this story is about Ezio getting stuck in equestria and having to find a way back to Constantinople, while there he will make friends, as well as enemy's, and have to face more lousy templars who find a way into equestria and try to rule over it
This story takes place in Equestria but starts out in Constantinople where Ezio prepares to take the boat ride to the Maiden Tower lighthouse to collect the four out of six masyaf key's left by the mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins, Altair. But halfway to Maiden Tower his means of transportation gets stopped by somebody in a horrid storm and Ezio goes overboard, hitting his head after falling off and knocking him out cold, when he next opens his eyes he will find himself not only no where near the lighthouse or Constantinople but in a whole new world. (this is my first fanfiction but not my first time writing, I ask for your advice and constructive criticism. Thank you and I hope you enjoy)
Ezio Auditore stood beside Yusuf Tazim in front of the Ship, behind stood a group of assassin recruits, a moment of silence hung in the air before Yusuf spoke "When will you return with the masyaf key, il mentore?"
Ezio gave off a small shrug, throwing out an estimation "I don't know exactly, hopefully within the next few hours."
Yusuf nodded "Well...Until you return, travel with great speed and safety Ezio."
Ezio nodded again and stepped on to the boat, Ezio then motioned to the Captain of the Vessel that he was ready to depart. with a nod in return the Captain yelled out to his crew "Exiting port!" as soon as this was people dropped what they were doing and went to their designated spots, preparing to pull the ship out of port, and after a moment, the ship's sails were pulled down and it began to move out of port. Before the ship left however Ezio went back over to the side of the ship and said "If I'm not back within a day at most, then know something grave could have happened to me..." Yusuf nodded "Very well."
A little ways out of port and Ezio decided to stand at the back of the boat and wave at the group of Assassins who stood on the docks, watching the boat take it's leave, he continued to do this until they were practically out of sight. After they were out of sight Ezio made his way back down to the lower deck, the higher deck being the area where the captain navigated the ship, after he reached the bottom step, however, a man wearing a blood red Monk's robe, hood and all, came out from behind the doorway to the lower decks, bearing a rather creepy smile "Greetings signore."
Ezio jumped at the sudden appearance of the man, frowning "Oh...Hello, what brings you here on this trip to Maiden Tower?."
The man shrugged "I just wanted to see it for myself, people always bragging about how beautiful it is"
Ezio nodded "Hm...Me as well, anyways, I would like to spend the trip over to the tower in solitude, so if you'll excuse me..."
The man nodded and said nothing else, deciding he had ended the conversation, Ezio walked over near the hatch that led to below the decks and sat down on a barrel beside it, back turned to everyone else. he started to mess around with his hidden blade, flicking it in and out of its socket out of boredom and on the account of being anxious, as he did this the man in red robes watched him from afar, his grin still present.
About twenty minutes into the voyage Ezio still sat on the barrel, only now he was reading a book he had borrowed from Sofia's library, he had taken it in a satchel he kept latched on at all times to keep the book safe, as he read through it however it started to sprinkle, slowly turning into a heavy rainfall, A storm was brewing. Ezio put the book up after placing a bookmark in the spot he stopped reading at. he stood and walked up to the Captains post. he stood there navigating the wheel as usual, what caught Ezio's attention though was the fact that his fellow traveler stood beside the captain. but he simply shrugged off any suspicions and asked the Captain his question "May I go below quarters until we arrive at our destination?"
The captain nodded without saying anything, focused on his current task. Ezio walked back to the hatch, climbing down the makeshift ladder that led down to a room full of hammocks, he decided to lay down in one and relax the last few minutes of the voyage, with that in mind he also decided to take a small nap.
When he awoke it was madness on the top deck of the ship, the ship was rocking back and forth furiously and members of the crew where trying to scream amongst themselves but they couldn't be heard because of all the heavy raining and thundering, Ezio stood up and ran to and climbed the ladder up to the deck, once on the deck one word came to his mind: Hurricane. Ezio ran up to the captains wheel and found it unmanned, he looked down and saw the captain helping out with the crew as well as the fellow traveler, Ezio grabbed ahold of the wheel and attempted to guide them out of the storm. the captain ran back up eventually and snatched the wheel away from Ezio "I've got it, go help out down there"
Ezio nodded and sprinted down to the deck to help the crew, when he did his fellow traveler ran past him, towards the captain. Ezio stopped and stared at him for a moment, Ezio saw the man pull out a dagger from under his robes, Ezio's eyes went wide as he realized what was about to happen, and who that person was, he began a mad dash back for the captain, just as he began to yell out a warning it was already to late, he stopped in his tracks and watched in hopelessness and horror as the dagger was jabbed through the captains throat, watched as the captain fell down and rolled overboard before even a trickle of his blood could hit the deck itself. "NO!"
