Cenic and Molli, Sibling rivals. [Origins]
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Molli and Cenic were on a mission to infiltrate and kill a chemtec scientist said to be running underground experiments on human-animal hybridization, this man was said to be delusional and very dangerous, seeing this as an opportunity for them to settle their scores with each other Molli happily accepted and enlisted Cenic as her bodyguard, this mission was located in the warehouse district in the underbelly of piltover, a place known better to all as Zawn. It had been years that the two had been hearing rumors of strange experiments and black market dealings taking place in Zawn, but neither could be troubled about the affairs of lowlifes. Anyone who would live in such a place must have been insane or into dark dealings to even set foot in such a place, but with the payout of this mission they would be able to live in the higher levels of Piltover and killing some mad scientists would be a good way to sport and do something decent and praise worthy, Molli thought that if she could show Cenic that she was able to kill more of these scientists the he could she would be able to finally brag about it, to do something that he could not, An air headed decision. Cenic being older and more rational had already concluded that the two of them might be outnumbered but they would have the unseen advantage, the element of surprise. Factoring in the fact that they had no idea how many enemies they were up against Cenic thought to have Molli scout the area making sure to stay hidden. At the lab, warehouse 17 north of the docks Cenic and His sister Molli moved under the cover of dawn, knowing that the underbelly would have its peak activity at nightfall, they only had a small window between then and day break to sneak into Zawn, and complete their mission. Moving carefully to avoid making sound Cenic stayed within the shadow slowly making his way to the location, Molli being the adept that she was moved like a shadow swiftly yet silently over the rooftops and through the crannies of buildings clustered into compounds. Cenic watched as she gracefully leaped and poised from ground to gateway unwavering and focused, at this he sighed this was what he envied her ability to keep composure in this kind of circumstance, she moved effortlessly while he needed to concentrate so much just to not stumble in this low light. As expected Molli arrived at the ware house location before Cenic and as planned she begun scouting the perimeter. Cenic arrived shortly afterward keeping his form hidden, waiting for her signal. As her code name explain Molli called out to Cenic with the sound of a raven. At the sound Cenic moved this was the signal, Molli's troop had taught them various bird calls and a certain few of them had chosen the call of the raven and thus carried it in their code names. Remaining unseen Cenic was wary of this distinct silence that came after her call. To the east of warehouse 17 Cenic made his Rendezvous, Molli had found that there were no guards and the place was eerily quiet for a laboratory doing hybrid experiments. Cenic nodded, as she outlined the various entry points she had found into the building, along with the details on the other surrounding wear houses. Both Cenic and Molli found it strange that by comparison all the other wear houses were either fenced off or had some minimal level of security. Contemplating this discovery Cenic had begun questioning whether they were falling in an ambush or were in over their heads. Molli still eager for action was ready to move once Cenic had composed himself. Thinking back, Cenic recalled seeing kennels but no sight nor sound of dogs, and strangely enough no guards either. This feeling was starting to gnaw on the back of his mind, but being the steel willed man that he was, he suppressed his fears, after all there was no way they could have known. The element of surprise was still in their favor. Cenic have the signal, Molli dashed in delight, leaping soundlessly to the rooftop, she made her entrance through the above skylight. On this moonless night the darkness beckoned, calling to its children to do some form of ill will. Molli rejoiced for this was her kind of weather, the salty taste from the moisture in the air, the absolute darkness overhanging, and the planned assassination she had to commit was what she lived for, she had not always been so, but being recruited as an assassin at the age of 7 did numbers on her. It was startling enough that she still spoke let alone retained some shred of her former personality, she cared little for much, only her brother, her squadron and killing could invoke her response. As she made her way through the roof Cenic proceeded to a door to his right at the east of the building. He waited, sounds of a latch shifting, the door opened slightly as to not let in light or sound, Cenic pressed through the door pulling it shut as he entered.
