Achilles Davenport

Davenport Homestead, March 1752.

After nearly 3 months of sea travelling, Mórrígan docked at the Homestead's port. A lake connected to the sea and surrounded by cliff from three sides, leaving only the entrance and exit from the sea. The sailors got busy moving all their loots during the travel. Two men stepped down and went for the cliff facing the sea.

"So, Captain, let's have a race to the top of the cliff." Liam said turning to the other man.

"Sure, you always beat me in climbing cliffs. But this time, you will only see my foot above you." Shay said.

Both reached the bottom of the cliff,

"On three. 1....2...3!!!" Liam finished counting. Shay just started climbing. Jumping, grabbing, climbing. When Shay reached the top of the cliff, he stopped and looked down while hanging. He saw nothing there. Liam was nowhere to be found. Then came a voice from above him,

"What are you looking at?"

Facing above, Shay saw Liam standing above him, smiling.

"You.....How???" Shay was only able to voice this out. He remembered not seeing Liam overtaking him.

"Come on up first. We have to report to mentor first. These things can be discussed later." Liam said again while smiling. Then he turned around and started walking towards the dirt path. Shay climbed up and followed behind Liam. Following the path, they reached a kind of small village. Only a few wooden houses were present. The surroundings were full of trees of various heights, types and more.

Liam and Shay went directly to the biggest house present. A double story house with slanted roof. Walls painted red with windows frame white. The slanted roof was grey coloured. A small walkway in front of the house with small roof supported by 4 columns, all white. Liam and Shay reached the door. Liam directly opened the door and entered. Shay followed him. The view from the interior was the of same theme as outside. Red, White and Grey. Liam started climbing the stairs which were present on the left side of the entrance. Both men reached a door on the upper floor and opened it. What came in their view was a table full of some documents, behind the table was a leather chair which looked quite comfortable. Behind the chair was a window which shows the Homestead's surrounding and port. Running their eyes around the room, nobody was in their sight.

"Looks like mentor is not here." Liam said.

"I can see it, no need to say obvious things." Shay replied.

"Fine. Let's go to the practice field, he might be overseeing the training."

Both men started walking the dirt path again until they reached an open area. That was the practice ground. The practice ground had a few people practicing and outside of ground was a man in his middle-aged watching the practicing bunch. Sometimes he would instruct and then continue watching.

Shay and Liam went behind the man. Suddenly the man said,

"I see you have returned. Tell me how was the journey with Chevalier?" while turning.

""Mentor."" both Liam and Shay greeted the man.

The man, Achilles Davenport. The mentor of both the man and of the Colonial Brotherhood. A man of the Caribbean and British descent. A dark brown toned skin, sharp eyes, and short trimmed hair. Wearing the robe of a Master Assassin with white, violet, and green tones.

"Let's go to my manor. We will discuss there." Achilles started walking towards the manor while being followed by Liam and Shay.

Reaching the manor, both disciples started to tell about their adventures. When Achilles heard about Mórrígan, he patted Shay and told him he did an excellent job. Due to the low no. of their own ships, Assassin's mostly can't have any sea missions. Having another ship like Morrigan will increase their sea power.

While the three men were having a talk, a knock was heard on the office door. Then without waiting for response, it opened. Then came an older man in brown leather Assassin's robe. He was a black man. Then came a heavy voice from his mouth,

"Achilles, won't you welcome me?"

Hearing the man, Achilles stood up and walked towards the man while saying,

" Adéwalé, Oh my old friend, it's been a long time." then both had a hug.

Liam understanding something said,

"Mentor, looks like you two have many things to talk about. Shay and I will leave now."

"Okay, you may leave. That reminds me, Shay, go and have a talk with Hope and Kesegowaase."

After Achilles said this, Liam showed a smile. Both the man left Achilles and Adéwalé. Exiting the manor, Shay asked Liam,

"Hey Liam, who was the man who just came?"

"Adéwalé, the Mentor of West Indies Brotherhood. If he personally came here, at such a long distance, he must have something important or urgent to discuss." When Liam said this much, his face became serious.

"Well let's not think about it. Come on, we need to find those two. They have something to give you." He said lastly.

Both men went to another training field, but this was just a bit smaller. This field consists of only a firing range and a vast jungle expands after it.

