Deep in the Haunted Woods, there rested a small kingdom. It was known as the Kingdom of hearts but, its proper name was Melpomai. One day the Queen bore a child. A lovely little aisha. However, the Queen was very frail and sick and so when her daughter was born she had passed. The King was deeply depressed, but at the same time he was worried about his daughter having no mother in her life. So, when the little aisha was only a year old, he married a Duchess. The Duchess was a very cruel usul. She had her own daughter from a previous marriage who was just the same and she treated the aisha much differently then her child. You might say the Duchess hated her. Of course, the humble King knew nothing of this and the poor child's future was not looking so good.

The quiet halls of the Melpomai castle is interrupted with a somewhat shrieking voice. "Eleos!" A very angry usul walks quickly to her husband's chamber. "What is wrong Narcisa?" The king replies in useless attempt to calm her. "It's that daughter of yours!" She huffs back. "She's ruining my white roses! I want you to stop her at once!" "I'll have a talk with her, my dear. No need to worry." As he walks out to the royal garden Narcisa mumbles under her breath, "That's what you always say, you useless man." Out in the garden the aisha princess is dipping a paintbrush in a bucket of red paint and splattering it all over the white roses, occasionally twirling. Her father walks into the garden. "Vex, my child. Come here." Vex turns to him and runs over. "Yes father?" She says innocently. "What are you doing to your step-mothers flowers?" "Painting them." "Why ever would you do that?" "Because white is a plain color, red makes it special." The King smiles gently and kneels down to her. "My child, everything is special in their own way." She pouts and replies "But not white! White is too plain!" "Plain things can be special too. Now go and wash up. You have red paint all over your pretty dress." He kisses her forehead gently. "Okay daddy." She smiles and skips back into the castle.

Later that day, the king and queen are talking with each other. "That girl needs to be taught manners!" "Now, now. She's just being a child." "Don't use that excuse with me!" The king attempts to reason more with his wife, but stops and coughs. "See? That child is making your condition worse everyday!" She turns to a mirror. "And the stress she gives me, is making my hair turn gray!" She pulls out a strand of gray hair and lets it fall onto the floor. "Are you even listening to me Eleos?!" She turns back to him and sees him coughing still. "I am sorry, Narcisa, but I should--" He coughs again. "I should go and rest." As he walks to the bedroom, his coughs echo throughout the halls. "Hmnp. Someone has to teach that child a lesson." The queen says sternly to herself. Meanwhile, somewhere else in the castle, the little aisha is playing in her room with her dolls. "Would you like more tea, Ms. Oleander?" She says to her favorite doll while holding up a teapot. Just then, her bratty step sister stomps in and scans her room. "Aha! I knew it!" She runs over to Vex and takes the teapot from her. "I knew you took it!." "Well, I tried to ask you, but you never listened to me." "Why don't you use your own?!" "You broke it remember?!" The usul huffs and shrieks out



Like lightning, the usul mother bolts in. "What is it Apate?!" The spoiled child explains everything to her mother, over exaggerating many things. Narcisa looks at Vex with her usual displeased eyes and then something hit her. She smirks and says "Apate, let's go help mommy make tea.? "What?! Why?!" "For Vex" Her smirk widens. "You need to learn how to share, Apate. We'll make tea so both of you can play tea party." She then takes her confused daughter's arm and walks off to the kitchen. Vex, also confused, shakes her head and continues playing with her dolls.

Night came quite quickly and as the aisha princess is putting away her little tea set, her step mother walks in. "Oh Veeeex~" She says as she holds up a teapot. "We've made tea~." Vex blinks as she replies "It's night time already, Narcisa, it's almost bed time." "Oh child, how long have we've been living in the same castle and you have yet to call me mommy?" Narcisa says with a annoyed smile. "Anyway, at least let's have some tea?" "Umm.." Vex looks around, thinking. "Ok, I guess." With that, Vex puts back the tea cups and Narcisa pours the hot liquid into them. Apate grumpily sits on a chair, with her arms crossed and mumbles "This better work..".

