(A/N- I'm not sure if I should bump this up to M, review and tell me.)

I'm not sure when it happened, why it happened, or how it happened. But I do know that it all went down hill. I leaned around the corner and shot down two soldiers with Violet behind me. Devil Thunder ran up behind me and put one hand on my shoulder letting me know that his side was clear.

"Damn it Trio."I said to myself. Violet leaned against the wall and covered her ears. The sound of gunshots echoed throughout the building and she was already put through a lot. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she quickly lost her composure. I barely kept myself together, I wasn't sure if I was human or not anymore. I'm starting to believe I'm not.

"There's more on the way and they have bigger guns. We have to go now." Devil Thunder shouted at me. He had a woman in his arms, we found her inside this place and decided that we couldn't leave her here.

Outside Arklay Research facility-7:00 a.m.-Riax

I stood by the walker's hangar as Trio walked inside with an automatic rifle and one rapid-fire Desert Eagle. Trio and me told Violet about the deal on the way here and she hated it but eventually I talked her out of it.

"He's going to die." Violet said in a worried voice. I knew how she felt but I didn't care as much. Trio has little to no battle experience and now he's taking a mission that would be a challenge for the experts.

"Don't worry, he's smart enough to survive for fifteen minutes. It was his idea in the first place so he wouldn't say it if he wouldn't survive." I said calming her. Lucky me, it worked.

"Alright, but we're going in there in exactly fifteen minutes." Even though she didn't like Trio she still cared for his life.

"Fine, you might want to get ready. This'll be harder than usual." I said loading my assault rifle. She paced past me taking deep breaths. "Listen, this little bet may seem crazy to you but… it's important to us so just go with it."

"I'm just worried about Trio trying to be a hero." She said as the door slid closed behind her.

I watched as the doors to the facility closed behind my idiot of a partner. I raised my right arm and pressed a button on my watch that set an alarm for exactly fifteen minutes. As soon as it went off, Violet's going to rush out of the walker and drag me with her.

She didn't like Trio, but she didn't want him to get killed either. It was understandable, you wouldn't die for a stranger but you don't want to see them get shot in the head. I looked to my right and saw a book I left on the desk next to some ammo and gun pieces sprawled out on the table.

"The Hunter Guide to Akrid Infection. Volume 26" I read aloud. I wondered why they make the title sound so casual. It's a book that shows people how to kill giant aliens, I don't think that's a book but more like a survival guide.

I flipped open the book and searched through the pages for what I was hunting. It would be in the recent discoveries section so I went to the back of the book. Once I saw the picture of what I was hunting I knew we had to go in there and save Trio.

Eve was a huge bee-like Akrid. The problem wasn't its type but the evolution it went through after infection. Eve kept the same physical features but it grew larger and began to form a hive with smaller versions known as Able growing inside. After a while, the Ables grew four legs and a stinger and changed into Kane.

The final factor in Eve's evolution was the worst. After a while it begins to release a spore that has been known as the Arklay-poison. The poison changed all brain cells and degraded them to Akrid level. Once the brain cells are changed, the body then begins to go through the process

I listened closely and heard gunshots coming from the facility. I tossed the book and placed two magnum handguns, two uzis, one assault rifle, and my personal plasma rifle inside my coat. I grabbed a load of grenades not caring what kind they were and shouted for Violet.

"Violet, we have to go now." I shouted. She came running around the corner and stopped in front of me in a flash. I looked down at her hand and saw she was holding two semi-auto handguns.

"Why, what happened?"

"I checked up Eve's profile and this mission is too big to take a chance on." I looked up at Violet and saw the 'I told you so' look on her face.

"We have to go help him."

"No, you stay here. I'll go." I wasn't ready to take the chance of risking Violet on this mission.

"We all ready went over this. If you risk your life I am too." We grew silent. She was set on going and I knew she was right. This was my fault; I never thought that infected Akrid became so dangerous. But I'll take responsibility and kill it.

I walked over to a metal case resting on one of the shelves and pressed on the red light. The front panel of the case slid open exposing a needle with eight points. I pulled it out of the case and handed it to her.

"What's this for?"

"The air inside is poisonous, I'll be fine but you'll be infected and I'm not taking that risk." I'm not sure what gave me the idea that I'd be fine. For some reason, I'm pretty sure I'll be all right.

Strangely, she didn't question my orders and instantly took the vaccine. She flinched slightly when the needles stuck her but I knew it'd be better than what would happen if she didn't. After taking it she wiped away the blood and looked at me.

"Let's go."

