A/N: Thank you guys so much for the reviews! I love you! Tee hee; anyway on with the story, don't want to keep you waiting.
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FPOV
B called the scoobies for a meeting; all of them are here, Giles, X-man, Red, K. We're all just sitting in the library trying to think of a plan.
"Now tell me, who exactly is this 'Li' you're talking about?" Giles asks. That's right he doesn't know now do he?
"She's a friend of mine; I met her in prison,"
"Oh great, so we're rescuing a psychotic murderer, great, perfect," X-man needs to know when to shut his mouth.
"Listen here ya little dick head, you can be bitter towards me and can call me nasty things, but when ya say shit about my friends, that's when I go off. So hows about ya just shut the fuck up, a'ight?" of course I'm getting defensive, he's talking about my best friend, the same person that he has no idea what looks like much less knows.
"Alright, shessh, calm down will you?" he says with his hand raised in surrender.
"Now as I was sayin' before I was rudely interrupted," I pause. "I met her in prison, she's a Maji, she's was being chased by the Initiative…" Giles cuts me off.
"Maji, dear lord, I thought that was a myth," he gets out of his chair and goes over to one of the book shelves. I guess it's a force of habit.
"What do you mean, Giles?" My B, she can be so stupid sometimes.
"Well, the shadow men weren't the only ones to know about the threat of evil beings in this world, in fact the Native Americans were always doing some sort of ritual to keep evil spirits and beings away. Anyway, according to myth Maji are supposedly protectors of light and humanity, and according to this…" he says opening a book. "Only one with a 'heart of light' can go through trials to become a Maji, well that's one out of two ways a person can be one, at least that's what it says here," always pausing for dramatic effect. I think it's a watcher thing.
"What is the other one?" Red asks.
"You'd have to be born one. If one were to pass these said trials, they would have to face their animal spirit and let the animal take over," yep that's pretty much it, hell I could've told them this.
"Wow, Li had to go through all that?" Red asks me.
"No, she was born that way," and that earns me a round of ahhs.
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We're all still working on locating Li and Dawn. Apparently the Initiative are one step ahead, but I think Red will get pass them. In the mean while B and I are going over battle tactics.
"Baby?" B asks in a small voice. She seems upset; well I guess she would be, I mean after all her sister was just kidnapped.
"Yeah, Buffy?" I say her full name to let her know I'm serious.
"I'm worried, what if…" and she starts crying and I'm by her side in an instant. I hate to see her cry 'cause then it gets me to cry. I'm holding her close and she's sobbing on my t-shirt. It's ok, it's black so I won't worry about it when I'm too busy worrying about her.
"Listen baby, nothin' is gonna happen to her 'cause if I know Li, she'd give her life to save her; to protect her. When I first got into prison, the first person that beat down on me, she almost killed and she didn't even know who I was at the time, so there is no way she would let any of those scumbag bastards hurt Dawn after what happened between them," and that's true too. She doesn't say a word as she cries on my shoulder for a while until her sobs go down.
"Do you mean it?" she asks. Her voice is so small, I wish I could take this pain away from her and make her happy.
"Yes I do," I decide to take her to our room and lay down for a while, until Red runs into us and leads us into B's office.
"Guys I found them, now what do we do?" Stupid question
"We saddle up and take them out,"
LPOV
"You're uglier in person, ya know that?" I say to this douche bag. I'm trying to get him to hit me and it looks like starting to work. I want him to hit me cause if he hits me I'll get mad and if I get mad I'll get stronger, maybe strong enough to get out of these fucking things.
"I know what you're trying to do, hostile and it isn't working,"
"Ya know, I really can see why Buffy would dump ya, I mean hell, if I was lettin' myself bein' fed on by a bunch of vamps, I would definitely be expectin' to be dumped, plus ya look like ya frenched kissed a Mac truck goin' ninety miles an hour," and that does it, he's hitting me with the butt of his rifle, expecting me to pass out, but I don't. I start struggling against the straps use the pain he gave me as fuel for my anger and they get looser. Good, but not enough. I spit out the blood in my mouth.
"Is that the best ya can do? No wonder she dumped ya, you're too weak for her!" he was just about to hit me again until she comes back in.
"Riley!! Go outside! NOW!!"
"Yes ma'am," and he goes outside with his tail in between his legs. Figuratively speaking of course.
"Lover, you aren't annoying my little pet, now are you?" silent "Well, since you're so into fun and games I figured we could play a little game all on our own, what do you think?" I don't say a thing, but at the same time I try to keep from smiling. She doesn't know and I'm using that to my advantage.
"I'm going to take the silence as a yes," she goes over to a small cart and picks up a scalpel "You know, you've always been a bad kitty," and she just smirks as she cuts me along my stomach, I bite my lip to keep from roaring and I struggle against the straps that they're almost to the breaking point. She cuts me again near the same spot and this time I do roar, but I roar in accomplishment because I'm free. She backs away in fear as I get off the table.
"Who's the bad kitty now?" I ask sending her an angry glare.
FPOV
We've already took out a few of the soldiers guarding the building and I'm starting to get tired. They may not be as strong as a slayer, but damn they seem to spawn like bunnies. Tell anyone I used the word 'bunnies' and I'll kick your ass.
"Alright we need to make a right and down that hall it's the third door on the left" Red says. It's me, B, Red, and K. We wanted X-man to come, but apparently K wanted to go on this mission more, so I'm like 'what the fuck' right. Ok so we went down the hall like Red said and I stop and turn to them.
"a'ight, you two stay out here and B and I will go in and take whoeva's in there," and I turn around and kick in the door. Oh look who I found, it's Beefy-boy!
"What's up beef stick? Ya in on this little plan too, and here I thought you were one of the good guys." I love, love, love, teasing the shit out of the people I'm about to beat the crap out of… and he is no exception.
"I should've killed you while I had the chance!" he comes at me and B and I kick him square in the jaw. He stumbles back near B, who's now right behind him.
"You should've read the manual on how to be evil, Rule one: never show your anger," then she punches him in the face which makes him stumble back towards me.
"Rule two: know who your enemies are before decidin' to switch sides," and I punch him in the face sending him back to B.
"And Rule three: never fuck with a slayer…well, unless you happen to be a slayer and is indeed fucking the other slayer," she says winking at me and backhands him across the face.That's my B for you, always has to get the last word in. He drops to the floor like a sack of potatoes and we go through the door that's in the room.
"Holy shit," B exclaims. Uhm I believe holy shit is an understatement. What we see in front of us is Li in tiger form, a panther, and Dawn tied up in a chair. As soon as B goes over to Dawn, the panther runs out the door like a bat out of hell and with Li following it.
"Dawn, honey, are you ok?" B asks as she unties her.
"I'm fine, but we need to follow Li,"
"I'm on it," and I run right out the door and try to figure out where they went. I go outside the building and I find Li in her human form huddled near a dead panther body with her knees to her face crying.
"I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to," she repeats over and over rocking back and forth.
"Li…I'm…" I'm cut off by the sound of Dawn yelling.
LPOV
No, no, no, no, no, no, what have I done? I'm pulled out of my thoughts by someone yelling. I turn my head and see that it's Dawn.
"Li!" she yells and kneels right in front of me and I cling to her as tight as I could. "Come on, let's go home," she say trying to pick me up. Home? I've never had a place called that before. I look up at Dawn and then at Faith and Buffy. Home, that sounds about as right as a new sunrise.
THE END
A/N 2nd: Remember, it's not over yet! I told you guys that this going to be a series, well as long as you want it to be a series, leave reviews with your opinion on the series idea.