SILENT CROWS

Chapter 1: Meet The Crows

Chapter 1: Meet The Crows

A loud voice echoed out in a dimly lit metallic room where five figures stood. The room was completely empty aside from visible cameras and speakers on the ceiling. As the voice erupted the lights also cut off leaving all five figures on edge, the sound of guns cocking, and a sword sliding out of its sheath could be heard throughout the room.

"Welcome Crows, to the Silent Crows Organization." The voice was being affected by a voice changer making the voice very deep, growly and unrecognizable. The sound was only enhanced by the echo in the room due to the large empty space.

"All five of you are here out of your own free will, correct?" The voice continued as grunts could be heard throughout the room, "HA, well, at least for the most part. So Crows, just to be clear on how we operate, you are currently in an undisclosed location also known as The Crows Nest and I am Mama crow. All five of you responded to my message and agreed to be taken to an undisclosed location in a vehicle of my ownership all while put to sleep. So, Two rules. Rule Number one is that all you need to know about me is I'm Mama Crow. And Two If anyone tries to abandon the mission before the mission is complete not only will you not receive your reward but you will die. And that's a promise."

"You five have chosen to be-" Mama Crow was cut off by one of the Crows.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've chosen to be here, all with unique abilities- except when they aren't and the one thing connecting us all is we need money so we're all here to be your personal group of assassins." The male voice continued, "Did I get everything? Now what's our mission Ma?"

The lights came back on revealing all five of the people in the room.

The one who interrupted was a man in a white and tan costume with tan goggles over his eyes. On the center of his chest surrounded by white was tan lettering spelling R B, other defining features were his white boots, white gloves, his rugged face and his blond hair. In his hand was a pistol.

Another figure, seemingly responsible for the metallic sound of the sword, was in an almost full body black costume only being broken up by glowing red eye holes in his mask and a similar glowing S over it. His hands and midsection were covered in dry blood-covered bandages, along with steel boots and a steel chest plate that held his currently empty steel sheath. In his hand was a steel katana.

The third figure was seemingly a monster made of blue-tinted ice shards, similar in stature to a bear- sized porcupine on its hind legs.

The fourth figure was a dark-skinned woman in a jaguar skin costume, long curly hair and cat-like claws seemingly coming out of her hands.

Lastly a hispanic-looking man covered in scars with four arms wearing a suit and tie. With each top hand he held a weapon while the bottom hand supported it, in one hand he held a gun and in the other, a crossbow.

A hologram appeared before them with each of their names, pictures and ability summaries. The group surrounded the hologram, all of them carefully observing it. The names read in order as the group was listed previously. Rubberband: Stretchiness, shapeshifting and marksmanship. Mr. S: Enhanced Speed, Strength, Durability, ability to camouflage, heat vision and expert sword proficiency. Shard: Enhanced strength, animalistic behaviours, ice projectiles and telekinetic manipulation over said ice projectiles. Jaguar: Extremely enhanced speed and senses along with cat-like claws and expert combat proficiency. Arms Bearer: Can sprout multiple arms at will and has expert marksmanship and weapon mastery, he is known to never miss.

"Crows read these so you can understand each other's abilities." Mama's voice echoed through the room.

As everyone started to lose focus on the hologram, ArmsBearer continued inspecting it.

The man now identified as Mr. S spoke up, "Now, I'm dying to know, just who are we killing?" he said almost giddy.

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4 months prior:

Loud panting was heard along with the cracking of leaves...

Erupting from the forest was the person we know as Rubberband but his uniform was torn close to shreds, he looked beaten senseless as he used his stretchy powers to propel himself through the forest.

A soft whisper left his lips "P-Please, get out safe..."

He kept swinging and propelling himself quicker and quicker till he was barely visible in the bullet like blur. As he sped up his breath also picked up, his panting getting sharper and sharper. He was moving so smoothly until he missed a branch and came plummeting into the floor beneath him.

Rubberband opened his eyes as the smoke began to clear, revealing he was standing in a crater he had made. Once his vision had fully adjusted he slowly began to look up and once his head had fully come up he let out a ear-shattering fearful scream.

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Present Day:

Rubberband's eyes shuttered after his horrific memory played In his head, but he quickly refocused himself when Mama Crow began to speak.

"Your Target is SelfShaper; also known as Timothy Carpenter. He uses his elite stretching abilities to shapeshift to never before- seen proportions-" Mama paused for a moment, "Usually you wouldn't be given any background info on your subject that wasn't crucial to complete the mission but this is the one exception, because Timothy is a previous Crow that went rouge and aborted mission. There are despicable men, and then there are those that break Mama's rules. Breaking Mama's rules is unforgivable. So this is personal."

ArmsBearer began to notice as Mama was speaking hologram symbols began appearing around the room. As he could make it out it was some kind of star-like and crows symbols. He took a mental note of the image.

"Personal to who?" ArmsBearer questioned, "Surely, not to you right? How can we trust you when you break one of your own rules? I thought we didn't need to know anything else about you, besides the fact you're Mama Crow?"

"As Mama Crow I can make up and change the rules as I want." Mama answered, "If you have a problem with that, you don't belong here."

"There goes rule number two..." Armsbearer whispered under his breath

"Can't you just, SHUT UP?!" A shout erupted out of Jaguar, "Just do what Mama says, get money, it's that simple. She can change anything Mama wants, we just listen and did I not already say MONEY. You listen then you receive it. MONEY."

"How can I listen to Mama's rules when they are changing every five minutes, Ms. Kitty Cat?" Armsbearer questioned, a slight playful tone in his voice

Jaguar let out a massive growl which made Shard whine and huddle up towards ArmsBearer. Who began to gently pet her. Despite her irritation there was a slight smile on her face when ArmsBearer glanced back at her. She quickly looked away, playing it off as frustration.

"Everyone stop." Rubberband spoke up and silenced the room, "What does this matter? We listen and we do the mission, nothing else to it, Mama can break the rules, WE on the other hand cannot. Trust me, I know how things work here. You don't want to cross Mama."

"Yeah, the important thing is we get blood on our hands that will one day no longer be stained with a crimson color. But our souls-." Mr. S began to speak, "Our souls will be forever stained and what other reason is there to live other than the blood of man?"

Now everyone really got quiet, the room was utterly flabbergasted by S's statement.

Suddenly a sound was heard throughout the room and it began to move. The floor opened up and completely shifted into a weapons storage.

"Now, get ready, we will begin to map out your attack strategy first thing in the morning."

As mama said this, a pathway opened up in the middle of the arsenal room and a mat black floating robot came up from underground with a red G on its head and a yellow SC on its right chest.

"This is Guildo, he will guide you all to your rooms." Guildo made a ding sound when he was mentioned. Shard was initially scared when the room changed but got excited by Guido's ding, she was comforted by Jaguar. The Crows stood there in shock, well besides RubberBand, "Dinner is at 6pm, don't miss it or you won't eat."

"Guildo at your service!" Guido stated cheerfully, ready to help.

"Hey Guildo!" Rubberband said, Guildo perked up when mentioned, seemingly recognizing the voice of Rubberband.

"We can review the arsenal later, these are necessary to have at all times." Guildo refocused himself, he flew around handing out pins with a crow symbol on it, below it reading SC, the pins had a black and yellow color scheme, "Now, follow me to your rooms, 'Crows'.".

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