Maina's Story MIT

[Ichengo Angelus]

The history of Maiana Chiru. Events occur between the ages of 8-18

 

[Ichengo Angelus]

It was her 8th birthday even, at least her 8th birthday as far as she had been told. Maiana never really knew when her birthday was exactly, she knew what age she was but overall she just listened to what those who were raising her claimed her birthday was in that regard. The young girl, sold off to a family to eventually be no more than a simple concubine for their son when they both became of age. Way off in the upper echelons of Kumoito, the only home she's truly known aside from the streets of the slums. She wasn't sure if anything was going to happen, they usually didn't do anything for what they said was her birthday aside from measure the relatively small girl for her age, well more like biannually twice a year once on her birthday then once more 6 months later. Merely keeping a record of how she is growing for whatever reason. Even if she knew that it wasn't really for her, it was something that was important to her. A sort of ritual she was use to now after having it done it so many times. Something she felt was important to her at least. She wondered when they would do it today, maybe later on in the day. She was sure they wouldn't forget, the two adults she lived with were punctual at all times. Never missed a beat when it came to things they determined were important to document. Which in that way of course meant she was important, at least she was to them in her mind. Maybe that was why it was so important?

It couldn't have been more than two hours after she had woken up. She usually never came out of her room and to the upstairs fancier parts of the house unless they called her up. Usually for some sort of fancy party where she would be put on display for her apparent beauty and bragged about to the other rich people looking for concubines for their children. Other than that on a daily basis it was for food. They might have not liked that she was some street kid they got as payment for someone's debt, but they knew she was perfect for what they needed her for so they treated her mostly well. Well...at least the two adult did, their son...the boy whom she was to be given to when they became of age was a different story. He was a bit abusive, nothing serious that would lead one to bruising and the like but very childish things. Pulling of hair, pinching, smacking a bit. She didn't like it, and she feared for when the boy became older...stronger. She was a small girl, she didn't know if she would grow and become more able to handle the kind of abuse an older man might deal to her. Regardless of all this, she became suddenly alarmed with the screaming from above her.

She didn't know what was going on, she was in her pajamas like she always was. They were fairly raggy, and she quickly ran up the stairs, opening her door into the main room to see blood all over the floor. The man who owned her, that loan shark that accepted her as payment for a debt. Murdered, a knife in his neck, two in his chest, one in his back, one in the stomach. A bit overkill, but a look of horror painted the face of the little girl. Maiana had never seen anything like that, sure she had seen a few dead bodies around the streets when she was much younger, but back then she barely knew what it really meant. Even then thinking back to those moments they weren't scary, not like this. This was terrifying, the boy she was supposed become the concubine was on the floor crying. The woman who taught her various things for what she would be needed to do in the future. Standing, tears flowing down her cheeks as it seemed almost as if she was trying to keep a front up. 8 people she didn't know were dressed in red and black, standing in front of the open door. Two others were closer, more inside the house than the other 8.

One who was standing over the body of the man, a smaller feminine figure who was covered in blood. Another who seemed to be walking forwards, this figure had a much more masculine appearance, however her fairly large chest made it quite obvious that she was indeed still a girl. These two in particular wore colors more inverted than the others, where the 8 at the door wore primarily black with bits of red here and there these other two wore primarily red with bits of black and white here and there. The more masculine looking girl approached the lady of the house, newly widowed with a frown on her face. "Lady...The worst part about this is that...he doesn't even know why he died." She said, shaking her head. "A business even under The Great Shark's nose, couldn't smell the blood in the water. I thought he'd have known, pretty bad he didn't." She said, then giggled. Many would probably say that her voice didn't fit her, it was high and sounded cute even. She shook her head then snapped her fingers pointing towards the young boy. "You'll know the pain you cause others, ma'am." She said at the same time. Four of the eight others moved forwards, grabbing the boy who was now screaming out in horror. His mother's eyes wide in horror and she collapsed to the ground. Tears flowing from her face even more, her demeanor broken now. A smile on the other girl's face, the woman covered in blood would turn her attention to Maiana herself. The small figure's head tilting to the side in confusion then speaking. "Boss, what about this one?" She asked.

