Chapter Six
"Faith…" An angelic voice cried out to her in her dream. She rolled over and groaned from the pain that jolted through her back.
"Faith…My darling child, wake up." The voice pleaded with her. Faith squeezed her eyes shut tighter. She recognized that voice and if it was the person she thought it was, she didn't want to be asleep much longer.
" Damnit wakeup now!" The voice screamed at her as she felt something crack against her backside. Her eyes fluttered open to complete and total darkness. She sat up and looked around the room, her eyes slowly adjusting to the darkness that surrounded her. She could just barely make out the figure of what looked to be a man standing in the corner opposite of her.
"Who are you?" She asked while she rubbed her eyes with her right hand. She quickly scolded herself when she discovered that her hands were covered in dirt and blood. 'Great now my face is covered in god knows what…' She mumbled to herself.
"That is none of your concern my child." A scratchy voice replied. "For someone so smart, you're asking the wrong questions."
"Oh yeah?" Faith snorted "Am I supposed to ask how to find my way home, and you tell me to follow the yellow brick road?"
"Yellow brick road?" The voice asked back "I have never heard of such a road."
"Dude…I'm so not in Candace anymore." Faith groaned.
"Dude? I am not a dude!" The voice shouted at her.
"Can we just get back to what we were discussing before you insulted my intelligence?" Faith suggested.
"Yes, yes of course." The voice responded and Faith rolled her eyes. "Faith, you were brought here, from your time and world, to save the lives that will be unfairly taken. You will face many trials, including love-"
"Wait a minute, did you just say love!" Shouted Faith as she stood up and held the wall for support.
"Uh…yes?" The voice answered back timidly.
"Oh hells no. Listen, I think you got the wrong girl. See, I'm Faith. I'm not Destiny, Miracle or Hope. I'm Faith. And Faith doesn't fall in love."
"Why not?"
"Because I just don't!"
"Is it because you're afraid of letting someone in?"
"……."
"I assume my assumption is correct."
"No its not! I can fall in love, I just chose not to. I don't have time for a relationship, and I don't need one when at anytime I could die." Faith growled. Her eyes had finally adjusted and she could see that the person she had been talking to was no other then Merlin himself.
"Faith…You and your sisters were brought here for a purpose. Rather your purpose is to stay here and love someone, or die in battle, I do not know. But you must open your heart, let down the barriers that surround your heart that keep you from loving others. The trials you are going to face will be hard and difficult. You could die at any given moment, do not die and leave things unsaid."
"You know what, this whole big dramatic speech thing, so does not work on me. Try it on Miracle, she'll take you serious." Said Faith as she crossed her arms over her chest and tried to lean against the stone wall behind her.
"You're not afraid to die."
"No I'm not. I will not run from faith, if it is my destiny to die." She replied coldly.
"Though you claim my words are wasted on you, I believe they are not. Somewhere deep inside you, you want to feel what its like to be loved once more. You lost all faith that love ever existed when your mother died." Merlin calmly said.
"And what do you know of my mother!" snarled Faith.
"I know that you think her death is your fault. I know that the memory of her slicing her wrists open is embedded in your mind. I know that you think if you fall in love, the person will just die and leave you with a broken heart. I know that the great strong, powerful, emotionless Faith is really afraid of having her heart broken into pieces again. You built barriers around your heart to keep emotions out, you only speak when you feel it is necessary."
"Child, you are not as mysterious as you think you are. You are just a puzzle waiting to be solved. And I just happen to be a very intelligent person who just solved the puzzle, and met the end of the maze."
"Ya know what! Shut up you cracker ass fool, you don't know shit about me!" Faith shouted in defense. Merlin tilted his head down and slowly shook it. He sighed and turned to the barred cell door that was beside him.
"Perhaps I do not know about you Faith, but I know who you really are." Merlin called over his shoulder before he exited the prison cell.
Faith stared at the door stunned, sliding down the stone wall to sit on the floor. She felt hot tears trickling down her filth covered face. The memories of her mother were enough to make her break down and cry.
Deciding she wouldn't let her enemy see her cry, she sat up and pulled her knees to her chest. Glancing around the cell, she saw that there were bones scattered all over the floor, rats scurrying around her, a bright pink duffel bag, bones of dead rats. 'Wait…bright pink duffel bag!' She screamed at herself. Jumping from her sitting position, she crawled across the dirty floor and yanked the duffel bag towards her.
