BUFFY

I had to keep my mind set, and I had to keep it away from Angel. First off, me thinking about him being an asshole was turning him into more of an asshole. What's up with that? It's like a girlfriends duty to point out when her boyfriend is being a complete jackass…there is nothing in there that has to do with a demon turning it around on you so it gets even worse! Augh. I guess that's what his plan was all along though. He knew these things, it was like he knew me and he knew Angel all too well. Knew how our minds worked…almost as if he had been studying us for a long time. Which actually kind of made sense, this was no regular demon plot to take over the world, this was carefully planned out.

"Well looks like the odds are against me", I said out loud facing all the mini spin-offs of Vanticious. If he was plotting this for a long time, he was also watching her. Watching her fight and just watching her move. He would have trained his minions to be able to defeat me.

I looked straight ahead, staring straight into the eyes of one of the bigger monsters. I smiled, winked and stood up as straight as I could (being chained to the floor and all…). The demon looked at me, and what I saw in it's eyes was almost frightening.

"Don't you know who I am?" I asked, my voice shaking a little as I talked.

Vanticious bellowed with laughter from up above my head, it rattled me to the bone sending chills up and down my spine.

"Slayer, they have no idea who you are. They are new, and they are strong. They were trained to hunt you, to fight you and only you. But to them- that's all you are. Just another person, another person who has to be annihilated."

I felt my face drop completely as I stared into the fearless faces of those who stared back at me. They truly had no idea who I was.

"Yeah, that's exactly what I want to see. Fear. Fear in the Slayer's eyes, the knowledge of the fact that she's helpless, and the only person who could possibly help her right now, she's already begun to destroy. So say your prayers, Slayer. Tonight is my night."

Vanticious let out a roar, and I watched as all of his followers opened their mouths revealing razor sharp teeth, throwing their hands up in the air and bellowing back at him. I watched them, and a sly grin spread across my face. One of them raced towards her, then two then three.

I threw my leg up in the air and then back down on one of their necks, the wet snap confirmed the first of the many deaths I was about to create. Another rushed me from the side; I raised my arm up in the air and brought it back down on the top of its head throwing it off balance. The demon wavered and flipped backwards kicking me in the face. I fell to the ground, my arm beneath me still tightly shackled to the cement.

"Dimmit, you guys suck", I said as I lifted myself back up. I threw a hard punch to my left, another demon dropping to the floor.

"There is one thing you didn't count on, Vanticious", I spit out as I snapped another neck.

"Oh really? What's that?" He looked alarmed as I threw another one of his minions to the ground, beheading him with the heel of my boot.

"You may have trained them to defeat me from studying me, but I'm the Slayer stupid. It's not like I only have one style of fighting." I jumped into the air, kicking both my feet up and catching two of them in the face. I spun around just in time to meet one who was sneaking up on my rear and I had just enough time to glance up at Vanticious, but the expression I was looking for wasn't there. Instead of fear and trembling on the face of the defeated, he sat there and grinned at me almost like something was humorous.

"Slayer once again I am forced to take a knock at your intelligence, it is just clearly terrible. This was just to tire you out, to give you a feel. Do you think I'm stupid? You think I watched you for a week maybe a month? No, no. I've been here in the shadows, the shadows every day and every night. I've watched you, evaluated you. Studied all your hits, finding a flaw in each one. I've mastered it, even sent out my own friends to fight you, to get a hang of the way you move", he motioned with one of his arms and all the tiny demons I was currently fighting backed down and moved to the side.

"I promised you pain, Buffy. I promised the world pain. It will be delivered"

I was frozen; still half way in attack position crouched down watching him as he spoke. He had so much confidence, so much belief. It scared the shit out of me. I couldn't move, I couldn't even think of anything witty to say to him. There was nothing funny about this at all. I could feel it, something was bad, really bad and I was scared. The slayer, scared. Ha ha it's not every day you come across this.

Vanticious looked down on me.

"Have you not anything to say?" he slyly asked me leaning over the railing.

I had nothing to say, I didn't know what to say. I looked around, too scared to make any sudden movements with my body. Only moving my eyes. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but something was definitely wrong. All of my Slayer senses were tingling everywhere.

I heard a loud scrape at the back of the room behind me, heavy footsteps came after. I straightened up, my muscles all rippling as I tried once more to unbind myself from the shackles. It still did nothing for me, he had me completely trapped here. I slowly turned my head, looking forward into the eyes of…no way.

There were no eyes there. I saw simply the large midsection of something very, very tall. Not to mention scary, I felt my whole body shake and move backwards by instinct. It was massive and ugly, yet looked completely human. Long black hair covered his shoulders, his muscles seemed to ripple and move even as he stood completely still in front of me. He was completely naked save for the small red cloth that hung over his man area, barely even covering what it was meant to.

I couldn't tear my eyes away from him, he was just so unbelievably huge and scary. I didn't know how I was even going to go about trying to defeat him especially chained to the ground like this! I turned back around, I didn't want to face him anymore he was just to scary. To my discontent, I turned into the face of another, this time a woman with long red hair, almost glowing with electricity. She was crouched down in front of me, her head tilted to the right leaning in her arm as she leaned closer towards me.

"Oh God", I managed to spit out. That was about all I could do at that moment in time.

"God isn't going to help you sweet thing", the very large woman said to me. Her breath smelled like dieing skunk or something.

