Chapter 1 We find out that our parents are missing
Beverly Hills Feb 15th,2023
Hi my name is Iris and My family is a time-traveler I did not know till I turned eighteen years old.
That is when my parents, if changed, can change the course of history and the world as we know it to be.
"Mom, where are you?" I said, looking around underneath a flight of stairs.
"No reply at all, that is weird." said Chris walking into the cabernet underneath the stairs.
"Where could they have gone to?" I asked, looking up at my brother.
"That's a fantastic question you asked. I do not know the right answer to that, "said Chris as he nodded his head.
"Can you call the others here? We need to figure this out." I asked, looking up at my brother.
Chris left to go call the others.
"Where did you go, mom and dad? I will find you." I asked, still looking at my brother with a sad look on my face.
"I called them where they will arrive soon," Chris said, as he smiled down at his sister.
"I am glad to hear that is fantastic news. Let us wait for them. " I said, smiling up at my brother.
"Will we wait for everyone to arrive? Let's bring all this stuff into the living room." Said Chris, lifting a few boxes out of the cabinet under the stars.
"I have an idea, and it will help us see how much stuff is here," I said, getting up out of the cabinet.
"That is the doorbell." Said Chris, walking towards the front door.
As I looked around the room. The sound of the doorbell echoed through the house as it went ding dong.
"That is the doorbell I'll get. " Said Chris, walking towards the front door.
"Hey, Chris, what is happening, man." said Blake as the front door swung open.
"Come inside and see for yourself." said Chris, pointing his head towards the living room.
"Do you want something to drink?" I said, looking over at Blake.
"Water is fine with me," said Blake.
I went into the kitchen and got a glass of water.
"What is this stuff?" asked Blake, looking at everything on the table.
"That is what we are trying to find out." said Chris, as he walked into the living room.
Ding dong
"I will get it." I said, walking towards the front door. After handing the glass of water to Blake.
"Chris told us to be over here as soon as possible." said Claire, as she walked into the house.
"Come on in, do you want anything to drink? I said.
"Water is fine," said Claire, as she walked into the living room.
I went back into the kitchen.
"What is all this stuff?" asked Grace as she looked at the stuff that was piled up on the living room table.
"As I told Blake that it went, we want to find out." said Chris, as he shook his head back and forth.
"Who are we waiting on now?" asked Blake, as he looked around the room.
"Kyle and Sydney. That is it." said Chris as he sat down on a couch.
"Here are your waters," I said, handing Claire and Grace glasses of water.
Ding dong
"I will get it this time." said Chris, as he got up from the couch and moved towards the front door.
"Are we the last ones here?" asked Kyle as he walked into the entryway.
"Yes, you are now coming in so that we can figure this out." said Chris, as he turned back towards the living room.
"What the heck is this stuff?" asked Sydney, looking at the stuff that was on the living room table.
"Looks to me like things from history." said Kyle, as he picked up some papers on the living room table.
"What is the next step?" asked Chris, looking around at the rest of the group.
Chris hands a piece of paper that is ancient to the group.
"What is this piece of paper?" asked Grace, as she looked at the piece of paper. Then handing it to Blake.
"What the heck your parents are trapped in time?" asked Blake, looking at the piece of paper, with wide eyes.
"Yep, we need to find out when so that we can get them out of there." I said, walking into the living room.
"There is some weird writing on one of the pieces of paper." said Sydney, as she looked at the piece of paper in her hand.
"Though it looks hieroglyphic." said Grace as she looked around at the group.
"Yes, you are right, and that one looks like Latin." Said Kyle.
"The paper over here looks French." said Claire, picking up another piece of paper.
"There are two pieces of paper, one has Nordic writing, and the other has Gallic." said Chris, as he picked up two pieces of paper.
"The question is when and where are your parents trapped." said Sydney, as she looked around the living room.
"Well, we have to start somewhere, how about France." said Grace.
"That might be a good Idea." said Chris as he nodded in affirmation.
"What is the time that it says?" Asked Kyle, looking over at Chris.
"The French Revolution." I said, as I grabbed the paper from Chris.
"In any time period, it had to be the French revolution." said Blake as he looked up at the ceiling.
