The Assassin's Creed

I woke up in the morning after a whole night’s worth of hunting for my prey. My back really hurts, it’s not easy to find assassins or rumored assassins. Of course I just lost hours of sleep hunting for a pony I wouldn't be able to find anyways. I got up from my sleeping place which was on a roof and made my way to Lorani’s cottage. I mistimed my jump down and accidentally sprained my hoof on a stone ledge. I fought the urge to let out a small groan.

This was a huge disadvantage, sprained ankles usually led to a lost battle. But in this case it seems that a sprained hoof would do just as badly.

I made my way to Lorani's cottage, trying not to show any signs of pain. When I reached my destination I found two ponies who I assumed was Assassins with Lorani and held her at knifepoint.

She was clearly very afraid and I was not in the condition to do a double takedown. I noticed that she did not want to show this fear, something you learn when you become an Assassin.

I made my way up to a nearby tree and made my way to the roof of her cottage.

    I eavesdropped on their conversation first though, hoping for some valuable information, “We should kill this mare and be done with it, the assassin will not even know.” one of them said.

“Yeah, why not? We did have permission to kill her and one less mare to deal with right?” the other one said. I watched them bring the knife up and was about to land the blow if I hadn’t jumped down, forced his hoof down and forced his hoof inwards. He yelled in pain as I took his knife, possessing it as mine.

I slammed my uninjured hoof down on his left hind leg, turning it inwards. He yelled in pain yet again as I held a defensive position, all hooves ready to protect Lorani. I spotted two ponies flying in the skies and found that those ponies were none other than Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash going for a casual flight. They had spotted us and were flying down at incredible speed.

I stood on my hind legs and got ready to fight like a human assassin. “Nice trick but that won’t save your friend like that.” he said as he drew his knife back and threw it at Lorani.

    I made a stupid decision by taking the knife blow with my leg. I couldn't take any chances. I felt white-hot pain in my leg as I yelled in pain. I heard a small whimper behind me as blood was soaked though my outfit as I dealt with the pain.

    I stood up anyways ready to kill these two idiots. My leg was losing a lot of blood fast but I decided to still stand. The two stallions took out another knife and they were both armed again. I gritted my teeth and hoped that I didn't have to kill them.

I saw Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle coming down to my assistance but I waved them off. “NO DO NOT COME ANY CLOSER! FLY AWAY! I GOT THIS!” I yelled at them.

The two assassins smirked and pulled out some rope darts, I didn’t want to kill them I didn’t but if they were going to kill my new-found friends, they were going to die. I quickly rushed over to them, dashed towards the first assassin, pushed the knife into one of the stallion’s chest and slit his throat. The other stallion was about to throw his rope dart but I prevented this by throwing my knife into his neck.

He fell to the floor, lifeless. As I collapsed, my head pounding from loss of blood. I felt weak and my back started hurting. Everywhere started hurting. I felt myself being brought to what looked like Lorani's cottage and the pain started going to extreme levels but I resisted the urge to yell and thrash. I heard muffled voices in which I could only assume were Lorani, Rainbow and Twilight's voices.

    I forced myself to look at the wound and saw that the wound was being patched up by cobwebs and leather. It seemed that an ample amount of cobwebs was used and it stopped bleeding and the leather served as a cast.

“Thank you, Ray for saving my life.” I heard a soft voice say in my ear as I started fading in and out of consciousness. I used a lot of willpower to not close my eyes and to resist death. It wasn’t until some time till I closed my eyes.

I opened my eyes after what felt like an eternity. At first I didn’t want to open my eyes, thinking I was truly dead. I awoke to the sound to a window being broken and a voice shouting “This is a warning shot! You WILL let me set my black market up here in Ponyville.”

I looked at my body to see that my weapons and outfit was still on. I got off the bed I was on and limped outside. I saw a large crowd yet again. I rushed to the scene and found Twilight and her friends, separated from the crowd and seemingly in the middle of the scene. I pushed past stallions and mares away quickly getting to the scene.

I arrived behind who I assumed was Szilveszter Marton. I used my Eagle Vision to detect hostiles and friendlies. The stallion I assumed was Szilveszter Marton was marked in red and two stallions in the crowd was marked as red. There were 4 more stallions in the crowd marked as hostile. All of them were obviously Assassins due to their clothing which was somewhat similar to mine. It seems that the window that was shattered was due to an arrow that was shot.

