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Just warning you now, this whole chapter is basically about Rain Molokai, just warning you ahead of time.

-Anime chick is playing peek-a-boo with a baby, but when she moves her hands her face appears as a Spartans face- PEEK-A-BOO! –Baby faints- ROFL

Anywho, without further ado, presenting act… two? (Just kidding) Haha, too much Suessical.

Disclaimer: I don't own Altair… sadly… But I own this storyline, and my made up characters so… don't steal them!

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As soon as those words left Malik's mouth, I nearly passed out.

I glanced at Altair with wide eyes as he just smiled back at me, nodding in agreement with what Malik had said.

"Altair has been planning for her to come visit you ever since I had told you about her and had seen stars in your eyes. I told him about how you looked as though you wanted to meet her and he made a plan with Al Mualim for Rain to come here for you!"

I squeaked in delight as I stood abruptly and ran at Altair with my arms outstretched.

Pushing himself away from the doorframe, he welcomed my hug with a warm embrace of his own.

Grinning widely, I pulled myself away from him to look him in the eyes.

He smiled back before I gripped onto him again.

Burying my face in his chest I whispered:

"Thank-you! Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!" I repeated it as if it were the only word in my brain.

Letting go of each other, Altair led the way through the hallways and out into the training grounds.

Still smiling to myself, I stopped to look at Malik, who was following us, looking quite gloomy.

"What is wrong, Malik?" I asked, my smile fading.

"Oh… Nothing." His voice sounded far away, like he felt left out.

I sighed as I uttered a couple of last words.

"Not for long,"

I jumped on Malik, nearly knocking him over in the process.

Wrapping my arms around him, I tightened my grip on his waist as he stood looking shocked.

"Cheer up Malik!" I lifted my face to look at his.

I was not a bit surprised when I gazed at his bright cheery face staring back at me.

"Thank you, Serenity." I released him as we continued on our way.

Altair glowered slightly,

'Why am I feeling such things for this girl? Why do I feel like I'm being double-crossed whenever she interacts with other people, like hugging? This needs to stop.'

He shook his head and replaced the frown on his face with a small smirk.

'I shall push my feelings aside, until another time my friends.'

Pushing his strange feeling aside, he stood by the fighting ring.

"Why are we here? I thought Rain was here! Were you both just lying to me just to get me to wake up early! Why you-!" I was cut off when a shapely figure entered the ring.

My eyes lay frozen on the strange figure as it moved from side to side like a shadow, making me entranced.

Malik laughed as he observed my face, I would have laughed at my expression too.

The white clad robes that this figure wore danced with the wind, as if it were a soul that had been freed.

The shadow stopped moving, and drew its sword, readying for combat.

My eyes followed its every move as another assassin entered the ring, readying himself as well.

The robes danced with fury as their blades collided, making my heart soar through the sky.

The sounds of metal clashing with metal reached my ears as my hair ruffled in the wind.

The shadow moved with elite speed, countering, blocking, and attacking.

I leaned closer and closer to the ring, letting my swollen fingertips graze the splintered wood.

Watching intently as the other assassin was knocked to the ground by one simple push, I thought out loud.

"Wow, that was amazing… Whoops!" I covered my mouth as if I offended someone, realizing that I had just said that aloud.

The figure slowly approached me, as a feminine hand latched onto my hands and lowered them from my mouth.

"It is alright to speak your mind child. As long as you do not speak it out of the creed, or in front of Al Mualim." The feminine voice chilled me to the bone.

Freeing my hands from her grip, she shrugged her hood off and smirked at me.

"I am Rain Molokai, here to visit a Serenity. Who I would presume to be… You."

Laughing from my antics, she dropped her hands to her side, sheathing her sword.

"I-it is a pleasure to meet you-"

She cut me off,

"No, the pleasure is all mine."

Bowing her head down, she cast a glance at Altair.

"Why… Altair. How long has it been? Five years, and my, might I say you are looking mighty fine!" She teased him with a playful voice.

Altair looked taken aback, a small blush forming on his cheeks.

I took this time to study her features.

She had long silky black hair reaching her waist that seemed to flow like the water in a river, covering her right eye.

Her eyes were a deep burgundy, which seemed to shine to violet as soon as the sun hit them.

She had a small slanted nose and thin pink lips.

Her complexion was pale, yet slightly tanned; she was beautiful.

