The Assassination

It was a very dark night, the rain although heavy an hour ago had receded and was drizzling, the streetlamp flickered and eventually went off cutting out the supply of light that made the street less eerie, a very petite figure could be seen running although the figure looked like it would soon collapse, behind the figure was another, this one wasn't petite it looked bulky and it ran wildly after the petite figure. The petite figure turned at a corner and disappeared from sight, thunder struck and then lightening followed after, the flash of light the lightening provided showed the figures although not a bit clearly it was enough to know that both figures were of different genders a male and a female, the petite figure was a very young girl no less than sixteen years of age and the bulky one was a male probably around twenty-two years of age, after the flash of light the rain began to fall heavily again, this made the environment a bit foggy, thanks to this the female was able to hide in a dumpster at an alley at the corner although not before leaving footprints indicating she left the alley, the male ran after the footprints and paused after the footprint showed it leaving the alley, there were two roads indicating the female could have taken any but he didn't know which, after contemplating for a bit he ran to the right road. 

Several minutes had passed before the girl hiding in the dumpster, slowly climbed out and left the alley she turned and ran out going back the way she came from, and into a church hiding in one of the confession boxes, whimpers could be heard. 

THREE HOURS PRIOR 

In a very beautiful villa, in one of the bedrooms, a girl could be seen sleeping on the bed although a bit crudely and not lady-like, the clock on the nightstand ticked, the short-hand pointed to the hour one and the long hand pointed to two, thunder and lightning flashed and then a heavy downpour of rain began, the clock ticking continued and soon it was one-thirty, the girl on the bed stood up to use the bathroom, coming out she heard a sound coming from the room a floor below, she paused for a while before deciding to go back to bed, the sound became louder and soon a thudding sound could be heard, she decided to check it out, standing up and leaving her room the sound became clearer and she could hear muffled screams, this alerted her, she took a pistol from the drawer of a console table in the hallway, after checking if it was loaded and if the silencer was in before turning off the safety lock she walked down to the floor below her quietly. 

Coming to stand Infront of her parent's room she saw her parents asleep, and nothing looked out of place, except earlier the door was left ajar which she attributed to her parents forgetting to shut the door, thinking the muffled screams must have from the villa next door, she walked into the room before standing Infront of her parents bed, the distinct smell of blood became clear to her before she realized something was wrong, she pulled away the duvet covering her parents before she saw stab wounds on her mom and dad chest, her mum's throat had been slit and her dad was staring wide eyed at her breathing heavily before looking at the direction of their room closet and mouthing the word "run", before he closed his eyes, dead she thought before she nodded and ran out of the room, she could feel the stare of eyes at her back indicating that whoever had killed her parent had found her, she didn't think twice before sprinting into a run, she glanced back and saw three men hot on her trail, she kept running , once she felt she had put enough distance between them she turned around and fired rapid shots at them hitting the two straight in the forehead, noticing that she had taken two down and the last one was covering the distance she tried shooting again but the pistol just clicked indicating the bullets had finished, she tucked the pistol in her pajamas waist band, before sprinting over the villa's gate before the last one could cover the tiny distance between them, this led to her dodging and running for over two hours, she had been shot once on her left shoulder before she knew the assassin didn't have bullets left to use, so she felt relatively safer. 

PRESENT 

The church was very quiet except one of the confession boxes that had whimpering sounds, in one of the inner rooms of the church, the priest slowly stood up from his bed, before taking a gun under his pillow and putting it on the safety belt on his waist before putting on his robe, he walked about the room stopping at the door before taking his bible and his rosary and putting it on, he left his room before walking to the upper layer of the church, walking in the direction of the confession box, the coppery smell of blood assaulted his nose, he walked back to one of the inner rooms before coming out with a first aid box, then started in the direction of the confession box again. Opening it, he saw the figure of a young girl digging her fingers in the gun wound on her shoulder trying to dig at the bullet, she didn't make a sound except for occasional whimpers, nothing else seemed odd. The girl noticing him stooped and looked up, her eyes full of vigilance when she noticed his attire she relaxed, he knelt down putting the first aid box Infront her, before opening it, looking at her he saw the go ahead in her eyes before he started treating her wound, using sterilized tweezers to pick out the bullet in the wound, minutes passed before he was done treating the wounds, once he was done, the girl previously less vigilant became very vigilant. 

A gun was pressed to his head 

"Who are you?" she asked 

" Heh so she's smart and very vigilant, any other person in her stead would have been less vigilant and grateful" he thought chuckling 

"A normal priest would have been frightened by now and how did you know I was injured?" she questioned 

"Ah it was the first aid box that gave it away" he said 

"Anyway, I go by the name Evans, and you should learn to say thank you also put away your gun, you're out of bullets so it wouldn't intimidate me" 

She put away her gun, her expression showing nothing of being caught still looking at him with a vigilant expression. 

"What do you go by?" Evans asked 

"Athena" she said before pressing her lips in a thin line, shrugging he stood up and walked away before pausing "If you're not safe you can stay in the church, you'll be protected but at a cost" 

 She glanced at the church's entrance before standing up and walking out. 

"Oh" Evans said before walking into the inner rooms 

"Who was that?" 

"A girl, I reckon she'll be back though, you'll like her" he said to the figure shrouded in the dark.