The Assassin's Creed

Sometimes only four Assassins are all that is needed to bring down an army. After the two Assassins left when I was disguised as a Brute in the castle, an announcement was made that I was dead. None of the Assassins were left alive from the last battle. Sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice in letting myself become an Assassin, there is just one chance and I take it or leave it. The chance to become an Assassin? I took it but I left behind the part of me to have a normal life.

I thought about my allies, could they be trusted? Are they my friends? I don't know. I don't even know how Kyros could be a descendent of Ezio Auditore, the Auditore family was wiped out, or so I thought. I'm not sure how any of us are related to any of the ponies that we call our ancestors. But all of them proved it to me by showing their special skill that was inherited from our Assassin ancestors.

We all stayed at an abandoned cabin where we stayed and trained. We improved our tools and trained with them against sandbags. I managed to get the suppressors to work with my hidden blades, now all that is needed is to remove the smoke from the hidden gun before shooting it. I was able to add more blades into the hidden blade so I don't have to retrieve my blades after two shots.

After a year of corruption and constant training, we decided that now was the best time to strike, knowing that the corrupted Creed will think that they are safe from the Assassins. But no one, is ever safe from the Assassins. You can kill all of the Assassins, take their supplies, change our beliefs, but nopony will ever be able to stop the Creed.

My friends may have forgotten me, but I could never forget them. They may really think I'm dead but maybe it's for the best. Maybe it was better to not have them as friends, for their own safety.

"Alright, you all know the plan? We're not going to go all out, we're going to remain undetected. Hide bodies, silent kills, and don't engage in combat." Marnix said. It turns out being a descendent from Aveline not only gave him a nice skill but also gave him advance tactic knowledge.

We all nodded and we went out of our cabin to prepare for the strike. We reached our destination, City Hall. City Hall was reconstructed to become a battle station, fully loaded with cannons, guns, archers, it seemed to be the main area for attack.

City Hall now had defensive walls, a moat, drawbridge and most likely secret passages. The Templars and Assassins have made City Hall into a dangerous castle and a war-zone.

"Ray, use your Eagle Vision, you might find some secret passages." Xerxes whispered to me. The skill that was passed down to me by Altair was enhanced Eagle Vision, which proved extremely useful surprisingly. After training to use my Eagle Vision, all my other senses were enhanced, my sight, smell, hearing were all enhanced. My Eagle Vision can now track footprints from recently stepped enemies even better now.

I learned to block out footprints I didn't need so that would have been useful when I was in that prison. I also developed a different Eagle Vision, a new type of Eagle Vision I named Eagle Pulse. It allowed me to see anything I wanted but it's to only be used when in an emergency. Extended use of Eagle Pulse led to instant unconsciousness, headaches and strange visions.

"Alright... let's see here" I said as I enabled my Eagle Pulse, marking every secret passage there were. After the secret passages were marked, I disabled Eagle Pulse. I pointed to the secret passages. "There's one right behind City Hall. Behind City Hall has some drawings that may look strange but if you enable your Eagle Vision you can make out the drawings. Press the eye, the eagle, and the sword.

"Alright, let's go team." Kyros commanded as we came out of our dense bush and readied our hidden blades. I rushed to my position and into a haystack, where a guard was next to. Poor pony.

I emerged from the haystack half way, put my hoof to the guard's mouth, dragged him into the haystack and cut his throat in the haystack, denying any blood splatters on the ground.

Using my Eagle Vision I could see no more enemies patrolling around City Hall. The Assassins and templars really are slacking off in security. I thought as I came out of the haystack. Looking to the other haystacks and bushes, I could see my allies that I've called friends, kill their Templars and Assassins, concealing their bodies into the bushes or haystacks.

I nodded to them, signifying that the coast was clear. They all nodded back as I went to the back of City Hall, enabled my Eagle Vision and pressed the eye, the eagle and the sword.

The wall to my right turned clockwise and reached to a stop midway. I waited for my friends and we all went into City Hall. One thing for sure, is that I take back what I said about this place lacking security. There were Brutes, Specialists and an unidentified new enemy. I didn't want to engage them if I didn't know what the new enemy could do.

We sneaked our way around them, reaching a long staircase. Up on that staircase was a vast hallway with many guards. Marnix signaled me to assassinate two enemies from the ground and shoot the next two with my hidden blades.

Xerxes was to take to the ceiling and assassinate another pair of enemies. But since his hidden gun wasn't suppressed, he wasn't going to shoot the enemies. Kyros took to the windows and was to take out four enemies in total who were slacking off by the windows.

