Part 1 - The Smoke Before The Fire

The brightness of fire were just overshadowed by the darkness of smoke that seemed to go for miles. Buildings, structures, and even some people were all up in ashes, dead.

From inside the smoke and flames came about a loud explosion from which seemed to be from a gun. A man came out flying from the explosion as an enforcer came out of the flames and explosions with a mask and heavy armor.

The man that was exploded laid on the ground, desperately trying to catch his breath after receiving such a fatal blow. However the enforcer showed no sympathy and didn't even look at the man before shooting a single blast through the man's chest.

The area around them felt ominous as the enforcer came from out of the heavy smoke, revealing a sinister energy and vibe that matched with the flames that reeked havoc. There were civilians laid out all across the land, covered in blood and drenched in filth as their limp bodies were undoubtedly dead.

Walking past the bodies and through the land were three little girls. All three were covered in dirt and filth with ripped clothes and the stains of the smoke on them. One of them were older than the other two. They all embraced each other's hands in fear and desperation as they heard loud clanking and fighting across from them.

It was a tall, built man, taking on one of the enforcers. He hammered down the armored up enforcer before turning behind and looking at the three little girls.

In fear, the two little girls held onto the older one as they backed away slightly, staring at the gaze of the man that beat the enforcer.

The man slowly walked up to the little girls, careful not to scare them. When he did, the oldest little girl had a face of worry and desperation.

This made the man devastated since he knew why she had that look on her face. He pointed his head toward the direction across from the little girls, and that's when they all saw it.

Their parents under wooden planks covered in fire. Their eyes were wide open but despite that, they were indeed dead. The oldest girl stared at them in immediate sadness as she couldn't conceal her emotions. Her eyes began to water and her nose twitching as tears began flooding her eyes and streaming down her dirtied up face.

The two younger girls, almost incapable of understanding what death really meant were still able to understand that they wouldn't ever come back. They began to cry as well.

From an overflow of emotion, the oldest girl fell down to her knees and began bawling her eyes out as the heavy wind blew threw them. The two youngest girls held her on both sides as they cried..and cried...and cried.

Giant gloves that the man used to fight off the enforcers. He stared at them before looking down at the devastated girls. He dropped the gloves, and used his hands to pick up the two youngest while the oldest walked beside him.

As they walked away the oldest took another look behind. There were three enforcer with weapons who walked the opposite way of them. Anger and sadness lit up in the girls eyes as she watched them and the top of a beautiful city above all the smoke and fire.

~Years later~

"Ughhh!! When do you think they're going to get back?" A boy with a bandana over his head and baggy clothes said before jumping off a dirty barrel on the ground.

"I'm not sure but Vi told us to keep watch until they get back right? So we should just do that.." a little girl with brown hair and glasses responded as she stood with her hands behind her back and toes pointed inward.

"Either way I hope it doesn't end up in some disaster..Vander would be pretty upset. Honestly I'm not sure why they keep bringing Powder." The boy said as he threw a ball at the wall and continuously caught it playfully.

The little girl sighed as she looked ahead of them in worry.

The little boy was named Silver, dressed in mostly red, white, and black. And the girl next to him was Lucy, the girl who was with Powder and Vi during the aftermath of the civil war.

In the distance ahead of them, the two kids heard footsteps and what sounded like the jingles of supplies. The boy stopped playing with his ball as they both took some steps forward to see who was coming.

"Guess who's back?!" The teen girl with pink hair exclaimed with the others, Powder, Mylo, and Claggor.

Mylo, a teen with bushy eyebrows and messed up hair. He was pretty slim. Then there was Claggor, a bigger guy that wore goggles. Vi, the girl with pink hair who was the obvious leader of the group and then Powder, the girl with blue hair who was the youngest.

"Nice! What'd ya' get!" The boy exclaimed excitedly as he jumped over to Vi.

"Not much thanks to that screw up back there." Mylo said while shaking his head as he looked at the blue haired girl powder.

"I said I didn't do anything okay?!" Powder yelled out to him with a regretful and embarrassed frown.

"Well well well...if it isn't the lovely bunch..I heard there was some action across the river. Have an idea what happened?" A blonde teen said from the shadows while flipping a coin with his fingers.

Vi clenched the duffel bag tightly before walking off and signaling the other kids to follow. "Not a clue.."

As they walked away however, they were then surrounded by what seemed like a group of thugs. "You do all of that..cause all this commotion and just think you're gonna wander back into my streets? Not happening.." the blonde boy, Decker said with a cocky grin.

"Your streets?! What makes you think-" Vi began to say before Claggor jumped in front of her to intervene. "Listen we don't want any trouble. Let's just both go our own ways okay?" Claggor said with his hands up in a surrendering way.

"You heard that? They don't want no trouble. How cute.." a teen in the back said with a devious chuckle.

"That's interesting..coming from you guys. Anyhow we won't have no trouble if you just give us some taste of that treasure." Decker said with his hands in his pockets and back slouched over.

