Pride
Legend of the Slayer, p44 of 100
by Philister

Fanfic written for TTH100
Theme: Slayers
Prompt: #023 - Pride
Crossover with DC's Power of Shazam

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Sunnydale, 2000 AD

The Seven Deadly Enemies of Man are imprisoned inside the Rock of Eternity, but not eve the power of Shazam can keep them from spreading their influence to Earth. And there are but few entities on Earth whom they would like to corrupt more than the Slayer, Shadow's chosen warrior.

Buffy Summers, one of Shadow's chosen, has already felt the touch of Jealousy many times, both on her own person and on her friends. Today it is the plague-like touch of another of the Deadly Enemies that almost proves her undoing.

Buffy Summers has vanquished enemies many times stronger than she: The Master, Angelus, the dark mage Richard Wilkins, the demonoid Adam, even the famed Dracula himself. She has returned from death to keep on fighting, has broken every rule the Council of Watchers set up, and lived longer than almost any other Slayer in recorded history.

Pride has taken root in her soul. Pride in her accomplishments, pride in her skills and powers, pride in the number of enemies she has defeated. Pride's touch can be deadly, though, even when the pride is somewhat deserved. For it is pride that leads Buffy Summers to not give her all in battle with a simple vampire. It is pride that leads to her getting skewered with her own stake. It is pride that almost kills her that night.

Her life is saved by her boyfriend Riley Finn. She recovers and puts the incident behind her. In the empty halls of the Rock of Eternity, though, the Seven Deadly Enemies cackle in triumph. They have gotten close this time. Very close.

Which of them will be the next to try its hand at murdering this Slayer?

THE END