the sky is a cool English night as the instrumental start of
High Hopes by Panic! at the Disco plays and the words
"The Authors presents"appear in sight before fading and the words
"In Association with many companies to list"do the same thing as the lyrics start to play and the vision zooms down to see an owl fly across the line of sight to reveal the words:
Realms of the Imaginationwith the letters replaced with certain logos such as the first 'a' in Imagination being the Assassin's Creed logo, the 's' in Realms being the snakes of Loki, and the 't' in the word 'the' being an upside down sword.
suddenly the words vanish again as the sight is on the back of the same owl that flew by before as a visual is that of a rushing flight through the city of London, seeing people doing mondain things or just walking down the sidewalk as more words fly by, this time the owl dodges them one at a time, left to right instead of them vanishing.
"Vin Angel"
"MikuHinata1"before pulling up to dodge
"Marcus Emrys"and ducks down to avoid
"GueniverOrion"the flight continues smoothly before the bird turns a sharp right down a corner and flies off just as the words
"With Drkslayer_Valencia"appear like a wall but the flight continues and the words vanish just in time for new ones to appear after that
"And Dawning Winter as Jezebel"just as the sight slows to the sight of the Kenway manor and zooms through the window to see a man with headphones on listening to the same song and muttering the words as he read.
Alastor Corbyn hadn't been with the Brootherhood long, honestly only recently becoming an initiate himself. he spent most of his time studying the history of the assassins for now until he felt someone tap his shoulder and spun around, turning his music off
"lets go, we think we might have a mission for ya" one of his mentors said, making Alastor get up curiously and followed
"so quickly? i mean i only just got my hidden blades" he had asked but the man only shook his head
"you are ready, besides what better way to test your abilities than out in the field?" he asked, making Alastor ponder but nodded.
"Based on multiple fandoms""what was that?" Alastor asked curiously but his mentor didn't reply so he just kept walking until the director was in sight, the same woman who discovered him here three years ago: Elinore Smith
"ah, Corbyn ... there you are" she said as she finished laying out the new equipment on the table
"the branches got a request from a ruler in a place called Vallahiem wanting a target eliminated, thought this would be a good test for you" she said making Alastor give a lopsided grin
"no pressure or anything" he said offhanded making both his companions snort out a laugh
"we got any details?" he asked but the director shook her head
"no exact details, just directions and that it's a man with odd hair" she said and Alastor became even more confused
"that's it?! i'm no expert but don't we normally have more information than this?" he asked as Elinore nodded
"yes, but we will take this job and i'll leave you to use your best judgement on this ... report back here when you learn more" she said before handing him the grapple blade and Phantom Blade extensions of the Hidden blade and put one on each of the ones on his wrists and flicked it to experiment
"good luck, initiate" she said before Alastor nodded and put his hood up and ran out the window before landing gracefully on a tree and onto the ground just as a brown owl landed on his shoulders, giving a hoot
"welp, time to see if this Realm Hopper that Octavius guy built works" he said before pulling out a small disk, like a top and tossed it on the ground and a vortex appeared in front of the two and Alastor jumped through, snatching the device just before it closed behind him
