Rogue Blood (( RP STORY ))

[caios]

(( Prologue - Here's the tale of what happened to Caios between the end of Fallin Angels and the beginning of the Blood Angels. This also leads in to the Incarnate stuff happening these days. So time wise this would take place a while back, immediately after the events of Fallin Angels ))

"Hit me again." Caios told the bartender as she slammed the shot glass onto the counter. The man behind the bar just glared at her but eventually poured the bottle of whiskey into her waiting glass as requested.

He wasn't the only one giving her mean looks in the bar. After all she had a rather bad reputation with the locals. So it was hardly surprising when a prime example of this walked up to her with murder in his eyes.

"You know what's good for you," The man began speaking to her as he stopped at the bar next to Caios, "You'll finish that drink and leave town for good."

Caios looked over at the man who was talking to her. He was almost six feet tall, very muscular, scars and tattoos covered every inch of his skin. Over it he wore a simple dull crimson wifebeater and had a number of heavy chains wrapped around his hands, shoulders, even his neck. This was one villainous criminal who had clearly been in a large number of fights already in his young career of terror.

In other words, he was no match for Caios.

"Go away," Caios said simply as she returned to her drink. She finished it quickly and motioned the bartender for another.

"You should take your own advice, bitch." The villain at her side persisted, "This ain't Paragon. This is the Rogue Isles, capes like you aren't welcome here."

"Do I look like I'm wearing a cape?" Caios told him, "I don't care if I'm welcome.I'm here now. So leave me alone, you're bothering me."

"Oh I'm gonna do alot more then bother ya'." The man said rage building in his eyes. "Unlike your pussy citizens back home, the folks 'round here aren't afraid to fight back."

"Tha' lady said ta leave her alone, mate." A rough English accent suddenly called out behind the man.

"The lady is going to get an ass kicking," the villain proclaimed without even looking behind him, "And so are you for getting involved 'mate'."

Just then a large hand grabbed the man's neck from behind, and yanked him back towards the door with a terrible force. This caused the man to fly through the air, and through the door, landing a fair distance away from the building out in the streets of Mercy Island.

"Oh great just what I need." Caios rolled her eyes in disgust as she looked over at her apparent rescuer. He was far far taller and more muscular then the other man, so much so in fact that he made the previous villain seem small and scrawny by comparison. He looked down at Caios with his blood red eyes framed by his short dark brown hair.

"Yer welcome, sis." Karnage said with a sarcastic, fang-filled smile as he sat down next to Caios, "So what brings ya, te' my neck o' tha woods."

"Shit Karnage, I'm not in the mood to play games right now." Caios rebuked his vampiric 'brother', "So if you wanna duke it out let's just fucking get to it."

"Ah ain't here ta fight ya, sis." Karnage said, "Tempting though it may be, fact is ah'm more amused by tha fact ye managed ta find yer way here where all us bad seeds live."

"Not everyone here are bad folk." Caios told him determinedly.

"Ah know," Karange rolled his eyes, "Still nice ta see tha' mighty Caios humbled."

"Oh please don't patronize me." Caios frowned, "Not like this is the first time I've had to dodge arrest warrants. This is nothing, and you know it."

"Ha! Fine then." Karnage grinned as he teased Caios, "Just glad to be able ta have this family bonding time with you." As if to prove his point he took a bottle of whiskey from behind the bar and raised it as a toast towards Caios before downing the entire bottle with one quick gulp.

"You are a fucking asshole Karnage." Caios glared at him.

[caios]

Elsewhere in the Widow's tower, the powerful specter known to the world as Ghost Widow stood in a large, seemingly empty dark room.

"So she is here after all, how amusing." Ghost Widow smiled before looking back over her shoulder, "Any thing else to report?"

Out of the shadows one of her Night Widow servants stepped out, her helmet had been removed to show a charming looking face framed by short red hair. With a nod she continued speaking, "Nothing more ma'am. The matter with Longbow and Malta has been resolved as far as Paragon City is concerned. We are keeping track of the Director as you requested, as you said he seems determined to make his movements difficult to predict.."