Clink

Oh my, oh my." says Narcisa 'innocently'. "It seems as if I accidentally knocked my spoon down. Vex can you please fetch it for me?" "Ok." As Vex kneels down to pick up the utensil, Narcisa quickly sprinkles some sort of powder into Vex's tea. The clueless princess then stands back up and hands Narcisa her spoon. "Thank you child" she says in an ominous tone. "Well" she continues. "Let's drink tea~!" She brings her cup to her lips and stops, watching Vex. All of a sudden, the king walks in. "A tea party? And I wasn't invited?" he says jokingly. "Daddy~!" "Eleos?!?" He smiles and walks over and kneels next to Vex. "Here daddy have some." Vex says as she hands him the cup. As the king takes the cup and drinks the tea, both Narcisa and Apate face's turned white.

The next day, the king had become very ill. The best doctors concluded that his illness had taken the turn for the worse. For the next couple of weeks, everyone hoped that their king would become well again. Well...not everyone. However, their hopes were not enough and after four weeks of being bedridden; the king passed away. It was unfortunate news, for now the little aisha princess was stuck with her horrid step mother and her overindulged step sister. She was consumed with sadness. She never understood how her father died. Until, she heard a conversation between her step mother and sister.

I can't believe it didn't work!
Oh hush, Apate. I didn't expect that old man to intervene.
Well, what do we do now? Try and poison her again?!
I said hush! You want someone to hear us???

This conversation had made things clear. It made sense to Vexllani now. After many hours of pondering what to do she finally decided. She wanted to erase them. She wanted to paint them red. And as if nature agreed with her, later that night a storm rolled in; causing a black out. Vexllani wanders through the halls, with various thoughts in her head. She passes by a room and hears Narcisa sleeping. She thought to herself, "A nap? She's taking a nap in a blackout?!". She stops and thinks. And thinks. And thinks. Then she walks all the way to the kitchen, and pulls out a knife. She walks back to her napping "mother" and hovers the knife above Narcisa's chest. "1...2..." The usul's eyes open slowly. "3!"

Meanwhile, Apate is walking around and shrieking for her mother. "Where are you, mother?!" Then she hears a muffled scream from the distance. "Mother?!" She quickly runs toward the scream, as it got louder and then all of a sudden it stopped. "Mother?!?!" She enters the room. Then a pain is felt in her stomach. A piercing pain. She felt an object in her stomach then she felt it pulled out. Then it thrusts into her again and again, until she couldn't even think anymore.

Morning came and servants found a grizzly scene in the palace. Bodies and a princess covered in red.

After the deaths, the villagers continued with their lives as if nothing ever happened. The servants kept taking care of the princess and wondered what to do. The news of the /once/ Duchess and her daughter spread with the wind throughout the woods. Then slowly, many became aware of the incident and among the many was them. They heard what she did. How she was so young and ready to be molded. So, they took here. Swiftly and carefully. That was known as the disappearance of the Melpomai princess. No one in the kingdom knew what really happened to her and soon she was forgotten as the inhabitants slowly moved away. The kingdom and it's royal lineage was dead. Or so they thought.

Who are they? Who took the princess? They did. The Clan. A society of assassins and hit men. They were like a business, being paid to kill others. Not just any can join this society. No, one must be chosen. Chosen by Father and Father chose to bring the Melpomai Princess into this dark society. They twisted her world. Disintegrated her mind and brought in back to life. Molding it into something else until she was just like them. Finally, when she was ready, she 'graduated' and became fully apart of The Clan.

Of course there were others in this organization. Some worked alone and others worked in squads. They weren't allowed to use their real name, they were given codenames. These codenames were based on the assassin's abilities or personalities. The aisha was in a squad. Her team members were all older than her, but they got along just fine. And by fine, I mean in a twisted way. There was the leader. A halloween gelert who wielded a scythe and had a taste for destruction. His name was Grim. A grey grundo who barely showed no emotion at all, but his violent nature is revealed when one looks in his eyes. He used revolvers and can unload and load before you can even blink. He was known as Gunner. A bi-polar hissi was like the aisha's best friend. She uses the fighting style of Snake Fist and a weapon known as a Jîan. She used the name Capricious. Finally there is the aisha. For her, it's all about fun. Being a sadist, knives were her favorite weapon. She always seemed to be away from reality. Thus, she was given the name Wonderland.

