XIII Years Ago
We open with Yoni sitting at a table, watching two of her sisters, Eili and Lorenza playing chess on the balcony. They are all members of the Li Cadenzo family, one of the richest families in Rome.
As Yoni watches her sister Lorenza clean house as she normally does, she continues staring off into the city below, but her Father, Leo Li MCadenzo, approaches her while she's deep in thought.
Leo: Hey Yoni, what troubles you?
Yoni: What do you mean by that?
Leo: You've just been staring at the city, you only do that when something's bothering you?
Yoni: Something is bothering me, that's no secret
Leo: Well what is it?
Yoni: There are stories you tell me, paintings mom paints, that tell me of a grander past, my Grandmother was one of the most daring adventurers in known memory and my Grandfather was known for his outspokenness and how he rejected his birth family and took his wife's name, our family used to be daring and bold.
Leo: Well that was a more glorious era, there's no reason to be so daring and brash
Yoni: Our family has lucky blood and Fortune favors the bold, we're supposed to be daring by nature
Leo: Yoni, you are twelve!! You know nothing of the dangers of adventuring.
Yoni: Well shouldn't we at least try to help the poor, I see them struggle on the streets every single day.
Leo: Our hands are tied there too, Our family made promises and obligations, helping those people was NOT one of those obligations
Yoni: But we could do so much more than sit in stagnation
The other Li Cadenzo sisters emerge on the scene
Eili: What's this talk of doing good?
Leo: Yoni is too idealistic for her own good
Lorenza: Allow her to dream big for now, when she settles into her role in our family, she'll forget these dreams
Yoni: But I don't want to forget!!
Eili: I know you won't, you're not like that
Leo: Yoni, these dreams..must remain as only dreams
Before Yoni could say another word, everyone left the room
The Present Day
Yoni is sulking in her family's treasure vault, she's doing inventory on it, looking at all the treasures her grandmother obtained on her adventures, one artifact is missing, The Chalice of Bacchus.
Yoni: Oh dad, one harmless party trick item goes missing and you go ballistic
Yoni continues looking at the vault, it's one of the largest in the RVT or Roman Vault Tower, where the riches of Rome are under constant surveillance and guard
Suddenly, a noise comes from outside the vault
Yoni: What was that?
Yoni grabs the Midanian Gauntlets, and begins scaling the vault, she is now on top if the vault, connected to the tower by a chain
Yoni: Hello…
Suddenly, a group of Centennials with Jetpacks appear
Yoni: Sinners Sextant?
More appear around Yoni before their leader emerges
Ayev: You assume correctly Yoni Li Cadenzo
Yoni: What's your business in here, I thought the debacle with the Adamite Key left you guys out of commission?
Ayev: That's none of your concern
Yoni: Ok, so you guys stole The Chalice of Bacchus
Ayev is caught off guard by the aqcusation, confirming Yoni's suspicions
Yoni: I thought petty theft was above your paygrade?
Ayev: Times are tough, you've got to have some sympathy for the little guys…
Yoni: Listen if you're gonna ask for handouts doing so by breaking into where all the money is not how you do it
Ayev: How about I cut the small talk and tell you that I do not care about your feelings, disabled all the surveliance systems and can take whatever I want
Yoni: How about I cut your big talk and tell you to fuck off
At this Ayev, began to lose their temper
Ayev: Who are YOU to tell me what to do, I have an army and you do not!!
Yoni: Ok so are you gonna leave or not?
The Sinners Sextant point their weapons at Yoni
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Ayev: Stand aside and forget this ever happened
???: I'm afraid this is now in the books old friend!
Almost on cue, Faithful Night, an elite strike team of four Centennials, slides down the chain to join Yoni on the platform
Faithful Night consists of Elybe, Monact, Dassu and Wjenx, they were fast and able freelancers but have since joined The Century Corps
Ayev: No…anyone but you four
Elybe: You expected someone else but instead it was me, Elybe!
Yoni: I don't know who you are?
Elybe: The name's Elybe!
Wjenx: I'm Wjenx
Monact: Call me Monact
Dassu: Dassu!!
Yoni: Ok cool
Ayev: You four…here!!
Elybe: Well old friend you've been a bad dude up to bad stuff so we're here to put you away
Wjenx: Surrender now, don't make this harder then it already is
Yoni: We're you people friends or something?
Monact: Ask your questions later
Ayev: I don't wish to fight you…Sextant, Retreat
Dassu: Wait no come back!!
Ayev and The Sextant Fly away
Wjenx: Well let's go after them
Yoni: Yeah we're gonna totally chase them down
Monact: We?
Yoni: Yeah, we, you, me and everyone else
Monact: Kid you're not part of this
Yoni: I'm 25
Wjenx: You're just a citizen and Ayev is a terrorist
Yoni: One who stole something from my family and one who's your friend if I understand your words correctly
Elybe: Ayev was our friend once upon a time…
Monact: Look our operation to retrieve The Chalice doesn't need a variable like you gunking things up
Dassu: You really just better off telling your father we on the case
Yoni: Did you mean to leave out your "are's"
Dassu: ….
