Hell hath no fury, as a slayer lost.
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Episode 1x01 : Arrival of a lost soul.
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Ever since I was born, I have been alone.
I never really had anyone to take care of me, no one had too.
I was a though girl from the moment I was born, after all, I was 'the chosen one'.
I've done so many things wrong in my life that I'm not sure I can ever recover from that.
I've killed, tasted blood... and it kills me to have to live with that.
I'm doing the best I can to survive, but with the hellmouth finally gone, I don't know if I want to go to the other one, the other one that's waiting for me.
I'm scared, I never thought I would admit that, but I am.
I'm terrified.
What if I mess up again ? What if I get lost again ?
Or, as much as I hate to say it, even more lost than I already am.
I guess we'll find out soon, very soon.
***
Faith Lehane is sitting in a bus, thinking about what's to be when she arrives at the new hellmouth, as it's new guardian.
She's looking outside the window, she watches the trees pass by as they head towards Cleveland.
The bus stops,
"Last stop!" the driver yells.
Faith gets out of the bus and looks around, this reminded her a lot of that time she went to LA.
She calls for a taxi, gets into a car and gives the driver an address of where she has to be, her new place.
The taxi stops in front of an old ugly building, she pays the male driver and gets out.
She stands outside the building for a few minutes and stares at it.
It has cracks in the walls, and the paint is almost all gone. You could smell the fragrance from miles away, it smells bad, real bad.
She steps inside and goes to her apartment.
The apartment is as bad as the whole hotel, even worse.
The walls are pink with weird stuff dripping from the walls. It looks about ready to collapse on her head.
Yes, she knows that this is the sort of apartment that she is most likely to always end up in.
***
That night she goes out to find herself a vampire ass she can kick around, but what she finds, is something she would have never thought about.
She enters an alley and in stead of finding vampires, she finds children.
"Oh shit." she says.
She sees lots and lots of children, they stand around tons with fire to keep them warm.
Their faces, hands and clothes are all dirty and they have the saddest look on their faces.
Faith has seen homeless people before, but not like this, not little children all living in an alley.
"Yo."
Faith calls out to one of the older children and she walks closer to her.
"Hello."
The girl says and she quickly bows her head and raises it back up.
"What's going on here ? Don't you have a home to go to."
Faith asks.
"Do you ?"
The girls asks Faith.
"Good point. But I'm not a kid, you must have somewhere to got to. It can't be that more then over 40 children here have no place to stay. Cause you at least look like you're with 40 kids here."
"70."
The girl says.
"What ?"
Faith asks suprised.
"70 children, that's with how many we are, and we don't have a home to go to. We live on the hellmouth, none of us have a home to go to."
"Wait ! You know about the hellmouth ? (the girl nods.) Wh... Who are you ?"
The girl looks up and she has this look in her eyes, this look of despair.
"We're lost souls, just like you."
She says to Faith while giving her an icy stare.
"That's great and all, the lost souls thing, nice touch. What I mend was what's your name ?"
"Clara. Born a lost soul, forever a lost soul. You know what I'm talking about, I can see it in your eyes. You're one of us, and sooner or later, you'll end up here or dead."
Clara walked back to her group leaving Faith stunned.
How dare she say stuff like that about her, Faith was mad and returned back to her apartment. She didn't need this, she didn't need any of this.
***
Faith couldn't sleep at all after that, all night long she was having nightmares about those children, about what Clara said to her, that Faith just decided to stay awake for the rest of the night.
The morning that followed, Faith goes out to see those children again.
When she comes to the alley, there's nothing there, the children, everything is gone.
There is nothing that would point out that children have ever slept here.
"What the fuck ?"
Faith curses when she sees nothing.
"What the hell is going on here ? I can't possible have dreamt all of that, could I ?"
She asks herself, she looks around, she's very confused about what's happening.
Faith doesn't believe that she dreamt all that last night, so she looks around in the alley for some clues to where the children might have gone to.
After looking for over an hour, Faith gives up... until.
"Found ya." Faith says.
She finds a piece of clothing with the letters CL on it. Then she remembers.
Last night, when she met that girl, Clara, she was wearing a jacket, with her name sewed on it.
The piece of clothing that Faith has found now, is identical to what Clara was wearing.
"So, not a dream after all. Just a lost soul."
Faith says to herself, she puts the piece of clothing away and returns to the hotel to watch some TV.
***
When the night falls, Faith heads out to that alley again.
She suspects they'll be there, because of something Clara said yesterday, that Faith was a lost soul too, that she would end up there too.
