The Eight

Jack

I wake with a jolt as someone pushes me out of the bed. I sit up rubbing my head that hit the side of the bed. "Who the hell did that?!" I yell out to the rest of the group who all are waking up. "Jack no one cares." Josh mumbled as he pulled the blankets back over his head. Zach, Evie and I all got here around 8 o'clock last night. We were greeted by Claire, Josh and Amber who arrived earlier, Owen lead us here. Josh and Claire are a thing and Owen is a loner. It also turns out Claire and Owen are part of the eight, but they haven't showed us their powers yet.

I start to get up from the floor when I notice Zach, on the bunk under me, and there are rock shards on the bed posts. I grumble and shoot snow at his ass. He yelps and hits his head on the top of the bunk. "What was that for?!" I point to the posts and he laughs. "If you two are done bickering we would like to show you around." Claire smiles but you can tell she's annoyed. We slept in the riders quarters which is a large room outside the stables with a bathroom, 6 bunk beds and multiple closets and 2 trunks under every bunk.

Once everyone was ready Claire lead us on a tour of the kingdom. "So if this place is a kingdom where is the palace?" Zach asks as he looks around astonished. "Well it's further into town we are quite a ways away from town." Owen states quite proud with himself since he said it before Claire. Claire frowns and Josh gives Owen a dirty look.

"Ok...why are we here?" Amber asks looking at Claire, they made a quick friendship between them. Owen and Claire look at each other and Owen nods to Claire. "Well don't freak out.." she rubs her arm nervously. "What do you mean don't freak out that makes us want to freak out!" Zach says in a louder tone. "Hey, you watch your mouth" Josh glares at Zach and Zach returns the stare equally nasty. "Boys please be nice." Claire looks at both of them. Then continues "So...um..." she takes a deep breath but Owen talks instead "Basically you 4 were shipped off to the safe earth while the other 4 stayed here." He says it then shrugs, Claire death glares him.

My mouth drops, Evie has her hands on her head, Zach just stares blankly at Owen, and Amber is off in her own world. "So let me get this straight we are from here?!" Evie says slowly hands still on her head. "Yeah...you were sent away after Maximus was exiled." Claire says leaning on Josh. "Ok so we were born here but moved to safe earth? What the hell is Redmont?!" Evie says louder trying to wrap her head around this. "Well there's different worlds there's the Redmont, here Arburmore, and one that leads to the dark." Claire mutters quietly still leaning on Josh. "So our parents on that world Redmont aren't are real parents?!" Amber asks and Claire nods to reply. As she says so Zach sit down right there and Evie looks happy and lays on the grass and Amber storms off. Me I'm still frozen in place, my mom isn't really my mom?! Why did she never tell me!

"You were sent there because Maximus was hunting the Eight to gain power and he took 2 and the King couldn't risk the other 6 being taken." Owen says standing still and cocking a eyebrow at Zach who is still quiet. "We'll give you a minute to wrap your heads around this" Claire says in a calm tone and walks away with Josh and Owen.

After around 20 min Zach stands up, Evie sits up, I snap back to reality and Amber is still no where in sight. "So... we don't know who our real parents are, a dude is trying to kidnap us, Lucifer and another one of the 8 are in his control, and we're from a different dimension. What a crazy day." Zach says bluntly. By now Amber is back and we walk down the path more to find the other 3.

We catch up to Claire, Josh, and Owen and they continue to show us the kingdom. First they showed us the market, the tailors, the butcher, and the school. "This place is amazing!" Amber's eyes are wide as she looks around the town. Claire continues to lead us dragging Josh by the arm as we enter another building. We step inside and I realize it's a blacksmith. We all look around and I see Owen start to creep up on the blacksmith then Owen headlocks him. The blacksmith grunts as Owen tightens the headlock. Now all eyes are on the twos tussle. The blacksmith is tall with spiky dirty blonde hair, brown eyes and a great smile. Those two are fighting and I notice out of the corner of my eye, something bright red.