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A Short Story of AC. By: An old friend

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The sun beating on my back, I feel gratitude towards the guild for giving me this robe. The hood in the shape of a bird, the beak falling just below my brow. I can see the city ahead of me. A hundred possible targets. A hundred ways to eliminate them.

I step down from my perch on the rooftops down to the pigeon coop. "Calm, feathered friends. I only need a contract." I reach inside to grab the emerald colored sparrow. It was customary for the guild to use this color for its assassins.

"Vy lei, assassin." The page reads "The bar owner of Rubbles Wind has been extorting customers with thugs hired with free drinks. This evil cannot be tolerated. Make Haste."

The bird on my shoulder begins to nibble at my hood. Requesting payment. I give it some food and a sovereign. It fly’s away leaving me to my work. I set out at a pace impossible for anyone besides an assassin. Leaping from rooftop to rooftop, climbing the walls as if they were mere inconveniences. I already know the location of the bar thanks to my years in the city.
I arrive above my destination a building higher up with a good viewpoint of the bar. I see two men walking up to a back door of the street. A man comes out to greet them. He welcomes them as friends. That must be the bar owner and those must be his thugs. The group enters the building and closes the door behind them.
I take my chance and leap across the street. I do a frontal flip enjoying the air whistling past my ears. Full knowing where I will land I face my back to the ground and land in a pile of hay in the back of the bar.
I step out of the hay pile and brush off the strands. "Hey! You can't be back here!"I have been caught by a thug on the street. I quickly dash over to him, bend my legs into a crouching run and tackle the man. We fall over onto the ground. I activate the hidden blade in my wrist and shove it through his throat to stifle the scream.

Luckily for me the back road was empty except for me and the newly deceased. I turn around and re-enter the back lot. I knock on the backdoor as if I were another of those thugs. The bar owner opens the door with a smile that quickly turns to an open gape. "Who are y-ugh!"
My punch-sword already through his heart the man loses his life. I lower him gently onto the ground. "A man must have morals in his head. Or else he'll soon be dead." I say to him. I brush my fingers over his eyes to close them. Utter a quick prayer then slowly leave the area. I return to the street. I blend into the crowd as if I had always been there. No one can know my coming. No one will hear me leave. I am an assassin, and I live by the creed.
The end!

Sooooooo, what do you guys think?

I am nothing but a blade in the crowd. I am an assassin.

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I like it, it captures the milieu of ACII. Doing a frontal flip for no reason whatsoever is so Ezio.

I bet his uncle had some debts at the pub, that's why he sent the homing sparrow.

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That's a good short story for a contract. Grade But what happens to the other thug?

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I like it Smile I think it captures Ezio's character as he takes pleasure from assassinating his targets Crazy (because they have done evil things Evil ) but still shows respect to the dead Wink

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I kept thinking this would be a good intro to an Assassin's Creed full-length film. As he is blending with the crowd, the camera pans out to a view over the city. "ASSASSIN'S CREED" shows as the title, and the opening credits starts with music by Jesper Kyd. So I'm saying, great job with the story! Who's your friend that wrote it? Beer

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My friend Nathan. He isn't on THB, never was really THAT big of an AC fan, he just did this because I had asked him to during one of his writing moods. And BTW, the frontal flip was a leap of faith into a pile of hay. Maybe I'll add the second part of the short story. Then it will become MY thing! You know what, I'm gonna do that Big smile .

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JoeyFogey wrote:
I kept thinking this would be a good intro to an Assassin's Creed full-length film. As he is blending with the crowd, the camera pans out to a view over the city. "ASSASSIN'S CREED" shows as the title, and the opening credits starts with music by Jesper Kyd. So I'm saying, great job with the story! Who's your friend that wrote it? Beer

If they made an AC film and didn't use this I would be surprised. It would be amazing. Either that or something similar with a shot of his shadowy face that slowly rises above him so you can only see his hood. The camera then pans out and upwards to reveal the sprawling city below. An eagle's eye-view you could say Wink

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I seriously think that after Assassin's Creed 3 is out for about a year, they should consider making A-list films of the franchise. If it's not based on Altair, Ezio, or AC3's protagonist, they need to get the writers of the games and Patrice to overshadow the films. Please don't hire Uwe Bowle.... Stare

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This is just brilliant. I like writing, I might try my hand at writing an Assassin Creed short story.

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I'm taking a writing course and I've been getting credit for my assignments. I may start a writing forum alongside the "Assassin Art" topic. Then blend them together for an exclusive THB short comic. Smile

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