From War, To Extinction

Chapter 19: False Reality

Michael's face is a light pale colour, his eyes widened and his heart beating against the bone of his chest. Before him stands the woman he's been fighting to see for months, her beautiful dark brown eyes staring straight into his own. Her beautiful, short brown hair sits still, making Michael's heart skip a few beats. How did she get here? And how long has she been in Budapest?
"Selene?" Michael questions, his voice cracking under the pressure of the emotion.
"Hello, my love," Selene's soft voice speaks to him, sending chills down his spine. "It's has been too long since we've spoken, and so much has happened, to all of us."
"How long have you been here? In Budapest?!" Michael cries out, his eyes becoming glassy within seconds.
"We've been here for a couple days, we've been looking for you," Selene explains, a tear rolling down her face. "David and I, we contacted Sebastian and he told us that you wanted to attack the Antigen Headquarters singled handed. You're such an idiot, Michael."
"What about Lena? Eve? The baby?" Michael cries, a tear rolling directly down his bloody face. "What happened to the baby?"
"Shhhhh," Selene whispers, stopping Michael from panicking, soothing his heart rate almost instantaneously as her arms wrap around him. "The baby's fine, he's with the people at the Sanctuary. As soon as we're done here, you'll get to meet him."
Michael's tears are replaced by smiles; the idea that his new-born son is safe and sound at the Sanctuary, makes everything feel much better. Just when he thought the situation couldn't get any better, David, Lena and Eve enter the ruined laboratory.
"Michael?!" David smirks, his hand holding onto Lena's.
"Daddy?!" Eve panics, joining her parents in their hug, something that sews together his broken heart.
"Eve," Michael gasps, kissing her forehead. "I've missed you so much! You look so different, and I love it."

Before Michael can enjoy the situation, his radio begins to buzz; it's Sebastian, and it seems to be urgent.
"I'm sorry, guys, it's Sebastian, he needs me, I'll be right back."
Michael walks away from his family to answer the distress signal, placing the radio against his ear as he stares at his consulting family; noticing David, Lena and Selene are armed with Antigen weaponry.
"Michael here, what's up, Seb?" Michael questions, listening to the radio.
"Michael?! Where are you?! The Vampire and Lycan forces have completely wiped out the front defences, everyone is going as planned, even with the slight change. We're going to send back-up to your location, we just need to know where you are," Sebastian explains. "Location?"
"No need, Sebastian, Selene is here with David, Lena and Eve," Michael explains to Sebastian, noticing something odd about David, and as he pays more attention to his long lost family, it's not just him.
"MICHAEL, WAIT! HOW MANY HANDS DOES DAVID HAVE?!" Sebastian screams into the radio, catching the entire family's attention.
"He has- He- He has-" Michael gasps, feeling his heartbeat rise again, but this time, in fear and rage. That's when he begins to notice things; Selene's hair, is no longer white at the tips, Eve looks much younger. He now knows this situation doesn't seem so right after all. "Two- He has two."
"MICHAEL, GET OUTTA' THERE! NOW!"
Before Michael can react, he feels a deadly, tight grip on his throat before he's slammed into a nearby wall, his head smashing against the white tile. He feels his short, silvery hair latch onto the cold tiled wall, the scar on his face stretching under the pressure of the impact. He opens his eyes, seeing Selene; her light blue and aggressiveeyes staring up at him as her grip tightens. This isn't the Selene that he knows, and this isn't Selene at all, this is somebody else entirely.
"Everything could have been easy, Michael, but you've made things difficult for Antigen, and for Julius," Selene hisses, throwing him into another wall at such a force, his body creates a crater.
"And for that, we cannot let you live," Eve growls, her eyes shifting into Hybrid form as she stares at the enraged Michael.

Michael stares at the intruders, the rage in his heart flowing straight to the rest of his body; the sclera of his eyes turning pitch black while his iris glows the monstrous red colour, his teeth shifting into form as his claws tear from his finger nails. Michael knows he can't go full hybrid, not yet, he needs to be able to concentrate if he's going to hold his own against them, and concentrate even more if he is to win the fight.
"You going to hide behind your firearms, like cowards?!" Michael growls.
"No," the False-David hisses as he drops his assault rifle, smirking right as he pulls a fire axe from his coat. "Not firearms, Michael, but that doesn't mean we're going to go easy on you."
Michael watches as 'Selene' pulls large knives from the belt on her leather suit, and 'Eve' as she begins to transform into her Hybrid form. Michael attempts to attack the intruders but is stopped when Lean kicks him back to the ground, yanking his own blade from his sheath before he can blink.
"Give up, Corvin, you will not survive this," Lena growls, saliva dripping from her long Vampire fangs. "We promise you, you will die quickly if you just surrender now."
"FUCK YOU!"
Michael leaps at the false-family, using his Hybrid speed to warp in front of Lena, gripping onto her throat before he using his rage and strength to force her head into one of the walls. Before he can continue the assault, Eve slams her claws into his side, shattering one of his ribs as her claws cut into his kidney, making Michael scream in pain. David bolts behind Michael, gripping onto the back of his neck before pitching him away from Lena, smashing him to the ground, making the entire room shake at the impact.

