Crowns of Heritage

Chapter 17- Missing

(ROSEMARY P.O.V)

Yeshiva and I followed behind Na'mah, she led us to a little storage room on the first floor.

“This is where I keep all my hiking gear”, she said pointing at the door. “Rosemary since you don't have any equipment yet, you can borrow some of mine”, she said, handing me a brown and white backpack.

I looked at Yeshiva, “Where is your gear? I asked him.

He pointed towards the living room, “We're going to take my truck to the hiking site, I'll grab my gear on the way”, he said.

I nodded my head, and Na'mah grabbed a few more items out of the storage. I wish Sage was coming with us, it feels kind of weird to go somewhere without her, I thought to myself.

Something felt strange to me, usually when Sage has cramps. Her face doesn't usually look that pale, and everytime she moved she looked like she was hurting.

I was deep in thought but was interrupted when Na'mah called my name.

“Ah yes,” I said, but I wasn't paying attention to what she was saying.

“Let's get ready to go”, she said, while walking ahead.

I followed behind her into the living room. Cena and Kenai were standing by the door waiting for Na'mah.

Seriously, why do I have to ride in a car with that bitch”, I mumbled to myself.

I looked towards the stairs and saw two maids and a butler going up them. Maybe they were going up there to clean up or something I thought, to myself. We headed towards the Yeshiva truck, he gestured for me to get into the front seat. Na’mah, Cena, and Kenai sat in the backseat.

We rode for a couple of miles, and Yeshiva parked his truck in front of another large mansion. It had three cars parked in front of it. Yeshiva took off his seat belt and opened his truck door.

“I'm going to go grab my gear and backpack”, he said, getting out of the truck. He walked into the house and a few minutes later, came back out and got into the truck.

“Ready to go girls?”, he asked, looking cheerful.

I heard Cena and Kenai in the backseat whispering, but couldn't make out what they were saying.

We rode for another 20 minutes deep into the mountains. We pulled up behind five other cars that was parked near the entrance of the mountains.

“It looks like the other clan members made it here before us” Na'mah said.

After parking, we all got out of the truck and Cena walked toward Jemas and another guy, leaving Kenai and Na'mah behind.

“Jemas is Cena's fiance”, Yeshiva whispered in my ear.

“She's still a bitch”, I said not caring.

Yeshiva laughed and grabbed the backpacks out of the trunk.

I looked at Kenai and she was staring at me. So I stared back of course, causing her to look the other direction.

“She likes me”, Yeshiva said, smirking at me.

“Not my problem, I already set my eyes on you”, I said, smirking back.

“Okay guys let's head to the trail”, Na'mah said, walking ahead and Kenai followed behind.

We went up the trail in a line behind one another, Yeshiva was behind me, while Cena was in front of me.

“Why didn't your sister come?”, she asked in a bitchy tone.

“Period”, I said.

“Why did you leave her alone in an unfamiliar place?”she asked, looking back at me.

“If anything happens to my sister, I'll burn this whole town to ashes”, I said looking her in the eyes.

She turned back around and kept walking.

“Wow, make sure you do that when I'm not around, I don't want to be burned to death.”, Yeshiva said walking behind me laughing.

While walking up the trail, we made it to a cabin that was sitting on the left side of the forest.

“It's one of the resting checkpoints”, Yeshiva said before I could ask.

“How long are we going to be out here?”, I asked.

“Couple hours, going up the side of the mountain and back down again takes at least 4 hours”, Yeshiva said.

Four hours, I thought to myself, maybe Sage is sleeping.

(SAGE P.O.V)

“Mmmm”, I groaned, feeling the pain on the back of my head. I opened my eyes and saw I was in a little room. The walls were black and the room had no windows, the door was shut. I tried to move my body and noticed I was tied to a chair. I shook the chair trying to get myself out, but the cord around me was too tight.

I heard the door come open and pretended to still be unconscious.

“She looks just like that son of a bitch.”, I heard a man with a deep accent.

“What do you want to do with her?”, I heard another man's voice. It wasn't as deep but sounded familiar.

“We have to hurry up before Chief Masiro comes back.”, he said, “Cover her eyes, before she wakes up.”, he continued on saying.

I felt someone tie something around my eyes, and I heard his footsteps as he walked up closer to me.

“Wow, she is a beauty”, the man said. “I guess it's the royal blood in her vein.” he said.

“That stupid bitch Natalie cheated on me with a royal scum, and had the nerve to have that bastards children.”, the man said.

I remembered. He's the one my grandfather dragged out the house.

“Hurry up and take her out of here”, he said.

“We're going to send her to the bounty hunters that's looking for them.”, he said.

“What about the other one?”, the man with the deep voice asked.

“She wasn't in the room”, another person said as they walked in the room.

“What are we going to do about Chief Masiro?”the man said with a deep voice asked.

“We'll worry about that if he makes it out of the ambush waiting for him.”, the other man said.

