The Franchise #0

"Sister, I still don't understand why you have forsaken young Catalina. Her Mother and Father are gone, She has shown that she can bear the burden of the Goddess. She's going to need your help soon."

There is a great deal of turmoil in the Soul of "The Child that was not meant to be." She has yet to come to terms with her unnatural past, and now with her child in her life, I don't want to bestow power upon her. It's too risky.

Too risky, we gave the power of war to her mother, in hopes that she would use that power for good. But as we both know she did not, A lot of it was her own doing, but there were plenty of foreign parties that could share that blame. I say all that to say this. We will need to see what drives her before we can cast judgment.

She'd been at it for hours, emulating videos on her mother's footwork, learning sword and shield techniques. Like Ziccarra, Cat could learn anything after seeing it once, but the one thing the Liafador Leader could not emulate was the time spent as a battle-hardened tactician. She was inexperienced with both a sword and shield, but she hoped studied her mother's footwork would at least improve balance and allow her control over spatial positioning.

With each swipe of her mother's blade, she saw an obstacle fall. She'd built up such a mental focus everything around her blurred, that is until she felt the gaze of a sixteen-year-old burning through her soul.

"...Hnn...What" She asked feeling the presence of Maricela flanked by both Tassi and "No Name" as they'd come to call her.

"I know you're a bit new to this mother thing, but you have three mouths to feed." Mari sassed. Finally, Cat's sword stopped swinging. Mari was right. She'd been so wrapped up in trying to master the sword and shield, she'd forgotten to spend time with the family. Cat's eyes immediately dart toward the visible eyesore, Maricela dressed in all black like some sort of goth girl.

"Whoa what the hell happened to you, you look like a Self-Harm survivor." She jested while trying to make sure this was actually her daughter.

"How are you going to judge me, when you've been wearing black almost your entire life?" Mari retort with her hands folded across her bosom.

"Yeah...I was on a lot of drugs too, what's your excuse?" She could tell the persistent questions about Mari's new...personality quickly became an issue, so she dropped it for the time being.

"Tassi, No Name. You two go wash your hands. You guys are going to help me cook." The two girls marched off with Tassi leading the way, No Name at heart was an assassin; this family lifestyle appeared to be harder than any challenge she'd faced before.

"You're really trying your hardest not to be like her huh?" Maricela asked eying the weapons previously placed down.

"I'm not trying. At the core, Your Grandmother and I are two very different people. She was a naturally kind person, but she found love and love is the one emotion that can make a Goddess act like a human." Cat explained making awkward eye-contact before brushing past Maricela.

"And what about you?"

"I was created to be the exact opposite." Cat replied before disappearing through the threshold. In a way, she achieved her purpose; Cat murdered thousands, killed her mother once before and was the original host for Y-Intercept. Now, she was free and making her own choices.

Dinner came and went, Tassi and Raysh's estranged assassin had settled in front of the television before Maricela could force them to go to bed. The De Facto Liafador leader sat on a chair beside her comatose father speaking to him like she usually did, but he and Maya were now one so she had to talk to her too--Maya could answer back.

Through the subtle vibrations in the floor, she could make out the faint arrival of Mari behind her holding an old book. "What's that," Cat asked nodding to the book.

"It's a book abuela was using to maintain Liafador International's finances, but there's something I think you should see here.

The young woman flipped to the back of the page, where the financial statements ended, suddenly she was reading what appeared to be a diary left by a very young Ziccarra Liafador.

"La Orden me ha ordenado enmarcar Quintus Knightfall y comenzar el Acta de Registro Superhumano. Nunca antes había conocido a Quintus Knightfall, pero me he reunido con sus familiares en varias ocasiones. Son poderosos, tendré que usar harness el poder de la piedra que encontré si quiero tener éxito. No entiendo sus poderes, pero me ha dado la capacidad de usar mi mente como un arma. Hasta que pueda aprovechar estas habilidades sin la piedra, lo mantendré. cerca de mi corazón ".

"So...uh...what's it say?" Mari asked peering over Cat's shoulder curiously.

"You'd know if you ever went to Spanish class, but your grandmother had been commanded by the Order?" Cat paused it was the first time in any of her mother's old text that "The Order" had been mentioned.

"She was ordered to frame the Knightfalls for the SHRA, and she was concerned on how she'd do it. She said she would have to harness the power of the stone...what stone?" Cat's eyes continued to scan the pages before coming to the last sentence.

"Close to my heart..." She whispered before looking at Alexis; nothing stood out until she remembers. "The Liafador Family Matriarch necklace," Mari said with a hint of irritation.

"The same necklace that you threw...in the Daytonville bay." She continued this time shaking her preparing to exit.

"Where are you going?" Cat asked pulling back Mari. "Mom, look. We can't just have that thing sitting at the bottom of the bay. What if someone else finds it? I'm the only person in this house that can get it. You don't have any powers...remember." Maricela disappeared through the threshold, prompting Cat to gather her things, but she couldn't leave Tassi and No Name here by themselves.

Sister, I know you sense the evil that moves on the family. You have to empower Catalina. Bestow the power of the Goddess upon her. Awaken the Prize Fighter.

Cat moved to the living room to join the two young girls watching television, but the sound of thunder rumbling in the heavens cause her to halt. "Crap. Sounds like it's going to rain. Girls go make sure all the windows are closed." She commanded before wincing in curiosity, she could hear it crackling through the skies.

Plowing a massive hole through the room, the enormous bolt of lightning slammed into Catalina finally using "The Goddess" to a Liafador once more.

"Maricela is in trouble...we must move fast! The Lavaliere has been detected"

TBC in the Daytonville Thread

Stay tricking me into reading super soap operas. You could really kill that genre if it was ever popularized lol

@sii-la: Lol thanks. I promise you the Franchise #2 will be up your alley

@shanana: Looking forward to it.

As always, great writing. ~_^

@paragonxxx: thank you!!

@shanana: Your welcome! ^_^

AWESOME! <3

The amount of world building that went to the Liafadors is some of the best I've seen on CV. Love this.

Things I thought while reading:

1. Black is awesome and people who wear all-black are cool.


2. Hey, I remember that! I remember Cat meeting people in political arenas and popping molly.


3. I'm enjoying the witty banter, and I really enjoy legacy stories.


4. This was cool.

@hawkshade: I need to bring Cat to Gothic i know our interaction with Lebreau fell short; but i think Cat and Hawkshade would be fun.

@rosso: Lol that’s why i said she probably has the best development out of any of my characters right now

@grimmwald: Well you helped a lot lol.

@shanana:

@shanana: I think they would too. Swing by Gothic anytime.

Never fail to amaze me Liafador