The Betrayal

Chapter 18 - 'Mastered'

Because I'd been with Luther for around three years now, I was no longer his apprentice and he treated me as his equal. I moved out and bought my own small house near to Luther's, with the money he rewarded me for the assassinations. It was only a one-bedroom bungalow, but the kitchen and living room were big enough. I decorated it with base decor to blend in if anyone came inside for whatever reason, like an inspection or to fix something. I bought lots of clothes in order to appear normal, but I only wore three outfits. The dark cloak and pants attire, casual black hoodie and jeans combination, and a common outfit consisting of a red t-shirt, light grey jacket, shorts, white trainers and a blue cap, for shopping. Luther also gave me some congratulatory moving-in presents. These included complete carbon copies of his weapons, but they had an engraved symbol on different to his. He gave me twin katana swords, the pistol I used to kill Desmond, a tomahawk, a longbow and the sniper I used to kill Hopper. He also gave me a medallion of the exact symbol, a winged spectre on a star inside a circle.

"We can use these to sense if the other is in danger." He said, showing me a medallion with his symbol that he had around his neck. "Whenever it glows and emits a warm energy, if we think about the other ones symbol, we can use our smoke to teleport to their exact location."

Luther's symbol was a devilish, horned skull engraved on a moon-like pendant. Although strange, I thought nothing of it at the time. I designed a hidden bunker similar to Luther's, which he helped me design. We placed a button behind my fake clothes which unlocked the back board of the wardrobe like a door. The wooden board slipped to the side, allowing entrance to the stairs leading into the lair. My pistols were suspended up on the walls like pictures so they could be taken down with ease and my sniper components hidden inside a suitcase held on a podium. My twin blades were inside a glass case next to my bow, which was held by wooden pins. My arrows were in a quiver next to the bow and my tomahawk was in a container next to them. I finally had my own secret lair, like a murderous superhero. I eventually set up computers and high tech equipment with the help of Luther, and we ran the operation together, hunting targets we'd assign ourselves.