Title: Destiny Ahead: Season 1

Description: This is the first season of an Angel spin-off. With AI going their separate ways Faith, Gunn, and Angel must now train the new slayer, Lela. Plus they have Connor and three other teens on their hands. Can they do it?

Rated: PG-13. (Rating just to be careful because of profanity, violence, etc. May change later. I don't know yet.)

NOTE: I own none of the fang gang and none of the Scooby gang. I could never be that lucky. But I do own the characters I make up. The other stuff belongs to Joss.

A/N: This is my backup plan in case Angel gets cancelled, which I doubt. I know the new slayer thing has been done but guess what? I'm doing it now. So that makes it unique. Got it? Good. And Lela isn't your typical slayer. Trust me on that. I've set this up to be a type of TV show. So this will be considered episodes instead of chapters. OK? Great.

Also: The fang gang has defeated the beast. But they've decided that they have outgrown each other. So now they're going their separate ways. Oh, and Connor's fourteen. Still no sex with Cordy but rain of fire, the beast, and everything still happened. Including Lilah's death.

Episode 9 Los Angeles, CA

          Lela ran down the street hurriedly as the sun was setting. She fell over a can that was in her way. Lela quickly got up and continued the run. Her hair flew left and right with her. As Lela ran pass an alley a hand reached out and grabbed her. It was Angel.

"Oh, come on," Lela whined. "That so didn't count."

"Yes, it did. Sorry, kiddo. You failed that one," said Angel.

"What'd I do wrong?" Lela asked.

"Running the way you did. Your guard wasn't up. Any vamp could have gotten to you."

"OK. I'll work on that. Running isn't exactly my specialty."

"Obviously." Faith walked into the alley.

"I'll work on it. Besides it was just training. Angel wouldn't have exactly bitten me, anyway," said Lela.

"Don't count on it. At the rate you were going I was getting hungry," said Angel.

"Yeah, well, I'm hungry now. So let's wrap this thing up," said Faith.

"Finally," Lela sighed.

The three of them picked up food at a nearby burger place and headed back to the mansion. When they walked in Kelvin was cleaning his ax from his latest demon hunt. Connor did his homework, sitting in a chair, in the corner. Gunn channel surfed. He sat on the couch next to Kelvin. Kelvin looked up.

"How you do?" Kelvin asked Lela.

"Uh, better than last time," Lela replied, as she and the others put their bags of food down on the coffee table.

"What you do now?" Kelvin asked bluntly.

"Nothing." Lela pretended to feel insulted. "That hurts you know."

"Uh-huh," said Kelvin, not believing her.

"What you got to eat?" Gunn asked, not looking from the TV.

"Enough," Faith replied.

Angel went over to Connor as the others began to dig into the food. "Actually I think we got enough to keep even you full, son."

"Great," said Connor softly.

"Is something bothering you?"

"No. Nothing."

"Hey, Connor," said Lela, looking over at him. "We got the cheese fries things you like."

Connor glared at her. "I'm not hungry." His voice was dark. He grabbed his homework and went upstairs angrily.

          Angel looked at Lela. She shrugged and went back to the food. The truth was Lela had a pretty good idea of what was wrong with Connor. He had been acting weird since she shut the door in his face two nights before. Lela had no idea why Connor would like her, anyway. It couldn't be because she was a slayer. She wasn't exactly good at it.

          A little while later Lela went upstairs with a plate in her hand. The plate had a cheeseburger and cheese fries in it. Lela carried a canned soda in her hand. She had to knock on Connor's door with her foot.

"Who is it?" Connor called.

"Uh, it's me, Lela. I got something for you." Connor opened the door then.

"What?" he asked.

"I know you said you weren't hungry but since you're a guy and guys are always hungry, I guess, then I thought you might be. I put salt on your cheese fries, just the way you like it." Lela held the plate out to him.

Connor took it. "Thanks." They stood in silence for a few seconds. "What now?"

"Connor, are you by any chance mad at me about something?" Lela asked.

Connor went into his room. "Why?" He sat his food down on his bed and sat down.

"Oh, no reason. Besides the biting my head off thing-y that you're doing lately," said Lela, leaning against his door.

"Maybe I don't want to talk to you. You're not the center of my world you know. What makes you so special?"

"Uh, the big brown eyes?" Lela joked. Connor gave her a funny look. "Just trying to ease the tension. Can we talk?"

"What is it we're doing now?"

"Connor… please?"

Connor sighed. He chewed on one of the cheese fries. "Fine. Talk."

Lela smiled and sat in a chair near his bed. "OK. I get this weird feeling that you might like me."

"I do."

"What do you mean you do?"

"It's the truth."

