Alright, here is the real chapter. Since the first one only was an introduction.

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I'm now on my way to the Xian Hong headquarters, running on the roof tops so that I will not draw too much attention to myself. Killing the blackmailer with poison went really quick, but I have to hurry back. Assassins sometimes gets a job were there is a time limit; you have to do the job and report to the elder within that time. My time limit for this job is one hour, but since I changed clothes before I went on the mission I wasted about 5 minutes. Now when I have killed my prey, is it only 20 minutes left. Just to drive with a car to this place of town takes 15 minutes. How will I be able to get there in time?

I bite the bottom of my lip in frustration, so hard that it begins to bleed. If I come late three times in a row, they will sooner or later suspect that I have done something else during my missions. Not that I know what else I could do other than killing during my missions, but you'll never know with those old ones as the leaders.

I feel someone ahead of me and I stop to hide behind a chimney to look at who it is. There on the roof sits a girl spying out on the streets, obviously looking for someone judging by the photo she's holding in her hand.

She has black clothes like I have and she holds her brown hair in a long ponytail at the nip of her neck. She has a scarf covering her nose and mouth, making her blue eyes the only thing that's visible. She must be an assassin judging by the clothes, but she just sits there with her feet dangling against the building wall, moving her head from side to side to look at all the different faces below.

But I can't just stand here hiding from a single person; I have to go to the base to report. And besides, that woman doesn't seem to be much of a problem. I step away from my hiding place and I start to slowly walk forward, but I quickly step back when I see someone come this way.

It is a man in a big black coat and a hat that shadows his face, preventing me from seeing anything else of his features except for his mouth. The man has white gloves on and he has some kind of crest on the right side of his torso on his coat. I have never seen that crest before…

He walks up behind the girl and ask her with a deep voice, which I can recognise but not really remember from where I've heard that voice before.

"Have you found him yet?"

The girl gasps in shock and quickly turns around to meet the owner of the voice. The man laughs loudly in amusement when the girl just stares at him. The girl snaps out from her trance by the man's comforting laugh and pulls up her feet to bow deeply towards the man.

"I-I am sorry master! I-I haven't found him yet. I am truly honoured that the master himself came to see me!" The girl replies nervously.

The man laugh again, sits down in front of the girl and lifts her head up too look at him by placing his walking stick underneath her jaw.

"Don't worry; you don't have to be so nervous around me all the time." I see a glimpse of a smile on his face. "So, you haven't found him even though I told you were his next mission was?"

I winced, is it me they are talking about? "No, I am sorry master. I have lost sight of him; he just blends in so fast. I saw him on top of a roof, but then he just disappeared within the shadows." The girl says and sits up straight, now looking eye to eye with her master but with his walking stick still under her jaw. "It isn't so surprising though, he is the best assassin around here."

I smile to myself; it is me they are talking about. The man snorts in disbelief at her words.

"I don't think that he is good at all. I think that he only got that title because of the treasure."

My hand moves automatically to my necklace while I frown in anger. Why would that man think that? I have great skills of assassination. And no one outside my organisation should know about this, how did this information leak through our net?

The man stands up and starts to walk away while he says to the girl with a cold voice. "Just find him, and bring him to the headquarters. You are not allowed to come back until you have him with you." The girl wince at his harsh words and tone, so much different than his previous calming one, and was about to say something. But she just looks into the ground in defeat and answers him with a deep bow. "Yes master"

The man goes back the same way that he came from and when he's gone, the girl looks around nervously before holding up the piece of paper in front of her face to stare at it for a while. I see in her eyes that she begins to smile, is it really a photograph of the one she's about to kill, or is it somebody else?

The girl turns around to sit in the same position as before, but instead of looking at the street, she's staring at the photo. I'm a bit curious who it is on that photo, so I slowly sneak to her; silently and carefully to look over her shoulder. I know it's not the best thing to do in this situation, but hey. Curiosity killed the cat.

My eyes widen a little at seeing the photo, it's me, when I was ten years old; I stand there with my arms crossed over my bare chest and a cool grin gracing my lips. The Elder Gim stands beside me and pats my head as if praising me for something.

My surprised look soon turns into a smile; it was such a long time ago. That was the first time I succeeded a mission with a time limit and made Gim proud of being my teacher. Without me knowing it I suddenly begin to talk out loud. "One of my few moments of happiness…"

The girl winces and begins to turn around at hearing someone behind her. But before she saw me, I had already disappeared thanks to my great speed. She just looks around with a puzzled face before shaking her head, taking my voice as her imagination and start to scan the streets again like the first time.

-time skip-

I am running in the sewers on my way to the secret headquarters. There's only one entrance and that entrance is invisible for all the other people except for the ones that are a part of the Xian Hong assassins' guild. The last headquarter we had was much better, but when enemies found our location it was the elders decision to move below the sewers. They didn't realise how stupid it is to only have one exit, but it's their loss.