'There must be something in here…' Faith began to rummage around the bag to see I there was anything that she had missed before. 'Aha!' Faith mentally congratulated herself when she felt something round in her hand. At first she though it was a weapon of some sort, but when she pulled it out, she couldn't help but scream and throw it across the room.
"Oh my god Hope! A dildo! What the fuck!" She screamed.
Calming herself, she timidly reached into the bag and began to feel around some more. She felt a square smooth object in her hand, and she wasn't quite sure if she wanted to pull it out. Deciding that it couldn't be any worse then a dildo, she pulled her hand free from the bag.
It appeared that she had found Hope's neon pink cell phone that had a hello kitty charm dangling from it. Doing a slight mental victory dance, she turned the cell phone and prayed to god that she could magically text message Miracle's cell phone.
She scrolled down the list of contacts and saw that Destiny's name was there. 'When did Des get a cell phone?' She thought, 'Oh yeah, we all got cell phones, I just refuse to use mine because Hope made mine bright pink…evil rug muncher she is!' She decided to click on Des's name and quickly typed in HELP! WOADS CAPTURED ME!
She heard the sound of voices and people walking towards her, so she quickly pressed the send button and hoped that this would work. She dropped the cell phone in the duffel bag, and noticed something else as well. A square red container. Curious, she picked it up and opened it.
"Aha! So Hopey took Des's Oreos…Oh Des is going to be so pissed!"
Destiny silently crept out of the Gawain's room and across the hall to the room she shared with her sisters. When Gawain had started taking his clothes off, at first she though they were going to have mad passionate rough sex. But instead she ended sitting there and listening to him complain and whine about everything. And about how life just wasn't fair.
'Who would of thought that under the touch exterior, he was just a big teddy bear…' she thought to herself as she slowly opened the door to her room, 'I shall call him…Tinkie Winkie!'
She snickered to herself as she slipped inside and closed the door behind her. When she turned around, she wasn't expecting to see Miracle sitting up in the bed, gossiping with hope.
"Oh my god! He was really ten inches long!" exclaimed Miracle.
"Totally. I thought he wouldn't fit! But damn, did he prove me wrong. And let me tell you, he isn't surrounded by women just because of his looks, that man is a sex god! The things he can do with his tongue!" said Hope as she stuck her tongue out and mimicked a circular motion Lancelot had done to her.
"Wow" Miracle said dreamily.
"Oh ew Hope, don't share your sex life with us, its bad enough I had to listen to it!" Destiny whined as she plopped down on one of the beds.
"Des baby you're just jealous because my man had a nice long hard rod, while your men had a nice long emotional talk" Hope giggled.
"Argh! I'm so desperate for sex! I'll even sleep with Dagonet at this point!" Destiny groaned, but then jumped slightly when she felt something vibrating against her thigh. "Hello!" She screamed she lifted her dress up and yanked her cell phone from between her legs.
Hope stared at her with wide eyes. "You keep your cell phone in your panties?" She asked.
"No. I strap my cell phone to my thigh along with my daggers. That way I never lose it." Destiny replied as she pressed the green button on her red cell phone. "Aw Hope you didn't have to send me a text message." Destiny cooed.
"I didn't." Hope replied slightly confused.
"Well I was wondering why you would send me a text message 'Help Woad's captured me!' mellow dramatic much?" Destiny said sarcastically. Hope stared at her for a minute before slipping off the side of the bed and looking around.
"Wait a minute…Where the hell is my duffel bag!" She shouted as she started thrashing around the room.
"Well…I see mine, Miracle's and Faiths." Destiny said slowly "It would seem that Faith accidentally grabbed your bag instead of hers"
"Ahhh! No, no, no, no!" shouted Hope as she collapsed to the floor all dramatic like.
"God damn it Hope, it's not the end of the world!" Destiny said.
"Language!" Miracle piped up.
"Bite me." Destiny replied. "Well seeing as I'm the strongest fighter here, and I'm the second best tracker. How about I just saddle up my stuff and go retrieve my sexy little minx?"
"Sexy little minx?" asked Hope as she pulled herself up from the dirty ground.
"Don't ask. If I call her that, it gets her angry, and then she gives me a cookie to go away." Destiny replied happily.
"You and your cookies. It's absolutely ridiculous." Hope stated.
"You and your Midol. It's absolutely needed!" Destiny shouted as she ran out the room. "See ya later alligator!"