"I'm new to this whole guy liking me thing but aren't you suppose to beat around the bush and say something snotty to me? Is that a stereotype?"

"I don't know. I just don't wanna lie to you."

"OK. So you like me. That's… cool."

"It is?" Connor got excited. "Then do you like me back?"

Lela was at a crossroads then. She finally replied, "Of course I like you. You're a great person. Who wouldn't like you?"

"How about we go out?"

"Out? What do you mean?"

"I mean let's go out somewhere. That's what people do when they like each other, right?"

Lela sighed. Connor had no idea about life. "That's exactly right," Lela lied. "Let's go out. How about tomorrow?"

"Great. It'll be fun. You're the best, Lela."

"Yes. The best." Lela felt uneasily. "I'll talk to you later then." She left out of the room feeling like someone shot an arrow right through her brain.

          That night Kelvin paced back and forth in his bedroom. Lanai had not gotten back to him since the dream Kelvin had. He just wished that he could get some type of a sign from her. Kelvin went over and pulled up his window. He stuck nearly his entire upper body out of it. Kelvin stared deeply into the dark blue-black like sky. He sighed deeply and prayed to himself.

"God, just let her be all right."

          Suddenly Kelvin saw what looked like a shooting star. But there was something wrong. The star was heading right for him! Kelvin pulled himself back into his bedroom. The star got closer and closer. When it got its closet Kelvin saw that it wasn't a star at all. It was a bird. The bird looked completely strange. It was bigger than a surfboard and its beak was long and sharp. The wings of the bird were thick with clumpy feathers but he easily flew. The winged creature crashed right through Kelvin's window.

          Kelvin raced over to his light switch and turned on the light. He could not believe it. A huge bird had just landed in his room.

"Whoa now," said Kelvin. "I ain't go hurt you. Just take it easy."

"Shut up, punk," said the bird. His English was as clear as day. "I'm calling the shots here."

"What the heck?" Kelvin couldn't believe his ears.

"Where are they?" the bird demanded.

"Who?"

"The girls. The slayers. I know there's a new slayer in this house. And a former slayer."

"What you care about them?"

"I don't. I just have orders."

"Uh-uh. You ain't real. I'm havin' a dream."

          The bird held up its wings. Suddenly razor sharp feathers came flying at Kelvin. The feathers stuck made Kelvin get stuck to the wall.

"Still a dream, kid?" the bird asked.

"I don't think so."

"Just tell the slayers to stop what they're doing. They're useless to the cause. Bye now." The bird flew back out the broken window.

          Kelvin manage to tear himself away from the wall. Had that really happen. Had a large bird just come into his room and threaten the slayers? Kelvin decided that it wasn't the cheeseburger he had before bed in his head.

          The next morning Kelvin followed Lela through the house demanding that she'd listen to him. He was explaining about everything that had happened in his bedroom the last night. Lela just could not believe it.

"Kelvin, I'm sorry. But I find it impossible to believe that a huge bird thing came into your room," said Lela.

"Lela, I'm tellin' you that it's true. I saw it with both my eyes. That thing says for you and Faith to stop what you doin'," Kelvin insisted.

"What are you talking about?" Faith looked up from the magazine she was reading in the living room.

Kelvin looked at her. "A big ol' bird came into my room with a threat."

Faith raised an eyebrow at him. "Uh, kid, just a thought, but maybe you should lighten up on the fast foods."

"No. Look, I'm tellin' you that a bird came into my bedroom and said you and Lela gotta stop what you doin'. The slayer thing," said Kelvin.

Faith looked at Lela. Lela said, "He's been through a lot." Kelvin looked annoyed. Lela noticed the look. "Kelvin, are you sure it wasn't just a dream? You have been through a lot and stress could be getting to you."

"And it could come in the form of poultry," Faith added.

"I guess you right," said Kelvin. "I have been feelin' some tension." He shrugged.

          After school Lela and Connor went on their date later that afternoon in LA. They went to a small pizza place and ordered a medium. Lela and Connor both ate the pizza hungrily but neither of them said much between chewing and drinking soda.

Lela wiped her face with a napkin and decided to break the silence. "Hey, Connor, I noticed something."

"What?" Connor sipped his drink.

"It's just that I've noticed you don't really have any interests besides killing vamps and demons. What do you do for fun?"

Connor didn't really know how to answer. "I don't know." He started to drink again.

Lela smiled. "Are your experiences in life going to be drinking soda, watching TV, and killing vampires?"

"Experiences?"

"Well, we're teenagers. We're suppose to go through weird psycho things and you just seem so… laid back. It's like you're just waiting for things. You never make them happen do you?"

Connor thought about that. "I don't really know. What do you do for fun?"

