1 Chapter 1 (2/2)
The laughing stopped. I jumped down into the pit landing on one knee with my hand on the ground. I slowly stood up for the affect.Farren was standing near the wall with a look of disbelief on his face. ”You have got to be kidding.” He took a few steps towards me, to where he was in the middle. ”I shouldn't be fighting her here. I should be in one of the back rooms with her.” I gritted my teeth. He turned to his dad, ”I am going to demolish her.”
I walked up to him, grabbed his arm and flipped it. I pulled him over my back and he rolled over. With my leverage I threw him to the ground with his jaw first and he rolled to the far side of the pit. When he stood up, he was rubbing his jaw. He tried to scare me by running at me. Guys his size did this as a scare. But I just grabbed at his elbows forcing his arms outward, I used the palm of my hand to push his face back. Then I ducked under his arms, pushing him into the wall. I heard the thud of him hitting it and smiled.
When he turned towards me, I was leaning against the wall with my arms crossed over my chest. I saw the second he saw me as a real opponent, the change in his eyes. He came running at me and I tripped him. But he immediately jumped up. We started throwing punches. I felt one land on my cheek bone, but didn't let it stop me. I went to duck under a punch, but he tripped me. I fell and I immediately flipped to my back. I meet eye's with Wilker. He made a fist and put it on his knee. The move meant shatter his knee. But I couldn't. I couldn't do something that would cause that much damage. I scrambled backwards. He was walking towards me. I locked eyes with Wilker. He had a stern look on his face. But I wouldn't do it.
I felt my back hit the wall. I went to get up, but a hand grabbed my neck and lifted me. He shoved me high up against the wall, to where my breath ran out of me, and my feet weren't touching the ground. I immediately forgot all my training and panicked. This was the one thing I could never pass. I always panicked. My hands where immediately on his and I was kicking and breathing hard. ”I win.” He yelled. I couldn't get air in or out. Mr. Varro stood up slowly and walked slowly to the head of the pit. By the time he declared winner, I was about ready to pass out. When his dad called him over, he let me crumble to the floor. I knew this was my break. As soon as Wilker got here, I was going to be dead.
I got about thirty seconds of peace before I heard Wilker yelling, ”Jaycie. Up here now.” I slowly stood up gulping air. I held out a hand for him to help me up and he pulled me out of the pit, then he yanked me towards the door. Garret came up to him once, to ask what they did. All Wilker said was, ”No one comes back to the Guild till tomorrow night. I don't care what you do.” Then he yanked me towards the door.
The only time he spoke on the whole journey back to his house was when I tried to pull away. He slapped me, his ring catching my lip again, and splinting my lip and said, ”Girl, don't make this worse for your self. I would highly suggest you follow me. I don't think you want to get into any more trouble. I think you are already in enough.” My lip was bleeding hard. When we got to the Guild, he threw me onto the floor of the hall.
He walked towards his office, and I knew I had to follow. I stood up and walked after him. He sat in his spot and I kneeled before him like I always did. As soon as I did, I knew it was a mistake. He was quiet for a while. ”You have failed.” He said ”You had a chance, and you wouldn't take it. He grabbed your throat and you panicked. You could have gotten away, yet you didn't. You have humiliated us all. You have humiliated me.” I heard hist footsteps coming near me. He lifted my chin to where I was looking at him, ”You wont forget this for a long while. I promise you that.” He let go of my head and I looked back down at the ground. Then he left the room.
I was tempted to stand up, but I knew I would only be getting myself in more trouble. He had done this before. He left for an hour and when he came back, I was sitting in a chair. He had me running for two hours. So I knelled there. Out of the corner of my eyes, I watched the moon light move across the room then disappear. For a while it was complete dark. But then I saw the orange glow of the sunrise fill the room, only to be replaced with the regular light of daytime.
When Wilker came in, it was about ten in the morning, so I had been kneeling for about twelve hours. He walked to the front of his desk and leaned against it. After a good five minutes he said, ”Rise.” I stood up, but it was slowly because I was sore from being like that all night.
When I was standing, he asked, ”Why. Why did you purposely go against me. Why couldn't you do a simple task. You told my earlier that day I could trust you. You told me that I have your one hundred percent cooperation. If you are on a job for me, you do as I say. Now when your mother gave you to me I trained you as a perfect assassin, and when you turned sixteen two years ago, I let you set your own rules on what you would do.”
