Chapter 5
La Cour Des Miracles,
19 January, 1791.
It was night as the rain pours down, they walk through an old ruin town of La Cour Des Miracles, "Mon Deu, this place gets worse every time I come here." Elizabeth mutters to herself, Arno looks at her, "Really, then where if not here, would you want to be?" he asks her, as they walk through a crowd. "Home." she answers, Arno looks at her in surprise and went to say something, until they heard someone, a voice begging someone to stop, "Please, no! I've done all I can, it's the times! No one wants to-" the poor man cries out and the two Assassins followed the voice. "His Grace doesn't care about an excuse. He cares about results. If you can't make your quotas, he makes… adjustments." a familiar voice tells the crowd, "Doctor, cut his foot off." he orders, "No! No, please, God no!" the man cries out in horror. "There you are, Le Roi des Thunes' lieutenant. La Touche." Arno mutters as he and Elizabeth walk through the crowd, behind the front. La Touche he was standing on the side as a man was being held down and his leg was being cut off. Elizabeth covers her mouth in horror, Arno pulls her into his arms, covering her eyes as she was covering her ears from the sounds of the man screaming. Arno lets go of her and was going to kill La Touche, "Oh, I wouldn't do that, look." a man tells him, and two guards walk had walked into view.
Elizabeth curses at herself as the man pushes himself off the wall, "Lovely, no? The good folk of Paris gives more money to the crippled beggars than whole ones." the man tells them as he walks up to the two. "Le Roi des Thunes sees in that a bit a trivia an opportunity to motivate his less-successful employees," he tells him, Arno glares at him. "That man-" he starts, "Has lost a foot. Now, you can charge in there, cause a great disturbance, and send all the rats scurrying back their holes." he informs Arno, "Or you can disappear into the swam, and follow the rats back to their king." he also advises Arno. "Either way, that poor man lost a foot," Elizabeth states as she rubs her arms. The man looks at her and smiles and took her hand. "Do not worry, Mademoiselle. Your beauty will stun any man from laying a scratch on your beautiful skin," he states and kisses her gloved hand. She gave him an annoyed look and took her hand back, "Charmed." she growls at him, "Take him to the clinic for a proper cauterization, then send him back to the streets." La Touche orders his men. The men host the man onto the wagon. "I appreciate the advice," Arno tells him and starts to walk. "Not yet." the man warns them. Arno stop and then walks back to the man, "Who are you, precisely? And why help us?" he demands of him.
The man just smiles as he took a step back, "Oh, I've had my eye on both of you for some time, Arno and Elizabeth. I feel it is my sovereign duty to aid all those who suffered in cruelest bondage with me at the Bastille." he tells them, making Elizabeth let him go and he circles them. "And I have a vested interest in seeing the king of rats caught in a trap," he whispers into Arno's ear and backs off. "As to my name, I have a pleasure of being Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade." he bows to them, Elizabeth crosses her arms.
"Do pay me a visit when you have tried of chasing vermin." he tells them and starts to walk off, "Oh, he's left a lovely trail. Good luck." he states as he laughs and left, Elizabeth let a frustrated sigh and Arno pats her shoulder. They follow the trail as if they, were his own shadow. Arno and Elizabeth walk along the roofs making sure that they didn't lose sight of La Touche, he then walks up to the gate as the two watch him from afar and spot La Touche walking behind the wagon, slouching over a bit, Elizabeth micks him, making Arno laughs a bit, La Touche turns around, feeling that something was amiss, Arno pulls Elizabeth away from ledge as they both laid down on the roof, out of sights and covers her mouth to contain her laughter.
As he contains this, they heard the sound of something being tossed to the ground and gates being close shut. They peek out of the from hiding and saw the man that lost a foot laying on the ground. Elizabeth looks around the area and saw no guards in sight, she then pulls herself out of Arno's arms, jumps down from the roof and ran up to the man, she kneels down and checks for a pulse. Arno walks up to her, she looks at him and shook her head. She than turns back to the dead man, place her hand over his eyes, "Requiescat in pace." she tells him as she closes his eyes. Arno watches her stand up, "Come on, we have word with La Touche." she states, Arno nods at her and they both scale the wall, they jump into the area and jump inside. "What's the order for the unfortunate in bed 6?" a guard asks La Touche, as Elizabeth came up behind a guard, covers his mouth and slit his throat, then lowers him to the ground. "Horribly burnt in a fire that killed his family and drove him insane." La Touche answers him, "A burn job? Do you know how hard those to get without burning half of the distract to ash?" the guard asks him as the two Assassin's snuck through the building.
"Use a few drops of the strong acid. Leymen can't tell the difference." La Touche informs him, as the two walk down the stairs, they could heard the screams of a man, it pierce through Elizabeth's soul, she tries to block out the sounds but was right in her ears. They saw a doctor drop acid on the man, Elizabeth covers her mouth in horror, but Arno grips her arm and pulled her along, getting her away faster from the scene. Until they turn a corner and were in front of the door where La Touche was staying. Arno kicks the door open, startling La Touche, he looks over towards them, then shot his gaze to the hack knife on the table, grabs it and swings it at Arno, as they walk over to him. Arno grips his wrist, making him drop the knife and Arno shoves him to the wall.