Oh no, I thought to myself, Grandfather and Peyton are in trouble. I felt afraid not knowing what was going to happen to me.

“We"ll get the other bitch later.”, I heard the man say.

I stopped pretending to be unconscious when I heard that.

“If you touch my sister, I'll kill you”, I said.

The men became quiet and one started laughing

“Little girl you can't do anything tied up”, he said kicking the chair, causing me to fall backwards.

“Mmmm” I groaned out loud. The pain was unbearable.

“Get her and put her in the trunk.”, one of the other men said.

I felt someone pick me and placed me across his shoulders.

“Let go of me”, I started kicking my legs.

“Tie her legs up”, the familiar voice said.

"Yes sir", he responded.

I could feel my body being placed down on the floor, and the man grabbed my legs. I tried to kick my right leg as he was trying to tied them up. Unfortunately, the pain was unbearable and I couldn't control my body. After tying me up completely, he lifted up my body once again and threw me over his shoulder. I internally groaned as he began to walk.

A few minutes later, he stopped walking and I heard the sound of something opening. The man placed me down om a solid surface, and I could hear the sound of something closing over me.

(ROSEMARY P.O.V)

The sun started to go down, and everyone decided to take a break. Yeshiva handed a bottle of water and we sat on a large rock. The view was beautiful, seeing the sun set over the lake.

“Okay guys let's head back”, Na'mah said.

We all started to grab our bags and head back down the trail.

By the time we reached the bottom of the mountains and back into the forest, the sky was completely dark.

Yeshiva, Na'mah and I got back into the truck, while all of Cena and Kenai left with Jemas.

We rode for approximately 40 minutes. Na'mah was in the backseat asleep, while Yeshiva was driving and held my hand.

“If you're going to hold my hand, that must mean you belong to me." I said, sounding flirty.

He laughed and squeezed my hand, “When is your birthday?”, he asked.

I thought to myself for a moment. I haven't been keeping up with the days, so I wasn't sure how long we had until our birthday's.

Yeshiva looked at his phone, “It's June 15th”, he said.

“Holy shit”, I shouted. “ Sage's birthday is tomorrow, mine's the day after.”, I said.

“How are you twins with different birthdays?”, he asked, seriously.

“I'm guessing there was a time difference between us being born.”, I said.

“I guess that makes Sage the oldest out of you two.”, he said.

“Yeah she totally has the big sister vibe”, I said laughing.

"Wait, why did Peyton said, you had a couple week until your birthday.", he asked.

I shrugged my shoulders, "Maybe to stop you from flirting with me.", I said.

We pulled up in front of the mansion, and I couldn't wait to get back to Sage.

I walked ahead of Na'mah and Yeshiva. After opening the front door, I walked up the stairs and noticed some of the maids. They were walking up the stairs to the third floor while I walking up to the second floor. When I made it to our room, I open the door and saw that the lights were off.

“Hey Rosie, I'm going to go take a quick shower in one of the guest rooms." Yeshiva said, walking down the left side of the hall.

“Okay”, I said, without looking in his direction and entered the room.

“Sage, are you sleeping?”I asked, but didn't get an answer. “Maybe she's asleep," I said out loud, while taking off my shoes.

I cut the lights on, noticing that Sage wasn't in the bed. I walked over towards the bathroom to see she was in there. When I got closer, I saw broken glass all over the floor and blood stains leading from the bathroom.

“SAGE?!” I shouted looking inside the bathroom, seeing that she was no where in the room.

I stomped towards the door swinging it open.

“YESHIVA!” I yelled while running through the hall.

I started banging on his door.

“What's wrong?”, he asked, opening up the door half dressed.

“There's blood in the room”, I yelled “ something happened to my sister!

Yeshiva rushed out the room, running towards the room Sage and I were in.

“Shit, someone attacked her while we was gone”, he said looking at the blood on the floor

“I should've never left her alone.”, I pulled my hair and started yelling out loud, falling to the floor.

Yeshiva leaned down holding onto me.

Na’mah and a few other people came running into the room, asking why I was shouting.

“Something happened to Sage, while we were gone!”, Yeshiva shouted.

“What!” , Na'mah shouted, looking to be distraught.

I heard whispering from one of the maids, that ran into the room behind Na'mah. I pushed Yeshiva off of me and grabbed her by her uniform. "Where the fuck is my sister!", I shouted in her face.

She looked younger then me and had a terrified expression on her face. “Some of the maids were complaining about their uniforms going missing earlier today.”, she said, while shivering.

Na'mah placed her hand on my shoulder, I looked over at her and she shook her head.

I let go of the maid and Na'mah stepped in the middle of us.

“Tell me what happen”, Na'mah said, glaring directly at the maid.

The maid looked frightened, and put her head down and started to shiver more.

"Tsk", I clicked my teeth and grabbed her by the uniform again.

