Childhood Memories

Hello again. Another chapter for you. Thanks for reading! Hope you like this one. C:

Ch3

"What are you doing here Ezio?" She said with a little annoyed tone.

"Just letting you know that Leonardo is out." He replied.

She stood there in silence. She had no idea what she was going to do.

"Shouldn't you be at work?" He asked out of the blue.

"Shouldn't you?" She replied with a little more sass than she intended.

"My contract calls for a two man job. I was on my way back to the HQ to find a partner, until I ran into you." He explained.

"No." She said.

"Oh come on you have nothing to do." He said as if he was begging her to go with him.

"I wasn't volunteering." She said pausing. "How did you now I had nothing?"

"Hey, I'm the HQ leader. I'm supposed to know." He said smiling.

She stood there with her hands on her hips and then sighed.

"Alright fine." She finally agreed. "But only because I have nothing to do."

"Va bene. Let's go." He said as he turned around.

They walked through the streets of the city and constantly ran to get away from beggars. They ran up to the back of an old fountain. Ezio walked to the middle and pressed a button that opened a small door in the stone. He walked in and disappeared into darkness. Jaya followed. They climbed down an old ladder and reached to the bottom. A tunnel led to an opening. As they got closer to the end of the tunnel, they could hear people talking. They stopped and listened to what they were saying. Their conversation was about how the Doge needed to be eliminated because he has sided with the Medici family. The leader mentioned that they have also stolen the thieves gold chest.

"So what is the mission?" Jaya whispered.

"Well I need you to get rid of everybody here without killing the leader. I don't know where to start though." He replied.

"I have an idea. Let's create a curse." She said mysteriously.

"What do you mean?"

"Throughout the meeting, almost every guard opened or touched the chest."

"So…" He urged.

"So whoever touches the chest, we poison."

"Ah. The deadly chest. I like it." He said narrowing his eyes. "But the only way to poison them is with our blades." His shoulders dropped.

Jaya pulled out a vial of poison and some metal pins. She dipped the tips into the poison and then loaded them into a slingshot like contraption.

"This is like a gun but without the loud noise. You have got to think outside of the box Ezio." She said slapping him on the arm as she snuck by him.

Jaya walked into the room and scaled a wall to her right. Then jumped onto a wooden ledge right above the group of men. The chest was sitting in the corner of the room. One of the guards walked over to it and then opened it.

"I wonder how much we are getting paid for this." He said putting his hand on the top of the chest.

Jaya aimed and then paused sighing.

"Curse this hood!" She whispered to herself as she yanked it off.

She aimed again and then fired, sticking him in the neck between his armor. He stood there motionless and then dropped a couple of coins that he had snuck. He turned around and tried to take a stop forward but fell to the floor shaking. A big brute came to inspect the body on the floor.

"What the…Cristo! Come here!" He shouted.

"What do you want?" He said and then paused. "Mio Dio!" He said all surprised.

Cristo checked the man's pulse.

"He's dead. Looks like you get chest duty. Clean this up." He ordered

The brute dragged the body away and then picked up the coins and placed them in the chest.

"Hmmm. This guy has no visible gaps. I'm gonna need him to lift an arm or something." She thought to herself.

Just then, Ezio tossed a Florin to the opposite side of the room. The brute raised his axe at the sound and inched toward the corner. Jaya aimed for his armpit and hit her target. He picked up the coin and then stutter stepped back to his post. A few seconds later, he hit the ground with a loud boom. Crist and the last guard rushed over to see what it was.

"Ma que fa?!" Cristo shouted out. "Grab the chest! Let's go!"

The guard tiptoed over the body and grabbed the chest. Jaya shot her last pin and got him in the back of his leg. As they almost reached the exit, the guard collapsed and started shaking on the ground. Cristo turned around to see the guard on the floor with the chest tucked under his arm.

"That damn chest is cursed!" He yelled.

