Happy Halloween Everyone! This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Okay I'll stop there. Welcome back to another brand new chapter of The Assassin: The Journey Of Aaron Carter!
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Chapter 6: The Training Begins
Training Room
The next morning Aaron had woken up and arrived at the training room where he saw some of the assassins with blindfolds and were attacked by several other assassins. On the walls of the room were several staffs and weapons used to train the assassins. There was also another floor to the room that had a small room with a throne that overlooked the training room.
On the floor, at the center of the room, Aaron and twelve other people, including a white female girl who looked about his age with long blonde hair and blue eyes. He also looked around and saw a strong young man who was about his height and was fiscally fit with tanned skin and black hair.
After standing in the room for several minutes, four assassins walked into the room, each wearing different color robes. One wore orange and black robes while another wore purple and black and another assassin wore green and black robes. However one of them caught Aaron's eye. The fourth assassin wore red and black robes, the same ones he saw when he was attacked by the clones before the assassins rescued him.
The assassin in red and black robes walks in front of the new recruits. "My name is Desric Dameris." He said to the recruits. "For the next two months I will put you all through the most intense training of your pathetic lives."
Desric then walks over to Aaron and stands in front of him and both men lock eyes with each other. Desric was a very fit man who looked like you was nineteen. He had white skin and black and also had brown eyes. "Only the strongest will survive. And the Grand Master will not tolerate weak members of this order."
Aaron looks onto the thrown and sees the mysterious man he met the other day, sitting on the thrown. Now he knew who he was. Desric then walks by another person and asks him a question. "You. Why are you here?" He asks in a serious tone.
The man looks at Desric and replies. "I come to serve the Grand Master."
In an instant Desric slams his fist into the man's gut and watches him go down on both knees while he places his hand on his stomach. "You do not choose to join this order! The Grand Master chooses you!" Desric says before he kicks the man to the ground and stomps on his face before he places his foot on his throat.
"Let this serve as a message to all of you!" Desric said out loud before he removed his foot from the man's throat and continued to walk around the recruits. "Know that I will not hesitate to kill you. And know this. If you cannot keep up with the training then you are as good as dead."
Desric then walks to the center of the room and looks up at the Grand Master and nods at his master. The Grand Master then looks down at his assassin and nods back at him. Desric then looks back at the recruits and says, "Now… shall we begin?"
Training Montage
"In order for you to become a well trained assassin you must follow The Way Of The Assassin." Desric says. "The code demonstrates how our order works. Such as loyalty towards the order."
In the dungeons of the castle, each and every one of the new recruits is put through excruciating pain as each and every on of them is placed in individual cells and tortured in order to test their loyalty.
With every recruit, they were starved and were forced to steal food from the mess hall with another recruit. Once they were caught, they were constantly tortured until they chose to give up their ally's name. If they did, then they had failed The Grand Master's test and were exiled from the castle. If they refuse to give up the name, then they would continue on to the next stage of their training.
In one cell a young tanned man with black hair, is strapped to a chair while one assassin constantly punches him in the face over and over. With blood coming out of his nose and mouth, the assassin screams in his ears to give up a person's name who had stole food from the mess hall.
After being constantly punched, the assassins believe that this young man is worthy to continue the training.
In another cell, a young blonde white girl is grabbed by two assassins and is forced into a bucket of water while one assassin holds her hands and another holds her hair while he drowns her.
They pull her face out of the water and yell questions about a person stealing food. The young girl refuses to give up the name and so the assassins continue to do this process of drowning her and asking questions later for another thirty minutes before they believe that she will never give up the name.
And in another cell, Aaron is strapped to a pole where one assassin with a whip is whipping him across his exposed back. After every whip, they ask him questions about who stole the food. Aaron refuses to give up his ally's name and is continually whipped. With every whip he grits his teeth whenever the whip makes contact with his skin.
But at the same time he is also having flashes of memories of his family's corpses. He remembers looking down upon his slaughtered family, looking at his father's headless body, his mother's burned body and his sister's body of ash.
With his entire back full of lashes and blood going down his spine, the assassin stops and has two other assassins enter the cell and unstrapped from the pool and is dragged back into his room.
"An assassin must also be able to die for their brothers and sisters!" Desric mentions.
A few days passes by and the recruits, that had twelve members had ten, are being tested to see if they would die for one another. Desric has one of his men strap three recruits to poles and has them face down the barrels of three blasters. Everyone watches the sweat go down the recruit's faces.
In order for the other recruits to pass this test, three of them must be able to willing take the shot for them.
Aaron builds up the courage to walk in front of Desric's blaster. As Aaron looks into the eyes of Desric he remembers looking into the eyes of Tarek when they first met. A chill goes down his spine as he looks into the eyes of a killer.