Two steps ahead Molli stood scanning the darkness, as part of her training her eyes were accustom to working under low light, but this was different, this foreboding darkness was almost impenetrable, even her well trained eyes could only see a short distance before her. Cenic proceeded to advance in the darkness, when suddenly, he felt a hand hit him square in the chest. He froze instantly, Molli's hand raised from his chest signaling him to hold his position. Cenic instinctively held the hilt of his blades as Molli's gaze scoured the darkness. Through the murk Molli distinguished the vague outline of something. A silhouette,
Melding with the shadows, slowly moving towards them, holding her ground she drew her twin daggers and alerted Cenic, reaching into his pocket Cenic pulled a hand full of small luminescent orbs, he squeezed 4 of them in his hand then flung them in the air, scattering in an arc the orbs grew brighter, then exploded in a blinding flash of light, had Molli not known Cenic she too would have been blinded. The bright flash for a fleeting moment illuminated the room leaving the rest to reveal; a large number of wooden crates stacked around the room, metal cages with bent bars, fur scraps and dander littered around the room and a pile of half eaten and partially decomposing corpses. In Cenic's mind a new question surfaced, why can't I smell this? In the room the light also revealed a massive hound about the size of 2 bears, staggering in its daze from the flash beads. Seeing this beast Cenic and Molli shared the thought, saying out loud, "well, guess we're in the right place." The siblings charged the mutant weapons in hand, Cenic leading the charge slashed at the beasts shoulder, Molli following behind ran forward springing off Cenic's back, going over to the other side of the beast stabbing into its back and ripping into its flesh as she landed. In agony the beast swat at Molli, hitting only air in its blind rage.
Molli had already moved several steps backwards and was preparing to make her next attack. Cenic flurried swiftly delivering 3 strikes, this time lower on its forelimb in an attempt to immobilize it. The beast swung its claw cleaving wind and barely missing Cenic had he not ducked. The beast roared in rage as Cenic jumped to his feet and distanced from it. The mutant hound had regained its senses an was now wary of charging the siblings, it ran towards a stack of crates behind which it hid, Molli chased the creature eager to strike the finishing blow, but as the beast swerved it swung a claw again at Molli who was now in direct line of the hit, reacting quickly she sprang into the air leaping backwards and fired three of her daggers at the beast, one of which hit square in the eye, again the beast roared, but this time it's roar signaled the siblings that it was near its end. Both Cenic and Molli charged the beast, coming at it from either side, it's gaze fixed on Molli it again swat at her, and again she leaped in the air firing off her daggers, Cenic yelled commanding the beasts attention, in the very instant it turned towards him he slashed at its face, the first landing at its shoulder, he yelled louder then continued his assault, following with another slash at its leg, a sweep across its chest, in agony the beast fell to its belly, bleeding heavy it could no longer stand on its lacerated limbs, Cenic saw his chance, he spun round again slashing at its chest and crossing his blades for his finishing strike. With a blood gargling whimper the beast still attempted to crawl away from Cenic, baffled at how this mutant miraculously survived, ment that he had also failed. His attempt to execute the beast in a merciful way had failed, and thus ment that the beasts life was now in the hands of his sister Molli. As an assassin Molli specialized in swiftly and silently killing her targets, but there were missions that Molli found especially delightful, missions where she would have to track down and isolate targets for interrogation. Molli had often been picked on growing up and as a result grew to enjoy the pain and anguish of others, Cenic as her brother would always play his role and come to her defense as a child, the main reason she was able to trust and console in him, but as for others they had no place in her world, if they were with her they had better keep up or get left behind, as as for those against her, the more the merrier, it meant that she had more swines to kill, and this beast was no exception.
From the shadows, Molli charged the beast prying her blade from its eye, and immediately twirling to slash its body. Looking on Cenic shook his head as he watched his sister carve the poor mutant. In this pain the beast summoned its strength and made a final attempt to flee from its reapers. Cenic sighed masking his eyes for he knew what was coming, the beast made a truly fatal mistake by running from Molli, there was nothing that she loved more than a fleeing target, she fired true, running forward as the dagger sunk into the beasts flesh, she closed in almost instantly since the hound was so badly injured,
Molli grabbed the blade, it had stuck in the hounds neck but in her dash she had grabbed it stopping immediately and dragged it across, a moment passed, not a sound could be heard, Molli stood overlooking the mutated hound, it's head severed from the spine was in a pool of blood running fresh on to Molli's shoes, her hands were bathed in it, as the fresh substance dripped from her blade and fingers. She shook her hands, slowly turning in Cenic's direction. Even in this low light Cenic could see the beaming smile on her face, the glow illuminating from the scattered flash beads were enough to show her expression, he knew what was coming, stepping back Cenic saw Molli walking towards him, her hands outstretched gesturing for a hug, Molli moved closer to Cenic. He sighed as his hand darted up to her face as he said, "stop, before you say anything, remember, this mission is still not complete." Just then, the duo were startled by the surrounding sound of deranged laughter. Cenic was grief struck as the flash from the lights switching on nearly blinded him. Looking about frantically Molli pressed her back against Cenic's as they stood armed and ready for the source of the laughter to appear, nothing else was seen, then as his eyes adjusted they saw them, four cameras installed in the corners of the room, they were being watched the entire time. Cenic was infuriated, Molli dashed forward and launched a dagger at each of the cameras, piercing the lens, she thought the feed would end, but suddenly she felt weak, a dizzy spell caused her to drop to her knees, she looked about to see even her brother Cenic, lightheaded an on a knee bracing against his swords. The light brightened, the world blurred and all sounds fell to distortion, darkness fell as the light from the glowing flash beads faded from their sights.
