Chapter 1 : The Stranger

" You know that there is some guy tailing us right?" Isabella whispered to her companions. Altair and Ezio nodded but Desmond just shrugged. They had found a forest about an hour walk from the battle field. Isabella innocently gestured at the guys to pass her a throwing knife without actually speaking uo. Altair passed one too her and they kept walking nonchalantly through the forest, waiting for Isabella kill the follower or pin him against a tree for information that they desperately needed. They entered a clearing, Isabella stopped and went over to a tree and leant on it. She gestured at Desmond to come over to her while the other two kept on guard. She opened her bag and pulled the documents that Desmond had put in there and showed them to him, she put the bag down and walked two paces in front of him waiting for him to read it and all of a sudden she wheeled around and threw the knife at a tree, hearing a small high pitch yelp at the contact that she made.

Even more nonchalantly than before, she approached the stranger that had been following them and yanked the knife out of the hood that attached him to the tree. She grabbed his hood and dragged him into the clearing and shoved him onto his knee's. She let go of his hood and sat in front of him.

" Now tell me, why were you following us and where are we." Everyone turned to her and the stranger in front og her but Desmond would occasionally glance at the paper in his hands and back at Isabella. Silence was held in the clearing for several minutes as they all waited for the stranger to speak up. Isabella sighed and then took out her throwing knife and put it under the strangers chin, making them look into her eyes.

" If you don't say anything then I have no use for you. Which means that you will not see the light of another day. The last thing you will ever see if my eyes. Do you really want that?"

The figure looked up and said " I trust no mere strangers with my identity and intentions but I can tell you, you are in Western Syria, near Orontes Valley." Isabella pressed the knife a little harder under his chin.

" Now tell me why you were following us." Silence hung in the clearing once again until Altair put a hand on her shoulder and indicated for her to get up. She stood up but whispered to the stranger " Have fun." . She got up and then walking over to Desmond and was having a whisper discussion between them both. Ezio remained in silence absorbing his surroundings and seeing if he could sense anyone in the immediate vicinity. He stood in silence.

Altair was conversing with the stranger, using his smooth tongue that he had acquired as Grand Master, to get information out them. Desmond and Isabella were still whispering but their voices were slowly growing louder.

"Its him Desmond and that is me. You can not deny the history books and neither will I. You have to admit it. I did not write it did I ? Rebecca gave them to you and she got them for the database that Shaun made."

" How do I know that you didn't plant this into the system of purpose? You could have easily sneaked in at night and done it!"

" Ezio and Altair would have tailed me and followed me there and asked what the hell I was doing. How could I have known about him anyway. Hmmm? Tell me that."

" You could have seen a guy on the street and described him on a piece of paper. You could have told them not to tell me or anyone."

Isabella stormed off and walked upto Ezio and stood next to him in silence. Desmond begin reading what was still in his hand and the only noise in the clearing was Altair and the stranger and occasional rustle if Jess's tail against the ground as she sat in between Ezio and Isabella.

~~~~~~~~(2 hours later, in silence)~~~~~~~~~

"Come quietly and maybe we will untie you. Until then we can not trust you. " The straner stopped for a full minute and then contuined to struggle. Isabella sighed, her idea didn't work. She looked at the guys and nodded at them. It was time for thier plan of action. Since they didn't know very much about when they were and where everything was they were taking the stranger with them. Dragging him along, since he wasn't going to co-operate and let them keep him tied up. He looked the part of an assassin but he didn't seem to be much more than a novice which proved well for them. Altair held the stranger, which took quite a lot of strength so Desmond was helping, while Ezio tried to get a clean shot at the back of his head so he could knock him out but it wasn't working. It took half an hour for Ezio to do it but it was Isabella who did something so uncharactistic that it made them all stare at her. She stepped forward and made the stranger face her eyes and she gently brushed her lips against his for a single second. She stepped back and looked at the other guys who had all stopped and she burst out laughing for no random reason at all. The others seem to snap out of it and Ezio then hit the guy on the back of the head and knocked him clean out. All three of them opened the mouths at the same time but Isabella stopped laughing and looked u at them.

"Any guy is a sucker to a spontenious kiss. You should know that by know. Also before you ask, I was thinking about the toaster incident." Isabella stated, amusement still in her tone.

"That was not funny!" Altair argued.

"Do I even want to ask?" Desmond asked in a sacastic but serious tone.

"Shut up Desmond. You don't want to know." Altait cut in.

"Come on guys we have a long trek ahead. I don't want to waste daylight on that incident. We need to find civilisation if there is any and seek refuge in case any of those templars are still around." Ezio said casually. Altair muttered darkly under his breath and then put the stranger over his shoulder and started to walk out of the clearing to where the stranger had 'come from'. Isabella stood by a tree, waiting for the guys to move. Ezio went after Altair and caught up with him, leaving the other two to catch up or walk behind them.

Isabella went upto Desmond and they resumed there discussion while catching up with the guys but staying behind them. Isabella motioned for him to stop a minute and called out

"Oh Altair, if you didn't know already we near Orontes Valley. Isn't Masyaf nearby?" Isabella questioned with a smile on her face, knowing the answer already.

"Yep. I think, I didn't know this forest was ever here. I never saw it." Altair responded, his voice level but his body language spoke of excitment.

"I would calm yourself Altair or you will drop your parcel." Desmond joked.

"Shut up Desmond."

A/N: I am changing my update schedule to an update every two days so I can think this threw as I have a plan, an extremely long plan and this story will go to Isabella's death, or when I like it. I could always cheat you and not see her to a grave ;) I also see a romance cooking for this story, but I need his appearance :S I need to work on him so you might not see an update for a couple of days while I come up with him. You will soon see why Isabella and Desmond were arguing, the documents are the key and I am going to look forward to Ezio's and Altair's reactions. Haha. I was also thinking of making the occasional chapters in first person and the rest in 3rd person so you can see what goes on in the heads of the stranger and Isabella mostly, hahahaha. I am evil cos we all know how Ezio,Altair and Desmond think. Okay. See you in 2 days unless my brain explodes from the lack of activity. Also can you guys give me some lovely reviews to help me? I was wondering if there is anything wrong with my work besides where Isabella goes totally out of character in this chapter but it was on purpose as guys do actually go 'what the fudge' in thier heads if a girl randomly kisses them so. Yeh, unless you know them then they are like 'what the fuck are you doing' in their heads xD