AN: Hi ya'all! I'm back with the latest chapter. No really important notes expect this introduces another evil (woman evil!) and thus the plot really begins.
To Clatimere: It will be amusing to see how Logan and Buffy fight along side one another. They're both leaders (older leaders, anyway) and that means a clash.
To A Watcher: Ori and Faith could kick the villain's ass but since that would ruin the plot she's getting more power. Pazza! ***coughs*** sorry 'bout that.
Chapter Eleven- ChoicesPower was in her veins, as it should be. Power was everything. It was what everyone craved. Slayer, demon, vampire or human. It was what made the world go around.
And since she had been alive for about two hundred thousand years, she knew that very well. She had watched humans kill one another over power. From ancient Egypt to World War 2. Everything was about power. And she knew how to get it.
There had been a whisper moving around in the demon world. A whisper of an evil forgotten by most and thought of as a myth by the others. But since this Jake demon had shown up, slaughtering the Slayers, the rumors had flown.
At the thought of the Slayers she frowned. She hated Buffy Summers for changing the way the world works. Before they had only had to worry about the one Slayer, but now they were everywhere. Ever since the fall of the prime evil, the First, the demons had hid in their underground crypts, afraid they would be the next to die.
But now they were rising again because Jake had shown up. He promised that he would bring back the old days and pain and angst to those who wanted it. He asked for demons for his army, but no one dared to. She was different; she loved power and took whenever she could. She would join this Jake and his lord if it meant power.
Jake was believed to be working for a person called Lord Deltoramina. A very ancient demon that had once ruled around the same time of the First's biggest power play. He had disappeared, believed to have been killed off by the Slayer of the time, and was rarely spoke of. Turns out he's alive and he's looking for some revenge.
So here she was.
Her boots thudded across the ground of the hidden crypt. It was dark, wet, and gloomy. Perfect for a demon hell-bent on destroying the world. She really didn't care what happened to the world, all she cared about was power, of course.
As she moved towards the center of the tomb, a vampire called the Tora-Kone, approached her. She had heard about them. They were a supreme type of vampire, but they didn't have the power to think for themselves. But it didn't hurt to have an army of Tora-Kone backing you.
"Listen now," she drawled, "I ain't got no bone to pick with you. I'm a demon, see. Name's Furia, the demon of female rage. I'm here to see your boss and join his cause, got it?"
The Tora-Kone stared at her blankly and then when it was about to attacked, a hand reached up and gripped its shoulder. Furia blinked.
"Now, now." Jake the demon of something said, "She's on our side, boya. We don't want to send away our support. Would'ant be nice of us."
The Tora-Kone looked at his master then turned and walked away. Jake turned back to Furia and grinned his boyish grin.
All of a sudden, Furia wished she had taken more time on her appearance because Jake was brutally hot. Furia herself was beautiful, as her demon gift made her. She had dark red hair that was pulled into an elaborate twist on top her head and her eyes were black. She was short, had been before she was turned to a demon, and was proud to say her breasts were large without surgery and she was very pretty.
But nothing compared to Jake.
"Lord Deltoramina told me to expect ya. Said ya'd come because ya wanted the power." Jake grinned, "Can't say I blame ya."
Furia smirked, "So you really work for Lord Deltoramina? And all this time I believed him to be a myth. So tell me, why does your Lord wish to destroy Earth?"
Jake laughed, "Who says he wants to destroy Earth? Lord Deltoramina simply wants to return Earth to the way it was when demons ruled." He closed his eyes for a moment and then opened them, "Ya have a plan on how to make this work."
"How do you know that?"
"Lord Deltoramina is everywhere. He speaks to ma. He can read minds. Ah know what ya think. Tell me what yar plan is?" Jake demanded.
Furia cocked an eyebrow, "You must first agree to my prices first."
"Name them."
"When we wipe out the Slayers and humans, I want the half-breeds to go with them." Furia said, "Everyone in the demon world knows of my hatred towards those half-demons. They are inferior, weak. They do not deserve the demon blood the flows in their veins. I want them gone."
"How did Ah know that was going to be it?" Jake shook his head, "Oh, right Ah can talk to Lord Deltoramina. Very well then, we shall wipe out yar enemies. As well as the vampires, the lowest of low in the demon world. Now, what is ya plan?"
Furia turned her head to look at Jake's home and then she said, "The mutants shall be a wild card in this battle. They shall make us or break us. We will need them to be on our side. And since the humans have been treating them like filth it shan't be to hard to convince them to fight for are side. We offer them the hand of friendship and they shall fight alone side of the Tora-Kone."
"Are ya mad? Ya know very well that Lord Deltoramina needs all the mutants' powers in order to be fully resurrected!" Jake pointed out.
