The story will also someday have a prologue, but not today.
The basic back-story is has follows:
Spike is still very bitter about the way Buffy used him and then cast him aside. He somehow finds himself in possession of a mystical orb that the Scoobies need to seal a portal in order prevent an apocalypse. Only problem is the orb cannot be removed by force once it's in someone's possession or it becomes useless.
Buffy asks Spike for the orb, but he basically tells her were to go. Somehow the Powers representative broker and agreement with the forces of evil, Spike is allowed to demand a payment. He's forbidden to ask for the slayer since she is a far to important player. Instead Spike asks for one of the Scoobies as his payment, figuring this will be the best way to get back at Buffy, and turns the orb over to the oracles, the Powers representatives. (Yes I know they would have been dead at this point, but I'm choosing to ignore that fact instead of creating new agents for the PTB.) The oracles appear to the slayer and her friends advising them of the agreement and providing them with a copy of the ritual that will seal the slayerette of their choice as the vampire's slave. Buffy of course is livid and vows to find another way, but as time run out the slayer and her team are unable to find a way of sealing the portal without the orb. Seeing no other way, Xander performs the binding ritual on himself in order to stop the apocalypse and protect the others from Spike.��
Thanks to Madylynn, Kristy and Jane for correcting my numerous grammar and spelling mistakes. |
