I am soooooo sorry. I meant to have this up much sooner, but things have been really crazy in my life lately. Hopefully I will now be back to the schedule of updating once a week. This chapter is extra long to make up for that! marry Christmas.

A loud bang rang through the workshop, causing Leonardo to look up from the codex page he was poring over and rousing the sleeping Ezio from where he sat on a hard wooden chair.
"Hey!" Lovino rushed past the door she had slammed open while talking a million miles per hour. "Hey! So I was out doing some exploring when I found this thing in the wall and I pulled on it and it like flipped around and there is this secret tunnel! And there where voices coming from down there and we should go explore it!" She grinned at them.
Ezio shook his head. "I'm sorry could you repeat that?"
Lovino sighed dramatically and opened her mouth to begin again when Rosette's voice interrupted from the stairs. "She said she found a secret tunnel, and she thinks we should explore,"
"Hum," Ezio made a thinking face. "Where did you find this?"
"The Santa maria della visitazione. It was on a tower only accessed by the roof."
He nodded. "And the thing that you pulled to open the door was it shaped like a skull?"
"Yes," Lovino looked confeused. "How did you know,"
The brunette assassin smiled. "Well my dear Lovino, you seem to have found a resting place for one of the greatest assassins,"
"Really?" Rosetta came the rest of the way down the stairs.
Ezio nodded. "Yes, each one has a seal in it that is hidden with the body of the assassin and blocked by many puzzles. The seals are used to unlock the armor of the great assassin Altair,"
"Let us go get it then," The shortest assassin turned and ran back to the door in a whirl of white and purple robes. The other two followed her quickly. With a thud Leonardo was alone.
"I will just stay here then shall I?" he glared at the door. "Muti assassini,"

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The Three assassins stood on the roof of the Santa maria della visitazione looking in to the dark tunnel. A breeze filtered out of the dim corridor, bringing with it a smell of rot.
"Who would like to go first?" Lovino looked up at her two companions.
"I thought it was always ladies first," Ezio smirked.
Smirking back the blond replied. "Well then I guess that means you first." She gave him a shove toward the tunnel.
With a role of her eyes Rosetta calmly stepped into the hole in the tower. "Come on children,"
With a glance at each other Ezio and Lovino followed her. As they walked down the stone corridor they began to hear two male voices that belonged to some guards playing a game.
The trio came to stop at the edge of a long drop. The guards voices echoing from below. Peering through the dark Ezio spied a pile of hay at the bottom and quickly jumped falling with a soft noise into the hay.
One of the guards in heavy armor stood up. "There is something moving in that haystack,"
Unconcerned the other stayed seated, a bit annoyed by his companions overcautious action that interrupted their game. "Sit back down, we are in the middle of a tarot game,"
The one with the heavy armor kept advancing toward the hay, his ax held at the ready. "No no. This time I saw something. I know it." He began prodding the hay.
Rolling his eyes the skinnier guard watched. "That's what you say every time!"
Above the two female assassins watched, one biting her lip, the other leaning on the wall.
Suddenly, a small mouse fled the haystack. The heavy guard jumped back in surprise. His companion began to laugh. "You where right, there was something in the haystack you femminuccia!" He stood up and moved toward the tunnel leading to where the other guards where, intent on telling them about his friends fear of little mice.
Smirking Ezio quickly moved out of the hay and stabbed the large guard with his hidden blade.
Turing to once again gloat the smaller man yelled seeing his friend falling to the floor reviling the assassin behind him.
Seeing that it was their chance Lovino quickly jumped into the pile of hay, followed seconds later by Rosetta.
"Assassini!" Screamed the Templar guard and he quickly cut the rope holding up a metal gate, blocking the three assassins from following him.
The three assassins moved to the tunnel next to it, climbing over boxes and other odd things that had collected in the space after years of not being used.
Lovino laughed as she pulled ahead of the others, treating it like a race. With a grin she spotted the guard bellow them through wood placed over a large gap in the floor.
She jumped when she came to another ledge grabbing into bars that stuck out of the walls and lading directly behind the guard with a graceful somersault.
"Leave me alone!" Screamed the guard as he turned to see the short assassin within a few feet of him.
"Not a chance!" She giggled back.
Frightened, half believing it was some daemon chasing him he quickly cut another rope, causing another gate to almost fall on Loveno's head. She slammed into to the gate with a curse. Rosetta and Ezio caught up and moved to the gap next to the gate that had wood sticking out of the walls, making an easy crossing for any assassin. Frowning the smallest followed them. They chased the man through many twists and turns, through large rooms and past dusty shelves filled with books. Lovino always in the lead.
Coming around a corner they ran in to the largest room yet, seeing another room though a large door filled with guards Lovino got a burst of speed and caught up to the small guard they where chasing just as he began to close the large doors to the other room. Grinning she jumped on him, shoving her hidden blade through his throat as they fell. The other guards quickly rushed forward to attack the assassins.
"Asassini!" Yelled one as he rushed at Lovino.