Grip his collar and drags him after him, "No! No! Please!" he begs him, Arno shoves him against the wall again and locks him in the shackles on the wall. "Give me Roi des Thunes, and I'll spear your life." Arno offers him. "The catacombs! He's in the catacombs beneath the old church!" he tells then rather quickly. "La Touche, I expected a stronger spine than yours! What will your Master say?" Arno tells him, then Elizabeth walks up to him and press her hidden blade against his throat. Arno then grips her arm, she looks at him, "He's not worth it." he tells her, she looks at him for a moment and then turns back to La Touche, she growls at him and retreats her blade, turns away but turns back and socks him right in the face, breaking his nose, Arno raise his eyebrow from under his hood, La Touche moans in pain, as she exhales and turns back to him. Arno places his hands on his hips as she looks at him and shrugs her shoulders with a smirk, but he just shook his head and they both Assassins left the room, hearing the man shout in horror. Arno slams the door behind them, they left the compound.
As they were far away, Elizabeth pants as she leans against the wall, Arno walks up to her and places his hand on her shoulder, "Are you alright?" he asks, she pulls her hood off and looks at him, "I want to say yes, but… I don't think I'm going to be alright for a while, but I'm okay right now." she tells him, taking in a deep breath, straightening herself out and exhales, "It's alright to be scared." Arno informs her, she looks at him and shook her head, "I'm not allow that luxury. I am a child of Eden to them, that's all I'll ever be to them. The Child of Eden, a weapon to be used." she informs him, Arno looks at her with sad eyes as she looks away and pulls on her hood, and went to leave, but Arno grips her wrist, making her stop and was jerk back and she was press into his arms, her face against his shoulder as his arms were wrap tightly around her.
"I know you're an Assassin, I know you're the child of Eden. But above all that, you're still human and if you need to cry, then cry." he whispers to her, feeling his hot breath tickle against her cold red ear. It made her heart flutter and she gave into her sadness. She grips the back of his jacket tightly and felt herself relax in his arms, Arno smiles as he felt the tension in Elizabeth's body release and she accepted the hug, crying into his shoulder.
~8~8~8~
They sat on top of a wooden pier as Arno obverse the area around the Church, the way was block off by guards, and there were sewage entrance there, but they need a saw to smoke the catacombs, to clock themselves, "Takes the chill, right off it does." a man said below, drawing the two's attention, "Why do you suppose it's so hot?" the second man asks him, Arno and Elizabeth walk over to the edge of the roof and listen in on the conversation, "It's ventilation from the catacombs." the first man answers him. "Huh. What do they need that for?" the second man asks him, "Because if the didn't, the whole place would fill with smoke." he informs him, making Elizabeth arch her eyebrow. "Oh, okay. And that's bad?" the man asks him, making the other roll his eyes in annoyance. "Yes you could charitably describe is as bad." the man answers him, making the man hold his hands up in defense. "All right, all right. We all didn't study with the Montgolfiers before drink brought us to ruin, you know." the man reminds him. "One time, one time I mentioned that!" the other argues with him. But the man rolls his eyes, "Whatever you say, professor." the man mutters and Elizabeth looks at Arno, "Informative to say the least." Arno states and they both nod at each other and separate, Elizabeth closes off the vents. Then she climbs back onto the roofs as did Arno. "That should smoke them out." Arno states and Elizabeth nods at him.
Then they ran to the gate and looks down at the guards that were pushing the beggars back. "They'll never survive without help." Arno mutters to himself, then Elizabeth pulls out a smoke bomb, tosses it down and smoke burst, blinding the people below. Elizabeth jumps down and plunge her daggers into two of the guards, then pulls them right out as she stood out and plunge her hidden blades into the last of the guards then vanishes as the smoke settles, the people and Arno were surprised that the guard were dead and the beggars wasted no time and took off. Arno looks around for his friend that vanished from sight, he then looks next to him and saw Elizabeth was squatted down next to him. She smirks at him and gave a wave. "How?" he asks her, she just held her hands, but Arno rolls his eyes and they took off for the sewer entrance and sat on the roof as they saw men walk out of the tunnel and were coughing. "Goddamn, that's a ripe whiff! Let's get out of here!" a man said and they walk away from the entrance. "What did you expect? Some idiot dug too deep, broke through into the sewer." another states, Arno shot a look Elizabeth a look, she nods and jumps down and plunge her blades into the guards and then Arno jumps down as well as she stood up and they walk down into the tunnel and saw that men were stationed at the block entrance into the sewers.
Arno walks forward and slits their throats and they walk the barricaded block and Arno lifts it up, "What's happened?" a man asks as another ran up to him, Elizabeth sinks back into the shadows as Arno drops down into the sewers as well, "The beggars are rioting all throughout the districts. You men, with me!" the man orders and they ran down the tunnel, Elizabeth slithers out of the shadows and Arno looks at her, she shot him a quick smile and they walk down the tunnels. "Any idea where we're going?" Arno whispers to her as they make a left, "To the center of the network." she answers him. He nods at her and they maneuvered through the tunnels, passing the guards "This way." she whispers and makes a left. "You seem to know your way around." he states and she just shrugs. "I've been through these tunnels ever since I was a kid." she informs him then stops a the end of the tunnel. Elizabeth held her arm out and Arno stops. They both squat down and saw two men below. "Wait here." Elizabeth whispers then jumps onto the beam as her eyes stayed on the men below her. Arno watches her as she slowly pulls out two throwing knives and pulls out her leg strap.
