She pulled away a little and looked up at him, if he was lost because of her she would kill herself. She wouldn't be able to live without him. She slowly walked away and leaned against the window looking into the darkness. "I'm putting you all in danger," she said slowly. "Just being around you makes you all targets, slayers before me made it without help. Am I that dependant?" She said looking at Angel who was now right next to her by the window. "You should all just go I'll go against him and if I win good. If I don't...it's my destiny to die, I just couldn't live if one of you got hurt because of me." She said as a stray tear fell down her face. "We're not leaving, its our choice if we want to stay." Willow said putting a hand on Buffy's shoulder.

"I like danger, plus its safer in her with you." Xander said with a cowardly grin. "You're all I have, I can't let you go against him alone. And niether will they." Angel said pointing to the two Slayerettes and Jenny who had slipped down stairs during the talk. "But its my choice to let you, it's a death wish!" She said as her tears fell wildly. "Don't you see!? I don't know how to stop him, I almost died I can't let you come!" She said as she pulled away from Willow's hand and Angel's arms.

"We're not gonna let you do this alone, you need us. Other slayers had friends you just never read about it, just like no one will read about how we help you all the time." Angel said as he held her at arms leagth. "I don't know how to stop it." She whispered as she looked into his eyes. "We'll find a way, don't worry. We'll do it together." He said pulling her close and kissing her head.

"Fools!" Manall screamed at the vampire that had given him the message. "I told them the limits of the spell, is it just me or are all of the vampires in this hellhole complete idiots!?" "Do you want to send more men to gaurd the house my lord?" The frightened young vampire said. "Let them come to us, I know her type. She will come." He said in reply.

Back at the house Giles woke and everyone was making stakes, watching for vampires, or pacing nervously across the room(which was mainly Giles). "I just wish I had my books!" Giles said as he stopped and picked up a knife and began whittleing a stake to keep himself busy. "G-man its ok we gonna get outta here and kick some butt, then you can look at some books." Xander said from his place sitting on the island in the middle of the kitchen like a little kid while whitt- leing a stake. Angel walked into the room with an alarmed look on his face. "Where's Buffy?" He said as he looked at the four in the kitchen.

"We assumed she went with you when you went upstairs to look around on patroll." Giles said not too happy that he had found something else to worry about. "You don't think she went to try and find Manall do you? She knows better than to go up against bad guys on her own." Willow said as she stood while sharing the worried shuder everyone was now feeling. "We've gotta find her before he does." Angel said as he rushed into the living room. "There aren't any nore gaurds outside...that means their expecting her." He said as he went out the front door with the group trailing on his heals.

Buffy had ran from her house to the center of town(near the bronze). She hadn't seen any vampires which was wierd cause it's like an eternal night outside, you'd think vamps would be everywhere. "If I were a bad guy where would I be?" She said as she looked over all of the tall buildings on either side of her. She sawsomething move in the shadows and slowly walked towards it. As she approached she saw that 'it' was a vampire. A male, not very big and he wasn't very interested in a meal she could tell. He was scuffeling towards an old building with a fearful look in his eyes.

"The old dark abandoned warehouse? Fits the bill." She said in a low whisper as she trailed the vamp. She couldn't shake the feeling of guilt for desserting her friends, but they were safer not being around her. The vamp got to the door and pushed it open slowly and slipped into it. She waited a minute then walked of the shadows towards the door. She was about to open it when she was delt a hard blow to the back. She fell to the ground but was up quickly and spun on her heals to face her attacker. When she did she saw Floyd standing next to two ugly looking, for lack of a better word 'things'. They were tall pale and looked like something out of a horror film.

"Well if it isn't smelly, scratchy, and Menthol." She said not missing the chance to diss Manall and his happy family. "I knew you'd come." He said as he changed his face into a twisted demon(Manall). "I think you'll look smashing with this face, don't you?" "I'm not into demon possession, call me a trend setter." She said as she kicked out to his chest. As soon as she touched him she felt a wave of dizziness come over her. It was so strong she lost her balance and fell to the ground with a small wimper. "Aw, poor little slayer. Do you not feel good?" He said as he bent down next to her. How could she have been so foolish. If she had brought the others this wouldn't be happining, and she should've known that vampire was leading her to a trap. She tried desperately to stand but couldn't.

