As Ryan ran with Buffy over his shoulder and his halberd in hand, he darted into a small cave. The others who were at this point altogether asked Darius "How long will that last?" "Two maybe two and a half hours." "We should be able to get them to somewhere safe in that time." Giles gave a hiccup. "What about Tarzan defending Jane?" Jessie spoke to try and make it seem like she had some control of the situation. "What?" Xander had no idea who she was talking about "Ryan defending Buffy, duh..." then Jessie turned to Giles "...Why didn't both Buff and Ryan fight us instead of Ryan tellin' her to back down and let him do it?" "Well em, you see they now have the minds of animals, so em, Ryan being the male thinks he should defend the weakened female at all costs." Giles gave another hiccup. Then Xander held out a piece of paper to everyone, it was a small piece of paper but Xander said "Guys Ryan gave me this he said if something ever went wrong and both him and Buff were unavailable we were to call this number." Darius took the paper and read it out and then said. "Xander, Giles I now who owns this number...It's Faith's!"

Faith had left the group soon after leaving Sunny Dale because she had sights to see and things to do on her own before she could be a real 'Team Player'. But while on her solo adventures she heard rumours of a guy with inhuman strength and speed. She presumed it was a vampire or demon but instead found Ryan, the two clicked very well and made an excellent team. But their slaying days as a team ended when their relationship did, demon influences broke the couple up and even though they both found this out they rarely saw each other after that. One of those times was when they took revenge on the Demon that broke them apart.

Giles had a cell phone with him but wanted to see if they could get Ryan first, cause deep in his heart he new as handy as Faith was and she was reformed, she was still a threat to everything, she could corrupt the slayers or put everything in jeopardy with her reckless attitude. "Lets try getting them ourselves first shall we?" the girls ears sprung up as Giles said this, they had something to prove, they wanted to beat Ryan, there was fire in there eyes and they were ready to fight.

It wasn't long before they had a plan, the girls would lead out Ryan and Darius would tranq him. So the girls ventured in, and it took less than thirty seconds to find the primal pair. The girls moved really slowly as to hopefully not alert them until the last second. But Jessie stepped on a twig which made enough noise to alert Ryan, he charged at the two but they used there heads this time and while Jessie fought Ryan, Louise went for the halberd which she used to trip up Ryan, the girls quickly grabbed Ryan at the arms and feet and carried him out to be shot with a tranquilliser dart. Xander quickly volunteered to get Buffy and the two were in a safe place soon enough.

But it would be a week before they would regain their senses (and they still were in bad shape) and in that time Xander took it upon himself to invite Faith over to Italy, Which enraged Giles, although she did prove very useful, while Buffy recuperated Faith trained the Slayers in her own method of combat to give a little more choice with their techniques when slaying. And Darius though them how to use more advanced weapons then crossbows and stakes.

Ryan recovered a day before Buffy and he and Faith sparred off to show the slayers how it's really done. They stood in a large training room, there was all the slayers watching and chanting as Ryan and Faith exchanged different types of throws, leg sweeps and the use of things lying around as weapons, but in the end Ryan had nothing to defend with when Faith gripped her fingers around his balls. This caused lots of girls to shout things like "Girl Power!" and "Never mess with a woman with claws!" But Ryan eventually got up and said "Hell hath no fury like Ryan McCarthy pissed off!" and a real sparring match started were the two combatants punched, kicked and exchanged playful yet competitive quotes. When it was all over Ryan and Faith called it a tie and had to lie down for a while to get their breath, neither of them got angry with the other for actually punching them, they sparred like this all the time when the two were together.

Ryan waited till Buffy had recovered before telling anyone what happened back at the warehouse and telling them about 'The Dark Gifts' which Giles instantly recognised and started explaining how dangerous they were. He was going on that they had to get to that warehouse as soon as possible. So that night Ryan, Buffy, Faith and about ten other slayers all went to the warehouse and found the crates, most crates in the warehouse had just chairs and tables but about a dozen or so had Dark Gifts. Suddenly a Demonic voice could be heard from behind them. "I would drop those if I were you!" Faith turned to see a large red demon with four arms. "If you were me you'd be a girl!" and suddenly all the shadows in the warehouse came together to form a large hound. Then the demon said. "Aren't the Dark gifts great!"