Crowns of Heritage

Chapter 19- Smoke in the air (2)

(YESHIVA'S P.O.V)

After finding out Sage was kidnapped, I immediately informed the Chief. I was scared shitless, once I heard his voice. I had no idea he would cherish them this much.

"Chief, I have something to report.", I said

Even hearing him breathe over the phone made me nervous.

"Yeshiva, I'm currently busy at the moment, what is it?", he asked.

"Umm sir,"I felt the words stuck in my throat.

"What is it?" he shouted on the phone, I had to move the phone away from my ear.

"Chief, Sage is missing", I said, feeling like my heart was going to explode.

I could hear him drop something on the other side of the line.

"What the fuck you mean Sage is missing?", he shouted in my ear again.

"Everyone wanted to go hiking, and Sage wasn't feeling well. She decided to stay in the mansion and rest. When we returned back to your mansion. Rosie start screaming and we all ran to the room.Sage was gone and the room had traces of blood." I said.

"Yeshiva", he said in a calm voice. I was terrified at how calm he sounded.

"Yes Chief", I said.

"If you don't find my granddaughter by the time I get back.", I gulped nervously, "I'm going to kill your whole family.", he said and hung up the phone.

I stood there stunned, not because I was afraid. It was because I knew he meant it. He killed many clan members, relative or not when Natalie disappeared.

I scratched my head trying to figure out where to start. I get out of my truck and decided to go inside to check on Rosemary. I walked inside and saw Na'mah standing near the stairs with a folder in her hand, she was flipping through the pages, and I walked over to where she was standing.

"Na'mah", I called out to her.

She raised her head and gestured for me to hurry over, I walked towards her and she handed me a photo. I looked down at the photo and saw it was Brian Reynolds.

"Brian?", I asked curiously.

"I think he's the one who took Sage", she said with a serious look on her face.

"It's possible, he did seem pretty pissed at the meeting, and the Chief did throw him out", I said.

"And another thing", she said while showing me another photo.

"What's this?", I looked at the photo and recognized the person.

"That's Carla, Brian's daughter", Na'mah said.

"You think she's involved?", I asked.

"One of the maids said they saw her in a maid uniform, at first she didn't realize who it was because we have a lot of new maids, but she later noticed it was Carla", she said.

"Well her specialty is infiltration", I said.

Na'mah nodded her head.

"I have to inform the Chief", I said, pulling out my phone.

I dialed the number and heard it ringing. He answered a second later.

"If you're calling again, does it mean you found something.", he said.

"Chief, Na'mah and I, believe Brian is the one who took Sage.'', I said.

He was silent for a second, and I instantly started to sweat in anticipation.

"Find him, kill him and his whole family.", he said, and hung up the phone.

Na'mah looked at me and shrugged her shoulders.

"Go", she said.

"What if Brian isn't home, im sure he's not in the territory?", I asked.

"If he's not, his family's burnt bodies will be his warning.", she said, "Now Go", she said, pushing me forward.

I nodded my head and walked towards my truck.

I drove for about four miles up to the town's store, and parked outside the gas station. I grabbed two gas containers from the back of my truck. I filled the containers up with gas and bought a pack of cigarettes. Walking back to the truck I ran into my brother Jemas.

"Where are you headed?"he asked me, looking at the containers in my hand.

"Important mission", I said.

"Is this about that girl that went missing?", he asked.

"You mean Sage", I said while loading up the truck.

He lit up a cigarette, and looked at me.

"Why are you helping them, you know we hate the nobility." he said blowing the smoke towards my face.

"It doesn't change the fact that they also belong to the Henrico Clan, after all, Natalie's their mother.", I said, getting annoyed.

He flicked his cigarette and looked to be deep in thought.

"Need help?", he asked.

I was surprised, he never liked doing any type of job with me.

"You help me?", I said questioning him, still surprised, "Fine, but right now I have something to do." I said, and climbed into my truck.

He nodded his head and walked towards his car.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket to see the time it was 10:30pm.

I learned from Na'mah, that Carla usually shows up at home around this time.

After leaving the town's store. I drove for 30 minutes and finally arrived near Brian's home. I parked couple in front Brian's home and noticed his car wasn't there.

I noticed Brian's wife and Carla's car was in the driveway and started walking around the house. I began pouring gas all over the place and lit two cigarettes and tossed it into the gas.

