1 The Rising

Chapter 1

"Giles" Buffy whispered. Giles turned around. The look of fear on his face was so scary it was untrue. It was a face no one could ever forget. Luke withdrew his teeth from Buffys neck. Buffy closed her eyes and then opened them seconds later. A single tear came out of her left eye and ran down her cheek. She fell onto her knees, just looking straight forward into the darkest corner of the bronze. Giles knew there was nothing he could do to save her now. She fell face first onto the hard, wooden floor of the stage. Buffy was dead. Luke wiped the slayers blood from his lips with his finger and sucked it. Buffys now lifeless body as layed out on the stage, her blood trickling down her body. Luke stood up triumphant.

"Master RISE" he said as strongly as he could.

The Master, currently underground pushed out his hand and broke free of his mystical prison

"Finally I am free!" he said as he walked out of prison that had held him for so many decades. He began walking up the steps to the surface

Back at the bronze, Xander, Willow and Giles had got most of the people captured out and into safety. Xander rushed over to the stage, where Buffys lifeless body lay. Giles knowing that the Master would be rising onto the surface very soon ran over to Xander and grabbed his arm

"We have to get out of here, the master shall be rising very soon and he shall be coming here first to regroup with his minions" Giles told Xander as affirmatively as he could

"But…" began Xander pointing to Buffy

"There is nothing we can do for her now OK. You hear me she is dead" It pained Giles greatly to say those words but he knew he had to, to keep the death tole down for today. Giles and Xander, both with stake and crossed in hand ran out of the Bronze as fast as they could. A vampire followed them and jumped Xander in the Ally. He fell into the pile of rubbish on the corner of the street. Giles, not realising at first what had happened kept running but after a few seconds he turned around. He saw Xander and the vampire in the pile of rubbish. Suddenly the vampire ran away, holding its chest. Giles went up to Xander and offered his hand to help him up. Xander grabbed it and the two of them ran to the street and got into Giles' car.

"Wait" Xander said putting his hand over the key which Giles was attempting to put into the keyhole "Where's Willow?" Xander and Giles began looking around the street frantically trying to find her.

"She ran out of the Bronze a few minutes before we did. I suppose she just ran home." Giles stated. They both paused for a few seconds, then Giles added "Look we can't hang around here any longer, there is a club full of vampires there (he pointed towards the Bronze) and we may just get out alive so we need to leave NOW" Giles put the key into the hole and drove off back to the Library