from the training room to succeeding in the field

[slayers_desire]

For the Watcher and the Slayer, things returned to schedule after the weekend, after Rain had been able to slay his very first Demon. And by this time, Rain's body and mind would have adjusted to the hours and the dedication. He would discover that he felt stronger. That he was able to destroy more evil vampires during the night in his world.

Of course, the fact that his difference was much stronger than before, it brought attention to his part of the world. There was the wrong kind of attention, that Rain was not aware of yet, but would have to face in the future.

Tonight, however, it was a different kind of attention that sought Rain out. He had just finished slaying five vampires, at the same time, and had been dusting himself off. When he heard a cough from behind him. The woman who stood there had been there... for who knew how long. She seemed familiar, in a way, but he could not place her name right away with how the night hid her face from sight so far.

"So..." She lit a cigarette. Her face familiar under the flame, it was Faith. The Slayer who had come after Buffy, and had a difficult road herself. "No longer a potential, you are earning your own stripes in life."

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[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"You're right. I do know who Buffy is." He moves a little closer to get a better look. Then he tries to remember his dreams. After a moment..."Faith, right?"

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"Right kid." Faith chuckled. "Good to see a potential doing so well for themselves."

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

Kid? He thought. He was going on twenty.

"Thanks." He said. "But how do you know how I'm doing?" He didn't say it sarcastically, he wondered if someone was watching him.

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"Because. This place doesn't stink of evil as much as it used to. Hence... someone must be killing the evil."

Faith flicked her cigarette into the grass, mashing it out with the hell of her boot. "But there is something bigger that brought me here. And since you have been handling yourself, figured I might as well see if you were willing to help."

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"How'd you even know where to find me?" He asked, pulling the Slayerscythe from beneath his jacket and hopping up to sit on a tombstone. He laid it beside him. "Am I being watched? And out of all the slayers, why would you come to me?" Oh he was full of questions. "I'm listening though."

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"Really... I didn't go looking for you or was watching you. I just travel the States slaying. And I was hunting a nasty Demon in this area, when I noted the decrease in vampires in the area since my last visit to the area."

"And you are here. The Demon is here. Why not you?"

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"Oh." He said. So much for him being of special interest or anything.

"Sure. What's the situation?"

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"Well it is a situation where I wish I didn't have to Slay the Demon in question. Because it feeds off other Demons." Faith ran her fingers through her hair. "But it is getting too strong. And if we can clear out it... and its nest... we will be solid."

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"So... if it feeds on other demons.. why exactly do we WANT to clear it out? It's doing me a favor right?" He hopped down off the tombstone and streeeetched.

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

Faith smiles, watching him in an almost predatory way. "Because once it is strong enough, it will open a portal to its home world and bring its army to it. And they feed on humans."

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"Oh.. well shit. That IS bad. Okay what's the plan?" He stretched some more to limber up.

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[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"We find it. We slay it." Faith smirked. "Got a better one?"

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"Very minimalist... I like it." Usually April would have done extensive research, running him through possible scenarios if time was available. Rarely now did she let him go in empty handed.

"Anything I should know?" He picks up his scythe, ready to follow her.

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"Not really..." Faith was more of an action-now, plan-later Slayer. She pulled out a sword. "Except we might have to go into the sewers."

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"Lovely." He would have to ask April for an allowance to buy new sneakers after this. "Lead the way."

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

Faith led him to the nearest sewer entrance. She flung open the manhole and pulled off her top shirt, with a tank top underneath. "Ohhh yah. I can smell him all ready."

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

Rain makes a face, taking off his jacket and stripping down to his own tank top. "That's not what I smell."

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"Concentrate kid. You smell roses?" Faith brought out a flashlight, turning it on before moving to swing into the sewers. A linger scent of roses filled their lungs.

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"Ugh.. do I have to breathe?" he asks, knowing better. When he does breathe though.. he can smell roses.... he smells shit too, but roses linger in the air. "This is the LAST place I'd ever think I'd smell that." he follows her.

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"It is the Demon. It is how it lures other Demons to it." Faith explained. She waded through something that should not be identified. Leading Rain down towards the pathway.

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"Demons like the smell of roses and shit?" he asked. He wasn't serious about the shit part, but April had never mentioned anything like this before.

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"It doesn't smell like roses to the Demons. It smells like virgin blood. This particular Demon has been luring vampires to its lair."

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"Well the only thing better than that would be Slayer blood." he grins.

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"Good. You know about that." Faith nodded. She took another turn, where the rose smell enhanced.

[chimera-slayer.livejournal.com]

"I've learned quite a bit. Not as much as you've picked up through experience though I'm sure." He turns the corner and the smell got stronger. He made a face. He might not like the smell of roses after this.