The Dead war.

Chapter Eight: Taken

We went to bed that night and I laid in Oliver's arms until he fell asleep. I stayed awake staring at the wall when I heard the handle turn. I jerked my hand up and the handle was rattling. I shook Oliver awake and he grabbed his dagger and I grabbed mine. And then blinding light and a scream. Everything moved in slow motion, Oliver was shot. I didn't know where or how bad I just heard his scream. And then arms wrapped around me tightly and hands went around my mouth. The dagger I held was pride from my grip. I heard it clatter to the floor. I used the techniques I was taught by Thomas. Fight, fight until you can't anymore and then continue to fight. I thrashed and spun and fought, I kicked and bit and spun my body weight but whoever this was they were powerful they continued to drag me, I screamed for Oliver I didn't know where he was or how badly he was hurt. Was he dead? Would I ever see him again? I felt the tears burn my skin. My heart thrashed in my body. I felt like my heart was about to burst out of my body. My mind raced. I didn't know what was happening or why. Then we were outside. Suddenly I felt a prick in my neck and then everything went black I faded out and my body slumped. And then everything went quiet. When I woke up I was tied to a chair. My hair was cut to my shoulders I could tell because I felt it on my shoulders so I sobbed. My beautiful hair was gone. I had a bruise on the left side of my body. I had cuts on my fingers and knuckles and a cut on my shoulder. I had put up a pretty good fight. Suddenly my mind wandered to Oliver. My future husband was dead in our bedroom and by the time someone found him he would be dead. Before the tears could exit my eyes the door opened I was blinded by the light I turned my face and closed my eyes. I heard two voices
"She looks to still be asleep." The male said.
"Well wake her up we need information." A female voice  responded. And then I felt water splash in my face. I looked up and I didn't recognize anyone who stood in front of me. The man bent down and looked into my face. He looked exactly like Nathaniel.
"Nate?" I asked.
"How do you know my brother?" The voice asked.
"I was in charge of him." I replied. The man slapped my face hard and I felt my lip split open.
"What was that for?" I yelled.
"My brother is dead!" He replied. Suddenly everything went dizzy.
"What." I said
"My brother is dead. And I want to know what you know about it!" He yelled, slapping me from the other way. I felt a cut tear on my face before I yelled out in pain.
"What are you talking about!" I yelled back. "I haven't been in Umbris, I'm on an assignment for my father!" I yelled again.
"What are you talking about?" He asked.
"My father is the king of Umbris king Gabriel." I replied. He looked confused and looked back up at the women who I then finally looked at. It was the women from the castle. The maid, my mother. She noticed me staring at me and then said,
"Hello Serena, I'm sure you already know about me, I'm your mother." I looked at her in absolute surprise.
"What happened to my brother?" The man said, turning my attention back to him.
"I don't know, I never heard of any attacks. I was in Prophis to convince the king to attack on our weakest points and we are going to be stationing men there so they come into an ambush. I left...how long have I been out?" I asked
"Four days," my real mother melody said.
"Wow, so I have been out of Umbris for 6 days. I haven't seen Nathaniel or heard from anyone since I got to Prophis 6 days ago." I said. "What is going on?" I asked.
My mother spoke to the man once she was done he walked over and untied me. I stood up and felt a sharp pain in my thigh. I looked down to see a large bandage covered in blood.
"You cut yourself in your struggle pretty gnarly cut if I do say so." The man said. They led me out of the basement and upstairs to a large room. There were boxes on tables that blinked over and over with words and pictures displayed on them.
"What is this place?" I asked
"This is the middle ground." The woman said. "This may be hard to believe but we aren't from the 1920s Serena. I am from the year  2015, 95 Years in the future." She said talking to another Woman.
"What?" I replied laughing "that's hilarious who are you really?" I asked again
"I'm Being serious, Serena. I am from North Carolina from the year 2015." She said I could tell by her face she was extremely serious and she wasn't kidding." I sat down feeling my legs go numb.
" Then who am I?" I asked.
"You are my daughter." She replied.
"Why this year, why this time frame?" I asked.
"Calm down child, I will explain everything." She said,
" I am from the year 2015 our entire world was destroyed in 1920 so I worked for years and years to invent a way to come back into the past and change the outcome of this war to save humanity." She replied.
"And what about you?" I asked the man. "I thought you said you were Nathaniel's twin brother." I said.
"I am, me and Nathaniel were born in the year 1995. I got an apprenticeship with the company Melody ran and they explored time travel. We were successful we ended up
In between Umbris and Prophis. The middle." He explained. "Nathaniel went to Umbris to become a knight there and I went to Prophis. You remember him always being there because of a drug that he possessed that spread it all over Umbris and I did the same with Prophis. Soon after Melody came through with her two sons and while she was in Prophis she met your real father. She got pregnant with twins. She knew she had to give you away because she couldn't be found out. So she gave you away. Poachers found you along with Nathaniel I'm the forest they brought you back to Umbris where you became princess. Nathaniel was only 12 at the time, because of the jump his age stopped he stayed 12 and then suddenly when you caught up to him it changed. You aged together. We watched you the entire time and when I found out you had come back to Umbris and that my brother had died. I panicked. I couldn't have you finding me or the melody becoming suspicious. And then when Alex and Samuel noticed you becoming wary we couldn't waste another second we had to grab you. I went overboard on making it look real, causing you great damage and your fiancé. I'm sorry but you are different there is something about you. You're strange." He said
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"You have this different strength that is powerful for a normal human being. Especially someone born in the 1920's. You have a power and an energy about you that is like nothing we have ever seen before." The woman explained.
