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Faith POV
"Faith just calm the hell down!" Desmond screams. I'm feeling like I'm losing control of myself slowly but surely something animilistic is coming over me. But now I know what's happening the panwolf is coming over me and trying to take control of my body. It's so hard to keep my human self at bay while the rage is taking over me. I'm so worried about what's happening to Buffy that I can't think straight.
"Look the animal in you is taking control Faith, you have to control it or else you might hurt somebody!" I hear Tom but I'm not listening, I want to but I can't. I feel the painful transformation as my bones shift and the extra hair starts breaking out all over me. My face elongates to grow a snout my ears painfully extend and my hearing sharpens even more. I hear shrieks of terror and horror as most of my friends witness for the first time my gruesome changing.
"Faith if you keep going down this road you won't be able to help Buffy! Calm the fuck down!" Is the last thing I hear before the darkness takes over.
I'm seeing everything through tunnel vision, and all I can think about is that I have to find Buffy! I look around to see familiar faces and I don't recognize them at all, but there are a few that I know from insinct they're family. But the ones around them are strange to me and therefore are an enemy!
I charge at the one that's closest to me it looks like a female with red hair, before I can even tear her face to shreds all of a sudden I'm thrown back by another one of my kind, another panwolf!
'Faith calm down.' Where the hell did that voice come from!? And who is Faith? The other wolf is looking at me with a troubled look in its eyes and I can feel and smell the worry coming off of him. He must be talking to me, but how do I talk back.
'Who's Faith?' I ask I try to direct my thoughts towards the wolf.
'That's you, who do you think you are?' I hear the voice respond, great it worked! I try to come up with an answer, but I can't think of anything. Who am I? All I know is I'm an animal and my mate is in trouble... Buffy! I need to go find her. I turn and run without answering the panwolf, I really don't have time for this.
'Hey where are you going?' It asks.
'I have to find my mate, she's hurt, I need to protect her.' I think. I sniff around and try to catch a scent, a small trail of her honey scent lingers towards the front door and I follow the trail. I hear others behind following me, but I am not concerned with them right now. Too many of them and I need to be in good condition to rescue my mate.
'Faith! You have to turn back into human form! People will think you're the wolf that killed that guy a few days ago and try to kill you!" I hear the same voice say but I don't understand some of the words he's using. What are humans and people, ?
'I do not understand your words, but I have to go; come help or leave me be.' I respond. I don't really have time for this foolishness. The scent of Buffy leads into an odd shape structure that is covered with see through hard material. I break through it and I hear a strange ringing sound from above and screaming from a bunch of people.
"Someone kill that thing!" I hear a feminine voice yell, but the words don't register in my mind. A big bulky man tries to grab me and I claw at his face I scratch his right cheek and he falls back, andrenaline and rage is souring through my body and I do the only thing I know to do. I act on instinct and my instinct is telling me to protect myself so I go to bite his neck to kill him but I am blocked by the same creature again.
'What the hell!' Leave me be, this is my prey!'
'No Faith you can't kill a human!'
'What is a Faith and human?'
'Jesus Christ, you are Faith! And humans are the things-' A gun is shot and almost hits the other wolf in it's shoulder blade, 'that are trying to kill us, we need to go!' I agree this is useless. I leave the big man where he is and try to find her scent, I find her scent quickly running to where it leads me and I almost get shot in my right leg in the back. Good thing I have good hearing or I wouldn't have dodged that.
I hear the other wolf following behind me so I don't need to worry about him. I make it out of a back entrance of the building leaving behind gun shots and screaming patrons. When I'm in a back alley the scent get's so faint I can't smell her anymore. NOOO.
I start growling and red rage starts clouding my vision. If anything bad has happened to her I will kill anything in my way. There's a pain in my chest and I let out a great howl. The other wolf can sense my pain and it gives me a little nudge with its head and a sympathetic whine.
'Faith, calm down we will find her.'
'How do you know that! For all I know she is off somewhere dead!' I start getting even angrier as so many horrible scenarios fill my mind, the more I get angrier the more black filters my vision and soon I go off the handle and everything goes back.
