Chapter 11 - Blast From The Past
(A time manipulation with a little fantasy. Starring Altair, Malik, Ezio, Leonardo, Maria / the mention of the other Templars... and OC)
(Altair, Malik, Ezio, Leonardo, Maria / the mention of the other Templars... belong to Ubisoft.)(Thorn belongs to lekiie on DA)(The rest are my OC's)
They arrived back at the villa and everyone welcomed them home. Redstriker had explained to Lightning and Ezio that Maria should be considered an ally and nothing more should be revealed till later. The children seemed to be over joyed with Maria's presence there. Malik was happy to see that they were able to get the Codex pages and was eager to read them, after an hour of chit chatting Malik had retired to his room to read them. Some time after that Ezio and Altair both went to their rooms for some rest despite the fact that it was only 9 pm. Maria watched them leave, she would have liked to speak some more with Altair but Leonardo was in the middle of sketching her for a painting. Thorn had also seen Altair leave and rushed over to Jack.
"It's almost time to put plan AA into action." He whispered to Jack.
"Oh right, wait what's AA mean again?" He asked confused.
Thorn placed his hand on his forehead. "Plan Annoy Altair, revenge for what he did to us at New Years. The best time to strike is when he lease suspects it and now the prefect time!"
Altair laid down on the bed, the night had gone better then he thought. Malik had accepted Maria as an ally that helped them and the children were well behaved, he had wondered why but would have to think about it later when he was more focused. Sleep was calling to him and he had no reason not to answer it. It didn't take long before he fell a sleep even though he was still fully dressed in his bloody Assassins clothing and the lights were on.
Thorn and Jack waited 30 minutes before they quietly snuck into Altair's room. They stood on the opposite side of his bed and watched for any signs that he might be aware of there presences. Feeling sure that he wasn't, Thorn got onto the bed and slowly moved to Altair's upper back while Jack sat near his lower back. Altair was sleeping on his side so it would make their plan a lot easier. Jack watched as Thorn held up his right hand and lowered one finger at a time. 5...4...3...2...1. With that signal they pushed on Altair back with all their might. Altair eyes snapped open just in time to see the floor, the landing knocked the wind out of him. He groaned when he heard the twins laughing and knew they had something to do with it.
"That was easy! We should do that to someone else." Thorn said happily.
Maria walked into Altair room to see the twins on the bed laughing and cheering, she looked at them confused. "Leonardo told me this is Altairs room but where is he?" She watched them run to stand in front of her.
"Oh, his on the floor. We have to go now, bye!" They both quickly ran out the door to find there next unattended victim.
"His on the floor?" She said confused. She looked over to the side of the bed were he finally decided to get up. "Why are you on the floor?"
"I thought it might have been more comfortable place to sleep." He replied sarcastically. He saw that she was not amused. "The twins thought it would be funny to push me off the bed while I slept." He stretched.
"Do you always sleep fully dressed?" She eyed him.
He shrugged. "I wasn't planing to sleep long."
"It would appear to me you haven't been sleeping at all." She could see his blood shot eyes..
"What would you know of my sleeping habits." He crossed his arms and eyed her suspiciously.
"I have known you for seven year darling, when your stressed you tended not to eat or sleep." She had mimicked his pose. "And your not going to get very much sleep fully clothed." She closed the door when she saw him heading towards it. "No, You need sleep or you'll become sick." She stood blocking his way.
"Seven year?" He stopped in front of her. "I'm not tired and I have never been sick in a day in my life." He glared at her.
"Not that you can remember." She turned and pushed him back towards the bed. "Take off your robes and lay down on your stomach, you'll be asleep before you know it." She saw that he was not going to comply. "Fine, I'll disrobe you myself then."
"What?" He turned around to face her. He received a punch to his stomach and caused him to bend over, she took that opportunity to pull his robes over his head. "Hey!" He Growled. Using her foot to push him back, the robes came off him and he landed on the bed. "Ow!" He shouted in pain grabbing his right forearm. He looked at his arm confused, he didn't realized he had been cut there till his robes had been removed. He looked up when he faintly heard Ezio yelling down the hallway.
