In the year X017, there were two young assassins who served under the Kingdom of Mystic. “Hey, Lazer? You wanna continue training?” Asked the blue haired assassin. “We have been training for 6 months straight! What do you mean ‘wanna continue training’?” Lazer, the black haired assassin, was not too happy when Carlos asked to continue training.

“Cameron! Hey, Cameron get your ass over here and train!” Cameron was a friend of Carlos and Lazer who was also a part of Mystic’s Military. They would always train together despite their roles in the army being different. Unlike Carlos and Lazer, Cameron was an ordinary soldier. “Sorry, I can’t train today. I damaged my sword and it’s being repaired now.” Cameron apologized. “We could lend you one of our training swords. We have three of them after all.” Lazer said. “I’ll pass for today. I had to walk for three more hours to get to the castle anyways so I might as well continue walking. See you later.”

One week Later

“Who do you think you are not doing the job I have assigned? You two are assassins with a weekly quota of five assassinations a week! You have only reached three!” The King of Mystic was quite pissed at the two assassins. “Carlos? Don’t you think he is overreacting? We have killed three people and it’s only Wednesday.” Lazer asked. “Why is he complaining when we have four days left to get our kills? If anything, he hasn’t even assigned us the final two.” Carlos replied. “You know what King? I’m sick of this! You are using us to do the dirty jobs you don’t want to do yourself and you are blaming us for not getting the job done when you are the one who didn’t even assign us all of the people. You think we are going to stay here and work for you? Well, you’re wrong!” Lazer went off on the King and the two assassins were thrown out of the kingdom.

“Who does that king think he is yelling at us for not doing our job when he never assigned it.” Lazer complained. “I have an idea. Why don’t we create our own army and fight back? We are assassins after all so we know how to fight.” Carlos suggested. “That’s not a bad idea but, who is going join us. Everyone is scared of the king so they would not be able to rebel against him.” The two assassins spent days coming up with a plan when suddenly it hit them. “Hey, why don’t we get Cameron here? He has trained with us for a long time so it would be better to have him on our side.” Carlos is the one who comes up with good ideas unlike Lazer who was only good for combat. “Yeah, I’ll contact him when we find a new town to send letters from. Man does it suck being kicked out of a Kingdom we lived in for most of our lives.”

May 23, X017

The two assassins finally reached a town where they could stay and sent a letter to Cameron. “We could expect a letter from him within a week so for now we should probably stay low for a bit.” “Wow Lazer, you finally said something smart for once. Good for you!” With Carlos making fun of Lazer until they could finally get training done, Cameron has finally reached them with bad news.

“Um, Carlos and Lazer? Why did you have to lay low for a while?” “You will find out soon enough” He responded to me. “Yuki, I believe it is time for some training. Come with me to the field.” We went to the field to see Lazer training a girl that seemed to be my age. “Oh hello there Yuki! This is Asuka. She will be training along side you to become an assassin.” I sat there wondering whether I talk to her or if I should ignore her. Maybe I should just leave her alone, I don’t want her to think I’m a creep. “You! Come here!” Please tell me she isn’t here trying to get my attention. “Hey! Yuki, come here!” Asuka is trying to get my attention but I don’t know what to say. “Yuki, get your ass over here now!” Now she’s pissed. I should probably go to her and see what she wants. “Yes, Asuka?” I was terrified to even get to a conversation distance. “Spar with me. I want to see who’s better.” Spar? She wants to spar with me? I’m about to get my ass beat aren’t I. “Let’s go out into the field and fight there.” I didn’t even agree to this yet I’m still being pulled.

We found an open spot to fight and started to get setup for the spar. “Stand ten meters apart and we shall begin.” On three we lunged at each other like we were flung by a catapult. Exchanging quick blows she managed to get me surrounded between her and a tree. “You are quite fast aren’t yah.” Her speed was a bit slower than mine but her hits are painful even without contact to my body. It felt as if my shoulder was going to pop at any moment. I eventually gained the upper hand in the fight and she ended up tripping over her footing. “Ah!” Her screech was louder than standing next to the church bell back in the village. “Are you o….” I looked at her and realized that she ended up ripping her clothing and she was exposed. “Don’t look at me! Help me but don’t look!” How does she expect me to even do that.

“Yuki! What did you do to Asuka yesterday for her to make her miss training today?!” Lazer is questioning me like I did something wrong. “Uhh. I did nothing really. She challenged me to a spar and I won.” “She claimed that you knocked her to the ground and ripped her clothing so you can look at her in a lewd state.” Great, my masters now think I am a perv who fights girls to see them naked. “This is a misunderstanding!” Trying to save myself from punishment. “You two are opposite genders so you need to treat her like a lady along with your sparring partner.” Why did this have to happen?

