The Blind Assassin

Chapter 3

I sit by the window listening to the rain hit my metal roofing and smelling the rain in the earth. It was only supposed to rain for a few hours but that wound up being a few days, which means I'll have to do this mission in the rain. Grrreeeeaaaattt. 

I better be sure to dress warm or I'll end up with a cold and I do not have time for that right now. I groan and layer up the best I can still trying to keep my mobility for tonight. I also make sure to pack my taser, knives, shuriken, staff, and katana. I didn't want to pack to heavy but I also didn't want to be under prepared. I wasn't sure how many bodies where going to be there or what kind or hardware they are armed with. If Keishin was correct it was another shipment of guns coming in but they probably don't want to damage their merchandise.

"Come on Athena it's time to go," She nuzzled my side and chuffed telling me she was ready.

I put on her black safety vest, she didn't do allot of attacking but it was still safer to have some sort of armor. I packed a few extra things in her saddle bags but making sure they weren't to heavy for her. I grabbed my rain burka to cover up myself from the rain along with my umbrella, the best cover is one in plain sight. 

It worked out even better since I can't see people tend to avoid me they are afraid of what they don't understand. Oh well it makes my job so much easier it's like I have my own little bubble. Even in a scouting mission just a walking cane, and a seeing eye dog vest and I can practically go anywhere I want. 

We finally arrived at the docks and my senses are immediately assaulted with the smell of fish and seawater. With my strong sense of smell I could tell the wind was coming from the sea so I was down wind their dogs shouldn't be able to sniff us out. The harbor was a maze of freights any normal person would get lost without a map, but I can see every inch of the shipping yard even the boats as they bump against the docks with the waves. 

There were at least thirty men spread out through the yard, 10 of them were on top of the freights holding what I could assume were AR15 Rifles. The rest were semi spread out and guarding the area the cargo is supposed to be placed, about a 20 meter radius. It was dark and rainy enough the taking the ones above out easily and Athena could stay in the shadows and keep a lookout for any surprise attacks. 

I decided to start with the blunter weapons since I've never really liked the idea of killing people, sure they were doing bad things but that doesn't always mean they are bad people. Take Ukai for example he ran a restaurant that catered to the mafia, he was even friends with some of them, and he's the greatest guy I've ever known. I wouldn't know what I would do without him. 

Ok first target, he wasn't paying attention it was easy to sneak up on him I covered his mouth and put him in a sleeper hold. One down nine to go. From the brail embroidered on my clothes thanks to Ukai I could tell I was wearing all black so it was easy to blend into the dark scenery. I took out the last few on the upper levels stashed them in an empty container not to far away. Well now all I had to do was take out the rest, yay. 

I could feel and hear the sound of a heavy crane starting up near the end of the doc. I guess the shipment was here that meant there so they will all be both distracted and more alert. I take out my staff and make sure everything is ready before moving into position. First were the heavy hitters, it was harder to dodge and predict semi automatic weapons, while hand guns took longer to fire and reload.

Athena came trotting over and licked my hand, I scratched behind her ears and grabbed a couple of smoke bombs. Why not I'm just evening the playing field a bit. I smirked and tossed the bombs into the middle as close as I could, I could see them but they couldn't see me. Just to be safe I had a mask that covered my entire face and drown out my features, that way if someone did see my face they wouldn't be able to tell who I was.