History.

Time.

Past.

Present.

Future.

It wasn't always apocalyptic, it wasn't always about running and hiding. It wasn't always trying to survive. The world had gone through its paces, it's ever changing and yet repeating cycle of beauty and ugliness continued through time and history. The earth was once so very different that many would think it was improbable, but then again time and history lead the world to become something different.

The world had been introduced to Magic, Monsters, Creatures, things that should have never existed. As the legends tell of the unimaginable, the world and its inhabitants changed with time, the world forgot about such creatures and horrors in the night. Magic persisted but it too changed and became hidden as the ages rolled on by, soon a new unimaginable thing happened. The world and its people changed and humans with abilities that could have been given or used by the realm of magic began to appear. Mutants had slowly started to appear and became more prevalent as the humanity grew to include modern ideals. Horse and carriages replaced by steam machines and vehicles, bows and arrows replaced by guns and explosives, 'magic' replaced by science and medicine.

Those that had once been part of the 'old world' passed down their history and blood lines, they kept hidden but did what they could. They adapted to the times and they watched as their beloved world entered a new cycle of violence and destruction that was far worse than anything else they could ever imagined.

Machines, Robots, hatred and disgust reined through most of the 19th and into the 20th century with the most disgusting of events happening during World War 2 when the Nazi's nearly destroyed an entire group of people known as the 'Jews' alongside anyone that wasn't of their 'Master Race'. Destruction continued with nuclear bombing of Japan leading to the end World War 2 on the Pacific front after the attacks on Pearl Harbour.

While there was peace for a time, humanity's desire for conflict and have only Humans be in control of the world changed when Mutants and their abilities started to crop up during the 70's and into the foreseeable future. The meeting of two of the most powerful mutants in the known world at the time lead to the creation of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and a separate faction only known as the Brotherhood of Mutants. Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr started out as friends after Xavier rescued his soon to be friend from drowning. The events that took place helped both men to grown and bond, but after the events of Cuba, that is where the great split happened.

Over the years, the two were at odds and fighting in the shadows until the San Francisco incident and the forcible Golden Gate Bridge move. The President of the United States decided that Mutants were too much of a risk and after going through files from the late Bolivar Trask, the Sentinel Program was reinstated. After that the world became that much more dangerous, what humanity did not know is that that the Mutant Population was much larger than they expected and when the Sentinels were finally released on the world, it was complete world changer. The world as it was known was destroyed and there was no going back. However there are those that wish to see a future and the end of the Sentinels and it's not just the mutants that want an end to the war.

-2023- Ruined Tunnels of London

What used to be Central London were now just concrete skeletons and structures of what used to be high-rises and offices. The ruins were jagged and rough, those that managed to survive somehow learned that underground tunnels didn't suffer too much when the Sentinels started their extermination of the Mutant race. What the Mutants didn't know however was that the Sentinels counted another group of people as Mutants when they didn't quite have the classification.

The fires that burned in the underground were well hidden from the prying eyes of the surface for the most part, those that lived in the tunnels were of a different breed of people and they called themselves witches and wizards, magical folk. When the Sentinels first struck all over the world, the British Wizarding World had held onto the long standing ability to be able to protect themselves from the eyes of 'Muggles' little did they know that when Mutants made themselves known more so in the United States, the Sentinels could see past the protections they had set up from prying eyes.

It had been a normal day when the skies grew dark the first of the European Sentinels hit Central London, the Mutants had been massacred in broad daylight, as their bodies lay strewn in the streets, schools, and offices the Sentinels had turned their untrickable eyes on Diagon Alley and they assessed that the Wizarding People were mutants and they too were brutally murdered in they own area without the Human Population knowing the wiser.

There were those that managed to get away and some that fought back, but with years of dilution of the bloodlines from the 'Old Lines' led to weaker magically and 'physically' able people. Sitting around a fire sickly looking people wrapped thread bare blankets around each other and huddled in silence. There were a few that were walking the perimeter of the underground station was now home to group of forty.

They once had a larger number as they once had a set up at what was once Waterloo Station. Not expecting the attack over sixty people died and they had lost three of their protectors until they were saved by a small group of that had showed up out of nowhere and taken on the Sentinels there. Even outnumbered they managed to destroy or at least defeat almost all the Sentinels. However the group that had shown up had lost the one person they could ill afford to lose.