“Easy” Yeshiva said grabbing my hand. “Let's see what she has to say”, he said.

I pulled my hand away from him.

“Earlier some of the maids said their uniforms were missing.”, she said once again, “I think someone pretended to be a maid and snuck inside mansion.”, she said, lifting her head up to look at Na'mah.

Yeshiva and Na'mah eyebrow raised.

“They're a lot of people who don't approve of Sage and Rosemary being here. The list is too long to narrow down.”, Na'mah stated.

“I don't care who they are, I'm going to kill every single one of you.”, I said "Find my sister or I'm going to burn down this damn town while looking for her." I said.

(SAGE P.O.V)

After I heard the sound of something closing. I realized I was inside of the trunk.

I tried to remain conscious as it was getting harder to breath. I didn't know how much time had passed since I was kidnapped once again. All of a sudden, the vehicle stopped moving and I heard the men getting out of the car.

I heard the trunk open, and felt someone lifting up my body.

“Is this her?”, I heard an unfamiliar voice, it was another man with a deep foreign accent.

“Yes”, the person carrying me answered.

“Where's the other one?”, the man asked.

“She wasn't in the room at the time”, the man carrying me said.

The man with the deep foreign accent sighed.

“I'll take her from now”, he said.

The man that was carrying me leaned down and placed me onto another solid surface.

After a few minutes, I could feel movement and every bump they hit was causing my injuries to hurt more. I wanted to groan out loud, but didn't because I felt another presence near me.

“How long until we get there?”Another unfamiliar voice asked, it wasn't as deep as the first man but he also had the same accent.

“About 5 hours,” the man with the deep voice said.

Damn I have stayed tied up for five more hours, I thought to myself.

I could hear music playing while the men were silent. I opened my eyes again, and was able to to see little bit of light through whatever was covering my eyes.

I just laid there, glacing around, while mentally preparing myself for whatever was going to happen.

A few hours passed by and I kept my focus on the ceiling, and periodically glanced at the man sitting next to me. When the vehicle stopped, I heard one of the man speaking another language.

“Hello gentlemen”, I heard another foreign voice.

“Hello sir, we're just passing through.”, one of the men said.

“Do you have your passport?”, he asked them.

“Yes”, the men responded.

A few seconds later, the man standing outside the vehicle started to speaking again.

“Enjoy your stay, Welcome to The Kingdom of Vanuatu”, the man said.

My eyes widened after hearing what he just said.

“What did he just say?”, I mumbled to myself.

I felt the vehicle move once again, and I immediately started to feel even more afraid.

“Did he just say Vanuatu?” I thought to myself.

“We're here”, one of the men said.

I heard the doors to the vehicle open and someone pulled me towards them.

“I can't believe she been unconscious this whole time”, one of the men stated.

“Lucky for us, if she did make a sound we would've had to kill her.”, the other man said.

My heart started racing and I had to control myself and pretend to be unconscious again.

I felt someone lift me up and carry me up some stairs.

“Man this place is fucking huge”, one of the men said, while walking up the stairs.

I heard doors open and the one carrying me continued to walk.

A few moments later, the person carrying me placed me down onto a solid surface again and took off the blindfold and started to untie me.

I was still pretending to be unconscious and waited until I couldn't feel his presence anymore.

I kept my eyes closed and heard the sound of a gate closing. I continued to wait until i felt no one esle was around.

When I opened my eyes, I couldn't see anything. The room was dark with a little bit of light shining through the small window above me, it barely lit up the room.

I tried to move my body and slowly got up.

I placed my foot on the ground and slowly raised up my body. I took a few steps while placing my hand unto the wall for support. I slid my hand across the concrete wall trying to feel my way.

With the little bit of light shining, I hesitated out of fear after seeing the iron bars in front of me.

All of sudden, I heard movements coming from the room next to me. It was the sound of chains, and I could hear them moving closer to the iron bars.

“Hello”, I said, hearing my voice echo.

I placed both of my hands on the iron bars.

“Hello, is somebody there?”, I asked, starting to freak out.

I continued to hear the chains make noises and backed up from the bars, I though I was going crazy.

“Hello”, I heard female voice, it was soft and I could tell she had problems speaking.

I got freaked out and took a few more steps back.

“Did they just bring you in her”, the soft voice again.

“Yes , Can you tell me where we are?”, I asked. And ran up back to the iron bars. I groaned because the pain.

“Who are you?,” I heard the soft voice getting a little closer.

“My name is Sage Young, I was kidnapped, and someone put me in here”, I said.

“That's a pretty name”, the womam said, her voice got a little more clearer as she approached the iron bars.

“What's your name?”, I asked her.

I could tell she was still having a hard time speaking, as she was trying to get the words out.

“My name is….”, she paused for a second i could hear her trying to catch her breath.

“My name is Natalie…..”Natalie Henrico”

I tightened my grip around the bars, "Mom?", I mumbled.