Chapter 9 : Connections

"I Isabella Aquila,and all that I hold dear and my life that I..." Isabella started but stopped once she heard someone running and headed towards the door.

"Isabella. Isabella. You need to come back to the hideout a sec..." Lucy panted about 5 metres away from her.

"Come on Desmond. I'll say it later. I think you gotta a date with the Animus, after this on then Lucy."

Desmond opened his mouth to say something but Isabella spoke first. "No you can't say anything. If you do we will hunt you down."

Isabella turned around and ran towards the hideout while Desmond waited for Lucy to catch her breath and then went back together.

"What happened?" Desmond asked.

"The replica that the Templar's made started to go crazy, it was really weird, I am mean it was making us all do weird stuff, I don't even know how I got away. One minute... it was like I was dreaming or in a semi-concious state then I saw Rebecca and Shaun doing something strange and the replica going like the sun."

"What strange things were they doing?"

"You don't want to know?"

"Oh really Lucy? I don't want to know?

"Shut it Desmond!"

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"I really can't believe this is happening again!" Isabella exclaimed.

She was feeling her way around the room as the replica had made it so bright she couldn't see got down the staircase in the hideout and could hear Shaun and Rebecca talking but she knew they were being controlled by it.

Stupid Templars and there techonlogy! Why can't be just like the simplier times like Altair?

She then took a couple of huge steps forward and fell as she hit the Animus.

"Uff."

She used to chair to hoist her back on her feet and then trailed around it to get to Rebecca's desk, where she presumed it still was. She kicked her left foot out experimently and hit Rebecca's desl dam on and bit her lip to stop her from crying out in pain but tears still rose to her eye's that she blinked away. She stood up straight with her foot still next to the desk and reached out to where she knew she put the replica of the apple. She could sense it more than feel it but she still reached out.

Once she touched it the light gradually began to decrease then stopped altogether. Rebecca and Shaun were doing something really, really strange, they weren't walking into the wall they were like, like snogging.

"Oh my god guys that is so gross."

Even though the kiss or snogging, whatever was passionate there was no look of really conciousness in there eyes to Isabella reached out with her mind towards the apple and tried to get it to stop them acting strangly. It didn't work, the two of them got worse, literally worse. (I really don't wanna say what Isabella saw. Hehe *wink* *wink*) She then picked up the replica and rested it on the flat of her palm and stared it. She then reached her mind towards it again and thought of an idea to cancelled out the effects. She poured all of the energy she could muster into it.

The apple had an infinite amount of energy but once held by someone if they passed out the effects of the apple stopped with the body of the host next to it. This is what Isabella was attempting to and suceeded. She heard Desmond cry out something as she poured the last bit of her energy in the apple and then collasped in a heap on the floor with the apple wedged firmly in her grip.

Isabella blinked to register were she was. She had a headache but didn't know where she was. She sat up and saw Altair and Ezio come to her side as soon as she sat up. Ezio opened his mouth but she was one step ahead of him.

"I do know what happened, before you ask. How long was I out?" She stretched her arms and yawned waiting for him to reply. Ezio and Altair looked at each other in a worrying way and said in unison "Two days."

Altair then spoke up.

"Have you used it before? You seemed to know what you were doing according to our descendant."

Isabella snorted in amusement.

"I guarded it for over a year. I have never directed used it but I have a connection with it, it seemed to bond with me as I tried to get rid of it. The day after I woke up with it in my hand, didn't you have some sort of connection with it?"

They both nodded and moved away from her while she rubbed her temple to try ease the headache.

"Hurts. Doesn't it?" Altair chuckled.

"Shut up." Isabella retorted. She was still half groggy when she straighted and became fully aware of her surroundings.

"Where's Jess?" She whistled as loud as she could signalling Jess just incase she wasn't close. Jess didn't come right away but came after about a 5 minite delay. Desmond panting right behind her.

"Your...dog...runs...fast." He said while collasping in a went over to Isabella and laid down on her lap. Isabella scratched under her chin and got a happy growl from her and looked at Desmond.

"Yep! Just the way I trained her!" She said cherrily even with a banging headache.

She then turned serious again.

"What did you want to talk about? Altair and Ezio said it was important. Also what were you doing with my dog?"

" I took 'her hostage' until you called us so I could get you to finish what you were saying."

"Really. You took my dog hostage for that?"

He nodded "Yep. I did."

"Okay then. Do you want me to see that last sentence but finish it? Can we do it outside?"

"Nope I want you to do it in front of all of us so I can make sure it isn't a lie."

Isabella grumbled something unintelligible under her breath then started to say what she had try to say last time.

"I, Isabella Aquila swear on my life and all that I hold dear that I am the descendant of Ezio Auditore Da Firenze and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and I am one of the keepers of the Apple Of Eden and the Replica Of Eden. Happy now?"

Desmond had a smug but shocked look on his face but Ezio and Altair's expression were of suspicion and shock at the same time. The room was silent until Ezio and Altair spoke up at the same time.

"What?"