The Aspects were not entirely immortal save one of them, being ageless is one thing, but being immortal, that was a different story in its entirety. Thrall the Aspect of the Earth had changed over the years, while he was an Orc at birth it didn't mean that he couldn't change with the times. He used his remaining powers as a Shaman to bring the earth out for one last fight while his two compatriots, the Aspect of Magic and the Arcane Jaina Proudmoore and the last and only remaining immortal Aspect of Life and Death; Lord Daemon, or Erik Destler evacuated not only the Magical Folk but those of the Old Lines to a new location.

Even for the Aspect of the Earth and a Shaman, there was not much for the connection to the elements as the elements were being stifled and downtrodden by the fact that Humanity had changed too much. They destroyed the environment and because of that alone they barely answer the call of the one that they once called their Guardian, however knowing that this was his final fight they answered.

Lord Daemon and Jaina had managed to get as many as they could out of there to the ruins of what was once Hogwarts before they used a Portal to head to their present location in a deep underground railway station.

Walking to a barricaded stairwell the one known formally as Lord Daemon listened to the crackles of the fires around the space before looking at the rubble, he had lost too many of his friends, too many people. It was getting hard to protect people and mutants alike with the Sentinels being able to adapt to almost any situation it was in.

Sighing he turned away from the rubble and watched as Jaina Proudmoore walked up to him with a bottle of water in hand. Being a Mage had its perks, it wasn't something that was done often because using that much magic left energy signatures for the Sentinels to pick up during patrols.

"Erik, how are you doing?"

"I'm alright Jaina, a little sore after that last attack but I'm healing." Taking the bottle of water Erik uncapped it and took a small sip as Jaina stepped up close while turning Erik so his back was facing any onlookers. Looking down at the woman Erik lowered his arms after capping the drink as Jaina unzipped the black vest Erik was wearing followed by unbuttoning the well-worn black military shirt he was wearing. Hissing Erik watched as she opened the shirt and laying across Erik's torso was blood soaked bandages. Watching Jaina pull a knife from her belt and cut at the bandages, she was careful not to aggravate the bruises and the damaged torso any more than it was. Once the bandages were cut and pulled away the strong built frame of Erik was marred by the hole where his liver was or used to be. It was growing back but the damage was done and it was lucky that he was immortal and a mostly undead being.

"How is it looking?" Erik looked down but he didn't want to have to see his insides for the time being. Jaina pulled a flashlight out and turning it on, she looked into the gaping wound it wasn't bleeding as heavily as it was a few days before, but there was still blood.

"It's getting better, the hole has shrunk some and I can see at least half of your liver formed. I'll need to bandage you up again with some Embersilk, I don't have much of it left but it should help with the healing Erik. I don't understand why it's taking you this long to heal."

Erik smiled and grunted as he shifted slightly as Jaina pulled some brown looking wrap from a pouch at her waist. Erik stood still as Jaina re-wrapped him up before he gave her an explanation hoping she would understand.

"I haven't done my…. 'Vampire' thing in a while, it's why I'm not healing quickly." Jaina looked at Erik in shock and looked around them after she finished up with Erik and re-buttoning his shirt and zipping his vest back up. She rested her hands on his chest as she gazed at him.

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"Because we were running for our lives Jaina, and it's not like I can die, besides when we get the signal from Severus and we get these people out of here, I'll do my Vampire thing…." Jaina shook her head causing Erik to frown. Pulling a hand away from Erik, Jaina reached up and pulled the scarf she was wearing off tilting her head to the side.

"Erik we can't have you healing this slowly, and I trust you…" Erik shook his head, he wasn't going to feed from her. Being a Death Knight was one thing, however his main speciality was being a Blood Knight, essentially a 'Vampire'. He was also the Aspect of Life and Death, but seeing the look in her eyes Erik knew Jaina would not let it go until he complied with her wishes.

"I am an Aspect like you Erik, we've both lived through the ages and you never once have hurt me, don't start this now…" Erik looked down at the blond haired beauty before him, the ages had been kind to them even as Aspects. She certainly took to the modern times and its fashions well when she finally stood beside him during the early 20th Century. Even now Jaina looked stunning in the well-worn and dirty blue jeans, black plaid shirt and sturdy looking hiking boots with her hair pulled back in a tail.

