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Overview
"Into each generation a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, a Chosen One. One born with the strength and skill to fight the vampires, to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers." Or so it was.
For 6 years, Buffy Summers, the Slayer, alongside her friends Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, and Rupert Giles had fought one brand of evil after another in the small, Southern-California town of Sunnydale, home of a gateway to hell itself. There, they staved off one apocalypse after another, until Buffy sacrificed herself to keep all reality from crashing down upon itself. However, her story was not yet done. Her friends brought her back to resume the fight. Buffy came back, but wasn't the same afterwards. What her friends didn't know was that Buffy had gone on to her eternal reward in paradise, and now life on Earth was a sort of hell in itself. Still, she forged on, trying to be brave and strong for her sister, Dawn. However, there was something else that her friends didn't know, nor did Buffy herself. By bringing Buffy back to life, the Slayer line had been disrupted and weakened. For one timeless entity, this was an opportunity to tip the cosmic scales in its favor. Almost 2 years ago, the embodiment of all the darkness that plagues every dimension, The First Evil, began its war against humanity. The sapient essence of an abstract concept, it had never been able to take a physical form of its own, and instead gathered an army of ancient, proto-vampires called Turok-Hans. As it built this army of vicious beasts, it found a human ally... a man with the qualities necessary to become a vessel of the first itself, its remorseless right-hand. A man named Caleb.
Caleb was easily swayed by the First's seductive manipulations. Already a twisted, misogynist, Caleb was also a former preacher of a sort, who wandered from place to place, sowing dissent with his radical visions. He agreed that it was time for the First to wash over the Earth, sowing destruction, chaos and death as it went. He wished to see this apocalypse more than anything. And so, he began his work, as the First turned its gaze towards Sunnydale, and to those that possessed the power to foil its plans. The summer of 2002 was a time of changes for Buffy and her friends. Willow rehabbed in England with the help of Giles and the Coven. Buffy had seemingly come to terms at last with her death and rebirth, and prepared Dawn for her first year at the brand new Sunnydale High, which Xander had a big hand in constructing. After a rather harrowing first day involving some restless spirits, Buffy was offered a position as a school counselor by the new principal, Robin Wood, an offer Buffy accepted. Later still, Anya, who had become a Vengeance Demon once more at D'Hoffryn's hands, began to feel remorse after she slaughtered the full contingent of a Frat-House, and renounced her powers once and for all.
The First began its work quickly, tormenting the now-ensouled and vulnerable Vampire, Spike, driving him to gibbering madness in order to reshape him as another soldier in its army. Then, it appeared to Buffy and her family and friends, tormenting them with misleading visions. As it did this, its worshipers, the Harbingers (aka the Bringers), began an assault upon the Watchers. The bringers tracked down individual watchers, murdering them one after another. Worse still, the bringers also started to murder every girl they could track down who possessed the potential to become a Slayer.
However, some of the girls escaped, compelled to make the journey to Sunnydale by any means possible. Many would make the journey, but a few were killed before reaching their final destination, Buffy's home. In England, Giles, Buffy's former Watcher, got wind of the sinister goings-on, and decided to visit the home of another watcher, and friend, named Robson. Finding Robson terribly injured, he tried to comfort him. Robson warned Giles, saying "Gather them, it's started."... not seeing the Bringer creeping up behind Giles, and swinging its axe towards his head. Giles, alerted by a squeaking floorboard, survived, and killed his attacker. This was just the start. Back in Sunnydale, Buffy discovered that Spike was siring new Vampires, despite the chip within his head. Finding that Spike had no memory of these events, Buffy realized that he was being manipulated somehow, through a song that put Spike into a trance. She tailed him one night, and soon, she fought off the small group of Vampires he had created, and afterwards Spike begged Buffy to kill him. Knowing that Spike had the potential to redeem himself, Buffy refused, determined to help Spike break whatever hold the unseen force had on him.