I pressed the sequence on the lock to open the hangar. Once it opened the temperature in the room dropped from a warm seventy to a chilling below zero. We ran across the small gap between the walker and the building and ran in through the front door of the facility. Along the way I told her the entire story of what Eve could do.

"Damn it." I muttered. Directly in front of us was a massive Genessa. It was already surrounded by Sepia. I decided not to waste ammo and used my magnum.

Every shot dropped one of them instantly. My handgun was custom so it pierced the flesh and got the T-eng pouches directly. After taking out a large amount of them only seven were left including the Genessa. I threw a plasma grenade at them and waited for the shock.

The grenade exploded into an electric field killing all of the Akrid. Violet walked over to a data post and started to activate it by pressing multiple keys on the panel. The data post changed and grew as a tower came out of the top of it, she pulled out a PDA and linked it with the post giving her a map of the building.

"You might want to hurry, we still have to find Trio and more Akrid'll be heading this way." I locked another clip into my magnum and waited for her to finish.

"Give me a second, it's a little trick I learned with data posts inside of buildings." The post released a strange wave of heat. Even though the main generator of the building was working it was still cold.

"Just hurry up." I leaned against the wall and waited.

Seconds later she stood up holding the PDA and flipped it around towards me. I looked closely and saw a 3-D lay out of the building with red streams going through the walls. At the direct bottom of the building was an immense point filled in with red.

"The red is thermal energy. The facilities T-eng flow is still working and that's probably what attracted the Akrid. That large mass of T-eng in the basement is most likely Eve's hive."

"Let's move." I commanded and ran down the corner.

We jogged down a long hall for a while as Violet stopped at every door and checked her PDA. After room fifteen there was supposed to be a hallway that led to an elevator. She continued punching buttons on the pad trying to do something.

"I found him." She shouted.

"Trio?"

"He's in basement five. But we have to hurry he's getting close to a large amount of Akrid and he'll need your help."

Even though I was saving Trio's life this seemed wrong to me. We made a perfectly honest deal and if I saved him things would go back to the way they were. Honestly, it'd be worse then because I saved him and brought along Violet. We passed by door fifteen and turned towards the elevator.

Two fully-grown and ready to explode Bolsepia stood in front of the doors to the elevator. We froze instantly, my guns were useless, and if I shot they'd explode and destroy the elevator. I had a plan to lure the Bolsepia away before shooting them but it didn't work. They turned around instantly when they heard the sound of Violet dropping her PDA.

"Fuck, Violet follow me."

Both of us took off and ran down the hall. I was slightly behind her so she wouldn't get caught in the explosion. Once I flipped out my magnum I spun around and fired four bullets, two directly into the explosive heads of each Bolsepia.

The ground shook and the force threw us both to the floor. The Bolsepia detonated sending a giant wave of fire over us. Once everything cooled down I stood up and pulled up my magnum looking for more Akrid.

"The Bolsepia and the Sepia were the only Akrid up here. We have to take the elevator to the fifth basement and search for Trio."

I leaned over and pulled Violet up to her feet. We proceeded towards the elevator to find Trio. What we didn't know was that Trio was learning things we never knew. This is when hell broke loose.

Fifth Basement-Arklay Research Facility-7:55-Trio

I backed up against a wall with the automatic rifle raised and peaked around the corner. The farther down in the building the less lights were working. I felt dizzy, sick; there was a strange taste to the air. It tasted like death, and something else, almost an addicting, sweet flavor.

"I'm still feeling dizzy, it seems to be getting worse. But I refuse to lose this deal, she's too important to me." I said into his headset. I set it on record so I could make a journal of this adventure. " Every thing's wrong down here. The Akrid resemble humans and the air is… it's strange. Nothing I can describe."

I walked around the corner after flipping the switch on the flashlight. On the ceiling were low-hanging lights; they seemed to be positioned to let Akrid hide in the darkness. I stepped forward and slowly paced through the barely lit hall. There was a noise coming from behind, it sounded like metal scratching against each other.

I quickly spun around to see what was behind and stared in fear at the "Akrid" behind me. It was a soldier, but not a NEVEC soldier, a soldier from another force. Even though the clothing was similar the symbol on his right shoulder was a red and white eight-sided figure, with the word Umbrella written under it.

That wasn't what brought fear into my heart. What scared me was the fact that this soldier was only half human. He grew a long scorpion-like stinger from the bottom of his spine and his skin was slowly changing into a scale-like exoskeleton. The scratching metal noise was his tail extending from his body and slashing the wall.

His hands began to split open and reveal bloody claws growing painfully. The expression on his face, or what was left of his face was inhuman. The left side was completely sickening, the skin seemed to peel off and the layer underneath was still red and bleeding.

