The Crimson Assassin

Chapter 9:The Death Of A Mate

Warmth filled me. I felt my head moving up and down slowly, the sound of someone's heart beat in my ears. I opened my eyes weirdly. I saw Jake laying on the ground beside me. I sat up and rubbed my neck. I felt something strange on my left side. I grabbed my phone and checked it. I saw in a grey shape, a double infinity sign. "Oh, blade," I said. I rubbed it and it tingled. I looked at Jake. "Crap, no, no, no," I said. I saw the time. '6:15 am'. I grumbled. I kissed Jakes cheek and ran off home.

The door creaked open and I stumbled in dizzily. "Crimson? Crimson," I heard. Crystal came up to me in her pajamas. I was holding and rubbing my neck. I was in a type of trance look. "What? Whats wrong with y- oh my," she said. She grabbed my arm and pulled it to the side. She was in shock. She sped up stairs and gave me something. "Drink," she said. I did, thick warm blood poured into my mouth. I woke up fully. "Huh?" I grumbled. "Let's sit you down," she said. She leads me over to the lounge and sat me down. "Crimson how could you let this happen?" she said nearly screaming. " I-I don't know," I said. "Ok well, we can't let them know, we can't let anyone, ANYONE know," she said. "She's marked?" Casper said. "Except for Casper and Jake that's ok of course," Crystal said. "She-she's," he started. "Casper SH!" Crystal said.

"Ok, try to stay calm but...we are going to have to push the plan forward," Crystal said. My eyes widened a bit more. "No, no we can't," I said. "Crim, we have too, if you want him to...if you want him to be ok we have to," she said rubbing my arms. "O-ok, but when?" I asked. She looked up at me sadly.

My hair covered my neck in a thick low pony covering my mark. I stifled a tear in my eye. I walked with Casper to school. I got in the gates. I saw Blaze and the others talking in a group. Casper looked over and his face dropped. "What is it?" I asked. He started to stutter. I followed his gaze. "Oh my blades," I said. He was looking at Blaze, and I knew what that look was. "M-m-m," he stuttered. "Well now we both have a reason not to leave huh," I said. He gripped my arm tight. "Now I realise why you couldn't ... get rid off Jake," he said. "Yep and OUCH," I said. He let go. "Want me to introduce you to her?" I asked. He shook his head. " No, let fate run its course", "ok," I said. "I could see he was having trouble looking away. I twisted his head with two fingers to the group of boys.

He shook his head and walked to them. "Tony, Lenard," he said trying to distract himself. "Hey Casper," both the boys said. I sat with them as they talked. After a while I noticed something. "Hey, where's Jake?" I asked. "Oh, your boyfriends not here yet," Tony said. "Already missing him are we? I thought you guys were out on a date yesterday," Lenard said. "How'd you know?" I asked. "When guys are going on dates with hot girls they normally tell their bro's," Tony said as if he was explaining another species, which I kinda was. That's the reason why guys don't get girls and girls don't understand guys.

"Am-r, a-b" I heard in my head. I twisted my head around to the back block of the school, I saw someone looking at me and gesturing to come over. "Hey I will be right back," I said. I grabbed my bag and headed to the back. I turned and saw Jake. "Jake?" I said. "Hey Amber, I-Im so sorry for-for yesterday and I didn't mean to do that I don't know, I couldn't control it and I-" he said. "JAKE!" I yelled getting him to stop speaking so quickly. "It's ok, really, it's what we do, and I did give you permission so it's mine fault," I said. He let out a relieved sigh. "Thank god," he said. "And you abandoned me this morning," he said. "Well I have this thing that if I'm not at home at a certain time my cousin gets angry and, she's scary whens she angry," I said. "So like, a curfew," he said. "Pretty much" I replied.

In Japanese, I started to get a head ache. "Amber san," the substitute teacher said. I looked up rubbing my temples. "Yo," I said. "Please pay attention," she said. She gave me a weird look and turn back to the board. Not long later everyone started packing up and walking out the door. I felt a hand grab my arm. "Amber I need to speak with you," The teacher said. "Yes, miss?" she looked a the door and around us. She leaned into my ear. "Qu'est-ce qui se passe quand vous traversez un tri-hybride et les ténèbres?" The teacher asked. "Vous obtenez l'assassin cramoisi" i replied. "Wait... miss, you're?" I asked. "Yep, Alpha sent me in as a deeper cover, real names Quincy," she said. "So I have got a message from Alpha, we heard you have a plan," she said. I slumped. "Yeah, in full action today," I said. "Ok, good luck," she said giving me a wink. I left the room. My neck stung for a second.

The end of school double bell rang. I started to feel shaky. "You ready?" Casper said coming up behind me. "No, not really, you?" I asked. "Yeah," he said. I was on the brink of crying. "Hey it's going to be fine," he said putting his hand on my shoulder. Jake jogged up to us. He put his arm around my shoulder. "Hey," he said. "Hey," replied sadly. "You right?" he asked. "Yeah just tired" I replied. Please believe me. I thought, luckily he did. I have Jake a tight hug.

We walked through a deeper part of the forest for a short cut. I heard a slight whistle from a far distance. My heart rate jumped up like crazy. Casper looked at me, I gave him a look out of the corner of my eye. "WATCH OUT!" Casper yelled. He tackled Jake to the ground. He got out a syringe out of his pocket and injected into a part of Jakes back. Jake let out a yelp that hurt me. Casper jumped off him. I stood back. Crystal, dressed as The Crimson Assassin walked over to Casper and kicks him, sending him flying into a tree unconscious (Not really unconscious). I got to attack her. Jake still had his eyes open, but he had a white haze over them, his vision blurred.

I swung at Crystal and she blocked. I went to grab her but she pulled some good moves. She pinned me on the ground in seconds. A blade came from her sleeve. We both held each other's hands, looking as if she was holding my wrist. We combined our kitsune trickster ability together remaking it strong and powerful enough to fool Jake. What we really did was Crystal stabbing down on me but retracting the blade just before it hit my skin, making it look as if it was going through me. I laid still, I kept my breathing to a minimum and had my mouth ajar. Jake pulled him self up and leaned onto of me. "Take me to my house, tell Crystal, she will help me go our way," I choked out a mouth full of blood, well to him. He was crying badly. It was hard for me to see. Tears fell from my face. Then I let out a big breath and he screamed.

To Jake it looked as if The Crimson Assassin was holding down my wrists, pinning me against the ground, then he saw the blade go through my chest. Blood dripping out of me. The Crimson Assassin Stood up and sped away quickly. My head limped to one side, face pale and blood dripping from my mouth, my eyes hazed over and body limp, heart beat stopped. To Jake his mate Amber Shrine was just killed by The Crimson Assassin, to me I had just played a horrible mental breaking trick on my mate that I will not be able to get over, EVER.

Jake picked up my 'dead' body and ran to my house, he was trying not to look at me. Wait....he just left Casper, what a great friend. He knocked on the door. Crystal had changed back into normal clothes. She saw me and cried. "I-Im sorry, I," he said he started crying. "Come in," Crystal said. He put me on the lounge and closed my eyes, they put a sheet over me. They hugged crying. "She told me to bring her here, that you will take her away, your way," he said. "What does that mean?" he asked her "It means I must do what our family does for our dead," she whipping a tear from her eyes. "Ok," he said. He left without saying anything else. When we knew he had definitely gone I sat up. I started bawling my eyes out.

"Oh Crimson come here," she said holding me. "When was the last time you cried?" she said. Amber Shrine was dead.