Please leave a comment if you can! Thanks for reading : )

The place she woke to was dark. There was no source of light except from a small bulb hanging over head. She tried to move but froze when she realized her hands were tied behind her back and her feet shackled to the floor.

How was she going to get out of this one? She raised her gaze to study her surroundings again. Brick walls. Dripping water. Where on earth was this? It didn't smell like a sewer, perhaps it was an underground layer they used. Unwillingly her eyes began to well up.

Scarlet didn't have a chance of escaping.

The clopping of boots outside her range of vision made her tense, and she felt herself tremble in fear. The Cranio family had terrorized her and her mother ever since she was a little girl. They disliked her mother for refusing to cooperate with them and had harassed her on a daily basis. Her mother was a strong woman, but she was a single parent and she was alone in the world. Her father had left after Scarlet was conceived and all of her mother's family was dead. They had only had each other.

But then her mother had died. She had been accidently killed by one of the Cranio men whose job it was to take her back to the boss's house. Scarlet couldn't even take revenge for her mother, the boss had been furious and ordered the death of that man.

At the age of 12 she had learned of this and was forced to run. They would come after her next her mother had warned her. She didn't have anywhere to go and the police weren't an option, the Cranio had people working on the inside there. So she had lived off the streets for a while, barely fighting off starvation.

Then Hugh found her. An old man who ran a soup kitchen. He offered her food and clothes, money for necessities, and a home. Hugh had been what she imagined a real father would have been like. That was a golden period for Scarlet, she had thought herself safe for the rest of her life, had thought that she could actually be happy.

But all good times come to an end. The Cranio found where she was staying. And then had killed Hugh. Sweet, old, grey haired Hugh. They had murdered him in cold blood and left his body in a tangled mess by the back door. Then it was back to running for Scarlet. There wasn't even time for her to mourn.

She packed as fast as she could, took the money that she had been saving up, and ran. Namimori was the farthest away she could get. It was actually farther than she had run last time. But the Cranio were like starved vultures that chased their prey until it collapsed and they were fed. It really shouldn't surprise her that they had found her so fast.

The shoes that had been approaching caught the light of the overhead bulb and shone a shiny black. She followed the shoes up to a black suit and a smirking face. It was one of the Cranio men given the fact that he had the skull tattoo over his chest. His greasy hair looked shiny in the light and it made her stomach turn to be completely at this monster's mercy.

"Do you know why you're here Scarlet?" His voice was gravely and goosebumps rose on her arms.

"You wanted my mother but couldn't have her, so now you want me." Her answer was whispered and she kept her eyes lowered to stare at the brick wall. A bark of laughter escaped the man, sharp and loud. It startled her so that she jumped and the chains on her feet clinked against one another.

"Yes, I suppose that's somewhat right, but I don't think you actually get why we want you. Why you're so valuable." He paused to stare at her face for a moment. " It's your blood." Her blood? It wouldn't be strange for this man to be crazy, so she merely kept silent and let him talk to himself. "In your blood is now what was in your mother's before she died. In your blood is the ultimate weapon, the spade di fuoco." His eyes gleamed with glee as he stared at her. She couldn't resist the bait.

"The what?" This man clearly was delusional, possibly high or drunk.

"The Fire Sword. It can only be summoned through a living blood relative who has inherited the ability. Whoever possess you holds a great weapon in his arsenal, which is to say he rules over the other mobs." He started taking measured steps toward her cowering frame. Once he reached her he leaned in close to whisper in her face, "You're like a very precious box weapon. Whoever holds you can rule the world." His breath reeked of alcohol and cigarettes and she winced as she was forced in inhale.

He leaned back and threw his head behind him to let out a sharp sounding laugh. Scarlet still refused to believe what he was saying to her. He was mad. There was no way her blood held a secret sword. That supposedly was made of fire. He had even referred to her as a box weapon. He must have drank too much before coming here.

As he straightened up and caught sight of her face she could tell he knew she didn't believe him. At first he simply stared at her in annoyance, his brows folding down in an angry expression. Then his face suddenly changed and an evil grin grew across his face. She actually preferred when he had looked angry. "I'll prove it to you. That's it, I'll just show you. Only someone else can draw the sword from you so I suppose it'd be impossible to know about it unless you were told. But I'll show you." His sudden enthusiasm scared her as he practically launched himself at her.

The bursting of the brick wall behind him though drew away his attention from her. His expression transformed into one of fear. As she raised her eyes and saw who had found her she gasped. Scarlet could not tell if she was relieved or afraid as she starred at the intruder.

"Herbivore, kidnapping Namimori students is a crime."