CHAPTER 11

Nearly half an hour later I, August and Alex are walking through the hallway looking through every door. We went to the gym again and now they didn't seem that bad, actually not bad at all. They were so nice to me everyone introduced themselves to me but sadly I forgot most of the name within seconds. We went to the infirmary, which had colorful medicines and other weird things I didn't recognize (maybe those things were from different dimension). Then we went weaponry. There were many other doors we didn't go through but august insisted on taking me to one specific door on which 'E-15' was written.

"E-15?" I asked.

"That means earth, 15th dimension" Alex said.

"Wait, that means there are people from other planets too?"

"Yeah, well except our dimension of time mars have people living in it and surprisingly their not very different from us some of them from the gym were from mars" august said and walked through the door when I step inside I see another hallway

"Is this a joke?" I ask.

"Nope, and this is where we sleep when we're in the gathering, yours must be on the far end" Alex said pointing her hands towards the door. Far end?

"So how many dimensions of time are there in total?" I asked.

"There are 16 time dimensions now, before it was more than 20 but as time passes war and other things cause dimensions to perish" Alex said.

"So can our dimension perish?" I asked.

"Yes, that is why Lucas wants you finding that sword as soon as possible. You saw Eric right? He was attacked; warriors of our dimension have been attacked for the 5th time now" august said.

"About the throne, how is it so important?" I asked.

"Thrones are always important Charlie, especially this one. It's a really powerful position to be, you know being the ruler of warriors. That throne gives us the power to control every dimension of time. And the sword is the key to the throne. If the sword gets on the wrong hands, they can even erase dimensions from existence" August said. I felt my chest tighten; he was telling me that the fate of dimensions is in my hand. It is scary; I couldn't even handle the responsibility of taking care of Aunt Marie. How am I going to take the responsibility of dimensions? Of worlds?

"Could you at least tell me all this like a complete story and not bits and pieces now and then?" I asked.

"Trust me its better like this. Too much information at the same time isn't good for anyone" he replied. We reached the end of the hall where there was a door with my name encrypted on it with gold and black color.

"Your room" Alex said. I went inside to see the room looked exactly how I wanted it to be. It looks a bit like my room, the bed was exactly the same but there were things that I lost in the past too, the once I wanted back.

45 minutes and I was out of my room with Alex and August walking towards the meeting place. We were going to discuss what happened to Eric and what to do next. And surprisingly my wounds started healing faster since I came. nearly two hours and I've healed as much I heal in a full day. I asked august about it and he said it's because of this place. When we entered the room for the second time today along with Lucas and my parents there were six other men. I recognized one from the gym. And of course Eric was here too, I hadn't noticed how tall and lean he was. He had brown hair and green eyes. He was staring at the table deep in thought then suddenly turned to face me and smiled. I returned his smile and sat next between Alex and August, still embarrassed I was caught staring. Though I had had he looked better than he had when he came, his face no longer pale at least not as much it was.

"Eric" Lucas called him. "Please tell us what happened" he asked.

"I wanted to go for a run so I got out of my home and was running. One moment I was running alone and the next I was surrounded by some weird people; they were hiding their face so I didn't see who it was but they are really fast. They fought me, I was unarmed. They stabbed me and I'm pretty sure they're blade was covered in some kind of drug. But then they left me near a lake almost like they wanted me to escape." Eric said.

"Was this some kind of warning?"August asked Lucas.

"I'm afraid so, and I'm thinking they know about Charlie too. Because the attacks started after the death of Steve's aunt" He said.

"You mean aunt maries death was related to the me?" I asked; please don't tell me she died because someone or something was after me.

"Actually yes, you had to go to the portal and take the sword, if you had avoided going there longer the fire guarding the sword would have consumed your dimension. It was slowly coming out. Your aunt's house was closest and she was from the same bloodline." He said. My father's aunt got killed just as a warning?

"Why didn't you make me go there?" I asked mom.

"Charlie, we weren't sure if you were the one plus you could have died."

"And Aunt Marie is dead because you thought it was better to let the whole time dimension burn into cinders?" I know it wasn't right to be mad at her, I mean she never would've thought this would've happened. My mom was about to say something but I cut her of

"How is Aunt Marie's death related to the attacks?" I asked Lucas.

"If you think about it, your cousins are either too young or too old for this. The only ones who are capable would be you or August, then again august crossed the age sixteen so he would have shown a sign not that they would know that. Your mom is right we weren't sure if you were the one. You're from a royal family but there are other royal families too so we had to wait" royal? Me? Why do feel like laughing?

"If I was from a royal family and there were other royal families too then why aren't there many thrones, kings and queens?" I asked.

"The people present right now in this room are the royalties though some are not present here right now, we control over the warriors until the true king..." then he looked at me.

"Or queen who has power above the rest of us takes over the throne" he completed.

"So you never ruled before" I asked.

"Actually our ancestors did then there were these attacks, 'the dark side' people call them, started attacking us. They wanted to rule over every single dimension, so we had to join forces. And the throne was the result of it and thankfully it never was on wrong hands" he finished. Everyone was silent and was looking at me expecting me to say something I guess.

"Who are these 'dark side'? And which dimension do they live in?" I asked.

"No one has ever seen them, or maybe some did but did not live to tell the tale" dad said

"They live in the sixteenth dimension" august finished. The one thing I like about this place is they don't judge people by their age and I love it.

"So why does 'the dark' side want to attack our dimension?"

"Well because, currently every single royal family is in your dimension. And ruling over that dimension will give them a lot of power" the man from the gym said; whose name is Adam. I turned towards Lucas

"So you're from 15th dimension too?"

"Not really, I was in 18th dimension" he said.

"There is no eighteenth dimension" I said.

"There was" he looked like he did not want talk more about it so I let it drop.

I have to find the sword to save dimensions from the dark side.

"I need to find the sword" I said.

"Not I, you're not alone" Alex said.

"Plus Charlie needs training" August said to Lucas.

"Okay so who'll go with Charlie?" Lucas asked.

"I'll go, I'm her brother after all" August said.

"I'm coming too" Alex said.

"I'll go" Eric said then turned and smiled at me, to say that I was surprised is an understatement. Why? Well there are a few reasons, he's risking his life, he doesn't even know me, he just got stabbed a few hours ago and he's ready to help me.

I know it's a dangerous for us and didn't want them to get hurt but tiny part of me was glad that they'll be coming.

"Do you have any idea where we should start? And when?" I asked.

"You'll need to train before going Charlie" dad said.

"And for where, I think I know the place" Adams said worriedly glancing at Lucas then me.