"Gen..Gen…Genocide." The thing muttered out between heavy breathes.

"Genocide, what are you saying."

"The truth… Project. Angel. Genocide." The man/Akrid roared after saying it's last words and charged towards me. I regained focus and pulled down on the trigger releasing a flurry of bullets into the human half of its head. I justified my action by thinking that I was putting him out of his misery.

It fell backwards and slammed against the ground. Blood pooled from his head telling me that some part of him was still human. I turned away after reloading my rifle.

"The truth, Project. Angel. Genocide? What the hell was it talking about?"

Then the symbol on its arm came into my mind. I remember it, it was important to me as if it was a part of my life before I became a snow pirate.

"Dad."

It was the symbol on everything my father had. Every single report, lab coat, pen. He was a scientist, but he refused to tell me what he worked on. Every time I asked he said that it was something to save E.D.N. III from itself. I looked around and down the hall I noticed the symbol on a door.

Slowly, I stepped towards the door. Curious to know what's on the other side I walked up to it and grabbed hold of the handle. I pulled my hand off and noticed the dry blood that was smeared across it. Gripping my rifle, I pushed open the door and waited for a response.

A large central computer, that's all that was in the room. One computer and behind it was a window that showed a room too dark to see in. I slowly stepped in the room switching from side to side to make sure it was safe. It was silent, the only noise was the low buzzing of the computer activating itself.

"Please state desired action." It said in a female voice.

"What?"

"Please state desired action."

This computer was a database search engine. Apparently, whoever was here used this to keep up with their research. The door closed behind me slowly and I attempted to figure out what was going on here.

"Where's the staff that worked here?"

"All staff has been evacuated or executed to prevent the infection from moving to the outside world." Since when did you execute your staff?

"What infection?" I walked in front of the mainframe and sat down in the chair. I had to figure out what happened here.

"Eve, was a battle ready Akrid created to test the angels abilities. Unfortunately, the virus used to make Eve spread, infecting staff and ending the project." The angels, didn't that soldier outside mention the angels.

"Who are the angels?" I wasn't ready for the answer.

"The angels consist of seven humans modified to increase their abilities. They also possess certain traits to help them combat the Sin-virus. Their original purpose was to destroy all Akrid infected by the Sin-Virus."

"Where are the angels now?"

"Michael and Uriel were taken by NEVEC to be used for more experiments. William Vermilion took Raphael into custody to test his current ability. Raguel, Zerachiel, and Remiel are still in the hands of Umbrella. Gabriel was released."

I was confused but I needed more answers. William couldn't hide something like this from every one. There had to be more to it than this.

"What happened to Raphael?"

"William took Raphael and renamed him Riax Vermilion. Information about all other angels has been deleted."

Riax isn't human, Violet has been falling for monster. I couldn't let this happen, this wasn't about who could kill Eve first. Now I had to terminate the real problem, Riax was an angel. Made to kill and that's all he'll understand. But before I did that, I needed to understand everything about the angels.

"What exactly is the Sin-virus?"

"The original Sin-virus was known as the T-virus. The disaster that forced earth's evacuation was the T-virus spreading throughout the planet. The Sin-Virus is a new strand of the T-virus developed to kill Akrid. Sadly, the virus failed and it forced the Akrid to evolve."

These new Akrid that terrorized humans were made by humans. I honestly can't say I wasn't surprised, I suspected the evolution was our fault. But no one knew that the earth was evacuated because of the virus. The earth's evacuation was a long time ago, no one knew why either.

"How can I kill an angel?" Riax has to die. I'm not going to let him betray us one day.

"You can't. Unless you kill it before they realize their ability and awaken."

I thought about this and Riax hasn't awakened his ability. He hasn't show anything out of the normal besides losing his sanity occasionally. But I have to be sure.

"What are the abilities of Raphael."

"Specific data unknown: Generic abilities involve Akrid detecting senses, enhanced strength, speed, durability, and a healing factor. They also absorb T-eng to increase their abilities further."

That was all the information I needed. Riax was still human, and I don't plan on letting him go any farther. I'll expose his secret to Violet and she'll come to me instantly after realizing what he is. Then I'll kill him.

Second Basement-Arklay Research Facility-8:35-Riax

I fired furiously while Violet hacked into a terminal. We were at a dead end, the door was locked and Akrid ambushed us on the elevator so we got out early. Miniature bee-like akrid known as Able flew toward me but before they came close I blew them out of the air.

My magnums ran out of ammo so I put them away and pulled out my assault rifle. It took them out faster than my magnums but I could only shoot one Able at a time. There was a beeping noise behind me and the door slid open.

"Come one." Violet shouted at me.

