Two girls - women, by now, though the conflict had gone on since well
before either had finished physically maturing, not that either one was
in a mood to notice - stared each other down over the blasted wasteland
that had once been Atlas City's foremost educational institution.

Each one had seen the other murder their closest friends, one by one,
and sometimes more than once when one friend or another managed to get
ressurected.  Said friends had been no match for their assassin's
supernatural skills - outright sorcery on one hand, and on the other, a
mixture of more subtle battle magics, weapons training, and sheer
destiny.  Ironically, for each kill one inflicted, the other would find
a similar method of execution: fireball matched with explosives, sword
and stake both piercing hearts, and so forth.

The gods who had arranged this could only shake their collective heads
at how the monsters had so easily corrupted the scheme.  Mighty
sorceress was supposed to teach gifted youngster the ways of monster
slaying, such that her pupil could act as the god's avatar.  Instead, a
few wrong comments - especially about relative breast sizes - and their
relationship was soured permanently.  With the possible exception of
Xelloss, no one still living knew how the conflict turned bloody, but
once it did, the fates of all involved were sealed.

Even in this conflict.  Two would enter.  Neither would survive.

- plot synopsis of the finale for "Buffy: the Slayer Slayer".


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