Later, Andrew, who along with Warren Mears and Johnathan Levinson had menaced Buffy the previous year, was captured by the scoobies and held at Buffy's home. Soon after, the Bringers attacked and captured Spike. After which Buffy realized at last that their enemy was the First Evil. At the same time, in London, the HQ of the Watcher's Council found itself hobbled by the initial attacks of the First. As the Council-Head, Quentin Travers, prepared to mobilize the full force of the Council and head for Sunnydale, a bomb, planted by Caleb and the Bringers, went off, destroying the building, and killing everyone inside. An organization who's origins stretched back into pre-history was all but obliterated within a matter of days.
In a cave beneath Sunnydale, the captured Spike was strapped to a frame, where symbols were cut into his chest and abdomen by the bringers. While being taunted by the First, who had adopted Buffy's image, he was hauled up with the frame, and moved over the Seal of Danzalthar which covered the Hellmouth. Spike's blood flowed onto the seal, and the First went on to ask if he wanted to see what a "real vampire" looked like. The seal opened, and a single Turok-Han emerged, the strongest of its race. Soon afterwards, the First compelled the Turok-Han to torture the weakened Spike. Later still, Giles returned to Sunnydale, and informed Buffy of the council's destruction. With him, he brought 3 potential Slayers, Kennedy, Molly, and Annabelle, and went on to explain that a big part of the First Evil's plan involved extinguishing the Slayer line. Later, Buffy and Giles went out to patrol the area where she last fought the Harbingers. There she was attacked by the Turok-Han, and was soundly defeated, escaping with her life only because of the rising sun. That night Annabelle got frightened and ran away, only to be killed by the Turok-Han. Buffy fought it again, and was severely beaten and left for dead under a pile of rubble. Xander, Giles, and Willow found Buffy and brought her back home. Later, an exhausted but resolute Buffy awoke, and told the others they were going to war against the First.
Over the next week more potentials, Chloe, Eve and Vi came to Buffy's home, as well as another potential named Rona, who arrived at the Sunnydale bus-station, only to be attacked by a group of Bringers. However, Buffy arrived and killed the Bringers, and took Rona to her house. One of the potentials, Kennedy, started to develop feelings for Willow, and began to flirt with her in some subtle, and not so subtle ways. Buffy's home was growing more crowded, and the mood grew steadily worse, with the girls' doubts in Buffy increasing as they found that Eve was actually the First, who had taken her form after the real Eve had been killed days earlier. Undaunted, Buffy, Xander, and Willow cooked up a plan to boost the flagging morale of the potentials, while Anya and Giles journeyed to an isolated dimension that was the home of the oracle-like demon, Beljoxa's Eye, who explained that the First gained this opportunity because of a disruption in the Slayer line. After returning home, Anya and Giles concluded that the cause of the disruption had been Buffy's resurrection.
That night, Buffy's plan was put into action, as the Turok-Han was lured purposely to a building site from which it couldn't easily escape. After a vicious battle, in full view of all the potentials, Buffy gained the upper hand, and beheaded the ancient vampire with a length of wire, causing it to crumble away into dust... like all of its kind. The ploy succeeded, helping to raise the spirits of the potentials, and Buffy would then go on to rescue Spike. After recovering for a while, Spike and Buffy began to train the potentials in a more serious fashion, as Buffy continued her work as a counselor at Sunnydale High. Willow received a phone call from a member the coven, who said they had located another potential Slayer who was already living in Sunnydale. Willow, Xander, Dawn and Anya performed a spell to locate the new Slayer and were shocked when the spell seemed to indicate that the person they were looking for was Dawn. Meanwhile, Buffy and Spike took the potential Slayers to the graveyard, where they locked the girls in with a crypt with a newborn vampire, which they defeated. Later, the potential turned out to be a friend of Dawn's named Amanda, who joined the ever-growing number of girls now staying at Buffy's home. The next morning, Xander noticed that Dawn felt down after finding out she wasn't a potential. He went on to have a talk with her about the difficulties of not being chosen or having powers, yet fighting evil regardless. He tells her that he sees how hard she works, and knows that she's remarkable even without Slayer powers, which helped Dawn feel better.
