The Sixth Assasin

 THE SIXTH ASSASIN

OMG! Its weird to post new entry, i was even lost where to start posting. But anywayz, this is a  story which i have written for quite a long time (when i was still unemployed, out of boredome). It is not even finish, just have the epilogue and chapter 1 of the entire story. Contents are not proofread, just so excited to have it posted. Hope you guys like it, and we'll see for more chapters. Enjoy!

EPILOGUE

The rage between the seven kingdoms of Everett had lasted for almost a centuries fighting for power, fighting for honor, fighting for domination. Many of men died clutched with steel sword to protect its king, but all of them die without seeing the eyes of their wives and children, valor dies with them and memories are forgotten.

The capital of Scarsa had reign for almost a hundred of years. During the reign of King Tendarius whom mostly called him the Unforgiver, being called of such a name because of a hundred men dies of thirst and disease in his castle’s dungeon because of what he calls unlawful behavior. Unlawful behavior such as the poor old man running after his goats escaped from the wooden barricade and until it reaches the King’s Garden, he was accused feeding his goats in his expensive grasses that only grow within his castle’s garden. Such as a 10 year old orphan boy who steals a couple of bread for her younger sister was punished to cut off his fingers and her sister was sent to kitchen to work. Such as seizing all street performers around the city because they are suspected of being thieves and braggarts that disturbs his sleep at noon. And worst is the old lady that heals hundreds of young children and old men and women from unbelievable illness and was accused of being a witch.

Being the capital, the entire kingdoms around its sovereignty are lawfully dutiful to pay their taxes to the king but none of its money is given back to each of the respected and deserving kingdom. And when King Tendarius insanity over pointless punishments and too unnecessary taxes gone too wild and goes beyond any man’s patience, it is then that the other six kingdoms sees the capital as a common threat to them. From that very moment they would like to end the era of tremendous cruelty and injustice. And that is when the other Kingdoms rise to rebellion.  

The rebellions which leads to war, as many old men refers to is the most unbelievable, beyond the realm of man to understand how the kingdom of Scarsa yells victorious against the other six combating kingdom. It is believed that the defeat of the other six is not because Scarsa is mightier than the other, but it is because the attackers are divided into their own attacks.

The kingdom of Tetoneh in the northern part of Everett and the Great City of Sion at the Everett’s Great Cliff come together at one command. They travel in the valley of skull and with them are thousand armored men hungry to fight for their children and wives.

The Iron island of kingdom of Hariodorn in the western sea built a thousand of the largest fleet the world had ever seen, these fleets are engineered to destroy travels for months until they reach the shore of Admhore and the marched to attack is established immediately.

The mighty river of Sioridon lays the kingdom of Chisili, they are known as the sword capital of Everett. It is because they build the unbelievable hydro operated wooden machine. The powerful current of the river Sioridon gives the entire kingdom the ultimate power to create advance weaponry.

From the mountainous region of Simbah nestled the underground empire of coal and mining, the Kingdom of Gredon. They are said to be the world’s famous bomb maker because of the minerals’ abundance around the kingdom’s land. 

And the most peaceful place of the entire country of Everett can be found in the south eastern through the thick forest of Eden, is can be found in the towers in the highland Kingdom of Celesty. This is the only kingdom that sends no warriors, but thousands of its monks healer travel forth to heal the fallen warriors.

The strength of these strong kingdoms comes close to destabilized when the attacked is highly divided. Rumor has it that the agreement and plans of the attack is done through sending the entire layout of the mission through hawks alone. Such mistake to take when the route of these birds are perceive very obvious to the capital. The Capital or the kingdom of Scarsa is perfectly positioned right in the middle of the other kingdom and the birds’ route carrying the missions always passes the capital. Such a careless move to take when the war’s victory is blurry and defeat is near to grasp. The watchmen of the towers at the high walls of the capital begin to notice the unusual behavior of these birds which once or twice a week the same group of hawks passes above the capital heading towards different directions. From that very moment the commander of the watchmen Lord Van Burren ordered one of his men to arrow one of these birds to investigate what may lies within the piece of parchment attached into the bird’s claws. With all the information from the parchment, the entire plan is revealed, and the plan of the six kingdoms to attack is considerably a total anticipated fiasco. Then a laid out plan was then acted immediately to seize every single bird that passes over the capital, suspected or not must be arrowed straightaway that may carry the same message.­­­­

Due to the perceived information about the unanticipated rise of rebellion, Lord Van Burren has its own plan, a plan where downfall of the attacked is very much certain. He ordered his men to look for the most identical hawk in the fowl’s asylum to those hawk been captured and garbed them up with the same gear they wear and planted false messages telling different days of attacked. Wise Lord Van Burren, nothing is easier to cut than a separated stick away from the bunch than the entire bunch itself.

