Chapter seventy-one - Everyone Has a Story

Wasting no more time, Locke first touched Carmina's forehead and used his memory seek spell, the woman's face contorted in pain as the data that made up her memories were forcibly copied.

Locke discovered that Carmina was an esper, the woman's story was quite complicated, she awakened her abilities when she was still a teenager, her powers guaranteed her super strength and invulnerable skin.

Carmina was an orphan from Romania, since she was little she had a difficult life full of setbacks, all she knew was hate and violence, she lived on the streets and fed on what she took from garbage cans, she slept in the middle in the cold and dressed in ragged rags, with other orphans she learned to cover herself with dirt to avoid being s*xually abused.

One night Carmina was awakened by a group of men, she tried to run away from them, as it was not uncommon for her to suffer violent attacks for no apparent reason, as some people just wanted to hit something and she was just a street girl and an easy target, but the men's plan was quite different, it wasn't long before the group of adults managed to capture a single young and malnourished girl, they tied her up and covered her mouth with a gag, they threw her into the back of a car and took her to a shed in the middle of nothing.

In the shed the girl was dragged to a bathroom, the men tore her rags and 'washed' her violently using a hose with an absurd water pressure, the girl screamed like a scared cat but the men just laughed, they threw a soap to her and ordered her to wash herself, when she refused they threatened to beat her and she relented.

After the shower Carmina was tied up again, she saw a fat bald man who looked familiar, he had a scar under his eye and a face that resembled a fat pig, she remembered him, he had been the man who gave her a pair of bucks that same day.

"You were right fatso! She's actually pretty!" One of the other men commented.

"I said! Daddy here is a master at finding the best b*tches!" The fat man replyed.

They dragged the girl into a room and tied her arms to the metal rail of a bed, the men then started arguing about who would be first.

While Carmina's Heart beat like crazy due to fear, the men argued among themselves, until the fat man won, stating that he had the idea, so he was the right to be the first, the other men ended up accepting grudgingly.

"Don't worry, I'll try not to mess her up too much!" The fat man spoke with an unpleasant smile.

While Carmina trembled with fear the fat one began to undress, revealing his hideous body and his filthy thing, he had a manic expression in his eyes and drooled like a crazy dog, he climbed on top of Carmina and licked the tears that ran from her face.

"Don't worry, sweetie, you're going to love this!"

The fat man were ready to penetrate her when something happened, Carmina felt a strange sensation inside her, and an absurd strength surged in her body, her muscles grew absurdly as her skin took on a golden tone, she broke the bonds that they held her arms and she tried to push the fat man with all her strength.

The girl's absurd strength made the fat man's body bend the wrong way, and he squeaked like a wounded pig as his spine cracked, the girl began to bang her hands in despair and what must have been fragile blows from a frightened teenager dealt damage similar to an enraged gorilla's attack.

When they realized that her colleague was being crushed by the girl, the other men ran at her trying to immobilize her, but the girl was in shock and desperate, and distributing blows to left and right, trying to get rid of anything that touched her, and it didn't take long for her to reduce the men to a pile of broken bones.

When she came back to her senses, Carmina realized what had happened, using her new power she ended up with the men still alive, she stole their wallets and took whatever valuable thing they had, she pawned their stuff at a pawshop and for the first time once in a long time she slept in a warm bed in a cheap hotel, a night filled with nightmares, but a night in a warm bed.

After that day, Carmina began to learn to use her own skills, it didn't take long for her to understand what she was capable of and learn to use it for her own gain, she used her absurd strength to earn more money, her traumatic experience made a big difference in her. Hatred was born in her chest and she began to use her new found super strength to attack anyone she felt deserved, taking their wallets and their possessions, along with their lives.

It didn't take long for the mafia to discover her powers, one family in particular had a great interest in her, after a great argument and promises of profit, she accepted to become part of them and turned into their personal executioner, they sent her against the rival groups and she became a live weapon.

Carmina grew up used to being feared and respected and never opened her heart to anyone, just as her skin became hard as steel she forced her heart to do the same, she knew that people only saw her in two ways, like a weapon or like a monster, and she liked that.

But, as hard as the woman tried, her heart was not as hard as her skin, one day her boss's son returned from his studies abroad, the boy was handsome and refined, different from the group of brutes that made up the rest of the family. His father highly valued his own son, and so he put Carmina as one of his personal bodyguards.

The young master soon became interested in the powerful woman, the fact that she didn't show any interest in any man was curious to him, and he wanted to know what this woman was really like, he really believed that all that resistance was just a facade, and he was right, Carmina was a traumatized girl, inside she is terrified with the world, just a turtle in her iron shell.

The young master worked slowly, his words and praise seemed true, Carmina had never heard such sweet and gentle words in all her life and so, little by little, the young man pierce that steel wall and win her maiden's heart. For the first time in a long time Carmina allowed herself to be vulnerable, he helped her get rid of her trauma and she gave herself totally to him, he soon became her first in everything.

