The Assassin's Legacy

Leo straightened his collar, combed his hair and with a blue band tied it up. He looked at the young man staring at him dressed in a dark blue suit and adjusted his bow tie before he stepped out of his room. "Looking good Fanghyr" commented an assassin that walked by, Leo smiled in response and continued on his way towards the upper floor where the elders gathered for meetings.

Taking out a small pocket watch from his pants Leo frowned and hastened his steps towards the meeting room…

"Good evening elders" Leo greeted with a bow while he stood before the three seated figures that had various looks on their faces. Catherine after taking a long look at the assassin smiled "Well done Leo, it's such a relief to see that you didn't go along with your original idea". "All thanks to you, if not I would have just gone ahead with my assassin garb" Leo complimented. Vince hearing this rolled his eyes "Don't get so cocky, lest you forget that the suit was purchased from the order's own purse" Vince took out a golden spectacle and paper from his pocket before he continued "Those damn fairies charged us a whopping sum of Two hundred gold coins for that piece of thrash. I mean is the cloth made out of f*cking gold?The rest of the leaders laughed before Alexandre after cleaning his eyes from tears spoke up "Don't be such a miser Vince, this suit has some hidden features that make every coin spent worth it. Alexander then gestured for Leo to showcase the perks of the exorbitant article. Leo smiled glad to impress the stingy elder.Leo snapped his fingers and almost immediately the whole suit shimmered away to reveal a dark blue armor that covered every part of his body. The breastplate along with the boots had patterns that depicted a running panther. The gauntlets along with the vambrace had dark floral patterns while the helmet covered his head and thus made it look like he had a panther's head. Two glowing blue eyes served as a visor; leaving the rest of the head faceless with two pointy ears. And then with another snap that was followed by what many could call a childish grin two beautiful silver daggers appeared in his hands.Summoning all his energy Leo began to perform a series of attacks and moves before with another snap the suit disappeared and left behind a young man in a dark blue suit. Vince's mouth remained open in a wide look of surprise "I guess it is worth the pennies but how come we elders don't get to have fancy armor like that? "That's because the mission he is to execute this night, will require a whole lot of armor and skills for it to be successful" Alexandre replied and immediately went straight to the point as he began to explain everything concerning it."According to our intel from the elf that was gruesomely tortured (no thanks to Magnus), the brotherhood is planning to attack the phoenix ball tonight in order to assassinate the elven princess Emelda. We have good reasons to believe that they might send a whole lot of members to disrupt the ball and may even have some in attendance. In this kind of situations, we would have normally sent a whole league of our finest members to counteract the assassination attempt. Unfortunately for us the brotherhood has also planned to launch a full scale massacre targeting elven nobles tonight. And as such most of the fangs and claws will be distributed to Elyria in order to curtail the cult's activities.Which leaves Leo as our only option in the ball. So Leo you must find a way to be close to the princess in order to protect her from the assassins. Alexandre ignored Leo's currently raised hand and continued with his lengthy explanation "How you do it is completely up to you and though I hate to say it the attack might force you to focus on one priority while many others may die."Then why can't some assassins come with me, I mean there's no way all of our mature members went to Elyria? Leo asked. Catherine took in a breath and replied "Some assassins will join you but unfortunately for us it seems that our enemy greatly outnumber us and the Sun has yet to give us any reasonable response". "Which means they might kill a lot of attendees in the process even before reinforcements can join you".Vince rubbing his beard chipped in another round of advice "And please remember that your priority is the princess and also try not to stand out too much for like Alexandre said earlier, members of the cult might be in attendance. "In other words protect the princess but don't forget to behave like every normal guest."Though you don't need to worry for I'm sure that the Sun might have their own 'guards' in attendance" Vince finally added. Leo remembering the details of the last phoenix meeting he attended asked a question that had been bothering him

"No offences to the sun, but I have a feeling that the brotherhood might also have infiltrated the order. Catherine nodded agreeing with Leo "You might be right but we have taken that into consideration, which is why we didn't inform the Sun of our plan".After some final details, Leo departed to the forgotten forest in order to wait for a carriage that Vince had booked earlier. Leo didn't expect much since his transport had been arranged by one of the stingiest men in the Night. But contrary to his expectations, loud gallop noises echoed through the forest and there by a path used by carriages of old, was a beautiful golden carriage pulled by four jet black stallions. "What's up bruh" beamed the dark elf behind the horses. "Fine I guess". The driver jumped down and after a huge belch opened the door for his highly esteemed guest. "And just when I thought Vince had finally changed" Leo sighed. The driver dusted his oversized coat, adjusted his extremely large hat and with a snap of his whip, the horses rode off on a journey to Magnitia.

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And it's with great joy that I announce the beginning of the brotherhood wars. Expect a whole lot of action and mystery and don't forget to vote and comment, for only through that can I get the motivation to better my work.