A few days have passed after that “incident”. Asuka tried to lie and get me in trouble so now we are forced to walk to the village Blacksmith. “What brings you two here to the Blacksmith Shop”. I was wondering who this man was… he looks familiar to me. “My name is Yamil, nice to meet you.” “My name is Yuki and her name is…” “Asuka, my name is Asuka.” I ignored the fact that she ignored me and went to place my order to the blacksmith. “Hi, I would like to place an order for two one-handed long swords. One in red and black and the other in green and black.” Carlos made us order our swords ourselves as punishment which I don’t see how this is really punishment. It’s kinda awesome. “Oh, so you two are the new assassin trainees in the town?” I was kind of scared to say yes so I nodded at Yamil. “Yes, we are training under our masters Carlos and Lazer.” Asuka always trying to make me seem like a child responded in a way like she is my mother. “Have they told you why they are living here and not in the Kingdom of Mystic?” I was thinking back on his story and recalled that they haven’t. “No Yamil, they haven’t.” “Well, get ready to learn more about their past.”

June 17, X017

“I can’t believe our greatest assassins have betrayed us! They will regret that once we get a hold of them!” The Duke of Mystic was the Commander of the Mystic Army. He usually starts the fights and makes it seem like he did nothing. “Wife! Get our soldiers together we are going to war!” “Okay, I will get them. Where do you want them to be for the meeting?” “Bring them to the Warhall!” All the 15,000 men stood in an organized line listening to what is about to happen. “Attention! As you all know, a few weeks ago we have lost our greatest assassins that fought for us! They were good people… but that won’t keep us from making them pay! I hear by declare war on the assassins Carlos and Lazer!” The crowd of soldiers cheered loudly and the whole town was able to hear it.

“Guys! Carlos! Lazer! I’ve got bad news!” “Cameron, what do you mean you have bad news? Carlos was worried that something ended up happening once Cameron received their letter. “The kingdom declared war on you guys! You guys are dead!” Cameron, Carlos and Lazer decided to start a militia to fight against the Mystic Army. The three spent weeks gathering people to fight for their army. “Okay, listen up! We have gathered you people today to fight against the Kingdom of Mystic! Some of you may know that Carlos and I have left the kingdom for “rebelling” against their orders! Today we fight! Today at sundown we will be ambushing them in the castle and slay the king! Carlos and I were their greatest soldiers! We never lose!” Lazer’s speech went on until sundown, strategizing plans and training people within a short time.

“Lazer do you think we could do this in one go?” Cameron doubted Lazer’s speech and didn’t think they could win. “We will be fine. Have faith in your leader assassins.” “Okay.” Carlos had a different squad which would ambush the right side of the castle. Carlos and Lazer went into the castle but got detected real quick. “Well, this didn’t go as planned… should we fall back now?” Lazer wanted to fall back but Carlos wanted to keep fighting. Carlos and Lazer were able to capture 17 soldiers and killed 53. “Now let’s retreat and think of a strategy!” Lazer lead the army to safety. The assassins’ army lost 6 men that day but eventually came back to fight again.

There was a time period where there were no fights between Mystic and the Assassins. Carlos has recruited newer members to the army such as Yamil and Heaven. “Heaven, make your footing similar to mine so that when you swing you won’t lose balance.” Heaven was never into fighting so Carlos had to train her from the very beginning. Yamil on the other hand was part of the Mystic Army alongside Carlos and Lazer. Yamil was appointed Captain of the rebel army due to fighting alongside the two assassins. “Lazer, do you think Heaven will be ready for our next ambush? I have trained her for a couple days and she seems like she can at least stand her ground.” “Hmm, she may need some work but I think we should keep her with the bigger party.” “Okay, I’ll make sure she can fight on her own within a month.”

Several weeks went by and the assassins’ army was ambushed. Carlos ordered everybody to stay calm and stick to the strategy. Cameron noticed a cannon that was shot at the town’s church. ”Heaven!” The army screamed after the huge explosion had happened nearby her location. The person who caused the explosion was never discovered. “Why did it have to be Heaven?! We have to get to her!” “Hopefully she could be revived!” Carlos and Lazer went crazy and killed every enemy within sight. Slashing off their heads and ripping off limbs until they could reach Heaven. The two assassins have reached Heaven but was too late. The explosion burned off half her face and caused a sharp, stone, spike to fall separating her upper body from the bottom. Carlos and Lazer dropped to their knees and couldn’t keep fighting. Ever since they were kids Heaven was always with them. The two assassins have lost someone that they hoped would be there when they have come to an end. They never left each other's side when they went on adventures. Yamil noticed them losing their mind and took control of the army. He gave them the orders to get away safely. The battle ended with a retreat of the assassins.

“Now you know why they didn’t tell you all the details of the story.” “... I didn’t know they had a battle like that.” I think I should talk to them about it, I want to know more about Heaven. “Carlos? Are you here?” I searched around the house and found Carlos next to a picture of the three as kids. “So he told you about that fight…” I didn’t want to say “yes” but I also didn’t want to say that he didn’t. “That is fine. I would eventually have to tell you about it. So, many years ago before that fight, Heaven, Lazer and I were the best of friends as kids. We did everything together. We were so attached to each other that if something would have happened to one of us, only god would know how we would be.” I remained silent and continued to listen. “Yuki, promise me that if you find people you love and care for that no matter what happens. Never. Let. Go. Keep them with you forever and protect them at all cost. I learned that if you turn around for one second it’s a long enough time that something will happen to them.” Asuka and Lazer walked in and saw Carlos on the verge of tears telling the lecture.

