It's been about two weeks after the bioweapon attack in Star City and all was returning to normal. Despite Palmer Tech's nanotechnology stopping the spread of the virus, there still needed to be some air cleansing that was taking place. The city officials had halted people returning to work in areas where the virus was present, and recently let people return to their jobs. Lenora's school was in that area which meant that she and all her classmates where returning to Trinity College Prep. It was a large private school located near city hall and was shut down for a week for air cleaning. Her father, Marcos Bariq, owned a company that was also shut down for a few days. He owned a successful business that manufactured parts for construction projects called Bariq Machinery and Supplies. Her mother, Katrina Rajm, worked in the quality control unit of the business.

It was a beautiful Monday morning and Lenora woke up to the sunlight breaking through the large windows in her room. "Mondays…..great…!" The dark blued eyed girl said to herself as she climbed out from her bed.

Lenora went into her bathroom and brushed out her golden brown hair, then proceeded to get dressed. She walked downstairs and was met by her mother and father both in the kitchen making breakfast.

"Good morning Lenora. Ready to get back to school?" Her father asked from behind the counter.

"No, I love school in some ways but I love days off more" Lenora said as she sat down at the counter.

"Is it because you can't lock yourself in your room and write for the day?" Her older brother Trent asked with a chuckle. He was a junior in college, while Lenora was just a freshman in high school but despite their differences, they were best friends.

"Shoot, you guys need to get going so you're not late. Trent, you can drive right?" Her mother asked while gathering her own things. Trent and Lenora followed their parents out the door, and then they split ways and got in separate cars.

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"Trent, can you drop me off at the side entrance? I need to talk to a teacher about some assignments" Lenora asked. Trent nodded and dropped her off like she asked.

"See you after school" Her brother said as he drove away to his own school.

The blued eyed girl watched her brother drive off, then walked around the campus to find her best friend. There was a courtyard in the middle of the buildings where she usually found him. On her way there, she ran into a classmate who she just so happened to have a crush on.

"Lenora, good to see you. How have you been?" The boy asked her.

Lenora felt like butterflies were swarming in her stomach when he made eye contact with her. "I've been great. How have you been Jacob?" Lenora asked him.

"Been good" He started "You seem to be looking for Noah. He's just over there" Jacob said as he pointed to the other side of the garden.

Lenora smiled when she saw her best friend's dark hair poking out from behind a fountain. "Thank you Jacob" She said as she walked away.

He grabbed her arm before she could walk away further. "Please, call me Jake" He said with a smile and a warm tone in his voice.

Lenora smiled back, then proceeded over to where Noah was. He had his head inside a book when she walked behind him.

"Whatcha reading this time?" Lenora asked him with a curious tone.

Noah turned around and smiled at her. "Just the newest edition of the biggest conspiracy theories known to man! It's really good, you would like it" Noah said while gesturing to the book.

"I'll stick with my writing, but we should head to class since our first one starts in about five minutes" Lenora pointed out. Noah groaned but got up from the lush green grass and followed Lenora to their first classes.

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A bell rang out through the school and students started filing out of classrooms and into the dining hall. Lenora walked out of her chemistry class and followed the crowds until she found Noah at a table already. She sat across from him and once again, he was reading the book.

"Noah! What is your obsession with that book?!" Lenora asked him with a laugh.

"Well Lenora if you must know, I've been fascinated with ancient group and theories. Maybe me and you could write something about one" Noah pointed out.

The girl smiled back at her brown eyed friend and walked away to get some lunch. She returned shortly after with a small bowl of mac n' cheese in her hand and sat back down with Noah.

"Hey, look at this" Noah said as he showed Lenora a page in his book. "There is a group supposedly called the League of Assassins that's over hundreds of years old!"

"Noah, you know that those are all theories, they probably aren't real. Besides, if they are real, they would have been caught by now. You can't waltz around with a bow and sword and not get caught" Lenora pointed out.

Noah let out a chuckle before he could reply. "Have you seen the news?! There is a vigilante called 'the hood' that uses a bow and arrow to kill or punish criminals yet he hasn't been caught!".

They talked for a bit longer before the bell sounded again, signifying the end of the lunch period. "Now we have to go to English! I really hate that class, so long" Lenora said as she shoveled the last bit of mac n' cheese in her mouth.

Noah nodded and they left for the classroom. Inside the classroom, there were about twenty five other freshman, waiting for class to start. Lenora and Noah walked to the back row and took their seats next to each other. Lenora set her things down on the ground, then spotted Jacob talking with his friends on the other side of the room. The girl smiled a bit but her happiness was cut short when the teacher walked inside.

"Alright class! Everyone sit down and pull out your in class notes. We will be review books 4 through 6 from The Odyssey.".

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"Lenora! Wake up!" Noah said in a yelling whisper while shaking her awake. She had fallen asleep in the middle of class when the teacher started talking about character development.

"Noah, stop!" She said back to him. He quit shaking her and she went back to listening to the lecture.