Ezio shouted as he dashed to stop his enemy from doing what he knew he was about to do, just as he began to climb the stairs leading up to where the wheel was located however, the man turned the wheel as fast as he could and the ship almost turned completely over "Farewell Ezio Auditore!", the ship had turned to far and gravity forced Ezio to fall overboard, he never felt himself hit the water though, because he was knocked out cold when his head hit the Guardrail
Ezio's eyes burst open, only to be forced to close them again for a moment due to the sun, as soon as they became adjusted though he stood, wiping the needles of hay from the hay stack he laid in off his robes, arching his back slightly in an attempt to stretch it. He groaned "I feel like my head's been pierced by an arrow..."
Ezio mumbled to himself as he stood up slowly rubbing the back of his head, his hood was down but still there, as well as his blue and grey robes and his hidden blade, in fact everything was still intact, except the cape he had been wearing on the boat, it seemed to be gone. Ezio remembered something and reached for the satchel, still there with the book inside, he let out a sigh of relief and looked around again at his surroundings, a farm of some kind. a small one though, only a few tree's and some area's with fruits and vegetables growing, also a barn a few feet away and a small house beside it, the landscape itself looked like he was back in Italy, not Constantinople.He walked towards the house "Hello!"
Ezio's hood somehow managed to still be pulled over his head, and his robes were still on him, but his Hidden Blade..... He panicked when he felt his wrist to be sure, feeling no Bracer, he began to kick and dig into the hay pile he had landed in, eventually finding the Hidden Blade, reattaching it as soon as his hand touched it and was about to let out a sigh of relief before he realized one more object that was important: The satchel.
He looked around the hay pile, checking the hay pile itself one more time. Nothing. He calmed himself before looking at his environment. He was at some farm
Ezio from side to side then decided to have a look inside, he opened the door and walked in with his hidden blade out of its socket ready for stabbing, nobody was actually home, the house was practically empty. no food anywhere to be found, Ezio left the house and walked over to the barn, when he opened it he saw nothing at first, but as his eye's adjusted he saw a green pony in the back of the barn, huddled up as if it had been terrorized by something.
Ezio began to walk towards it but heard something, it sounded like a whimper almost, Ezio turned around with his hidden blade and his hook blade both ready, but no one was there. Ezio allowed both blades to return to there sockets and turned to the pony, then he heard it again... from the direction of the pony "Hello? I am not here to steal anything I just need to know where I am"
There was no response, Ezio inched closer, in moments he was right in front of the pony and no body was in sight, just the pony... the plea was heard yet again, this time Ezio could hear all of it "Please just go away whatever you are..." Ezio looked down at the pony before him then back up, confused.
"Enough fooling around, show yourself or I will find you myself" Ezio said impatiently, but no one came, Ezio kneeled down at the pony...attempting to hide its face with its hooves "Can you...talk"
Ezio asked it, he felt extremely stupid for asking an animal if it could talk but really it was his only current option, but to Ezio's surprise it answered back "Y-yes"
Ezio jumped back "Dio mio!" the pony stayed silent after this "But how can you talk, you are an animal!"
Ezio was both amazed and shocked the pony didn't respond "Look...I promise not to hurt you, I just want answers" the pony took a moment but finally budged.
From what Ezio could tell by the pony's voice it as a male, the pony nodded slowly "My question is where are you from, I have never seen a creature like you before..."
Ezio shook his head "I am a human, and I come from Firenze"
The pony gave him a confused look "Never heard of a place called Firenze"
Ezio spoke before the pony could ask anything else "Alright my turn, where am I"
The pony stared at him for a moment before replying "Equestria"
Ezio shook his head again "what kind of name is Equestria..."
