Prophecy Girl
On the eve of the prom, Giles translates a rather devastating prophecy in "The Pergamum Codex": "The Master shall rise and the Slayer shall die". Several portents-noticed by Giles, Jenny Calendar, and Buffy-point to the Master finally freeing himself from his imprisonment. Giles tries to keep the prophecy from Buffy, but she overhears him discussing it with Angel. Though at first she rejects both the prophecy and her continuing as the Slayer("Giles, I'm sixteen years old-I don't want to die"), the news of two students' deaths at the hands of vampires on schoolgrounds makes her realize her duty, and she goes after the Master. Angel and Xander go after her, arriving in time to find Buffy drowned and the Master free. Use of CPR(from Xander) revives Buffy, and she and Angel and Xander return to Sunnydale High to find that the Hellmouth is opening-right under the library-despite the best efforts of Giles, Jenny, Willow and Cordelia. Buffy confronts the Master once again, and this time he is the one who dies. "We saved the world," says Buffy at the end of it all. "I say we party."
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