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Destiny Lies in the Syndicate (a.k.a. the Prophecy of Faye Valentine)

By Fantasy Cat

Disclaimer: I own nothing, but Sam cuz Sam rocks!!!!!

Chapter Four: Sam I Am

The trip to the building was silent. Faye had no idea what her punishment was going to be for trying to escape. It was probably going to be ugly.

When they entered the lobby of the building, Vicious's bird swooped down from the ceiling charging at Faye. The bird began several blowing pecks at Faye's skin. "Get this damn bird!#$^*$$#^&#@!," Faye was cursing as she used every attempt to get the bird off. Vicious and the other just stepped away. Just then, Faye found an unused vase on the table, and threw it at the bird. It missed the bird by only inches and the vase crashed against the wall upon impact. The bird chased Faye down a small staircase to the lower floor managing to peck at her dress down the way. When they got to the bottom Faye managed to grab the bird and attempted to strangle it while the bird was pecking her.

Finally Vicious came down and called the bird. It flew to him and perched on his shoulder. "I see you've discovered the cells. I figure that a few down here will cool you off from your uncontrollable behavior."

"Uncontrollable behavior?" Faye wondered. "I was trying to escape in a non-violent fashion."

"But were you hurting my poor bird." Vicious pulled out a bird treat from his pocket to feed the bird. "Wasn't she?" he asked the bird and he began to stroke it.

"He was attacking me!" Faye's face turned angry.

"No excuses. I'll think you'll like this room," he said as he pushed Faye into a darkened cell. "It suits a shrew woman like you." All Faye did was grunted with anger as he locked the door.

She looked at herself and noticed there were holes in her dress and that she was bleeding in several spots at once. She felt her cheeks and found some swelling spots. She knew it didn't felt the same.

"Aw, hell," she said loudly to herself.

"Lo."

"Huh? Who is that? Oh well."

"Lo."

"Stop staying that! Who is that?!" Faye was getting pissed.

"Sorry I thought you would enjoy a little humor." The weird stranger appeared out of nowhere from the back corner of the room. "Hi, my name's Sam Kaito. I've been residing in the cell next to yours for three months.

Faye could tell he's been down here for a while. He turned out to be very hairy for someone who looked young. His beard was long and dangled out. His hair went down a little past his shoulder. Meanwhile she was thinking to herself 'just don't smell him!'

"How did you piss Vicious off? It couldn't be anything big since you're alive and all," Faye wondered.

"Yeah, I know. But I think I'm going to die tomorrow."

"What makes you think that?"

"I can predict things."

"You?"

"Yup, I use to be very valuable to the Red Dragons."

"You're a Red Dragon?!"

"Former Red Dragon," Sam snapped back at Faye. "Anyway, so yeah. Me and Vicious were good and all. I can understand how anyone wanted power over the Red Dragons. But to be all-honest, Vicious didn't seem to have any desire for power. He just wanted it to change things and to get back at people more easily. So the syndicate split into two sides, those who were loyal to the Van and all, and there were people like me who wanted to get on Vicious's good side, cuz everyone's afraid of that guy ya know. About three months ago, my prediction powers told me that the Van was in danger and Vicious was somehow involved. Put two and two together, hahahaha. I went to inform the Van. They knew that I was a friend of Vicious, but in return for warning them about him the first time, they just gave me a prison sentence. Well, everyone forgot that I was down here since the Van is dead now."

"How are you gonna die?"

"When I inform you about you're destiny."

"What destiny?"

"I didn't think you would end up here, but for weeks there was thing that came up in my head, a prediction. No a prophecy. Involving you."

"Okay…we just met."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me concentrate." Sam was in a trance. "Okay, okay, it is the one whose past has perished that will bring down the venomous snake that sucks the blood of the powerful dragon."

"Well, there's nothing from my past that exists anymore. Can I really kick Vicious's ass?"

"If that's what the prophecy says. It also says that you will bring the rightful one back to power, the one whose eye can SEE the past."

A memory from not too long ago came back to Faye's mind, to true to be real…

'Look at these eyes. One of them is a fake, because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I have been seeing the past in one eye, and the present in the other. I had believed that what I saw was not all of reality...'

"No, it can't be who I think it is…" Faye told Sam. "He's…dead."

"Hey now. My prediction thingy is never wrong. Besides it came come true unless you complete the entire prophecy."

"Then, I can't kill Vicious. It's not gonna come true. Spike's dead damn it!" Faye brought her head down and tried to hold back the tears.

"Oh? You're the one who knows Spike?"

"Huh?" Faye gasped. She brought her head up.

But Sam was already gone. Faye was left the rest of the night crying. Meeting Sam had a bad impact than it already should on her. Despite the very cold temperature that dropped lower and lower in her cell, Faye managed to get some shut-eye.