Title: To Every Generation..
Chapter 4
"Giles I'm not the Slayer! I can't be!" exclaimed Willow. Willow and Giles were alone in the training room.
"The evidence speaks for itself. You have the speed and agility of a Slayer. I saw how you defeated those vampires. Willow, you are the Slayer." Giles replied.
"But I'm not the Slayer. I can't be!"
"Then prove it."
"How?" asked Willow.
"Spar with me."
Giles through a punch at Willow, which she quickly blocked
then returned instinctively. Giles was flung across the room. The others were
secretly watching, they moved back into the shop.
Spike, who had come back once it became dark, was the first to speak. "Red is the Slayer?!" He almost laughed, but there was a tone of sadness in his voice. He actually liked Willow, but he knew what happened to slayers. Most didn't get to celebrate their 21st birthdays.
"Yeah." Tara replied quietly.
Unknown to Spike, Tara was thinking along the same lines as him. Willow was the slayer, and where was the last slayer? Dead. Like the one before her and the one before that one…If Willow died…she just wouldn't be able to cope. She remembered when she had found Willow with the pills in her hand, ready to join Buffy…It had been one of the worst moments of her life.
Xander walked over to the door of the training room and watched Giles and Willow, who were still sparing. Willow was good, not as good as Buffy…but she could be. Thinking of Buffy brought a tear to his eye. He had loved her, still did, and probably always would.
As Giles was floored again he put his hands up. "I surrender."
Willow pulled him up. "Okay I believe you, I'm the slayer. But I can't do it, I'll never be as good as Buffy. Anyway, maybe I don't want to do it. Maybe I want to live past 21."
"Willow, it's is your destiny."
"I can't do it."
"Yes you can. I'll show you."
Willow leaned against a headstone. Giles had taken her to the cemetery. "Now what?" She asked.
Giles looked at the young woman in front of him. It saddened him to think she had become the new slayer. He had loved Buffy like a daughter, and didn't want to have to face the possibility of losing Willow too. He had brought Willow to the cemetery to show her that she could, and had to, kill vampires. It was her destiny. Their was only one Slayer, and she had been chosen. But before Giles could answer a vampire was running towards them.
Willow swiftly moved away from the headstone and the vampire fell over it. As she got out her stake the vampire was already up.
"You don't get me that easily human," he laughed. He lunged at Willow who kicked him in the stomach. She hadn't even known she could do that. Giles was still stood in the same place he had been before, obviously letting her kill the vamp herself to show her the power she had.
Willow and the vampire exchanged further blows until the vampire was once again on the floor. This time Willow was above him before he could get up. She raised her stake and plunged it into his heart. The vampire's mouth opened as if to scream but no sound came out before he turned to dust.
A clapping surrounded them. Both Giles and Willow looked around and noticed someone moving in the shadows. The person, well, vampire came closer, she was still clapping. Her blonde hair blowing about in the wind.
Willow and Giles felt the dread sweep over their bodies. Malo was here.