Hey, my name is Ana Jones. I am one of the six well known Shadows. We're a group of Assassins who eliminate any bad guys we come across. I went to an Assassins Academy when I was 13, in Italy, now I'm 21 and I'm the best there is. My full name is Anabelle in case you didn't know.

I do missions for the headteacher, Bryant Halto. Be mindful of his one eye, he's very sensitive of that.

Anyway, you'll learn about my friends later, and before you ask, yes, the Shadows are all female. Deadly but gorgeous. We have me, I'm known as Astro. Then there's Francesca, or Fran,

Flame

. There's Kat

Kahina

, Ella

Elektra

, Tina

Thora

, and Ebony

Ender

.

Now, let's get on with this story, shall we?

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"Ender! You take these two, me and Flame will take to rest!" I could hear footsteps over my ear piece. I'm guessing it was Fran and Tina. I tried juggling my task at hand while staying tuned to the others' conversation. So far so good, until I heard Ebony next. She was cursing all over the place, then I heard a few gunshots and the sound of Fran's flamethrower. Grinning, I decided they were fine. I could hear Ella talking to me, guiding me to our victim. This dude could seriously run.

Me and Kat reached a small clearing in the alley ways we were in. There was a fairly old man kneeling down, muttering something in Italian I couldn't make out. It's not that I can't speak Italian, but the man was speaking so quietly. Me and Kat exchanged a look.

"Halto says hi," I say, letting the man know I was behind him. He turned, and smiled. Two more men appeared by his side in less than an instance.

"What are you gonna do?" The man said. This happened a lot. I would go on a mission and my victims would think less of me, Frankly, it's pissing me off.

As if Kat sensed this, she said "Astro, focus,"

I turned back to the man, he seriously had no idea what was going to fucking happen, it's bad what he did to get himself in this position, but to have the nerve to piss me off too? Ha! He has a death wish.

"I am going to do what I came here to do. Now if you don't mind, shut the fuck up so I can get this over with,"

When I pulled out my gun and aimed it at his head, the man just laughed.

"Pfffff, your just a silly little girl," I clenched my jaw. Just then, Tina, Ebony and Fran showed up, they all had guns drawn and ready to fire.

"They should put that on your gravestone; 'killed by a silly little girl'" I say bitterly.

"Astro, don't get carried away, Halto will be growing impatient," Tina warned, taking a step closer to one of the larger guys and tracing his jaw with the tip of her gun.

"Count to three with me?" Just as the man was about to protest, I interrupted him. "One, your going to die, Two, Nobody gives a shit, Three, Say goodbye," I spoke with a calm, menacing tone.

"Wait-" he started but, once again, I cut him off with a bullet to his head. That'll leave a headache in the afterlife. As if on queue, Kat and Tina then both shot the other two guys.

"Okay, now that that's done, hurry your ass's back here now!" Ella practically yelled over the ear pieces.

"Congratulations, Shadow's, another mission ticked off the list," Bixby, the machine that speaks to us somehow, said. I don't know how computers work, ask Ella that.

We all headed back to my car and I started driving back to the Academy. I grinned, knowing I was speeding a bit. In the back of my car I could hear Fran exclaiming about how amazing they were.

"You should've seen their faces when they saw me with my flamethrower!"

"I saw their happiest memories flash through their eyes!" Ebony joked. I chuckled.

In the front of the car, sat next to me, Kat asked "Hey, how are you, Ana?"

"Fine, why'd you ask?"

"Well, y'see... none of us wants to remind you of it, but it's coming up to your mother's death day, and lack of emotion and focus is starting to worry us," Kat let out hesitantly, honestly, you'd think she's scared I would hurt her. Wow, how hurtful, after all they've been through and they're scared of me?

I sighed. "I know, but I can't keep hiding from the pain and guilt. I know I need to snap out of it, but it's hard, y'know?" I replied. Now, believe me when I say this, I am not the emotional type, but these girls have been with me through everything since the age of 13. We have such a good fucking friendship, I can see us when we are old grannies, living with 20 cats and still being bad ass while we're at it. Gangsta Grannies, y'know what I mean?

Before Kat could reply, I quickly cut in, changing the subject. "Anyway, enough of this depressing shit," then I raised my voice so the others could hear me, "Let's get out smexy ass's back to the Academy!" A series of whoops and yells erupted from behind me, grinning, I picked up the pace of my car, expertly dodging other cars on the way.

******

By the time we had reached the Academy, and I had parked my car it was 11:00 pm. God it was so fucking late. Pretty soon this is gonna become my sleeping schedule while on missions. Great.

