Title: The Way "End of Days" Should Have Been
Author: Bunny and Lucky
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the god Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy *Grr-Arg*
Rating: PG-13 (Like always)
Feedback: DUH!
Chapter Title: Chosen Part 2
Summary: Takes place right after the other one. We're going to take some lines from "Chosen" so be patient if things seem to repeat. But the overall thing is VERY different! Deal for a little bit!
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Everyone rushed into the building. Robin was talking. "Welcome to Sunnydale High. There's no running in the halls, no yelling, and no gum. Apart from that, we only have one rule." He stopped. "If they move. Kill them."
Buffy stepped up. "Potentials are in the basement. Follow Faith, Angel, and Spike."
They began to go as Xander called, "If you have to go to the bathroom, it's on the left. If you don't have to go to the bathroom, picture what you're about to face. Better to go now."
Robin turned to the Wicca. "Willow, my office is through there."
"It's right over the Seal," Buffy reminded her.
Kennedy took the bag from her girlfriend. "I'll start getting you set up." She nodded. Robin then pointed out the other three places that vamps could get out from. They decided to break up into groups of two. Anya, Andrew, Dawn, and Robin all went to their places.
That left Xander, Willow, Buffy, and Giles. The original gang. They had made this far. Why not farther? "So what do you want to do tomorrow?" asked Buffy enthused. This launched a conversation of shopping, leaving Giles completely ignored.
The three younger people went down the hall leaving Giles to mutter, "The earth is definitely doomed."
***
They opened the seal. And in they climbed to face the Turok-Han's. Spike said something about feeling like Elizabeth Taylor, but Buffy didn't hear it all. She was scarred out of her mind. Like Rona, she was flashing back to Xander's bathroom speech. "Come on Willow."
***
Willow concentrated on the Scythe. Then it hit her. Every single good magic in the world seemed to go through her. And it felt great. She vividly heard herself telling Kennedy to give the Scythe to Buffy. She slumped over. "That was nifty."
"Amazon. . ." she heard someone say. Someone familiar. "Willow."
"Tara?"
"Baby. It's me. I need you to bring me back."
"You're not her. You're the First."
"No. The First can't appear in dreams." Tara's smell came over Willow. "I know you know the spell. I'm willingly wanting to come. Use good magik's to bring me back."
"Tara. . ."
"Please. Wake up and do so."
Willow jolted. Somehow she knew it wasn't a trick. She began chanting. "Goddesses of time and space. Death and light. . ."
***
Every Slayer was fighting like there was no tomorrow. Well, if they didn't fight there wouldn't be a tomorrow. Kennedy got slammed into a wall. She cut two Ubervamps heads off before tossing the scythe to Buffy who began to make it sing.
Angel got surrounded by a group of the vampires and was taking a large beating. He fought back for all he was worth, but was rewarded with two broken legs, a sprained wrist, a dislocated shoulder, and an uncountable number of cuts. The recent Slayers did their best to get them off of Angel. One vamp took his knife and stabbed him in the dislocated shoulder. That hurt.
As it was about to cut off his head when Angel disappeared into thin air.
Buffy didn't notice. She was to into the fight. Buffy called out to the girls, "Keep the line together! Drive them to the edge! We can't let them- " Then there was pain in her stomach. A sword was driven through it. She collapsed to the ground.
"Buffy!" yelled Faith, rushing over to her.
Buffy looked up. "Hold the line," she said and handed her friend the Scythe.
Faith looked at her, and then began killing many Ubervamps. Another cluster came towards her. Before going under, she yelled out, "Rona!" and tossed the Scythe to her.
***
Ubervamps took off running to where Giles and Wood were. They managed to get them all except for one. It gutted Robin in the stomach. Giles got that one, and drug Robin over to the table and sat him down.
***
Dawn and Xander were having good luck with their dustings, while down the hall had a similar effect. Anya had killed two of them, but failed to notice the Bringers come in until one was about to get Andrew. She slammed her knife through it's back, just to have the same thing done to her. Andrew couldn't move from shock. All the other Bringers thought he was dead and moved on down the school.
***
". . .I ask thee to bring forth the soul I ask. So mote it be." Once Willow was done with her spell, there was a flash of white light and there sat the other witch. "Tara."
"Willow," she said gently. "We need to do one more spell. C-Can you just stable me?" The red head nodded and began to channel her energy. "Guardian of the light. I have returned. My plea is simple. . ."
