Here is chapter 26! I don't really like how it turned out, but I like it very, very, very much! This scene was really hard to write, I swear. Thanks for all the reviews, favs and alerts! I love you guys!
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I looked with horror as I saw Ezio jump at the sand. I couldn't help but wonder why he had chosen to do that, to try and save his nemesis. I was paralyzed. Frozen. Completely unable to move a single part of my body. I could only stare with horror, just like the other three assassins that stood right beside me. I could do nothing. Absolutely nothing, and that unnerved me. I didn't like feeling useless, it was a feeling that had quickly grown stranger and stranger as I absorbed all of Ezio's abilities through the bleeding effect. Shaun had a face of disbelief on his face, I didn't exactly know what. Rebecca looked scared, and Lucy... Lucy looked sad and scared on one part, but not caring at all on the other hand. I wondered why she would think like this.
I suddenly heard my ancestor shouting something, but I couldn't hear well what he was saying, since he was nearly completely below the sand. The next thing that I knew was that the golden thing I had heard so much about was flying towards me, and dangerously getting nearer and nearer to the sand covered 'floor' of the room. I jumped forward so i could catch it, nearly falling into the sand, but getting the apple after all. The last thing I saw from my ancestor was a bit of his hair as he finally sank into the sand, along with Cesare. I got up, and looked at the others, that were still staring with disbelief at the sand.
"What can we do now?" Rebecca asked, doubt clear on her face. We had all gotten so accustomed to the presence of Ezio and Cesare, leading the way, that we didn't know exactly how to proceed.
I opened my mouth, prepared to answer. I closed iyt, swallowed some saliva, and opened it again, prepared to answer. "We can only continue going forward to get the next piece" I said. The others nodded, and we soon went towards the other room, wondering if we would ever see the other two men ever again.
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I felt helpless, and I hated it. I had ended up falling to the sand because of grabbing to the apple while Ezio was still grabbing it. It had worked the other times, right? Why hadn't it worked out this time then? I could see my nemesis's horrified face as he saw me starting to sink in, along with the apple, that was beside me. I could see the other assassins looking at me, unable to do anything. I closed my eyes, and cursed under my breath. I was as good as dead right now. When I opened my eyes once again I saw my nemesis jumping towards me, with that look full with determination that he wore every single time that he had fought against me. He had been a good rival indeed. A very good one. I looked at him completely confused and surprised, not expecting this. It would make more sense for me if he had just stared at me drown while laughing. I looked at Ezio as he grabbed my arm, getting hold of me, and the apple at the same time, and then started making his way towards the nearest piece of wood, trying to get both of us and the mysterious artifact out of danger. I wondered which one was more important.
I looked around as I tried to move towards that piece of wood that was just one meter away from us, but it was clear that we wouldn't manage to get safe. Not a chance. The sang was nearly up to my mouth and up to Ezio's neck. He looked at me, this time with a hint of fear in his eyes. I took a deep breath, and felt myself be completely enveloped by the dark and cold sand in the room, as it took me further and further down. I felt Ezio throwing something, probably the apple, before he sunk in too. Seconds passed, and I soon felt myself falling, but this time out of the sand. I opened my eyes, and saw a big passage was covered with dangerously pointy spikes. My eyes widened as I fell towards them. I closed my eyes as I impacted with the floor, luckily not falling on top of any of the spikes, but soon the smell of blood covered the 'room'. I looked to my right, and saw that Ezio had fallen on top of one of the spikes.
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I opened my eyes, but saw only darkness around me. I felt nothing. "Is this a dream?" I asked aloud. I soon saw the figure of tone of those 'higher beings' in front of me.
"I'm afraid it is, son" She said, with a completely emotionless face. Not bothering to blink even once. I looked at myself, I had only my shirt on now.
"Am I dead?" I then asked her, wondering if I was still alive. The last thing that I remembered was falling through the sand, and feeling something piercing through my skin. It had felt like a deep wound after all. The being looked at me for some time, before answering.