"No way!" She shouted back pulling out her two swords to block his attack. Next to her one of the other guards went down as Rosetta through a knife at him, he grasped at the hilt buried deep in his throat. Jumping past the fallen guard Ezio pulled out his sword and attacked a third guard.
Dogging guards sword by ducking Lovino slashed the mans leg causing him to fall. She quickly lifted her sword and stabbed him through the chest.
To the left of Lovino, Rosetta fought the a heavily armored guard with short dagger, and a knife dipped in poison. Stabbing the knife through a weak spot near the guards elbow she jumped back, avoiding his ax and waited for her poison to take effect.
Ezio quickly detached the last guard with a swift upward cut to his chest. Rather disappointed by the lack of skill these guards had.
"Well," Lovino sighed, returning the swords to her side. "I think the Templars need to spend more time training their guards,"
Rosetta shook her head and moved to extract first the poisoned knife from the large guard and then the one buried in the others neck. Grimacing as it made a squelching noise.
"I agree," Ezio nodded as he moved toward a large gate that had another skull lock on it. He pulled it out and watched as the mechanical parts rearranged the skull so that it was upside down. With loud clanking noises the gate was pulled open revealing another stone tunnel leading down. The smell of rot seamed to be more intense.
"Smells like there might be water ahead," Rosetta moved up next to Ezio and looked down the dark stairs.
"Oh, please no," Lovino moved to stand on Ezio's right. "I hate water,"
Ezio began walking down the stairs. "There is no way for us to know until we go all the way down,"
With a dramatic sigh Lovino stepped into the dark tunnel, followed quickly by Rosetta.
When Ezio reached the bottom of the stairs he knew that they had finally reached the tomb. The room was huge, the ceiling reaching high over Ezio's head. In the middle was a large white stone structure, with huge columns, making it look like some of the buildings he had seen in Rome, the front of the building had obvious assassin symbol on it but it was slightly misaligned. He figured it had something to do with the puzzle to open the door. Around the room where dark crumbling pedestals and paths of rock covered in slick moss all surrounded by murky water.
Next to him Lovino sighed, looking down at the water. "I hate water,"
"Hey," a bit to their right Rosetta called out. They turned to look at her. "What do you suppose this does?" she gestured to a wooden wheel with a large handle on it.
"Part of the puzzle," Ezio replied critically. He moved over to it and messed with it for a moment then with a grunt he pushed the lever so that it pointed straight toward the ceiling. The wheel began spinning and around the room panels of the wall slid down reveling bars with a red square in them. One of the pillars twisted around, several metal bars fell out of the walls with loud clanks and an ominous ticking resounded through the room.
"Amazing!" Lovino spun around wide eyed.
Tilting her head and looking at one of the bars with the red box in it Rosetta stated. "It is on a timer,"
"We had best get going then," Nodded Ezio.
Lovino sat down on the floor. "No way I'm not going! If I mess up I will fall in the water!"
"I think that's the point," Rosetta chuckled.
"Why don't we take turns," The male assassin suggested. "We can each take a turn and see how far we can make it. I will go first." He jumped onto the side of the contraption with the wheel and pulled the lever down. Causing Rosetta to laugh because he looked rather silly being almost parallel to the ground when he let go.
Lovino however was not paying attention, she had moved to the edge of the water and was peering into its dark depths. Down in the murky water she thought she saw something move. It looked like... like a tentacle? "Um... Rosetta..." she squeaked as she scooted back from the water. "Rosetta, I think there is something in the water!"
"Sure there is, Lovino," Her friend did not even turn her head away from the other brunette. "Why not make bets out of it?" She smirked. "I will bet you five florins that I can make it around in one try,"
Ezio grinned. "Alright, I bet you ten that you will fall six times,"
"Fine" They shook hands.
While the too dark haired assassins where busy making bets Lovino had moved back to the edge of the water. With a splash two large tentacles sprang out of the water showering Lovino with water and causing her to scream.
Tensing and moving their hands toward their weapons Rosetta and Ezio turned to her. "What?!"
"There where tentacles and they came out of the water I am telling the truth!" Lovino looked up at her friends with large eyes.
Rosetta crossed her arms. "Stop trying to pull a prank Lovino!"
"I'm not I swear! I swear on Ludwig's necklace, I am not lying!" She reached toward the black cord around her neck as she talked.
Rosetta sighed. "Maybe you are just seeing things, or it was a fish, giant octopuses do not exist,"
The frightened blond stood and walked back to the stairs and sat down. "Fine don't believe me! I will just watch as you get eaten by whatever it is!"
Moving toward her with a smirk Ezio spoke. "Maybe you where just thinking about something else that's large and long," He wiggled his eye brows, causing Lovino to laugh.
"Really?!" she shook her head. "Is now the time for lude jokes?"
He chuckled. "But I cheered you up!"
She gave him a small smile. "I suppose that is correct, but I still think I saw a huge octopus,"
"We wont know if it wants to eat us if we do not try to solve the puzzle," he pointed out.
