10 Best Battles In Buffy The Vampire Slayer History

4. The Core

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Buffy season nine saw the world reeling with the consequences of the Seed of Wonder being destroyed at the end of the previous series. Suddenly the world was without magic, and anyone turned into a vampire after the seed's destruction became horrific zombie vampire hybrids - or zompires.

If that weren't bad enough, Dawn, whose entire existence is magical, begins to fade away. With the stakes so high, and his girlfriend's life on the line, Xander sides with a rogue Slayer, Simone and Severin, the Siphon who possesses the ability to drain slayers and other magical beings of their powers. Simone and Severin are determined to find a way to reverse time to before the fall of magic.

To do this they need to access the Deeper Well which runs right through the centre of the Earth. with an entrance in England and one in New Zealand. The entrances are guarded by magical beings and demons, but despite a putting up a fight, they let Buffy and the Scoobies through in order to defeat Simone and Severin who have entered from the other side while the guardians were distracted with Buffy.

In the Deeper Well, Simone summons Maloker, an old god and creator of vampires, and she allows herself to be sired, becoming a dangerous monster. It's a brutal battle with the very future of magic hanging in the balance.

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