The one who had been speaking, taunting the lady of the house turned her head. "Who? What?" She questioned staring at Maiana now then turning her head towards the lady. "And you were still keeping it up huh? For shame." The lady would attempt to speak up in objection, however it would go unheard completely. A fist driven through the woman's chest, then the boss' attention shifted to one of the others in the line. "Bind them to their son, I want to make sure they get to see what he goes through. See how he is treated. Understand that they did this to him....well....at least that his mother understands she did this to him." With that two of the others at the door stepped forwards each towards the two bodies, extending their hands and pulling from the bodies a glowing orb before leaving the house with the others. The only two left, were the one covered in blood and the boss as that one claimed her to be. Maiana was approached by the boss and looked at, the boss with a confused look on her face. "Why...did you kill them?" Maina asked her, the boss looked down at the young small girl. "Are you sad? Did it hurt you that they died?" She questioned, which Maiana would answer with a nod. "Then why aren't you crying?"

The words that came from the boss' mouth hit the young girl like a brick. Her hands came up to her face, to feel her eyes...her cheeks, her face. Nothing, no wetness from tears. She hadn't been crying...but she just saw who was basically her family get killed...taken away so why? She cried when she was sold to them, had to leave the one that raised her until she was five....she cried many times when she felt sad just sitting around in her room...when she felt hurt by the other kid she lived with...why not now? Did she...not care? Was she not as sad as she thought she was? The girl was confused, her arms dropped to her sides rather limp. "I don't know..." Maina said, looking at the boss and then the other covered in blood. "Where...do I go now though?" She asked them. The boss offered something that seemed...off. A genuine, warm, and friendly smile. "Would you like to come with us?" The boss asked her. Maiana was even more confused, how could someone so ruthless, that just killed someone seem so...nice....and genuine. Maiana would look towards the other...the one covered in blood. Hoping that she would give reason to not accept this...make sense of something. Surely the girl covered in the blood of someone couldn't....then she saw it too. It was like an accepting warm smile from that person too, like she seemed glad that her boss had offered such a thing. Maiana looked between them and then...would just nod. Following behind the two of them as they left.

Narrative Information

Lasting Memory
Realization that she didn't care for these people, they were just the people she had to deal with. Offered a spot for Maiana along side them which she accepted.
[76 Sentences, 19 Paragraphs, 7600 xp]

 

[Ichengo Angelus]

It hadn't taken much time for The Boss to find out things about Maiana that even Maiana didn't know about herself. The first of these things happened to deal with assessing Maiana's capabilities in which they quickly discovered that Maiana was a particularly valuable individual. In fact the bit of information that they found surprised them for many reason. To start they learned that she had an affinity for chakra usage, and thus could do training much like shinobi training. However it wasn't simple affinity, she had an affinity for Wood Release, in addition to that she also seemed to be one of the rare few who were capable of using Hanaton as well. This was special in it's own right, however what made it all the more of a surprise was that there was nothing official in any records about her that The Boss could find. There were no people looking for a child that might be capable of using the powers of nature itself nothing. She was an enigma, and all she could wonder was....why?

The boss couldn't answer that, not right now. It was quite a surprise that she wasn't simply sold off to the highest bidder by the family they recently killed. Although it was much more likely that the woman knew of the girl's lineage and that was why she didn't sell her off. Having an off-spring with such strong affinities for these sorts of things would rocket their family value up. Well that wasn't the case anymore at all. Maiana was old enough by the time the group of vigilantes had picked her up too. They would begin training her fairly quickly after the incident in which they obtained her. Training her first in the ways of combat itself, during the time of her training she noticed that Boss and the other who seemed to be just under the Boss were absent. Thinking about it she didn't even know any of their names, none of them spoke names it was odd to Maiana. They also didn't ask for her name either...going from people who flaunted their name like it made them special to people that simply acted as if they knew who each other were even without knowing their names. Maiana was unsure about it...but she felt more comfortable than she did flaunting her name. At least for now she did.