Christopher POV
We stayed in our human form and stayed behind, we understand that Tom can be the only one to help calm down Faith but after an hour we're wondering if they're ok. I heighten my senses and I smell their distinct trail.
"Hey you guys I'm thinking we go find them now before Faith kills someone or they get captured by Reds." So you might be wondering what the hell are Reds? Well they're humans who capture shapeshifters, what do they do with us? They capture us and brainwash us to capture more, why? I have no fucking clue but I would like to know as much as you do.
"Yeah good idea knowing how unstable Faith is he'll probably need back up." Liyah agrees, and everyone gets up.
"Glad you guys agree I got a scent so we better get going as soon as possible. Wait you guys should stay-" I say referring to the scooby gang, "I know Buffy and Faith are your friends and all but you saw she tried to attack Tara, you guys will only be a distraction." I say with sympathy.
"Why.. why did she try to hurt me?" Willow asks.
"Well seeing transforming is new to her, she doesn't recognize you yet in that form and only sees you as a threat. Trust me when I say don't take it personally."
"Yeah Chris is right." Sam says with sympathy as well. I can tell they don't like it but they understand.
"Well we'll stay and research as much as we can on Kakistos and maybe figure out where Buffy might have gone. Oh and uhh what's a Red?"
"Love to explain but I can't right now but I promise when we get back I will. Oh and I'll call if we get an update on Buffy. I have a feeling Faith will lead us to her." I say with a smile, and I mean what I said the link between a shapeshifter and it's mate is pretty damn strong, but I wouldn't know, I'm a lonely man who longs for a woman's... err touch, yeah soft gentle touch... Anyways enough with my love life back to Faith's.
We leave the small Magic Shop and enter into the cold evening air. I follow Faith's and Tom's scent to a shop a few blocks away, it's crowded by police cars and the place looks slightly trashed inside. I see they had some fun without us. I ignore the police's comments on not entering into the building and I follow their scent into a back alley. With their scent I could smell something else but the second scent stopped right here. Hmmmm that's weird.
But at least I can still smell them after about 10 minutes we finally catch up to them and what I see makes my heart drop, just what we fucking need! I see Faith and Tom fighting against the Reds it's a bunch of men and a few women dressed in all red, you see why we call em that right? The red shit they have on is pretty damn good armor that's hard to penetrate and it covers every part of their body, how did they find them, I don't have a shitting clue but all that matters is we all get to safety. I as well as my team transforms, it's go time!
Toms POV
I quickly jump to the right as one of the reds tries to grab me by my neck, I'm surprised no shape shifters accompanied them, but that's not really what's got me worried. What's got me worried the most is that they aren't attacking us like they should almost like they want to take us alive. And from the clumsiness I'm thinking that's exactly what the plan is, but we'll see about that. I try to communicate with Faith mentally but she still seems out of it and I can't get through to her. But her losing control is not all that bad cause she's going die hard on the reds and it makes my chest swell with pride.
I sense shape shifters nearby but I know the familiar vibe so I don't even need to turn to know the crew has arrived.
-You guys alright?- Chris asks in my mind.
-Hanging in there it's about time you guys showed up, thought you guys might miss the party- I respond
-Oh you know we couldn't miss a good party- Liyah says with excitement in her voice and with that she tackles one of the reds.
One of the perks of being a shape shifter in a pack is you guys develop a mental connection, pretty bad ass right?
All of a sudden I feel a sharp pain in between my shoulder blades. I growl and turn around to swipe at whatever hurt me when something black collides between my eyes and I go reeling back.
-Tom are you okay!- I here Samantha ask.
-Yes, I'm just peachy. Don't worry about me just don't get caught I have a feeling they were ordered to keep us alive.- I say.
-Makes sense no wonder why they are fighting us like pussies- Desmond responds taking down one of the reds.
