Chapter 1

Horizon 8:00

"Jake wake up!" shouted Mum

"Alright!" I yelled back.

I got up and headed into the bathroom. I brushed my teeth then took a quick shower.

"College is in fifteen minutes!" Mum yelled

I ran into my room and threw on yesterday's clothes and my trademark leather jacket then moved the carpet and opened the trapdoor below. Inside was my private study and where I worked on projects. Mum still didn't know about it… luckily. Unlike all the other houses my house was a stone mansion and had lots of secret doors in it and I only found the trapdoor a few months ago. I picked up a bag and threw a few books and things in it. Then moved a pile of cardboard boxes to reveal the dumn-waiter I used to get to the garage. I climbed down into to the garage then walked over to the cloth covered object in the corner and threw the sheet off. It was my Dad's old Harley Davidson his great great great great Granddad had given him before flying cars were invented. I checked the gas tank then turned the ignition and pressed the button on the wall to open the garage door. I revved the engine then drove out towards Horizon Academy.

Horizon Academy

8:25

I arrived at the college's car park and I parked the bike. I walked towards registration but a sudden movement caught my eye and I saw some boys pushing a smaller boy around on the small green outside the college. I strode over and grabbed the boy just as he was shoved towards me.

"Hey, guys! What the fuck do you think you're doing?" I yelled

"Oh we're having a little fun. Why does that bother you?" The leader of the group walked towards me and shoved me back. Six years ago Dad died and people made fun of me so I started fights with them and won about all of them, so this guy shouldn't really have done that to me.

"Actually it does" I punched the leader square in the nose then kicked him back into the group.

"Oh it's a fight you want?" the leader said clutching his nose "Then that's what you'll have"

One of the group members tried to punch me but I ducked and gave him a gut punch then flipped him over on to his back. The next one came and went straight for the classic knee to the balls, but I countered it and tripped his other leg up from underneath him. Three remained and two charged at me. I slid through ones legs then did a Chinese get up and 'drop kicked' the one behind him. The other one kicked me in the ribs and I fell to the ground and cried out in pain.

"Your screwed now" the leader sneered and him and the last remaining group member had something shiny in their hands. A knife? Oh shit it was a knife I slid round and kicked the gang members hand and he let the knife go which flew into the air. I kicked him in the balls and caught the knife and put it to his throat. I held it there for a while then threw the knife into a drain and pushed the gang member into the leader.

"Go home!" I shouted then walked to registration.

As soon as I got there I slid into a seat near the back and Mr Baits, my tutor, and a girl came in.

"Alright guys settle down! Settle down! I have some news for you! A new student will be joining us today! Would you like to introduce yourself?" he asked her

"Ok, well um I'm Eva" she said

Mr Baits told her to sit down and she walked to the end of the class and slouched into a chair next to me. He started taking the register and Eva put a small note on my table.

Hey, are you that badass I saw take on those assholes outside? X

I smiled and scribbled a note and passed it back.

Hey are you that badass I saw take on those assholes outside? X

Probably, where'd ya come from?

She looked at me and mouthed back "Ilium"

The bell went and the others around me picked up their bags and headed out to their next class. I had mechanics, after all that was what I studied. I walked down the corridor and up the stairs at the end then went into my classroom. The tables where put together in twos and I went and sat in the corner of the class. I put my bag down and got out a pen and a book then just gazed around. I saw Eva walking up and down the corridor, through the window, with her time table in her hand. She looked up and walked into the class, she came and sat by me and dumped her bag down.

"Hey, I'm Eva" she said

"Jake" I replied bluntly

"I noticed you drive a… motercicle?" she said

"Motorcycle" I corrected "You come from Ilium? An Asari world?"

"Yes, my father was an information broker there… before the accident"

"What happened?" I asked curiously

"He was driving home when a group of mercenary shuttles flew by and swerved through the traffic to chase someone but then one hit another car and blew up. He couldn't see through the smoke and a batarian drove through it and they collided and went down"

She choked on the last few lines and I embraced her into a small hug. The bell went and the lesson started.

"….and the weight of the car helps balance it out" finished Mr Kelly. There was a knock at the door and a teen walked in and whispered something to the teacher, the teacher nodded and the teen walked over to me and handed me a yellow slip of paper. I unfolded it and read the note.

Jake come back home as soon as possible. I've contacted school and they are ok with it there is something we need to discuss.

I looked up from the letter and slipped it in my pocket then I picked my bag up and walked out. When I reached the car-park and got on my bike and drove back home.

