"Life's a Bitch, now so am I!"
Willie's Bar
The door to the bar exploded in, wood splinters spraying the room. In the doorway where the door once was, the demons saw the Dark Slayer, Faith.
Several of the demons ran to the back of the room, but a few of the braver ones stepped forward. "Get out of here Slayer! You're kind isn't wanted here!" Said a red-skinned and horned demon.
"You have two choices here red. Tell me where Buffy is or die," Faith said in a soft voice. Willie recognized the dangerous tone in Faith's voice and ducked back behind his bar.
"Oh yeah?" the red demon asked as it looked at its fellow demons, "And who'd gonna make..." an axe buried itself in the demon's skull cutting him off. Without a sound the red demon collapsed to the ground, twitching.
"Me." came the faint whisper from Faith.
In a blur of motion Faith was among the demons. One hand held a sword and the other wielded an axe with deadly precision as she waded amidst the demons, her blades leaving a trail of blood, gore, severed limbs and dust. When it was over Faith stood breathing heavily, but her anger was no more appeased than before she had walked into Willie's.
Willie peeked over the bar when it grew quiet and saw Faith standing on the opposite side of the room with a bloody axe in her hands. "Uhmm, now Slayer. You really can't be doing this! You're killing my clientele… literally!"
Faith was in front of Willie in a blink. Her hand shot out to grab the little weasel by the throat and hauled him over the bar onto the floor.
"Don't tell me what I can and can't do Willie!" Faith leaned down close, "Right now you can either go the way of your demon bar-flies here or you can tell me what you know!"
Willie held his hands out in front of him, "I don't know anything though!"
Smiling evilly, "Wrong answer Willie." Raising the axe Faith started to swing it, "WAIT! WAIT! I didn't say that no-one knows anything, just that I don't!" Willie yelled desperately.
Smiling, "Now that's what I wanted to hear Willie. Now spill."
"There's this guy, really odd, been seen around the Dale lately... He's not a demon, but word is he knows things and he's not someone you want to cross. A few of the local toughs decided to make a little snack of this guy and they weren't seen again."
"That's nice Willie, now where can I find this guy?"
Willie proceeded to give Faith instructions to an out of the way spot in Sunnydale.
Faith relaxed her hold on her axe as she stood up. "You double cross me here Willie and human or not...I'll skin you and leave your hide nailed to the front door!" With that Faith strode out of the bar.
Willie's BarA minute after Faith had left that day, a dark cloaked figure walked into the bar and over to Willie. "You told her what you were supposed to Willie?" Came the dark voice.
"Uh huh, yeah...yep!" Willie said with a false excitement. "Told her just like you said. Now that's it, right? 'Cause I don't want to be here when she comes back!" Willie said nervously.
A heavily muscled arm wearing a black metal bracer swept out from under the cloak and onto Willie's shoulder. The hand grabbed Willie's shoulder squeezing it and Willie fell to the ground writhing in pain. The cloaked figure squatted down next to Willie. "Now I'm 'hurt' Willie, you've gone and 'hurt' my feelings! You know how I feel about people who 'hurt' my feelings now don't you?"
Willie put his hands up, "Nononono! That's not what I meant, really!" Willie whimpered.
"Oh good! I thought you were saying you don't trust me to make sure the Slayer doesn't make a rug of you." The figure stood up and pulled the hood back to reveal a face with chiseled features, black goatee, long shaped sideburns and dark eyes that seemed to have no bottom. Walking to the front door, "You've done well Willie! Hahahaha!" The man laughed while disappearing in ball of blue lightning.
The Magick BoxA hand tapped her on the shoulder and Faith pulled herself out of her thoughts with a shake, "Yeah?"
"Is everything ok?" Tara asked concerned.
"Yeah, just thinking is all." Faith replied evasively.
Seeing Faith wasn't going to say what was bothering her Tara frowned mentally. "Okay," and made a mental note to talk to Willow later about Faith.
Damnit, it's been a week and we've found jack so far! Maybe its time I went to see this demon Willie was talking about. Faith thought angrily.
2 Hours Later Stevenson HallRoom 314
Faith walked over to Willow, "Red, you got any plans for tonight?"
Frowning, "Uh no. Why?" Willow asked with a confused look.
"Because we've got a date with a new demon in town." Faith answered.
Raising one eyebrow, "We do?" Willow asked
"Yeah. When I was at Willie's a few days ago, he dropped a dime on some demon that supposedly moved into the area. Very secretive and supposedly very tough. So I want some serious Witchpower in case Willie wasn't lying to cover his ass."
Grinning, "Okay. What time then?" Willow asked.
"Seven. I'll stop by the dorm and pick you up. Just be ready for anything, k?"
Nodding, "I'll see you at seven then and I will be." Willow replied.
End Chapter 1