3 years ago, ANBU secret facility deep underground beneath the village of Stone, 01:23am.
Footsteps echoed through the long white hallway, Doctor Canna hasted towards the overseers office. It was only a week ago when Subject 46 finished his training and was mission ready, and they have finally received a mission to test the Subject in the field. Canna held in hand a parchment paper holding the details of the mission at hand and she was very eager to see how the subject will do out in the field.
After a few corridors and rooms passed she came to a door with a name tag on it, 'Overseer's office'. Next to the door a young lady dawning a mask identical to Canna's sat at a desk with a typewriter and a bunch of scrolls books and papers, almost all personal of the facility wore the same mask to preserve their identity from one another, only a few high rank members wore different masks.
"code name Farei here to see the overseer"
She stated coldly.
"yes Farei, he is expecting you, you may proceed inside"
Replied calmly the lady at the desk and went back to her paperwork. Canna entered the office and closed the door behind here.
This office unlike the rest of the facility was well furnished with couches a nice red rug and a large antique wooden desk, behind it sat the Overseer with his black purple stripped mask, a man who had his hand in many affairs of the village.
"sir, we have a mission to issue our latest success."
She stated with hast and handed the parchment over to her commanding officer. He silently took the orders off her hands and unfolded them, for a moment the eyes behind the mask went through the words a few times to make sure he remembers every last detail as he usually did. The Overseer then folded the paper back to its original state and placed it in a large pile of other papers already on his table.
"a fitting first assignment for our Subject I believe, you have a green light on the mission... I want it done by the weeks end"
He said in a low rumbling voice, Canna never liked the sound of his voice, it always sent chills down her spine. Never the less she was exited, so without hesitating she gave a small bow before leaving the room without a further word. She found that there is no need to talk with the Overseer much, she just stepped down the hallway again with a different destination this time. Now she went to the head of field operations to give him the assignment and order him to make it happen by four days time when the week will end.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the facility...
The training room was cold and the air moist, Nao never knew how they managed to simulate a vast forest in the facility, it was so life like and held actual animals and plants. The only thing missing in the room was actual sunlight, but they did paint the ceiling to resemble the sky, and placed a very strong light source to give the illusion of the outer world, but it was just that... an illusion. Nao was training his stealth abilities on one and a half dozen clones of other ANBU operatives he had help him with his training. He wore his black garbs and mask, but this time he used the mud from the river in the training room to cover himself with shades of brown and green, even added some leaves and branches to help with his forest disguise. And so far he has managed to reach two check points unnoticed and to capture two simulated enemy intel, only one left and it was guarded by six clones like the other check points were. He decided not to use Genjutsu in this exercise. He took notice that this patrol of six was on high alert, must have noticed that the other two intel parts have been stolen, he cant evade combat this time, but he cant charge in cause they will destroy the intel. Nao needed to take them out silently and simultaneously, he had one cunai knife and four shuriken stars, he can make it work. The mud man slowly approached one of the clones who patrolled the area from a far, he was the lookout and it was crucial to take him out first. Nao moved through the plants and tall grass, but seconds before he took the clone out it dispersed and so did the rest. The young man stood to see why the simulation was interrupted, and through the woods came the head of field operations, codename Sorrow.
"good evening sir, here to join me in training?"
Said Nao with an irritated tone to his voice, he didn't like interruptions to his training.
"mind your tone Loky, or you will spend a week in the pit next time"
Replied the other harshly. Nao stood at attention when Sorrow stopped in front of him.
"never the less go get new clean gear, we finally get to put you to use... I will brief you on our way to the objective"
Continued the man and finished quickly, whatever the mission was Nao knew that it needs to be done fast, otherwise they would have briefed him in the operations center and not on the road. Never the less both men departed, to get organized for the trip ahead.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A day and a half later------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After a long journey they have reached their destination in a valley deep within the mountains north-west from the village of stone, on the road the orders were made clear, kill all and leave no witnesses behind. Sorrow was only there to see how well the mission gos, he would not intervene in any way. Loky had little time to finish this mission and reach the extraction, he needed to be quick about it. The two ANBU stood on the ridge directly above the terrorist's encampment in the valley, Nao already prepped his ninja wire for a quick decent to the camp, the weather was absolutely perfect for this assignment since fog lay heavy and still over the camp.
