Trained warrior

Can you be prepared for everything? She was. From a very young age, Alyssa was made ready for everything that came toward her. From the second she was born, she was made to be a trained warrior, a fighter. Some people may have perceived this as dangerous, and some people were even frightened or scared of her. But that is exactly what they wanted. Her parents wanted a soldier, someone who would not take anything. That’s what they made her. But did anyone ask what Alyssa wanted? Not really. I guess that’s what this story was about.

Alyssa was born into a family living in the country Russia, right before the communist revolution. The environment around her was everything but normal, nothing was calming, nothing reassuring, essentially nothing worth a child at all. It was a place full of conflict, full of war. Why was she there at all? Not out of choice, but out of pure chance. As she grew up it wasn’t regular or easy for her to stay in a place like that. Living there also changed the choices and explanations of her parents. They wanted her to be tough, which they didn’t she was, despite Alyssa thinking highly of herself.

Her first experience was learning the Russian martial art of Systema at the age of six, she wanted to take football classes, but her father laughed at her, and said: “that won't do you any good” then forced her into martial arts. It was hard, especially because she was just six. Those around her were so much bigger, so much stronger, and would often beat her within seconds. Slowly she began finding escape routes to each move, because of her small size she got an advantage. She was agile. This was advantageous to her not only in Systema but in every single martial art form her dad made her do.

But then she grew older and stronger, agility was not a major possibility anymore. She had to take a few hits. Sometimes her parents would surprise her with attacks when she was sleeping or eating. To improve her readiness. They thought they were making her stronger, but she just felt she was constantly living in a state of hell. Which did not help her view of the home as she grew up. She saw home as a fight instead of a comfort. Despite outside being the war that it was.

When Alyssa grew older she was adamant to move outside of Europe due to its problems during the war. She found that the economically developed United states would be easily the best option since she wouldn’t have to always be in a mode to fight. At least she hoped that she would not have to do so. To her surprise moving away from her parents wasn’t as easy as she hoped. Due to the way she was raised, everyone interacting with her was an attack on her.

Her landlord came home and knocked on her door a little too hard, her brain automatically thought it was wrong, the next thing she knew she had him in a headlock, saying “Who do you work for?”. She got evicted that day. Alyssa’s past from Russia began to creep up on her, everything that she grew up with. Everything that she learned from her parents, would begin working without her command. Despite being thousands of miles away she was still under the control of her parents.

This left her lonely and excluded from everything she tried to be a part of. Outcasted from society. Until she made a choice. To embrace what she had been taught. She chooses to be a vigilante. Every night Alyssa would go in a dark masked bodysuit and protect people. She broke down criminal gangs. Destroyed cartels. All without even trying. To her, the crime bosses were child’s play. With no challenge at all. But soon the cold war began. The tensions between the countries grew greatly. Alyssa could not hide her identity and was publicly humiliated for being Russian.

She did not stop helping people. But the people did not respect her. A confused Alyssa spent the rest of her life in isolation, only hoping to be accepted. The people destroyed the very person helping them at night.