WARNING! There is a torture scene in this chapter and I don't know if it is enough for this warning but you have been warned!

A/N: The first version of this chapter was a mistake. I'm sorry about that it was part of a different file as I named it chapter 3 as I did with this one and I didn't look at it before I post it look a idiot but this is the offical version that was a different story of mine on a different account called All In One. Go check it out if you want :) The name of the author is ACMCIC ;) Go Check it out if your an Inheritance Cycle fan :)

Chatper 3: Loyalty

"I want you both to take this and deliver it to a merchant down at the market. There is a snake in there so for the love of Allah be careful" Rachel and Danielle bowed at Malik and Rachel asked " Why is there a snake in here, Master?" They had both straightened there backs and had a sparkle in there eye that betrayed thier curoius look. Malik then replied to them in a whisper " This merchant is a templar spy. I want you know, he may try to capture you both. Give it too him and run," Danielle took the casket for Malik and her and Rachel went down to the village market. Malik watched them go down to the market, dreading what might happen...

Rachel and Danielle thought the market was oddly quiet, it was just dawn but it wasn't usually,this quiet. Rachel shrugged and that to Danielle said that resolved the issue. They saw the merhcant they were looking for and handed him the basket. They turned to leave only to be confronted be a load of guards. There guards right in front of them who as soon as they turned, hit them both on the heading rending them both unconscious.

Hitting the icy cold floor and the slamming of a rusty door hinge woke both of the girls up. The girls saw each other more-a-less instantaneously and that in itself relieved them. Together and imprisoned was good, lone and imprisioned usually errupted into insanity. The girls searched the room for means of escape and found none. They sat down next to the wall closest to the door and started talking,

"What are we gonna do?"

"Um, Die or escape?"

"Rachel that isn't funny?"

"You thought I was joking?"

Danielle chuckled and then replied sulkily "Yeh, So how the fuck did this happen?"

"Danielle the templars aren't dumb they knew we were coming."

"How do you know?" Danielle arched her eyebrow.

"The Templars always know! I swear to god I am going to strangle you next time you don't listen to me,"

Danielle did an innocent face and innocently said "Sowwi!"

"You can shove that sowwi up you arse!"

They then hugged each other. When the heard a click at the door the moved away from each other and they jumped to there feet.A tall, broad gaurd came in with his sword drawn and said

"Who wants to go first?" They both stared at each other and Danielle went to step forward when Rachel stopped her and then moved forward herself. In a harsh tone the guard said "Both of you out of there and in front of me, NOW!" His last word came out as a shout and they both hurried forward.

They had gone down a lot of steps into a big room. In the room there was a table and a post. The guard shoved Rachel forward near the table where she froze and refused to move. She had a blank expression on her face that portrayed her fear more than ever. The guard had locked the door behind them and he pushed Rachel again, when she wouldn't budge he picked her up by her hood. She was still ridged with terror. Danielle was slightly confused by this and it was clearly etched on her features until she notice a small fire nearby with a dagger inside, glowing red from it's heat. Tears flowed down Rachel's cheeks, which protrayed the horror which she was imagining and usually did imagine and about to endure. The guard finally manged to get her on the table and he pinned her down on her stomach. He then put on some restraints that weren't visible before. He then made his way other to Danielle who was frozen to the spot, perplexed at the manner her friend acted. Rachel had always been calm, she sometimes had broken down and even tried to attack the person who bullied her, but she had never broken down this badly. Once the guard took her by her arm she fought back at him, imaging what might happen to herself. At one point she had managed to get the guard's hand and bite down, hard. The guard had kicked her in response which made her let go and not protest further. Danielle wondered if that had occured to Rachel aswell and that is what made her cry, Danielle was then tied to the couldn't move her hands or her legs much. The guard at this point whistled and another guard that looked similar to him came running in. The second guard had taken a position behind Danielle and was whispering something mysterious in her ear that made her sob and shake her head at him. The other guard was slowly drawing the dagger from the top of Rachel's back to her hips. Rachel was screaming in agony and tears ran down her face but she was too shaking her head too.

Both Danielle and Rachel were sobbing uncontrollably after they had returned. After an hour Rachel was gasping for air as she calmed down, Danielle though was still sobbing and now she had started to shake her head, stilling unwilling to believe what the guard had whispered in her ear. Rachel had stood up and had searched the door to see if it had any weak points, it had. The hinges were incredibly rusty and they creaked contiunously even though it was closed and locked tightly. An idea came to Rachel and she took off one of her greaves and checked inside them. Her eye's light up brightly and she pulled out something. Danielle didn't pay attention at that grinned mischievously and she went over to Danielle and tapped her lightly on the shoulder. Danielle had calmed down a little and stopped sobbing when Rachel showed her what she held. It was a dagger.

Rachel then went to the door and sliced the hinges off, after putting her greave back door fell backwards (A/N:I mean it fell onto the staircase to clear thingsup :P) and hit the floor with a soft thud. They both ran up the staircase with Rachel in the lead, as she had the weapon. Surprisingly, they meet no gaurds until they reached the courtyard of where they were. The gates where open and both ran to them. As they neared a voice boomed

"You must choose which one of you will live. The other shall die right here. It is your choice and both of you can't escape. Look behind you," They both turned to see about 3 whole partol of guards. They both looked at each other and swallowed they could only take on about one each with a sword, never just a dagger. They both turned to face each other and they hugged again. Both overwhlemed by emotion. Rachel then swung Danielle around and threw her outside the range of the gate

"Go. I will be fine. Get to our Master. I will try to survive that long," A small, weak smile played on her features on her last words. Danielle looked at her and took a long and last look at her best friend and she turned on her heels and ran through the outside village to Masyaf, you could see the keep from the distance. Which Rachel thought was strange. The gate shut as she moved further away from the exit. It closed with a loud BANG. Rachel turned to face the guards, planning to face them and try to defeat them and set a record of kills for a novice even if it mean't her death.

At the moment Danielle had realised that they were still in Masyaf and ran as fleetingly as she could up to the castle to find Malik or Altair, so they could help her rescue Rachel or if they wanted rescue her themselves.

A vicously and joyful look was on Rachel's look as she fought the guards, at a certain time it was contorted in pain from her torture session and from the wounds the gaurds managed to inflict while she fought them one at a time when they charged her three at a time. Once she had defeated all the guards she ran at the gate and hacked it so she could get through. Once she could fit through the gap she made she ran. When she was half way upto the castle, she saw Danielle,Malik and Altair running towards her. Her energy was delpeted and they were too late. Rachel fainted.

A/N: The first I-didn't-know-whether-to-post this chapter. Only one more to go :) Please review about this chapter I feel more comfortable to add rather than the next one but I will never the less!