Then the reels her arm back and throw one at the guard, then turns and through the next one, killing them both. Elizabeth then jumps down as looks area. She waves to Arno and he followed after her. They walk through the tunnel and stop as there were three men, Elizabeth looks up at the beam then back at the men as they had their back turned. She took her chance and ran at the beam. She grips the rope and pulls herself up. Arno hurried and followed her as she was on the long beam, walks over and jump into the tunnel, he followed her as they walks up to a set of bars and saw Le Touche running to Roi des Thunes, "Well, well, well. The rat returns to his master." Elizabeth mutters and they watch from the tunnel. "My Lord! My lord! I've uh, heard reliable reports that..." he paused trying to find a really good excuse as Roi des Thunes stood up from his throne. "That two Assassins is nearby and that. . . you are their intended target." La Touche informs him as he bows before his Master. "The worm has grown a spine... now he's a snake." Arno states. "He has no spine, that's why he's a snake. But the only venom he spits is lies and manipulation." Elizabeth growls as she grips the bar. "What makes you say that?" Arno asks her. "Because, isn't that what snakes do?" she jokes, Arno smirks and shoves her shoulder a little. "Damn it! It's only a matter of time, I knew too much. But this is far too soon." Roi des Thunes states, Elizabeth looks over at Arno as he nods his head, "I see now." Arno states.
"Oui, My Lord... The Assassins are ah… well connected." La Touche states, making Roi des Thunes look at him. "But we have the advantage now, don't we? Muster the guards and lead the hunt for these Assassins. Bring me their heads." he orders him, "But my lord… the other Assassin, she's the child." La Touche states. Roi des Thunes raise an eyebrow, "You mean. . ." he starts, "Yes my lord, she has the eyes, from what I heard. She has the markings." he states, Elizabeth stiffens and place her hand on her neck. Arno grips the bar as he did not like why Roi des Thunes was smirking, "Bring her to me alive, after you've dealt with the other Assassin." Roi des Thunes orders him. As he sat back down on his throne, Elizabeth lets out a soft squeak as Arno pulls her to him but her waist and pressed her back against his chest. "They won't have you. Not while I still live." he promsies her, making her heart jump with joy as her cheeks tinted pink. "Come on Arno, I can take care of myself." she assures him, trying to assure herself as well. "I know. But you're still my friend and I won't anyone take you from me." he swore to her and she smiles bitterly to herself. -Stop, don't tell me these things Arno.- she begged him, then collects her and moves out of his arms. "Come on, we have a Templar to kill." she tells him, he nods at her and they both walk through the tunnel. "But, my Lord. Half of our men are dealing with uprising among the beggers." La Touche reminds him as he moves away from the Throne.
The two Assassins moved quickly through the tunnel. Roi des Thunes said nothing and La Touch moved away from the throne. "Y-You men! With me!" he orders and they walk out of the throne room. They both walk through the tunnel, but Elizabeth stops and she placed her arm against Arno's chest and they both listen. "Show yourself Assassins!" La Touche shouts through the tunnel and the two quickly moved through and weaved pass some of the guards. "Show yourself, Coward!" La Touche shouts again. They ran and jumps onto a beam that was above the guards below them. Arno almost lost balance, but Elizabeth grips his arm and re-balanced him. "Maybe he's given up, where are you Eden brat!" La Touche shouts. Elizabeth rolls her eyes as Arno pulls out a Cherry bomb.
He then tosses it down and pulls the guards away from the tunnel below them. They jumps down and walk through the tunnel, staying quiet as possible. They heard La Touche's voice ahead of them, so they broke out into a run and slide under the bars. La Touche turns and looks at them, as the two stood and he ran to the gate and closes it behind him. "He's through there." he shouts and took off running. "Embarrassing." Arno mutters as Elizabeth crossed her arms. "And he calls out a coward." Elizabeth mutters. Arno nods and they both look at the tunnel to their left, "Let's go." he states, "Right behind you." she said and they walk through the tunnel, turn, climbs up the ladder, through the tunnel and entered the room, "Hold your position, men," a man calls out, Elizabeth rooms her eyes. Arno pats her shoulder and she looks at him. He nudge his head over and they the walk over to the side, slides through the vent and Arno pulls out his Phantom blade and fired at some of the men that were hiding. Elizabeth pats Arno's back, he turns to her as she climbs up the ladder. He followed after her and they were above the throne, "There." she whispers and he saw Roi des Thunes on the other side of the room with a rifle in his hands. "Show yourselves." he orders them.
Elizabeth reaches into her pocket and pulls out a cherry bomb. "Lost one." she mutters and tosses it down, distracting all the men below them, even Roi des Thunes they both jumps and swung over to the other side by the beams. "Where are you?" Roi des Thunes calls out as Elizabeth and Arno were right above him. Then Arno jumps down, landing on top of him and stabs him with his hidden blade, Elizabeth jumps down and pressed her hand to Roi des Thunes, she threw her head back as the memory plays in both of their minds.
~Flashback~
Roi des Thunes and La Touche kneels before De Le Serre who was in front of a pestle, "My subjects have eyes everywhere, my lord. I offer their knowledge to the service the Order." Roi des Thunes offers, "What knowledge could a king of the gutters offer us? The intrigues of rats? You may go." he tells him
~8~
"The intrigues of rats? Pompous! If I could lay my hands on him…" Roi des Thunes grumbles. "My master would be pleased to arrange that. Brother." Sivert tells him and over a pin of a strange craft; As Sivert fought with Monsieur De Le Serre, Roi des Thunes come up beside him and shanks him in the back of the neck.
