Crowns of Heritage

Chapter 22- Training

(ROSEMARY P.O.V)

After Yeshiva and I finished the climbing exercises. We walked over to the area that was full of target signs. They were spaced throughout the obstacle course. It reminded me of the training field Sage used to practice in.

I started feeling depressed again after realizing her birthday's tomorrow. She's went missing and I have no clue where she is. I sighed, while thinking to myself.

"You seem to be distracted, what if someone was to come up behind you and snatch you up", Yeshiva said, standing behind me.

"I miss my sister", I said, feeling even more depressed.

Yeshiva places both of hands on each of my shoulders, "I promise we will find her and bring her back.", he said, "But at this moment I need you to focus, I'm sure Brian got the news about his family and soon or later he's going to return." He stated.

I nodded my head, "let's continue practice", I said.

Yeshiva showed me how to break down a gun and how to put it back together.

He broke it down twice, and took a step backal and watched as I followed his instructions. I had to do it multiple times before Yeshiva was satisfied with the results.

Once he was satisfied, we moved on to the next part, and he handed me a dummy gun.

"Is it like shooting a crossbow?", I asked, placing my finger on the trigger.

"Guns have more power to them, you have to be careful with the way you handle them. On the other hand, crossbows are more silent, while a gun can easily give away your location." He explained.

After two hours of learning how to shoot properly. It was finally time for me to learn how to shoot a moving target. Yeshiva made me chase him throughout the forest. He constantly yelled out instructions, telling to track his footsteps and study my surroundings. He taught me how to listen for sounds of movement and when to not react.

After I managed to track him down, I shot him in the side with the dummy bullets. Once the training was over, he called for Cena and Jemas to return to the cabin.

When we walked back to the cabin, Cena and Jemas were waiting for us. We took a short 30 minute break before starting again.

I was sitting on one of the logs next to the cabin and looked over when I heard footsteps approaching towards me.

Yeshiva walked up to me, "You have exactly two hours to find us. Since you did great job tracking me down. We can start on the hunting of Cena and Jemas", he stated.

He handed me a small map and gave me thirty minutes to study it.

They ran off towards the south of the forest for a headstart. I studied the map, tracing it with my finger. I saw them go towards the south, but my instincts told me to head west. For another 10 minutes I studied the trails that went west. I followed one of the trails with my finger and it was only one trail the connected with the south trial. I looked up and saw the sun was setting. Shit I need to hurry, I thought to myself.

I grabbed my gear and loaded my belt with everything I needed. I made sure my dummy gun was loaded. I had my night vision glasses that Jemas gave me and started walking towards the west of the forest. I listened to my surroundings as I walked deeper into the forest. It was silent, and I suddenly felt a presence near me. I remained calm just like I did in my training with Yeshiva. I walked a few yards, and felt more then one presence around me. At this point, I knew I was being stalked.

I looked around to see if anything useful was close by. I saw a river flowing a few yards ahead. I continued to walk and decided I was going to pretend to take a break.

All of a sudden, I was surrounded by three men. Without hesitation, I shot towards them, hitting one of them in the leg catching them off guard. I ran the opposite direction, two of the men chased me for a while. Since I ran track for half of my life, I had no problems out running them.

I climbed up a tree hoping I had the chance to lose them. Once I climbed up high enough, I heard the men approaching, and I stood completely still.

"Where is that stupid bitch", I heard one of the men say.

"Brian's going to be pissed if we don't catch her", another man said.

They walked passed the tree, and for a moment I felt relieved.

Until someone grabbed me from behind and covered my mouth.

(YESHIVA'S P.O.V)

The timer on my phone went off, and I knew that the two hours had passed. I looked at my phone to see if Jemas messaged me about being caught or not. When I saw there wasn't a message I decided to call.

"Jemas", I said after he answered the phone.

"Hey Yeshiva, I was just about to call you", he said.

"Have any of you seen Rosemary?" I asked.

"Not yet, I just met up with Cena, it's past the time limit ", he said.

"Meet me at the cabin", I said.

"Okay, see you there", he said and hung up.

I started running towards the cabin, something felt wrong. While running to the cabin, my phone started ringing, I held it up and saw that it was the chief.

"Hey Chief", I answered while running as fast as I could.

"Bring Rosemary back here", he said and hung up the phone.

"Shit" , I thought to myself. I made it to the cabin and Jemas and Cena had just arrived.

"Any sign of her", he said, while catching his breath.

"None", he said.

"Shit it's starting to get dark", I said.

"Let's search together", Jemas said.

I pulled my phone back out of my pocket and called the Chief.

"Yeshiva", he said answering the phone.

"Chief, we have a problem", I said, scared shitless once again.

I shivered just thinking about the torture, I'll have to endure.

"What is it?" He said, sounding impatient.

"Jemas, Cena and I, are standing in front of the training cabin. We haven't seen or heard from Rosemary for the past two hours, I said.

He paused for a second, and started to speak.

"Yeshiva, if you tell me not only did Sage go missing on your watch, but if both of my granddaughters are missing on your watch", he paused and sighed, "I should put a bullet through your skull." he stated.

I started sweating, and looked at Jemas.

"I'm on my way," he said and hung up the phone.

"We can't leave this mountain until we find her.", I said.

