Four Endings, One Beginning
Disclaimer: I do not own Assassin's Creed nor do I own Avatar: The Last Airbender along with the characters related to both.
The young child lay on the ground, cold and motionless as his blood escaped through the gash in his neck. He stared at the night sky illuminated with orange as flames engulfed his house, destroying everything he loved. Sounds of his family filled the area, his mother and sister screaming and desperately trying to reach him, his father and brother doing their best to fend off their attackers. He dared not move his head, the pain was too great, he heard as the sounds originating from his family ceased one by one followed by a hard thud as their bodies fell to the ground. He heard the shuffling of feet soon followed by voices.
"That was harder than I thought it would be." One man said
"Yea those two put up a real fight, started getting on my nerves." A different voice stated.
The child was slowly losing consciousness as he fought the pain of his wound. A pair of footsteps came ever closer to him as he opened his eyes to see a tall man with grey hair, and grey eyes look down upon him wielding a small dagger covered in blood, his blood.
"Hmmm, this one seems to still be alive, apparently I didn't cut deep enough." He said in a disappointed tone.
The five other men formed a circle around the soon to be corpse of the boy, staring at him as life slowly oozed out from his small, fragile body.
"He's finished boss, this one doesn't have much more fight in him." A chunky red haired man stated.
The child looked over every face of the six individuals. Memorizing their features, these were the men that took everything from him, that destroyed his life and took his family. He ignored the conversation between them and stared and stared until he knew he would never forget. The grey haired man knelt down to the boy and smirked at him.
"Tanel paid a great deal of money to kill you and your family, such a shame I'll never know why." He laughed as he spoke.
"We better leave before someone sees the fire and smoke, we've wasted enough time as it is." He addressed his companions, they agreed, mounted their ostrich-horses and rode off into the darkness.
The pool of blood around the boy grew and grew as he lost his strength to keep his eyes open. He went in and out of consciousness struggling to stay awake. He heard galloping in the distance as it came closer and closer to an eventual stop, feet away from his body. He heard someone dismount the animal and walk towards him stopping over his soon to be corpse. He forced his eyes open a sliver and made out a dark figure against the burning house, then darkness followed as he passed out. The hooded individual wrapped the boy's neck to halt the bleeding, gently picked him up and mounted his ostrich-horse then rode away from the death and destruction the mercenaries had caused, holding the dyeing child in his arms.
The young boy awoke in a dark room lit only by a single candle, the room was bare except for the bed he was on, a chair adjacent to the bed and a nightstand that held a bowl of blood stained water and multiple rags. He felt his neck and winced at the pain his hand caused as it touched his bandaged covered wound. Tears streamed down his face as he began to realize his nightmare was real, his family was dead and his home destroyed. He was overwhelmed by sadness, anger, hatred, vengeance, he wanted those responsible to pay for what they had done and feel his pain.
As he was trying to make sense of the barrage of emotions overtaking him the door swung open and a hooded man entered and closed the door behind him. The child didn't move his head but observed with his eyes the individual walking towards him.
"I see you're awake, good" The man said taking a seat next to the boy. "Do not speak only listen, as I'm sure you know the rest of your family is dead, murdered by those mercenaries. I was too late to save them and I am sorry. You are in my home, my name is Han and I am an Assassin." The boy had heard of Assassins, individuals that take other people's lives. He became cautious of the man and observed him much closer, not sure of what to think of the man before him.
"Get some rest, we will talk more when you are feeling better." With that statement he stood and walked toward the door.
The child's mind began to race, his family was murdered, his home destroyed, he had no family he knew of that would take care of him and the desire for vengeance burned inside of him like fire. He jolted out of bed ignoring his pain. "Wait!" He uttered towards the man's back. Han spun around shocked at the boy's sudden change.
He took deep breaths and continued "I have nothing, my family is dead, my home is destroyed and I want those responsible to pay." He paused again to take more breaths as he spoke through the pain in his neck. "Please, teach me to be an Assassin." The child said as he fell to his knees. Han looked at the boy for a second then slowly walked towards him and helped him back into bed.
"What is your name boy." Han asked him.
He paused to prepare himself for the pain of the words to follow. "My name is Josh."
"I doubt you understand what it is to be an Assassin of the creed, but I will train you and you will learn. What you seek though, it will not bring your family back from the dead and in the end may cause more harm than good, do you understand me?" Han asked.
Josh thought for a bit and nodded slowly.
Han sighed "Very well then Josh I will train you and you will become an Assassin. Rest well for your training will begin once you have healed, you have a long and difficult path ahead of you boy, prepare yourself."
Just to let you all know this is a revamp of an old story of mine called Crossing Paths but I hit a road block with it mainly due to lack of knowledge of one of the crossover topics so I never finished it, but I will finish this one and don't say I plagiarized or anything because Crossing Paths was my original story but like I said this is a revamp replacing FF with TLAB and I will finish this one. So leave feedback and let me know what you think, thanks guys.