Notes- I think we get the idea that I don't own Assassin's creed at all..., Thanks to those still readin and those adding it to their favourites!
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"Shouldn't you be watching Kadar get beat up?" Altair asked turning round to the concealed face of Malik,
"We're done now, the man knows nothing he's just in charge of clearing debris so Kadar's gone ahead scouting." Malik informed the pair.
"You told him to go ahead? Your brother has barely become an assassin and you let him go alone?" Altair asked tensely pacing forwards a few steps.
"Altair – my brother is perfectly capable as an Assassin, do not demean him in front of me." Malik warned stopping Altair in his tracks.
"Oh sorry Head Assassin of Jerusalem, your baby brother won't be spoken about around you – Leah come over here." Altair put an arm around Leah and steered her three steps away from Malik to the wall of tunnel where they stood.
"So Leah – have you heard about that Kadar?" he asked her deliberately and leaned on the wall casually.
"Um...No..no I haven't." Leah said with the beginnings of a grin, she could be in Jerusalem some ten thousand years ago but that didn't change much between people.
"Would you like me to tell you?" Altair asked his eyes widening, with an added tilt of his head giving her a clear signal to say "yes".
"Sure, go ahead I'd love to hear it. Then I'll talk about it to Rafik, I'm sure he'd be interested." She gave a broad smile and also took a relaxed position.
"Well, to start with did you know what happened when he first met me?" Altair said with a voice that dripped with the intention of a gossip girl from Leah's perspective.
"Altair I'm warning you-" Malik said watching the pair continue,
"No, what happened you bullied him to death?" she giggled out,
"Not quite to death but he wet his pants after I finished." Altair said with a large smirk glued onto his face.
"You are such a big bully!" Leah grinned out giving Altair a playful push and he chuckled,
"I know I can't help it if it's in my nature and he's weak. But listen – what fifteen year old boy wets his pants after being scolded by me?" The assassin had a huge grin on his face something that often never occurred in his grim life of killing.
"That depends do you normally go around scaring little boys?"
"I try my best – no I really do!" Altair said as Leah started to laugh,"When the servant children get under my feet, you do not want to know what happens to them!"
"Maybe I'll ask later – getting off topic don't we have a piece of Eden to retrieve?" Leah asked, tilting her head with a sweet smile as Altair's face plummeted into a scowl.
"Damn." He growled in annoyance more to himself than to Leah.
"You see what happens when women go on missions with men?" Malik commented with a smug look as Altair rushed past him with a stormy face, "They get distracted."
"Malik there is no distraction, now move that back side of yours so we can see where that lousy Kadar has gotten to." Altair retorted hauling Malik with him to the edge of the tunnel where there were beams across the walls of the tunnel for structure, allowing the Assassins easy access across.
Leah got across somehow desperate to keep up, she wanted to know. Would it be a repeat of the game where Malik lost an arm, and Kadar was kidnapped only to be killed in front of Al Mualim?
"Stop shuffling back there." Atlair whispered his eyes watching the men below.
"Yea Malik." Leah said instinctively, and was sent a withering glare from the hooded Assassin.
"We need to make a move, while we're down there let's make it clear. Robert De Sable is mine to kill."
"No." Leah and Malik called out, Altair raised an eyebrow at the girl,
"I was expecting Malik to object but...you?"
"Yeah, I know the French guy is like your greatest enemy and you hate each other but it's not the way of the creed, so...don't kill him?" she finished her speech dwindling as Altair glared at her non too pleased.
"He is in our way of it it's a lot easier to deal with a dead man than one screaming and kicking."
"That's beside the point – do not compromise the brotherhood." Malik said evenly,
"I'm higher than you both in rank, and I tire of playing with the three of you. You should all know better than to question my movements."
"No!" Malik called out his hand outstretched to pull back Altair who had already leapt off from the high ledge startling the band of Templars.
"Well get down there you two and help!" Leah hissed ushering the two Assassins beside her who followed Altair's lead. She herself climbed down the ladder exactly where the game had placed it as she landed she saw Altair being pushed back and roll on the floor before bounding to his feet drawing out his sword.
{Right in the game we fight for a bit and then... down comes the wall! But what happened before the wall?! Cut scene and yelling...} she decided and tried to get past the group of struggling men each rearing to kill the other, so she could reach the other side past the wall that would collapse.
"Get the Piece of Eden girl!" Altair shouted out, catching a glimpse of her unsuccessfully dodge past the fighting men.
"Wha – But we're not supposed to get it!" she argued back frustration building,
"Of course we are you rag of a beggar!" He shouted giving a Templar a kick to the stomach before turning to Robert De Sable who instantly seized his throat. Leah watched as the whole scene played out before her just as it had on her screen at home,
"It'd be a shame to slaughter you here, so I let you live that you may deliver a message to your master. The Holy land is lost to him and you, you should all flee before the chance is gone if you stay you all will die." He threw Altair into a structure in which he crashed straight through.
"Altair!" Leah screamed running stupidly up to the rubble of the collapsed wall, "You bastard come back here! Don't leave us!" she kicked at it fruitlessly before it came to her. {Altair would live. You play the goddamned game as him you stupid girl!} This sudden realization alerted her to the situation – Malik would escape with one arm, Kadar was a goner as a prisoner, therefore she should stick to Malik harsh as that may be to his brother.
"Malik!" she yelled out turning around and saw the remaining men fight continuously. She located the two hooded figures wrestling, stabbing, slashing but couldn't see who was who under it.
{Baldy – where is he?!} She thought worriedly, and suddenly a voice called out,
"Men to arms -kill the Assassins!"
"No – don't kill!" she argued back to no one in particular as she saw one of the Assassin's land a hidden blade deep into the throat of a Templer.
"And the girl – no witnesses." Robert de Sable called out from the high ledge of where they had entered.
"Especially not me!" she screamed out looking at De Sable who strode out of view, as her view returned to the ground level, she saw a blade swing directly for her head. It happened so fast she ducked and ran away screaming for the attacker to get away.
"Don't run in circles girl! Fight him you have a weapon!" she heard someone call out.
"Leave me alone - I don't fight you can't do this to me!" she screamed out fear coursing through her body over powering all sensible actions, as she sprinted wildly down a corridor lit by flaming torches. She could hear the pounding of the Templar following, at the end of the corridor was a large wooden door in which she pounded and pulled fruitlessly on
"Open up – come on! No!" she shouted turning back around and found the Templar watching her like a predator his sword held tightly in his hand, he approached her cautiously. Leah was afraid well and truly this wasn't some hooded teenager in the streets throwing stones, this was a man intent on killing her.
"Y-you don't have to kill me." She said, backing into a corner.
"Oui je fais." He had a sadistic grin on his face as he came within striking range, Leah's head thought furiously and she remembered that crucial detail,
"Why speak French when I know you speak English?" she said suddenly.
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Cause that makes hell loads of a difference. XD
