Faith becomes a hero

One moment Faith Rapaccini was all set to kill the Slayer; the next she was struggling to get a cloak off of her. She tried to use her swords but both of her sword arms were being held in a tight embrace by someone clever enough to avoid direct skin contact with Faith yet strong enough to hold both her arms while dragging her backwards at the same time. And that someone was doing all this to her while she was outside in the rain.

"I don't know who you are," she said, "but I'm going to kill you."

"That's not very nice," said the voice. "All I want to do right now is make you a hero."

"I don't want to be a hero," said Faith. "I wanna kill the Slayer."

"Well, let's make you a hero first," said the voice. "Then you can go kill the Slayer."

"No, you idiot," said Faith. "Let me go."

"You didn't say 'please'," said the voice.

"Please let me go or I'll kill you!" exclaimed Faith.

"Not good enough," said the voice. "My, my. What would your mummy think of your manners?"

"I know that voice," said Faith. "You're the vampire. The lady vampire, that is."

"Am I?" asked the voice. "Will wonders never cease?"

"Stop fooling around and let me go, vampire," said Faith. "Or I'll have my minions kill you."

"Your 'minions' have been both rendered ****," said the voice. "But hey, nice try with that threat."

"I'll kill you!" exclaimed Faith.

"You're welcome to try," said the voice. "But not until after I make you a hero."

"I said, let me go," said Faith.

"Okay," said the voice. "You'll get your wish."

Just like that, the embrace ended and the cloak was taken off of Faith's bare body. And before her stood the big two-legged dragon that had been intent on destroying the town.

"Oh my god!" exclaimed Faith, forgetting about the swords in her hands. "Look at the size of that thing!"

"You look!" exclaimed the voice. "In fact, I insist that you get a closer look."

And just like that, two gloved hands pressed on Faith's naked back and pushed her so close to the big dragon that Faith could not help but touch it. Whereupon the poison in her body immediately began to work upon the creature.

"Oh, no!" Faith exclaimed. "I killed it!"

Then she thought, hey, I killed it. I killed the big dragon. That makes me a hero. Now I can go kill the Slayer. And the lady vampire.

With that, Faith turned to face Messalina who was rapidly running away from the big dragon.

Faith smiled. You can run but you can't hide, vampire, she thought.

Then Faith heard a noise and looked up in time to see the rapidly dying dragon looking down upon her.

The last thing she saw after that was the dying dragon's one last torrent of flame which just happened to be aimed in her direction.

After that, Faith had no more thoughts.