"Monsieur De Le Serre!" Elizabeth shouts as she ran to him, "Are you alright, Monsieur? Too much of the King's champagne?" Arno asks, "Sivert, Come away." Roi des Thunes tells Sivert. As they ran away from him as Elizabeth help De Le Serre stand.
Sivert and Roi des Thunes walks up to a hooded man and kneels before him, "It is done. De Le Serre is dead… Grand Master." Sivert informs his master. "Good." the hooded man states.
~End of Flashback~
Arno pulls his blade from him as Elizabeth pulls her head back and exhales removing her hand from Roi des Thunes. They both stood up and looks down at Roi des Thunes he land dead on the ground and the two exchanged looks, "Let's get out of here." Arno tells her, she nods at him and they both jumps down and ran through the tunnels, but they way was shrouded in smoke as the guards were coughing and blind. "Put out the torches!" a guard shouts. Arno was moving blindly through the smoke, but a hand grips his and pulls him along. "Hang on, I'll guide us through the smoke." she tells him and they moved forward making turns as they were running past the guards. "Damn bastard could be right under our noses." a guard coughs. "Possibly." Elizabeth calls out, "What! Who said that?!" the guard calls out as Elizabeth just giggles, leading Arno through the sewers.
She then stops as the came to a pole, "Climb Arno." she tells him and climbs up. Arno follows after her as they pulled themselves up and jumps into a tunnel were the smoke was thinning down. They ran through the tunnel, jumping over the bars, then straight ahead as they saw boulders with a little slide way from them. Elizabeth with first and Arno followed after her. He then pulls out the wood that was holding it up and blocks the guards from getting out of the sewers, they both stood up, panting and then look at each other, but then started to laugh, "That was fun." she mutters, Arno nods and pats her back, "Yeah. That was fun." he admits as they brush themselves off. "You okay?" Arno asks her, she nods at him, "Nothing I can't handle." she informs him. He nods and they walk to the stairs that lead them up top. As they reach the outdoors.
Arno looks around and spots a Tavern, a very lively tavern. They both walk to the tavern and enter; everyone was in a joyous mood, half naked men and women running around as some were roughhousing around, some lay on the floor, men chasing after women and some where making out. Elizabeth looks over and saw that a man was eyeing her, she shivers then grips her shoulders, Arno shot a death glare at the man, making him stop and Arno wraps his arm around her shoulders pulling her closer to him, the two walk forward and The two walk through the crowd, "Ah… You two are just are just in time for the commencement of my reign." De Sade informs them as he laid on the couch, the two exchanged looks, then Arno pulls his hand from Elizabeth's shoulders as she crossed her arms. "Your reign?" Arno demands of him. "As Long as there's a Cour des Miracles, we must have a Roi des mendiants. Since there seemed to be a vacancy, I stepped in." he informs them, Elizabeth arch her eyebrow at him. "With remarkable speed. The body is not yet cold." Arno states. "I may have set things in motion a trifle early. Say, when you first arrive in the la Cour des Miracles." he informs them, "You use us, so you could be the King of Beggars." Elizabeth states as took a step forward. De Sade stood up from the couch and gllanced down at her, "Your target is dead? We used one another." he tells her. She smirks, "I suppose we did." she admits.
Arno looks around with the tavern and saw a goat walks by, "Quite a kingdom you've inherited." Arno states, pulling François attention away from Elizabeth. "It is, isn't it? So… Is justice served? Are the dead avenged, is your soul soothed, all that rot?" he asks them as he walks a bit and took a man's drink. "Keep talking like that and people will start to think you have a caring soul in you, Elizabeth." De Sade chuckles to himself, "Yes it would, wouldn't it?" she states, "Rot is a description. Every time I think I'm getting close to the truth, it seems another layer of filth presents itself." Arno states. De Sade gasp a little, "Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly-thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel." he tells them and offers Arno a glass. "I'd settle for a solid lead." Arno informs him as he rejects the glass. "So Young. And yet so serious. Well, best of luck to you, and you, ma beauté." he states as he smiles at her, she rolls her eyes and the two walk away. "You have, I trust, look into this?" De Sade asks them, making them stop on their tracks.
Arno turns and looks at him and shows them the pin from the memory, Elizabeth walks up to him. "Where did you get that?" Arno asks him as she reaches out for it, but De Sade yanks it out of her reach. "One of my newly loyal subjects brought it to me as a… token of esteem, as it were." he answers as Arno walks up to them. Then took Elizabeth's hand, "It's a curious peace. I know of one silversmith who works metal like this." he states and place it gently in her hand. "A blade of this make killed Monsieur De Le Serre. I can assure you know this already. Why didn't you say?" Arno questions him. De Sade just smirks as he pulls Elizabeth close to him and wraps his arm around her as he was holding her hand, Arno clutched his fist, not liking how close De Sade was to her. "Where would man be if he never has to ask questions? If everything he could ever wanted to know were simply handed to him?" De Sade states "And you have the answer to the said question?" she asks, taking her hand back and removes his arm from her shoulders as he sat down next to a woman. "He might no longer need to ask question." he states, took the woman's hand and lightly kiss it. "Or he might accomplish a great deal more, unburdened by ignorance." Arno states, Elizabeth held him back. "Perhaps." De Sade states, Arno looks at him in disgust, "The smith's name is François Thomas Germain. You'll find his shop near Les Halles." he informs them as Elizabeth place the pin in her pouch.
