out of him, his body curling up to stop the beating he received.

A few minutes later, The Master stopped, and gripped Michael by the back of the head, lifting him up.

"Now, my boy. Ready to become one of me?" Michael spat in his face, his blood mixed with his spit. The Master licked his face where the blood was, disgusting the others. "Tastes good, my boy. Now, what does a boy of your stature bring? Moonglow blood, I will take it for myself, my adorable Michael. Let's become Vampire's from you, shall we?"

With that, The Master bit Michael's neck, drinking him.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah,.."

Michael cried as The Master's blood, the others couldn't even move from The Master stopping them.

"Yes! YES! THIS IS THE POWER! I'M RESTORED! THIS POWER IS MAGNIFICENT! I AM COMPLETE!"

The Master once again, drunk deep of the blood that he would connect to a drug, it was amazing, powerful, it was...the best ever.

Buffy finally made it to the roof, seeing how he looked, what was going on, wondering what was going on. From his eyes, Buffy could see the tears that had been there, leaking from his eyes, and ran down his face. She noticed Dawn, and the others looking on in fear, but she wasn't afraid. She could see that, despite him being drunk by the Vampire, Michael wasn't crying because of that, but because of what Buffy had meant to him.

She saw how he really was, she knew it wasn't anything other than pain that he felt right now. Grief, sadness, pain, and everything else suited to that heart break when losing someone, like she felt when she thought she lost him, but worse.

"You get the hell away from my boyfriend!"

She called, The Warlock's disbelieving eyes going towards Buffy, The Master doing the same thing.

The Master turns his head and stares at her in surprise, panting from the torture that Michael had given him, only to receive more pain when Buffy punched The Master away from Michael, the boy dropping to his knees, putting a hand to his wound. The Master rolled on the ground, panting even more than beforehand, stunned by what he was seeing.

"You're dead!"

Buffy adopted a smile as she walks forward, Dawn, and Michael crying from seeing her alive, and well, rubbing their eyes in disbelief, but she was there, right in front of them, when she was supposed to be dead.

"I may be dead, but I'm still pretty. Which is more than I can say for you."

"You were destined to die! It was written!"

The Master argued, but Buffy shook her head, and walked forward.

"What can I say? I flunked the written."

Buffy walked past the downed Master, walking towards Dawn and Michael. Xander took a breath of relief, Harmony glad that she was alive too.

"Buffy!"

Dawn latched onto Buffy, hugging her as tight as she could as she cried her eyes out.

Buffy rubbed the back of her head, muttering "It's okay, I'm here." as gently as she could, then turned her sight towards Michael, giving him a smile, his black hair slowly melting away into blonde again.

"Buffy…he said you were dead…"

Buffy gave him a large smile, placing a hand on his cheek, brushing his eyes.

"You should know that death wouldn't stop me." Michael winced when he felt his wrist twinge in pain as he stood up, Buffy catching it. "Baby, your wrist, your body looks sore...what did he do to you...?"

"Buffy…" Michael's eyes turned from happy, to annoyed, and he kicked her in the leg gently. "Dumbass."

"Ow…that hurt."

Buffy mock cried with a pout on her lips, Michael wrapping his arms around her neck, pulling her as close as he could to her, The Master using his own strength to recover from what had happened with Michael, knowing he'd have to fight them, this time he'd be killing Michael first, then Buffy.

"Idiot…you knocked me out…and left me alone Buffy…I didn't know what happened to you…why didn't you just let me go…?"

"I wasn't going to let you die. It's my responsibility, not yours. And look what happened to you...I'm going to make that bastard pay for this."

Buffy gently whispered against his ear, brushing the back of his head, Michael shedding some tears of pure joy.

