It was around midnight when we all left the house with all of our gear with us. Ramsa had a mace while the rest of us had swords, stilettos, daggers and other items that I really did know the names of but knew how to use them. We all crept in silence. There was no sound coming from us but the sound of the waters that flooded the streets and gondolas bobbing in the water and cats meowing in the distance. It would take us a while before we would get to the pope. I still didn't like that we were going to kill him. Like I've said before, I don't like to kill. Though, I knew that we couldn't stop now.
An hour later we had arrived at the Vatican City at the popes castello. We hid in the bushes so the guards patrolling the area didn't spot us. As we crept quietly through the open gate we saw a guard on a barrel sitting, dozing off to sleep. I saw Ramsa go ahead of us to take out the guard. Before I could get any words out to stop him he got to him and snapped his neck. I closed my eyes and pretended that I didn't even see that. As soon as the guard was dead we continued to advance forward. We took out a couple of guards and I had gotten use to it by the third guard but as soon as we got to the fourth guard Ramsa pushed me to him. Giovanni tried to get me back but it was too late. I was right behind him. He didn't hear me stumble so that was a good thing. I looked back and Ramsa was holding Giovanni back from getting me back. I looked at the guard and then Sucram popped up.
"You know what you have to do boy. You have to kill him. That's what we do you know. We kill. We watch the blood pour out of the human body then we feast on it. We would sometimes even eat the body as well! We get so hungry but this time I can't feed. You must kill him so you can continue on to the pope. So do us all a favor and kill the bastard. He's only one human that you have to kill. I'm sure that the others will kill the pope so go ahead and kill this meaningless human. Put him out of his misery and end his life. You know you would be doing some people a favor. Think of all the people he has killed all the families he has hurt. All of the people he has slain and slaughtered. You know that you want to kill him now don't you? Don't answer that because it's yes. So do us all a favor and kill him."
I didn't know how to react to that. Now that I think about it Sucram is probably right that I kill him. But I don't have the guts to do it. I've never killed anyone in my life and I don't plan on doing it now. But then again if I don't kill him he could sound the other guards and kill us. What do I do! And just as I was thinking to myself I saw him turn to me I jumped and quickly swung my sword across his neck and just like that his head came off. His blood splattered on my clothing and then his lifeless body fell to the ground. I didn't know what I should do. I just stood there and my sword fell out of my hand. I turned around and looked at the group. Giovanni looked at me shocked while Ramsa looked at me with a smirk. Ramsa let Giovanni go and he slowly walked over to me. I stared at him not knowing what I should do or how I should even react to killing someone.
"Marcus. Are you alright?"
I didn't know what to even say to that. I mean I just killed someone. How could anyone be okay after something like that? I knew I wasn't but I knew that I had to push on or else this would all be for nothing. All of a sudden Ramsa spoke up.
"Congratulations you actually killed a guard. Good for you now how do you feel about that?"
I looked at him and I could feel the anger rise up in me. I softly growled at him and started to ball up my fist. I could tell that Giovanni was about to grab me but I moved faster than him. I dogged his grab and I quickly went to ram my fist into Ramsas' face but he dogged it. He was faster than me, which wasn't good. I tried to attack him again and again but I couldn't get a single punch on his ugly mug. All of a sudden he grabbed me and tossed me to the side. I hit the ground with a thud and was on my back. I could hear his footsteps coming closer to me. I heard the clatter of my sword being picked up from the ground. I looked over to my right and I saw him standing right next to me. He held my sword in his hand and then kneeled down to my level. He pointed the sword at me and glared at me. His eyes were still black but I knew his eyes were piercing right through me.
"You want to try that again you little shit? I will kill you right on the spot. I am quicker and faster than you are so don't even try to mess with me. If you want to do that again go right ahead. I won't stop you. But know this. You will die by my hand. And there will be no one to stop me."
I looked up at him and glared. He started to walk away and he threw down my sword and then Giovanni came running over to me. He slowly helped me up to my feet. I feel helpless and I don't like that. There are times where I want help and there are times where I don't want help from anyone. But right now I'm glad to have the help. Giovanni set me down on a box and looked me over and smiled at me. I don't know why he smiled but I could tell that he cared about me more than anyone else. Not even my family could be compared to him and that's saying a lot. I looked at Giovanni and smiled at him and nodded to show that I was okay. He went over to my sword and picked it up and then walked back over to me and handed it over. IK took it in my hand and gripped it. I looked at the blood that stained it and got angry for some reason. I looked at Giovanni and spoke.
"Come on. Lets finish what we started."And with that I got up and started to walk ahead of everyone else.
