Crowns of Heritage

Chapter 11- Entering the territory

(Sage p.o.v)

The next morning, Peyton woke me up and handed me some food she brought from downstairs. It was eggs and sausage. I don't even remember when we had our last meal.

I heard my stomach grumble and I couldn't wait to stuff my face.

“Hey Sage, can I ask you something?” Peyton stood in front of me and my mouth was full of eggs.

I nodded my head and tried to hurry up and swallow my food.

“Are you afraid to meet your grandfather?” She asked me.

I looked at her and she had a pleading look on her face.

“I'm not sure, I mean one grandfather hates us, the other doesn't know we exist and he could possibly hate me too because of how I look” I stated, getting a little annoyed.

She grabbed my hand and put her hand against my head and smiled.

“I'm sure he will love you and Rosie,” she said, trying to convince me.

Rosie came out of the bathroom drying her hair and humming. Peyton looked at her and tapped the bed, telling her to come here.

“Ohh you brought food” she said all excited.

“Yes, sit down and eat and let's have a conversation before we leave.”, Peyton said to her.

Rosie sat down next to me and proceeded to steal one of my sausages. I slapped her hand and she chuckled.

“Eat your own food, you asshole.”, I said.

Rosie laughed and grabbed her food, and started eating.

Peyton smiled and continued on talking.

“Rosie, are you afraid to meet your grandfather?”She asked Rosie the same question.

Rosie looked up for a second like she was deep in thought.

“Well one grandfather is a total asshole, while I don't know much about the other one, but he seems to be pretty badass from what you told us about him.” she said while chewing her food.

Peyton still seemed a little tense.

“And what was the whole thing about one hell of a fight you mentioned?” she asked Peyton.

Peyton looked at Rosie, and sighed.

“Your grandfather might accept you, but I'm not too sure about the clan members, for the fact that they despise the royal family, well the whole nobility society as a whole” She said looking a little sad.

A thought came to my mind, something I wanted to know for a while.

“If they despise the royal family, how did our parents meet?”, I asked curiously.

Peyton laughed for a second like she remembered something funny.

“It's a pretty crazy story”, she said, “ Your mother was disguised as a maid at one of the royal parties that was at the palace. Her target was a nobleman that she was trying to get close to while she was on an assassination mission.” Peyton said while trying not to laugh.

“Whoa our birth mom seems pretty badass too”, Rosie said.

I hit Rosie on the leg because I was really interested in the story.

“Hush, Don't interrupt her,” I said.

“Oh shoot sorry” Rosie said, rubbing the back of her head.

Peyton laughed and continued on.

“Well she ended up running into your father, wasting a glass of wine on him.”, she stated,“He was surprised at first but took notice of her. Later on that night, I was walking with your father because I was one of his personal guards. We saw your mother again inside one of the palace rooms, which she didn't know it was your father's office she was in the middle of changing, from her disguise, your father instantly fell in love with her beauty.”, She continued.

“Wait”, I said, interrupting her.

Rosie slapped my arm.

“You said not to interrupt!”, she said with an attitude.

Peyton laughed again, while trying to stop our little argument.

“Calm down girls”, she said, waving her hand in our face.

“I remember your mother coming into the ball with blue and white gown with lace running to the bottom, she was beautiful with her reddish hair and green eyes”, she said looking at Rosie “You look exactly like her”.

Rosie blushed for a second hearing about our birth mother.

“Let's just say one thing led to another, and your mother and father had fallen in love that night”, she stated.

“If I remember correctly your mother was a professional poison user, she grew up as herbalists, which hints the fact that you two are named after herbs” she continued on saying.

I thought that was kind of cool, knowing our birth mother was the one to name us.

“All Nathan and I did was change your last name.”, she said.

While Rosie and I were trying to digest all this new information again. We heard a knock on the door.

Peyton walked up to the door and looked through the peephole. She opened the door and Yeshiva was standing behind it, and Massey was standing behind him.

“Why are you two together?”Peyton asked.

Massey cleared his throat, and Yeshiva looked at Peyton .

“He pulled a gun out on me” Yeshiva pointed at Massey.

“You looked suspicious standing in front of the door.” he said, nonchalantly.

Peyton shook her head and gestured for them to come in.

“Are you three ready?” Yeshiva asked. He seemed to be the impatient type of person.

Massey handed Rosie and I a pink colored suitcase. “There's some clothes inside for you two, I hope they fit,” he said.