Her body was shaped just for a woman, her breasts were medium sized at the most, but suited the rest of her body perfectly.

Her hips jutted out in a feminine matter; she reminded me of my mother's friend, Alihasha.

We had called her Ali for short.

I blinked myself out of my state of awe and watched as she closed the gap between her and Altair and hugged him tightly against her chest, squeezing the life out of him.

I felt a ball grow in my chest, and rest into the pit of my stomach.

'What is this? Jealousy? Anger? What is causing such things?'

I slapped my forehead with my hand, wiping the feelings clear out of my mind.

I smiled as she let go of him and held onto his shoulders with both hands.

"How have you been?" She questioned him, before dropping her hands to her sides once again.

"I… have been just fine, thank you. How have you been?"

"Just great! My life has been SUCH a flash!" I could hear the sarcasm dripping from her voice as she said this.

"Have you met Serenity? Rain, this is Serenity. Serenity, Rain." He gestured his right hand at either of us as he introduced us both.

I nodded as she moved foreword, and jumped over the wooden railing, and out of the ring, landing with a dust cloud at her feet.

She grinned at me before hugging me tightly, and hauling me away by my left hand.

"See you two later! For now, it's our time to talk!" She taunted them by sticking her tongue out at them, and giggling softly before dragging me along, and into the garden on salvation.

The garden had grown quite well through the two years since I had been here.

The grass was green, the flowers smelt of pollen, and the trees cast off the best shade at any time of the day.

I took a deep breath as the scent of the daisies filled my senses, making me blind with comfort.

Dragging me to one of the shady trees near the far bottom corner, we sat down and leaned out tired backs against the tree.

Sighing as we sat together in silence, Rain moved closer to me and seized my arm, and gave me a curious stare.

"What?" I asked, rather impolitely, so I quickly fixed what I had meant with:

"Y-yes?"

She rolled her eyes childishly,

"I want to know your life's story! I've heard some things about you! I would like to know more!" I flinched, as she acted so child-like.

'I never thought that she would be like this.' My thoughts seemed to escape me.

"I know… from all the things you have heard, you were probably expecting a hard-working-tough-exterior-woman… right? Well, I am like that but… It has been a while since I have talked to another girl, such as me…" She sighed heavily, making me feel a little guilty.

I smiled unknowingly and shrugged,

"It's alright, I was kind of expecting you to be something like that but… it's nice to know that I'm not the only childish one around here." I answered her unasked question.

"She then smiled and clapped her hands together,

"That's great!"

We spent the rest of the morning and afternoon chatting about random things that I sometimes didn't understand.

"So, now that you've told me your life story, I guess I should tell you mine, right?"

I nodded in agreement.

"Okay… well… where to start? Well, when I was five years old, my mother was brutally murdered by some strange people dressed in black, my father almost died with grief." She sighed, but continued on.

"Are you alright?" she asked glancing in my direction as my mind wandered.

'Strange people dressed in black' my mind flashed, showing me the mysterious men slashing at my mothers face.

I shivered from the thought, but nodded in her direction, urging her to go on.

"From that day on, I had locked myself up on the inside; I was alone in the world." She let out a deep breath, as if ridding herself of the demons in her body, and gave me a saddened look.

I tried my best to give her a look of sympathy, and it seemed to have worked, because she patted my shoulder with her right hand.

"I had no emotions, whatsoever, I locked them up inside until I was ten." My body screamed for me to hug her, to comfort her; but I knew that the best part was to come.

"At the age of ten, my best friend who understood me, was taken away, and made into a slave. I let all of my emotions out at once. Once again, I was alone in the world." She shook her head in unison and made an angry face.

"Those bastards took her away! They were dressed in black too! It was them! I knew it too! I growled in anger and swore that I would save her. Poor Rahjin was all alone too." She finally spoke the girl's name, and wiped some sweat off of her forehead having the task of getting this off of her chest.

"I trained myself, until I met Al-Mualim. He told me he knew what had happened to me, and would like to help me get what I wanted… revenge."

Rain let a snarl pass through her mouth; her brow was knitted together as if she were deep in her mind.

"He helped me train until I was fifteen. By that time I considered myself ready, we had already been searching for the slave camps, and found one that was special. Every slave there was dressed in black suits that were nearly ripped to shreds."

I nodded.

"Black, in the sunlight of the day, would scorch their skin so badly, it made me so angry. I knew that they were there."