"As if! We busted our-" Mylo began to rant before Vi held his shoulder and walked in front of the group and towards the delinquents.

"Hm..just a taste you say?" Vi asked while looking deeply at Decker for an answer.

"That's all." Decker responded with a grin.

Immediately Vi slammed the duffel bag of supplies at Deckers face then threw the bag over at Powder for her to hold onto.

This immediately caused a fight to break out between Vi and her group against the delinquents.

"Okay...Powder, Lucy, we should go!" The little boy, Silver yelled out to her as Powder and the other little girl Lucy stood there in fear and worry for the others.

Silver noticed how frozen they were from the violence that was taken place in front of them. Vi and her group was strong though with Vi and Claggor taking on two at a time and Mylo defending himself as well.

Dust and dirt began being flown around from the scuffle that was taken place, along with hurtful sounding grunts. "Damn it lets go" Silver yelled out to the two girls before grabbing their hands each and running off with them down an alleyway.

Their escape caused one of the delinquents to see this and immediately chase after them for the treasure that was in the duffel bag.

Lucy looked back in terror as she saw the delinquent chasing after them and getting closer and closer each second.

Silver began panting heavily as his heart began pounding out of his chest from a crazy idea. "Okay listen, I want you two to keep going, it's obvious he's only gonna get closer. I'll hold him off so you two can escape with the supplies!" Silver yelled out to them before looking back at the delinquent then straight ahead.

Powder continuously shook her head in worry and fear for what could happen. "No no no no you can't! O-Ofcourse the others can do that but they're older! Please!" Powder yelled out to Silver before Silver let out a reassuring smile.

"It's fine, I'm Silver afterall!" He screamed as he quickly turned back and tackled the delinquent. He then opened his mouth wide before biting down hard on the delinquents stomach.

"Aghhh!! You damn brat let go!!" The delinquent screamed in pain as he began punching Silver over and over again for him to let go but he only clenched his teeth down harder.

"G-go I got this!!" Silver yelled out in a muffled tone to the others since he was busy biting down on the delinquents stomach.

Powder and Lucy both took Silvers advice and ran away as fast as they could.

Meanwhile where Vi and the others were, they had beaten the delinquents. They were all passed right out on the ground.

"Haha did you guys see me! I was kickin' ass!" Mylo yelled out with his fist in the air while Claggor and Vi looked at eachother with teasing raised eyebrows.

Mylo noticed and looked at them confused. "What? You do know I kicked ass right?" He questioned while looking at them for the answer.

Vi chuckled before walking up to Mylo and putting a hand on his shoulder. "There there.." she said as Clobber tried to hold in his laughter in the background.

Vi was smiling in a teasing way before noticing from the corner of her eye that Powder and the other two kids were gone. "Hey guys! Where's powder and the others?!" Vi asked, causing the others to look confused.

Heavy breathing and small footsteps continued down corners and corners of the alleyways as Powder and Lucy both continued sprinting farther.

"P-Powder maybe we should slow down! I think we lost him but we should meet back up with the others!" Lucy yelled out to Powder but it seemed as though powder was in her own world.

"No no no we have to keep going! I want to do this right!" Powder yelled out as she kept going. They soon made their way to a dock when suddenly powder tripped.

Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion as the duffel bag Fell out of powders arms. Both of their eyes screamed desperation from the outcome of the situation.

Powder fell down on the ground and the duffel bag fell down into the water. All the treasure and supplies were gone. Lucy and Powder both looked down into the water in disbelief.

About an hour later Silver, Powder, and Lucy met up with Vi and the others. Silver had blood running down his forehead from the fight with the delinquents and Vi attended to his wounds.

"Okay okay, remind me what happened again?!" Mylo yelled out to Powder.

"I already told you! I tripped and lost the supplies! I was trying to run fast and keep them safe but I-I-" powder explained herself while finding it hard to avoid Mylos angered stare.

"Listen it wasn't her fault okay? The treasure is gone...but let's be happy everyone came back in one piece." Vi said while finishing up with Silvers wound. Powder noticed Vi was visibly upset.

"You did good.." Vi said with a gentle smile as she held Silvers face with her palm

They all then walked into a room and what seemed to be a clanked up elevator painted with graffiti. "So you mean to tell me she just gets let off with a pass? We risk our life for that and she trips?! I'm not surprised though that's just who she is. She Jinx's every mission!" Mylo yelled while getting close and personal into Powders face. Lucy looked like she wanted to defend Powder but was to nervous to.

"That's enough Mylo!" Vi yelled out to him while looking over her shoulder at him. Mylo then looked at Vi In surprise and slight guilt.

"That's enough..." Vi said silently before staring straight ahead and putting her hoodie on.

Silver paid close attention to Powder who seemed to feel very ashamed. He wanted to comfort her but it didn't seem like the right time.

The elevator was going down into what seemed like some underground city where everything was shady. Shady people, shady ways of living, shady secrets. They got out of the elevator and although for the average person this would be hell on earth, for them, it was their home.

To Be Continued.