Part 7 …and the taking of Revenge
1998 A Deserted Warehouse in Boston 1.34 am
From her view point in the rafters Faith watched as some the vampires left, there was now only six, Ianus at the head and five others standing in front of him, he continued his speech. " Once we win control tomorrow night, the five of you are going to be my lieutenants, you are going to make every order I give happen." Ianus beckoned for one of the vampires to join him at the front as he continued, " and you my big biker friend are going to be my right hand man, my body guard, when I am not around you will be in charge." The biker strode out to the front and turned to face the other vampires with a sadistic smile on his face, a sadistic smile that Faith recognised.
…It was him, the biker who chased me from the club just before I met Liz, even with the things I have seen and done since then, I can still see his sadistic smile today. I guess you never forget the things that scared you the most. Even though you are no longer afraid of them. This made me even more eager to fight, now it wasn't only about settling the score for my mom, but it was about taking my own revenge…
Ianus was focused on speaking and congratulating his new second in command, the biker. When he finally turned his attention to the other four vampires, he realised that he was now only speaking to two of them. In their place was two piles of dust and one dark haired girl dressed in a denim jacket and leather pants with her arms outstretched and a stake in each of her hands. "Can anyone join this party or do you have to be dead to attend." Faith quipped. She then quickly slipped away each of the stakes one into her jacket and one into the back of her pants, as she stood confidently in front of the four remaining vampires. Faith smirked towards the vampires as she beckoned them over, with the movement of her hand and a cheeky wink.
Ianus and the other vamps stood firm somewhat surprised at the Gaul of the young girl who stood in front of them. She was out numbered four to one yet stood there smirking with supreme confidence. " A bit lost aren't we little girl?" Ianus asked in a somewhat arrogant tone. The young girl looked a bit surprised, " Oh I'm sorry so this isn't a crappy hideout for a bunch of vampire losers? I best be going then." Faith sarcastically replied. The slayer then turned her back took a few paces and then turned back around to face the vampires as she continued, " on second thoughts this place" she took a quick glance about the room, "…is crappy and you four." She glanced at each of the vampires smirking, " are definitely losers, which means its time for you guys to bite the dust." Faith stated as she took up her now familiar fighting stance.
Ianus began to chuckle, " very entertaining little girl, the over confidence must mean that you have to be a slayer, well just like the every one of your descendants, you gotta die." Ianus gestured towards the two vampires standing infront of him and the biker as he added, " Kill her!" The two nodded their heads in agreement towards their leader and slowly began to circle the young slayer. The big biker standing beside Ianus stepped forward, but Ianus put out an arm to stop him. " I've heard the best way to kill a slayer is to watch them first, find a weakness and exploit it." Ianus whispered. The biker eased back into his original position as he and Ianus watched their vampire comrades circling the slayer.
Faith's eyes flicked from one vampire to the other as she mirrored their movements, trying to keep both in her line of sight. One of the vampires was female; she had bright pink hair and wore some leather ensemble that even by her own standards faith thought was slutty. The other vamp was a coloured male a little taller than her but by no means muscular and was dressed in what faith thought was a second hand suit, obviously trying to emulate his master. Neither looked particular menacing for Faith but she couldn't underestimate the fact that they outnumbered her. Suddenly the two vampires looked at each other for a second, nodded and charged at Faith.
The female launched a roundhouse kick at the slayer's head, Faith quickly ducked under this at the same time she was ducking she blocked a punch that had been thrown by the male vampire. As Faith brought her head up she instantly drove the butt of her elbow into the Females head this staggered the vampire. Faith then turned her attention to the big left hook that the coloured vampire was sending her way. Faith easily parried the punch with her left hand knocking his fist away. She then quickly followed her parry up with a quick left backhand and a straight right, both connected and sent the vampire spinning to the ground. Faith's slayer senses kicked in as she sensed the female vampire charging her from behind. Faith quickly spun on her heels and hit the female with a fully extended sidekick. This sent the pink haired vampire flying backwards through the air. As she landed the female crashed into one of the many wooden crates smashing it into pieces. The female was just about to get to her feet when her she had a panicked look on her face as a realisation hit her, the female vamp exploded into a cloud of as and dust. Faith turned her attention back to the male vampire, who was just getting back to his feet. Faith pulled out a stake from her jacket and readied herself for her foe's attack.
