Chapter 2

So, the first chapter gained the continue prerequisites for both my old three review rule and my more recent five follow rule were both met with chapter one. So, let's get to them and go forward with this next chapter.

Assassins bleed. Glad you liked it.

corpuzevan4: Thank you.

Guest: Yeah, I really just wanted a way to make Arno matter since in the games he kind of... doesn't.

Gamelover41592: Here's hoping it lives up to it.

IAmTheMeta24424: Noted.

Name00-0: As Bruce Baner once said. Time travel!

And now, miei amici... Let's kick it up!

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The Loud family were sitting within walls of Al's hideout and thinking about the events they had just witnessed.

"So, Lincoln lived the rest of his life in the Italian Renaissance. I have to say, there are worse eras for one to find them selves in." Lisa said, her guilt over the accident.

"And at least we know that Linky was with nice family." A girl in a viridian dress pointed out.

"Sad to say, Leni. But that was just Lincoln at seventeen. I'm willing to bet that things didn't stay that way." Rita said as Al gave a saddened nod.

"All I know is what some other Assassins who saw Ezio's side. But things took a pretty bad turn after that night.

"What happened?" Lori asked.

"Well, if Lucy's still up for it we can keep going and I can just show you." Al said as he looked down to his black clad granddaughter who was still lying down in the Animus.

"Yeah. I can keep going." Lucy confirmed, gaining a nod from Al before he typed something in of the Keyboard.

"Okay, I'm loading you in to the next day. Fair warning, things will get pretty bloody. Just tell me if and when you need, I can pull you out at a moments notice." Al said before the memory loaded in and Lucy found herself once more in the body of her brother, now across the rooftops of Florence before coming to a stop as his vision became coated in grey and he saw several glowing white points.

(In the hideout)

"Wait. Lincoln can do that too?" Lynn asked in shock.

"Hold on. You have that strange ability as well?" Lisa asked, picking up on the implications of her older sisters.

"It's called Eagle Vision." It's a power that many of the Assassins spend years trying to learn. Though in some rare cases it can just come naturally and in either case, once it's learned, it's very easily passed down. So, most of you girls should have it already." Rita explained.

"Huh. I always thought I was just going crazy when it happened to me." Leni noted, confirming her own ability to use Eagle Vision before she and the rest of the family focused back in on watching the memory.

(With Lincoln)

Lincoln utilized his parkour skills in conjunction with eagle vision to collect several feathers before jumping down to the streets before running to a young black haired boy in a yellow outfit.

"Okay. Here you go, Petruccio. Now, go get some some rest. Signora (Lady) Maria will have my head if she finds out I let you out of bed while you were sick." Lincoln said as he and the boy shared a smile.

"Okay, Lincoln." Petruccio replied before he went back inside the house. Lincoln then smiled as he began to walk away before hearing the sound of a girl sobbing. Following the sound to the source he saw a brown haired young woman in a red dress.

"Claudia? What's wrong?" Lincoln asked as he all but sprinted to where the girl was sitting.

"Lincoln. It... it's Duccio. He has been... unfaithful." Claudia cried before burying her face in Lincoln's chest.

"What?" Lincoln asked in a white hot rage.

"The other girls. They told me they saw him with another girl." Claudia explained as Lincoln stood up.

"I'll deal with this." Lincoln coldly said before Claudia got up and put her hand on his shoulder.

"Lincoln, please. He's not worth it." Claudia pleaded.

"You're right. He isn't." Lincoln said before turning back to Claudia. "But you are." He said, wiping a tear form Claudia's face before leaving. He then began running through the streets and across the the rooftops before eventually finding a man in a grey outfit with a face that just screamed the word 'douche bag flirting with a girl who by the standard of the time, was quite skimpily dressed.

"For you, my dear." The young man said as he gave put a golden chain around the girl's neck.

"Oh, Duccio. It's lovely. and here I thought that you were promised to Claudia Auditore. Or was it one of those five others that you have been charming?" The girl asked.

