The trip to the school was much too short and Robin led everyone into the school. "There's no running in the halls, no yelling, no gum chewing. Apart from that, there's only one rule." He stops and turns to everyone before continuing. "If they move, kill them."
Buffy takes over her role as general and issues orders. "OK, potentials, in the basement. Follow Faith, Spike and Sydney."
Sydney, Faith and Spike head off towards the basement with the potentials in tow. As they're leaving Xander offers a few words of advice. "If you have to go to the bathroom, it's to your left. If you don't have to go to the bathroom, picture what you're about to face. Better to go now."
Robin directs Willow to his office right over the seal and Kennedy goes with her to help her set up. Robin starts to coordinate the upstairs effort. "OK, civilians. The vampires get upstairs, we have 3 areas they could get through to another building and then down into the sewers: Down the hall in the atrium, the north hall here, and the primary target, through the lounge straight to the science building. Now odds are most of them will head there."
"Teams of 2 then." Giles said. Then speaking to Robin, "I suggest you and I take the lounge."
Robin agrees and heads off to secure the area. Buffy turns to Dawn and Xander. "Xander, I want you with Dawn."
Xander agrees and Dawn and he go off to check out the atrium. Buffy moves to stop her and say some last words but Dawn cuts her off. "No. Anything you say is going to sound like good-bye." She turns and walks away with out another word.
Anya and Andrew agree to take the north hall. Everyone heads off to their destination and to prepare for battle.
Buffy joins Faith and the other potentials in the basement room where the Seal of Danzalthar is located. They form a circle around the edge of the seal. Buffy stands beside Faith. Faith hands Buffy the knife and says "You first, B."
Buffy sighs and takes the knife from Faith and uses it to cut the palm of her hand so that it bleeds. She hands the knife to Faith. Moments later, after everyone, save Sydney for reasons she wouldn't elaborate on, had cut their hands, they all hold their cut hands out over the seal, activating it. It opens and parts sink into the ground forming a staircase into the hell mouth. Buffy goes in first, followed by Faith, then Spike and Sydney. Everyone walked forward to the edge of a cliff where they can look out and see thousands upon thousands of Turok-Han below them on the floor of the hell mouth. At this sight Buffy says, quite worriedly, "I'm not worried."
The Turok-Han are growling and making noise as they mob below them. Spike backs up. She repeats again, "I'm not worried." To that one the potentials responded "Really? Because, I'm flashing back to Xander's whole bathroom speech."
"I'm not worried...as long as Willow can work her spell before they," Buffy pauses as the Turok-Hans' attention turns to them, "see us."
The snarling Turok-Han army rushes toward the cliff where Buffy and gang are. As the Turok-Han army advances toward Buffy and gang, Buffy holds her ground. Under her breath she whispers, "Willow..."
Suddenly, the spell seems to kick in. The potentials close their eyes and breathe in with a start. The Turok-Han rush toward Buffy and team as they stand on the cliff's edge waiting for battle. The potentials have confidence with their power and one says, "These guys are dust."
The Turok-Han army rushes Buffy's gang. Buffy fights them off with kicks and punches as usual, but the other potentials have super strength now as well. Buffy fights off the Turok-Han, who are starting to out number Buffy's gang. Faith and Spike and the others are still fighting them as well. Kennedy runs down into the hell mouth carrying the scythe. She yells "Buffy! Catch!" and throws the scythe to Buffy.
Buffy catches the scythe and is immediately able to kill the Turok- Han faster, than before, dusting them quickly. A Turok-Han attacks Kennedy, who is able to fend them off with ease now.
The battle is going well for Buffy's gang as they are able to keep up with the endless number of Turok-Han that come for them. Buffy uses the scythe to behead a Turok-Han. As their numbers increase, some of the Turok- Han are able to get past Buffy's gang and go up through the hell mouth into the school.
Spike is fighting off Turok-Han alongside the others when he steps back and pulls an amulet out from beneath his shirt. He touches the amulet, but it burns his hand. Spike hollers "Buffy! Whatever this thing does, I think it's..." Spike cuts off as he winces and moans in pain.
Buffy yells orders to the girls. "Keep the line together! Drive them to the edge! We can't let them advance."
During the battle everyone was too caught up with fighting for their lives to notice the obsidian haired woman on the edge of the cliff. She seemed to be engaged in a civilized conversation with smiling tall brown haired woman. If one were to choose to look more closely they would notice the tear tracks running down Sydney's cheek. Or, that the ivory streak in her hair was beginning to glimmer.