"How fortunate we have an army of Fortunas who can predict anything I require. Don't you agree Widow Scarlet?" Ghost Widow said.

"Of course ma'am." the Night Widow named Scarlet nodded respectfully.

"If that is all, you may leave to continue your task." Ghost Widow's orders were soft spoken but carried immense weight. "Please send in Widow Fang after you."

The red-headed Night Widow frowned for a moment before simply bowing and leaving the chamber. Moments later another Widow entered to take her place. She was taller then the last one, and she kept her helmet on at all times.

"Yes my lady." the Widow named Fang said as she knelt down before Ghost Widow.

"We have a guest in the Rogue Isles." Ghost Widow began. "I want you to observe her, carefully. There is much you must learn from this one. However you will have to be extremely careful, and keep a far distance from her, or she will detect you, and I cannot have her discovering your presence. Do you understand?"

"Of course, my lady." Widow Fang bowed her head.


A week later...

They called her The Widow's Fang, even among all of the other Widows and Fortuna's that served Ghost Widow, she always seemed to be used more as a personal weapon then a soldier in the Arachnos armies. It also helped that she never really took a day off. The truth was she wouldn't know what to do with herself. In fact about the only time she did anything relaxing was when she was ordered to by her superiors. As was the case today.

She had spent a week trailing a vampire across the Rogue Isles. This was no ordinary vampire however. She had been a hero back in Paragon City before certain events forced her into a more villainous path, from what she understood. It didn't matter, she didn't need to understand, she just needed to observe, that was her mission and and that's what she did. But even keeping her distance from her target like she did it was proving damn near impossible to remain undetected. Circumstances being what they were, she had been force to rely on second hand accounts of the vampire's actions.

From the moment she set foot in Mercy Island, this vampire had been a force to be reckoned with, many villains sought to take their revenge on her only to find themselves all too easily dispatched. Yet for all of the destruction she brought, this vampire seemed oddly benevolent. It was so rare for anyone on the rogue isles to show compassion for anything else, especially for those as powerful as this one was. It confused Widow's Fang as to what her true intentions might be.

"Something thing on your mind Fang?" A voice asked from behind her, she turned her head slightly in the direction of the speaker.

"I am thinking about my current mission, trying to study a target." Fang answered simply. She had removed her helmet to allow her normally hidden, long black hair to flow around her face and across her shoulders.

"You're thinking too hard then." The other woman in the locker room said, "the whole reason you're here is to relax right?" She was right about that, while this Arachnos facility was primarily used as a medical center for Arachnos Soldiers, it also housed full spa treatment services. Technically it's purpose was to look after the mental well being of the soldiers, along with the physical well being that the rest of the complex focused on. But for the Arachnos Soldiers that went there, it was the closest that they got to a paid vacation.

As far as Fang was concerned, however, she was only here because she had been ordered to.

"I will be more relaxed when I complete my mission." Fang finally replied as she continued to remove her Widow outfit.

"No you won't." The other woman continued, "You'll be happy for all of two seconds before you'll be begging to go on another mission. Don't you know how to do anything else?"

"It's what I'm good at." Fang replied with a slight thoughtful frown, "I don't need to do anything else."

"If you say so." the other woman said as she continued to go through the contents of her own locker. "I still say you need to change your lifestyle. And I got a few ideas on how to fix that." With a smug smile the woman grabbed the gun that had been placed in her locker. Then quickly turned around and aimed it at Widow's Fang. She knew Widow's Fang secret which is why she was confident despite Fang's incredible skills that she would be defenseless to this attack. Hell Fang didn't even have any psychic ability whatsoever.

As the woman squeezed the trigger of her gun - the silencer at the end ensuring the shot would go unnoticed until it was too late - she thought amusingly to herself how this Widow would never see this coming.

[caios]

Ghost Widow opened her eyes suddenly, eldritch power from beyond he grave streamed freely from her white orbs for a brief but brilliant moment. With barely a thought she floated across the room.

