A Rookie's Flight |Assassin's Creed Fanfiction|

Chapter 8

Any Assassin's Creed players will understand the picture perfectly. XD
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   "What took you two so long?" Edward called as Mary made her way carefully to the ground and I just jumped off the platform.

   Iqua shouted something at me as I fell, but I chose to ignore it. I rolled when I landed, bounced to my feet and skidded to a stop in front of Edward.

   Edward raised an eyebrow at me. "Getting a little cocky are you, lass?"

   I smirked at him. "Aye, a bit."

   "And since when did you say 'aye'?"

   "Aye don't know," I said. "Maybe since you agreed to train me."

   Raven rolled his eyes. "That was an awful pun."

   "I know. Thanks."

   Edward laughed and pulled my hood down. "Hey!" I pulled my hood back up and held it there.

   "We need to do our training Rookie," he said quietly. "Free-running."

   I let go of my hood and grinned at him. "Let's do it!"

   Edward chuckled again and led the way away from the others, deeper into the forest. He sped up at a stead rate the further we got from our friends. I kept up with him easily. I had a feeling it wasn't meant to be this simple.

   Edward glanced back and made a sharp turn to the right. I almost missed it, so to turn faster I jumped up and used a tree on my left as leverage. I spun and landed in a run, sprinting after Edward, who was now moving much faster.

   He led me on a chase through the forest. He just kept running and running. I realized, after he looked over his shoulder for the ninth time, that he wanted me to catch him. He continued to look over his shoulder periodically, as if to see if I was still there.

   "I'm onto you," I murmured. It hadn't seemed like free-running, but now that I knew what he wanted...

   When he turned back to running after checking over his shoulder again I jumped into a tree and started in the same direction. I did my best to be quiet.

   Edward glanced over his shoulder and stopped in a small clearing. He smiled slightly and turned in a slow circle, studying the bushes. "You're looking the wrong way..." I whispered with a smirk.

   Just as he was about to look up, I dropped out of the tree and landed on top of him. He shouted in surprise.

   I jumped off and smiled as he stood up. "Hello Edward."

   Edward winced. "I'll be honest, I was not expecting that."

   "Good. That was the point."

   Edward laughed. "Yes it was. This is probably the first and the last time I will ever say this."

   "Say what? That I was right?"

   "No. That you are the hardest and the easiest person I've had to train. You are also the most annoying-"

   "Why thank you!" I grinned.

   Edward sighed. "Point proven. And, even though I've only been training you for about a week... you already know everything I can teach you. All you need is more experience and you'll fly to the top."

   I frowned, suddenly a little nervous of what he was going to say. "What do you mean by that?"

   Edward smiled. "I mean, that you are going to need to come with me, Adé and Raven."