Erik had taken a more militaristic look with his dirty Slate cargo pants, black shirt and vest with Black Combat Boots. He was lucky that his hair didn't grow much after he had 'died' and become a Death Knight, it was short and played back with grey showing throughout the hair. Frowning still Erik pressed up to Jaina and looked down to her as she tilted her head more exposing her neck more, tilting his head down Erik nosed gently alongside her neck before he whispered into her ear.

"You know, I don't like doing this… not even to if you are offering." Jaina's hand came around and cupped the back of Erik's head, as she whispered back.

"I know." Erik closed his eyes as he felt his canines extend and he kissed her neck gently before he opened his mouth and left his fangs sink into the side of Jaina's neck. Erik was an interesting type of Death Knight, as a Blood Knight he had the ability to take from his enemy to heal himself and use other abilities from a majority of his 'old-lines'. Taking blood was one of the main ways of allowing his body to heal and to 'feed'. Erik personally preferred to eat normal food, it's just that blood of any type was more effective to him than eating food. After taking just under enough he pulled away from Jaina's neck and murmured a healing spell which closed the two puncture marks. Wrapping his arms around Jaina and feeling her hand run through his hair massaging his scalp he felt his body react and his wound heal quicker now.

"Next time Erik, tell me when you need to 'feed' I don't want you to have to go through that again…" nuzzling her neck Erik nodded as someone walked up behind him and cleared their throat. Pulling away and turning to look to the one that interrupted, a slip of paper was held out and Erik took it for the man's hand before the man ran off with his cheeks tinged pink.

"What is it Erik?"

Erik unfolded the slip of paper and read what was on it before holding it out to Jaina who took it and read it. It was time to move the group, Severus Snape finally found a place that wasn't rocked too badly by the War or the Sentinels.

"Get them ready to move, I'm going to walk the edges and make sure that the spells are holding, I'll buy you as much time as I can once you put that portal up." Jaina nodded folding the slip of paper, stepping up to Erik she kissed his cheek and went off to gather the group of survivors. There were a couple of Death Knight's left under the command of Erik, the majority of what was left were under Erik's orders to remain with Severus and what remained of the fixed Dragon Flights and his own Dark Flight.

Erik had three Death Knights with him that stood as guards at a secondary location, they had managed to make it through the ages, through the wars, and through the Sentinels. One was of a former Alliance male, Thassarian. The other was his Blood Elf 'brother' Koltira, and last but not least was a female Night Elf that had once been a Hunter as opposed to being a 'corrupted' Paladin like the two former. When walked up to Erik they stood at his side waiting for his orders.

"Make sure that the perimeter is held, we are leaving this place. Severus has managed to find a relatively safe location for people. Once Jaina gets the Portal open start herding the survivors through and at all costs do not let the Sentinels get anywhere near Jaina. This might be out last jump for a while so take or destroy any trace of us here."

Seeing the three nod and head off Erik took a deep breath and sighed, it wasn't getting easier and their numbers were dwindling. Erik didn't bother telling them that he wouldn't be going through the portal to join up with Severus and the others, he had heard tales and rumors of a 'concentration' like camp in the city center by what used to Parliament.

He was going to make what would be considered an illegal Port Key once he was able to get into the camp, he didn't want to tell Jaina because she would disapprove, but if he could get the people out and to safety it would worth the tongue lashing he would get later.

Feeling the crackling of energy before hearing the Portal and the shuffling of feet, Erik turned to look at opening seeing the others on the other side. The back of Erik's neck prickled as the ceiling started to shutter.

"Get these people through!" The three other Death Knights glowed blue as a blue fire raged in their eyes, moments later the age old armour the Death Knights had looked like it had seen better days covered the two warrior types while a lighter looking mail and leather armour engulfed the Night Elf.

"Xanane, cover the survivors. Thassarian, Koltira, Triangle formation and don't let anything come through." Erik's tusked helm with a face plate over his mouth turned to gaze at Jaina as the first of the Sentinels broke through landing meters in front of him. The ground broke and around him as the hands of the Dead grasped onto whatever it could of the Sentinels to try and slow it down.

Playing defensively was the only thing that Erik could do at the moment due to his healing injury, the torso armour still had the hole in the exact location of where he was hurt. Many of the spells of the Death Knights were useless because of the fact that the Sentinels were inorganic, if he was on top of his form he would have engaged in close-quarters but for now his peripheral abilities would have to do. Off to his side another Sentinel had broken through and had taken a swing at Koltira only for it be blocked by the massive double handed sword that he has used throughout the ages before Koltira took a step back and swung his sword his sword taking on a bright blue hue before it struck the Sentinel it's arm exploding from the force of the 'Obliterate' enhanced sword.