"remember Loky..."
Started Sorrow, but before he managed to finish the sentence Nao already replied.
".. leave non alive"
He said and jumped down the cliff's side, repelling down into the camp silently and quickly. Loky already had a plan in mind to make this mission efficient and fast, but first he needed eleven bodies. He halted his decent ten meters off the ground where he noticed two guards having a smoke.
'good... 3...2...1'
He counted in his mind and once the count down was done he cut the rope with his knife and went into free fall, turning in mid air he landed blade first on the guard on the right, the other guard didn't even manage to call for help before the same blade pierced his throat. The heavy mist left the two body's unnoticed by the others at the camp, the other eight men were easy to take care of. Never the less he needed one more body to finish the preparations for his final assault on the remaining fifty or so terrorists in the camp, but he needed this final one to be better then the rest.
It was a few moments later when he came across the perfect candidate, a large dark skinned man with heavy armor and a large battle ax. The big man was asleep on a cot in his tent, there were no screams from him ether. But soon after his death his eyes opened and they were white as snow. Nao slammed his hands on the ground to make the other preparations come to life in their individual places. Then he turned to the giant thrall who was now bowing before him.
"pretend to take me captive to the leader of this camp, act as if you were a live person until I give you the order... when I do, kill all you see"
The thrall just nodded in approval, then tied Nao's hands loosely behind his back and took him by the shoulder outside to the very center of the camp.
And without fail the others in the camp gathered around, some calling out to others, some pointing and laughing at the captured ANBU, until finally he was pushed to his knees quite convincingly by his thrall. There was a big bonfire in the middle of all the tents, and a man in silver armor and a scar on his left cheek came outside from one of the bigger tents and stood before him.
"well well well... isn't this a treat men!, we have a little stone ANBU to honor us!... good job Bororo, I would expect no one else to capture a skilled ANBU warrior"
Said the man who appeared to be the head of this terrorist cell, and as it seemed no one noticed that Nao's Thrall failed to show much emotions, or even speak. All the men gathered around Loky and the bonfire paying no attention to the shadows in the mist, not one of the living men knew they had their backs turned on a terrifying danger that was moving their way.
"what are we going do do with you ey?... I mean we are going to kill you for sure but I think we should have a little fun with you first..."
Said the scarred man and the rest of them laughed aloud as if it was the funniest joke they ever heard. Nao felt that slowly but surly his other traps were silently picking off men from the back rows without anyone even noticing, no one but Loky himself.
"you shouldn't underestimate people you know, especially not trained assassins, they sometimes have a tendency to.... get angry at taunts"
Said Nao to grab the attention of the leader of the group even further.
"oh they do don't they, well I deeply apologize if I have offended you, but if you don't mind telling me exactly what it is that you are going to do to me and my men from the position you are in?..."
Asked the man sarcastically, and by the time he finished his little speech most of the men in the back rows were already long gone, and Nao knew that it was time to execute the rest swiftly. The sun was starting to rise over the valley with impressive crimson light, the moment the sun flushed out the shadows the men of the camp saw them, faces of the dead behind them dripping blood and enraged.
"me... I will kill you all"
Said Loky calmly then broke free from his bonds and stood fast on his feet. A scream from the back row of terrorists indicated that the corpses of their comrades were discovered and were now engaging in battle, and not a few meters away the larger thrall got up with his giant ax and started splitting people in halves. Nao charged at the shocked commander and kicked him in the breastplate of his armor, sending him flying into the large bonfire behind him. All Loky did now was turn around and started walking in the fray of battle and death, with his hands behind his back he just listened to the screams around him.... until they stopped, leaving a good meaning to the phrase; 'silent as the grave'.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------30 minutes later in the ANBU facility--------------------------------------------------------------------
The Overseer sat in his chair in his office, reading orders, lab results, and requests of many sorts. It was so far a very uneventful day, but a noise outside his door grabbed his interest. The door swung open and Farei charged into the office with hast, not a common thing for here to do.
"SIR!, we have word from agent Sorrow, you wont believe the results!"
She said excitedly and placed yet another piece of parchment on his table. He took it silently took it and breezed through its content, afterwards he placed it in his usual pile of papers. The Overseer leaned on his elbows on the desk, folding his fingers in front of his mask and with his rumbling voice he said one thing.
