6:00am Bruderschaftdorf, Germany

We could hear screams and shouts coming from the center of the village, then gun shots and the screams were silenced.

I turned to the others and said, "We have to get to the center of town and see whats going on!"

We made our way through the village. Lars ran along the rooftops as we all made our way the the backyards and alley ways. We got to the inner circle of the village and hid in the shadows. People were being lined up and executed by... it couldn't be... but... they symbols on their arms... they're...

"Nazis?" Falco muttered, bewilderment visible on his face.

"'Oly crap! Eagle there your family!"

"What?" I turned to where Lars was pointing, and I saw my mother and brothers with their hands bound and blind folds over their eyes. I could hear their pleas for surrender.

"Please!" My mother screamed, "please, please, take me! Let my children go and take me!"

The Nazi that was holding a gun to my youngest brother's head shouted, "shut up miststück!" and he hit her with the butt of his gun. I couldn't take it, I went to run out and kill the bastard, but the others grabbed me and pulled me back.

"Don't be stupid Achim!" Falco hissed. "You go out there they will pump you full of lead!"

"That is my family!"I hissed back. "you would do the same for yours!"

"Not if I knew it would do no good! I would wait and avenge their deaths and make the people responsible suffer!"

Then a gun was fired. I looked up in time for my brothers and mother fall to the ground, dead.

"Ficken!" I cursed. I was about to turn and leave when I heard a little part of the orders the commanding officer was giving his men.

"... any building that does not have the Piece of Eden, burn it to the ground. If you find it bring it here!"

We all looked at each other.

They think the P.O.E is here? I mouthed wordlessly.

I guess so! Falco mouthed in reply.

Wait... maybe it is! A sudden realization struck me. My father had a secret room that none of us were allowed in, he would say the same thing every time we would ask why, "I just have some things in there I don't want you touching. Its all very important to me."

"Guys follow me!" And without another word I sped off toward my house. Vaguely aware that my friends were lagging behind I leaped over fences, ran through alleyways, squeezed between building, and finally got to my house.

I opened the door careful not to make a sound in case the Nazis were already in the process of searching. I ran into the hall and moved the table holding a potted flower, after that I pulled up the carpet to reveal the trapdoor. I went to pull it open when...

damn! There's a padlock on it! I didn't get it... he never had any keys except the house key. Maybe... maybe the house key is the key... I didn't think twice I grabbed my house key stuck it in the lock and turned. It worked! I whipped open the trap door and jumped in.

When I landed I was in darkness. I searched around for a light switch. I found it and turned on the light. I was in a small room and was staring at a set of armor. There was a plaque with the label "Armor of Altair." Altair? I think that name was in one of our family history books... he must be some ancient assassin from long ago.

Next to the armor was a strange golden orb.

I heard foot steps from above. I froze where I stood trying to hear who was coming. Then a whisper came out from the trapdoor hole. "Achim?" It was Falco, hey man you down there?"

"Yeah," I replied, "I think I found the P.O.E!"

"Really? Then get up here Hawk!"

Hawk? Something was wrong. Hawk was the nickname we used when we were in trouble.

"Alright," I replied ready to use the code. "Is the badger in with the wolf?" This was a code asking "Are you with the enemy?"

"Affirmative."

I looked around for a defense when I got up there. I found a wrist blade among the armor and slid it into my sleeve. I made sure that it worked before calling up, "okay I'm coming up!"

I climbed the built in ladder to the trap doorway. When I got out I saw that Falco had his arms bound and the Fist and Fox were bound accordingly. Fist had giant steel balls on his hands which were chained together by the thickest chains I'd ever seen.

"What is this?" I exclaimed with false surprise and fear.

"We have you surrounded that is what this is!" the Nazi next to Falco sneered.

I don't think so. I flexed my wrist and out came the hidden blade in my sleeve I stabbed the Nazi in the chest. He collapsed and I found the key to Fist's restraints. After that I jumped down into the secret room and grabbed "The Armor of Altair" and put it on. I grabbed the weapons that was with it and climbed back out.

Falco whistled. "Look at you!"

I grinned, "shut up! Lets go before they realize we have the P.O.E."

We retreated from Bruderschaftdorf stopping only at the top of a hill, where you could see the whole village, where we took one last long look at Bruderschaftdorf as it burned.