Story of Guilds

Chapter 12: Assassin's Stealth

August 17th, XXXX, After Day 2 of the Games

Haruto's mission now began, as he was tracing Blake's path back to Abbadon. He noticed something irregular about the route that Blake took, he didn't seem to be following the same footsteps as the rest of his guild. This made Haruto anxious, considering Blake could have found out he was following him and leading him astray. Regardless, Haruto persevered since he knew he had the backup of Liam and Quentin if needed. As they continued walking, Haruto's nerves continued to spike slowly, it's been almost 20 minutes of following Blake and he still wasn't at their place. From Blake's perspective, he sort of knew he'd be punished or lectured in some sort of way from Kronos, so he decided to take the "long way" back so he could delay this a bit longer. As he walked down the streets of the capital, flashbacks of him and Matthew were appearing in his head. He thought of that time he and Matthew raced each other home as kids down these roads, and how he always won.

Listen to this while reading this paragraph if you wish, just listen to the post chorus and chorus, skip to 2:15 which is the start of the post chorus:

However, it was also on these exact streets and alleys that his fiancé got murdered, and once he recalled that he started walking back at a faster pace. The memories started flashing back to him. They were walking home peacefully and a second later was a bullet to her heart, a one shot kill. Blake saw this flash before his eyes, and held his lover in her last moments. He kept telling her to stay with him, and the people around laughed at his agony, her last words were "Run, before they get you too... I love you." These were people who were after the Ashworth family to get revenge on them, and had been following Blake for a while, professional killers. Nothing could make Blake detect them around him, since he didn't have his powers and they were professionals. He lost control and went into a rage, that was when the dark spirit poessessed him and killed all the assassin's in the area. He couldn't get the picture out of his head... Haruto was now relieved because now he was going a lot quicker. They finally arrived back... after 30 minutes. Haruto said to himself "Looks like we need to push this for another hour, hopefully Quentin can handle it." Haruto turned invisible and put his ear up against a window to hear them.

Kronos> "Delaying your lecture I see?"

Blake> "..."

Kronos sighed.

Kronos> "Since you're finally here, I would like to know... why weren't you with us?"

Blake> "I guess I can't hide it, can I?"

Kronos> "I know a lot more than I let on, Ashworth."

Blake> "I was checking on my brother..."

Blake saw no point in lying at this very moment, or else things would be a lot worse.

Kronos> "Looks like your suspicions were right, Darker."

Darker> "Yuhh."

Kronos> "Your brother is in Irina, yes?"

Blake> "Yes..."

Kronos> "I see... was he the one sitting with that girl then?"

Blake> "No, that's another member."

Kronos> "Are you trying to protect him?"

Blake> "Isn't it a brotherly instinct to want to? But no, not right now."

Kronos> "You're lying to me..."

Kronos grabbed him by the throat, and lifted him up, Blake tried to use his Shadow magic to escape but Kronos was able to escape with his time magic.