The Death Dealers
AU That's say that there was no Watcher's Council. No hero to stand against the darkness of night. But the mouth of hell opened and evil plagued the earth. Now only two people can stand in it's way. Xander and Willow. But they want do it alone, they have now trained Buffy, Kendra, and Faith. This is a future fic.
Rated R for cursing and other content.
Prologue
L.A. 2004
The City of Angel's: stark angles, creeping shadows, dense, crowded, airless, a random tangle of steel and concrete, self-generating, almost subterranean in its aspect... as if hell had erupted through the sidewalks and kept on growing. A dangling fat moon shines overhead, ready to burst.
On a skyscaper far above us, stone Gargoyles gaze down from their shadowy, windswept perches, keeping monstrous watch over the distant streets below, sightless guardians of the L.A. night.
One of them is moving.
As the figure moves it looks down into the pulsing heart of downtown L.A., a neon nightmare of big-city corruption, almost surreal in its oppressiveness. Hookers wave to drug dealers. Street hustlers slap high-fives with three-card monte dealers. They all seem to know each other... with one glaring exception:
A tourist family, Mom, Dad, and little ten year old Faith, staring straight ahead as they march in perfect lockstep down the main drag. They're just come out of a movie theater one block over; the respectable theatre crowd has thinned out, and now - movie stubs in hand - they find themselves adrift in the predatory traffic of LA's meanest street.
"Did we really have to come out tonight" Mrs. Lehane asked her husband.
"Yeah honey." her husband said back, annoyance clearly in his voice. "I told you I have a meeting tomorrow and this was the only time that we had to spend together." he replied. He still wondered what the hell he was thinking bringing his daughter and wife on his business trip. He loved them to death and would do anything for them, but they were just damn annoying.
As they walked by the many cafe's they see hookers and their pimp talking and drinking coffee with cops. Suddenly the pimp smiles at Faith and winks. Faith smiles back. Her mom yanks her off down the street and glowers at her dad.
"We need to get to the hotel, now." she practically yells. "We should get a cab." she suggests.
"I know where we are going." he says in a huff. With that they kept walking. After another fifteen minutes the tired trio, saw that they were doing nothing but walk in circles.
As Faith closed her eyes to breath in the night's cool air, her eyes suddenly grow wide. She's having a vision. She told her mom about it before, that she would have nightmare's about things and then later it would come true. Her mom told her she didn't believe such things and had just shrugged it off.
But this vision was different though. She saw herself and her family in the dark being murdered by monsters. Before she could issue a warning to her parents her mother walked ahead of them and was pulled down a darkened alley.
"Joan." her father yelled as he ran down the alley after his wife.
Faith was frozen with fear and couldn't follow. She heard her mother crying out in pain and her father's shout. After a couple of minutes she didn't hear anything at all. Pushing down her own fear and with a tear in her eye, she walked into the alley.
The darkened and creepy alley smelled like shit and urine as Faith slowly inched into it. As a little light shone down into the alley she saw two figures lying on the ground. As she got closer to it she saw that it was her mother and father. With horror she saw that her mother and father were dead. Both of their throats were ripped out, blood was everywhere and pooled up under their bodies.
Her mom's lifeless eyes seemed to be staring at Faith, as the little girl tried to run to her parents. But she was blocked by a figure, she hadn't noticed until now. Looking up at the figure she bumped into she let out a scream. The man's face was monsterous and he had fangs sticking out of his mouth.
"So I guess you can be dessert." he sneers with blood still on his lips. As Faith turns to run she bumps into another body. Looking up she see's that it's two more people that look like the man.
As they began to advance on little Faith they freeze at the sudden, inexplicable sound of boots crunching on gravel. They turn slowly. Their jaws drop at what they see.
Standing at the mouth of the alley, bathed in moonlight, is a black apparrition. It does not move. The vampire leader, who spoke earlier, used his vampiric senses to see what it was. With a creul smile on his face he regards the figure.
"So little girl, come to play ?" he asks. Once he says this the figure steps out of the shadows and takes a sword out of her duster sheath. The girl is amazingly beautiful, with red hair and green eyes.
"I don't know, what do you boys like to do for fun ?" she asks sarcasticly. With that said they surge forward forgetting all about little Faith.
Ducking under a rainbow kick by one of the vamps, the red head goes under his attack and punches the vamp in front of her in the face. At the same time she sent out an elbow that caught the one behind her in the jaw.
Before she was able to turn around all the way, one vamp got lucky and punched her in the face. The force of the blow sent her spinning. Going with the flow of the move, she flicked her sword out and decapitated the vamp that hit her.
Seeing the other two vamps trying to run out of the alley, she smiles creully and sheathes her sword.
"Incente" she shouts as she extends her hand. A jet of fire comes out of her hands and hits the vamps in the back. With a scream they both turn into ash. Her job complete she looks back at the little girl and see's her hovering over her parents.
"Are they... are they... dead" Faith asks not even looking up at the woman. With a sigh, the red head walked up to the little girl.
"Yeah kid, I'm sorry." she said hating that fact. "Now come with me it's not safe here." she tells her. With one final look at her mother, reaches down and closes her sightless eyes. With tears falling from her eyes she holds onto the ladies hands as they walk out of the alley.
An LA police station fifteen minutes later
Faith sat at a desk with a cop that kept rambling on about the facts of her life. Since her parents were gone she didn't have any family left. She would have to be turned over to social services and later into an adoption agency.
As the red head started to walk off. Content that she did her job for tonight, she suddenly stops. As if we can see in her eyes we can see fire in them. There are people in that fire burning up. Then she recognizes what building it is. It's the one she's in now.
"Oh Shit" she yells as she grabs Faith and jumps nearly twenty feet into the air, crashing out of a large window. Not even fully out, the building suddenly explodes. The fire licks her duster as she falls unceremoniously out in the streetswith Faith clutched in her arms.
"Hey kid are you okay?" the woman asks, back turned from the burning building, as she picks up Faith. Faith doesn't answer her as she just puts lays her head on her shoulder and looks at the building that she was once in. We can see the fire in her eyes as she just stares at it.
Close up from her eyes to now ten years later. A now twenty year old Faith is fighting two large black demons in an abandoned warehouse.
Visiously snapping one of their necks, Faith moves on to her next opponent. Seeing that it picked up a sword, she suddenly lowers her hand to her side. The demon watched with fasination as a sword telescoped down into her hand.
Using the second the demon used up at staring at the sword, Faith surged forward and plunged it deep into the demon. Letting out an unworldly shriek the demon fell to it's knees. In one surprisingly fast move she chopped off it's head. With a smile on her face she watched as the demon started to turn into mush.
"Faith were done here." a male voice calls out. Looking up she see's a man in his early thirties step out of the shadows, with a shotgun slung over his shoulder. Behind him a black girl about her age and a red head come up behind him.
"Alright Dad." she says as she lowers her hand again and the sword retracts back into it's mechanism. "I'm coming."
A/N I at least want five reviews before I continue this fic.