(Altair, Malik, Ezio, Leonardo belong to Ubisoft)
(Thorn Belongs to lekiie)
(The rest are my OC)
(A time manipulation with a little fantasy. Starring Altair, Malik, Ezio, Leonardo and OC)
"I'll kill you!" Altair yelled as he sat up in bed, a wet cloth fell from his forehead and landed in his right hand. He heard a girlish scream from his right and saw something fall off the bed. He turned his head to the left were he heard someone laughing. "What's going on?" He asked Malik dazed.
Malik handed him a tall glass with blue liquid in it. "You're dehydrated, it caused you to pass out on the roof." Altair had taken the glass and stared at it confused to what it was. "Drink it, Shadow said it would make you feel better." He lean forward in his seat. "Thorn are you alright?" He chuckled.
"Quit laughing Malik!" Thorn frowned as he peeked over the edge of the bed, only the upper part of his head visible.
"It's hard not to, with that scream and you flying backwards off the bed." He began to laugh harder.
"That wasn't me!... It was Altair!" He protested.
"That excuse didn't work on Ezio and it's not going to work on you." He chuckled.
Altair had finished the drink, it sent a shiver through his body, he looked to Malik confused. "How long have I been out?"
"About 3 hours, Thorns been keeping that cloth cold on your forehead to bring down your fever." He leaned back in his chair. "It appears to have helped."
"And you let him do that!" His eyes grew wide at the thought of a child taking care of him.
"Well, he wanted to do it." He shrugged. "It's a way to say sorry and it's not like his going to do anything to you while I'm here." He chuckled.
He glared at Malik before he let out a heavy sigh and laid back in bed. Thorn had gotten off the floor and sat on the bed. Altair stared at the child before his attention was grabbed by Malik.
"Sound like you where having a pretty intense dream." Malik watched as the sun was staring to set.
"What makes you say that?" He yawned as he closed his eyes.
"You were mumbling in your sleep, most I couldn't make out till you woke up yelling, I'll kill you." He turned to see Altair asleep again.
He didn't hear Malik and Thorn leave room or Terra come in to leave a few sets of new robes and his weapons.
The next morning Malik had stopped by Altair's room to see if he was awake, to his surprise he was still sleeping, so he headed to the roof.
"Thorn, what are you doing?" He stopped to see the child looking over the edge of the balcony. He had two buckets beside him.
Thorn looked up at Malik. "Waiting." He turned to look back down at the ground.
"Waiting for what?" He inquired, as he took a seat on the bench.
"For inspiration." He shrugged, he picked up one of the buckets and placed it on the railing along with the other one and look down again.
"I hope your not planing to do something to Altair." He suspiciously looked at the child.
"No, I haven't seem him yet." Thorn replied.
Meanwhile Ezio, Leonardo, Renni and Jack were in the Living room. Ezio was laying on the couch while Renni and Jack sat at the table drawing as Leonardo watched and helped them when asked. Ezio Sighed.
"Ezio! Enough with the sighing!" Leonardo exclaimed.
"But I'm bored! I wish things would liven up a little." Ezio sighed again.
"Only you could be bored in an era of new things." He leaned his chin in his hand. "You should be careful what you wish for."
Ezio got up and walked over to the table to see what they were doing, Renni seemed to be drawing someone and Jack was drawing what he thought to be birds. "Who are you drawing Renni?"
She had frowned. "I don't wanna say." She covered paper with her arms.
He raised a brow and then shrugged.
"I'm drawing chickens!" Jack said excited.
"Why chickens?" Ezio asked.
"I love chickens!" He said with a smile and continued to draw them.
Ezio shrugged again and headed to the door that lead outside. He took a few steps out before he yelled, he had been showered in cold water. He looked up to see a bunch of white feathers hit his face. Confused he spit out the feathers that landed in his mouth and looked behind him when he heard someone yelled. "Chicken!" His eyes opened wide when he saw Jack running at him with a fork. He turned to run, some feather flying off him.
"Wait chicken! All I wanna do is eat you!" Jack chased after Ezio.
The noise of someone yelling outside had woken Altair up, drowsy he walked over to the window and stared out it confused. He wondered if he might still be dreaming as he watched one of the boys chase Ezio around the backyard with feathers flying off him. He still felt tired so he decided to just go back to sleep.
"Thorn!" Malik had run over to the edge to see who he had hit. "What did you do that for?"
"I found my inspiration." He laughed as he watched Jack chase Ezio around the back yard with a fork.
A short time later Ezio return with Jack under his arm and a fork in other hand, he put down Jack. "No more stabbing me with the fork." He stated annoyed. Jack nodded as he walked back to the table. "Leonardo! Stop laughing!"
"But the look on your face, and the feathers!" Leonardo was holding his side laughing. "Wait, he stabbed you? Where?" He began to laugh harder.
Changing the subject. "I can see why Altair hates that kid." He looked at Jack as he was pulling off the remaining feathers.
"No, he dislikes Thorn not Jack." Leonardo laughter was subsiding now.
"Great double the trouble." He looked around. "I hope no one else saw that."
Leonardo Chuckled, then shrugged. "It's still early, the others are probably still sleeping."
