The children of Rasco.
Arkham's inhabitance always had a tragic moment, or moments in their lives. Something so bad and terrible that it pushed them over the edge, one defining moment.
Unfortunately, for Arkham's newest arrivals, they had a defining moment for several years.
The Children of Rasco, as they were known, had been kindnapped as children as young as 4 years of age, experimented on, studied, tested on, tortured, conditioned, re-conditioned, turned into monsters and for what? To end up with ruined childhoods, shattered minds and broken dreams?
Of course that wasn't their original purpose. They were supposed to be part of the next league of assassins, part of the Children of Shadows. The world was changing and more and more meta humans were being discovered, so naturally, the league had to evolve itself.
Unfortunately, their evolving didn't go to planned and their own creations turned against them, because of one boy.
Icarus Note, or Lyric as he was now known around the asylum and Gotham.
Icarus had thought against them as soon as he had been brought to the building, as soon as the torture and the experiments began, he managed to get the other children to actually stand up to their captors, until the assassins decided to make an example of him.
Somehow he lived, escaped, found some gloves that created soundwaves and used them to defeat the assassins, before accidentally blowing up the building itself.
For years he thought all his friends were dead and then gradually he found some of them again, and now, the ones that were left, were the Children of Rasco.
Icarus was lucky that today, in the rec-room his whole group was with him, even his girl Melody Scale, aka Repeat, sat snuggled up with him on the sofa as he hummed softly at the back of his throat.
"Why are we even in Arkham?" Rick Collins, also known as Ravenous, a cannibal, but not by choice. "It's not like we need help," he mumbled as he rested his head on the table, pushing his chair out.
Icarus sighed. "This coming from the guy who was conditioned into being a cannibal every time he hears the 'r' word?" the 'r' word being ravenous, the very name he was given.
Rick shrugged slightly. "I'm not that bad, besides, you think I'm nuts you're the one who sings and dances around the place, like ya crazy girlfriend."
Repeat slowly lifted herself up and raised an eyebrow at him. "Sure, Rick…" she whispered before laying back and stretching out. "You keep believing that."
Bree Adler, also known as Siren, sat curled up on one of the nearby chairs, curled up with a book in her hand.
She looked up and tilted her head to the side, her fish like features shining in the light as her gills began to move in and out as she breathed.
"Rick…" she whispered. "Just leave it alone…"
Rick glanced up at her, and frowned slightly, but it was slightly softer then what it would be directed at other people. "Sure thing fish food," he mumbled before turning to Micheal Hades aka Phobos, who sat quietly, also reading himself. "Micheal!"
The one in question slowly raised his head and raised his eyebrow. "Yes?"
"Why do you think we are in here?"
"Probably because we're all psychologically disturbed in some way or another," Micheal looked at him and smiled. "Because lets face it, we're all highly disturbed."
Rick shrugged and picked at his pointed teeth. "How the hell can you smile at that?"
"I can install fear simply by touching someone," Micheal shrugged. "I find some things funny that others would consider weird," he looked at him. "Besides, you're one to talk, we keep human body parts in the fridge for you at home."
"I don't make jokes about it."
"You held a human skull up and quoted Shakespear."
Rick went slightly red, almost matching his crimson red hair. "That was one time!" he blurted out. "And I was bored."
"You're only digging yourself a bigger hole," Repeat called from the sofa.
"Yeah well, what about Virus over there!" Rick hissed pointing at the one in question who seemed to be writing down mathematical equations and solving them.
Virus raised an eyebrow before he pushed his glasses up his nose. "What about me?"
"Come on Adrian, look at you! You're writing up equations and solving them… for fun!"
Adrian Chance raised an eyebrow once more. "And you eat people, you don't see me questioning it or calling you weird, which you are I'm afraid to say, but you don't see me saying it."
"Unless you count just then," Ammile Castle smirked from his corner in the room, playing with a pack of cards as he leaned back in the chair. Snake Eyes was his name now days and with good reason. "You really know how to dig yourself a bigger hole don't you, Adrian?"
"I don't see how I…"
"You're the damn genius!" Rick snarled. "And you can't figure it out."
"Only thing he can't figure out is people's emotions,"Phobos muttered.
"Hey!"
"That was't very nice," Siren whispered from her chair, as she watched the others argue, before turning to Lyric. "Aren't you going to do anything about this?"
Lyric shook his head. "I'm half tempted to watch and see how it plays out."
"But you're our leader…" Siren whispered.
"Yes," Repeat agreed. "You're our leader, lead us!"
Lyric sighed and threw his head back. "Will you two stop it," he hissed and Rick glanced at him and stuck his tongue out.
"Of course," Phobos whispered quietly before slowly getting to his feet and walking towards the bookshelf, almost gliding across the floor.
Rick watched him and even with his heightened sense couldn't hear him actually walking. Leaning over to Lyric, Rick whispered. "That guy gives me the creeps."
"I think you give everyone else the creeps," Lyric whispered back to him to which Rick scowled at him before turning back to Micheal who sat down, reading another book.
Repeat was humming slightly as she then began to mover her fingers to the beat she was humming, causing Lyric to begin to join in.
"Ammile?" Siren whispered and Snake Eyes turned from looking over Adrian's equations to Siren. "What happened to your club?"
"I still own it," he shrugged before looking at Adrian and grinning. "Speaking of my club, guess who found a himself a dat there, ay Adrian?"
Adrian went red and Rick began to laugh, but Lyric merely smiled along with Repeat, Micheal and Siren.
"Oh, finally found yourself a guy huh, Adrian?" Repeat teased and Adrian went more red.
Rick smirked. "Just play it safe," he teased before leaning back and putting his feet on the table. "Say… does he know about all this?"
Adrian scowled. "Of course he does! It's a bit hard to hide the scars," he mumbled the last bit and room fell silent as all children were haunted by their scars.
"Well still," Rick smirked. "Stay safe kids."
Lyric glared at him. "You're a jerk you know that?"
"I'm fully aware yes."
"BTW," Adrian spoke up as he suddenly got up from his seat and smirked. "I've worked out a way to get out of here, Siren how'd you feel about swimming?"
Siren smiled. "I've missed the water," she whispered before placing her book down and walking over to him. "It makes me feel alive."
"Damn fish food," Rick grinned as he jumped onto the table, much to Phobos's surprise, before Phobos then proceeded to push the other off the table.
"Get off the table. It's rude."
"You got some nerve ya-."
"Rick, quiet," Lyric growled as he got his feat and Rick backed down, before he turned to Adrian. "We can escape?"
Adrian nodded. "Yes, I've worked out how. I've actually managed to work out ten different ways to escape, but there is only one we can use right now."
"Do we all want to escape or do we want to stay and get better?" Lyric questioned the group.
"Well… I have missed my club…" Snake Eyes grinned as he leaned back in his seat.
"And I have missed the ocean."
"I want to dance again."
"And I bet lover boy has a date to get back to," Rick grinned before giggling before Phobos whacked him on the back of the head with the book in his hands.
"Then it's settled then," Lyric agreed. "We're getting out of here… but," he turned to Adrian and smiled, his scar across his eyes and face crinkling slightly. "Give us a moment Adrian… we have to pick a song…"
THE END.
Note: So these are some new character of mine, pretty dark in some ways... hope you guys enjoy :)
Only three more chapters guys... Oh my god we got here, we finally got to the end :O
Also I have a question to ask you, out of these characters I'm about to list, who's origin story would you like to hear about, I'm already doing Midfright and Nightmares, so my question is, out of Alice, Whisper and Target, who's origin story would you like to see?
see you in the next episode! :D
