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Chapter 6- Parting ways

Matt, Foggy and Karen walked out of the courthouse, smiling victoriously as they had won their latest case, and Foggy did a small victory dance right there.

"Thank God I'm blind", Matt quipped, making Karen laugh out loud.

"Hater!" Foggy snapped playfully as he continued to do his victory dance.

Nearby, a woman dressed in a lawyer's garb, wearing glasses with her hair tied in a bun, was watching the three of them, and none of them were aware of who she was.

As they walked off, she discreetly followed them down the streets.

Later, Josie's Bar

Matt, Faith, Foggy and Karen sat together, raising drinks with a 'cheers' and then drinking together as they heard a familiar voice call out. "Hey assholes!"

They turned as Jessica walked to them along with Luke, sitting down next to them.

"So, how are you?" Matt asked Jessica.

"Little better, but still shitty", Jessica quipped.

"Yeah, plus I think the doctors would need treatment if they kept her in for one more day", Luke told the rest as chuckles went all around. "So, what was the case about?"

"A man was wrongfully arrested on charges of assault and theft, we got him off, and he had a well-paying job", Karen told the two of them. "You can guess the rest."

"Let's play", Foggy said as he held up his drink and walked to the pool table, the others following, holding up their own drinks as well, and they soon played, with Foggy dunking the white ball, while Faith hugged her arms around Matt's chest, her head on his shoulder.

"There ya go!" Foggy said as he handed the stick to Matt.

"Here", Matt handed it to Faith to do it for him instead.

"So, how does it work here?" Faith muttered playfully.

"Well, I tell you, you dunk", Matt shrugged.

"And what do I get for the dunking?" Faith asked with a wink as both of them laughed, and the rest rolled their eyes at the cozy couple, both smiling and laughing at their own playful actions.

As Faith dunked the white ball, Jessica chugged down her whiskey and winced a little, which Luke noticed. "You all right?"

"I will be when the shit that ninja bastard roofied me with clears up", Jessica told Luke.

Ikari's poison had slowly stripped of her powers while also making her slow and groggy after drinking it. Danny had his connections get them help to identify and deal with the poison, but it was slow work, and Jessica's full strength and healing was still coming back.

Faith made a little quip with a nudge. "All bark, no bite now, huh boozey?"

"Still enough to kick your ass, bitch."

Some more laughter went around at that.

As the others continued playing and drinking, Matt and Luke separated from them as Luke inquired. "Any luck?"

Matt knew what Luke was talking about, and shook his head 'no'. He had searched all of the known old bases and residences of the Hand, but there was no sign of Ikari anywhere, it was like he had come into existence, and then vanished into thin air.

"He disappeared without a trace, and he can fight like the best of them. Ikari was their elite, now he wants payback."

"If only the ninja would get it over with already", Luke complained as he took a swig of his drink.

Matt asked Luke about their one friend who was still not discharged from the hospital yet. "So, how's Colleen?"

"She'll be throwing flying kicks by the end of the week. The glowy hand healing is pretty handy."

Matt nodded, feeling relieved that Colleen would be fine at least after what had happened to her earlier with Ikari stabbing her. Faith was taking the self-defence classes alone in Colleen's absence, and was good at it too from what he had heard at least.

Of course she was good, she had gotten her life on track now.

At the end of the bar, the woman from earlier watched all of them with unseen glances, paying particular attention to Matt as well as Faith.

Matt tilted his head, feeling something off, though what it was, he couldn't tell yet.

Next day, Colleen's dojo

A student had Faith in a rear naked chokehold as she explained to the rest. "So in this position", she grabbed the student's arm and pulled it down, "you grab their arm and pull it down", she stepped forwards a little, "then you step forward", she then flipped the student down halfway, "and you can pull them over your head and take them down."

She let the student go who walked back to his place as she asked the rest of them. "So, any trouble following so far?"

All of them shook their heads, having understood this move perfectly.

"Now try it", Faith said as they did, and she walked around, correcting one's posture. "No, you're supposed to move that arm."

She then walked back to her position as the students executed that move. "Now reverse positions and try it again."

They did, and Faith again looked around, this time all of them seemed to have their postures correct, and she gave a nod as the students again executed that move, managing to do it decently. "Nice going."

A while later, Faith brought out a dummy and explained. "So, the basics of this kick are the same as a spin kick, but you have to go further than that here, since it's a more complex move than that."

She then gave the dummy a tornado kick, controlling her strength, as it tilted away and fell down, and then she picked it up. "You need to pivot your body 360 degrees, because if you jump too soon, you'll look like this", she then tried to do it again, jumping before her body had pivoted 360 degrees, and the dummy was hit but didn't move (of course if she'd used her strength it would still go down).

