Chapters Chapter 1: Job Offer
Edward Kenway was currently docked at a small fishing village. With his sails being raised, he stepped off the ship to admire the Jackdaw. The sunset gave it a warm look that most would consider majestic, but Kenway saw it as a completed goal. His black flag was wiping around in the open air as the ocean wind blew. His mind was wondering to his past, his lost friends, and his battles at sea. his thoughts were interrupted by one of his crew shouting, "Capin'! would you like the crew to repair the ship?!"
"Aye, repair any damage done to the Jackdaw!" Shouted Kenway. With a nod, his crew began repairs on the Jackdaw. Now out of his thoughts, Kenway strolled through the small town, wondering about his daughter. He left her back in England with a babysitter, or nanny.
Kenway was offered a rather interesting job. He was to kidnap someone of great importance. This person happened to be the ruler of the, newly discovered, land of Equestria. Kenway smiled, for he had been there plundering the ships of Equestria on several trips. Getting back on track, the assigned assignment was that he had to capture Princess Celestia, the day warden of Equestria.
He was on his way to his employer, Regtion Houston. Regtion was giving Kenway, if the job was done correctly, 100,000 bits, or about 125,000 pounds. At first Kenway wasn't to sure about the job, but after some talk with the crew, he had decided to go for the payout, but he was going to work alone; he was going to work like a assassin.
Edward reached the house he was looking for. At least you could call it a house. In Kenway's opinion it was more of a miniature manor. It was two stories tall and looked to be able to comfortably fit three large families. The manor had a large chimney with a roof made of stone shingles. The outside wood was painted a light grey, almost white color. It had several windows in the front, but only god could guess how many more the building held.
Walking up to the door, Kenway knocked. he waited several minutes before knocking again, but harder this time. Still no answer. He raised his hand to give a final knock, but the door flung open, reviling a average built man with a towel around his waist. a few meters behind him was a women with a towel across her breast, keeping her upper and lower areas covered. Shaking his head, Kenway said, "I am, Captain Kenway of the Jackdaw. You are Regtion Houston, correct?"
"No, he is my father. Give me a few minutes to get dressed and I will take you to the old man." said the naked man. Kenway nodded his hooded head and walked down from the porch to sit down on one of the stairs, while waiting for the mans return.
} 10 Minutes later {
After the short wait, the now dressed man approached Edward. Hearing his steps the assassin stood up, waiting for the young man to pass. The man passed, but seemed angered. "Hey, mate, why are you acting pissy?"
"My names not 'mate' and you interrupted me in my ... deed.'' the young man said
"Aye, that I did." Kenway said with a smirk. "How is your company, if you don't mind me asking?"
The young man chuckled, "Thinking of bedding my wife, are we?"
"Every man has his secrets." Edward said. The young man gave a small smile before stopping at a small tavern.
"My old man is in there, and by the way, names Gabe." Gabe said. Nodding, Edward walked into the small tavern's square. He spotted the man he was looking for in a old looking chair, being served by a waitress. Edward walked across the dance floor, dodging dancing couples and groups of friends.
upon reaching the old man, Edward got a good look at his employer. He had a grey five o'clock shadow. His eyes were pale blue. His cloths were quite normal, which confused Kenway, considering the man's wealth. "You must be Mr. Kenway , a pleasure." the man said with a cough.
"Aye, likewise." Edward said.
"Now before we get to our deal, I need proof of your rumored skills." Regtion said while taking a swig of his drink.
"What do you have in mind, mate?" Asked Kenway
"There is a British brig docked on the outer area of island. The captain has a neckless with a Cristian cross on it. Kill him and bring it to me." The elder man informed.
The assassin nodded his head, but only though of one thing, 'Templars '.
Suddenly, he was tackled to the ground by a figure. Edward brought his elbow back, hitting his assaulter in jaw, making him jump back and yell in pain. Quickly getting to his feet, Edward looked at his attacker, but found about 7 British soldiers. 5 average, sword wielding soldiers, while the other two had knives.
