An Absolute Duo

The class had resumed for a while and when it ended, I was one of the first out of the room. I started stretching on my way out of the classroom. I opened a window in the hallway and jumped out, closing the window behind me. I climbed up, feeling less stress on my hooves than usual.

What is giving me this extra strength? Oh right, that Luciful thing... I felt that something was wrong, the lack of effort needed to pull myself up from a ledge.

Let's see the place from above. I thought as I climbed a few stories high. I had a hoof on a windowsill as I looked down from above. I'm pretty high up. Just a quick examination shouldn't hurt. I scanned the area, but had not found a place that made interest or curiosity spark inside me.

I managed to descend at a rapid pace, partially because of the impact that I usually feel from a moderate distanced fall didn't occur this time. I was a few feet in the air before Silva ran up to me.

"Ray, what are you doing up there?" she asked me. I let go and I managed to land without a problem. "I was just looking around the place, trying to find some interesting places."

Silva looked behind her for a second. with a hoof to her muzzle, her eyes wandering aimlessly. Evidently she's thinking. "If you're looking for some interesting places, you should look outside of this area. The place is a bit dull and people are always really anxious."

"I should go one day. Well, what about you Silva? What are you doing at the moment?" I asked.

"I was thinking about going to the room we were assigned. Have you seen it yet?"

"Not yet, would you mind if I came with you?"

Silva smiled. "Not at all. In fact, it would be great. I wouldn't mind some company."

We walked through the entrance to the scho- I mean academy which was a term I had overheard a few minutes in a conversation between students, and took a few flight of stairs up. Our room was apparently a bit far from ground level. Fantastic, if I ever had to jump out of a window I most likely would be killed.

I opened the door to the room and examined the inside. I nodded my head in approval. "Clean room, enough space so you aren't cramped. It seems nice."

After a few steps into the room, I saw that there was two beds, one above the other. To my right was a small closet. And in between was a table, which had a note saying, Look in the closet Ray.

I crushed the note, and put it in my pocket. I opened the closet and hid my surprise. "Oh I forgot that I had somepony bring this up here."

Inside was my Assassin outfit, along with the outline of hidden blades inside the sleeves. Another note was next to my outfit.Attached to outfit. Lose outfit, lose weapon.

I crushed that one too and took out both notes, immediately throwing them in the trash.

Silva looked over my shoulder in curiosity. "Say, why do you have another piece of clothing? We've got these uniforms for a reason."

"It's because I can't leave this. It's something important to me, an object from my past. I failed to accomplish something in the past and I want to make up for it." I responded, remembering the death of my parents, how if I hadn't made foolish decisions, they'd be still alive, I wouldn't be an Assassin and I may be with them longer, not in the pony world, but in the human world.

"I need a second." I said, going into the bathroom. I can safely assume that these uniforms are a must. I switched, having the outfit under my current uniform. The hood and bottom were still visible when I did this. I put the hood on and saw the familiar triangle that slightly obscured my vision.

After changing, I got out of the bathroom. Silva looked at what I wore. She made a sound that I could only describe as approval, and said, "It looks good on you Ray."

"Thanks." I said, and placed my sword on the table. "Do you usually carry a wooden sword around?" I heard to my left.

"It's not wooden." I responded, pulling the sword out of the sheath.

"Wow!" Silva exclaimed, examining the sword closely. "It looks just like those in the older times!"

"It... kind of is a sword from the older times." I nervously said. I opened a window and took a random note from the trash. No wind. I unraveled the paper and threw it out the window. With a quick thrust, my sword penetrated the thin object.

"If that doesn't seem realistic enough, I can make a small cut on my hoof." I said, hoping that I did not actually have to do that.

"No, no, no, don't do that! It's fine, I believe you." she said with a nervous chuckle and waved her hooves quickly.

I took the sheath and sheathed my sword.

"That's a relief. I really don't need random injuries."

"But you have a separate sword. You have a Blaze already, so why do you need the sword too?"

"It's because of the fact that I had never seen my Blaze. I never used it, nor did I use it for that fight." Please know what I mean by that.

"Never?!" Silva said, shocked. "You're given your Blaze the minute you receive the Luciful injection."

"Mine didn't show. It was strange, but I was told to not use my Blaze for a few days. I have no idea whether or not a few days has occurred yet." I lied. I never was given the Luciful, but I assume that the ponies had to have Luciful to get in, so I might have it.

"Well, let's see." Silva said. She put her hoof to her chest. "Blaze."

A fire appeared by her hooves and when it disappeared, two blue guns appeared by her hooves. It looks like muskets... but they're not. They're a shorter version of muskets.

"My Blaze are dual pistols. Due to me having an incident in my foal-hood, it's been the only guns I was able to use without having a breaking down. Having a ranged weapon makes me an, 'Exception'.

Breaking... down? Exception?

"Exception?" I asked.

"An Exception is when a pony who was injected with Luciful and qualified for the use of a Blaze is given a Blaze which is a ranged weapon, or a weapon that isn't an offensive weapon. But the latter hasn't happened yet so I wouldn't be concerned about that."

"Let's see your Blaze now Ray."

"Alright, but don't expect anything special."

"Blaze!"

I closed my eyes and instantly I felt a strange sensation escaping from my chest and creeping in my blood to my left hoof, a fire magically appearing. It surrounded the weapon that was now my Blaze.

The fire ceased and I opened an eye and gasped. My eyes widened. A... bow?