I am running as fast as I can to come as early as possible, I am already late, 10 minutes to be exact, so I might as well not make those 10 minutes into 20. Or else I'll be in big trouble.

"Fuck, Gim is going to be really angry... "I say out loud with my teeth clenched in frustration.

Gim is the strongest among the elders, and also my master. Since I lost my parents a long time ago, Gim has been like a second father or grandfather to me, he has always been by my side to cheer me on. I turn left through the wall and disappear inside it with no traces left behind me.

This wall is actually the "invisible" tunnel and I'm now very close to reaching the hideout. The long tunnel is sloping slightly downwards to bring the headquarters under the sewers, like I said, it's their loss if the sewers break and the headquarter becomes flooded.

When I reach the gates, they are wide open; many assassins are on missions this time of hour, so the elders have ordered the gates to be open so that the assassins easily can get in and out from the building.

The big hall is the first room you walk into, with lots of doors to different rooms but it is also where the elders are found in the far side of the room. The big hall has two balconies on both sides of the elders where many archers are positioned to guard them. Behind the elders is a big gate were they can go through a secret passage. The passage will lead them towards the exit without bringing any harm to the one who goes through it.

In the big hall is where assassins take and report missions to the elders. It is also were everyone buy food from a small opening in the wall. The big hall looks more like a huge corridor than a room with the many doors and pillars lining the walls. Everything here is white except for the wooden doors, pretty boring to see it every day. It also brings some painful memories of mine to the surface…

I run straight to the elders, passing all the other people socialising with each other, and kneel down with my head looking down to the floor in respect for the leaders.

"I have successfully completed my mission! But since I came late because of some distractions I encountered, I am ready to take any punishment you may give me!" I say with a clear voice even though I'm breathing heavily after the long and intense run.

The girls around me begin to whisper and giggle to each other when they noticed me, completely forgetting to talk with the other males they're sitting together with. I always get as much hateful stares as I get admiring ones, but I don't care about either of them.

I take a deep breath to calm down my furiously beating heart a little and look up to the elders who are sitting in their thrones in a half circle in front of me.

Frieo, the best with arching, shakes his head and his red eyes are filled with disappointment that I'm late thrice in a row.

Baro, the best on the sword, doesn't look at me at all because he only has eyes for the food he holds in his hands with his big orange beard filled with spaghetti sauce.

Mali, the best in sneaking and hiding, just has her arms crossed over her big chest, not showing any emotion on her face.

Vilm, the best in hand-to-hand combat, looks depressed and bored when his green eyes meet my yellow ones.

Finally Gim, the best of them all, looks very angry and his grey hair is practically standing up due to his anger. I give all the elders a nervous smile, hoping that my face mask might take me away from my tight situation. Oh, how I was wrong…

"Garel stand up!" Gim says with his voice filled with anger and disappointment, his teal eyes burning holes in my forehead since I don't want to meet his gaze. I quickly stand up with a calm face and movements, but my heart is beating fast in nervousness. This is really bad…

Gim says with a more calm voice, but I can still feel his eyes burning holes in my forehead.

"So, let me ask you this Garel. Why did you come late? This is the third time in a row!"

I bow politely and answer his question with an equal calm voice as Gim used in the beginning of his sentence.

"I am sorry elder, I am well aware that this is the third time. But on my way here I heard some of our enemies talking and I felt that it was important that I stayed and listened. Some of this organization's secrets have leaked through our net."

The people around start to talk with each other more lively when I mention the information leaking. Damn, I wish that they would use a different room for the elders. That way, I could talk with the elders more seriously and not just about my missions.

I look up to Gim and the other elders to see how they take my information, but they obviously don't believe me judging by their faces. All elders have the same face, anger. And that anger is obviously directed to me, but why wouldn't they trust my information? Do they suspect that I've done something? Are they thinking that I'm the one who's leaking information just because I've been late?

I hear the doors next to the elders 'throne moon' open and other assassins, fully armed, run out from said doors and surround me. I keep my calm while I look around at all the assassins that are pointing their weapons at me. I look up to the Elders and ask them with slight confusion in my voice.

"What's this?"

Gim stands up from his throne and looks down at me with a disappointed look on his face that Says. "I would have thought better of you" The assassin, my brothers and sisters, look at the elder, awaiting their orders to obviously attack me.

I meet the teal eyes that belong to Gim with my face completely relaxed. Gim would not hurt me, would he? He's the one who 'raised' me and trained me, I'll take his place one day so why would he have a reason to kill me?

The elder point at me with his shrivelled finger and speak three sentences that I would never forget for the rest of my life.

"You Garel, have betrayed us. You have leaked information about this family to our enemies during your missions. This will cost you your lifeand you'll be executed."

After Gim said that I could feel my hands be tied behind my back and hear the sound of my own world as an assassin break.

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