Once we get spat out and regain our balance, we realise we arrive in a large room with now windows. There are paintings and carvings on the wall suggesting Roman times.
"Where are we Mum?" Emily asks
"We are in Rome in 455 AD," I say
"Oh... It's not the best time to be in Rome..." Robert says
"Why is that dad?" Jack asks
"Because it is the fall of the Roman Empire..."
"Everyone, this is Michael..." I say and they say their hellos. I can see that Michael's glance over my family stops on Emily for a moment before he turns to me and says
"We don't have a lot of time, she is tracking me and will be here soon... Come with me and you, please stay here quietly... The Vulgarians are rioting outside, I don't want them to know we are here..." As he says that my kids go silent out of fear and Robert's eyes widen. Michael leaves the room into another and I quickly follow him
"Michael... that wasn't necessary..." I say and he turns to me and responds
"We literally have minutes, maybe less. You need to get ready and go as soon as possible... Here take this..." He starts handing me voiles of white powder and a knife and a few of those neck devices "that's all I have here..."
I take all the items and put inside my suit and say
"Michael I don't understand, what is happening? Didn't we change history? Isn't it better now?"
"Oh, of course, you don't know... Everything went wrong..."
"Wrong how?"
"You ended up visiting Bo with your family regularly at his tribe, Jack, Emily and Bo became friends and all happens again, but earlier... much earlier... my... I am the last one standing from Emily's line... Isabel is after me and she wont stop until I am dead... Bethany, you need to run, protect your family... Bo found out what we did and became outraged that you have abandoned him, he wants to kill you all... You need to fix it... I don't know how, but what we did it didn't work, it backfired..."
"Oh, Michael... I am so..."
And I stop halfway through my sentence as information is flashing in front of me
"arrival from 1011AD..." I run to the other room and shout
"Hold your hands! We are leaving" I run to them and hold their hands as the AI connect and we leave
"travelling to North America 1444 AD..."
"arriving in... 5...4...3...2...1..."
We get spat out at the lake...My head is spinning... But not from the journey... Its from what Michael said... His words still ringing in my head... I need to fix it... But how?
"Mum, where are we?" I hear Jacks voice
"Its ok, I have been here before... We are safe here for a moment..."
"But mum..." Jack says again and I turn around to see Robert being held with a knife against his throat and Emily is already tied up and gagged and the Cherokee people were surrounding Jack.
As I turn, they recognise me immediately and bow on their knees in shock
"Is Pocahontas or Pima here?" I ask
"Little Goddess? You are back?" I see Pawnee coming out of the crowd
"Only for a moment, could you please release them? They are my... servants and I need them..."
YOU ARE READING
Breaking Through Time
Science FictionI looked at Michael lying in a pool of blood. Emily and Jack were still off the side in a cage, screaming and crying while looking at this horrifying situation. Robert was cuffed to the wall crying and blood was sipping down on his naked torso as he...
