She unlocked the screen and flipped on the flashlight, lighting up a larger portion of the floor. She stood up and panned to her left, finding Carlo's shoes, along with another pair. She slowly brought the light up and saw a another pair of eyes next to Carlo's. They looked scared as they began to speak.
"A golden woman spoke to me, telling me it was my duty as an Assassin to come and help the brotherhood." He too spoke English with a Turkish accent and Luna had an epiphany. The gift of tongues, it came from the first civilization, they must have given it to the Assassins the sent here. She looked at the man and held her hand up to him.
"This is my friend Carlo he too is from the brotherhood, I can prove it. Nothing is true, Everything is permitted. I can show you the mark I bare for the order." The man nodded for Luna to show him. The tall native man standing next to her watched as she handed her phone to Carlo now, then slowly she pulled her hoodie over her head, exposing her white tank top. She then slowly dropped the hoodie to the floor and pulled up her tank top, her tanned skin giving away to a tattoo on her right rib cage of the Brotherhood's symbol. The scared man looked her in the eyes and slowly pulled his blade away stepping closer to Luna to look at her skin. Carlo shone the light on her, letting them see the dark ink in contrast to her skin. Yusuf reached out to touch the mark, but pulled away, a smile crossed his lips now as he stepped close to her.
"You say true, I am Yusuf. How many are we?"
"Yusuf, our order is strong, but first let me turn on the lights." She used the flashlight to shine a path towards the door, and that is when she saw another man, black hair, peppered with gray, but his bright eyes still shone. Yusuf spoke to the man first, rushing to his side and embracing the man.
"Ezio, you are here as well." The elder Ezio looked at Luna, now just feet in front of him.
"The woman told me that Desmond was in danger." Luna had read Shaun's reports, and knew that Minerva spoke to Desmond through Ezio.
"No, not anymore. Desmond is dead. He sacrificed his life so that this world would not perish, but now the Templars are using what is left of his body against us. It will take some time to explain, but I promise you we will." The look in Ezio's eyes was full of grief for a man he never met, and this pulled at Luna's heart. She moved past the men now and made her way to the light switch. The three men she had already encountered ducked as if they sky was on fire, but she held her hands up telling them not to be afraid.
"Please, guys. It's fine. It science, or magic how ever you wan to look at it. So they sent us three past Assassins." just then another voice came from behind one of the stacks.
"More than merely three men." She looked up and saw an elderly man, and young woman standing next to him. The voice didn't come from either of those two, and she heard a slight shuffle to her left. Luna's instincts took over as an arm came out next to her. She turned, catching the wrist and turning it behind the man as she continued to move behind him. She twisted his arm up and behind his shoulder blades until she saw his bracer.
"Who do I have the pleasure of meeting?" She said in his ear, just then he turned and ducked, turning around to face Luna, pressing her against the door, trapping her with his large frame. She could see the native man behind him ready to strike. He kept his eyes on Luna's as the blond assassin spoke to her.
"My name is Edward Kenway miss, how did these ghost people bring me here." She looked up into Edwards eyes, a small smile crossing her lips.
"I could show you, but you would have to let me go. It seems as if you would have nothing to worry about though, you can easily over take me." He looked her over, leaning down next to her ear, the slight sent of her perfume filling his nose as he spoke.
"No funny moves or someone in here will get hurt." He let her wrist go and she slowly trailed her fingers over his chest, over his guns before gently pushing him aside. She strode towards the center of the room and put her hand over the apple.
"This is the object that brought you all here. So we have Edward Kenway, Ezio Auditore, Yusuf Tazim and Ratonhnhaké:ton, also known as Connor. Who else has joined us?" Connor looked at Luna, wondering how she knew of him, the spirit must have told her. She looked up to the elder man, his voice came in soft whisper as he spoke.
"Altair Ibn-La'Ahad. What sorcery is this?" She slowly moved towards the man, helping him to a chair close to one of the study tables in the vault.
