Potest Esse Nur Unus: Prologue

"From the dawn of time we came; moving silently through the centuries living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last.1 No one has ever known we were among you for in the Old Times we bore other names: The Old Ones, The Elvan Lords, Druids, Angels, Demons, and Gods.2 Now we are called Immortals, and in the end, There Can Be Only One!"

Jayden Adams was only 18 years old when he died in a car accident in 1956. He and a couple of friends were celebrating their last day of summer before going their separate ways. They were drag racing when his car rolled off a cliff. The Harvard pre-med student, bound to go places, was inside the car when it exploded into a fireball. Somehow, Jayden walked away from the crash alive. For he was immortal, and to him there would be only one.

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Almost forty years later, Jayden, now a pediatrician in a hospital, was taking the head of a child who he knew would grow up to be immortal. All Immortals had sort of a sixth sense, and somehow they always knew. But it was rare when they were able to sense it when one was so young.

It was not the first child he had killed, and it would not be the last. For he was trained by the best who learned from the best. And knowing that there could be only one, he killed them early.

After he broke the news to the mother that the child had died, he left the waiting room, and prepared to go home. He had more important things to do, than take care of kids. There was one child who he missed, one he had let get away, and now, she would die.

Jayden walked into his flat in England, and checked the messages on his answering machine. The one message he had waited for, was there. "Jayden, this is Kevin. Cat is in Paris with an old friend of yours- Franz Von Statenhiem. He is her legal guardian and watching her until the end. If you need any more info, you know where to find me."

Jayden walked to his bedroom with a smile on his face. Not only would he see the man who trained him, but he would take the girl's head. He packed his bags and left for the airport. As he walked down the street, he had a flashback of the first time he met Franz.

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When Jayden died, he was unsure of what to do. His family and friends all thought he was dead, so he couldn't go home. Days later, he went to his own funeral in disguise and watched all those he had ever cared about mourn over him. He wanted to shout "Here I am! I'm still alive!" but somehow, he knew he couldn't.

As he was leaving, he suddenly received this strange feeling as if someone was near him watching him. He looked around and saw a tall man in his mid-thirties wearing a trench coat, standing on the corner. As Jayden watched him walk over, he knew that he too was an immortal.

"I am Franz Von Statenhiem," the man said in an English accent "I know what you are, for I am the same. There is much for you to know, and if you would like, I'll train and teach you. But first, we must leave, for no one can know you are still alive."

Where are we going?" Jayden asked. He was scared and confused, as all new immortals are. "Why can't I stay here?"

"We will go to my home town of Austria. There, you will be safe and well trained. You will meet others such as yourself, and as time goes by, you will receive the knowledge to all of your questions. We must go now. People are starting to come out of the church."

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From then on, Franz watched him and trained him. He had since gained enough power to take the head of the man who took him under his wing. If it had to come to that for Jayden to get to the girl, he would. It was important for Jayden to be the only one, because he would then have all the power of all immortals from the beginning of time, and power was something he had lost the night he died in the car accident.

The next day, he walked in front of the building where Franz and Cat lived. He walked into the building and to the front door. When he got there, he didn't receive the buzz, so he left. He knew where he may be, because Franz had always talked about the Eiffel Tower at night. He was right.

Franz was showing his goddaughter, and now the child he was to raise, her favorite sights of Paris. Cat had been in Paris over a year and it was her fifteenth birthday. She came from Wales, where she studied fencing with her father who was a Master Swordsman. But one day he was mysteriously killed by his own sword. Her mother had died when she was very young, as well as an older sister.

Franz got the buzz, and looked around him and then at Cat. "Caitlynn, go and hide yourself, and don't come out until I say it's safe. If anything happens to me, pull the loose brick in the fireplace and take the letter you find to Duncan MacLeod. Go!"

Cat hid just in time. Jayden walked onto the observation deck where Franz was and looked around. "Where is the girl? I know she's here."

"What do you want with her, she means nothing." Franz asked.

"She means more to me than you think." he said as he took his sword out of his trench coat.

"It was you, wasn't it?" Franz asked. "You tried to kill her. You killed her mother and then you killed her father."

"Now I will kill her. I will kill you if I have to."

The two men who once trained together, now stood before each other ready to fight. The two raised their swords and began the battle. Both were strong, and the fight was long. Finally after an hour, Jayden knocked Franz down on his hands and knees. "Go ahead, finish what you've started. I trained you better than this."

"Tell me where the girl is, and I'll let you live."

"I'll never tell you."

"Then it comes to this." Jayden raised his sword and took his masters head. "There can be only one!" The quickening was strong and powerful. Three hundred and fifty years of power both good and evil escaped Franz's body and struck Jayden with a bolt of lightning. He got a thrill out of his victims Quickenings. He regretted the children whose lives he took were not yet immortal, because there were no big Quickenings. But when he got the chance, he took it when he could.

When it was over, Jayden collapsed on the ground from exhaustion. He didn't see Cat run away, just as she didn't see what had happened. All she saw Franz's headless body laying on the ground. She ran across town to where they had been staying since her arrival, found the letter Franz had talked about, and took off to find Duncan MacLeod.