***
'I'm doing okay,' thought Kennedy as she staked another vamp. She had her arm pulled behind her. A Turok-Han moved in for her neck before she could move. It drank from her until another Slayer got it. Kennedy fell to the ground, not quite dead. That was before another vampire yanked at her arm. She felt it being popped from her socket and it hurt. She kicked at it and started to get up, only to have herself sliced in half through the middle.
Kennedy fell to the ground.
Dead.
Buffy saw this happen. She also saw Amanda and Chao-Ahn fall. She looked up to see herself. "Ooooh, ow, Mommy!" it taunted. "This mortal wound is all itchy!" It squatted down to her. "You pulled a pretty neat trick. Hey, you came pretty close to smacking me down. What more do you want?"
Buffy struggled to get up saying. "I want you. . .to get out of my face!" She stood up, shocking the First to no end. Rona tossed her the Scythe, which Buffy used to knock five Turok-Han's over the edge.
Faith threw her attackers off of her, as if sensing Buffy strength and got into the fray again.
Spike felt a rush of energy from him. He screamed from the pain of it. He staggered under the Seal opening and said, "Oh, bollocks." A blue electric light swirled in him a moment, then power shot up through the floor where Tara and Willow were chanting and down to him.
***
"Come on," said Tara. "We have to get out." Willow followed her out and noticed that the witch was still chanting, so she continued channeling her energy.
***
"Spike!" yelled Buffy going over to him. A rays of pure yellow light shot out from him, dusting all the vampires in the cavern. Then everything began to shake and collapse.
"Everybody out! Now!" Faith yelled. The Slayers filled out of there and ran to the bus. Giles was helping a weak Robin there. Once on, he starred at a sight he never thought he'd see again.
Tara.
***
While everyone was still getting out, Spike said, "I can feel it, Buffy."
"What?" she asked, trying to keep it together.
"My soul. It's really there." He looked at her and grinned. "Kinda stings." Things crashed around them. "Go on then!"
"You've done enough, you can still-"
"No, you beat 'em back. It's for me to do the cleanup."
Faith was on the stairs, "Buffy! Come on!"
"Gotta move lamb," Spike said while another big chunk fell. "I think it's fair to say school's out for bloody summer."
"Spike. . ."
"I mean it!" he told her firmly. "I gotta do this."
Buffy reached for his hand and held it. It caught on fire, but they didn't notice. "I love you," she said.
Now Spike understood the words that Cassie had told him all those months ago. "I love you, too." He released her hand. "Now get out of here!"
She was about to protest when Faith came to her side, "Buffy, let's go!" She drug her along and up the stairs.
They both heard him say, "I want to see how it ends."
Buffy was still struggling. "B! If it's the man's last wish to have you get out of here alive, I suggest you get out of here alive!"
That hit the Slayer hard and they began to run, no matter how badly her side ached.
***
Dawn sat at the back of the bus. Everything was collapsing and Faith and Buffy weren't in sight yet. She caught a glimpse of them running on the rooftops before jumping on the hood of the bus.
Faith held Buffy down. She noticed that Buffy was still staring at the gold beam of light and not really caring about anything else. The bus slowed down to a stop, but the gold beam remained.
Then it stopped.
And Buffy started to cry. Faith stroked her head, trying to calm her down, and helped her off the bus. Buffy had it under enough control to comfort Dawn who also came out crying. The Slayers came out of the bus slowly and in shock. Faith went on board to find Robin sitting in the driver's seat. "Did we win?"
Faith smiled. "Yeah. We did."
He smiled a little. And then he was just staring still.
Faith sighed. She understood how B felt now. Only she was sure Buffy's pain was hundreds of times bigger. The woman moved in to close his eyes, when he coughed. "Surprised?"
She grinned and chuckled.
Outside everyone stared at the wreckage and watched the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign crash. This brought out an insane giggle from the two sisters. Xander looked at Andrew. "Where'd Anya go?"
"I was scared. I'm sorry."
"Did you see what happened? Was she. . . ?"
Andrew looked up at Xander. "She was incredible. She died saving my life."
Xander put a hand on Andrew's shoulder. "That's my girl. Always doing the stupid thing." They both smiled.
Giles stepped forward to Buffy. "I don't understand. What did this?"
"Spike," answered Buffy looking straight ahead, but leaning on Dawn for support. Her side was really starting to sting.
"Um," said a voice. "About that."
Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Xander, and a few of the Slayers turned around.
"I have some answers about Spike and the First," said Tara.
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TBC. . .