"Well, perhaps if Claudia had not been so stingy with her virtù (virtue), I might not have had to stray away from her." Duccio said with a shit eating grin as Lincoln walked up with his knuckles white from clenching his fist.

"Hey! Tetsa di merda (Shit head)!" Lincoln called as he punched Duccio square in the jaw, knocking him against a wall. "So, you cheated on Claudia six times, huh?" He asked in a shout before he kicked Duccio in the ribs."That means you've got four more hits coming." He coldly said before slamming his boot down on Duccio's hand, slamming his head picking him up and kneeing him in the stomach before he fell to the ground again, and finally stomping down on his...

(In the hideout.)

"Oooh!"Al and Lynn Sr said as they put their hands over the fronts of their pants.

"Fighting dirty, little brother. Not bad." Luna said with a smirk.

(Back in the memory.)

Lincoln dropped to one knee and grabbed Duccio by the throat before looking him dead in the eye.

"Now, listen up. If you ever go near Claudia again... Colpiscilo (Strike that). If I ever see you again, you will be praying for the beating you just got." Lincoln said before he shoved Duccio to the wall and left.

Some time later, Lincoln was once again running across the rooftops before seeing Ezio running the other way.

"Hey, Ezio. What's going on?" Lincoln asked as Ezio stopped.

"Father asked me to deliver this letter. But something seemed... off. Like he was worried about something." Ezio noted as Lincoln gained a concerned look, never knowing Giovanni to be scared.

"Okay, I'm going to head back home to make sure, everything's okay. You finish that." Lincoln said, gaining a nod from Ezio before the two of them separated and Lincoln began to make his way back to the Auditore home. However, his trek was brought to a halt when he was distracted by the sound of a child sobbing.

"That sounded like..." Lincoln began to say to himself before he looked down and saw a group of guards, one of whom was dragging Petruccio. Taking no time to think about his actions, Lincoln jumped down in front of them.

"Auditore's reparto (ward)! Get him! The guard captain called before he swung his sword over Lincoln's head, causing him to stumble just long enough for two more of the guards to grab him. He struggled for a few moments before he was able get a feel for his surroundings.

"Petruccio. Cover your eyes and don't open them again until I say so." Lincoln instructed as Lucy saw the instructions from the menus of the Animus.

(In the hideout)

"This is about to get very violent, so cover Lily and Dad's eyes." Lucy warned as Rita made sure the baby couldn't see and Lori covered Lynn Sr's eyes with her hand.

(In the memory)

Lincoln took action as he kicked one of the guards in the kneecap, causing him to cry out in pain and let go of Lincoln before he grabbed the stiletto knife that he was carrying and stabbed the other guard holding him in the throat. The captain then rushed Lincoln with an over head strike only for him to dodge to the side and stabbed him in the arm, causing him to drop his sword before Lincoln grabbed it and used it to slit his throat. Lincoln then took the belt off one of the guards and put it on so he could carry the stiletto and the Syrian saber. He then ran to Patruccio and picked him up and began to run.

"What happened?" Lincoln asked as he continued to move, making sure to avoid the road as much as possible.

"Guards came to arrest all the men in the house. They took father and Federico to prison." A terrified Petrrucio explained as Lincoln made the last stretch of his journey before arriving at his destination and entering to see a man in red working on something, a friend he had met through the matriarch of the Auditore family.

"Leonardo!" Lincoln called as he ran up to the man.

"Lincoln? What has happened." Leonardo asked after seeing the youngest Auditore shaking in the arms of the young man.

"We need to hide out. Will you help us." Lincoln asked.

"Of coarse, my friend. I have a spare room for the two of you to stay in." Leonardo said before he led Lincoln to the aforementioned room where he placed the sickly boy before leaving and explaining to the artist/inventor what had transpired. "What could have caused this?" He asked before handing Lincoln a cup of water.

"I believe Francesco dé Pazzi had a hand in this. I don't believe for a second that its a coincidence that Giovanni was arrested on the night before he was supposed to testify at the man's trial." Lincoln theorized.

