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Harmony runs out of the Hyperion and disappears into the nightlife of L.A.
Harmony walks through the streets of L.A., fuming that she failed at being good and lost everything. Damn she liked to beat up vamps and other evils, but she also failed at being evil again. "Damn nothing works for me." Harmony stomps angry down the street kicking trashcans right and left and making a hell of racket in the process. You can see and hear that Harmony is not a happy camper at this time and place. It all had started so good for her and now everything went to hell.
The streets are empty, for three lone vamps that are walking up to Harmony thinking easy prey. Preparing to attack Harmony "So blondie what are you doing here all alone, needing some company", Harmony takes for the first time even notice of the three morons that had the audacity and unfortunate luck of getting in her way tonight, 'Just the pair of idiots to release some pent-up anger'.
Before the morons can attack her, Harmony springs into action. "Who the Hell do you think you idiots are", grabbing the first and ripping his head straight of his body. The head takes of in an arc and turns just to dust before hitting the pavement a good twenty meters away.
Before the other two could even react to the attack, Harmony launches herself against the second and breaks his back with fast a furies kick that sends him straight into the wall. Shattering and breaking every bone in his body, after hitting the wall and squashing to the pavement. He barely keeps conscious, with every part if his body hurting.
Harmony finally turning her attention to the last one standing "You really got me on the wrong day", the last vamps slowly starts to back away from Harm. "And where do you think you're going", before he could answer she started to rip into him. "Look leave me alone, sorry we ever came close to you, just let me leave, please".
After two minutes the screaming, that till then was ear shattering, stops and turns into incoherent sobs. The body of the vamp was smashed beyond recognition, one arm was ripped off and both his legs where broken at weird angels, making it impossible to run away. All of his cloths were being ripped and shredded to pieces, he was covered in his own blood. Slowly Harmony was starting to smash in his head and ribcage, by pounding at them with her fist and her nails. All the way screaming at him "Who do you think you are! I am gonna rip you to pieces! You are never ever going to get in my way again! I'm going to make sure of that!" During all this time, the vamp is still conscious, barely. She finally rips open his ribcage, rips out his hart, deposits it in the vamps mouth, stands up, and leaves both of them behind. It is over and Harm walks on down the street feeling much better than she did five minutes before her fight with the vamps.
Walking through the abandoned streets, Harmony lets her mind drift back in time. Thinking back to her short time with Cordelia, having that old feeling back when she was alive and part of Cordy's group in Sunnydale High and being part of the groups she has here in L.A. Feeling better about herself than she ever had by acting as a evil vampire again.
The rest of the night she lets her mind drift back what has happened in the last twenty-four hours.
In the shadow someone was standing, that hat witnessed Harmony rampage trough the street, her confrontation with the vamps. At that moment the universe shook on its foundation, something was coming. Looking at the disappearing figure, and the two vamps that were left laying behind, he disappeared himself. Chuckling to himself, "She's going to cause a lot of trouble for the bosses upstairs, it's going to be fun to see what she'll do?" The streets became deserted again.
[Start Flashback]
~* Harmony walking into the Hyperion and declaring she wants to be one of the good guys and they have to teach her. *~
~* Appearing at Caritas and having Harmony singing "Memories" from the movie The Way We Were, to get a reading from the Host, well kiddies it's more like Will this song never end?! Disharmony! Harmony finishes her song and sits with The Host and Cordy to receive her reading. He knows she wants to find her destiny, but he only offers her a glass of plasma and that Harmony is already on the right path. As it turns out, Cordy is Harmony's path, as long as she sticks by Cordy's side, everything will be all right. *~
~* Betraying Cordy to the vamps. *~
~* Leaving the Hyperion and run off in the night. *~
[End Flashback]
The sun is just about to emerge over the skyline of L.A., Harmony had made up her mind. "So I messed it up the first time. So I have to do it better the second time around", I want the good feelings back and I am not going to let anybody stop me to get them back.
Through her wandering trough the streets of LA, Harmony found herself standing in front of Caritas, just the place I was looking for, and the right place to obtain the information I need. Steps into the bar, it is empty, all the patrons have left, and Lorne is closing up. Harmony walks up to the Host, grabs him at his neck, and lifts him of the floor. "He green man, I'm back and in need of another reading from you, the first didn't work out." Lorne is not truly happy at this particular moment, the vibes he gets from Harm are not very encouraging and her appearance did not contribute to it one bit, to elevate his mood. Her whole ensemble was covered in dried blood, her former blond hair turned crimson red. However, that was not the thing that freaked the Host out, OH NO it where Harmony's eyes, there was something in them that chilled his body to the core. The only thing in his mind was how to get out of there, away from Harmony.