"Don't be daft, Jake. Of course we'll kill them and take their powers after we win the battle, but we have to act as their friends if we are to win. You do want to win Jake, do you?" Furia asked, fluttering her eyelashes. Jake wasn't surprised that his loins burst with heat; she was a very pretty demon.
"Very well, it'll be done. Tora-Kone, come to me. Ah want you send up word to find out where the mutants live." Then seeing Furia frown he also added, "Also, take yar numbers tonight and hunt down the half-demons and kill them."
The Tora-Kone nodded and moved away. Once they were alone, Furia placed her hand on Jake's shoulder.
"What is the first part of your plan?" He asked her and Furia smiled.
"We must rid ourselves of the Slayers, other then the ones with Buffy, near here and…" At this point she laughed, feeling wicked and powerful, "We rid ourselves of the one other weakness we have."
Jake nodded knowing very well what Furia was talking about. It may not be their weakness, but it was the one other thing that held their armies back.
"The sun."
Four days past since the arrival of Eve. Faith and Ori made regular check-ups with the Brotherhood and Buffy tried to get information about the X-Men's mysterious leader, though that seemed like a lost cause.
The whole Jake and his Lord thing had been slow. No real activates, not counting the grave robberies; Jake's vampires seem to be doing. Most of the robberies Buffy or Faith managed to stop, but there were sometimes when they got away. What the two Slayers didn't know, that that was bringing Jake closer to Phase One.
Meanwhile, Faith was beginning to enjoy being around the Brotherhood. They were like Peter Pan's lost boys. They needed a mother to guide them and she was happily filling in the role as segregate mother to the younger ones like Fred, Lance and Pietro. Colossus was a year older then she was and Gambit and Pyro were a year younger.
Oh and it wasn't like the boys were too happy about her taking the part of the mother. Lance glared at her daily, swearing he didn't like her when he did and Fred and Pietro liked to think themselves as tough guys and thought their warmness towards Faith was because of attraction.
But Faith knew better. She was the queen of one-night stands after all. They weren't attracted to her. She was older, wiser, and experienced. They would eventually, with time, come to her with problems, but for now she just continued to cluck around them like a mother hen.
Faith blew air through her teeth, "God, I must be getting old."
"Hmmm?" Ori said, not really interested. She was to busy thinking about that Aussie fire-tamer. Pyro, real name John, wasn't what you'd call a 'conventional' hottie but he had something about him that made him handsome in his own way. Maybe it was the way his fiery red hair spiked out of that hat or the hidden green eyes. His body was lean and athletic, something to drool about. And she had to admit, during the past four days she'd been at the Brotherhood, she'd enjoyed him the most and it wasn't just because he was 'cute'. He was funny and energetic; something most of TB (Team Buffy) didn't have.
"Never mind." Faith said as she saw her blonde friend was to busy daydreaming about what she was dreaming about to really listen to her.
They walked down to the BBH, Bayville Boarding House, in silence but it was not an awkward silence. Each was to busy caught up in her own thoughts to start a conversation. Faith was worrying over another world crisis while Ori was thinking about men and their advantages and disadvantages
They made it to the BBH in record time but that was because Ori had not insisted on stopping in town so she could look at all the 'nifty little shops' as Willow called them. And unfortunately there was a reason they were early, and it made Faith sigh.
Ori realized how close they were getting to BBH and sighed as well. They weren't going to be happy when they found out they had been deceived for they had been tricked all their young lives, but it was her duty as Buffy's team member to do as their leader asked. She hoped Pyro would understand that.
"How are going to go about telling them that we're actually working for a woman trying to keep the world from being destroyed by demons?" Ori asked as they made their way onto the porch of the BBH.
Faith said, "We tell them that the real reason we came here was because we thought something bad was going down. So we could keep a better eye on what was going on in the mutant world we joined them. Then it turns out we're right and a demon is trying to destroy the world and we're now offering them a chance to join our team for the time being and help prevent that destruction of our world."
Ori rolled her eyes, feeling a little better though she'd never admit to that, "You have such a way with words." she said sarcastically.
Faith shrugged, "I get it from B. You should've heard the speeches she gave during our battle with the First. Normally I would've said: 'yo, the world's about to be destroyed. Get the hell on my team or get the hell out of my way'."
"Your approach might be better then Buffy's." Ori pointed out, "They are the Brotherhood, after all. A certain roughness must be involved."
"There you go again with your double meanings again." Faith muttered and pushed open the door. Together, Slayer and mutant walked in.
The Brotherhood was, as usual, sitting in the living room doing whatever. Fred and Pietro watching TV, Lance mopping in the back corner over that Kitty Pryde Buffy had mentioned before, Gambit, Colossus and Pyro playing cards with the Cajun winning. Faith gave Ori a pat on the shoulder.