Faith demonstrated again. "So I have the foot forward", she put it forward, "I turn around", she did that, "and I turn around 360 degrees and lift my knee", Faith did that, "and then kick", and she did that, sending the dummy falling down again. "You get me?"

"Yes ma'am", the students said.

"Try it out", Faith shrugged as the students did one by one, and none of them got it right in the first try, and many did not get it right at all, though a few of them managed to get it right at the 5th time.

"Not to worry, it's a pretty difficult one to do, you might take about 2 days to learn it", Faith assured the students. "So this is it for the day, we'll meet tomorrow."

The students all thanked her and walked out one by one as Faith got a call on her phone and put it to her ear. "Hey babe."

"Hey, I'm going to visit Colleen right now, she might know if there are any more Hand safehouses for me to search", Matt said to her from the other end.

"All right, good luck", Faith wished him luck.

"So, how goes your career as a solo teacher?" Matt asked playfully.

"Things are good, and getting better", Faith shrugged, happy with her life now. "Oh, and you-"

"Made sure your laptop was fully charged before leaving the apartment. Aren't I a great boyfriend?"

"The best. Love you, babe."

The call was then cut as Faith decided it was time to close up now.

Matt walked into the hospital room, where Danny was waiting for him, and Colleen was asleep right now. "She good?"

"Yeah", Danny nodded before gesturing outside. "Come on."

Matt and Danny walked out and walked off, entering an empty room as Danny said. "So, she gave out names of 5 more bases to me, I'm thinking we can go around and check those out, would work for us, maybe this Ikari guy is hiding in one of those."

"Works for me, so maybe I can take 2, you can take 2, and if none of them have Ikari, we can check out the last one together", Matt suggested and Danny nodded as he gave Matt the names of all the bases.

At the same time, the woman, now dressed as a nurse, stood in the hallway. She had seen Matt and Danny walking out of the Colleen's room into the hospital, and slowly made her way towards that room, and opened it, only to find no one.

She frowned and closed the door, then saw the two of them walking up the stairs, and discreetly followed them to the upper floor, which was deserted, and she walked down the hallway, though she found no trace of either of the two for whatever reason.

Then she felt a presence behind her and turned to see Matt and Danny standing there, Matt having ditched his glasses and cane in a corner as this floor had no cameras due to being deserted.

"I'm guessing you're not a nurse here", Danny quipped.

"Evidently not, considering she was a lawyer yesterday", Matt told him as she glared at them.

"So you caught on to me, won't help you much though", the woman told them while tilting her head.

"Who are you?" Matt asked.

She smirked and the space in the area distorted as various Yakuza thugs appeared.

"Someone who wants to spread the love."

The Yakuza charged as Danny ducked one's kick and blocked the other's blow before kicking them both away in quick succession.

Three of them jumped at Matt who ducked and slid underneath them to avoid, and got up as they faced each other.

Danny ducked to avoid another's spin kick and blocked his blow before striking his abdomen as he was sent back and then he avoided the next one's strike too.

Matt spin kicked one down and then kicked another away.

Danny ran up a wall and spinning in the air, kicked another Yakuza hard on the face, sending him crashing to the ground.

Matt kicked another Yakuza away, and one tried to strike with a staff but he grabbed it and spinning, elbowed that Yakuza on the face, sending him down as well.

Danny did a cartwheel as Matt spin kicked another Yakuza to the other side.

Danny then leapt high into the air and pushed his feet forwards, kicking away 2 Yakuza running at him as they were both knocked out by him.

Matt grabbed another one's spear while grabbing his head and spinning him, threw him to Danny who hit his neck with a karate chop, taking him out too.

Matt threw the staff away as Danny walked to the woman, and then charged as she kicked and he blocked before trying to kick as she dodged.

He then punched but she grabbed his hand with both of hers, and tried to twist but he resisted, as she spun, trying to flip him over, but he freed his hand and punched as she blocked with her raised arm, and they glared at each other.

Danny then leapt and pushed his arm out, managing to push her back before she stopped herself.

Then they exchanged hits again as Danny ducked to avoid her swing, and she ducked to avoid his, and then they exchanged some hits before she leapt into the air and spun, landing on a medical cart, and she leapt to its other side.

She then kicked it in Danny's direction but he flipped on it and landed on the other side, ready to fight her some more.

She then pulled out a handle which glowed and became a sword, and then she swung it as Danny dodged her strikes.

She thrust it forwards and Danny backed to avoid again. She then tried to chop him with it but Danny leapt away to avoid as the medical cart was cut instead.