"No sorcery sir, just that the spirits have brought you all here though time. This year is" Just then Carlo put his hand on her arm.
"Are you sure we should tell them?"
"Carlo you may outrank me, but I know we need to be honest than to keep secrets." He thought about what she said and spoke next.
"The year is two thousand and thirteen. Altair you have traveled the farthest through time, and we do not understand how it was done" The new people in the room all collectively looked surprised. Edward moved around the room, looking over the other assassins, and Luna kept an eye on him. The woman with Altair spoke next.
"I am Claudia Auditore, but that man, is he really my brother?"
"Yes Claudia, it is me." She moved across the room to look Ezio in the eyes, then there was no denying that he was in fact her brother. Luna directed her attention to Connor. He was tall, at least 6 ft. 3 and his eyes bore into her as she took a step towards him. Edward came to her now, standing between her and the native. Edward took her arm, but her eyes never left the ebony ones of Connor.
"Your telling me that little ball brought us here." Luna's gaze still held the other man's as she spoke.
"Yes." She then held out her left hand, the burns had faded, but the lines still evident on her palm. "The apple as we call it has many powers, but only to whom it chooses to work for." She pulled her arm from Edward now as she took another step to the native.
"And you, Ratonhnhaké:ton, are you surprised I know who you are? I can prove to all of you traveled here to our time." He stood up straighter as she moved around him to one of the exterior shelves. The pulled out a woven arm brand and brought it to him. It looked just like the one on his arm, he took it and looked it over. He looked up at her after examining it. He saw a small tear in the leather, right where there was one on his, where he had been shot at. The bullet grazed the arm band, tearing part of the leather and nicking one of the beads, this one was identical, it was his. She then turned to face the rest of the Assassins.
"There is a small sitting area upstairs. We should go there at the moment." She looked to Carlo who then took over.
"There we can explain to you all what has happened to our brotherhood, and why you all have been asked to travel here, to our time. Luna will gather the materials needed for us to explain this strange to place to you. There is an elevator so that you do not have to walk the steps Altair." Carlo then turned to Luna, telling her what books to bring.
"I can grab those, but that is a lot of reference material, maybe Connor and Edward will help me."
"Yea, sounds like a good idea. Call your dad too, he needs to know this."
"We should probably call Shaun and Rebecca too."
"They are busy with Abstergo, you know that."
"Yes, but these are Desmond's ancestors. They come from his blood line, that has to be significant! That and those two were with Desmond, they know of these assassin's, mostly. Plus don't we need to monitor the past, make sure nothing changes. I mean Jupiter didn't give us much to go on."
"Let's talk to your father first. Once he is here we all three can make a decision about calling Shaun and Rebecca. I do think we need to talk to William too."
"He's been through enough hell, let's give him a few days, that gives us time to try and get these guys prepared for the real world."
"Just call Hugh first. I'm going up." He then turned his attention to Edward. "Edward, Connor, could you gentlemen help Luna here in gathering some books for us to go over. Thanks"
Carlo went upstairs and Connor came to stand next to Luna, waiting for her to give him work. She watched Edward, who was eyeing the apple. Luna cross the small space between her and Edward, now standing directly in front of him.
"Edward, look piracy is totally different today than it used to be, but let me give you a piece of advice. Don't touch the apple, it can corrupt even the most strong man. I know that you first betrayed this order before trying to right your wrong so you could be corrupted easily. " He grabbed her arm and looked into her eyes, something in them so familiar, leaning close to her.
"You know nothing of me." He spit his words out between his gritted teeth, but she knew he was scared.
"I know about you promising Caroline that it would only be two years, that's it, just two years privateering. She left you going home to her parents. You never even knew about your daughter, hell maybe this is the first you're hearing of her?" His features changed as he looked at her. She continued, trying to get past his resolve. "Did you ever find Kid's daughter Edward?" She could see his eyes change, and he saw tears threatening to form in hers.
"What do I need to do for you miss?" With that he let go of her arm, convinced that she did indeed know more about him than he could begin to imagine.