She was begining to gain her wits and kicked at him again. He fell back to the ground and sat up unfazed to look at her. Again as soon as she had touched him it was like she was exausted and had been kicked in the head a few times. She had no idea he had this much power. She was really regretting her choice to come alone now. Manall grabbed her shoulders and she felt the life being drained from her, she wished she had taken Angels advice and done this together. She slowly began to fade out of conciousness and her mind stopped and she couldn't think, move, or much less fight.

Angel had thought of where she might have gone and they ended up at the bronze. They split up in groups of two and Angel went on his own. Willow and Xander just wandered her usual hunting grounds thinking mabey they would come across her. Giles and Jenny went around the outcasts of Kearney hoping that she wound be out there. While Angel looked aroung the large warehouses, knowing that Manall would need a central hide out yet someplace that had alot of room. He had to find him before Buffy did, he knew her anger would block her judgement and she would fight him on her own.

But what she didn't know was the extent of his power, he could kill her with a touch, and the thought made him shudder.

Buffy looked up at the stars in the sky and she could barely see them. She was fading fast and closed her eyes and thought of her life, her friends, her love. She had no strength left but managed to open her eyes to look at Manall. He was clearly taking her power greedily and after she was dead he would take her body.

She brought her hand to his neck and smiled slightly, and he stopped draining her to see what she would do. "You'll live with my body...but you'll die with my soul." Then she closed her eyes for the last time. He drained the last of her strength and stood up with a smile. "She went too quietly, mabey the hero isn't really the legend she was thought to be." He bent down to pick her up but stopped and fell to the ground. He grabbed his chest in pain and looked up at the sky. He had never taken someones body when they were still living, when they still had their soul. Somehow Buffy knew this and knew that in dieing she would save millions of lives. What every slayer would do, die for the world.

"No!" Manall choked as he cringed and cursed himself for not killing her first. Then a figure appeared out of the darkness and began to advance towards them. Slowly at first then it ran at them and came into the light. Angel had come around the corner and seen four figures one he recognized as Buffy and he rushed forward but he knew it was too late. The minute her spirit left her body he could feel it, he could feel the lose. Now he fell at her side with tears flooding his face. "No, no, no, no!" He said as he craddled her limp form in his arms. He knew it would happen but he swore to himself that he would be there and he would've tried everything before she died. But it was too late she was gone, forever. The minions had left after they saw Manall falter and now Manall was fading, dieing because he had a soul.

He became still and began to beg for death, his sufering was coming to an end and he would get his wish. "Oh my God, Buffy!" Willow cried as she ran up from behind Angel with Xander beside her. She knelt beside Angel and began to sob, Xander held her as tears filled his eyes. "Why didn't you just listen! You can't save the world on your own!" Willow shrieked as she held onto Buffy's hand.

Manall's body began to disolve into the air and his eyes closed and he the mightly Manall died. After all the years of killing one young girls loving caring soul destroyed him. Buffy's soul left him and went back into her lifeless body. Angels head shot up and he looked down at her with wide eyes. "My God," he said as he placed his hand on her neck. "What?" Xander said qickly as he looked at Angel. "She has a pulse!" He said in an almost whisper as tears fell down his face as he pulled her close. She was breathing in seconds and her face looked at ease and peaceful. They looked up at the sky and saw the sun was coming out, it looked like it was emerging from behind a huge curtain.

"We've gotta move." Angel said picking Buffy up as they quickly made their way back to Buffy's house. Jenny and Giles were waiting, after seeing the sun they had practically run back to the house. After Willow had blocked all the windows they brought Angel back up from the kitchen so he could be there when she woke up. And she did, slowly her eyes opened and a small smile spread across her face. "Did we do it?" She asked slowly as she looked into Angels eyes. "Ya, you did it. He's gone...how?" He said as he wiped away the tears.

"He took my soul, and it killed him." Then she closed her eyes out of pure Exaustion and slept after smiling at all her friends. She knew without her friends she wouldn't have had the same motivation that she did. The only way to save them was to give up her life, she didn't know she would live through it she just knew that she had an amazing peace while she gave her life knowing others would live from her death. "Let her sleep," Willow said as she stood and streached. "I wonder what the scientists will think of to cover this one up." She said with a smile. "They are saying that for the first time ever Venus blocked the sun from Earth, and I guess we'll just have to go along with it." Giles said, after listening to the radio he heard the report on how the world wide blackout occured. Little did they know a killer demon had almost destroyed the world and a teenage girl killed him with her soul.

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