She looked at his arm that started to bleed slightly. "See, you are so exhausted you failed to realized you had been injured." She pointed to the bed. "Lay down on you stomach. I will not ask you again."
He saw the fire in her eyes and decided to humour her. He laid down on his stomach. "Are you always this violent?"
She had dropped his robes on the floor and got on the bed to sit on his back. "You wouldn't love me any other way." She felt him tense under her weight.
"What are you doing?" He asked slightly concerned, he wasn't expecting her to be on his back.
"I'm helping you fall a sleep." She started to massage his shoulders.
"Why are you sitting on my back then?" He shifted.
"It discourages you from getting up." She pushed his head to the pillow before continuing.
"As a caring wife, shouldn't you be more concerned with my injury?" He lifted his head again. He wasn't comfortable with the fact that he felt tried again and didn't want to fall a sleep with her on his back.
"I'll tend to it after you have fallen asleep." She was aware he was being stubborn.
"Aren't you worried it would wake me?"
"You'll have no problems sleeping till morning." She pushed his head back to the pillow again.
"How can you be so sure?" He shifted again.
"I'll make you a wager then, if you sleep till morning, you can't argue with me about eating." She has stopped and folded her arms.
"What would you do if I refused, shove the food down my throat?" He looked at her amused.
"See, your starting to know me already." She was amused to see the smirk disappear from his face. She began to massage his back, she watched as his eyes were slowly closing and snapped open again, this happened a few time. She let out a sigh and smacked him in the back of the head.
"Ow! What was that for?" He lifted his head to glare at her.
"Stop being so stubborn. Relax and close your eyes already." She said annoyed and pushed his head back down before continued.
He stared at her from the corner of his eye before looking out the windows again, it was dark outside and he could see the lights of the city glow off in the distance. He closed his eyes and heard her start humming. He found her rather interesting, she was strong, determined and just as stubborn as he is. He hated not knowing her at all but she apparently been married to him for seven years. He started to wonder if it could be a lie, a trap set up by the templars but that seemed unlikely. She wouldn't be stupid enough to tempt such a plan, plus Ezio said that there was a picture of her in the Codex pages and he was the one to write them. Then there was the fact that she known about his fear, information that he wouldn't just tell anyone unless he really trusted them. He would have told Malik but he knew he would have belittle him. Her humming was intoxicating, he could feel his body relax and his mind drifting off to sleep.
He opened his eyes and frowned, it was morning. He hadn't moved from the middle of the bed, he lifted his head to see his arm was bandaged. He couldn't believe he could have slept so heavy to not have been disturbed. He looked around the room to see he was alone, he rolled over onto his back and stared at the ceiling. He shot up when he heard someone scream his name, he hurried to open the door and was greeted with a furious Malik.
Malik grabbed his neck and thrusted him to the wall. "You traitorous bastard!" He began to choke Altair. "I can't believe you would compromise the creed, yet again!" He yelled at him.
He pushed Malik of him using his foot to his stomach and saw him stumble a few feet backwards before he regained his balance. "What are you talking about?" He rubbed his neck.
"Don't play stupid with me!" He hissed. "You compromised the creed by marrying that Templar!" Altair ducked away from his punch.
"Who told you that?" Altair said alarmed and side stepped another swing.
"It was written in the Codex pages you idiot! And you didn't just marry any Templar, no! You married Robert de Sable right hand man!" Altair blocked his kick to the chest but stumbled backwards onto the bed.
"Well technically, right hand woman." He mused.
Malik jumped onto Altair stomach, pinning him there and began to chock him again. "How dare you find this funny!" He watched as Altairs face begun to turn red.
Altair struggled to get Malik off him, he placed one hand on Malik's wrist and the other under his chin forcing his head up, hoping it would loosen his grip but it didn't. His vision was beginning to blur when he heard shouting.
"Hey!" Redstriker shouted and grabbed Malik's hood to pull him off Altair who coughed and choked for air. "What's gotten into you?"
He knock Redstriker hand off his hood and faced her. "You! How dare you keep the fact that shes a Templar from us!" He pointed at Maria that was standing behind her with a surprised look on her face. "She will betray us and lead the Templars here!"
