Gift

In an instant.

The Infinite Immortal was born.

From fire and ice. He now had control. Of the universe. Of the elements. All in his grasp.

Weapons of destruction and death. Of life and death. Of death and murder.

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Olezka turned around. The soft glow of the ice white cold and the burning blue flames.

He said, "sister... It's time... He's it. He's the weapon..."

"He's the weapon?" asked Lada pointing at the naked Damon.

"Yes... He is... After all these years... After all this time waiting... We finally have a chance at wiping out the Immortal Horses."

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Across the United States, Marcus drove his truck. He drove from one end to the other. Days on end. Across highways, from motel to motel. All in search of the Witch Hunter's secret base. But with every lead, he came across, with every friend he found, from one side to the other. In the end, he couldn't find a single trace of its whereabouts.

"Marcus you sure this secret base exists?" asked Luna.

"I know it does. I left the Witch Hunters a long time ago, but I still know of some locations."

"Marcus, we should go back..." suggested Aria, "Damon is still in New York, and we left him behind."

Marcus turned around, "I don't know Aria... It's dangerous. I say we go until we meet up with Olezka or-"

Boom!

The front end of the truck exploded.

Smash!

Marcus went flying through the front windshield as Aria and Luna were caught inside the truck as it flipped up in the air.

Slam!

Smash!

Crash!

The truck tipped over, flipping over onto its left side as glass shattered all across Luna and Aria's faces, cutting them up and knocking them out.

Marcus laid out on the asphalt road, his missing right arm bleeding and his left leg cut. Aria quickly woke up and looked out the smashed windshield.

Fwom-fwom-fwom-fwom...

She peaked her head out as a helicopter slowly descended from the sky. Its propeller blades decreasing in speed as it landed off the side of the highway.

"Shit! They caught up to us!"

Aria struggled out of her seat belt. Her head bleeding pulsating. She reached back and pulled hard on the strap, its tangled two sides colliding against her stomach. She wiggled back and forth, she pulled with all her strength until it-

Snap!

She broke free and jumped out the smashed window, flopping onto the asphalt road.

A woman in a rose-colored suit stepped out from the helicopter. Her high rose heels, her blushed face, her red hair, her long brimmed hat, her round red sunglasses. She looked down at the laying Marcus.

"So you thought you could escape us... How how how, annoying! But I guess I'm lucky. If Bryan had caught up to yall, who knows what would have happened. And it's not good to have someone so forgiving. Discipline is needed in order to lead."

Marcus looked up at the tall overbearing woman in red. He tried to move his left leg, but it was broken and bleeding.

"Do you know who you're dealing with?" he asked, trying to sound intimidating.

Miss Eiko pulled out a notepad, "oh, I know all about you, Marcus Smirnov. The spy from the Witch Hunters. You know, we've been looking for the White Rabbit for quite some time. And who knew he was right underneath our noses, and such an easy catch..."

She squatted down to one knee. She looked at Marcus's face. His scratched-up appearance, his angry-mad look.

She then turned to Aria as stood up from the tipped-over truck.

"Oh, and it's you Aria. The bad mouth murderer of the group. Always so smart, always such a leader. So you're the one who got her in, Marcus?" She looked at the unconscious Luna through the smashed window, "Luna too I see, but I'll leave her alone. It seems our new True Immortal has a crush on her. But Damon... Damon Damon Damon... Damon the Immortal. The one not in our Necronomicon. The anomaly. Marcus where did you find him? How did you make him Immortal?"

Marcus smirked, "for being the oldest True Immortal you sure don't know anything."

"Oh being a smart ass I see-"

Bang!

Aria pulled out a gun and shot a bullet right through Miss Eiko's heart.

She turned unfazed as deep red blood poured out from the hole in her chest.

"Really? You really had to try?"

Bang-bang-bang!

Aria fired three more shots.

Two into Miss Eiko's legs.

And the final one right into her head. She fell to her knees.

"You know this won't kill me, right? It will only prolong your deaths."

Aria turned to Marcus.

"Now Marcus!" she screamed.

Marcus pointed out his finger.

"Die bitch!"

Ice Spell: [Perfect Ice]

Fwooooooosh!

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A cold chill. Miss Eiko was perfectly frozen in a diamond of ice. Each shape perfectly matching the other. Fully invaded, fully unmoving. The ice never melted and never changed. It was perfect in every way. And she was defeated. Unable to move and unable to break free.

