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Assassin
Part 4
“Who
the hell are you?” Captain Gray asked shouting and pointing his sword back and
forth between Sergio and Scott completely ignoring Aiya as a possible threat.
“We’re
just three unfortunate travelers sir,” Sergio answered. “I thought we were
goners until you showed up.”
“Captain
that one killed Rodyer,” one of the guards said pointing at Scott.
“He
was attacking my cousin, guard.” Shifting to a less defensive stance Scott
said, “I kind of would like to know why your guard, Sir, attacked my cousin and
not those things.”
Captain
Gray sheathed his great sword. “Rodyer, rest his soul, knew better than to
attack those which protect us in this forest. Are you and your kin not Ra
worshippers?”
“No
we’re not. We’re Mak worshippers,” Aiya spoke wiping dirt from her robe. “As
you can clearly see we have our reasons not to worship those murderous
creatures.”
“A
feisty one,” Gray laughed.
“You
dare allow these subjects to speak of the Greater Ones as such.” The emissary
walked around Captain Gray; she was playing with her sword. She had an athletic
body type, her satin top pressed against her arms, chest, and stomach, but
loosened around her thighs where it came to a shredded end. Her stockings
crisscrossed up her legs.
The
tone of the emissary’s voice was very powerful, yet somehow seducing. Her eyes
were dark green, like the forest just before the sun sets. Her mascara was
running, probably due to the humidity and heat from the now dwindling fire.
“Gray,” She said, “The Almighty would say it would be against the will of the
Great Four to kill them, but he’s not here. If they are Makian they know too
much.”
“Your
husband is paying me Lelya, not you,” the captain countered. “I can’t just go
about killing my own people. They’ll belong to the Almighty soon enough.
They’ll come with us. If they prove trustworthy we’ll employ them, otherwise
we’ll enslave them.”
“Hello,”
Scott said sarcastically waving his hand, “you must be out of your mind. Who
the hell-”
Captain
Gray looked at one of his men and pointed at Scott. The guard hit Scott in the
back of his head sending him to the ground. “How dare you talk back subject,”
the guard scolded.
Scott
jumped up and charged the guard. Sergio tackled his ill-tempered cousin as the
guards and soldiers stood ready. Sergio whispered, “This is our only chance
now. We can’t screw this up.”
Three
of the guards began stripping the assassins of their weapons. “Let them keep
their possessions for now, they’re our guests,” Gray ordered.
“First
mistake,” Aiya whispered to herself.
“What
was that, girl,” Lelya snapped at Aiya; suddenly the seductive tone in her
voice seemed absent.
“I
said, thanks mate, we talk like that in our country.”
“Ha!”
Captain Gray laughed, “I like that girl.”
Lelya
looked at Aiya almost jealously. Once they got back on the trail it became
clear that the number of Destian soldiers protecting the emissary was in the
hundreds. They walked northwest for about twenty minutes when eventually they
came to a series of meadows housing thousands of tents. Whatever this camp was
it seemed almost permanent.
At
least now the assassins didn’t have to sneak in. A fiery smile grew on Aiya’s
face and Sergio knew why, the only time she ever got that look on her face was
while she was contemplating an assassination.
Lelya
left Gray’s side and talked with what appeared to be high ranking Destian
soldiers. “Put her with the other girls,” Lelya ordered one of the soldiers.
“Have those two questioned. Don’t let Gray know.”
“Yes
Empress. How do you want us to keep that from the Makian Captain he asks a lot
of questions when he’s here.”
“Leave
that to me. I didn’t marry a god, because I was shy. Now go.”
Aiya,
Sergio, and Scott walked through the camp towards a tent that an officer of the
Elite Guard told them they would stay in when three soldiers approached them. “Is
there a problem boys?” Sergio asked. Aiya slowly reached for a blade, but
suddenly her mouth was covered from behind. Over a dozen soldiers quickly
subdued the three assassins.
Aiya
watched as Sergio and Scott were blindfolded while she was carried away. She
couldn’t fight. Her mouth was gagged stopping her from screaming and whoever
was carrying her was built like a rhinoceros. Eventually the cloth was taken
from her mouth and she was thrown into a huge tent with about two hundred other
women.
