Chapter 1: The start of something wonderful
The story begins with a member of the assassins order named AltaïrIbn-La'Ahad. Raised from birth to be a master of weapons, stealth, and the ability to use his surroundings to out-smart and out maneuver his opponents. Altaïr was trained with his allies in the assassins order to combat their enemies of the Templars, an order bent on controlling the known world through ancient artifacts that can control minds or create copies of the user. At the time the assassins were lead by their grand master Al Mualim. Al Mualim was a bit of a father figure to Altaïr and others in the assassins order. However, this is not a story of those two or even someone of their status, this is story about a simple assassin that had only been given his hidden blade just a few days before...this is the story of a young assassin girl named Lilith.
Let us move forward in time to a part of this young girls life that I would say to be the start of something wonderful, to a time that most of you would find a bit more stressful.
The man made a break for the stables watching the roof tops for his predator lurking not too far behind. The assassin had jumped to the streets and taken an alternate route to the stables however, and was no longer following the man directly. Late at night like this, the man stumbled for a bit before he mounted the horse and quickly took off for the gates. He had just reached the bottom of a cliff when the figure jumped down and brought down her right hand quickly slicing through the man's neck and kicking him off the horse, stealing it for herself and riding away to a nearby village. The young assassin rode the horse to the stables there in the village and dismounted the horse, leading it to the owner of the stables to make some money before returning to Masyaf with her bloodied feather as proof of her success with her mission.
"Hope the horse proves useful to you old friend," said the young assassin girl while she placed the money in her pouch.
"And I hope that money helps you out in any future assignments Lilith, Al Mualim can be very demanding with his work and is not to be upset," said the old man with a smile on his face.
"Well I better hurry back before the master gets angry with me," she said as she mounted her own horse, kicking its sides with her heels, she galloped off to the home of the assassins order. When Lilith rode up to the front gates of Masyaf and left her horse there to eat some of the grass, she walked to the Assassins castle and up to Al Mualim's office, where she stood near the railing in a respectful stance as she spoke.
"Grand Master, I have returned from my assignment in Acre and have brought the feather as proof!" she said as Al Mualim turned to answer her.
"Very good, very good. This will benefit us both in the future but for now I have another assignment for you in Jerusalem. Consult with assassins den master there, he will give you more information. You will receive three days rest before I expect you to depart. Now leave me. I have another to consult with," he said as he looked at Altaïr, who was waiting for the two to finish talking.
Lilith bowed and turned to leave but could only gape at the sight of the master assassin in front of her before quickly shaking him from her mind and leaving the building. She would need the three days to prepare supplies for the trip ahead of her but she knew that this next assignment was the start of something wonderful.