Warning : I think this chapter is slightly gory

Chapter 9 : The First Battle

Isabella's POV

I grabbed my robes, threw off my dress and put them on swiftly. I grabbed all my equipment and strapped all of their sheath's on my robes. I dashed out of my room and out of the entrance of the castle, whistling while running to get Jess to come after me and subtly ask the guys to hurry up.

Once in the village I started to command my assassins about. I had 5 assassins guarding the rear, in case the templars wanted to try be sneaky, the rest were at the front with me standing at the front for now. The villagers were in the main hall, waiting out the attack.

I really need to try build a bunker or something. I thought to myself.

I had my sword drawn and I was in a casual defensive stance, waiting for the enemy to show themselves. I was yanked backwards and I yelped on instinct until I saw who it was. I pulled my husband into a quick kiss and saw Altair was stood behind him.

"You sent Desmond and Ezio to help the rear guard?" I asked. I pulled Angelo up front with me and Altair took up a position on the other side of me.

"Well they needed some fresh meant to slice. Desmond and Ezio are perfect for that." Altair said to my left.

"They certainly send to be when Isabella is coming after them with a sword." Angelo joked. I heard Altair chuckle under his breath and remained silence after that.

Then a horn sounded off close in front of us. Angelo looked confused at it, I was two but I tried not to show it.

Alerting the enemy to your presence? Why would they do that? Unless it is a trap? I turned to face Altair and blinked on my Eagle Vision so he could see I was doing it and I turned to my students. Nothing unusual. I scanned my surroundings and I think I could see the enemy in the distance, a red streak on the horizon but it was arriving fast.

The Templars saw us and laughed. My blood boiled slightly at the sight and I whistled so gigh that it could be heard and it hurt, even people with senstive and non-senstive ears. Most of the templars grabbed thier ears and hunched over, trying to block out the noise and pain. My friends and students all winced intially but did nothing more so not to show weakness. I kept it up for as long as I could, I moved slowly while doing so, Jess was stalking by my side, the little patter of her feet more comforting than anything. I was about 20 paces away from the Templars when my lungs gave out. I took a another quick deep breath and yelled " FOR THE ASSASSINS!"

I ran forward and impaled the closest templars and Jess jumped on them when I was finished, to make sure they were truly dead. I clashed with about 5 templars before Angelo was straight to my left side, with Altair on my right. Jess at my heel as I slash and hacked at my enemies, helping and disabling any if she could. I whistled a tune to her and leapt away from me and carefully navigated through enemy lines, snapping at ankles and calves. She was an expert at weaving and jumping around swords and tripping people over. She made her way back to me and jumped onto my current oppenant and I jumped out of the way as she tore his throat apart with her jaws. Her white patches on her chest and snout where colour red with the blood that poured out of the wounds she caused, she looked quite fearsome like this but her innocent dog ways ruined it. She padded to my side and licked her teeth clean of the blood on them and barked happily.

"10?" I asked. She barked 5 times, while we clased with more templars.

"2?" I asked again. She barked two times this time and clamped her jaws around a enemies calf and ripped it open and jumped up and tore the poor mans throat open. I cursed under my breath and whistled a different tune, she looked at me and cocked her head to the side and I nodded. She ran off and went to help my students, some of them were startled when they first saw her but realised once they realised who and what she was. She was a friend, a companion and a brillant fighter. I yanked Angelo by his hood as a sword nearly went through his gut and I reached forward with my sword and impaled that unlucky bastard in the gut. I let out a sigh and linked my arm into my partners, both of us swinging with one arm and letting the other take care of which we couldn't.

"You could have got killed." I stated bluntly to him.

"You wouldn't let that happen in a million years and I wouldn't go down with a sword in my gut." He replied.

"Ezio made you go down with a dagger in your back." I pointed out.

"He hit and slashed through my spinal cord and then it went deeper. The man knows his pressure points and instant kill area's." He jumped over a sword making me stagger in my step, he threw me with his arm to the side and back as a sword flew through what would have been my stomach, I slashed at the attacker as I was thrown back and tore his vocal cords out with my sword. I laughed in a manic manner on the inside and couldn't help but let a small giggle escape me.