Thassarian had dropped to his knee turning his sword and jammed it into the ground kneeling as an energy blast hit him or seemed to. A greenish-yellow shield had engulfed him absorbing the energy, the Sentinel had no idea of what to do after it stopped its momentary attack, it was suddenly stuck in place as the Death Knight dove for the leg of the creature and placing his hand on it using his icy touch to slow it down before ice pillars and chains came from the ground to wrap the machine up tightly.

"Hurry and get these people out of here!" Thassarian had turned his head away from the Sentinel for a fraction to yell at Jaina, when he turned back he was impaled through the shoulder by another Sentinel onto to have its face hit with an explosive charged arrow by Xanane.

"Thassarian!"

The Sentinel dropped the Death Knight as Erik turned away from his Sentinel and raising a hand to the one that was missing half its face, ripples of power radiated from the palm of his outstretched splayed hand. A massive green skull formed before it screamed towards the Sentinel, the his was explosive enough that it destroyed the machine as the one that Erik had been working to hold in place was breaking free from its bonds.

"Five more to get through!" Came Jaina's call, Xanane ran to Thassarian and pulled her bow over her head before hooking her arms under the man's armpits and dragging him to the portal. The last five had been all but pushed through before Jaina ran to help Xanane. Together they took the injured Death Knight to the portal. Jaina pushed the two into the portal as Koltira slammed his sword into another Sentinel flinging it into a pillar.

"Time to leave!"

Erik backed towards to the portal as Koltira turned on his head throwing a green skull at another Sentinel knocking it back slightly. He dove into the portal leaving Erik and Jaina as the remaining two, playing defensively Erik put his sword away and put his hands out in front of him as purple tendrils hit the carcasses of dead bodies. Erik re-animation spell was commonly known as Army of the Damned, however unlike the Lich King that he had killed, he wouldn't let the dead continue to live, they would need to be at peace and he didn't demand that they come back to fight for him, it was a plea and most of the time the dead answered his call and rose.

As the dead rose, Erik lowered his hands and turned to grab Jaina and shove her through the portal when a Sentinel tried to make its way into it. Erik's eyes widened and roared before he threw a deactivation spell at the portal shutting it down before the machine was even able to launch an attack at it. The resulting explosion from forcing the portal to close as it did had Jaina crash into Erik who wrapped his arms around the woman before shutting his eyes before they disappeared out of existence in the sound of a gunshot.

Apparating was never fun, it was even less so under stress and after crashing back first into the remains of a house. As Erik laid there as he held tight to Jaina, when he felt like he wasn't going to continue spinning in circles he released Jaina and let his arms flop to the ground as the armour he was wearing vanished into smoke leaving him as he was before.

Jaina gently pushed on Erik's chest and slowly got up off Erik and looked around, the neighbourhood they were in was so messed up that she couldn't landmark anything until something caught her eye in the rubble. Laying there Erik closed his eyes and turned his head to follow the sounds of Jaina's movement before he opened them again to see her bend down and pull something from the wreck. It was a picture, very aged, but a picture none the less, Jaina's fingers brushed the photo before she gazed at Erik sadly.

"This was your home…"

Rolling over Erik pushed himself to a stand and tried not to stumble over the concrete and wooden remains so that he could stand before Jaina to look at the photo she had of him and his sister Lily. Taking the photo from her hand Erik ran his thumb over the weather worn image and sighed before he took it and folded the image in half before putting it into a pocket.

"Come on, we need to go. There is something we need to go and do before we meet up with Severus and the others." Taking Jaina's hand Erik pulled her away from the wreck that had once been his home and made a whistling sound, moments after Erik made the sound the ground below him broke open and a fiery blue horse mane made itself known as the undead horse climbed out of the ground, it's fiery blue hooves pawed at the ground as it pushed itself out as muscles from the creature rippled under its skin and the armour that adorned it.

Once free from the ground it made its way to Erik and nudged it's soft nose against the man's hand that was outstretched, Erik smiled and patted the creature for it was like himself a creature that could no longer die and do nothing but serve its master. Jaina reached up alongside Erik and patted the horse as its fiery tail swished back and forth nudging Jaina lightly.

