A Dark Blood Assassin

Darius was a member of one of the most powerful Guilds in the world:  The Dark Blood. They were very known everywhere and its members were respected among the other clans; feared by natural and supernatural creatures, They were natural born killers, chosen between hundreds of children and trained to be the most lethal assassins in the world.  Their training was so extremely hard that only during the first year the half of the aspirants ended up dead. By the end of the ten years of training only 5 of them would be alive.    Sons and daughters of prostitutes, orphans or rejected by their parents, all of them were abandoned at the doors of the Sanctuary. But Darius was a very rare exception; his father was Erick, the Leader of the Dark Blood Guild, his mother was one of many women that Erick seduced through the years. It was told that his father killed her the night She went to see him, eight months pregnant to tell him that it was his baby.  It seems She tried to attack him when He rejected her and then He killed her. That is how Darius came to the world, in the middle of his mother’s blood and cries.  The only thing He’s got from her was a birth mark, a firefly on his left shoulder. His father left him in the Sanctuary, where He was raised with the other kids until He got five years old, the age to start the training as assassin. They were carefully selected, they had to train with another kid for the rest of the training life and if one died the other should die too. Darius best friend and partner was Zaet, they used to wake up early in the morning, before the training time to train by their own, They were feared among the other kids because They were strong and They knew how to fight as a team, They were like brothers. Through the years Darius was tortured even more than usual just because of his father. Erick never treated him as his son, in fact, his father was the one who tortured most.  For any reason He couldn't understand, His father seemed to hate him and that hate make him grow up stronger than the others. Despite of the cruel tortures, the exhausting training, Darius managed to reach the final test at age of 15 years.  Even when it was most difficult to him to pass the whole training and tests because his teachers hated his father, He made it.  Darius and Zaet went to the Sanctuary for their last test.  There were only 10 kids at the end of those hard years of training. Each test were different but at the end, only 5 of them would survive. Darius was sent to a room where there was a young girl, around 15 years old. She was tied up and her face was covered with some clothes. -This girl was found stealing, She was helped by another apprentice.  Her punishment is death and You must execute her. -Darius' father, Erick, was the one who was talking. Darius approached to her, took the clothes of her face, looked at her eyes and then cut her throat and stared at her until her life left her eyes. He heard a loud scream, it was Zaet, with a knife in his hand and red eyes, He was looking at Darius with a deadly face, He had watched the whole scene, He saw Darius to kill her.  Zaet approached to the dead girl and closed her eyes; then He knew it, She was Zaet's girlfriend. Few days ago He had told him that He met a girl and that He was in love with her, that They wanted to leave the guild and settle up away from Sanctuary.  Darius said nothing because it was his friend and He wanted to protect him. They knew it, His father knew about Zaet's secret relationship; something completely forbidden to them. They were assassins and only assassins; that was a weakness They couldn't allow.  And They were using Darius to put it an end.  Their final tests was to fight each other to death. His final test was to kill his only friend. -You cann't have any feelings, Darius, and You must kill those who mean a weakness or a threat to your purposes. There's only a purpose in your life and that is to kill. Nobody must know your feelings and your weakness or They will use it against you-Those were his father's words. Now,  Darius was 30 years old. -- The blonde girl against the wall in Darius' bedroom was moaning, half naked an sweaty, while He was taking her from behind, He was holding her arms so She couldn't move, until He released himself. Then He loosened her arms. -Leave now -Darius said while pushing her to the door.  The girl started to get dressed before leave but Darius just looked at her with anger and screamed -NOW!.  -She just took her clothes and ran away.  Darius closed the door and went directly to take a shower, He hated to bring women to his room and never allowed them to go inside more than a couple steps but sometimes He needed it, specially before a mission and after so many months without touching a woman.  There were a few women in the Dark Blood, assassins like him but it was forbidden, just like it happened to Zaet many years ago, that would mean his own death; by the other hand, the women in the Sanctuary was available and trained if they needed their services. What He hated most was the faked moaning and the look into their inexpressive faces; so He only asked for a girl when He was really in need.  They were instructed to never get attached to any of the assassins, never look into their eyes unless it was asked and to please them whatever they wanted.  And the assassins knew they couldn't hurt them in any way by their own hand unless They break those rules or They would never get their services again.