Chapter 3: Shock Culture
Involves: The Storm Gathers by Bale-Storm
AN:"This is a collab with Bale-Storm, this story is written in 1st person following Sean. Ryan Scaruss is © bale-storm."

Subchapter 4: The act for trust

I grab a gun from the rack, they look nice but a bit unusual.
"Where did you get these from?"
"Well the revenant does have their own arms developers and a team of the best and brightest to work in the research and development department." Alex explains
"Are they any good?" I ask.
I look at Alex's gun.
"Their ok but I like shotguns more because I like to make custom shells in my spare time." Alex replied pulling out a belt of blue plastic shells.
"Why are they blue?" Ryan asks.
"Because they are colour coded, these shells are a little experiment. Cubit zirconium shards, these should tear though just about any thing a soldier can be armoured with." He explains, his voice seems relaxed. He trusts his gun.
Ryan opens the locker pulling out a sword.
"What century do you think you’re from?" he sighed
He looks a bit annoyed, a bit obvious.
"Well I can give five good reasons for swords over guns, one they don’t need reloading, two swords can act as a store of psi power, three a sword doesn’t break as easily, four a sword looks so much cooler and five they are traditional weapons. That and the fact a sword is a symbol of personalisation" He lectures.
"Well at anything you can lecture them to death!" Sean grinned
Of course I make fun of it, even though he is right.

The team and I enter another helicopter taking us to the US.
Alex is talking about codes, acces codes most likely and from the corner of my eye I see Ryan reading a book, the weak light didn't seem a problem for him at all.
Meanwhile I start talking a bit with Lisa about ballistics, killing time doesn't hurt.
Suddenly I hear the pilot. "We’re at a safe distance now put those gliders to good use!"
Alex was the first to jump out the door. Then lisa followed.
Then Ryan jumps out, and then it is my turn.
I press the 'realise' button and the wings open out.
The hydrogen engine blow me forwards.
When arriving at the camp, Alex and Lisa were already working on the archives.
Ryan was waiting for me, we are to hunt down the leader of this place.
The leader is bald, in his 40's and brown eyes, a description which is useless in cities but this is no city.

Ryan pointed at the largest tent, most likely to be the man's quarters.
I steer towards it and press the 'retract' button so the wings would retract.
I land with silence, as I was trained to do. And it seemed Ryan could achieve it aswell.
I could see five shapes resembeling men in the tent, though a sixth could be standing behind one of them.
Enough of the silence, let's show that bastard what he's dealing with.
I charge my hand with fire, a small ball, but concentrated as hell. The fragment seems to have evolved.
I throw the ball and the tent is consumed by the flames in no time.
The air is filled with shouts of anger and suprise.
Ryan and I storm the tent, Ryan with his blade drawn and me with my gun
He decapitates one of the men and I shoot three others.
Then he runs into the smoke shouting "cal’tor nein lou’sedan sil aerck ril kire sile’ra charrn!"
*a poor Sheppard abandons his flocks to let himself flee!*
I see a chopper lifting off and calculating if I can jump onto it.
A loud noise interrupts my mind and I look at the thing.
Three meters tall, red eyes and one hell of an ugly face.
An atlas with some sort of high-tech armor.
I try to shoot it but my bullets are being deflected and fall onto the ground.
Once again I feel a charge in the air, a charge like none other I've felt before.
The charge was like the smell of the air after a rainy day, satisfying.
I run to the left of the thing and the atlas tries to follow me.
Lightning strikes the atlas and stuff starts to explode, Ryan's powers are growing.
As the atlas falls I look around and find Ryan.
"Good work, Ryan. But next don't make me finish of the lieutenants myself."
I walk towards him and take another look around me.
"Where are Alex and Lisa? And did you get the leader?"
"No, he used that atles to cover his escape."
I hear footsteps and turn around, Lisa and Alex are running up to us.
"I've got some bad news and worse new, which would you prefer to hear fist?" Alex asks.
"Band news please."I answer.
"They are very well paid." Alex responds.
"What's the worse news?" Ryan asks.
"A traitor,"Lisa is somewhat whispering "someone's funding the preachers with revenant money."
They're in deep shit, but it's not really my problem.
We go to evac with the silence of failure.

Subchapter 5: The Hunt

It's time for the hunt.
If he grows more I might not be able to defeat him.
Still, I want him to feel the hunt, he'll feel the rush.
I've left my earpiece in front of the elevator after Alex and Lisa left.
I'm using a bluetooth connection to monitor the surveillance cameras and to manipulate the speakers.

