An Assembly of Bones: Chapter One.

Title: An Assembly of Bones.
Fandom: Assassin's Creed.
Spoilers:  think this story arc is quite possibly an AU by now.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: As my sister pointed out, Malik has extracted a kid from one terrorist organisation only to recruit him into his own. This is what social services calls 'grooming', kids. And it's bad.
Summary: Direct sequel to my fic The Word of God and the Treasures of Wisdom. Malik and Altair have spent the last two years travelling the world, using Altair's knowledge to discover the hidden Eden fragments and keep them from the Templars. When Altair is summoned back to Masyaf to take up the mantle of the Grand Master of the Assassins and Malik searches for an Eden fragment in the fables Garden of the Hesperides, they both get more than they bargained for... 

 

( The plain was the colour of bones, bleached white by the midday sun... )

This fic was inspired by doubleleaf's 'New Order' picture, which is on deviantart here It also already has fanart: check caroline's picture of Malik and Marid out over here

An Assembly of Bones: Chapter Two

Title: An Assembly of Bones (2/?)
Fandom:Assassin's Creed.
Spoilers: Post game.
Rating:15.
Warnings: Mild violence.
Summary: Malik finally gets a lead on the location of another Eden fragment and Altair recieves an unexpected visitor...

( It seems you have forgotten what it means to wield a blade... )

I have another piece of fanart! Find a picture of Nusaybah by caroline at her website over here.

An Assembly of Bones: Chapter Three.

Title: An Assembly of Bones (3/?)
Fandom: Assassin's Creed.
Spoilers: Post-game.
Rating: PG-15.
Warnings: Mild violence.
Summary: Malik finds the Garden of the Hesperides, and a great deal of trouble... 

 

( The Templars caught up with them two days out of the nomad camp... )

 
I got some more fanart from caroline! This scene ended up not making it into the fic, but it's awesome. Malik and Marid, searching Istanbul's Basilica cistern for another Eden fragment. You can find it here, and you can find more about the Basilica cistern here. 

 

I am so glad I didn't start posting late at night...

Have I missed something, or was livejournal html always this annoying? I think I'm out of practice, but bloody hell! Oh for sites where you can just upload Word documents directly from Chrome without all this faffing!
On a more positive note, I found a great Inca war poem in the Boing Boing comments. It goes like this.

"We'll make flutes from your leg bones
We'll make drums from your skin.
We'll drink chicha from your skulls.
And then we'll dance...."

How great is that? I feel another Aztec story coming on, and yes I am aware that the Incas and the Aztecs were completely different civilisations, thank you very much.*

*FYI, the Aztecs were much cooler.