unknown hero

Chapter 5

Jake arrived at his house late at three in the morning. The events that just unravelled still making his heart race. His first major battle in this war like era. He was terrified. Jake knew he had to cease his fears in order to continue doing this. He took a deep breath in and breathed out slowly. His heartbeat slowed and he relaxed. He laid down on his bed after changing from his uniform. He left the hidden blade on as usual to keep himself safe.

He couldn’t sleep. He laid in bed and tossed and turned but couldn’t quite fall asleep. He finally gave up on trying to sleep. He sat in bed and lifted his right arm up above his face. He stared at the gauntlet. He drew the blade that laid hidden inside it. He noticed that there was small blood stains. He closed his eyes and saw Cliff. His blood was the one on Jake's blade. He saw the events of earlier replay in his mind. Then something strange happened. A new feeling inside his stomach began to burn. He longed for more. He wanted to kiil them for himself. he felt that he could take down Cliff and Savin and anyone else that stood in his way. He wasn’t scared anymore. Fear was flushed out of his blood and adrenaline ran through instead.

A couple days later the rebellion stood at the secondary base. They were ready for battle. Then over the horizon was the army of darkness. The men marched in formation disregarding seeing the rebellion standing in front of their destination. They stopped about a mile away from the rebellion. Then there was silence. The only sound heard was the sound of the blowing wind. Jake stood in front of the pack. He was the leader for them this day. Jake finally broke the silence. "Charge!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. Then all hell broke loose. The war begun. The sides collided and attacked. Jake had a specific person he was looking for. But Cliff was nowhere to be found. He fought on. And after about an hour of fighting the battle was over. The rebellion had won and protected their base. They celebrated but Jake didn’t. He did not find Cliff.

The next week there was no sign of Cliff either. Though Jake was anxious for him to come back. He wanted to end Cliff. Make it a statement to Savin that the Assassin isn’t screwing around. Then a couple weeks went by. He stopped another bank robbery. Then something different happened. Dark clouds surrounded the area and little darkness monsters appeared. Jake hadn't seen any of the monsters in weeks. And behind the little army of demons stood what Jake was waiting for. Cliff. He gave Jake an intense stare. Jake could see the anger in his face. The monsters charged at Jake. He was ready. He drew his blade and started to slice through the darkness. One by one the monsters fell. Soon he was getting closer to Cliff. Then all the monsters fell and it was just Cliff and Jake. A small crowd of people way behind Jake watching from afar. Jake stared into Cliff’s eyes. Jake did something to try to intimidate Cliff. He took his hand to to the back, non-sharp side of the blade. He then electrified his hand and transfered electricity to the blade and then pointed the blade at Cliff. He then drew his sword and began to charge at Jake. He hit his sword away and laid a strike of his own. Metal sang against metal. Sparks of electricity flying off each hit of the swords. It went for what seemed like an eternity until Jake knocked Cliff’s sword out of his hand and then penetrated Cliff’s heart with the katana. Cliff let out a scream of agony. Blood seeped out of the wound. Jake pulled the sword out of his chest. Cliff fell to the ground. "How ... how is this possible?" Jake let out a chuckle. " Because I am stronger than you are." Cliff screamed again and began to die. He said with a dying breath, "There are more than me. Leaders, armies, more powerful than me. welcome to the war, Assassin. It’s not over." He then finally breathed out for the last time. Jake looked down at his lifeless body. He then put his sword away and began to walk away. He turned back to see cliffs body evaporating into a dark cloud. Jake went back to walking away. He knew that for now, his job was done. Cliff was dead. Now he must wait for more to try and kill him. And he would be ready for that moment.

 The next morning Jake awoke to a knock at the door. He looked out the window to see Ben and Gabby standing outside. He got up with his bed head and pajamas and opened the door. He looked down at the with groggy eyes. “Hey.” Gabby gasped and then Ben spoke up. “ Jesus man what the hell happened to your arm?” He said in a worried tone. Jake looked over to the arm in question and noticed a hole in his shirt the shape of a knife mark but also a hole in his arm the same shape. He must have gotten stabbed yesterday and didn’t even notice due to an adrenaline rush he supposed. But he couldn’t tell them about last night. He had to think of a lie. “ Oh I uh was cutting something for dinner last night and I tripped and it went into my arm. I’m fine.” Gabby shook her head. “No you’re not!” She barged in and hugged him. She grabbed his hand and brought him into the living room. Ben looked at him and Jake nodded. Ben knew what the stab wound was from. Gabby laid jake down on the couch and lifted his right sleeve up to reveal the knife wound. She looked behind her. “ Get a sewing kit, and fast.” Ben nodded and left to get one. Jake’s eyes widened. “Sewing kit?” He almost shouted. “ Yes. I have to stitch up the wound. It will get infected if I dont.” Ben came back into the room with hydrogen peroxide and a sewing kit and an ace bandage. Jake started to panic. Ben held him down. “I’ll try to be as quick as possible.” As soon after she said this the needle pierced his arm. He groaned loudly and shut his eyes completely in pain. How he somehow took a knife to the arm and felt nothing was beyond him as this was pretty painful and it was way more than a tenth the size of the knife. She kept on going with stitching him up. The pain was extreme for him. But soon it was over. She wrapped up the new sewn arm with ace bandage. The pain seemed to start fading away as the seconds passed by. “There. You should be healed within a week or two. First your back and now your arm. Geeze you’re a handful.” She giggled a little and it made jake smile. Her giggle always seemed to make Jake smile the most. He loved her giggle. He thought it was the cutest thing he ever heard. But he still couldn’t tell her that. There was still Bill in the way. He couldn’t do anything about that. So he had to move past his feelings,  but he had a feeling that wouldn’t happen. They sat around and had a soda and discussed the next major plans for the rebellion. “So what’s our next move?” Ben asked. Gabby already knew what had to be done. “ We have to get more people. The rebellion is still small and can’t take on all the dark armies the way it is now. We still need to recruit the Assassin. He left too soon on our first battle. He was the main reason we won the battle. I need to thank him for that.” Jake smirked at that. “ I’m sure he knows how grateful you are. I’m sure he’ll be around soon. He’ll probably meet up with you and let you know he is in. It seems he already made and killed an enemy of his from the darkness. Who knows, maybe he has a grudge with Savin as well.” “I hope so. We need him majorly. He has helped us so much already. It’s probably selfish to ask for more help but I need to. I should go. I need to check with the new recruits. Ben, you coming?” Ben shook his head. “ I’ll stay here, keep an eye on clumsy here.” Both Jake and Ben laughed at that. With that she left. Ben closed the windows and blinds again. “ That guy stabbed you?” “ I dont know. I didn’t feel anything last night or this morning till I was being stitched. All I remember is I killed him. He tried to kill me, but I didn’t let him. His blood is on my hands. Though his blood isn’t innocent.” Ben sat down next to Jake. “ I know. That’s why you shouldn’t let it bother you. It’s the effects of war. It happens to some people. They have a guilty conscience even if it’s someone who is evil.” “I don’t feel guilty. He had every right to die. It just feels weird knowing I killed someone. Even if he was evil he was someone. But I had to. He was going to kill me and enslave the world most likely with Savin.” Ben nodded his head in agreement. “ I’ll go so you can rest a bit. You need it.” He got up and left so Jake went to his room and slept whatever remaining pain he had away.