"Buffy…I thought I had lost everything…when you died…I couldn't even see anything…I thought that…I didn't know what to do Buffy…I was so scared…and it was…"

"I know, it's alright now…I'm here…don't worry now baby, I'm right here…we're together again…" She looked towards The Master, and saw him recovering, her eyes sharpening. "Alright you ugly freak, not only for trying to murder my friends, but you also murdered me! I can't let you live! You've even tortured my boyfriend you asshole!"

The Master panted, as Michael looked on…but he was drained now. He couldn't do much himself anymore, he had used too much magic, and he was practically tapped out with nothing else being able to come. Plus with The Master drunk his blood, The Master was charged with Michael's blood, causing his power to return to normal, he hoped Buffy would be able to handle it, though he didn't know if he could just sit back and watch.

"Buffy…" Michael called as she stepped forward, but she gave him a look, which he knew all too well. "Is this a thing where you have to do it yourself?"

"Exactly. Keep Dawn and the others safe for me."

Michael didn't have a choice but to nod his head, and stepped back. He got in front of the others, and made it so that he was protecting them, even if with the little magical power that he had within himself, he still had his fighting skills, and he was going to defend, no matter what happens from this point onwards.

"No, I am going to fight Michael-"

"You're fighting me you freak!"

Buffy lunged forward, and kicked him across the face, his body twisting left from the kick. Bringing up her fist, she slammed her open palm against his face, pushing him away from her, and the others, Buffy having a determined look on her face.

The Master growls and reaches his arm out to try his hypnosis on her again.

"Come here then! I'll drain you of your blood, and reach new heights of power!"

Buffy slowly approaches the Master, apparently hypnotized.

He grabs her by the throat, but didn't suspend her of the ground. Buffy just looks on for the moment, still looking hypnotized.

"Did you really think you could best me here when you couldn't below?"

He lets go of her neck as Buffy looks at him curiously, tilting her head to the side.

"You have fruit punch mouth."

The Masters eyes furrowed in confusion.

"What?"

She swings a wide hard punch to his mouth, and he falls down with a heavy sound.

"Save the hypnosis crap for the tourists."

As he gets up she does a swinging roundhouse kick that connects squarely with his face. He swipes at her and she jerks back, but he manages to slice her with his fingernails across her upper right chest, drawing blood.

She punches him in the kidney, his body twisting into an abnormal shape. He punches her in the jaw, her body being pushed back a little bit more than usual.

She tries to punch him again, but he blocks her and punches her in the face, sending her flying backward into the wall behind her.

"Buffy…"

Michael went to call to her, but she recovered from the wall, a determined look in her eyes. Michael knew from that look, Buffy was going to win this fight, and he put all of her confidence in her, knowing his Slayer would be able to do it.

The Master is ready to continue fighting, getting into a fighting position.

"So, girl, what's going to happen now?"

The Master baited the girl into a fight, Buffy taking a breath.

"What's going to happen is for me to kick the crap out of you."

Buffy rushes forward with a quick step. The Master readies his fist, punching for, but Buffy makes a stop, pushing her body backwards, avoiding the punch. Seeing an opportunity, Buffy pivots on her foot, and slams her heel into his face, cutting his face, his red blood running down his face.

"You bitch!"

Then, as The Master reeled from that, she launches herself into a front tuck over his head and lands between him and the skylight.

"I don't think that you really need to start swearing like that. Especially in front of the children."

She lifts her foot up, and attempts a kick at him in the side with a side snap kick, but he quickly turns, pushing her foot away from his body, and grabs her by the neck again, causing Buffy to seize up on the spot.

"Where are your jibes now?"

Taunting her wasn't the best when Michael was around, his hands crackling with his magical powers, ready to kill The Master for what he was going to do to her.

"Buffy!"

Michael went to do something, but one look from him that he was stopped Buffy looked at him.

He took in a deep breath, and allowed her to continue, with whatever she was going to do.