The pony was staring at Ezio as he spoke to himself, the pony stood up on all four legs now, obviously more confident then before "May I ask that you... leave my farm now"
Ezio looked up from his thinking "are you sure I couldn't possibly spend the night in your barn?"
The pony really gave this some thought before finally saying "yes, but you leave tomorrow"
Ezio bowed "thank you" the pony nodded and walked back to his house.
Ezio now sat there on the ground looking up at the sky, from the looks of it the day still had a good few hours before nightfall, maybe it wouldn't be bad to read a few chapters in the book Sofia had let him borrow, he walked up to a pile of hay against the wall and sat down, pulled out the book, and began to read, smiling to himself at the thought of Sofia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yusuf was sat with one of his den master's playing Tavla when he got the news from a recruit, the ship Ezio was on had crashed into a group of rocks and there where no survivor's. Yusuf just stared straight for a good few second, then he snapped out of it and stood up "Toran, round up a group of your finest recruits"
The Den master nodded, stood up, and left Yusuf stood as well and motioned for the recruit who had given him the news to walk and talk "I want you to arrange us a ship big enough to carry 10 assassin's, that included me and Den Master Yagmur"
By time he had finished telling the recruit this they where outside of galata headquarters, the recruit bowed "Yes sir, i will get to it right with that he left, Yusuf looked up to the sky as if Ezio could hear what he was saying "Don't worry my friend, we know your alive and were coming for you"
Ezio awoke in the early morning hours before the sun had even risen, the barn was dark but his eye's adjusted quickly, after his eye's adjusted and he could see better he stood up and stretched, scratched his beard, brushed off any remaining hay that had latched onto him, then finally exited the barn. Outside the green pony stood watering some of his plants in front of his house, Ezio walked up to him and spoke "Buongiorno"
The pony jumped and let go of his watering can, letting it hit the ground, he turned around and realized it was just Ezio "Oh its you"
Ezio nodded "Before I go may I have a map if you have one?"
The pony sighed and went into its house, while he was inside Ezio whistled to himself, a moment later it came out bearing a map, Ezio grabbed it and bowed "Millie grazie for your hospitality, I will be leaving now" the pony nodded and turned around picking up the watering can, Ezio turned around and unraveled the map, seeing where ponyville was and where he was it would take about 3 hours to get there If he went nonstop, Ezio grinned and thought to himself, challenge accepted, with that decision made finale he took to the road beside the pony's house and began his journey.
About an hour into the trip he had come into a forest, it was simply beautiful, very healthy and vibrant. Ezio sighed to himself happily as he walked through it, the thing Ezio loved most was that the forest was so peaceful. It seemed almost unreal to him, the most peace he had had since the death of his father and brother's, the peacefulness ended about half way through the forest though, a man jumped out from behind a tree and charged at Ezio from his left side, Ezio dodged him just in time, as soon as he turned around to face his foe he realized who it was, it was the same man who had killed the captain of the ship that was bringing him to Maidens Tower and also the same man who made him go overboard! Ezio scowled at the man and flicked his wrist, the hidden blade sprang out of its socket "How did you get here" Ezio questioned him.
The man laughed as he raised his dagger to defend himself, he had lost the robe and the cloak, replacing that was Templar armor "I jumped overboard after you went overboard, as soon as I hit the water I went unconscious, which I hoped would happen actually!"
Ezio gave the Templar a confused look, but shook his head, now he waited for the Templar to charge, but the man was smart enough not to do that, Ezio decided he didn't have time for any long fights and charged at him instead, but instead of trying to stab him he decided to perform a hook and run with a twist to it, at the last moment he extended the hook blade and snagged onto the Templars back, after sliding over his back and letting the hook blade return to its socket though he flicked his left wrist and the hidden blade popped out again, as soon as it did he stabbed the Templar in the back, pushing him to the ground at the same time, the Templar screamed out in pain and surprise, Ezio pulled out his hidden blade and staying kneeling down he turned the Templar over on his back, he coughed for a moment before laughing "There's more Templars coming, you know that right, you cant stop us from invading this place, I was sent here to scout the place out but I figured they would be pleased to hear I also managed to kill the great Ezio Auditore, so go ahead, kill me, it wont make any difference"
Ezio shook his head "But that is where you are wrong fool, you underestimate me"
the Templar laughed again "Are you sure your not just lying to yourself old man?"
