A/N: Hope everyone is doing well. I apologize for the wait, Finals was kicking my ass and now I'm trying to recalibrate and adjust to it being the Summer, you know how that goes, but here is Chapter 5! Takes place in the Flashbacks of Arrow season 4 (which takes place in 2011) and Originals season 1. Of course there has to be a little tweaking to both seasons for this meet up to work but hey, give ya boy a break. So without further ado, enjoy!

Chapter 5

Lian Yu (Flashback)

(Oliver POV)

The air was always cold on the island, mainly from it being in the North China Sea, but there was a calming to it. Despite this place bending me and breaking me in ways that I wouldn't even wish on my worse enemy, it made me who I am. A monster.

After being trapped in a Coast City bar by Waller and her A.R.G.U.S agents, I was sent back to this hell hole to infiltrate an operation known as Shadowspire, led by a man named Baron Reiter. Just a week ago I found out by one of our former captives, John Constantine, that Lian Yu was a magical nexus I think he called it and that Reiter wasn't just here for drugs.

It was the middle of the night and I was on watch of the rest of the captives alongside Conklin, a mercenary working directly under Reiter,who looked at me with the side of his eye. He had found the communication device given to me by those A.R.G.U.S agents right before I landed on the island and now he's on to me being a spy. Luckily, I have enough of Reiter's trust that he stands up for me but deep down I know that as soon as they get what they came for, I'm as good as dead.

I watched as one of the captives falls out in the field while gathering more herbs for Reiter's drug that Conklin called Slam. Conklin walks up to the captive and looks down at him before kicking him in the gut,

"GET YER ASS UP!" Conklin said, his southern accent very prominent. He raises his rifle toward the man's head, "I'm not gonna tell ya again!"

I quickly ran up a grabbed his shoulder,

"Hey! Just give the man a minute, these people are dying out on us. We're short as is to just start killing them off." I explained.

Conklin pulled away from my hand and got in my face, he looked down at the captive and back up at me, "Two minutes to get this PIG back on his feet,and if you grab me like that again, he's not the only one that'll be on the ground."

He walks around me, bumping me with his shoulder. I kneel down and give the man my water bottle.

"I feel sick." He told me. I hated being a spy. These people are innocent and working like mules. I want to help, but if I jeopardize my mission...

"Here, just drink this." I told him as he started drinking the water, "Get back to work, pace yourself."

It was times like this that I wish Taiana were here. She was the backbone of these people, she kept them together and gave them the motivation to keep going. But since I was given the order to kill her but hid her in my old hideout instead, it's better to keep it that way or else we're both in trouble.

"Conklin!" I heard someone yell in the distance, it was another one or Reiter's men.

Conklin walked up and I watched as two men came back dragging a body, I stand and walk toward Conklin and the group of men.

"The body washed up on shore while we were on patrol." The man said as they dropped the body.

We analyze the body. Slender Caucasian male, looked like he was in his mid-20s, hair color same as mine, wearing all black…but there's something strange with his face. It was pale white, devoid of any color, and there were veins protruding on his face. Something I've never seen before.

Conklin and I saw that there was something sticking out of the man's chest, some kind of blade. Conklin crouches down and reaches for it,

"I don't think that's a good idea…" I told Conklin.

He looks back at me, "What? You scared of a dead man?"

I roll my eyes and let out a sigh as I watch him pull the blade from the man's chest. The blade was white and looked to be made of bone.

"What the hell kinda blade is this?" Conklin asked. He wipes off the blood residue and feels the blade. He touches the tip and cuts his finger open, letting some of the blood hit the dead man's mouth as he curses in anger.

Out the corner of my eye, I thought I saw the body twitch. Maybe it was a muscle spasm, I mean the body had to be at least a couple of days fresh, I know I dropped out of college but I think that's a thing.

"What yall think?" Conklin asked the men as he started flipping the knife around and doing horrible karate moves while the other men laughed.

This time I see the body's hand move, and I know it's not my imagination. I look closer at the body and the veins on his face started disappearing.

"Um…guys." I say raising my rifle, but it was too late.

The man's eyes jolt open and he grabs a nearby leg, prying his teeth into the soldier's leg and making him scream in pain. Conklin curses again and raises his rifle but the man gets up and moves at an unnatural speed, moving behind the man he bit and using him as cover as Conklin opens fire on them.

The bullets penetrate his fellow soldier's body but the body armor cushioned them from going straight through. The man in black then plunges his hand into the soldier's back and literally rip his heart out before throwing him on top of Conklin. Knocking him unconscious.

Now it was just me and another mercenary, we had our sights aimed at the man in black who observed the heart in his hand. Mirakuru maybe? No, all of it was destroyed along with Slade.

I watch the man drop the heart and turn his attention to the both us. He then spoke to us,

"Though I appreciate you all removing that dagger from my chest, this place is unfamiliar to me. As a show of my gratitude, if one of you tells me where it is I washed up, I will make your deaths quick and painless."

He gave us a cold smile after those words. What ever this guy is, he isn't human. In any case, that blade seemed to be the only thing that can stop him. I look at the other mercenary and gave him a look in which he nodded in return.

The mercenary shoots the man in the back as I run for the blade in Conklin's hand. I get to Conklin, take the blade out of his hand, and turn around just in time to see the man in black to knock the rifle out of the mercenary's hand and violently bite the mercenary's neck, causing him to yell in pain before I finally see his body go limp.

While his back is turned, I sneak up behind the man in black to try and put the blade back in him but his reflexes are too quick. I strike but my wrist is met with his hand. He gives me a grin before overpowering the blade out of my hand almost effortlessly and palm thrusting me back several feet, making me land harshly on Lian Yu's hard soil.

I try to make my way up but was met with that white blade in my shoulder. The pain was so excruciating that I started screaming uncontrollably. This wasn't just a normal stab, I'm used to pain and torture but this…this was something I never felt before.

I try to pull the blade out but the man in black was now on top of me holding me down. He pulls the blade out and drags me to a nearby tree by my throat and holds me there.

"I'm impressed," the man spoke as I struggle to gasp for air, "the pain from getting stabbed by this blade would kill a human instantly. You, on the other hand, managed to almost pull it out. You may be of some use to me."

Star City (Present Day)

City Hall

Back inside City Hall, Oliver laid unconscious sitting at his desk when he was woken up abruptly by Lance. Oliver sits up quickly and gasps for air, startling Lance and causing him to grab his chest.

"I remember."