Down a dark and horrifying alley, in a strange, yet oddly familiar, part of the fair kingdom of Atlas. The Whispering Shadows, a very mysterious and powerful organization of faunus, set on protecting the weaker ones of their kingdom. Strut down a newer part of the territory. In search of new members to increase they're numbers and strength. See each time they make a new member, their strength and power grows. No one knows why, so please don't ask.
Down this alley is where they are going to meet a hopefully new member of the clan. The phoenix leader set it up this way. She is a strong and wise leader. No one has ever seen her true form. But one. The only one who has seen and spoken to her, and has lived to tell the tale, is her beta, or second in command, the brave Ice tiger, Ice for short. Than they all see her.
The girl in black. All. Black. They have known her name for many years now. The original twenty-two marked ones. They have the strongest powers, and are able to mark someone and give them a tiny portion of their power. Anymore and the person being marked would die a horribly painful death, they also can only have one type of power. Although there is a legend. The legend of the great one. The only one, excluding the phoenix leader, can weild all types of power. More on that later.
"Hello there, Blake," The leader suddenly announces they're presence. She had a delicate yet frightening mask that almost looked like a bird's face. With a long beak, the whole face is covered in a swirling pattern of red and orange.
Blake jumps with surprise. She had her nose buried in book.
"How do you know my name?" Blake asks highly surprised. "What do you want with me? I need to go to my friends. Good bye," she was alone, going to buy a new book. All the bookstores around where she was staying wouldn't accept faunus, so she went to a faunus only book store. That is where The Whispering Shadows found her. The back alley of this particular store.
"You must come with us, little girl," Shadow said. Big mistake. Very, big, mistake.
"What, did, you, call, me?" Blake asks enraged.
"Calm down you two," Ice commands.
"Wait , lets see where this goes, baby girl," the phoenix says. She is the only one who can call Ice 'baby girl,' fo two reasons one, she is the leader two, The phoenix is her mother.
"Yes mother."
Blake and Shadow had started fighting. "Remember Shadow you cannot use your powers against her. I do not want her dead," The phoenix says.
"Yes ma'am," Shadow replies over his shoulder, than he continues to fight Blake.
After about ten minutes of fighting, Shadow pins Blake to the ground, and covers her mouth with a cloth that is soaked in sleeping sedatives.
"Good job Shadow," Ice says prickly with a touch of flirtiness in her voice.
"Now come everyone," The phoenix says and they start the long walk back to their base, Shadow carrying Blake over his shoulder, and Ice walking very close to him.
Hm, The phoenix wonders, I see a romance in the making.
