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 asked, 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 into another large mansion, it had three cars parked in front of it. Yeshiva took 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 5 other cars.
"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 him", 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.
We kept walking up the trail and passed up a cabin 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 out here", I asked, while thinking I have to get back to Sage soon
"Couple hours, up the side 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 Masiro gets 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 walk around me.
"Wow, she is a beauty", the man said. "I guess it's the royal blood in her veins," he said.
"That stupid bitch Natalie cheated on me with a royal scum, and she went and had that bastard 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 walked in the room.
"What are we going to do about 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.
"Well 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 knocking me down.
"Mmmm" I groaned out loud. The pain was unbearable.
"Get her and put her in the trunk", one of the 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.
The man who was holding me put me down on the floor and grabbed my legs, tying them while I tried to kick, but my body was in too much pain for me to control. I felt the man lift me back up and put over his shoulders again. He started walking and my body felt every bit of it.
A few minutes later, he stopped walking and I heard something pop open. The man put me down and I heard 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 holding 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 your birthday?", he asked.
"Hmm, I don't even know what day it is", I said honestly with everything going on I wasn't paying attention to the days.
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 their 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.
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, I opened the front door and walked up the stairs. I noticed some Maids walking up the stairs to the third floor. As I walked to the second stairs. I opened the door to our room. And noticed the lights were off.
"Hey Rosie, I'm going to my guest room and take a shower, " Yeshiva said walking down the left side of the hall.
"Okay", I said, and entered the room.
"Sage, are you sleeping?"I asked, but didn't get an answer. "Maybe she's asleep " I said , taking off my shoes.
I cut the lights on, and saw that Sage wasn't in the bed. I walked towards the bathroom to see if Sage was in the bathroom. I saw glasses on the floor and blood coming from the bathroom.
"SAGE?!" I shouted looking inside the bathroom. She was nowhere to be found 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 said, opening 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 said in a serious tone, he looked very upset.
"What!" , Na'mah shouted. "Who could've done that"
I heard some maids that came into the room whispering to each other. I pushed Yeshiva off of me and jumped on top of the maid who was whispering, "Where is my sister?!", I shouted in her face.
She looked young and was very terrified, "some of the maids said their uniforms were missing earlier", she said while shaking.
Na'mah place her hand on my shoulder, I looked at her and she shook her head. I got off the maid and Na'mah helped her get up.
"Tell me what happen", Na'mah asked the maid.
She hesitated.
I put my fist up getting ready to punch her, and Yeshiva caught my hand.
"Easy", he sad putting my hand down, "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 some pretended to be a maid to come inside of the mansion", she said.
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 "yall better find my sister or I'm going to burn this damn town while looking for her", I said. my blood was boiling, whoever took my sister was going to catch hell.
(SAGE P.O.V)
I felt the car stop, I remembered they put me inside of the trunk, I couldn't barely breathe and the heat was starting to get unbearable.
I heard the trunk open and someone lifted me up.
"Is this her?", I heard an unfamiliar voice, it was another man with foreign accent
"Yes", the person carrying me answered.
"Where's the other one?", the man asked.
"She wasn't around when we got her", the man carrying me said.
The man with the deep foreign accent sighed.
"I'll take her from now on", he said.
The man carrying me placed me onto a hard solid surface.
I felt that we were moving, and every bump was causing my injuries to hurt more.i felt another presence near me but they weren't saying anything.
"How long until we get there?"one of the man asked the other.
"About 5 hours," the other answered.
Damn I have stayed tied up for 5 more hours, I thought to myself.
I could hear music playing while the men were silent. I opened my eyes while it was still covered, I couldn't hardly see but I could see a little light coming from a window.
I just laid there because I didn't know what was going to happen to me.
A few hours later, I felt the vehicle stop.
"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", one of the men said, and I couldn't hear him handing it to him.
A few seconds went by and I heard footsteps again.
"Enjoy your stay, Welcome to The Kingdom of Vanuatu", the man said.
And I opened my eyes wide.
"What did he just say?", I mumbled to myself.
I felt the vehicle move once again. And I was instantly afraid.
"Did he just say Vanuatu?" I mumbled to myself.
"We're here", one of the men said.
I heard the door to the vehicle open and someone pulled me towards them.
"I can't believe she's 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.
I felt someone lift me up and carry me up some stairs.
"Man this fucking place is 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 and took off the covering and started to untie me . I was still pretending to be unconscious. I waited until he left and kept my eyes closed until I felt Noone was round. After a few minutes I opened my eyes. It was dark and I couldn't see anything. I tried to move my body and slowly got up. I placed my foot on the ground and it felt like I was standing on concrete. I slowly took steps placing my hand unto the wall and it was also concrete. I slid my hand across the wall trying to feel my way.
While feeling my way, I started to hear chains.
"Hello", I said, hearing my voice echo.
I stopped walking after I had the chains again.
"Hello, is somebody there?", I asked, starting to freak out.
I continued to hear chains make noises and got freaked out.
"Hello", I heard a soft cracking voice.
I got freaked out and took a step back.
"Did they just bring you in her", the soft voice again,
"Yes , Can you tell me where we are?", I asked , holding my stomach.
"Who are you?," I heard the soft voice getting a little closer. It was coming from the room next to me.
"My name is Sage Young, I was kidnapped, and someone put me in here", I said.
"That's a pretty name", the soft voice said, it started to get clearer as I got closer to the iron bars, it sounded like a woman.
"What's your name?", I asked her.
She seemed to have a hard time talking, I could barely hear her words, "my name is….", she paused for a second like she was trying to catch her breath.
"My name is Natalie….."Natalie Henrico"