Chapter 2 - Think I'll Be Going Now
750 years ago
Being a statue was boring as fuck. I couldn't move, I couldn't talk, I could only move my eyes a little bit. It wouldn't be as bad if I had a little company. I'd been staring at the same hedges for somewhere close to two hundred and fifty years by my reckoning. Watching passers-by did little to alleviate the boredom. Hardly any stopped to look at my statue, anyway. It didn't even have a plaque on it. In retrospect, that was probably fitting, being an assassin. Anonymity and all that.
"Over here, put him with the other one."
Oh? Looks like I might be getting a new room-mate after all I thought. Slowly, a platoon of guards came into view, wheeling something behind them. At first glance, it looked like any other statue. But as it was turned around, I got a good look at it. I would've gasped if I could.
Edward? I thought. I certainly didn't expect a reply.
Holy shit, Josh? I was dumbstruck. Apparently, the statue spell allows you to talk to other similarly frozen individuals telepathically.
What the fuck are you doing here? I asked him.
Showed up, got on the wrong side of some ponies, accidentally formed a band of pirates-
Wait, what? Pirates?... Well, he is Edward Kenway, sort of.
I'm getting to that. -Got caught, Sunbutt stoned me. What about you?
Same, minus the pirates. Say, you didn't happen to find my Apple, did you?
You still have that?
The guards finished moving Ed onto my podium, positioning him next to me. I had to admit, he had a much cooler pose. Both pistols pointed forward, snarling at some unseen target. He must've been trying to take them down when they blasted him. I'd seen my end coming, so I had stood straight and embraced it. My left hand still dripped with frozen blood from the last kill.
I lost it a couple centuries back.
CENTURIES?! Jesus Christ, dude, how long have you been here?
Depends what you mean. Here in the gardens as a statue, about two hundred and fifty years, give or take. I was free for about a year before that, though.
Wow. Good on you for not going insane from boredom. I'm assuming that the Royal Pain stoned you as well. What did you do to piss her off?
Two Royal Pains, actually. The second one went batshit after I was imprisoned and got sent to the moon. She's there for a thousand years apparently.
Woah, harsh.
Meh, at least she gets a view. I've been staring at those hedges for ages.
Speaking of, just what did you do, Josh?
Call me Altair, it's what I've been going by. As for what I did, well, it's a long story...
1,001 years ago
After I killed the guards, I'd gotten out of there as quick as I could. If I kept my head down, I found that I could pass for one of the ponies at a glance.
Thank fuck they're not normal horses. They'd be impossible to blend with. I figured that after what I'd just done, it'd be best to get out of town.
As I moved through the crowd, realisation hit me like an express train. Holy shit, I just killed someone. Four someones, in fact. I clenched the Apple tighter, and it calmed me a bit. How did I even do that? I've never fought anyone in my life, yet I just took down four trained soldiers. I looked down at the Apple to see that it was still giving off a faint glow. Maybe this helped me? ...Why not, they did crazier things in the games. I tried to run through what I knew of the Apples that had appeared in the series.
Okay, mind control, illusion projection, and physical manipulation. I think those were the basic powers these things had, and it looks like this one is helping me fight, too. I considered this for a short time. The last two I can definitely use to my advantage. Mind control seems just a bit too much like an evil overlord type thing to do.
Looking over my shoulder, I saw a group of guards enter the alley I'd just come from. Shit! I didn't exactly hide the bodies! I sped up my walk, hoping to distance myself from the guards.
Looking back again, I saw a pegasus fly up from where the alley was. He flew out of sight before I could see where he was going, but fairly soon alarm bells began to ring out through the city. Hearing this, the populace flew into a panic. Guards flew overheard ordering people into their homes, and I soon realised that the crowd was thinning out, thus making me much more visible. Luckily, at the moment I just looked like a regular pony with a white mane from above, but when I didn't have a home to go to I'd stick out like a sore thumb.
I raced down another alleyway, hoping to find somewhere I could hide. Eventually, though, I realised just hiding wouldn't do it. They were looking for me now, and with the number of guards they'd deployed it was only a matter of time until I'd be found. I'd have to escape the area altogether. How the fuck am I going to do this? I thought.
I looked down at the Apple in my grasp. ...Illusion projection, eh? I grinned. I think I should test this out. Wary of guards from above, I held up the Apple and focused on projecting an image of myself. The Apple glowed, and I appeared before me. I tried to make it move, and it responded exactly how I wanted it to. Perfect.
I sent the image out of the alley and made it run to the right. I heard a shout, and several guards ran past, chasing it. I smirked and ran to the left.
I had to repeat this trick a few more times, but eventually I managed to get outside the walls without any trouble. It was at that point that I realised the city was halfway up a mountain. As I stood there a moment, taking in the view, I heard a shout from behind me. A pegasus had flown over the walls and spotted me as I paused to admire the scenery. I turned to run again, only to find myself faced with a long drop and a sharp stop.
