Hello everyone! CodenameBlackStar here. I had announced before that I will be making changes to my story, specifically my first few chapters. And so I have and here it is! I will go more in depth about Black Star's life when he was still a member of the Star Clan up to the point of him joining the DWMA and eradicating the clan. Some of the chapters from my old story have been changed drastically while few have some minor changes. I hope you enjoy this better version of my story titled Learning The Truth: The Assassin's History.
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater or Assassin's Creed Rogue
Italics = Black Star's POV
Rules of assassination #1: Blend into the shadows. Control your breathing. And wait for your target to let his guard down.
Rules of assassination #2: Tune in to your targets. Predict his thoughts and actions.
Rules of assassination #3: Strike your target before he notices you.
These are the codes of the clan. The rules I used to live by. We were the ones that created this while others merely adopted it. We were once the clan that was looked up upon with honor, glory, peace, and justice.
I have believed that we were a clan that only gives and never receive. I had believed. I witnessed it. The disease that was plaguing everyone. I have not imagined what the future had in store for me, nor the cost I chose to bear.
My name is Black Star, and this is my story.
Deep inside an unknown forest. 50 miles away from civilization. 3 years before the incident...
A young Black Star is kneeling on top of a thick branch, watching a figure that's under him. The figure appears to be wearing a hood and is of a masculine physique. Whoever the person is, the assassin has his eyes on him, like a predator on its prey. Exhaling deeply, Black Star jumps from the branch.
The figure steps aside and Black Star does a roll on the grassy ground.
"Hahahahaha," the figure chuckles and removes his hood, revealing a young man in his late teens with gray hair that has been combed back and gray eyes feature his face. Black Star gets up while grinning and points to the male.
"Admit it, I nearly had you," he says while laughing.
"Nearly counts as nothing. You were just lucky," stated the male.
"Luck finds me one way or another, Gray Star," Black Star cockily explained to the male known as Gray Star.
"You still have a lot to learn. But I'll admit, for a twelve year old boy, you are something special." Gray Star grins.
"Watch when I'm 19 just like you, I'm going to surpass you." That's when a loud gunshot was heard.
Black Star and Gray Star look towards the direction of the sound and see birds flying out of a tree.
"Better see what caused that," said Gray Star and they both put their hoods on and ran.
"Those two thick-headed idiots. When I find them..." mumbled an angry male that has long black hair tied in a ponytail and blue eyes.
The two assassins arrived and found their own Star Clan member walking back and forth with an angry expression. As well as four wounded soldiers. The male noticed the duo and starts to shout.
"...WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU TWO!"
"We were out hunting. What happened here?" asked Black Star.
"My men were attacked by some of the traitors of the Star Clan!"
"Why General Blue Star, couldn't you fight them all off like you're always saying?"
The male known as Blue Star slowly walks up to the young assassin and starts to talk in a low, harsh tone.
"It's General Blue Star of the Celestial, and you think any training could make you into a proper assassin? Do you even know what that means? It means being responsible for an ancient and proud tradition that the clan was created upon! It means obeying your mentor without question! How else will you show the pride of being a Star Clan member?"
"Those are pretty words, Blue Star, but I don't feel any pride at the moment"
"Well then feel educated!" With that, Blue Star punches Black Star with a powerful right hook towards the jaw and the young assassin falls to the ground.
"How dare you show me such disrespect!"
Black Star gets up into a fighting stance, knees bent, fists up. He throws a left hook to the jaw, then a right hook to the same area, followed by a headbutt. Finally, a left uppercut. Blue Star throws a left hook, but Black Star raises his right forearm and blocks the attack. He uses his left palm to push the older assassin away. He throws a left hook again, but it was blocked the same way. Black Star again throws left and right hooks to the jaw. As Blue Star bends forward, the young assassin kicks him on his head. As he got up, Black Star yet again throws left and right hooks, added with a headbutt and blocks Blue Star's left hook. As the older assassin tries again with the left hook, the young assassin blocks it again. Right before he throws a punch, Gray Star gets in between the duo and breaks up the fight.
"Gentlemen, stop! We got a common enemy and I reckon he's close"
"The traitors had salvage our supplies and forced my men to flee! We will be stranded and what is worst, the smugglers that we were suppose to meet have been taken prisoner!"
"Black and I will free those smugglers, you treat your wounded!"
Blue Star obeyed and went up to his soldiers. Gray Star saw two weapons, a sword and a dagger, resting on a crate. He took a hold of them and gave them to Black Star.
"Take these, you'll need them."
Black Star sheathes them and follows Gray Star.
"Tread with care, Black. The traitors will be on to us. Remember your training."