The Vampire simply charged at her in a blind rage, like a bull in a coliseum, no planning or thought behind his actions. Faith stood her ground until the very last second, she then quickly swapped the stake into her left hand and then quickly side stepped. As the vampire rushed passed her she drove the stake into the vampires back piercing his heart from the rear, turning him into nothing more than a cloud of dust. Faith then turned back to Ianus and the biker vampire who still had their human faces on and had been watching her fight. She then quipped, "Two points for the slayer, I make that Slayer four vamps nil," She then raised her eyebrows and had a huge smile as she blew a kiss at the two vamps as she continued, "How 'bout we go one more round see if you guys can salvage any points for your team?" Ianus hesitated for a second, he then calmly took of his glasses and slipped them in to his top pocket and grinned a broad smile. Then as quick as a flash he pushed the biker towards Faith. " You're my bodyguard, kill her for me!" Ianus screamed as he took off and escaped through the back entrance of the warehouse. This left a face off between Faith and the biker who now morphed into his vampire guise.
…Even now I still don't know why that vamp took off. I guess some people talk a good fight but in the end they don't bring it, or maybe he was simply scared of fighting a slayer. Anyways this left me alone with the Biker, I can remember thinking that I was gonna enjoy every minute of this. In the end though I guess I enjoyed my job too much and look where it got me…
The two slowly circled each other, Faith in a fighting stance, the biker with his fists up ready to brawl. The two locked eyes as they circled, each of them eying the other up, seemingly daring each other to make the first move. The silence was ended as the biker spoke, "Don't I know you from somewhere?" He smugly asked. " Yeah you should, you creep," Faith retorted, the anger was building inside her. "Oh the whore!" the biker replied, smirking. As he ended his last sentence, he lunged with a big right hook; faith easily parried this and then followed up with a tiff right to the vampires jaw, sending him reeling back. As the vampire quickly regained his balance, he looked Faith dead in the eyes and became enraged as he saw a cocky smirk on her face. A sadistic smile came over the vampires face as he put his hand behind his back and unsheathed a large serrated knife. It glinted in the low light as the biker twisted it slowly, thinking the mere sight of a knife would intimidate his opponent.
He took a huge lunging swipe at Faith. The knife caught her across her left shoulder, slicing through her jacket and into her skin. The biker then attempted another half dozen knife swipes each time Faith moved her body out of the way, but her jacket was becoming torn to shreds. After the flurry of knife swipes and furious dodging the two came apart and there was yet another face down between the two. Faith slipped of her jacket and returned to her fighting stance. Blood was seeping down the gash in her arm, this only made dark haired slayer seem all the more intimidating in her fighting stance. She focused herself ready for the attack she knew was coming, and it did a straight lunging stab aimed directly for her heart.
But Faith was ready for it; she quickly dodged to the left and simultaneously performed a jumping front kick that sent the knife spinning through the air landing with a loud clunk on the warehouse floor. She quickly followed up with a roundhouse quick hitting the biker square in his chest. This sent the vampire stumbling backwards, "Not such a cocky asshole are we know?" Faith quipped accompanied by the raising of an eyebrow and a smile; she was beginning to enjoy herself. The vampire quickly regained his footing and snarled back, " I shoudda finished you off last time, bitch." Before charging at Faith. This caught her off guard for a second that allowed the biker to gain an advantage; he connected with a right to faiths face that bloodied her nose. Faith composed herself quickly, as the vampire launched a flurry of punches at her; she parried, blocked and dodged each one he sent her way. The biker ended with a big swinging right hand, Faith quickly ducked, the vampires follow through meant that he stumbled allowing Faith to come up behind him.
As Faith rose behind the vampire she snapped off a strong sidekick to the base of his spin, this knocked the biker off balance and sent him sprawling face first into the ground. Faith hovered over the vampire as he struggled to get to his feet his spine wracked with pain. She touched her nose and looked at the blood on her hand and then at the fallen vampire foe and her anger and temper were threatening to overflow. " So you thought you would chase me?" she whispered menacingly before kicking the vampire with three stiff kicks to his ribs. The vampire groaned with pain as the sound of breaking robs reverberated around the warehouse. " Hey… you thought that you would scare me?" Faith shouted the tone in her voice rising, before viciously kicking the downed vampire in his head blood flew out of his mouth accompanied be a howl of pain. The vampire slowly tried to crawl away, scrabbling in the dirt trying anything to get away from the enraged Slayer. Faith though was like a panther stalking its prey. She slowly followed the vampire not taking her eyes off him for a second. The vampire managed to get up on all fours, but Faith lifted her foot and stamped down hard on the vampires back as Faith screamed, " You thought you and your worthless vampire scum would kill my mother?" another sickening cracking was heard as well as a loud scream of anguish. Faith turned the vampire over and straddled his chest.
