Red Fangs

"*Fangs that leave a mark*"

-The Red Fang's slogan

The **Red Fangs** are a bandit group in the Strife 2003 universe. The group has absolutely no 'correct' moral values. They're notorious for the murders of multiple high-ranking Government and Military officials. They're often described as 'relentless' and 'anarchists.' Their goals are unclear for the most part. Some believe they commit crime just to do it, others think they are deployed by **Infinitum** to help cause terror across the lands in which they roam. One thing is known forsure, and that is to stay as far away as possible from these cold-blooded villains.

WORK IN PROGRESS

## History

In 1996, on one quiet and chilly spring morning in the streets of Yankton, police were called to a robbery at a grocery store. Arriving on the scene officers confront a group of armed men who had exited the store about to enter their get-away-vehicle. Shots were exchanged leaving one of the armed gunmen wounded, unfortunately for the officers the men had gotten away. Later that day the topic went onto the news making headlines when a failed pursuit frustrated the Yankton Police Department in their efforts stopping the fleeing suspects, leading to a cold trail as they escaped the authorities. Luckily no officers were hurt in the attempt to catch the gunmen.

Five men were identified who were marked as the main culprits involved in that robbery, though the age group ranged from young teens to grown men. Beginning with fifteen year old Aldalfo Martinez to thirty four year old Benjamin Coupe. The robbers have not been found since the day of the event with the prolonged search going dry. Contacting families and people suspected to have a close relationship with the identified gunmen have not been helpful as all of them have said they lost contact after running away. There was a pattern investigators noticed when looking into the case, that all five suspects have either ran away from home or been filed as (a) missing person(s) years prior. Either that, one out of the five suspects mainly Aldalfo Martinez has been linked initiating into a gang.

One crucial clue was all the investigators needed to fit the piece to the puzzle, months of exhausting investigations had brought them to a small gang who go by as the “Red Fangs”. The Red Fangs are a batch of small-time affiliated gang members selling drugs to having run-ins with the cops. They were deemed as a “miniscule” gang on the boards ranked the lowest to be considered a serious threat on the streets. Causing mild trouble, the gang does their best flying under the radar and going unseen. Typically they mind their own business providing for their own, even families discreetly. They do whatever they can to get pocket change to feed themselves, and each other even. That has all changed since the robbery on the grocery store, leading the YPD now going after the Red Fangs.

Over the years the gang was moved up on the board crossing out criteria that sods their reputation for being notorious, but most notably vicious. Evolving from minor offenses like vandalism and street graffiti to enacting malicious acts on innocent bystanders, the Red Fangs displayed raw and cruel humiliation especially towards their disposed gangs. Between 1998 to 2002 was a time period where Yankton County was plunged into a bloody gang war. The back-streets were engulfed in deadly skirmishes between a number of gangs. The Red Fangs have been rising up on the board, earning their respective highlights after their diligent crime spree stretching across the years. During this time there had been a portion of gangs being wiped out at an exceeding rate, but it was not expected that this elimination process was being done in the hands of the most powerful gangs and syndicates in Yankton. It was suspected that this was the work of the Red Fangs who were responsible for the rapid killings, spilling blood in their destructive path. Gang members were found naked either with paint or burn marks resembling the Red Fang’s banner depicting a horrid-like wolf in their chests, or sometimes bodies were left unrecognizable as both of their left and right cheeks completely carved out with the teeth carved to resemble animal-like features. Investigators were left scarred as they pursued the Red Fangs in their efforts to put an end to their endless crime spree. It was never thought that the notorious gang wouldn’t have stepped up to a degree of violence, savagery, and wickedness. This is how the Red Fangs showed everyone who they truly are, relentless murdering apex predators marking Yankton County as their hunting ground.

*Written by regularkill123*