Disclaimer: I don't own any of the TV shows or characters that are in this fan fic

Summery: It's a week after the last episode of season two, Emma didn't die Adam's still around and Lexa has yet to show up.

Rating R just in case

Fandom's: Mutant X, The Crow

Genres: Slash, het,

Chapter 1: The beginning of the end

My days are numbered, but I'm not going to go with out leaving something behind so everyone will know what my team and I did. How many lives we've saved, how many deaths we avoided, but it wasn't always with out los. We've lost lives, team mates, friends and family. But none of them would want us to give up. But that doesn't matter; we'll get to that in a minute, but first let's start off my, no our story from the beginning which I hear is the best place to start. Right now it's the year 2031, but back then it was almost 2004, it was September I think, my memories a little fuzzy. It was just after the building collapsed, I remember that. Emma almost died, it took three hours to find Adam. Shalimar was shaken up, her father hadn't made it. But we survived, now our story starts a week after that, Eckhart's unfortunately back in our lives, he was recuperating that week so he didn't show his ugly face, I'm thankful of that. Because someone else did, but why talk about him, when I could just tell you how and why it happened, truth is I don't know why it happened it just did. And so now I tell you, I Brennan Molwray, a member of Mutant X, will tell you how this fateful day started the beginning of the end for Mutant X and all we know. And this is how our story starts out. It was a dark and stormy night, I know big cliché but it's the truth. Shalimar and I were out, shopping, it wasn't the best time to go, but we needed to eat, and we volunteered.

"Shal hurry up, I'd like to get home ASAP." I was in a rush; I hated the rain as much as the cold, and being late September didn't help matters. "Alright Brennan everything's in let's get going." Shal took the drivers' side, while I got the passenger. I would be driving except that it's Shals' car. While we were shopping, over in the graveyard not to far from where we were something unusual happened.

Graveyard night

It was quiet the care taker had just finished making his rounds, he was grumbling about something, probably the rain. Boy was it poring that night. In one of the graves the tomb stone blank, back in the old days they'd leave it blank if it was a murder. They never cared to change it. Could be because they don't know his name, if it was a he that is, the quiet was broken all of a sudden when a hand came out of the earth, it took several minutes before the rest of the body came with it. He was dark, his clothes mostly black, a few red here and there. He was wearing a black shirt, no sleeves a little torn; it showed a bit of his well toned belly. The pants ripped at places, and gloves fingerless black. His hair black as night, and his eyes, they looked pure evil, as they too were black as coal. He had no shoes and an expression on his face that would scare the dead. The care taker was coming back, he noticed this young man as he looked to be in his early twenties. "Excuse me young man, this is privet property it would be best that you leave." He asked politely, he was an elderly man, must have been working this shift for almost twenty or so years. He turned, and the elderly mans' face turned stark white. He walked up to him; a sneer crept up on his face, his white teeth showing, just as white as his first victims face. "Where's Adam?" He asked in a cold voice, "I-I don't know who Adam is." He said, "what year is it?" He asked. "I-It's 2003." The man sniffed the air "late September." It wasn't a question but fact, how he knew that I'll never know. The elderly man just nodded. "You've served your purpose." He grabbed the elderly mans' neck, and twisted, hearing that satisfying crack of bone's braking. He smirked, "it's been a long time. To long, Adam Cane, I'm coming for you." He turned on his heels, and headed out of the cemetery.

Back in the car

"Shal that's not what I'm saying?"

"What are you saying Bren, because what I'm hearing is that you don't trust Adam."

"It's not that I don't trust him, it's just he's been acting very strange the past week, haven't you noticed?" Shal didn't answer right away; she thought about it then replied. "Alright so maybe you're right; he has been locking himself in the lab a lot lately not even letting Emma in, but we've all been on edge, ever since, well you know."

