Spike: Topic: Fire
The fight raged on around him, no one noticing but him at first, as the amulet around his neck suddenly glowed. Before he could react, sunlight was shooting out of it...and radiating around, and through him. Bright. Blinding. Glorious. He could feel his soul stronger than ever. It burned. No, it really sodding burned. She was beside him now. The burning was growing. He looked down at his hand, and watched the flames ignite over his fingers, even as her fingers were wound between them. It was like the fire inside was bursting forth from his very center, racing out in tendrils of scorching heat to burst out of the skin that held it in. It burned, burned so strong and so bright and hurt like, well, hell, literally. But he smiled, and smirked, and looked in her eyes calmly as she said she loved him. Stayed calm, stayed himself, even as he turned to ash from the inside out.