A/N: Sorry I took a while, had other things to take care of in my life. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 1: Cinematic Intro
The screen then suddenly starts showing glitched images that were too quick to notice, but with a quick look, they could see that one image that looked like a knight, then the next picture was some hooded person. Then the screen shows a location that looks like a kingdom in the days of old, followed by a mysterious orchestra that gave a vibe of mystery.
"Interesting…" Ren first spoke in interest of the kingdom they see. "That place looks a bit similar to Vacuo."
"Really? You been there before?" Jaune asked, looking at his teammate.
Ren shook his head. "No, I have never been to Vacuo. I only read about how similar the location is, that is in the game."
Then suddenly, a note pops out of thin air and lands on Ren's lap. He picks it up and reads it out loud.
'Good comparison Ren, the two locations that you mentioned are a bit similar, but I should remind you that our world's timelines are different after all. First, The location you are looking at in the game is Acre (it's pronounced A-cra in the Arabic tongue) found in the Levant Region or also known as the Holy Land or the Middle East. Second, it's close to the 12th Century of Earth's history (the year 1191 to be precise), the Medieval times (like there are knights and crusades and all), basically it's still in the era where advanced technology does not exist yet so don't be expecting any fancy weapons like the Make-shift weapons you all have at Remnant, but hey! Who does not love the 'classics' these days?'
Jaune smiled at that last comment. "Yeah… the classics…" He looked at Crocea Mors by his side, glad to know that there was someone else aside from Ruby who enjoys the traditional weapons.
His teammates all smiled at him then they resumed back to watching
The screen then suddenly the scenery changes into a town square where a large crowd gathered looking at above the platform, they see a few people who were hanged, and in front of poor souls responsible for it wore knight armour and chainmail with two other crusader knights, wearing full plated helmets while the other wore a cape around him and a simple cone-shaped one on his head, what's more noticeable is that they each have a Red Cross symbol on them.
The girls of Team JNPR gasped and covered their mouths at what they see (Nora dropping the controller in the process), while the boys are silent but showed a shocked expression on their faces.
"I-I don't understand! What did those people do to deserve that!?" Nora shouted while still covering her mouth.
Her partner placed his hand on her shoulder to comfort her, while Jaune did the same to Pyrrha.
"You Ok, Pyrrha?"
Pyrrha looked at him, and she nodded with a smile. "I'm fine, thanks Jaune. Let's keep watching, maybe will find out the answer." The rest agreed and continued.
The knight wearing armor and chainmail walks around the platform yelling to the cheering crowd what happens to this who betray their cause, which made the crowd cheer. Team JNPR did not know the full story of what happened, but they could tell that something was wrong with that scene. Then the screen shifts to an Eagle, that seemed to be watching the crowd. It made a high-pitched note then flew up to a sky. The screen follows then towards the direction of the Eagle, and it shifts to a hooded figure. He wore plain white robes that feature a hood shaped like an eagle's beak in the center. The lower body of his robes is layered with a red sash around his waist including a huge belt holding pouches and a sword sheathed on his left side. Scabbards for throwing knives were contained at the right shoulder, at the front of the waist, and on the left boot. On his back held an empty sheath meant for a short-bladed dagger, buckled below his shoulder itself (Not going to add the crossbow since because Altaïr never used it in the game).
The rest of Team JNPR flinched a bit seeing this new character out of nowhere.
"I think we found our Assassin" The team leader chuckled nervously at how intimidating the Assassin looked.
"Oh, oh! I wonder who he is?" Nora cheerfully asked in awe how the assassin looked.
"Nora, I don't think you should be admiring a person we don't know yet… Especially if it's a killer."
"I'm more curious about how he is going to do the deed since it's obvious who his target is," Pyrrha said as she was a bit startled at how sinister the assassin looked. Everyone continued to watch curiously on what the Assassin will do.
The music begins to tense up, giving the Team a chilling feeling. The Assassin looks down from the tower watching the knight giving his speech to the crowd, then I giant bell starts moving to make a big gong noise. The swaying bell covered his body, as soon as it swayed back, he disappears while the loud bell sound scared of the pigeons nesting on the church, this surprises the team on how he did that. He is now seen with the crowd staring still staring at his target. He slowly approaches the knights by pushing past the crowd without drawing any attention to himself.
Pyrrha slowly realizes what he's doing. "Wait… He's not going to kill him in broad daylight is he!?"
"What!?" The team leader looked at his partner in surprise.
"Really!? I thought Assassins were like… You know… Stealthy…" the hammer-wielding girl tried to piece the right words to describe an Assassin.
"You're not wrong, Nora, but I am confused to why he would choose this method to eliminate his target."
As the Assassin grew closer and slowly moved faster to the knights, the knight noticed the hooded man in the crowd and ordered his two men to stop him. The two sentry knights drew out their swords out as the man started running and pushing past the group faster and throws a throwing knife towards one by the shoulder, killing him. The other tries to attack him, but the man easily evades him the knight's sword coming down on him and knocks him out. The last knight attempted to draw out his sword but before he could the Assassin jumped in mid-air on the gallows, and a single blade comes out of his left armor leather plated bracer ready to strike the last knight who pulled out his sword to stop him. Unfortunately, was too late, the assassin successfully stabs his target through the neck, crashing down on the wooden platform of the gallows, killing him. The music ends with orchestra voice humming to deed done with a bell still making the gong in the end. He then pulls the blade out of the dead knight's neck and retracts the blade back what looked like a spring-loaded mechanism sheathing it back on the underside of his bracer before closing the knight's lifeless eyes with his other hand.