However, the Vampire suddenly pushes her back, and puts his hand outwards, capturing her like he was controlling her body. Buffy's eyes widened and she tried to move, but she couldn't. She was stuck, and the face he had on was really wide, and even made him look scary, frightening the likes of Dawn, and Harmony. Michael and Xander ground their teeth together, Michael cursing himself because he knew that he was partly to blame for this, realizing it was his power that The Master gained from his blood that held Buffy back.

"Your jibes have stopped now, haven't you?" The Slayer watched helplessly as The Master got closer, dragging his claw like finger across her cheek, cutting her. "You see, you can thank this on your boyfriend. His power is running through my body, and it is stronger than anything in the world. You, cannot hope to grasp the strength of my power now."

Buffy attempted to move again, but he stopped her.

"Michael, what are we going to do?"

Xander begged for an answer, the blonde nodding to himself.

"I'm going to have to drain him of the power he stole from my blood."

"And you can do that from here?"

The blonde shook his head.

"I have to get direct contact with him. Wish me luck."

Before Xander could even say anything, Michael took out a knife, and went forward.

The Master gave a bemused look to his face, twisting his hand to the side, using his hypnotic powers to capture Michael, but Michael threw the knife forward, stabbing The Master in his stomach, which dropped Buffy from her own capture.

"Hah!"

Michael watched as the Slayer removed the knife from his abdomen, and stabbed him in the eye, kicking him to the ground. The Master released a bloodcurdling scream, Michael whizzing past her, and put his hand to The Master's chest, The Master's lone good eye falling upon the boy as he smirked.

"No one steals from me, you idiot."

From his hand on his chest, Michael's hand glowed, and power from The Master flowed into the blonde.

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Absolute power! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

The Master's body was drained of the power Michael's blood granted it, but it had an adverse effect on Michael, blowing his body backwards, hitting the ground rather harshly.

"Michael!"

Buffy rushed to his side, cradling his head. The blonde looked at his girlfriend, and smiled weakly.

"Buffy, I drained him of his power that he gained from me. His little hypnotic crap won't work on you now baby."

"Thanks, baby. Leave it to me now."

Buffy stood up as Michael with a pant went back over to the others. Dawn hugged onto him as did Harmony, Xander watching as Buffy went over to the skylight, standing near it. The Master panted heavily with sweat pouring off his body, standing up too, his eyesocket leaking blood from where she stabbed him beforehand.

"Y-You and your little fucking boyfriend..."

"Me and my boyfriend are actually kicking ass right now, together, like a true couple."

She looks behind her and sees the upended table through the skylight.

She hatched a plan in her mind, and smirked towards the elder Vampire, reading herself again to face off against this bastard for the last time. Michael also saw what she was looking at, so he bent the upended table in a position where The Master would fall, and be slain with what remained of his telekinesis, Buffy giving a relieving smile.

"You laugh when my Hell is on Earth?"

Buffy's eyes turned upwards in delight.

"You're that amped about Hell..." She grabs him by the neck, shocking him. "Go there!"

She lifts him up and flips him over herself and through the skylight.

He falls down and is impaled on the table, right where his heart with.

"…!"

He slowly turns to ash as he screams out, or tries to, his screams silenced with the cries of the untold truth that he was feeling right now until only his skeleton is left.

As his body turns to a skeleton, the Vampire's that were straggling around the area all flee away, knowing they wouldn't be able to do anything against the Slayer, and her friends.

Buffy watches from above, along with Michael, Xander, Harmony, and Dawn, watching down and all smiled to each other.

Buffy appeared next to Michael, his arm wrapping around her, Dawn hugging his side. The three of them looked to be quite, close right now. Michael felt relieved that Buffy was okay, and vice versa, Dawn glad that the pair of them were together now, with her.

Xander saw how close Buffy was to Michael, and knew that they were going to be together now, and didn't know how to accept it, but this time, he didn't have a choice but to accept it, the same for Harmony, but Harmony didn't want to give up yet.

As they looked down, Michael's eyes naturally dragged over to Buffy, a loving smile appearing on his face.