She sighed, relenting. "You are right. Have at it then," She waved him off. "Have fun,"
"I shall endeavor to do so," He smiled and turned back to the wheel and pushed the lever back up then ran toward the short pillars at the end of the stones that the wheel contraption was on.
The two woman watched him, after only getting to the ledge in the rock that was behind the pillars he stopped confused as how to next proceed. He decided the best course of action would be to run a bit up the wall and then turn his body and jump toward the bar sticking out of the wall. However the planning was much easier then the actually doing. Instead of doing an odd sideways jump to reach the bar he over jumped and ended up completely missing the bar and falling into the water. "Merda!" He shouted as he surfaced and began to swim back to his friends. It was so cold!
He hauled himself back on to the dry platform, sopping wet.
"Wow, you did not even make it half way!" Rosetta laughed.
He glared. "It is much harder then it looks,"
Still laughing she moved over to the lever and rest it. As soon as the ticking began again she started off.
Doing his best to shake the water off himself Ezio moved next to Lovino, who now sat with her head resting on her hands and her elbows on her knees.
"Ew!" she moved away as he got some water on her. "Don't get near me! You are all wet!"
"Aw," he frowned and moved closer his arms outstretched to hug her. "But I am cold and need a nice warm body to heat me back up,"
The blond kept moving away. "Too bad Leonardo's not here, you could snuggle with him, that man's like a fire place!"
They both stopped moving when their ears picked up the sound of Rosetta shrieking followed by a splash.
Several moments later the dark haired woman appeared and also pulled herself out of the water. "Made it father then you!" She grinned at Ezio. "I made it to the first bar that needs to be pulled down," she pointed at the white building showing Ezio and Lovino that while they had been messing around the top part of the symbol had moved.
"Fine, fine," Ezio turned back to Lovino. "Your turn, my dear,"
She quickly backed up into the wall, still sitting. "Oh, no, I am fine. You two go ahead! I'll just watch,"
"But we have to take turns," Ezio moved closer. "You have to go," He stated to get a very mischievous look in his eyes.
"B-but... I don't know how to swim!" she shouted.
"Yes you do," Came Rosetta's voice from behind him.
"Traitor," She mumbled.
"That settles it then," Ezio bent down and easily picked up Lovino's small body.
When lifted in to the air she began kicking wildly. "What are you doing!? Put me down!"
"Alright, I will put you down!" He moved to the waters edge and then dropped Lovino. With a short squeak she splashed in to the water. Seconds later she popped back up and quickly pulled herself out of the freezing water. "Ich werde dich töten! Scheisse Kopf!"
Ezio swiftly moved behind Rosetta. "I can not understand you,"
"Ho detto che sei una testa di merda!" She screamed and ran at him, her eyes red. It was only Rosetta's strong arms that prevented Ezio's demise at the hands of the short assassin.
"Lovino you are already wet, so you may as well give it a try," The taller of the two woman tried to clam her raging friend.
"Fine!" Lovino whipped around "And I will make it when nether of you could! Rosetta reset the timer,"
With a sigh the brunette assassin did as Lovino instructed.
As soon as the timer began Lovno ran toward the pillars.
"I think you just saved my life," Ezio leaned toward Rosetta.
"Lovino has a bit of a murderous temper. Hopefully running around will calm her down," she sighed as she watched Lovino's small figure.
"May I ask you a serious question?" Ezio's eyes also followed the blond assassin.
Rosetta shrugged.
"I was just wondering why you two are assassins? There are many woman who would never do what you do, and many of the female assassins I know kill only rarely,"
Rosetta sighed and turned to look at the man next to her, seeing as Lovino had moved out of her sight. "It is odd isn't it? Lovno and I could live such different lives. What with her fathers money, she could have a life where she wishes for nothing and worries only about what the cook is making for supper. In fact looking at us I am sure it is not hard to image the life we could have. Lovino a lonely lady dressed in silk and diamonds, going to balls and I her ladies maid and best friend. She and I would giggle about the handsome suitors that asked for her hand. One day she would marry one of them, not out of love but for money. I would likely marry a nice butler or a footman. It would be a peaceful, boring life, filled with fancy dinners, long walks and noblemen. Eventually we would go old and die. But that is not our life, in some ways I am sorry for that, I morn the peace we could have enjoyed. But that is not the life we decided to live, her father gave us a choice, we could be proper ladies or join something bigger then our selves, a life of loss, adventure, death, and excitement. I am very glad we chose this life,"
Just as Rosetta finished talking she heard a shout to her left, she looked over ans spied Lovino hanging off the last bar. A grin on her face.
Across the water the white building showed a proper assassins symbol for a moment, then the door opened and stairs rose out of the water.
Lovino dropped from the bar and into the water where she swam to the stairs. Rosetta and Ezio hopped across the water and to the stairs. Grinning, cold, and wet the trio entered the tomb.

-
Hours later they entered the workshop calling out excitedly to Leonardo, who sat at a work bench painting.
"Seem you had an exciting day," he smiled at them, glad to see his fiends so happy.
"You have no idea!" with that the assassins began to tell their friend about the crazy adventure they had.