Reaching the field, Liam went to the two people who were practicing at the firing range. One man, one woman. The man was wearing clothes which were of Wolastoqiyik tribe but more like having donned Assassins robe with the design of Wolastoqiyik's clothes. Having brown as the main color with some reds as the secondary. Some kind of feathers were also hung here and there. He was tanned and had dark brown face paint which covers his eyes from ear to ear. Kesegowasse his name.

The woman was Hope Jensen. Tall, good-looking, also wore Assassins robe but the design was a bit more at the noble side than the normal one. The dress contained skirt with frill ends with purple as the main color and whites as the secondary.

Both were Shay's instructors. Including Liam, Shay was learning from three people.

When the two men reached the other two, Shay said,

"Hey, both of you. Liam said you have some things for me."

"You know Shay if you keep up this, you won't get popular with women." The women said annoyingly.

"Oh come on Hope, you know these kinds of things are a pain in the ass." Shay said to Hope.

"If you keep this up, you will be restricted to only a few missions." Hope said.

"Oh, forgive me my lady, for my behavior." Shay replied while giving a gentlemanly bow.

"Enough playing around. Shay we did call you for an important thing." Kesegowaase said while getting up. He looked at Hope and Liam for a sec and turned to Shay,

"Shay, we three have come to a decision. About your future."

Hearing this, Shay turned serious. Concentrated so he doesn't miss a detail.

"And...that's.....something you will need to hear from Achilles." Kesegowasse said with pauses in-between.

"..... You know Kesegowasse, I never had this urge to hit you in the face like I'm feeling now." Shay said slowly while gritting his teeth.

"Pfff…"

Hearing Hope controlling his laugh, Shay glared at her. But she just turned her gaze away. Looking back, he saw Liam same as Hope, holding his laughter. Only Kesegowaase was silently looking at Shay.

"HA HA....."

Noticing Shay's gaze, Liam laughed lost control and laughed loudly,

".....ha...ha.... You should look at you face Shay...so good. HA HA..." and turned around to continue laughing.

Shay again turned towards Kesegowasse waiting for an answer,

"Don't look at me like that and go to Achilles, he must be waiting for you." And got this as an answer.

Hearing this, while feeling frustrated, he left those three and went to find Achilles, while ignoring Liam's and Hope's laughing.

Reaching the house, he saw Achilles bidding farewell to Adéwalé. Adéwalé saw Shay coming and walked towards him. He stopped before Shay and just looked at him like examining him. Noticing this Shay just stood quietly because he saw Achilles just looking at both of them. After a few moments, Adéwalé patted Shay's shoulder twice and said,

"Work hard young man, you got a good future ahead of you." Saying this much, he just smiled and left.

Seeing this, Achilles came up to Shay and said, "Good job Shay."

"You just got the acknowledgment of Adéwalé."

"But Master, I did nothing." Shay said confusedly.

"Don't worry small things, I hope you met your instructors."

Hearing this, Shay said "Yes, they told me to meet you." with a stiff face.

"Why long face, here I got something for you. After seeing this, I'm sure you will be happy." Achilles said while taking out two flintlock pistols.

When in Creed, if you get any kind of higher equipment then you currently use, it means you are getting promoted. These are provided by mentor himself. Even if you are able to get better quality weapons from a third party, you won't have a higher rank cause it is not acknowledged by mentor. When an Assassin is promoted, it means he will be able to go to higher difficulty missions, for which he will need better weapons. And these are provided by mentor as his first weapon. When Shay joined the Creed, he was given a steel dagger. And when he reached Apprentice, he got a sword. Shay uses the combination of both in combat as those two mean a lot to him. This is what it means to get better weapons from a mentor.

"Mentor....I accept." Shay said and knelt down on one leg.

"Get up Shay, I have high hopes for you." Achilles said while helping Shay up.

"With this you are fully-fledged Assassin. I have given Liam your hidden-blade too, remember to take it from him."

"Why him??" Shay asked.

"As a proper Assassin, I'm assigning both of you a mission, you need to leave now. The formal ceremony will be left after that. I have given Liam all the details. I know you just came but this is important." Achilles said.

"I understand." Shay said and turned around to go to docks. After walking a few steps, he stopped and looked at Achilles with a complicated gaze.

"What happened??"

"Master....if I may ask....I remember Liam being with me all the time, so how did you give Liam those details??" Shay asked with a confused tone.

Hearing this, Achilles just coughed once and said,

"Ahem...As I said don't mind the details and just go."

"But...."

"Just go." Saying this, Achilles turned around and went inside his home.

"Weird....." while muttering this Shay just left.