Chapter 1: The Bird of Passage
Many years ago there was a clan known as the Bird of Passage. For seven years the clan was sending their best assassins to fight the renegade pirate know as Cervantes, who was been ruling Valencia for seven years in tyranny. All attempts we're failures. At the time, a child was born in the clan. She had purple colored eyes with a mole below her right eye. She was named Tira and was soon taught the way of the Bird of Paradise.
When Tira was five, she began her assassination training, in hoping that she will one day be chosen to challenge Cervantes. Tira surpassed her classmates and by ten, Tira was already at the level of most adult assassins, except for one. Tira's twin brother Toren was equal in ability and experience. Years passed as their mutual competition for more and more missions grew until one day.
Tira, then 13 years old was asked to enter the briefing room for her new mission. Every time she went up there, she always expected the Cervantes mission, but she never got it, but today was different.
Upon entering, she saw thee clan leaver standing next to a seated Toren. "What he doing here," asked Tira in an innocent sounding outrage. Whatever mission you have for me I can do alone."
I'm afraid not," said the leader, a chubby man but experienced assassin. "Because today you're getting the Cervantes mission." Tira's eyes lit up with excitement and soon forgot her outrage that if she wanted the mission, she'd have to go with Toren.
"Anyways," continued the leader, " As you already know, Cervantes has been controlling the area in and around Valencia, Spain. You and Toren will take one of our boats in Copenhagen and take it to Barcelona. From there, you meet up with our Barcelona chapter and get horses. Travel from there to Valencia. The rest is up to you. Good luck. You'll leave tomorrow morning so rest up."
Tira was speechless. She had never left Denmark and now she was going to Spain to fight a legend. Tira couldn't sleep. She stayed up all night practicing her one-hit kills. "This isn't working," she said to herself. "This dagger's no good. I need a different weapon." Sadly, she wasn't given a choice of weaponry and was stuck with a dagger.
Morning came sooner than Tira had expected and was already waiting outside when the clan leader came out with Toren close behind. "I see you're overexcited," mention Toren, "but did you remember your weapon?" Tira stared at Toren for a few seconds before she responded, "Of cause I do." Tira lied, but she figured it would be better than looking bad in front of Toren and the clan leader.
Tira and Toren didn't exchange more than two words until they arrived at the boat. Upon boarding Toren announced, "It'll take a day to reach Spain. I'll tell the crew the ship off and rest." Toren left below deck and in a matter of minutes, the ship set sail and they we're off to Spain.
Tira still couldn't sleep. Tira still couldn't sleep. She stared out into the ocean as it the sea breeze calmly combed through her blue-green hair, but it wouldn't last for long.
Only minutes later, their ship was under cannon-fire. The crew prepared their own cannons, but the ship was already heavily damaged. Tira prepared for battle and could see that Toren was now above deck and ready to battle.
Moments later, the ship was boarded and Tira went in for the kill. After only killing three pirates, the rocking of the ship knocked her unconscious and into the unknown ocean.
Tira awoke midday to see Toren standing nearby. "Tira stood up and asked Toren, "Where are we?
"Well," responded Toren, "While you napped, I asked the local. It appears we're in a small town called Ostrheinburg."