And Faith was right, the children, they were all back.
"You, kids! Listen up! I'm looking for Clara! Does anyone know where she is ?!"
Faith yells, Clara was the only one she couldn't find.
Then a small child, a girl, one that couldn't be older then 8-9 years old, pulls on Faith's jacket.
"Yeah ?"
"I know where Clara is."
The child says very kind.
"You do ? Well, would you like to take me to her ?"
Faith asks back, very sweet also. To win the child's trust.
The child nods, gives Faith a hand and leads her away from the alley.
"So ? Where is she ?"
Faith asks impatient, she was lead out of the alley, but then the child stopped and refused to bring her to Clara.
"Clara is now one of my lost souls. Ass you will be."
The little girl says.
Faith looks at her unknowingly and suddenly the girl changes, she grows.
She grows and turns into some kind of monster.
Her hands turns into snakes, her feet grow ten times the normal size, her eyes turn completely black, her blond hair turns into red spikes that stand straight up, her tongue turns into something strange, something god knows what and her face turns blue.
Her clothes are now nothing more then a fighters uniform, a red with blue one.
"Who the hell are you ?"
Faith asks while she sees the monster in front of her.
"I am Medusa, eater and collecter of losts souls, such as you."
"Clara."
Faith says to herself and remembers what she said, either she will become a lost soul or she will die.
"Are you ready to get lost ?"
Medusa says and laughs and holds her snake hands ready to attack.
"I'd rather die, bitch!"
Faith yells and she spits in Medusa's face.
"What ? No! You are a lost one, you, you don't want to die. You are mine! You haven't got a choice! You will become my lost soul!"
She yells for the entire neighborhood.
"Look, snakey but ugly girl, the last person who told me I was his, lost a finger. So, you see, I'm no ones property except my own. And I'm sure as hell not your lost soul! I'm the chosen one, that's who I am."
Medusa's snake hands attack, but Faith jumps over Medusa's head and kicks her in the back.
Medusa is pissed of by this and tries to strangle Faith with her tongue, or whatever it is.
Faith takes a stake out of her jacket and stakes her in the tongue.
There is a bang and Faith gets thrown against a wall and cuts her arm.
It is an ugly cut, a deep one, but Faith doesn't feel a thing.
She looks at Medusa, who is screaming and a white/blue light is coming from the spot where Faith staked her.
The light goes into the alley, Faith runs and sees what's going on.
She sees more and more children appearing and they're aging.
Hundreds and hundreds of children, one by one they get older and older and turn to ashes.
Faith is overwhelmed by what's happening.
She turns and looks at Medusa, who, with each release of a child, gets younger and younger until she fades into nothing.
Every child that was in the alley has disappeared, probably turned to ashes, but one, Clara.
"Clara ? What the hell just happened ?"
Clara steps forward.
"You freed us (Faith doesn't understand.) You staked her in her tongue, the one element in her body that kept us trapped inside her. You see, every child you saw in the last couple of days wasn't a child anymore, we were here for over 500 years. She would feed on us with our souls.
She's had each and every one of us before, at least once we were trapped inside her for several months, years even, till she spit us back out and took others. We were all lost souls according to her and when she got to us, she fed of us, we became younger and younger, and she became more powerful and she lived on, as did we. The ones in the alley were the most difficult ones to get to, to feed of. And I was one of them, but when I met you, I let her feed on me. I told you you were a lost soul, cause you were, but you also were not, you had a fighters look in your eyes, that made you not so lost after all, and I knew that somehow you'd come back and save us and you did. And for that, we thank you. And remember that if you could overcome the lost souls collector, that maybe you're not as lost as you thought you were."
With those words, Clara also ages and turns into ashes.
Faith still doesn't understand much of what happened just now, she just knows that she saved the day and that she set those souls free.
'I know I have a long way to go before I get to a place where I'm not lost anymore.
But for now, this place will do.'
Faith goes back home and watches some TV, she is very pleased about what she did tonight and she hopes that while she is in Cleveland, she can do more of these good deeds.
Cause when she does something good, it makes her feel, for a second there, less lost and more happy, and that is something she really needs to survive, to live on.
As long as Faith is alive, she will continue to be good, and try to overcome her dark side, to accomplish the one thing in her life she has ever wanted...
... Peace.
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This was my first episode of my new Faith series, I hope you liked it a bit and that you understood it a bit.
I hope you continue to read this story!
The next chapter will be up around the end of December.
Thank you for reading and please review!
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