Ezio decided this conversation was over. He plunged his hidden blade into the Templars chest, stabbing it through his heart. "Possiate trovare la pace nella morte, non si poteva trovare nella vita, Requiescant in pace" the Templar coughed for a moment again before speaking his finale words "You cant...stop us..." after saying this he let out his finale breath and went limp. Ezio pulled out his hidden blade, then returned it to its socket. Ezio sighed as he stood up and got back on the path, continuing his journey to Ponyville.
About two and a half hours into trip he came across a large set of hills, just as vibrant and healthy as the forest, he began the short walk to the top, as soon as he reached the top he was relieved to see that instead of more forest and empty landscape a large town sat downhill, he checked the map, this had to be Ponyville, Ezio smiled and began the walk downhill to Ponyville, at the bottom of the hill he noticed a light yellow colored pony picking flowers by a stream, Ezio began to walk towards it but remembered how the farmer pony reacted and ducked behind a tree quickly.
After awhile the pony left and Ezio let out a sigh of relief before stepping away from the tree, if he was going to get into ponyville he would have to sneak in some how, this seemed a good enough place to rest and think. So Ezio put the satchel down and sat down beside it. his next task would be to find some food, but first a moment of rest would be just fine.
Ezio sat up against the same tree he had hidden behind, taking a nap. When he had finally awoken he had considered for just a moment that It might have been a dream, but that thought was crushed as soon as he noticed the yellow pony that had been picking flowers the day before lie between a group of bushes staring at him, when he noticed this he stood up slowly and acted as if he hadn't seen the pony, until he had stood up and turned back to face the mystery pony "And what might your name be?"
The pony eeped and said something, but her voice, if Ezio was right about it being a female, was to quiet to be heard. Ezio walked up to the bushes and kneeled down, making sure not to go any further then in front of the bushes "I promise not to hurt you, my name is Ezio Auditore, I come from Firenze" the pony spoke again but Ezio could not hear her "Can you speak up?" He asked.
She spoke up, only slightly though, Ezio did manage to get the first part of her name "Flutter.."
Ezio stood up "Your name is Flutter?"
The pony spoke as loud as Ezio guessed it could to correct him, and he caught its full name "Fluttershy"
Ezio smiled "Well nice to meet you fluttershy, do you mind getting out of your hiding spot?"
Fluttershy wouldn't budge, Ezio decided to do something that might earn her trust, he held up his right arm and extended the hook blade from it "I could hurt you with this" Ezio said
Then he unlatched it and let it drop to the ground, when he held up his left arm he was hesitant though, he did not want to take off his hidden blade, but he did so anyway "I could hurt you with this as well"
He unlatched it and closed his eyes as he dropped it, then he stood and pulled his sword out "I could easily kill you with this"
He raised it high and stuck it into the ground. Finally he pulled out his finale weapon, his stiletto "I could betray you with this"
He let it hit the ground. Fluttershy after a long moment finally stood up, extremely anxious but at least standing up, Ezio bowed and picked up his hidden blade in the process, hurrying to put it on "im sorry but I must have this on, I've worn it for so long it feels like an extension of me...and it was my fathers..."
Ezio wore a slightly sorrow filled look for a moment before returning back to his normal expression, Fluttershy looked at it and back at him "Did he..."
Ezio nodded "so did my brothers Federico and Petruccio..."
Fluttershy nodded sadly "im sorry to hear that..."
Ezio nodded and changed the subject, not wanting to talk about his dead brother's and father anymore then he would need to or have to, he noticed the mark on her side was three butterfly's, he also notice that her hair color was a light pink. "So do you...have any exotic animals?"
Fluttershy smiled at this question "Y-yes I do"
Ezio smiled back "perhaps you can show me some"
Fluttershy nodded and trotted away towards her house, Ezio grabbing his stiletto and sword and holstering them at the same time, then reattaching his hook blade hastily before running to catch up with her.
Ezio followed Fluttershy silently for a few moment before changing his mind about seeing exotic animals "on second thought, do you have any dogs I could have as a pet?" she nodded, staying silent. Ezio did as well becoming lost in thought.
