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Santana Lopez was like a shadow, melting along the rooftops as she swept soundlessly across them. Even when she leapt from building to building not a single thud could be heard. When she came across a guard she would either slit his throat or twist her dagger into his back piercing his heart, all in silence.
This is what she was bornto do. Ever since she joined the guild as a young child she quickly became an expert in the ancient art of becoming an assassin, she was cool, sure footed, quick and could wield any weapon with breath taking skill. When she would practice in the yard, the older assassins would stop what they were doing and watch her, earning her high praise in the guild.
Today, she was one of the best assassins in the whole of Europe and the most feared in Italy. Countless posters littered the city of Rome of a hooded figure, only the lips visible with the sign "Wanted: Dead or Alive" adorning above the illustration. The little description below the picture described a man.
Whenever Santana saw this she would smirk to herself.
Sure there had been attempts made to capture her, but like smoke she just vanished. Sometimes if she could not melt away into the crowd a chase would ensue. Mostly the girl could lose them by climbing walls and jumping from building to building before finding a perfect hiding spot, but on the rare occasion she could not shake them off, Santana would stand her ground and slaughter every single guard who came after her, sword in hand which made her more feared and more notorious. But despite this, she would never end the life of an innocent, it was her duty to protect the citizens from the corrupt.
She was still making her way across the city unseen, her master and father Miguel Lopez had given her the task of assassinating John Pierce's niece. John Pierce was a mason, who apparently had one of his workers' daughters killed for stealing from his house.
Last year Pierce had actually given the assassins a map of all the underground tunnels of the city, making missions much more easy, and making him a friend of the guild. But spy's reports had been coming in telling of sightings of the man going into the castle's gates. He had been contracted by the king to build new defences around the castle to make it more impenetrable by assassins.
Miguel Lopez was furious by this news. He took the rumoured death of the young girl as an opportunity to send Pierce a message that he would not tolerate betrayal. However what he told his daughter was that the man could not harm their people, so he had decided on a life for a life. He said he wanted John Pierce to feel the pain that the family of the dead girl were feeling.
"You are going to kill Brittany Pierce, his niece". Master Lopez told his daughter. "he will not retaliate, however if he is stupid enough to do so we will kill each family member one by one in front of him before slitting his own stomach" Miguel chuckled darkly.
Santana did not like the look in her father's eyes as he said this, lately he had become more sinister, more rash and she had to admit more blood thirsty. She also felt that this act went against their creed of not killing innocents, but the girl knew not to argue with him, he was her master and knew what was best to do.
When Santana came into view of to the Pierces residence she crouched behind a chimney and looked down, she could spot two guards talking quietly amongst themselves outside the entrance of the building. Santana fixed her hood, her father had told her these were the only guards she need worry about. Santana flicked her wrists bringing down a blade for both of her palms.
When she was sure the guards were completely distracted, she leapt from her hiding spot and dived directly onto the men, driving the blades deep into their necks, cutting their vocal chords and spraying blood into the air, which the Lopez girl deftly avoided. She flicked her wrists again expertly and the blades vanished back up the sleeves of her cloak.
She then searched the corpses until she found a key. Heaving the two bodies over her shoulders with unnatural strength she jogged to the nearest torrent and dumped the guards into it smiling as they sank to the depths below.
Santana returned to the house and opened the door with a soft click (the first noise the girl made that night) and crept into the Pierce's home, quietly closing the door behind her and pocketing the key. Although she was in darkness, Santana could see that the house was impressive, filled with exotic ornaments and paintings that must have cost a fortune to posses.
But she was not her to admire pretty things, she had a mission to complete, she soundlessly walked up the marble staircase.
She was unsure which room held Brittany so she checked each one individually. The first was a exquisite bathroom with a giant bath that looked big enough to fit five people in. Santana couldn't help but scowl, that's so unnecessary.
The second held a slumbering couple which she assumed was John Pierce and his wife, but just to be certain she crept over to the bed and checked, and sure enough she was faced with two faces relaxed in sleep with a few wrinkles on their faces that slumber couldn't erase . It was the husband and wife, Santana moved on in her search.
After a few more wrong doors, Santana finally opened the one which contained her target. After all the other rooms she was in, the girl was surprised at how simple and ordinary this one was, with only a bed and a desk with a chair decorating the space. At first she had thought she had stepped into a servants sleeping quarters but of course they were downstairs.
She then caught the scent of lilies and spotted them in a vase on the desk. She looked to the bed and saw a glimmer of hair, made silver in the moonlight that cascaded onto the covers. There she was, asleep and unknowing the fate that was going to meet her in a matter of moments, Santana shivered with anticipation.
The brunette silently stepped towards the window opening it slightly so she could make her getaway quickly after killing the girl. She took a deep breath to prepare herself into the killer she had to be and turned towards the bed whilst taking out a dagger that had been concealed inside her cloak.
She stopped abruptly in her tracks, the air knocked out of her. The girl was beautiful. She had never in all of her eighteen years on this earth seen something as precious as the slumbering blonde in front of her. Santana stared at the way Brittany's face was moulded into one of pure calm, her lips crafted into a slight smile. She watched the way her shape moved slightly as she inhaled and exhaled deeply.
Santana looked to the dagger she was wielding and shook herself, her father and master had given her an order, one that she could not disobey, she must kill the girl. She took another step towards the girl, and another until she was hovering above her. Shaking slightly, she raised the dagger high.
A sudden breeze materialised opening the window fully with a clatter, shit! Santana looked at the girl.
Brittany stirred and opened her eyes. Santana could feel her heart smash into a million tiny pieces only to be rebuilt once again into something much more stronger. She exhaled the breath she did not realize she was holding. Brittany's eyes were unfocused, a cloudy ocean.
Santana knew right at that moment that she was not going to kill the girl, even though she knew the wrath that awaited her when she returned to the guild. Those blue eyes had drowned her , dragging her right into Brittany's very soul where she was sure there was no escape.
A look of confusion passed the blonde's face, her eyes slightly focusing more onto her own making Santana feel as if she was constricted with no way out. Santana coiled around breaking their eye contact and fled out the window, like a cat, scaled the wall and ran hard with her heart thumping against her ribcage not caring that she was making noise, she had to get away from that house, from that room, from her. For the first time in the Santana's life she had felt fear.
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