Sorry that I'm updating so slowly, I've gotten a bit lazy recently

Chapter 5-Wilhelm Returns

Deep in a cell in a prison in New York a well known terrorist was being held captive. He was the man responsible for the attack on the Kepler building and he was still yet to be tried. This man, Wilhelm Roentgen, was in maximum security because he was a criminal genius, he probably could have escaped with any more relaxed security and had he not been driven to the edge of insanity by Jake and the corrupting nature of the orb. Wilhelm was in so deep, he had no idea what was going on outside. He was sitting down in his cell reading the latest edition of times magazine. He had just finally got a moments piece and quiet after days of trying with the media, guards and other prisoners. The fact that he was so deep in the prison is what saved his life. Wilhelm was sitting down, reading the magazine, then he heard a huge bang from outside. The next thing he knew, he was knocked to the floor, by a hot fiery blast. He stayed there on the floor with his arms over his head for about a minute, before looking up and gasping.

There was no prison left. The charred remains of the cell he was in was all that was left of the prison. He realised that the prison must have somehow blown up and that he survived only because of how deep he was in the prison. Then the cold harsh reality of what was going on in New York hit him. He looked around to the scene of destruction which had not only engulfed the prison, but seemed to have engulfed the entire of New York city.

After recovering from the shock of it all he thought that he would make the best of this new found opportunity. "Well, I havn't seen a better invitation to leave" He spoke aloud to himself. He picked up the times magazine which was half burned, and stuffed the remaining pages in his pocket. "Might be good reading material for later." He then walked out a charred hole in the side of his cell. There were no signs of life anywhere in the remains of the prison.

Wilhelm walked towards what looked like the centre of the blast. He saw pipes and the remains of what might have been a huge gas or petrol tank.

"Well that's part of that mystery solved" Wilhelm thought to himself as he turned his gaze to the cloudy blood red sky. He spotted a flying creature. It looked like a dragon. 'Looks like more black dragons are trying to take my orb' Wilhelm thought. 'I knew Dragons couldn't be trusted.'

Right next to the prison, there was a military barracks. It had been partially damaged due to the explosion, but it still looked to be mostly intact and there seemed to be no one occupying it. Wilhelm, with all his military experience decided that it might be a god idea to search the barracks. The soldiers were probably somewhere trying to fix the problem. Wilhelm didn't really know what was going on, but he had an Idea. He knew enough about the orb to know that it could corrupt anything. He had been close to doing anything for it, but now that he had been away from it for a while, his lust for the orb had subsided a lot.

Wilhelm crept across the smoky street to the barracks. It reminded him of when he followed Jake down to the burning floors of the Kepler building in order to retrieve the orb, but the smoke here was less blinding. He entered through the blown away front door. Just as he had expected, there was no one here, but there didn't look like there were any signs of weapons or anything he might need to survive in New York. Wilhelm decided to search deeper. Shelves were knocked over and he found some intact Kevlar in the next room. 'That's a good start' he said to himself.

He walked down a long hallway. There seemed to be offices and a library on one side and sleeping quarters on the other side. He then came to a sign that got him excited. It pointed down the hallway and it read Armoury. He started to run down the hallway. It its end there was a T intersection. There was a sign that read "Armoury" and pointed to the left hallway. Wilhelm speed around the corner but abruptly stopped. A little way down the hallway, a creature that looked like a Velocor Raptor was picking at the remains of some poor fool. Wilhelm stopped but it caught him in the corner of its eye. It stopped eating and looked up at Wilhelm, staring at him. Wilhelm slowly backed up around the corner. The raptor looked at him very carefully as he did this. Wilhelm was sure not to make any sudden movements. He continued backing around the corner until he was fully out of sight of the Raptor, then about faced and ran. The Raptor sensed this and started to give chace.

Wilhelm ran down the hallway as fast as he could. There was little he could do, he was unarmed and it was clear that the raptor was faster then him. He ran past a chair, throwing it in the raptors way as he did. The Raptor just jumped over it. It didn't impede him much. The raptor got closer to Wilhelm. Wilhelm could feel it right on his heels. The Raptor got ready to pounce. Just at that moment Wilhelm spotted an open door to his right. He ran through it just as the Raptor pounced. It landed, and then had to change direction in order to get back to the door. This gave Wilhelm a little extra time. He ran through a hallway and out a door into a courtyard. There was a row of target practice targets. Wilhelm dove behind one of these and peered out from behind.

The Raptor came slowly through the door. It looked like it was in some sort of hunting stance. It sniffed the air and looked around the court yard. It started to move towards the targets and then thought better of it. To Wilhelm surprise, it turned and walked back through the door.

