The Legend of Lady Sierra.

Chapter 1: legend of Sierra

In the state of Ridgeland, there was the legend of a vengeful spirit. The vengeful spirit of a woman.A woman who was known to be the most beautiful of them all, yet a world filled with greed, jealousy, lust and hate. Took each of her beauties away. There were 3 beauties that the most beautiful woman named Sierra had. A heart of Kindness and Comfort. A mind of Love and Compassion. A Voice of Reason and Peace. The three beauties were stolen from her, her heart had been robbed by Lust and Greed. Her mind destroyed by Hate and Selfishness of others who did not help her in her pain. Her voice silenced with Ignorance and War. The three beauties had been taken over by the three tragedies.

Sierra had suffered pain that would bring people on their knees begging for release of death. Yet till the end she held to whatever the three beauties she had. Her skin scarred by cuts, brandings and markings. Her voice, coarse, lifeless and begging for death. Lady Sierra had fallen into the lake when she escaped. The Black Lake, what was once known to be a lake full of death, misery. Had somehow changed when Sierra fell into it and she fell into a deep slumber. The Black Lake had been brought back to life with her passing, she died peacefully, but her 3 stolen beauties had ascended to be her vengeful spirit, taking the form of three cloaked figures wielding different items. The wine cloaked figure wields a scythe, the gray cloaked figure wields a katana, and the black figure wields a halberd.

These three figures haunt Ridgeland, striking fear into those who have harmed others or have tried to steal a person’s beauty away, acting as guardians to the weak.

Sierra 1 gets back to his apartment, putting his gear inside the safe, his clothes in the cupboard as he takes off his equipment. Then going into the bathroom, turning the knob of the tap. As he puts his hands into the sink, then looking into the mirror. Sierra 1’s black messy hair, clean shaven chin with the chiselled jawline. Brown eyes with a dead look in the eyes.

Sierra 1 sighs, looking at his right arm tattooed with a white tiger,while his left arm had the tattoo of a hooded figure wielding a scythe, walking to the living room with the gloom and doom in his eyes.. Throwing himself onto the sofa , Sierra 1 lies on it comfortably with the comforter. A text reaches his phone.

‘Money has been transferred. 20 thousand dollars. Good work Monty.” Sierra 1(MONTY) sighs and puts his phone aside.

“Sierra 1. The Reaping Sierra.” Monty thinks out loud as he looks through the sliding doors that are the opposite of him, just looking at the beautiful stars that are beyond his reach. They were like little lights that illuminated the grim nights of his work as the Reaping Sierra.

‘The only real thing about my life at this point would be my age and my first name…’ Monty thinks to himself, as he slowly closes his eyes and hugs a pillow. As he slowly goes to sleep, Monty lets his mind go blank. Clearing out unnecessary thoughts from his mind, letting them be silenced for the night but not forever.

‘I miss mom.’

‘I miss Kristy’

‘I miss Danielle’

‘I miss…’ As he thought of that, his mind drifted him to sleep.. As if by coincidence letting Monty forget certain painful things he has experienced, as if it was easier to deal it with his sleep rather than thinking or pondering over it.

The morning sunlight greets Monty warmly and with eye blinding rays that had awaken him from his slumber, Monty gets up and makes a move for the showers. He turns the knob for the cold water as it is his wakeup call that he needs for the morning. After the shower. Monty comes out with a towel wrapped to his waist as his teeth jitter due to the freezing sensation of the water. To which he stands in front of a fan to dry off his hair rather than use a hair drier.

Why does he not use a hair drier you might ask?

It is because Monty, has had times when his hair had been damaged because he keeps spacing out whenever he uses the hair drier. Monty takes a towel and dries his hair a bit, before combing his hair to the back. Turning it to be the long hair pushed back style, then taking his tee shirt, jeans and sneakers from his cupboard to put them on. White shirt, denim jeans and sneakers a usual look for Monty, followed by taking a pair of cross shaped earrings, two charm bracelets made with a band with little wooden alphabet blocks.One forming the ‘Kristy’ and the other ‘Danielle’.

He grabs his ID tag with his name ‘Monty Thane.’, which he puts it on his neck. Monty grabs his keys to his Harley Davidson Night Rod, he eats a small bun in one big bite then heads for the door. To which he sees a photo of a woman with two younger girls.

“Morning mom. Kristy. Danielle. I’ll go to school first.” Monty says to the photo, then walking out the door with his sling bag. A machete and a Nighthawk Customs Heinie Long Slide pistol chambered for 10mm.

Monty Thane, was a living lie. Monty thought to himself as he gets on his Night Rod, revving it up then riding it out to Beaumont University, he arrives at campus a few minutes later. Seeing the many fresh faces and the Student Ambassadors Council members who are trying their best to handle things properly along with members of the Facilitators of the Orientation programme.

