Hi everyone! Happy New Years! This chapter is pretty short so hopefully I'll have another one out today as well. Enjoy!
Austen stumbled through the forest towards Night Raid's base. Even though he was able to kill Boar and make a clean get away, the fight had left his body weak and battered. The assassin fell against the side of a tree, his vision zooming in and out. 'Am I going to die?' Austen thought as he looked up into the trees. He was just able to make out what appeared to be an angle with brilliant, glowing white wings before his consciousness slipped away.
Antonio and Emily walked into the infirmary where everyone had gathered to see Austen who had returned from the day before.
"Why is he still sleeping?" Emily asked. "It's almost noon!"
"I found him unconscious on the way back from his mission." Meredith explained. "His body was battered and he had bruises-"
'Slap!'
Emily had pushed her way to the front of the bed and smacked Austen across his cheek. Some starred in shock, others laughed.
Austen sat up quickly, his eyes wild in surprise. "What! What what happened?!"
Emily smiled smugly over to Meredith who rolled her eyes in return. "Meredith found you passed out in the forest and flew you home. I did you a favor and woke you up."
Austen put a hand to his now red cheek, "Is that why my cheek burns?"
"There you all are." The group turned to see their boss standing in the doorway. "We don't have time to be goofing off, get your asses to the meeting room, we have a problem." The Night Raid wasted no time and quickly followed their boss out the door.
"The Capital has hired two assassins to exterminate us." Boss began from her chair in the meeting hall. "For the past three nights the assassins have roamed the streets, killing anyone who happens to be out. We're supposed to be helping the people, and if this continues the citizens may very well blame and turn on us. We have to put a stop to this, tonight. You'll split into two groups, group A will consist of Antonio, Meredith, and Emily. Group B will be Bonner, Loughmiller, and Hannah."
"What about me?" Austen asked from the door way, it had taken him a little longer to make it down the stairs.
Boss looked Austen up and down, "Are you sure you can do this? I don't want any deaths on this mission."
Austen raised his chin, "I'm apart of this team just as much as anyone else. I can't have them risk their lives and not do the same."
Boss looked around the room, reading their faces, "Very well, you'll go with Group A. You will all head into the Capital under the cover of darkness. Watch each others backs and I know you will all be fine. Now, about our enemies, we only have information on one of them, the second guy is almost completely unknown. But we do know they've been together for years now, and their failure rate is almost zero. Hence why not a lot of information has been recorded on them. But what we do know is one of the assassins possesses the Skeletal Key as his Imperial Arms. The Skeletal Key gives its user complete control and manipulation over their own skeleton. This gives him the ability to shoot bones out his finger tips, or grow swords out his hands. We don't have any information on the second murderer, so be on your toes and be ready for anything. And I think that about covers it, any questions?" The room remained silent. "Very well then, Tobar, you'll lead team A, Loughmiller, Team B. Dismissed."
"Team A will have a meeting in my room." Tobar said to his teammates as everyone began to exit.
Austen was surprised Tobar called the meeting in his own room. The group of four quickly followed Tobar up to the second level and into his room.
Austen stopped at the door and starred into the bedroom in awe. The massive room was painted completely black, with individually painted stars, planets, and moons covering the walls. The furniture seemed to be quite simple, consisting of a queen sized bed, drawer, desk, and book shelf that was filled to the brim with books and notebooks.
The meeting consisted of battle strategies and various methods they might use depending on what Imperial Arms the second enemy would be using. After about thirty minutes of planning everyone was sent out to rest and prepare for the night's coming mission.
Austen decided it would be best to take a nap before they headed to the Capital, but Austen was unable to rest, for his dreams continued to turn to screams and rivers of blood.
So there's chapter 4! Hope you liked it! As always please review and PM me with any questions, comments, or concerns!