“What’s going on here?” “Oh, Lazer, I was telling Yuki about that battle.” Lazer looked down holding back his tears. “60 years ago we lost someone we cared for. As you know, that person was Heaven. She was taken from us because we thought she would be good enough to fight in our army. We were wrong! We messed up! We got her killed! We are to blame! I was too caught up on raising a good military that I never cared to think who should be there to fight alongside us!” The way that Lazer screamed and cried, it makes him seem like he relived that fight. “Lazer? Are you okay?” Asuka tried to help him feel better but he went on crying. “I wish I hadn’t deployed her in that location! I wish it were me to take the hit instead of her!” “Lazer! Please… the past was in the past… there is nothing we could do to get her back. We lost her.” Carlos and Lazer went back to their armory and talked for a bit. Asuka and I went to do our daily training and tried to forget about our master’s breakdown.

“Hey, Yuki? Do you think you and I will be like that in the future?” Asuka looked at me in a sad but cute face. “I’m sure one day we will become that close. I won’t let you have the same fate as Heaven. I will protect you until the end.” Asuka punched me in the face and started yelling. “Why did I say that to you?! I mean, I don’t like you enough to be by your side all the time!” I smiled at her in a teasing way. “Just you wait, Asuka.” I think I pissed her off, I better get out of here!

“Yuki, do you mind going out on a little errand for me?” Carlos looked kind of serious, I wonder what he needs. “Continue.” “I need you to head to the blacksmith and ask for these two blades to be repaired. These blades are the blades Lazer and I used to fight in the war.” This must be the blue and the black demon blade. “Okay. I’ll head out now.” I was walking towards the village square when I was attacked from behind. “Ow, what the hell are you doing?!” The person standing before me looked like an assassin but I haven’t seen them before. “Yuki, look out!” A man came running and blocked the attack for me. “Yuki, you may not know who I am but I am Cameron… I am the person who fought alongside your masters. Give this to them when you get back to their place.” Right in front of me was the death of a good friend Carlos and Lazer once had. “Cameron! I will avenge you! I promise!” I managed to get to the blacksmith shop and get the two swords repaired.

“Hey, Michael. Do you know about an assassin besides for the ones Carlos and Lazer are training?” Michael, the blacksmith looked at me in a wondering kind of face. “I believe so. No one knows their name or what their face looks like. Only thing people know is that they wear the colors of Carlos and Lazer.” “Hmm. I need to encounter this person to avenge Cameron and beat the shit out of them.” I vow to avenge anyone who has been killed by that assassin.

I went back home to Carlos and Lazer’s place and gave them their swords. “We may be retired assassins but we have one last duty to fulfill.” Carlos and Lazer were creeping me out with the look on their faces. “Carlos and I are going to kill the King and kill the duke.” They don’t know but the new assassin should be on that list too. “Um… Carlos? Cameron… was killed.” The expression on their faces went from serious to shocked. “Cameron was killed by this new assassin that has been going around… I think they are from the kingdom.” “Yuki… your first mission has finally begun. I want you… to avenge Cameron!” Lazer handed me a sheathed sword with my name written on it. “Here is your new blade that you would have earned after training ended but I think now is necessary.” Carlos and Lazer quickly rushed out of the house and ran towards the kingdom.

“Lazer how much longer until we reach the kingdom!” Carlos and Lazer were traveling for three days to reach the town. “We should be almost there. Don’t you remember this tree that you got Cameron’s head stuck in?” The two have finally reached the edge of the gate. “Dammit! I forgot since we left we aren’t allowed back in normally.” “Lazer…. we are retired assassins so why does it even matter getting in normally.” “Right… well, let’s just kill the guards and walk in.” The two dumbasses killed the guards and ran towards the castle killing any army members in the way. “We… ar…. are finally here.” Trying to catch his breath, Carlos took a break while Lazer finds a way in the castle. “Annnd we’re in!” Lazer picked a lock on their old room’s window and found a way in. “Luckily this room still had a lock on it or else I wouldn’t be able to pick it.” “Looks like someone is occupying this room. Wait… why do they have pictures of us?” “Carlos, that doesn’t matter right now. We need to find the king.” Lazer stealthily moved his way to the armory to find the duke while Carlos went to find the king.