After that total bloody shed of foreseen humiliation and failure of victorious plans, the Kingdom of Scarsa dominated once more.                          

CHAPTER 1: The Secret Assembly

In all of the world’s strangest places, the secret chamber of the six council or commonly refer to as the Lion’s Lair has the most severe eerie felling around it. The Lion’s Lair is the only living largest underground assembly chamber in the history of Everett, others were buried by quakes and others become untraceable. The chamber is dark, cold and breathable air is considered a scarce. The chamber is only composed of a single room that resembles an imperfect shape of an oval. The chamber’s wall is made up of dark shinny stones due to the moist on the surface and the sound of dripping water are echoing around the walls. The surface of the walls shows evidence of sharp objects which is used to dug this enormous space underneath a land, and around this walls are the most important part of the chamber, the six kingdom’s doors. The six doors are made up of heavy metals and wood that cannot be penetrated with any sharp object that man had ever invented. And at the center of the doors attached the emblem of which each of the members of the underground society represents.

The Kingdom of Tetoneh is represented with a large bronze head of an angry looking wild boar with an eye patch on the left, carved beneath is the kingdom’s axiom “Fear not death”. This is hanged against a heavy dark door made of aged wood from the deep forest of Tetoneh which is located directly at the north of the chamber.  

A Golden six legged horse standing proudly against a dark wood represents the Kingdom of Sion with an axiom says “Glory, Prosperity and Power” which is nailed hard against a white wood with heavy dark metals around the edges of the wood which position next to the left of Tetoneh’s door. Next to the left of the Sion’s door stands proudly the door of Chisili which is represented with ship against a devouring waves and beneath it says “Triumph against the Waves” which is attached to a heavy round metal with golden edges that glimpsed against the light from the center of the chamber emitted from the large lamp hanging from the roof of spiky shinny stones. Next to the left of Chisili is the Kingdom of Hariodorn’s emblem, it is the most strangest in form. It’s a collection of five sword attached to each other with a golden handles and with gems of different colors on it and on the center attached a wooden capital letter “H” and underneath says “Moon Conquerors”.  Next to the left, the Gredon’s emblem is all black, too black to recognize it immediately against the black metal door to which it is attached. A shinny crow widely spreads its wings with each claws grasp a spherical formed bombed and on the top is a black banner with a black embossed print which say “Master of the Dark”. And next to the right of Tetoneh’s is a gilded door and attached here is the emblem of the Kingdom of Celesty which shows a golden hand that produces rays of light down to a banner that says “Heal the Wounded, Save the Sinner”.         

The doors are locked from behind the tunnels and only the people from the outside the chamber can open it. That makes this doors dangerous and fatal and when the assembly starts to gather, all the doors are widely open because of such reason and other one vital purpose is for the breathable air to accumulate the entire chamber making the rulers survive the entire meeting. Each of this doors are guarded with four soldiers from different kingdom, two facing the tunnel out and the other facing inward to the chamber.

The echoing sounds that issues from the drips of waters from the ceiling is interrupted by a sudden burst of deafening thud of locks clanging and chains dragging like metals against metals, desperate sounds issues from behind the doors simply signifies that whoever from the other side shows urgency or panic. And in the sudden the six doors open loudly which makes the echoes echoed more, immediately followed by the entrance of the six rulers, all of them utter words of which listeners cannot understand. Only one conclusion can be drawn, they are undeniably arguing.

