A Shattered Path

Prologue

Screams echoed around the halls of Yoglabs as scientists scrambled around in order to escape, fires claimed the halls and rooms, destroying years of work. As a small group of men ran down the hall terrified. One of them began to fall behind, He cried out for his colleagues to wait but they were too blinded by their own fear. He fell behind further, only for the room in front of him to explode. The scientist skipped to a halt and he turned around. He begged for mercy but he was slaughtered by him without mercy. The man sighed.
"I'm sorry for that, you're only crime was wrong place, wrong time. But you were in the way of my goal, and that is an unforgivable crime..."

A short distance away a young man slowly walked down a similar hall. His face was blank, almost bored of the situation. Like this was a regular inconvenience for him. He passed many people who were all running for their lives, some were injured, some were even dead. But he didn't care in that moment. He was hoping that no one would fall under his... "friend" but it seemed that his mind had become warped and tainted. The young man stopped and stared at the scientist who was about 20 metres from him his body was covered in blood splatters and stains he held a meat cleaver I'm his right hand that had blood dripping from it leaving a path leading all the back through the corridor. The scientist wiped his face and made eye contact. There was not a single emotion in his eyes besides hatred.
"Xephos you disgusting fuck, you stabbed me in the back, you shoved me in a box for months thinking you could just throw me away. 'Out of sight, out of mind am I right?'

Xephos hadn't moved and stared at his friend, he'd managed to keep his emotions at bay, but suddenly he was overcome with regret. This was his fault.
"Lalna... please stop this attack, it's me you want to kill, so why take your vengeance out on innocence?" Lalna went rigid and his jaw clamped.
"You idiot, I've killed those people because they were in my way of getting to you... and it's not Lalna anymore. That coward died in the box long ago. My name is Lalnable now, and I have no issues now with killing you! He lunged foward and swung his meat cleaver and the metal blade lodged itself into Xephos' shoulder. He cried out in agony as blood began to soak his shoulder and arm. He staggered backwards and into the wall. As he clutched his shoulder and started to shake with adrenaline. Lalnable grabbed the cleaver and begun to push downwards, slowing slicing through tendons and ligaments, cutting through muscle fibres like they were nothing, and finally lodging the now warm steel blade into Xephos' Clavicle. He slowly removed the blade making sure to cause As much pain as possible. Xeph was in too much agony to even scream. Lalnable chuckled to himself and raised his cleaver once more. Aiming for Xephos' neck.

"Welcome to hell you bastard."