Chapter 1

Everyone had gathered in the meeting room at the Vongola Headquarters in Japan. Even Hibari had come, which meant it had to be something important. Everyone had come to see what Giannini had gathered about a new assassination group. A group that went by the name of "Royalty". This group had recently appeared and already their kill count had exceed others. The way that they killed their victims varied as well. Sometimes it would be a clean kill, straight to the head, sometimes they wouldn't even leave a mark, but sometimes... sometimes they wouldn't leave anything of that person intact.

Giannini entered the room, sweating. He went up to the front of the room and everyone became silent as he bowed towards Tsuna. Tsuna nodded, gesturing to him to begin his presentation. This group had caused much concern. Reborn had been the one most worried and that was already a bad sign. Yamamoto and Lambo, the cheeriest of the group, were solem.

Giannini cleared his throat.

"As you all know, there is a new assassination group that has formed. They are becoming one of the most dangerous groups out there. This new group, as most of you know, call themselves Royalty. The victim of every kill they make has their symbol on the corpse. It's rumored that they all have this symbol tattooed somewhere on their bodies. Now, lets begin with what I've found out."

Giannini turned around. He gestured to the image projected behind him which displaying the new group's trademark. It was a dragon of some sort with thunder scales wrapping around a crown placed in the middle.

"They have four main members, and rumor has it they have been recruiting for more. So far they haven't accepted any new recruits. In fact, they've killed everyone that's tried out to be a new recruit. They don't trust people , and if you've seen them and they don't trust you enough, you die."

"Wait WHAT!?" Gokudera interrupted, slamming his hands down on the table as he stood up, "FOUR MEMBERS! Fuck, we can kill those bastards off easily! 10th, let me handle this! Four men will be-"

"Women." Giannini spoke softly.

Giannini's statement was followed by complete silence...

"WHAT!?"

Lussuria winced. He didn't like the fact that Xanxus was glaring at him even worse than he was before. It wasn't HIS fault that they were women! They were.

Varia were having their own meeting in Italy. Far away from Vongola as possible, since Xanxus hated the 10th. Yet, neither knew that the other was having a meeting at that very moment. They were both concerned about this new threat.

Lussuria continued. "They're all women. The youngest is about 23 years old, and the oldest is about 29. Other than that, we also know that they were childhood friends."

"VOOOI! How do you know that?!" Everyone knew who that outburst was from.

Lussuria fidgeted for a moment before continuing. He knew that Xanxus wasn't going to like the next part.

"We managed to plant a listening device on them and it recorded this" He clicked a button. For a few moments all that could be heard was static. Then a voice called out.

"Hey, remember that one time in summer when-" she was cut off, and static followed. Lussuria turned and clicked the button again, turning the recording off.

Everyone sat in silence, waiting for a bit until realization dawned on them.

"That's it?" Leviathan questioned.

Lussuria fidgeted again. "Yeah. We only managed to get this much before their hacker realized it was there and destroyed it."

Complete silence followed.

"YOU USELESS PIECE OF TRASH!"

Giannini sighed. He switched the picture to one of a girl in her mid twenties. Her body was frail looking, and sickly. Her attire was black, excluding the knives on her back. She had short black hair that wasn't arranged into any style. It split down the middle, and brushed to the sides. Though it was the eyes that got you. The were obsidian black, dull looking eyes. Yet inside of them, there was something that suggested madness and danger. She was attractive, but it hide by that aura around her that radiated death.

"This is one of the members. Her name is unknown, but she goes by the nickname Slenderman, or Slendy for short. Intel suggests her age is around 26. She's most likely the one we know the most about."

Giannini paused then continued. "Slendy is the one member that doesn't always stay with the others. Sometimes she wanders off and does separate jobs, though she is still a member of Royalty. Her forte seems to be in torture." At this point, Hibari's smirk grew a bit wider. "In the group, she prefers torturing her victims. As the saying goes 'she likes to play with her food before she eats it'. She uses a variety of methods, some of which involves the use of dull blades or weapons to increase the pain." Giannini switched to a picture of a corpse...or, at least, what remained of it.

"As you can see here, Slendy is brutless. She has no mercy for her victims." Tense silence followed. Giannini cleared his throat. "Slendy's weapons all come in pairs. She has twin blades, twin kanatas, and twin pistols. None of these weapons appear on any market, so we can assume they were custom-made.

Giannini gestured to the screen, showing the weapons mentioned. The screen zoomed in on the blades. "These blades' edges seem to have been refined to microscopic levels, thus making it sharp. The sharpest it could get." The screen switched to a sleek black shotgun. "This is the only model of guns Slendy owns. It's a shotgun with a .44 caliber. The barrel designed in such a way that when the bullet is shot it has 50% more force than a regular rifle. The barrel, combined with the .44, is destructive enough to blast apart your skull with a single shot."

"Wait." Yamamoto stood up, "How do you know so much about her weapons?"

Giannini didn't even miss a beat. "Since she appears to be the most brutal and active member we had much more available footage to work with. Shoichi analyze her weapon and this was the result. Though since this is just based on footage, we're assuming there are more features. To analyze further we need the actual weapon, which we haven't managed to. Based on what we know, the person who made these weapons goes by 'Hazard'."

The screen switched to an image of a girl sleeping on the table at a cafe. A laptop, papers, pens and pencils laid scattered around her, while a cup of some streaming drink sat on the table. She had fair skin, though not as fair as Slendy's. Her hair was a long layered dark blue mess, tied back into a bun. Her clothes were filthy. She was wearing a red tank top that had various stains on it, and work pants. She also had - what looked to be - a large grease stain on her forehead.

