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Chapter 10 - The Shadow
Akil stood up and came to sit beside me. He drew out a long breath and stared at me. "I work for a group called the Assassins" he looked down hopelessly. I froze. He was an Assassin? "Oh... You... I... Who are the Assassins?" I stuttered working to keep from looking surprised. "Oh..." He said. "We have a creed. Our creed consists of people like me" he gestured to himself. The way he was talking to me made me feel like I was 5 years old. "We only fight for what is good and reasonable and what brings peace." Akil looked back at me. I knew he was trying to make me feel good about his decision but of course I knew exactly what the Assassins fought for. I knew everything. I tried to act like I had never known. "Our master is Al Mualim. But you will learn everything about the creed as you are in." he smiled weakly. His deep blue eyes stared into mine. "You look so much like someone very high up in our creed." he said. "Who!" I asked, feeling irritated. He looked away from me and shook his head. "You will find out tomorrow" Akil stood up and brushed his black hair out of his eyes. "I am sorry about all of the secrets." he said before he disappeared out of the door. I hurried out of the door after him but he had disappeared and I was left on my own.
I started to panic and I ran out into the street. Bad idea. I dived through the crowds trying find a route out back to Akil's house but there was no way. I scaled a house on the other side of the street and accidentally bumped into a guard. On the roof here as well? This was not going well! "You should NOT be up here child. Get down before I snap you in half!" the guard growled at me. I stood in shock for a moment and didn't move. But a moment was all it took to start the guard off. He chased me all over the rooftops. Then it gradually turned into about 6 guards chasing me. I was so scared I jumped of the building, attempting a leap of faith. Then once I scrambled out of the hay I made for what seemed like an abandoned barn. Then I realised how stupid I had just been. There was no door, no way out. I was practically stuck with nowhere to go. The guards reached the barn and started to close in on me. I backed away from them until I hit the barn walls. They drew out their swords. "Time to die child!" one of them hissed at me. I hadn't done anything wrong. I had simply bumped into one and stood for a second! "I doubt it" I grinned. They all sneered at me and the first one lunged at me. I dodged his attack, kicked him over and sent my little knife straight through his throat, all in one swift move. Then I picked up his sword which he had dropped and smiled slyly at the other guards, who looked a little stunned. I fought off the rest of them usually using my method of kicking them where it hurts. I looked down at my clothes. The sleeve of my old jacket was blood stained. I decided to take it off. Then something caught my eye blocking the sunlight from the hole in the barns roof. The same white robed man stared down at me. He only looked like a shadow because of the sum but he soon jumped away.
I stood outside of the barn and climbed to the top ignoring the annoying comments the villagers said amongst themselves below me.
When I reached the top the man wasn't there but I could see him on a faraway building. I started to sprint and leap towards him. When I reached the roof he stood on he had his back to me. "Who are you!" I panted. He turned round and sure enough it had been the same guy all along. He said nothing. "Do you speak!" I almost shouted at him because of my short temper. He nodded. "I do" he said. His lips curved a little. "Why were you watching me?" I snapped. His smile faded and he turned around. "I am not finished with you!" I said reaching out to grab him. He immediately snapped round and grabbed my arm tightly. "Too many questions, child!" he snarled. "Do not follow me" he turned back around and jumped off of the roof.
I stood on the roof amazed for a moment until I felt a hand clamp down on my shoulder. I turned round to meet Akil and he was raging. He was holding my jacket that I had dropped on the guards. "Alicia!" Akil shouted at me. "Oh Akil... I... What?" I struggled. "What is this!" he gestured to my jacket. "Oh... Thats n-not mine..." I said. "Alicia what did you do?" Akil looked down at his feet. "I was running away from guards. They tried to kill me... I am sorry, Akil" I sighed. Akil held my chin firmly to make me look at his face. "Not enough. You tell me everything!" he growled. I was about to begin when he stopped me. "At my house" Akil said and began to quickly walk along the rooftops. I tried to keep up but I was a few steps behind him. When we reached the house Akil strode in and commanded that I sit on one of the chairs. I swallowed down and braced myself. "I was in a barn and what did I see? Guards all dead! And your clothing lying on top of them. Do you know how dangerous and foolish that is?" He snapped once he had sat down across from me. "You do NOT do that ever again! Now you tell me exactly what happened!" I shifted in my seat uncomfortably but anger was bubbling inside me. It was his fault. He had just left me all on my own in the middle of Masyaf so I started to panic! "I... You left me alone in the house without telling me where you were going!" I snapped. "And you expected me not to go after you? I do not know this place one bit so I climbed up a roof to see if I could see you. Unfortunately the guard on the roof was not so happy when I ACCIDENTALLY bumped into him..." Akil looked down but waved me on. "Just continue" he mumbled. "Alright… he chased me across the rooftops until there were six guards chasing me. I couldn't run on the rooftops anymore so I hid in a barn. Unfortunately they found me and I had no choice- they were going to kill me. But I killed them instead" I sighed and shame swept over me. "You do not need training child. But never do that again and never go out of my sight" Akil sighed. "Just... Just go to bed" he sighed gesturing away from him and he turned to get up and go. "Where are you going it is night!" I said standing up behind him. "Nearly night" Akil corrected me. "I need to talk with someone" he left the house.
