Cassandra's parents were killed in one of the first raids upon the Redmont family by Countess Lexus. At that time, Cass had been just a girl but she like her rowdy cousins all trained in warfare. When her parent's died, it was felt best to send her away until she was ready to return on her own. Normally this would not ave bothered her in the slightest but left alone she was given very little chance to be more of a loner and a fighter to keep living from day to day. The people entrusted to her were not as they seemed and the money that was supposed to be for her upkeep was squandered away. She however kept up with her fighting and training be it she had to in order to survive the abusive people entrusted with her care.
It wasn't until she turned 16 that she ran from the home she'd been in and found a temporary home with a nice couple down the road. Their son and she had become close to the point that she'd set aside her blades and took up trying to almost be human and normal. However things were not in the cards to work that way. Their wedding night a visitor came calling and caught her unawares while trying to kill off some spiders that lived in the barn. Attacking from behind the vampire caller attacked Cass and drained her within an inch of her life. Standing upon a nest of black widow and its young. The spiders crawled up her legs and started injecting their venom into her body. With a laugh he asked the girl her name. "Cassandra Redmont Black." Had been her defiant retort. "A redmont eh?" He'd laughed and slashed his wrist open forcing his blood into her mouth. Turned, the spider's venom and the vampire's blood seemed to bond creating an odd sort of vampire. She fed off blood as a vampire would, however she could bind her intended with a thin thread that her sweat secreeted. Her kisses and bites could be laced with venom, a black widow's venom at will. Overnight her hair when from pure black to light almost white hair. The vampire knowing she'd need to feed lead her to do and start the cruelest path of all.
Into the house where her new husband slept in their marriage bed. She was forced to slide in beside him. Her fangs found his throat and her body found his. She clung to him as he jerked and fought. Soon though her venom laced and she bit him with no control, paralizing him. Vampiric rage and the spider's lust and need for prey made her snap his neck from his shoulders and watched him slip from her grip. A look of horror upon his face as he cried her name before dieing upon the floor before her. The vampire laughed and shoved her face first into her husband's dead form. "Looks like that black widow was more of your sire then I was." He laughed and left her to mourn her husband as only a new bride could. She buried him and vanished into the night. Back to her home that she'd been sent to live from her redmont family home. She dropped the married name since there was no longer a marriage. Instead she slid the ring onto a chain and wore it hidden under her armor. Her dress was burned and as she stood over it naked, she walked to her old closet and pulled out her mother's armor. Along with the armor she pulled forth her father's sword, it was time for the widow to find her way back to the nest.
