#19: By the sword.

Striker: "Tell me, Ray. Are you aware of atomic reactions?"

Rayz: "Those abilities elementalists have? Yeah...?"

Winter: "You dont actually need to be an elementalist to have one. Zayn and eisenhower here, they aren't elementalists, but have atomic reactions."

Rayz: "Thats the least... weird thing ive discovered this past week."

Striker: "Tell me, Ray. What do you wanna do with the information that youre the Atomsplit.?"

Rayz: "What do i wanna do? Well... i'm not sure..."

Winter: "My advice, you should stay here. You wont survive otherwise."

Spark: "I hate to admit it... but hes right. "

Rayz turns to purely face Winter. "And what will happen to me here..?"

Striker throws his sword of thunder right infront of Rayz.

Striker: "You will learn to control your power. But in the end, one thing is certain."

Aaron: "You will fight."

Winter: "It doesn't take much to figure out that theres great evil around."

Aaron: "You might just follow in your mothers footsteps, and die."

Rayz: "Fight...? Die...?"

Striker: "You heard them well."

Rayz: "How can you... expect so much of me? Are you guys insane?"

Eisenhower: "This is desperation. You dont understand what losing your mother did to everyone."

Zayn: "We couldnt even compare to the enemy without her."

Winter: "We couldnt prevent the unification of the uniteds, then Nyx took power."

Zayn: "We relate to you more than you know. We need the Atomsplit back, before it all gets out of hand."

Rayz: "Gets out of hand...?"

Striker: "There's a group of people that seek to unleash a force that rivals that of the Atomsplit. And that force already commands an army stronger than us."

Winter: "Our only allies are the Fire realm, and even with them, we stand no chance."

Rayz: "And you think... i can defeat this opposite force? "

Striker: "Truth is, we've never seen it ourselves. His name is Jaxx. His army is made up of semi-immortal soldiers, all wielding powerful atomic reactions.

Winter: "It's not like my immortality. They can die, but they will come back."

Spark: "And even... even when you manage to defeat one of them... they are just.. replaced with a new one..."

Zayn and eisenhower, in unison:" Death merchants."

Rayz: "Is that what they are called?"

Winter: "Yeah, Death merchants."

Rayz: "I'll do it."

Aaron: "Know what you're gonna get yourself in."

Rayz: "I'll do it if you answer me one question.

Striker: And that is?"

Rayz: "The man who killed Varah, is he still alive?"

Striker looks at Winter.

Winter: "Hes alive, and still scheming alongside the death merchants."

Zayn stands infront of Rayz. "If you're willing to join us, you must go through something first."

Zayn picks up the locked sword case from his back.

Winter unlocks it.

Zayn: "My atomic reaction, it will make you experience the pain of dying a million times."

Rayz: "I understand... Do it."

Zayn: "Just a tiny scratch will make you experience death. Lots of it."

Eisenhower: "This is simply to prove your commitment."

Rayz lifts his hand up, bracing himself.

Zayn takes the opportunity to scratch him.

Zayn whispers: "Atomic reaction, pain of a million deaths."

The hit lands, scratching his hand.

Rayz drops to the floor, screaming in agony as every hole in his body starts to bleed, the adrenaline keeping him awake as all of his nerves get pushed to their absolute limit over and over, his brain flashing.

Spark rushes over to him, lifting his head up, his bloodshot eyes a terrifying image, but not something she hadn't seen before.