Faith was sitting high on the biker vampire's chest her legs pinning his arms down, her eyes were welling up with tears as the biker vampire pleaded for his life. "Bastard…you chased me!…you scared me!" Faith screamed, in each pause she stung the vampire's face with a punch. The biker could only lie there and take the punishment as he stared into the rage filled chocolate brown eyes of the vampire Slayer. " You wanted to kill me!" Faith shouted as she landed another right hand to the vampire's face breaking his nose. Faith the vampire slayer was completely lost in he rage, the tears were beginning to flow freely as she continued to pound on her defenceless foe. She then paused for a second before resuming the battering of her foe. Faith continued shouting landing punches at the same time, " You bitch…you killed yourself…you left me…you selfish bitch!" The young slayer was releasing all her hurt, anger and pain the only way she knew how. Faith then suddenly stopped, she wiped the tears and slowly stood up, looking down at the bloodied biker with a blank and unreadable look on her face, before saying in an almost silent whisper, " Your not worth it anymore." She slowly turned to make her way toward the warehouse entrance leaving her battered enemy where he lay.
As the Dark Slayer began to walk away, the biker gathered what little energy he had left and quietly gripped a large plank of wood, which was lying on the floor just a few yards away. He looked up at the departing slayer, his eyes wild with anger, his face was a swollen and bloody mess and his entire body was wracked with pain from the beating he had received from the slayer. The Biker managed to stagger to his feet, leaning on the piece of wood as support; he then amassed the last of his strength and ran towards the slayer, holding the wooden piece over his head gripping it with both hands. The biker shouted, " You little whore all I wanted was a quick screw!" as he charged towards the slayer. As the vampire approached Faiths slayer senses kicked in, she spun around and slammed another strong kick into the vampires already broken ribs. The plank of wood clattered to the ground as the vampire doubled up in pain. Faith then quickly picked up the piece of wood, and held it behind the vampire's head, she then drove her knee into the vampires face causing his head to snap back through the piece of wood splintering it into two. She then took one half of the wood and drove it through the vampires' chest puncturing his heart as she punned, "Screw this!" The biker could only mouth the word, "Bitch" before he disintegrated into a mass of ash and dust.
Faith the vampire slayer just stood panting hard, surveying the warehouse that had become her battle site. Blood was still trickling down her nose and seeping out of the gash on her shoulder, she let the plank fall to he ground with a thud, she wiped the blood away from her nose, smearing crimson on her leather pants. She continued to stare at the pile of dust that used to be the biker and a small smile crept on her face, "Wow, wicked hungry" she exclaimed as she turned and swiftly exited the warehouse.
…And there it is the first time I lost it. That became the regular way for me to vent my feelings I never faced them, just hid them behind ass kicking's. At this point in time though fighting was enjoyable and I got huge kick out of it, it made me feel good so, if something makes you feel good you carry on doing it. Maybe if Liz had stayed around longer she would have shown me a way to deal with my feelings, emotions and fears, maybe…
Ianus made his way back through the many streets and alleys in what he hoped was the general direction of the casino. He kept looking over his shoulder as he ran; making sure the slayer was nowhere to be seen. He stumbled over trashcans, and other obstacles, not stopping hoping that the slayer wouldn't catch him. He eventually found himself outside of Tricks casino, he stumbled up the steps and burst through the doors shouting," Kakistos, Kakistos!" All the lights were out in the casino the only illumination was from the moonlight through the large dome on the ceiling and a couple of the gambling machines. Kakistos was standing in the middle of the room talking to a male vampire a female vampire was standing at the far side of the room, the casinos owner Mr Trick was nowhere to be seen. Kakisto's simply grinned at Ianus and said, " Ah Ianus nice of you to join us." Ianus was stuttering and panting hard as he spoke, " There, there's a slayer in town, she ambushed me as I was feeding, I barely escaped!" Kakistos expression didn't change but there was a hint of sarcasm in his voice as he replied, "That's very valuable information Ianus, your courage and loyalty will be rewarded." At hearing this Ianus straightened up and smiled, "Really?" he answered not noticing the sarcasm. Kakistos then began to laugh manically as her slowly strode towards Ianus, Ianus glanced nervously at Kakistos then at the other two vampire's and began to laugh himself. Kakistos was only a couple of feet away when he stopped laughing, at that point Ianus looked down at his chest and back up into Kakisto's eyes. Kakistos simply growled, "Traitor" They were the last words Ianus heard before turning to dust. As the dust from Ianus settled a figure masked in darkness could be seen holding a wooden stake. As the figure came forward into the low moonlight, it straightened its tie, grinned and addressed Kakistos. "So Mr Kakistos, I take it you have a job opening, which a well versed brother like myself could easily fill."
"If your willing to make the sacrifice Mr Trick?" Kakistos growled in response. Mr Tricks grin grew wider as he answered, " Well I'm a man that looks at the big picture and living for eternity makes that picture oh so much bigger my friend."
Kakistos simply motioned with his hand ah the female vampire, walked out from behind Kakistos and seductively walked towards Mr Trick. As she approached Mr Trick tilted his head to one side exposing his neck, as the female reached him she lowered her head to his neck and began to drink. Kakistos looked on in satisfaction as Mr Trick grinned while the female, drank from his neck.