The Assassin's Creed

I tested out my hidden blades to see if they were by any chance rusty or broken.

Nope these hidden blades work like a charm, I wonder why the hidden blades are in pristine condition though. I thought as I suddenly heard commotion and saw a large crowd. I ran to what seemed to be ‘City Hall’. I wasn’t sure what the commotion was about but I found a very peculiar group.

    I saw two new types of ponies, one with a horn on top and another with wings and a horn. The one with wings and a horn was a purple pony, these types of ponies I have studied on but have never seen ever in my life. They were known as alicorns, basically a mix of pegasus ponies and unicorn ponies.

    I overheard conversation between the purple alicorn and four ponies, one of which was white with a purple mane who was addressed as “Rarity”, another which was orange with a yellow mane who was addressed as “Applejack”, the other was known as Pinkie Pie, who was a pink pony with, no other word to describe it, ‘a bouncy mane’, and the last pony was known as “Rainbow Dash” who had a blue body and a rainbow mane. Another one was Fluttershy with a light yellow coat and pink mane. The alicorn was known as Princess Twilight Sparkle.

    I overheard conversation about... Lorani? What could they want with Lorani? Were they Templars? I narrowed my eyes at the thought. Perhaps Lorani is a Templar.

    The way they talked, sounded like they were friends. They were awfully open with each other. They could be, or it could be an alliance. I felt the breeze go through my mane and shivered a bit. I felt afraid for Lorani, I could not let them hurt her.

    I returned to the cottage in which I left before. I knocked on the door, hard, as I yelled for Lorani.

    “Oh hello Ray!” she said. “What's up with the knocking? Sounds like an urgent matter.” she said while inviting me into her house. When I got in the house I asked, “Lorani, by any chance do you know these ponies?” I told her about Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie? “By any chance do you know them? They seemed to be looking for you.” I asked.

    “Oh yes! They are my closest friends and the best friends a pony could ask for. Where did you see them last? I need to get to them quic-” she replied being cut off by the sound of a hoof against a door.

I jumped behind a desk and took cover there, drawing my hidden blades.

“It’s alright Ray, you can come out, it’s most likely my friends.” she told me. I reluctantly stepped out from behind the sofa and fought the urge to sheathe my hidden blade.

    I toggled my Eagle Vision and hoped that our “visitors” were marked blue. If not? Sucks to be them.

Lorani opened the door and my heart filled with small panic. When she opened the door the ponies that were at the door were marked blue. I sighed with relief at this sight and disabled my Eagle Vision.

    I saw the ponies were indeed who Lorani had said they would be, her friends.

    “Hi girls, what brings you here?” Lorani asked in her soft voice.

    “Hi Lorani, we’ve got a problem. Twilight said.

    “Problems? Here in this nice town? I hope nothing too urgent nor chaotic.” I muttered.

“Hey girls, I’d like to introduce you to my new friend, Ray Longfellow.” Lorani said.

    Every one of them greeted and introduced themselves to me. “Te noscere gaudeo, nice to meet you.” I said. Friend? I’ve just met Lorani and I’m considered a friend to this pony? It feels good to have a friend but I do not wish for her to be hurt nor for her to interfere in my work. I remember the last time that happened...

    “Girls, we need to talk.” Twilight said but I backed off knowing that I shouldn’t eavesdrop on this conversation this time.

    I couldn’t help but listen in though. Using my Assassin skills I was able to enhance hearing ability to improve chances to get information I need.

“There was this one stallion, his name was Szilveszter Marton,” Twilight said. “He came into Ponyville not too long ago and stated something about starting a black market shop. I denied his request of course.”

“Yeah but y’all know that he’ll be back like a bad case of the parasprites.” Applejack said with concern.

“This stallion was no fun, he was really mean! My Pinkie Sense tells me that he was trouble!” Pinkie Pie said.

“When he comes back, we’ll make sure we’ll keep him out of the business at least in Ponyville.” Rainbow Dash said with great pride.

“He was quite a ruffian, pushing random ponies around like they were trash, hmph!” Rarity said bringing her snout up high.

"He wasn't very nice..." Fluttershy commented and put her face behind her mane.

“Hmm… Szilveszter Marton? I can’t say I recognize that name but he doesn’t sound like a good guy. I have to look into him. Could that be the reason for this incident at Town Hall?” I mumbled.

“Oh and one more thing girls, you may want to be careful, I took a look at his stock, there were weapons of all kinds. From Royal Guard weapons to Forbidden Weapons. Rumor has been spreading that he was a former Assassin, I’m not sure what that means but it doesn’t sound good.” Twilight said her eyes filled with concern and worry.

“Assassin?” I blurted out by accident my hoof going to my mouth and my eyes going wide.

“Have you been eavesdropping on our conversation?” Rainbow Dash said, my sudden outburst arousing suspicions from her.

“No, I just heard the word assassin in it, has there been any assassins in Ponyville?” I lied feigning concern and worry.

“No there hasn’t been any assassins in Ponyville lately just talking and it got brought up somehow. You don’t need to worry.” Twilight said. I let the fake concern and worry fall off my face and replaced it with fake relief.

    “I think that’s enough for one day girls, lets all go to bed now. Good night!” Twilight said to everypony.

    “Good night Twilight!” everypony including me said in unison we waved good bye to Twilight as she went back to her home.

    “I think I’ll go to bed too, good night everypony!” I said. “Good night Ray!” was the last thing I heard as I stepped out the door to the cottage.

    Sleeping was the last thing on my agenda for today, as I’m going to find this Szilveszter Marton. I think I even might take him out of the threats list.