“ The family that traded in their crowns for scraps.  The Kane family. ”

    Urijah and Asha Kane are twins, born under Anhur and Alani, and belong to the Kane family.  Once upon a time, their lineage was one of peace and honor now had dissolved and become a criminal syndicate.  The father Anhur is a strict man, it is said he was not always this way, and over time as the family continued their descent, so too did his sense of morality.  This was a clear contrast in comparison to their loving mother with a heart of gold.  One evening as their father had come home heavily intoxicated, he had enough of what he felt was Alani coddling the children, especially Yuri.  Anhur had yanked Yuri out of bed out of his sleep and the two had left home and before Yuri could gather his senses he was in a place unfamiliar.

The father had brought his son to some underground club filled to the brim with anyone corrupt.  A gathering dedicated to gambling and their main attraction, cage fighting.  Anhur had forced his young son into the brutality, and Asha was pushed into the art of ballet as a form of extreme discipline. 

    Urijah was raised in those cages since the age of twelve, punishment filled his flesh.  Both Asha and Yuri resented their father, their lives, and their family name, but both were gifted and born naturals.  Despite torture being forced upon them it was their only escape.  While in his teenage years, Urijah suffers a vicious defeat. He was seriously wounded, which led him to visit a crooked family doctor.  Urijiah is evaluated and diagnosed with a variation of congenital insensitivity to pain, Congenital Analgesia.  He can withstand more punishment than the average man, it's difficult for him to experience pain unless in the most severe cases.  His body can be damaged and affected but his brain won't comprehend the pain as it instead registers as an intense heat and adrenaline-induced rush. 

    Many seasons had passed sharpening the jagged stone that is Urijah. After years of fighting as a primary source of income with his own gambling, deep down fighting had become his obsession.  The more he fought, the more he wanted to train and strive to become the best in something.  The family became him.  But eventually, life took its toll, neither Asha nor Urijah held blackened hearts like their father. Both were becoming more individuals absent from the family   Asha had moved on and became a nurse trying to give back to the world despite the family's greed

    The Kane family had worked up a target on their backs due to territory conflicts and the hatred many had for the warrior due to his fighting record.   This made Yuri a prime target which led to an anonymous gang affiliation running Yuri off the side of a forested road while he rode on his chopper.  Any normal man would have been killed if not severely paralyzed by the crash and wreckage.  While driving he was on the phone with his sister before the accident, Asha had come to his aid while he dipped in and out of consciousness.  Asha had brought Yuri to the hospital she frequented and asked for the help of her friend and nurse she was recently becoming close with.  Yuri had survived but would need a few months to recover and lick his wounds.  Urijah and Ophelia met and the two quickly became infatuated for once in his life it forced him to slow down, even if it was for a short time.  

Ophelia is the twin daughter of a beloved retired police chief, and the twin sister of

ANSOUL CECIL GRAY

  Who followed his father’s footsteps and is an officer, and swat task force member, but eventually becomes a detective.  Ophelia and Urijiah conceive a child.  Due to his family’s dangerous reputation, Ophelia and Uri are already under close watch from rivalries and police.  Betrayal follows between rivalries, and an all-out turf war begins. The city is affected, and pressure builds between Ansoul and Yuri

  At some point, Ophelia, while pregnant, is assaulted by a rival member delivering Yurii a message that sends Yuri spiraling out of control.  The war in the city only worsens.  It's time for Urijah’s child to be born; Ophelia births their child but passes away due to stress and vital critical birth complications. 

  Ansoul at this point is already looking for Urijah.  He discovered Ophelia had been defiled by another and was protective of his sister; he had enough of Urijah and he blamed him.

Upon Ansoul's arrival at the hospital, Urijah with his newborn in his hands, watches Ansoul from afar hearing the news of his deceased sister with tears in his eyes.  He doesn't trust Urijah with his newborn niece. 

  Urijah needs to leave the city but his daughter would never be safe with him. He turns to Asha; she is very reluctant —being just as independent as Urijah.  There was no time to argue and she loved her brother; that was her comfort and protector growing up.  Love abandoned them when it came to their father but her brother was always by her side.  He would die for her; he would kill for his pride, he trusted only her with his cub. 

  The city was too hectic. A list of devils all coming for Urijah’s head to rip apart his crown. Urijah left the city and his daughter.  Upon leaving the city, Urijiah was recruited by some silenced black operations program; they tracked him down because of his condition.  They wanted to study and experiment on him, and while guilt-ridden and still grieving, he accepted. It was a program, a Project meant to develop advanced super soldiers through experimentation and DNA splicing.  

A fraction to the soul, creating war-filled personas 

  They tested his durability, pushing his body to its brink.  He loved to chase pain, to feel its burn in his veins.  Advanced technology with cryptic images, the phrases like a metronome forever in his mind.  He was strapped to a chair, submerged in water, as they tore through his reality as they poured in their fantasy. These machines were meant not only to see the mind as a vivid maze --but made to simulate a reality within an incubated dream.  The hosts could live a full life within weeks in a simulation for time bent differently.  Urijah had lived several lifetimes. Most of them barbaric, all of his alternate lives further deepening his primal instincts.

Through the Chimera Project, he manifested his animal spirit, his primal persona.

He would've fled but he felt this was what he deserved.

He sank himself deeper and deeper into fighting, slowly breaking his sanity and driving his eyes molten with war.

THIBAULT GALWAY

The man who put a leash around Urijah, reining him in like the obedient hellhound Galway wanted him to become.

He tossed Urijah a bone introducing Yuri to his adoptive daughter…

KALAN OLATHE GARZA

They called her Karma. Urijah had discovered his Lion and he could see the fierce Jaguar in hers.   There was an instant unexpected pride attachment, a pantheon shared between the two.   Thibault the General saw the potential in Urijah, he needed to build Urijah his squad, behind the scenes with schemes and devilish intentions.  Urijah was distracted with daily doses of hallucinogens, pain tolerance, and conditioning along with his training.

Urijah and Olathe butted heads, both able to lead but at their apex when working together.  Amongst the pride, their squad, Olathe, was the only member able to defeat Urijah.  Her style is so different in comparison, she was fierce, her kicks were precise, and her moves were swift. She was disciplined and reminded Yuri of Fasha, she was a dancer and her legs were like steel. She moved like a snake, The Chimera Project and how they blended the elements of various animals, she could make any man submit to her vice grip.

She was his equal; he was hers.  

( ARC I )

To be continued….