Matt dodged the Yakuza leader's blows and managed to kick him down. He got back up while picking a wakizashi and charged Matt again who had to dodge his blows.

Danny dodged the woman's swings while flipping and spinning in the air as she cut the medical cart again. Danny then avoided more swings and dodged another as she cut a curtain with her sword.

She then swung again as Danny cartwheeled away, but noticed part of his jacket had been cut by her. She charged again as he grabbed her hand and pushed back, and dodged and ducked more blows before ducking and leaning on a chair, and deflected the sword with his shoes before leaping away as she chopped off the chair.

Matt struck a staff on the ground with his foot, managing to get it in his hands, and struck the Yakuza leader, managing to send him back.

Their fighting continued as Danny continued blocking or dodging the woman's swings, and ducked to avoid another but it cut some portion of his hair.

He then leapt off to avoid another swing and jumped to her other side as she turned and continued to fight him.

Both of the fights continued as Danny blocked a strike but was kicked back.

Matt hit the Yakuza leader with the staff, sending him back, then ricocheted it off the wall as it went into Danny's hand, who lifted it to block the sword and battled the woman, their weapons clashing.

They jumped onto opposite sides of the hallway, then leapt at each other and clashed weapons, managing to strike a window nearby simultaneously as it shattered.

Danny spun in the air to strike as she blocked, and then he dodged a strike while rubbing the staff against her sword, and pushed her back, and then he channelled his chi into the staff, which glowed.

He then pushed and the sword was cut into two, and then Danny kicked the woman away while Matt grabbed the Yakuza leader's head and brought it down on his knee, taking him out too.

The two then walked towards the woman, having cornered her, and she crawled back before the space distorted and she was gone.

"Damn it!" Danny said as the two groaned.

Faith was locking up the dojo when she sensed a presence behind her and turned to see the woman had now appeared in front of her.

"Who are you?" Faith asked, immediately getting on the defensive.

"Like I said before, someone who wants to spread love", the woman shrugged as both raised their fists and charged each other.

At the last moment, Faith kicked the woman's abdomen instead, making her double down, and then she kicked her face, sending her staggering back.

The woman recovered and spin kicked Faith's face, sending her back as well.

Faith then charged, blocking and dodging her blows, as the woman did the same, both of them trying to kick the other, and as the woman charged, Faith side-stepped and grabbing her, pushed her off, sending her down.

She marched to the woman who rolled away and got behind Faith, grabbing her in a chokehold, but Faith freed herself and pushed the woman to her front, grabbing her in a chokehold instead, and then threw her down to the ground as she groaned.

The woman charged but Faith dodged a punch and blocked the next before sending her back with a punch instead.

Faith then punched her multiple times. The woman tried to throw a punch but Faith blocked and kicked her knee, then lifting her up by the hand, hurled her to the other side of the room, sending her crashing down as she groaned in pain.

Faith then marched to her but the space distorted and the woman was gone once more as Faith sighed.

Later

"So she attacked you too", Matt noted as he and Faith sat down on the bed together, now in their clothes.

"Yeah, but she wasn't prepared for me", Faith said with a smirk and shrug as the two chuckled.

"The Yakuza with her were arrested by the police, but they don't remember a thing, for whatever reason", Matt told her. "No idea why, maybe she had them under some sort of spell."

"Well, she could teleport away, or whatever it is, maybe she has some powers", Faith shrugged. "We'll think more about it tomorrow."

"Yeah", Matt agreed as they kissed and made love once more.

Two demonic eyes belonging to some giant creature opened.

Something punched its way out of the ground. It was a very rocky hand.

Angel, Wesley, Lorne, Gunn and Groo fought the creature, which seemed to be made of rock.

Fire rained in the sky.

Angel was stabbed between his shoulder and neck and lying on the ground, blood pouring out of his mouth.

The creature stood in all of its rocky glory.

A dark-haired girl was running through the arched hallway, looking over her shoulder and panting from the exertion of running so fast. She slipped down an embankment. She was being chased. A man on the street saw her through his front door, and closed it rather than help her.

Two people in hooded cloaks were chasing her. After trying various alleys looking for an escape route, she found herself trapped in a dead-end. She saw a drain pipe next to her and decided to use it to scale the building.

The people chasing her grabbed her foot, but she managed to escape their grip and easily climbed up to the roof. There, another hooded figure was waiting and pushed her off the building. She screamed, but she landed on the ground alive, on her back.

Two hooded figures held her down, and she fought back with all her might. A third figure raised an arched, shiny, silver dagger and thrust down at her.