Marnix gave us the signal to engage and I waited for Xerxes to get into position. Kyros rushed over to an open window and waited by the first guard. Xerxes was now in position, Marnix gave the coded countdown for engaging. One hoof slash to the knee, second hoof slash to the chest and last signal... the hoof slash to the neck. Kyros pulled out two enemies at ones surprisingly as I quickly rushed over to the first pair of enemies and stuck my blade through both their throats.

Xerxes dropped down on the other pair of enemies, the landing perfect, as I shot two hidden blades past Xerxes, barely missing him and hitting the next pair of Assassins. I heard my hidden blades start loading the next pair of hidden blades as Kyros pulled the last pair down to their death.

It was perfectly done and nopony even heard the sound of Assassins and Templars getting killed. Two Templars walked straight into the room and saw the dead bodies in the room, as their heads exploded in red, thanks to the hidden gun's new power. The hidden gun's power and range was increased. It even has a rope dart feature now! We dumped the dead bodies down the windows but blood stains were everywhere. I took the hidden blades back and put them into where they belong, into my hidden blade holders.

We ran to the end of the hallway to the main station where we'll plant two bombs I created that will shatter the infrastructure of the building and make this building collapse. The first sign of our enemies' downfall. We reached the weak building infrastructure.

"Xerxes, Kyros you still got those charges?" I asked, I heard two grunts signifying that they had the charges. "Alright plant them here and here." I signaled as I heard them tinker with the charges and activated the sticky feature which will stick to walls and glass.

"Alright Ray, now you activate them." I heard Marnix say. "Alright, I'm getting to work on that. Just give me a second to work out this technical error in my hidden blades. Almost done... Alright I got it." I said as I opened the charges, cutting a wire, causing it to start. I modified it to blow up in one minute. When one charge blows up, if another charge is in the vicinity of the blast, it'll detonate itself.

"We've got one minute, let's go!" I said, breaking into a sprint. We managed to get halfway through the long hallway before two doors suddenly burst open, Brutes and Specialists coming out on both ends. "Merda! We're trapped!" I exclaimed. "Stercore!"

"Ok, we have to get out of here, it's top priority, try to run past them or climb past them, do anything, just run!" Marnix said as we all bolted into action. I ran towards the crowd of Assassins and Templars, getting them ready for a fight. I went towards the non-window side of the hallway and started wall-running on it while throwing a smoke bomb into the crowd.

I managed to evade the crowd but I wasn't sure about the others. When I looked back I could see Marnix and Xerxes fighting all of them at once. It was suicide. By instinct, I turned back and went back for them. While the Templars and Assassins were fighting, I managed to quickly kill many of them as they were too distracted by the two Assassins.

My hidden blade went into many throats and chests that day. It will only matter if we get out though. I quickly looked around the building with my Eagle Vision. "Xerxes, Marnix, run! I've got a plan!" I yelled as I switched the hidden blades into the rope darts.

I shot the rope darts into the weak part of the wall, which was found with my Eagle Vision. My rope was also enhanced so I could pull it without it snapping. The rope darts went right though the wall and I managed to pull it down. This was not an action of great ease for after I did this, my arms ached so much. I heard a loud boom and the building started crumbling.

Above me I saw pebbles starting to fall from the ceiling. "Come on Ray! We got to go!" Kyros yelled at me. Only then did I realize that I was just standing there. "Alright I'm coming!" I said, running through the hallway. I looked back just in time to see a wall crumble in my previous position. We ran towards the exit and I heard crashes behind me. We were now in a desperate race of time, if we were in the building when it collapses, we will be stuck under the debris and if we survive that, we will suffocate to death.

When we reached the main exit, we saw that it was locked shut. "Merda! Hold on give me a second!" I said, using my Eagle Vision to find an alternate exit. When I looked at the wall, I managed to find another weak part in the wall. I deemed it possible to break but we needed some sort of explosion.

I quickly walked over to what seemed like a dining hall and scanned the area. I found a Brute who was struggling to get out of the debris he was on. On his body, there was a bomb on his body. Not smart.

I rushed over to him and quickly kill him without question. Retrieving the bomb was easy, I quickly took a candle from the Dining Hall and lit the bomb. I threw it at the weak part of the wall and my friends backed up instantly.

A loud boom could be heard and more debris falling as I ushered them all to get out. "Go! GO!" I yelled to them. We all managed to get out, just barely before the whole building collapsed. "We did it." I said to them. We turned to find Brutes and Assassins, drawing their swords.

Here we go again. But this time? The war with our Creed has begun.