Heavy lies the crown

Poison

Some days Later
Unknown Safehouse

At an desk in the middle of an urban style office Talia sat looking through pictures of her son Cheshire had captured while tailing him through the Chinatown district.

"Is this accurate?" She asked looking at a picture of Dom and the Legion surrounding the gang they'd taken control over a few nights ago.

The assassin, who was knelt in front of the desk nodded In confirmation."It is. He can control all three of the warriors with a simple command."

"Hmm, when are the next batch of soldiers graduating?"

Cheshire stayed quite thinking for a moment." In a month or twos time."

With a nod Talia put down the photo she was holding and lent back in her chair." Make sure you pull a couple, 4 or 5 should do it. Oh, and find a way to introduce yourself." She finished with a smile on her face.

Chinatown
10:47 PM

Heavy rain fell down on Gotham as thunder boomed during one of the many storms the city takes on. Many businesses were booming, signaling the start of the weekend bringing in tons of people looking for a party.

In the lounge of the Lucky Leaf Dom laid on the couch asleep. His brows were furrowed and his face began to sweat as he tossed and turned on the cushions trying to get comfortable.

As the sound of thunder boomed again the teen jerked upright with a gasp followed by deep breaths as he calmed down gaining his senses. He checked his phone for the time then put it back down to take a final breath and rub his eyes. After standing to get dressed in black shoes, loose fitting jeans, and a black hoodie.

A while later Dom was walking down the rainy streets of Chinatown with his hood on. Lately, he'd been doing it often as the nightmares have been increasing and walking helped clear his mind..... for now at least.

He needed to be up anyway. After talking with his uncle a few days ago a lot of things needed to be done if he wanted to get some of the heat from big players in the underworld off his back.

Last Night

After a few hours a talking the Penguin finally stood and offered his hand for a shake signaling it was time for his nephew to go.

The teen stood as he took the hand and gave his uncle a hug before he began to walk out the office until he was stopped.

"Oh, Ivy is still bitching about the canister, you can start by assisting her in something in a few days."

He raised an eyebrow in response not liking to be volunteered for things but nodded in response nonetheless as there were other things to think about.
In the time they talked he'd gone over and made a sorta checklist of things to do to be acknowledged as a major villain in Gotham.

1. Was to build an actual functioning organization. Minions were a very important aspect in villainy no matter how you treated them.

2. He had to build an reputation for himself. Part of the reason criminals outside the Narrows didn't respect him was because no one knew the teen.

Sure they were wary due to what they saw on the news and heard from rumors but matters like that happen all the time in the city.

3. Is money. Running an criminal organization is expensive and required a lot of it. So Dom had to find his own source of steady income before doing anything too drastic.