"Good to see you Shadow… it's good to see you old friend." The horse neighed quietly before Erik went and climbed into the saddle before reaching down and pulling Jaina to sit behind him. Taking the reins Erik dug his heels gently into the horse and they took off away from the past and into the present horrors of the world.

"Where are we going Erik?"

"We… are going to a camp, you weren't supposed to come with me, but now that I have you here we are going to see what we can do to get mutants out." Jaina's grip on Erik's middle tightened and he ended up hissing slightly as his wound hurt from the movement.

"We can't, Erik we can't. You are too injured and it's a suicide mission." Erik pulled on the reins having the animal under his legs halt its movement. Looking over his shoulder Erik gazed at the woman and offered her a half smile as he saw the fear in her eyes for him.

"Suicide, you seem to forget what I am Jaina, it would be extremely difficult to 'kill' me. We are all in this together, this segregation needs to end and with the Sentinel's wiping us all out. Those of the Old Lines, those of the New Lines, the Wizarding world, the Mutants we are all one and same. If we don't do something there will be nothing left of our world to even live in. If I can help and get them out to safety and help defeat this darkness I will do so, you and I both know that we lost the help of the earth. Thrall is dead, he sacrificed himself so that you and I could leave with the survivors.

The magic in this world is slowly failing and the reason it hasn't is because of the Wizards we have saved, and the magic my flight is keeping alive. You are the Aspect of the Magical and Arcane Jaina, we are the last two Aspects as Time and the Emerald Dream died out, we are on our own here now. We cannot go back no matter how much we want to or even need to prevent this from happening. We have no time turners, we have no spells that could take us back we are all that's left and we have to do something with what we have here and now. The more people we have, the better chance at being able to repopulate…" Jaina's gaze lowered as Erik made his argument, he cocked his head slightly as she fought with herself, she knew that what he spoke of was right, there were not many people left, and the more numbers they had the better off they would be, when she looked back at Erik she leaned in and kissed his cheek nodding her go ahead.

"Okay… let's go and save some people…" Erik looked back to what was out in front of him and nudged the horse to go forwards again. It would be some time before they made it to their destination and they would have to go on foot for the rest of it. What the two did not expect was when they had made it to the camp, the destruction and the remains of Sentinels and mutants alike, it was however a very small group of mutants we were huddled around something or someone about forty metres away that something that had flown at Erik and it was only due to the fact that he was up front and Jaina behind him that she did not notice the blade that had pierced his chest and his heart.

It was a good thing he was the undead or he would have been very screwed as the situation at hand, the only thing to signify any difference was the minor grunt he had made as he glanced down at his chest. There was movement and the huddled group had moved apart only to jump out from a portal behind and around them. Jaina had prepared to weave a protective spell when Erik reached around and grabbed her hand.

"Jaina, no…"

"Who are you?" came the voice to Erik's right, it was a man with glowing red eyes and equally glowing red gun that was pointed up at Erik's face. Raising and eyebrow Erik glanced around himself and took in the positions of the people around him, a man that looked like he was living metal stood off to his left. In front of him was a man that radiated like the sun, but then looking at the mutant it wouldn't be a surprise if his ability was to emulate the sun. Behind Erik was a woman with a pale complexion and an Asian look to her with a man that looked Native American. Walking up beside the man with the gun was a young woman in a leather coat, she glanced up at Erik and saw the knife in the man's chest her eyes flickered back and forth between Erik's eyes and his chest.

"What are you?"

"That is for me to know and for you to find out… though seeing as you have done my job for me here I guess me and my companion are no longer needed."

"You can't leave, what about…"

"I am fine, this is nothing. May I ask who you are?"

"Kitty… Kitty Pryde."

"Well Kitty… what are we going to do about what's happening here… it's clear we are of very different… uniqueness and gifts." Erik's gaze went to Kitty's, as the two locked eyes Erik used Legilimency to see why she was there and what she was doing and anything that was on the surface of her mind.

"How did you do that?"