"Why is that a bad thing?" asked Grace, as she looked over at Blake.
"Yes, it is where my ancestor is." said Blake, as he lowered his head towards the living room table.
"Who is your ancestor?" I asked, looking over at Blake.
"Napoleon is my ancestor." said Blake, putting his head in his hands.
"I wonder if all of us are going to have ancestors somewhere here?" asked Sydney as she scratched her head.
"That is a good question. One way to find out." I said.
"So, we know where we are going first but the question is how." said Chris, as he looked around at the group.
"Let us see if there are any clothes from that period." said Claire, as she looked around the group.
"Ok, let's look." I said, getting up from the couch.
The group got up and looked for some clothes.
"Hey, you lot I found something." said Chris, yelling from somewhere in the house.
"We are heading right to you." said Blake, walking in the direction of Chris's voice.
"What is this place?" asked Sydney, as she looked around the room of clothes.
"It looks like a staging area for something." I said, looking around the room with clothes in it.
"Hey, look there are clothes," said Chris.
"Looks to me like there are clothes for every era that humanity was around." I said.
"Yes, and all sorted into what era they are from." said Claire.
"So it should be simple to find the era that the French revolution was in?" asked Kyle, looking over at the rest of the group.
"Yep, right here," said Chris.
"It also looks like each era is also split into sections." I said.
"Yep, and look there is the French revolution," said Claire.
"Good find now what is the next step." said Chris.
"Try the clothes on and see what you like." I said, picking up some clothes from the female rack.
"Great, I love trying on clothes." said Chris, as he lifted his hands.
"You don't need to be a Debbie downer." said Blake, as he shook his head back and forth.
"Ya, we all need to do this." said Kyle as he grabbed another set of clothes from the male rack.
"Looks like there are changing rooms in the back." I said, point at a broken down, changing room.
"You boys go into that changing room. Will the girls go to this changing room?" asked Sydney.
"See you back in the living room when done." said Chris.
"See you." I said, walking into the changing room.
They all went into the changing rooms.
One Hour later.
"So we are done first?" asked Chris.
"Well, yes, because the dresses back then took some time to get done." said Blake, as he looked over at Chris.
"Ya, that is true," said Kyle as he nodded his head in affirmation.
"Oh, looks like they are done." said Chris, looking over in the living's direction room entryway.
"We are done too." I said, walking into the living room.
"Good, now it's the question of how do we get there." said Blake singing out loud, so that everyone could hear.
"Well, how do time travelers on tv and movies time travel?" asked Claire, as she sat down on a chair.
"They use a time machine" I said, as I sat down on the couch.
"Bingo, so we just need to find a time machine." said Claire, smiling at the rest of the group.
"That is easier said then done," said Sydney.
"Yes, even more so, since we do not know what it looks like," said Blake.
"True, we do not know what it looks like at all." I said.
'Do you want to look for the time machine that your parents used to travel through time?" asked Kyle, as he looked over at both Chris and I.
"Yes, but where do we look?" asked Chris, as he looked around at the group.
"Hmm. Let us start at the top of the house, and work our way to the bottom." said Claire, as she picked up one of the pieces of paper.
"That makes sense to do that." I said.
"So we head to the top," said Sydney.
"Come on, you lot. Time is a waste that we could find Chris and Iris's parents." said Grace.
"Indeed, since we do not know if they are running out of time or not." said Chris trying to think about what to do.
At the top of the house
"So, do we look up here?" asked Sydney, looking around the attic.
"Yes, we start with the attic and work our way down to the basement." Said Blake, smiling at the rest of the group that was gathered there.
"But the attic is creepy." said Claire, as she tried to sneak away slowly.
"Claire, take a deep breath and try to relax," said Grace, as she looked over at her sister.
"Ok I will try to relax, but no promises." said Claire, as she took deep breaths.
"Claire, no one said you needed to promise anything." said Kyle, smiling over at Claire.
"Oh. Sorry I forgot." said Claire, as she smiled with embarrassment.
"Let us split up into one team of four and the other a team of three." said Chris, as he clapped his hands together.
"The question is how are we going to split into groups?" asked Grace, as she looked around at the group that was gathered in the area.