"Me? Well, Kelvin and I use to go to the park all the time with our friends. But as we got older our friends outgrew us or maybe we outgrew them. But now it's just me and Kelvin."

"Who were your friends?"

"Oh, you don't know them. One of them never comes to school anymore and the other just doesn't go to our school anymore. Things change. So does life."

"Has anything good been happening to you?" Connor asked.

"Maybe. I guess being a slayer isn't so bad. What about you?"

"Well, I guess being together with my real father hasn't been too terrible." Connor gave her a serious look. "You won't tell him I said that will you?"

"Oh, no. You're secret is safe with me." Lela giggled. "You're really good to talk to, Connor."

"Thanks. I don't get that a lot."

"Maybe it's because you never say anything."

"Maybe," Connor agreed. "You ready to go?"

"Yes. I think I am."

          They paid the bill (half and half) and left out of the restaurant. Neither one said much when they made their way back to the mansion. Once inside they saw Faith, Angel, Gunn, and Kelvin all in the living room.

"Where were y'all?" Kelvin asked.

"Nowhere," Connor and Lela said together.

          Before anyone could interrogate them further birds, just like the creature Kelvin had seen, all came crashing through one of the living room windows. Everyone jumped up from where they were sitting. Lela's eyes grew to twice their size.

"Attack," one of the birds suddenly yelled. All of a sudden the birds began to fight with everyone in the living room.

Faith grabbed a bird by the beak and slammed it to its back. "Uh, Kelvin, I take back that stress thing."

Kelvin kicked a bird in the chest. "Yeah. I guessed that."

Several birds began surrounding Lela and Connor. Connor pummeled one in its face. A couple grabbed Connor by his arms while the bird Connor was pummeling scratched him in the face with its feet talons.

"Hang on," Lela said to Connor.

          She grabbed a bird by the neck and managed to snap its neck. Connor used his free arm and punched the bird that was scratching him dead in the face. He threw the other bird off his arm. Abruptly a bird swooped down from the ceiling and grabbed Lela by the shoulders. Lela released a scream. The bird flew out of the window the other birds had broken, Lela in its grasp.

"Hey!" Angel yelled. "Lela!"

          Angel and Gunn broke away from the feathered foes and made their way outside. The bird was flying about the mansion with Lela.

"Hey! Hands off, big bird!" she yelled. She punched it in the foot.

"You're coming with me, slayer," the bird told her.

"Hang on," Gunn called up to Lela.

"I'm doing that!" Lela hollered.

          All of a sudden a dagger pierced straight through the birds heart. Its dead body released Lela. She released a scream as she fell. Angel leapt up and grabbed her.

"Whoa. Got you," said Angel.

"I so owe you, Angel," Lela panted as she watched the dead bird collapse. The other birds were suddenly tossed from the house. All of them were dead. "What?"

"Don't mess with me when I haven't eaten," said Faith, walking out of the open door. Kelvin and Connor were behind her.

"Lela, you OK?" Kelvin asked.

"Yeah. Thanks to Angel," said Lela.

"Thanks to me," someone corrected.

          A young girl walked into the light of the house. She had long black hair. It was silky in a ponytail. Her skin was a lovely shade of brown and her eyes were fiery brown. She wore black jeans and a short black blouse with spaghetti thin straps. The blouse showed off her belly button.

"Lyn!" Kelvin and Lela exclaimed.

"Lyn?" Connor repeated.

"Lynette," said the girl. "Your welcome by the way, Lela."

"Lynette Lois Lind," rebuked Kelvin, walking up to her. "Where the heck you been?"

"Hey, church boy," said Lynette.

"That ain't my name," said Kelvin.

"Hold up," said Gunn. "Who is this kid."

"The name is Lynette Lind," Lyn informed them haughtily.

"Who is she?" Angel asked.

"Our friend," said Lela.

"No. Our former friend," Kelvin corrected.

"You got that right," said Lynette.

"Hold on a second," said Lela.

"Look. Your welcome for that all out rescue that I just did but it's over, Lela," said Lynette. "And now I'm gone." She turned and started to walk off.

"Lyn!" Lela called. Lynette ignored her and kept going. Lela sighed. "Oh, great."

"What's wrong with her?" Connor asked.

"She a IGWA," said Kelvin.

Faith said, "And that is…?"

"Indian girl with attitude," Kelvin replied.

"Sounds all good to me," said Gunn.

A/N: OK, people. My confidence in this little show thing I'm doing is really low so I'm going to need a couple of reviews that give me good enough reason to continue it. Oh, and no offense to any Indian blood people. Kelvin was just kidding. Oh, and those birds may seem really lame. And so is Lyn showing up but work with me. I'm going somewhere.