To help the potential Slayers learn more about what they were, Giles took them out to the desert to commune with the spirit of the First Slayer. Kennedy faked a cold and stayed behind so she could ask Willow out on a date to the Bronze. Willow reluctantly agreed and they spent some time talking about their lives. Later, the flirtation proved eventful following a rather innocent goodnight kiss, when Willow's image became that of Warren, the man who killed Willow's old girlfriend Tara Maclay. Kennedy was adamant about helping Willow find a way to fix the situation, and went with her as Willow sought out the old U.C. Sunnydale wiccan group. They were surprised to find Willow's old witch friend Amy Madison among them, who claimed to be recovering from her own magic problems.
As Willow's condition worsened, leading to her running off and buying a gun, Kennedy deduced that Amy's concern was a ruse, and confronted the witch who admitted to hexing Willow out of jealousy. Amy then teleported Kennedy back to Buffy's house, where an enraged Willow threatened Kennedy with the pistol, saying their kiss had made her forget Tara for a moment. Kennedy realized this was all stemming from Willow's guilt, and to help her move on, Kennedy kissed Willow again, returning her to normal. Meanwhile, Spike's chip began to malfunction, threatening to kill him. Buffy turned to the Initiative for help, and they give her the option of repairing or removing the chip from Spike's brain. She decided to have the chip removed, much to Giles' dismay. Later, as Xander goes out on a date with a beautiful woman named Lissa, Buffy goes out with her employer, Principal Wood, and finds out that he is actually the son of a Slayer, and was raised by a Watcher. At the same time, Andrew was contacted by the First Evil, in the form of his dead former partner, Jonathan Levinson. The First wanted Andrew to get the gun Willow bought and use it to kill the potential Slayers. Andrew pretended to go along with the First, but secretly set up an operation with Willow, Dawn, Kennedy and Amanda to try to learn about the First's motives and weaknesses. The First discovered it was being duped and became very angry Meanwhile, Lissa turned out to be a demon, who soon knocked Xander unconscious and offered him up as a sacrifice to open the seal, but she was stopped by Buffy, Wood, and Spike. Afterwards, the First Evil comes to Wood in the form of his mother, Nikki, and reveals that it was Spike who had killed her.
Some days later, Kennedy was given a leadership position by Buffy, and let Kennedy take charge of their basic training. Principal Robin Wood brought over the bag that used to belong to his mother, the Slayer named Nikki. Buffy opened it to find a book and storytelling tools which told of the origin of the first Slayer. The story took on a life of it's own and a portal opened which Buffy entered, and there she found herself face to face with the Shadow Men, those who created the first Slayer. However, as she entered the portal, a Demon appeared in her place. The demon trashed the place and escaped. Theorizing that they would need the demon to get Buffy back home, Spike captured it as Willow, Anya, Dawn and Kennedy combined efforts to open a portal to send the demon back. The Shadow Men attempted to force Buffy to take more demonic power, but she refused it, not wanting to become less human then she already was. They then offered her knowledge of what was to come, and showed her a vision of an army of Turok-Han. Willow was barely able to control the magic energy in the spell she was casting, and had to drain some energy from Kennedy and Anya to make it work. As Willow lost complete control, Xander was able to ground her and return her to normal. The portal was opened and the demon thrown in, a move that brought Buffy home. Kennedy was upset over being used by Willow in such a way, but came to grips with over a few short days. Later, it seemed that the students at Sunnydale high were going through increasingly rough times, ranging from anger issues, to vanishing acts, as the hellmouth grew increasingly powerful. Buffy went on to take Andrew to the seal, making him think that his blood would be required to close it down, since it was his murder of Johnathan that had originally opened it. Fearful for his own life, and full of regret for being manipulated into murdering his friend, Andrew wept, and his tears fell upon the seal, causing the leaking mystical energies to be shut off. Andrew had now turned a corner, finally releasing the remorse he felt for having killed his best friend. Some time later, Giles came up with a method to discover the nature of the trigger within Spike's head. As Spike flashed back to the time of his siring, and memories of his ill mother, Giles and Wood began to discuss what they perceived to be a real problem, Spike's presence. Giles feared that the First would again use Spike as a weapon, and Wood wanted revenge for his mothers death. The pair formed a secret alliance to kill Spike, and hatched their plan. Giles took Buffy out to "train" while Wood brought Spike to his workshop, where he activated Spike's trigger. Wood managed to defeat the enraged, bestial vampire, and made ready to kill him.
