3rd person POV

Young five-year-old Adelina cried as her father uncle and older brothers headed to the fancy ball they insisted she couldn't attend. Her older brothers and cousins who weren't allowed to go were all in another room and Adelina and the rest of the younger kids were told they would be going on an adventure for the night with their mothers. When her mother and aunts gathered her siblings and cousins together in the strange building to watch a movie she forgot her tears and cuddled with her best friends and cousins, Luka, Santiago, and his twin Luis, as her mother and aunts worked on putting her little three-year-old twin siblings, Emmalyn-Grace and Emilio-Giovanni, and four-year-old Ezequiel, who her family told her is now her adopted brother because he lost his parents, to sleep.

When her mother and aunts left the room the four five and six-year-olds began to mess around with one another and a lamp toppled over with a crash waking the three sleeping toddlers once again. As they cry another bang is heard and her aunt and Luka's mother Katina comes out to scold the four rambunctious children. When the children told her it wasn't them who made the bang a weird look flashed across her face as loud noises began coming from everywhere. Luis scared of all the noises hid under the couch one of the only advantages he had as the smallest out of the band of four. In another room, the older boys in the other room all knew what to do when the alarms began to go off and rushed to their designated panic room quickly knowing that their parents would come to get them soon.

Katina and the other women all knew what those noises meant and rushed to push all the children in the panic room designed for this. When they closed the door they had no idea that little Luis was still under the couch curled up in fear. The women then left the small apartment in the once secure building the mafia owned with the intent to keep their children safe and see what the disturbance was about. No mafia would have enough power to attack the night of the annual mafia ball that required all the mafia's attendance and no other group would attack the strongest mafia in the world.

The women more like sisters than friends were all unaware that this would be the last night they would see six of their youngest children. As they hurried to the control center of the building that was not far from their original location they were attacked but the attackers only used gas to make the three women fall unconscious. The attackers then moved to the room the women just left and used a smaller dose of the gas to make the children in the panic room all fall asleep soundly.

Once the six children were asleep the attackers broke the door down and took the sleeping bodies of the children to where their van waited for them. The kidnappers knew they were missing a child however they did not have the time to search for him. The group had been planning this attack for years and had everything planned so the group of attackers left the rest of their people to fight the combined Italian, Russian, and Spanish mafia soldiers and drove the many hours to their planned destination. They knew full well the traffic cameras video of their van would be corrupted and the trackers in small children's necklaces were removed. Once the van was at their destination they left the children with the orphanage home caretakers paying them off to fake the documents for the children. The group wanted to make the Italian, Russian, and Spanish mafia suffer however refused to kill young innocent children.

When the Dons of the combined Italian, Russian, and Spanish mafia heard of the attack on the building where they left their wives and younger children they raced out of the ball to go make sure everything was alright but when they arrived they only found their men dead the raced to the apartment their family was staying in, in hopes of finding them safe but they found the unconscious bodies of their wives in the hallways. They ordered a team of doctors to care for them when they went to search for their children hoping they too were alright but somewhere deep inside them knew they were not. When they looked into the apartment it was all undisturbed ecept a lamp that was knocked over. The only thing out of place was the planned panic room was empty and their children were nowhere to be found.

When young Luis heard his father and uncle's voices he rushed out of his hiding place in tears knowing the bad people took his siblings and cousins away. He told them what happened in tears and the Dons had their older sons take him to one of the vans as they searched for the rest of the children hoping Luis was mistaken. They found their middle children in the planned room for them but not the rest of their youngest children. The Dons sent all the children there home. The older boys compiled while some of them were in their teens and beginning to help their fathers they had no idea how to handle the situation and listened to their fathers. The Dons then organized search teams to find their children and find the group responsible to take their revenge. However, neither of these goals were ever achieved, and as time passed and lead after lead ended the combined mafia and family changed the once fun-loving kind family behind closed doors became harsh and closed off little Luis stopped talking missing his twins and best friends. The parents cried in guilt and the older brothers and cousins blamed themselves for the attack and not being able to protect their baby siblings as they promised them to.

Young Adelina and her siblings and cousins all awoke in a strange place with weird people and only after two days of being in the home begging to be taken home back to their family and Santiago begging to have his twin back Adelina and her cousins and siblings were all adopted by a man and a woman who took them to the Academy. This is where the six were raised and trained however Adelina, Santiago, and Luka were separated from Emmalyn-Grace, Emilio-Giovanni, and Ezequiel because of their age difference. They were unable to tell their younger siblings about their family before they forgot their faint memories through the Academy's training. In the Academy the children learn everything children in normal schools do however they learn to speak many languages, hacking, torture methods, how to move silently and invisibly, and of course every way to kill and fight someone. The process has always made emotionless assassins.

However, when six-year-old Emmalyn-Grace talked another recruit into drinking a poison she was taught to make and her twin and Ezequiel also seemed to be excelling in their basic training they were selected to be trained by the three deadliest assassins in the world. After two years the three became The Aces, an assassin group feared by all they were uncontrollable and as unpredictable as the wind and killed their mentors for unknown reasons. They took the names Corazon Ace of Hearts, Picche Ace of Spades, and Diamante Ace of Diamonds, the three killed for fun, and listened to no one but themselves. They didn't care about others and unlike most assassins found immense joy in killing others loving the adrenaline rush it gave them. The three didn't block out emotions and displayed them easily making many people uneasy around them. Unlike their older siblings and cousins, they forgot their family and never cared for the idea of parents or siblings all too much not understanding the point of them. Adelina, Santiago, and Luka all tried to be close with them and talk about their family but after they became assassins they often didn't have time to discuss such things and talking about past life before the Academy was forbidden.

While The Aces were trained in a separate location the Academy trained Adelina, Santiago, and Luka into emotionless assassins and like their younger siblings were incredibly talented. They soon became the Rose assassins and took on the identities of Rosso the Red Rose, Blanco the White Rose, and Čornyj the Black Rose. However late at night, they spoke of their family hoping one day they may be able to see them once more. But they knew it could only lead to problems even though they knew their family was a powerful mafia The Roses and The Aces had enemies in every corner of the world including their family's mafia. Telling their family who they were would most likely lead to their family's death at the hands of men getting revenge for those The Roses and The Aces have slain over the years. The Roses and the Aces both knew many people wanted them dead but it never really bothered them, The Roses dealt with the revenge seekers that went after them with swift executions however The Aces used them as test subjects for their new inventions.

Once their training was completed like every Academy graduate they became part of The Unseen Nightmares, the most well-known assassin organization in the underworld. They were used by every mafia, independent contractor, and any other group to kill off enemies, gather intelligence or complete any other mission desired. The Roses and The Aces became highly requested groups however The Roses also split their time guarding the leader of The Unseen Nightmares at events in the underworld.

As the next annual mafia ball came around The Roses found out that The Aces were planning on attending. Every year The Aces are pulled away on various missions to come however this year they received a special request for the heads of a human trafficking ring to be killed specifically at the ball. While no one else would be able to kill at this ball without repercussions no one would prevent The Aces from their mission. The Roses feared what would happen at the ball considering their younger siblings and cousins' homicidal tendencies and the possibility of their family recognizing them.

The Roses' attire marked them as The Rose Assassins and the only feature people could see of them were their eyes. No one knew anything of their true identities. They have stood nearby their family numerous times and were ever identified but they somehow knew this year would be different with the Aces attendance. The Roses knew with them there all the attention would be on The Aces including the attention from the family they wished they could be reunited with.

For years the unknown group watched the mafia suffer the loss of their treasured children in joy. They finally got their revenge and while they did not know where the children went they knew they would never be reunited with their family.