CHAPTER 7
Historical Note: This story takes place during the seventh season of Buffy, during the series finale.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from either Buffy or Angel; although I wish I did!!
Authors Note: One more chapter left! I hope everyone's enjoyed reading the alterations I've made to the series finale. ANGEL SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!
After watching the final episode of Buffy, I was a little disappointed that Angel wasn't there for the actual battle, so I decided to re-write the last episode including Angel in the final battle. Otherwise, everything else is the same. Also, since it broke my heart to see Xander's eye get gouged out, I'm just going to pretend it never happened!
Summary: The apocalypse is drawing dangerously close for Buffy and the group, and with the potential slayers being killed off one by one, both Buffy and Faith are realizing this time both slayers may be in over their head.
Then all of a sudden, someone from Buffy's past comes to help them with the fight; causing old feelings to stir. Faced with what seems to be the final battle; Buffy is forced to face her past as well as her greatest love; as he joins her in the last battle.
Disclaimer II: A good amount; not all, but a good amount came from a book called 'Chosen.' I just wanted to make a note of that. I'm not trying to pass this whole story as being all my idea, obviously. But the idea of having Angel stay there for the fight was in fact mine, so there!
As the uber-vamps jumped onto them, they all fought back, kicking and punching them.
Buffy kicked one of them back into the hell-mouth as more came at her. With all her strength, she plunged a stake into one of the uber-vamps hearts as she punched another one out of her way.
"Buffy! Catch!" Kennedey yelled from the other side as she threw the scythe to Buffy. Buffy caught the scythe in mid-air and decapitated two vampires with one swing.
Just then, Kennedy was attacked. She quickly jumped high, kicking hard-pummeling the enemy with her newfound power.
"Oh, I could get used to this," she said as more of them ran towards her, and she began to beat them down as well. All around them, Uber-vamps were attacking the slayers. Faith, Angel, Spike, all of the new Slayers...everyone fought as they had never before, pumped and armed. A sprawling, brawling mob: Armageddon.
As they continued to fight the vampires, some of them realized the seal was open, and hurried up through it. More vamps followed.
~*~
"How yak doing over here?" Angel asked Buffy as he backed towards her while fighting off three uber-vamps.
"Just great," she said sarcastically. "You?" she asked as she plunged the axe's end into a vamp and watched as it turned to dust.
"Never better," he said as he swung the ax and killed a few vamps.
Spike was a little further away from the rest of them as he tried to fight the ones trying to escape when all of a sudden, he was knocked back by the sudden power from the amulet. He looked down at the amulet confused.
"Uh, Buffy?" he called out to her, but she couldn't hear him since she was in the heat of the battle. He then began to walk towards her. "Whatever this thing does, I think it's..." he stopped suddenly as the power grew.
"Ahh-hhh!" he screamed in pain as he dropped down to his knees.
~*~
The evil army was not getting smaller; in fact, they just kept coming out from the hell-mouth. Buffy watched as an Ubervamp leaped onto a young slayer, and began to tear into her as the girl went down. Faith made her way while battling, over to Buffy.
"Think it's too late to talk this thing out?" Faith asked. She was exhausted, but still game and ready for more. Two more ubervamps charged towards Faith, backing her away from Buffy as she went back to fighting. Buffy looked around as she watched more young slayers being killed.
Buffy called out to the girls. "Keep the line together! Drive them to the edge! We can't let them-" Buffy stopped in sentence as she suddenly felt pain; unbelievable pain.
She slowly looked down to see the point of a sword extend from her stomach, before retracting back out. Silence invaded Buffy's thoughts as she put her hand on her stomach. Everything around her seemed to blur.
"Buffy?" Angel cried as he ran over to her. Faith realized Buffy was hurt, and quickly tackled and killed the vampire who had stabbed her sister slayer.
Angel caught Buffy just as she fell to the ground. He looked at her terrified as he put his hand on her wound, trying to stop the blood from flowing out of her.
"It's going to be ok," Angel told her. "Buffy, you can't leave me. I'm not ready for you to. You have to help me win this," he continued. Buffy looked up at him as Faith ran over to her side with a worried expression.
"Hold the line," she told them in a strained and painful voice. She had died twice before, but never had she felt this much pain.
Faith nodded as Buffy held out the scythe to Faith. Faith just looked at it then back at Buffy before taking it. She quickly got up and ran back into the war, angrier than before as she swung the ax and took out three vamps in one swing of the ax. Angel remained at Buffy's side as he continued to hold his hand over her wound.
Buffy looked up at him. "Go. You need to help them," she told him. Angel shook his head.
"No. I'm not leaving you," he told her. He wouldn't leave her side, not while she could die.
"Angel, you have to. You have to beat this thing for me," she told him. Both of them looked at each other with tears in their eyes.
"I love you Buffy," Angel told her.
"I love you too," she told him as he leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. "Now go win this," she told him. Angel looked at her for a second before finally leaving her side to continue fighting.