The fire immediately started to spread. I walked back towards my truck and threw the containers in the back. I hopped into my truck and started to drive off.

While driving off, my phone started to ring. I looked at the phone and saw a number that wasn't saved in my contacts.

"Hello", I answered.

"Where the fuck is my daughter?" I heard Peyton's voice.

(ROSEMARY P.O.V)

I started to hear screams coming from inside of the house, it was terrifying. I placed the cover back on top of me, and contemplated on how I was going to get out of this truck without him noticing.

I was glad it was dark, because it seemed like he didn't notice the blanket had been moved.

A couple minutes had gone by, and I felt the truck had stopped moving. I moved the blanket out of my face so I could look up and peek around. As soon as I removed the cover, I heard tapping on the side of the truck.

"Did you really think I didn't notice you laying there?", I heard Yeshiva asked.

I was caught red-handed, I pulled the blanket completely off of me.

"How did you notice, it's dark outside", I asked, reaching my hand out.

"I've been a mercenary since I was 15 years old, my eyes are trained to see in the dark.", he said, grabbing my hand and lifting me up.

"So what now?", I asked.

Yeshiva picked me up and placed me down on the ground.

"I informed the Chief, and Peyton just called me, she's seriously pissed off", he said, acting like he was shivering.

"We need to find Brian", he said.

"Teach me", I said in a serious tone.

"Teach you what?"he asked, looking down at me.

"I want to become a mercenary, I'm going to find my sister whether you like it or not", I said, staring at him face to face.

Yeshiva looked at me for a second, and nodded his head.

"Are you prepared?"he asked, looking at me with a serious expression.

"Anything to get my sister back.", I said looking up at him.

"Training starts at sunrise", he said. He grabbed my hand and helped out of the truck and we walked towards the mansion.

"Go get some rest, I need to go speak with Na'mah?", he said, kissing me on the forehead.

I nodded my head, went inside and walked up the stairs, to the room.

(SAGE P.O.V)

I was still crying like a baby while hugging my mother's small frame.

"We need to hurry", the woman said.

Mom and I nodded our heads and followed behind them. The man and woman helped support us while we walked up the stairs.

"You never told me your name", I said to the man.

"Sylvester Synovial", he said

"Where are we going?", I asked.

"For now let's worry about getting out of the palace.", he stated.

I nodded my head.

Mother and I, followed behind them and we walked up a flight of stairs. I look back and realized we were in a prison underground. The woman stopped walkong and placed her hand onto the wall. I looked around and saw that we were standing in the middle of the long concrete hallway.

She push on the certain section of the wall. And pushed it harder. I noticed it was a door it was completely hidden in plain sight. She slid it to the left and looked back at mother and I.

"We can use this tunnel to get out of the palace", she said.

We climbed inside one by one.

"How do you two know about this?", I asked.

"When we were younger...", he started to say, but was interrupted by a loud siren.

"Shit we need to hurry, they found out.", the woman said.

We crawled inside, it was a narrow path, it was dark and all I could do was feel the concrete up against my body.

"Don't panic and keep moving forward.", the woman said.

"How far do we have to crawl?", I asked.

"The tunnel runs in between the dungeon and the palace training ground for the royal guards.", Sylvester said.

We continued to crawl, I was starting to lose strength in my arms.

"Can I rest for a while?", I asked while trying to regain my strength.

"Hmm we have about another mile to travel." Sylvester said, "I'll give you a 5 minute break then we have to continue without stopping.", he continued on saying.

I put my arms down and laid flat on the hard surface catching my breath, I was so exhausted.

(PEYTON'S P.O.V)

After arriving in the Sergio region. Masiro, Massey and I, were on our way to meet up with one of Prince Moises guardsman.

We pulled up into a checkpoint. One of the guards who was standing at the post walked over to the driver side of the truck.

Masiro sat in the driver seat and handed the guard a gold metal tag, I didn't know what was on it. The guard nodded his head and let us pass through the checkpoint.

"What did you show him?", I asked curiously.

"It's a mercenary tag", he said, "High ranking mercenaries can travel anywhere as long as they keep their tags on them.", he added.

I looked at my phone and received a message from one of the guardsman.

"Be careful, I heard rumors of an ambush coming.", he said in the text.

