Author: Hydras First
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Well thanks to all of the people who commented on my first story, and I've decided to make a sequel, I do not know if I will make any more after this. Welp, enjoy :P
The Way of the Assassin – Death of a Master
No one, in all the people I’ve met-and killed- would have ever thought of my forty-seventh victim. A man I’ve looked up to, idolized, never criticized. A man that was like a father to me for my own parent was swept aside by the plague. A man I’ve never doubted never lied to, never was angry at. That was then, and this is now. My next victim was my old headmaster, Panaku.
I believe I should begin at the beginning, before I was expelled off Shing Jea Monastery, before I began my malicious self-given quest of retribution. After my successful assassination of Xeng Jo, Panaku wanted to “introduce” me to his victim, a Tengu named Swift Honorclaw. Swift Honorclaw was an old Tengu-Wars veteran, and was somehow targeted by a man by a man named Dao Weng. I was told something about unfair grain price, but that was pointless to me. Dao Weng wanted him dead, and I would show him the crestguard of Swift Hon- Raptor I mean, for that is the name I’ve given him as my new “subject”. Not technically me, for Panaku would be raking in the reward.
“A bit older I expected of you,” when he saw me through his yellow eyes.
I fell back a step, as if physically hurt by his remark, but quickly composed myself.
“It does not how young I am, for I let my daggers do my talking, not my size, and definitely not an ancient bird” I remarked calmly, but as my mind was anything but.
As soon as my last word snapped out, I shadow stepped to his back, and plunged my twin daggers into the brown feathers in front of me. I was promptly rewarded by the shrill scream of a damaged Tengu. But before I could jerk out my daggers, Raptor turned around with his buckler and cleaver in his hands. As he did so, I recalled back to my original position, and threw four daggers at him, the aimed at his chest, and the last for his legs. Raptor was dead before he fell to the ground.
“Older isn’t always better,” I said to the freshly made corpse.
I returned to the monastery at dusk, right in time for an accumulation of headmasters and teachers talking in the main building of Shing Jea, the only problem was that they were talking about me.
“Aha! It is good of you to “gust” by,” remarked Kai Ying cheerily.
“It is no time for jokes right now,” one of the headmasters said. I couldn’t figure out whom, my head was spinning to fast. It was unreal that all the headmasters gathered here for me. The worse part of it all, they were probably here to talk about my two assassinations.
They were. In fact they were as angry as possible, killing a strong vocal leader against the Crimson Skull, and threatening to break the Tengu-wars treaty.
The lecture lasted more than two hours, until Professor Gai remarked, “Through and through, you should be expelled, without any questioning why you did it”
“But under these circumstances,” Headmaster Lee said, “We will let you speak freely”
“I believe he was influenced by Panaku, Talon Silverwing said in my defense, “He has done it before, and Panaku should have been watching him all day.”
“Balderdash, there is a two hour break between lunch and evening and night classes, he could have easily kill him during that time,” lied Panaku, “Ask him yourself”
I was to stun to talk; here was the man I looked up to, selling me out!
“See? He can’t respond because he knows what he did and it was wrong,” Panaku said flatly.
“Panaku could be lying,” Headmaster Greico unconvincingly said.
“Let us take a vote on it, he is innocent, he is suspended for four weeks and does not walk at the graduation. If we vote he is guilty,” Su said, then she said her next four words in a dark and ghastly manner, as if it show who is actually is, “He will be expelled.”
I can’t lie about this part; my heart was beating as fast as a pig away from a butcher. Talon Silverwing, Kai Ying, Headmaster Lee, Headmaster Quin, Headmaster Greico, Zho, Headmaster Vhang, and Master Togo all voted me innocent. Headmaster Zhan, Headmaster Amara, Headmaster Kuju, Headmaster Kaa, Lo Sha, Sister Tai, Professor Gai, and Headmaster Kaa voted me guilty. Only Panaku was left. I was secretly going to help me out, and admit it was his wrongdoing.
I was wrong, Panaku was only out to save his own hide, and voted me guilty. For that moment, my life fell into a void, the man I worshipped, voting me down. That was for a brief moment, the next was purely anger, pure hate thrown at Panaku. If I could have, I would have stabbed his eyes out with a rusty dagger.
In a low undertone, but still so everyone could here me, I muttered “You kill my life, and one day I swear I’m going to return the favor.”
That was six years ago, since then I am getting closer and closer to my revenge, and one day soon, I am going to slip my own daggers into Panaku’s chest, and watch him bleed before me. And I would have filled what my life was for. The other forty-four victims were just exchanges, they get a death. I get my information.
I can only wish the day I meet Panaku comes soon.
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