A girl was running and looked scared. She had hot pink hair with black bangs at her forehead, a nose ring, and a metal collar. She was wearing all black, with a skeleton shirt, long pants, a leather jacket and boots.

She went through an interior door and jumped down to the next level. Two people were chasing her, hooded and cloaked.

She ran out through an exterior door and proceeded to scale down the building. Finally, she thought she was safe when she went through a doorway to the outside near a crowd of club patrons, but she was pushed back inside by her pursuers. They closed the door behind them and started to fight with her.

She was knocked to the ground, lying on her back. Finally, one of the robed people pulled out a curved silver dagger and tried to stab her, but she blocked his move.

The other robed person also had a dagger though and stabbed her. She winced, and the men resheathed their daggers and left.

After the girl appeared dead, she turned her head and spoke in a low, unnatural sounding voice. "From beneath you, it devours."

Matt and Faith, both naked other than the bedsheets, woke up at the exact same time with gasps, then turned to each other.

"What's the matter?" They asked each other at the same time, then realized both had nightmares.

"Some rocky creature, it fought Angel and the rest and beat them, then fire was raining", Matt said, sounding confused.

"Girls chased by men in robes and killed, and one of them said 'from beneath you, it devours'", Faith told Matt of her own dreams, sounding just as confused.

"What does this mean?" Matt wondered. "I don't think this was just a dream."

"Me neither", Faith said grimly, both of them seeming unnerved.

Next day, park

Matt and Faith had decided to spend some time here to get their minds off of their unnatural dreams, and Faith was reading a book, with Matt having laid down, his head in her lap, both content and happy.

Suddenly, Matt's head perked up as he heard metal and tasted it in the air. A dagger had been drawn from its sheath.

"Get down", Matt ordered as Faith immediately ducked, avoiding a swing from a man behind her, and Matt jumped off, and "saw" the evil emanating from Faith's attacker.

Faith noted he looked quite unnatural. As he swung again, she grabbed his hand and twisted it, making him drop the dagger as Matt kicked leapt over the bench and kicked him hard, sending him flying off.

The man got up and immediately bolted, and fortunately, no one had noticed it as they were far off.

Faith then looked at the dagger and picked it up, narrowing her eyes before they widened in horror. "Oh no!"

"What's the matter?" Matt inquired.

"The dagger…..the people who killed the girls in my dream used the same one", Faith revealed, now shocking Matt as well.

Later

Faith had packed up and said. "Look, I don't want to leave, but this is important, something's about to go down in Sunnydale, and I think I'll be needed there."

"I get what you mean, especially since Slayer dreams are supposed to be prophetic, according to you, and this guy had the same dagger as the people in your dreams", Matt pointed out and nodded in agreement. "Besides, I think my dreams were also more than just dreams, so I'll be heading over to LA. Something's going down there, and I'll be needed."

They realized it was time to part now, and Matt cupped Faith's face. "There is never anywhere too far for me to be there for you, remember that."

The two kissed each other passionately and lovingly for 2 minutes, and then parted as Faith waved to Matt and he waved back, and she left.

Matt decided to pack up himself to go to LA.

The woman was now at her base as Ikari quipped. "So you failed to defeat them too, interesting. And here you were trying to make me think you're better than me, Maki."

"This wasn't about killing the Defenders, Ikari", Maki said while rolling her eyes. "And if you want another chance at the Devil, and his real name, learn to be patient."

Ikari scoffed and walked off, and then a deep, demonic voice rang out at the place. "What were you trying to do?"

Maki was terrified, and tried to explain. "I was trying to gain a perfect donor for your birth, master, and eliminate the Slayer, who would be a threat to you and your plans."

"You nearly ruined it all by getting captured", the voice scolded her, not in the mood to hear out her defense. "Besides, killing the Slayer would only complicate matters, she is off to join the other Slayer at Sunnydale anyway. You stay here, and await further instructions, and keep your friend on a tighter leash."

"Yes master", Maki nodded with her head lowered. "But what about the Devil?"

"Oh I made sure he'll come to Los Angeles soon."

The end, and thanks a lot to Brainstorm Sorcerer for his help again, and the woman is Maki. She'll be played by Rinko Kikuchi, thank you to Brainstorm Sorcerer for the casting. And thank you to Bl4ckHunter for a fight scene suggestion too.

Now its obvious who Maki works for, and who she has roped Ikari into working for as well.

So Faith is off to Sunnydale, and she'll arrive there during Buffy 7x9, while Matt shall go to LA and be there in time for Angel 4x7.

Now 4x7-4x15 of Angel shall all be covered here.

As for Matt's dreams, they were sent to him to draw him to LA.

Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter.