A Hidden Strength

Chapter 1

I had a nice life growing up. My mother and I lived in a small town right outside of the city.  Mira my best friend grew up down the street from me and we were always inseparable. She's a computer nerd and basically like my sister. Its just been me and my mother my whole life so its been nice to have her by my side. My father has never been in the picture and my mother refuses to talk about him. All I get from her is hushed voices when she talks to my aunt or her telling me to stop asking about him. Now I'm 17 still have nothing on my father and I know my mother is keeping secrets from me about him. Im not aloud in her study or even ask about him anymore and im tired of it. 

"Mom can Mira come over while you and auntie are gone?"

"Yeah I don't care sweetheart" my mom didn't even bother to look up from her phone

"yay thank you" I ran up to my room calling Mira

"hello?" she sounded tired

"get over here we are doing it today"

"oh shit ill be right over" we hung up and I sighed. I hate having to involve her into this and potentially get her in trouble with my mom but I need her help. she's a huge geek but extremely smart and can figure out anything. I know I cant do this on my own. I heard my mom and aunt rummaging around then I heard Miras voice. " See y'all later have a good day!"

I rushed downstairs and yelled goodbye out to them as they pulled out of the driveway. I shut the door and leaned against it looking up at Mira " okay I don't know how long we have so we gotta do this quick"

"Izzy are you sure you want to do this"

"Mira she won't tell me anything about my father and she won't let me into her study there has to be something about him in there"

she sighed " fine lets get this over with"

mom never locked her office. guess she trusted me a little to much " look through the computer ill look through her files"

"got it" it took a bit to find anything other than paperwork that I didn't really care about and it seemed like Mira was having the same outcome. Then I found some paper work with an odd symbol on it. "what is this?"

"bring it here ill look it up" I sat down on the chair next to Mira going through the papers " got anything I can search for?"

"possibly there is something called  the Templar Order on a lot of these papers and has a strange symbol on it but nothing about them"

"let me look it up on the computer" Mira typed away on my moms laptop. two different files popped up with different symbols. "let me see the symbol" I showed her the paper and she opened one of the files "says here that the templar order is an organization that founded Abstergo Industries"

"wait my aunt wor'ks there she keeps trying to get my mom to join the company, what else is there?"

"well it says that the templars seek to make a perfect world, whatever that means, and to. make a New World Order but the reason why they can achieve that goal is cause of another organization called  The Assassin Brotherhood who have been around since the crusades and who's goal is to keep the templars from taking away the peoples freedom by creating this New World Order. Anyone born or accepted into the brotherhood as an apprentice will spend their whole lives training to kill, mainly working on combat and stealth" Why would my mother feel like she needed to keep this from me? It just seems like a good story to a video game or a book.

Mira kept on talking but then something caught my eye. A chest in the corner of the room that I never noticed before. I got up and moved all the papers and books off of it and surprisingly it wasn't locked. Inside were even more papers and some objects that were weird to me "Mira check this out" She got off the computer and sat down next to me. It was more papers about the brotherhood but something caught my eye "Who's Desmond Miles?" There were was a large file about him in the chest and it just lead to more questions. It went on and on about him doing research for Abstergo and then him eventually leaving to join the brotherhood and that he was a decendent of a long line of assassins.

"Izzy you need to look at this"

I looked at what she was holding. it looked. like my birth certificate "its just my birth certificate"

"look at the name for the father"

I took a closer look at it and was shocked. Over biological father was the name Desmond Miles "Why would she hide this from me.."

"maybe she wanted to protect you from all this"

I dug through the chest some more and pulled out a gauntlet. It was one of the things I read in the files that I found. It was a hidden blade the most used tool by the assassins "now its to late for her to protect me "I put on the gauntlet and strapped it together so it was secure "I'm going to find my father with or without her help" I looked over at Mira "But I can't do this without you by my side"

She gave me her usual reassuring smile "I won't leave your side your stuck with me