The whole room where Team JNPR was in was quiet. The girls are holding their necks with wide eyes opened shocked at how the knight died. While the Jaune did the same except his mouth was agape in shock, and Ren kept calmly but couldn't help that his eyes were wide opened on what just happened.
"That. Was. BADASS!" Nora broke the silence with sheer excitement and awe, and this made everyone break their shock and all focus on her. "Did you see how he walked up those knights like a boss? Did you see how took out the knight just like that with a throwing knife? Did you see how he just dodged the other knight's sword and knocked him out like it was nothing? Did you see how high he jumped and brought out that knife thingy from his sleeves? Did you see how he finished off the knight without breaking a sweet? Although it was scary how that knight died but still, THAT WAS AWESOME!" The ginger-headed girl squealed in excitement after what she and her team seen in the screen.
Her team leader sweet-dropped at her questions. "I-I guess it's kinda-" Before he could finish his sentence, he realizes something. "Wait, he killed them 'easily'? Shouldn't their Aura protect them from that?"
This caught everyone's attention, and then another letter appeared on Jaune's lap.
'I would expect nothing else from Team JNPR's leader from noticing that. Oh! Right, before I continue, this is how I will be communicating with you (Honestly don't know how it's done, just that I know that my friend was able to make it), I will be watching you guys play the game as I do my best to fill you in with some questions. And don't worry if you guys need to go to the bathroom or do something else, I will immediately shut down communications to give you guys privacy' like I said I'm no creep. As I said before Earth is much different from Remnant so in our universe Aura doesn't exist, and that means there no Semblance either, so we can pretty much get hurt easily, but hey, you know the old saying 'No Pain, No Gain.''
Everyone chuckled at that saying and relieved to hear about his manners.
"I'm starting to like this guy," Jaune said as he smiled at the letter for the compliment and joke Triscythe made.
Pyrrha smiled at her partner, happy that her team leader is being recognized for his quick thinking.
"Right, let's see what happens next." The raven-haired boy said, his partner nodding at him at the excitement on what will happen next.
After the assassin did the deed, the music becomes more epic, he turns to his right to see more knights coming and jumps out of the way in time from a massive attack from another knight and runs away into the crusaders chasing after him.
"Alright, a chase scene!" Nora gleefully jumps up and down from her sitting position while her friends just smiled at her excitement.
He runs past an innocent man holding a pot over his head. Fortunately, the assassin was careful enough to avoid him as he ran past him as he enters the shopping district, sadly the knights chasing just shoved him over knocking down breaking his pot in the process.
"Hey! That wasn't nice! At least the assassin was being careful at where he's going." Pyrrha stated as she was slightly annoyed at that scene.
"As he runs, the man sees one of the knights blocking his way charging at him with a sword at hand. The former improves and climbs up the building avoiding the sword slash, and he reaches to the rooftop then starts running building to building, while the knights have a hard time keeping up with him."
"Very creative…" Ren hummed regarding his means of escape.
He then jumps off one of the buildings landing on top of another knight to cushion his fall and knocking him out. He then runs to the closed doors of the church facing towards the gates (the same church where he was first introduced), then the knights have him cornered.
"Uh-oh… How is he getting out of this one?" Jaune asked nervously seeing that he has no means of escape now.
The hooded man turns around to face them, but to the surprise of the knights (and Team JNPR), they see he was giving a calm smile. Suddenly, the last bell rung and the background music changed into a more calming tune, the church doors open and came out a large group of Lionheart Christian monks as they pass him. He smirks at the knights, and Team JNPR realizes that he planned this from the beginning. Before the knight could do anything, he disappeared among the monks without a trace. The knights then enter the crowd of monks to find the killer but fail to notice him casually walking by and away from them. The screen slowly pulls away from them then focuses on the eagle that flew by, and then the screen turns white then shows the 'Assassin's Creed' title on the screen.
Everyone in the room was again silent, and their jaws dropped in what happened in the end.
"That was… That was, wow…" Jaune broke the silence doing his best to describe his expression.
"I'm… Speechless… He manages to escape in such a situation." Pyrrha following up with her partner in shock and slight awe for the assassin.
"I did say that assassins are stealthy, but this… is that even possible?" Nora amazed and confused in how the assassin managed to pull off such a stunt without using any Semblance to escape.
"Nora, It's… not impossible, rather… just surprising." Ren, in his usual calm demeanor, did his best to explain what they, but even he was surprised at the events that happened.
Another note appeared near Pyrrha.
'Bet you are starting like it now, huh? Well then, you guys don't need me to tell you what you need to next, Right.'
Team JNPR all looked at each other, they all smiled and nodded in unison, and with that, they start playing the game.
To be continued…