“Hey there DukeyPoo! Long time no see!” Lazer teased the duke in a girly winky face way. “How the hell did you get here! Guards! Get him now!” “Oh don’t worry about your guards they are dead already! It’s just me and you ol pal!” Still smiling, Lazer threw a smoke bomb and charged at the duke. The duke dodge the attack and stabbed Lazer in the leg. “You thought a smoke bomb will distract me? Hmph, you are still dumb as ever.” The duke’s blade went through Lazer’s leg and into the wall preventing movement. “I may be trapped but I won’t lose!” The duke keeps pushing his blade deeper into Lazer’s leg causing him to lose more blood. The duke got really close to Lazer taunting him until he died. “I won’t die here! I will not die until I get my revenge!” Lazer kicked the duke back with his other leg and ripped the sword out of him. He quickly wrapped his leg with bandages Asuka gave him and continued fighting. “Lazer, why must you fight us. We were friends at one point. We did you no harm!” “You know what you did! Don’t play dumb with me! You… you killed Heaven!” Lazer lunged at the duke with a horizontal slash and skimmed his stomach. The duke wasn’t phased and returned a vertical slash missing Lazer. “I have one shot at this, if I miss it’s game over.” Lazer slid on the floor cutting the duke’s leg off and came up to cut off his head ending their 60 year hatred. “How does it feel being the one killed?! You took the life of someone we cared for and now it’s your time to lie in dirt.”

“I wonder how Lazer is doing, I hope he made it.” Carlos kept on strolling around the castle trying to find the king. “Hm? What’s this?” He found a strange room that he has never seen before in the castle containing files of people that were killed. “What?! There’s a picture of Cameron in here! Wait…. is that Yuki?! Yuki killed Cameron!” Carlos took the file and escaped the castle.

“Lazer! How did your fight go?” “I killed him… well, I decapitated him.” “Nice! Anyway, check this out. I found this file containing information on Cameron’s death.” “Is that Yuki? Why did he kill Cameron?” “I dunno. I’m hoping it’s just a coincidence. I will ask him once we get back home.” “Okay. By the way, did you find the king? You seem undamaged.” “No, I quit searching once I found this file. It seemed pretty weird.” “Yeah… I wonder how Asuka will feel after she sees this.” “Don’t show her.” Carlos and Lazer walked home keeping the file in a secure bag hiding it where Asuka couldn’t find it.

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“Good work! You know who the next target is?” “Yes, I will be going for them next week.” “I’m counting on you, this kingdom is nothing without your skills new assassin.”

“Yuki! Explain this document!” What are they talking about? “What document?” I’m so confused as to what they are talking about. “Yuki! Why did you kill Cameron?!” Lazer is pissed but I didn’t do anything! “What? I didn’t kill him! If I killed him I wouldn’t have reported him to you guys!” “Then explain why this person on the document looks exactly like you!” “Okay, don’t believe me but I will prove to you that I’m not the killer!” I ran out of the house to prove that the killer isn’t me. “Where would that killer be! I need to find him now!” “Hm? Looking for me lad? Come on and fight me if you want to prove you didn’t kill Cameron!” Where is that voice coming from? “Hey! Look behind you! I’m on top of the roof!” Don’t want to know how he got up there but I’ve got to kill him! Before I could even draw my sword he already had his blade an inch from my neck. “You trying to attack first? That’s a no no for a hero like you. Never attack first!” Why am I being lectured by an enemy? I need to find out who they are! “Who are you!” “Me? I’m the Mystic Assassin! I can’t believe you don’t remember me from years ago.” I can’t believe him saying I’ve known him before. “You may be thinking ‘I have never seen him before… at least I can’t remember it.’ But! You surely have!” I’m sure he is just trying to psych me out because of his teasing voice and smile. “Why did you kill Cameron! What did he ever do to you!” “He did nothing to me. I just felt like killing someone!” He just wanted to kill someone? So, I was the one he wanted to kill first?! “You would have been the one to die but your friend over there jumped to save you! Well, now you are boring me so I’m gonna kill yah now.”

He is too fast! Luckily he isn’t attacking with the blade, it still hurts though. “Come on! Come on! Come on! Fight me! It’s no fun when it’s a one sided fight!” His speed is difficult to keep up with. I can’t even get a chance to get a hit on him. “Thirty seconds is long enough! It’s time to die!” He went to slash me with his blade. “What?! You blocked it?! It seems you still have some fight left in yah!” I got a single hit on his face though it barely made a difference. I have no chance at winning but I can at least find a way to reveal his identity. I lunged my sword forward catching his hood with the tip of my blade. “You’ve got me… you now know what I look like. I am your…” The assassin threw a smoke bomb and vanished. “He is my what?”

Lazer and Carlos were in the middle of training Asuka when Yamil ran in. “Carlos! Lazer! Yuki isn’t the one who killed Cameron!” “What? Then explain why the killer looks just like Yuki.” “The killer said his name was the Mystic Assassin. You can tell they are two people because of the scar on the assassin’s face.” “You’re right. Yuki doesn’t have a scar. Carlos, keep training Asuka. I will go find Yuki.” “No need to find me, I’m right here.” Lazer noticed all the marks on my body and a tear in my cloak. “What happened to you?” “I fought the Mystic Assassin. I managed to knock his hood off and he looks like me. He said ‘I am your…’ and then he smoke bombed and vanished.” “Yuki, he may be your twin… we have files on you when we took you in and it did mention you having a brother.” Carlos claims that I have a brother but wouldn’t I have known? I mean, he does look like me but I doubt that. He can’t be related to me.