Wilhelm waited another minute before stepping out from behind the targets. He edged his way to the door, he wanted to ensure that his coast was clear before he kept moving. He stood to the side of the door and peered into the room. It was empty, No Raptor. Wilhelm breathed a sigh of relief but he knew something was wrong. The raptor would not just go and leave him like that.

His good hearing then picked up something from behind him, it was breathing.

"Oh S, How did it get behind me?"

At that moment the sneaky raptor got ready to pounce once again. Wilhelm's good hearing meant that he had time to run through the door, and then slam it before the raptor pounced. The Raptor hit the door hard, knocking it over but it seemed perfectly fine. Wilhelm was running out of the room and back down the hallway towards the armoury. He left anything that he could find behind him in order to provide any sort of hindrance he could. Looking back, he saw that the raptor scaled these obstacles with ease. He cut around the corner to the armoury. The door was closed and locked. He had to do something soon, the raptor came around the corner, it did not look like it was willing to let Wilhelm leave. Wilhelm tried bashing the door hard but it wouldn't budge. The raptor edged ever closer, Wilhelm could hear it breathing.

"Where's that goddamn dragon now that he is really needed?" Wilhelm whispered to himself.

The raptor snarled in response. Wilhelm then noticed that the bars on the window into the armoury through which a soldier is handed their weapon was open, furthermore the bullet proof glass was mostly cracked and shattered.

'I have to do it' Wilhelm thought, 'It will hurt though'

Wilhelm took a few more steps back so he was in line with the window, then a few steps away from the wall. The raptor had stopped to watch him do this. Wilhelm had to time this perfectly, if he moved to soon, the Raptor would be able to anticipate his next move. The raptor then charged. It was up to a matter of milliseconds but Wilhelm seemed to have some sort of sixth sense that always got him out of danger. Just when it was too late for the raptor to change direction, Wilhelm side stepped, ran over to the window of the armoury and dived through it. Although it was badly cracked it still hurt a lot. He was also cut by a lot of the glass when he landed. 'Well it worked better for the dragon.'

There was no time for him to lie there. The Raptor would probably jump through after him. He got up and walked to the nearest shelf. There was a wide array of guns and weaponry he could use. He picked up a powerful shotgun and checked to make sure that the shells were inside. 'Hmm ready and loaded that's the way I like my guns.'

At that moment the raptor jumped through the window, then to Wilhelm's surprise it finally spoke some English.

"Ill swallow your soul" It croaked as it made a leap for him

"Swallow this", Wilhelm replied as he pointed the shotgun at the raptor and fired. It was a head shot. It blew the raptors head apart. The corpse still crashed into Wilhelm though with not as much force as it would have. Wilhelm fell back to the floor with the raptor on top of him. He struggled under the body of the raptor for a bit then managed to slide it off. He stood up looking at his surroundings. It was his paradise, all sorts of guns and knives and weaponry. Wilhelm Helped himself. He3 picked up a spare backpack putting all sorts of explosives guns and such. He then picked up several vests which could hold more guns. Then he got the guns, knives and ammo. It was all very heavy, but Wilhelm was a very strong guy and was used to carrying a ridiculous amount of firearms. After he was fully loaded he looked at himself in the mirror and uttered one word. "Groovy."

Wilhelm decided to further explore the barracks. For about half an hour he looked around looking for anything worth while. Then out the back he saw a helipad. It it was an apache AH-64. While Wilhelm was not the best at flying choppers, he did undergo a course and was fairly proficient at it.

"I have found my transport" Wilhelm laughed to himself. He remembered back to a room where all the keys were kept. 'There has to be one for this chopper' he thought to himself. Upon returning to this room, he looked through the shelf of labelled keys this took him a while as they were in no specific order. He then found a key ring full of odd shaped keys, labelled 'Helicopters.'

Wilhelm then returned to the helipad. "Time for revenge" Wilhelm spoke aloud, then looked around at his surroundings. "But first things first I suppose." With that he headed towards the helicopter.

Meanwhile, Jake and the hunts clan were tracking down several corrupted magical creatures. They seemed to go into the charred remains of a building and hide in the rubble. Jake, Lao Shi, Haley and the hunts clan followed them down to the rubble where a small battle followed. Rose seemed to stick with the hunts master a lot as she fought. Demons were especially bad creatures to fight as they knew a lot of magic. There were 3 Demons, 3 Dragons, 3 Shades and 5 Trolls that they had to face. Most of the hunts clan and Haley were dealing with the trolls and shades. The hunts master seemed very determined to slay the dragons, leaving Jake and Lao Shi to fight the demons. These seemed to be weaker minions though as The Hunts Clan seemed to be laying blow after blow upon the enemy. The demons were only young ones and their fighting experience was very low. They seemed a pushover but strangely they were over determined. The Regular hunts clan members had the trolls and shades on the verge of defeat but the dragons seemed to be keeping hunts master on his feet though.