“The
prostitutes,” Aiya said to herself, smirking. She grew accustomed to talking to
herself during countless hours of solitary training as well as hiding in empty
houses for days on end waiting for her target to return home. “Hi I’m Aiya,
what’s your name?” She asked one of the girls.
********
Sergio
and Scott were bound to each other by the wrists with their backs against each
other. After about an hour of silence the blindfolds were taken off. “My boss
thinks you guys are a little bit too in touch with your combat skills to be
common travelers. So why don’t you let us what you’re doing in this part of the
forest.”
“We
were hunting, this is still our country. Even you of the sand should understand
that,” Sergio replied. “Captain Gray said we were to go unharmed, and that we
could keep our weapons. He seemed eager to talk with us; you wouldn’t want him
to find out about this now would you.”
“Who
do you think ordered this?” A deep voice came from shadows. Its speaker showed
himself. He was as huge as the man that carried away Aiya, maybe it was him. He
clenched his fist and struck Scott in the stomach.
“Now
why don’t we try this again,” the first soldier spoke. “What are you doing up
here? You better be honest or Beast here is going to start hurting you.”
“He
told you, are you deaf or something,” Scott snapped. “I swear it I’ll kill you
myself when we get out of this. I don’t forget names Beast.”
Beast
grabbed Scott’s neck with one hand. His thumb and finger connected at the back
of Scott’s neck. “I could snap your scrawny neck with one hand son.”
“You’re
not going to do that Beast,” Sergio said with a calm demeanor. “If you started
snapping necks you wouldn’t get any answers.”
“Stick
to punching them Beast,” the first soldier ordered.
********
Captain
Gray washed his face with water from an ivory bowl and a clean towel. A slave
cleaned the captain’s body. Lelya entered the captain’s tent. Her face had been
clean and her mascara was reapplied.
“Leave
slave. Go back to your tent I’m sure you’re needed for something of a more
carnal nature,” Lelya slapped the girl as she exited the tent.
Lelya
walked to the bathing bowel and wetted the towel. She began cleaning Captain
Gray’s chest. “You are important Gray,” Lelya said as she wiped around his
neck. “A slave for you is too low.” She kissed his chest. “You showed mercy
today, many would call that weakness.”
“You
think me a fool Lelya,” Gray said stepping back. He robed himself. “You’re the
third wife of a man-god. I like my head where it is and I’m sure you do as
well. Let’s not forget the meaning of these meetings. I’m already betraying my
king I won’t do the same to a god. And if you think that a slave is too low for
me why don’t you order one of your men to go fetch me that girl we rescued.”
“She
may not be a slave now, but soon enough.”
“If
that’s the case, why’d you have her put with the morale?”
“I
did no such thing.”
“Don’t
lie to me Lelya. There’s very little you can get past me. This may be your
outpost, but it is, for now, still in my country. I was going to have them
questioned too; I was just going to go about it a bit differently. I guess a
few bruises won’t kill them.”
“Fine
I’ll have her fetched.”
“No
don’t worry about it. Like you said, she’ll be a slave soon enough. But for now
she’s not to be touched. Do you understand?”
Lelya
exited the tent for a few seconds then reentered. “She’s being sent after and
taken to my tent Gray.”
“Now
let’s get to business. I have charts here,” Gray said as he pulled some maps
and documents from a pack. “The dragons are being gathered next month from our,
Mak’s, daughter countries. My King is doing whatever he can. The king does not
want to be known as the king that lost the oldest country in the world to his
desert neighbors.”
“We
can get to this later Gray, I want you.” She unrobed and gently removed the map
from the table.
“Stop
it Lelya. You might do this to your husband, but I won’t to my wife and
daughter. Don’t make me put my armor back on.”
“Don’t
you want an Empress?”
Gray
nearly laughed. “What I want is for the emissary in front of me to robe and
finish this meeting so I can get back to the city by tomorrow night.”
Aiya
was fighting off a lonely soldier when Lelya’s runner showed up. “Back off or
I’ll cut it off damn it,” Aiya protested.
“Leave
her be Esgard. Empress Lelya sent me to get her. She wants her unharmed.”