I arrived at home and opened the garage up to park the bike in. I put it in the corner as usual and threw the sheet over the top of it. I turned around and saw mum right in front of me.

"You wanted to talk?" I said

"Yes, come inside"

We walked out of the garage and went through the front door to my house.

"What did you want to talk about?" I asked

"Six years ago when your father passed away, he told me to tell you who he really was and I think the time is right for you to be told"

"I'm not sure I know what you mean?" I said confused

"Your father was an assassin" she said "He worked by himself and travelled the galaxy finding work. He did hired muscle and assassinations for people"

"My father was a killer?" I said

"Yes, he wanted you to be an assassin as well. I think you can make your own decision and he told me to show you this" She walked over to a book-case and pulled a book half out, there was a click and the bookcase shifted.

"Everything down there is yours" she said pointing down the block of stairs"

She went upstairs and I went down into the darkness of the small room below.

I reached the end of the stairs and found a small room. I flicked a switch and the lights came on, I saw two bookcases, a bed, a set of table and chairs, a cupboard with supplies in and an armour stand. On the stand was father's armour I presumed, next to the stand was a chest and I went over to it and opened it. Inside were a funny looking pistol, a book, a note and what looked like a mini mass rely. I read the note.

Jacob,

If you are reading this than I am most probably dead. I call upon you to protect our family. If you look in front of you, you should see my armour with our family crest on it and behind that is my family's weapon which had been passed down from generation to generation so now I give it to you. My sniper rifle I made myself is in this chest and so is my pistol made by me as well. If you want to have them then you should learn to use both so I have put some books with instructions on how to use the family's weapon and the other things I have given you. Son, stay alive and make me proud,

Yours truly

Father P:S pull the book out from the bookcase named LEGENDS and see what happens

I read the letter twice then folded it up and took the two weapons out of the chest and the books as well. I read through the books quickly then ran over to the armour stand and slowly put the armour on. Then I went around the back and saw a samurai sword with Japanese engravings on it, next to that was a small Japanese knife and I picked up the katana and held it for a while then started swinging the blade in my hand just as the books had said to. there was a another chest there and I opened it to find about fifty odd credit chits, on the inside of the lid there was a note which had some numbers and a few words. 1,000,000 credits.

"Hell yeah…" I murmured

After a while I went and pulled the book out of the book case and the book case opened to reveal a shooting range. For the next few days I practiced using the weapons and just as the clock hit four on Sunday a big bang went off upstairs.

"Mum?" I called "Mum?"

I began climbing the stairs still in the armour with the pistol at my side and the sniper rifle and sword criss-crossed on my back. Just as I reached the door I saw a car fly away from the house with a logo on the door and through the window was mum!

"Mum!" I shouted

I saw her banging on the window and in the distance I saw crops being burned.

"Slavers" I cursed

I ran out the door and shot a few rounds of my pistol at the car but it flew off before the bullets even reached them. My pistol was an upgraded design of an old spectre pistol. It had no ammo clips just overheated if I shot too many rounds at once. I ran into the garage just as another aircar landed outside. I took cover behind a pillar and took out my sniper rifle. Slowly I peeked out and took aim on a batarian without a helmet on and took the shot, luckily the sniper and pistol where both silenced and I quickly took cover behind the pillar again. I heard a few shouts of panic then I pulled out the pistol and sword in unison and ran out into the open. I shot of a few rounds in quick succession at the first slaver then sliced another slaver's head of with the sword, I turned and a few more shots from the overpowered pistol put down the last three slavers. The sudden thirst to kill was overwhelming and I ran into the aircar and shot the driver square in the head and threw him out of the aircar. I then ran back inside and got some clothes and a bag and threw it in, I got some supplies as well and of course my leather jacket then I ran back and got in the aircar. I had learnt how to learn to drive an aircar from school so I put it in gear and flew down to the colonies centre. There were a lot of bodies and crying but alliance soldiers had appeared and stopped the raid. Tents where set up already and aircars where flying people up to ships to go off to other planets. I quickly flew the aircar over to the barracks on the other side of town. I saw all of the soldiers dead and I ran into the hanger. Inside were more aircars and ships and I choose a nice one named the SSV Interceptor. I ran up to the main office and ran over to the safes where everything was kept. I fired bullets at safes locks, I quickly opened it and took the keys, manuals and everything else to do with the ship and I sprinted back to the interceptor. I jumped in the cockpit and placed all my weapons and supplies in the locker next to the door. I booted up the systems and flew the ship out of the hanger and into space. I flew to the mass rely and targeted Citadel space. Hopefully someone there will help me get revenge on the bastards who took my mother.