Bullets were flying and I was scared but when I saw a man about to kill an unarmed person I had to do something. Almost as instinct my body moved and I tackled the man with the gun and fought him for it. Before I could do anything a gunshot went off and the man was dead beneath my body.
Who knew this would be the day that changed my life. He offered a hand to me, the man I saved. He saw potential in me and he offered me to join him. I was down on my luck, I had nowhere to go, no one to call family... So I took his hand.
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There was a group on this world know as the Crimson Flames. Originally it started as an idea from one man in a struggling family and it turned into a crime syndicate who ruled and protected the US from the shadows. It started with taking down drug trafficking rings and controlling them. Then it lead to slavery and weapon selling. Eventually it led to sponsoring the military and government and offering guns and fake drug busts to make the leaders lookbetter to the people.
Pheonix Crimson was the newest of the family born a bastard child. A family of caucasian decent was riled when their daughter went out and slept with a man outside the family's eyes and eventually gave birth to his son.
Pheonix, just like his name, rose from the ashes after years of being left out and saved one of the drug ring issues his own father and brothers struggled with for years, and he completed it in mere hours. They considered him the bastard genius and his father saw potential on him and sent him on a suicide mission and told him if he made it back alive and completed the mission he would crown him the head of the syndicate.
The mission was a bloody brutal path and he was only 11. And as he was just about to finish the first part of his plan he found himself about to die when someone with pure black hair jumped in and saves him. The kid had scars and wounds of a troubled past and even had a distinct white strip of hair on the left side of his head. Pheonix knew he wasn't strong like this kid so he offered him a deal.
"Work for me and I can offer you money, power, fame, and anything else you seek" those were the words he spoke to this kid who sat there with the blood of the traitor pooled around his legs. The kid looked to be 9 years old but had the body of a 13 year old jock. But the part that scared pheonix was not his hair, or his scars, or even his strength. It was the soulless look in his deep blue eyes, and Pheonix felt that if he stared at them for too long he would be drowned in them. This was the eyes of someone he could trust, because they were the same as his eyes. Only Pheonix's eyes were that of an orangish red hue, almost like a sea of blood.
As Mason looked into the eyes of this man who had blood dripping from his weak hands and a gun smoking from the round fired he felt strange. He felt as if this was his destiny, the hand held out to him was that of his future but he hesitated. "I don't want money or power or anything." Mason said as he sat there feeling still warm blood drench his torn jeans. "What I want is... a family"
Pheonix: "Well then if you come be my gun then I'll be your trigger and if we make it out this alive I promise to be your family. I can't promise blood relations or that we will play together or anything. But I can promise you I'll be there when you need me if you are there when I need you, so how is that?"
Mason: "Yeah, that's all I could ever ask for!"
The bloody hands of the two embraced as Pheonix helped Mason up. The two limped out together leaving behind a trail of bodies in their wake.
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Days turned to months and months turned into a year and after 5 years of planning and gathering and killing the two managed to topple an entire organization of traitors and liars and they returned to Pheonix's father with the head of the man who betrayed him.
After that it wasn't long before it was clear pheonix was the new head of the syndicate. And true to Pheonix's word he made Mason and a few others he made friends with on his journey, his top executives of the syndicate. They were known as "The Pheonix Order".
Pheonix was named "The Boss" he had final say in anything that happened and lead his order to victory.
Mason was named "Alpha" he was head of defense and ran the kidnapping ring, he was also the top assassin of the order.
Frost was named "Doc" the head of medical and drug trafficking ,she was not afraid to tell people how it is.
Shawn was named "badger" he was a major gun freak and was a major battle strategist, he became the head of weapon dealing and military strategy booking.
Ava was the last of the members and was named "Crow" she was the head of media and tech, she was a computer whizz by birth and kept the media under control and was the crews info dealer.
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8 years after this is where our story begins as a man in his early 20s is walking alone down the street after being fired from his job...