The fallen Spike's mind wandered, and he recalled what had happened after he sired his own mother. She had turned on him in a brutal fashion, and he was forced to destroy her, an act which had weighed heavily on Spike for a long time. However, as Wood prepared to kill Spike, the Vampire regained his sanity. He promptly defeated Wood, and revealed that he had finally figured out that after he sired his mother, she was no longer herself, and what tore into him afterwards was the demon talking. Wood had inadvertently destroyed the hold that the First had over Spike. Meanwhile, Buffy deduces that Giles is stalling her and that Spike is in danger. She ran to Wood's home, where she found that Spike had left him battered, but alive. Buffy tells Wood that if he ever again makes a move against Spike, the vampire will kill him, and that she'll allow it. She went on to say that she was fighting a war, and had no time for vendettas, because "the mission is what matters.", something his own mother had told him the last night he saw her alive. As a result of his part in the incident, Giles found that an emotional rift had been created between himself and Buffy.
As Willow brought the newly-freed Slayer, Faith, to Sunnydale, things would take a disastrous turn when Caleb himself arrived in town. Sending Buffy a message via a potential he left critically injured on the roadside, Buffy made plans to attack the vineyard where he was holed up with the Bringers. The battle took a turn for the worse when Caleb arrived and knocked Buffy unconscious with a single blow, and then defeated both Spike and Faith, and knocked Kennedy brutally aside. The skirmish quickly became a near-massacre, resulting in many injuries, and the deaths of two potentials at Caleb's hands. As the group retreated, Xander lagged behind a little to help Kennedy to her feet. As a result, Caleb grabbed Xander and gouged out his left eye. Spike quickly lept in and knocked Caleb down before he could do worse, and helped Buffy carry Xander to safety. In the aftermath of this failed attack, as the entire populace of Sunnydale began to evacuate, many of the potentials came to blame Buffy, and Kennedy's became the chief voice in calling for a vote to put Faith in charge. The group all agreed, and Buffy was forced to leave her own home, a event that took place while Spike was out on a scouting mission with Andrew. Later, they returned, and Spike became enraged when he found out that Buffy had left as a result of the group turning on her. The vampire labeled the entire group "sad, ungrateful traitors", and even briefly fought Faith. Afterwards, he tracked a morose, dejected Buffy down and talked sense into her. She then asked him to stay there with her.
That same night, in order to gain more information about the First Evil, Faith used Kennedy as bait to capture one of it's Harbingers. Although Willow had reservations about loosing control, Kennedy was able to talk her in to making love for the first time since Tara's death. At the same time, Wood and Faith expressed their passion for one another in the same way, as did Xander and Anya. Some blocks away, Spike gently held Buffy and watched her sleep. Inspired by his words and devotion, Buffy snuck away from the sleeping Spike later that morning, and went to the vineyard. There, Caleb attacked, but found himself unable to lay a finger on Buffy, who evaded his every move. The battle uncovered a concealed hatch in the floor, where Buffy found the Scythe, an ancient weapon of great power, the blade of which was embedded in solid obsidian. She easily freed the weapon, a move which caused Caleb to back off, until the first informed Buffy that her friends were in trouble. At the same time, Faith led the potentials into the sewers, where the captured Bringer had indicated they were forging weapons. The whole thing proved to be a trap when Faith found a concealed bomb. In the resulting explosion, Faith and several of the potentials were injured, and a handful were killed. Afterwards, Kennedy took charge of the survivors and helped find the unconscious Faith. Before the group could escape, a trio of Turok-Hans attacked. Kennedy was about to be killed by one of the ancient creatures when Buffy suddenly lept into the tunnel and dispatched all three Vamps with the scythe. Buffy then helped the survivors return to her house, where she put Giles and Willow to work to find info on the scythe.