No one down in the cavern could sense the power that was being collected by Sydney. Upstairs in the atrium, Dawn could. Sydney was right. This did feel a lot different than what she had experienced before. This felt wrong. She didn't know how else to say it. It was just wrong. She also knew that it was imperative not to stop her. Dawn didn't understand everything about being the key but she knew that if she wanted to she could stop what was happening. It made her feel powerful. She didn't want to stop it but knowing she had the ability to. She knew the battle would soon be over, for better or worse she couldn't tell.
As the battle waged on, Spike gasped and stumbled backward away from the fight as he clutches his chest, then his burned hand. "Oh, bollocks." A bright blue light shoots up from the amulet, knocking a hole in the ceiling, going up through the floor of the Principal's office past Willow and through to the open sky. The light turns a warm orange color.
Both Buffy and Sydney notice what's going on. Without taking her eyes off Spike or any more preliminaries Sydney releases her will and says, "be not." The First was gone. The Turok-Han all exploded into dust and the bringers fall dead, without the mystical force of the First to sustain them.
Without checking to make sure she had succeeded she quickly rushed to Spike's side. Her face once again wet with tears. She tore the amulet from his neck, threw it to the ground and smashed it. When she did that the last of Spike's strength evaporated and collapsed into a heap on the cavern floor. Sydney gathered Spike up in her arms and while glaring daggers at Buffy she said, "Get everyone out and to the bus. It's not stable."
Without waiting for confirmation, she quickly ascended the staircase. No sooner than she had reached the upper level did the ground and walls began to quake. Buffy was still to shocked to understand what happened so Faith took charge and hollered at the group, "Everybody out, now!"
Everyone rushes to the stairs that lead up to the seal. Giles is helping the wounded Robin walk. As the ground starts to shake even more, they see the school bus sitting out front. Robin instructs Giles, "The bus. Get them on the bus."
Giles lets go of Robin, and yells after the girls who are coming out of the building, "Everybody, this way!"
Inside the hallway of the school, Kennedy helps the weakened Willow walk. Xander and Dawn are making their way out of the building as well. As the building falls down around them, Xander screams out for Anya, "Anya! Anya!"
She rises out the rubble pulling along an unconscious Andrew by the arm. Xander runs to her and takes her in his arms. As he runs his hands over her checking for injuries she draws his attention to Andrew and explains, "the little girlie-girlie lost his lunch then passed out." Xander laughs at her and quickly leads her out building still dragging lifeless Andrew along the ground.
The school building explodes. Faith and Buffy run out from the cloud of smoke and jumps into the bus. The bus drives off with all the survivors. Inside the bus, those who are less injured tend to the badly injured survivors on the bus. Andrew, who has now returned to the land of the living, keeps repeating to himself "Why didn't I die? I should have died."
The buildings are collapsing right behind them as they try to outrun the quake. The whole town is collapsing in on itself, being sucked back into the Earth. Still cradling a seriously injured Spike in her arms, Sydney yells to Robin who driving the bus, "Faster. Go as fast as you can and don't stop until you reach LA."
Buffy went to the back of the bus and she and Sydney watched in horror as the burns continued to spread across Spike's body. It really wasn't a hard decision for Sydney. She has always done what needed to be done and this was no exception. In fact she at pledged the night before that she would not fail him. She gently raised Spike's mouth to her artery and commanded him to 'drink'.
Buffy and the others watching gasped as Spike's game face came forward and he sunk his fangs into the tender flesh of Sydney's throat. Once the blood hit his tongue, Spike stirred. He never regained full consciousness but he knew he shouldn't be drawing blood out of a live victim but he didn't care. He continued to guzzle down the powerful, sweet liquid. The feeling of power engulfed him. He had never felt more content or happy as he did with this warm blood flowing into him. He got hard and climaxed several times one right after another in his jeans as he drank the blood. He wasn't aware men could have multiples but he did.
This went on for several minutes and he knew this part. This is when the heartbeat would start to flutter and slow down to eventually stop. He tried to pull away but a strong hand held his head still. God help him but he continued to drink. The heartbeat didn't slow down or even flutter. It continued on as strong as it had been. Eventually, a voice told him that was enough and it was. He was satisfied.
Everyone surrounding Sydney and Spike was surprised when they heard Sydney's heady moan, but even more shocked as they watched Spike's body tremble in pleasure and shake in climax time and time again. Only when he finally quit drinking she put his head down, gently smoothed his hair and commanded him to 'sleep'.
Now that the imminent danger had passed and she had done everything she could for now, Sydney turned her eyes to Buffy. Buffy can't ever remember being as scared of a look as she was at that moment. Faster than anyone's eyes could follow, Sydney stood, and approached Buffy and bitch slapped her so hard she went flying down the aisle past several roles of seats. Everyone that could immediately rose ready to attack. Buffy righted herself as Sydney yelled at her, "What the hell did you do?"