The injured one was rubbing his jaw, while the others drew their weapons. Kenway, grinning, drew both of his swords, and got into his combat position. One of the sword wielding soldiers spun, and swung his sword at Kenway, only to have it swatted away by a opposing blade. Edward spun his sword into a vice grip and spun, impaling the soldier through the back. The swords blade erupted from the red clothed man's chest, and its twin also erupted from his chest. For good measure, Edward lifted the man up before dropping the corpse off his sword's blades.
Turning his attention back to the other 6 guards, Another identical guard swung his sword towards Edward, but it was parried. With the guard off balance, Kenway raised both swords, and came down, cutting into the guard's uniform and flesh, but only to come back up, slicing into the chest and throat of the soldier. The motion made the guard fall backwards onto his back.
Looking back up, Kenway found that both of the knife wielding guards were swinging at him. Edward sidestepped to the left, dodging both assaulters. Edwards swung one of his swords, slicing through the neck of a soldier, killing him. Edward kicked the falling body into a recovering soldier, who was knocked to his back from the body. The soldier rolled the body off, but only to meet Edwards sword tip piercing through his throat.
Deciding it was time to end the fight, Edward sheathed his swords to his sides and pulled out 1 of his 4 pistols. Looking over the last soldiers, Edward pointed, quickly fired the pistol, but just a quick pulled out another pistol. After taking another shot, he sheathed his pistols, only to pull out two loaded ones. Firing both at once, he hit both of the last soldiers directly between the eyes. Like the other two he shot, there bodies fell to the ground, dead.
Sheathing his last pistols, he turned towards a grinning, clapping old man. "Well done, Mr. Kenway, but I am afraid I must depart. I suggest checking on your ship." Regtion stood up and started to walk towards his manor, but he looked over his shoulder before saying, "Don't forget our agreement, Mr. Kenway." and continued walking.
He was about to start looking for his target, but was interrupted by the sound of firing cannons coming from the direction of the Jackdaw. Realizing his ship was being attacked, Kenway broke off into a full sprint towards the Jackdaw, muttering, "God damn it."
} Equestria: Earlier that day {
Princess Celestia was sitting on her throne with her elbow against the armrest, with her hand against her cheek, supporting her head. She was very board, but had to wait on news regarding the pirate that had been plundering her ships. She let out a sigh as she sat in her throne, trying to think of something to take her mind off being board, but was filled with wonder when one of her scouts came bursting through the throne room doors. "Princess! We have a location on the pirate!"
Surprised, Celestia asked, "Where is the pirate?"
"In a small fishing village about 20 miles of the coast of Equestria." Answered the scout.
"hmm, send 3 brigs to destroy the ship, but bring the captain back alive if you can, for, I wish to speak to this pirate." Celestia said.
After saluting, the scout ran out the doors to get the ships ready...
Author's Note
Hello! Now most likely asking "Why aren't you updating The Moon's Darkness?", Well I am going to take a short break from that story, but when I do start working on it again this will be a side story that I will write once in awhile. Anyways, Have a good day!
Capter 2: Equestrian Battle
Edward was sprinting towards the dock with his ship in sights, but was met with the sight of British and Equestrian soldiers arresting his crew. Quickly sliding behind a crate, he watched as his crew was loaded onto a British brig. Thinking his target might be here, Edward activated his eagle vision. Standing on a crate, the captain of the British ship was overviewing that work of his crew and the Equestrians.
Deactivating his eagle vision, Kenway was thinking of a way to free his crew, but to also assassinate the captain. 'I could sneak onto the ship and set it aflame. ' Edward thought. Deciding that is what he was going to do, he jogged across the deck, without making a sound, while the suns last lights gave out and the moon took its place on the edge of the sky.