Maiana's training was quick, brutal, but invigorating for her. At first she was quite tired after her training days, but it didn't take long for her body to adjust. She excelled at it almost. In fact she the days she had training she was pretty sure that after were the only times she had a genuine smile on her face. She did various other things to help out the group that took her in. Cleaning around their living space was her job when they were all out doing whatever they needed at the time. Sometimes she was alone in the secret hideout and found herself training on her own in secret as well. Hidden away from all the others. Her own special training. After about a year of a constant routine of this Boss and the other had appeared once again. They seemed to return at the exact same time, Maiana was sure that they were together the entire time. However the way they looked at each other told the growing child otherwise. The two of them laughed at each other and quickly produced a scroll. Each of them having a different one designed differently and would offer them to Maiana. The boss spoke up about the scrolls. "Took a while, but seems me n' her are more in synch than we thought. We...procured....you some scrolls to begin learning your unique jutsu. The stuff none of us can teach ya." She said, Maiana would grasp the scrolls and then look at the two of them. Smiling at them and nodding. "Thank You." She said to them. Then her training took a step up, she wanted to be like those two. She could tell the others seemed content with their abilities to deal with what they needed to deal with but she wouldn't be. She wanted to be as strong as she could.

Her training was stepped up a notch. She went from training every other day to training daily. In addition to her typical combat, ninjutsu, and other types of basic training she completed with her instructors. The others who had been part of the group for much longer than her, the days she once had off became practicing the jutsu depicted within the scrolls she had gotten. Off on her own, outside of the hideout she trained. Raising trees from the ground, sprouting flowers through. Six months after she started this type of training she began taking on jobs similar to the others. One that the Boss and her partner seemed to determine were fine to be done by her. She had proven herself, she picked up all of her training quickly so why not? Through another six months she would begin another type of training, meditation. She knew everything she could learn from the others...she was their equal now despite being the young age of nine. Her body would need to adapt better to the much more important so to speak techniques of the Mokuton Release. She had Hanaton down, but she needed more from Mokuton. Her meditation on days she didn't work would find itself paying off when she turned 10. When she first ever during meditation unlocked the usage of Sage Mode. Nature chakra flooding her body during her meditation that the Boss managed to catch a glimpse of happening. Maiana was approached by the Boss and she simply said to her. "Looks like you're ready take on the jobs that Alyia takes on. It's nice to finally introduce myself as well. I'm Zalina." The first time the boss ever used her name...and Alyia she could only assume was the other...her partner....she was recognized by them...her effort would not go in vain and she would not let down those two.

Narrative Information

Lasting Memory
Maiana's training unlocked something inside her. Some form of happiness and fulfillment she never felt once before. She excelled, learned, and then quickly was recognized by the two women who had saved her from her life of being content with something she didn't want because she had to be.
[60 Sentences, 15 Paragraphs, 6000 xp]

 

[Ichengo Angelus]

At a mere 10 years old she was the youngest of the group. In her time out she had heard them referred to as Vigilantes. Even they themselves often referred to their actions as vigilantism. Regardless the youngest of the group was Maiana, and now she was also one of the top brass of the group. Alongside Alyia and Zalina of course. She began taking the jobs they were taking on directly. She worked with them. The last year her jobs had been more along the lines of patrolling the slums of both Kumoito and Arashi on occasion if they took their vigilantism up to the village in the sky. Taking out gangsters, thugs, saving women, children, and men from terrible fates. The usual thing one might expect. Working along size Alyia and Zalina was a different story entirely though. The girl found herself thrust into a world where she wasn't sure she wanted to be. A familiar world actually now that she thought about it. The world of the rich, their actions, and their secrets. Maiana was no stranger to this, this was in fact the exact reason she had been found by these two and joined these two. They saved her from this world and now she was joining them in saving others from this world.

