Continuation of Prologue

'Target is in sight.'

'Hold your aim... If she makes any threatening move, you have my permission to fire.'

'Affirmative.'

She hated her life. She hated GENTEK. She hated the people who created her. She was practically a failed experiment but a successful Conduit with unimaginable power, originally created to track down the two surviving viruses in Manhattan. But she didn't allow that and musters enough power to destroy a universe. It wasn't the universe she had a bone to pick with, it was the people she was stuck with on a planet called Earth. She knew there would be no good without its evil, no life without its death, no revolution without its submission. And that's why she's here.

Lilith Kyle knew no boundaries, obstacles merely pushed over by the press of her hand. She stood atop a building with a black bird perched on her shoulder, gazing over the people of Manhattan with her two, short scythes. Wickedly curved blades with dark motifs and shaped like a snake's fang, brilliant for the disfigurement of bodies from anyone lucky enough to get her mad. The rods itself were thin but short and made of silver metal freezing to the touch. Rimmed with black, it shone in the sunlight with a dark purple hue that sheeted it. She bonded with her weapons ever since she got them, and now it was time to put it to good use.

Her black, boundless hair whipped fiercely in the harsh winds and so did her black leather jacket. Red, soulless eyes searched around, reading people's souls, auras. Every being, human or not, has an aura encasing who and what they are. Kaleidoscopic colours, shimmering lights fuelled with lively essence... And she can control every inch of them. She could bend, wrench and distort those lights, and with enough torture can shatter the aura completely, leaving the person lifeless.

She didn't decide to do that, as she had other plans apart from destroying the world. Finding the bastards who tried to kill her and as soon as the bird took flight, she literally stepped on air. Crashing onto the concrete and glaring at everyone screaming and running away, she looked behind her shoulder and took off, stamina not even at the brink of tire. She hopped over vehicles in her way, scythes crossed behind her and ready to slice black frames with blue goggles.

'Target is moving. I repeat: Sorrow is moving.'

'Boys, lets heat up the Red Zone.'

Lilith grunted as the gunship's bullets embedded themselves in her back, but her speed didn't hesitate as the wounds regenerated. She spun, snapping the rods together and threw it without difficulty and watched the chopper split into two. Catching her scythes, the invisible tattoo that was etched on her left arm and spread down her body lit up a deep violet and one of her abilities came to life. A pair of big, shadowy hands grasped the other gunship, the cockpit screaming and trying to flee and by mental command, it flattened the flying transport like a bug, crushing the pilots inside. When it faded, the deformed metal smacked on the street like a massive dime and she took off again, grin stretching her face as she inhaled their deaths. Leaping a final time, she pressed the button that detached the rods and dashed it, watching the group of BLACKWATCH troopers hit the pavement in pieces.

The black bird squawked above her and her eyes widened, unable to stop the incoming. A rocket rammed into her, the explosion forcing her backwards but she flipped out early, caught the rods in mid-flip and drove her blades into the ground. When she stopped her direction of useless movement she growled, slotting the scythes in the strap on her back and squatting with her arms stretched above her head. Feeling a reasonable amount of energy course through her legs, she rocketed skywards and unleashed a sea of shadows that ripped the gunship to large, bloody fragments. Just as she landed on a rooftop, a hand smacked her across the face and she cried out in agony, the billboard striking her head and her limbs flailing under her.

The world was spinning at miles per second, thoughts gone and muscles weak to help the central nervous system, who were sending orders that weren't being answered. That slap was strong enough to snap her neck but because of her durability, she survived and anyway, she's felt pain much worse than this. Trying to reach behind her, gloved hands picked her up by the hair and she wheezed, not being able to produce shadows as her nemesis stood by two troopers and a super soldier.

High but soft cheekbones, golden eyes framed by lashes that enhanced his inhuman beauty. Short, blonde hair which was spiked at the top, thin lips and pearly-white smile. "Sorrow..." He tutted, eyes trailing up and down her frame. "Getting into trouble, are we?"

She said nothing and received another slap, only this time her body didn't ragdoll. "Lilith... Speak. You should be lucky you ended up having a voice." Her lips stayed sealed and the man laughed, stroked his stubble before punching her in the gut, hearing her let out a sharp groan before breathing out. "You shouldn't be here, Lilith... You should be dead. Like every other failed experiment. You should be six feet under... But something happened in you and you survived. But you... You failed. You were made to kill the 'Mercer' and 'Miles' virus but you failed. But then the Conduit Gene had to save you..." The grip on her hair tightened and with cold crimson eyes, did she stare at the super soldier before her head was tilted to the side and she cried, lashing out in protest and the man tutted again.

