(Small notice, when the chapter title has been underlined it mean's I was unable to check the spelling a grammar of the chapter. Apologies)
Chapter 15 Week one
Day two: Spent most of my time looking around my new home. Didn't find very much other then a few old coins and a broken sword hilt. Not to interested in going outside until night so I suppose I'll stay home most of the day.
Night falls and I moved around the city looking for more places to steal from and streets to run down. Getting better at running on rooftops.
Day three: Woke up to a rat in my coat, Must have smelt the food when I had stored them there two nights before. Bastard scared me when I woke up. Figured out the knifes I have are good for throwing, spent most of the day figuring out how to throw these types of knifes.
Night falls, I got myself in a bit of a fight. Three kids thinking they could rob me, saying something about my knife's. I wonder if their corpses will get buried.
Day four: I left a bit earlier then normal today. My food supply was almost out so I left to try my luck at a few stalls. I got away with most of the food up to the last stall were I got caught. I tried to drop the food but the damn shopkeeper was able to grab my finger and break it. Hurts like hell. Not going to sleep well tonight.
Day five: I woke up to come to the realization that the wound from the fight at the bandit camp is getting worse. I didn't pay much attention to it but if I don't deal with it soon... My finger is doing better, I was able to wrap it in cloth from one of the rugs in the building. I don't want to risk that on my shoulder because they may only make it worse since their dirty.
Night falls, Found myself eyeing a tavern, It hasn't had a lot of customers and it had low protection. It's practically asking to be robbed.
Day six: I really didn't feel like moving today. I had a hard time falling asleep and I really didn't have the energy to move. I moved the furniture in the building around a bit, my 'room' Is a bit more bearable. I've gone from sleeping on the floor to a tabletop, broke the legs off it and laid it on the ground. It's surprisingly more comfortable then the rug and floor.
Night falls, my first task was to look for a medical building, took me most of the night but I found a small medical shop at the other end of town.
...Day seven I woke up to a dry mouth and sore muscles. I still wasn't quite used to my life here in noxus, even though it's been a week since I first got here. It's been hard I'll give it that, worst week of my life so far... In this week alone I've broken my ring finger trying to steal food and my wound on the shoulder's only gotten worse since it had no treatment. I've felt sick since it's turned to a gross red and purple colour, I hope I can dis-infect it before I end up having to cut my trip to Demacia short (Along with my arm). That was my goal for today, Steal medical supply's. As much as I hated the idea of having to steal from a medical building it seemed like the easiest way to get what I needed. The problem was I was still unarmed, other then the knife's I found a week ago. I learned those knives were throwing knives. So I started practicing with them to get used to the weight. Today was also the day I reported to swain, that was first on my to do list. I ate the last of the food I had stored in the chest and climbed up to the building's 4th floor. It was only just becoming dawn, and from dawn to midnight I was usually out, scouting, stealing or running. I had already learned that people would kill just for a single coin here in noxus and while I didn't have any coin the knives I had would be worth some. I've been attacked 4 times now, all their bodies would start decaying by now. I climbed out from the window and dropped down onto the third floor roof. People still didn't know about my new home, I wanted to keep it that way. I started to make my way up to the high-class area where I noxus military building was. My clothes had a few rips in it but nothing large, just a few slits and cut's across my coat and hood. However this still made me look suspicious and I was stopped before even getting to the stairs to the building.
"Halt! What business do you have here" A soldier walked up to my with his sword drawn. I didn't both responding I kept walking towards the building, I didn't have time to deal with the man and I was still tired from waking up. However he was still keeping up with me and he eventually held his sword to my neck.
"I won't ask again, What are you doing here" He said in a more stern voice. I lifted my head a little more to peer out of my hood to see his expression. His eye's were locked to mine once I did so and while most people in the city would back off after this, he just returned my glare.
