Chapter 3 - III: Happenings in Nanda Parbat

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1 Continuing Flashback: Emerging from the hot tub

Taking his track record into consideration, he should have been used to unusual events happening around him. So he should not have been as surprised as he was when the translucent silhouette of a man emerged from the strange pool, while he himself was swaying on his feed cursing the golden bands that were enveloping his forearms and restraining his powers. Despite fighting against his fatigue he collapsed and fell, face first, first through the ghost, who stood inside of the pool, and then into the pool itself.
However as soon as he had fallen through the ghost, the ghost solidified and stood next to him in the pool. The now solidified ghost was dressed in a great ornamented mantle and black clothes, at his side, he carried an impressive sword with a straight blade and a decorated handle in a sheath. His expression was stoic, only his greying dark hair looked like something had pulled at it. His pale blue eyes stared at the other man who was lying with his eyes closed in the pool, waiting for his extremely exhausted energy and power reservoir to replenish.
Until something, or better, someone yanked him out of the water.

2 Eye of the Hurricane

The assassins stood at attention as Ra's sliced the backside of Al 'iiesar's shirt to reveal the double spiral, that the priestess carved into his shoulder with the fervent bronze knife once belonging to his fiancée, getting lost in hell where he had found it again and named it after the there encountered creatures and its title as "cursed blade" Αρα, Greek for Curse.
Ra's turned Al 'iiesar around for the assassins to see the mark, then he beckoned the priestess over. She strode gracefully through the room holding something in her hand. As she reached Ra's she passed it to Ra's who showed it to the League. It was a pendant, that had the same double spiral as Al 'iiesar's burn mark, only this was surrounded by a circle and in the middle of the pendant was the ying-yang symbol out of emerald and black jade.

"This pendant was a gift to one of my predecessors by a nobleman for a favour. It is called 'Eye of the Hurricane'. A fitting talisman for someone of your name and prowess."

He slipped the necklace over Al 'iiesar's head, careful of the sunglasses Al 'iiesar wore instead of the masks the League normally used. His most striking feature being his unique green eyes no member of the League apart from Ra's and the priestess had seen.

"You are now officially Al 'iiesar."

3 Flashback 04: First Fight

He was yanked out of the water by the previous intangible man, who hauled him out of the pool and threw him onto the floor. The ghost or spirit, whatever it was, followed him, drew a sword with dragon heads for cross guards and held the sword point at the other one's throat.
"Who are you?", he asked the seemingly exhausted man laying on the floor. "Percy Jackson", he answered, then a bronze xiphos appeared in Percy's hand, he pushed the other one's sword away from his own throat, rolled away from his slightly surprised opponent and jumped to his feet.
"May I be offered the same courtesy in regards to a name?", Percy asked mockingly as they circled each other in a three metre/nearly 10 ft distance.
"Of course", came the answer with a slight bow, "I am Ra's al Ghul, the Demon's Head."
With that Ra's attacked Percy with a diagonal over-head-strike. Percy blocked at the last possible moment, the meeting metals screeching as Percy made a step closer to hit his opponent. Ra's expertly countered the swipe to his legs with a strike to the calf, but Percy managed to doge right in time. He got out of the close range only to get attacked again. They were trading blow after blow, Percy hardly managing to hold his own in the duel. Most strikes he could barely dodge because he was already exhausted and the dip in the water was not long enough to refill his charge. Percy could block a strike that was aimed to decapitate him in the last second, but then his concentration was broken as he heard the priestess gasp and exclaim, "What is happening here?"
This short shift in attention was enough. It was all Ra's needed to stab him directly into the heart, run him completely through with the Demon-Sword.

4 A sick bed visit

After he had changed into his more informal clothes because Ra's had slashed his shirt, he was walking trough Nanda Parbat and ended up in the infirmary.
"How is our guest doing?", asked Al 'iiesar the priestess whose workroom he just entered.
She answered him not even glancing up, "He is healing."
"Is he already responsive?", inquired the man.
"I fear that may take more time."
Now Al 'iiesar was smirking, "Then let's speed things a bit up."
That got the priestess to glance up.
"How do you want to accomplish that?"
"That is my professional secret, but I need you to dump a bucket of water over me after it."

Then he gave his attention to the mangled man laying in the bad. He had heard stories from Ra's and the priestess about him. He was missing his left hand and had all in all a maltreat look. Ra's had brought him back, after he found him near death, near the island of Lian Yu. Blackjack had cursed more than normal after Al 'iiesar decided his trusted friend would help Ra's transport the man, Ra's called Al Sa-her, 'The magician' with real name Malcolm Merlyn. Blackjack also got him to swear in giving him doughnuts/donuts as soon as they were together in the civilisation.

Al 'iiesar controlled the water from a barrel in the room and directed it towards them. He increased Al Sah-her in the water and closed his eyes. He was never good at healing others besides himself with his powers, but he wanted information and a different point of view apart from Ra's and the priestess. And who better than one of the other key-players could give him that?

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