Disclaimer: see first 3 chapters
Summery: What if Graduation went different? What if Angel acted more like the vampire he is instead of the human that he wants to be? What would happen then? This is my take on it.
AU season 3, ep 22 on.
AN - Ok just to let you know, the last part, that was Angel. He's the one that spoke. I really hope that you like this chapter, cause it's mostly Buffy and Faith. It most likely won't be all that long and for that I am sorry. It, in my opinion, isn't the greatest chapter so far, so you won't be the only ones to think so. I hope that the next chapter will be better.
P.S.- There will be swearing in this chapter, nothing too big, but swearing none the less
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She was in a graveyard. 'Surprise, surprise, a graveyard. It's not like I don't see them enough.' She looked around her and saw a few trees. The graves that surrounded her were...different. They were very primitive, no markers of any kind, but she knew what they were. The scent of fresh death came on the breeze to her. Her slayer told her that there was a massacre that night, that many were killed. She thought that she heard something move, and so she waited for a sign that there was something besides her there. There was nothing. Nothing moved, the wind barely even blew. That made her even more wary. She could tell that something was coming.
She waited. All the while she was memorizing the area, wanting to make sure that she knew all available hiding places and possible weapons. She was eyeing a promising looking club, when she heard the noise again. She whipped around.
Darkness. That is all that she saw. Buffy kept looking. She made another 360 and still all she saw was darkness and sand. 'Desert, I'm in a desert.' she thought to herself, just now realizing that she was stepping in soft sand. In her peripheral vision she caught a movement to her left. Buffy swung around going into a defensive stance only to stop cold from moving forward when she saw that the "thing" moving was Faith.
"How? I killed you." Buffy spoke in a shocked voice, never taking her eyes off of the rouge slayer that she had killed in the name of love.
"Chill B. I'm not here to hurt you. As to why I'm here I was hoping that you could tell me, I mean the last thing I remember is you stabbing me, me backhanding you and then my jumping off the ledge and hoping to god that I landed on the truck. Then there was this light and a voice said that soon I would 'know why.' Why what? And also, where the HELL are we?"
"I don't know Faith, I wish that I did but I don't. The last thing that I remember is making Angel drink from me and then I passed out. That's it." Buffy responded, never taking her eyes off of Faith, and never moving out of her stance. She was about to say something else when there was a blinding flash of light and after Buffy got her vision back she saw two beings facing both her and Faith.
"Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First of all I wake up in God knows where, then I see my crazy and homicidal little sister that I killed and then you two...things show up. Now I am really reaching my breaking point and I suggest that you two XL-smurfs start talking and fast before you get one very pissed off and strong slayer on your hands!" Buffy said shifting her stance to the new threat that had come forward.
The "XL-Smurfs" in question was actually the Oracles. They were the speakers for the Powers That Be and they had important news to tell both of the slayers, but getting the eldest slayer to listen was going to be the problem; for no matter what she said she had a true Warriors spirit. She instinctively protected everyone she came in contact with, even Faith, her little "sister" that had wandered off the path of good.
"You speak out of turn Lower Being. You should learn your place; or else someone will have to teach you it." Came the reply. To both Buffy and Faith the voice had a male tone to it, but there was something in the way that he spoke that made them think that the tough-guy tone was an act.
"Come now Brother. You know as well as I that they are not Lower Beings. They are Warriors. They hold power and sway over mankind, and they are to be respected just as we are." This time the voice that spoke was female. It had a ring of honesty and warmth. It was almost musical, and continued to ring into the darkness long after she was finished speaking.
"We are the Oracles. We are the voices for the Powers That Be and we have a message for the both of you, one that will decide the fate of many. You, Eldest Slayer, you have been prophesied as the strongest slayer to ever walk the Earth. You will be the only slayer to ever live past her twenty-second birthday and each year after that you will gain even more power, until you can rival that of the oldest Vampire ever. You will be the slayer that all demons and forces of evil fear. However there will be a price for that title. You will have to face an Evil that you had a brush with earlier this year, and someone you hold very dear will be taken from you.
"As for you Youngest Slayer, you have walked down a dark path. You have betrayed your very calling, and you have tried to kill your sister Slayer. You have aligned yourself with the evil that you and your predecessor were destined to destroy together and you have killed innocents. Tell us why you should not be punished?" This all came from the female Oracle. As she spoke to Buffy he voice was kind and filled with respect and honor. But when she got to Faith there was a noticeable difference. There was a tone of disappointment, and disgust.
Faith looked at Buffy for a moment and then at the female oracle. She stood up strait and started to walk closer to the two beings.
"Faith! Stop! You don't know them they could hurt you. Faith stop!" Buffy spoke in an almost desperate voice. Faith made no reaction and so Buffy did the only thing that she could think of, she raced to where Faith was and she threw herself in front of Faith.
"B, get outta' my way, there's no reason why I shouldn't go strait up to them and give them a piece of my mind." Faith said with a steely note in her voice. She tried to move past Buffy, but Buffy had other ideas.
Buffy pulled Faith's arm and when the younger twisted back to look at her Buffy slammed her fist into Faith's face. Or she tried to at least. Her fist went strait through Faiths head. Both Faith and Buffy just stared at each other and then they both looked at the Oracles.
"Are you ready to listen now?" The male said in an impatient voice.
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Ok that is the end of this chapter and I am already working on the next one. I am so so so sorry that it took me this long to get this chapter out. It was just so hard to write. I am working on the conclusion to this chapter and the next chapter will have more of the mew coven and of the Mayor. sounds of doom! ok anyway I want ot thank all of the revoews that made me write faster and I hope that you like this chapter, even though I didn't. I look forward to the next chapter and to your reviews; but again they(reviews) aren't requiered or demanded, just greatly appreciated.
-Sapph