Chapter 2: ...To Make...
A/N: Hello friends, Deadgost54 here. In the last chapter we left off with Hit in Menagerie with a hit... get it, cause it's his name... for Ghira, how will this play out for Blake and Sun? Also Hit's pseudonym Kan is Turkish for Blood, kinda fitting for an Assassin. Anyways, onward to the story!
Hit entered the Village's borders undetected and without problem. He wanders into the marketplace to get a bearing on his surroundings. The advantage and downfall to having targets in dense areas is that if they're powerful enough then their Ki would make it easy to find them, the downfall is when trying to find someone that has the same level of energy as everyone else because they're suppressing it. The Assassin internally groans at the fact that this will take a little longer than expected.
"Blake, I said I was okay!", The voice caught the Timeskiper's attention. The voice came from Sun Wukong, the Leader of Team SSSN, who was following Blake. Though Sun was more dragged by Blake then he was following her. "The wound isn't that deep anymore! It won't affect my fighting abilities.", Shouted Sun.
"You still need to keep it checked on!", Blake yelled back.
"Why, it's almost healed?!"
"Because we don't need you opening the wound in the middle of a fight!"
"Okay, first off who would we be fighting?! We won't be encountering any White Fang members until we get to Mistral!", Sun has the look of pure annoyance.
"There is still a possibility of there being a fight soon" Blake drags Sun into a building. The Assassin is disappointed that he didn't learn anything from his eavesdropping.
"That was nothing but a petty argument, *sigh* I'll just have to find another le-.", Hit's train of thought was interrupted by something he wasn't expecting.
"Oh Miss Belladonna are you-", The Master Assassin zoned out everything after that. He knew how to find Ghira Belladonna.
After Sun's medical check-up, the two were heading back to the Chieftain's Hall where they've been staying for most of their time on the island. Sun was the one to break the silence, "I understand your concern for me but there is literally no threat, well at least not yet."
"But what if they att-"
"Blake! Do you hear yourself talk?! What you're saying is a big what if!", retaliated Sun. He sighs and apologizes for his outburst. "You just need to calm down a little, I know that what we're trying to achieve is huge. But, you have me and your family along for the ride." The monkey faunus smiles at her as he enters the Chieftain's Hall.
"Yeah, thanks for that Sun", she smiles back. Little do they know that Hit was following them. He is standing in the tree lines that surround the house.
"Hmm, Four people in a 34,000 by 19,000 square foot building. The building seems to be one to two stories tall. It's pathetic how easy this will be, no one is around my level of strength but killing all of the remaining suspects would probably hurt the reward pricing. So this mission has to be clean and precise.", the Alien cracks his neck as he slowly makes his way to the building. Hit floats his way up to the roof and waits for nightfall where the assassination would be much easier. Though what he was expecting was for the inhabitants to have a party for their daughter and her accomplishments. "Why must my targets always make it difficult to kill them. No matter, I'll just disarm the other suspects before killing Ghira.", Hit cracks his knuckles. Inside the building, the party was well underway. Though it was only four people, the amount of joy felt in the room was exponential. Ghira even put away his distaste for Sun, so it was a nice scene.
"Blake, I want to let you know how proud we are of you.", Kali said while she had an arm wrapped around her husband.
"I know mom, you've been telling me that since Sun and I got here.", The Cat Faunus is smiling, which is a rare sight. The family was having a fun time telling stories and jokes, until they heard six chilling words.
"It's Time To Make The Doughnuts.", suddenly Sun's barely healed scar is pierced all the way through.
"SWISS FUCKING CHEESE, GODDAMNIT!" The monkey faunus falls over hold the newly opened wound.
"Sun?!", Blake runs over to him. Meanwhile Ghira faces the threat at hand. The threat cracks his knuckles.
"I don't know who you are or what your plan is but you won't get away with thi-", Ghira's speech is stopped by sudden pain and is launched back. The larger man stumbles to get up, "You couldn't have waited for me to finish could you?!" The Assassin just stares with his fiery red eyes. "Well this body may break, but my spirit will insp-" Ghira gasps in pain.
"You sure like to run your mouth, but no hard feelings though.", the assassin says coldly. He had used the Tokitobashi, allowing him to land a hard elbow to Ghira's stomach. "I'm going to end this so you don't have the feeling of excruciating pain."Hit shows no emotion like he normally does.