The window was broken but the wall behind it wasn't, and in that wall was an arrow stuck in it. I examined the position of it and realized that this arrow went awfully close to my friends. Too close, he's obviously a sharpshooter, need to take him out, what better way to take an Assassin out than another Assassin?

"Merda, how am I supposed to take out Szilveszter without getting my friends killed?" I muttered to myself. That’s when I saw Szilveszter pull out a bow & arrow, about to load an arrow to shoot, obviously aimed dead-on to my friends, when I drew my hidden blade and pushed innocents out of the way. I yelled for everypony to get out of the way.

The rest of the crowd cleared for me in an instant. “STOP!” I yelled, hoping that this will distract Szilveszter long enough. I ejected the hidden blade from the hidden blade handle and it now became a dagger, throwable.

Szilveszter turned to my direction to see a dagger impale his head. The crowd gasped and the hostiles unsheathed their swords and started towards me. I drew my sword and gestured to my friends to get out while they could. They took note of this and ran. Now without innocents and my friends to worry about, I can fight free and fully. I stood on my hind legs, oblivious that my friends were just hiding in a dense bush, watching me fight.

When one of the stallions attempted to cut my neck, I ran towards him and slid under his sword. I used my blade to push his blade towards my direction, making him stumble as I forced his knee inward. I took this opportunity to disarm him, giving me a second sword. He tried to punch me but I evaded this, using one sword to stab through his chest, moved behind him, spun around and his body's backside now facing me, using both swords to slit his throat.

About 3 stallions seemed to be trained in fighting with their hind legs, as 3 stallions stood on their hind legs, ready to kill me. I smiled inside, not letting my enemies know I had more of an advantage now. Hopefully.

Two enemies tried slashing at me at once and that was a mistake. One of them was behind me and another was in front of me. Using my enhanced Assassin combat senses, I was able to detect them striking from behind me and I moved out of the way as tripped the other stallion who was lunging with his sword.

When he fell I took his sword and impaled the moving stallion’s chest while using my other sword to penetrate through the tripped stallion’s throat. 3 down 3 more to go I thought as the last hind leg trained assassin was left standing alone. I noticed one of the Assassins aiming their weapon at me and I took the assassin that was standing on his hind legs and stabbed him in the chest.

He won’t live long enough to endure too much pain. He yelled in pain as I spun him around to face the shooter. You idiot how can you not react fast enough to not push a small trigger? You just killed your own brother! Sorry excuse for an assassin or a shooter. I thought as my meat shield’s weight increased and I threw his body at the shooter.

    I ejected my hidden blade and I threw it at the shooter who was struggling to get a dead body off him. It impaled him in the chest, killing him quickly. I took my dual swords and got into a defensive position. The last assassin was standing still as I approached the shooter’s dead body and took the dagger.

I admitted the dagger right back into the hidden blade’s empty slot. The assassin didn’t seem to move and just stared at me while I put the dagger right into the hidden blade holder.

I wondered if this was supposed to faze me. I approached the shooter’s dead body and with my knowledge of guns, I used the gunpowder and modified the hidden blade with a shooting mode.

This assassin was the perfect test subject. He legitimately stood still while I modified my weapon. I began to grow concerned by his behavior he was just standing there. Am I just over-thinking this? Or is he just an idiot? I thought as I modified my weapon. My modification allowed the use for shooting my hidden blade.

I adjusted my hidden blade, aimed, and pressed the button. I heard a loud bang and the assassin just stood there still. I thought it didn’t work until the assassin’s outfit stained in red. Nope just an idiot.

I walked over to the assassin and felt his pulse. Still alive. Good.

“Requiescat in pace, may you be free of all evil and greed.” I murmured and used my sword to finish him off. I took my dagger back and admitted it into my hidden blade. I went to Szilveszter’s body and retrieved the dagger from his body. I admitted that into my hidden blade holder. I took the bow and arrow that Szilveszter possessed and it became a new addition to my own inventory.

I was a bit upset about having to take the Assassin’s lives but my thoughts were interrupted by a familiar voice behind me saying “That was so awesome!”