"Marcus..."

Aria ran up to him, his body laid out flat, bleeding from his missing right arm and his...

"Marcus your leg...? You sacrificed your leg!"

He smirked, "nowadays you can always just get a new leg."

She turned back to Luna, to Miss Eiko. Her face stuck in the clear blue perfect ice.

"So we really did it, Marcus. We killed a True Immortal."

He smirked, "we did, and now there are only five left."

Luna woke up and the first thing she saw was Marcus's missing leg.

"Marcus your leg!" she screamed.

"It's fine Luna. It's the price I have to pay for using this type of magic."

Aria looked at the parked helicopter on the other end of the road.

"Ha! Well, now we have a new vehicle. It should be easy sailing to your secret base Marcus."

Aria stood up and started walking toward the helicopter.

Marcus sat up with his left leg. He watched as-

Step...

Step...

Step...

Aria jumped back. She pulled out the small hand sized pistol.

"There's someone inside the helicopter."

Someone walked out of the helicopter.

Red hair. Red eyes. A naked body. The naked body of a woman. She was tall, and she carried a silver briefcase.

"You..."

"How?!" screamed Marcus.

Miss Eiko walked out of the helicopter naked. She looked at her decomposing clone inside the perfect ice. She laughed.

"We are True Immortals, idiots. I've lived long enough to know all your Ice Witch secrets. You don't think we know about the perfect ice? You don't think we have any countermeasures against that shit. Why do you think Mr. Chain, obeys us?"

"But your body?!"

The body inside the diamond ice started to decompose.

The new Miss Eiko opened up her briefcase. She pulled out a small jar filled with green liquid. And inside the green liquid floated small particles of brain and blood matter.

"Inside of these are parts of ourselves. Do you see? Even if you kill my main body, even if you wipe me to dusk, burn me for all of infinity, I will always be alive. Each one of these containers contains a part of my brain. So if I get caught in the perfect ice or the eternal flame, I can just will myself to death and revive myself using the leftover brain matter spread across the world."

"But..."

Aria turned fierce and determined, "then I will kill all of your jars. And I will hunt you down. And I will kill you!"

Miss Eiko smirked, "you know Aria, I wanted you to win. I always liked your personality. And I liked your determination. But I also felt something in you. A fighter's spirit. But... It's was sad, because when I saw you, I always had this feeling that your spirit wasn't fighting for our causes. So I cheated. I gave Bryan the win. Actually, the whole thing was rigged. Right from the start. We knew who was gonna win and who was gonna lose. We just needed a few couple hundred dead bodies as a sacrifice."

Bang-bang-bang!

Aria shot three billets right into Miss Eiko's naked breasts.

She just shrugged it off.

"Anyway, it's time for you to die."

She pulled a gun from the silver briefcase and pointed it at Marcus.

Aria jumped in front of the crippled Marcus, but she was too slow. The bullets were too sudden. To explosive.

Before she could even get close her body reacted against it. She couldn't reach him. She couldn't get there. All her organs were damaged, all her nails were gone, all her-

She collapsed.

Bang!

Miss Eiko shot the bullet.

Luna tried to break free from the totaled truck. She screamed.

She watched.

Splat!

Marcus was struck in the head.

He fell back.

Dead.

"Good riddance. Those Ice Witches are such a pain. Especially those with the power to create the perfect ice."

Aria was in shock. She couldn't believe her eyes.

She ran over to Marcus as he laid on the asphalt road. His mind still alive, but his brain barely functioning. He was losing too much blood. Too fast.

Miss Eiko continued to speak, "uhhhggg... All these Witches nowadays. A one in a million, a one in a billion, a one in a trillion. Mr. Chain, now this man. Good thing he's dead. We don't want another Witch with the gift..."

Aria stood over Marcus.

"Your death will not be in vain."

She placed her hand on his head, she sucked out his energy, his body, his sacrifice.

X Spell: [Sacrifice]

She pointed at Miss Eiko.

"Gift..."

Marcus turned to dust. His body turned into power. She pointed at Miss Eiko. She closed her eyes.

Gravity Spell: [Black Hole]

She created a small black hole right where Miss Eiko stood.

In an instant, everything was sucked in. Her body, her gun, the briefcase, the jars of brain matter. Everything. In an instant. A black hole of death.

"Fuc-"

Poof.

Miss Eiko disappeared.