"Thank you." Arno growls a little, and they left. "Bonne chance." he calls after them, but Arno ignores him. "I have never, in my whole life despise a man as much as a despise him." he mumbles to himself as they walk onto the street, Elizabeth just pats his shoulder as they both leave the tavern behind them.
~8~
Later in the afternoon, Elizabeth and Arno walk into an empty Cafe, no one in sight, but leave a few employees and the owner of the inn, "Something I can help you with?" the woman in green asks them as she turns and strides over to them. "What is this place?" Arno asks her.
Elizabeth looks at her and bows, "Madam, it is lovely to see you again." she smiles to her and the Madam smiles back at her. "It connects to the sanctuary. Less flashy than the Sainte-Chapelle entrance, we own the building. Used to be part our intelligence network. But the place has fallen on hard times…" he informs him, as she walks up to them. "How can we help?" Arno asks her. "I'll keep an ear out for any opportunities that come out. You two might also speak to the intendant, about renovating the building itself." she informs them, "I'm not exactly flush with coins just now." Arno tells her. "Any revenues the cafe generates are yours to do with as you see fit. The money is deposited in the chest in the study. And the more improvements you make…" she informs him.
"The more revenue." Arno finishes for her. "Quite. You might also find that expanding the our reach into other districts will pay dividends." she also informs him, "Merci." Arno thanks her, she nods at him and left. They also left the cafe and returns to the Sanctuary.
~8~
The two walk into the conference room and found Mirabeau leaning into his hand. "Mentor, are you unwell?" Elizabeth asks him as she kneels down beside him. Mirabeau looks at her, smiles and places his hand on hers, "Fret not child. I am fine." he assures her, she smiles and nods at him. "You look terrible." Arno tells him as he looks up at him, "For mouths, I've been wrangling the Brotherhood, the National Assembly, and the King. Taken all together they have the political acumen of an especially stupid village council. I believe that excuses my appearance, young man." he tells them then looks away. "I meant no disrespect, Mentor. I am only… concerned." Arno informs him, "Forget me, Arno. Weep for France." he tells him and leans back into his chair. "But enough politics. I hope you have happier news. What of Monsieur De Le Serre's murderers?" he asks him and turns his chair to face him.
"The King of beggars is dead. He was carrying this." Arno informs him and shows him the gun as Guillaume walks into the room. He took the gun as Mirabeau stood up. "Reposer en paix." he mumbles, not knowing that it belong to the former King of beggars or it belong to the missing Assassin. "You should keep it. It'll do no good moldering in a forgotten crypt. Carry it will honor." he tells Arno as he have the pistol back to Arno, "Thank you, I will." Arno tells him and place in his holster. "The mission…?" Mirabeau asks them, Arno looks over to Elizabeth, she looks at him and nods. "The King of Beggars and Sivert were only pawns in a larger game. Someone sent them after Monsieur De Le Serre." Arno informs them, "Templars do nothing simply, do they? Do you have anything solid on this mysterious chess player?" Mirabeau asks him. "The only lead we have is the instrument that killed De Le Serre. A pin fashioned by a silversmith name Germain. But how he's involved, I can't yet say." Arno informs them. "It seems your course is clear. Find the silversmith, learn what part he plays." Mirabeau orders them, they both bow and left the sanctuary.
~8~8~8~
Les Halles
31 March, 1791
Elizabeth and Arno follow leads on the Silversmith and to a compound that was being guarded by men and guard dogs, "Well, that's not suspicious at all." Elizabeth states sarcastically, Arno chuckles a little. "Still have your humor I see." Arno states, she looks over at him and shrugs "What can I say? You were a bad influence on me." she states and Arno shot her a look "Don't throw my words back at me." he laughs, she giggles "Too late, I already just did." she giggles. Arno just smiles at her "I'm glad that you're still you, Izzy." he states and Elizabeth's ears turn red. "We-Well, I mean how can I, you and Elise and were a big influence on me, it's hard not to be myself." she states and lets out a nervous laugh. "Let's go." she said them stood up and walks along the roof. -Wow, real smooth, Elizabeth. she scolds herself as Arno just smiles as he followed her. -Yep she's still herself.-
He followed after Elizabeth as she jumps over to the next roof and carefully walks over the rope. Elizabeth pulls out a dagger and threw it right at the man on the balcony. They both quickly ran along the rope and then pulled themselves onto the roof, then Arno walk over, jumps down and took out the man below them, then he walks inside as Elizabeth jumps down and followed him inside the snuck into the compound, Arno walks up to one of the men and plunge his dagger into one of the men, he gasp and fell dead as Elizabeth ran up to the next one, kicks his knee in and plunged her dagger into his neck. He stops dead as the two look at each other. Arno nods at her and thy walk over to the door as Arno picks at the lock. It clicks and Arno pushes the door open. They walk into the room and hide behind the screen divider as two guards stood next to it. Arno covers one of the guards mouth as he pulls him behind the screen divider. Then the other guard turns and Elizabeth slit his throat. He gasp, gripping his throat and collapsed into Elizabeth's arms, she held tightly onto him and drag him behind the screen and placed him by the other dead body. They walk out and through the door as Arno leans against the door frame with three guards inside and Elizabeth sneaks over to the lock door and picks it. The door clicks open and she sneaks through into the hall. Arno peeks out as he looks at the guards, then they heard a whistle, getting one of the guard's attention. He walks to the back room and was suddenly pulled right in. then Elizabeth ran out throw a knife at one of the guard throat by the desk as she charges at the one by the window, with her hidden blade drawn, she jumps at the guard catching him by surprise and she slams the blade right into his neck as they both hit the floor, Arno steps out as Elizabeth stood up and retracts her blade. "You good?" Arno asks her, she looks at him and nods. Then they walk to the door, "Wait!" Elizabeth mutters as they both stop. "Is he still in there?" a guard asks. "I've been here three weeks, and I've never seen him leave that room. Let alone come down the stairs." another informs him. The two exchanged looks.