"Widows Report!" She called out, but to her frustration no one responded. Immediately she knew someone would have to suffer greatly for whatever was happening now.

"If you're looking for you loyal stooges," A woman said stepping out of the darkness, "I'm afraid they have all been disposed of." A familiar face surrounded by short red hair grinned before Ghost Widow, "Most discretely I assure you, I figured you would appreciate that."

"Widow Scarlet! What is the meaning of this?" Ghost Widow demanded.

"I'm afraid I'm not this Scarlet." the woman said with rage in her eyes, "I took her name only so you would not suspect anything. Now with everything in place that name is meaningless."

"Who ever you are, you've made a grave mistake, one you will regret for years after I end your life!" Ghost Widow raised a hand towards the other woman as she prepared to unleash a terrible darkness against the woman's very soul. But the souls she commanded did not come, and instead arcane runes all around the room suddenly activated, shooting out bolts of energy against Ghost Widow. The energy surrounded and trapped Ghost Widow, making it impossible for her to move.

"What is this?" Ghost Widow demanded as the magical energy coursed through her spectral form. Had she still been alive, she knew she would be screaming in pain by now.

"Perhaps you should be more concerned about who I am. I am not some simple minion so easily dispatched. I take my time before destroying my target, to ensure I leave them no way to escape their fate." Ghost Widow's tormentor explained, "I am your one true rival, I am the bane of your existence. And for your crimes against me, I am your destroyer."

"Who are you?" Ghost Widow glared at her.

"Ah I thought you'd never ask." the woman smiled, "It's been so long since we last had a chance to speak face to face. Why the last time that happened you just knew me as Red. Or more precisely, The Red Widow."

"You!" Ghost Widow's eyes widened slightly but her tone remained the same, "But you are long dead!"

"And so are you. If you won't let something so simple as death stop you why should I?" Red Widow mocked her, "At least I had the decency to move on, at first, until you decided that wasn't enough."

"The dead cannot change," Ghost widow smiled back, "I hated you then, I have more reason to hate you now. Of course that means you also have not changed, you are stil the horrible person you've always been. I can think of no one more deserving of the fate I had planned for you."

"But you failed." Red Widow shot back pointing a finger back at Ghost Widow. "And that is the difference between you and I. I will not fail in destroying you."

"I disagree." Ghost Widow said, "Others have tried before you."

"Others did now know you like I do." Red Widow replied, "Nor did they have the patience and planning that I do. I was the best assassin in Arachnos for a reason."

With a snap of her fingers more of Red Widow's accomplices entered the room behind her, including two very powerful Mu Mystics.

"Do you recognize them?" Red Widow taunted the specter in front of her. "They are but two of the few survivors of Mu'Rakir's allies. They've been harboring a deep hatred for you ever since Huntsman Ohanko's attempt to destroy you failed."

"It seems they did not learn their lessons" Ghost Widow gave them a cruel smile, "They will surely be put to death this time."

"Oh but they did learn." Red Widow responded, "They learned the truth about you, and they learned they needed someone even more determined to destroy you. And so they brought me back, bound my soul to the body of this Widow. They gave me the wards to place in this room so we could trap you. I took me a long time to place them all without your knowledge. But it was worth it so that we could all take our vengeance against you."

"Even if you succeed, I will simply reform myself." Ghost Widow shot back, "I am bound to all of Arachnos, after all, you cannot destroy me without destroying yourself first."

"You think I'm that foolish?" Red Widow said, "Did you forget I plan for every detail? In your case this simply requires a more unique approach." She looked behind her and Ghost Widow followed her gaze to see more Arachnos Soldiers, clearly loyal to Red Widow, moving into the room, among them some of the soldiers were wheeling in a medical gurney with a body upon it. The body had been covered with a sheet so Ghost Widow had no idea of what lay underneath.

"I can see the confusion in your face." Red Widow continued, "It is such a lovely sight, especially knowing your end is near. Don't worry, though, you will find out precisely what this boy is doing here." With a smooth swipe of her arm the Red Widow pulled off the sheet from the gurney to reveal the weakened form of a young boy.