Wjenx: They can't say "are" and we're done talking to you
Yoni: Did my father also tell you to stop me from joining you on your mission
Monact: No that's my call, this is serious business
Elybe: Would it really hurt to have another person around?
Dassu: Elybe! We. Not. Supposed. To. Endanger. Civilians!!
Yoni: I'm not an ordinary civilian, I've got the Midanian Gauntlets and Lady Fortuna on my side
Elybe: What do you mean by that?
Yoni: Fortune favors the bold my friends
Monact: We're not friends
Wjenx: You're too stubborn for your own good, FINE, come along with us if you wish, but don't slow us down
Yoni: Sweet!!
Elybe: I guess welcome aboard
Monact: This is a bad bad idea, Veto, VEETOOOOO
Dassu: Overruled
Monact: But-
Yoni: No further questions
Monact: C'mon guys you're not actually considering bringing this joker along with us…
Elybe: Majority rule!
Monact: Bro come on
Yoni: So sweet, what's next?
Monact: We go up to the Sinners Sextant and we find out who they're working for
Elybe: Sounds like a plan
Dassu: Let's go
Yoni: But uh, we gotta get out of here first
Begin Descending down The Treasure Vault
When the Party is 33% of the way down, some members of Sinners Sextant appear and begin harassing the team
Yoni: Aw sweet action
Monact: You should leave most of the fighting to us as it's dang-
Before Monact could finish their sentence, Yoni jumped onto one of the mercenaries punching them with the gauntlets, turning their armor into gold with every attack
Wjenx: I'm beginning to like that kid
Fight against The Sextant
When you win
Dassu: She's pretty good at this whole fighting thing
Yoni: I can throw one heck of a punch!
Monact: You are a rookie!
Elybe: One who's really good for a rookie
Wjenx: Ok ok don't give the kid an ego
Yoni: I'm 25!!
Wjenx: I'm 807
Yoni: Ok…so I seem a little young to you
Wjenx: I am 782 years your superior
Yoni: Ok senior citizen
Monact: See this girl is nothing but trouble
Elybe: It's endearing!
Monact: Graaaah agree with me!!
Elybe: No
Dassu: Arguing like a married couple
Elybe: We are married
Dassu: Oh…I forgot
Monact: You've known us for years how did you forget
Dassu: I'm an IDIOT, remember?
Monact: Right…right…
Wjenx: Jeez dude
Yoni: Funny banter
Monact: Stop
Continue down the tower
When you are LXVII% down the tower, another wave of The Sextant attack
Yoni: I'll give em the what for, the one two combo
Yoni punches one mercenary in the stomach and then again in the face
Elybe: Looks like you're having fun
Yoni: Well I never went on a real adventure before so I'm enjoying myself
Monact: This isn't a game Yoni, people's LIVES are at stake
Yoni: Well they always are, you don't have to tell me about people's lives being in danger, I've just grown numb to it becuase I couldn't do anything about it for the longest time
Monact: What do you mean by that?
Yoni: When you meet the rest of my fanily you'll understand
Elybe: Huh
Wjenx: Kid we got bad guys around tell us your tragic backstory or whatever later
Yoni: Yes grandma
Wjenx: Never call me that again
Yoni: You got it boss
Sinners Sextant Member I: "Bad guys"
Sinners Sextant Member II: Just roll with it
Fight against The Sinners Sextant again
When you win, Yoni throws a powerful punch that generates a poweful magic blast
Wjenx: You're a wizard?
Yoni: Not really, my family just has magic blood or something like that
Monact: This was the worst idea
Elybe: Come on Monact, it's gone fine so far
Dassu: Yeah it's mostly been a nuetral choice so far
Monact: I will DISAGREE VEHEMENTLY
Elybe: So you're a non-believer?
Yoni: They wouldn't be the first
Monact: Trite
Wjenx: Monact is being a downer, nothing's changed
Elybe: Heh
Monact: Oh you people
Dassu: This is a republic not a kingdom
Monact: Oh who cares what we are
Yoni: Clearly you do
Dassu: Let's just leave
Yoni: Good idea
Yoni jumps off the vault
Monact: I HATE HER GRAAAAH
Continue down the treasure tower
When the team reaches the bottom, they leave the tower and see discarded cores from Sextant suits
Elybe: Sextant fled into the city proper looks like
Monact: We are…going to find them…and KILL THEM
Yoni: Are you always this intense
Monact: Yes
Wjenx: Monact we might want to leave them alive?
Monact: So they can come back and try to kill us AGAIN, no thanks
Dassu: Monact you have a rigid worldview
Suddenly, Yoni's personal hologram begins to ring
Yoni: Let me take this
Elybe: Sure
Yoni presses the button, and a hologram of one of her sisters appear
Lorenza (Over Hologram): Yoni!! What were you doing fighting against Sinners Sextant!
Yoni: Oh boy
Dassu: Family drama!!
Lorenza (Over Hologram): Is that the Century Corps with you?