"Well, I'm beat. Better head off to bed," Fran said, trying hard

but failing

to stifle a yawn. Lucky bitch. Fortunately for her, she and the others get to head straight to bed, however, just like every other mission, I'm called to the headteacher's office. Bryant Halto, the saddest assassin ever. Not gonna lie, I love being so fucking rude to a teacher, their look of utter shock, when you swear at them. Priceless.

Glaring at my friends, I headed toward Halto's office, mumbling about unfairness. I guess I should be grateful, me being the one to discuss missions and that shit has to mean something. Maybe I am merely the best Assassin here, which is why I have been chosen for the leadership. Although, I have to say, if you count sleeping till 10 am and drinking Starbucks all day is me being a role model, you got it all wrong.

Walking, I kept my head up high. I had built quite a reputation in all my time being here. I watch people come and go, seek shelter from a common enemy, and prank everyone all day. Living the best fucking 'college' life.

I walked and walked, God why did Halto decide to put his office on the point furthest away from where ever I am. Jesus take the wheel. I finally reached the 6th floor and just started to head up the stairs to the 7th when I bumped into someone. I was about to lose it when I saw who it was. Ella. Thank fuck. Though I was kinda disappointed, things were getting boring around here.

"The fuck Ella, who's chasing a stick up your ass?" I ask, my glare was immediately replaced with my signature mysterious grin of mine. I knew Ella like the back of my hand. And I knew she was probably in a rush somewhere, like always, Ella is the brains of the Shadow's. She's always staying up late on her computer, or pouring over a book. Like, she actually payed attention in lessons.

"No one," Ella snapped, but then she smiled and carried on. "Oh yeah, Ana, come by the control room after your finished with Halto, I'm gonna update your ear piece,"

"God, do this, do that, does no one want me to sleep around hear?" I joked, rubbing my eyes. God I had such a busy life. You may think it's easy, doing what I'm doing. Well, your wrong, life doesn't evolve around 'eat, sleep, kill, repeat'. Though I wish it does.

"Well, I best be off, hurry up before Halto gets a bunch of cockroaches on you!"

My eyes widen, If there is anything I hate more than cockroaches, it sure hasn't showed itself to me.

"Right, I'm off, cya," I rush, quickly and start sprinting up the stairs the rest of the way. I could hear Ella's laugh behind me.

After a lot of time, and a lot of stairs, I finally reached Halto's office. Instead of knocking I just walk in, lucky for me he seemed unfazed by this.

Halto was sat down, with his head back, looking to the ceiling. He had one eye, but he hasn't told us how that happened. He was old, yeah, but he probably was a charmer back in the day.

"Halto! My man, how's you?" I ask, with an amusing look on my face.

When I said how much I fucking loved to bully the teachers, Halto's my favourite to do so. Any other student and they would've been kicked out, but Halto can't kick the Shadow's out. We're too good, and he has a secret soft spot for us. If he wants to keep us working for the Academy and not go on doing our own thing, then he's gotta let us have more freedom than usual.

"Ana, good your here. Congratulations on the mission, that's three gangs took down in less than a month," he greeted.

"What can I say, I'm just that amazing," I reply to him.

"Yeah, well, those were just the minor, pathetic, unsuccessful gangs. This next mission is going to be ten times harder."

"Sweet, how much time do we have?" I answered with a smile, we finally get to do something challenging, and fun!

"2 months," he replied to me.

"Aye Aye, sir!" I said. Quickly realising my mistake I looked over to Halto to see his one eye glaring at me, but instead of saying anything he just hands me a folder and tells me to leave. Whoops. He's pissed.

I left the room, smirking on my way, and headed for my room.

The Assassins have their own quarters and dorm rooms in the Academy. We get a lot more freedom than the students do. I walked into the deserted Assassin quarters lobby. The whole school is spilt up; Assassins, and the people who actually go to this school. On one side, was all the training rooms and gyms, along with the Assassins quarters, our own target range, and a lot of cool other stuff I can't be arsed to name. On the other side, is the not so cool, student and teacher quarters, their classrooms, and not as many cool gyms and target ranges as us. The students need to train a lot, but not as much as us Assassins do. When I say all of this, I'm not saying we aren't allowed to go into each others side of the school, because we are, but it has to be for a reason, not just 'because I feel like it'. The only three places that isn't completely, One on one side, one on the other, is the running track, the garden, and our very own private beach that's practically in our back yard.

After walking down a few twists and turns in the massive building, finally, I reach my dorm. Luckily Halto wasn't stupid enough to split me and my girls up, so now we're neighbours! Exciting.

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A/N- This story is on Wattpad, check out my account @21_Paracetamols

I'll have to split the chapters in half because the words are limited on Novelcat.

Anyway, adiós guys! Hope you enjoyed the fist half of the first chapter.