Chapter 1
In a tall New York sky scraper sat a man who was, only twenty-six, which was younger than most would expect. He had short dark brown hair that fell into his eyes and a goatee. He leaned back in his chair and after a moment pressed a button to call his secretary "Arora, would you send Red in?"
The woman nodded to herself as she said through the speaker "They'll be there momentarily." She got up, and went to the over-sized door, opening it where two girls sat waiting "Mr. Rider is waiting for you, Red."
One of the girls had brown hair and a blank look in her dark eyes. She wore a light brown steam-punk corset with a mocha brown belt and an off white skirt with the same colored shorts under it, around her waist was a small pouch, and she had knee high boots, but the most noticeable part of her appearance was the blood red hood she wore. She got up "Ariel, come on."
The other girl got up, she had beautiful bright red hair and hazel eyes. Oh her head was a baby blue knitted hat and she wore "Nerd" glasses. For clothing she had a blue dress, the top mostly covered by a dark purple jacket, and under her dress she wore black leggings and cute black boots.
The two girls walked into the office and the man smiled lightly "Long time no see?"
The dark haired girl sighed lightly, obviously already wanting to leave "What do you want Eugene?"
He gave her an odd look "How do you know that name?"
She smirked, in an oddly terrifying way "I make it a habit to know my clients."
He frowned lightly then looked at the redhead "And who might you be?"
Ariel rose an eyebrow and looked at him as if he were a moron "I'm A-" she got cut off by a glare from Red.
"It's not important. You said you had a job, what is it?"
The man sighed lightly and put his feet on his desk "Man, Red, you're so boring. If you want to know so badly, here." He pulled a vanilla envelope and set it on the table.
Ariel grabbed it and her eyes got wide "What?!"
Red looked at her and sighed taking the folder from her "Mr. Morse? The?"
Eugene nodded "He's got something of mine and I want it back."
"So you want us to bring you a whole man, completely unharmed? Instead of… You know the item?" Ariel said as if he were an idiot.
The man nodded "Exactly."
Red looked up from the folder "What is it?"
"Nothing for you to worry about, just bring him here and you'll get you're reward."
Ariel looked like she'd been about to say something else when Red grabbed her arm and said "Let's go." Pulling her out of the room and to the elevator before Red said somewhat irritated "This is why you failed the test, you're never going to become one of us if you don't do what I tell you. What's the first rule?"
Ariel pouted lightly and said "No telling people who we are."
"Number two?"
"Don't ask questions…"
Red nodded "They're the most important rules, in any order, no matter what."
Ariel sighed lightly with a little nod.