Peeking around the side of a crate, Kenway saw two Equestrian soldiers, that wore outfits similar to the Spanish's, but minus the powdered wig, looking at the Jackdaw. With a whistle from Edward, the closest guard looked over, but saw nothing. With confusion on his face, the Equestrian soldier drew his sword and started to walk towards the assassin. When the soldier's hand was visible, Kenway moved in front him, impaling the soldier in the lower chest with his hidden blade, ending his life quickly. Kenway pulled the body behind the crates, contracting his hidden blade. The soldier slide to the ground, the crates to his back, silently.
Looking back to the other guard, there were no other guards in the area, so Edward sprinted towards the clueless Equestrian, barely making a sound. The soldier turned to see a air born, hooded man with a blade on his wrist, but that was the last thing he saw as his body was knocked to the ground, and the hooded man impaled him in the throat, slitting his throat and slicing through his spinal cord.
Contracting his blade, Edward stood up. the British ship was close to the Jackdaw, obviously waiting for Edward to do something stupid. Shaking his head, he activated his eagle vision, seeing his target in a window that belonged to the captains cabin on a Equestrian ship. He deactivated his eagle vision. Looking for anymore soldiers once more, he sprinted towards the ship.
} Captain's Cabin {
"Princess Celestia ordered for me to capture the crew, so I am taking these damn pirates weather you like it or not!" Yelled a frenzied Equestrian captain.
"I don't care about your damn princess! I'm taking these pirates!" The Templar/British captain yelled back.
"How dare you! You stupi-" but was cut off by a crew member of the Equestrian brig.
"Captain! We found two of our own dead!" Yelled the singular crew member.
"We will have to continue this conversation later, Captain." snarled the Equestrian captain.
} Outside {
Edward was on the lowest part of the sails, watching both the captains emerge from the Captain's cabin. There faces were red with anger. The both stopped underneath of Kenway, but did not notice him in the slightest. Edward just sheathed his last pistol, for he had reloaded all of them, waiting for the captain to emerge. Edward extended his hidden blades, then jumped down. His hidden blades impaled the captains necks; the captains were forced face first into the wooden deck, ending their lives.
Quickly, Edward contracted his blade and grabbed the neckless of the dead British captain. With a yank, the neckless came free. Kenway put the broken neckless in his coin bag before turning around, but only to see the sight of several battle ready Equestrian. They were all swordsmen, but he herd foot steps from behind him, which turned out to be several other swordsmen. "Surrender and you shall be spared, pirate!" shouted one of the swordsmen.
Smiling, Kenway drew his cutlasses. A guard swung from behind, but Edward brought his blade over his shoulder and behind his back. He caught that blade with his own. Edward pushed the blade away, but was not done. Taking a step backwards, Edward kicked the knee of the soldier, making his knee buckle. Stepping behind the soldier, Kenway wrapped his blades around the throat of the soldier, but to only drag the cutlasses across his neck, slitting his throat.
After the body dropped, two more soldiers swung at Kenway, but Edward sidestepped one swing, while parrying the other. Edward pushed the opposing blade away. After he pushed, Kenway stepped forwards, kicking the off balanced Equestrian soldier of the edge of the brig. He turned his attention back to the his other attacker, but only to see that he was preparing to swing again. Ducking, the blade pasted over Edwards head. Edward slashed at the soldiers ankle, making him fall backwards. Standing up strait again, Kenway lifted his cutlasses up in a vise grip, then shoot them downwards, impaling both sides of the fallen soldiers chest, killing him.
Looking back up, Edward saw a lot more soldiers have boarded the ship. Even British soldiers were aboard. Thinking of a way to escape, Edward spotted a few large gunpowder barrels. Smirking he sprinted towards the edge of the of the boat, while sheathing his cutlasses and unsheathing a pistol.
Edward reached the edge, and jumped, but spun around, pointing his pistol at the gunpowder barrels. He shot just as he went out of view.
Edward was underwater as he saw and herd the explosions above the surface. Turning towards the shore, Edward started to swim towards the shore, but still was submerged in the ocean waters.
After reaching the coast, Edward stood out of the water, looking towards the destroyed ship. The other Equestrian ships left some time ago, but were must likely going to return, because no doubt the other brigs herd the explosion. Looking over to the British ship, there was only one visible British soldier, staring awed at the aflame ship.