"Chase," she finally spoke, powerful American accent clouded by her gritted teeth. "Why are you like this? What have they done to you? We used to be so close... But now... Now every successful Conduit is on my ass!"

"Not every Conduit... Others have been on the d-l. Haven't heard from Ray-Leigh in quite some time."

"What have you done to my mother?" she questioned and this man formally known as Chase laughed again.

"You mean Dr. Kimberly Kyle? We buried her alive... And you're gonna join her too." He reached into his pocket, bringing out a syringe filled with clear liquid and her eyes widened.

She knew what that was: Sodium Thiopental. Her mother always taught her something new everyday when she was over at at GENTEK, and Sodium T is not a pretty thing to handle. "What do you want from me?"

"We want you dead. We searched Manhattan for you, now we've got you. Time for you to join your mother like the wonderful family you are."

Her throat started burning when she heard a word she never wanted to hear. Family. She never had a proper family. Her actual parents died during the Second Outbreak and Dr. Kyle offered to be her surrogate mother. And that's what made her leave GENTEK: they hid the truth from her but she will always love her 'mother', no matter what. "Chase," she said whilst being injected with the syringe, the drug already kicking in and her eyes were half-lidded, her head swaying to an imaginary rhythm. "You may be hot and everything... But... But you... You will always be... A bitch..." Orion let go and Lilith hit the rooftop with a meaty thud followed by a soft moan and Chase smiled, brushing back his blonde hair. He took a Comm. Device from one of the troopers behind him and started speaking.

"Red Crown, I had order on a containment unit. Sorrow is down and out, over."

"Pyramid Three, this is Red Crown. Containment unit is to arrive at your area in ten Mikes, over."

"What are you gonna do to her?" Orion asked him as he placed the device back on the trooper he took it from.

"She's technically dead... We're gonna bury her." Not far from their coordinates, Lilith clenched her fists as that Lilith over there was her shape-shifting bird. After killing the guy that was on her rooftop with the squeeze of his ribcage, she obtained his sniper rifle and in split seconds, her mind took information about how to handle it, how to prepare it and how to put it all together. Closing one eye, she looked down its optic mount and had the blonde man in her aim.

She fired, bullet hitting Chase in the leg and he yelled before she fired again, this time hitting the first trooper in the back and the other near his neck. She sighed and seeped darkness into the weapon and it recoiled as another round exploded out of the barrel, Orion instantly dropping as the ammo pierced his heart . Throwing the sniper, Lilith ran across the rooftop and dived when there was no more ground, and sand disorientated her trajectory. She cursed as she plummeted and dented the cars on the street and rolled of a bonnet painfully, feeling sand entwine in her hair and hauling her to a familiar physique. "And where do you think you're going, Kyle?" Chase asked, sand coiling around her body and restricting her limbs.

"Let go or I'll kill every single living thing within my radius."

"You wouldn't do that. You can't."

"Are you actually challenging me? You think, as you say, the Daughter of Death can't do it? Surely there must be a reason why I can't." He thought about it, stared in her eyes and put her down beside him. "Now, if you excuse me," she dusted her clothes and stalked towards her double's limp frame, throwing her over her shoulder. "I've got business that needs to be settled."

"Wait."

"What now, Chase? First, you try and bury me which failed, then you try and kill me which also failed. See what GENTEK are doing to you. You were a much more stronger Conduit than this... Can't believe you chose to side with them rather than me."

"Well, I had no choice! It was either side with them or kill you."

"You should've let them kill me."

"Why would I do that?"

"Because I can't die... Chase Stewart, you know when I said 'I love you' a couple weeks ago, I really did mean it." And with that she fell backwards, golden eyes losing sight of her and he held his head in anger and regret. He just lost his best friend to a pointless decision he had to make.

OoOoO

The bird cooed before it settled on her shoulder and she stroked its feathers, contemplating her surroundings. The Yellow Zone, where the virus was strictly controlled by Manhattan's organisations. As she intermixed with the calm citizens of the district, her ears picked up a faint, humming noise. There was something... Someone out there monitoring her and she could feel it. Her companion squawked but Lilith hushed it, trying to find the sightless thread attaching her to another being. And when she found it, she grinned before heading in the desired direction.

She's gonna find who that person is. And why they're tracking her.