Fur & Magic

Chapter 16: Fast Learner

Once I walk into the training area the supervisor of the assassins comes up to me. "I was told I had three that were coming today. I have your assassins uniform here." He hands me a black and light blue uniform, he then points to the bathrooms, "now go change then I will go over the fundamentals of weapon use with you, since your the only one who has no past training."  I nod to him as I then go into the bathroom where I change into the uniform and I'm surprised to see that the uniform has a hood and a face covering. 

I walked over to the mirror and was shocked to see that I really looked like an assassin. I smirk at myself in the mirror then slide my dagger into the sheath that was on the back part of my belt. I nod then start to walk out of the bathroom and as I do so Austin walks in, "oh hey I talk to the supervisor and tell him I'll handle your training." I nod to him then say, "alright then but before we begin I want to talk with you. I'll wait until you're done changing." He nods and I walk out and wait for him to change.

As I stand outside the bathroom Cyrus walks up to me, "oh this is gonna be fun, I get to beat your ass today for making me look bad." I roll my eyes, "yeah but you're the one who made yourself look like a complete and utter ass." He looks at me with rage then balls his fist and throws a punch at my face. I dodge it or so I thought as the fist he throws vanishes and another fist connects with my shoulder. I grit my teeth in pain as I watch him throw another punch but this time remembering how the first one vanished I grab my dagger. I don't say anything as I place it on his chest. "Do it again and I'll end you right here right now. I don't know how you did that, but I know you did so with your item." He looks at me shocked as I say that. I then whisper, "and now your dumbass showed me what it can do. We'll have our chance to kill one another and when it arrives it's gonna be fun for one of us." 

I lower my blade, "now go change before I holler for the supervisor." I step away from him as I decide to wait for Austin at the training area. I stand there for a moment and wait only a short while before he emerges. "All right what did you need to talk to me about?" I nod then look at him, "I think I know why the professors asked each of us to meet them before we go train." He nods to me, "so with the talk over what magic does your dagger do?" He smiles at me, "alrighty then, my dagger actually has a rare ability called double impact." I look at him for a second wondering what that could be, until he finally tells me. "Basically whenever I'm channeling it's magic any attack I land hits not only once, but twice. Hence the name double impact." I nod, "that sounds awesome, but can you use it's magic with another person?"

He looks at me for a moment, "I actually don't know, but theoretically I can." I smile, "nice that will work perfectly with my dagger's magic." He looks at me, "oh and what's your dagger's magic?" I smirk, "mine is rare as well, my dagger can shapeshift. With that being said I'm gonna have to get use to all different types of weapons." His eyes widen, "wait really?" I nod as I pull out my dagger then look around to make sure no one is looking. I then whisper, "double dagger." All of the sudden my dagger glows twice and in place of my dagger lies two daggers that look identical. "Holy shit, Darius that is beyond useful." I nod to him then look to my daggers, "alright disengage." The dagger changes back into the same dagger it originally was. 

Austin looks at me, "alright so I'll be honest, my main skills involve daggers, small blades, and some bow. Any other weapons were gonna have to pull the supervisor." I nod to him, "that sounds good, but I need you to learn these weapons too. I know you're a fire user and I'm an ice user, but I would like us to know how to use each other's weapons." He looks at me weird, "uhm Darius I don't think it works like that. The weapon chose us for a reason." I nod to him, "that is true, but our daggers also want us to survive and will act accordingly." He looks at me baffled, "wait, but there items they don't have feelings?" I shake my head, "on the contrary, only living things can use magic so on some level the magic items are alive."  He smirks at me, "true so let's get to work."

We trained for hours and by the end of the day I can comfortably use daggers, throwing daggers, some smaller blades, and a bow. Austin was shocked at the way I picked them up relatively quick with a whole new fighting style, mainly focused around my gymnastics training. While we take a break he looks at me, "so Darius, did you walk into Cyrus?" I smirk at him, "as a matter of fact I did. He tried to kill me and failed on the account of me putting my dagger to his chest. He messed up and showed me his magic items ability." 

Austin is wide eyed and fangs bared as I then say, "don't hold me to it but I believe his item is capable of illusions. When he threw his first punch I thought I dodged it but once it was about to make contact it disappeared and his real fist hit me." He nods, "so he's gonna be dangerous?" I nod, "but I think I can stop him with my magic." He nods, "how?" I smirk, "I'm not gonna tell you until it comes to it alright." He nods, "ok, now let's go grab the supervisor and start training with bigger weapons."

We both walked up to the supervisor. "Hey could we ask you for a favor?" He looks at me a little awkward, "it depends on what it is." I smile, "we need training with all different type of weapons." The supervisor smirks, "alright but you know that as an assassin it isn't really isn't convenient." I smirk, "I know it's not for some of us but for me it will be, and the same be said for Austin." He nods then says, "alright then let's get to work."