Unfortunately for Carmina, the boss's son was nothing but a great player, as he swore undying love to her, behind her back he did the same to dozens of other women, while the woman went on a mission with a lovesick smile on her face, her lover had fun with all the maids at his father's mansion, while Carmina dreamed of entering in a church dressed in white, he attended parties and orgies that would horrify the Marquis de Sade.

It wasn't long before one night, after returning from a mission, Carmina came across her lover entering a disreputable establishment, more concerned with his safety than with his motive for such an act, she followed him inside the establishment, after looking for him for hours she finally found her beloved one.

Naked, in a room full of people, all as naked as he was.

There were men and women, and enough drugs and alcohol to bring down an elephant, the men and women were involved in a mess of bodies, no one seemed to care what gender they were kissing of f*cking and the smell of the room was a mix of sweat, drugs and s*x.

Her beloved was there, even with the mask that covered his face she knew him very well, he had his hand wrapped around a woman's breast and rubbing it violently, while another had her face buried in his crotch, sucking it angrily, a third woman rubbed herself against his free arm.

Carmina went crazy, she felt betrayed and humiliated, but unlike what was expected for a woman who had been treated like a weapon all her life, she did not resort to violence, like a innocent girl in love wounded by a broken hearth she turned and fled, and that night she cried in her own bed until she fell asleep.

When she met her lover again, she questioned him about the reasons for his betrayal, she expected him to deny it or try to explain and she was ready to show that he had hurt her too much, and that maybe she could never forgive him, what she wasn't ready for was his reaction to be a burst of laughter.

Carmina couldn't understand why he was laughing, that's when her lover showed her his cruel nature, he mocked the woman and said he never loved her, that he only slept with her because she was a challenge, that she was just one of the many toys paid for by his father and prepared for him, he said that she was just his father's stupid weapon and that she wasn't even that pretty, and that he only slept with her because he wanted to know if he could conquer her. He even made fun of the fact that she was a virgin, saying that it was ridiculous that she didn't even know 'to give a good head'. After talking for hours and humiliating Carmina in every way possible, he finally ordering her to undress and kneel, he exposed her organ and told her 'it needed to be cleaned'.

That scene awoke in Carmina the same feeling of her old trauma, it was no longer her lover who was there, but another pig just like the first one who tried to violate her, and at that moment something broke in Carmina's heart, all the love she thought existed between them proved to be an illusion, tears streamed from her eyes and her soul screamed with pain and rage, and Carmina lost control over herself again.

When she came back to her senses, the whole place was a bloody mess, the walls were torn apart and riddled with bullet holes, there were guts and bits of human flesh all over her, and once again she was covered in blood from head to toe, she he saw the body of her beloved, now reduced to an amorphous mass of indistinguishable human residue.

In her fury the woman had gone on a murderous rampage, killing everything and everyone who crossed her path, wiping out half the mansion while dragging the corpse of her lover, even her boss had been torn to pieces.

From that day onwards Carmina took control of what was left of the family, using her powers she ruled her men with an iron hand, with her skill she easily eliminated the other rival groups and took over their businesses, becoming the owner of the city and declaring herself the underworld queen, she covered herself in gold and jewels and stopped caring about wearing clothes, as his powers tore her clothes, she completely adopting a new character, and she found herself untouchable.

Unfortunately for her, ruling by fear is a tricky gamble, her own men had a huge hatred for Carmina, many of they friends and relatives had been killed by her, and they'd always craved the chance to take revenge.

Finally they found something that could help, after years of failed attempts they found a supernaturally sourced poison, prepared by some witch, which was said to be able to stop an esper from using they powers.

The poison proved partially effective, Carmina still had her strength but her skin was no longer completely invulnerable, her men seized the moment and launched an attack against her, at the cost of many lives they took the woman to a corner and seriously injured her.

It was when they were ready to kill her that the cultists intervened, they saved Carmina and offered a helping hand in her time of need. At first she was skeptical of her intentions, she grudgingly accepted being part of the cultists, but the group grew in her heart and they became a family, and she became their new enforcer.

"What a fool girl! She didn't even suspect the fact that the cultists showed up just as she was about to die... I'm pretty sure they were the ones who offered the poison..." Locke spoke as he looked at the woman with a complicated expression.

'She also didn't notice the brainwashing, as it was done in the long run and slowly she became their loyal slave without even realizing it!' Tia commented in his head. 'What are you going to do with her?'

Locke was thoughtful, he finally understood the disadvantages of having a power to acquire the memories of others, the world wasn't black and white and people are complicated, Carmina was a monster, the number of people she killed was anything but small, even before entering the cult the woman was more than used to using violence to get what she wanted, and after entering the cult her methods became even worse, she killed so many innocents that they blood could form a river.

But still he felt complicated, Carmina lived a difficult life, that certainly didn't make her actions forgivable but he could understand how things got to this point.

Everyone has a story, sometimes life throws so much sh*t at people that they become unable to realize how much cr*p they are doing.