It was mid afternoon when Altair woke up. He was surprised to see his weapons on table. He got up and looked them over, they were in the same condition he had last used them. Beside them lay his torn robes and 3 sets of new ones. He picked up one of the new ones and admired the stitching, it was well crafted. It was a modified version of his old robes. Other then the hood being connected to the robe and zippers running along the front, it was pretty much the same. He put on the new ones and sheathed his short blade and long sword. Placed all 15 throwing knives in the slots on his belt and boot. Lastly he put on his hidden blade, he triggered it a few times to make sure it was in working order. He gave a stretch, the robes fit him nicely, then walked towards the door.
Redstriker walked into the living room to see her children at the table drawing with Leonardo, Malik sat on the couch reading a book and Ezio sat in a chair looking at his robes, she had seen the feathers on the floor and no one seemed to have notice her there.
"Why is there feathers all over the floor?" She asked as it seemed to startle everyone, she saw Altair standing behind her.
"Your boys are evil." Ezio stated annoyed.
"Oh you're just mad because they managed to catch you off guard." Malik had started laughing.
"You saw that?" He said shocked. He frowned when he heard Altair start laughing as he leaned on the wall.
"I'm surprised you find this funny Altair. You walked in here yesterday looking like a rainbow after Thorn had shot you with the paint ball gun." He glared at Altair.
"But I was never chased around the backyard, let alone looking like a chicken." He laughed.
"You would have run too if they came at you with a weapon!" His face started turning red.
"Ezio, I don't think a fork is considered a weapon." Leonardo stated as him, Altair and Malik laughed harder. Ezio lowered his hood as he sunk lower into the chair.
Redstriker was shocked. She couldn't believe what she was hearing and was having a harder time believing they were laughing about it. She pulled the boys out of the room.
After talking to the boys, she decided to wait till she found a suitable way to punish them. She was in her office trying to salvage anything that still worked. She took note of the damages so the rest could be replaced. She opened the case to the computer to remove the hard drive, she was praying that it was still in working order or it be a tedious task to recover the information. She was in the conference room looking over the data she received at the party when she looked up to see Ezio walk in followed by Malik and Altair. "I'm sorry my kids are being a handful." They didn't say anything. "Is there something you need?"
"Is there a way to find out if Monteriggioni still exists." Ezio asked.
"Monteriggioni? That's in Italy, right?" She started typing on the laptop.
"Si(yes), it's where I lived for 20 years before it was attacked by Cesare, I would like to know if it's still there and what information you can find on it."
"It's still there, cute little medieval looking town. It's said that Monteriggioni's exterior walls and the buildings within are some the best preserved in all of Italy, attracting tourists, architects, medieval historians and archaeologists." She looked up from the computer to see Ezio shocked expression.
"How is it possible you know that?" He then chuckled a little. "Seems like my sister's dream of rebuild it, planed out after all." He thought a moment. "Is there no more information?"
She leaned back in the chair. "It's the internet. You can get information pretty much on everything, but some information you can't always trust. What information were you hoping for?"
"There was a vault under the villa, I would have like to know if it was found." He said disappointed.
"Well, nothing is known for sure unless I went there and found out. Was there something important in the vault?"
"There are Codex pages in a statue, under the villa. They could tell us where more Pieces of Eden are. I was just hopping no one has found them." He looked slightly worried.
"Pieces of Eden?" She asked confused.
"Like the Apple." Altair said. "It is important for us to know if the pages are still there or not."
"There are more things like the Apple?" She gasped.
"Yes, I have one and there was a Staff but it seems to be locked forever in the Vatican Vault." Ezio had shrugged.
She thought about the information. "Where is your Apple now then?"
"Oh...umm..." He Frowned, deep in thought. "Last time I had, it I was arguing with Leonardo. What could have happened to it?" A thought came to him. "Do you think maybe the apple was left behind and could now be in the hands of the Templars again?"
"No, that would indicate a change in the time line. Meaning it's more then likely you are a copy of yourself, so if you where to return to the past you would simple resume what you where doing with no memory of what's happening today." She stated deep in thought.
They stared are her confused. "How is it you can even begin to know all of this?" Malik he scratched his head. "Just thinking about it is giving me a headache."
"Believe it or not, this isn't the weirdest thing to ever happened to me." She laughed.
Malik eyed her. "I wonder what happened to the one we had?"
"I don't know, we could have three Apples on our hands or the Apple that I have is the same one you both have had." She shrugged. "Seeing the power one has, I would hate to see them in the wrong hands."
"Bring us back to the Codex pages, if they have fallen into the wrong hands already, who knows what disasters await us." Altair leaned up against the wall.
"Well, we can't just simply, get up and go." She leaned on the table. "I'll have to draw up some passport for you guys, then I'll have to call up the Italian government and give them an excuse for my visit so I'll be allowed in there airspace. I also need to think about what gear we'll be needing." She twirled her hand.
"Sounds complicated now a days." Altair stated.
"I bet it does." Redstriker eyed Altair. "Killing people and getting your information without others knowing is a lot tricker in this era." She sighed. "There shouldn't be anyone on this planet that doesn't know my name or who I am. This is both a good thing and bad thing, but there is always a way to get the job done."
(there is a three week gap between this chapter and the next. The Blast From The Past Side Stories "Merry Christmas Assassins, Happy New Year Assassins, Happy Birthday Altair and Assassin Creed Fear Factor" take place here as fillers. I make vague refferences to them in the laster chapters just FYI.)