~*~
In the battle, Faith was all of a sudden jumped by an ubervamp. She struggled while holding the scythe to get it off of her, but it's grip tightened around her neck.
"Angel!" Faith shouted as she began to be buried beneath the vampires. She quickly tossed the scythe to Angel, who caught it, and began doing damage.
~*~
Buffy looked up in pain as she watched more young slayers being killed by the vamps. There was blood every where's as more and more were killed.
Buffy closed her eyes as she watched Amanda, a new Slayer, fall to the ground dead; her face covered in blood. Two more slayers fell; Kennedey was backed against the wall, her weapon knocked from her hand. She began to steady herself. She looked up again to see First in the form of her appeared with blood coming out from where Buffy had been stabbed.
"Oooh, ow, Mommy!" The first mocked her as she walked over to her. "This mortal wound is all...itchy!"
She walked over to Buffy, then squatted down next to Buffy. "You pulled a nice trick," she said as she smiled pleasantly. "Hey, you came pretty close to smacking me down. What more do you want?" she asked. Buffy continued to look up at her.
"I want you...to get out of my face," she said as she pulled herself up on her hands, shaking with fury. I'm not done; not yet, she said to herself.
The First backed up and vanished. Buffy took a step forward. Two stumbling, hunched steps. She felt renewed power serge through her as she stood up.
Angel saw her, and smiled as he realized she'd be all right. He was relieved; he had come so close to loosing her. Too close, he thought to himself as he killed another vampire.
"Buffy!" Angel called as he threw her the scythe. Buffy caught it, and she then stood a little straighter. She clenched her teeth as she swung back the scythe; knocking out five vamps back over the edge in one blow.
~*~
As if they were connected, Faith kicked her way out of the dog pile of vamps, and rose as if from the dead-also bloodied, also unbroken.
The rest of the new slayers then surged with the same power and began to fight back more powerful than before. They then all worked together to force the vamps back into the hell-mouth with at least one slayer going with them.
They were now on the offensive. Each girl pushing and screaming, feeling as if they were re-born in the mighty throes of power as they battled to save the world.
As the fight wavered on, Spike staggered under the seal's opening. He paused.
"Oh, bollocks," he said as a bright light of energy shot up from within him, straight through; piercing the seal, and bursting through Robin Woods office floor, narrowly missing Willow who was still building up her energy.
"I didn't do that," Willow murmured.
~*~
Back down below, the sun hit Spike hard. He was then pinned. Pain and something else built up inside of him.
"Buffy!" he yelled loudly in pain. This time, Buffy heard him, and ran over to him.
"Spike!" she yelled as a prism ray of pure sunlight blasted out of the amulet and into the cavern. Instantly, hundreds, thousands of vampires turned to dust. Angel quickly ducked and ran out of the ways of the light's rays.
The cavern then began to tear a part. Walls were crumbling, rocks tumbling down dangerously.
"Everyone out now!" Faith shouted as she began to hear the remaining to the entrance. Angel quickly and carefully ran towards the entrance as he helped Faith get the others out. The girls fought their way to the exit as everything continued to shake.
Buffy finally made it over to Spike, who remained pinned to the wall as the light continued to blast from him.
"I can feel it Buffy!" he told her as he looked ahead. Buffy looked at him worried and confused.
"What?" she asked. Spike looked at her for a second.
"My soul. It's really there," he said as he looked back ahead of him. "Kinda stings," he told her. Buffy looked around as the remaining Slayers left the room.
"Go on then," Spike told her as the light began to get larger and brighter. Buffy quickly shook her head.
"No. You've done enough. You can still-" she told him.
"No," Spike interrupted. "You beat them back, it's for me to do the clean up," he told her as they looked around at the falling building.
"Buffy!" Faith yelled from the entrance. Buffy looked over with tears in her eyes. She knew she needed to get her and Spike out of there quickly, but she couldn't get Spike to leave. Spike then looked in the same direction. Angel was standing beside Faith yelling to them.
"Take care of her for me," Spike told Angel before looking back at Buffy. Faith grabbed Angel's arm and pulled him up and out of the room.
"Gotta move lamb," Spike told her tenderly as he watched the room cave in. "I think it's fair to say school's out for the bloody summer."
"Spike." Buffy begged.
"I mean it," Spike told her as he began to burn. " I gotta do this," he told her as he held up his hand, which was frozen in the severe pain he was in. Buffy looked at it and interlocked her own hand in his. She looked up at him, and their hands then burst into flames. The two of them ignored the fire as they looked at each other.
"I love you," she told him, shaking. Spike looked at her. He knew she really didn't; her heart would always belong to Angel.
He smiled kindly. "No, you don't," he told her. "But thanks for saying it." Suddenly a quake rocked the two of them and Spike realized he needed to get her out now if she was going to make it.
"It's your world up there. Now go!" he told her. She looked at him for a second, then went, running for her life.
While gazing as the destruction in front of him, Spike smiled wickedly. "I want to see how it ends," he said out loud, but to himself as he began to burn from the inside.