When nine year old Sharie loses her family to the city's most prolific crime syndicate, Baklei, it ignites in her a howling thirst for revenge. In pursuit of strength, she becomes the first disciple of Jeremiah, a Lethian martial artist. When Sharie becomes a Lethian Novice at sixteen, Jeremiah is called back to the Academy and Sharie must return to the city. Against his orders she jumps into the DKC, Baklei's underground fighting circuit, in her search for her sister's killer. Determined to take back what she lost, she is drawn into a deeper world of drugs, prostitution, and brutality...