AN: I do not own any recognizable characters or settings. I am aware that the League of Shadows is a creation of DC and not Marvel, I'm only using it for introductory purposes and for now I don't plan on using it again once the story moves from this particular setting and after five or six chapters that I already have written. Just a warning, this is my first fic.
Prologue
Deep in the Himalayan alps lies the headquarters of The League of Shadows. An ancient and powerful society of assassins who believe that they are right in their definition of true justice. At the head of this League is Ra's Al Ghul, the Head of the Demon, whom every former soldier, mercenary, assassin, petty criminal, and ordinary man in the League is fanatically loyal to.
These hit men, operating both for hire and their own agenda, claim to bring balance to the world by assassinating principal figures and terrorizing organizations. Ra's was a king who had laid a crown upon his own head. Being the most valued and highest ranking member, he was to be protected at all costs. This duty fell on only the most capable among them. Deadly fights took place to decide who got the great honor of defending the Head of the Demon. Soon, it came down to two of the most adept.
Lady Shiva and David Cain, world renowned assassins, battled it out. Cain, who had been in the League for years, was known for preparing for every possible contingency. Lady Shiva, had a hobby of hunting down the best fighters in the world and beating them to death with her bare hands. Cain had planned to oppose Shiva for a long while now with one thought in mind, an exchange. Cain won the long and grueling duel against her. More often than not, these duels would end in the execution of the losing contender but Cain allowed Shiva to live if she would bare his child.
For many years Cain had attempted to train children and raise them as weapons but his experiments never produced the results that he desired. He decided that the problem lay in genetics, his solution was that he would have his own child and begin its training the moment it was born.
"This child will be the one who secures the Head of the Demons safety and it will be the deadliest thing that the world has ever had to come up against." He explained to his peers. They all thought him mad. Ra's allowed him to continue his experiments because he believed that Cain could produce such a child. He had faith.
Lady Shiva was hesitant to accept his offer but she reveled in the idea of testing herself against someone purely raised to be a weapon, so she accepted. Years later, that child would meet a man with a metal arm, an outsider from the shrouding prison of the League of Shadows, a man no less virtuous than the men and women who serve Ra's Al Ghul.
AN: This story will take place over a long period of time and the first few chapters will not take place during the film as I have not seen it yet. It is an eventual romance, it'll just take a while to set up. I will be changing a lot when I finally do see the film. If you could just bear with me here, that'd be amazing!