“Sorry we didn’t believe you Yuki, I wasn’t expecting someone to look exactly like you.” Lazer may be apologizing but did he really have to jump to conclusions in the beginning? If I weren’t able to prove the Mystic Assassin was the killer then I wouldn’t be in this building right now. “Carlos, I have an idea.” “Yes, Lazer?” “Let’s give Yuki the mission to kill the Mystic Assassin. We blamed him for the death of Cameron so we can have Yuki kill his brother.” Even if I wasn’t ordered to kill the assassin I would have anyways. “Carlos, Lazer, I’m going to be away for a week training on my own. If you need me I’ll be five miles away from the village.” Today marks the day my real training begins.

“Asuka, you are done for the week. I don’t want you to get burnt out.” “But, Lazer… I’ll be fine.” Ever since I left to go training, Asuka has been non-stop training with Lazer. “No, you need to rest.” Lazer seems to be worried about Asuka. “Fine, I will just stay at home for a few days, just come get me when you want me to train again.”

Asuka went home after Lazer and Carlos cleaned up. “Carlos, there’s something off with Asuka. Do you notice it?” “No, not really. She was always ready to train for hours every day.” “Yes, but she seems to be overdoing it. Do you think it’s because of Yuki?” Carlos nodded his head. “She did act a bit like she is doing it for him, but that’s none of my business.” “Hm, we will find out eventually. Anyway, I want to talk to you about the Mystic Assassin.” “Yeah? What about him?” Lazer walked to the armory. “Do you think we are going to have to fight again?” “I don’t think so but we shouldn’t let our guard down.” A loud bang happened on the roof. “Too late, someone’s here… get ready.”

“Forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty! Damn, my arms are killing me!” It has been four days since I have started my own training. I hope everything back at Carlos and Lazer’s place is fine. I wonder how Asuka has been ever since I left. I’m going to head back tomorrow but for now I need to work on my speed. Every day of my training I would run up and down the mountain ten times with as much weight on me as I can. Sometimes I would strap a small boulder on my back and run. When I work on my strength I normally do a total of 100 push ups every day and slash rocks with my sword. “*yawn* I think I’m done for today, time to start packing for tomorrow.

“Lazer, hurry! Get the swords! I’ll stay here and guard you!” Lazer took one step and I came crashing through the ceiling. “Yuki!” They both screamed and saw blood dripping from my face. “Hey guys! I’m heeeere! Holy shit did he hit the floor hard! Anyway I believe this boy here is yours’. Yuki, go play.” Lazer and Carlos grabbed and unsheathed their swords. “Get out of he…re.” The Mystic Assassin threw a rope dart into Lazer’s stomach and pulled him face first into his sword. “Oh no, he’s dead. What a shame. Oh look another one to kill!” Smiling, the Mystic Assassin charged at Carlos and stabbed him in the throat killing him instantly. “Hey, Yuki! Are you enjoying this? No? Well, maybe if you were awake you would be! I’ll be taking these by the way.” The Mystic Assassin picked up Carlos and Lazer’s swords and walked away. Yamil came running in but it was too late, Carlos and Lazer were both dead and I wasn’t moving. “Yuki! Yuki! Are you alive?” No response was given, I was out cold from head trauma.

“Do it like this. If you do it the way you are, you will lose balance and not be able to defend yourself.” Ever since Carlos and Lazer got murdered, Asuka and I have been training under Yamil. “Asuka, you could take a break now. Yuki, you need to still continue if you want to avenge Carlos and Lazer.” Asuka didn’t want to stop, ever since I came home she always wanted to do things I did. If I was sent to do an errand she would always come with me. “Asuka, stay here, I need to tell Yuki something important.” Yamil pulled me over to Carlos and Lazer’s armory. “What is it that you need to tell me?” “I need you to go to Michael and take this special order.” I want to know what this order is but I can’t, Michael is the only one to know.

I arrived at the blacksmith shop and gave the order to Michael. “Michael, may I ask what the order is?” “No! You shall not know now, you will find out soon enough.” Ugh, why can’t I know… what’s the harm in that? “Here, the order is complete. Do! Not! Open! Without! Yamil’s! Permission!” “Okay! Okay, jeez… it’s just an order.” “Go now!” I don’t understand why I can’t know! I should tak- no I’m not going to piss off Yamil. “I’m home!” “Ah, Yuki, you’re here. Oh, you have the order too. Asuka! Come here!” “Yes, Yamil?” “Here, these are for the both of you! You’re new Assassin Cloaks. These were designed in a similar way as Carlos and Lazer’s when they were your age fighting against Mystic.” “Oh, this feels nice. The fabric feels smooth yet durable!” “Asuka got one too? She doesn’t even fight!” “Shut it Yuki! I haven’t fought because I never go out waiting for people to jump me!” Damn, she’s right…. I’m always wandering around outside the town on my own. “Now, now… this mission is for the both of you. “What?!”