Later that evening, Buffy thanked Spike for coming to find her, telling him that he had been the reason why she was able to find the scythe. As Spike went out to keep an eye on Caleb, Buffy found that an ancient pagan temple had been unearthed in the cemetery. When she went inside she met the last of the Guardians, an ancient sect of women who had created the scythe itself. She told Buffy a bit of who they were, and indicated that Buffy and her friends did indeed possess the power needed to win. Before she could say much more, however, Caleb appeared and killed the last of the Guardians. The battle that followed was fierce, and just as it appeared that Caleb was about to kill Buffy, the evil-preacher was knocked aside by a powerful blow. Buffy looked up to see Angel standing over her. She quickly rose to her feet to resume her fight with Caleb, as Angel watched. Soon, Caleb was dead, and the First had lost its good right arm.
As Buffy and Angel kissed one another in hello, a jealous Spike watched from the shadows, and soon crept away unseen. Angel then gave Buffy an amulet designed to be worn by someone ensouled, but stronger than human... a champion. He intended to wear it himself and fight at Buffy's side, but Buffy disagreed, telling Angel that she needed him to leave. She told Angel that if the First beat them in Sunnydale, there had to be a second front, and that she wanted Angel to return to L.A and prepare for that outcome. Buffy went on to tell Angel that Spike now had a soul, and that he was in her heart. She also revealed that she had finally realized that she was still trying to find herself, and determine what she wanted from life. While a bit disappointed, Angel understood, hopeful that he and Buffy would eventually find a way to be together again. He then left to start work on the second front.
Buffy went home and into the basement where she found that Spike had seen Angel's arrival, and their kiss. Buffy told Spike about what had missed after Angel had left, and that the kiss was merely a hello. Spike asked for the amulet, saying that if Angel had intended to wear it, then he was now the qualified party. Buffy told Spike that the amulet was meant for a champion, and then gave it to him. Spike quickly abandoned the jealous act, and let Buffy stay there with him. That night, Buffy awoke, and the First came in the form of Caleb to taunt her. When Buffy seemed unimpressed, the First shifted its form to look like her, and reminded her that she was ultimately alone. As Spike awoke and the First vanished, Buffy finally realized exactly how she could defeat their adversary.
That morning, she spoke to Giles and her friends, and told them what she planned to do. They quickly agreed to it, and Giles found that Buffy had forgiven him for the attempt on Spike's life. Soon, they assembled the potentials, and Buffy told them of her plan. Wood and Faith went to the now-deserted High School where they blocked off the sewer exits, a move which would funnel any attackers coming from the seal up into the school itself. Later, Willow worked to figure out just exactly how she'd go about realizing Buffy's bold plan, while Kennedy gently encouraged her. Giles, Xander, and Amanda played D&D with Andrew, and had to deal with the awesome might of Trogdor the Burninator, while Anya snoozed at their table. As Spike gazed at the amulet and pondered, Buffy came to join him, where they spent the night together.