"Do what?" Erik asked feigning ignorance as the group started to close in on them, Shadow reared causing the group to back up in fear as Erik pulled one hand off the reins and hold it out slightly to the side so that his palm was facing the ground. Skeletal hand hands broke out from the ground and it wouldn't be the first time that Desecration took place while Erik was a Death Knight, however his ability and specialty was using offensive spells in a none threatening manner when it wasn't needed to be aggressive. In this case the hands reached up and grabbed at the legs all around that wasn't the horse to hold the mutants in place. There was fear that was for sure on the faces of the mutants but as Kitty took a breath and held it she walked away from the hands and stepped around them before climbing up on some rubble that did not have hands coming from the ground.

"You aren't a mutant… so what are you?"

Erik offered the girl a smile as his eyes took on blue flames as he gazed around, Jaina tightened her hold on Erik and ran a hand further up his chest and took note of the dagger before she started to somewhat panic.

"Erik, your heart…"

"I'm fine Jaina… once I'm at a safe location I'll deal with the blade..." Erik shifted his head as if to look at Jaina but she climbed off the horse and stepped around looking at were the blade was placed, the colour from her face drained away and she looked around as her magical aura started to flare making itself known.

"Who did this?" She questioned angrily, the man with the war paint on his face gave himself away quickly before the man of pure metal stepped between the mage and his comrade after breaking from the dead hands grip. Erik grunted and got off the horse waving a hand as the spell dissipated freeing the mutants.

Erik stepped up beside Jaina putting a hand on her arm shaking his head, Jaina's face fell but it returned to being angry when she spun on her heel to fume silently by the horse. Erik gazed at the woman before gazing the group.

"I apologize for her, but knowing the Sentinels I would prefer not to be here. If you would like to come with us or…"

"No we have a way of getting out of here, personally I should be asking if you would like to come with us?" Kitty glanced at the horse and no doubt it could probably so some scary things, but there was no way for it to outrun a Sentinel.

Erik nodded and looked to Shadow as the horse neighed before it broke apart to dust and disappeared into the ground. The group stared on in amazement before Jaina walked up beside Erik and frowned, the one with the Asian looking face who opened a portal and the group went through it, Erik and Jaina looked at each other with the thoughts of 'if you are going to go to hell, might as well go feet first'. Moments later after the last of the group went through they jumped through and Erik landed on the ground hard driving the blade in his chest further in and causing something in his chest to crack. Rolling over he felt Jaina at his side holding his head in her lap as pain spiked causing his breathing to hitch, the group huddled around Erik and watched as Jaina pulled the blade out causing blood to spirt out of the wound and pool under his back.

Pulling a knife from her waist Jaina quickly unzipped Erik's vest and unbuttoned his shirt opening it and seeing the chest wound gush blood. The group looked on sadly thinking that Erik would never survive, but then they saw the fire in his eyes and it didn't seem to go out as he tried to talk to the woman dealing with him.

"I'm…"

"You say you are alright, I'll kill you myself." Jaina looked around and saw they were in a warehouse of sorts, Erik did nothing but lay there as the fire in his eyes died down and returned to the steel blue-grey colour they were when he was a human. There were shouts and screams in Erik's dulling senses, but he felt something being pulled away from his torso and chest before something was pressed again the chest wound by his heart.

The appearance of the two people on the impossible horse caused Kitty and the others to look on in fear and intrigue. During the events leading up to seeing the man laid out of on the ground and bleeding all over the floor, Kitty watched as the woman named Jaina all but ripped Warpath's dagger out of Erik's chest. The others thought it was the wish of a dying man and they prepared for the worse until they watched Jaina open the man's vest and shirt to cut away at blood soaked bandages at the man's lower torso. The surprise on the faces at seeing the guts of the man made the group of mutants somewhat sick before there was a call for a first aid kit.

They had such kits and Kitty watched as Blink went to get one and run back opening it at Erik's side. Erik's head lulled back as Jaina pulled his head off her lap and set it on the ground and set to work pulling items out of the medical kit. It was over an hour later when Erik's entire torso was bandaged up entirely and he was moved to a cot to rest with a grey fire blanket laying over top of his body. Jaina and the mutants had talked at a length when Erik had woken up feeling groggy and in pain, stifling the groan he sat up slowly and turned to place his feet on the ground. His heart that had been split by the hastily thrown dagger was taking priority to heal, but with his earlier gut injury it was taking that much longer until he saw a large bulbous vial of glowing red liquid on a small side table beside the cot alongside a bottle of water.

