The Key Lies Between Both Worlds

Chapter 5

Narrator

      Jack unfortunately sounded winded from the whole battle, who wouldn't be at the rate of the speed he used.

   "You really don't remember none of this place?" Jack asked. Amy took one look around and spoke. "No, none of this is familiar, not even a hint of déjà vu hits me when I look around." Jack adjusted the strap on the backpack as he instinctively took a look at Amy. "This will take a long fortnight to say." Amy sneered at Jack. "You sound like an old wise man from the 11th century, speaking old English. Or an old man speaking old Cajun." Jack abnormally knew but still asked. "Ur very smart, aren't you. Do you get good grades in school?" Amy shrugged at the question as she stared down at the ground. "I have to, there's no choice in the matter." Jack quickly shut down that subject, he changed it in a quick second. "The way people speak here grows on you. But I only talk that way to get my way around. It makes people think you belong." Amy snorted, knowing full well what it took to get around, for people not to question life beyond where you were. Jack asked as the path came to a fork in the road. "What's so funny?" Amy shook her head. "Nothing. Though how long will it take to get me back home?"

   Jack's shoulders tensed at the question; he eyed the fork in the path looking both ways. "It's not the exact home you're thinking you will be going to." Jack took the right side of the path but Amy stayed glued to her spot in the fork of the path.

       Fear grew over her as she knew what would happen if she stayed this long away from home.

    Too much time had already passed, she knew her step father would be worried, but a day and a half of time has passed already and she still wasn't home. He was most definitely angry. She wasn't going to see a day of light for weeks. 

   Jack turned on the heels of his feet to her and snarled. "Come on, what are you stopped for?" Amy blinked rapidly as she tried to speak through the fear. "I need to get home. Now." Jack studied Amy before he came back up the path, snatching her arm in one hand. Jack started to pull her towards the right side of the path. "Well then you have to keep on moving if you want to get back, for Pete's sake." Amy let him pull her down the path, her mind was other places. The present, not one of them. Jack was afraid if he let Amy's arm go, she would be frozen in place. Jack was very aware of Amy's fear of something, every time she thought about home she would freeze in fear. But why would she afraid of her own home? If she was so afraid of her own home, why would she be so desperate to go back to it? Jack questioned himself in his mind about it. Every time Amy thinks about home, its like she's paralyzed with fear. Jack let get of Amy's arm to rub the bridge of his nose, like he knew.

   Amy stood in place staring at nothing, with fear in her eyes and in her expression. Jack stopped moving and stood staring at her, trying to figure her out with a single glance. 

  They needed to keep moving before it got dark. What Amy didn't know was when Jack chose the right path, they had about maybe three hours before it got dark but it was the fastest path into town, while the other path would have taken at least another day and it would of took the whole day to get dark. But the right side of the path was the most dangerous at dark while the other was mellow and serene. It was like light and dark; you chose which one you got and had to deal with it. 

    Jack grabbed Amy's hand in his right hand, locking his fingers through hers. Amy immediately snapped out of it but Jack started to race down the path forcing Amy to keep up pace. Jack ravenously said over the wind. "I'll give you a brief history of what this place is and who you are to this place. Will you listen?" Amy gave his hand a tiny squeeze in response, still surprised by his hand interlocked with hers. 

    Jack spoke, as if he was giving a list. "This is a place unlike the human world, everything is mostly likely to be different than the human world. The logic in this world makes no sense no matter how you figure it out, but only some parts of this world are like that, the other parts are simply normal like the humans. But it all is still very different from the human's no matter how normal it may seem. You play a very important piece in this world, for you are this world's most powerful witch. Born from a high ranked witch that mated with a high ranked king. For the high rank king didn't know he married and mated with a high rank witch, he still stuck with the bastard of a woman. Though both parents of the baby agreed, that when they died the baby would be queen. But not even a month or two later of the baby being born, the borders of both worlds were made. The baby was stolen two weeks later of the border being open. The world went crazy for a year and a half, searching both worlds for the baby but like the legend of the other baby. Both were never found but one was until yesterday, and I found you." 

    Amy was even more shocked about this all that she was from this world and not the human world. 

           Was she really calling her world, the human world? 

Amy pulled her hand out of Jack's. "That is a lie, that can't be true." Jack slowed from a run to a speed walk, as he tilted his head at her. "If it was a lie, why would it make so much sense, didn't you feel like you never belonged where you were?" 

   Jack was right, Amy questioned every day if she was adopted because she looked so different from both her parents, even her step dad looked different from her. Amy had long beautiful raven black hair, while her mother and father had light brown hair. Her step dad had bleached blond hair that was originally brown. She had blue sea- like eyes while her mother had brown and her father had green. Her step father had gray eyes, so lifeless it boarded into your soul almost if he stared at you. 

      It put a shiver through Amy's body as she thought of her step father's eyes. Amy choked down the fear uprising in her throat. "If I'm a powerful witch, why can't I do magic?" Jack turned his head to scan the entire forest in front of them. "Because they will manifest first in this world and when you get strong enough, you could use them in the human world and this world. You have to focus enough to do a little magic but you can't have fear. Fear in this world makes you weak, and the type of fear you've been showing will get you killed in this world." Amy almost laughed at his words, there will be no reason for her to learn all this, she was going home anyways.

Right?