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Chapter Twenty-One

The Battle Part Two

Bringers flooded the hall where Lucas, Brooke, and Dawn stood. They were fighting the best they could, but the only one with the real power was Brooke. So Lucas and Dawn teamed up together. They were taking out two at a time while Brooke took out four. When the last bringer was killed Lucas turned to Brooke.

"So how many did you kill?" Lucas asked.

"Gosh. I never would have thought that in my entire life I would every say that," Lucas added, "But you can answer the question."

"Forty-two," replied Brooke, "and two Turok-Han."

"We killed Thirty three and an Turok-Han," Lucas said.

"What is this Lord of the rings?" Dawn asked.

Brooke and Lucas both looked at her.

"You've never seen Lord Of the Rings?" Dawn asked shocked.

"We have," Lucas said.

"You know Legolas and the dwarf competed to see how many they could kill," Dawn explained.

"Oh yeah," exclaimed Brooke.

"No time to talk more coming."

They got into fighting stance as more Bringers and this time a few vampires came.

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Everyone is fighting the Turok-Han in the Hell Mouth. Faith notices Rona having trouble with her vamps.

"Rona," Faith shouts out and throws her the scythe.

Rona catches it and decapitates three Turok-Han. Buffy is still lying on the ground weak.

"Oh no..." The First/ Buffy begins.

Buffy's wounds are reflected on the First's/ Buffy's body.

"Ow! Mommy, this mortal wound is all...itchy. You pulled a nice trick. You came pretty close to smacking me down. What more do you want?" The First/ Buffy asks.

"I want you," Buffy says through gritted teeth sitting up, "to get out of my face."

Buffy stands all the way up. Rona sees Buffy stand and throws the scythe to her. Buffy knocks three Turok-Han off the cliff in one swoop. Faith finding energy knocks the vampires that tackled her to the ground and leaps over them dusting two as she goes by. Spike in the back fighting all of sudden gasps and falls back. He touches the necklace and gets burnt.

"Oh Bollocks!" exclaims Spike.

A bright blue light shoots from the amulet and creates a hole in the ceiling. The light turns a warm orange color.

"Buffy," Spike calls.

"Spike."

Buffy runs to Spike's side but before she gets there the amulet refracts the orange light out into the hellmouth like rays of sunshine with the intensity like a laser. Buffy stops and stares at Spike. The Turok-Han are falling into piles of dust as if the light is the actual sun. The ground starts to shake beneath their feet.

"Everybody out now," Faith yells to everyone.

Everyone starts to run up the stairs except for Buffy. She goes to Spike's side.

"I can feel it Buffy," Spike says.

"What?"

"My soul. It's really there."

"Kinda stings," Spike adds a second after.

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Dawn and Brooke both fell into Lucas knocking him over. Kennedy and Rona come running toward them.

"We're leaving," Rona calls after them."

"I don't need to be told twice about that," Lucas says, "Oh and can you both get off me."

Brooke and Dawn get off him and they all run to catch up with Rona and Kennedy. Kennedy brakes off from them to go and get Willow, who is still in the office. When they get outside everyone is boarding the bus. The get on it and sit in the back. The last person to get on is Faith.

"Drive," Faith tells Robin.

Robin starts driving away from the school at top speed. Things start to collapse behind them. Dawn looks out the back for Buffy. She hadn't got on.

"Don't worry Dawn. Buffy will be just fine," Lucas tells her.

Lucas pulls her into a hug. Dawn just rests her head on his shoulder and looks out the window waiting to see Buffy.

"I just can't lose her. Not again."

As if those were the magic words Dawn sees Buffy running across the roof top of the building behind them.

"Come on Buffy," Dawn whispers.

Then Buffy disappears from her sight and she becomes sad again. A loud bang could be heard from the top of the bus and Dawn could only hope that Buffy had jumped on the roof.

"Ease up, we're clear," Faith instructs Robin after they passed the Sunny Dale sign.

The bus comes to a stop and Dawn watches as Buffy jumps of the room. Dawn ran threw open the door and ran over to her sister and they hug. Then she slaps her sister on the head.

"Ow. What was that for?" Buffy asks.

"For giving me a heart attack when you didn't get on the bus."

Xander, Anya, Willow, Faith, Brooke, and Lucas come and stand with them.

"The hell mouth is officially closed," Lucas says.

"There's another one in Cleveland," Giles offers.

"Can I push him in?" Faith asks.

"You have my vote," Willow says.

"I just want to sleep for a week."

"I guess we all could. I mean if we wanted too," Dawn said.

"So what should we do Buffy?" Willow asks.

"I say we tend to the wounded and just take the rest by ear," Buffy says.

Everyone started back from the bus. Lucas and Brooke hung in the back.

"Back to Tree Hill we go?" Lucas asked.

"Yeah. I have to do something when we get back."

"What's that?" Lucas asked.

"I promised myself in there that if I made it I was going to fix Haley and Nathan's problems."

"That's a good plan."

The End

A/N: So the end has come. But don't worry readers I am posting the prologue to the sequel today to. It's called 'Where are my slippers?' It's going to be hilarious. Thank you for reading Life Changes.