Reaching for the vial Erik hissed in pain and picked it up before sitting back and eyeballing the vial, breaking the seal on the container he popped the cork out and trained the entire vial. Placing the vial on the empty space on the cot beside him he wrapped his arms around his chest and bit back a scream as his body knitted itself back together and finished re-growing his liver and the muscles around it. Once his body finished its speed induced healing, his sweat covered body shook as he pushed himself off the cot and shakily shuffled to where he heard voices. The louder the voices got the closer that Erik got and when he finally came around the bend and behind a shelving unit the group turned to see the bare chested Erik un-marred by his two injuries.

"Erik…"

Jaina stood up and walked over to the shaking Erik checking his chest for the injuries he once had before cupping Erik's sweat covered face.

"Thanks Jaina, you shouldn't have used the uh…. Drink…" Jaina raised an eyebrow and she nodded her head to the mutants behind her. It was clear that Jaina had explained about themselves to the mutants, the youngest of them Kitty stared at Erik with wonder in her eyes, even for someone that was an adult there was some hope of childishness there.

"You really knew Harry Potter?"

"He was my nephew." Erik's gave fell to Jaina who looked at Erik sadly before stepping away and turning to the shelf that to the side of Erik picking up a worn almost clean shirt and a harder looking material for a vest. After drying off with a rag, Erik pulled the shirt on and the vest before the group of mutants moved away. Jaina had explained to him who each of the mutants were and a basic overview of their abilities, nodding Erik watched Kitty who didn't know what to think of someone that basically walked out of a story book. To lighten the mood Erik stepped away from Jaina who turned to watch the man as he walked over to Kitty and offered her a smile, the young woman looked up to Erik with another question on her tongue.

"So everything in those books was real?"

"Well almost everything, I left myself out of the story and Severus wanted a different ending for himself so he could be left in peace, I'm surprised at how much that Rowlen woman was able to make the story a massive success, have to say the movies were just as impressive." Kitty laughed at that and did not the completely unexpected and threw her arms around half surprised man.

"Thank you for giving the world a chance… and us mutants and human's alike even in this world of hell." Erik chuckled and nodded, he hugged the girl back and let her go before stepping back. The trio moved to sit down at the old metal rickety table to eat what meager cans of food that the group had managed to scavenge, as they ate Erik took the empty cans and used a mixture of magical wizarding powers and some of his own old line abilities to change the metal cans into chunks before melding and molding them into two separate figures. The first of the figures that Erik created was of a dragon with great wings and a spike like appearance, Kitty had seen the dragon before on a poster call 'Whitby Wyrm', Erik didn't pay any mind to her dropped jaw and made the second chunk of metal into a wolf. Once finished with the two objects, Erik pushed them towards Kitty who picked up the two items and looked at the detail and workmanship of the pieces.

The two eyes met and gave the young woman a smile before Warpath had shown up saying that they had company. Jumping up from their seats Erik glanced to Jaina who had changed her human looking cloths into battle attire, Erik took did the same think as smoke engulfed his body before dissipating to reveal his now patched and somewhat repaired armour, his eyes flared and the fire that marked him as a death knight glowed under his helmet as Bishop with the gun came out into the opening with the others in tow. He had called to Sunspot and Erik and Jaina watched as Bishop took the fire and his body absorbed it making his eyes glow red. Kitty ran away from the group grabbing Bishop and running, Erik nodded his head to Kitty and Jaina ran after the two while Erik and the others stood at the ready to fight. Three tendril like holes appeared in the ceiling making Erik and the others turn as the first of the Sentinels dropped and reforming its body. Sunspot unleashed his torrent of fire and heat at the machine while the second on dropped behind Erik and Colossus. Erik was knocked away flying into shelves and knocking them down while Colossus engaged hand to hand with the giant machine. Getting up Erik climbed out of the wreck and shook his head to remove the fuzz his brain had just suffered, he saw Colossus slam both his hands down on top of the Sentinel knocking it to the ground.

Finally free of the mess that he had literally been thrown into, Erik ran and dove at the Sentinel while hardening his armor and himself and taking the monstrosity down and rolling off of it and staring at it as Colossus super-man punched the thing in the face to knock it down again. The third Sentinel had broken through and was taking off for the three that was heading to wherever it was they were going. Looking back Erik raised his hands to the machine and roared as the magical spell 'Bombarda' was done wordlessly and blowing it through a wall while Sunspot was being choked and ultimately killed by the machine that turned it's body to ice and snow. The Sentinel dropped the now dead mutant and Erik pulled his axe from his waist charging it with a spell, pulling his arm back the throwing the axe Erik hit the leg of the machine and he watched with satisfaction as the machine went down it's leg non-existent. Hearing a scream Erik turned to see Colossus with his arm ripped off and as Erik went to go and take on that Sentinel the machine took the mutant's head off.

