I don't know where this would fit in. It most probably takes place in the 7th season somewhere.
Also, there will be almost no quotation marks, except at the very end. They take too long to do, and I’m really lazy.
Here goes:
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At the Summer’s household, 1630 Rovello Drive, the Scooby Gang along with the Potential Slayers stared into space due to a loss of words itself. How, you may ask? HOW SHOULD I KNOW!!!! Never mind, on with the fanfic…
Meanwhile Caleb and The First evil stood in their vineyard/evil evil lair, discussing another way to freak out the Slayer and the Slayerettes before they destroyed them all.
I think we should give them what they already have, The First said (the first is the ultimate evil, and can take the form of any dead person it wants. Buffy counts because she had been killed twice. So, the First is mostly in Buffy’s form.) AAAANYWAY….
What do they have? Caleb asked.
Fear. Let’s give them their worst fears. That’s what they already have too much of. Let’s make it boil over then close the lid. Soon, it’ll get so heated they’ll explode. Too bad that when it does we will already have killed them all, The First explained.
Caleb nodded and smiled an evil smile from ear to ear.
Do we even have a chance of winning this battle? Some potential slayers questioned back at Buffy’s home.
Yes, we do. We always do. Every evil has an Achilles’ Heel. All we have to do is find it. I killed an Ubervamp. They are killable. They may be immortal, but they aren’t the untouchables of the demon world, Buffy reassured.
So what? I thought the Scooby Gang was untouchable, too. Now look. It IS all fun and games until someone loses an eye, which I have done very well, Xander protested. (He fought the First and Caleb dug his thumbs into Xander’s left eye. Ewwwwww.)
I know. I know. But is giving up ever an option? Is it ever one when an apocalypse is maybe a few days away? No. It isn’t. And as long as I’m alive, as long as any Slayer or Potential or Watcher is alive, that’s how it’ll be, Buffy answered.
I understand that. It’s just, I think we’re, overreacting. Taking things too fast. Not considering the consequences, Xander replied.
Fine. I need to leave for awhile. Get my airhead some… air, Buffy retorted. She quickly grabbed her coat and ran out the door, slamming it hard behind her.
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AT THE VINEYARD-
A disgusting mucus-covered demon stands a few feet away for Caleb and TF (The First). He nods and leaves the vineyard. TF and Caleb look at each other, knowing that they’ve done good, or evil, oh, you know what I mean…
Meanwhile, at Buffy’s house, Buffyless, the Scooby gang- Willow, Xander, Dawn, Giles, Anya and Spike, are all standing in the kitchen while the potentials bicker about the evil they can’t defeat.
Suddenly, the mucus demon rushes in through the back door, and scratches Willow, Xander, Dawn, Giles, Anya and Spike across the forehead while fighting them. (The potentials they CAN fight, even though Spike can, too, but they don’t hear the rumble because of all the quarreling they are doing.)
After the Scooby gang regains consciousness from their encounter, they see the Scooby gang all around them. The Scoobies insist they are fine, but everyone agrees they should research what attacked them. So, as usual, Willow goes on the computer and Giles starts with the books, while the Potential Slayers went out to train.
What the heck just happened over there? Willow asked Giles.
I really don’t know. The demon didn’t look that familiar, but then again, I didn’t get to see that much of it. I was knocked out for the like the millionth time right after the demon entered the house, Giles replied.
Yea, I know. But why did it just attack us? Willow said. I mean, there were Potential Slayers in the next room that any evil doer would like to hurt.
I don’t know, Willow. But I think it’s best to- Everyone suddenly went unconscious and Giles had an odd vision.
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(The vision) He was alone, cold, scared. He saw Buffy and he was somehow a father to her. However, this warm feeling was destroyed when every evil the Scoobies ever faced and defeated came out at once and attacked her. Then, Dark Willow appeared and stunned him so he couldn’t move or assist Buffy. Buffy was slowly beaten and died from exhaustion and bleeding. Giles stood there once everything had happened and disappeared, and felt the same as he had before, only this time- he knew something- he had let Buffy be defeated. He didn’t stop it. She was the only one that could stop the evil, but without friends or encouragement and support, she was nothing. They all had been beating down on her for her judgement, and now she didn’t believe in herself. The one who could do anything, was now rendered helpless without the so-called friends she had through it all and her army she recruited to defeat the First. However, it was her that was defeated if they continued mistreating her. Giles woke up and was scared, alone, cold. He saw Willow unconscious on the floor.