Why do I have to do a mission with Asuka… she’s useless! “Hey! Why are you giving me a dirty look?!” “Oh, nothing! Don’t worry about it!” “You don’t want me here do you?! Shit she’s onto me. “Well…. that may be true but….. I just don’t want to you get hurt.” “Hmph. Whatever. Anyway, how much further is the castle from here?” “It’s in the middle of the kingdom and the kingdom walls are about a mile away. We don’t have much longer until we are there.” We kept walking until someone cloaked in red stopped us. “It’s too dangerous to get into the castle. He’s there.” This person seems strange… I better not leave my guard down. “Who are you? What’s your name?” She just stared at Asuka then looked at me to answer. “My name is Akane. I am an ex soldier in the Mystic Army.” Ex soldier? Did she leave similar to how Carlos and Lazer did? “Why did you leave the army?” “I left because of the fights that have started back up. Also, may I ask your names?” “I’m Yuki and that is Asuka.” “Nice to properly meet your acquaintance.”  “I must say this again. Do not go to the castle! Their assassin nicknamed ‘The Mystic Assassin’ is in there!” “Huh? Sorry can’t hear yah! Did you say ‘go to the castle and beat that Mystic Assassin’s ass and slay the King’?” “Yuki, I believe she did! Let’s go!”

We arrived at the castle and saw a way to get in through a window. “Asuka hurry up! We don’t have all day!” “Shut it Yuki! You know I’m not as strong as you! I can’t pull myself up!” “Maybe if you would stop eating so many cookies you would be able to carry your own weight!” Asuka got pissed and pulled me out the window. “Hmph maybe if you would pay attention more you wouldn’t have been pulled out of the window so easily!” “That was f*cked up Asuka!” We both managed to get into the window and made our way to find the throne room.

“Do you know the castle layout?” “Nope! I’m absolutely lost!” “Oh come on you dumbass! You are always wandering around and you still haven’t found anything with the castle layout!” This girl needs to chill. She expects me to casually walk inside a castle and automatically know where everything is. “Okay, you know what? Let’s head this way. This seems to be the logical way.” “Well yeah it's the logical way, it only just says in big letters ‘Throne Room’!” Asuka is quite mean today… I don’t even know why.

“King, I can hear footsteps coming from upstairs. Would you like me to investigate?” “No, I want you to go back to the village and kill Yamil.” “Oooh me likey that demand. Why do you spoil me so much king?” The Mystic Assassin’s new target is now Yamil. “It’s because you are my favorite assassin of all time. “Why thank you sir.” The Mystic Assassin left the kingdom to kill Yamil. “Hey, Yuki. Is this the throne room? I can see the king in there by this giant chair.” “Yes, that’s it! Now we just need to lead that lady out of here.” “I don’t think she will be leaving, that’s the duke’s wife!” “Okay, whatever. I have a plan! I will go after the king and you will fight the duke’s wife.” “Thanks for making me fight the easiest person! You piece of shit!” “Sorry, I just don’t want you to get hurt.” “Whatever.” I am hoping that the king doesn’t have any fighting skills so this mission will be a piece of cake. “Asuka on three we attack. One! Two! Three!”

“I hope Asuka and Yuki are okay. Especially Asuka, this is her first mission… please be okay. “Hey babe how’s it goin! Haven’t seen you since I killed your buds!” “What do you want?! You have no business being here!” “Actually I do Yamil. You see, I am here to kill you but I am kinda thirsty so would you mind making me some coffee?” Yamil walked to the kitchen and stabbed a knife into the Mystic Assassin’s hand. “Listen here you little brat! Get lost or you will die here and now!” “Damn, you are quite the feisty one! Oh look… there is a hole in my hand. I don’t think that was quite nice sir.” “Shut the hell up! Now, tell me why you are here!” “I told you already… I’m here to kill you. Man, your listening skills are horrible.” Yamil got pissed and aimed his katana between the assassin’s eyes. “Get lost or you are dead!” “If you insist… I’ll be on my merry way.” The Mystic Assassin casually pulls the knife out of his hand and walked towards the door. “Oh and by the way.” The assassin turned around and threw the knife at Yamil’s arm and charged at him with his duel blades. “Ha ha ha ha now this is fun! Combos! Combos! Combos!” The Mystic Assassin swung his blades laughing in a psychotic way. “Shit! Im cornered!” “Bye bye Mr.Wacky!” The Mystic Assassin swung his left blade at Yamil cutting off his right arm. “Welp… I was hoping to cut you in half but that’ll do. I’m outta here.” The assassin walked towards the door and stopped. “Wait a minute… I asked for coffee!”