She rolled into the room and I jumped in. But not before dropping a plasma grenade on the ground. When the door closed, the grenade exploded sending an electric current through the terminal on the other side. The door then activated an auto-lock.

"Holy shit." Violet said dropping on the ground. I looked around the room, apparently it was an office and lucky us there was another door on the opposite side of the room. But before we moved on, we needed to rest.

"How the hell did he get to the fifth basement so fast." I said sitting down in the chair behind the desk. I opened the drawer and lucky me, found a whole box of magnum ammo.

"Apparently, he took the basement all the way down and moved from there. At this rate, anything could've happened."

I dug threw the desk looking for more things. I found a few pencils, porn, a picture of this person and his son. I froze, his son, resembled Trio in every way. The blue eyes, the signature blond braid.

"Violet, look at this." I said in awe.

"What is it?"

She stood up and walked over to me and saw the picture and had the same reaction. Trio never knew what his father did, but we just found out. I handed Violet the picture and pulled up the journal underneath. It had "Progress Journal of Seth Sapphire' written on the front. I opened the journal and began to read it aloud.

Taurus/9/project day 75

The Fallen are finished development and their being named at this very moment. These VS are the next-generation of technology. Most of their development was guess work so we still aren't sure how they work. Soon they'll have the 'Hierarchy' program installed and they'll be tested.

Taurus/15/project day 81

The VS have killed every test pilot. Every time they activate the Consciousness program to use the VS the pilots suffer mental breakdowns and then heart attacks. One pilot survived the activation but committed suicide once he activated the Hierarchy. I've said before the angels should be the only pilots but the General refused to listen to me. The mental links between man and such an advanced machine is destructive to all but the angels. Maybe if we trained soldiers before attempting this they'd survive but the General doesn't want to waste a VS. Wyatt's been asking more question about what I do at work, keeping things like this a secret gets harder and harder.

Taurus/30/project day 96

What makes William think he can walk in and take one of our experiments? My wife, Tessa, told me that he also took one of the angels; apparently it was Raphael because he took one of our strongest VS, Seraph, with him. He better treat Raphael good, Tessa has grown an emotional connection to him. She says it was a young boy that shouldn't be put through such life-ruining experiments. His mother, I think it was Basil, was also taken and experimented on. Every time I ask about his mother I hear that they can't release information on Project Eve.

When I stopped reading I looked over at Violet and she was in tears. I wasn't sure why, but I knew that something was wrong with this journal.

"Violet, what's wrong." I asked standing up and closing the journal.

"T..Tessa, is the name of my mom."

I was shocked. What am I supposed to say; Violet's mom was also a scientist. But then if Tessa was Violet's mom and she was Seth's, Trio's dad's, wife then that made…

"Trio's your brother." I said in disgusted awe. He was so obsessed with being with Violet, even though they were related. I wondered if Trio knew they were related, if he did, then that would be some real life incest.

"The deal you two made was…" She also realized this. I had to get off the topic quickly.

"Listen, when we find Trio this entire thing'll be cleared up." I said dropping the entire thing. But when I looked at the journal, it mentioned my VS, Seraph, and the General.

Things were getting to confusing. The General is the one in my dreams and my VS was, well, it's my VS. I also wonder who Raphael is, or was, depending on if they're still alive. But one thing I know is that when we get threw with this mission I'm going to kick William's ass.

I picked up the journal and handed it to Violet. She grabbed it and stared at it for a minute before putting it in the travel bag she carries with her. She lay down and I gave her time to rest.

I paced back to the drawer, set my watch for thirty minutes, hoped Trio survived, and picked up the porn.

Sixth Basement-Arklay Research Facility-Armory-9:30-Trio

Something's wrong with me. I'm growing stronger, slowly, I've been doing things I wasn't able to before. Maybe it's a lasting effect of adrenaline, or maybe I'm just as powerful as Riax.

I left the computer and found an armory farther in. I new all I needed to know and the strange air is making me stronger, faster, overall a better hunter. I had all the guns I needed now, I grabbed two guns, that's all I needed to kill him, an assault rifle, and shotgun. I was up against Riax's custom plasma rifle so I put on the best body armor there.

I walked out of the armory proudly with my new equipment. I stood in front of the door to the testing arena. It was the area where Umbrella planned to test the angels against Eve. It's also the place where Eve resides and where it created the hive. He's going to come here and when he does I'll show him how powerful I am.

Stairs-Arklay Research Facility-10:30-Violet

"I know once we find Trio and clear this mess up he'll understand. Trio may be strange but he'd never take it this far."

"I don't think so…" Why would Riax say that?

