“I just asked the girl behind the counter and she said she didn’t see anyone matching their description,” Jayden said coming out of the gas station store. It was late hours and the girl working the midnight shift had been asleep since no one came around but she was alert enough to answer his questions about a brown-haired woman and a ginger head.“Then where could they have gone?” Lance asked with his hands on his waist as he looked around. There was no trace or a scent of both women even after hours of searching. Only a few people were lolling about on the streets but they didn’t want to take chances turning into wolves to sniff Cathy and Ginny out. Even the most drunken teenager would be taken seriously if he claimed to have seen a 6’5 wolf prowling and sniffing the streets.Noah was standing behind the car with his hands buried deep in his pockets and his brows furrowed in concentration. “Did we miss something?” he wondered aloud.“What?” Jayden asked coming to join him.“We are mi
Almost as soon as he finished talking a strong wind swept through the range of the house, shaking windows and the very foundation of the stone house, howling so deeply it sounded like the battle cry of an undead army. The trembling of the foundation caused Maggie’s chains to rattle strongly and the cuffs pulled on her skin painfully. But just as soon as it started the wind stopped and the howling ceased.“Let’s go.”She hadn’t realized she has her eyes closed but soon Maggie opened her eyes to see all four of them moving toward a door that had suddenly appeared in the stone wall.“Come with us.”As soon as Percy spoke she rose to her feet and was moving toward them completely forgetting about the chains. Eldan put his hand on the door and pushed it open. It swung open with a loud groan. When Maggie stepped over the threshold after them she was surprised to find out that instead of going into another room in the stone castle they had been transported to a different place, another time.
“Is that my father?!” Maggie snapped as she shot to her feet, the chains around her ankles rattled silently but the weight on them was still as heavy as ever and she almost stumbled. “What is my father doing here?” She asked unable to believe it. They were most likely in some era BC or a few years AC there was no way her father would be alive for decades and no one would have said something!Jackson’s hand came on her shoulder and he pushed her down hard on the stone seat, anger and impatience evident in his eyes. “Stay down! We are using a lot of our powers to maintain a shield in this era.”“We can’t be seen here and we must not do anything to upset the flow of powers!” Olivia said from her other side.“Take it easy on her. This is all new to her.” Percy leaned forward and his eyes were gentle, imploring her to understand. “Look closer Margaret, is that your father?”Still in a state of shock Maggie blinked and did as he asked and with startling realization noted that that was not h
Maggie felt Eldan jerk her back by her collar. The arrow flew past her right into the eye of one of the slaves.“What is wrong with you?!” He asked. “Do you want to get yourself killed?” It was the first time he showed his anger and Maggie was slightly taken aback by the feral look on his face.She hadn’t thought she could get killed since they were just a mirage in this past world but now that she thought of it the fact that she could feel the stone seat beneath her bum was a tiny indication.“I’m sorry, I wasn’t thinking,” she said feeling like a chided child. “But this is so unfair!”“Everything that happens in this time must not be altered. We brought you here to see why certain things must happen among our kind, you are yet to see the climax, therefore I warn you to sit still and watch!”Maggie tried to hold herself still but it was so hard to do so when the shot slave was writhing in pain on the floor holding his injured eye with his hand. The other slaves shared his agony kneel
The dark clouds that had accompanied the sandstorm dispersed to show her face and lovely figure. Maggie dropped her fingers from her face shocked at the beauty of the woman. Or girl. Because she was so young and fresh-faced, looking no older than Ginny. It was the taller of the two girls that had been in the painting on the ceiling of the Council room in STRUKUS. Her red hair fell in a straight curtain around a beautiful face. Her eyes were flashing red but even the anger in them could not hide their beauty. Her red mouth was set into a grim line. The girl’s red hair almost blended with the red dress that clung tightly to her willowy figure.Though Maggie was in awe of her beauty and obvious powers she couldn’t believe that this young girl had so much power over the slaves who were so large in frame that if they wanted to they could easily crush her to death. In her hand, the girl held a dagger. It was an ancient silver dagger and the look in her eyes spoke volumes about how she wante
And so it happened that over the course of 5 years, the Jackson look-alike sacrificed his life in the same violent way and another half a decade later Eldan's look-alike sacrificed himself, it was the only way the goddess accepted their sacrifice. Maggie was sickened to her stomach at the violence with which Percy and Olivia tore into him, yet they had no control over their bodies. And so it was remaining just Percy and Olivia.Maggie let her eyes adjust to the mist that accompanied their time traveling and when it cleared she was surprised to see that it wasn’t just Percy and Olivia who remained. There were 3 children, two of whom looked like Evgan, Jackson Eldan, and they appeared to be ages 15 and 10, and 5, and Olivia was pregnant with another one. She and Percy had made a family and somehow they were rebirthing the ones who died. The years bled into each other until five years later and by this time they had given birth to five more children. It was Percy’s turn to die and Olivi
It was almost dawn when Noah brought the car to a stop at the end of 34th Avenue and 3rd Street. He shifted his gaze to the street lined with houses most of which were empty. He knew this was where Cathy and Ginny were.“How do you know we are in the right place?"“Because I know him too well, he won’t take them anywhere else.”“I don’t know if I can trust this guy,” Asher leaned in to whisper to Lance who sat beside him in the car.Lance nodded before realizing it was Asher who has spoken to him and he turned his head to the other man. “I don’t trust you!”Asher frowned. “I don’t trust you either.”“Rather than catch up on the lack of mistrust in this dysfunctional group, why don’t we test if my theory is correct?” Noah asked as he glared at both men through the rearview mirror.Jayden was laughing at Asher and Lance. He was sitting in the passenger seat beside Noah and now he leaned forward and peered out through the windshield into the street. There was no sign of life and though a
With every 5 years that went by the Ptakkagaris increased but and all five of the resulting descendants had features similar to those of the slaves.They were shifting through the years like they were watching the pictures at the cinema. After a while, Evgan pulled on Maggie’s phantom chains and asked her, “Have you seen enough? Do you understand what we are now?”She nodded. “You are the ones keeping our dynasty alive. Without your sacrifices, there will never be Ptakkagaris.”He nodded. His eyes took a dull, pained expression as he looked at the others. They nodded in agreement to whatever it was he was silently asking.“There is one more thing you have to see.”“What is it?”“The very reason why we invited you to the castle. But I need to make sure you are prepared to see this.”Maggie shook her head. “I wasn’t prepared to see the other things you showed me. I watched people get torn to pieces with claws and daggers, I watched sons and daughters kill their fathers and mothers. Ther