“Asuka! Now!” Asuka and I jumped off the balcony ambushing the king and the duke’s wife. “What are you two doing here! Get out of here at once!” We remained silent and stuck to our plan. Asuka ran towards the duke’s wife pushing her to a wall and ramming her sword into her stomach repeatedly. Covered in blood, Asuka kept ramming her sword into every organ losing her sanity with every blow. “Asuka! Sto- what’s the point… she’s too far gone.” Yuki put his focus on the king and went for a quick swing at his midsection. “What?! He blocked?!” “Hmph, you thought I didn’t know how to fight did you? For your information, I am a master archer.” The king kicked me back and fired three arrows at me . I deflected one but the other two went into my arm. “Gah, shit shit shit that f*cking hurts!” Asuka heard me in pain and went to go protect me“Yuki! Are you oka- ah… okay?” The king fired an arrow straight through Asuka’s chest. “You thought you could save your little boyfriend Asuka? Ha! You must be mistaken.” “You bastard! I’m gonna f*cking kill you!” I yanked the arrows out of my arm and stabbed the king in the face, flipped him over my shoulder and then stabbed him in the chest. “Don’t ever touch Asuka! Stay away from my friends and family!” I picked up Asuka and took her to the nearest hospital.

“Where is Asuka?” “I… I brought her to the hospital… she got an arrow straight through her.” “She what?!” Yamil became nervous. “I was down… Asuka went to protect me and the king shot her in the chest with his bow.” “Did you at least kill the king?” “Yes, I stabbed him in the face.” Yamil stood up and pulled lifted his right arm. “I fought the Mystic Assassin. Be careful the next time you meet him. You don’t want to end up like me.” “I’ll do what I can. Count on me!”

After speaking with Yamil, I went to go visit Asuka. “How’s she doing?” “She is in a coma… she lost a lot of blood and we are currently leaving her in the coma to see if there is anything else wrong with her.” “Please tell me she will be okay!” “No promises on that one… we don’t know if she will make it. “She better make it! I am tired of losing people I care for! Sorry, but do what you can to help her… I can’t lose her too.” I went back home to see how Yamil is doing with his arm. “Welcome back, Yuki.” “So… what do we do now? We are in no shape to fight back.” “We will focus on training. I may have one less arm but I could still help you reach your goal.”

Yamil and I started training. He taught me a new technique that will help me sense an enemy attack. “Okay one more try!” Yamil was quick on his feet so it would normally be difficult to land a hit on him but with this new technique, I could react faster to his attack. “Gotcha!” “Good! Now we need to work on your speed. If you are going to stop the assassin from using his rope dart or his throwing skills you will need to learn how to deflect smaller objects.” “Carlos and Lazer only taught me how to deflect arrows… but I will try to deflect throwing knives and rope darts.” “Now… be careful when I use the rope dart. One wrong move and this will puncture you.” I used the sensing technique to sense the projectiles. *ping* “Nice, you got the throwing knife! Without saying anything he threw another and then the rope dart. *ping* *ping* “I can tell you are doing this for Asuka.” My face got very red. “Um… I’m doing this as revenge for my family.” I didn’t admit it to him but I am doing this to see if Asuka will somehow get better.

Every day I would visit Asuka at the hospital after training to see if she gets any better. “I’m sorry Yuki, but Asuka is not here right now.” “Where is she?!” “Don’t worry she is not in any harm but we had to put her in a different room for testing. We discovered that the arrow used to impale her was laced in a substance that was eating away at her flesh.” At least the king is dead now but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen to someone else by the Mystic Assassin. “Could you at least tell me how she is?” “Well, like we said, that arrow’s substance was eating away at her flesh… it will be difficult to even recover the loss.” “Please just do what you can… I’m begging you.” I left the hospital losing my hope of her life.

My daily training was the same as usual. I ended up mastering my deflections so theoretically I should be able to protect myself from the Mystic Assassin’s projectiles. “I’m going out for today, try not to leave the house. Also, I left you some food in the fridge in case you get hungry.” Yamil had a meeting with some people I don’t know. While he was away I decided to go to a library that was next door. There was this strange man sitting at a table reading a book of some sort that had demon girls with big boobs. “Hey, kid! Get lost I’m trying to have my happy time here!” I walked away from that weird dude, he seems to be enjoying that book. “Excuse me, I was wondering if you have a book about flesh eating chemicals.” “Ah yes, in that direction there is a section dedicated to chemicals, I’m sure you could find something of the sort. “Thank you very much and don’t worry I’m not using this for harm.” I found the book I was looking for but it was in horrible condition. “Ow! Why does this book burn?” The book was covered in the flesh eating substance and burned my skin. I flipped open the cover and found out that the lady Akane that I met before borrowed this book. “She has something to do with Asuka going to the hospital!”

“Yamil! I found the substance that ate Asuka’s flesh!” “What is it?” “I can’t read what it says but the words in the book describes exactly what happened to Asuka! I also know the person who created this substance.” “And that person is?” “Akane the Snakebitch!” I left Yamil the book to research more on it while I went out to find Akane. “Hey Snakebitch! I have a question to ask you!” “What do you want you little brat? I’m busy here.” “Tell me about that substance you made that eats flesh!” “I don’t know what you are talking about.” “Quit playing dumb! You know what you did. I can also see that you lied about leaving the kingdom!” “Get out of here before I call the guards!” Akane tried to grab me and pin me down but I jumped off the bridge and got away. “That snake is going to be hard to get answers from… might as well capture her.” I went to Yamil’s house which is right outside the Kingdom of Mystic and grabbed his rope dart that he brings to training. “The snake is going to pay!” I saw Akane walking inside the walls of the kingdom. It seems that she is letting the guards know that I am here. “Hey! Get out of here!” A guard saw me hiding under the bridge. I threw the rope dart at his leg and pulled him under the bridge. “I’ll be taking these.” I knocked out the guard and put his clothes on as a disguise to get inside the kingdom undetected. For Asuka… I’ll do anything.

