I'm very, very, very sorry for taking so long to update this chapter! I barely have any time left now to write at all because of the final exams that are coming up and essays and mock exams that the teachers are now bombarding at us *Avoids tomatoes thrown at her*. Well, I hope that you enjoy this chapter, it is the start of the end! I have quite a number of ideas on my head right now and truthfully I can't wait to finish this fanfic to start another one (or more precisely three, that I have planned already). Well, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Assassins Creed
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I looked at the blonde assassins when she shouted the master assassin's and my name. She was beside the other three assassins and had just entered. "You are alive!" She then added. I looked at her with a "obviously" face, not saying anything at all because of how tired I was. Ezio stared at her, but didn't answer either to the statement.
"We thought that you were dead" Shaun then said, completing Lucy's reasoning. I slowly got up, looking at Shaun, that was staring at me with wide eyes.
"The sand pit lead to another room with a trap. We managed to survive and we got here by going through some other rooms" I explained. Shaun still looked surprised, but with relief evident on his face.
"Lucky" Desmond said then. The other two female assassins nodded. I heard Ezio getting up behind me, still evidently hurt by the wound he had received earlier because of that that that could have killed us.
"Do you still have it?" He asked Desmond. His descendant nodded, and quickly showed the man the nearly complete apple.
"We better get going now then" I added, as I turned around, searching for what lead to the probably last room of this cold and damp place. The others nodded and looked around too, moving the torches to every corner of the room to be able o see. I did the same with mine. It took us several minutes though to find the other door. This time it was small and on a corner. it was hardly visible. We walked towards it, and saw that it was completely stuck. It had several drawings, that showed again to men holding an object similar to the apple, below a lot of shiny figures. On the middle of the rock block that formed the door there was a small dent, that seemed to be just like the apple was now with the pieces that we had gathered. It didn't take a genius to figure out what to do, and as soon as Desmond placed the apple on the dent the room was illuminated with a bright blue light that came from the small door that had just opened.
We all went through the door, crouching slightly because of its size. Soon the 'tunnel' started becoming smaller and smaller, and making us having to crawl through it. It was very illuminated, but the lack of open or bigger spaces gave it a very claustrophobic feeling, since we could barely fit through the tunnel. We went through it for minutes, that went by eternally. After some time, Desmond, that had entered the first, gave a shout of joy.
"The next room is right in front of me!" he said, as he went out of the tunnel. Soon we all got out of the tunnel, and entered the huge circular room that Desmond had been referring to. I saw Lucy helping Ezio get up, that still found it a bit difficult because of that wound. The room had an enormous source of bright blue light from the middle of it. I started making my way towards the centre of the room, attracted by the source of the light. I could almost feel all of the power going out of it, that attracted me and made me go towards it, calling my name and promising me eternal power and all of my dreams. I could notice Ezio and Desmond going towards it from the edge of my eyes, probably because of the same thing.
Once we were a few feet away from the source of the light and the power, the other fragment of the apple, a woman similar to the other ones we had seen and the ones on the paintings appeared. "You made it towards the second fragment of the apple" She said, as she stared right through us. She then proceeded to look around the room and stare individually at every one of us. "The world's destiny is in your hands" She then added, as her eyes finally landed on me. "You'll have to be careful of not falling into temptation as all the past ones did. Guard yourself from your enemies and friends, that constantly change. Be aware of your feelings and dreams, that will push you to edges never imagined" She then added, before disappearing. I thought her words though one more time, thinking over and over again their meaning. I then saw the apple, that was on Desmond's hand flying off towards the centre of the room. Desmond tried in vain to catch the fragment, but the 'attraction' was too strong. Soon an even brighter light flooded the room, making all of us close our eyes because of it. Once we had opened them again we saw the apple with a new part attached to it, now shining with bright colors of light. It slowly made its way towards Desmond's hand, and then ended up on the bag it had been inside of originally. It was then when the room became completely dark. We turned on the torches again, and looked for an opening that would lead us to the exterior. We soon found it. It was on the opposite side of the room, and it seemed again like a very small tunnel. We ran towards it, wanting to get towards the last place as soon as possible. We soon went inside of the tunnel, and crawled our way towards the surface. I was the first in the line, and I could feel that something was not right. I could hear a great number of footsteps from the other end of the tunnel, and a very strong voice that was of someone that I knew. When I got out of the tunnel I immediately saw the reason for so much noise: Vidic, along with a quite decent number of templars were outside of the tunnel, waiting for us.
"Welcome back, assassins" He said with a mocking voice. I muttered breathlessly that I wasn't an assassin, but quite the opposite instead. "Oh, yes. That is true, Cesare" He then added, as if reading my mind. The other assassins stared in shock at Vidic during this, not expecting it in the least. An uncomfortable silence set itself around us for quite a few minutes, during which we stared at each other, in case of an attack. Several minutes passed before Vidic talked again. "I see that you managed to get anopther piece of the apple" He said.
Desmond growled a 'yes' in response. I could see Shaun grabbing him slightly by the arm, preventing him from walking forward and trying to punch or kill Vidic.
"You won't be pleased to see then, that we have this" Vidic said, as he grabbed something from his coat pocket. He took it out and held it high, so we could all see what it was that he had. I could then hear Lucy's shocked gasp as she realised what the templar had.
"The third fragment!" Rebecca said.
Vidic grinned in an evil way as he continued explaining. "While youwere busy collecting the fragment here we decided to go step ahead and get the next one in the last location" He said, pausing to make his victory seem bigger. "This means that you are now lacking one very important thing" He then added "And we don't plan on giving it up" He finished saying. He then turned around, and made a sign to one of his men. Soon a helicopter was behind them, and Vidic was getting on it. "I'll be waiting for you in Antarctica" He then said, before he went away, leaving us on the desert. We all remained there, silent. Not knowing what to say.
"We have to get out of here" Desmond suddenly said.