"I'm here to meet with grand general Swain. If you have a problem with that you can talk with him 'after' I meet with him" I said as I lightly pushed his sword from my neck. The guard just stared at me unsure of what to do.
"I'm the one who give's the order's scum" He said with a snarl.
"Scum?" I asked. I chuckled lightly as I walked up and faced him with my hood off.
"Scum is what you noxian call home, this disgusting place of a home is scum. I'm glad I wasn't born here and you should be ashamed" I said with a smirk. I know I was edging him on for a fight but I didn't have time to waste. Plus I could use the sword.
"You insolent worm!" He yelled as he pulled back to swing. In that moment I drew two of the knife's I had on me and quickly plunged both of them into his throat in one motion. I pulled the knife's back as his swing no longer had the strength it once had as he dropped the sword as his hand hit my arm. He reached up to try to block the mass amount of blood leaking from his throat but it never stopped. I took his sword and sheathed it in my sheath before moving on. It wasn't much longer until I could hear the sound of his armour hitting the ground signaling his death.
I arrived at the building and quickly went to Swain's office. I knocked on the door once and waited for a response. For a moment nothing came but not longer I could hear the craggy voice that belonged to him "Come in". I opened the door and took a few step's inside. "Ah Blade your still alive, Perfect" He said as he looked up at me from his desk. "You told me to report in every week" I replied. "Yes I know, I see your still doing well. For someone who has nothing to survive with that admirable" He said as he stood up from his seat. "I have my skills and I got lucky with these" I said as I showed off the knife's. "Most impressive, However I see you have a sword from our soldier's" he said looking at me with a stern look. As if someone had been connecting dot's a man barged in yelling to swain "Sir! We have a corpse of a soldier outside the building!". At first the Swain was unmoved by the statement before he looked to me "Your men need to learn to leave me be, of course if they don't it's their loss. I don't mind collecting their swords" I said. At first swain didn't have a expression on his face then he sighed and spoke to the man at the door "Have his corpse retrieved and stripped of his armour, then inform anyone who need's to be" he said sending the man off. The man turned and as he left Swain looked at me "I'll have my men remember who you are but I'd prefer you not to kill them unless you must, in the meantime I have a mission for you" He said as he moved to his desk "I need a man found and killed before he leave's noxus, a man named Norvi Hue. He's a Ionian looking to lead a revolution against us. Find him and kill him". "Do you have any idea of where he might be or what he look's like" I asked. "Soldiers say he tends to wear long blue robes with a black staff. He a middle aged man and he tend's to stick around the lower district's" He said. "He'll be dead soon" I said turning and heading toward's the door. I walked toward's the entrance of the building and saw the men carrying someone into the hall. It must have been the soldier I killed since he had a large wound on his... No this man had a large gash across his chest armour, The one I killed had his neck cut open... I took it into account and when I wen't back to find the man I had killed I only found blood... I would have looked around but I didn't have time, My energy has been low as of late. I pulled my hood up and started walking toward's the low-class area. Now that I had a sword I could be a bit more reckless. Though recently my adrenaline hasn't been flowing when I needed it to be but I suppose maybe now it will, what with the sword and all.
