The Assassin's Creed

Come on you assassins, you afraid to take on another of your own kind? Come at thee! I dare you. I thought as I walked down the hall of the castle, keeping a sharp eye out for any danger. "Come on! Where are you? Come and fight me if you dare!" I shouted and I saw an extensive area of smoke fill the hallway, blinding me.

I triggered my Eagle Sense and drew my sword. "Well, look who has come... the Assassin." a deep mysterious voice said to me. It was awfully familiar, almost too familiar. "Who are you? What do you want from me? Leave my friends out of it, they have nothing to do with it!" I shouted hoping that my friends' locations could be somehow revealed to me.

I heard a deep chuckle behind me and whipped around, my sword at the ready. I was prepared for this but when I looked with my Eagle Vision, I realized that there was not one pony there but an army worth of male ponies. But how? Where did they come from? I thought as more questions entered my mind. I dismissed my thoughts at the moment for the task at hand is more important.

I drew my sword back and got into a defensive position. I disabled my Eagle Vision and was allowed vision through the smoke. The ponies in front of me were all armed, guns, swords, daggers, you name it. They seemed conscious, so some sort of mind trick is out of the question. Are they just a group of brotherhoods joined together as one? Why do they want to kill me so badly? I wasn't anypony special.

I knew I could not fight them all at once so I sheathed my sword and took a Berserk dart kept it hidden from view, ready to strike the more powerful looking assassin. I drew my hidden blades and got ready to parry. An assassin struck towards my knee so I brought my hoof down into his sword, bringing it to the ground, as I skewered his throat easily with my hidden blades, bringing his life to an end.

A trio of assassins attacked at once but I slammed my hoof into one of the assassin's knee and jumped on it, using it as a launch pad. When I landed, I fired both of my hidden blades into two of the assassins. A loud bang was heard and the crumble of their lifeless bodies. Landing on the assassin I slammed my hoof on, I quickly drew my sword and sliced through his neck.

As another group of assassins tried to strike at me, I did quick somersaults and with enough speed, avoiding their blades as they whizzed past my face. I stopped my somersaults by my hidden blades that were fired and I quickly loaded in my blades.

It was like time slowed down as I fired my berserk dart at a 'Brute' who was a heavily armored pony right into their neck one of their more exposed parts. I quickly ran past two assassins and sliced their throat, bringing them down to the ground. I enabled my Eagle Vision and heard the clanging of swords behind me. I followed the blue footsteps to a small looking dungeon with an Assassin sign on it. Unfortunately there weren't any ponies here that were not made entirely made of bones.

Why would there be a secret Assassin dungeon down here? I haven't seen any Assassins or at least any Assassins on my side. Is that why the other Assassins want to get rid of me? Because I'm the last Assassin left? I can't believe it.

I resumed following the footsteps until I reached a small dungeon with real ponies. Some of the ponies seemed to be regular ponies and others seemed to be Assassins, near death. I rushed over to one of the cages and started lock picking the small lock using my lock picking kit.

Within five seconds I heard a satisfying click and pulled on the lock, removing it from the cage. "Hello? I'm not here to hurt you, I'm not with them. I have come to free you all." I said as a pony quickly backed up from me.

"Why should I believe you?" the pony asked in a feminine voice. "Because if I wanted to kill you, I think I would have by now. I don't even know why you all are locked in here. If I wasn't going to kill you why would I unlock it then? If you want to help, take this, free them and get out." I said, throwing my lock picking kit towards the pony.

I turned my back, moved on and heard a faint "Thank you" as I walked away, not looking back. I quickly searched cell by cell, unlocking some and hoping that none of them were going to stab me in the back. Not that I couldn't deal with it.

"Ray! Ray! Over here!" I heard above me as I quickly whipped around, drawing my sword. I realized that this voice belonged to none other than Fluttershy. I felt a large weight release from my chest as I climbed up to the voice's location.

When I got up I found all my friends in nearby cells. I know how some Assassins work, like idiots. Take a group and store them in nearby cells, make my job easier. But hey, I'm not complaining.

I quickly started lock picking the cell locks which proved extremely hard with hooves but I managed. I unlocked every of my friends' cell doors. They all came together in a group hug, leaving me in the middle. I was lost in happiness till I felt a large weight on me and my body was slammed onto the floor.

I heard gasps and screams around me as I was pinned down. "You make a move, one of your friends die. Same goes to you all." the assassin said.

"What do you want from me?" I gasped my breath knocked out, for I'd give them anything for my friends to be free. "You really want to know what we want from you? Your life, slow and painful. Maybe, if you don't struggle we'll let your friends live. Maybe."

"Why do you want to kill me? What did I ever do to you?" I asked, stalling for time, hoping to regain my breath. "I don't know who you even are, let alone your brotherhood."

"You're stalling, I'm not answering a damn question for you." he said. "You're going to be escorted and your friends? We'll let our guards take care of them. You have no idea what you're up against. Equestria is going down." he said, chuckling.

"I'd prefer you didn't say that." I said as I whipped around, used my hoof to sweep the assassin's hooves and used my hidden blades to puncture his throat. "We got to get out of here." I said to my friends. "But I do not know my way around this castle." I noticed that after I said that, everypony looked at Twilight. "What? I didn't build this, I don't know where to go!"

Treat it like another rescue mission Ray... but you have more valuable lives on the line this time...