Chapter 1.
Jasper, Alice and I had just finished the school year and Emmett and Rosalie graduated once again. Since the summer almost began, we had decided to take a huge hunting trip before our last year at Forks high. We took the hummer to the Olympic Mountains before we could take a trip to Europe.
"Race ya!" I heard Emmett yell when he took off with Rosalie hot on his heels. I shook my head amused. My other brother and sister and I went to the east instead and hunted alongside the mountain and after we each took out about three deer's we went to the north, uphill. It was about half an hour later when I smelled my favorite animal. I closed my eyes and concentrated.
About two miles ahead of me, close to a little river, I sensed the mountain lion and took off without a second thought.
I had just finished my meal when I suddenly heard Alice yell at me in her head.
'Edward! Hurry up! Emmett is missing! He just disappeared!'
I went to the west as fast as I could and followed the scents of Alice and Jasper. You see, my sister Alice can see the future, she is one of the three in the family with an extra gift. You're probably wondering since I have yet to tell about the gift of the third person. Jasper can read an manipulate emotions, while Alice can look out at our future, and I, I can read minds. Scary you might think, well, that's exactly true. I can tell you, it isn't always fun to read someone's mind, some might think some really disturbing things.
I heard two more footsteps not to far behind me when I heard Alice and Jasper talking a few feet ahead of me. I stopped in front of an cave where my sister and brother stood talking and looking inside the cave from where they stood.
'Edward, what's happening?'
"I do not know mother. Alice?"
"I saw Emmett following a bear into this cave when I suddenly couldn't see him anymore. Rosalie followed soon after. I still can't see them."
'Edward, can you hear them my son?'
I listened closely but I couldn't hear the thoughts I was looking for, I shook my head "no."
'I do not trust this, how can they just disappear? Maybe they were attacked by another vampire? No, Alice would have seen that. And I can't see anything that leads to an attack.' Jasper, still the soldier deep inside.
"I think we should all go inside together and see if something happens or maybe we can see some signs of what has happened." Carlisle looked thoughtful and nodded after a few minutes.
"I think you are right son. Please be careful all of you and be quiet, if something is in there, it must not notice us."
We all agreed and quietly went inside.
After fifteen meters it still looked like a normal cave to me, except this one went really far into the mountain. Jasper and I were in the front, closely followed by Carlisle, Esme and Alice. There seemed to becoming an end at the tunnel, but at the moment Jasper's hand touched the wall I couldn't hear his thoughts anymore and I saw him get sucked into the wall. I grasped his hand hard and tried to pull him back. "Jasper!"
A pure blackness overwhelmed me for the first time in a long, long time. I felt a strong wind and smelled the trees around me. Huh, weren't we inside a cave?
I opened my eyes with some difficulty, but when I saw my environment they stood wide open.
'What the.. where are we?'
You could think that again, I noticed my family members around me and they also looked like they have never seen this place before. I looked behind me, but I couldn't see a cave or even a mountain as a matter of fact. I wonder were we are…
"Guys! There you are, what took you so long!"
When I turned to the familiar voice I signed a bit in relief, Emmett and Rosalie were running human pace towards us. Esme gasped and pulled them both into enormous hugs.
"Where have you been, do you know how worried we were when you two disappeared!"
"Sorry mom."
"Sorry."
Rosalie looked a bit too worried if you ask me, but she answered before I could look into her mind to find out why.
"Mom, dad,… since we couldn't find a way back, we took the liberty to find out exactly were we are.. and it ain't a everyday story."
"We traveled back in time! To another era! Cool ain't it?" Emmett of course.
"What do you mean Emmett?" Dad asked.
"Well, we found this little fellow and asked him were exactly we were. He looked at us at a very strange way, looked at our clothes too…"
"Emmett!"
"Sorry. Well this fellow said we were in the neighborhood of the Old forest. The best place to spend the night would be at Bree, there's this little place called the… euh…"
"The Prancing Pony." Rosalie finished.
"I don't think it would be a good idea to go there in these clothes if their clothes look like in the Dark ages…" I said, picking up the look of the clothes from Rosalie's mind.
'You can't be serious…' I looked at Alice and saw she just came out of an vision.
She looked horror stricken.
"I can't wear that!"
"What?" Rosalie answered a bit panicked.