It didn't take me long to get to low-class district's, they were mostly located near the entrance's of the city and always had a certain vibe to them. It didn't take me long to realize that a honest day of work here would amount to a long life of pain and endless work. If you wanted to survive here in noxus you had to adapt and you had to adapt fast. I started looking for lead's on my target by talking to various pub and tavern owner's. For the most part they didn't have any information up to when I was just about to become dusk a man knew something about my target. "Yeah, I've seen him before. He's a regular around here tend's to start loud speeches about how he will 'Change noxus for the better' get's on your nerves" the man said. "Is that so, You wouldn't mind me sending him to a grave then would you" I said half asking half ordering. "Not at all, he sends customer's off with his loud pep talks anyways" The owner said. Since it was already dark I decided to wait for the man here in the pub so I found a seat on the second floor and waited. The smell of food was toxic to me and the sound's of drinking, laughter and eating soon filled the air only making both my mood and my hunger worse. I was out of food at home and would need to go out and steal again tonight. I couldn't leave in risk of losing my target either and so I suffered this slow torture waiting for my target. It had been roughly 2 hour's of waiting and my stomach was screaming at me for food but all I could do was wait, and finally after all the waiting the man walked in and the pub got notably quiet. The man started to drink and speak like everyone was looking up to him. "Let me tell you, on h-how I can make this place a better place" The drunk slurred. I got up off my seat and looked at my target. He was standing on top of a table talking down to people but what actually caught my eye was the man staring dead at me in the corner. I couldn't tell who it was but whoever it was, was looking straight at me. I brushed it off and took my target's arm acting like a pub overwatcher. "You've had your fun time to go home you bloody drunk" I said. I tossed him out the door and closed it just behind me. "Hey yo-you can't do this, I wasn't finished ye-" His word's were taken away by my sword cleanly slashing across his throat. His drunken slurs replaced with gargle's of him choking on his own blood as I walked off into the shadow's of the night.
My next stop was to get food, If I was going to raid a medical building I needed to be at full strength. I started walking toward's a place I had my eye on for the longest time. It wasn't a popular tavern and this made it close early. I walked up toward's the tavern and started to scale the building. Unlike the tavern I had stolen from a week ago this one had low protection due to it being in a low-class area instead of a mid-class one. I climbed up onto the side of the building also losing my grip due to my broken finger and crawled into the building from a window. I found myself in the second floor area only this time It was converted into a bar... full of people. I was lucky enough to slip in unnoticed but I didn't look like anyone else there, however I was in the dark still and no one had seen me. I started to move along the edge of the room sticking to the shadow's as best as I could to avoid being seen. My goal was to get downstairs where the supply's were likely stored. While it wasn't as much of a challenge as I thought it would be. I swear a few people had seen me, Maybe it's their drunken attitude but none of them called me out. I moved to the first floor and unlocked the front door. However as I looked around I noticed the major lack of a storage room. I started searching around to see if I could find a type of switch or trapdoor but came up fruitless. I clicked my tongue in disappointment and started to move to the front door. However as much as I wish I hadn't seen it a man stood there looking dead at me. It looked much like the man from tavern in fact. I drew a dagger and got ready to fight, like it has been as of recent my adrenaline didn't kick in. "I wouldn't bother if I were you, I'm not here to fight you nor am I here to call the guard's" He said... or at least I think he said it. His lips didn't move in the slightest, Telepathy? "Why are you in my way then" I said in a low voice. "Don't talk just listen, You are going to become a dog if you work with noxus. My master has taken quite the interest in you ever since we saw you kill the bandit leader. I will only make one offer, go to the western noxus gate on the day your 'training' is complete and be ready to leave" he spoke "We seek to refine your skills, you seem to have a talent to go unnoticed as well as a talent in killing, however your skills are most unusual. When you get to the gate there will be a treeline after roughly one hour of walking, go there and find the clearing with the blood marked tree". "And if I don't go there?" I asked. "Then it is your choice, however if you do refuse our offer my master will do everything in his power to see you killed, the fact that you killed the decoy however mean's it would be in your best interest to join us" he responded. Great another join us or die offer. "Why" I asked. "That fact that you killed that man with no remorse mean's you have the skill's and the mindset to become a 'real' assassin" He responded. "He was just a babbling drunk... wait decoy?!" I said half whispering half yelling. I drew another knife with my other hand but he didn't seem to be phased by it "Yes, he was but a decoy. There is no revolution. The fool had nothing to live for and we knew that your current master would want to get rid of him. You have all the information you need now". I could hear the noise of something falling over from behind me, I took a quickly glance to see what it was only to be greeted by the shadows behind me. I turned back to the door only to find the man gone and the door open.