Jemas nodded his head, we entered the cabin and started loading up the guns we kept stored in the cabin.

Shit it's going to be a long night.

(PEYTON'S P.O.V)

Some of the guards and I helped Prince Moises get settled into a room on the first floor. We placed the medical equipment he needed in the room as well. Since Na'mah knew more about medicine then I did. She asked if we needed any help taking care of Prince Moises. Mainly I think it's because she wanted to hear stories about her sister during the time she was gone.

I walked out the room and saw Masiro standing in the hallway with the phone to his ear. I could feel the tension in the air around him.

"What's going on?", I asked, walking up to him.

"Yeshiva said They can't find Rosemary", he said, "I'm going to the mountains.", he said, and walked off.

"I'll grab some of the guards", I said.

"I know the mountains like the back of my hand", he said,

"I'm coming with you", I said looking him in the eyes.

"Follow me", he said.

Masiro, Massey and I headed back to the truck and two of the guards followed behind. Masiro pulled out of the driveway and started speeding down the road.

"Did Yeshiva say where he was located", I asked.

"We usually use the of the mountains for training. There's many training courses throughout the mountains. Since Rosemary is new to this, he took her to the easier one, it near the south of the mountains.. ", he stated.

"I'm worried", I said, while feeling anxious.

"Yeshiva is one of the best trackers I've ever trained, if they're still in the mountains, he should be able to find her.", Masiro stated.

I nodded my head.

An hour later, we drove through the mountain entrance and saw that Yeshiva's truck was still there. Masiro parked his truck and we all got out at the same time.

"Follow me to the cabin, we can get some supplies there", Masiro said.

We ran up the trail south of the mountains. When we made it to the cabin Masiro spoke of, we hurried inside to grab supplies. Masiro suggested I stay behind at the cabin just in case Rosemary showed up.

(ROSEMARY P.O.V)

I felt my heart racing as the person covered my mouth. I was about to fight him off until he whispered in my ear.

"Stay still", I heard, Yeshiva voice and my body instantly relaxed.

I could hear the men below looking around, they were complaining about not finding me yet.

"When I count to three, jump down onto one of the men", Yeshiva whispered.

I nodded my head, and Yeshiva started to count.

One, two, three, he said.

I jumped down, landing on top of one of the men. I wrapped my legs around his waist and placed my knife onto his neck, just like Yeshiva taught me. The man tried to fight me off, and ran my back into a tree. I continued to tighten my grip.

"Get off me you little bitch", he shouted, while I was trying to use my strength.

"Where's my sister?"I asked, shouting in his ear and pressing the knife closer to his neck. He ran my back into the tree once again, causing me to fall off him. He tried to kick me, but before he could, I heard gunshots.

"Bang bang", I heard two shots and the man dropped to his knees and fell face downin front of me.

I saw Yeshiva dragging the other man from a few meters away. I noticed he wasn't the one that caused the shots. While trying to get up from the ground the pain in my back was unbearable. I grit my teeth trying to pull myself up. Suddenly I felt someone pick me up into their arms.

"Goodness, you two sisters just love getting into trouble.", he said.

I immediately knew whose voice it was, I looked up towards his face,"Grandfather, what took you so long?", I asked, feeling relieved and exhausted at the same time.

"Let's head back to the cabin", he said, and looked towards Yeshiva, "Bring that son of bitch to the chamber", he said pointing at the man Yeshiva was dragging.

Yeshiva nodded and threw the man across his shoulder and walked in the other direction

A couple minutes later, we made it back to the cabin. I saw Peyton standing outside, and she ran towards me completely taking me out of grandfather's arms.

"I'm so glad you're safe", she said, kissing my forehead.

Grandfather picked me up again and we went down the trail leading back to the mountain entrance, on the way there we ran into Jemas and Cena.

"Meet us back at the mansion", grandfather said.

He sat me inside the back seat and Peyton sat beside me.

During the ride back, I started falling asleep due to pure exhaustion. While I was sleeping I felt someone holding me while they were walking. The pain in my back was unbearable and walking made me feel even more uncomfortable. After a while, I could feel my body being lowered down onto a bed.

"Is this her? I heard an unfamiliar voice.

"Yes", I heard someone answering, but was too tired to make out the voices.

I felt someone move my hair and place their hand onto my face.

"Wow, she looked just like her", the unfamiliar voice said.

"Yeah, she does' ', I heard Na'mah's voice.

I opened my eyes to see Na'mah standing beside me. She smiled and gestured for me to turn my head. At first I was confused, but turned it anyways. Next to me, I saw a man that looked just like Sage. I instantly became emotional.

"It's nice to finally meet you", he said and reached his hand out to me.

Instead of taking his hand, I tried to raise up to move closer to him. Na'mah helped me up and I was able to hug him.

"Your my father right?", I asked, hoping this wasn't a dream.

He pulled back and placed his hand on the side of my face. He gave me a small kiss on the cheek.

"Yes, I'm your father", he said, while wiping the tears off my face. He wrapped his arms around me, placing my head onto his shoulder. "I'm sorry, your mother and I didn't get the chance to see you two grow up", he said, while hugging me tight, "I promise we'll all be together soon". He said.

I couldn't get the words out and continued to cry while holding on to him.