"We can draw sticks that have a color on the top of it." said Blake, looking to see where some sticks were.
Taking a bunch of sticks with two colors on the end and a cup from his bag.
"Blake, that is a weird thing to be keeping in your bag." said Kyle, as he looked over at Blake.
"Hey, it is not the weirdest thing that I heard that could be in a bag." said Blake, with a defensive voice coming from his mouth.
"We hear you now, can we see what group we are in." I said, looking over at Blake.
"Oh right sorry," said Blake.
They draw the sticks. The two groups were. Blake, me, Grace, and Sydney were in one group. Kyle, Chris, and Claire in the other.
"Now that we know the groups let us find this time machine." I said, as I looked around at everyone else.
"Indeed, let us go," said Sydney.
The two groups went off in different directions.
"Iris, what is that?" asked Blake, as he pointed at something.
Looking at what looks like a big cylindrical object.
"Let us see what that is." I said.
Grabbing the sheet that was covering the object. I pulled the sheet off the object.
"This looks like a time-traveling device," said Sydney.
"Tell the other group we found the time travel device," said Grace.
"Good idea. Hey, you lot get your butt over here." said Blake.
"We are on our way." said Chris.
"So this is the time-traveling device," said Claire.
"At least that is what I think it is," said Blake.
"Looks like it is fried or something," said Kyle.
"Indeed, but the question is where." said Blake.
"One way to find out was. That is to look around for this thing." I said.
"You have a point of iris. Let us get to work. This machine will not fix itself." said Sydney.
"Thanks, Syd. That said, we need to go as soon as possible." I said, as I looked over at where Sydney was standing.
The group got to work fixing the time machine. It took them away into the night.
"Jeez it is getting late," said Kyle.
"We are almost done. I am surprised that it was this easy to fix." said Blake.
"Stop your whining, it is not helping the problem at hand." said Kyle.
"We are done. Now, before we go, we need to set the time that we are going to." I said.
"The time is the French Revolution. Which happened between May 5th, 1789- Nov 9th, 1799." said Chris.
"We just need one date," said Iris.
"How about February 10th, 1799." said Blake, as he looked around at the rest of the group.
"So the near the end of the French Revolution." I said, putting my hand on my chin.
"Yep, and we are looking for clues to the whereabouts of your parents." said Grace.
Everyone looked at Grace. We know that Grace.
"Sorry my bad." said Grace as she put her hands over her head.
"We should probably check to see if there is a translation thing somewhere on this machine first." I said, looking around the group.
"So that we can understand what the people there are saying." said Iris, looking over at the rest of the people in the group.
"Good idea Iris. I think I see something over on that wall." said Chris, as he looked over at his sister.
"Is it the thing that we are looking for?" asked Grace, as she looked around at the others.
"The translation thingy." said Kyle, looking into the time machine.
"Yes, that thing." I said, shaking my head in Kyle's direction.
"I will go see what is on that. It looks like it is in the Nordic era right now." said Sydney, looking over at everyone that was gathered around the time machine.
"Do you know what time to set it to?" asked Chris, as he walked into the time machine.
"Yes, I know. It is February 10th, 1799. All ready." said Sydney.
Sydney put in the last number and walked back to the group.
"Everyone go steps on a dot facing one another." Said Chris, pointing to dots on the ground of the time–machine.
The rest of the group went up into the time machine. Faced with one another.
"Everyone ready?" said Chris.
"Yes." I said, looking over at my brother.
"Yes." said Blake, looking over at Chris, as he rolled his eyes.
"Ok. 1, two, and three." said Chris, counting up.
Pulling the lever on the wall beside him. The time machine turned on.
"What the heck is happening to us." said Claire looking around at everyone standing around the circle.
One by one each person in the chamber disappeared.
"Ahh."I screamed at the top of my lungs.
I landed in a bed of some kind.
"Ow my head were are the others?" I asked, looking around at the room.
Looking around. I spotted Sydney right next to me.
"Syd, it is time to get up." I said.
"Iris, is that you? Ow my head." said Sydney.
"Yes, it is me. Now we need to find the others." I said.
Both I and Sydney got up and moved to the door on the other side of the room.Just then. Bang the door flew open.