I turned my head away in disgust and let out my breath making a disgusted face. "Good Lord what did you last eat? You smell terrible", I spit on the floor just in front of her face. She turned her head the other way, face twisting into a smirk. She stood up to her full height, not quite as tall as the man behind me, but still equally as scary.

I felt something hit me in the back of the head, it was hard and it hurt. I crouched down on my knees just in time to avoid another blow to the back of my skull. I quickly stuck out one of my legs, spinning around on one of my feet as I tripped the man behind me, his fall made the ground shake, and the woman in front of me seemed to get a little bit angrier.

"Sorry, was that your boyfriend? Cause you know, you should really teach him manners. You don't hit women"

I snap kicked her in the chin, her head snapped back and she flew backwards into one of the empty crates from Vanticious' offspring. The wood splintered around her, but she didn't dust. Apparently not a vampire I was up against.

Busy staring at the woman laying on the ground struggling to get her footing I didn't realize the guy behind me had gotten back up and was now advancing on me quickly. I turned to my right and threw a punch at him, he was to tall and I wasn't quick enough. The chains holding my arms down caught and I felt a muscle rip. I cried out in pain, but didn't lose concentration. I looked back up at the guy and attempted another snap kick, he caught my leg and twisted it around. I heard a crack; the white hot pain ran up my leg and into my tailbone. I fell to my knees in agony, screaming.

I felt a blow to the side of my head and soon I was seeing stars, the warm blood pooled around my head on the cement as my face smashed off of it again and again. I swung my legs around over top of me, kicking them both off, if only for a moment I could get away from them, get them away from me then I could stop, I could finish them and… oh no. Angel.

My head spun, I saw the woman hit me again and I saw the floor coming closer and closer to my face but I didn't feel a thing. All of this, everything that was happening was because of him. I was thinking this way because he was doing terrible things and every time I thought about him doing terrible things it made him that much more terrible.

The man put one hand under my chin, the other on the top of my head, I knew what was coming. I could almost hear the snap that was just waiting to happen. I closed my eyes, that beautiful face. Those amazing eyes, the way he moved. My Angel, my baby.

"Damn B, you really got into it this time didn't you? Really. When I told you that you had to get out of this, I wasn't kidding. I mean, something pretty bad is going to come out of this. I guess it already has started because well, I think you just lost"

I opened one eye. The pain was gone; I no longer felt the pull in my arm or the pain in my leg. Everything around me was white, and there was Faith. Somehow she had gotten to me before…or was it after? Was it too late?

"Will you quit squinting? You look like you're constipated or something. I know what's coming. No you aren't dead, yet. Well technically you are but hey, lets not talk about that I could see how it could bring down your mood immensely." Faith frowned at me "B, seriously knock it off. You can't seriously be that upset over this. Dieing isn't really that bad, it's kind of like the coma you put me in except you don't wake up to find everything in your life you once had is now gone"

I raised one eyebrow, still squinting against the bright light.

"For your information Faith, the lights here are a bit bright for me considering I was just locked up in a factory getting my face bashed in. And yes, your right about that except for I'm never going to wake up at all now am I? Why are you even here? You're not dead"

"I know B. Neither are you I was just pullin' your leg figured it might be a little bit funny. Apparently you aren't in the laughing mood right now. You never really were one for fun, always keeping up with the broody lifestyle of kicking demon ass and then kicking some more. All work no play makes for a boring day you know"

"Faith, would you do me a favor and just shut up already and tell me what is going on?"

"Alright alright, calm down. Listen, you basically just screwed up big time. You already know the deal with Angel and the new big bad in town who likes to call himself Vanticious. And you got your ass kicked."

"FAITH. Get to the point"

"Ok, you need to see what's going to happen, what is already starting to happen because of this whole deal. And I'm the one that has to show you unfortunately."

"Show me? What are we talking about here…prophecy stuff or what?" I looked down at the ground, which was made up of nothing more then what looked like a cloud. I sometimes just wished Faith would hurry up; she always did this when she was talking. Never straight to the point…always straying away. I think it's because of the head trauma I once gave her. I wonder if I hit her real hard again it might reverse the effects…

"Yeah, something like that. We're going to have to hurry up though; I don't have much time here with you. We have to get moving"

I looked up at her, expecting to wake up on another floor getting the shit kicked out of me once again. She smiled at me, almost as if she could sense my hesitation. She winked and reached down, touching her fingers to my forehead.

All at once I felt nothing but agony. Everywhere in my body, it was like every demon and every vampire I'd ever killed was there and they were hurting me in every different way, I screamed and I screamed some more. Letting out a shriek of terror as I felt my spine crack in half, the pain was too much to take. Just when I thought I couldn't bear it anymore, it all stopped. All that was left was the feeling in my chest.

It was the same feeling I felt when Angel had left me in my room alone after we made love, the same feeling I felt when I heard about his affair with the vampire lady. The ripping of my heart falling apart. It was getting to bad, too vivid.

My head snapped back and when I thought I was about to die, everything disappeared. I felt absolutely nothing, no sensations, no feelings. I was nothing at all.

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My body slammed down hard onto the front hood of a rustic old Honda, the red paint crumbling beneath me. I grumbled, it was a very unpleasant feeling being thrown around like that. I flipped my waist length hair over my right shoulder and jumped off the hood of the car.

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