Michael

Xandor walks ahead of me as I think about Wade and James, as my ghoul form recedes back into the darkness.

"Thinking about the two people that are currently accusing the mortally deceased you?" Xandor laughs, turning around to slow down and walk side-by-side with me to the palace.

"You can kill them, but it can wait. Everyone has so many different stories right now regarding the truth about you and them... it's worth sitting around to watch what events will unfold." He says.

"Xandor, I will kill them. I know the truth. I am justice."

"You aren't justice. You're a relentless killer. A murderer, but a rightful one."

"I don't think so, Xandor. Now please... leave me."

"No. I will make sure you enjoy what you're about to do. You must learn to enjoy it. You cannot live forever thinking of what you're doing as a sin and only a sin." He grips my shirt tight and pulls it.

"You're my first prized creation, Michael. A ghoul. You and your ghoul DNA are not going to disappoint me." He emphasises his point even further, as I felt his tongue touch my cheek for the first time, it's slimy presence putting me off instantly. He then puts me back down and continues walking back to the palace.

"I'm getting Lex and Pain. They will teach you. Perhaps Lupus will join in. I am satisfied with how you are managing to resist the influence, but you will give in eventually. All it takes is just a little push."

"What about my eyes? You said they were not the same. It's been long since you told me you would answer me."

"Oh, believe me. When you stop resisting the influence, your eyes will be the same colour. Of course, when you're in ghoul form, that's an exception. Now, just focus on losing any trace of Protector values that you own. It is pointless to own them to fight against the unstoppable force that is in you." He moves on, as I follow close behind, placing my hands in my hoodie pockets from the sudden loss of... something.

I can't feel. I'm losing my ability to feel emotions - yet I can feel rage, anger, lust, sorrow and resentment. Everything that's not Protector based. Perhaps Xandor was right. The influence was impossible to stop.

Then what about Elise? Is she going through the same thing? Whatever that was, it did not matter. Speaking of anger, it was rising in me, as the memory of Wade and James surface once more.

Oh, they will die by my hand.

I enter the palace, and the doors close behind me. I am greeted by Pain and Lupus... together. Lex was missing.

"Hm... Lord Xandor told us you would become our brother. We have a duty." They pull me aside, into a dark room.

"Lex shall join us later... at the moment, he's having fun." Pain laughs hysterically as if I was small fry to handle.

"See... Lex has priorities. You're not even high up on that list." I stare at Pain, and I just snap, aiming a punch at him as my fists tighten, but he catches it with his bare hand, signalling that I was no match for him. Sitting back down on the floor, I wait.

***

Elise | Ophelia

Ophelia. Come to me, at once.

Xandor's calling me...

I must see him immediately. I sprint through the halls, but I hear screams and cursing.

I stop in my tracks, realising it's from Mira's room. Her door was ajar - and I saw a sex scene unfold right before me.

Lex and Mira... fucking each other in the palace?!

"You're turning me, Mira. I feel bonded with you!" Lex shouts as he continues thrusting into Mira, the infection working on him as Mira's body mutated completely into infected flesh.

"We're going to evolve into something more... I can feel it!" He kisses Mira, as his face seems to twist its features into something horrific.

"Ohh... I'm coming!" Mira screams as both Lex and her mutate completely, into something I cannot describe. They then morph into normal vampire form, as if their infection was nonexistent... as if they handled it so much better than I did.

I stared at my hand, a mix of both infected flesh and halfbreed blood.

"Oh, my Queen! You should join us, perhaps!" Mira looks at me, as I back off and bump into Xandor.

"Seems like my vampire couple is being very sexually active today..." He points a threatening finger at Lex, who falls to his knees in respect.

"Lord Xandor!" He kowtows, his head staying on the floor instead, never coming up.

"I haven't said a thing yet, Lex. What makes you think I will punish you? I am just telling you to hurry up and meet Pain and Lupus. You're late." Lex bows in reply as he gets up, and runs out of the room immediately.

"Mira... fucking him has made you into a completely different person, indeed. However, this is the best stage of evolution you can go." He continues, "Not everyone that has been infected, stays alive forever. Only the chosen will live." He puts a hand around my shoulder as he pulls me out of the room, leaving Mira in complete silence as I realised, she was fading away.

Mira is... gone.

GONE. The infection overtook her completely, as her soul left her and settled on my hand as an orb.

"Mira... She was a very good Fallen." He looks at her soul resting on my palm and puts it in a case.

"I believe you are attached to her, somehow." He puts the case back on my hand, and I remember Xavier gave me one before he turned into Xandor.

"What do I do with these orbs?"

"Anything, Ophelia. From reviving them, anything. Even making them a part of you."

"Really?" I take out the orb he gave me long ago.

"You have Jay. You can try him." He opens it up, to reveal a smartly-dressed Fallen who was in a simple black trench coat with black overalls, with black Ray-Bans.

"Master." Jay bowed emotionlessly.

"Rise, Jay. Look, Ophelia. They wake, but in new forms, new memories. It's like their life has restarted."

"But loyal to you," I complain, as I see him send Jay's soul back into the case, keeping it.

"Ophelia... You're going to be loyal to me too. I will make you." Xandor closes up to me, as the surroundings became warped, sending us into a room dimly lit in red.

"Welcome to the Forbidden Room - where only lust and sin live." It was a room filled with everything that was for sexual acts.

I wanted to run away. My entrance was meant for Michael - not Xandor.