“Have you lost your mind?” he shouted with revulsion “we lost it, we lost the war. This is impossible, it has been three months since we have battled into the field. What happen? Why did you not follow what we have planned? ” then King Aro of Sion burst into a very deep sigh as if he want to point out the blame to everyone but don’t bothers to do so and he suddenly find himself launching his entire body into his allotted throne while keep on massaging his aching head. While in the south of the chamber directly from the Hariodorn’s door with so much stiffness with curled forehead and crossed arms suddenly addressed a words just to no one in certain “We have followed the plan, the hawk that was sent was the only lead we have to follow. The entire fleet settled three days before the attacked, just enough to have two days for us to travel into the capital. That is the exact command I have followed. There is no way we can be defeated if we have just made the attacked – together…” and then she was immediately interrupted by a stout man from his immediate right “Then why you attacked alone with all of your command? You have known that already, that to attack with such a small number of men is fatal and a stupid act, you are outnumbered”. Then she responded directly looking into the eyes of the stout man which are halfway concealed by enormous amount of shrubby eyebrows and said “I know Benjamin, but the capital have already notice the entire command I have, we have no plan to be killed without fighting. We have no chance I know, but we have no choice, they leave us no choice. Most of my men died and few retreated. We attacked with a hundreds of ships but we retreated with just ten, the last count I have” her face is filled with sorrow but she has manage not to show it, even controlling her feelings to be shown. She’s the only woman in this chamber, and she have to be tough before this men take advantage of her weakness.

“I have understood Lady Margaret’s positioned. That is exactly what happens to us when we reach the capital. We don’t fight sword against sword, we were there to help the wounded but we can’t help but to defend ourselves.” Master Serverio from the highland of Celesty shows so much calmness despite the raging and intense feeling inside the chamber “I think, this is not the right time for us to point out blames, this is the perfect time to be reunited once more because – we need each other. What happened is unanticipated, unexpected and – deadly” he said “what is now our plan Marcus?” he asked looking directly into the sunken face of Tetoneh’s King.

Caught by surprise, the face of King Marcus is dominated by its prominent cheekbone, pointed nose and eyes most likely considered just a tiny long slit into the skin was not prepared how to answer the question and the only thing that he manage to utter is “That is really – difficult to answer at the – moment…” it feels like that the statement has still a continuation because King Marcus pause quite long enough. Suddenly Hermias from Gredon stand, with his long silky black hair, beard and mustache which matches his long drapes of black dress robes, with black gem stones on his neckline which shines from afar. He then draws something out from his robe’s pocket; it is a rolled up parchments which some parts of the edges were torn and some looks being burned and he then throws it into the center of the black marble table. The parchment is the complete outline of the plan of attack, with complete drawings of the capitals topography, secret passages, alleys, tunnels and gateways. And on the top most part of the parchment shows the day of the attack, clear and legibly written with red ink “the third day after the first full moon”. And with a sudden moment every member of the council draws out the same parchment hidden somewhere in their pockets and throws them above the parchment of King Hermias. With all eyes set upon the date of each parchment, they were all astounded by the fact that the only reason they have faced tremendous failure is coming from this parchments. Before anyone of them can compare and comprehend what happened, King Aro Suddenly launched an unexpected attacked into King’s Marcus face making everyone of them put into a total panic. Their arms were struggled and throwing strong punches to each other and after they were free from being thrashed, each of these proud Kings draws out there sword in attempt to hurt each the attacker but they were separated immediately by their guards under Serverio’s commands.         

While being chained by hands by one of his guards King Aro shouted addressing Marcus Directly “We trusted you, we have trusted you to lay out the plan. But what have you done? You’re a traitor, traitor to the Order, traitor to your men” the anguished was released through words but more are coming. He again attempted to attack Marcus but before he could pursue immediate assault Lady Margaret speaks with all her command.

“Enough – enough all of you, such an insolent behavior you’re showing us. The Order didn’t want us to be divided in this treacherous time. It more dangerous if we allow ourselves to be more detached from the order. Be still my brothers, we still have more to do than discussing how we fail and spit out blames” and she paused with eyes locked into the parchments dates, and in her mind “How come? How did all these happen?” and then King Aro said with ferocity “But I am sure my lady, you want to know why we have different date of attacked, aye? – for God’s sake release me” addressing his own guards and he then settled into his sit and they released him from being hand guarded.

The entire chamber had silent once more. The echoed drips of water have managed to dominate the entire air. No one could ever imagine that such thing will happen, never in their wildest dreams even the thought of it is unimaginable. King Benjamin’s squeaky voice had risen “Perhaps – we need some pretty elaboration from you Marcus. Did you do this?”

And with so much trembling and emotion King Marcus stand immediately and hit the marble table with his both fist close and said “I will never, ever betray the Order. And I am not a traitor” and he stare directly into King Aro’s eyes. “I am confident that I have printed with my both able hands the parchments with the same date, I know because I have written it myself, checked it many times and used my fastest Hawks my kingdom could produce.”

“The hawks,”