The Furies are an all female gang who were originally formed as a group of women who had been wronged and gathered together for revenge, but has since become a response to the male dominated gangs and the danger they represent to women in the Combat Zone, a response they take a bit too far perhaps.

 

In the months leading up to Carnival, as the violent gangs were being pushed out of their territories and herded into the Marsten area that would become the Combat zone, the gangs were going berserk.  Gangs were scrambling to claim territories, the outsider gangs coming to conflict with the established gangs of the area.  Small gangs were subsumed or wiped out by larger gangs, other gangs content to merely take out a corner and call it there own, at least until another gang cast their gaze on the lot.

One of the local gangs, a small group known as the Piranha’s, was desperately trying to lay claim to new turf after being pushed out of their old haunt by Stomp Street.  They were hold up in a small apartment building at the edge of the Marsten complex when a gang called Arzin Tynon decided to strike.  The Piranhas were wiped out completely.  Briana “Bright Eyes” Ricardo was the girlfriend of one of the members, and had been holed up with the gang.  When Arzin was finished with the gang, they gang raped her, as well as some of the other girls present, and left them for dead in the alley.  Of the 8 girls present, only 3, including Bright Eyes, survived.  They managed to make it to a local ripperdoc, who had been seeing Bright Eyes’ mother, who nursed them back to health.   While gangs kept being pushed in to the area, events such as this were becoming common, and everywhere she looked, Bright Eyes was seeing women and children suffering more than anyone by the increased conflict.  She began gathering women, most who had been victimized themselves, but foremost she sought out women who were capable of fighting back, who refused to be a casualty.  Originally, it was something like a makeshift support group and refuge set up in her mothers apartment building, but Bright Eyes had an agenda.

 

She watched as the walls went up, locking Marsten away from the rest of the city in the area that has since come to be known universally as the Combat Zone.  When the warnings came for all non-felons to evacuate the Zone, Bright Eyes and her group escorted her mother, little brother, and everyone else from the building who could safely leave the Zone, out.  Then they returned to the building, and waited.

 

When Carnival began, they continued to wait, for three days, as chaos erupted on the streets.  They had gathered enough weapons and ammo to defend their building, and fortified the first three floors to keep out intruders.  On the 4rth day, Bright Eyes gathered the toughest women she had, and put her plan in motion.

They moved quickly and quietly through the streets, till they found the building where Arzin Tynon was holed up.  They surrounded the building, covering the exits, and firebombed it.  Killing anyone who tried to leave as the building burnt to the ground around them.  Spray Painted on the street in front of the building, surrounded by the dead of Arzin, were the words “Furies Never Forget, Never forgive!”  In one fell swoop Arzin Tynon was wiped out completely, and the women had sent a clear and powerful message.  They returned to their own building, and over the next few weeks after Carnival recruited more women, and staked out their territory.  The Furies were here to stay and were not to be trifled with.

 

Since then, many other gangs have under estimated the Furies, every time a harsh lesson has been learned.    Women of the zone, tired of being victims, have flocked to the Furies.  In the often heavily misogynistic atmosphere of gang life in the Zone, the Furies represent a powerful alternative.  This has drawn animosity from several gangs, especially Stomp, as women have left to join the Furies.  Li’l Miggy, the main pimp for Stomp, has openly declared that he will turn the entire gang out on the street, similar sentiment has been expressed by members of other gangs.  The Furies responded with an open quote, broadcast over the airwaves of the signal “If that little boy so much as comes near our territory, we will serve his midget dick to our dogs, then turn his ass out on the street ourselves… I am sure there are plenty of women who would pay good money to strap one on, or just use a broken broom stick, to get up in that kids ass.”

Outside the Zone the Furies are becoming known thanks to a powerful and moving report by Gen-Lee Yool of Net 54.  The gang gets funding and support from several militant feminist organizations, and word on the street has it that there are talks with Bright Eyes to make a movie based on her life.

 

Regardless of their bravado, the Furies find themselves in the middle of the Zone.  They have a loose affiliation with the Elders, mostly to provide safe passage through their terriotory for the kids who want to attend school, and being they are the closest sympathetic gang to the School have agreed to provide support should trouble start.  Stomp is by far their biggest enemy.  They remain neutral to Slaughterhouse, and actually have started talks with Bricks sister Sugah-T to perhaps form an alliance against Stomp.  They are also, for the most part, on friendly terms with Maelstrom, the Walking Dead, and the Saracens, mostly out of mutual respect and as protection against Stomp.  They are actively supportive of the Digital Renegades, and will come to their rescue if called.  It is rumored that Replay of the Digital Renegades is the one who set up the media interview and possibly set the ball rolling in regards to the possible movie deal, and that a high ranking member is involved romantically with Replay.

 

While a very feminist group, the Furies are not above using seduction and charm to get what they want, but they are equally willing to go the hard way when confronting a problem, taking what they want by force, though usually even then they are more devious in their tactics than their male counterparts.