Crowns of Heritage

Chapter 4-Mountains

(Sage's Point of View)

"Sage!" Rosie shouted as she ran after me.

I kept running and noticed that I wasn't in the city of Maco anymore. I looked around as I noticed we were in a place surrounded by mountains and a little forest.

After running into the mountains, I tripped and twisted my ankle. The cut on my leg started to bleed as I tried to get up. The blood started running down my leg as I tried to find a place to clean it off.

I noticed a cabin in the middle of the forest, I hopped around while peeking through the windows to see if it was abandoned.

After realizing what it was, I entered the cabin. It was fully furnished but looked like it hadn't been used in a while. I searched around the cabin looking for anything to help clean my wound. As I searched through the house I heard a loud noise. I hid behind the couch as I saw the door opening.

"Sage", Rosie said as she entered the cabin.

I came from behind the couch, scaring Rosie a little as she jumped after being caught off guard.

"Hey, you almost got hit", she said, backing up trying to play it off.

She started hugging me as she cried.

"I can't believe we're actually sisters," she said while still crying.

"I'm a little surprised, but you have always felt like a sister to me" I said as I hugged her back.

Rosie looked down and noticed I was bleeding; she made me sit down while she looked around to find something she could use to wipe off the blood. After finding one she started to clean off my leg. I told her that I also twisted my ankle. She took off my shoes and slapped my ankle.

"What the hell rosie," I almost jumped up from the pain.

"Nobody told your ass to run off on your own", she said while bandaging my leg.

By her running track she knows how to soothe the pain, when it comes to body sprains.

"What do you think of all this?" she asked.

"I don't know what to make of it" I replied.

"I wonder how long we will have to stay here.” Rosie said, while sighing.

We sat there talking, and a few minutes later, Tia walked through the door, and told us that the cabin belongs to her and that we can keep it for ourselves if we wanted it. Rosie and I agreed to keep it , as we decided to make it a training ground. We talked to Tia as we came to a decision to stay with her.

"Hey, do you think we can take her?" Rosie whispered in my ear.

I looked at Tia as she was walking ahead of us.

"Maybe, but she's the least of our worries," I whispered back to her. "It's the man we have to worry about. He follows her everywhere" I said as I glanced at the man sitting next to the tree.

"Hmm, I think we can take them,"she huffed.

"You're going to get us killed one day.", I said seriously.

We followed her back to the house before it could get dark. She told us she went to find us because we didn't know our way around and she didn't want us to get lost.

We asked her where we were, and she stated that we were in a city called Yurin that was 300 miles away from Maco.

After dinner, she told us to follow her upstairs as she said she had rooms ready for both of us. We asked her why we were in the basement for a whole month and why she only came that one time.

She explained to us that she went to look for our parents and in the process she took all of our belongings out of the house and put them into our own rooms. We wanted to know what would happen to our old homes. But only to find out that it was burned down after she had taken our things.

Rosie and I lied in bed, talking about our parents. We were angry at the fact that they have been lying to us for years, but we were also glad that they kept us together even if it was as best friends.

A few days later, my ankle has gotten better, Tia woke us up telling us she was going into town with her daughter Liyah. She asked us if we needed anything.

"I have all my stuff, but are we allowed to come with you?" I asked.

"Sorry, but you girls would have to stay put," she said as she walked to the door.

"Well, that sucks," Rosie grumbled under her breath.

"I think we can still take her," she said under her breath

"Hush" I slapped her with a pillow.

Rosie and I decided to go to the mountains to train. I grabbed my crossbow as she grabbed her running shoes.

"Let's jog there," she said.

"Sure" I said as I started to warm up.

We jogged to the entrance of the mountains, stopping to finally catch our breath. I started thinking to myself, though I could do a lot of target practicing out here.

As we practiced on our own, we heard a noise a few miles from the cabin. At first Rosie didn't want to go check it out. But I forced her to go with me as I grabbed her hand; I was a little afraid to go alone.

We walked around the trees and while listening for the sound. As the sound got closer we heard howling noises. Rosie got scared and grabbed my hand as she tried to run back towards the cabin. I placed my crossbow up; putting a wooden arrow I made through my fingers. I walked closer to the noise. I noticed it was a baby wolf.

It was injured and looked to have been abandoned. I started to feel sorry for it as I picked it up and ran back to the cabin.

"What do you have in your hand", Rosie said as she peeked through the door.

"It's a cub, a baby wolf" I said as I held it in my hand.

Rosie opened the door as I began to walk in. She looked at the cub and told me the mother was going to come after me, and she was going to run at first sight.

"Is it a girl?" she asked.

I laid the cub down and I cleaned the dirt off him.

"Nope, it's a boy," I said. "Hmm I'm going to call him Chad".

I decided to keep him in the cabin; As the days went by, I would sneak Chad food every day, and sometimes sneak him in my room whenever everyone was sleeping. I looked at the ceiling as Chad lay there on the floor.

He started walking around my room and started stretching the box. I stared at the box on the floor. I wasn't really curious about opening it and seeing what was in it. I got out of my bed and sat on the floor next to the box. I was a little afraid of opening it.

I took a deep breath as I opened the box. In the box was a baby picture of me and Rosie; and a letter next to it. I opened the letter only to read the words.

"Hey, Sage, I know you are very confused about what's going on. I swear I never attended to leave you behind, but a situation has come up, that you and Rosie can't comprehend yet. But I promise it's for your safety. Whatever you do, don't leave Tia's side", the letter ended.

I got angry, and almost tore the letter, before I could rip it to shreds. I noticed the letter was full of tear stains.

I jumped up and ran to Rosie's room.

"Rosie, get up" I closed the door and flopped on her bed.

"What, whoa", she said, jumping out of her sleep.

I nudged her, as she slowly started to doze back off.

"Get up", I raised my voice a little.

"Are we finally doing it?" She asked while rubbing her eyes.

I thought to myself what?" , then I realized she ment offing everyone in the house while they slept.

I put my hand on my head a little frustrated, seriously she is going to get us killed one day.

"Shut up and read," I handed her the letter.

She took a moment and read it. She continued to show different facial expressions as she read.

"So we can't off her," Rosie said.

Seriously is that the only thing she got from the letter, I mumbled.

"No, something is going on, why would she say it was for our safety.

Rosie shrugged her shoulders and laid back down.

"Sounds like we're safe for now" she stated, "Whatever that is supposed to mean '', she continued on. Without a care in the world she dozed off and went back to sleep, while I was currently losing my mind.

I laid down next to her and dozed off.

The next morning, I was woken up by Liyah telling me breakfast was ready. I looked around the room, only to see that Rosie was already gone.

I headed to the bathroom in my room and brushed my teeth before going downstairs.

Walking out of my room into the hallway, Liyah was still standing there waiting on me.

"Are you watching me or something?", I asked her.

She looked at me and smiled. " No, she said. " I just wanted to get the chance to talk to you while my mom wasn't around.

"Okay, what do you want to talk about?" I asked.

"Don't think too bad about my mom, she's not a really good actor," she stated.

I stopped walking and looked at her confused.

" What do you mean by not being a good actor?" I asked, curiously.

She looked at me and leaned towards my ear and whispered.

"My mom isn't a real kidnapper. She's a bodyguard". She said,

" Wait, what?" "What do.." before I could finish what I was saying, she cut me off and continued.

"She's pretending to be a kidnapper, while baiting the people who are after you and Rosemary."

I looked at her in shock and I couldn't find the words, I was totally speechless.

Liyah took a step forward and whispered to me again.

"Please continue to act normal, I wasn't supposed to say anything," she said as she stepped back and continued down the stairs, leaving me behind.