Arno walks through a door as it head him into a hall that was very clean, "Took you long enough, pisspot." Bellec calls out from the shadows, Arno stops and looks at him, Bellec was in his Assassin attire. "What is this place?" Arno asks him, Bellec then uncross his arms and pushes himself off the wall, "The sanctuary. A place we can train and prepare, away from the eyes of our enemy." he informs him and walks on, Arno follows him. "Didn't we just escape from a dungeon?" Arno asks him, "This is no dungeon." Jackson calls out, Arno looks over at him seeing him leaning against the wall off the bigger room, "It's a nerve center." James answers as he appears out of nowhere.
Bellec looks over at them, "Jackie. Romeo. Where's Elizabeth?" he asks him, Arno looks away from hearing her name. Jackson narrows his eyes at him, "She's just up ahead, waiting for you to arrive." James answers him. Then grips Jackson's arm and pulls him into a different direction, Arno watches him go. "What's his problem?" he asks, Bellec just chuckles "He doesn't like you." he answers and walks off
"From these tunnels we can get anywhere in the city, all without being seen. We have eyes everywhere." Bellec informs him. "Really seems visibility would be a problem. Wouldn't you prefer something with a view?" Arno ran his mouth off. "This place as served us well for six hundred years, pisspot." Bellec informs him. "Uh-huh. And how long where you standing in the dark waiting for me?" Arno questions. "Not long. Guillaume spotted you from the bell tower and Elizabeth inform me that you were following her." Bellec informs her. Arno just looks at him, "Don't be so surprise, she's the child of Eden, no matter how you tried to hide, she was always know you're there." Bellec warns him. Arno scoff, "Well it was quite the entrance." he mutters. "Are you mocking me?" Bellec questions him, "No, no! God's truth. Very theatrical." Arno informs him with sarcasm. "Shut up. We're here." Bellec tells him.
"The candidate will approach." Mirabeau states, Arno walks to the center, he looks over and saw Elizabeth was sitting on the rail, her leg pulls to her chest, arms wrap around it and her chin resting on her knee and the other leg dangled over the edge. Arno steps for as Pierre walks up the steps. He flashes a quick smile at Elizabeth and stood next to Trenet, who stood from their chairs. Arno shot a quick look at Elizabeth then back the council. "So the son of Charles Dorian returns to us. Bellec thought you wouldn't come. What made you change your mind?" Mirabeau asks him.
Bellec and Elizabeth looks at Arno, "I'm tried of running from my failures. Monsieur De Le Serre, my father… I want to make it right." Arno tells him. "The death of Grant Master De Le Serre weights on you. Why? Did you wield the blade yourself?" Guillaume asks him. "Does it matter? The blame still lies with me." he tells them. "waqal 'annah yahmil dhanbih alththaqila. hal 'ant mtakd mn hdha wahid?" Trenet asks Bellec. "ana. waqal 'annah yumkin muajahat almhakmat. kan yumkin 'an takun kabira." Bellec tells her, then she looks over to Elizabeth, "wa'ana 'aelam 'annah lm yuqtal di law siri. kunt hunak, waqal 'annah bari', walikun yurid 'an yajeal alhaqq." she states and looks at the four, "'inn bi'iimkanih 'an yufeal dhalik." she informs him.
Then they turn to Arno, "Very well. Out of the dark, you come into the light. From the light, you will return to the dark once more. Are you prepared to travel the eagle's path?" Mirabeau ask Arno. "If that's a fancy way of saying "Do I want your help?" Yes" he answers them, Elizabeth suppress the urge to sigh. "Then drink." he tells him, Arno looks at the cup at sat in the small structure, he slowly walks up to it, took the cup and drank it. He then starts to cough, shortly after fell to his knees and was out, like a light. "Well, that was fast." Elizabeth states and looks at Pierre. "Tell me about it." Pierre agrees with her.
~8~8~8~
Arno opens his eyes and found himself in a cave, but there was a tunnel before him and he walks down the steps and into an area full of his memories. "What's happening? Hello!" Arno calls out, then looks at his memories seeing everything he had lived through "These are you're memories." a woman calls out, Arno turns back and saw Elizabeth was standing before him, "What is this? How are you here?" he asks her in confusion, Elizabeth fittles with her fingers, Arno knew she was nervous, always flitted with her fingers, "I am something you created or you invited me in, whatever choice, it is yours to make." she informs him, he nods at her and then looks back at the paintings, "What is this place?" he asks her, she steps up next to him.