Ezio wondered how the Templars knew of this place, and furthermore why they would want to conquer it unless...what if there where Pieces of Eden, but that was stupid to even bring up, Those Who Came Before would have never put pieces of Eden HERE...or would they? and how did the Templars find this place, are there more of them out there, perhaps scouting the land for the Templars. Ezio knew in the end if they did plan on invading this place he would have to protect it.
Ezio was pulled from his thoughts by Fluttershy's voice "Where here"
Ezio nodded and looked around, in front of him was a bridge, beyond that a cottage with a large amount of vegetation on the roof, maybe even being the roof, and a lot of bird houses in various areas around the house and on top of it. "your casetta is...bello..." Ezio said hesitantly.
Fluttershy gave him a confused look but decided not to respond, just began to make her way behind the cottage, Ezio followed her, and they came upon a fenced area with various housings for a variety of animals, including housings for dogs, they all ran out to greet them. Ezio noticed one that looked a lot like one he had when he was a child, so he decided to choose it "may I have this one"
Fluttershy thought for a second then shook her head "Im sorry but no, maybe when I can trust you..."
Ezio nodded understandingly, then turned to leave. saying something before walking away and back into the forest "well you know where to find me if you need me"
Yusuf stood on the deck of the ship, all of his fellow assassins accompanying him on the journey swiftly preparing the ship, Den Master Akman stood on the docks with a group of assassins, bowing to Yusuf "I promise to watch over the dens until you return"
Yusuf nodded "As Ezio once told me, Nessuno lasciato alle spalle"
Akman gave a confused look "What does that mean, sir?"
"It means no one left behind" Yusuf responded before bowing and taking his leave of the group of assassins on the dock. When Yusuf reached the wheel of the ship he turned to Toran "Are we ready to go?" Toran simply nodded to Yusuf. The Den Master bowed again "Well then, the best of luck to you and Toran"
Yusuf called out to his men on the deck "Alright everyone, we are getting ready to take our leave of Constantinople to find Ezio, is everyone ready?"
All of them called out yes, with everyone ready Yusuf gave command to drop the sails. as they did so Yusuf noticed a group of guards running down the street not to far from them, this wouldn't bug him except they where running towards the ship, and of course when they reached the part of the docks the ship was at there where Templars leading them "There are the assassins, attack!" barked the leader of the group, who, of course, was a Templar as well.
Akman pulled out his sword and let his hook blade slide out of its socket, the other assassins that stood beside him as guards let out there hook blades as well "Get out of here, we'll deal with them" Akman shouted to Yusuf, who nodded in return.
The crew of Assassins managed to get the sails open in time and they where off, Yusuf ordering Toran to take the wheel while he watched the battle, Akman and his group of Assassins where winning, sure of there victory he let out a sigh of relief and made his way to Toran's side "I will be below deck reading whenever you need me to take back the wheel"
Toran nodded, without another word spoken Yusuf made his way to the bottom of the ship and found the room the assassins had prepared for him, it was supposed to be a spare storage room but they didn't need it for that, so Yusuf just ordered them to turn it into a small room for him, the book he now sat reading at his desk was Niccolò Polo's Journal, lent to him by Ezio. As he read he noticed a small piece of paper sticking out towards the end of the book, he turned to the page it was located and discovered it was a unsent letter, he opened it and read it silently to himself ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
August 30th, 1257
Dear Altair,
one of the Masyaf Keys have been hidden from us, and i regret to inform you it was the one explaining the time between your banishment from Masyaf Castle, i fear the thief of the key was a Templar, he said the key was going to place by the name of Equestria, i have never heard of this place before, never traveled there, never even seen it on a map in all the time that i have lived, which comes to the ultimate question: is Equestria, perhaps, a secret place hidden away from the maps, undiscovered, and full of Templars? i will do research in my free time but for now im afraid the missing key could be lost forever, i cant be sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, considering i still have two, the other three already hidden in places only a skilled assassin could reach, but if we cannot find the missng one the last door behind the apple you spoke of will never be discovered...but as i said before all still goes fairly well, the rest of the keys will be hidden by the end of this week, i hope to hear a response from you about the lost key.
With kindest regards, Niccolo Polo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yusuf put down the letter and stood up, retuning to the top deck he noticed a storm was ahead of them, Yusuf decided to take there chances in the storm, his crew was probably the best he could have. Toran let Yusuf take the wheel so he could go down to read the letter.
