A/N : spoilers for the anime,Amaras is my OC I own nothing else apart from corvo I'm writing this partly because I have writers block for my tales of two brothers (skyrim) but mostly because I really wanted to write this I do hope to update this somewhat regularly if my scheduler will allow it. I hope you enjoy reading chapter 1 any improvements or ideas you have please suggest them. It's ok to flame but no flame wars please constructive criticism or compliments only. Thank you for reading.

The door to the room flung open and a young man followed through enthusiastically with a bag of fish "good afternoon I am wave of the -" he stopped sitting at a large table surrounded by 7 chairs staring at him was a large man wearing a white mask and trousers with three horizontal slashes across his chest.

The Door slammed shut and wave leaned back against it 'that must be the torturer's' room he thought and pulled out his sheet of orders and checked the room number realising they matched he almost kicked himself 'it's correct that means he's my team mate'.

Re entering the room feeling awkward he sat at the opposite end of the table to the bulky man who just sat staring at him. Wave gripped his knees waiting for the silent torture to end which it thankfully was by someone walking in through the door.

She was young with dark hair wearing what looked like a black uniform and red plate metal gauntlets on her forearms. 'A normal girl' wave thought thanking his luck. She sat down and pulled it a bag of sweets, wave went over to her and tried to start a conversation but was cut off by her hugging the bag "you can't have any of these" looking daggers at him.

Then the door opened for the fourth time and a young man walked through wearing a dark brown leather strap looped around his right shoulder to his waits and back up across his back to what looked like a empty quiver and small backpack with what appeared to be small thin leather loops at the shoulder and waist over a long dark green cloak that only revealed a light pair of brown boots dark trousers and grey leather jacket covered with pockets and pouches. The person said nothing glancing at each of the other three in the room and crossing over to the window.

'Great another weirdo' wave thought. He could feel himself cracking under the pressure of the awkwardness that the others appeared to be ignoring. Opening the window the cloaked man reached into a bulging cloth pouch that hung off it the strap and pulled out a dead mouse 'this one carries around dead mice' wave thought to himself his day getting more and more freaky.

Then the young man threw the mouse into the sky leaving his left arm out the window this was followed by a loud caw and a big black bird landed on his arm and walked along his sleeve to sit on his shoulder with the mouse still in its beak whilst his master pulled out a note book and pencil from a square leather pouch on his belt and started making notes on three separate pages leaning on the windowsill.

"Pardon me" an enthusiastic redhead girl wearing the grabs of an imperial police threw the door open and introduced herself "Seryu Ubiquitous of the imperial police and this is Coro" she gestured down to a small white creature with a collar that somewhat represented a dog on short pointy hind legs which was probably her imperial arms given it's strangeness. 'She seems normal enough' wave thought but wary from his previous encounters this day he decided to remain sceptical.

Seryu threw down rose petals "dr stylish is all prepared now" introducing a man with glasses and dark hair with a white patch wearing a white lab coat over suit and began to drivel on about being 'stylish' and 'etiquette' all wave could think was 'another crazy one' the Dr then spotted him " I can tell by sight alone you are a country boy, but you are good looking. I can polish you to be even better we will get along well" he finished winking at wave 'he's into me' wave cringed

Then the seventh member of the meeting appeared from behind Stylish "hello, It would seem that I am last here" wave folded his arms and buried his head in them waiting for the weird behaviour to occur."I'm wave nice to meet you" he spoke tiredly. "I'm run. Nice to meet you too" waves head shot up 'finally someone normal'

Then the masked man stood up with a tray with several cups "everyone. I made some tea" he handed them around the table and passed the last one to the person in the green cloak who smiled politely and nodded his thanks before taking a sip then his bird tried to dipped its beak in and cawed "Corvo says he likes it too" the man said speaking for the bird who fluttered over to the broad mans shoulder "just leave him be he'll fly off eventually" the cloaked man said as he followed the masked man back to the table

The large man then continued whilst Seryu stared in awe at the bird "I'm sorry I didn't say anything earlier I am painfully shy, but I am probably the one with most seniority so I have to pull myself together, since we are all imperial arms users I'm sure we will get along. I'm Bols of the incineration squad. "Amras, eastern hunters" the cloaked man said offering his hand wearing a smile on his face "pleasure to meet you." Wave thought ' that's not the look of someone shy'.whilst Stylish rolled his eyes.

Then an 8th person entered the room and the smile Amras wore was replaced with the look of wariness and his hand went inside his cloak and corvo flew to the open window as the figure wearing a white mask somewhat similar to Bols' marched to the head of the room. "Why are you here?" she asked. Wave stood up to explain but was greeted with a heeled boot to the stomach sending him flying into a wall on the opposite side of the room. "Assassins are among the traitors never drop your guard"

"Corvo out!" Amras shouted to the bird and pulled a thin blade from within his cloak. As the mystery woman attacked run who dodged the attacks, whist Seryu and Coro attempted an attack from behind but the person blocked and flipped Seryu over onto and cracking the floor but then was forced to dodge the black haired girls slashes form a katana which sliced the mask. "So that's the imperial arms yasutfusa it's a fine blade she spoke as her mask crumbled to the floor. "general Esdeath" Bols said in awe as he picked himself off the floor 'even our boss is weird'.