"Ryan you’ve got five minutes to prepare. Then you’ll have to start running, don’t hide I’ve found it to be a major waste of time as far as I’m concerned"
"I think you’ve got the wrong Ryan; I’m the one who hasn’t got a creepily obsessive secret admirer."
"Nice try, Scaruss but I can tell from you’re voice. Now to make this fair I’ll keep off this floor for the time being, I would recommend getting a weapon just to make this fun. And don’t run that just forfeits the head start you’ve got."
"How considerate, Sean" It actually was, but not for him, I just want him to fight back to the max.
"Well done! I knew you were smart, but perhaps a bit too smart. But time is ticking I would get a move on if I was you."
"Five, four," I'm count down, makes everything a bit more interresting
"Three,"
The lift chimes.
"Two,"
The doors slide open.
"One, let the hunt, begin!"
I run out of the lift with all I have, Ryan just ran past the corner.
He jumps out the window and falls downwards.
I free my blade and look out the window, I see him glide towards one of the sub-buildings with his glider.
I jump out the window onto the sub-building Ryan was on.
Cracks appear where I had landed, I hardly noticed it.
I raise my hand, ready to attack with fire.
I throw out the fireball and an instant static in the air occurd.
An explosion followed, a strong one and I was blown backwards almost off the ledge.
I quickly regained my balance and run towards him.
He sword swings in half an arc downwards, which I blocked with my sword.
I swing the blade horizontal, he ducks away and slams his hilt in my chest.
I take a defensive step back.

"Why the hell are you doing this!?" He shouts
What the heck? Odd thoughts when fighting. I guess this one actually knows he'll survive.
"not one of them has ever asked me that," I think out loud.
"well it works like this, one I find you, two I infiltrate into what I have to so I can reach you then I hunt you down."
The basic principles which is my hunting signature.
"I’ve never dealt with a Hannibal Lector wannabe!" He replied in a small laugh.
I take a step forward preparing to charge him, suddenly a shock goes through my mind.
One thought, one event occured in my mind. All I saw was a black desert full of lightning.
I keep running to him, he is just standing there, this ain't any fun, who does he think he is?!
I kick him against the chest and he falls to the ground.
I raise my hands to drill his chest with my blade, he rolls away.
He easily got back on his feet, I've gotten him out of my head.
I swing the sword along with my body, he backs away and forth trying to stab me.
I move past his sword and cut his left forearm a bit.
The static in the air returned, strong as ever, I can't take him like this.
I feel my Lycan fragment and use it. My skin breaks and reveals the fur of the Lycan, along with it's muscles.
A small portion of my clothes still lasted and I howled to the night preparing for battle.
Ryan shouted something, probably equal to a battle call.
We charge oneanother and it seemed more of a dance than a battle for a small moment.
The Lycan talons were never made to hold the sword and Ryan's blade shatterd it.
I jump at him and a shockwave pushes me back and fatigue is coming on to me.
I change back to human and grab my gun where it fell when I changed.
I aim at Ryan and he is trying to aim at me, it seemed he has grown tired.
Suddenly he pointed the gun at his head.
"Sal Zathor inkile" or 'The honour is mine'.
I shoot the gun out of his hands, charge forward and do an uppercut.
He falls to the ground unconscious.
"You must remember the battles you've won well, and the battles you've lost even better."
I grab my syringe and take some of his blood.
The blood was bright red, the battle has taken quite some out of him.
I go to the remains of my sword and take it's tip.
Taking another look at the blood makes me excited.
I take an empty fragment from my ripped clothes and fill it with the blood.
I open my driver and put it in it's fourth and last fragment slot.
"Sometimes all we fight for, is to feel alive. And now only one thing remains."
I feel the powers as soon as I close the driver.

Subchapter 6: The aftermath

"How is he doing?"
"Not too good I'm afraid. His spine is severly damaged and shifted upwards possibly hurting the brain."
"Never thought a fall like that could hurt someone that bad."
"He'll be in a coma until his body restores his spine by itself, surgery is too risky at this point.
His muscles are starting to deteriorate and his bloodflow is low.
Adrenaline would speed up his recovery but it would take an extreme dose of it and it should be of great quality."
"So, you need some adrenaline on steroids?"
"Puting it bluntly, yes."
When I leave this world, I have hurt it, I'd best try to heal what I can before I leave.
"Would you mind leaving the room, docter?"
"Not at all."
The man leaves the room and I look at Edd until the door is closed.
I reveal my driver and pull off the top, I then put it on edd's chest, opposite to the heart.
I then reconfigure my driver and trigger the adrenaline driver for a few seconds and turn it off again.
I put the top of my driver back on it again and leave the room.

Someone picked Ryan up later that night and brought him to the infirmary.
When I was trying to use his powers I felt a sudden preasence and saw Ryan.
I decided to leave the world with a final thought, one which I had not expected.
"You should have lectured me to death."