"I know, and yes it's not new for him to be keeping us in the dark like this, but this is different, it's like he's been hiding a secret he doesn't want out like with your father." Shal nodded. Shal was about to say something when someone walked right in front of her car. She slammed on the brakes with both feet. He looked at it, but didn't move an inch, the car stopped just short of hitting him. She got out of the car, "what the hell do you think you're doing, do you have a death wish. Because if you do don't kill yourself with-"The rest of what Shalimar had been saying died in her throat when she saw his coal black eyes. Brennan got out of the car, he looked him over, he looked familiar but he couldn't place where he's seen this guy before. "Adam Cane, where is he?" He asked Shal and Bren looked at him, then at each other. They both shook there heads and said, "Who?" Like they didn't know who he was, now this guy moves fast, deathly fast. As he put his hand around Brennans' throat and picked him up a few inches off the ground. "Don't lie to me boy." He said in away that told you not to mess or lie to this guy. "Now, where is Adam Cane?" He looked at Brennan, he smirked, and he knew this kid. He knows who this kid is, but for the time being he has other things to attend to at the moment. "Put him down." Shal ordered, she didn't wasn't about to let one of her friends and the closets thing she has to a brother die. "Why do you want to know?" Brennan asked his voice harsh from the strain of the hold on him. He had both hands gripped to his wrist, trying to pry his hand off of him, but it wasn't working. "That's none of your business." Shalimar ran around the car and kicked the guy, he stumbled some, but other then that it was like he didn't even feel it. But he let Brennan go, who as soon as he was released took in deep breaths of air as his face had been turning blue. Shal got into a fighting stance. He grabbed Brennan around the throat from behind, holding him there; he was about three inches taller then him. "Tell Adam, Riddik said hi." He jumped up and was gone in an instant. Shal was a little shocked; she's never seen anyone do that. Never heard of anyone or thing as strong as him, not even Gabriel Ashlock.

Shal didn't waist anytime getting to Sanctuary. About thirty minutes later she had everyone informed on what had happened. "Adam, who's this Riddik guy and what does he want?" Shal asked. "He wants me. He blames me for what happened."

"What did happen, Adam?" Jesse asked Brennan was a brother to him, just like to Emma and Shalimar, he was family. "A few years before I created Mutant X, recruited ya'll Riddik came to me for help. He didn't want to be, immortal any more. I tried to help, but there was an accident…in the lab. By the time the lab technicians and I got there it was a too late. We thought he had been killed in the explosion, but apparently not. When this storm showed up, it had been a long time since we've had a storm this bad, I knew he'd come back. I had figured out who and what he was." Adam stopped there; he sat in a chair in the rec room the rest also there. "Who and what is he?" Shalimar asked. "He's not anything like you've ever seen before, his name's Riddik Bristow, he's a crow. But unlike most he was born this way. Back in the Roman era, even before that, him and some others took over Rome, killed everyone, of course that was left out of the history books. He's come back for revenge. And took Brennan to make sure I show. And if I know Riddik, he'll be at the cemetery waiting for me."

"You're not going alone." Shalimar informed Adam. "Yeah Adam, we can fight him; Shal'll kick his ass." Emma said. "You can't leave me out of this fight." Jesse declared. Adam was going to argue with them, but he knew he'd lose. "Fine, let's take the Double Helix, Jesse you're driving." Adam said. It wasn't long before they were on the move, Jesse engaging the cloke.

At the graveyard

Brennan was tied to a chair, for some reason this guy, Riddik didn't tape Brennans' mouth. "What do you want?" Brennan asked, Riddik rolled his eyes and looked at Brennan. "Took you long enough to ask. You've always been slow. I want Adam, for what he did, to me, to you and to every mutant out there." Riddik blamed Adam for everything, every mistake he's ever done. Brennan was trying to work out of his binds. "Don't worry Brennan, this won't take long. Want to know what I have planed." He didn't wait for a reply, "first I plan on killing Adam, then the rest of your fucked up family. Then, if I'm in the mood, I'll kill you. If not then I'll torture you until I am. And while I'm killing the people you love, I'll make you watch, even if I have to tape your eyes open." He smirked, a tear traveling down Brennans' check, just by thinking of his friends more like his family die in front of him, and he can't do anything to stop it.

Riddik looked at him, he turned his back to Brennan. He pulled an envelop from his jeans pocket. He looked at it, the front of it said to Brennan my beloved Son. He heard something landing over in the distant not far from where they were. He put the envelop back in his pocket. "You're friends are here." He grabbed some duck tape and put it over Brennans' mouth. "That'll shut you up."

The Double Helix came to a landing not far from the Graveyard, they got out. "I'll go in first getting him talking, try and reason with him, if it get's out of hand ya'll come in." He told them, they all nodded. Adam went up to the caretakers office where Brennan was being kept, he walked in, Riddik didn't even bother hiding Adam knew it was a trap. "Adam, so glad you could join us. I was just telling Brennan how this was all your fault."