I lay in my bed for ages. I couldn't get to sleep. Akil hadn't come back for a couple of hours and I had started to worry. What if something had happened? I was so tempted to go out and find him until the door burst open and Akil strode in. I sat up and he scowled at me. "Did I not tell you to go to sleep?" he snarled. "Oh. I couldn't sleep. I was worrying about you" I said innocently. His expression softened. "I am Alright. Just go to sleep" he sighed. I lay back down but watched him.
He was in a bad mood as ever. It seemed like something was angering him and I wanted to know what it was. I had only spent a couple of days with Akil and I had already felt like he was family. His eyes were ablaze with anger when he stared at me. "What are you staring for?" I snapped. He shook his head, said nothing and went to bed.
"Sooo? Still not doing the right thing. Are you, Alicia?" I heard 16's voice say behind me. "What?" I mumbled standing up from where I lay on the Animus' sandy beach. "Why the hell am I back here? I want to go back to Akil!" I blurted out. "Oh. Akil. Your friend is he?" 16 said holding his arms out. "Why do you care" I snapped. "Oh come on. Don't be so harsh with me." 16 said slyly.
Then he did his disappearing trick and ended up behind me. "I am the one helping you after all" I heard 16 sigh and I turned round to meet his icy glare. "Gain the trust or you don't go back" he snarled. His sarcasm had faded completely. "You don't want to end up like me at just 12 years old. In fact wait a minute. Your birthday. Hmm how long away is that?" he tapped his foot for a minute. "Well in your time it's in a month but in the 1100's or whatever your birthday is in a week." I took a step back. "Wa- What?" I stuttered. "You know what it doesn't matter just..." he stopped and snapped his fingers."Just hurry up" then he disappeared. "Uh... 16?" I said a little shocked with his outburst. Then I took another step back and found myself falling. I didn't scream though. I knew where I was going.
I was shook awake by Akil. "Get up now child. We need to go now!" I heard his low voice shout to me. "Ugh!" I groaned as he pulled me up. "Get ready we need to get away!" he repeated. I followed his commands and it's not till we got to his door that I started to question him. "Akil! What's going on?" I said as I started to hear horses hoofs and peoples screams outside the door. "The templars are attacking" he urged. "What! Why?" I exclaimed. He gave me a weird look and I quickly rethought my words. "I mean who are the templars?" Akil shook his head and smiled thinly. "Your many questions will be answered just have patience child" he shivered as he opened the door. "We need to run" he said. I nodded and braced myself. But I didn't expect to see a templar guard standing at the door. And stabbing Akil.
"Akil!" I yelled as he fell back on to the floor. "Templar!" I screamed at the guard and kicked him in the middles. He bent down groaning. I snatched his sword and stabbed him right through the back. Then I kicked him out the way of the door and slammed the door shut. I threw the sword across the room and knelt down beside Akil.
I could feel tears pricking my eyes. His face looked tired and weak but his eyes were still as deep as the ocean. He stared at me and smiled faintly. "Go to the castle. That is where I was going to take you today." I saw he was clutching his arm. So the templar didn't stab him in the stomach. At least that was something. I knew someone as young as 25 wouldn't be strong enough to fight the tears but he was doing a pretty good job. "Akil." I started. I was breathing slowly, trying to stop my tears from coming out anymore. "I will get you help" I said wiping my remaining tears away. I stood up and he tried to smile but it turned out to him wincing clutching his arm. I sniffed sadly and said: "Don't worry, Akil. I won't leave you. I will never leave you" as I got out the door I saw Akil squeezing his eyes shut, gritting his teeth and letting a couple of tears run down his face.