Rosie and I nodded our heads and went into the bathroom to change our clothes.

(Peyton p.o.v)

After the girls left to go to the bathroom, I looked at Yeshiva.

“Do you think the girls are going to be okay?”, I asked full of concern.

Yeshiva rubbed the back of his neck, and looked annoyed.

“Honestly, I'm not sure the Clan will accept them. Chief Masiro will because they are his granddaughters, but the problem is the clan, Rosemary might be fine because she looks exactly like Natalie, Sage will have a hard time." Yeshiva said.

I felt my heart sink, Sage has been through enough, I know I had hurt her deeply and our trust is on thin ice. I raised Sage since she was a newborn, all she knew was me and as she grew up. Nathan and I decided to raise them as friends, while trying to protect them. I can tell Sage is being very distant with me, she won't keep eye contact for long and pulls back if I try to hug her.

Yeshiva looked at me with a sorrowful expression.

Sage and Rosie walked out the bathroom in the clothes Massey gave them. Sage had a light blue dress knee length, while Rosie had on pink blouse and blue leggings with pink flowers on them

Yeshiva walked up to them.

“Are you two prepared?” He asked them.

Sage and Rosie nodded their heads and Yeshiva started walking to the door. We followed behind him and headed down the stairs.

“I have a truck parked outside” Yeshiva said.

We headed to the truck, it was black with huge tires on them sitting up high from the ground. We used the handle bar to climb in.

“Wait, hold on” Yeshiva stated, with an uncertain look on his face. He looked back toward Sage and Rosie.

“Can you two fight?”, he asked in a serious tone.

(Rosemary p.o.v)

I grabbed the handle bar getting inside the truck. Sage pushed me in because I was taking too long to climb up.

“Hurry up, it's hot out here”, she said in a bitchy tone.

I poked my tongue out at her and climbed into the truck. I sat next to Peyton while Massey sat in the front with Yeshiva, and Sage sat next to me on the right side of me.

“Hey can you two fight?” Yeshiva asked us.

Sage and I glanced at each other and turned back to Yeshiva looking ahead.

“Fighting as in?” I asked him

“Are you two good at fighting?” He asked again.

Sage raised her eyebrows. “I'm good at archery,” she said.

“Oh really”, Yeshiva sounded a little impressed. “ And you? “ He directed his questions back to me.

“I can fight, Sage can too, but she has a nasty temper” I said while smirking at Sage.

Sage scoffed and pinched my arm.

“Ouch you asshole”, I shouted.

Peyton once again stopped us from arguing

“ I asked because you two will most likely get into many fights with the other members, after all we are a clan that is trained to kill, Yeshiva stated.

“How old are you?” I asked Yeshiva, because I was really curious.

“21” he answered, “how old are you two?” He asked.

“17, we'll be 18 in a few weeks” Sage and I answered at the same time.

Yeshiva glanced at us and then turned his head back to the road.

“That explains the timeliness, Natalie went missing almost 18 years ago, my dad and your grandfather searched for her for years”, he stated.

I noticed Peyton was making a serious face while she looked to be in deep thought.

“Umm Peyton, are you okay?”I asked, and Sage turned her head in our direction.

“Mom”, she said.

Peyton made a weird smile and assured us she was fine. I glanced at Massey and he still looked serious as ever.

We were silent for a little while until pulled up in front of huge black gates with concrete walls going around the area.

“Where are we?” Sage asked.

“Henrico Clan territory”, he stated.

A man dressed in a guards uniform walked up to the truck.

“Hey Yeshiva, welcome back man, how was your mission?, " the guy asked.

“ It went well,” he answered back.

The man saw us looking at him and tilted his head. And looked back at Yeshiva.

Yeshiva nodded his head at him. “ I have a surprise for the Chief”, he said.

The man shrugged his shoulders and opened the gate for us to pass through.

“How big is the territory?”I asked, looking around at the vast amount of land surrounded by mountains.

“We have our own town, this is the entrance to it”, Yeshiva stated.

Sage and I were shocked at how big the territory was, we were on a road surrounded by a forest.

I started to feel a little nervous, we're finally meeting someone from our biological family, I thought to myself.

We rode for about six miles until we arrived at a massive white mansion. Sage and I looked at the mansion in awe and noticed ten vehicles parked in front of the mansion.

“Aww shit,” Yeshiva said in a mumbling tone, but I heard him.

“What”, I asked him curiously.

“This isn't good,” he said, while tapping the steering wheel nervously.