This was true. When I turned sixteen, he let me pick things I wouldn't and would do. I would never kill a child, I would never be put in a fight to the death between two assassin clans, and I would never go on a mission that I knew I would be impossible to do. Like to go to another assassin Guild and kill there clan leader. That was an impossible mission. He had always abide by those rules to.
”But you also said you would give me your one hundred percent. Last night, that was not one hundred percent.” Wilker continued. ”What I want to know is, do I have one hundred percent?” He stopped talking and I mumbled, ”Yes Master.” He zipped forward and grabbed the dagger from my breast pocket and raked down the side of my face hard enough to leave a trail a blood, but not hard enough to scar.
I winced, but stayed where I was. ”I asked you a question, Do I have one hundred percent?” ”Yes Master.” I yelled. I almost grabbed my dagger from him, because only the people who made that dagger had touched that, besides me. I was glad he had gloves on, but I had those custom made, and only two people touched it in the making, having me as the third and last.Wilker shoved the dagger in my hand, and I re sheathed it.
”Stand straight.” He barked. So I attempted to, but I was to slow, because he threw a punch into my stomach. I nearly fell. But I immediately straighten up. I stood all the way straight, even though my back screamed. Next he grabbed my arm and pulled me to the training center. Once we got to the door, he said, ”Go in and run. Don't stop. I will be back.” So I went in and ran.
After about an hour and a half before I felt the vomit in the back of my throat. I looked around, and saw a bucket near the door, so I ran to it and feel to my knees next to it and puked my guts out. This bucket was constantly in here, for this exact reason, but always moved around, depending on the exrices. After I was done, I kept running. Wilker came back, right as I was puking for the third time. He had three bottles of water.
When I stood up, he handed me one. ”Rinse.” He ordered. So I took big sips and spit them into the bucket. I also gargled the last few to get it out of my throat. When I finished, he gave me the other two and said, ”Drink.” I drank them both down in about five minutes. When I was done he said, ”Follow me.” We stepped into the hall and he gave me a command. ”Walk around the halls. I will tell you when you can go.”
The command was odd, but I did it. After ten minutes, Wilker jumped out at me. He grabbed me by the throat and threw me against the wall. I immediately panicked and tried to push away. I couldn't get away. ”Stop panicking. Get away.” He ordered. ”If you don't I will let you die right now.” I knew he would to. So I calmed and kicked out my feet at the same time I punched his inner elbows. He dropped me to the ground, and I was gasping. ”I take it you understand what we are doing.” He said. I nodded, and he walked away.
So I kept walking and he kept jumping out at me. Sometimes sit was a minute later, sometimes it was forty-five minutes later. I steadily got better, till I didn't panic at all, but he kept doing this. So, when I was walking, I listen for him, I heard him coming down a hall ahead of me. I kept walking, and when he jumped out at me, I counter the attack, pinning him to the ground. I had a knee in his stomach and each arm pinned.
”Good girl.” He said. ”You have finally got it, you are a hunter, not a hunted.” I let him up and he immediately grabbed my neck. I went to stop him but he said, ”Wait.” Then I felt it. He was healing the huge bruise that had formed. Then he healed the cut on my face. He only left the split lip. He thumb passed over it. ”A reminder. This whole thing was a reminder. The real lesson will come soon. Now go home, come in the morning.” I immediately ran home.
I dropped in my bed the second I entered my room. I slept all night and only woke up when my stomach woke me up. I ate a huge meal and went back to sleep. When I woke in the morning, I went to the guild. Right as I walked in, Garret did to. I was first to the his study by a second, yet he knocked. ”I was here first.” I said quietly. ”To bad, I knocked.” He answered. ”Come in you two.” We both looked at each other, but he let me go first. We both feel into a kneel.
”Rise.” He said. We both stood, and sat in the chairs that where pulled close to the desk. ”I have a mission for the both of you.” He said. We both listened. ”The rackies are going to ransack a warehouse looking for a known cache of falazaic, the paralyzing poison. You two will head down there today. Stakeout and kill them.” We both nodded. He handed Garret the job folder. A subtle hint that he was leader.
”Go and don't come back till they are dead.” We both stood and left, again Garret let me out the door first. We both walked out the front of the Guild and he stopped by a local market and bought a duffel bag. ”We are bringing back the falazaic?” I asked, with a shudder. ”Might as well.” He said. He opened the folder, read what was needed and kept walking. He lead. On the way to the warehouse, he stopped by a fire and dropped the folder in, making sure it was completely burned before we left. When you get to the warehouse, you nod to each other. ”Let's get this party started.” I said.