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On the 12th hour of the first day of October 1989, 17 women around the world gave birth. This was unusual only in the fact that none of these women had been pregnant when the day first began. Sir Reginald Hargreeves, eccentric billionaire and adventurer, resolved to locate and adopt as many of the children as possible.

He got 8 of them.

7 he had adopted, 1 of them being his own daughter.

This one child had powers like the other 7 children Hargreeves had adopted, but this child was different. Not only was she born on a different day entirely, but her abilities were also more powerful than the other 7 combined.

Her powers instilled fear in others, disgust and hatred. 6 out of 7 adopted children despised her and ostracised her during their entire childhood because she was able to control and conjure demons.

Everyone deemed her evil, the spawn of satan.

They destroyed her childhood, ridiculed, abused and tortured her.

A villain is never born but made.

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I gasp for air as I sit up straight, panting heavily when I see nothing but darkness surrounding me. I scramble to stand up, hearing Her voice echo around me as memories envelop me like I was actually there in person. I stumble away as I see Her, red eyes looking back at me in a dark figure of ink and She waves Her hand to make the scenery suddenly change.

I end up in a hallway, hearing the sounds of teens laughing along with pleading cries and I round the corner to see a group of teens in the sparrow uniform. It was the young teens of the male kids, kicking a small girl that cried as she begs them to stop. They spat at her, calling her demon and devil spawn until she lets out a loud pained scream and they all run away to avoid getting in trouble. The child whimpers as she slowly sat up, wiping the blood from her lips.

I was about to comfort her when I feel a sharp pain on my side, gasping as I clutch my waist and seeing Her shoot Her younger self in the same spot with a spike.

What...

I had no time to register what was happening when I get thrown into a public bathroom, opening one of the cubical doors to see teen Fei and some of her friends insult the same child from before. The girls threw names at her before dunking her head in the toilet as the child begged them to let her go. They laughed at her, drowning her head in the water and pulling her head back as she passes out from the loss of air. The girls walk away and the girl was left on the floor, locked inside when she woke up coughing in the middle of the night.

She shoots the girl again but in the leg and I keel over in agony as my leg was unable to keep me up.

Why am I getting hurt-

I fall into the foyer of the mansion and I groan in pain as I sit up, seeing the sparrow kids throwing the young child on the floor and forcing her to clean up the mess they made. They pulled her hair and ripped her clothes, throwing things at her and using her as target practice. They were so cruel to her, so demeaning and treated her like an animal. I saw teen Sloane standing in the back as she covered her mouth and closed her eyes while crying but she did nothing to help, the sparrows walking away.

The young child falls back as She shoots her in the chest, her bleeding out on the floor and I cough up ink instead of blood when the same wound shows up on my chest.

She's destroying Her humanity...

Killing me...

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"Stop..." I wheeze out as I get thrown into another memory, falling into a dark alleyway. I get teleported to a scene I didn't want to see, the sparrow kids leaving the child behind on a mission to use as a bargaining chip or bait for villains that wanted her body. "Please... stop..." I close my eyes as I heard her screams and the moans of men using her body. She screamed and cried out until there was only silence and quiet crying. "Please..."

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I cried out in pain as I fall back, another hold ripped through me as She killed another piece of Her humanity and I bleed out on the floor.

I look up and see the child strapped up on a table as she cried for Reginald to stop, to stop his experiments. She begged him and told him how she was in pain and that it hurt but he didn't listen to her. I slowly stood up, wanting to help the child as she lets out an ear-piercing scream when electricity burns through her body. "Make him stop..." my vision blurred as I reached out for the poor child, her powers breaking out of her body and ripping through the building but it disappears as She rips through the child with Her own powers.

Bloody ink pours from the holes in my body, spilling from my lips as I fall to my knees.

She destroyed every piece of Her humanity, destroyed every piece of me now that I was connected to her.

"Don't do this..." I wheeze out, reaching out to Her and She just looks at me. I couldn't stay awake anymore, gasping for air as I choked on my blood when I see ink creep towards my body from all around me. My eyes widen seeing the claws reach out from the sea of ink and I scramble away with whatever energy I had left.

This can't be the end!

I can't let Her take over!

I shake off the hands, ripping the ink off me in desperation but I scream out as they rip through my body and slowly brings me down into the floor. "NO! I can't give up! I can't lose! Stop this! What do you want!? What do you want from me!?" I yell at Her and She grows bigger, looming over my body as I sank into the darkness. I tried to climb my way out, trying to dig myself out but I sank down further.

This is the end...

I lost...

I cried out in pain, still trying to rip the claws off me but She dives down to drown me in the darkness. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't hear, I couldn't see.

I'm sorry Five...

Please forgive me, my love...

"They will all die..." She opens Her eyes as She takes over the body and slowly stood up, cracking Her neck and popping the joints as a wicked smile braces Her lips. She had completely taken over, possessing the body like a marionette and tugged the strings to Her will. The eyes had lost all their colour, lost all signs of life as they slowly turned black. The skin paled a sickly grey colour as the body was hunched over, claws replacing the hands as darkness covered the entire body like a cloak of smoke. The body shook as She raised her hands when She heard the signal of the bell ringing, demons crawling out from Her dark cloak that covered Her from Her feet to Her head.

"They will all die..." the words rolled around the chamber, the voice no longer human as the demons morphed into dark humanoid ink figures. They cackled and flew off up the stairs when She raised her arm to blast Her dark powers to explode against the walls of the chamber, it ripping away into pieces. Dust and debris crumbled around the basement from the impact, ink seeping from Her eyes and Her body as she sunk down into the shadows to find the ones She was looking for.

The academy kids split up into groups to search the different floors for the sigils, unknowing that their dad had signed their death when he rang the bell. The man was a fool to think that he could beat Her and ring the bell without Her coming after them, to lock Her up and grant his wish so easily.

No. He would not win.

The hotel shook as the sound of the bell resonated through the walls, the lights dimming and an eery sense of danger hovered over the academy kids. "Mama?" a voice whispered out through the hallway and Allison stopped in her tracks.

"Claire?" she whispers, hearing her daughter's voice as she teared up.

"Allison..." the deeper voice called out and she sobs hearing her husband's voice.

"Wait, Allison don't! It could be a trap!" Viktor tries to stop herm knowing it was a trap.

"Mama, I missed you..." Allison gasps as she sees her daughter walk around the corner of the hallway, Viktor looking utterly confused.

"How...?"

"Claire! Oh my god, baby!" Allison runs to pick up her child, hugging her tight. "I missed you! Baby, I missed you so much!" she kisses her head over and over as she cried.

"Allison it can't be-" Viktor begs for his sister to listen to him but she ignores him when she hears her husband.

"Ray? Ray! Where are you?" Allison runs off, leaving Viktor behind as the portal shimmers behind her to take her somewhere else. "Claire, where's Ray?"

"Right here baby." Allison freezes as her heart pounds, looking over to see her husband smiling at her.

"Ray..." she sobs, running towards him and he pulls her into his arms. "I can't believe you're here... both of you. I thought I lost you." Allison smiles through her tears when her family was back, being able to hold them and be with them again together.

"We're right here..." Claire's and Ray's voices distort, their faces melting into ink and Allison's screams rip through the building as She drowns her in darkness.