"Ok wait you mean to tell me you are from the year 2015? You have been following me for 18 years. You found out I'm some not human creacher and now what? You expect me to believe you?" I asked in complete denial.
"Not right away of course I know this is a lot to take in and it's shocking." The woman said. But strangely something about it seemed so right. Even as preposterous it sounded. Something about it sounded right, something about it sounded like it was true."
"That's why I've never felt like I belonged here. Why I Always felt differently. And why I never feel right."I said
"Yes exactly." The woman said. I am twenty years old now. I was 19 when we entered Prophis for the first time and then I turned 20 in Umbris before we returned to Prophis. The year was now 1940. An older looking woman walked out of a room holding a weird looking Device.
"It's a telephone." The man said.
"A what?" I asked.
"Never mind, we will explain it all later." He said.
The woman turned and looked at me and her face went pale.
"So sorry I forgot the introduction." She said, "Serena this is Merlia, she is your future daughter." She said smiling. I looked up with my eyes wide and she nodded. You had a Daughter at age 30 In 1950. She learned about our expedition and she knew that you lived there and that you were a princess of Umbris so she immediately signed up." She said, I walked over to the older woman and immediately something in my heart tugged. She looked exactly like Oliver. She was slim and very healthy for being 65. Something in my heart pulled and pulled and I knew right then and there that everything was true and this absolutely beautiful woman was my daughter. I pulled her into a hug and she immediately melted into the hug and she started to cry. I pulled away and wiped her tears.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Mom you passed away in 2010, it's been five years since I have seen your face." She said crying. I held her tightly again and kissed her forehead again.
"Well I'm here now,'' I whispered." Even how crazy this entire situation was and how crazy it sounded and how quickly my story changed I know in my heart that it was true. I knew this was my daughter and I knew everything my mother had told me was true.
"How did she know about me if I wasn't born yet?" I asked, still holding my daughters hand.
"I was working there as a receptionist, someone who takes appointments when I heard Melody talking about time travel and how it had worked. They were going back to Umbris and Prophis to stop the war and save humanity. As my mother, you would always tell me stories about Umbris and the kingdom and how you had fled the kingdom with Oliver after the war and had ended up in the United States. So I said I wanted to go, I needed to see you again." She said and I kissed her forehead.
"But how does that work if I wasn't born yet? Because you were here and I wasn't born yet so technically Merlia couldn't have a mother." I said.
"That's exactly what I thought. But when I looked into the history and Merlias history her mother was listed as Serena Quentin queen of Umbris and Prophis and her father King Oliver of Umbris and Prophis. You left before it was made official but you were named king and queen of Both. So when I went to Prophis and you weren't there and it was a different queen I conducted research. And it said that you hadn't been born yet but your mother Melody Alfred was 3 months pregnant with you and a boy. I didn't understand because I hadn't ever been there or lived there or even been alive at the time. Until I found out I was pregnant two weeks later I didn't think anything of it. Until I gave birth and I saw twins. And inside I knew that you were the Serena I was supposed to give birth to and then I sent you to Umbris. And if you're asking how that worked I don't know. That's what I'm trying to find out. That's why when I found you the first time when Liam Came to heal the queen I panicked the women from the photos Merlias mother my daughter was standing in front of me. So I ran to tell Terence, Nathaniel's twin, that I had found you." She replied.
"But how are you so young and my daughter is 65?" I asked.
"That's what I also don't know. Because if you already existed that means I would have had to have been pregnant when I traveled to Umbris. Which means you traveled between realms which could explain the strength you were given as a gift between realms." She explained. So if I didn't give birth to you until I was in the year 1920 then you would have been born in 1920 so you already existed and I had no idea. And that would explain merlia and the age difference. I am 70 years old and merlia is 65. Again this is all a theory. But it's the only thing that explains anything." She explained. "I know that is a lot of information merlia will show you to your room and you can soak it all in. I will need your help to find out the true story of this war. We give it the nickname the death way because of how brutal it was." When she said that I paused.
"Wait what did you say?" I asked
"The death war?" She replied questioningly
"I gave it that name after a nightmare I had about all the bloodshed. I named it the death war." I said.
"She looked confused and then pushed it aside.
"Get some rest, we will need you awake and alert tomorrow." She said, squeezing my shoulder. This all felt like a dream or nightmare, something you would read in a book. But it was my life and I was living it. My mother was a time traveler. My daughter was 65, nothing made since but then everything made since. I hoped sleep would fix whatever was happening.