The Beginning
In the beginning, there was the First Slayer. She had no watcher, she had no friends, just the kill. Several hundred years down the line came Buffy Anne Summers, vampire slayer by name, vampire slayer by nature. She was living in Los Angeles and went to Hemery High School, where she was the IT girl. The cheerleader and the popular girl. She was first called to be a slayer here in Los Angeles by her first Watcher, Merrick. At first she didn't want to believe it and wanted to carry on with her every day life. But it hit her that she was the slayer and that this was her destiny. At school her new life style plays havoc with her school life and she's no longer the bell of the school.
She quickly accepts the path she has to lead and fights the new vampire in town. Unfortunately as things progress on her Watcher, Merrick is killed and he burns down her high school gym, as their were vampires in there. This one incident kicks her out of Hemery, so she and her mother Joyce move to Sunnydale where Buffy tries to start her new life and put what happened in LA behind her. She wants to not be The Slayer, but this is the first thing she's reminded of on her first day at Sunnydale High School. Here the school librarian, Rupert Giles, stumbles across Buffy knowing she is the slayer and reminds her of her duty. Buffy wants to hear none of it and so turn her back on her destiny.
But again things start to go wrong, vampires, The Master and much death ensues and Buffy regains her instinct and the fact that she is The Slayer and has to be the one to protect the Earth from these fiends. While slaying she finds a couple of other students at Sunnydale who find out her secret identity as The Slayer, while she was out saving them. They are Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris. They agree to keep Buffy's secret secret and want to help saving the world. Their base of operations, the high school library where here they began saving Sunnydale.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer started out as a movie directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui and starring Kirsty Swanson as Buffy Summers and Donald Sutherland as her Watcher Merrick. However the film didn't do so well and was actually a bit of a flop. But Joss Whedon managed to persuade the higher people to make the create a TV series based in the movie. And he did, and it's now one of the most successful sci-fi/fantasy tv shows ever made.
