The Immortals

The Beginning of the End

[Keyshia]

   Lightning..

   My eyes shot opened. I looked around. Runi was staring at me looking concerned. Poor little girl I must have terrified her.

"You didn't terrify me, you were screaming Lightning's name in your sleep." She said my face flushed. "No not the wet dream kind of dream. Maybe a prophecy. It wasn't a good dream, did he die?" Runi asked

"I don't remember." I said crossing my arms lost in doubt. I forgot Runi recently learned how to read minds. Such trouble some ability. Lightning would kill her if he found that out too. She made a face and left the room.

   I got up and looked out the window in my room into the horizon of Bad Striker's Island. A beautiful Island Lightning created years ago. Which is why I'm concerned as to why Lightning didn't come after this Island yet. It's been a week since then.

   News has spread across the world of the fall of Main City and the Rise of Crimson City in its place. 7.8 millions casualties. The number of how many of those 7.8 million died is unknown but I'm sure all of them if not 99% of them kicked the bucket.

   News of the alliance Lightning and Kalona has form also spread. Those two together means trouble. They already took over the Shadow Continent. I heard the door knock.

   I walk to open the door. Two of my elite guards was escorting a female with a red beanie. She looked like that girl that was in Lightning's school a few years ago. Meno I think her name was.

"May I help you" I asked her.

"No. I'm here to leave a message for you to give to Lightning when he's back on the right side." She said

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well being that I'm here means you failed as his best friend, or lover, or whatever the hell it is you're supposed to be to him." Meno replied.

"Excuse me?" I asked.

"I don't recall stuttering, the route Lightning is taking he's going to surely end up dead." Meno sighed

"If I recall correctly, you missed his first death." I shot.

"That's funny, I was in another world, news of his death didn't reach us until Hanabi's capture. What was your excuse for not showing up in time, then laying down with the enemy after the fact." Meno fired back.

"That sounds like fighting words to me" I said

   Meno took off her hat.

"Trust me, you'd lose if we clash." Meno said taking off her contacts. Dark Red Eyes.

"A Xerxes." I narrowed my eyes.

"Surprised? If my knowledge of history is correct, The Xerxes has been making the Momoichi branch our bitch for years." She said. I tensed up. "Matter fact you guys were the reject of the entire clan so don't talk down on me." She turned her back. "I have a little girl, she's Lightning's daughter. We didn't have sex though, she's his daughter through complicated means. Her age is also complicated but she's been on this plane of life for two years, she's in Alpha Earth. Tell him to find her when I'm gone."

"Why does that sound like you're about to die." I asked. She looked back and smiled then teleported. She might be heading on a suicide mission.

   I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Into my red eyes. I remembered when I got them. That time when Lightning compelled me to leave him alone. Then this. Both of my eyes went completely black and a red "X" formed in the middle. I had to activate it during my fight with Lightning. I had it when I got home that day.  The door to the bathroom knocked.

"Inyu." I said. He walked around me and sat down on the toilet.

"Why are you here." I asked.

"Ask yourself that, I'm just a figment of your imagination." He said sarcastically

"Why am I imagining you of all people." I said

"Perhaps you feel guilty of my death. Or maybe you feel everything that has happened since Kimmy's death has been your fault."  Inyu said.

"Is it?" I asked.

"I don't know, which side of your conscience should I play the logical side or the oblivious." He replied.

"Tell me how it is, and can you take a different form." I snapped

"Sure, bet you think you should have let Lightning kill Runi." Hanabi said.

"No way. She's a child." I said.

"That child has shed blood and caused a war to be waged on humanity. How many lives has been lost because mine was taken by her."

"But..." I was lost for words.

"You want logic then yes, the short term is that everything is your fault." Hanabi said.

"Shut up." I said

"We both know this chain started way before Kimmy's death. Tokine died because you couldn't let Lightning do his own thing and keep watch back at the house you guys were in." Hanabi said.

"Shut up." I got louder.

"Kimmy died because you kept Lightning on the island longer than he should have causing them to get into an argument that of course she would surely regret and run after him."

"You're wrong."

"I got cursed and Lightning had to make a deal with the devil to lose his life to keep me alive. Then I got captured and tortured for three years before I got rescued and not even by you by the way because you stayed at home fucking the enemy." Hanabi continued.

"Please, Shut Up." I pleaded with tears in my eyes.

"Arisawa died because you fought Lightning not to bring him back but to avenge Inyu and then Hanabi died because you brought in an unstable witch into hour live" She turned into Kimmy.

"Lightning's entire life was miserable and it's all your fault, and you're the reason humanity will perish, congratulations not only did you manage to get everyone who cared about you killed or turned against you, you've doomed the rest of us to an eternity of hell." Hanabi finished.

"SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP." I opened my palm and fire a projectile at her she disappeared and the mirror shattered. I dropped to the floor and began to cry.

"Hey." I heard. I ignored. "Hey." I blacked out.

[Lightning]

   I'm currently on a train. In the Dark Continent. Handcuffed on a seat. This train is full of other people who's been handcuffed as well. Not for crimes but because they all own a genetic genocide. We're all in black hooded sweaters. I got no business with the people here but my mission is to kill the President. I snapped the handcuffed from my risk. The girl next to me spoke.

"You're insane." She said. I ignored her. "You're going to war with the Dark Ops?"

   I ignored her again. I waited until a guard walked in front of me and jumped up and put him on a choke hold, his feet collasped under me and then he fainted. I took his gun. Ak-47 I think. I'm not a fan of anything other than small handheld guns. The door to the next cart opened up and several guards were visible pointing guns at me. I guess it can't be helped. I opened fire and killed them all.

"Move." I told the girl that was sitting in the seat next to me. I opened my palm and a small sphere of energy formed in my hand. Everyone in the cart gasped. I let it fly off my hand and into the side of the train which blew a hole leading to the outside. My hood flew off my head. I jumped out the train and climbed up to the roof of the train.

   A couple of Ops teleported in front of me. One of them swung their sword to decapitate me. I backflipped out the way. My hand got surrounded by a crimson color electricity. I jumped back and let it fly out my hand ripping half the body off one of the ops. The other one ran towards me and I flicked my hand and he flew off the train. Next thing I knew the entire train exploded.