Born in 1999 from her 89-year old superhero mother, Raquel Wurst AKA Rhinemaiden I, Anna Wurst started her unique life unlike any other person could ever conceive of...and at this time, may consider to instead be nothing short of a nightmare for her.

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Anna's mother, a retired secret German superhero from an organization once called the West German Ministry of Agriculture, Division 8 (also known as the "Teutonic League") and her father, Stephan Wurst, a tenured professor at a college located along the Rhine River in Germany, both had quite a life...and a brood of other superpowered children...before Anna was born.

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Within months of Anna's birth, she was being watched by her brother, Ezekiel, when they were attacked during the invasion of Earth by the Soltan Star Empire in January of 2000.   Ezekiel, who had a 'magical' friend in a secretive magical organization calling itself 'The Conglomerate', in a desperate attempt to flee the relentless, murderous Soltan Troops, ran with Anna to his friend's home where he, Anna, the friend and his family were able to teleport at the last second into the secretive location of the Conglomerate just before the Conglomerate's mystical defenses and barriers went up. There, the thousands of inhabitants of this magical underground society cut themselves off from the rest of the world activating powerful magical defenses to protect themselves from any form of Soltan incursion, of which the Soltans endlessly attempted against the Conglomerate for the coming months on end.  With the defenses up, there was no way to leave The Conglomerate, thus trapping Ezekiel and his new baby sister, Anna, until they either died by the Soltans' weapons or the Soltans were defeated.

 

While trapped there, Ezekiel took care of Anna. Other magically trained children also helped, even teaching Ezekiel and Anna some magic (since both Ezekiel and Anna were actually magical beings born of Nature magic).  Several months later, the Soltans were driven off of Earth, thanks in part to their mother's heroic actions (and, well tens of thousands of military troops, superheroes and other alien civilizations). As such, Ezekeil and Anna were allowed to go back to their family; a family that now had losses to contend with.

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Anna's father and both older sisters died during the Soltan Invasion by the Soltans. Her mother survived, but nearly died during the the first wave of attacks. Stories were told of the rage and furor her mother poured upon the Soltans in her attempt to find Ezekiel and Anna. Now, back together again, Ezekiel, Anna and their mother started a new life together.

 

Through amazing tutors, personal trainers (of which the mom was the best trainer) and dedicated study, Anna became quite the young athlete and scholar. Undergoing an Olympic-level workout regimen, Anna worked hard to be the hero her mother was considered to be.  As such, Anna was easily on her way to becoming the next water-controlling superpowered hero to the world...that is, until 'The Exterminators' change her life forever.

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At age 12, Anna was a fierce spitfire of a fighter, athlete and student. One day, she and her brother, Ezekiel were abducted by a band of highly trained trackers and hunters from The Exterminators. Both siblings were separated and taken to dark, gruesome mad scientist-like labs and dungeons.  There, the bodies and remains of dozens of others, mostly young kids and teenagers, were seen strewn about the disgustingly fowl caverns and labs. Anna was forced to watch other kids get mutilated and chopped up in front of her.

 

Anna's brother Ezekiel was one of those that Anna was forced to watch die as well.

 

The Exterminators were cruel enough to take parts of Ezekiel's body and fed them to mangy, mutated dogs as food.  Anna cried, trying to escape again and again, but thanks to a power inhibiting collar, she was unable to use her powers to escape. She'd never felt so helpless...or enraged...in her life.

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After days of starvation, Anna was fitted with a vest filled with dozens of vials of what looked like acid in them. Rigged with a few manual and remote triggers, Anna, as well as a few other kids trussed up the same way with unique vests (exploding? Poisonous gas?), were setup as if part of a trap...which they quickly realized, they themselves were about to become.

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Dozens of minutes later, the Calvary arrived to save Anna and the others, leading them, Anna's mother - Rhinemaiden.

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Anna tried to tell her mom it was a trap, but others arriving also saw the rigged vests...as well as the carnage and mutilated bodies around them and warned each other of the potential traps.

 

Anna's mother spotted what was left of Ezekiel's body.

 

Anna wanted to scream to her mother about what was happening, but was unsure if she'd set off one of the many strange triggers that the Exterminators had set to the vests. Regardless of this, Anna's mother, Rhinemaiden (I), without missing a beat, ran up to Anna and ripped the vest from her body,  leaping out of the dungeonesque room...only to have the vest explode with acid, drenching Anna's mother with the powerful acid while in mid leap.

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Anna's mother, the superhero known as Rhinemaiden, died a horrible, gruesome death that day.

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The remaining heroes and troops figured out how to help free the other abductees from their vests safely (ok, most of them), to which the few remaining living abductees were rescued and taken to a safe base for medical treatment and debriefing.

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Angered beyond reason, Anna fumed over her mother's and brother's death.

 

Anna wanted revenge...as did several other abductees and heroes present.

 

After overhearing that the real Exterminators base had been found, Anna gathered up her fellow surviving abductees and a handful of other heroes and troops and went off on their own to the Exterminators base in search of revenge.

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Once inside the Exterminators Base, It was sheer, unadulterated murder.

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The abductees gruesomely killed each and every Exterminator found in the building that night. Some were killed slowly. Some quickly. Some were made to suffer screaming, much like what was done to those abductees that didn't survive earlier that same day. Anna was the worst in performing her revenge. She used her water powers to slowly tear apart and shred  Exterminators' human bodies from the inside out...slowly and painfully. In the end, Anna, at only 12, now an orphan, was also now considered to be a mass murderer too.

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Luckily for this band of murderous revengers, the authorities arrived and stopped them...not that it mattered; all the Exterminators in the base were already dead, one way or another. The government covered up the 'deaths' of the Exterminators stating the Exterminators set off a 'self destructor device' killing themselves rather than be jailed and sentenced. Only those that were there that day knew the truth...and none of them were about to tell the world what really happened there...especially Anna.

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Anna's brother and mother were given a hero's funeral, with Anna left as the surviving member of the family estate; an estate that was then worth over $10 million. As such, Anna cautiously spent her money in buying a nice home not far from her mother's memorial along the Rhine River and paying others to train her further in combat and the use of her powers. She even found someone who was once part of the Conglomerate who was willing to show her how to even use Nature magics better. By age 18, Anna was ready to move on to being an adult superhero, taking back the family name of Rhines and renaming herself Anna Rhines out of respect for her mother.

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At age 18, Anna petitioned to join her mother's old superhero group, the Teutonic League.  With the records regarding the "Exterminator Base Self Destruct" considered classified, there was no reason to not allow Anna to join and take her mother's place amongst Germany's 21st century superheroes. With that, she was welcomed into the ranks of the Teutonic League in 2018.

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Today, using her mother's superhero codename "Rhinemaiden (II)", Anna carries on her mother's superhero legacy, trying to be the best hero she can be. She knows what she did that one night was wrong, and thanks to her nightmares she still has about her abduction, she tries every day to overcome all the 'wrong' she'd experienced...and performed. She still hears the screams of her victims in her head on occasion, but she also knows that, as far as she's concerned, if the situation ever warrants it again...she'd do the same thing she did to those Exterminators...without mercy.

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Will this dangerous mentality eventually be overcome by the hope of Anna bettering herself in having to live up to her mother's immortal legacy or will she slip further into a world of revenge and murder further fueling her dark sense of justice? Will she take the same murderous path she took that one night or will she instead fight her darker instincts and become the hero her mother once was and is still considered to be?

 

Only time...and circumstance...will tell.

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