"Argh! Get back here and fight me like a man!" Hope shouted. Destiny ran back into the room, grabbed the first duffel bag she saw, thinking it was hers. She stuck her tongue out at Hope and ducked back out the door.
"You whore! Get back here!" Hope shouted hopelessly.
Destiny ran around the courtyard for a while before she figured out where the stables were. When she had successfully reached the stables, Des was happy to see that there was no one there. Grinning from ear to ear, she walked over to a near by stall and ducked inside it.
She saddled the black horse that was inside it, and hoisted herself up on top the stallion. Nudging the horse in the sides, she guided him out of the stables and to the gates. Leaning down, she tied her duffel bag to her saddle and told the guards that she had permission from Arthur to leave.
After many long hours of riding, the sun had finally risen from its slumber. Pulling her horse to a halt, Destiny slid off the side of the saddle and untied her duffel bag. Dropping it to the ground, she pulled the uncomfortable itchy dress over her head, not caring if anyone saw her naked.
She reached for the duffel bag on the ground, and froze when she saw the flowers all over it. 'This isn't my bag…' She thought to herself as she unzipped it. Groaning, she pulled out a pair of daisy duke shorts, a torn up bright red rebel T-shirt, and pair of knee high red platform boots.
"What the hell! Mira! How can you dress like this?" She mumbled to herself as she pulled on the short shorts. She glanced over her shoulder and saw that they barely covered her ass. 'Awe, c'mon! My ass is not that big!'
Sighing, she pulled on the torn up shirt and quickly pulled on the bright red boots. She stood up and looked over herself and couldn't help but laugh at herself. 'I look like a hippie from the ghetto!' She thought to herself as she grabbed her previous clothing and tossed it into the bag.
Grabbing the reins of her horse, she led him over into the trees so he could relax in the shade. Smiling, she plopped down on the ground and leaned back against an old tree trunk. She turned around and looked around her, checking her surroundings to make sure she wasn't in danger.
Content, she crossed her arms over her chest and let her eyes drift close. AS she slowly drifted to sleep, she didn't notice the roman soldiers that were approaching her from behind.
"Oh my god! That fucking rat is as big as Des's butt! What the hell are you feeding it? Toxic waste from the power plants!" Faith was shouting as she jumped around the dungeon trying to find a way to get away from the mutated rat that was chasing her.
The cell door creaked open, and Faith rushed out of the dungeon before the rat could snack on her toes. Breathing heavily she slammed the door shut and turned to come face to face with Merlin.
"Faith, you are going to go with my men to meet the knights in the forest. One of my sources has informed me that they will be passing through our land. You will get cleaned up and dressed before leaving." Merlin said. Before Faith could respond, she was being dragged away by two woad women.
Two hours later, Faith had been bathed in a tub of hot steaming water that was filled with rose petals. Her hair had also been washed and all the knots had been combed out. The woad women absolutely refused to braid her hair; they claimed it was way too beautiful to be hidden.
Finally, Faith walked out of a huge tent that she figured was the bathing house, sporting a very short brown leather skirt, brown leather top similar to the one Guinevere wore in battle, and her black combat boots.
Faith knew her hair was really long, but not long enough to reach the back of her knees. Her long shiny black hair pretty much covered her whole backside. Groaning in frustration, she braiding small little braids in random places in her hair. She finished just in time before she was yanked onto a horse by a blond headed woad man who was almost completely naked.
The woad man tied her wrist together with rope, and wrapped a piece of cloth around her head, gagging her. Faith silently thought to herself 'Better then playing hide and go eat with splinter'
Destiny slowly rolled over, ignoring the throbbing pain in her arm, and opened her eyes. Her vision was blurry, but she could still make out the decaying bodies of people that once lived, lying on the ground all around her. Slowly sitting up, she crawled over to her cell door and looked through the rusted bars.
A high pitched scream filled the room, and Destiny looked up to see a small boy lying on a table with some contraption on his arm. It became apparent that his fingers were being pulling out of place from the stomach turning popping noise Destiny could hear. Destiny gasped when the sudden realization of where she was hit her.
'Oh no…I'm in Marius's dungeon!'
A/N: Muahahahahaha!...Sorry it took so long to update, had a little trouble trying to figure some things out. Plus my little hell demon brother came home, and he wont let me anywhere near the computer! GRRR! I stab him with a spork! AHAHAHAHAHA!
Anyways! Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter as much as I did writing it. Love all my faithful reviewers! I really do!