"I'm not a Templar anymore!" Maria shouted at Malik. "Would a Templar save the Assassins twice and willing hand over the Codex pages?" She glared at him.
"For all we know you had them copied and are now just buying you time before they come and get you back!" He hissed at her.
"What do I have to do you prove to you again that I'm on the Assassins side Malik?" She yelled at him.
"You have proven nothing! This could all be an elaborate trick to make us believe your on our side!"
"Enough!" Redstriker shouted at both of them. "I'll be the one in charge of making that decision." She turned to Maria. "I want information from you."
"I'll be more then happy to tell you what ever you need to know."
They meet in Redstrikers conference room a few minutes later, Altair was still rubbing his neck. Him, Maria and Lightning sat on one side, across from them sat Malik, Ezio and Leonardo. Renni sat at one end of the table looking at Altair concerned while Redstriker sat at the other end. The twins sat on their knees in the corners of the room for the stunt they pulled the night before. There was water and snacks on the table and Renni was happily eating the cookies.
"How did you get to our century?" Redstriker had her suspensions but she wanted to be sure.
"Vin has a Piece of Eden,that has the ability to bring forth whoever he wants but he doesn't fully understand how it works since it seemed to only bring forth random Templars from different centuries. I seemed to have been the last one summoned before he gave up trying to understand it."
"How many other Templars are there and do you know how long they have been here?" Redstriker was taking down notes.
"Lets see, Ceaser Borgia has been here for eleven years, then his father Rodrigo Borgia been here for nine years, Robert de Sable has been here for six, Al Mualim for five and I've been here for three." She was counting them on her fingers and was startled by the shouts.
"What!" Altair and Ezio yelled, slamming their hands on the table as they got up.
"I take it you know them?" Redstriker asked after seeing their reactions.
"They do, that reminds me, what were you guys thinking when you went on that game show Fear Factor?" She crossed her arms looking at Altair. "Robert de Sable recognised you but I convened him the Assassins wouldn't be stupid enough to do such a thing. It was a good thing the show ended too because Al Mualim walked in shortly after."
Altair glared at Ezio. "Hey, how was I suppose to know?" Ezio looked back to Maria. "What have they been doing for all this time?" He started to pace.
"They been helping Vin rebuild his corporation and search for more Pieces of Eden. Vin was impressed with how well I worked on a computer and had me hack into your systems. Had I..." She was interrupted.
"See! She is a templar spy!" Malik yelled as he got up.
"Had I known you were part of the Assassins I would have given him false information!" She yelled at malik. "But I can make up for that!" She looked back at Redstriker.
"So you were able to steal my jets cloaking program then?" She glared at her. "How are you going to make up for that?"
"I'm sorry." She said sympathetic. "It was the only thing I was able to get out of your system before you fried my computer with that virus." She pulled out a small computer chip from her pocket and slid it across the table to her. "He was able to modify the program, so maybe you can do the same."
"Can't we just go to his base and kill him?" Leonardo spoke up.
"It wouldn't be that simple." Lightning chuckled.
"He has an air base that flies all over the world, it will not be easy to track it, I can assure you." Maria replied.
She picked up the chip and looked it over before placing it in her pocket to examine later. "How many Pieces of Eden does he have now?"
"Only two, neither of which he could figure out how to use." Maria got up and walked over to Altair. "That reminds me. I haven't given you, your birthday present." She took off the necklace that was hidden under she shirt and placed it in Altair's hands.
He looked at it confused. "An amulet?"
She corrected him. "A Piece of Eden."
To my fellow readers.
Reviews and criticism are welcomed. I would actually like to know if your still enjoying the story. This was the last finshed chapter I wrote back in Janurary. Since then I have writen several other yet to be published stories and found that my writing style has hopefuly improved. I still have plenty of ideas for this story and chapter 12 is half finshed... still lol. The battles between the Assassin's and Templars are about to begin and I'll be summoning another Assassin into the mix. (three guesses to who...) but i feel to do that i need to bring in a few more templars to even things out so i'll see. (not sure who)
Again I thank you all for reading my story! it means a lot and i can only hope you enjoy reading it as much as i so writing it.