After Aaron walked in front of Desric, the young blond girl and the young tanned man soon walk into the paths of two of the assassin's blasters.
Everyone in the room is silent, waiting to see who will make the first move. Every one of them is ready to kill or be killed.
But soon the tension goes down when Desric and his two assassins retract their blasters and walk out of the room. Those three recruits have passed the test.
"And Assassins must follow their superior officers and the Grand Master himself!" Desric said.
In another training exercise, Desric has Aaron strapped to a pole with his exposed back facing towards Desric before the assassin pulls out a whip. But instead of using it on Aaron, Desric hands the whip over to the tanned boy who jumped in front of one of the assassin's blasters.
The same happens to the young blonde girl. She too is strapped to a pole and stripped of her clothing so that she can feel the full pain of the whip. As she is strapped to the pole she looks back and sees an assassin hand a recruit a whip, if the recruit refuses to do what he was told, he would face a terrible punishment.
The recruit looks down at the young girl and refuses to use the whip on her exposed back. Desric yanks the whip from his hands and has two of his assassins beat the recruit to a pulp for not following Desric's orders.
Desric then looks down on the blonde girl and uses the whip on her. With every time the whip makes contact with her skin, she arches her back as she feels an excruciating amount of pain going down his back.
The young tanned boy looks at Aaron and sees the scars he has received from the whip before from previous trainning. He then looks at Desric and sees him walking towards him, getting ready to do the same to him and Aaron. The young man refuses to give the whip to Desric and then begins to whip Aaron.
With every slash, Desric yells at the young man to whip it harder. The boy does what he's told and continues to whip Aaron and with every slash, Aaron grits his teeth harder and clenches his fists tighter.
After having the recruits whip each other for an hour, Desric orders his assassins to hold the whips while other assassins remove the recruits that were strapped to the poles. Once the recruits were free, they slid down the pole and just lied on the ground with blood going down their back from the new scars they were given while everyone left the room, leaving the recruits to lie and bleed on the ground until they decided to get up and help themselves.
Present Day
A few weeks have passed by since the first day of training. After being brutally trained for what seemed to be months, was only a couple of weeks. And the numbers of the recruits has dropped down from ten to only six.
Since this was the only time the recruits would have an actual break, they spend it in the mess hall and have a nice meal before the assassins decide to starve them again.
While everyone was enjoying their peaceful meal, Aaron grabs a tray of food and looks around to see if there was anywhere to sit.
He then spots a seat near the blonde girl and tanned boy. He walks over to them with his tray of food. "Is this seat taken?" He asks.
The tanned skin boy looks up at Aaron and says, "All yours my friend."
"Thanks." Aaron replies before he decides to take a seat. "So how are you guys doing?"
"We're doing fine." The boy said.
After a brief moment of silence Aaron introduces himself to these people. "My name is Aaron. Aaron carter." He said before he extended his hand out to the tanned boy.
"Derric Nalto." The boy said before he extended his hand out as well and the two young men shook hands.
"Grace Cameran." The blonde girl said before she shook Aaron's hand too.
"So how are you doing?" Derric asks, wondering Aaron felt after the training they had all been through.
"My back still stings." Aaron said while he ate his meal.
"Sorry about that." Derric said, hoping that his new friend would forgive him about the whipping he gave him earlier.
Aaron shook his head and responds. "You don't have to apologize. You did what you had to do. I would have done the same."
While they eat their meal Grace asks Aaron, "Why are you doing this?"
Aaron stops eating his food and looks at Grace. "Because I've lost the things most dearest to me. And I want to find the people who took them from me."
Grace and Derric stop eating as their eyes widen and they look towards each other and then look at Aaron. "I know what's like to lose people you love." Grace said to Aaron. "I lost my mother and father about a month and a half ago on Tatooine. I watched a squad of clones execute them in front of my eyes. After they died, I ran into the desert and hid in the mountains for three days until I was rescued by an assassin."
"I've lost people I cared about as well." Derric said. "I was on Ryloth when my two brothers and I were trading spices with the Twi'leks before our ship was shot down by a clone gunship. After we crashed I watched my two older brothers die in front of me before I blacked out. Next thing I remembered I woke up in this castle."
After they exchanged their stories, the three of them knew that they were not alone, for they had all lost the people closest to them. And as night began to fell the three new friends left the mess hall and went into their rooms for a good night's rest before another day of training would come.
Okay everyone that's it for this chapter. We finally got to meet some new characters in this story and we got to learn more about them while they trained. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I'll see you all next week for another chapter of this story.
I hope you all have a frightening Halloween! Feel free to leave a comment before you go off trick or treating, or after you've counted all your hard earned candy! Now if you excuse me, I'm going to Chipotle to get me a Boorito! See you all next week!