Thirty minutes later in a courtyard lined by lit torches Mithos stood at one end Sarah at the other in the center of a small circle there were three major lines and three minor lines indicating direction of attack Mithos told Sarah "What ever you do don't hold back, I won't!"

Sarah looks accross the courtyard at Mithos saying "As you wish."

Both Mithos & Sarah square off, "Mithos" asks Sarah "How are you fighting Florentine style Sarah!"

Sarah Looks at Mithos quizically asksing "Florentine style?"

Mithos calls back "Dual weapons... Sarah"

Pouting slightly Sarah said to Mithos "Just learning... Mom just started teaching me"

Mithos walked over to where she stood and told Sarah, "Open the box your rapier came in, and then lift up the felt!"

Sarah held them both does as Mithos asks of her and two her surprise she sees a dagger in the same design of the rapier Mithos Told Sarah "Sword in the right hand dagger in the left..., on Guard"

Sarah held both sword and dagger in hand to her surprise their balance: each other.

Both Mithos and Sarah face off in a furry of thrusts and parries as the clashing of seal against steal fills the air Sarah Wolf asks "Like this?"

Mithos parries one of Sarah's attacks saying "Good..., don't think of either the sword or the dagger as being strictly offensive or defensive alternate between them!"

Sarah asks "Be fluid?"

Mithos replied "Yes, exactly"

Sarah smiled as she attacked her mentor yet again Mithos rallized that not only was Sarah keeping pace with him but also she was close to besting him if he did not counter her movements quickly telling Sarah "Amanda has taught you well!"

Mithos looked at Sarah stating, "I think you need a second opponent… Connor I know you're watching grab a sword and join in."

Mithos stood to Sarah's right and Connor stood to Sarah's left, Connor stated, "now the fun begins!"

Connor took out his katana and squared off with Sarah, Mithos took out his broadsword stating, "Ready… Begin"

Blocking Mithos attack with her sword and Connor's attack with her dagger Sarah quickly moved to try to attack Connor's midsection with the rapier while holding his katana at bay with her dagger. Sarah's next move was to parry Mithos attack with the rapier and attack with the dagger.

The flight went back and forth like this for the better part of three hours; Sarah neither gave ground nor gained however she did prove herself a capable swords woman. During a break from the action, Connor told Sarah, "If this were not holy ground… I would be in real trouble!"

Sarah looked at Connor and replayed parts of the sword fight in her mind stating, "I see where Duncan takes his fighting style from"

Looking at Sarah Connor asked, "You only recently become immortal… Yet you fight like a seasoned pro…"

Turning slightly crimson Sarah said, "Amanda started training me at age 7"

Looking around Connor MacLeod said, "Three of them very old… they're coming here!"

Taking a breath, Mithos told Connor, "There old friends… We used to ride together during the Bronze Age"

Mithos called out, "Kronos, Silas, Caspian… Please come in let me introduce you to my friends."

The three men stood shoulder to shoulder with Mithos, when Silas stated, "Mithos I see you have a new apprentice… and beautiful one at that."

Mithos told his three companions, "Sarah is the reason that asked you here, I want to train her the way we trained… before the age of chivalry."

Looking at Amanda, Conner MacLeod, and Sarah's fiancé Duncan MacLeod, Mithos said, "Taking heads is a serious business… Sarah needs to understand, fair plays all well and good in a sparring match but when your life is on the line use whatever advantage of can."

Mithos told Caspian, "take Connor's place on Sarah's left… Silas you take the center, Kronos you take my position."

Unbeknownst to get immortals from the shadows three figures watch a lesson as it unfolds, one of them reaches for SideArm and takes a step forward only to feel the hand on her shoulder followed by a gruff voice of an older man stating, "Ziva you're a watcher, you can't interfere… Do you know who those four men are, you're looking at four horsemen of the apocalypse!"

Ziva looked at Joe Dawson wide-eyed and stunned as she states, "the four horsemen of the apocalypse are Miyth, nothing more then a children's story told at bedtime."

Joe Dawson looked at Ziva David, "a children's story yes…, myth no the four men you're looking at may very well be the first immortals!"

Turning to face Ziva Joe Dawson said, "During the Bronze Age they raided, pillaged, raped, and yes murdered over to continents."

Leroy Jethro Gibbs was standing just to the right of Ziva David said, "you're thinking like a mother… I think what Joe is trying to tell you, you wouldn't last five seconds!"

Joe Dawson said to both of them, "That's exactly what I'm trying to say."

Taking a breath Joe Dawson continued stating, "The woman you know was Sarah Wolf, has been training with the sword since the age of seven… She is more than capable of defending herself as you can see!"

With a knot quickly forming between her brows Ziva stated, "That's not the reason I'm rushing forward…, Maybe you to missed it did you happen to notice that new ring on her finger on her left hand."

"Jethro" said Ziva, "Our daughters getting married and I have yet to meet the groom."

A slight chuckle Joe Dawson announces, "I wouldn't worry about that too much Ziva… If I know Duncan MacLeod, his best man will be know that none other than Mithos himself in other words you will see the wedding."

With all the dexterity and stealth of a thousand year old immortal Amanda Wolf walked up behind them asking, "Joe would you are your friends like a closer look… Ziva would you like to meet the man Sarah is going to marry"

Leroy Jethro Gibbs looked at Amanda stunned that she was able to sneak up on him, Gibbs was trained as us as Marine sniper, sneaking up on one of them is no easy feat.

Seeing the astonishment on Gibbs face Amanda told him, "Gibbs I am 1500 years old… I've been a professional cat burglar my entire life, you were sniper for only 10 years nothing to be ashamed of."

Amanda, Joe Dawson, Gibbs and Ziva walked up the drive the courtyard where Sarah was was fighting the four horsemen. Thanks to Amanda's tutelage and Metho's sparring practice Sarah was holding her own against not one of the horsemen not even to but all four. Even Amanda was impressed with how well she was doing calling out "Sarah" Amanda said, "you're doing quite well… but don't forget the one coming from behind!" Sarah stood there with the rapier in each hand blocking with the left hand slashing with the right and vice versa.

While Amanda beamed with pride, Ziva on the other hand couldn't help but cringe at the freshly made cut across Sarah's upper arm. Putting her hand on Ziva's shoulder, Amanda told her, "She would always watch me when I trained… So I asked her if she wanted to learn, Sarah took to it like a fish to water." Chuckling Amanda admitted openly, "she's the best to the ever trained"

Amanda and Ziva stood on the sidelines as Connor MacLeod walked up asking, "is that dialect from Tel Aviv!"

Ziva had trained so hard to lose her accent to make it easier to blend in roamed the world she was a bit taken aback by the question.

"How did you know?" Ziva asked Connor.

Speaking in perfect Farsi Connor said, "I spent some time in Tel Aviv even in Morocco!"

Ziva looked at the man who spoke in a gruff voice stating, "you speak Farsi like a native!"

Connor replied, "I spent 100 years in Morocco and the Middle East… I was a native." Watching the fight unfold Connor told Ziva, "I even fought on the side of the Israeli army when your country is first founded."

Connor watched the terror in Ziva's eyes as the clashing of swords filled the air. With a light chuckle, Connor told Ziva, "Relax… This is holy ground even if they wanted to take Sarah's head they can't, it's against the rules"

Finishing his thought Connor said, "That's the one rule none of us breaks… That and once the fight started no one intervene."