Maiana was a child still, however she was older now. As far as Alyia and Zalina were concerned old enough to be allowed knowledge of what exactly happened the day they found her. Maiana soon had become knowledgably about these things. Trafficking of children particularly female children often turned into some form of slave for some scumbag that had the money to stay within the shadows while dealing with these things. Where was it happening? Everywhere of course, this was far from a 'Land of Lightning' endeavor being taken on by a group of vigilantes. This was a global endeavor that had to be dealt with. Of course the rich and wealthy were very capable of hiding from the eyes of those who would frown upon and punish them through the law. Many people had other things they needed to do, many different things happened in the world and not everything could be observed by those who were capable of stopping it. That's what they were for...Zalina, Alyia, and now Maiana were the three that could keep their eyes on at least one facet of the world. One thing they could stop outside of the law or even care for it. Simply doing that which is right in order to bring happiness to those who needed it most. However also bringing vengeance upon those who deserve it.

Among the many things that she was told she was also shown things. Mainly the fate of the child who had abused her. The child of the woman and man who kept her in a basement and treated her as if she was a toy to be shown off during parties but hidden away and unobserved otherwise. She was shown the young boy, about her age. Maybe a year older now that she thought about it. Realizing he had grown a bit more and looked a bit older than her because of it now. She didn't envy it, no not even a little bit. The child was bruised all over, as if whoever did this to him had treated him ten times worse than he had treated her. He was crying, words escaped his lips that were inaudible at the time to her. As she looked at him...she noticed something else. Tethers of green energy that extended from his back into the air and into the forms of the woman and man who had effectively been her owners. They were both crying, although the man seemed more angry. It had been two years of this...they were not allowed to move on to the next life or whatever comes after death. They were forced to repeat this ever-living hell in which they watched as their son was abused in various ways. Alyia looked at Maiana with a frown on her face. "Eventually he will become numb and so to will the souls of the parents. When they all pass together they will have repented for their actions. None of them were innocent, not even a little bit. They were users who deserved the worst they could get." Maiana nodded to Alyia and then they moved on from this place.

In the next few years Zalina, Alyia, and Maiana came to know each other quite well. It was easier to work as a three person team than it was to work as a two man. The group of them had covered each other's abilities quite well, what one couldn't do it was likely that one of the other two could and it showed in their coordination as well. They were a lot like a typical team of shinobi in that manner, however their jobs were much different than that of the shinobi. They took on the dark underbelly that even some of the shinobi of the world and the military of the empires couldn't manage to deal with. Through their time together they managed to take out many different organizations, many gangs, many places knew them for the group that they were. During this time also Maiana went through a bit of a change as well, her body began to develop quickly. She and everyone around her had always expected that she was going to remain small forever. She was even small in comparison to other girls her age, but when she turned 12 she started to experience major growth spurts year after year. By the time she had turned 15 she was quite tall, taller than the other two who she accompanied during missions. Over time she adapted her way of fighting in close quarters to that as well. However the balance of the team had changed very little, she focused on her abilities of manipulating nature in order to pull her weight within the group.

However during the same year, her 15th year she and the group would hit a wall....a large one. During one of their missions, one they thought would be a typical take out of the group of thugs. They were wrong, it seemed that information of their attack on the group had gotten out fairly quickly to the group. Their abilities known somehow, and they hired people. Mercenaries capable of fighting against them. It wasn't by any means a good fight for either side either. Such heavy destructive power from Mercenaries who had been paid and cared little for their employers, the group of the three who had to match against the destructive power of the mercenaries. It came out with a win for the vigilantes....but also losses. Zalina....Boss had died during the fight. Alyia had gone insane, in fact she was the reason that they completed the mission they had set out to complete. After everything had settled Maiana and Alyia had a moment together, they buried Zalina...then they parted ways. Maiana found herself alone again...however she wasn't sad because of it. She knew much of the world now, she knew Zalina wouldn't have wanted her to be sad because the group of them parted ways. Maiana would take life however she felt she needed to this time. How exactly she was going to do that? Who knew, she would figure it out. She did have plenty of skill sets learned after all.

Narrative Information

Trauma/Lasting Memory
After becoming even more integrated into the group and training differently a variety of things happen. However her boss, her friend dying hurt her in such a way that she wishes not to experience losing someone the same way she lost Zalina ever again. Moving on with her life the way that she would have eventually.
[76 Sentences, 19 Paragraphs, 7600 xp]