Willow was walking toward the Magic Box, the burned and useless Magic Box. Regardless, she absorbed the essence and power left over from when she was evil and became evil again. She then headed back towards Buffy’s home.
Once there, Anya and Dawn greeted her, but with one flick of her wrist, they were killed. As she entered the house Giles and Xander were flayed (skinned) just like she had done when she killed Warren. Then, Willow waltzed to the living room where all the Potential Slayers sat, including her girlfriend, Kennedy. She ripped their hearts out and engulfed them in flames. Finally, Buffy herself returned, and Willow slowly killed her with a shorter version of gunshot. She awoke to find what she had done was only a dream- but it was her worst fear- she became evil and lost control of the magicks again and killed all her friends, just like Cassie had said she would.
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Anya was now dreaming she was getting married, but her wedding dress was stained with blood. She saw Xander on the floor, dead, the results of a recent vengeance wish. She thought it was for the best, since Xander had left her on her wedding day. The one day she would really feel human, like she belonged. But no. She had to have misery. She fell in love with Xander in the first place. However, she still loved him. No matter how hard she tried. She couldn’t stop loving him, and it still hurt that he left her at the altar.
Anya woke up and looked around the kitchen, where she had fallen, uh, asleep? Xander was uh, sleeping, right next to her.
The wind was howling. It was dark. It smelled like…. wine? Uh oh. The Vineyard.
Caleb stepped out of the shadows, smiling menacingly and inched toward Xander. Xander screamed as loud as he could, but no one was around to hear him. He had both of his eyes, but soon, just as Caleb had done before, Caleb pierced his eye ball with a sharp nail followed by a long finger, wiggling around while tiny bones were cracking in his skull and thick, crimson blood dripped down his face. Screams and yells bellowed and echoed through the vineyard, but no one saved him. Unlike the real experience, Caleb continued the torture by kabobing the other eye, with even more and more dark blood, and when it was over, he was blind. Xander was then stabbed and left there to slowly and painfully die, alone.
Xander stood up and felt his eyes and flinched for one was gone, but at least he could see, and hadn’t been stabbed. Dawn was sitting up, yet asleep a few feet away from them.
Her dream was self-explanatory. She was regular Dawn, but was soon turned back into what she originally was- a mystical ball of energy. No longer able to touch, feel or talk, she just floated and wandered aimlessly forever. Before she was human, before she was the Slayer’s sister, she was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Dawn rose to seek comfort, and noticed Spike. Spike was motionless on the floor in the dining room, for he hadn’t gotten far before he fell.
Spike stood in the bathroom next to Buffy and hurt her badly, because he wanted her to love him. He traveled to the graveyard where Principal Wood started singing a song that makes him go crazy and accidentally bites Buffy, catching her off guard. Buffy falls to the ground, and Principal Wood stakes him, so now not only does he hurt the one he loves, he kills the one he loves and has to suffer eternal h-e-double-hockey-sticks for it as well.
Then, Spike woke up and everyone sat in silence. The cuts across their foreheads were gone, and after a little researching, Willow found out who the big bad was.
It’s a Grocshar demon. It cuts you on the forehead and the serum in the cut penetrates the brain and makes you dream your worst fear. It takes a ton of power to invoke and control this certain type of demon, so I think it was probably sent by the First, Willow exasperated.
Finally, Buffy came in the door, and saw everyone in shock. The gang filled her in on what happened, and the Potentials returned from slaying and training.
IN THE VINEYARD-
Caleb and TF are discussing their wonderful plan…
I think it worked quite well, although they weren’t as freaked out as I thought they would be. They are pretty strong, TF stated.
Don’t worry, honey. It doesn’t matter how strong they are. We’re stronger. We will beat them into the ground. We will be victorious. We already struck fear into their hearts, and the potentials crumble so easily. We will win, Caleb assured the First.
Back at the Summer’s home-
"I can’t believe that happened to you guys. I’m sorry I went so "I’m the boss" on you guys. I just want this to end well. I want to win. And I know we can. You must have gone through a lot of pain today, but when we beat back the First, they’ll be the ones with the pain," Buffy concluded.
The Scooby gang and Potentials stared up at Buffy. But now she wasn’t a 5 foot 3, 22 year old Chosen One, she was the Slayer. The One and Only. The One and Only girl…..I mean woman…. that was strong enough, brave enough, and gallant enough to find the evil’s Achilles’ Heel and kick the butt of every square inch of it.
The End…..For Now………
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