"What will you do?" Leonardo asked as Lincoln took the stiletto off of his belt.

"Signore (Sir/Lord) Giovanni gave me a home when I had nowhere else to go. I owe him my life. I have to do whatever it takes to save his." Lincoln said with determination in his voice.

"Then rest, mio amico (my friend). You will need all of your strength to save him." Leonardo said before he got up and grabbed a small box before placing it down in front of Lincoln. "And you will need this as well." He said as Lincoln opened the box. "Maria commissioned it from me in case a tragedy like this ever struck. Use it well." He said.

"Thank you, my friend." Lincoln said before retiring to Leonardo's gust room to get some rest.

The next morning, Lincoln exited Leonardo's workshop, now clad in a beige hooded cloak to hide his weapons.

"I will look after the boy until you return. Good luck." Leonardo said as Lincoln put his hand on his shoulder.

"Grazie (Thank you), Leonardo. I will return." Lincoln promised before he left.

A short time later, Lincoln arrived at a square where a large crowd had gathered to watch the execution that was about to take place. Try as he did, the crowd was simply too dense for him to get close. All he could manage to do was get far enough in to the crowd to here Giovanni shouting.

"You are a traitor, Uberto and one of them! You may take our lives this day. But I swear to you, we will have yours in return. We will have..."

And with that that the lives of Giovanni and Federico Auditore were ended as they were dropped to be hanged and their necks broke instantly. Lincoln began to breath through his teeth in rage at this, tears falling from his eyes as he reached inside his cloak and pulled out the gift that had been given to him. A black crossbow pistol and readied to take aim until...

"Father!" He heard the shout of Ezio and turned to see his friend clad in hooded white robes with red accents pulling a sword only for it to be broken and thrown from his hand by a man in heavy armor before three more none-armored guards surrounded him. Lincoln quickly aimed his weapon to one of the guards and shot one in the heart before Ezio looked too him and the two began running.

The guards were hot on the the trails of both of the young men before eventually to the rooftops where once more, Ezio found himself surrounded by two guards as one of them attempted to stab him with his Venetian falchion only for Lincoln to run in and block the attack before Ezio slid down. Lincoln the noticed an archer aiming at him before he grabbed the hand of the guard he had blocked and moved him in to the path of the arrow that then came out of his open mouth before Lincoln kicked the guard down, taking his sword before running the other guard threw with the first guards sword before aiming his crossbow pistol at the archer and shooting him through the head, holstering the pistol and pulling the falchion from the second guard's chest and jumped down to where Ezio and three more guards, including the armored one were.

"Here." Lincoln said as he handed the falchion to the Ezio before the two non-armored guards rushed at them as Ezio managed to get his guard turned around before slicing him the right through the back to kill him while Lincoln locked blades with his own guard before pulling his stiletto and stabbed him through the throat. The two young men then rolled behind the armored guard, using his clunky armor slowing him down to prepare themselves as he turned, took aim for his eyes and...

(At the hideout)

Lucy fell from the Animus, panting in exhaustion as Al kneeled next to her with some Poweraid that she then began to chug.

"Just breath, kiddo." Al said as Lynn jr and Leni knelt down to comfort their sister.

"What the hell just happened?" Rita asked as her father turned to her.

"Basically, Lucy was feeling the same level exertion as Lincoln during the fight. She's not that used to physical action so overexerted and desynched." Al explained.

"So, what now?" Rita asked as she and her father looked down to her younger middle daughter.

"Get her plenty of food and a lot of rest. After that come back tomorrow and we can maybe put Lynn or maybe Luna in the Animus.

"Why them? I have the training. I can handle it." Rita said before her father whispered something in her ear before she pulled back and nodded. "Okay. I'll see you tomorrow." She confirmed before she looked to the Animus and thought 'I hope all the bloodshed didn't keep you from having a good life honey.' before she led her family out of the hideout.

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And there you go, guys. I hope you liked this chapter. Next time, Ezio takes revenge and the group flees florence. Until then and as always... Keep on keeping on.