A/N: The next chapter will be up soon ! ;-)
Author: Bunny and Lucky
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the god Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy *Grr-Arg*
Rating: PG-13 (Like always)
Feedback: DUH!
Chapter Title: Chosen Part 2
Summary: Takes place right after the other one. We're going to take some lines from "Chosen" so be patient if things seem to repeat. But the overall thing is VERY different! Deal for a little bit!
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Everyone rushed into the building. Robin was talking. "Welcome to Sunnydale High. There's no running in the halls, no yelling, and no gum. Apart from that, we only have one rule." He stopped. "If they move. Kill them."
Buffy stepped up. "Potentials are in the basement. Follow Faith, Angel, and Spike."
They began to go as Xander called, "If you have to go to the bathroom, it's on the left. If you don't have to go to the bathroom, picture what you're about to face. Better to go now."
Robin turned to the Wicca. "Willow, my office is through there."
"It's right over the Seal," Buffy reminded her.
Kennedy took the bag from her girlfriend. "I'll start getting you set up." She nodded. Robin then pointed out the other three places that vamps could get out from. They decided to break up into groups of two. Anya, Andrew, Dawn, and Robin all went to their places.
That left Xander, Willow, Buffy, and Giles. The original gang. They had made this far. Why not farther? "So what do you want to do tomorrow?" asked Buffy enthused. This launched a conversation of shopping, leaving Giles completely ignored.
The three younger people went down the hall leaving Giles to mutter, "The earth is definitely doomed."
***
They opened the seal. And in they climbed to face the Turok-Han's. Spike said something about feeling like Elizabeth Taylor, but Buffy didn't hear it all. She was scarred out of her mind. Like Rona, she was flashing back to Xander's bathroom speech. "Come on Willow."
***
Willow concentrated on the Scythe. Then it hit her. Every single good magic in the world seemed to go through her. And it felt great. She vividly heard herself telling Kennedy to give the Scythe to Buffy. She slumped over. "That was nifty."
"Amazon. . ." she heard someone say. Someone familiar. "Willow."
"Tara?"
"Baby. It's me. I need you to bring me back."
"You're not her. You're the First."
"No. The First can't appear in dreams." Tara's smell came over Willow. "I know you know the spell. I'm willingly wanting to come. Use good magik's to bring me back."
"Tara. . ."
"Please. Wake up and do so."
Willow jolted. Somehow she knew it wasn't a trick. She began chanting. "Goddesses of time and space. Death and light. . ."
***
Every Slayer was fighting like there was no tomorrow. Well, if they didn't fight there wouldn't be a tomorrow. Kennedy got slammed into a wall. She cut two Ubervamps heads off before tossing the scythe to Buffy who began to make it sing.
Angel got surrounded by a group of the vampires and was taking a large beating. He fought back for all he was worth, but was rewarded with two broken legs, a sprained wrist, a dislocated shoulder, and an uncountable number of cuts. The recent Slayers did their best to get them off of Angel. One vamp took his knife and stabbed him in the dislocated shoulder. That hurt.
As it was about to cut off his head when Angel disappeared into thin air.
Buffy didn't notice. She was to into the fight. Buffy called out to the girls, "Keep the line together! Drive them to the edge! We can't let them- " Then there was pain in her stomach. A sword was driven through it. She collapsed to the ground.
"Buffy!" yelled Faith, rushing over to her.
Buffy looked up. "Hold the line," she said and handed her friend the Scythe.
Faith looked at her, and then began killing many Ubervamps. Another cluster came towards her. Before going under, she yelled out, "Rona!" and tossed the Scythe to her.
***
Ubervamps took off running to where Giles and Wood were. They managed to get them all except for one. It gutted Robin in the stomach. Giles got that one, and drug Robin over to the table and sat him down.
***
Dawn and Xander were having good luck with their dustings, while down the hall had a similar effect. Anya had killed two of them, but failed to notice the Bringers come in until one was about to get Andrew. She slammed her knife through it's back, just to have the same thing done to her. Andrew couldn't move from shock. All the other Bringers thought he was dead and moved on down the school.
***
". . .I ask thee to bring forth the soul I ask. So mote it be." Once Willow was done with her spell, there was a flash of white light and there sat the other witch. "Tara."
"Willow," she said gently. "We need to do one more spell. C-Can you just stable me?" The red head nodded and began to channel her energy. "Guardian of the light. I have returned. My plea is simple. . ."
