Chapter 2

4# The Hunted: Part 4 of 7

In Madripoor, Hellverine destroyed the entire lab, with the only survivors; Jimmy, Mariko, the Raksha gang, Raze, and Miss Sinister escaping. Jimmy does not wants to team up with Raze due to him begin a bad guy, but Raze pointed out he has no choice as an unknown anonymous, Sightless, approached and warn him , that an alliance with his half siblings is the best chance he has to survived with Hellverine. Raze explained since the teenage version of the original X-men went back to their native timeline, his future timeline has ceases to exist and he now stranded here in the past. With no no other choice, Jimmy and the other resume their hunt for miss sinister, while avoiding Hellverine.

Meanwhile, Jimmy and the others nearly caught to Miss sinister while she was begin confronted by the mysterious woman, only to be interrupted by the demon Hellverine. Despite the the combine might of the sons of Wolverine, along with the aide of the Scarlet Samurai and the Raksha gang, Hellverine was too powerful to be defeated. He then overpower Jimmy and destroyed his Poison symbiote. It was when Mariko saved Jimmy when she suddnely mainfested a new power which she success in injuring the demon. Stun of begin harm for the first time, Hellverine made his escape, while Miss sinister is long gone.

In the Savage Land, Reine, Ka-zar, Shanna, and Matthew meets the village leader Gahck. At first, Gahck is suspicious of them. But upon seeing Reine's claws, Gahck believe she is another child of Wolverine, and also half sister of her son Erista the Ghost Stalker. Gahck told them that Erista was not here as he left the village to hunt. Gahck tells of her tale of meeting Wolverine many years ago (Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure), their relationship and their battle with a terrible enemy that threaten her tribe. After Wolverine left, Gahck became pregnant and gave birth to boy several months later, naming him Erista. Since then, Erista had been raised by his mother and tribe, many of the male warriors served as father roles to the boy. Erista has been schooled in becoming the finest warrior and hunter ever produce from the village, bring great pride to his tribe.

As Gahck told them that Erista was not here as he left a few days ago to hunt, it was without warning the village was under attack by large force of armed troops, lead by the mutant terrorist, Stryfe. Reine was overpower by Stryfe's vast mutant powers and throw aside, several miles away. Turning to captive Gahck, Ka-zar, Shanna, and Matthew, Stryfe demanded that Gahck leads him to Apocalypse's defunct experiment outpost. Meanwhile, after recovering from Stryfe's attack, Reine is attacked by Tyrannosaurus, only to be saved by her half brother Erista the Ghost Stalker, who demanded to know who she is.

5# The Hunted: Part 5 of 7

Erista does not really believe Reine is his half sister when she told them that they were siblings due to their father begin Wolverine, despite the scent between them begin similar and having claws. He more concern in getting back to his village when Reine told him it was under attack. He rushes towards the village, while Reine uses her magic to summon Jimmy, Mariko, and Raze in Madripoor.

Stryfe forced Gahck to lead him to Apocalypse's destroyed outpost by killing a numbers of her fellow villagers. While Gahck tries to explain that it was pointless as everything was already destroyed, Stryfe believe that somewhere in the ruins were the blueprints for the Celestial designs, for both the Death Seed and Life Seed. Just as he found the blueprints, he is attack by Erista. Despite Stryfe's Omega Level psionics, Erista's mutant powers of Phasing/Intangibility and Invisibility was putting the serious pressure in pushing Stryfe into a corner. Desperate, Stryfe took Gahck hostage and threaten her life unless Erista surrender. It when Reine, Jimmy, Mariko, and Raze finally arrived, turn the tide against Stryfe.

Stryfe manage to steal the blueprints of both the Death Seed and Life Seed. Gahck tries to stop him, but Stryfe mortally injury her. An enraged Erista tires to attack Stryfe to avenge his mother, but Stryfe made his escape. Dying in her son's arms, Gahck request Reine and the others to look after him before she dies. With his mother dead, Erista howls in fury and grief, swore vengeance on Stryfe. Meanwhile, after recovering the wound he suffer from Mariko, Hellverine decided to even the odds by summoning the damned souls of the Mongrels from Hell to once more killed the children of Wolverine.

6# The Hunted: Part 6 of 7

After burying his mother, Erista is ready to leave the Savage Land with Jimmy, Mariko, Reine, and Raze, although he made it clear that he was going to find and killed Stryfe for murdering his mother. Mariko suggested that they go after Hellverine since she may have the power to harmhim. However Raze revealed that they needs to go to ancestral stronghold of Clan Yashida, where the anonymous, Sightless is waiting for them. Upon arriving, the group meets Sightless who happens to be the young precog mutant, Blindfold.

Blindfold claims, that after receiving a vision of a world that was a utopia for most mutants, she committed suicidé, as mutants who can sees the future, has no place in that world. However, she was brought back to life by Persephone, the leader of the secret organization, Soteira, intent on using her ability to see the future for evil intents. Despite Persephone mentally controlling Blindfold, the resurrection seems to greatly boost her powers, allowing her to break free of Persephone 's control and escape. Since then, Blindfold has been on the run, begin chased by agents of Soteira. While running and hiding from Soteira, Blindfold gains new visions about the return of the X-Men, the founding of Krakoa, but also dark visions of new war between mutants and humans, and rise of new breed of Sentinel machines. The conversation came to end when Hellverine, along with the demonically enhanced powered Mongrels, determined more than ever to killed the children of Wolverine.

Although outnumbered and outmatch, with Blindfold's help, Erista, Jimmy, Mariko, Reine, and Raze begin to hold their own against the attackers. Seeing that Blindfold was becoming a problem, one of the members of Mongrels, Shadowstalker, tries to attack her, but was stop by Erista. Reine tries to summon a spell to banish Hellverine and the Mongols back to Hell , but was stop by Hellverine. Although he saved Reine, he pay the price when Hellverine stabs him into the chest, brutally killing him.

7# The Hunted: Part 7 of 7

While fully triumphant of his kill, Hellverine was utterly stun when Jimmy was back on his feet. He tries again to killed Jimmy, yet Jimmy surprisingly seems to overmatch him with immense power, skill and speed. Blindfold, who was watching Jimmy fighting Hellverine, senses that this was not Jimmy at all. It was when the demon recognizes that jimmy was possessed by the spirit of Ogun, the ninja sorcerer. Hellverine is furious of Ogun inferring in his mission, yet Ogun mocking accused the demon of begin arrogant and greedy. He claims to have his own plans with this body and made dash to escape, follow by an angry Hellverine.

Recovering from Hellverine's attack, Reine once more activated a spell which she is able to banish the Mongols back to Hell. They then begun chasing after Hellverine who is chasing Ogun in Jimmy's body. Hellverine nearly caught up to Jimmy but was stop by the others. The demon decided to focus on killing them before going after Ogun/Jimmy. However, with Blindfold's help, Reine used her spells to purifying the surrounding area, greatly weakened Hellverine. With the demon powerless, Mariko finish it off with her new demon killing ability. Now that Hellverine was defeated, the group begin focus on finding Jimmy, who is possessed by the spirit of Ogun. Blindfold claims to have an idea where Jimmy might be going.

At the same time, Master Izo, the former Grand Master of the ninja order Chaste senses Ogun's intents and reazlies he's after the Vrtuous blade. Elsewhere, Persephone, the leader of Soteira, was very disappointed with her agents who fail to find and capture Blindfold. She decided to trust the task of finding and capturing Blindfold with her most trusted agent, Magda Lensherr, Jimmy Hudson Jr.'s mother.