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At the start, things hadn't been too bad. Occasionally there would be fights on the streets and some Warriors and Harlots would come home with cuts and bruises. On more than one occasion Robin had to clean Vermin up after a fight he got into on patrol. A war like this they figured they could handle but as the weeks flew by things began to get heavier. A number of the Warriors stores were hit, being smashed up or worse, burned to the ground. The number of Destroyers invading the streets seemed to increase every day and so did the casualties.
Robin was sitting in her apartment with Mercy and Melody sitting at the window and looking out onto the wet streets. It would have been a beautiful night if it wasn't for the shouting they could hear off in the distance.
"Robin sweetie, come away from the Window" Mercy said, waving her friend over and inviting her to sit with her on the sofa while they listened to the radio. The lights were low in the apartment since the Destroyers knew these buildings didn't have any civilians living inside and Robin didn't feel like getting a Molotov Cocktail through her window. Their three sigificant others were all out on patrol and instead of sitting along waiting for them, the girls decided to stick together. It felt safer for each of them, above all.
"Now for the word on the street boppers, the War in Coney between the Destroyers and the Warriors has gone to a whole new level with both teams losing some major players..." Robin tuned out the radio from her mind, intently listening for the door. That would mean Vermin, Swan and Rembrant were home in one peice. There was a small click down the hallway, the sound of the front door of the building being opened. Melody grinned and signalled for Robin to sit down.
"You sit, i'll go get our boys in" She said with a flip of her long blonde hair and a smile. She opened the front door and jogged her way into the cold dark hallway. The only thing she could make out was the dark outline of two men, but she couldn't make out what they were wearing or their facial features until one of the men had rushed her. She let out a scream as the man grabbed her hard at the shoulders causing Mercy and Robin to jump up from their seats and run out into the dark hallway straight into the other soldiers arms. The last thing Robin could remember was watching Mercy and Melody being knocked out before she felt a blinding pain in the back of her head and her own eyes closed.
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Vermin and Rembrant slowly shuffled into the building around Midnight. Their patrol hadn't been as difficult as some they had been on lately but Rembrant had done a lot of painting, covering up some of the burners that the Destroyers had put down on their turf. Vermin welcomed the quiet night, he had been in enough fights for a while and he knew Robin was sick of him coming home covered in bruises. In a way he felt bad for his girlfriend. He knew she was itching to join the action and help her girls out on the street but it just simply wasn't an option. He had straight out told her she'd be helping from the sidelines and when she tried to argue he reminded her that it was his kid too. She reluctantly saw his point.
There was something strange about the bulding as he walked in. For one thing the front door of the bulding and his apartment were both lying open. If Robin was inside she was going to get a talking to, He had told her to stay safe. Then he noticed something that put him totally on edge. There were spots of what looked lik blood on the stone floor of the hallway.
"What the hell?" He muttered, mostly to himself but it was loud enough for Rembrant to hear. The younger Warrior followed his friends gaze down to the floor and he was asking himself the same question. Quickly, Vermin shook himself from the almost hypnotic state he was in and he shoved his way inside his apartment.
"Robin?!" He shouted, looking all around. Everything was the same as when he had left. No sign of any kind of struggle but then...maybe any kind of fight didn't take place inside the apartment. Rembrant walked inside behind him, equally as concerned.
"Mel?" He shouted out, part of him knowning fine well that there was no-one there but hey, he could still hope. "Looks like theres no-one home" he said quietly. Vermin frowned.
"Yeah but where would they have gone? They know its not exactly safe!" Vermin snapped. He didn't mean to be so harsh but coming home to find your pregnant girlfriend missing would do that to any man.
"Maybe they went..I dunno, to the store or something?" Rembrant said, finding it hard to believe his own story. Vermin shook his head.
"At Midnight?!" He stressed. Theh he caught something that confirmed his worst fears that something was wrong. Lying over the back of the old chair was Robin's Harlots vest. Vermin went over and picked it up, it still smelled like her perfume. He felt sick to his stomach, now he was sure that it was blood in the hallway.
"What is that? A vest?" Rembrant asked, Vermin's head turned towards him and he nodded.
"Yeah" He said quietly, his throat suddenly very dry, "It's Robin's and you know she never goes anywhere without wearing it" Rembrant gulped so hard he was sure that Vermin had heard it.
"What do you think we should do?" He asked with a small voice. Rembrant had grown up a lot over the past few years but sometimes he still showed his age.
