night. She felt a hand gently rub her arm as she yawned.
"Morning." Faith said
"Exactly, why didn't you wake me up?" Faith shrugged and placed her chin on her
shoulder.
"Figured I'd let you rest is all."
"Thank you then, ready to go down there?"
"God yes! My ass is killing me now." They slowly and cautiously climbed down the
tree, heading straight for the trap. They expected to see a werewolf in the pit but
instead got a man, spikes sticking out of him. He had dark brown skin and shaggy
black hair. On his chest he wore a tattoo in the shape of a flower. Faith cringed as
she looked at the dead man lying there, memories of Allan came back to her.
"I don't get it...he howled." Buffy said.
"Maybe he changed back."
"You think killing them does that?" Faith shrugged, her face pale.
"You okay?"
"Yeah just you know...dead guy doesn't bring back such happy memories is all." Buffy
cupped her cheek.
"That's in the past."
"Yeah." Faith replied as she eyed the man. Buffy grabbed her hand and moved away from the pit.
"Come on Faith let's see what else we can find." There were prints in the sand that
trailed everywhere.
"How many do you think there are?"
"I don't know B." A loud bang sounded from a far and they watched deep smoke clouds a
rise into the sky. The two began walking into the woods, following the sound of the
drums. The sounds became louder as they walked past logs and vines in the jungle.
Finally they stopped, they saw a group of men surrounding something in a circle. A
man stepped back to reveal an unmoving Riley, teeth marks on his body. Buffy gasped
and tried to run to him just as the man transformed into a wolf. Faith grabbed her
and pulled her back, covering her mouth as the other men followed suit and devoured
into the soldiers body.
"We got to go." she whispered sadly to Buffy, who now had unshed tears in her eyes.
Buffy sat on the sand watching the waves roll, while Faith sat beside her
rubbing her back. She was finding it a little hard to believe that Riley was dead.
True she didn't love him anymore but she still didn't hate him, she never wanted to
see him dead.
"What are we going to do?" Faith asked lowly and Buffy wiped her eyes.
"Kill them I guess." Faith looked at her shocked.
"They're still human B."
"No they're not Faith, they're choosing to be what they are. Did you not see them
morph on command?" Faith sighed and looked away.
"Still..."
"No, they have to be stopped." Faith didn't answer just picked at the grains of sand
on the beach.
"Your right." She said finally and got up to her feet.
"How should we go about doing this?"
Village
A man with blonde hair and dark blue eyes sat at a table. No one dared speak while their king thought.
"You all have become excellent fighters. I never thought that when I came here you
would turn out to be so extraordinary, or so loyal. I am glad I created you all, you
have made me veryproud." He said with a grin. He stood and began to circle the table.
"Which is why I believe you are ready. We will have to take my boat to get there but
we will soon see the people I have told you about. The one's who experiment with our
kind." He growled.
"That man we found today is one of them, I can never forget one of their scents. They
must be planning to raid our Island and capture us to do their evil experiments!" He
yelled and pounded his fists on the table. The men and women that surrounded him
stood attentively.
"We won't give them a chance though." He finished and smiled wickedly.
Beach
"Maybe we should finish making those weapons. Then we can go investigate them some
more." Buffy said and Faith nodded her consent.
"Figures, even when I'm stranded on a damn island this crap manages to find me." Buffy mumbled as she walked away with Faith behind her.
The brunette began finishing sharpening the rock she had been working on thenight before. She was quickly becoming agitated with it as she tried to get itsharp enough. She hit the ground with her hand and Buffy looked up from what she was doing.
"God this blows." she said to no one particular.
"Knew that already." Buffy said as she started moving her rock on a large boulder
again.
"These things really aren't going to help us." Faith muttered as she felt the tip of
the rock.
"Well, it's something at least." She threw hers into a tree trunk.
"See we can throw 'em." Faith got up and pulled the weapon out then stood in front of
Buffy.
"Show off." she stated and handed Buffy the rock back.
"I know." She replied as Faith kneeled down beside her.
"When do you want to leave?" Faith asked
"Tonight I guess."
"So...you mind if I get some sleep then?"
"Yeah, go ahead." Buffy said as she looked at her.
Faith gave her a quick kiss on the lips before she laid on the pile they had made on their first night. It didn't take long before she was completely asleep. Buffy looked over at her and smiled, it was still hard to believe they were together now. She placed down the rock and walked to her. Faith stirred and turned her head as Buffy spooned her from behind.
"B?" she asked drowsily.
"Yeah." Buffy whispered.
"What are you doing?" She asked confused.
"I just want to watch you sleep." Buffy said and Faith laid her head back down. Buffy placed her head on her hand and let her fingers play in Faith's soft hair.
"I love you." she said to the unconscious brunette.
TBC...