Buffy takes over her role as general and issues orders. "OK, potentials, in the basement. Follow Faith, Spike and Sydney."
Sydney, Faith and Spike head off towards the basement with the potentials in tow. As they're leaving Xander offers a few words of advice. "If you have to go to the bathroom, it's to your left. If you don't have to go to the bathroom, picture what you're about to face. Better to go now."
Robin directs Willow to his office right over the seal and Kennedy goes with her to help her set up. Robin starts to coordinate the upstairs effort. "OK, civilians. The vampires get upstairs, we have 3 areas they could get through to another building and then down into the sewers: Down the hall in the atrium, the north hall here, and the primary target, through the lounge straight to the science building. Now odds are most of them will head there."
"Teams of 2 then." Giles said. Then speaking to Robin, "I suggest you and I take the lounge."
Robin agrees and heads off to secure the area. Buffy turns to Dawn and Xander. "Xander, I want you with Dawn."
Xander agrees and Dawn and he go off to check out the atrium. Buffy moves to stop her and say some last words but Dawn cuts her off. "No. Anything you say is going to sound like good-bye." She turns and walks away with out another word.
Anya and Andrew agree to take the north hall. Everyone heads off to their destination and to prepare for battle.
Buffy joins Faith and the other potentials in the basement room where the Seal of Danzalthar is located. They form a circle around the edge of the seal. Buffy stands beside Faith. Faith hands Buffy the knife and says "You first, B."
Buffy sighs and takes the knife from Faith and uses it to cut the palm of her hand so that it bleeds. She hands the knife to Faith. Moments later, after everyone, save Sydney for reasons she wouldn't elaborate on, had cut their hands, they all hold their cut hands out over the seal, activating it. It opens and parts sink into the ground forming a staircase into the hell mouth. Buffy goes in first, followed by Faith, then Spike and Sydney. Everyone walked forward to the edge of a cliff where they can look out and see thousands upon thousands of Turok-Han below them on the floor of the hell mouth. At this sight Buffy says, quite worriedly, "I'm not worried."
The Turok-Han are growling and making noise as they mob below them. Spike backs up. She repeats again, "I'm not worried." To that one the potentials responded "Really? Because, I'm flashing back to Xander's whole bathroom speech."
"I'm not worried...as long as Willow can work her spell before they," Buffy pauses as the Turok-Hans' attention turns to them, "see us."
The snarling Turok-Han army rushes toward the cliff where Buffy and gang are. As the Turok-Han army advances toward Buffy and gang, Buffy holds her ground. Under her breath she whispers, "Willow..."
Suddenly, the spell seems to kick in. The potentials close their eyes and breathe in with a start. The Turok-Han rush toward Buffy and team as they stand on the cliff's edge waiting for battle. The potentials have confidence with their power and one says, "These guys are dust."
The Turok-Han army rushes Buffy's gang. Buffy fights them off with kicks and punches as usual, but the other potentials have super strength now as well. Buffy fights off the Turok-Han, who are starting to out number Buffy's gang. Faith and Spike and the others are still fighting them as well. Kennedy runs down into the hell mouth carrying the scythe. She yells "Buffy! Catch!" and throws the scythe to Buffy.
Buffy catches the scythe and is immediately able to kill the Turok- Han faster, than before, dusting them quickly. A Turok-Han attacks Kennedy, who is able to fend them off with ease now.
The battle is going well for Buffy's gang as they are able to keep up with the endless number of Turok-Han that come for them. Buffy uses the scythe to behead a Turok-Han. As their numbers increase, some of the Turok- Han are able to get past Buffy's gang and go up through the hell mouth into the school.
Spike is fighting off Turok-Han alongside the others when he steps back and pulls an amulet out from beneath his shirt. He touches the amulet, but it burns his hand. Spike hollers "Buffy! Whatever this thing does, I think it's..." Spike cuts off as he winces and moans in pain.
Buffy yells orders to the girls. "Keep the line together! Drive them to the edge! We can't let them advance."
During the battle everyone was too caught up with fighting for their lives to notice the obsidian haired woman on the edge of the cliff. She seemed to be engaged in a civilized conversation with smiling tall brown haired woman. If one were to choose to look more closely they would notice the tear tracks running down Sydney's cheek. Or, that the ivory streak in her hair was beginning to glimmer.