Elizabeth looks at the door that the guards were in front of. "Dedicated to his work, is he?" the guard jokes. "Obsessed, more like. I don't think he really knows we're here." the other guard informs him. The two look at each other and nod. Elizabeth rolls out a smoke bomb and it went off, blinding the men, she then ran into the smoke and easily takes care of them. Arno walks into the room as the smoke settled and he saw the two brutes dead at Elizabeth's feet. She exhales and looks back at Arno as he walks up to her pats her shoulder and they walk up to the door and entered the room were Germain was working on his silversmiths, Arno closes the door behind them and catches his attention. "Monsieur Germain? The silversmith?" Arno asks him as Germain sets down his tools. He hesitated for a moment, chills slithered up Elizabeth's spine as her markings and instincts were telling her not to trust the man before her and Arno. "Thank god! They've been holding me here for months! Please, get me out of here!" he begs of them. Elizabeth eyes him with suspicion, she caught the color of his eyes; one blue, one gold, and her suspicion raises. "First, I need to know about this." Arno states and Elizabeth place the pin in his hand and he shows the pin to Germain. "No time! I'll tell you all I know once we're away, but we must leave, before the guards return." he tells them and gathers his things.
Arno place the pin in his belt, "Fine, lets go." he said and the two turn back and walks to the door. "No! They'll be watching the front entrance." Germain warns them as Elizabeth glares at the man. "We have to… go downstairs and across." he informs. Arno exhales with annoyance "Follow me. And stay quiet." Arno tells him, Elizabeth rolls her eyes, they walk to the door, but stop as there were three guards staying in their way, "Wait here." Arno whispers. "Alright." Elizabeth answers him and he walks out of the room and hid behind the screen and waited, the brute walks past him and he took care of the guard, then followed after the brute and took care of the other guard then stops as the brute walks downstairs. "Let's go." Arno calls out to them. "Hurry." she orders Germain and they followed after Arno. "Stay there." Arno orders and they stop at the stairs. Arno then jumps down onto the guard below him as the brute was walking back upstairs, but Elizabeth pulls out her dagger and threw it at the brute and implies the blade right into his throat. He gaps staggering a little and Elizabeth shot forward and grips the collar, stopping the brute from falling down the stairs, she then pulls him back up and laid him down. Arno exhales as well and dispatched all the guards in the dinning room. "Let's move." Arno calls out to them, "Yes, certainly." Germain answers him, Elizabeth shot the silversmith a glare as the walk down the stairs. Then Arno walks up to a lock door, "Hold a moment." he orders them. They two stop as he picks the lock, opening the door and he walks in the room and hide next to the wall as there were three guards blocking his way. He peeks out and then saw smoke as there were sounds of flesh being torn. He saw the smoke settle and there stood Elizabeth as she removes her blade and stood up. "Best we move on." she states as he shot her glare. "Oui." Germain calls out as he walks through the room and followed them.
They walk through the next room then Arno ran up to the door, "Wait." he calls out, then he shot a glare at Elizabeth as she just looks at him with her hands held you, signaling that she wasn't going to do anything. He then looks back at the room and fired at two brutes, making them go berserk and the slashed out onto their fellow men and were now killing each other. Elizabeth walks up to him and peeks out as well as they both watch the thugs kill each other and they all drop dead. "Keep moving." Arno orders, "Certainly." Germain answers him and they move out into the room. "Keep eyes on the roof. They often post sentries there as well." Germain warns them as Elizabeth crossed her arms. "Just how important are you as a prisoner?" Arno questions him then he ran outside as Elizabeth stayed with Germain, but she kept her wits about her as she was glaring at Germain, but then more of the thugs came and grips a hold of them, Germain struggled as Elizabeth broke three of their grip and rolls away from them with her blade drawn. "Help! Help me!" Germain calls out as Elizabeth charge forward and thrusts. Arno then shortly returns and saw that Elizabeth took down one of the men, he looks over and saw that one was going to strike her from behind, he pulls out his phantom blade and shot the guard and the neck. He stops and drops dead. Elizabeth turns and looks at him then looks back at Arno, they both nodded at each other. But the guard grunts and moves guard Germain right behind him with his sword raise at Arno and Elizabeth, they both look back at him as Elizabeth was ready for him, but Arno held his arm in front of him and stops her from attacking. She exhales and places her sword away "No need to do anything foolish. Let the silversmith go." Arno advice him "Stay back!" the man warns then. Germain twist over his arm and stabs him in the throat with his tool. Elizabeth ran up to the man and helps lower him to the ground, he gags for air as she lay him on the ground. He looks up at her. His hand that grip his sword handle was now slowly reaching up, grip the back of her hood and pulls it off. "Trouver le repos dans les bras de votre dieu. Reposer en paix." she whispers to him and closes his eyes, as he went limp on the floor in his pool of forming blood. She pulls her hood back over her head and stood up. "God be good… what have I done?" Germain asks in a terrified tone. But Elizabeth saw through the lie and the act. "Only what you had to. Come, we must go." Arno tells him. "Yes of course." Germain mumbles, but Elizabeth didn't buy it, did not believe him and did not trust him.
