Of Assassins and Gods 1: Rebirth

Chapter 15: Niall

3 Hours Later

“So Hades is behind this?” Talisha asked.

“Yes,” I spoke cleanly.

Zeus was enraged. His eyes turned a bright shade of blue and glowed in the light. Lightning sparks flew out of his eyes. He turned and slowly disappeared away into white clouds that blew away in the wind. The four of us watched at the marvel.

“Wait no hang on a minute!” I yelled at the God. I charged a ball of flames and lightning in my hands and when I reached out to the disappearing Zeus it shot from my hand and flew through the cloud of smoke and hit the wall that he was walking aimlessly towards.

The other three looked at me with large eyes.

“Oh, so I learned a few tricks,” I said.

A Few Hours Earlier…

A blonde Irish boy sat upon his knees in front of a shallow bowl. He poured water into the bowl that was already half-filled with oil. The bowl was now completely full with oil and water. He pulled out a wire that was sparking at the end. He plunged it into the bowl and watched it burst into flames. The blonde boy stood and watched as the flames turned blue and a blue dust erupted out and began to form the build and shape of a young female. Imogen appeared in front of this boy.

The boy gasped and looked at the armoured girl.

She wore her hair in a large ponytail. She wore a chest armour piece of black. She also wore a black leather padded skirt and a skirt cape with large leather boots that travelled up to her knees. Imogen looked at him and then down at herself. She saw the dark brown armour and was shocked. She felt two things on her back. She pulled the two swords from her back and thrust them to the boy’s neck in a cross position.

“What the fuck did you do?” Imogen yelled.

Niall raised his hands in the air and gulped as Imogen slowly walked him back into the wall.

“I summoned for an assassin for an assassination, and I guess that is you,” he gulped down.

She pulled her swords away and sheathed them onto her back.

“How did you know how to contact us?” she asked while checking over her weapons that Zeus provided her. She reached up her skirt to find a garter with three kunai in it. She has two kunai in her boots.

“My friend had summoned an assassin to kill his boss. And I told him I felt like killing someone, so he told me to do some ritual that had something to do with elite three Greek gods. After I performed it, here you popped up,” he explained.

“Well, what the fuck, or who the fuck do you want killed?” she asked, stuttering a bit at the end.

“His name is Zayne, from One Direction. And her name is Jade, my ex, well, you’ve met her,” he said cautiously when she stared at him with anger brewing in her now red eyes.

“Just shut up and sit your ass down, you British fuck!” she screamed pointing to the couch behind him.

“Actually, I am Ir..,” he cut himself off as she placed her hand on the hilt of the sword on her back.

She walked up to the balcony and opened the door. He was seated and watched her step up onto the balcony railing, and jump off. He jumped up and ran to it and watched her fall 30 stories before standing up from her crouched position and walking to the subway stairs. She walked down them to stay out of the view of the public in the ridiculous outfit that Zeus had dressed her in. In her mind, he had no fashion sense.

A FEW HOURS LATER…

Imogen walked up to an apartment door. She decided not to kick it down, even if it was the most awesome option. She walked over to the nearby fir escape window. She slid out the window and climbed the ladder up a floor. Before leaving the stairs, she undid the little cape that surrounded her padded skirt. She let it fall to the floor. She jumped onto the windowsill of the apartment above Zayne’s. She jumped from the windowsill to the balcony of his apartment. She slowly pulled the kunai from her skirt and carefully inserted it into the lock of the door, trying to make no sound. She pushed the door open and grabbed the kunai backhanded so that the tip of the blade was facing behind her.

She walked up to Zayne’s door and pushed it open. She saw Jade next to him. Imogen snuck over to Zayne’s side of the bed and crouched down when Jade snored loudly and rolled over. She stood back up and took the kunai in two hands and thrust it through Zayne’s throat. He gasped heavily as she did so and blood poured from the wound. Jade rolled over and slowly opened her eyes at the commotion on the other side of the bed. She saw Imogen standing over him and screamed. She jumped up and ran to the door. Before she could get out of view, Imogen pulled the kunai from Zayne’s throat and threw it at Jade. It landed in her pyjama shirt which was just a singlet and ran over to the girl. She grabbed another blade from her skirt and held the tip f the blade against Jades throat.

“Look, I was sent here to kill both of you, but I am not going to kill you. Only because I know what the douche-bag did to you when we were dating. OK. You know, we could be friends,” Imogen said to a now crying Jade as she placed both kunai into her skirt. She walked up to Zayne’s balcony and turned, “You might want to leave before the cops show up because of your screaming,” Imogen smiled and Jade nodded, holding onto her throat.

UP IN OLYMPUS 

Josh paced in the war room. He now wore a white and red cotton war robe Zeus had given him. He said that their assassins in Italy used to wear them, before our time of leather. But this armour was different. It had metal plates on the vambraces, gauntlets and on the shoulder plate. Selene wore a black version of Imogen’s armour. The gap between the skirt and upper body armour showed off her flat stomach and curves.

Jordan wore the same as me and Talisha wore the exact same as Imogen.

“So the war is coming?” Jordan finally spoke after the long silence.

Selene stood and walked over to the weapons rack. She pulled out some throwing knives and placed them in her garter. She strapped some leather gun holsters to her legs and tightened them so that they wouldn’t move and pushed a clip into a pistol and placed it into her right holster. As she did the same with her left, Josh stood and walked over to her. He pulled the hood down and leaned against the wall. Zeus and the other gods looked up from their seats as well.

“Selene, what are you doing?” Josh asked inquisitively.

She placed one sword hilt on the crossover clips on her back and the other hilt over the top of that. She took some knives and thrust them into her boots.

“Selene?” Josh asked a little louder.

She pulled two swords from the racks, “If a war is coming, then I say, let’s go to war.” She said as she pushed the swords in their hilts on her back and left the room. A deep silence was heard before Josh, Jordan and Talisha started to take swords, knives, grenades, guns, bows and arrows, and throwing knives into places on their clothes.  Josh and Jordan had some sneaky contraptions on the vambraces. They were called hidden blades. They had to clench their wrists and push onto the arm bands and two blades would push out of their armbands and this allowed them some sneaky killings.

It was not long before they followed Selene into the adjacent portal room.

They stood in a circle on the floor and held hands.

Zeus walked in with Apollo, Athena, Aphrodite and Poseidon close behind.

“Good luck,” Zeus said and the others nodded in agreement.

The four of the assassins thrust their hands into the air, and all simultaneously spoke, “To EARTH!”