Michael feels his rib begin to break back into place as his kidney heals within seconds, his vision blurry and unstable.
"Feel that, Michael?" Selene asks as she moves closer to Michael, the handle of her blades firmly in her grasp. "The Vulnerability, the heartbreak; just when you thought your family finally returned to you, and that your child is born and safe, it all turned out to be a trick, now look at you, you're bleeding, sweating, crying like you're human, quite pathetic if you ask me."
Michael wants nothing more than to rip out the False Selene's throat with his teeth, but his body doesn't let him, the trauma in his spine is too much for his body to take. Before he can speak, David plunges the blade of his fire axe deep into Michael's lower spine, making Michael's twitch as he growls in horrible pain.
"Weak," David whispers. "Misguided creature."
The False Selene stands before Michael, kneeling down to face his twitching, blood-curdling face, a psychotic smile branded to her face.
"You don't deserve them, Michael, you never have; not Selene, not your daughter, David, Lean, Kassie, Sebastian, and definitely not that child that we will tear from Selene's womb," the False Selene hisses, giggling at the sight of Michael's iris glowing a darker red colour. "Look at you, you still think you're going to make it through this, you think you're going to kill us?! YOU THINK-"
The False Selene is silenced when a large blade pierces through her chest, making her wheeze for breath as Michael listens to her chest cavity and her upper spine shatter under the impact of the blade. She screams as her knees hit the cold floor of the lab, revealing the young woman perched behind her, gripped onto the handle of her katana; Kassie. Before she can react, Selene pushes her away Kassie away from the handle of the katana and into a wall, leaving her weaponless and against four powerful Immortals. Selene faces Kassie, her light blue eyes death-staring her as she walks towards her, the blade still sticking from her rapidly healing chest.
"No," Michael shrieks, watching the helpless Kassie as the False Selene approaches her, the rest of the False Family blocking out her exits, trapping her in a corner. "NO! KASSIE!"
"DAD?!" Kassie cries out, a tearing rolling down her cheek as the False Selene grabs onto her shoulders.
"So young, yet so blind," the False Selene hisses before pulling Kassie into her own blade, piercing it through her chest as Michael watches helplessly.

"KASSIE!" Michael roars in absolute rage, the adrenaline in his body pushing his healing further, allowing his body to expel the fire axe from his spine and giving him the energy to fight back.
Within seconds, Michael's human form shifts into a raging Hybrid form, his skin pitch black as his body turns into a more muscular form. Michael slides down and grips onto the fire axe, throwing it towards the intruders, watching as it slams deep into the throat of the False Lena, the distraction giving him another opportunity to strike. Michael warps towards the choking False Lena, gripping onto the handle of the fire axe and slicing her head off her shoulder before the rest of the intruders can even think about blinking. He swings the axe towards David, slicing his right hand off instantly before aiming for his chest. Before he can hit David's chest, Eve leaps on top of him, tearing him to the ground as her claws dig into his stomach and chest. Eve claws violently at his chest, but it doesn't seem to affect him, instead, it makes Michael more enragedand bloodthirsty. Right as Eve impacts her Hybrid claws into Michael's chest, he tears the claws in his left hand up, sticking them into the side of her neck before slicing it open. Blood sprays onto his muscular Hybrid body as he jams his right hand into Eve's chest, gripping onto her beating heart before tearing it out. He throws her the False Eve's lifeless corpse from his own, allowing him to get up from the ground, ready to strike down the remaining Selene and David.
"Michael?!" Selene sighs as she tears the blade from her chest. "Think about this-"
"I'm done thinking," Hybrid growls in dark, monstrous voice, revealing the extent of his enhanced intelligence. "Time's up."
"MICHAEL?!"
Michael leaps at the two False Family members, his claws bloody, but ready to be soaked in more.