“Not
fair, she’s the only one in this tent that hasn’t been had by the infantry.”
“Lelya
will be expecting you sober during duty tonight. I’m not covering for you again
Esgard.” The runner turned his attention to Aiya and said, “Let’s go, before I
let him have you.”
Aiya
was taken to a lavishly decorated tent. Lelya’s runner stayed with her. He
remained silent just watching the girl.
“Do
you know where they took my brother?”
The
runner remained silent.
“Hello
I asked you something.”
Lelya
entered the tent, “Don’t answer that soldier. You’re dismissed; I can handle
myself until your replacement gets in. Report back in the morning.”
“Yes
Empress,” the runner complied.
“So
you’re a hunter,” Lelya stated.
“Aye,
that’s true,” Aiya lied.
“Where’s
your bow?”
“I’m
not very good with a bow. I can throw a knife straighter than I can shoot a
bow. They don’t travel as fast, but I can throw five or six by the time any
archer can nock a second arrow. Now my brother, Sergio, he’s good with a bow.
He can nock an arrow in the time it takes for me to only throw two knives.
Speaking of Sergio, where is he?”
“You
don’t beat around the bush do you? The Almighty would like that,” Lelya
attempted to get off subject again. “You know the Almighty hasn’t had a tenth
wife in about twelve years.”
“Yeah
I’ve heard the stories. Her name was Jazmin right? I heard she killed two wives
before finally leaving the Almighty as you like to call him. I hear he favors
himself a god. I prefer to call him Ga’ash; it is his real name after all.
Speaking of wives, my brother has one and she would probably like to know where
he is; tell me where he is.”
Just
as Lelya was about to respond a knock sounded on the post just outside of the
tent. It was probably the runner’s replacement.
“Enter,”
commanded Lelya.
It
was Esgard. “Empress,” He said. “Muhtmel said they broke one of them. He said
you better come take a look.”
“Hunter
huh,” Lelya laughed. “Esgard stay with this one. Don’t let her out of the
tent.”
“You
can beat a lie out of man,” Aiya yelled to Lelya as she left the tent.
“You
shouldn’t speak to the Empress with such a tone, her husband is a god.”
After
a few short seconds Aiya noticed Esgard was looking at her the way he was when
they were back in the morale tent. Aiya slowly loosened her belt and stood up.
“You’re right I shouldn’t. I know what I should do though,” she said. Her robe
opened revealing her bra. She walked to him. “Grab me,” she said.
He
complied pulling her close. His eyes widened. He had to feel many of the knives
that were attached to the inside of her robe. Aiya pushed him down and kneeled
over him. She put her mouth to his ear. “Good night,” she whispered as she
released her spring assisted blade into his temple.
She
put herself back together and snuck out of the tent and eventually caught up to
Lelya. She kept a safe distance from her target. Lelya stopped to talk to a man
outside of a tent. Aiya couldn’t make out what they were saying, but the man
kept pointing to his arm and Lelya looked as if she were growing increasingly
madder with every word he spoke.
Aiya
cut a large slit into the back of the tent and silently slid in. In the dark
she managed to see two figures bound together, back to back. Aiya cut the rope
that was binding the assassins. “You guys-”
Beast
appeared almost out of nowhere. His huge fist came smashing down towards Aiya.
She grabbed his hand with both of hers and was still sent to a knee. Sergio
unsheathed the scimitar from Beast’s belt and in one quick move he liberated
Beast’s head from his shoulders. Scott reached out catching the massive head by
the long wavy black hair and slowly put it down as Aiya and Sergio quietly
lowered the body.
Scott’s
left arm appeared hurt. He kept it held against his chest. “Are you okay?” Aiya
whispered to her cousin.
“I’ll
be fine. Let’s go.”
fOR THOSE OF YOU WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS
GOING TO BE THE LAST POST IN THE ASSASSIN SERIES I AM DEEPLY SORRY. i GUESS
THAT WOULD INCLUDE ME THOUGH. i JUST COULDN’T FINISH IT IN FOUR POSTS; THE
FOURTH WAS BECOMING FAR TOO LONG. therefore THERE WILL BE A FIFTH POST AND
HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE THE FINAL POST IN THE ASSASSIN SERIES.
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