Prologue

I had made my own destiny. I was an orphan without a single penny to my name , born in a third world country infested by corruption and chaos. I was born with nothing but I made my own destiny from nothing.

I lived my early days in an orphanage in the slums , the matron was a nice lady . She was kind and did try to give us the very best that she could . She may not have been able to help us all much but their is no denying that she tried which again is more then I can say for most people.

Now sadly we can not have good people in this cursed world now can we? She passed away when I was eight. Everyone was devastated because really she was the closest thing we all had to a mother. We were all heart broken and for a while we did try to keep things together and be good people as she would have wanted us to be.

We did try, god knows all of us did but the unemployment rate in the country made it hard to get legal jobs and we had mouths to feed so we had to in our desperation turn to crime for the world would not help us so we had to help ourselves.

At first it was just little pickpocketing , a bit of scamming with some of the older orphans turning into pit fighters to get money . We tried to do our best oh how we did with the hands that had been dealt to us.

Little did we know that the path to hell is paved with good intentions. We became more desperate to survive so we start escalating our crimes . Pickpocketing became mugging, the scams became protection rackets and pit fighting became mercenary work .

I sometimes think what would the matron think of us . I ask myself how disappointed she would have been but that does not matter for we did what we had to do for our survival. The orphans had become each other's family and it would have been a cold day in hell if we let our family suffer for at the end of the day we were all that we had.

We eventually became a gang, a low level one but a gang nonetheless . We were called the orphans not because all of us were orphans rather we had a recruitment policy of taking in people that were like us , such as street rats and urchins who had nobody to turn to . We tried to give them something even if it was not much .

Time passed and over the years the orphans had risen from a low level gang into the big leagues. We had shed blood, we cried and lost a lot , we lost oh so much . Over the years I had to bury so many of my brothers and sisters that I had grown numb and before I knew it I became the leader because their was no one else to lead us .

We tried all we could to make sure that the younger generation did not have to do the things we did. We tried to get them education, we helped them as much as we could and we tried to give them the childhood we did not have . Sometimes it worked ,sometimes it did not.

A lot of the children still grew up to be gangsters but some did manage to get a normal life and some actually became successful. We were so proud of them , I knew a kid who became a doctor and another who became a lawyer. We tried to keep them away from our gang for unlike us they had a future and we could not drag them down with us to hell . They refused to listen to reason for they could not bear the burden of not helping the family . In the end because of how stubborn they were we took their help.

We tried a lot of times to turn over a new leaf and in the end we sort of succeeded but not really. A lot of the gangsters became construction workers with the the management side of things being handled by the more educated brothers and sisters of the orphanage . We honestly tried to do everything by the law , we tried to become good people and let go of our past but would the world let us? No .

A lot of our competitors tried to bring us down with less then legal methods so we had no choice but to answer back the same. In the end nothing changed we still were gangsters and we were all still horrible people. The only thing that changed was the facade of civility . We at least tried to do things legally as much as we could at least so their is that but that is not much to be honest.

Our mostly legal business grew over time . Things were somewhat looking up for us orphans . We expanded and we hired more people for the more legal side of things . We all finally had a chance at a somewhat more normal life . All was going well and I even settled down with a family. I got married to a beautiful lady whom I had fallen in love with and I even had a wonderful little daughter before I knew it.

Things were going wonderfully but as life often does when we have good things , something always comes along that destroys it all. HE came into power and in HIS attempts to crack down on crime , HE ruined the life I had built.

In his self-righteous hypocrisy, he hunted anyone with even an iota of a connection to the underworld no matter how small. In his supposed attempts to make the country better he did not for once think of those who had no choice but to turn to crime or the people who tried to change .

A lot of us were dragged from our homes and beaten. We were damned to prisons , even those that had not committed a single crime in their whole lives . All the people who had even the slightest of connection to us had their lives turned upside down . I managed to get away with seven of my other brothers and sisters included.

We managed to smuggle ourselves into America and it is in their that I learned about what happened to my family. It turns out that bastards killed my wife and daughter while trying to get to me .

It was at that they that for the last time , I cried. Everything that I had given my life to had been utterly devastated, my family? Killed , my people ? Jailed, my company ? Burned to ashes.

That was the day that I felt truly hopeless and I vowed that I will get him back for all he has done.

Time passed and we prepared for the day we would come back to get vengeance on HIM. We used all the skills that we had from our times as gangsters to get into mercenary work and just like back in our country the remanent of us the orphans ruled the underworld of America .

The government noticed us and they did discover our plans for going back to our country to overthrow HIM. The Americans surprisingly offered to help us for it turns out HE pissed of the American government enough that they were willing to help us out in exchange for a friendly alliance should we succeed in our plans . We had a lot of men get trained by professionals and had a lot of us given weapons from them.

The orphans had been turned from a bunch of street rats into gangsters and now into soldiers . We went back to our country and we started a rebellion, a lot of remaining brothers and sisters died in it but in the end we succeeded thanks to all the resources given to us by our allies.

After we won , I dragged HIM into the streets and executed most of his family right in front of his eyes, except for his own two month old baby daughter. I wanted to kill her just to spite him , oh god I wanted to oh so badly but I just could not bring myself to so I adopted her and renamed her Eva after the old matron in the orphanage.

Time passed and I raised Eva by giving her all she could ever want or ask for. I raised her as my own daughter while giving her a childhood that I never got. I helped her in every way I could . Things were getting better in the country and we were settling down . It was peaceful if you ignored all the protests and assassins but life is never perfect.

Things did not stay that well of course because World War 3 began . You would think mutually assured destruction would be a deterrent enough from that stupidity but it was not enough during World War 2 so why should this be any different?

It is a good thing that I am what the Americans like to call a doomsday prepper so I had made plans for this exact scenario ages ago and with the help of our scientists most of my country survived along with some pockets of the world . I died when I was ninety years old from brain cancer. Eva became the leader of our newly renamed country of Valhalla.

I died that day knowing that my country was in good hands before I died.