The duo sprint towards a dead tree that connects the elevated ground with another tree that's V-shaped towards the top. They could see an encampment with the smugglers and the traitors guarding.
"Ready to teach them a lesson?"
"They don't stand a chance," Black Star replied.
Witnessing Gray Star jumping from the branch to air assassinate a traitor that was minding his own business below, Black Star does the same. Looking around, he spots another one next to a bush. The young assassin decides to sneak up on him, using the bushes to his advantage. He unsheathes his dagger and stabs the traitor while covering his mouth. He then lays the body within the bushes to hide it.
He sees Gray Star doing the same and then running to another bush that's across.
Hiding near a couple of barrels, Black Star sees another traitor running towards their dead comrade. The assassin sprints to the traitor and quickly assassinates him. Next to a tree that leads to another elevated tree, he climbs up. Upon reaching the last branch, he sees the last two traitors below him. Doing an air assassination, he impales the back of their heads. Black Star then walks up to the smugglers and unties them.
"Many thanks, I thought I'd be killed"
Gray Star walks out of the bush that he was hiding in and starts to look around.
"There's something fishy about this area. Better keep you eyes peeled." With that, a bullet went past him, nearly hitting his left ear.
The duo got into their fighting stance with their weapons unsheathed. Six figures came out of nowhere and surrounds the two, masked and armed. They aimed at the duo with handguns.
Black Star looks to his right. He quickly turns and stabs the traitor's arm, where he aims and shoots another comrade that's in front. Gray Star quickly ducks and impales one man in the abdominal, and then slices another's chest with a swift movement. Blue Star arrives and pierces a traitor's neck with his sword. He does a powerful kick to another in the chest while quickly turning around slices two more on the chest as well. He pushes the traitor that's still standing to Black Star, who uses the body as a human shield to protect himself from the assailant that fired his handgun. Blue Star finally finishes the last one with a brutal slash to the chest.
"I was saving those fellows for you"
"Very thoughtful" Gray Star said.
"Maybe you are not completely useless, Black," Blue Star implied while stabbing a barely moving masked man in the chest.
"Speaking of useless, those idiots won't be needing our supplies anymore," Black Star explained.
"Indeed, better report back to the mentor after we're done here," Gray Star said.
Star Clan base. Deep inside a forest 25 miles away from Death City. One month later...
Black Star is laying down on his bed, twirling a shuriken with his right index finger while looking up on the ceiling.
"Black Star, what did I tell you about using your weapons in this home," said a feminine voice.
The young assassin sat up to see a woman in her late twenties with a curvy figure wearing a red tank top with white tights and black boots. She has average assets, long pink flowing hair, and red eyes.
"Sorry about that, mom. I'm just impatient. Yellow Star said she would teach me some new sword techniques at noon, but it has been three hours."
"I'm sorry sweetheart, maybe she went on a mission at the last minute. She'll be back soon. Just wait a little longer."
Then, there's a knock on the door downstairs.
"That must be her.." Black Star sprinted out of the room, went downstairs, and opened the door to see a girl in her mid teens wearing a gray sleeveless mini dress with long yellow hair tied in a ponytail and yellow eyes, curvy figure, and a large bosom.
"Heya squirt, ready to go?" The girl patted Black Star's hair with affection.
"Watch, I'm going to be taller than you, Yellow Star," the young assassin announced.
"Love to see that happen. Oh, hey Pink Star," Yellow Star waved at Black Star's mother known as Pink Star.
"Yellow Star, are you here to take my son to training?"
"Yes, ma'am. It won't be long. Come on, Black Star, we have to do a quick errand first. Bye, Pink Star."
The two left the house and walked in the direction Black Star is familiar with, yet he's confused.
"Isn't the training camp the other way?"
"I went on a mission the last minute. I'm just going to report to the clan master about what I got. Don't worry, it'll be quick."
The duo arrived at a rather large building, which is bigger than any of the architectures in the village. They opened the door to see a man with white hair wearing a mask that covers his mouth and the only noticeable features are the hair and eyes.
"White Star, the mission was a success and I have gotten what you inquired," Yellow Star pulls out and object that everyone is very familiar with: a blue soul, a human soul. She gives the soul to White Star.
"Excellent. Oh, and Black Star"
"Yes, father?"
"As you soon as you turn thirteen, you will go on more dreadful missions. I suggest you take your remaining time as a twelve year old to train harder."
"As you wish." He bowed.
"Good. You two may leave"
As Yellow Star and Black Star left, White Star held onto the soul and inspected it. He looked at it with interest. Spinning it around, he sighed.
"Assassin," he called out.
"Yes, clan master?" a Star Clan member answered.
