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Prophesy Girl
All she could do was laugh. Giles and Angel looked up, guilty. She laughed again, and started to walk away.
"So that's it, huh?" She asked shakily with tears in her eyes. "I remeber the drill. One slayer dies, the next one's called. Will you train her? Or will they send someone else"
"Buffy I......" Giles started.
"Did it say how he was gonna kill me? Think it'll hurt?" She was getting more upset. The tears were beginning to spill down her cheeks.
Angel moved to comfort her; but she jumped away. "Don't touch me!" She looked back at Giles. "Were you even going to tell me"
"I hoped I wouldn't have to. That there'd be some way around it"
"I know a way around it. I quit"
"It's not that simple." Angel said softly.
"I'm making it that simple. I quit, I resign, I'm fired"
"I don't think anyone else can defeat the master. The signs all say"
"The signs? Read me the signs! Tell me my fortune!" Buffy screamed, throwing books at Giles. "You're so useful sitting here with your books! You're really a lot of help"
"No, I don't suppose I am"
"I know this is hard..." Angel began.
"What do you know?" You're never going to die"
"Do you think I want anything to happen to you? Do you think I could stand it? We just gotta figure out a way"
"I already did. I quit remember? Pay attention"
"Buffy, if the master rises"
"I don't care!" Buffy ripped off her necklace. "I don't care." She repeated more softly. "Giles, I'm sixteen years old. I don't want to die"
She threw down her necklace and ran away.
LATER
Buffy sat in her room looking at old pictures. Her mom came in and asked if she was okay.
"Mom can we go away? Just for the weekend? It'll be fun, just you and me. A mother daughter thing"
"Honey you know the gallery is open on weekends"
"Please mom"
"Isn't prom tomorrow night? Or spring fling, or whatever they're calling it"
"Yeah"
"No one asked you"
"Someone." Replied Buffy, feeling even worse because of her fight with Xander.
"But not the right someone." Her mother concluded. "See, sometimes I know what you're thinking"
Joyce revealed her present for Buffy. A beautiful white prom dress. "I saw you eyeing it at the mall." She explained.
"Mom, we can't afford this." Buffy breathed. looking at the dress.
"With the way you've been eating, we can afford it." Replied Joyce. She went on to tell Buffy to go and have fun and do what she wanted to do.
THE NEXT MORNING
Willow and Cordy were walking down a hallway in search of Cordys' boyfriend Kevin.
"Ohh, Kevin said he'd bring all the equipment to the Bronze last night! He promised, Now we'll never have it ready in time!"
"He probably forgot. It's not that big of a deal." Replied Willow.
"You don't get it! I'm not mad! He totally flaked on me, ME! And I don't even care. God help me, I think it's cute"
WIllow smiled.
"There they are." Said Cordy,stepping up to look in a small window in a door. "They're watching cartoons. That's so cu...That's not cute! That's annoying! I'm annoyed!"
"Right, I'm furious"
"Men, I don't know how we put up with them"
"I hear you"
"Well, Kevin's obviously underestimated the power of my icy stare!" Cordy said as she opened up the door. Kevins lifeless body spilled into the hallway and she started screaming.
Willow stepped over the body and slowly walked into the room. The scent of blood was heavy and nauseating. On the TV was a bloody handprint behind which two garish cartoon pigs danced merrily.
AT BUFFYS Buffy was admiring herself in the mirror. The dress was beautiful. She was happily ensconced in dreamland until her mother rushed in. "Buffy, there's something on the news! Willow!"
AT WILLOWS "I've seen so much. I thought I could handle it. But there was so much blood..."
"It's allright as long as you're okay." Buffy said consolingly.
"I'm not. I knew those guys. I went in that room every day....and when I walked in there, it wasn't our world anymore. They made it thiers, and they had fun." She looked at Buffy. "What are we gonna do"
"What we have to." Buffy got up. "Promise me you won't go out tonight"
"I promise"
Buffy stared to leave.
"Buffy? I like your dress."
THE LIBRARY
Giles was preparing his weapons and talking to Miss Calendar. He asked her what she had learned from her contact on the net.
"Not much. He's dissapeared. But before he did, he sent out one message to everyone"
"What wa it"
"Isaiah 11:6, which I dudtifully looked up"
"The wolf shall lie down with the lamb, The leapoard shall lie down with the kid, The calf and the lion and the fatling together, with a little child to lead them." Giles quoted while he fussed with his weapons.
"Kinda warm and fuzzy for a message of doom"
"Depends on where he's leading them to." Replied Giles. "Aurlieus wrote of the annionted one. The slayer will not know him and he will lead her into hell"
"So Luka thinks this annointed might be a kid"
"If the vampire Buffy killed wasn't the annointed, it may well be"
"We need to warn her." Miss Calendar said.
"Buffy won't be facing the master"
"But she's the slayer. If she doesnt' face him, who is going to"
"I am." Giles replied.