Early the next morning, Buffy led the potential Slayers and her friends in an attack on the Seal of Danzalthar... the Hellmouth itself. Buffy positioned Xander, Rupert, Dawn, Anya, Andrew and Wood to protect the exits and then led the potentials into the seal. As Buffy's group climbed down into the Hellmouth, Spike expressed concern that he wasn't feeling anything from his amulet, but Buffy claimed not to be worried. They walked across the lip of the cave and peered over the cliff-face, where they finally saw what they had to face, the Turok-Han army, ten-thousand strong. As the army of proto-vampires swarmed up the cliff and towards Buffy's force, Kennedy kept Willow grounded, as the powerful witch tapped into the ancient scythe and cast her spell, one that empowered all the potential Slayers on Earth with full Slayer strength. Now, the Turok-Han horde found themselves faced with a small army of Slayers, each of them almost as strong as Buffy and Faith. Buffy's group tore viciously into their foes, refusing to give an inch. Her spell complete, Willow handed the scythe over to Kennedy, who then took the weapon back to Buffy, and joined the battle herself. Buffy, Spike, Faith and the other Slayers fought bravely against the horde of Turok-Han vampires inside the Hellmouth, but were vastly outnumbered by the seemingly endless stream of vampires attacking them.
Several of the Turok-Han managed to work their way upstairs, where they found Buffy's friends waiting. As the trio of two-person groups fought off the powerful vampires, a force of Harbingers attacked them as well. In the melee that followed, Wood was slashed, and Anya was killed by one of the Bringers, while in the Hellmouth, Buffy was gravely wounded herself by the sword-thrust of one of the Turok-Han. Faith darted to her side, as Buffy looked up, handing Faith the scythe and telling her to "hold the line" Enraged, Faith turned and fought until overcome by a swarm of Turok-Han. As they surronded her, Faith tossed the scythe to Rona, and the newly-born Slayer fought off her foes, virtually one-handed. As Buffy lay bleeding, she spotted several of the Slayers falling in battle, one of whom was Dawn's friend, Amanda. Making a critical error in judgement, the First Evil appeared to taunt Buffy one final time, which so enraged her that she stood up in defiance. As Roma tossed the scythe back to Buffy, the First quickly vanished from sight. Ignoring her wounds, Buffy knocked a half-dozen Turok-Han off the cliff with a single, mighty swing of the scythe. Faith threw off her own attackers, scattering them around her as she quickly regained her footing and resumed the fight. All around, the Slayers fought valiantly, refusing to give up despite the hopeless odds, all of them hoping for a miracle.
Spike - "No you don't. But thanks for saying it." Moments later, that miracle arrived as Spike's amulet fully activated, tapping into the vampire's soul, and trapping him directly beneath the seal in a shaft of light that drew rays of pure sunlight into the vast cavern. The rays fanned out and decimated the ranks of the Turok-Han, destroying them by the thousands. Buffy's team quickly darted back up through the seal as the school began to fall apart around them. Giles and Wood urged them to run for the school bus parked out front, and they began to pile inside. The girls swept through the school on their way out, collecting Andrew, who was dazed but alive. Xander called out frantically to Anya, not knowing she lay dead among the bodies of the Bringers, until Dawn pulled him outside to join the others. As Faith ran for the exit, Spike stayed behind to finish the job. Buffy implored him to leave with them, but Spike refused, saying "I have to do this!" Buffy took his hand, which then began to burn, but Buffy stubbornly held on, telling Spike that she loved him. He looked back, not believing her, but thanking her regardless. A strong tremor finally broke their grasp, and Spike urged Buffy to go. Reluctantly she ran out, as Spike stayed behind, seeing his job through to the end. As Buffy ran to catch up with the others who had sped away in the bus, the town itself started to collapse behind her. Moving as fast as she ever had, Buffy ran along the rooftops to catch up with the speeding bus. Below, Spike chuckled in victory as the power of the amulet consumed him, and he burned away into dust. As Buffy lept from the roof of the Sun theater onto the moving bus, she bore witness to Hellmouth collapsing in upon itself, taking the entire town with it.
Moments later, Faith looked over her shoulder and told the others that they were clear, and Robin brought the bus to a screeching stop. Buffy jumped to the ground where Dawn was waiting to embrace her. Giles, Willow, Xander and Faith soon joined them to look into the gigantic sinkhole that was once their town. There, they paused reflect on their victory, and the fact that they not only saved the world again, but this time changed it as well. No longer would Buffy carry her burden alone, and the battle against the forces of darkness would be forever changed.
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