"You... You bastard! Are you with that splinter faction of White Fang?!", Ghira venomously spouts at Hit.
"Well I have two answers for you. One, why would I tell you. Two, even I don't know my employer. So me telling you who I work for would have the same effect as not telling you..."
"As much as I don't want to think the White Fang sent you, it's the most likely... though they should have hired someone who pays attention more!" Ghira swings his War Hammer at Hit. Though it looks like the hammer collided with Hit, it went straight through him and he stood there as if nothing had happened. Ghira, being irritated, swings at Hit with more vigor and strength. These actions have the same effect, they go right through him.
"My turn." The surrounding begins to look like cracked stained glass as he enters the Time Stop state when using the Tokitobashi. The Alien fires five ki blasts and rushes Ghira with a knee. As the Tokitobashi's effect ends, Ghira is sent flying out of the building with burns from the ki blasts. Ghira skids across the ground and finally stops in the middle of an empty market, his aura breaks when he stumbles up. He wipes away the blood coming from his mouth. He clenches his fist as he sees the Alien.
"If you think I'll just lay down and die, then you're targeting the wrong faunus!", screams Ghira.
"It would have been boring that way, the way you think you can come close to me is amusing and laughable." The faunus grimaces at this.
"No matter what you throw at me, I'll tank right through it if it means keeping my family safe! " Ghira retaliates. The bulky man charges at Hit.
"Even with that speech you still don't stand a chance, because my Timeskip is unbeatable." Once more, Hit uses the Tokitobashi. Hit warps behind the time frozen Ghira and lands a solid kick to the nape of his neck. When time unfreezes a shockwave from the kick is seen and it causes Ghira's neck to distort in a disgusting fashion.
"DAD?!" Blake runs into the empty beach marketplace. She had followed the skid marks to the site. She scours the area and finally comes across Hit and her newly dead father, thanks to a sonic boom kick to the neck. Blake covers her mouth and looks away to prevent herself from vomiting. After a few seconds of trying to keep herself from throwing up she looks over at where Hit should be. He is nowhere to be found. She falls to her knees and starts to tear up. "NO, WHY...AFTER COMING THIS FAR TO SEE YOU AND MOM!" The cat girl breaks down. "I SHOULD HAVE NEVER LEFT YOU GUYS!" The commotion caused from Hit's hit, starts to wake up Villager and investigate the noise.
"Hey dude, what was all this noise?" A random Farmer inquired.
"Dunno, sounds like the breaking of different things." One of the merchant's that works at the Market retorted.
"Maybe it's some dick lumber cutter?" Asked with a hint of annoyance.
"Nah, it's to late, even for them." The merchant lights a lantern and heads toward the source.
"A Grimm?" The farmer raised an eyebrow and waited for their friend's response.
"Dude, they never come around here and if they do, we have border patrols." The two had reached the sands of the beach, and were walking around.
"True, True."
"Yea- wait..." The merchant shine the light in Blake's direction. "Ain't that the Chieftain's daughter, what is she doin' out this late?" They walk over to her and the light reveals the body of Ghira.
"O-Oh... oh my lord!" The farmer runs to a bush and releases their stomach's contents into the shrub. The merchant is trembling in fear, but they ran to inform the other villagers of the terrifying news.
Hit was walking through the brush and trees of the surrounding forest. He was still peeved about the lack of interesting or powerful fighters. He senses 3 ki signatures around him and calls out, "I know that you're there, come out, there no sense in hiding." The three figures hop out of the tree line and stare at him. They appear to be everyone's most hated group of killers, Cinder Gang. The Fire Witch turned Mute motions for Emerald to approach Hit. Emerald, shaking a little, walks up to him and hands him the Lien.
"H-Here is your money", the Illusionist nervous smiles. Hit's cold, emotionless stare doesn't phase and takes the money. He begins to walk away but Cinder tells Emerald something. "W-Wait! We have another proposal for you!" The assassin looks back. "All you would need to do is come and meet our leader." Hit contemplates the thought of going with them. After a few seconds, he continues to walk away. "Wait! We'll triple what your pay was, if you accept!" The assassin turns around and nods, causing Emerald to sigh in relief. "All you have to do is meet Salem..."
A/N: This took me a bit longer than I would have wanted, but hey what can you do. Anyways if you liked this chapter, please I'd like to see what you would have to say about it. Welp, This was another installment in The Doughnut Maker.
-Deadgost54