"These are your memories, Arno. Everything you have lived through. You are walking the eagle's path, Arno." she informs him, he then looks down, "What's down there?" he asks, "Your greatest fear, your greatest regret and your resolve." Elizabeth answers him again, Arno pants softly then looks back at her, "Elizabeth, I'm sorry I shouted at you, I was confused and angry-" Arno starts, but she presses her fingertips to his lips, silencing him as her blue eyes look into his doe brown eyes. "You have every right be angry with me, but now is not the time to speak of such thing, you must go." she tells him and this vanishes from his sight. Arno then turns back to the ledge, spread his arms out like an eagle and he fell.
Arno came to as he was laying on the floor, he then slowly pulls himself to his feet and pulls himself to his feet are recognizes where he was. He was back at Versailles there his father had died. "Can't I go with you father?" little Arno asks his father. As the head statues stared at him as he started to walk. "Courage my boy. You wait just here. I will return this hand reaches the top. And there is to be no mischief." Charles informs him as Arno saw little Elise, Arno and Elizabeth run across the hall, Arno then saw his father as the door waiting for him. "Father!" he calls out as he started to run for it. "Where is that boy? I'm certain I told him six o'clock- we should be well away by now." Charles states as he looks around for little Arno.
As Arno tried to run to him the door became for further away as the floor started to break away. "Father, it's me! I'm here!" Arno calls out to him, but the door became more further away as he tries his hardest to reach him, but the floor became slated and he slides down, avoiding the gazers, then came to an even floor and started to go back up at and was finally was reaching the door, "Father! Look out!" Arno calls out to Charles, but he was too late, the dark figure, took Charles by surprise from behind and stabs him, "No!" Arno calls out and then the figure disappeared, Arno kneels down next to his father as he started to become nothing, then Arno's eyes went wide as he saw the letter meant for De La Serre was in his hand.
Arno found himself back at the Palace as the figure takes off, Arno went to follow, but the titles gave away. Making him step back, "You seem cause quite a commotion." Elise teases him. "What can I say? You and Elizabeth were always a bad influence." Past Arno teases her, then Arno ran along the path that he was given. "Oh you were a worst one." she tells him. The floor kept moving but Arno proceeded forward. "When I first came back, I went to find that letter. As I read the letter, I hated myself even more. I had help murder the one man I called father." Elizabeth tells him in a sad and regretful tone.
"Elizabeth gave me the letter and I then knew why she cried and beg for my forgiveness." Elise tells him, "I didn't know." Past Arno tries to tell her, as Arno looks over, seeing De La Serre trying to fight off the shadow figure. "Neither did my father." Elise reminds him. Arno then races to save De la Serre. "He must receive it today! It's very-" the messenger tries to warn him, "Very important. I heard you the first time." Past Arno tells him. Arno almost reaches them, "Arno!" Elizabeth screams for him, "Mon Dieu, he killed Lord De La Serre." a guard states, "No! He's innocent!" Elizabeth tries to convince them. "Truly. I am blessed to have such a loyal companion as you, my friend." De La Serre once said.
But as Arno went to reach then, the shadow figure stabs De La Serre and laughs as he fell to the ground. Then everything went black, Arno lets out a frustrated growl as he grips his head, wanting to stop all the death. He then opens his eyes and saw that a thousand of shadow figures were around him. So he walks among them, hidden in plain sight as he then saw his target with both his father and De La Serre at his feet, Arno makes his way around and stab the man from behind. The figure falls to the ground, revealing that he was none other then himself. Arno falls to his knees, panting softly, his face covered in sweat as he then reaches down closes his eyes. Then sits back and closes his eyes.
~8~8~8~
Arno then opens them finding himself back in the sanctuary with Pierre, Elizabeth, and another Assassin stood in front of him. "These are the words spoken by our ancestors. The words that lay at the heart of our Creed." Mirabeau states. "Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent." one one the right starts, "Hide in plain sight." Trenet said after. "Never compromise the Brotherhood." Quemar finishes.
"Let these tenets be branded in your mind. Follow them, and be uplifted. Break them at your peril." Mirabeau tells him. The Assassin step forwards, "Rise Assassin." Mirabeau tells him. Arno stood on his two feet. Pierre took the hidden blade from the Assassin and equip it to Arno's arm. "Arno Dorian is dead. He has been culled from this world, with his sins and failures turn to dust. Tonight he is reborn, a novice of the Assassin Brotherhood." Mentor tells him, when Pierre tighten the straps on Arno's arm and step back. He pulled his wrist back, pulling out his blade, then looks down at it, and then looks over at Elizabeth, she nods at him and he turns back to the Council retracting his blade.