"I didn't mean for it to happen Riddik, it was an accident, and it wasn't suppose to happen."

"Not suppose to happen, well it did, now you're going to pay for what you did." Riddik threatened, he headed to Adam. But then Shal and the others rushed in. Shal and Jesse attacked Riddik, while Emma went to Brennan and Adam got out of there. Emma tried using her powers on Riddik but it didn't work. He easily dodged Jesse's attacks; he threw him into a wall, not through the wall. Knocking him out cold, Shalimar got kicked out of the office. He soon joined as both Brennan and Emma attacked him. So now they were all outside fighting it out.

As Shal was trying to get up with the aid of Emma, Brennan and Riddik were fighting, Brennan doing alright for a second. Then Riddik got the upper hand it still raining and such. He threw Brennan into a tomb stone; he hit his head on it. The next thing he saw was darkness. As Riddik was going to give the final blow Shalimar kicked him then threw him away from Brennan. She grabbed him by the hair and started to slam his face into a tomb stone. But he countered after the third hit and went to hitting her head into the tomb stone. But a few minutes later and they both were bruised, bleeding and hurting. "Fine, you win, this time. But Adam next time I'm in town, I'll kill you. And pretty boy over there." He pointed to Brennan who was starting to wake up, along with Jesse. He jumped into the air and disappeared. They looked at each other, Shal went to Brennan and helped him up, and he leaned on her for support. Half an hour later they were back home, Adam treating their wounds. As he explained everything to Brennan, but he was leaving something out. Brennan knew it, but was too tired to ask, or even think about it. He trudged upstairs to his room. He walked in and plopped down on his bed, in just seconds he was out like a light.

It was a dream. Brennan was at home his step father an abusive bastured had beaten Brennan and locked him in a closet. He must have been ten at the most. As he sat in the corner crying someone showed up, he was dressed in black. He bent over, "don't cry." He said. Brennan looked at him, "who are you, are you an angel?" Brennan asked, "If you want me to be." Brennan smiled; he took his hand and healed Brennan's wounds. His face in the shadows, so it was hard to see what he looks like "Who are you?" He asked, he wanted to know who this person was, was he an angle, like he's read in the bible about. "A friend, I'll never hurt you Brennan, not like him." His face came out of the shadows. Brennan jumped awake, "it couldn't be. Riddik was my guarding angel." Brennan was shocked, the only one that was ever there for him, that cared for him when he was a child. Was the man that just beat the shit out of him and tried to kill him? For the rest of the night he thought about him. How the man he thought cared about him could, try and kill him. It didn't make any since; he'd have to ask Adam tomorrow, he shook his head, like Adam would ever give him a straight answer. He'd worry about that tomorrow, right now he needed sleep. Brennan went back to sleep, and slept the rest of the night peacefully dreamlessly.

In the lab

While everyone else was asleep working over their bruises, Adam was in the lab, he had gotten some of Riddiks' blood off the tomb stone, along with Shals'. He was staring at the computer, not believing in what he was seeing. "You like what you see?" Adam turned around, it was Riddik. "Riddik, what do you want?"

"Oh, I want love, peace on earth. What the fuck do you think I want?" Riddik said.

"Revenge." Adam said. Riddik headed toward Adam. "And Brennan?" Adam asked. Riddik stopped in his tracks, "what about Brennan?"

"Are you really going to kill me, what about him, I'm the closets thing he has to a father." Riddik didn't say anything, he pulled something out of his pants pocket, "give him this, and tell him it belonged to his father, his real father." He threw the envelope on the ground at Adams' feet. Adam bent down and picked it up, then looked back up to see Riddik was gone. He opened it up and pulled out not only a gold chained necklace with an oval shaped locket on it. A note was also there, he looked at the note and read what was on it. 'To my son, you won't be the kid I remember when you get this. But you will have a bigger destine a head of you, then you relies, don't fight it son. It's fate, I didn't believe it until I'd seen it, I will always love you son.' Adam opened the locket, there was a picture in it. A man he didn't recognize must have been Brennan's father, Riddik who was standing next to Brennan's father and he was holding a baby while his father was making him laugh it had to be Brennan. They looked, happy. He closed it up, put it back in the envelope along with the note and put it on the counter next to the computer. He thought about throwing it away, but Brennan deserved to know. Besides Riddik would probably know or find out and get all pissed off about it.