Authors Note: any translations that I didn't take straight from For Honor I used Google translate, and we all know how much of a hot mess that is, please crucify with discretion

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Marius runs through the village, ignoring the odd looks from the locals "Cassandra! Wait up!" he calls out. Cassandra stops and waits for him, placing her hands on her hips.

"Hurry up then! We don't have all day!" she yells, rather annoyed. Marius eventually catches up and stops, leaning on his pole axe to catch his breath.

"You're faster than me and you know it," he growls out. Cassandra merely huffs.

"Oh quit your whining ya big baby, your trained to be able to go the distance wearing tha- huh?" she's cut off as she feels a tug on her standards from behind. Turning, she sees its a small child in ragged clothing. She crouches down to his level and says, "Can I help you, little one?"

The child, who couldn't be older than 6, gives her a confused look. "Naze anata wa sonoyōni hanashimasu ka? (why do you talk like that?)"

Marius groans. "Great, the locals speak Japanese."

"Watashitachiha gaikoku hitodesu, (We are foreigners)" Cassandra says to the child, mentally thanking the peacekeeper order for lessons in both Japanese and Icelandic. "Nanika ga hitsuyōdeshita ka? (Did you need something?)"

The childs stomach rumbling was all the answer she needed. Reaching into her supply pouch, she pulls out some bread and a little bit of salted meat. The child takes it gratefully. "Arigato. (thank you)"

"Cassandra, look," Marius says, pointing to a woman being followed by some suspicious looking thugs. Cassandra narrows her eye's at the sight.

"Anata wa kodomo ni ikanakereba naranai, (you should go child)" she says. The child nods and runs off. "Let's go."

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Tsunami was not having a good day, but to be fair, there were no good days after Gato came and took over Wave country. What started out as an innocent trip into the village to collect what little food she could for dinner tonight was soon becoming her worst nightmare as she notices a few of Gato's thugs following her giving her lecherous looks. She attempts to lose them by picking up her pace and turning a few corners, only to come to a dead stop as she's cut off by a couple thugs waiting for her.

"We were wondering when we could get a chance to talk with you lady," says a big burly thug staring at her with hungry eyes.

"P-please, just leave me alone." Tsunami backs away from the pair, only for the thugs who were following her restrain her from behind having just caught up. The thug next to big burly gives a sick grin.

"Oh spare her the resume Kazuo, she knows exactly what's happening, so why don't we just cut to the cha-" he's cut off as a large sizzling metal ball collides with his head, knocking him clean out, before it explodes in a bright flash.

"What the hell!?"

"What is that?!"

"My eyes!"

"Mors pro te ven! (Death comes for you!)" Tsunami, blinded by the flash, feels the man holding her yanked away. "Auxilium puellae! (Help the girl!)"

"Quid enim vos adepto omnia amet? (why do you get all the fun?)" an annoyed woman's voice says before Tsunami feels herself being pulled away from the fray. As her vision clears, she sees its a woman dressed in strange clothing leading her away from the thugs.

"Who are you?" she asks.

"Not now, go somewhere safe!" she replies with an accent that Tsunami has never heard before. She releases her and runs back to the group of thugs. Shaken but curious, Tsunami runs into a nearby building and watches the ensuing fight from a window.

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Cassandra takes note of the scene, seven thugs in total, four of them had already taken down by Marius while they were still blind, but the remaining three had regained their sight and had him surrounded.

"You'll pay for that freak!" Kazuo screams charging at Marius, swinging a katana in a slow but likely hard hitting overhead swing, only for it to get easily parried by Marius and followed up by impaling him in the stomach with the spear end of his axe and pushing him far back.

Cassandra takes this opportunity to quickly run in while all of their attention is focused on Marius, and slips into a lunge on the nearest thug, grabbing him.

"What the-" is all he can scream out before she starts stabbing him repeatedly.

"Perī! (Die!/Perish!)" she yells out on the third stab before releasing him. He holds his now profusely bleeding side and tries to run, only for her to dash forward with a thrust, burying the blade in his body. She then flips over his back, swinging her dagger up and slitting his throat upon recovery.

"You bitch!" the other thug yells out charging her while swinging his blade wildly, but she dashes to the side and stabs him twice with both of her blades, opening up a large wound on his chest.

"Ad Mortem Inimīcus! (To death, my enemy!)" is the last thing he hears before Marius' axe comes down on him from behind, Marius raises his axe again high above his head for another finishing blow, only for the thug to fall over causing him to stumble. He recovers and pokes the body a couple times before grunting in frustration when he sees he's already dead. Cassandra glances over at the burly thug Marius was fighting before, only to see his headless corpse.

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Tsunami musters up the courage to approach her saviors, something that takes a moment to do after the massacre she just witnessed.

"I thought I told you to go somewhere safe," the woman says to her with slight annoyance in her voice.

"I think you just made it safe," she replies, looking at all the dead bodies. "You stopped them from trying to rape me, thank you."

"Just doing what any knight with a sense of honor would of done."

"Complevit hic erant, (We're finished here)" Marius says, obviously wanting to leave.

"Non sumus quidem circa finem, (no, we are not even near the end)" Cassandra says to him, earning a confused look from Tsunami.

"Umm, what are you two saying exactly?" she asks.

"Nothing, listen, we are kind of stranded here, do you know a place we can stay?" Cassandra asks, causing Tsunami to smile.

"Of course, you can stay with me for now," she says.

"I couldn't impose such a thing."

"Nonsense, its the least I could do to repay you two, come along." Tsunami turns and leaves. Cassandra opens her mouth to protest, but then closes it, not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth. She starts following her, motioning for Marius to follow.

"Habemus loco manere. (we have a place to stay)"

Marius, however, sees that one thug he nailed with his Fiat Lux, and gets an idea.

"Praecedite! Hie mihi in occursum cum occidisset sol.(You got on ahead! Meet me here at sundown.)"

"Halvum sustinetis(stay safe)"

"non promissa(no promises)

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Authors Note: all right, we all know a normal knight wont stand much of a chance against most ninja, so I'm going to be implementing parts of the game into the story, things like bleed, guard break, unblockables, and even certain feats. I know some people will call this overpowering them, but quite frankly, I don't care.

man writing a story is harder than i thought