"....good..."
Footsteps echoed through the long white hallway, Doctor Canna hasted towards the overseers office. It was only a week ago when Subject 46 finished his training and was mission ready, and they have finally received a mission to test the Subject in the field. Canna held in hand a parchment paper holding the details of the mission at hand and she was very eager to see how the subject will do out in the field.
After a few corridors and rooms passed she came to a door with a name tag on it, 'Overseer's office'. Next to the door a young lady dawning a mask identical to Canna's sat at a desk with a typewriter and a bunch of scrolls books and papers, almost all personal of the facility wore the same mask to preserve their identity from one another, only a few high rank members wore different masks.
"code name Farei here to see the overseer"
She stated coldly.
"yes Farei, he is expecting you, you may proceed inside"
Replied calmly the lady at the desk and went back to her paperwork. Canna entered the office and closed the door behind here.
This office unlike the rest of the facility was well furnished with couches a nice red rug and a large antique wooden desk, behind it sat the Overseer with his black purple stripped mask, a man who had his hand in many affairs of the village.
"sir, we have a mission to issue our latest success."
She stated with hast and handed the parchment over to her commanding officer. He silently took the orders off her hands and unfolded them, for a moment the eyes behind the mask went through the words a few times to make sure he remembers every last detail as he usually did. The Overseer then folded the paper back to its original state and placed it in a large pile of other papers already on his table.
"a fitting first assignment for our Subject I believe, you have a green light on the mission... I want it done by the weeks end"
He said in a low rumbling voice, Canna never liked the sound of his voice, it always sent chills down her spine. Never the less she was exited, so without hesitating she gave a small bow before leaving the room without a further word. She found that there is no need to talk with the Overseer much, she just stepped down the hallway again with a different destination this time. Now she went to the head of field operations to give him the assignment and order him to make it happen by four days time when the week will end.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the facility...
The training room was cold and the air moist, Nao never knew how they managed to simulate a vast forest in the facility, it was so life like and held actual animals and plants. The only thing missing in the room was actual sunlight, but they did paint the ceiling to resemble the sky, and placed a very strong light source to give the illusion of the outer world, but it was just that... an illusion. Nao was training his stealth abilities on one and a half dozen clones of other ANBU operatives he had help him with his training. He wore his black garbs and mask, but this time he used the mud from the river in the training room to cover himself with shades of brown and green, even added some leaves and branches to help with his forest disguise. And so far he has managed to reach two check points unnoticed and to capture two simulated enemy intel, only one left and it was guarded by six clones like the other check points were. He decided not to use Genjutsu in this exercise. He took notice that this patrol of six was on high alert, must have noticed that the other two intel parts have been stolen, he cant evade combat this time, but he cant charge in cause they will destroy the intel. Nao needed to take them out silently and simultaneously, he had one cunai knife and four shuriken stars, he can make it work. The mud man slowly approached one of the clones who patrolled the area from a far, he was the lookout and it was crucial to take him out first. Nao moved through the plants and tall grass, but seconds before he took the clone out it dispersed and so did the rest. The young man stood to see why the simulation was interrupted, and through the woods came the head of field operations, codename Sorrow.
"good evening sir, here to join me in training?"
Said Nao with an irritated tone to his voice, he didn't like interruptions to his training.
"mind your tone Loky, or you will spend a week in the pit next time"
Replied the other harshly. Nao stood at attention when Sorrow stopped in front of him.
"never the less go get new clean gear, we finally get to put you to use... I will brief you on our way to the objective"
Continued the man and finished quickly, whatever the mission was Nao knew that it needs to be done fast, otherwise they would have briefed him in the operations center and not on the road. Never the less both men departed, to get organized for the trip ahead.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A day and a half later------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After a long journey they have reached their destination in a valley deep within the mountains north-west from the village of stone, on the road the orders were made clear, kill all and leave no witnesses behind. Sorrow was only there to see how well the mission gos, he would not intervene in any way. Loky had little time to finish this mission and reach the extraction, he needed to be quick about it. The two ANBU stood on the ridge directly above the terrorist's encampment in the valley, Nao already prepped his ninja wire for a quick decent to the camp, the weather was absolutely perfect for this assignment since fog lay heavy and still over the camp.
"remember Loky..."