Jake was awoken suddenly again with a knock at the door. But he didn’t check the window this time. He had an idea on who it was. He went to the door and opened it, but it wasn’t who he expected. A man with a bowie knife barged in and tried killing Jake. Jake grabbed the man’s wrist before he could bring the knife to his chest. He was straining to keep it away from his heart. Jake finally kneed him in the stomach and pushed the man away and drew his hidden blade. The man was laughing. “ You are going to tell me where the main base is for the rebellion so I can find and kill the Assassin or I will kill you.” He laughed and then Jake charged at him. It was like a knife fight he and Ben practiced. Finally Jake stabbed the man in the stomach and the man dropped his knife. He fell to the ground. Jake pointed the knife to the man’s throat. “Who the hell are you?” He almost shouted. “ I am one of the dark assassins sent to kill you by Savin. Once my brother hears of my death he will find you.” “Why did Savin hire you?” “ He sees you as a potential threat.” A thought popped into Jake’s head. Savin wants him dead. Not just the Assassin dead, he wants Jake dead. Why he thinks Jake stands a potential threat to him at the moment remains a mystery. “ Why does he see me as a threat?” “ You are one that has stood up to him. He is scared you will try again and succeed. But you never will! He will rule this world filled with darkness!” Then Jake drove the knife into the man’s throat, silencing him forever. He pulled the knife out and saw what he had done. He stood up and called Gabby. She picked up the phone groggily. “Hello?” “Gabby, it’s Jake, please come over as soon as you can, it’s urgent.” “ I’ll be over as soon as I can.” She hung up the phone. Jake put his arm down and saw a trickle of blood going down his arm. He looked at his left arm and saw a small cut. Nothing major but still cut. He was getting cuts and scars everywhere now it seemed.

About fifteen minutes passed by and there was a knock at the door. Jake made sure to look out the window this time. It was Gabby. He rushed to the door to let her in. As soon as he opened it she questioned him. “ What is wrong?” Jake led her into the dining room where the body lay still. She gasped at the sight. “ He tried killing me. I opened the door and he attacked me. He’s a dark assassin and was sent to kill me by Savin.” Gabby looked at Jake. “But, why you? You haven’t harmed him.” “ No, but I stood up to him and that’s a threat to him. He’s scared of me now.” “He is?” Jake began to walk to the living room as Gabby followed. “ Yes. and I don’t feel safe anymore.” He sat on the couch and Gabby sat right next to him and put an arm around him. “I’ll always be here to protect you.” They stared into each others eyes for a few seconds and then Gabby began to lean in. Jake followed, though questioning why she was going to do this. She had Bill. He was about to say something until the remaining gap between their lips closed and they were kissing. Her lips to him were so soft and warm. She pulled away and looked down at the ground embarrassed. “ I’m uh, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that.” She said. Jake was speechless. She looked at him. “ I’ll help you get the body out and burned but then I should really get home.” Jake shook his head. “ Yea that’s fine.” They lifted the body into the backyard and laid him down. Jake set match after gassing the body. He threw it on the dead body and in an instant it was engulfed in flames. Gabby looked up at him. “Well, that’s that.” Jake nodded. She hugged him and then left for her home. Jake watched her leave as he tried to replay the events of today in his mind but had trouble. Each day seemed to be getting more and more tough for him both as the Assassin and Jake, but he had to persevere through it. Weather it be Jake or the Assassin, he has to be the one to kill Savin. He has to be the one to end his reign of terror, no matter what it takes.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hey guys it's Gavin :) I hope you guys enjoy this part. Sorry it took so long to get up. I've been busy lately with family, school, work and a bit of depression. I'm trying to get as much as I can done as fast as possible. I'm already currently working on chapter 6, but I dont know how long that will take. I plan on taking a look into Jake's past a little bit the next chapter so that's something to look foreward to!:) And also please guys leave comments, feedback letting me know how you like the story so I know where I need to improve. I want to make this a story a lot of people enjoy so your opinions are great! :) Thanks guys