But she kept her option to herself as she knew Arno wasn't going to listen to her. So they left the compound and took of running down the street, making a left and they exhales and found some columns they took shelter under as they were safe distance away from the compound and Germain leans against a stone door frame, panting. Arno and Elizabeth just walk up to him "Thank you, my friends. You've done me a great service today." he tells them. Elizabeth shook her head, thinking that he was a dumbass for trying to take her for a fool "Perhaps you can return the favor." Arno states and shows him the pin again. "Yes, of course. I made the first some years ago, on a private for a man called Lafreniere. It seem unusual commission, I confess curiously got the better of me." he starts to tell him as the pin was in his hands. "Recently, I started to look into Lafreniere's background and… What I discovered… you wouldn't believe." he states. "Oh please, do tell us." Elizabeth states, in a dull attitude, Arno shot her a glare and turns back to Germain. "He's a Templar. Is that what you found?" Arno asks him, "Yes, I… I believe so, I didn't know how to take it. In any case, I was careless and Lafreniere found out about my scheme. Kept me under house arrest ever since. I do as he bids. Weapons mostly." Germain gave the pin back to Arno. "Where can I find him?" Arno asks him as he place the pin back in his belt. "Well, Lafreniere is a very difficult man to pin down. Not long ago, I heard him over talking about, protecting his shipment at la Halle aux Blies. It sounded ominous, whatever he meant." German informs them as the look in the direction. "May I ask, why are you two so interested in him?" he asks them.
Elizabeth glared at him, "Wouldn't you like to know." she snaps and Arno glares at her again as she looks away "He killed someone very dear to me. I want to know why." Arno answers him, "I see. You have my sympathies." he tells him. "They will come looking for you again, make yourself scarce." Arno advice him, "Yes, I believe I might." he tells them and Germain was gone. Then Elizabeth walks out of the columns as Arno grips her shoulder, "What was that?" he questions her, she shot him a glare, "Why did you tell him our plan?" she shot back at him. "He was a prisoner of a Templar." he answers her, "He could of lie to you, pretended to be a prionser just so you would do his dirty work." she snaps. "Okay, why are you angry with me?" he question her, "Because I do not buy anything that he telling us." she answers him, "And why is that?" he questions jerking her closer to him, "Because I do not believe him and I do not trust him, those are what my instincts are telling me and that is what I am going with." she answers him and jerks her arm free. The two glared at each other, "You listen to me." he states, pointing his finger at her, making her back up "We are going to that shipment, we are going to destroy it." he states as her back was pressed against the wall and he places his hand on both sides of her head and he stares into her soul.
Elizabeth felt her heart pounding as her blood was rushing right up to her ears. "And we are going to kill the ones responsible for Monsieur De La Serre and we will find Elise." he tells her unaware of the red cheeks on Elizabeth's face. "Um… sure, We can do that." she agrees with him. "Good, let's move then." he tells her and walks off, Elizabeth blinks herself as she processed why just happened. She covers her face and groans. -Dieu Dammit tout, pourquoi suis-je si faible contre lui?!- she groans, shaking her head. "Elizabeth, come on, let's move." Arno calls out to her, she removes her hands from her face and followed after him, "I'm going to need James' help on this one." she mutters and quickly followed after him.
~8~8~8~
They both jumped along the roofs and stop at the edge of the roof and looks at the warehouse, "Alright, Lafreniere. Where are you hiding?" Arno mumbles to himself, Elizabeth looks at the guards on the side, then pulls out her pistol and fired at the two men in the yard. Then Arno looks at her and she nods at him, then they both ran and jump onto the tree and look down at the two guards, that were guarding the doorway, One of them looks around and leans in close to his buddy, "Psst, look what I've got." he whispers and shows him the item. He looks at him in surprise, "Is that?" he asks him and the man nods at him. "The '74 Chateau d'lf. Just the thing make guards duty bearable." he states and the other man looks around, nervous. "If the captain see." he states and he the man places it away, "Then we take it around back. Anyone asks, we was an unguarded entrance and decided to plug the gap in security." he informs him. "Plug a gap in security. I like it." the other man states and the two guards were walking away from the entrance and the two entered the warehouse through the open window. They both stuck to the beams and saw that one guard under them as the other was at the entrance. Arno jumps down and took him out. Elizabeth jumps down and ran at him, kicking in his knee and plunge her blade into his neck. He then drops to the ground then Arno leans out and fired at the man leaning against the wall.
