---- Scarlett's POV------

After I finished the the preliminary goals for Sapphire and the cleanup I began to think about when I started to follow Trinity.

I was eight years old at the time and she was ten. I remember that she had this goal in mind she wanted to live in a world free of it's control.

Trinity would sometimes refer to the things that she seemed to be able to predict in advance as things that are set according the will of heaven.

But after all that I have seen Trinity achieve with her background and power there was really no need for her to ever come back to this city let alone the Dawn Empire.

As I previously mentioned Trinity found me at the age of eight years old here in Everose. At the time I was living on the street.

Much like many of the members of STORM I am a victim of the war as both of my parents were killed in a conflict that the Dawn Empire had with a neighbor.

While living on the street I remember I was half starved at the time and weird men kept trying to take advantage of me in my weakened state.

At the time when I was about to be assaulted Trinity showed up and kicked the guy in the head sending him flying into the nearby brick wall.

It was the first time In my life that I had seen a guy turn into a bloody mist. I was convinced that such strength should not be possible.

Especially in a young girl of Trinity's age. She seemed to carry an aura of a true warrior.

After that nasty man's death.

Trinity walked over to me in her nice pristine white dress that seemed to only be amplified with the mist of blood that surrounded us.

Flowing in the air around Trinity. Her red eyes seemed to glow as if feeding off of the blood shrouding her.

Like two glowing embers her eyes looked beyond just this moment.

Reaching out her hand she took mine into hers.

"You need to be careful out on the streets. It's not safe for kids like us out here so we girls need to stick together"

Still holding my hand Trinity smiled and helped me up off of the ground.

"Why don't you follow I your sister from now on and no one will ever bully you again. I will teach you how to defend yourself since your my lacky from this day forward."

The first thing I did was follow Trinity back to her hideout even then she didn't lack any money since she ran the shield group through several intermediaries. So she was easily able to acquire lots of property without any questions asked.

And with Trinity's wealth it was quite easy for her to pay off other people to look the other way. She would often pay off adults to act as a representative in order to complete business deals.

Trinity later confided in me that an old family friend with a young Master by the name Adrian Fury was responsible for the deaths of her parents and their close friend.

Trinity was assumed dead along with their parents but she was able to escape through their selfless sacrifice.

However although Trinity escaped it wasn't without massive betrayal within her own family because several of her relatives were able to survive relatively unscathed from the slaughter by betraying her parents and her to the Fury family.

After Trinity told me the story of her parents' death we genuinely grew closer. And with her working behind the scenes in Everose she began to develop a military organization away from the public eye which would be known as STORM.

Over the years we also traveled together to many different places and created many different organizations through our efforts. It often seems like we were many centuries older than our appearance portrayed.

While following Trinity only a few days after saving my life from being taken by that stranger. We came to her first business that she started as part of her Shield group.

"This is it Scarlett what people don't realize in the Empire is that the future is technology. Not just magic and my shield group is going to monopolize the entire technological field."

I looked to Trinity confused.

"What do you mean Trinity?"

"Ha Ha my dear Scarlett has now one ever told you that. She who controls convenience controls the world."

Those words were later proven never more true than now.