Redeemed

Chapter 6

This is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel fan fiction based on the character, Faith. I do not own any name or reference in this fan-fiction, and all rights concerning Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel belong to Joss Whedon.

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Faith saw Buffy walk in and what in shock at what she saw. Buffy had been beaten up pretty badly. No slayer had done this. She had had an encounter with The First. The First hadn't been interested in fighting Faith. He wanted her on his side, and that's why he chose the form he did.

Faith walked over to Buffy and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "God, Buffy, look what he did to you."

Angel helped her over to a chair, and she sat down. Willow and Kennedy came over and sat down on the other side of her. Faith looked very forcefully over to Giles. She hadn't seen him since she left Sunnydale five years ago. She wondered what he was thinking about her right now.

"Giles." She said awkwardly.

"Hello, Faith." He replied with a kind of half smile. "You are well I presume?"

"Yeah, I'm good."

Willow got up abruptly; her eyes turned black. She looked towards the door. There standing in the entrance was the slayer that Faith had fought the previous night before. Tanya looked over at Willow. Cautiously she stepped aside, and in through the door walked The First.

"Thicken!" Willow shouted.

There was a ripple of magic in front of the door as the air around The First closed up. He pushed his way though it in seconds, however, and simply smiled over at her.

"That didn't work last time you tried it, Willow." He said. "What made you think it would work this time?"

"Sanctums of the inner realm I call…" Willow started.

Suddenly, an arrow shot through the air towards her. Tanya had a crossbow in her possession and she had fired it at the witch. Willow jumped, but the arrow was quickly snatched out of the air by Faith before it could even reach her.

Kennedy immediately started towards Tanya, but Faith held her hand up to stop her. Faith had fought her the night before and had nearly lost the battle. She knew that if Tanya had been that much of a challenge for her, that Kennedy wouldn't stand a chance.

"She's mine!" Kennedy sneered.

Faith turned around to glare at her. "You would lose. Protect Willow while she works her magic, and I'll deal with Tanya."

The First stepped forward towards Faith. "Perhaps you are ready to join back up with me?"

"Not going to work this time." Faith said confidently. "It's one thing to get me by myself and try to haunt me with the past. It's another thing altogether to expect me to betray my friends."

"As you wish!"

The First shot his fist out and hit Faith before she could even think about blocking the attack. She flew through the air with impact of the blow. She hit Angel's desk, shattering it to pieces as she went through it.

"Sanctums of the inner realm I call, before me let the unclean thing crawl!" Willow shouted.

Angel recognized the spell that would turn any normal person into a rat. However, he knew that it wouldn't work on the first. Faith got up and looked in the direction that Willow had cast her spell. She noticed that Tanya was flaring with magic and shrinking down. Soon, the slayer was a rat crawling around on the floor.

The First went for Willow, but Faith was faster. She knocked Willow and Kennedy out of the way and shoved his fist into the gut of The First. She brought her other hand above and behind his head and pushed it down to meet her knee. She then pushed him backwards towards the wall.

The First slammed against the wall and came back, not feeling the affect of the attacks at all. He brushed himself off, just like the mayor would have done, and started walking back towards her for more. He brought a big smile to his face, finding Faith's attempts to hurt him humorous.

"Is that all you've got, Slayer?" he asked her tauntingly.

Faith ran at The First with all she had, and then launched herself into the air. She struck out with both feet, planting a double kick on him. She fell to the ground, but he acted as if he were barely affected at all. She got up again, however, and went after him again. This time, Kennedy and Angel ran at him too. Angel grabbed one arm, Kennedy the other. Faith kicked him in the front of each kneecap.

Together, the three of them somehow managed to pull him towards the window. They all kicked and punched at The First, desperately trying to get him through the window. Then, Willow stepped behind him.

"Shatter!" She yelled.

Angel, Faith, and Kennedy shielded their eyes as the window before them burst into shards of flying weapons. The First now stood before an open window.

"Light as a feather, thick as a board. Take flight with evil, and be no more!"

The First's arms were pinned down to his sides as his legs locked together. He was carried up in the heavy gust that had been produced by the spell of a very ticked off Willow. He was thrown out the window, and the last they saw of him was him hurtling towards the ground.

"That won't kill him." Faith said. "We've got to go after him.

"No," Angel replied, "we were lucky this time. We can't just chase after him. He'll kill us. He underestimated us this time, but he won't let that happen again."

Angel looked out the window. "Plus, I can't follow right now. The sun's still up."

Willow glanced at the shards of glass all over the floor, and instantly they flew back up into the window pane and magically fixed themselves back into place.

"Willow, that's quite some power you've got behind you." Faith said.

"Yeah," She said, uneasily, "I've had some problems in the past with it. You know, I went all evil and what not."

"I heard about that, but wasn't it you that released the power of the slayers last year when we went into the hell mouth?"

"Yeah, it was. That was the biggest spell I had done since I tried to destroy the world."

Faith noticed how uncomfortable Willow was with the topic of conversation, and so she dropped it. She instead started walking around, trying to think of a way to get rid of The First.