***
'I'm doing okay,' thought Kennedy as she staked another vamp. She had her arm pulled behind her. A Turok-Han moved in for her neck before she could move. It drank from her until another Slayer got it. Kennedy fell to the ground, not quite dead. That was before another vampire yanked at her arm. She felt it being popped from her socket and it hurt. She kicked at it and started to get up, only to have herself sliced in half through the middle.
Kennedy fell to the ground.
Dead.
Buffy saw this happen. She also saw Amanda and Chao-Ahn fall. She looked up to see herself. "Ooooh, ow, Mommy!" it taunted. "This mortal wound is all itchy!" It squatted down to her. "You pulled a pretty neat trick. Hey, you came pretty close to smacking me down. What more do you want?"
Buffy struggled to get up saying. "I want you. . .to get out of my face!" She stood up, shocking the First to no end. Rona tossed her the Scythe, which Buffy used to knock five Turok-Han's over the edge.
Faith threw her attackers off of her, as if sensing Buffy strength and got into the fray again.
Spike felt a rush of energy from him. He screamed from the pain of it. He staggered under the Seal opening and said, "Oh, bollocks." A blue electric light swirled in him a moment, then power shot up through the floor where Tara and Willow were chanting and down to him.
***
"Come on," said Tara. "We have to get out." Willow followed her out and noticed that the witch was still chanting, so she continued channeling her energy.
***
"Spike!" yelled Buffy going over to him. A rays of pure yellow light shot out from him, dusting all the vampires in the cavern. Then everything began to shake and collapse.
"Everybody out! Now!" Faith yelled. The Slayers filled out of there and ran to the bus. Giles was helping a weak Robin there. Once on, he starred at a sight he never thought he'd see again.
Tara.
***
While everyone was still getting out, Spike said, "I can feel it, Buffy."
"What?" she asked, trying to keep it together.
"My soul. It's really there." He looked at her and grinned. "Kinda stings." Things crashed around them. "Go on then!"
"You've done enough, you can still-"
"No, you beat 'em back. It's for me to do the cleanup."
Faith was on the stairs, "Buffy! Come on!"
"Gotta move lamb," Spike said while another big chunk fell. "I think it's fair to say school's out for bloody summer."
"Spike. . ."
"I mean it!" he told her firmly. "I gotta do this."
Buffy reached for his hand and held it. It caught on fire, but they didn't notice. "I love you," she said.
Now Spike understood the words that Cassie had told him all those months ago. "I love you, too." He released her hand. "Now get out of here!"
She was about to protest when Faith came to her side, "Buffy, let's go!" She drug her along and up the stairs.
They both heard him say, "I want to see how it ends."
Buffy was still struggling. "B! If it's the man's last wish to have you get out of here alive, I suggest you get out of here alive!"
That hit the Slayer hard and they began to run, no matter how badly her side ached.
***
Dawn sat at the back of the bus. Everything was collapsing and Faith and Buffy weren't in sight yet. She caught a glimpse of them running on the rooftops before jumping on the hood of the bus.
Faith held Buffy down. She noticed that Buffy was still staring at the gold beam of light and not really caring about anything else. The bus slowed down to a stop, but the gold beam remained.
Then it stopped.
And Buffy started to cry. Faith stroked her head, trying to calm her down, and helped her off the bus. Buffy had it under enough control to comfort Dawn who also came out crying. The Slayers came out of the bus slowly and in shock. Faith went on board to find Robin sitting in the driver's seat. "Did we win?"
Faith smiled. "Yeah. We did."
He smiled a little. And then he was just staring still.
Faith sighed. She understood how B felt now. Only she was sure Buffy's pain was hundreds of times bigger. The woman moved in to close his eyes, when he coughed. "Surprised?"
She grinned and chuckled.
Outside everyone stared at the wreckage and watched the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign crash. This brought out an insane giggle from the two sisters. Xander looked at Andrew. "Where'd Anya go?"
"I was scared. I'm sorry."
"Did you see what happened? Was she. . . ?"
Andrew looked up at Xander. "She was incredible. She died saving my life."
Xander put a hand on Andrew's shoulder. "That's my girl. Always doing the stupid thing." They both smiled.
Giles stepped forward to Buffy. "I don't understand. What did this?"
"Spike," answered Buffy looking straight ahead, but leaning on Dawn for support. Her side was really starting to sting.
"Um," said a voice. "About that."
Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Xander, and a few of the Slayers turned around.
"I have some answers about Spike and the First," said Tara.
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TBC. . .
A/N: The next chapter will be up soon ! ;-)