Monty looks at a girl who was short, she had a sweet smile, chubby cheeks and a voice that demands attention without even needing to do so. Wearing a wine red skirt, black top with the ID tag.

‘Scarlett Grayson’ Monty walks on, without giving any attention to it, whereby Scarlett smiles to him. Monty waves back, and helps out with the directions to guide the students. The students all listened to Monty with full attention as Monty explains it simply, where each faculty was, where was the Student Affairs, Finances Unit

After he had done that, Monty walks off but he is called out by Scarlett.

“Thank you.” Monty nods as he walks off, not saying much as he prefers to keep things to himself. As he walks to class, Monty could see students running to their class as if they were about to miss it.

“Miss Ling is going to kill me!”

“s**t, I haven’t finished the tutorial!’ and all sorts of typical things you would hear in a university, all that is part and parcel of a uni student’s life, but. Most students wouldn’t have what Monty’s life is, Monty arrives to his lecture hall, seeing Scarlett there who smiles to him.

“Hi.”

“Morning.” Monty replies as he enters the hall, taking the back seats while checking his phone, ensuring that he has no job alerts, with that being cleared Monty walks down to the second row to listen to the lecture attentively, then his phone vibrates for a bit, where he checks it.

‘Sierra 2: Lunch later?’

‘Sierra 3: Sure. Where? The cafeteria or somewhere else?’

‘Sierra 1: I got class till 1. After that I’ll be free as a bird.’ Monty sends it to them and puts the phone facing down, then pressing the side button to reduce it to silent mode.

“Alright, morning class. Today we will be learning about the Common Law and Civil Law System. This is important so that when all of you head into the final year, you can decide what specializations that you would want to have as per your wants and needs. Remember, all of you here are taking the Bachelor of Laws PDCLJ(Prosecution, Defence Council, Litigator and Judge) course, by the third year you need to decide which system you wish to practice in. So let’s get started.” The lecturer, Mr Norn explains to them.

Monty pays attention making short notes and mind mapping based on what Mr Norn explains. As he writes on, he starts seeing the differences of the Common Law and Civil Law system as to how justice is supposed to be achieved and the techniques as well as court proceedings are much different.

After class finishes, Monty checks his phone.

‘Sierra 2: I’ll be a bit late, Lynelle needs some help.’

‘Sierra 3: We’re going to the cafeteria. I got a table at the corner.’ Monty reads as he makes his way up the stairs, then keeping his focus to move away to the doors.

Monty makes his way out, seeing Scarlett who nearly falls and he catches her with his left hand.

“Be more careful.” Monty says to her as he walks on, continuing to the cafeteria, Scarlett thanks him and Monty simply just waves back,and later arrives at the cafeteria. Seeing Sierra 3, a tall, muscular blonde with a classic buzzcut, blue eyes fair skin, a decent jawline with a set of dog tags and a digital watch made of rubber on his right arm.

“Reiner.” Monty greets Sierra 3 (Reiner) with a handshake and they both sit.

“Jane must be enjoying himself, since he is helping Lynelle Yee.” Monty nods as the pair of them see a familiar face, chiselled jawline, a little bit thinner than Monty, athletic build with an oval face with a long hair tired into a bun carrying books of the fair skinned Chinese girl who was a bit frail and smiling happily. Her straight hair tied into a tail, eyes looking at Jane and a smile that accompanied it.

“Thanks Jane.”

“Anytime, Lyn. See you later.” Jane says to her before coming to see Monty and Reiner, to which his friends stare at Jane with a smirk, as if they were teasing him.

“Yeah, It made my day.” As Jane takes a seat, Monty could see a heart shaped pendant and sets of lockets hanging from his neck. Most people found it weird that Monty wears cross shaped earrings when he isn’t a person who believes in the Church of Euria who is known for using the Cross as their symbol. Then Reiner with the dog tags on his neck and his buzzcut hairdo making him look like a marine cadet. Then Jane with heavy accessories of pendant and lockets on his neck.

For the three of them to mix in and be friends with people, it takes time to do so. As they now have to adapt to many things that a university student must go through and now, their main challenge is to make friends, to just live a normal student in the days when they can and during the night or when needed. They will have to perform their duties as Sierras to the utmost fullest capacity something that they focus on in the nights during their work time.

“So Reiner, did you find anyone interesting yet?”

“Nah, I’m good. I got no time for all this love shit.” Reiner says while he scratches his head and looking at the direction of this short haired, athletic yet curvy brunette sitting just adjacent of his position. From his corner, he could see her so clearly.

“Ah.. I see where you are looking at.” Reiner turns to Jane who is giving him a smirk that can be seen as an act of teasing or rather. A ‘bro’ to ‘bro’ kind of conversation.