For years, they had fun. They loved the chaos. They loved the fear. They loved Father. Without Father, none of this would have been possible. Without his cleverness to conceal the organization, all would be lost. You see, this organization was disguised as a very big cooperation that specialized in providing materials throughout the world. Also, he provided aliases for his "children". He made sure they blended into the normal society. However, like all fathers, he had favorites. The favorites lived with him, in his giant cooperation building; among them was Grim, Gunner, Capricious, and Wonderland.

P-please...no..I-I'll give you anything you want! Just don't kill m--"

It was too late. The final blow was made. His lifeless body fell to the ground. I think that did it! Grim snickers as he kicks the body. Capricious bends down to the lifeless man Aww look at him lie there...I WANTED TO KILL HIM, YOU NEVER LET ME HAVE THE LAST BLO-- aww wonderland you look soo cuuute~!! Wonderland dips her fingers into the pool of blood and a smile appears across her face. It's so pretty, I wanna wear it!! She smears her face with the red liquid and giggles. Sooo cuute...I'M SO JEALOUS!! She tackles wonderland and gives her a hug, squeezing her tightly as the young aisha just giggles and basks in the warm blood from her fingers. Stop playing around! We have to go back to Father now! The body of the man fidgets a little, his finger tapping the ground.
Idiot. You didn't strike him hard enough. The grundo says as he slides the revolver into its pouch. Pssh, whatever. Father said he had important mission for us. Hmmm? What kind?? She gasps DO WE GET TO KILL THE EMPEROR OF SHENKUU?! DO WE?! Would you just shut up! No one cares about your hatred of the emperor! The hissi huffs as she holds onto Wonderland tightly. ANYWAY, Father already told me our target. Our target is He takes out a folded piece of paper and unfolds it. He grins, showing his sharp canines. General Cornwallis stationed at a military base in some jungle. General?! Oh oh oh!! Is the base gaurded?! The gelert's grin widens Heavily. Gunner crosses his arms How many guards? Hundreds. Well then...why are we just standing around here for?

There they are!" "Shoot them down!" The fire of guns echoed throughout the steel halls. The hissi, easily dodging the rain of bullets, charged to the soldiers and sliced them with her Jîan. More armed soldiers marched towards her and took aim. Knives flew past the hissi and pierced right at their throats. Dropping their guns, they clasped their throats and dropped liked dominoes. Capricious giggles. Good aim as always Wonderland~. The aisha zooms past her and runs down the hall. She giggled maniacally as she hurled her knives at every soldier in sight. At the end of the hallway she stopped in front of a steel door. Capricious caught up and stood next to her. Grim and Gunner runs over from a separate hallway. Tch, this is too easy. I thought this would be a challenge. He slaps an ID card on the scanner nestled next to the door. With a beep the steel door slid open. Two soldiers aimed their guns, fingers on trigger, but before they could press down hard enough, they were shot down with knives. A skunk xweetok wearing a general uniform of high status, holds up a gun as quick as he could. In an instant it was knocked out of his hand by a bullet from Gunner. Grim approaches the xweetok and puts the scythe's blade against his throat. You guys are too easy. He thrusts the scythe making the xweetok fall to the floor. Sparks flew and wires stuck out on the 'xweetok's' throat. What the he-- The door shut behind the band of killers. What's going on?!?!It's called a trap, kids." A voice uttered through the speakers in the room. What?!?! Gunner knelt in front of their false target. We were tricked. Grim bit his lip and his grip tightened on his weapon. Wonderland took a hold of his free arm. What do we do nooow??? He looked at her, then the others. "You, can take a nap." Small holes opened on the walls and a gas spewed out. The group began to feel dizzy and their sight became blurry. Capricious and Gunner dropped. Wonderland slid down from Grim's arm and fell to the floor. Grim dropped his scythe Dam.. He tipped over and blacked out like the others.

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