Within seconds later a light rain began to drop, as they traveled deeper into the storm the raining grew heavier and the winds started to speed up, soon enough they where in the same storm that Ezio's ship had been in.
Thats when Yusuf saw it, another ship not to far away heading towards them, and Yusuf could make out who the ship belonged to by the flag, it belonged to the Templars. and there plan was quite easy to figure out, they knew someone would go after Ezio, this was a fine oppurtunity to kill or trap more assassins, so they sent this ship out here to wait for them, and the ship was fairly big, when they arrived the ship ambushed while in the storm and take the Assassins by surprise, that part wasn't going to happen though, "Everyone, prepare to fight, there's a Templar ship inbound!" Yusuf called out to his men.
After he called out the order to his men he ordered another Assassin to take the wheel, after doing so he went below deck to his quarters "Toran, there's a Templar ship approaching, get ready to fight"
Toran put the letter back in the back and closed it, then followed Yusuf back up to the deck, by then the ship had already managed to get to them and already throwing grappling hooks to pull the ships side by side, Yusuf rallied all his men and prepared to fight, but instead of waiting for the Templars to board there ship Yusuf decided they deserve a surprise, so expecting his men to follow him into battle, he jumped over to the other ships side and began climbing.
and of course as predicted first came Toran, then the rest of the Assassins followed. Yusuf was of course the first one to jump onto the deck, as soon as he did he jabbed his hook blade into a Templar's chest and threw him overboard. Toran then jumped onto the deck and stabbed the Templar beside Yusuf in the face, forcing the Templar to the ground before pulling the blade out, then the rest of the Assassins came up one by one, the battle had truly began now, the Assassins quickly spread, attacking there own targets. Yusuf went straight for the captain, but was stopped before he even made it to the staircase up to the wheel by a group of Templars, Yusuf pulled out his sword and let out his hook blade, preparing to fight, five Templars, one Assassin.
Yusuf waited for his chance to come, and it did very soon. the lead Templar attempted to charge at Yusuf and run him through with his sword, it didn't end well for him, just as he was about to run the blade through Yusuf jumped to the side and stabbed his hidden blade into his enemy's back, throwing him back into the group before pulling back in his hook blade, knocking over the whole group of Templars.
Yusuf then pulled out a splinter bomb and threw it on the group, killing them all before they even had a chance to stand back up, he then ran past the bodies, up the stairs, and behind the captain, before he could perform the kill though the captain turned around and kicked Yusuf to the ground.
Yusuf managed to roll aside right before the captain brought his sword down into his face, Yusuf then quickly stood up and decided to just use his sword for this fight, and so it began. The captain unlike his crew was a fine swordsman and posed a fair challenge to Yusuf, every time Yusuf attempted to counter his attacks the captain would always block them and kick Yusuf away, until eventually Yusuf found an opening, the captain was left handed when it came to fighting, so Yusuf simply waited until the right moment, when it came he struck, he locked swords with the captain then stabbed his hook blade into his left side over and over again in quick and swift movements for about 5 times before kicking im in the stomach, making him fall to the ground, Yusuf quickly crouched and let his hook blade spring out, the tip of the blade a inch away from the captains neck "Any last words?"
"Go to He-" Yusuf didn't let him finish his sentence, swiftly stabbing the hook blade into his neck, then back out. "Huzur içinde yatsın" Yusuf said closing the Templars eyelids and standing up.
As soon as Yusuf did this the second in command appeared at the top of the stairs, Yusuf charged at him before the Templar could do anything and knocked him overboard, then ran down the stair and was pleased to see that the battle was almost over, and they where winning. Yusuf did notice an Assassin being cornered by a group of Templars, and no one attempting to try and help the Assassin, so Yusuf charged at the group, but by the time he got there it was to late, the Assassin was dead, Yusuf was eager to avenge his fallen brother, but someone barged on to the deck and shouted at the top of there lungs something that made all the fighting come to an immediate stop "The powder's been set off!"
As soon as the Templars heard that they scrambled to jump overboard, but all the Assassins took a moment to realize what they meant, and when they did Yusuf was the one to announce it "they've ignited explosives, jump!" after saying this Yusuf jumped overboard, Toran following him, then the ships powder's and explosives went off.