"Hey guys," Faith said ever-so-casually and everyone looked up at her, "how about a change in pace? Wanna hear a surprise?"
Okay… where's the whole Buffy approach? Ori wondered, looking surprised.
"Sure." Fred said while Lance, Colossus, Pietro, Gambit and even Pyro looked a little weary. There was something about the way Faith was acting that wasn't natural. Something was amiss.
"Well-" Faith began and cut of by the back wall of the living room being ripped away. A beautiful older woman stepped into the part where she had ripped the wall, looking amused. Weakly Faith said, "Surprise."
"Friend of yours, luv?" Pyro asked of Ori.
"Hell, no. She's way to pretty." Ori said and Faith raised an eyebrow.
"Who are you, cherie?" Gambit stepping forward as the whole Brotherhood, new and old members, tensed.
"The demons call me Furia, the demon of female rage. I like just Furia." She smiled, "I come here to offer you a once in a life time offer. To become something more powerful then you can ever imagine. To crush your enemies."
"You got my attention." Pietro said.
Furia nodded, "This may sound very sudden, but time is of the essence. Things are changing quickly. You are either with us or against us. I don't have time for you to choose." She held out her hand, "Take my hand and I'll show you a power you've barely begun to dream of."
Fred said, "What do you think, guys?"
"Well, what choice do we have?" Colossus wondered, "She had made it very clear enemies will be destroyed. We have no choice."
Every male member of the Brotherhood nodded. Faith and Ori exchanged glances and stepped forward.
"Stop guys!" Faith said and everyone turned to look at her, "I know this may sound weird but don't accept what she has to offer. Whatever power she has you don't want. She's a demon, remember? I know her kind."
Furia frowned at Faith and then said, "You are no mutant. Your companion may be but you are not." Suddenly she bared her teeth, "You're a Slayer."
Faith nodded as everyone, excluding Ori's, eyes widened, "Yeah. Listen, I fight people like her. She wants to use her powers to destroy the world. You don't want that, do you? To be the cause of so much pain?"
Fred looked at Faith like a lost child, "But she'll kill us if we don't. We have to join."
"No, she won't. I'm here and she's just a low-life demon. She'll leave once you don't accept her offer, or she'll have to fight me." Faith pointed out calmly.
"I don't care." Pietro said, "I'm going. What has this world ever done for me? She's offering us power. No strings attached."
"Not yet." Faith muttered.
"I'm going, too. Sorry." Fred said quickly to Faith.
Ori looked over at Pyro and with pleading eyes shook her head. Pyro let out a hiss of air and backed away, "Bollocks." he muttered. But he felt better when Ori looked up at him and beamed.
"Already got a boss." Gambit said moving away from Furia.
Colossus gave Furia a steely glare, "I do not fight for evil. I like the world whole."
And only Lance was left.
Deadly calm, Lance said, "You're the reason why that girl died?" he said remembering that night on the road. Furia just stared at him and the Earth-shaker took that as a yes, "No way."
Furia let out a growl of frustration, "You'll pay for this, Slayer. You and your Summers girl. A war is coming, a war to end all wars, and you Slayers and mutants shall be the first to fall." With that she, Fred and Pietro disappeared.
"What's going to happen to them?" Colossus asked of the two girls.
"I have no idea." Faith said, "Nothing good, I can tell you that much. She'll probably end up destroying them once she doesn't need them anymore. My friend Willow did some research on this Jake fellow who happens to be the big baddie here and he has a tendency to kill Slayers and mutants. And he's not the kind of person to keep something alive when it isn't necessary."
"Are you saying that they're our enemies now?" Lance asked.
Faith shook her head, "I'm saying you might have to fight Pietro and Fred. They're working for the bad guy now. Like Furia said, a war is coming and a really big one at that."
"You better go get your stuff and come over to out apartment. The demon knows where you leave. It's not safe here anymore." Ori pointed out.
"What is the exact job of a Slayer, cherie?" Gambit asked of Faith as everyone moved to go get their stuff.
A ghost of a smile touched Faith lips, "Go get your stuff and I'll give you the whole history of Slayerdom on the way to the apartment. It's very long, very bloody… you'll love it. Now get your stuff."
As everyone did so Ori and Faith looked at one another.
"Now what?" Ori asked.
Faith sighed, "I didn't expect them to move so soon. Now they have two mutants on their side and who knows how many of those strong vampires they got?"
"All-in-all, Buffy is not going to be happy."
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Ohhhhh ***wide eyes*** evil good looking demon. She's not my friend either, Ori! Anyway, all done with this chap. Did you like it? Obviously the pace of the story is now going to be increased. The evil people have got plans! Alright, watch out for chapter twelve Bait where Furia starts Phase One of 'Plan to Take Over World'! But who is she kidnapping? Find out and REVIEW!
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