Edward started to walk along the coastline. After several minutes of walking. Kenway reached the British brig. He walked up the walk way, but turned to see a British soldier taking a step back out of fear. Not wanting to tell anyone where he was, Kenway pulled a knife off his belt and through it at the soldier, impaling him in the throat.
Leaving the knife, Kenway walked over to a hatch, which he open with a grunt.
He dropped into the lower decks, looking for his crew, but he did not have to look far. His 50 crew members were tied and bound to the floor. He walked over to one of the crew and cut the ropes with his hidden blade. The Crew member rose from the ground, repeating thank you, but Kenway raised a hand and gave the crew member one of his swords before saying, "Mine helping me, Lad?" pointing to the other bound pirates. nodding his head, Kenway's crew got to work.
} 15 minutes later {
What was left of his crew just finished boarding the Jackdaw. Edward was at the wheel. "Half sail!" Edward yelled. the crew got to work, but before long, the sails were raised and the Jackdaw was moving.
In no time at all, Edward had reached the other side of the island, but his ship was hidden in a water cave. Sighing, the assassin sat in his chair in his quarters. He had taken off his assassin robes so they could dry, but he was still uncomfortable. It was not physical discomfort, but mental. 25 members of his crew were killed by the Equestrian dogs. As he thought, one though surfaced, 'Damn Equestrians .
Author's Note
Hello! Wow, this story is much more well liked then I thought. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Have a good one!
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Chapter 3: Agreeing on the task ( Unedited )
Walking through the thick jungle of the fishing village was Edward Kenway, pirate and assassin. After putting his robes back on, Kenway was on his way back to the village. As he walked, he was inspecting the necklace of the Templar he had recently assassinated. It was very strange. It was not the usual Templar cross. Instead of a normal cross, the middle was carved out, allowing one to see completely through it. The ends of the cross had crescent moon wielded onto them. Any red on it looked to be painted a dark violet.
Shaking his head, Edward put the broken necklace into his money pouch and picked up his speed to a jog. As he jogged, he herd a light growl or purr. Stopping in is tracks, Kenway activated his eagle vision. Looking around, he spotted a jaguar in a near by bush. Kenway drew his pistol and took aim at the jaguar, but only to hear the voices of Equestrian soldiers from behind him. Seeing little option, he took the shot, but ran and hid in the bush with the dead jaguar.
3 soldiers came rushing out of the jungle. Their was one officer and two riflemen. "Look for the intruder, this jungle is suppose to be off limits to civilians!" barked the officer. The soldiers spread out, looking for Kenway.
One of the riflemen were poking around in the bush that Edward was hiding in, but the riflemen meet his death when Kenway sprang from the bush. Edward covered the riflemen's mouth, but only to impale the riflemen in the lower chest with his hidden blade. Kenway pulled the corpse into the bush, hiding it from sight.
Although the attack was silent, the officer saw the assassination. "There he is! Get the bastard!" Shouted the officer. Knowing his position was found, Edward stood up while drawing his twin cutlasses.
The officer approached, swing his sword at Kenway. Edward rolled out of the way, but he saw that the lone riflemen was pointing towards him. Kenway charged towards the officer. When Kenway reached the officer, he batted the officer's sword away, while wrapped a blade around his throat. Kenway spun himself, and the officer, towards the riflemen. Realizing his mistake to late, the riflemen shot, embedding a bullet into the officer's chest, killing him.
The last soldier got in a defensive stance, using his bayonet and rifle like a spear. Kenway pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the forehead of the riflemen. A boom filled the air as Edwards bullet silenced the riflemen.
Sheathing his pistol, Edward ran up a tree and climbed up to the highest point. Below dozens of Equestrian soldiers entered the clearing. No longer wanting to drag on the fight, Edward slowly crept from tree to tree.
After around 45 minutes of creeping around the trees, Edward was on the edge of the fishing village. He spotted the manor he was looking for and walked to it, but there was around ten soldiers guarding its premises. Seeing no way of sneaking around the, he would have to kill all of them.