This attracted a few of the guards and Elizabeth climb back up onto the ledge as Arno leans back against the wall, hiding, "How many?" Arno asks her, she looks at the guards, "2… 4. there are 6." she answers him. He nods at her and leans out, they watched as the guards looked down at the body, then they went on alert and kept their eyes open as the guards walk away. The guards returned to their post and Elizabeth jumps down. "All clear." she whispers, then Arno moves out of covers and followed Elizabeth as she sneaks in the shadows, keeping her eyes on the guards as she stops and peeks out from behind the pillar. She then signals Arno and he ran forward and ran up the metal ladder and she followed after him, "With this, we could take an army." a guard mutters as the two stood on the ledge, "I'd like to see them try and stop us." another agrees. Elizabeth walks along the beams as she then jumps onto the ledge, Arno followed after her, she then jumps onto the lift and then over to the ledge. Arno follows her, jumping onto the lift then drops down onto the giant barrels and to the ledge. As he pulls himself back up, he watches as Elizabeth pulls the man down by the collar and plunged her blade into the man's chest and killed him. Arno smirks then jumps over to the beam, climbs up the wall and into the next room, as Elizabeth pulls herself up into the room as well.
Arno help her into the room and they both look around, bit then she stops something on the table and she walks over to it and found a log book. Arno walks over as she opens it and he whistles a little as he looks at the context. "Whatever he's planning, it's big. And now I know where to find you, Grant Master." Arno states, Elizabeth smirks as she took the book with her and places it away. Then they both walk to the edge and looks out at the equipment in the warehouse, "Well, this is a bit of a puzzle, isn't it?" she states and Arno smirks a little to himself "It hardly seems safe just to leave these lying around." He tells her she smirks and looks at him, "What ever should we do about it?" she asks him, he looks back and walks into the room and come back with two lanterns, Elizabeth took one and they toss them onto the hay, causing it to caught fire and got the guards' attention and the saw the fire. "bon Dieu!" a guard yells, the others saw what he saw and they ran over and tried to put out the fire. "The powder stories! They're going to blow!" another warns and they all ran out "No, of course it can't be that easy, can't it." Arno states as Elizabeth held up five fingers. "Five, four, three, two, one." Elizabeth mutters, counting down with her fingers and right on cue explosions happen.
Arno looks up, saw the platform up top was going to fall, Arno grabs a hold of Elizabeth's arm and pulls her back into the room as the platforms falls from the top and broke the other platform. "Thanks for the save." Elizabeth states, and they both ran through the room, slides under the hole and used the center pillar in the room and jump over to the next room, climbs over the stored equipment and back to the center pillar. "Maybe I should of thought this one through!" Arno shouts. "Too late to regret that!" Elizabeth shouts back at him as they jump to a platform, Elizabeth makes it as Arno jumps onto the platform, but it gives out under from the weight of his feet, he garb a hold of it and climbs a bit and grabs onto the wooden tower, "Arno!" Elizabeth calls out to him, "Climb!" he orders her and they both climb up the tower, Elizabeth pulls herself up and then reaches her hand out to him.
Arno looks up at her grabs a hold of her hand, she growls as she pulls him up and onto the tower. "You okay?" she asks him, "Fine, lets move!" Arno tells her, she nods and they both ran along the beam and jump onto the platform, just missing the lift as it crashed onto the beam. "Up?" Elizabeth asks and Arno nods "Up is good." he agrees and they both climb up to the platform, Elizabeth jumps first and then ran to the beam and jumps right for it. She lands, hitting her stomach against the beam and hung there. Arno jump onto platform, but it slowly breaks and Arno staggers a little and then he ran forward, jumping onto the platform, it slowly tilts back and he ran for it, jumping for the beam and grabs a hold of it, they both look at each other and they look down at the platform falls. "Time to move." Elizabeth states, then swung her legs out and pulls herself onto the platform. Arno pulls himself up as well and they both jump for the beam and climb up to the top, then Arno jumps over to the last platform and it wiggles, "Whoa!" he mutters as he steadies himself, then Elizabeth jumps as well and they both staggers, Arno grabs the rope and Elizabeth holds onto him.
He cuts the rope and they both threw up onto the top and slide down the roof and as they reach the edge, the explosion knocks a window open and tossing the two into the air and they land on a tall pillar next to it and Arno grabs a hold of the cage as he pants.
Elizabeth lands on her feet and press herself up against the cage, panting as well. Arno stood up as Elizabeth turns around and looks at the building, "Hide in plain sight. Right." Arno mumbles to himself, she giggles a bit and Arno looks at her. "What?" Arno questions her, she looks at him, "It's just, that was one grand exit we just did." she answers him as she leans against her knees panting. He smirks at her and nods at him, "Yes, I suppose it was." he agrees with her. She then stood straight and lowers herself to the edge and started to climb down. "Come on, we have to report to the council." she states, Arno looks down and kneels down by the edge. "Do we always have to?" he asks her. She stops and looks back up at him, "Well, it's not like we have a choice in the matter." she states the obvious and lands on a roof and starts walking along the roof, Arno let out a chuckle and follows after her. "You really seem to believe that?" he tells her, she smiles to herself, "Well, as you know I'm a very strange woman Arno, Thanks to one of my great-grandmother, I intend to do whatever I want, but the council thinks that they have me on a leash, why not pull them along to let them believe they do." she informs him, "And why's that, Might I ask?" he said as he stops a moment. She stops on her tracks and hung her head, "To remind them that no daughter of Eden can be controlled, we can work along side the people we trust and if that trust is betrayed, well… let's just say things intend to get ugly" she tells him and starts walking again.
Arno was stun by her answer, but then snaps out of it and ran up to her. "Well, remind me to not get on your bad side/" he starts, but she just smiles, "It's alright, I know you wouldn't do anything to piss me off and I trust you, Arno. Few in the Brotherhood don't have the sacred and rare trust I put in my friends, so I can't complain much." she tells him, he smiles at her and they continue on.