Jaya put her hood on, dropped down from her spot, and picked up the Florin that Ezio had thrown. Ezio stepped out and tripped Cristo as he ran by.

"Where do you think you are going?" Ezio asked

"Pl…please don't kill me." Cristo cried out.

Jaya walked up next to Ezio with the chest in her hands. Cristo eyed the chest and started crawling backwards.

"K…keep that thing away from me!" He exclaimed.

"So… Tell me all you know about the Doge." Ezio stated.

"Well, h-he's a nice guy… a-and…"

"You know what he meant idiota." Jaya said kicking his leg.

He sat there in silence. Jaya lowered the chest down to set it on him and the guard finally broke down.

"Ok! OK! The Doge is inviting the Medici family over for dinner after a meeting. One of our guys is going to be disguised as a servant and he will poison everyone's wine. That's all I know. P-please let me go!" Cristo cried out.

"Who told you about this?" Jaya asked.

"My captain, but I don't know where he is."

"Alright." Ezio said. "Let's go."

They walked to the exit. Jaya tossed a gold florin to Cristo who was still laying on the floor. He picked it up and when he looked back up, there was no one there.

On their way back, they returned the chest to the thieves' guild.

"Thank you for your help." Said Ezio.

"Yeah….It was kind of fun." She admitted.

They walked back in silence and entered the HQ. They went their separate way. Jaya headed up to her room to relax and Ezio stayed in the lobby. It was about three in the afternoon when she laid down on her bed. Soon after that, she fell asleep. About an hour later she woke up and laid there for a while.

"Maybe he will need some help tomorrow. I probably won't have anything again." She said to herself.

She got up and opened the door. Right when she opened it, Ezio was standing there with his hand up as if he was just about to know on her door. They stood there awkwardly. Ezio broke it and cleared his throat.

"Ahem. Um, are you free tomorrow night? Wait, I think that came out wrong." He said as he rubbed the back of his neck. "What I meant was, will you help me out?"

"I was about to ask if you needed any help. In this case, yes."

"Bene. I had a good time working with you."

"Alright. I will see you tomorrow Ezio." She said giving him a slap on the arm.

"Alright. Have a good evening." He replied.

"You too." She said then closing the door.

Her stomach growled as she sat down at her desk. After she pulled out her logbook, she grabbed an apple and took a bite. The sun slowly went down as she finished up writing her mission in the logbook.

It was a red leather covered book about two inches thick. Her father gave it to her a couple weeks before he had been murdered. She was about fifteen when it had happened. She was out with Ezio and her friends. When she arrived back home, some guards ran out of her house. As her and Ezio checked what was going on, they saw her father lying on the ground with a dagger in his neck. Ever since that day, she wanted to hunt down and kill the people who have killed her father. She thought it was kind of odd because Ezio is doing the exact same thing. His father and brothers were killed because his family was friends with the Pope, count Braschi.

She shut her book and threw her apple cores away then got ready for bed. It was a cold night so she started a fire in the fireplace. The rest of her night consisted of reading one of her favorite books that her mother had kept for her and sipping some tea.

Jaya was running through the city streets when she heard loud shrieks. She turned around and saw a man lying on the floor. A dark red puddle surrounded a body. It seemed as though it had fallen from some place high.

"Oh my!" A woman shouted as she pointed up in the sky.

On top of a tall tower, figures were fighting with swords. A man kicked another man off of the ledge and sent the body flying down to the ground. Jaya ran over to it and saw another assassin dead on the floor. All of the sudden a loud bang rang out and another body was flung over the edge. When the body hit the ground, she noticed the face. It was her. Blood dripped down her chin and out of her chest making puddles of blood. Her clothes were all drenched with blood and her eyes were still open. She looked up and a last body fell on top of her leaving everything black.

Oh my gosh! What just happened? Keep reading! And review! I want to know what you guys think. Sorry it is a short chapter though. I could always use new ideas.

Oh and that twist on Ezio's past. I thought that I needed to mix it up a little.