"It's over Buffy. The Masters dead, everything has cleared up, and we're safe now, everyone is safe. I can feel it. Willow, Jenny, Giles, Cordelia, Angel, Amy, and everyone here, we're all safe now."

Michael muttered against her ear, as she looked at him, smiling.

"I love you so much."

Surprised by her sudden words, he bequeathed her with a kind smile.

"I love you so much too, Buffy. I can't be without you, ever again."

Buffy leaned closer, placing her forehead against his own, rubbing beneath each other's eyes, getting rid of the tears that were beginning to form there.

"Me neither. Always, together."

The lovers smiled at one another, and fell onto each other's shoulders in an embrace both needed, and both loved.

---

In the parking lot of the school, the injured Colin slowly strolls through, holding his back in agony.

Slow, breaths of pain and anguish escaped his lips, as he came across the unconscious Darla, laying on a broken car with her injured body. Her body covered in wounds, cuts, scraps, and drained of her power for now, Colin put his hand on her body, and shook it.

"Darla…get up…right now…"

The perpetual child ordered, and then dug his fingernails into her leg, causing her to cry out, and wake up.

"Oww…s-shit…what's go-going on…"

Colin answered her doubt while wincing.

"W-We lost Darla…The Master is dead…the Slayer killed him…"

Darla's eyes widened in pure terror.

"No…we lost him…Michael…I'll make you pay for taking me out…w-with me…she wouldn't of lived to kill him…"

"Don't worry Darla…we'll take over, and this time, we'll run it our way…"

Darla's suspicious eyes went towards Colin.

"Y-You're saying…"

Colin bobbed his head at the doubt of Darla's.

"After summer, we're going to be quite busy. So, recover quickly."

Darla's face turned into a disgusting smile, Colin's doing the same, both plotting revenge against Michael, Dawn, and Buffy, determined to get what they want, no matter the cost, even if they have to kill for it.

---

A small time later, Cordelia pushes the last of the junk away from them and pulls the door open for the people outside can enter.

Buffy and Michael who were holding hands, Dawn holding onto Michael's hand (having fixed his wrist with a little help of borrowing some power from Buffy, though he still felt the pain), all enter together. Harmony went over straight over to Cordelia and grasped one another's hands, glad that they were safe. Angel and Amy came into the room as well, holding each other's hands, and Xander followed behind them, relieved that Willow was alright, as well as the others.

As soon as Jenny saw Michael, she took in a breath, and they shared a kind look between one another. Both gained smiles, Jenny just glad that he was alive, and vice versa, wondering what their relationship was going to be now.

They all walk over to The Master, Buffy entranced by the skeleton of the Vampire that she was afraid of, now being deceased, for good this time.

"The Vampires?"

Giles asked, Cordelia looking around and couldn't see any of them, a relieved smile on her face.

"Gone."

She said, Harmony nodding in agreement.

"I took some out too, it was awesome."

"Awesome, you did?"

Harmony nodded childlike, everyone's eyes going to Michael immediately, even Angel's, and all thought "Why does he keep saving her life?" having a feeling that it was actually Michael that had saved her life, and it was true, for the most part, though Michael wasn't any the wiser on what happened.

"The Master?"

That was Angel's question, Giles being the one who answered.

"Dead. The Hellmouth is closed. Buffy... Buffy?"

Buffy was in a daze, but she snapped out of it.

"Oh, sorry. It's just been a really weird day."

She smiles, and looks towards Michael, glad that he was here with her.

"I can attest to that. I was knocked out, by Buffy."

"I said I was sorry."

Buffy quickly got out, Michael licking his lips, kissing her cheek.

"You'll have to make it up to me."

Buffy gained a teasing face, dragging a finger up and down his chest.

"Make it up to you huh…I suppose, but you have to make it up to me too for trying to sacrifice yourself for me. Don't, you dare, ever try and do anything so stupid again. You, are not going to do that."