No one down in the cavern could sense the power that was being collected by Sydney. Upstairs in the atrium, Dawn could. Sydney was right. This did feel a lot different than what she had experienced before. This felt wrong. She didn't know how else to say it. It was just wrong. She also knew that it was imperative not to stop her. Dawn didn't understand everything about being the key but she knew that if she wanted to she could stop what was happening. It made her feel powerful. She didn't want to stop it but knowing she had the ability to. She knew the battle would soon be over, for better or worse she couldn't tell.
As the battle waged on, Spike gasped and stumbled backward away from the fight as he clutches his chest, then his burned hand. "Oh, bollocks." A bright blue light shoots up from the amulet, knocking a hole in the ceiling, going up through the floor of the Principal's office past Willow and through to the open sky. The light turns a warm orange color.
Both Buffy and Sydney notice what's going on. Without taking her eyes off Spike or any more preliminaries Sydney releases her will and says, "be not." The First was gone. The Turok-Han all exploded into dust and the bringers fall dead, without the mystical force of the First to sustain them.
Without checking to make sure she had succeeded she quickly rushed to Spike's side. Her face once again wet with tears. She tore the amulet from his neck, threw it to the ground and smashed it. When she did that the last of Spike's strength evaporated and collapsed into a heap on the cavern floor. Sydney gathered Spike up in her arms and while glaring daggers at Buffy she said, "Get everyone out and to the bus. It's not stable."
Without waiting for confirmation, she quickly ascended the staircase. No sooner than she had reached the upper level did the ground and walls began to quake. Buffy was still to shocked to understand what happened so Faith took charge and hollered at the group, "Everybody out, now!"
Everyone rushes to the stairs that lead up to the seal. Giles is helping the wounded Robin walk. As the ground starts to shake even more, they see the school bus sitting out front. Robin instructs Giles, "The bus. Get them on the bus."
Giles lets go of Robin, and yells after the girls who are coming out of the building, "Everybody, this way!"
Inside the hallway of the school, Kennedy helps the weakened Willow walk. Xander and Dawn are making their way out of the building as well. As the building falls down around them, Xander screams out for Anya, "Anya! Anya!"
She rises out the rubble pulling along an unconscious Andrew by the arm. Xander runs to her and takes her in his arms. As he runs his hands over her checking for injuries she draws his attention to Andrew and explains, "the little girlie-girlie lost his lunch then passed out." Xander laughs at her and quickly leads her out building still dragging lifeless Andrew along the ground.
The school building explodes. Faith and Buffy run out from the cloud of smoke and jumps into the bus. The bus drives off with all the survivors. Inside the bus, those who are less injured tend to the badly injured survivors on the bus. Andrew, who has now returned to the land of the living, keeps repeating to himself "Why didn't I die? I should have died."
The buildings are collapsing right behind them as they try to outrun the quake. The whole town is collapsing in on itself, being sucked back into the Earth. Still cradling a seriously injured Spike in her arms, Sydney yells to Robin who driving the bus, "Faster. Go as fast as you can and don't stop until you reach LA."
Buffy went to the back of the bus and she and Sydney watched in horror as the burns continued to spread across Spike's body. It really wasn't a hard decision for Sydney. She has always done what needed to be done and this was no exception. In fact she at pledged the night before that she would not fail him. She gently raised Spike's mouth to her artery and commanded him to 'drink'.
Buffy and the others watching gasped as Spike's game face came forward and he sunk his fangs into the tender flesh of Sydney's throat. Once the blood hit his tongue, Spike stirred. He never regained full consciousness but he knew he shouldn't be drawing blood out of a live victim but he didn't care. He continued to guzzle down the powerful, sweet liquid. The feeling of power engulfed him. He had never felt more content or happy as he did with this warm blood flowing into him. He got hard and climaxed several times one right after another in his jeans as he drank the blood. He wasn't aware men could have multiples but he did.
This went on for several minutes and he knew this part. This is when the heartbeat would start to flutter and slow down to eventually stop. He tried to pull away but a strong hand held his head still. God help him but he continued to drink. The heartbeat didn't slow down or even flutter. It continued on as strong as it had been. Eventually, a voice told him that was enough and it was. He was satisfied.
Everyone surrounding Sydney and Spike was surprised when they heard Sydney's heady moan, but even more shocked as they watched Spike's body tremble in pleasure and shake in climax time and time again. Only when he finally quit drinking she put his head down, gently smoothed his hair and commanded him to 'sleep'.
Now that the imminent danger had passed and she had done everything she could for now, Sydney turned her eyes to Buffy. Buffy can't ever remember being as scared of a look as she was at that moment. Faster than anyone's eyes could follow, Sydney stood, and approached Buffy and bitch slapped her so hard she went flying down the aisle past several roles of seats. Everyone that could immediately rose ready to attack. Buffy righted herself as Sydney yelled at her, "What the hell did you do?"