The teacher was still talking when Lenora heard a creak from the ceiling above her. She thought nothing of it until it got louder and it sounded like footsteps. "Noah, do you hear that?" She asked in a whisper.

He looked up from his notes and tried to listen. "No, I don't hear anything besides the lecture. What is it?" Noah asked her.

She was silent for a moment until she heard the footsteps again. "Something's not right…" She said under her breath.

"Lenora, everything is-" Noah started before he was cut off by the ceiling breaking.

Windows started to shatter and men dressed in black with weapons all around them started to fill the room. Students started pooling up against a wall, cowering for dear life as the men pointed their notched bows at them. They were all trying to hide back screams when a woman dressed in red and black walked up from behind the men. She had a hood on and a veil covering her face, leaving only her dark eyes to be seen. She looked at the students all pressed against a wall and then said something in Arabic to a man standing next to her. The hooded black figures threw down some metal spheres and smoke started to rise up in the room.

Students all around her started coughing and shielding their mouths from the smoke. Lenora was doing the same when she felt a sharp and sudden pain in neck. She reached for the source and pulled out a small tranq dart. Her vision started to get fuzzy and dizziness was coming over her. She tried to get Noah's attention, but fell to the ground before she could. There were sounds of arrows being fired and some students dropping to the ground before Lenora's vision went black. She could feel her body being picked up before her senses went out completely.

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Lenora woke up on the cold, hard ground of a cell and frantically looked around. Her vision was still messed up from the dart, but it was getting better. When it was finally to a point where she could see, she noticed another figure in the cell with her.

"Lenora! Lenora are you okay?!" The masculine voice asked over and over again. Her vision finally went back to normal and she identified the figure beside her.

"Jacob?! What's going on?!" She asked back.

Lenora tried to get over to him, but was stopped by the chains around her hands keeping her in place.

"I don't know!" Jacob called over.

Lenora was sweating profusely with fear, not knowing if she would come out of this dead or alive. The lock on the door clicked and five men walked inside. They were led by the woman dressed in black and red. Her hood and veil were down, revealing her olive colored face and dark brown hair.

"Take them to the open hall" She said while eyeing Lenora. The men walked over and picked Jacob and Lenora up off the floor and dragged them to the place the female instructed.

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They walked inside and were met by more men dressed in black lining the walls of the room. In the back, there was a pool of water that looked kind of like the hot tub Lenora's family had in their backyard. In the middle of the room, there was a man dressed in a long, dark robe lined with gold. He turned around and revealed his face to the two teenagers.

"Welcome to Nanda Parbat, Lenora Bariq" The older man said "I hope our means of bringing you here were adequate".

Lenora stopped struggling to get free when her name was mentioned. "Who are you people?!" She asked nervously "Why am I here?!".

The older man kept a stern face when he spoke. "We are the League of Assassins and you are here to fulfill your rightful place as a warrior" He explained.

Lenora was obviously confused and looked over to Jacob, who was restrained. "I believe you have the wrong person. My name is Lenora Bariq. My father owns Bariq Machinery and Supplies and my mother helps run it. I have one brother and no other family" Lenora said as a way to reason before she was stopped.

"Yes Lenora, we are aware of how you are" The man said.

He said something in Arabic to the assassins holding Lenora and they let go of her. The older man drew his sword and an assassin handed Lenora a sword, who took it in her hand.

"Prove to me that you are not a warrior, by defending your life" He said.

The girl was frightened and turned to Jacob He was looking at her with a frightened look but gave a slight nod. The man with a sword drawn charged at Lenora, who blocked his attack with her own sword. He went for another attack, but was blocked again by Lenora. She went for a few attacks herself, but was blocked by the man's much larger sword. Lenora twirled her sword around her and struck the man's side before he could block it. The side of his dark robe was torn open and blood started staining it. It wasn't a kill shot, but he stopped the attacks.

"No one has gotten a hit on me for one hundred and seventy six years. That was by my father before he died but even then, it was a minor cut on the arm. You are definitely a warrior, despite what you want to believe" The older man started. "I am Ra's al Ghul, leader of the league".

The woman dressed in black and red approached her father, handing him the sheath to his sword. "And this is my daughter, Nyssa. She will train you and possibly that friend of yours" Ra's said.

Lenora was incredibly confused and decided to get some answers. "Why would you willingly train me? What price do I have to pay?".

Ra's looked at Nyssa who answered for him. "A prophecy stated that a girl born of Sky and Earth will become the strongest warrior, to be taken in by the group that finds her first. She will be taught the ways of the blade, string, and body until she is ready to become the best in the world. Even when you have never used a sword before, you managed to harm my father" Nyssa explained.

Lenora looked back at Jacob, to make sure he was not harmed. He was still being held back by some assassins until Ra's instructed them to let him go.

He ran up to Lenora and pulled her into a hug. "I'm glad you are okay" He whispered to her, making her drop the sword she was still holding.

Ra's then interrupted them with news. "You will both be trained by the league and then return to Star City to cleanse the city of the crime".