"No you're not." Came a voice from the other side of the room. "So, I'm looking for a kid, huh"
They had a brief argument, that led to Buffy knocking GIles out with one swift punch.
Jenny went to his side.
"Tell him...I don't know. Think of something cool, tell him I said it"
She replaced her necklace to it's proper position, and picked up her crossbow.
"If you face the master, you'll die. " Said Jenny.
"Maybe. Maybe I'll take him with me"
Buffy found the annointed one waiting for her outside. He took her hand and led her away.
THE LIBRARY-20 Minuets later.
Xander was ready to fly off the handle. He was pacing the room and yelling at GIles for letting her go. Soon he couldn't take it anymore and went off to get help from Angel.
He got the vampire to lead him to the masters lair.
THE LAIR
The annointed led Buffy to the threshhold of the masters cave. She looked at him questioningly and he pointed ahead, then turned and left.
She sighed and went into the cave, making a scared attempt at banter. The master scoffed at her and she attempted to shoot him with her crossbow; but he caught the bolt easily.
She looked down to reload and when she looked up, he was gone.
"You dont' understand do you? You're not the hunter, you're the lamb." He whispered, though she could hear it clearly.
He kept up his mind games and then suddenly popped up behind her. She tried to run; but the mater used his thrall to hold her in place, and then make her come to him.
"You tried. It was noble of you. You heard the prophesy and came to stop me. But prophesies can be tricky things. They don't tell you everything." He got closer to her ear and whispered,"You're the one who sets me free. If you hadn't come, I couldn't go. Think about that"
He bit into her neck and the pain was blinding. It was also infuriating; but there was nothing she could do about it,because she was under thrall. Scared, angry tears rolled down her cheeks.
The master let her go with an exclamation of joy. She fell to her knees and splashed into the pool of water at his feet.
"By the way, I like your dress"
He punched through the barrier and was free.
TUNNELLS
Angel and Xander were running to help Buffy. They saw the flash of light as the barrier collapsed.
"It's too late. He's going up." Said Angel.
They ran to find Buffy and Angel spotted her laying in the water. He rushed to her side and picked her up out of it and felt her pulse.
"She's dead"
"No, she's not dead"
"She's not breathing"
"But if she drowned, there's a chance right? CPR"
"You'll have to do it. I have no breath"
Xander quickly began giving her breath and doing compressions.
"Come on, breathe"
He had all but given up when her eyes shot open.
"Buffy! That's it, come on, breathe"
She choked out the water and Xander and Angel looked at each other.
If they hadn't they might have seen Buffys' eyes flash a feral yellow color.
She got up quickly. "The master"
"He's gone"
"Let's go. I'm feeling strong"
THE LIBRARY
Things were rapidly detieriorating in the library. The vampires were fighting to get in, and the humans were trying to keep them out.
They failed to notice the tentacles creeping out of the hole in the floor until one of them grabbed Willow. She screamed and so did Miss Calendar, who grabbed her and screamed for Giles.
Meanwhile Buffy was heading for the roof. Xander and Angel stood guard to make sure no other vamps got to her.
The master was urging the many headed hell beast on. "Yes, yes my child, come into my world"
"I don't think it's yours just yet." Said Buffy, behind him.
"You're dead!" Was all he could say.
"I amy be dead; but I'm still pretty. Which is more than I can say for you"
"You were destined to die! It was written"
"What can I say? I flunked the written"
The master launched and attack on her and was surprised at the ferocity he was met with.
He thralled her again and was about to kill her when she tilted her head and said, "You have friut punch mouth"
"What?" The master was thrown long enough for Buffy to get in a blow.
"And save the thrall for the tourists"
She kept fighting him, and neatly flipped over him so that she was near the skylight.
He whipped around and grabbed her neck. "Where are your jibes now? WIll you laugh when my hell is on earth"
Buffy glanced down and saw the broken table on the floor below.
She grabbed his throat, anger filling her.
The master gasped.
"If you're so amped about hell, go there"
He was so confused. She was human! She had to be; he couldn't have seen....but no, it was there. His last thoughts as she flipped him into the skylight and he hit the splitered table were, "How did it ever happen?"
The master broke up into tiny particles resembling flies and, all that was left was bones.
Buffy jumped down and stared at those bones.
Soon it was decided they would all go to the dance.
"Sure, we saved the world, I say we party." Buffy said.
"What about him?' Asked Jenny, indicating the master.
"He's not going anywhere. Loser"
They all walked out, most of them talking at once.
"Oh, by the way, Buffy, I really like your dress..." Said Angel.
"Yeah yeah, it's a big hit with everyone."
AN: Wow that was rough. Next chapter is entirely mine, not an episode! I hope someone is still going to read this. I don't blame anyone if they aren't though, seeing as how it took me so long to post it. Anyway, review me!