"What!!? Are you serious?" Shavi asked with a shocked look on her face, to which Ambika replies"This is what my mom told me. But, I don't care if she is right or wrong!", Virat asks Ambika " So…, you mean it doesn't matter if he is a killer or not?",
Ambika replies to him with a frustrated look " I've known him for so long, since we were only 3 years old, I just couldn't accept that this small fry kid who cries all the time and who wouldn't be able to hurt a little ant could kill someone, so I just stuck with him no matter how people treated him or me!!" Ambika chuckles a Little and says" Because all he ever had was me. ", As Shavi and Virat listen to her, Karan starts shouting" Hey what are you doing there!! Come on, let's play some basketball!!". Everyone ignores Karan.
Ambika asks both Virat and Shavi" I'm just saying that something happened back then that no one knows besides Karan, and he never talks about that!!", As Ambika said that, Virat said," well we don't care what mistakes he made in the past, everything that matters is what he is doing in the present to make his future!!".
As Virat said this Shavi said in agreement" Ya!! He is right, well I just remembered that tomorrow's Karan's birthday isn't it?", Ambika gets surprised and thinks " Crap!! , I forgot!!". Virat stands up with a wide smile on his face and says " Why don't we throw him a surprise party at midnight??", both Ambika and Shavi excited nodes their head, and Ambika says " ya great idea!!", Shavi asks Ambika " I think if are going to surprise him we need something that he loves, do you know what's his favorite things??", Ambika replies in and exciting manner and says"Hmm, he's short in height but he likes basketball and ya!!, he loves sweets, he just goes crazy with just the name of sweets, especially ras malai ( an Indian sweet which has a rich, creamy and milky taste. ) !!.", as Shavi listens to her, she says " Ok!!, it's decided, me and Ambika will go to buy some sweets and Virat you will distract Karan from finding out about the surprise!!", to which Virat replies and asks" Who decided that!!", to which Ambika replies with a menacing look" You've got a problem???!", Virat immediately backed off and says " just kidding, hehe!".
As they were talking, Karan throws a basketball on Virat's head and he falls off the bench he was sitting on and both Ambika and Shavi start laughing and as Karan sees this he says waving his hands " Hey!! Come on!! Let's play some basketball!".
At an unknown place with little to no light, an unknown person is having a conversation with an asura as that asura is screaming in anguish, the unknown person says" So, now you will feel good!!. Now!! As per my order, you will carry out the mission of his elimination!!, Karan Runa!! " Asura keeps moaning in pain and knees down to the unknown person and says " I will do as you say, lord Raka!!".
Raka sits on his seat and says "Today at midnight!!, you will go and eliminate him with your army of Daityas!!"
*(Daitya are low-class asuras who are descendants of the giant asuras of the past but now they are only the size of normal humans and could turn into giants under some specific circumstances.)
"Now leave!!!, straight to Punjab!!" Raka shouts at the asura and as the asura hears this he immediately leaves and Raka whispers " Finally I'll get my revenge!!!, I still remember that day 14 years ago you assassin bastard!!".
The nightfalls in the sky of the peaceful village in Punjab, the time reaches at 10 o'clock. Karan and Virat are taking a walk on the farm roads and Karan asks Virat while whining " We've been walking for like 2 hours! why won't you let me go home and eat!! I've already shown you the whole village!! Just how much more do you want to see??", Virat nervously says" I just want to enjoy the scenery of these fields as the soft wind flows touching the crops it seems like waves in the ocean!", Karan says with a frustrated look" but you can't see much in the night!!".
As Virat walks he thinks" I knew it was a bad idea sending two girls shopping, of course, they will be late!!, what was I thinking?", Virat gets a notification on his phone, and he checks it to find out that it is a text message from Shavi that said," Bring him to his house and make sure that he doesn't find out that we are here to take him to the assassin association!!".
As Virat sees this he thinks"Ya, I know!" But when Virat was thinking this, Karan also reads the text and asks " What is that?", Virat freaks out and tries to run as he thinks that Karan found out his true identity, and as he was about to run he thinks" She said as we can't let him find out about our mission, but I messed up!!", But Karan spots a weird knife attached to Virat's back, so he moves quickly and snatches the knife from Virat's back and stomp's him, Virat falls down and as he turns around he sees Karan with his knife pointing it at his throat with a menacing look, Karan asks" Who are you?".
In the ominous darkness of the night, a big herd of daityas is running like a starving cackle of hyenas looking for leftovers of the lion, and their leader the asura who confronted Raka is leading them straight towards Karan.
The asura thinks" I can smell him from here!!", as he thinks this, he notices silence behind him and as he turns his head around he sees an unimaginable sight as he notices all of the daityas are missing. He thinks" only one man is capable of doing this!!! It's him!! I should get there as soon as possible!!", And he starts sprinting.
All the daityas were confused and looking around furiously as they were teleported to a different place and it's a forest, one daitya notices a silhouette of a human on the ground formed by the full blood moon.
He follows the silhouette of the man and he sees a man with a mask standing on the top of a tree with a longsword in his left hand supported by his shoulder, wearing a set of black clothes that are partially torn apart and are sailing in the direction of the breeze. The man was barely visible but as the other daityas started noticing him, their feet started trembling only with one look.
One daitya gathered all of his courage and stepped up and questioned" who are you?? And are you the reason why we are separated from our leader??", the masked man swung his sword down as he heard this, and ten daityas were completely obliterated by this swing. One daitya is frightened to death as he realizes who the masked man is," He is the one who hunts down assassins!!!, he is the ASSASSIN HUNTER!!!", He screamed with all of his energy.
Every daitya in the vicinity gets tremendously scared and starts to bow down to the assassin hunter.
One daitya inquires" S-sir what have we done wrong??.
As the assassin hunter hears this he sits down and says" You all were going to eliminate Karan! Am I right?", to which daitya replies" yes sir!! And we were following Satyabhag sir!!".
The assassin hunter stands up and announces" all of you will go back to base immediately!! And that's my order!!" everyone began to hesitate, and one daitya said" But!! If we go back without killing Karan Runa we will all be killed!!", By hearing this the assassin hunter raised his sword and announced" Then today is your unlucky day!! Because if you all don't retreat now, you all will be killed by me!!", as he said this everyone started to panic and different whispers of daityas were audible in the environment as they were terrified, "What do we do?", "Is he betraying the asuras?".
Suddenly a voice rose from the crowd and screamed" He is a traitor!!, let's kill him!!", everyone suddenly felt an adrenaline rush from the words killing, they began to revolt and as the assassin hunter was seeing all this he thought" If only they had some brain, to begin with!", he announced loud" I'm not a traitor!!, I just want to be the one who kills that brat!!", no one in the mob listened to him. One daitya said," It doesn't matter now!!, we are going to kill you!!", as the assassin hunter heard this he fixed his mask and said" Then! You will learn today, what is called a one-sided massacre!!".
END
Satyabhag is near Virat and Karan!!
Is Virat an assassin?
A massacre is about to take place in the woods!!
Who is this masked man, the assassin hunter?
Find out next week on
Age of Assassins
Ch 4- The curse of the blood moon
Author's note
I've been a little sick lately and I'm also learning to illustrate my story, and this is the reason why the chapters are short and I can only post 1 chapter every week and I don't have an editor either.
Anyway thanks for reading o:-)