"Yet, you did the same thing."

Michael argued, Buffy couldn't refute that.

"Okay, I guess you're right. Next time there's an apocalypse, we'll go and die together!"

"Hehe, yeah!"

Having a joke with one another, they both did promise that next time, they wouldn't go along, and would stay together. As, they were stronger together, and could fight better together, and always had one another's backs, no matter what.

"You know, just so you're aware of what happened! Buffy died, and everything! But I totally performed CPR and saved her life. No need to thank me or anything. Even though I also helped defeat one of The Three, or two or whatever hehehe~"

Amy didn't mean to yell that out or even sound like she was boasting or anything close to that, but Willow's eyes broadened at hearing Buffy dying, but since she was here now, everything was going to be okay.

"Wow! Harsh."

"I should have known that wouldn't stop you."

Giles couldn't help the wide smile that was on his face right now.

Buffy smiles up at him again as she hugs onto Michael, not letting him go.

Jenny looked around at all the couples, Michael and Buffy, Amy and Angel, and herself and Giles, possibly, then twisted her head to the side, not sure what was supposed to happen right now.

"Well, what do we do now?"

"I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd like to get out of this place. I don't like the library very much anymore."

Michael was surprised to hear Giles actually say that, but he didn't say anything else, keeping Buffy close to him.

Xander came forward, and put his arms around both Buffy and Michael, the pair looking strangely at him.

"Hey! I hear there's a dance at the Bronze tonight. Could be fun."

"Yeah!"

Cordelia cheered, and high fived Harmony, who ecstatically looked towards Michael, but saw that he was with Buffy now. Though, Buffy was in her way, Harmony wasn't ever going to give up her fight, he wasn't going to give up.

"Buffy?"

Willow looked towards Buffy, who was mesmerized by the look of The Master right now.

"Sure! We saved the world. I say we party!" She looks down at her dress, and smiles. "I mean, I got all pretty."

"Very pretty."

Michael mumbled against her ear, sending pleasuring waves through her body, holding closer to him.

Jenny's eyes went towards The Master.

"And what about him?"

Indicating to the Master, Buffy looks at The Master then rolls her eyes.

"He's not going anywhere. Loser."

She mocked him, Michael sticking out his tongue childishly as well.

They all start to go and chatter. Buffy trails the group together with Michael and Dawn. Cordelia, and Harmony walked together, along with Xander being close to them. Willow, Amy, and Angel walked together, and finally Giles and Jenny walked together.

Giles looks towards the daring looking Jenny.

"I'm not dancing, though."

"We'll see."

Willow giggles, and looks to Angel.

"You can come with us, Angel."

"Sorry, he's with me, Willow."

Willow blinked, and Amy held up the linked hands they had, Angel looking slightly embarrassed, Willow cheering and hugging onto Amy's body.

"That's so great!"

"I know, it totally is amazing. We kissed, just before, and I felt, freaking good. I mean, I know he's a Vampire and all, but he's so freaking hot, and he's got that bad boy thing down to a T, if you know what I mean?"

"Hehe, I'm so happy for you Amy~"

The girls giggle together as they hold arms, Angel smiling at Amy and Willow's friendship, Amy catching his smile, and turned towards him, giving him a wide smile that allowed his face to lift up even more at the sight he could see before him.

"I'm hungry."

Dawn muttered to herself, Michael giving a light smile.

"There will be food there, Dawnie."

Dawn's face turned into a cheery smile, a smile that lightened up the room.

Xander looked at the car outside, twitching his neck.

"So what's the story with the car?"

A smile splashed over Cordelia's face.

"Oh, that was me, saving the day!"

Cordelia sounded so proud right now, even Xander couldn't help the pride that lingered in his own voice.

"I did the same thing too! I mowed down some Vampire's!"

Harmony cheered after Cordelia, the brown haired girl nodding her head, and high fived each other in victory.

