One more week passed before Comandor Gavril Eustantus was finally sentenced for his crimes. He had been sentenced to lifetime imprisonment at Jilava, a fort that had turned into a prison located not more than an hour away from Bucharest. Civilians lined the streets where the prison convoy would travel through, wanting to see the deposed Comandor of the Romanian Navy.
The Assassins decided that they would follow the prison convoy secretly, so as to thwart any attempts to free the Master Templar.
Darko and Nikolai, the two Assassin siblings, watched from atop a building near the courthouse. Two soldiers of the Romanian Armed Forces stood outside the courthouse, while eight others guarded the prison convoy. Along the way soldiers were also posted to ensure that none of the civilians tried anything funny.
Soon Comandor Eustantus came out of the courthouse, chained and escorted by two more soldiers. The civilians booed as he was escorted into the prison carriage. Once the doors to the prison carriage were closed and locked, the convoy moved off.
A street or two away, Darko spotted a trio of armed men on adjacent rooftops, and tapped Nikolai on the shoulder. "Keep an eye on them, elder brother. They might be planning something bad."
As the convoy passed by below them, the trio skilfully hopped off the building, each of them landing on a carriage of the convoy. Without hesitation, Darko and Nikolai drew their pistols and opened fire at the trio of attackers.
Less than five seconds later, all three attackers were dead. The prison convoy was temporarily stopped while soldiers investigated. After a minute or two of investigation, and unable to find the vigilante(s) that had killed the attackers, the prison convoy continued its journey, albeit this time more vigilant.
As the prison convoy left Bucharest a few minutes later, a series of bullets were fired in near unison. Bullets flew in the air, some of them hitting the prison convoy guards. Three of the guards were hit and fell off their horses, dying almost right away.
Ten riflemen converged on the prison convoy, five coming in from the left and the other five from the right. The remaining soldiers fought back, and soon it escalated into a mini war.
In the midst of all the chaos and confusion, Darko and Nikolai entered the battle. Releasing his Hidden Blade, Darko thrust it into the nearest attacker. As he pulled the Hidden Blade out of the man's body, Darko saw one of the convoy guards battling an attacker, while a second attacker was attempting to sneak up on him.
Before Darko could fire his Phantom Blade, he saw a throwing knife slice through the air before embedding itself in the second attacker's neck. Looking in the direction where the throwing knife come from, he saw Nikolai, with a triumphant look on his face.
However, Darko had no time to compliment his brother for his knife-throwing skills, for he had been surrounded by three of the attackers. Darko noticed that the attackers' rifles had bayonets attached to them, though they were a little difficult to spot.
As an attacker brought his rifle down on Darko, intending to wound him with its bayonet, the attacker suddenly released his grip on the rifle, letting it drop to the ground. Moments later the man himself dropped to the ground, with a Phantom Blade in between his eyes.
Swinging around, Darko went low and rolled forward. His Hidden Blade buried itself in the second attacker's stomach, and the momentum caused him to fall onto the ground. Getting up, Darko finished the attacker off with a hard kick to his head.
There was a loud bang, which caused Darko to turn around instinctively. He saw the third attacker, with his rifle raised, and a bullet hole in his head. As the attacker collapsed Darko saw a convoy guard behind, with smoke drifting out of his rifle's muzzle.
"My thanks," Darko said.
The convoy guard said, "It is us who should be thanking you. Without your help these filthy men would have killed all of us."
His eyes sweeping around the battlefield, Darko saw that all the ten attackers were dead, or near death. "That man there, Comandor Eustantus, he's been a large pain in the ass for you lot, I presume?"
"Undoubtedly," replied the convoy guard. "I'm surprised at the number of people who want to free that man. If you would be so kind, could you two follow us for the remainder of the journey?"
"Certainly."
The journey went on smoothly, with no more rescue attempts by Gavril's allies. Once the prison convoy entered Jilava, Darko and Nikolai disappeared, making the convoy guards puzzled as to where and how they had vanished.
Back at the Assassin's Headquarters in Bucharest, Darko and Nikolai reported to Gustav, informing him that the mission had been successful. Gustav was pleased to hear the news, though he was a tad worried.
"Bars have rarely kept a Templar silent and powerless," Gustav said. "Comandor Eustantus might try to recruit men to the Templar cause in Jilava. We'll have to keep a watch on him, somehow."