"What do you mean, listen this deal can't be that important." If a stupid deal about who gets to have me is to the death, it's a deal that never should be made.

"No, he already won the deal. I came in early, but I'm talking about the spores in the air. Remember, you already took the vaccine, but he didn't."

We walked down a large set of stairs. It spiraled down for what seemed like miles. This building is huge, and strangely, the stairs was the only place safe from Akrid. Or at least I thought.

Riax stopped walking and raised one hand. I froze, ever since we walked in, Riax has been detecting the Akrid before I heard them. Riax reached in his coat and leaned over the rail and pulled out his plasma rifle. He began firing rapidly and after two shots a giant Akrid flew down and landed on the steps in front of me dead.

"Damn these assholes, Violet keep moving." He shouted at me. Riax pointed down meaning he wanted to take the stairs all the way to the sixth floor.

I ran down the stairs trying not to fall. I jumped down the steps moving faster. When I looked up I saw the Akrid Riax was shooting. The Akrid were known as Kane, they looked like four-legged spiders with a stinger for a tail.

"Keep moving." Riax yelled. He launched his grappling hook and it wrapped around one of the bars. The next thing I see is him jumping off of the stairs and slide down.

When he slid next to me, he grabbed my arm and pulled me over the bar. I wrapped my arms around his neck and we slid down while he shot the Akrid above us. My eyes were closed, my job was a scout, medic, and to watch over these two. I was never meant to be on the mission myself, just sitting back and hoping it went fine. It usually did, but now I know what Riax has to do when they don't.

My feet slammed against the ground and I stumbled a little. I let go and opened my eyes to see Riax wrapping a grenade in the cord. He fixed a knot in it and took the grappling hook off of his wrist. He had a slight smile on his face as the grappling hook was pulled upwards with a grenade.

"Let's hurry. This is the sixth basement." Riax said as we walked through the door.

The Akrid's screeches were heard coming from the stairs. They echoed in the room we were in. It was a large room, empty, except for a door on the opposite side. There was only one problem with the door, what used to be Trio blocked it.

I felt like I was going to puke. Trio's right arm completely changed, it ripped threw his sleeve and blades grew out of it. The claws on the end were large, made to carve through human flesh. Strangely, Trio didn't seem to mind, it was like he was already used to the change.

"Don't move any closer you piece of shit." Trio shouted.

"What the hell are you talking about? Look at you, you're slowly turning into an Akrid and you're still thinking about the deal." Riax shouted stepping forward.

"So what, I'm stronger than you and now, more deserving of Violet's love."

I stood quiet as these two argued and exchanged insults. In a way it was my fault, they were fighting over me, because of me. Trio changed into that monster just because he wanted my attention, and now they're going to have to kill each other most likely. I thought to myself but Trio said something that scared us all.

"Shut up, you're more of a monster than I am. I let myself become this just so I could kill an angel. Riax, you're the reason why this place has become what it is."

"How the hell are you going to blame this mess on me? It was your choice to come in here I didn't make you... What do you mean by 'Kill an angel'?"

"Don't pretend like you don't know. You're an angel, a genocidal, man-made, Akrid-hunting, monster. I doubt you were ever human."

I was speechless. Riax wasn't human and Trio's slowly morphing into an Akrid. I knew now that this would end in bloodshed, it was Riax or Trio, and I was the prize. Trio reached to his right hip and pulled out the assault rifle. What used to be Trio raised it while Riax pulled out his two uzis. I couldn't keep in what we recently learned any longer; it may stop this fight from happening.

"Trio, you and I are brother and sister."

"W..What are you talking about?" Trio lowered his gun. He lost his focus on Riax and was now focusing on me. I had to explain everything right now.

"Your father was a scientist, his name was Seth Sapphire. My mother's name was Tessa Sapphire. Here look at this."

I reached in my bag and pulled out the "Progress Journal of Seth Sapphire" and threw it at Trio. The book landed in front of him and the picture slid out of him and his father standing in his old room posing for a picture. I hoped this would've changed something, but the poison in the air crushed that hope.

"I don't care."

"What." Riax and me shouted simultaneously.

"I don't care, even if we are related we can still be together."

Sixth Basement-Arklay Research Facility-Riax

What the fuck does he mean by he doesn't care. Their siblings, blood siblings at that, it's twisted. I gripped the sub-machine guns and waited. I realized why Trio didn't care.

It was primal instinct. The poison already started to affect his body so it must've done a massive amount of mental damage. That's probably why he considered the infection a blessing once it began to affect his arm. He looked back at me and I knew that some deep shit was about to happen.

"It's time for you to die, Raphael."

"No" Violet screamed.

"Die"