"This is Hazard. Again, no information on her name or anything else. She appears to be a bit younger than Slendy, though looks can be deceiving."

Lambo frowned. "But she's tiny."

A tick mark appeared on Giannini's head. "Did you not just hear what I said! LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING!" He paused and took a deep breath. "Anyways, continuing," The screen switched to another picture of Hazard. Younger, she was holding her laptop and surround by a few other people. They were all chatting and laughing.

"This is a picture from the University of Waterloo. According to this, Hazard was majoring in mechanical engineering and nanotechnology. We suspect-"

"Wait!" Ryohei interrupted. "If you know what university she went to, can't you find her real name? I mean they have records or someone knew her?"

A second tick appeared on Giannini's head. "I'm getting to that!" He cleared his throat. "Unlike with Slendy, we found a picture of her, along with these people on this website." The screen switched to a group picture of Hazard and the other people they had scene a minute ago. Her eyes were hazel.

"These people were all working in the same section. Unfortunately the school's data on Hazard seems to have disappeared. Not even a mention of her marks or attendance were found. Same with the school board's records. They didn't have a single photo or name. No one seems to remember her either. None of her teachers or her former classmates. It's almost like she never existed." Giannini sighed.

"This is Kyle Burns. "Everyone was looking at the screen. Everyone except Yamamoto.

He was watching Spanner. When Hazard's picture had come on screen, Spanner twitched. For a man who had spent most of the current meeting lazing back with a lollipop it was slightly unusual reaction. Maybe the fact that Hazard was also a weapons manufacturer/hacker spiked interest. But Spanner never really cared much about anything, even competition. Something told Yamamoto there was more to it.

"-Because of this invention Kyle and his friends won a lot of money. Hazard disappeared from Waterloo. Two months later Kyle and the rest of the team showed up dead, one after the other. Police declared it a homicide. Evidence shows that that they had stolen the design." Giannini sighed. "At the current time Royalty now had 3 members: Slendy, Boss, and Hazard."

"Boss? You said there were 4, right?" Chrome questioned, blushing as everyone turned to look at her.

"Who cares?! Lets kill them! How dare they take the name of Boss, when 10th is the real Boss!" Gokudera was slamming his fist on the table.

"Now, now, shouldn't we calm down?" Yamamoto smiled at Gokudera.

"SHUT UP! You stupid baseball freak! Don't tell me to calm down! I am calm, 10th right hand man should always be calm! I AM CALM!" Clearly, this was going nowhere.

"Hey, I was trying to-"

"SHUT UP! LET'S FIGHT RIGHT HERE IF YOU THINK YOU-"

"ENOUGH!" Gokudera and Yamamoto turned to stare at Tsuna. "Sit down you two, and let Giannini finish." They both nodded and sat back down Tsuna sighed then turned to Giannini. "Continue."

Giannini nodded, shaken. "R-right!." The screen switch to a picture of a girl. Flaming red hair, with bright emerald eyes staring off screen. She was wearing a tank top that emphasized her -ahem- rather large chest. Long legs stretched out from short shorts and she had black laced up converse boots that went up to her knees.

"This is Kyuubi. She also has a few other code names and nicknames." He switched to another picture. This girl had short blond hair and sky blue eyes, and was wearing a pretty pink summer dress and pink lace up high heels

"This is another picture of Kyuubi."

Everything was silent. A moment passed before cries of confusion rang out as everyone in the room stood up trying to voice the obvious.

"How-"

"What-"

"Her hair-"

"Are you blind you-"

"Why does she look-"

"STOP!" Everyone stared at Tsuna. He had slammed his hands on the desk and stood up. "Let Giannini speak."

Giannini cleared his throat. "Anyways, as you can all see, Kyuubi has disguises." He slipped through different pictures. The hair, the eyes, the style and body. Each one was different from the other.

"Then what does she really look like?" Reborn spoke for the first time.

"We don't know. None of these disguises match anyone in any database. In fact, one of these could be what she really looks like, but we don't know for sure. What we do know is that she is the 'face' of Royalty. She's the one who interacts with people, becoming everyone's friend or lover. With potential clientele, she's the one they met with and occasionally Hazard. We don't know much else about Kyuubi, except she is the last member who joined Royalty."

"Now we have the final member. The one who seemingly created Royalty. Boss."

"Boss? That's her code name?" Leviathan asked.

"Yeah." Lussuria stated. "No one knows what she looks like. Since the other members of Royalty are most active, she doesn't seem to work or appear for anything. Everyone knows that she's there, and she's controlling everything behind the scenes. "

Lussuria showed them a picture of a mafia boss; Nitri Accardi Casso. A powerful mafia boss who passed last month.

"Nitri Accardi Casso who died last month from an unsolved murder case? Well, our sources have confirmed that this Boss character was the one who murdered him."

Everyone was tense. Casso had been a rough mafia boss, killed people for amusement. Others had compared him to Xanxus. If he had really died at the hands of this 'Boss'...

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Everyone jumped a bit in their seats, startled by the sudden loud laughter that filled the room. Xanxus was laughing! His laugh echoed around the room before it slowly died out to a chuckle.

Finally, he took a breath and spoke. "Interesting... very interesting." He commented. "Seems like these people aren't trash after all." He gave a grinned.

Edited June 7th, 2018