"Do you believe me?" John asked
"I do, but you do realize everything just got incredibly awkward for me?" I said. "We dated, and we're brother and sister?"
"Yes." He replied
"Did you know the whole time?"
"Yes."
"Wasn't it awkward for you?"
He nodded. He sat down and started to explain. "The thing is, we are in a different time. The spirits sent us with you. All of us decided that we were going to keep an eye on you, and stay close to you to guide you until the time came when you were needed most. Which is now. Something was going to happen, something bad."
"Who is we?"
"Your family. We are all here. Everyone you loved was sent with you."
"How many of us were sent here?"
"Six, seven including you."
"Who are the spirits?"
"That is a topic for later. Right now, you need to get packed. We got to get going, everyone is waiting." John said. "You got a lot to study up on at home."
"Where is home?"
"Far from here. You made it. Its beautiful there."
"I made home? Sounds like I'm going to like it." I said. I got dressed and packed a few things to go to this 'new home' of mine. It was kind of cool that I made something. "Shall we get going then?"
"Let's go."
He took hold of my hand and said something that sounded like gibberish to me. Next thing I knew, a storm developed around us. I was blinded for a few seconds, but what I saw next blew my mind. We were in a different world. Nothing at all like Earth. The air was clean, water was blue, leaves green. There were even two suns.
"Where are we?"
"Home."
"Yes but I was thinking more between the lines that home was somewhere on Earth. I could of never imagined this." It all looked unbelievable. "What in the world did you say that got us here?"
"A spell. Spoken in Latin. It's the only way of getting here."
"Latin? Why Latin, its dead?"
"Exactly, very few people know how to speak it. If more people knew how to speak it then everyone would be in danger. Those that do speak it, however, are witches or wizards. There's a war that has been fought for a long time now, which made Latin a dead language. We should be getting inside, it's starting to get dark."
"What happens when it gets dark?"
"Things that never should happen in this world. You made this place so that everyone could live in peace.You called this place Serenity. But everything changed once you turned 18. Something manipulated the time to make it go off track. It goes faster. Like for example, you still think its your birthday today, but in reality its been a week since you've gone missing." He explained. "Did something happen to you that seemed strange?"
"A lot of things happened to me that were strange. At breakfast this necklace came out of no where." I showed him the necklace. "Anabelle straight up lied to me. Then there is the new kid."
"Do you know what this necklace is?"
"It looks like it could be a key, but I don't know to what."
"Thats what it is. You insert it to a..." He paused on what he was saying. "Who is this new kid?"
"He is from England, says his name is Jaxon."
He looked up at where we were. I didn't even realize that we walked far, or that we were walking. We were standing in front of a castle. People were pouring in and out, working.
"We live here?"
"Of course, where else would we live?" A voice said. A woman was walking towards us. She was wearing a long, slim, white gown. She had curly, brown, short hair. Her eyes were green.
"Persy, allow me to introduce our mother, Sitala." John said.
"Hi." I said. I didnt know what I should say. I only just met her, and there was a lot to take in from just one day.
"Come, lets go inside. Dinner is ready." Sitala said. She led us to the dining room. Every room was huge and had its own theme to it.
"How do you not get lost in here?" I said to myself. I noticed that there were eight chairs at the table. "I thought only seven of us were sent?"
"There were." Sitala said. "Sit down and we will explain everything over dinner."
Two people entered the room as I sat down. I never would of guessed that they had magical powers of their own. Or even the fact that we're related. Darren and Peter sat down across from me.
"Sorry Perse, but we had to do what we did best, and that was protect you." Darren said.
"I know it didn't seem like it, but we were." Peter said.
"So the whole thing about being tough and mighty was a charade?" I asked, and they both nodded.
Someone else entered the room. He was tall. Dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. He had a suit on. Not your ordinary white collar suit, but almost like he was getting ready for a battle.
"Persy, meet our dad, Gyan."
"So whose chairs are those?"
Two other people came in. I was surprised. Anabelle was who I saw first. I got up to hug her. The other was Jaxon. It would explain our conversation we had and why he seemed so mysterious.
"Anabelle! You're here. How? Why?"
"We've been best friends for a long time. You didn't want to leave me behind." She said.
"I told you I would see you in a week." He said.
"Yea, how did you know it would be a week?" I asked.
"Its a talent of mine."
We were all sitting at the table now when dinner came. Chicken, corn, mashed potatoes, bread and gravy was what I had my first night at this new world 'I' called Serenity.
"Persy, what you need to know now will be spoken. Everything else will be left unspoken." Gyan said.
"Well then what do I need to know?"
"There's a war going on, for more than a century. It started when you disappeared 100 years ago." He started to explain. All what he said was confusing. How could I be over 100 years old. " I know what you are thinking. We aren't from this time period. We were sent in time, thanks to you, to the year 2010. We are originally from the year 1883."
" Thats 200 years ago though. How?"
"This world. Remember how I told you that you made it?" John asked. I nodded. "Well when ever we stay a night here about five days pass on Earth. You are obviously going to spend alot of time here the first 100 years of Earth once you get back."
"We were sent here to protect you. It was the spirits doing. They thought it best to hide you until you were ready to return." Sitala said.
"Again with the spirits. Who are they?" I asked.
"Thats not what you need to know right now." Gyan said. "The war is about you. Many people want you to choose a side. It's like good verses evil. You need to choose side when you remember everything."
"You also need to study charms and incantations. Spells. We will start tomorrow." Sitala said.
"Well it is getting late, we should all be getting some rest. We got a big day ahead of us." Jaxon said. "you especially," He said towards me. He knew something, again.
Sitala and Gyan showed me to my room. I thought about the past day, or week, events. Everything that was happening seemed all too unreal. Yet, for some odd reason, I knew it was the truth. My life was changing in the blink of an eye, and I didnt know what I could do. So I ran. I grabbed my stuff and left without letting anyone know. I needed time to just think. I have a choice to do whatever it is everyone wants me to do. So they are going to wait.