"Hey masiro, I got text saying something about an ambush.", I said to him

"Any coordinates." , He asked.

"Not yet", I said.

"Let's hurry", he said and started speeding up.

Two hours later, we arrived in front of a medium size building. It was surrounded by a couple of guards. The area was secluded, it was surrounded by a forest.

One of the guards walked up to the truck, holding up a rifle. He looked familiar and I noticed it was Dell, one of the former guards who left with the kingdom with Prince Moises.

I opened the door and got out of the truck so he could see it was me.

"Marianna", he said, lowering the rifle down to his side.

"How's Prince Moises?"I asked.

"He's asleep, he's stable for now.", he said.

He gestured for to Masiro and Massey to get out of the truck. His eyes widened, when Masiro got out of the truck.

"Masiro Henrico", he said in a shocking tone. "Why are you here?"he asked.

Masiro stepped away from the truck and shut the door. He tilted his head and smacked his teeths.

"Because your prince is the father of my granddaughters", he said without hesitation.

Dell was taken aback. "Wait, Natalie is your daughter?", he said, sounding surprised.

"Yes", Masiro said, nodding his head.

"Holy shit", Dell said, in disbelief.

Another guard came out of the building to call Dell.

"Dell sir, Prince Moises is awake.", he said, and went back inside the building.

Dell gestured his head for us to follow behind him. We entered the building, it was quite big inside to say it looked small on the outside.

We walked to a room that was full of medical equipment. Prince Moises, was sitting up and one of the guards was giving him food.

Massey stood by the door while Masiro and I walked in. Prince Moises turned his head towards me. It was like looking at the male version of Sage. She looked just like him, His long brownish hair and gray eyes, he still had a somewhat muscular frame but was a little skinny due to his time being in a coma. I bowed my head to him.

"You may rise", he said in a weak but deep voice.

I walked up to his bed and got on one knee, showing my respect.

"Who is that next to you?", he said.

I looked behind me and Masiro walked up.

"I'm Masiro Henrico, Natalie's father", he said, looking down at him.

Prince Moises started to tear up and wiped his face.

"Natalie", he mumbled, "My babies, where are my daughters?", he asked, wiping his tears with his right hand.

Masiro's face relaxed for a moment.

"They're safe, they're in my territory", he said.

Prince Moises looked up at Masiro, "I tried to rescue Natalie after she was taken. I remember being ambushed, after that my memories are hazy." he said, trying to sit up.

Masiro placed his hand on Prince Moises shoulder.

"Marianna told me your father, King Lincoln is after my granddaughters.", he said, still looking at down at him.

Masiro bent down and leaned against Prince Moises and said something in his ear. It was loud enough for us to hear.

"I need you to get your ass up out of this bed and come with me.", he said as he lifted Prince Moises body up off the bed.

The guards all pulled out their guns and swords. I stood up and tried to calm down all of them down.

"Masiro he can't move right now, he's still weak.", I shouted at him.

Masiro ignored me and started pulling all the medical equipment loose while placing Prince Moises across his shoulders.

"How dare you disrespect Prince Moises", one of the guards pointed his gun at Masiro.

Masiro didn't flinch at all and looked the guard directly in the face, and then turned his head towards me.

"I don't give a shit if he can't move. I'll move him myself.", he said and started walking in front of the guard holding the gun. I managed to calm the guard down.

"Masiro, he still needs medical attention", I said, trying to plead with him.

"He can get it in the Henrico Clan territory but his ass is coming with me", he said, still not backing down.

I sighed, knowing he wasn't going to back down.

Suddenly, Masiro phone started ringing. He looked at the phone and answered.

"Yeshiva what do you want, I'm busy at the moment", he said.

Masiro's face expression went from relaxed to full on rage. I was startled seeing how fast his facial expression had changed.

"What the fuck you mean Sage is missing", he shouted.

Hearing that sage was missing, my heart sunk and I felt like I was about to lose all reasoning.

Masiro rushed out the door holding Prince Moises on his shoulder.

I followed behind him ready to head back to the territory. Masiro kicked the room dolr open, and started walking out the building. I followed behind, and Masiro held his hand up gesturing for us to stop.

I stepped beside him and looked outside of the door.

We were surrounded by a group of men pointing guns in our direction.