"He llo, sweet cheek. I'm sorry I already gave you your reading, can't change it!" the Host tells her in a shrill voice. Harmony is in no mood to take a NO for an answer. "Look here, I haven't eaten yet tonight, I'm tired so I'm not in my best mood and your going to give me another reading just as good as the first I got from you. Are we clear." Harmony started to say in a calm voice and ending up in a thundering scream, throwing the Host behind the bar, at the end of her little speech.
"Now get me something to drink and get over here!" Harmony takes place in a boot and the Host gets over to her with a big glass of heated plasma. Harmony takes a sip and downs the whole glass. Feeling immediately better "So Liz, there has to be another thing I can do, to get a as good destiny like the one I had with Cordy?" Harmony says to the Host. "Lets get to work to find one."
Stands up and walks up to the podium to selects herself a song and starts to sing it, does it a couple of time, gets several readings but none of them are the kind she wants to hear, pressure and pesters Lorne till he gives in. At the last reading, Lorne hesitated just for a second before giving Harm again a negative response. However, Harmony caught this, "I know you saw something there in the last reading you did, what was it?"
The Host contemplates what to say to Harmony, "For it to work you would have to perform numerous tasks, which have to complete in a specified order and you can't fail even one." Harmony looks annoyed at the Host, thinking what the problem is.
"And why won't you tell me what they are". The Host looks at her, "Because there isn't chance in Hell for you to accomplish the tasks, it would be like winning the national lottery 100 times in a row and every other form of gamble, the chances you'll succeed are non existent."
"Imagine a chain suspended over a abyss leading straight to Hell, it's build it up pieces of metal chained together, Now you have the first piece your BEGINING chained on one side and on the other your DESTINY on the other side, Now by completing a task you get another part till the first and last chain are linked together." The Host pauses for a moment. "Now you fail to perform only one task, you don't reach the other side and fail to obtain your destiny, you're in the same situation as when you started. Now say by some kind of Miracle you'd performed all of the task and reached the other side….". Letting the words sink in, you still have to cross the abyss, and the chance chain will hold you till you reach the other end are the same as you standing in sunlight for a day and not burn or turn to dust, in the nude." And when you fall in the abyss….
Harmony takes in the Hosts words and starts to get angry and interrupts the Host, "Nothing will stop me, none shall stand between me and my destiny, I will succeed you hear me, nothing will stop me." Harmony screams of the top of her longs at the Host, "Now tell me what I have to do."
The Host starts sum up all tasks she has to perform, how and in what for order. "You need a powerful partner at your side to succeed, who is that going to be? Choose careful she will decide for a great part if you succeed of fail", Harmony starts to think about that question, what is the most powerful force to fight evil and have as a partner, "SLAYER". Buffy is not going to help her, but there is another Slayer, "What's the name of the other slayer and where can I find her?", the Host gets hit with the mother load of reading of Harm and Faiths path, wishing he never had told Harm. If she succeeds in her quest for a destiny, TPTB will be pissed off royally and he will be paying for his part of interfering in their plans.
Harmony success rate just increased drastically, from having to win the lottery only fifty times in row, instead of a hundredth. Still impossible but the stakes are now more in her favour than before.
Lorne looks at her and thinks 'In what kind of trouble did I get myself now?' Harmony walks up to the Host, "Write down all the tasks I have to perform and the how/why/when/where and what they involve." Lorne walks over to the bar to get a pen and papers and starts writing them down. All the time Harmony is walking around him asking when he will be ready already with the list of task. Hours and hours later, Lorne writes down the last word and is finished.
"Here are your tasks, can you leave now, it's almost time to open again", Harm takes the papers and leaves. "Yes, yes, yes, now I have my second chance."
Harmony steps out of the bar, just at sundown, taking a look at the twenty plus pieces of paper Lorne gave her and wrote down all the tasks she had perform. "All right what are the fist tasks I'll have to perform?", the first three task do not look that difficult, get money, housing and Faith out of jail.
"Those tasks should not be that difficult."
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