'Ashes'- This piece is about an intuitive, compassionate woman named Destiny, who's parents were murdered when she was only 16. As the years roll by, she lives trying to carry out the promise her mother told her on her last breath; "Do whatever is right, no matter the cost." To honor her mother's request, she physically and mentally trained herself to take down the evil that ruined her life; scaring her forever. Now leaping to the present day, she's the bartender of her own tavern called 'Inferno' and works with her due to be wed best friends, Rocky and Warren. She's a biker and a skilled motorcycle mechanic who's made a name for herself in the small town the locals call, Jupiter. The 'Phoenix', as the townsfolk named the savior of the city, places her brand everywhere she discovers cruel, unjust people; burning their facilities to the ground. Things are all quiet until a notorious biker gang, 'The Crimson Wolves', begin to stir up some mischief. Their dictator of a leader, Haures, seems to have each and every one of his men on a leash except for one lad who lives by his own rules. Ben, who is a courageous, sympathetic gunslinger is the defiant man of the ruthless gang. Ben always wanted to shed a bright light on the corruption in Jupiter after his little sister was brutally strangled to death by a masked man when he was 17. He too established to the town just how unlucky one is to piss the guy off, naming him the 'Lone Wolf'; acting on his own emotional impulses. By chance, both of our unlikely hero's cross paths as his gang makes their way into her busy bar. After Ben's closest comrade, Roscoe, tells him the legend of the 'Phoenix' while hinting at their own questionable methods, he begins to question his own credibility. If he wasn't already confused, Destiny's advice starts to make his head spin; warning him desperately to get out while he can. Is he really doing the right thing? Or has he been deceived into doing the devil's dirty work? After discovering the truth about everything and everyone, the uprising duo team up to take down 'The Crimson Wolves' and take back Jupiter once and for all. But, as they spend more time together, they realize its not only motives they share, but desires. Will their newly found fondness lead to their demise, or does love truly conquer all?
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