Paris, France. As the people would call it "La ville de Paris." One of the greatest cities In the world. The year in the beautiful city was 1804, the same year when one of the greatest heroes Napoleon, was the Emperor, that will soon spread his soon-to-be empire.

After the revolution, which was caused by the damn Templars, France slowly recovered on it's knees. Since Napoleon will do as much as he can to make the people feel happy and make this beautiful country great again.

And of course, Arno Dorian, the new grand master of the French Assassin Brotherhood, was also keeping the peace across the streets of Paris. As of now, in the evening of June, the beginning of the season of summer, he was sitting on a stool, near the grave of Elise de la Serre. Even after Arno stopped chaos from erupting in France, and killed monsieur Germain, the usurper grand master of the order to do so.

after all these great accomplishments, Arno was still a little depressed by the loss of Elise. Not only that, but there was also Francois de la Serre, Elise's father and original grand master of the French Templars, who was killed by the orders of Germain.

another of course, was Charles Dorian, his original father before monsieur de la Serre adopted him as his own son. Charles meant everything to Arno, and was also an Assassin before his son. At the palace of Versailles, he was killed by an unknown person.

Arno was a kid then, but he will never forget what had happen that following day. He wished that he could just know who this murderer was, and just end him on the spot.

nonetheless, he knew it might never happen because he will never know who this murderer was. He sighed on the bench, a little lost on his own thoughts. He looked at his dead girlfriend's grave and smiled

"well, at least I had you, and monsieur de la Serre." Arno thought out loud. Then he looked at his adopted father and mother'a tombstones.

"Well, I will see you soon, my love." He addressed to Elise' grave. Arno gave one final smirk and then went back to the assassin hideout within Paris. After the Revolution and the Reign of Terror was finally over, with Templar Maximilien Robespierre executed by his own invention the guilotine, things were starting to calm down and there wasn't such uproars and riots within the streets of Paris, not to mention so much deaths.

He looked to and fro over in the streets, and saw that many people were happier now. Pretty much all of Paris and all of France were happy that Napoleon was the new ruler, and almost all of them agreed for a new French Empire will happen anytime soon. Then as he was walking, a little boy, looking dirty with unkempt brown hair walked up to them with a look on his face like he had lost hope on surviving. "Monsieur, please, I need your help."

Arno then bent down on his knees to make better eye contact with the young ragamuffin "What's wrong, boy?" he asked him

"These three men tried to rob me blind, but I told them I have no money, and now they want to kill me!"

the assassin's eyes widened with shock. "Where are they?"

"there's the little merde! (Shit)" said an angry man's voice. "Let's cut his peeling tongue out and eat it!"

his two friends shouted in agreement.

"found them." Arno muttered "stand back, garçon, this could turn out to be a bloodbath." Then he pulled his hood over his head, and took a few noble steps forward while the poor boy went for cover

Arno boldly pulled out his shining, trusted sword and was more than ready to fight these thugs. "Turn around, now!"

however, the three goons laughed at him "do you really think you can take on me and my boys? We were trained by Le Roi Des Thunes, and monsieur Robespierre!"

"oh parfait (perfect)." Arno muttered sarcastically. "Templars. My days just keeps getting better and better."

the three men charged at him with their swords, but Arno was fast, and blocked one attack before knocking the one man down. Another goon was swinging his sword at Arno really fast, but the Assassin was faster., then sliced his chest with his sword.

the Templar that was knocked down just got back up, and thruster his sword, but Arno parried out of the way with a loud clash of steel, then he finished him off with a blast from his pistol to the face.

"Mon dieu! (My god!) said the leader. He could hardly believe that one man already killed his buddies. Infuriated he tried to avenge his fallen comrades at full charge, it every attack was blocked, and Arno punched him in the face a few times. The blows were so hard, the Templar tumbled to the ground.

when he got up, his nose was bleeding, along with the right side of his lower lip. Now he was raging mad. Store he could do anything, Arno threw a smoke bomb to the ground, blinding his enemy.

coughing and wheezing from the smoke, the brute looked around and said "qu'est-ce c'est?"

"Je te vois, tyran. (I see you, bully). Then he used his hidden blade to finish him off by impaling his threat. The mugger than fell on the ground, dead. "Bonne huit, et repose en paix. (Good night, and Rest In Peace."

then Arno triumphantly put his sword back in it's scabbard attached to his waist. The boy then went up to co granulate him "oh thank you sir. Thank you so much." He said

the assassin smiled and placed his hand on the child's soldier. "You are quite welcome. Do you have a place of refuge?"

"no. My parents are dead."

then Arno frowned instantly, feeling so sorry for this child "do you have any family?"

"of course, my grandmére et grandpére." The boy said. They live on the outskirts of the city."

"perfect." Then he pulled out his pocket and had some gold coins out. "Here, this should help you with your problem. Buy some food, it looks like you might to fill your stomach.

"okay. Thank you so much"

"de rien (you're welcome) now go find your grandparents, I am sure they will be more than willing to take in in."

"okay, au revoir." Then the boy ran down the street to hopefully find his grandparents there, and do something useful about those francs Arno just donated him.

then he went continued back to the hideout.

Later

The young assassin had a job to do. Which was stopping a small posse of Jacobins from creating another reign of terror.

when he arrived at the location, it was at the infamous Notre Dame cathedral. These thugs were hiding inside the building. When Arno silently broke in, he saw the priests all held hostages at gun point by some Jacobins.

"alright, tell every last one of them Napoleon is a wretched leader." Said the leader

"no, Emperor Napoleon is an astounding leader." A priest protested

what he got in return was a hard hit to the him from the pistol handle. "The revolution must go on!" He shouted. "We will be the ones to control people's lives."

it was all of a sudden that Arno jumped from a pillar and double assassinated two Jacobins. When the others saw it, many of the guards came in immediately. They all put up a good fight, but Arno was still a master of swordplay. The Jacobins were nothing but sniveling, murderous cowards like their former master, Robespierre.

when they were all dead, Arno untied the priests from the rope surrounding them, and threw it on the ground.

"Thank you so much, sir" said the old priest leader in a hoarse voice. "How can we ever repay you, monsieur?"

"you do not have to thank me anything, revenant." The assassin replied. "You're merci is thank you enough. Oh and don't worry, I will make sure that someone will take care of the bodies."

"god be with you." Said another priest.

then Arno promptly went out of the sacred building.

after that was done, he was suddenly stopped by a man "hello." It said. Arno looked and saw a familiar looking man. He was a little older than him and had ponytail to go wth his long hair. It had a few silver linings, and he was wearing a peculiar brown and red beautiful.

"bonjour." Arno replied

"I hope you do not mind, sir, but I saw what you did to help that poor boy. I am glad of that."

"really now? Thank you so much for your kindness." Arno replied.

"oh, and you dropped this mask. While back. I figured it might have been yours."

"who are you anywho?"

"Shay. Shay Cormac. Pleasure to meet you. And you?"

"Arno, Arno Dorian." The assassin replied.

thr name Dorian sounded familiar. Shay couldn't really put his finger on it, but it did ring a bell somehow. "A pleasure to meet you Arno."

"hmm. Do you go out helping others too?"

"of course, I always help out someone in need, and I even saved the Earth from an impending doom." Said Cormac.

Arno was becoming a little intrigued by this mysterious man. "Well, I think we probably have much to talk about."

Shay smiled "indeed." Then they both had a walk going to the park where they can know each other more.