Silence fell across the small group around the bonfire, staring at Adelaide, their eyes almost popping out of their skulls. "What did you say?" Harper spoke up, her voice shaking a little.

Adelaide stared into the flames, plucking at the grass beside her feet, not looking at the almost horrified faces around her as she repeated herself. "I'm going to kill David. I'm not asking for permission; I'm telling you that I'm doing it. It doesn't matter what you do, or what you say. The king will fall tonight."

"When do we leave?" Edison asked, his initial shock leaving his face and going almost emotionless.

Adelaide smirked, slowly standing up. "We leave in one hour, get as many weapons as possible and meet me by the edge of the camp in ten minutes, and try not to make it obvious."

Everyone all collectively nodded and left the bonfire to get their equipment for the trip. Adelaide walked towards her tent, but halted almost immediately as soon as she saw Jordan inside. She took slow and cautious steps towards him, Adelaide opened her mouth to speak but she was cut off.

"I know what you're about to do… Adelaide, I'm begging you, please don't do this." Jordan almost whispered as he grasped Adelaide's arm, staring into her eyes, looking for any kind of emotion.

Adelaide stared back at Jordan, shaking her head slowly as her eyes were almost about to spill tears. "You're driven to fix everything for everyone, but you can't fix this. I have to do this on my own, and you have to let me."

"If you do this, there will be no going back. I won't be able to stop the other leaders from voting you out."

"I know, but David has to pay for what he's done and I'm willing to take the consequences."

"Adelaide, I-"

"Jordan, don't. Think about it this way; you get what you wanted, you get the commander of death you asked for when you wanted every group to join the fight." She almost spat out her words, grabbing her sword and her throwing knives before walking out of her tent again, not looking back.

She met up with a small group of her people and began discussing their plans to attack David in his room in the Dorchester hotel – the only issues were how they'd be able to get in and out of there without being caught and be able to kill David without someone noticing. The group was small – only five members were there; Harper, Edison and three other members of South London Crew. It was small, but that was all she needed. She didn't need an army to kill someone, she just needed people to be on lookout while she did the crime.

"If you're wondering where David is, he's not here."

The voice made everyone jump a little, not realising that someone was behind them and listening into their conversation.

Adelaide turned around to see Shadowman standing there, hood over his head and looking more like just a floating face than an actual person. Sighing a little, she placed her hands on her hips. "How'd you know that?"

Shadowman shrugged his shoulders, placing his hood down and moving towards the group. "David retreated back to the palace, I saw a small party leave the hotel earlier and David was with them, they all looked pretty scared."

Adelaide nodded once before turning back towards the group, her back towards Shadowman. "Thank you for that information, you can leave now."

"I'm not doing shit, I'm going with you."

"Listen, Dark-Boy, I don't need more people to slow me down."

"First; it's Shadowman and second; without me, you'd be caught within fifteen seconds."

Adelaide rolled her eyes, sighing once more. "Fine, but if you slow me down or do anything to piss me off, I will not hesitate in killing you."

"Understood, Commander."

Adelaide nodded towards Shadowman before turning back to the rest of the team. "Okay, so this is how it's gonna go; this is not an extermination mission. This is an assassination. We go in quietly, kill only our target and get out. The only time we kill someone who is not our target is if they fight first, understood?"

The group nodded in unison, Adelaide looking around the group once before speaking up again. "Okay, get your stuff together, let's move out."

Once again, the group nodded before doing their final checks on their weapons. Just as Adelaide was about to pick up her sword, Shadowman pulled her aside, keeping an eye out for anyone that might be listening.

"I come with you on one condition; you save Jester. Whatever happens tonight, he needs to be kept alive. I don't care how many people you have to kill; you have to save him."

Adelaide couldn't see much of his face, it was mostly covered by the darkness but the urgency in his voice convinced her that she needed to make this deal. It was obvious that Shadow loved Jester, that was the only way to describe it. Like how she was in love with DogNut and DogNut was in love with her; they'd make deals with the Devil to protect each other.

Well, Adelaide wasn't quite the Devil but she was as close to it.

Nodding her head, she licked her lips. "Deal." She left Shadowman behind her and placed her knives in her belt before she picked up her sword and attached it around her body. "Let's kill the king." Adelaide placed her hood over her head and the mask over her face, leaving only her eyes visible. The group watched Adelaide for a moment before they grabbed their weapons before making their way out of the camp and into the darkness, towards Buckingham Palace.

Note

This was originally going to include the actual assassination but I decided to split up the two chapters because it would've gotten way too long and I'm a little behind schedule with updating anyways since I'm trying to update once a week.

The next chapter should be up soon; I've already gotten about 700 words on it at the time of writing this so hopefully, it'll be up soon.

Until next time;

Lorna.