"You are not, but if you don't wake up, you'll soon be" She said. "You must remain alive to fulfill your duty. You will not die" She said. And with that she placed her hand on top of my eyes, and closed them. As soon as she did this I tried to open them again, and succeeded. I was surrounded by darkness again, but this was a different kind of darkness. I could feel very cold air around me, and a strong pain near my stomach. I looked around me, trying to see a tiny bit of light. Nothing there was nothing. I could feel something lying on top of me, but I couldn't see what it was. I touched the floor around me, and managed to find one of those "torches" that the other four assassins had been using. I managed to turn it on, after some seconds of complete cluelessness. I shined the torch towards the what was on top of me, and soon discovered a slightly damaged and sleeping Cesare, with his hand quite close to my wound. I then looked at my wound. I had completely forgotten about it, even managed to ignore the pain a bit while I searched for the torch and turned it on. He was sleeping peacefully, and I couldn't help but grow a bit softer inside when I saw his sleeping face. I then tried to move, without waking him up. I could see that we were still surrounded by sharp spikes, and one of them was coated with blood. Probably my blood. I managed to move a bit, however when I was half sitting down I flinched because of the pain, waking Cesare up.
He looked confused, but this confusion soon disappeared, leaving space for a face full of understanding to appear. "You're awake" He stated, as he stared deeply into my eyes. I did the same for a bit, but soon had to turn my face away. I didn't feel comfortable being this close to him. "Get off me, bastardo" I said, with a light growl. I continued looking at me, realising the position we were in and smirked lightly, before he got off. "Okay, okay. I don't see why you would be uncomfortable though, you are clearly not a woman" He said teasingly. I growled a bit again, and managed to sit down, not feeling as much pain as before. "What happened?" I then asked. I knew I was only wearing my shirt, and Cesare was wearing his own shirt only too.
"When we fell to this 'room' you fell on top of that spike" He said, as he pointed to the one coated with blood. "Luckily I didn't get hit by any, so I decided to bandage up that nasty wound near your stomach. I had some medicine with me too, luckily" He explained. I then looked at the bandages, that looked more like the pieces of one of the shirts that Cesare wore. I blushed lightly, soon scolding myself for reacting like a teenage girl. "In case you are wondering, yes, it is one of my shirts" He explained. This only caused me to blush a bit harder, a tone of light red now on my whole face. "Why would you do that?" I asked with a not very nice tone of voice. He just smirked in that was he always did and looked away, not bothering to answer my question. As I glared daggers at him he managed to stand up. I noticed that he had some wounds on his feet, that prevented him from walking completely fine. is clothes were slightly eroded too, as were mine. What was that sand covered in?
"Let's get going" He said. I nodded and tried to get up, trying to avoid feeling more pain. I was nearly half way up when I felt a great pain again, that made me fall down again. This time however, I managed to grab on to Cesare's shirt before I fell, trying to keep my balance, which failed. Soon we were both on the floor, with him on top of me in an even more uncomfortable position than before. I felt a light déjà vu, and blushed because of Cesare being so close to me. When he saw this he smirked. "Why react like that little Ezio" He said teasingly, as he got closer to my face. I glared daggers at him again and opened my mouth, prepared to answer something back. "I swear, stop glaring like that at me, or I'll look at you in the same way you looked at me during all if your way here" He said again, with a grin painting his face. I could feel his breath on my lips now. I blushed even harder now.
"What do you mean?" I asked, trying to make him think that he was wrong. However this didn't have any effect, and only made him get even closer. "You know very well what I mean, my little assassin" He said. I pulled a face when I heard that name again, and tried to say something in return, but I was stopped when I felt his lips crashing onto mine. I was completely red by now. I couldn't help but closing my eyes at the same time as he did and kiss him back, not being to contain myself anymore. I could feel him smirk again as I did this.