Chapter 3

The Fight &
The Protector

Buffy walked down the sidewalk, her arms folded. The sun was almost gone and night was upon Sunnydale. Everything seemed to be pretty quiet.

Suddenly, out of no where a vampire jumped right in front of her. She pulled a stake out of her leather jacket sleeve as the vamp tried to hit her. Her slayer reflexes helped her avoid the blow easily. She kicked him in the stomach, sending him flying through the air, landing with a thud on the ground.

"You're not so tough, are you?" Buffy said, standing over the vamp with her stake raised, ready to dust him.

"Don't be so sure," the vamp plainly responded and Buffy looked around, sensing something. She saw more vamps coming from the cemetery and from all around. They were surrounding her. This was no coincidence that all these vampires were appearing at the same time at the same spot. She had been set up.

"Great, a party. Too bad it's a party for me," Buffy said and staked a vamp that charged at her. "But they obviously don't know who they're up against." Buffy estimated that about 30 or more vampires were surrounding her. She could take 'em down...couldn't she?

"I told you that..." the vampire who first appeared to Buffy she easily dusted before he could finish his sentence.

All the vamps charged at once for her. Their surrounding circle was getting smaller. Buffy realized too late what they were doing. She was already trapped in the swarm of vampires. They were all grabbing at her. Everyone of them had come there that night in hopes of being the one to finish off the slayer. Buffy struggled to find a way out of the group. Her shirt was already torn and her face was scratched in three places.

Finally, she got accidentally knocked to the ground and was able to crawl her way out through a small gap in the circle. Luckily, the stupid vamps thought she was still in the middle of the group.

"Yoo-who! Over here!" Buffy called to the vamps.

Confused, they all turned around to find the slayer standing behind them. They looked at each other and then charged yet again. Buffy knocked down four vamps with ease, and dusted 3 others. Just as she was about to dust another one, two vamps snuck up behind her and grabbed her so she couldn't get at them.

As she was struggling to get loose, they both bit her. Buffy was immediately filled with pain. She winced and tried to get loose yet again, but her strength had left her. Her vision started to blur and she remembered what her friends had said,"Take Spike with you, Buffy. You can't go out there alone."

"Spike," Buffy whispered softly, and a tear slid down the slayer's face. She became weaker every second. I don't want to die, Buffy thought to herself, not yet...not until I tell him...

Suddenly, there was a force that hauled the vampires off of her. She fell to the ground the moment the vampires grip was off of her. She practically unconscious, or dead. She didn't know which.

"Buffy!" Spike yelled as he started fighting off the vampires.

Buffy managed to roll over onto her back. She saw a tall figure of a man in a long leather coat standing between her and the vampires, like a guardian angel. He was fighting any vampire that came near her. He found Buffy's stake lying on the ground and started dusting the vamps faster than the vamps could even move out of the way. Unfortunately, there was a big vamp who came up and just threw Spike aside into a tree trunk. He crumpled to a heap on the ground. Spike slowly got up but was just knocked down again by the giant vampire.

Meanwhile, a couple more vampires came up and grabbed Buffy by her arms and started to drag her off toward the cemetery. Buffy tried to pull her arms out of their's, but she was just too weak. She continued to struggle. She finally got one of her arms free and grabbed one of the vamp's legs and got him to fall over. Then, she got her other hand free and started to crawl away, but didn't get far. There were still at least 10 or 15 vampires left. She tried to get up and run, but she just stumbled and fell face-down on the grass.

"Buffy!" Spike yelled again. He was finally on his feet again and giving the other vampire a good fight. He dusted the vamp with a tree branch. He looked around for Buffy and saw her being dragged off by two vampires. He started running toward her, stake raised, dusting all the other vamps along the way.

Meanwhile, Buffy was being dragged away. She didn't struggle. She had finally had to give up against her will.

Finally getting through all the other vamps, Spike came up with an angry look on his face and punched one of the vamps dragging Buffy as hard as he possibly could.

"You're first mistake was touching her," he said to the vamp before staking him. "Take that you big bad dusty vampire."

The other vampire had kept dragging Buffy.

"Do you honestly think that you're going to win, mate?" Spike said to the vampire. "Look around you."

The vampire looked around finding that he was the only one left.

"Oh," he said and dropped Buffy's arms and took off running. The rescuer threw the stake and hit the vampire right in the heart.
Buffy had seen him fighting to save her, and as he staked the last two vampires she had recognized him. She smiled.

"Spike," she whispered and passed out just as he was running over to her.

"Buffy!" Spike yelled, kneeling beside her. He looked her. She had two little holes on both sides of her neck, her shirt was torn and had a serious wound on her left side and arm from being dragged over a sharp rock. Her face was scratched up, as well.

Spike collapsed over Buffy in tears. "Buffy...no. I can't loose you again. You're all I care about. Please...don't leave me," he said through sobs.

As he was leaning over her he thought he felt her breath on his face. He quit crying for a moment. He put his hand a little way above her mouth and felt uneven breathes on his palm.

He picked her up carefully and hurried her to the nearest hospital where he was told that she would be fine and that all she needed was a little rest.

Buffy's friends were contacted and Spike was gone when they arrived.

THE END OF CHAPTER 3