Part Two

Chanoro stepped hard on the gas and the sleek, black Toyota Celica roared down the highway and onto the motorway, he gunned the exelarator but it just wasn't fast enough, he needed speed to clear his head. He reached under the dashboard and flipped open the concealed catch to reveal a big red button, he grinned and punched the button hard, the car seemed to leap forward and then it screamed down the motorway, sending Chanoro thudding back into his seat, he screamed with laughter as he sped at 450mph down the road. He hit the button again, took his foot off the accelerator and eased his foot onto the brake, the car eventually skidded to a halt and he drove onto a deserted country road, he veered off and the car flew into a ploughed field, he left the car and ran off in the direction of an enormous and ancient-looking mansion. When he reached the doors, he placed his hand on the thumb-print scanner next to the bell, a virtual data-screen popped up and he quickly typed in a complex code, the data-sheet vanished and the doors opened with a mechanised hiss. He walked into the house and the doors hissed shut behind him.

Chanoro walked into the brightly lit interior, he took off his jacket and threw it at the rack by the door, a robotic arm reached from the stand caught it, folded it and place it into a slot in the wall, the jacket slid away with a whirring sound. "Thank you Paladin," Chanoro said, apparently to empty air, "you are welcome Chanoro," said a synthesised voice that came from all around him. Chanoro continued along the hallway until he came to a flight of solid glass stairs, he went up and further into the facility. Chanoro ran up the stairs for about half a minute before he came to a set of thick steel doors, he looked up at the motionless lens set into the ceiling, "data core code 824197624091938 open 5," he said and with an almost inperceptable hiss, the doors slid apart and he was bathed in golden light. A golden face made up of tiny pixel-hexagons morphed into view in the air before him, Chanoro clicked and a thin, white tablet slid out of a computer block next to him, he removed the tablet and tapped out a series of commands on the device. A cloud of whirring machinery and electrical lightning descended on Chanoro, it engulfed him and then flew away, he stepped away-now wearing data-goggles and data-influx gloves, he walked towards another door in the facility. He turned the handle and entered the room, he was bathed in gold light, he closed the door behind him. He turned to face the contents of the room, a vast cylindrical pedestal dominated the room, on it sat a sphere ofpure yellow energy, Paladin's central processing core.Chanoro checked radiation levels on the tablet, only five rad, it had stabilised considerably, it was off the charts last time, a device in his pocket emitted an anti-radiation field but it never hurt to be careful. He reached into his pocket and brought out the device, it was small but chunky and looked like a cross between a mac book, a mobile and a geiger counter, he fiddled with one of the dials and flicked a switch, he slipped it back into his pocket and removed the glove from his right hand, he placed it on a wall-bracketed table and walked forwards. Gingerely, he reached his hand towards the radioactive core, "WARNING!" and alarm screeched, "Chanoro, what are you doing?" asked the measured voice of Paladin, his golden face forming in the air before Chanoro, "a little experiment of mine," Chanoro answered and thrust his arm forward, making contact with the core, there was an explosion and he flew backwards, slamming against the wall and falling in a heap on the floor. "Good shot, even if I do say so myself," the figure of a girl said from the doorway, she blew the smoke from the barrel of the gun, "now," she said, walking to Chanoro and pointing the gun at his head, "do as I say or your master dies," she said, "NOW!"

The Infinity Virus Part One

Part One

He saw it spreading, the streets crawling with the infected, he knew what his own fate would be, he opened his eyes and was pulled back to the present. He knew that there were different eventualities, different paths of fate, but this time there was no way out, this time the infinity virus would wipe life off the face of the universe....

Blade Charcoal's eyes snapped open, he was instantly awake, he knew that what he had seen was real that it would happen and he also knew that there was only one person who could truly stop it.

He pulled back the curtains, slid the balcony windows open, crouched and sprung out into the night.

Cain Sparkscourge felt a tug in his gut and sat down hard on his bed, he hadn't experienced the calling for a very long time, he understood the only thing that it could mean. He felt it again, more insistent this time, it was as if someone was playing on the strings of his soul, of his very being, he smiled, a wicked, evil smile and ran towards the wall, he dissapeared in a flurry of sparks.

He looked around the cave, his one place of solitude, undisturbed for countless millenia now felt violated by the prescence of so much tainted magic, he winced as each sorcerer appeared, it tore at his soul, all this unpure magic. "oh," he thought to himself, "they think that they are so powerful, when they are less significant even than the dust beneath their feet."

He sneered at the puny beings before him, oh how he wanted to destroy them and consume their souls, he would feast for eternity, but eternity wasn't quite long enough for him.

Chanoro Flashfreeze opened his eyes, he was encased completely in ice, it took him a moment to realise where he was, he attempted to flex his fingers and the ice shattered and flew off him in al directions, he cracked his knuckles, "fighting ice with ice," he said, "ingenious."

A figure ran across the room, he spun but found only empty air, "come out, come out wherever you are," he called, turning and scanning his surroundings, again a figure scurried across his vision but this time a spear of ice headed towards the fleeing shadow. The figure seemed to catch it, turn it around and send it back again before Chanoro could blink, he wildly flicked his wrist and the spear shattered and passed harmlessly around him. With a snarl, the figure leapt from the shadows, its claws raking across Chanoro's face, Chanoro cried out in pain and front-kicked the creature in the chest, sending it flying backwards. Chanoro advanced towards the sprawled assassin and clenched his fists, suddenly the air turned cold and Chanoro's breath came out as mist, Chanoro twirled the ring on his finger and his fists immedietely became incased in ic. He knelt down in front of the creature and gave it a crushing blow to the chin, sending it skidding away from him, across the now icy floor.

"WHO ARE YOU!?" shouted Chanoro, his voice carrying across to his would-be killer, "my name is not important, I was instructed to contain you and then when you came to, to kill you," it said with pride in its voice. "I said," Chanoro said wit hgritted teeth, "WHO. ARE YOU," he roared, each word punctuated with a projectile of ice hitting the creature in the chest. "I am," it said with blood trickling fromthe corners of its mouth, "YOU!" and it collapsed in a flurry of frost.