Chapter 1
A Rather Bumpy Start
They were hurtling through space and time at a pace that felt on the border of supersonic. Millions of colors whirling past them at a million miles per hour, and just when they thought they were going to be ripped apart by the sheer force, light exploded all around them and they landed in Roma.
Rath stood up and dusted himself off but Gwendolyn was shaken by the clearly shaken by the experience. "Haven't you been through the simulator before?" said Rath clearly annoyed at the fact that already she was showing that she'd only be dead weight. "W-well, yeah..." She said and started to stand slowly, "It's just it's nothing like the real thing, ya know?" She asked him with a smile. "I suppose, you'll eventually get use to it hopefully." He turned to begin walking into the city when Gwendolyn shrieked loudly, "What the Hell happened to my outfit!" Rath ran back putting a hand over her mouth, "It's part of time traveling, if we came back to a time like this wearing clothes way before the time we would be drawing a lot of attention to ourselves." He let her go and her breathing started to return to normal. "Plus we can't let it out that we really are Assassin's" She said shakenly. "Exactly," Rath said calmly "Ezio can't know that there are more like him here, especially from the future." She nodded her head and they both began to walk toward the city.
Roma was a gigantic city, much larger than they could have imagined, cathedrals towering above the city. Hundreds of thousands of people walking amongst the streets not knowing that an artifact capable of of so much destruction was so close to them. Rath looked to Gwendolyn, "We need to locate Ezio now, but we can't draw any attention to ourselves." "Right!" Gwendolyn said somehow reasuring Rath that she was capable of the job. Just then someone ran into them, "Excuse me Miss..." He stopped and marveled at Gwendolyn "Oh my, such a beautiful signorina shouldn't be wandering the streets by yourself." He said holding her close. "Excuse me but you have no idea who I am!" Gwendolyn said at him rather loudly. His face drew close to hers, a centimeter between their lips, "Why don't you allow me to know you better than anyone ever before?" Her eyes widened and she brought her fist crashing into his jaw, knocking him to the ground. "Take that you pervert!" she screamed at his motionless body. She turned back to Rath, "The never of some people...Why do you have that look on your face, Rath?" Raths' mouth was wide open and could have dropped to the floor if it were able, "Gwendolyn...That man you just punched..." Her face soon began to take on the same features as Rath's.
"Was Ezio Auditore De Ferinze..."