Muffled sounds of laughter followed by distant whimpers and barking.
"It's funny how fresh prey come to hunters, a marvelous performance, and even more outstanding specimens. I think I have special plans for you two.
Help me, please, Brother, help me.
Cenic's Eyes burst open, the bright over head lights almost blinded him as his eyes adjusted.
"Oh, your already awake, well aren't you a strong one."
Cenic was strapped down to a surgical table, fastened from his shoulders down to his feet he was completely immobilized. He looked around to see a man, or rather a humanoid figure standing over his sister who lay on an adjacent table bound and strapped just as he was.
The man held a syringe which contained a blackish red fluid and looked back at Molli, he said "this here is a concoction I whipped up, it has a little of you, a little of her, and some other things I had laying around the lab". His maddening laughter seemed to sink into Cenic's mind, gnawing at his sanity. Cenic had always been short tempered when it came to people picking on his sister, and the sight of this made him snap. " Get away from her!!!", Cenic roared, his rage could be felt as the emotion channeled his strength. "Cenic, help me", her words could be heard, yet she did not stir, she communicated through their thoughts. Cenic felt her fear and could tell that she was hurting, in his mind Cenic remembered his war training. He always had his blades, but they were now on a table just beyond the man figure. This man, this scientist, he had to be the one they were after, what he was doing had justified Cenic's resolve, he was an abomination, and had to be killed. In his rage Cenic's tears welled in his eyes as he lay helpless while this fiend tortured his beloved sister. The tears ran red as he bled from his eyes, his nostrils, and skin, his whole body seemed to be pouring forth blood. The heat of his rage could be felt, then something miraculous happened, Cenic's blood rose from his skin hovering in the air around him, it transferred this heat, his rage, and burned him free of his bindings. In his mind he envisioned his blades and from his blood they materialized. The scientist stood awestruck, in a single swing Cenic had flung him several feet across the room, his blood splattered across the face of the mad mans corpse, then it begun to scorch him, Cenic stared at his hands, his blood was solid, stable, and felt like the substance of steel. He thought nothing of the subject, he had more pressing mattered to attend. Molli lay bound on her table, unconscious but breathing, Cenic put his head to her chest weeping softly, relieved that she was breathing. He had come too late the scientist had already injected her with whatever was in that syringe, just then a bone chilling laughter pried Cenic's attention.
It came from the floor behind the table where their weapons were kept, the flung scientist had regained consciousness. And now his maddening laughter felt like blades piercing his soul. Cough, cough, quite a discovery, cough, I never expected, cough, you to free yourself, cough, let alone do what you did, cough. That serum was meant to modify your bodies to have skin like metal, cough cough".
A gentle caress on the back of his neck returned Cenic's gaze to his sister. She'd begun awakening but still the maddening laughter continued to peel away at his psyche. Cenic's rage was once again ignited causing his blood to again scorch the surroundings and where it had fallen, the laughter turned to screams of agony as the deranged scientist rolled on the floor in pain, Cenic's blood was burning away at his flesh yet he mustered still the words, " ah, Good, your both alive, we shall proceed, the test was a succs, Soh....... Gargling noises. Choking cough.
Molli had fully awakened and was annoyed by all the laughing and monologue. With a flick of her hand a blade materialized from her blood and launched into the scientists throat, he was immediately silenced and was now choking on his own blood. Molli looked at Cenic's face and wiped a tear from his eye, despite this she her self began to weep and eventually fell to tears. For the first time in years the two shared a heart felt moment where they realized how much they cared for each other. Cenic lifted Molli of the table and brought her to a sitting pose, they looked about to fully identify their surroundings. In this strange lab where they had killed a deranged scientist, their blood covered the walls, table and floor, they had completed their mission.
Several day later Cenic stood on the deck of a ship overlooking the coast of Valoran, Molli walked out from the cabin with a poster in hand, "our next mission is in a place called Ionia, I got word from one of my raven troop members saying that their homeland was being invaded, she needs help assassinating a man named Darius".