"I'm really, really hungry."

Dawn announced as the others left the room, save for three of them.

Michael hangs back with Buffy, Dawn staying by his side. Michael pushed a bang behind Buffy's ear, as the Slayer smiled sweetly into his sight.

"By the way, I really like your dress Buffy. You look so beautiful."

Buffy smiled a little bit, and hugged onto his body.

"Yeah, yeah. Big hit with everyone." He chuckled, knowing what she was referring too. "But Michael…I'm so sorry about…everything that happened…I didn't mean to…it wasn't something that I planned…I just wanted to protect you, like you protected me…"

"Shhh, it's alright." He soothed, giving her a gentle kiss. "Buffy, it doesn't matter now. You're alive, I'm alive, we're all alive. It worked out for the better. You and I, were able to survive this when I thought I was going to die because of…"

"To die? W-What do you-"

Buffy had questions, but Michael cut her off, and hugged her tightly, Dawn getting in on the hug. The three of them had a hug together, the two teens eyes meeting together, Dawn's face relaxing against Michael's chest.

"It doesn't matter anymore. All that matters is that I'm alive, and you are…you know, before all this started, I was going to do this whole epic thing where I would ask you to the dance because I thought that you might would like something like that, but it seems pointless now after everything that has happened. So, Buffy, will you accompany me to the dance?"

The Slayer's face lifted up into a truly beautiful smile.

"Of course Michael, I'd go anywhere with you. And it is about time you asked me."

The Warlock looked towards Dawn, and hugged her tightly as did Buffy.

"Hey Dawnie, you wanna come with me to the dance too?"

"Yeah!"

"That's great! Now, let's get going!" Michael cheered, as he hugged them close to his body. "They are outside now, wanna go and meet them a fun way?"

"Fun way?"

Buffy seemed intrigued, Michael chuckling and activated his magic.

"Hey Buffy, can I borrow some?"

Knowing what he was referring too, Buffy laid her lips on top of his own.

"Take as much as you want. I've got plenty to spare."

"That's good because I'm literally tapped, so let's fly on the Slayer's power."

With her consent, Michael channelled some of Buffy's energies into himself, powering the magic up. White lights circulated Dawn, Buffy and Michael himself, Buffy touching the light, and it felt like Michael was touching her right now, and Dawn felt the same.

The next second, Buffy, Michael and Dawn's body lifted from the ground, like gravity didn't exist anymore, floating in the air, the girls eyes turning to surprise, Dawn more so than Buffy, cheerily looking towards her Warlock boyfriend, so happy with him right now.

"W-We're flying!"

Dawn exclaimed, waving her arms around like a cheerful child, too excited for words right now.

"It's magic, don't you know Dawnie?"

She giggled, her hand squeezing his own hand.

Michael grinned as their bodies went into the sky, going towards the skylight. Their hands were connected, their bodies forming a circle and they kept spinning clockwise, Buffy, Michael and Dawn all having wide smiles on their faces.

"Well, I can cross off flying without a plane off my bucket list."

Buffy joked as the three reached the skylight.

As they were about to leave, Michael looked at Buffy and Dawn, smiling to himself.

"Let's go up, and away!"

With those telling words, the three of them flew out of the library, leaving The Master behind, and going to new adventures.

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End chapter, and likewise the story…for this season anyway.

Thanks to everyone that has reviewed, followed, fav'ed and everything. You guys and girls all motivated me to continue on, so I am thankful to that. With these, Season One has officially finished. Season Two, is going to be quite, fun to do, I have to say that's one of my most planned seasons of these Buffy seasons. It's going to have heart wrenching moments, heart breaking moments, and stuff from this season, will follow up in Season Two, like Michael's Mother, his relationship with Jenny, and how that is going to go down, and other surprises I have in store, so please look forward to that, and see you on the next story of The Warlock of Sunnydale, Season Two which should be out within a week or so! Thank you everyone, and see you later!