I smile which to anyone on the outside looks like a snarl, and while shaking my head I run towards one of the red uniforms who is holding some thick black thing that looks like a stick when I feel like an electric jolt just shoots through my body and I go rigid. My breathing picks up as I lay on the soft ground and the ripples of electricty flow through my body I feel like I'm being flayed alive. I hear a blood turning yelp and i see Faith attacking the Red suit that attacked me with that damn stick. She bites it's leg and surprisingly her teeth actually sinks in! How the hell did that happen that's impossible! But then I remember she does not only have the strength of her animal but she is a slayer and with that comes double the strength, I smile despite the previous situation I was in and get up slowly as the ripples slowly fade away.
When I am fully on my feet she manages to tear the head off clean completely from the Red's body. And then as if in slow motion another red shoots her in the chest and she goes down immediately. I run as fast as I can towards her, as well as everybody else, but all of a sudden a blue force field shoots up around the reds and Faith. They take her in a van and disappear out of sight. And when I say disappear I don't mean drive off into the sunset gradually fading away disappear I mean one minute they're here next they are gone disappear.
-Fuck! Not only did we lose Buffy but now we lost Faith to the fucking Reds! Fuck my life!- Christopher yells. I can't think though I have to try to figure out a way to find her, I can't let anything happen to her. I know she is still alive because the gun they shot her with was just to knock her out.
-We need a plan and fast.-Sam says.
-I'm thinking just give mne time!- I say quickly, I don't have time to here them bicker in the background.
-Time, something that seems not to be on our side.- Desmond says.
Faith's POV
The red rage darkness soon turned into plain black darkness and now it has transformed into a blue darkness, I guess I'm waking up from a horrible nightmare cause my head hurts like a mother fucker and when I come to my senses yet again I'm naked. But this time I'm not in some forest, it seems like I'm in some type of cage. My cage is lined up next to rows and rows of cages in front of me and behind me all filled with either naked humans or animals. What the flying fuck? Tell me why is it every time some weird shit happens to me at night I wake up in the most strangest of places naked?
I hear growls to the left and right of my small barricaded container and something in me stirs. I can feel the hair rising on the back of my neck . I'm sensing so many things right now all at once and it's about to drive me crazy, first I am scared, frightened, angry, and worried and on top of that I can feel so many different types of tingles…. But one tingle is familiar. I know I must be in a room full of shape shifters but I still don't know what that other familiar tingle is, and it's getting on my last nerve trying to figure out what the hell it is. And on top of all of this I still have to find Buffy. Everything besides the fact that Buffy is missing, in my mind, is blurry. I don't remember the past few hours and from judging my surroundings I must have changed into my wolf and got caught, but by who?
"Faith!" The voice that cries out my names makes my heart stop.
"Buffy!" I respond back frantically looking everywhere to find her, it's so dark in the room but thanks to my supernatural powers I can see pretty damn well for a human.
"Faith! Look in front of you." She answers. What? I don't see her anywhere, but when I focus on the cage a few feet in front of me low and behold there's Buffy still in her clothes from earlier, she looks a bit roughed up and tired, but still as beautiful as before, God I love her so much.
"Are you alright? I was so worried, I tried looking everywhere for you." I say my words tumbling over each other due to my excitement, I finally found her!
"I actually should be asking you the same thing, they roughed you up pretty well." She says with sympathy in her eyes, I can actually see her eyes are red and there is a twinkle in them. Has she been crying?
"I'm five by five B you know me, but enough about my shit, it seems like you've been crying…. Did they hurt you," Against my will and soft voice a low growl erupts in my throat upon asking her this question, "Cause if they did I swear to god I will-"
"Babe it's alright we're slayers remember? I can take a little hit, plus they wanted to keep me alive, they just wanted you. And…. I've been crying cause you seemed like you were in a pretty bad condition when they bought you in for a second I didn't think you would wake up anytime soon." Then there was silence while we ponder what is going on, well try to at least shit is pretty confusing right now.
"It's a trap isn't it?" I say laying back, she didn't answer me because we both know what she's gonna say. "Fuck Kakistos is smart."
"We'll beat him." Buffy says.
"I'll beat him you just need to get to safety." I respond quickly.
"Faith…" Buffy starts with a whine in her voice.
