Heart of Darkness slams his fists on his desk, breaking it into splinters. He then shoves the pieces out of the way as he yells as black fog spews out of his cloak..

"FUCK!!! I cannot believe that both of my super soldiers failed me! Looks like I got to get my hands dirty! No, wait... I cannot leave this tower... He'll be sure to get me! My power grows weak everyday because Reaper drains the darkness. I need to send out more Darkium in the drugs so I can get powerful again. Yes! I need to do that! No! Stupid! I cannot be careless! Too much will kill the 'customers', dammit!

"What's wrong, master? Is Reaper messing up your plans?"

Heart of Darkness heard a feminine voice. It could only be one of two women. He looks up to see Black Rose entering his office. Black Rose walks up to him and rubs on his cloak in a seductive way just like every time she sees him.

"Why don't you let me handle him for you?"

Heart of Darkness slaps her hand away from him. He was getting tired of the same old dance that she does with him. It was boring.

"Like how you did last time?"

Heart of Darkness said trying to strike a nerve. It didn't work. Black Rose had placed barriers around her mind. She didn't want to feel the pain she'd felt before. Before she knew he died.

"That was a little test to see if he had a weakness."

"Well then, what makes you think you can do better this time?"

"Oh, I have my ways..."

She smiles and turns into black rose petals and flies away. Heart of Darkness snaps his fingers. The splinters that was the desk gets swarmed by a black fog. The desks forms itself back together. He sits at it with his fingers laced together.

"We will see if you can get the job done, Black Rose. We will see..."

Reaper walks from alleyway to alleyway avoiding to be seen. He thought he hears a giggle but continues to walk. He sees a little homeless girl crying. She was wearing tattered clothes and her body was covered in filth. She looked no older than 7 years old. She sees him walking.

"Hey mister... Do you have any food? I'm starving..."

"I don't eat the kinda food you eat."

"What food do you eat mister? I'll eat whatever you have. I promise."

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Reaper look at her in the eyes. There was almost a sparkle in his eye. He looked at her with a sense of want. When he was Asher, he always wanted a daughter of his own. He would name her "Jessica" because he always loved the name. Reaper shook his head to get that memory out of his head. He couldn't understand why this memory came to him.

"No, it will destroy you."

Reaper turns away and starts to walks away from the girl. The girl stands up almost annoyed.

"Hey! I'm still talking to you!"

Reaper ignores her and continues to walk away. The girl pulls out a black rose. She points it at him in a sneer. She hated to be ignored. She does a whipping motion and the rose turns into a whip with deadly thorns on it. She whips it at Reaper. He turns around and puts his arm up as it wraps around his armored arm. The girl smiles. She admired him for always being so defensive even towards a helpless girl.

"What gave me away this time?"

She starts to walk towards Reaper. She walks through a shadow. In a blink of of an eye, she came out as Black Rose. Reaper points at a spot on his chest. He was always detailed oriented and nothing could get past him when he knows what to look for.

"There was a small picture of a rose on the tattered clothes. That's what gave you away."

"I can't help it if I loves roses."

"Obviously."

Reaper gestured at the whip she was gripping on. Black Rose smirked and glanced at her whip.

"You mean 'Rose Whip'."

"I don't give a damn what you call it. A rose is a rose."

"Yes, you are right but this 'rose'...

Black Rose gestured to herself in a seductive manner.

"...is deadly!"

The thorns expand, penetrating Reaper's arm. He didn't groan or showed any pain in his eyes She whips her whip back scratching his armored arm and letting the blood leak out of the hole created on his armored arm. Reaper forms his scythe in his hand and takes a step towards Black Rose. He stops and puts a hand on his head as he becomes delusional. Black Rose smiles at him. It seems like the poison from her thorns.

"What's wrong, darlin'? Is my whip too much for you? I have no idea why Shadow Blade and Dark Storm had such a hard time with you. You're so weak."

"Zayner..."

"Zayner...?"

Black Rose questioned Reaper trying to figure out what he was talking about.

"Dark Storm..."

Reaper said weakly as the poison runs through his veins.

".. No more... Zayner..."

Reaper loses consciousness as the poison takes over him. Black Rose is baffled. Was Dark Storm really Zayner?

"I thought that Calypso... I mean master said that he transferred to a different company when Asher died...

She looks at Reaper. Then, was Reaper really... Asher? She bends down to take off his helmet until Moloch shows up.

"Don't do that, yet."

Black Rose is startled as she looks at Moloch. She pulls her whip back and points it towards the direction she heard the voice came from. The deep alluring voice calls out to her.

"Why the violence? Just take a seat will you?"

Moloch's hand comes into the light and he snaps his finger and a chair comes up from the ground. Black Rose was forced to sit in the chair.

"I don't want for you to know him just yet."

"And why not?"

Moloch's eye twitched once showing a hint of annoyance.

"Why are you humans always impatient? I was getting to that. You see, he's on a mission for me. I need him to get into Calypso's building for me."

"Why don't you do it, Mr. Macho?"

Moloch waves his finger at her teasingly. He gave her a cheeky smile.

"Tsk tsk. Because I've struck a deal with him, and I want him to succeed in his mission."

"Sounds like bullshit to me."

Moloch laughs. He hated humans, but loved them at the same time. Especially ones like Reaper and Black Rose.

"That's why I love you! You're so feisty! Anyways, just take him back to Calypso so he can do what I have ask of him to do and trust me... You won't regret it..."

Moloch chuckled as he disappears in a black flame. Her chair disappears, and she hits the ground on her ass. She gets up and dusts herself off. She was a little annoyed that Moloch was a little rough with her. She glances at Reaper.

"Won't regret it, huh?"

She lifts up Reaper's body up over her shoulder and heads towards Calypso's building.

"I hope you are correct. You better be correct, you creepy bastard."

Twilight Mistress comes out of the shadows with a smirk.

"Oh, looks like my favorite toy is coming back home..."