Kragdon

PART 11: Discoveries

They stood twelve feet away from each other, Buffy in a fighting stance waiting for an attack. She looked so beautiful Faith had thought as she starred at Buffy. She could tell that the blond slayer couldn't make out her face due to the shadows that hid most of her facial features. Faith was breathing hard from both the fight and the sheer exhaustion that she felt. For some reason it was taking more of her energy here than in the other world to keep her appearances. She didn't want to change especially in front of the blond slayer, and the smell of arousal that was in the air wasn't helping anything either. Faith could feel her animal urges coming to the forefront, could feel her control slipping, and her mind becoming unfocused. Never before had it been this hard, she need to get out of here fast, if she didn't lord knows what she might do.

Just as she was about to back away into the shadows to disappear, she saw right behind her sister slayer a group of vampires that were looking to jump her from behind. Faith knew that there were too many for the blond slayer to handle on her own and that she wouldn't make it out alive. It was exactly at that instant that Faith lost control, as the realization came over her that Buffy might die. It was too swift for her to even try to stop. She was reminded of Dawn, of Clair, of all she had seen and the people that she had cared about die in front of her eyes. She was no longer in control, the beast was.

Jumping high over her head, Buffy ducked and turned to see another werewolf attack a group of vampires that she hadn't felt approaching her from behind. She had thought that the creature was going to attack her at first, so when she stood back up she was in a defensive stance; she hadn't expected it to go after the vamps. Buffy didn't think that the beast would be able to dust them with just teeth and claws, but she was wrong. Buffy watched as one by one the group of vamps turned into dust, only a few being either thrown at her to stake or a tree branch. Little did she know that behind her there was one unconscious pissed off were thing behind her that was starting to wake up. The other two nowhere to be found.

Shaking his head Marcus slowly got to his feet shaking his head to clear the cobwebs that were clouding his brain. Looking up he suddenly remembered his humiliating defeat and the reason why, Faith was supposed to be his. He looked at the blond slayer that had stolen his queen's heart, stole her from him. He would make her pay, rip her throat out. Growling low in his throat he started to run to where she was jumping high in the air, and landing on top of her, going straight for Buffy's throat.

Buffy who had just helped finish dusting the last vamp, turned when she heard a twig snap behind her, her stake rising as she turned her upper body. She was surprised when she saw a black mass of fur flying towards her. She didn't have time to duck and roll; the beast had already tackled her and was trying to go for her throat. She had just enough time to grab it by the jaw just before its teeth could sink into her throat. The demon's putrid breath making her want to gag. Buffy tried to buck it off of her, but it wouldn't budge, and she knew that if she moved her hands that it would be her undoing. Her strength was disappearing quickly and she was exhausted from the vamps that she had fought earlier tonight, plus helping dust that group of vamps a few minutes ago. Just as she was about to let go, feeling her hands slipping as the creature snarled and inched it head closer, the weight was gone.

Faith who threw the last vamp away from her turned to face Buffy, though she was fully turned and it was much harder to bring her human mind to the forward she somehow managed it. Feeling the rage leave her body she turned when she heard a growl her eyes now an amber color and growing darker and brighter than before. Her mind no longer her own as she saw what was going down. Rage filled her body, her blood boiling, the fire in her eyes growing stronger and brighter that it started to manifest itself to the outside. Moving quicker than she ever had in her whole life, Faith leapt and tackled Marcus off of Buffy. Throwing him over into a grave stone which broke in two on impact.

The flames surrounding her, Faith went after him just as he was getting back up, the fire burning his hair every time it touched him.

As Buffy turned her body and started to get up she heard growls and whimpers coming from the left of her, lifting her head she was struck motionless at the sight about twenty feet in front of her. There before her eyes was the were that had jumped her and the other one that had just killed about fifteen vampires not a few minutes ago or so she assumed it was. She couldn't really tell, one was covered in flames and the other looked like it was trying to look for an escape without being killed. If Buffy had been anyone but the slayer she probably wouldn't even be able to follow most of the fight that was happening in front of her they were moving so fast. She had just blinked her eyes when she heard it.

A sickening cry filled the air, it pitch making car alarms go off a block away, then it was silent. The only sound were the distant car alarms and the heavy breathing coming from the were in front of buffy. The flames around it slowly coming down and going all the way out. Its eyes dimming in color and turning into a brown so deep that Buffy would recognize anywhere in the universe. Though she didn't want to believe it, those eyes just confirmed what she had feared, "Faith?" Buffy said in a voice barely above a whisper.

Buffy watched, as the sun rose into the sky, her suspisions being confirmed as the creature before her turned slowly into a very naked cut up Faith.

Faith could feel the sun rise, her body starting to change back to its human form, to her mask. She saw in the distance her clothes shreded and the weeping sisters in the pockets of the unrepairable leather jacket that had been torn in two because of the change. She had cuts on her body and parts of her was covered in blood from both the vamps and Marcus who lay behind her dead now. She was utterly and completely exhausted. She felt Sar'ah and Selena in the distance to her left sleeping in the bushes. She could feel that they hadn't of done much but play and mate and she was truly happy for them both. The had been entirely stressed out ever since they had found out where Dawn had gone. The had fought almost the whole two years it had taken to find a portal that would stay open long enough to transport them all and to put them in a specific place and time. Faith could feel the exhaution becoming stronger and start to take over her body as the transformation back to her human form. Just before passing out one word had left her lips as she fell face first into the ground, sleep taking over her mind and body.

Buffy thought that she heard Faith say her name before she collapsed onto the ground. She felt sheer panic run through her as she started to notice that more than half of Faith's body was covered in blood. Thinking that it was hers, Buffy crawled over to Faith and cradled her head in her lap as she checked for a pulse, heart beat and whether or not if Faith was breathing. Finding that everything was steady, Buffy picked her up in her arms and carried her towards the gate, out of the cemetery, and straight towards the magick box that she knew is where she would find Giles researching what he could find on this new demon that had kicked her ass not too long ago. Ignoring the body that was left on the grounds but not forgetting it Buffy moved forward with a naked Faith in her arms, the sun behind her slowly rising in the sky, towards the magick box without looking back. Just wanting to make sure that Faith was alright and plus there was the fact that now that Buffy had found her she was never going to lose her again.

Oh don't get Buffy wrong the anger was still there, but the concern and love that Buffy felt towards the dark slayer was simply stronger, and overrid anything and everything else. Little did she know that she was being watched silently by two naked women who were hiding in the bushes, clutching to their chests a red and black dagger, praying that nothing would happen to their Queen.