"You're my wife now, Ophelia. This is part of our marriage. And you will experience it, enjoy it in time to come." With that, he forcefully strips me down to the last bit, took various toys and started to strategically place them on my sensitive spots.

"You will scream my name. Beg me for it. See who you and I truly are, Ophelia. Mira and Lex was just the beginning. The prelude."

All I knew was, while I was suffering - Michael was suffering too. But suffering in what way, I don't know. A nightmare, perhaps. A form of torture, but not sexually. I'm sure Pain and Lupus are not as sexual as Lex is.

But what can they do to Michael?

"Oh, Ophelia... focus on me." Xandor holds my head tight as I snap back to reality, as he manifests dark auras that seemed to form the same things Michael has - just not the same, not with that red glowing light.

"They will help you feel good, Ophelia. Get used to it. You will love it, I know."

The rest was history. Xandor would be the one taking my freedom away, my freedom of thought. Yet, I was pulled in by his aggressiveness, his odd way of making love. For all I knew, it was just the work of a Living God.

"Also, remember... you and I will be the main driving force behind my Eden...our Eden. Should you think otherwise... perhaps I will let you remember forever."

***

Michael

"Hm... what will we do with you?"

"I don't know, send me to Hell?" I sarcastically replied.

"How can we make you lose your humanity, that's what." Pain complains as Lex comes in, beads of sweat dripping from his face.

"Well, a little rewiring of his brain is all he needs." He smiles, as he morphs into a fully mutated being - an infected.

"You fucker!" I screamed at him as I transformed into my ghoul form, blocking myself from him attacking me. However, a small tentacle came through and my brain was hit.

I was now in nowhere, but Wade and James were in front of me. They were oblivious to my presence - seeming to reply to questions asked in an interview.

I was just standing in the shadows, watching them. Lex, Pain and Lupus were standing beside me, as I realised we were all in this.

"Bloody hell, Lex! What were you doing with Mira?!" Pain whispered-yelled to his brother, who was now in humanoid form again.

"Fucking her, that's what. It sure is fun." Lex smiles as he turns to me.

"You disgusting womaniser..." Lex's smile curves into an even sinister smile, even starting to laugh - but it becomes a snarl as he shows his seriousness.

"This isn't the real thing - but I could see a glimpse of your imagination. This is purely a simulation." Lex points to Wade and James, "I believe I have seen the correct people you hate."

"That's them, alright." I sighed, reminiscing of the past. I still can't believe I was betrayed of my trust.

Lex's hand was still on my head, seeming to reassure me into the act.

"Won't they know who I am?"

"You're Kyle in the human world now, Michael. You can't let your true name be mentioned here, ever again."

"Remember, even if you don't make a move, or mess up - this is a simulation. But we are watching you - and this is the only way to make you accept who you are. The only rule you should go by now... is that when there's nothing left but silence - you have finished your mission."

Silence. Is that what can bring me peace?

Silence... by killing. By decimating humanity's population. What I was once before.

But I've moved on... I can't go back.

I cannot hold on to the past anymore. This is my test, a test for me... to put my humanity away.

With only my left eye's vision guiding me, from whatever I could see from my mask... I lock onto Wade, who seemed to sense my presence, and he seems to freeze in place as he stares wide- eyed at me.

"Action." I tell myself, and I pounce on Wade and James, my identity revealed to the public as Kyle, the uninvited guest.

"I am Kyle, and I am here... to kill these two. They are wanted... by my King. Remember the Fallen, powerless imbeciles." Suspending the two, everyone's facial expressions turned from shock to fear in an instant. Exactly how I wanted the media to feel. Exactly how I wanted it to be. The media, all scared of me, when they were relentlessly attacking me just moments ago.

"Brethren... feast on the delights before you." It felt so real. Wade and James seem to freeze as I claw their flesh from their bodies, ripping parts of their face away as I rip them down to their very core. Lex, Pain and Lupus were gouging hearts from bodies, taking souls, enjoying this gruesome scene I had initiated.

I felt no remorse. I only felt a sense of pride... an unnatural sense of pride, that only served to boost my ego even further.

"Now, Wade and James. Your souls are mine." Their souls floated in the air as they left their bodies, landing on my palm as orbs.

"Xandor will know how to handle you two better than I do. I don't want you two messing up my fun." Keeping them in a pouch, I passed them to Lex, as the silence fills the air, and the vision fades.

"Michael... and I thought you're..." Lex pauses, as he steadies himself, "Very impressive, however... very impressive. You have earned our respect, Michael."

He places a cold hand on my shoulder, "Welcome to the family, brother."

"Brethren... we will assassinate Wade Robson and James Safechuck, tonight. Let this be a celebration... of the day I lose my humanity." My brothers nod at me, as we leave the palace for the human world.

Now, I am Kyle in this realm. And when I reach wherever the two are, the rule will apply...

When there's nothing left but silence... I have finally ended what will bother me for life. I will end Wade and James today, and let it be the day I accept who I am.

Author's Note

Hey guys! I'm back with a new chapter! I guess... I'm just a sadistic asshole after all. Even Michael has fallen to the mysterious effects of the dark influence, is there nothing but killing and massacres left in this world? Xandor's plan of Eden is just beginning... and Michael, is officially ticked off his to-do list this way.

Hope you enjoyed, and I'll be seeing you in the next chapter :) I believe this is a little shorter than usual, but it will suffice haha.