The Killer Duo

Chapter 1- The origin of Jane the Killer

There was once a small town in Virginia where our story begins.

First up is the story of Jane's origin. Long before she was born, her parents, Isabelle and Gregory, who were both very skilled into self defense and knowledge of the plants of all kinds, had tried for several years to have a baby. Soon after the long wait, they were able to get one.

But, the main problem was that after realizing that she is having a baby, the soon-to-be mother became very sick from an unknown illness that she caught. She was forced to stay in bed as she tried to withstand the pain that she was having. Isabelle knew of only one cure to help her speed up her healing.

"Honey... I want you to go find some Nightshade." Jane's mother-to-be said to her husband. "I heard that it had some magical healing abilities that can probably heal me." She coughed a little as she looked at her husband who was standing beside her at her bedside. His hand clasped hers as if he doesn't want to lose her to the illness that is taking control.

"But you do know that the Nightshade can't heal you fully." Gregory warned. "It has very powerful toxic energies, and it might hurt you more than heal you." He knew that his wife was the one who knows what qualities that the plants use, whether for death or for healing the sick.

She shook her head. "Not this particular one. I heard that there was once a Nightshade that was blessed by the good Lord who created it. The Nightshade I need is actually blessed with the power of night. A normal Nightshade can have many colors, but this one is so dark that it looks like it wasn't there at all." She paused for a moment as she coughed roughly into her shoulder. Her husband quickly got up and knelt on the floor. "Don't worry about me for now, honey. I am a tough customer when it comes to illnesses. Just go find the Nightshade that I am asking for."

Her husband Gregory silently nodded as he quickly got up and went out the door in a hurry. He was determined to make sure that his wife stayed with him among the living. He remembered correctly that the mysterious Nightshade was currently on a hill right close to the beach where you could see the whole town from above.

However, little did he know that the flower was already discovered by another man, or men, for the matter.

You see, long time ago. When the Nightshade was first blessed to have extraordinary powers beyond belief, there was a group of murderers that wanted to have that power for themselves. That way, they could commit crimes in the middle of the night and they would never get caught. Plus it had all sorts of healing powers like you would not believe to be possible.

Right now, on the hill where the Nightshade was standing out in the open, three men who were no more than in their late teens were looking down on the innocent looking yet deadly flower. Their names were Randy, Tony, and Keith, and they were very skilled criminals since the day they went on a killing spree at their school just because they felt like killing somebody who opposed them.

All they had to do to make the flower unleash its power was to chant out a few words. "Night, come to us so that we may hide underneath your curtain of darkness. Night, show us the way to unleash our fun in the dark." After when they had said this, the flower began to glow an otherworldly light that shines as bright as the moon. The group of men had devious smiles as they felt the power from the flower flow through their veins.

But they suddenly had to halt their expedition as they heard a few voices that were from a distance. The young man named Tony took out a dark blue bowl to cover up the flower so that no one would find it, and then the men left the scene, unaware that the bowl had tipped over from Keith's frantic feet as they ran for cover.

The voices from the distance were actually the husband and a few of his friends that decided to help him search for the flower. Once when the husband saw the glowing beauty of the flower, he shouted in a excited voice, knowing that he will be able to help out his wife with her illness. Unbeknownst to him, though, the group of murderers were watching from behind a tree as their eyes narrowed in hatred.