Speziao Alternate Ending

“Finally!” Leonardo shouted, gazing at his plans for the first scuba gear. Leonardo had been working for many hours it was the dead of the night, if not for the glow of his candle he would have been wrapped in his blanket & in a deep sleep, but now that his plans done Leonardo was ready to sleep, he headed upstairs and jumped into his bed.

Thunk! Leonardo jumped out of his bed and ran down stairs, one of his paintings had fell onto the floor, the glass shattered and the painting ripped he stared into his destroyed masterpiece and decided he would make another, with his mind made up he threw on his robes, grabbed some coin and darted out the door to the market, he took one last look and remember his invention so he rushed back inside and
with one last check he left for the market.

The sun beamed down on the market with no clouds in sight, There was a musty smell you could almost feel on your tongue and a constant smell of feces. Davinci began to plow through the loud crowds of people, he went to buy some paints and while he was out decided to get some fruits and bread as well, the man selling the paints was stingy and wanted to sell Leonardo cheap quality paints but he saw right through his scam and bought what he needed he went to buy fruits from a new family in town, there fruits where luscious, soft and juicy, but there clothes and faces were tired and torn, there were a very poor family of five, he had seen them in the market once before, there oldest son recognized Leonardo and was very interested in his work, he begged to be his apprentice but Leonardo had no need, he walked closer and greeted the family he bought his fruits.

Leonardo had only one last thing to do, once more he pushed through the crowds and onto the stands he yelled for attention with a low loud rumble, it was time to announce his new invention a flood of people gathered around him as he whipped out his plans and model for his underwater breathing device the crowd gasped, Leonardo began to explain what his device did but unlike other times the crowd was chatting away and begin to disperse, he heard whispering about satan and the church and not long after his crowd was telling him he was heretic, many others agreed and began to run to the church to tell the them. Shortly after he found himself scurrying through the crowd from guards running for his life he dashed over to the poor family and begged for them to hide him, they hid him in their fruit kart as the guards ran by, Leonardo knew what happened and knew that he couldn't go back home alone. The guards had stormed off leaving only a trail of dust, Leonardo clambered out of the kart with a plan,

“boy” Leonardo said while pointing at the oldest of the sons Speziato, he was a very tall lanky boy with short hazel hair and a tint of copper, he had gray silvery eyes that stared intently at Leonardo.
“Yes sir?” Speziato said nervously

Leonardo looked at his mother and said to the boy “I will pay your family bags of gold for your service, wasn't that your dream?” “Yes Sir Yes Yes Yes!” Speziato said with excitement. Leonardo snapped “Let's go then, we have to move quick” as he tossed a sack of gold to his family & they ran home.

The sun was beginning to fall, Leonardo and Speziato had been talking about this new arrangement Speziato would be allowed to learn under Leonardo if he promised to protect him with his life, Speziato agreed excited to
learn.

A few days later

Leonardo and Speziato had been working away on a new invention in a hidden cellar, THUNK ThUNK THUNK they heard knocking at the door it must have been the church people, Leonardo was surprised they were still looking, They heard a massive ear-splitting crack that echoed through the house and footsteps all around the house then it went quiet. The cellar door opened and five men shoved through Speziatio yelled “RUN” as the men charged forward with torches and pitchforks Leonardo ran for his life as he heard Speziato’s piercing screams he looked back to see Speziato’s body on the end of a pitchforked, blood spilling everywhere and his clothes on fire.

A few weeks later Leonardo had found a safe shelter and had made an invention in Speziato’s honor, it was a flying machine made to embody of Speziatos free spirit and open mind.
His house was perfect because it was on the cliff and he had made a runway going off the cliff. Leanardo was getting ready to test his invention when in the distance he began to see emerging from the fog a crowd of people charging towards him, it was the men the evil men who killed Speziato they where getting closer and closer and to make a quick escape he jumped in his plane and pedaled it off the cliff to escape he felt the wind like arms collapse under the weight of his plane, he was in a slow free fall, he saw his life flash before him as he plummeted to his impending doom he felt the wind whip his face and the smell of musty grass he closed his
eyes.