"Take this to the storage. There is a chance that we might use it"
"As you wish"
What he said was true. I did went on more dreadful missions. Dangerous, also. The kind where there was a low chance of you making it out alive. But I always did. I have trained to become the best. I never really wanted to when I was a young boy, but I realize if I did become the best, I could bring more honor to this clan. My family helped me. My mother gave me the support. My father gave me the lecture and missions. Pink Star taught me the ways of stealth and swordsmanship. Gray Star taught me marksmanship. Blue Star taught me hand-to-hand combat. I taught myself the Star Clan techniques: Speed, Trap, and Dummy, though I never knew how I got them or how I am able to use them so...efficiently.
My body ached. I was always short of breath. Always covered in sweat and bruises. It was not just my physique that changed, but also my mentality. I know what to do in battle. What attacks I should inflict. Which weapon I should use. How can I do a quick and silent kill. I had mastered it all.
I gained a lot during my training. New skills. New methods. New styles. But there was one thing I got during my meditations. It was an ability that I could use with my vision...no, with all my senses. To hear sounds and to see shapes. I could see the world in a different way. Everything is color coded. Red, blue, yellow, white, and gray. If only I could figure out how I got it...
Twelve year old Black Star was in the middle of the forest, not too far from the cave entrance that lead to the Star Clan village. He was sitting cross legged in a small grassy area, surrounded by tall trees and bushes. Breathing slowly and silently with his eyes closed, he could hear very small noises around him. His sense of hearing has improved the past couple months with the harsh training.
*rustle* *rustle*
He concentrates on the noise he just heard, trying to track the source of it.
*rustle* *rustle* *growl*
Ahh yes, a wolf. But where is it? Black Star opens his eyes, but is surprised by what he sees.
'Everything looks..gray? The bushes are white. It all looks..dull'
*growl*
Look towards the direction of the sound, he finds something unusual.
'It's..red. That's so strange'
He throws a shuriken towards the wolf and as it strikes its skull, it falls on its side.
'Now it's gray. This is really weird.' He closes his eyes and opens them. Sighing in relief that everything is back to normal.
I told everyone about this. They were all surprised. They said I should learn how to properly use it, and so I did. Now here I am, with my sixth sense and very close to becoming a master assassin. I was just thirteen. It was a very important milestone. I was the first to become the best assassin at a young age. My family was proud...my family. Consisting of my father, mother, Pink Star, Gray Star, and Blue Star. Only my father, mother, and I are related. However, Pink, Gray, and Blue, we are very close. We go on missions together. We eat together. We mess around. Pink is the childish and mischievous one. Gray is the cool and easy going one. Blue is the serious, yet calm one, though we don't really get along as well. All of them, I consider family and I will protect them all...at least, that's what I thought.
There's just something off about my father. Whenever I go on missions, he always tells me to bring back the souls. I always thought the criminals would use them for something evil, so I obey. But, when I give it to him, he would inspect it with this questionable expression. It changes everytime he looks at a soul. It went from curiosity, to suspicion, to wanting, to finally needing. That's what was off about him. I hoped he wouldn't do anything bad, but hope did not help me that time.
As I turned thirteen, training and missions was all I ever did. Same thing when I turned fourteen. Training and missions. But fourteen was an interesting age for me. That's when I started to see the changes of everyone, excluding my mother. They would be distant. They would go their own way. And the most interesting of all, is what they said to me once.
"We need more power"
That has confused me. Wanting more power. I do agree, needing more power so I can protect people. However, the way they said it makes me think that they just want power for their own use. But, I just let it slide and not think too much about. I still worried about everyone else, though.
Age fifteen was when it all happened. There was this one mission, that made me open my eyes. This one mission that made realization come to me. This one mission that lead to me about the truth of the Star Clan, the truth of my home. This fucking mission where I accompanied Pink, Gray, and a few other assassins to do something that I completely despise. Let me tell you one thing, the only people that I kill are traitors or the corrupted and unless you push me to my limit, I won't take your life away. Protecting the innocents is my lifetime promise, yet I kill to protect...It was that mission that opened my eyes to see the truth of my home and everyone else. The truth about my father's intentions...I hated myself for that. We have caused those deaths...I had broken my own word...they made me do it...
There we have it. This is the prologue of Learning The Truth: The Assassin's History. I will be uploading the rest of the chapters very, very soon. I just want to know how much you guys like it. Please do review as I would like to hear your thoughts about this chapter.
And to just make things clear, I made a list of the character's age, just to get a feeling of how young and old they are:
Black Star - 15
Gray Star - 22
Yellow Star - 20
Blue Star - 28
White Star - 33
Pink Star - 32
CodenameBlackStar out.