"We need to get Swan. He's going to want to know about this"
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Her head was splitting when she began to finally come to and she was sure there was blood running down her face. Her eyes soon began to come to focus and in the darkness of the room she was in she could just make out Mercy and Melody lying across from her. Mercy was just starting to come to and Melody was still knocked out. Whoever had grabbed them were just making their way outside and had locked the door behind them.
As she pushed herself up, a drip of blood fell from her forehead and landed with a dull splat on the hard cold floor. Now she was certain she was bleeding but she also realised her hands were bound.
"Mercy? Melody? You there?" She asked out into the darkness with a very scratchy voice. There was slight movement infront of her and a voice suddenly called out.
"Yeah, I'm here. Mel's just waking up" Mercy said quietly as Melody also pushed herself to an upright sitting position. She looked around herself to try and get her bearings but she didn't recognise where she was. The room wasn't exactly huge but there was enough space to maybe fit one of two standing bodies. She couldn't tell if if was the back room of an aparment or the office of a huge warehouse and that was what was making her feel the most awkward. Outside they could hear the men talking, not exactly being discrete about their volume but Robin still couldn't work out what they were mumbling. After a few minutes of mumbling the door flew open sending a stream of light into the room, hurting the girls eyes. A large man stepped forward while the other two not so large men walked past him and picked Melody up.
"Blonde girl, you're coming with us. Not so Blonde girls...you two are staying here" he snarled. Melody kicked and screamed as she was dragged out by the two men, Robin and Melody both feeling helpless as they were bound to the floor. The door slammed shut again, sending dust flying into the air and causing Robin and Mercy to cough.
"Are you alright? You're not hurt or anything?" Robin asked Mercy as the two sat in the dark alone. Mercy smiled a little through the stiff pain.
"My back is killing me and i'm a little stiff but doing okay but how are you doing? You think the Baby is okay!?" Mercy asked a little panic stricken.
Robin didn't want to admit it but she actually had totally forgotten she was pregnant. She wasn't that far along and only had a very small bump, she guessed it was all the drama that had done it. She thought the baby was fine or at least, she hoped he or she was. She began to think of Vermin and her eyes began to sting with tears. Great, this was not the time for her hormones to start playing a part.
"I think so, Everything feels fairly normal" She said, trying to sound as calm as possible. In this situation, warlord or not, it wasn't an easy thing to do. It was also a bit of a lie, she felt sick. Not just normal "Morning Sickness" though, her stomach was churning, she felt like she was burning up and there was a sharp stabbing pain in her side which she was trying to ignore. The sooner someone found them the better, she thought, but until then she rested her head against the wall and let her eyes close.
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Swan sat with his arms resting on his knees and his jaw set. Vermin and Rembrant sat infront of him on the old sofa while some of the other Warriors gathered around to hear the news of Mercy, Robin and Melody's kidnapping. At first Swan had figured that this war would only last a week but now it was carnage. His soldiers were getting wasted and now his own girlfriend was missing and in danger.
"Swan, this is going too far. We need to call in help!" Snow said from behind his left shoulder. As much as he hated to admit it, Snow was right. This was too big for them to contain on their own.
"I agree," He said quietly, "Send someone down to Gramercy to meet with the Riff's, explain the situation to Mike about Robin. He owe's her one and send someone to Brooklyn, The Satans Mothers are going to want to hear about this" Swan. Vermin nodded, pleased that Swan was starting to see sense. Ajax rolled his eyes.
"Since when do we need help to bring these Pussies down?! I say we go in full force and take these fukcers out once and for all!" Ajax announced but no-one else seemed as excited as he did so he slowly backed down. Even he wasn't stupid enough to do something like that alone.
"Ajax you know for a fact we're getting totally killed out there. We need the help!" Cochise exclaimed to his friend. Ajax nodded eventually giving in.
"Now what are we going to do about the girls?" Vermin asked, getting impatient and desperate to go out and start splitting some heads.
"We need to get as much..." suddenly Swan's sentence was cut short by a smash of glass and a brick thudding along the floor. There was peice of paper wrapped around it, held on with a feeble peice of string. Swan stood up and walked over to it, picking it up and pulling off the peice of paper while a few of the other Warriors ran outside. The paper was filthy and on it was what could only be described at chicken scratch writing, Swan could barely make it out.
"What does it say?" Cowboy asked, trying to read over the Warlord's shoulder. Swan sighed.
"It's telling us to go outside" he said deadpan. He let the note drop to the floor at his side and slowly, he and his Warriors began to shuffle outside.
