Chapter 12. Noxian assault
I looked down to see the girl giving me a worried look. I got up off the ladder and held my hand down to help her up. She was shaky to start but one by one she slowly made it up the ladder. I finished pulling her up as I checked the rest of the house. The entire building was empty, other then the two dead body now sprawled out. I opened the door to see a sight both expected from the noise but still unexpected due to its size. The camp was being attacked by soldiers. I ran back inside to find that the girl had taken the leaders gun. "You sure you can use that" I asked. "I can only hope, but it's better than something like a sword for me" She responded. I turned my attention to the man now standing at the door, he quickly looked us over and dashed to somewhere else. I looked around in the time I had right now and quickly grabbed myself a small bag of coins. The girl had taken a seat and was watching the door while I looked around. I decided to look at the brown liquid filled flasks. I picked one up a briefly smelt it. It smelled like something between chewed up leaves and stone. I didn't want to take the risk of it being poison so I just took it and threw it onto the ground. It cracked open a little and the contents slowly poured onto the floor. I checked the now dead leader's desk to find mostly maps and notes, Including the map with attack plans to the checkpoint. I quickly folded up that map and slipped it into one of the pockets on the sides of my pants. I then moved back to the door. Quite a few tents were on fire and there was still fighting going on, From a glance it looks like the soldiers were winning. So much so that a group of them saw me and started running towards the building. I stepped aside from the door and waited for them to walk inside, only to be tackled to the ground.
"So you're the leader are ya? Well I'm sure that the Talon will be pleased with me" the soldier said on top of me.
The weight was mostly from his armour as I tried to get a breath in but couldn't, he had me winded.
"You have the wrong man, The real leader is dead" Said the girl weakly standing at the doorway from the dead bodys.
The man on top of me made a movement and with that one of the soldiers went to check. "She's not lying there is two dead bodies here" The soldier said as he came back.
"We'll bring him to Talon just in case. I don't want to go back empty handed" The soldier said on top of me.
I was finally able to draw a breath and after catching it I spoke "Would you mind tying me up or something, Your crushing me and it's hard to deal with".
The soldier made another movement and I could feel my hands being tied and not long after the soldier go off of me. I was lifted up and led to the table next to the two dead bodies. Before I sat down I moved my tied hands to the front of me.
"So then what's your story. Better be a good one or I can just kill you and bring the girl instead" a soldier sat across the table from me while another two watched the door. The girl was sitting next to me.
"I'm going to be vague but I was basically given a job to kill the leader and his deputy of this camp" I said.
"So your a assassin then" The soldier said.
Assassin... "I suppose, right now I am and I've killed my target. Now I'm tied up by some soldiers I've never seen before" I said.
"Who hired you" the soldier asked.
"I don't know, some crying man at the checkpoint. He was saying something about the camp attacking the checkpoint" I replied.
"I need a name" the soldier said more aggressively.
"He didn't give me a name, But I do know he wasn't lying about the attack" I said.
"How, are you a traitor?" He said grabbing his sword.
"Do you think a bandit would wear something I am wearing" I said. The soldier put his hands back onto the table.
"How do you know then" He asked.
"Before you all charged in and took me to the ground I found a map in the leader's desk, It's in my right leg pocket" I said moving my leg out from under the table. The soldier moved his head and one the of soldiers from the door unzipped the pocket and pulled out the map. The soldier handed to him and walked back to the door. The soldier across from me scanned the map and nodded. "Alright then I'm satisfied" He said putting the map away.
"So we know your not a bandit, but I'm stilling bringing you to Talon" The soldier said.
"Who's Talon" I asked.
The man stared at me in both shock and disappointment "You must be from another city if you don't know Talon" he said shaking his head.
"What city you all from" I asked.
"Noxus" He replied.
I recalled Caitlyn saying I looked like I was from noxian 'before' I got these clothes so I didn't bother asking if I looked like one.
After around 20 minutes of fighting a man came in and ran up to the soldier across from me. "S-Sir! Talon has arrived" I could hear all the soldiers gulp all at once. "S-Send him here, I'll give him my report" the soldier said. The soldier quickly ran outside and shortly after the man I had seen in the morning, the bladed cape wearing leader walked in. So this is Talon.
"Who is this" he asked looking at me. His tone was somewhere between deep and rough, he moved towards me as he asked this showing off the strange spearhead attached to his arm. I couldn't help but grin. His intimidating aura was kicking my adrenaline up a notch.
"Well sir, You said you wanted me t-to find the leader of the bandits an-" he said unsure of himself only to be cut off.
"So this is him" he said staring at me. I felt my adrenaline kick in for what seemed like no reason before I had seen him swinging his blade towards my head. I quickly kicked my chair back dodging the attack as I did my best to draw my sword with my hands tied in front of me. I followed up since I had dodged before the blade touched me and even kicked with my legs again to knock his arm into the air as it moved to slice me. I then pulled my legs down pushing me to my feet as I saw the blade coming back as it clashed with my own. We held blades together for a moment his expression not changing as the soldier yelled at much as he could "Stop! Talon the real leader is dead at your feet!". Talon finally heard him and looked to his feet. He saw the dead body and eventually stepped back, I did the same as I clumsily tried to re sheath my sword with tied hands.
"Who is this boy then" Talon said clearly displeased.
"Well I thought you might have w-wanted to talk to the man who killed him" He said as he slowly sat back down. Talon turned back to face me and finally took proper notice of my bindings. He also looked over my clothing and my sword, My dagger couldn't be seen since my coat covers it in shadow. I held my bindings up near my face to show them off "If you want to take them off go ahead" Talon mocked as he turned to the soldier.
I paid little attention to what the two were saying as I pulled the small throwing knife from the pocket I hid it in and began to cut away at the rope. Within 2 minutes I was free of my bindings, I put the knife away and rubbed the rope marks on my skin. I looked back to Talon who was looking at my dead in the eyes.
"Who are you" he asked. I looked around for one moment and returned to his stare "Do you need to know my name" I asked. He moved forwards but I moved back as he did only to be met with the wall behind me, I got the message.
I sighed before saying "My name is Blade".
"Blade, I've never heard of you before... Blade" Talons said as he took a step back "Your either a ghost of a assassin or your not an assassin" he said as he glared at me.
"I'm not, in this case I was but that's it, so far" I said as I fixed the chair I can knocked over and sat down.
Talon stood there for a moment before talking again "Who might she be then" He looked to me for a answer.
I shook my head "I don't know I found her chained up downstairs, she says she's been here for three days" I replied.
Talon looked over her for a few seconds before turning to the soldier across from us. "Escort them to Noxus and have them wait for me to return" he said as he walked towards the door "If they try anything kill them" He said as he walked out.