Growling Erik backed away and ran out of the room and down several halls and coming across one hall where a man made of ice had cocooned the Sentinel in ice. Erik was about to go and help the mutant who was just going in circles to hold the machine in place when the thing adapted and super-heated itself breaking free of its prison. The iceman was swiftly dispatched and Erik was took slow to do anything about it, this time he hoped that he could catch up to the others and at he ran he threw up a hand and the ground broke apart as several ice pillars came up and chains from all around lashed the Sentinel to the pillars keeping it in place. That was three mutants dead and there were still another four left, Erik wasn't going to let another die if he could help it, taking off down the hall Erik caught the magical signature of Jaina and took off for it coming across Blink helping Warpath up before she and Warpath were both killed by the Sentinel using Blink's portal to get to them. As the portal closed Erik pulled his sword and charged it and ran for the machine and leaping in the air to strike. The Sentinel had somehow managed to adapt to the strike and while the hit wasn't too damaging it prevented the worst of the attack and hitting Erik back throwing him into a massive door.

Laying against the door Erik stood up and felt Jaina's energy signature behind it and he placed his hand on the door melding through it via a spell he had learned back in his human days. Standing at the ready Erik saw Jaina covering Kitty who was at the end of a stone slap with Bishop laid out and a strange light going through the young woman's hands into Bishops head. Kitty looked up long enough to send Erik a mental message before she looked back down.

I need more time

Erik nodded and saw that Jaina was exerting herself to get the barrier up to protect the two mutants that were now left. The door was starting to super heat and Erik dropped his sword to the ground and allowed his hands to take on generating cold and ice. Putting his hands on the door he closed his eyes and commenced a battle to keep the slab of a door frozen and solid. While the other Death Knights had their own style of Armour Erik's own armour was reminiscent of the Lich Kings Armour of Damnation, it was however high collared with the features such as the shoulder Paludrons and the skulls that adorned his chest piece holding his cloak in place, the main difference was that Erik's armor was black with grey fur underneath his chest, arm, leg and his wrist armour. His helmet was a modified version of the Great-Helm of the Scourge with a faceplate and larger tusks at the sides of the helm. It was a one of a kind helm now because most of the other Death Knights wanted that open space by their mouths, Erik was the only one to put a face guard mount on the helm.

Jaina looked fearfully at Erik but knew that he was now the last line of defense as the door started to glow red and the ice started to steam and melt almost instantaneously, Erik continued to put everything that he could into making that door hold, but knew there would be no way so looking over his shoulder one last time he whispered a few words in Latin and another shield appeared over top the one that that Jaina had created and strengthened the existing one before he turned back and watched as the door melted and a machine arm punched through impaling Erik who grabbed onto the arm before he was knocked back into the shields with a gaping hole where his heart, lungs, liver, and spine used to be. As he laid sitting against the shield staring at the massive hole Erik managed at bring his head up as blood poured from his lips and his body, he snarled even in his now useless state.

The machine had managed to crawl in as its face opened into an energy weapon and prepared to fire, Erik stared at the thing as he waited to see if he was truly immortal after being vaporized into nothing but as he stared he heard Kitty yell out as the world went dark.

"Too late assholes!"

A/N: Well, I decided to do a rewrite of a story I started a while back to make it look a hell of a lot better and to make it make sense. I started a cross over story a very long time ago and I will get back to it eventually, I know all the events and know the timeline I have made with my stories, it's a matter of actually getting it all down and such. FOR purposes to get readers to actually read this I posting this NOT in the cross-over section.

I am also putting disclaimers on the bottom instead of the stop, I do not own X-men, I am playing in the sand box of the movie realms. I also do not own Harry Potter or Warcraft. I do however own the created character of Erik Destler, known in this world/realm/etc as Lord Daemon. I so am doing this because I wanted more of a Future War setting, I will be playing more with the future and such as story continues, also... it's because I love the hell out of the older characters .

Anyways Read and Review I will be a very happy person and hope that you enjoy the story.

Ghost