So, I have to say I was a little bummed that no one left a comment to guess who the villain was in the last piece. I also understand that I'm new to this environment and that you all are getting used to me. So hopefully with the more work I put out the more you all will get used to me and the more interactive these pieces will become. I'm also working on an AU for Mortal Kombat called "The Gathering" so feel free to check that out, and I'm also going to start posting some work on again soon, the first weekof those pieces will always be free so if you like what I write pay attention because I'm starting to get my preps ready for that as well.

Once again here are the rules:

I must go in order of the album and I must use every track on the album even if it isn't a song.

I don't have to extract lyrics I can basically go with the themes if I want.

Story does not have to follow cannon but I will probably go in and out of that.

So this is where this album write gets interesting, the fourth track on The Hunting Party is called The Summoning and it's a one minute instrumental that leads into the next song War. Now as the rules say I must go in order even if it isn't a song, and another rule that I should add is I can't have the next song influence the previous so I can only use the one minute instrumental as my theme for this piece. In the first fifteen seconds the instrumental is very subtle very quiet, then the guitars start coming in and the tracks get louder, then for the next twenty-five seconds the track speeds up and gets louder and louder, until it feels like a panic, then it's silent, and you can hear muffled voices in the background. So this is what I came up with….

The Summoning

Oliver races down the steps to the new lair, as his feet reach the concrete floor of the basement of his old home, he sees Digg's panic in his eyes, Oliver has never seen that type of panic in Digg's eyes, he's always been the calming influence of the team so he knows that something must be wrong, terribly wrong.

"What is it Digg?" Oliver tentatively asks, knowing that only one scenario could induce such a panic in him but hoping that it could be something else.

"I don't know how to say this, but a bullet must of ricocheted and one caught her jugular."

Instantly all of Oliver's joints freeze, he knows from Digg's face that Felicity must have caught a bullet or a piece of shrapnel from the Dark Hood's attack at the convention tonight, but not the jugular, not that.

He rushes over to Felicity, blood covering her chest, all her bandaging is soaked in red, Oliver nearly collapses but saves himself by leaning his elbows on the med table.

He can hear her breathing, it's shallow and liquid he sees blood trickling out of her mouth, and then she coughs spewing the crimson liquid all over Oliver's face.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that." Felicity gargles, trying to force a smile. Oliver wants to put his mask on, his "Oliver" mask, the one that he puts on to soothe people, but he knows she'll see right through it, so instead he smiles and for once doesn't fight the tears from streaking down his face.

She runs over to him, she's seen him hurt before, too many to count, but this time it's different, usually when he's hurt he's either unconscious or so stoic about it that she starts yelling at him for not taking his injuries seriously enough. No, tonight he's doing neither of those things, instead, he's convulsing, she knows what is happening, his body is reacting to something that happened to him, it's trying to tell Oliver that whatever he just endured is even too much for him.

She knows what's she's supposed to do, she pulls out the herbs from the island and a bottle of water, knowing that whatever poison is in his system the magic herbs will fix it, but then she sees the blood, it's black, whoever hurt him they knew where to hurt him, because his liver has exploded, and all of that fluid has entered his blood stream and poisoned all of it's in its current dark state. She knows now that no herbs or a whole bush of herbs will help him, only a blood transfusion will work, but the convulsing says to her that it's much too late for that. Digg finally arrives behind him and two words say it all.

"Oh God."

Laurel makes her way into the intensive care room where her father has been resting in an induced coma for months. She comes after her work at the DA office right before she goes to Oliver's old mansion to train. Seeing her father gives her the motivation to protect Starling City from those that did the same damage to her father, to Tommy, to Oliver. Sarah, her little sister, had grown up and matured beyond her years, she knew her place among the assassins, and she blessed her with the responsibility in following what her sister called "The Canary's footsteps."

When she gets there, things aren't quite the same, her father's is blocked from vision by curtains, as she approaches the nurse, the nurse looks up at her and presses her lips together as if she was going to say her goldfish died.

"I'm sorry Ms. Lance, but there seems to be a complication with Mr. Lance at the moment. The doctors are looking at him now, if you could have a seat in the lobby I will come get you when he's available."

"Don't," is the next thing Felicity whispers out of her mouth, "Don't feel sorry for me, you carry enough guilt, I chose to be in this with you, I knew…" coughs again.

Oliver places his hand over her forehead, "Don't talk, you'll lose your strength, save your air."

Felicity tries to stifle a laugh but she just coughs more blood instead, "I'm dying idiot, I'm at least going to die rambling."

Oliver can't help but let out a smile, in that moment not because of her situation but because of how she handles the situation, he can't handle himself anymore and tears streak down his face, "I love you Felicity. I wanted it to be me on that table."

Felicity shakes her head, "No, you're always trying to die, you have to live, this city needs you, if someone has to die, than the best person to die is me."

"No you can't!" Oliver yells.

Felicity starts to let the tears go herself, "Just promise me that you'll see me in the afterlife and we'll have a much better date than the one we had tonight."

"God damn it Oliver!" She screams, "Why can't you protect yourself!" She screams, "Why! Why can't you see that you had a reason to live!" She stops herself not realizing how quickly the word had slipped from her lips. She sees the blood, black, thick, oozing out his stomach, and for once she can't solve this mystery, there is no solution to this answer, fate had given her the answer before she could even solve the problem.

"Code blue in room one-fifteen, code blue in room one-fifteen." Almost immediately Laurel realizes whose room "room one-fifteen" is, it's her father's. Without thought she rushes through the doors but the nurse catches her and stops her progress, "Ms. Lance you can't be in here, the doctors need space! She then looks up as she's being dragged back into the lobby, at her father being launched upward as the defibrillator sends its jolt into her father's heart.

"I love you." Felicity says as clearly as ever, Oliver shakes his head.

"No Felicity this is not the end, stay with me Felicity!" Then as a last sense of courtesy Felicity closes her eyes so that Oliver doesn't have to witness them rolling into the back of her head and then she is still. Oliver screams and slams his fist into the med table.

Suddenly the convulsions stop and Oliver's body relaxes, she then goes into a small convulsion herself before collapsing to the ground and unleashing a primordial scream.

Laurel sits in the front row next to her mother and sister as the the soldiers fold the American Flag over her father's casket. The flag is handed to her mother as the bagpipes unleash Amazing Grace and as the song finishes the first set of seven shots fires into the air and the sound does nothing but jolt her into nothing but more tears.

Oliver, Felicity, and Laurel all jolt up instantaneously. All three covered in sweat, Oliver looks up at Felicity who was running searches on the new Dark Hood, Felicity looks down at his cot, both are breathing heavily Felicity with tears in her eyes, Oliver covers his face immediately to prevent his from ever occurring. Laurel with hands still shaking dials the ICU nurse call station.

"Starling City Intensive Care?"

"Yes, this is Laurel Lance I'm just calling to check on my father."

"Oh Ms. Lance he's right where you left him."

"Oh, thank you."

Let me know what you think….