I looked away and focused on the sky, as the small tufts of clouds floated through the air.

"At night, I snuck through their camp, until I heard a small voice shrieking in one of the tents. All of the slaves had to sleep outside, but there were tents for the 'rulers' of the camps."

Focusing on her words, I tried to imagine a small Rain Molokai venturing through out the slave camp and hearing a small shriek.

"I followed the small screams until I came closer to one the of the big tents. The screams were coming from the inside. I listened." She held her hand up to her ear motioning as if she were listening for something.

"I heard a feminine voice squeal out in terror and a male voice tried to reassure her that it was alright. I took it as a rescue mission, and barged right into the front of the tent to see a man dressed in black trousers, with no shirt or mask on; holding a fourteen year old girl captive."

The sky grew somewhat darker, or was it just my imagination?

"He looked somewhat shocked and told me to leave, but I held my ground. He threw the girl to the ground and moved for me. I stomped on his foot and kneed him in the gut. Her crumpled to the floor groaning as I helped the girl get up." Shaking her head, she continued.

"We ran, and fast. I asked of her name, she sniffled and looked up at me with amber eyes. I had recognized those eyes, Rahjin; I had said her name out loud. She nodded as she dried her eyes of tears. 'How did you know my name?' she asked me."

A single tear fled down her cheek as she explained.

"It's me, Rain, Rain Molokaitanet." Rain turned towards me.

"That used to be my last name, by the way. I changed it to a shorter version… Rain Molokai."

A smile crept its way onto my face as I eyed her with sympathy.

"Her voice was so quiet, so tiny, so abused. Just like years ago, but it was worse now, I could tell. As soon as I had told her my name, her face lit up with glee, and she literally tackled me with a bone-smashing hug."

A few stray strands of her ebony hair dropped innocently in front of her face as her pale complexion shined.

'She looks like a god among warriors' I thought to myself.

"After hugging me, I asked what they had done to her, she just smiled and waved it off and said: 'Oh nothing out of the ordinary.' I knew that she was lying, but if she didn't want to tell me, then I was fine with that."

I could imagine the look on little Rains face as Rahjin told her that.

"I held her hand, letting her know that I was there for her. We heard a man yell from the tent that we had been in, as the said man stumbled out of the tent, limping."

Shifting uncomfortably, Rain took my small hand in her own.

"We ran as fast and as far as we could, but they were too fast. Just when we thought that we had lost them, we stopped at a nearby tree, and leaned against it, trying to catch out breaths. We heard more yelling, so I grabbed a hold of her in a warm embrace as the black shadows surrounded us. We were pinned."

She squeezed my hand as the emotions racked through her whole body.

"I heard someone mounting a bow with an arrow, I squeezed my eyes shut and whispered: I love you, in her ear as the arrow was let go, and went whizzing by through the air, and into her back. Opening my eyes, I choked back a sob as I heard gurgling sounds escaping her small mouth as I held her. I lifted one of my hands and felt an arrow planted within' her back." Tears started streaming down her face by this point, I was almost crying as well.

"I held her small frame close to me as I lowered us both down to the ground, and lay her across my lap, supporting her now drooping head. She looked up at me and smiled. 'I knew you would come, thank you… You are not alone in the universe, believe me, I will always be with you… I love you…' And with that… she died. She died in my arms. The warmth left her body as she became a rag doll; I screamed in fury."

She was shaking as her grip tightened on my hand, nearly crushing it.

"I left her on the ground and ran at the first person that I could see, but before I knew it, I was on the ground, and my head hurt quite a bit. Everything went dark, I had passed out. By the time I had woken up, I was no loner in the middle of nowhere with Rahjin's killers, I was lying in a bed, and Al-Mualim was hovering over me. 'You chose well my child, now; allow me to aid you in your quest. Help me, and I shall reward you with things that people would die for.' Of course I accepted and well, here I am, still alive, because of him. I still can't figure out how he had saved me from them."

Dried up tears stood on her swollen cheeks as I kneeled and turned my body to face her, and hugged her with all my might.

"It'll all be alright, I am so sorry for your loss." Smiling she said:

"No Serenity, thank you. You listened, and now I feel much better. Thank you."

After two hours of talking, we headed inside for dinner.

After dinner, we bid each other goodnight and went straight for bed.

'Tonight, Rain shall rest easy. She is no longer with a burdened conscious.'

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