He hopped into a nearby tree, waiting for a unlucky guard to pass under him. After a few minutes of waiting, two guards walked and stopped underneath the tree of Edwards dwelling, but they were having a conversation, that Edward found interesting.
"Hey, Bright Storm?"
"Yeah, Shining Star?"
"Did you hear of Princess Luna's new order?"
"I think I head some of the others speaking about it."
Hearing enough about Equestria's night warden, Edward dropped down from the tree, impaling both Equestrians through the back of their necks, severing their spinal cords.
Standing up properly, he turned to see the other guards drawing their weapons. 'It's times like these that I wish I had gotten my blowpipe repaired ', Thought Kenway. Shaking himself out of his thoughts, he drew his cutlasses.
A swordsmen came from behind, swinging his sword, but it was swatted away by Edward's cutlasses. While the soldier was off balance, Kenway spun around, slicing the throat of the swordsmen with both his blades.
After the swordsmen was down, a axe wielding soldier swung his axe towards Kenway, but Edward rolled under the blade and stood up behind the soldier. Kicking his leg in a sweeping motion, Edward took the feet out from underneath soldier. Edward lifted his cutlasses in the air, but only to bring them down onto the downed soldier's back, slicing through flesh, bone, and his spinal cord.
After the death of the axe wielding soldier, there was only six soldier's left. Two sword wielding soldier's suddenly swung at Kenway, but the blades meet nothing but air, due to Edward sidestepping. Edward kicked the nearest guard into the other, making them both tumble to the ground, one on top of the other. Edward raised his cutlass in a vise grip, and brought it down, impaling both of the soldiers, killing them.
The last four guards consisted of a officer, two knife wielding guards, and a swordsmen. The officer attacked first. He swung his sword, but it was parried by Edwards. Kenway kicked the officer in the groin, but the swinging of a sword caught Edward's eye. Turning, Edward saw a swordsmen swinging at him. When the blade came down, Edward raised a cutlass, catching the soldiers blade. Edward head butted the swordsmen in the nose, breaking it. The officer was now well enough to swing, witch he did, but only to slice the throat of his fellow soldier. Edward stepped out from behind the dead soldier with a pistol pointed towards the forehead of the officer. With a bang, the officer dropped dead with a hole in his head.
While sheathing his pistols, Kenway turned towards the remaining soldiers, but only to find them running towards the forest out of fear. shaking his head, Kenway turned towards the house. When he reached the steps, a Equestrian soldier wielding a knife came out of the house, but had kenway's employer held at knife point. "Drop your weapons and the man will not die!" shouted the Equestrian
Thinking of a idea, Edward dropped all his weapons, except his hidden blade. The Equestrian through the old man off to the side and charged Edward, knife held high. When reaching Kenway, the Equestrian brought his knife down, but Edward side stepped. Edward extended one of his hidden blade and shoved through the back of the Equestrian's skull, killing him instantly.
Edward pushed the corpse off of his blade, making the body fall to the ground. He looked over to his employer, who was dusting himself off. "Good thing you came when you did, Mr. Kenway. It seems that Equestria knows I want there ruler, that's why they sent these dogs." Stated the elder man.
"Aye, but do they know who you employed to do it?" Edward said as he gathered his weapons.
"No, they do not Mr. Kenway." The man said, but sadly.
"What's wrong, mate?" Edward asked
"The Equestrian's took a large portion of my sons' and my weath, but we will survive." Edwards employer said. "We still have enough to pay you." He added.
"Aye, sorry lad, but I did get the necklace you wanted." Edward said.
"Good, you are now employed Mr. Kenway. I hope for a swift return. Also, my family and I are moving to a nearby island called roknald, so Mr. Kenway, meet me there." the elder man said.
With a nod, Edward began his journey through the thick jungles of the island...
Author's Note
Hello! I hope you enjoyed the chapter! I have a little news, I have created a blog were readers can pitch idea for the story! Hope you use it!