I got inside the castle and located Akane’s alchemy room. “This looks like a list of orders… she probably works as a royal alchemist.” Akane got into the room and greeted me. “Hello there! I see you have found my lab. Now get out!” Now’s my chance to capture her. I threw my rope dart at a metal plate and the ricochet made the dart wrap around her. “Tell me about that substance!” “Okay! Fine! The substance was an order from the king and the Mystic Assassin! I didn’t know they were going to use it to fight you guys! I thought they were testing something!” “You’re lying! I can tell!” While I was crying from anger I repeatedly bashed her skull into the floor filled with broken glass. “Liar! Liar! Liar! You are lying! You made it for them! You knew the reason! You’re a… “ I collapsed and blacked out.

I woke up and found myself at the hospital with Yamil. “Hey… you woke up… you blacked out at the castle and I had to rescue you. Anyway, Asuka is doing fine right now, she isn’t awake but she isn’t in any danger as of now.” I nodded and looked away. “I want to protect her. I need to. I must. I must do everything I can to save her! I need to do it! I have to save her! The world may crumble and fall apart and I will still be there to protect her!” “Yuki calm down!” I ran out of the hospital and went to a field. “Mystic Assassin! Come fight you little bitch! I’m going to f*cking kill you!”

“Ha! You think you can kill me? I’ll have you know that I have killed everyone you care for! First, it was Cameron, then it was Lazer, after was Carlos and now it will be Asuka!” “Don’t touch Asuka! I will kill you!” The Mystic Assassin stopped smiling and threw his dart towards my head. “Ha! I have learned how to deflect projectiles!” He threw his rope dart again and hit me in the arm. “Shame… I missed your head. Well, get over here!” The Mystic Assassin pulled me with his dart and tried to give me the same fatality as Lazer. “I will not die today!” I cut the rope on the dart and disarmed the assassin. “You must have forgotten that I stole your masters’ swords!” The Mystic Assassin pulled out the blue and the black demon blade. He charged at me in a scissor motion aiming towards my head. I dodged the attack and skimmed his stomach with my sword and punched him with my other hand. “Eck… shit!” The blow from the punch caused him to cough up blood. I went to end the fight with a slash to his head. “Would you really kill your own brother? I may not seem like I ever was but I am still your family!” I lowered my sword. “You killed my friends! You nearly killed Asuka! And yet you are saying I won’t kill you!” I slashed down but the assassin parried and stabbed me in the leg. “You are nothing! You are worthless! You can’t protect Asuka ‘cause you will die here! You are all alone! No one is here to save yo-.” Yamil came running to save me. “Yuk- ack.” “Oh looky here! Another victim is added to my list.” “Yamil! Why?!” Yamil tried to save me yet was killed on the spot. Will I really die here?

“Die! Die! Die! Come on Yuki! Die! Just die you worthless piece of shit!” The Mystic Assassin cut off my left arm. “Die! Die! Die!” The Mystic Assassin cut off my right leg! “Come on Yuki! I thought you were gonna kill me! I’m waiting! Kill me! Kill me! Kill me! Stick your sword in my stomach! Chop off my head! Kill me Yuki! Kill me!” I managed to stand up after struggling for a while. “I will kill you! I’m going to kill you Calem!” I jumped forward and shoved my sword through his chest all the way to the hilt. “You killed Cameron! You killed Carlos! You killed Lazer! You killed Yamil! And now I have avenged them!” “You… you actually remembered my name… how?” “I remember the names of the people I kill! I will never ever forget their names!” “Yuk-.” “Go to hell, Calem!” I left Calem to die on his own. I crawled towards the nearest village and got prosthetic limbs. “I need to visit Asuka.”

Yuki went to the hospital and went to Asuka’s room. “Huh?! It’s empty!” “You must be Yuki.” “I am. Why is her room empty?!” “Erm… Asuka…. has passed away… we couldn’t recover the damages.” “What do you mean?! You guys said she was fine!” “We… didn’t want you to worry… we were still testing on her.” “You lied to me! You told me she was fine but she was already dying!” Yuki became really pissed off and killed the nurse who gave him the news. Walking out of the hospital, Yuki killed every nurse who tended to Asuka’s treatment. “Lies! Lies! Lies! Lies! Lies! You lied about Asuka! You said she was fine! She f*cking died because of you!” Yuki kept on walking and walking. He had no destination. He didn’t stop walking until he reached a dark forest.

“Rest in peace Heaven. Rest in peace Cameron. Rest in peace Carlos. Rest in peace Lazer. Rest in peace Yamil. Rest in peace Asuka. Now… rest in peace.”

Rest in Peace

Yuki