Welcome to the Hellmouth!!!
When sixteen-year-old sophomore Buffy Summers arrives in Sunnydale,
her biggest personal worry to her is whether or not she’ll fit in. Thrown
out of her last school in Los Angeles for setting fire to the gym and an only
child in a single parent family, her confidence in at an all time low. On top
of this, she is hiding a secret that she would rather forget. Buffy Summers is
the Slayer. Not just a Slayer, but THE Slayer. The one girl in all the world
who has the strength and skill to fight the forces of darkness. A fate that will
condemn her to a life of loneliness and estrangement.
However, within a single day, she will meet the five people who will become
her allies in this fight and her closest friends in the world. Cordelia Chase, the
popular, and rich, head cheerleader who says whatever is on her mind.
Alexander (a.k.a. “Xander”) Harris, a sweet hearted, quirky young man with an
off the wall sense of humour, who tries to keep the action light, no matter what.
Willow Rosenberg, a shy, sweet wallflower with an amazing mind. Rupert Giles,
Buffy’s Watcher (mentor) and the High School librarian. And Angel, a vampire
with a soul. Together they will fight everything that the Hellmouth has to throw
at them. From Vampires, Witches and Demons (Oh my), to Robots and
Ventriloquist dummy demon fighters.
But the biggest danger that they have to face throughout the season is The
Master.
The Master is a very old Vampire who was trapped in a sunken church
during an earthquake in 1932. So old he has passed the point of looking
relatively human. Buffy thwarts his attempts at rising to the surface and
taking over the world, until Giles and Angel discover that Buffy will die his
hands and unleash him onto the surface. When she accidentally overhears
this conversation, Buffy begins to run through the typical range of emotions:
Fear, Anger, Disbelief and Denial. But, when Willow is forced to
confront the hard reality of their world after an attack at the school leaves
some of her other friends dead, Buffy resolves to accept her fate and either
change it, or die trying. However, when she reaches the sunken church in
which The Master is hiding, he tells her that if she had not come to seek him
out, the prophecy of her death would not have come true. After a short fight,
The Master drowns her and is set free. Xander and Angel, who followed Buffy
to The Master’s lair, rush to her aid, perform CPR on her and bring her
back to life. Feeling stronger than ever, Buffy follows The Master and destroys
him once and for all.
