Dark Raven: An Assassins Tale

Everybody's Fool

The three of us sprint out of the bakery barely clinging on with our lives. I pull out my bow and look back aiming the arrow at whoever was following behind. But what I saw, I wasn't expecting to see. Six Roman Guards who happened to be crossing the town at the of the assassination were following with knives and crossbows. Man, crossbows? These Roman's sure are getting pretty damn advanced... I think as sweat pours from my forehead. We reach the house we rented out and Megastar flings open the wooden doors.

"Come on! We need to get Shy Fawn! Brung whatever else you can grab!" He screams running up the main stairway. Dark Raven follows up behind him and hands me my axe as she passes.

"You forgot this!" She yells tossing me the heavy weapon. "Fight them off! The three of us will be back down to help you. I'll grab your stuff." She yells already flying up the steps. Megastar comes back down and pulls out a sword.

"Alright, man. Let's do this." He says. I nod.

"Sounds good to me." He reply swinging my axe at the head of one giraffe. He swiftly dodges and kicks me in the stomach. I vomit in my mouth a bit, but continue fighting. The girls come down to join us and bring out their weapons. Shy Fawn clutches a ling machete and Dark Raven has her two daggers firmly gasped in her hands, her bow alongside her ready if she needs to replace them. We fight alongside each other swiping and slashing at our opponents. I being my ace down on one of the guards arms and he collapses on the ground in a pool of blood. We finally make the decision to make our move and run into the forest. We continue running through the deep woods since the guards still might be following behind. Suddenly the ground below us declines and we soon find ourselves falling through the woods off a steep hill. We tumble into a large field, but the last thing I remember was the scream of Shy Fawn before I feel a rock strike my head and world go black.

"Jay! Jay's Wing get up!" I hear the muffled voices of Dark Raven and Megastar as my vision begins to clear. Megastar helps me sit up as I rub my head. I look back down at my hand to see it covered in crimson blood.

"Ugh... Huh? IS EVERYONE ALRIGHT?" I saw springing o my feet surprising Dark Raven and Megastar.

"Ya.. I think we're all ok." Megastar says. Dark Raven dips her head in reply as she rubs a trickle of blood off het face from underneath her eye with her black sleeve.

"Shy?" I ask. We look over at her as she sits silently in the tall grass. It looks as if she's clutching her chest. "Shy. Answer us." I say sternly.

"Wait, Jay. Something's not right." Dark Raven says putting her hand in from of me. We walk rapidly over to her and I rush to her side holding her up with my hands. I notice her breathing is very ragged as Dark Raven carefully clutches her oddly pale hand. As she lifts it up, Shy Fawn lets out a small squeak of pain. I look down once Dark Raven pulls her hand away from the deep bloody stab wound in her stomach.