"Yeah yeah I know but.." I pause, I'm not really used to talking about my feelings so this is kind of awkward but seeing Buffy has sparked something in me, " I love you B, I thought something really happened to you, and if they hurt you in any way… I know it's my fault since they are after me.. And I just couldn't deal with that. So you have to let me do this on my own cause I have hurt you enough." I say with tears in my eyes, call me a pussy or not but I want her to know that I love her just in case I don't make it. The tears that were in her eyes come down her pale cheeks and my heart yearns to wipe them and console her physically.
"Don't cry B, it's all gonna be alright I promise." I say trying to reassure her as best as I can.
"I know it's just that…. You've never been this sweet." She says with a little smile that makes my heart warm. I shrug it off cooly and give her a little smirk.
"Anything to get some nookie." I joke and she laughs a little rolling her eyes.
"Wow leave it to Faith to only be thinking about sex in a time like this." She says.
"Oh and like you're not?" I say referring to my naked body, oddly I feel comfortable and not just cause Buffy has seen me naked thousands of times also because it's like it's in my nature. She blushes , looking down shyly and biting her pink lip.
"Whatever Faith." She says not denying what I said, and I smile knowingly oh I totally have her turned on.
"Now only if you were naked." I say, and trust me I'm not joking. Her eyes narrow and I know she is about to say something to get under my skin but before she could even answer I hear a door open and a stream of light fills the dark room. There are heavy footsteps that immediately walk towards my cage and on instinct I tense up, I might be in human form but my animal is slowly taking control of me once again.
"Tsk tsk no need to get your little pretty self all worried my little pet, if you do as I say I'll give you a good little treat." A man in a lab uniform with gray hair and big thick glasses says bending down to look at me in my eyes. Accompanying him is another man who seems to be in his late 20s also wearing the same look. I'm about ready to snap his damn neck nobody talks to me like I'm some dog especially in front of Buffy.
"Why don't you reach your hand in my cage and maybe I'll lick it." I quip.
"No need for that my little pet if you try to bite my hand off I'll knock every god damn tooth you have in that little mouth of yours down your throat." He says back, oh this guy has got some huge ones on him, now only if I could get out of this shit hole to kick his ass.
"I wish you would try to hurt her." I hear Buffy say and I wince, I was hoping she wouldn't say anything. With that menacing smile plastered on to his face he turns around still crouching down to look at Buffy, when he moves I can see the fire in her eyes, she wants to kill this bastard as much as I want to.
"Now now I won't hurt her if she'll be a good little puppy for me, and we won't hurt you if she behaves but if she acts up then I'll slowly kill you while she watches." He responds his voice almost sounds like he is really enjoying this conversation, what a sick fuck.
"You know I love how the bad guys just sit here and tell the good guy the plan as if we're just gonna forget what the hell they just said." She responds not even seeming amused by his attempts to scare her into keeping her mouth shut.
"Ahh well me telling you the plan would be me saying that I have captured you both for a lot of money for Kakistos, he want's your little kitty, and you are supposed to be the anchor that keeps the ship wreck over there level headed. Happy?" He says.
"I've been happier but this will do." She responds and the man stands up, adjusting his black tie smiling. I guess he thinks his little plan is going to work so well that he can tell us without thinking there will be any consequences.
"Well how fun it has been talking to you two I have to tell Mr. Kakistos the good news, and maybe if you are good," He says talking to me, "I'll let you play around for a little with your mate before I turn you loose." He says and before I could even say anything he walks swiftly out the door he came in.
"Well…." Buffy says, I can tell in her voice she is a bit worried not only about our current situation but about me, I haven't talked in a while. "Are you alright?" She asks. She presses her face against the cold metal bars, her beautiful green eyes looking at me. But I can't meet her gaze if I wanted to try. Kakistos is back and the fact that he has led me right to him has me wondering that he is smarter than I think. While remaining in my cool posture against the dirty cement wall I chuckle a bit.
"Well at least I won't have to go looking for him." I respond with amusement in my voice….. Wait did that guy call me pet?
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