Started Sorrow, but before he managed to finish the sentence Nao already replied.
".. leave non alive"
He said and jumped down the cliff's side, repelling down into the camp silently and quickly. Loky already had a plan in mind to make this mission efficient and fast, but first he needed eleven bodies. He halted his decent ten meters off the ground where he noticed two guards having a smoke.
'good... 3...2...1'
He counted in his mind and once the count down was done he cut the rope with his knife and went into free fall, turning in mid air he landed blade first on the guard on the right, the other guard didn't even manage to call for help before the same blade pierced his throat. The heavy mist left the two body's unnoticed by the others at the camp, the other eight men were easy to take care of. Never the less he needed one more body to finish the preparations for his final assault on the remaining fifty or so terrorists in the camp, but he needed this final one to be better then the rest.
It was a few moments later when he came across the perfect candidate, a large dark skinned man with heavy armor and a large battle ax. The big man was asleep on a cot in his tent, there were no screams from him ether. But soon after his death his eyes opened and they were white as snow. Nao slammed his hands on the ground to make the other preparations come to life in their individual places. Then he turned to the giant thrall who was now bowing before him.
"pretend to take me captive to the leader of this camp, act as if you were a live person until I give you the order... when I do, kill all you see"
The thrall just nodded in approval, then tied Nao's hands loosely behind his back and took him by the shoulder outside to the very center of the camp.
And without fail the others in the camp gathered around, some calling out to others, some pointing and laughing at the captured ANBU, until finally he was pushed to his knees quite convincingly by his thrall. There was a big bonfire in the middle of all the tents, and a man in silver armor and a scar on his left cheek came outside from one of the bigger tents and stood before him.
"well well well... isn't this a treat men!, we have a little stone ANBU to honor us!... good job Bororo, I would expect no one else to capture a skilled ANBU warrior"
Said the man who appeared to be the head of this terrorist cell, and as it seemed no one noticed that Nao's Thrall failed to show much emotions, or even speak. All the men gathered around Loky and the bonfire paying no attention to the shadows in the mist, not one of the living men knew they had their backs turned on a terrifying danger that was moving their way.
"what are we going do do with you ey?... I mean we are going to kill you for sure but I think we should have a little fun with you first..."
Said the scarred man and the rest of them laughed aloud as if it was the funniest joke they ever heard. Nao felt that slowly but surly his other traps were silently picking off men from the back rows without anyone even noticing, no one but Loky himself.
"you shouldn't underestimate people you know, especially not trained assassins, they sometimes have a tendency to.... get angry at taunts"
Said Nao to grab the attention of the leader of the group even further.
"oh they do don't they, well I deeply apologize if I have offended you, but if you don't mind telling me exactly what it is that you are going to do to me and my men from the position you are in?..."
Asked the man sarcastically, and by the time he finished his little speech most of the men in the back rows were already long gone, and Nao knew that it was time to execute the rest swiftly. The sun was starting to rise over the valley with impressive crimson light, the moment the sun flushed out the shadows the men of the camp saw them, faces of the dead behind them dripping blood and enraged.
"me... I will kill you all"
Said Loky calmly then broke free from his bonds and stood fast on his feet. A scream from the back row of terrorists indicated that the corpses of their comrades were discovered and were now engaging in battle, and not a few meters away the larger thrall got up with his giant ax and started splitting people in halves. Nao charged at the shocked commander and kicked him in the breastplate of his armor, sending him flying into the large bonfire behind him. All Loky did now was turn around and started walking in the fray of battle and death, with his hands behind his back he just listened to the screams around him.... until they stopped, leaving a good meaning to the phrase; 'silent as the grave'.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------30 minutes later in the ANBU facility--------------------------------------------------------------------
The Overseer sat in his chair in his office, reading orders, lab results, and requests of many sorts. It was so far a very uneventful day, but a noise outside his door grabbed his interest. The door swung open and Farei charged into the office with hast, not a common thing for here to do.
"SIR!, we have word from agent Sorrow, you wont believe the results!"
She said excitedly and placed yet another piece of parchment on his table. He took it silently took it and breezed through its content, afterwards he placed it in his usual pile of papers. The Overseer leaned on his elbows on the desk, folding his fingers in front of his mask and with his rumbling voice he said one thing.
"....good..."