Noticing that Jake would fare very well against the demons, Lao Shi turned his attention to the three dragons who did not look close to yielding, it appeared that the weak dragons fell easiest to the temptations of the orb but gained the most from its power. Rose was glad that they were not fighting Jake and that they would not be, until this thing ended at least. One of the dragons managed to crash tackle the hunts man, he hit the wall of the remaining cell in the building. He sat up with great difficulty and started wheezing. To relieve himself a bit he removed his helmet. He still had a balaclava on so his face wasn't revealed.

"I think im getting a little too old for this" he groaned

"Uncle?" Rose Whispered in a questioning way. "You keep away from him" She shouted at the dragons. Jake saw in Roses eyes a darkness that he had only seen before when she saved him. There was something between them, but Jake also saw that there was still something between Rose and the hunts clan. The evil dragon dived for another attack, but was kicked away by an angry Rose/Thorn.

"Don't you dare" Rose yelled as she pulled out her hunt staff and zapped the dragon with green energy. Another dragon tried to attack back but Rose countered it with a smack using the staff. They seemed to pull back a little. The hunts master caught his breath once again and began to stand up.

Then, not too far off in the distance, another dragon landed. It was the dark dragon it was just the correct distance away to be silhouetted amongst all the smoke and debris of New York City. The dark dragon let out a laugh then held up the orb.

"Orb of Mysticism, grant mine minions greater strength" He commanded

The orb then began to glow, along with the minions. The hunts clan watched this until it stopped. Looking around they could not see the dark dragon anymore but his minions did not look any different. As they were about to learn, looks can be deceiving. The dragon that was being beaten up by Rose looked at her then grinned. Then with a very high speed, it knocked her to the ground. The others stared in amazement at this until they to were attacked by the other creatures who seemed to have gained a strength much greater then what they had before. The tables seemed to almost have turned as the hunts clan started losing. Jake himself was now having a lot of trouble against the demons, so Lao Shi went to help him.

Rose was lying on the ground, looking at the hunts master. She began to get up when suddenly she was held down by a dragon.

"No escaping now, but the best part is, you get to witness the demise of one of the greatest threats to our cause"

"What do you mean"

Rose continued struggling as a dragon seemed to appear from nowhere, landing right in front of the hunts master. It then picked him up by the throat and began squeezing.

"No, Let him go" Rose screamed. This seemed to make the dragon laugh harder. Jake was knocked right next to rose and saw what was going on. Jake immediately took a dive for the dragon holding the hunts master but the third dragon swatted him away as if he were a fly. Rose had to watch as the dragon held the struggling hunts master tighter and tighter. Then the hunts master went still. The dragon laughed the tossed him away as if he were a piece of garbage.

Jake took the dragon holding rose from behind. This meant that he let go of Rose but he managed to get a hold of Jake. Rose charged up her staff in anger and zapped the claw holding Jake. The dragon yelped in pain and let go of Jake. Rose kneeled next to Jake sobbing. Lao Shi crashed beside them.

"They are now too powerful" he gasped.

Haley also fell down unconscious. The rest of the hunts clan was nowhere to be seen. The evil creatures grinned in front of them. Jake knew that they had to keep going or else it would end there. Suddenly the heard a hiss, followed by an explosion, right where the three dragons were standing. It looked like they had been hit by a rocket. It happened again and the series of explosions moved through the bunch of creatures. The evil creatures didn't know what was going so they began routing. Jake listened carefully. He heard the sound of a chopper.

He looked around in the sky and noticed one coming in this direction. It began to lose height, then slowly land right in front of them.

Jake saw a figure start to get out. It was Wilhelm.

"You!" Jake shouted and got into a defensive stance.

"Yes, me and I believe you owe me an orb" Wilhelm said cooly

"Its not your orb"

"Relax, its just a joke, I come in peace. I want to help you beat this Dark Dragon"

"You want to help us?"

"Yes, its not easy to terrorise a world which has no one left to terrorise. I'm fully armed and the chopper I stole has emergency steering in the cockpit (In case something happens with the pilot or his steering) so I can shoot as well as fly. How about it. Do you trust me?"

"Go on Jake" Urged Lao Shi, we need all the help we can get now that it seems that the hunts clan has disbanded"

"Ok" said Jake

"Well looks like we will have fun then won't we"

"Ill get that damn dark dragon if it's the last thing I do" Growled rose still sobbing.

"Well lets get on with acquiring the orb then" Wilhelm announced

There was something about the way that Wilhelm said that that Jake did not like but he did have to agree. They couldn't waste any more time.

End of chapter

Well it's just Jake, Lao Shi, Haley, Rose and Wilhelm now, but next chapter thing heat up as humans start their fight back.