“You’re looking at Lizzie Bates. The basketball captain for the girls team.” Reiner simply takes his cup of black coffee, taking a slow, long sip from it as he looks into Jane’s eyes.

“Come on… You know I’m right.” To which Reiner briefly nods, not wanting to give Jane the satisfaction of being right on Reiner’s little crush.

“I just think she’s hot, that’s it. Besides, she doesn’t even talk to me anyway and there is no way in hell I’d even get a shot.” Reiner gestures an X with his arms, to which Lizzie turns to him, immediately Reiner looks aside trying to avoid eye contact.

“Damn… The Big Guy is shy as fuck.” Jane says outd loud, to which as they had their conversation Monty had slipped away for a bit and returned with a chocolate lava cake.

“AH! THANKS….” To which Monty flicks Jane’s fingers from touching the cake.

“Last one, I got it while you were teasing Reiner.”

“Really? Ah damn.” Jane curses as he pouts, looking at Monty who is slowly hitting the top of the lava cake, letting all that chocolatey goodness ooze out of it, clearly Jane is drooling over the beauty of the chocolatey river that flows out of the cracks made on the top.

“Keep drooling, I plan to finish this on my own. It’s my guilty pleasure.” Monty tells Jane much to Jane’s annoyance, Jane tries to do the puppy act to Monty, only to see Monty flicking his forehead.

“Hey! Who flicks a cute puppy like me.” Jane remarks as he rubs his head.

“You’re not a puppy, you’re a human being who is clueless.” Monty says sharply, to which Jane wishes to rebut but he could already see Reiner signalling Jane to think twice before doing so.

“Alright, alright. Sheesh.” Then their phones rang, with the Sierra Skull logo.

“Looks like our break’s been cut short. Let’s go.” The three of them get their bags and quickly make a move to the center of campus, reaching for the Chancellor’s office.

“Morning Miss Chambers, is Chancellor Marcus in?”

“Yes, he’s been expecting you three. Please head in.” The three of them knock on the door.

“Come in.” Monty opens the door, then seeing a couple, must be roughly in their mid 40s looking distressed, hurt and sad. Monty brushes the thought of the couple aside for a while, then focusing on the man before him, a man in his 30s with sleek black hair, looking calm despite the distressed nature of the couple, he had a clean shaved face which was a striking feature followed by his style of wearing a 3 piece suit.

“Mr and Mrs Bannister. I assure you we will get Kristina back into your arms.” The man assures them, then turning to Monty.

“Your batchmate Kristina Bannister was kidnapped from the University this morning, the guards stopped her because she forgot her ID tag and when she was about to give her the identification card from the purse she was kidnapped by this white van. Plate number, L412 BB. A ransom demand has been made… ” The Chancellor shows them the video.

“Wait, you mean the SAC’s Golden Girl?” The Chancellor nods to Reiner’s question.

“The Administrative Officer that makes my own university members to shame.”

“But, Chancellor Marcus how can these three boys get my daughter back?”

“I assure you, Mr and Mrs Bannister. These three boys are your only option to get your daughter back safely, if you want Kristina to be safe. When I declared that I had a few people working for me in this university for such incidents, these three boys are who I’m talking about.”

“What’s the ransom demand?” Monty asks bluntly, ignoring the parents.

“That’s the thing, the ransom demand is for 10,000 dollars or Kristina becomes a Black Chain Dog. I don’t even know what that is.” Mr Bannister says to them.

“Black Chain Dog is a threat made by gangsters primarily from the South West to West of Ridgeland. It’s a threat they would make before Kristina is r***d or is sold to the s*x slave trade, but the 10,000 does not make any sense. There is another threat they ask, I request full disclosure. I am not putting my team into a compromising situation all because of another demand you refuse to tell.” Monty’s words show his tenacity and fierce nature that is not normally seen by students or staff, it is usually enough to make soldiers fall onto their knees, but include torture and they will break.

“They want me to hand over a hard drive that has information on a new subway route that will connect Beaumont University to many other locations.”

“So?”

“We’ll take the job.”

“Good, your gear is right behind you.” To which Monty takes off his earrings, Jane takes off the pendants, Marcus puts the dog tag in a small basket by the Chancellor’s table. The three of them take off their shirts, whereby Mr and Mrs Bannister see the tattoos.

Monty’s scythe tattoo on the left arm was already terrifying followed by the ram skull on his back, Jane’s tattoo of a skeleton archer on his back with an ice skull. Reiner’s back with the skeleton death knight wielding a halberd.. They put on their black vests, the plate carriers for their chest with rifles at the ready.

“I’ve sent your location to your RACERs. Good luck Sierras.” The three of them nod as the Ghost Cam activates making them invisible.

“Chancellor.. When you say Sierra, you don’t mean..”

“Let us await your daughter’s arrival at the hall, I’ve called her friends too..” The Chancellor tells them.