I turned around, seeing no option other than to fight my way out. As soon as I did, however, the same pegasus slammed into me and knocked me over the edge of the cliff. For a moment, I teetered on the edge, my arms swinging wildly as I tried to regain my balance.
Time seemed to move in slow motion as I went over. A wordless cry escaped my lips as I fell to what I assumed was my end.
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4323178 Indeed
LEAP OF FATE!!!
Leap of faith?
4323227 4323225 Don't be silly, there's no way I'm so unrealistic as to make him perform a leap of faith off of a mountain.
OR AM I?
Well, this is interested, I'm interested in seeing how the others will be captured. Keep goin and stay golden^^
Well, count me in for this ride.
I'm going to enjoy every moment of it.
4323276 I hope so!
4323229 Leap of Faith.
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And there's your brick.
This is a rather good story so far I really hope all the assassins are in it, it give sunbutt something to think about!
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Much appreciated. :D
Like.
More.
C'mon.
Bah.
>miniscule chapters, Not even 3k words long overall
>Protag goes from “accidentally murdering when only meaning to punch” to “Deliberatly killing a whole team of guards” in about twenty seconds
>Bouncing around timelines for absolutley no gaddamn reason.
This is dry, boring and has no business being on the front page. Yes I am aware those are for popular fics, but goddammit, popular and good have to coincide somewhere for fucks sake! I have literally read this shit fuck pile of autism ten times before. I have seen it rear its ugly head time and time again in other stories that you did not one goddamn thing different then.
This is a piece of shit. I feel like I’m the only one who isn’t going to circle jerk over your story and falsely inflate your ego. Try and actually create your own fucking story, not just stealing what’s popular, pour yourself into it and THEN you are an author. Right now you are merely regurgitating the bile a hundred others have before.
Now off you go to the
Gas ChamberDelousingI take it he has no magic. Correct me if I'm wrong.
awww man i was waiting one of Loha
V of assasin creed
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FIMFiction being a creativity barren wasteland per usual
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You have no idea how much i love you for saying this. Have my babies. Please.
Interesting.
I'm usually not into Anthro stuff, but let's see how this plays out.
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Awesome, can't wait to see it then. :)
LEAP OF FAITH MOTHER FUCKER!!!
Also, nice, looks like each of the cos-players will arrive around 250 years between each other, or at least that's what I hypothesis...
Anyway, this is gonna be good. :D
This is actually a lot better than I first thought. With all the new fics for the LoHAV universe being mostly shit that will never get completed, you have honestly surprised me. Well done.
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4324535 League of humans acting villanous
Dude, so far this has passed the expectations I had for this. Keep going, you've got something golden here, my friend.
Nice!
This is getting interesting a group of all my favorite assassins teaming up possibly? Hell yes....
4326932 I know right can't wait
4324070 Thanks for the feedback (even if you could have been a bit more polite about it.) I find it hard to write a lot for one chapter, honestly. For me, being able to do chapters that length in one day two days in a row is a big achievement. I get that a lot of people like to read longer chapters, but honestly this is my limit. Sorry.
And don't worry about the morality flip there, all will be explained. In fact, I did explain it a bit in the next chapter. (The Apple is corrupting him, so he feels little about his kills.)
Sorry if the timeskips annoyed you, I just felt that it might be the best way to handle telling the story of two different points in time at the same time. Perhaps I should just stick to a more linear style?
And as I said in the description, this wasn't exactly my attempt at an original story. I didn't really put that much thought into it, and I know it shows. I'm honestly disgusted that this was what made the front page and not my other, more original story, which I poured my heart and soul into.
And just so you know, you're not the only one flaming me over this. I've been getting plenty from other writers as well. And frankly, I agree. This story isn't original. It could be a lot better. I still appreciate how popular it is, but it sickens me a little inside.
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4324137 Yeah, he has no magic. He'll be able to use the Apple to create illusions and such, but that's his limit, and only while he's holding it.
4325400 This is the exact reason I didn't use Altair himself
. Plus, he only killed one civilian, and it was an accident.
4327988 ah. What about the mind control?
4329779 While he could do that, he chooses not to. He doesn't like the idea of having absolute control over someone.
this pleases me
carry on my wayward assasson 
4332432 In the first game, I think it took off about four bars of
healthsynchronisation. So really, it depends on how much health you have.WOW..... NICE.....
4331223 true enough. But wait, it only works on humans mentally because we have transmitters in our brains, pony's don't.
Go die in a car fire.
4322759 I guess so. Ah what the hell Ill give it a try
4334618 Hmm. I'll be honest, I don't know all that much about the specifics of how the pieces of Eden work (But really, who does?). The way I understand it, when the First Civilisation created the humans, they put an extra bit in their brain which would make them susceptible to the Pieces control.
For the ponies to be affected by mind control, they'd have to have a similar bit in their brains. But the ponies weren't created by the first civilisation...
OR WERE THEY?
this is great