"Careful Honey. I want to have a proper honeymoon next time. That reminds me. When is your birthday? I want to get you the perfect gift." He asked, I blushed slightly under my hood and I unlinked my arm from his and I jumped out of the reach of a sword and sheathed my and I drew my tow daggers and I started to slash and hack at my enemies, intentionally ignoring the question. I heard Altair chuckled darkly somewhere off to the side.

"He has backed you into a corner. Either you tell him or I will." Altair said to my right somewhere. I sighed and I stabbed an enemy in both of the eyes, I withdrew my daggers stepped back and engaged another while talking.

"It is today. I think I have the perfect for yours though. When is it?" I asked him back.

He was quiet as he dispatched some more Templars then helped me and called at Altair.

"Altair can you cover us for a minute?"

I threw two throwing knives in his direction and whistled again. Jess bound over to Altair and savaged an enemies throat and tripping and harassing the ankles of another. He was silent and said

"Yeh, sure. I don't know how long I can protect you though. So make it quick please."

I nodded at him even though he couldn't see it and Angelo grabbed my arm and walked me back from the front line.

"I think we must be like twins." He said. That was confusing. I threw a knife and shouted something at my students and turned back to Angelo.

"Elaborate?" I said.

"My birthday is today also. This day is most perfect don't you think? We can never forget our anniversary. Can I have my gift?" He said, the last bit slyly. I gently patted his cheek and replied to him

"After the battle you can. I have a more material gift than that though." I said.

"Although the honour would be mine." I giggled at him in a girly way and I gave him a quick kiss on the lips. And ran back into the battle with Jess coming to my heels, barking happily with blood pouring from her teeth. The blood of her enemies. That was my girl and the dog that I raised, trained and loved. While sparring with one, Jess leapt and pounced on one coming from my left and physically torn out the poor mans stomach and chewed on it like a chew toy. That is why. Why they should not mess with me and my Jess. I would do pretty much the same if Jess herself was attacked. I whistled at her and finished her opponent when she dashed off to go obey my orders.

Desmond,Ezio and my other students approached us moments later. All looking fresh and ready for battle. I ordered some of the current fighters to take a break while me,Altair and Angelo kept fighting. Desmond and Ezio entered the fight with the students helping them while we still took on the other majority of the templars with only four of us. We all tried out best to protect our students and we did. They only ever sustained cuts, scratches and bruises. We only ever sustained that ourselves, but we were mainly unscathed...

The line was starting to get thinner and I could estimate that about 50 were left but it was still quite a lot compared to our number off sixteen. I was quite impressed that we had achieved quite a feat as that. I didn't know how long the battle had lasted but if my now clumsy limbs had a say, then I would say about 5 hours of non-stop fighting and non-stop calling and yelling orders.

Somehow, one of the templars got past my guard with a dagger (apparently he lost it) and slashed at my scarred eye. I screamed in agony as his dagger entered and exited my flesh. I acted on instinct as I saw another sword fly towards me. I did a back flip away from the sword. As my feet hit the floor my entire vision blurred and I collapsed where I landed and heard two growls. The one of a dog and the one of a human. I only remember someone touching my eye, gently before I nearly screeched at them in response but I jerked away from them nevertheless. I remember something that looked Jess curling in front of me and seemed to be licking my face gently. Then all I remember the darkness and the voices of the concerned people around me.

A/N: Oh No! That's gotta hurt. Reopening a scar is a real bitch. It must hurt like hell. I don't have any proper scars or had them reopened but it must be torture. Poor Isabella :(

Also OMG THEY HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY. I AM A TRIPLET TO MY OC'S ! Okay. No. I like that day though. The 14th of April. Hahaha. I know its kinda selfish to have them have my birthday and it has nothing to do with the guy that I like has the same birthday as me as well. Nothing to do with it. Okay, I am weird but I like that day. Angelo was originally going to have a birthday in June but I wanted to make it weird like that. I have the perfect plan for Angelo's gift. I just had the idea and I have to use it. You will see what it is eventually.

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P.S. If you want another Good AC fanfic read go check out The Eagle and Hawk Of Masyaf !