Hello, everyone, I have arrived with chapter 14. I know! Four chapters in under a week. What has gotten into me? *laughs* I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Goosebumps or anything that you recognize. I only own the OCs, Jessica and Evan, and even they were an idea from retro mania, so I don't even entirely own them.

"We've been walking for hours!"

"We've only been walking for ten minutes!"

"Well, it feels like hours," Evan grumbled as the siblings continued down the tunnel, trying to ignore the pebbles that occasionally rained down on them displaying the tunnel's instability.

"It's official!" Jessica muttered. "We have no idea where we are or where we're going! We're lost!"

"You're just now figuring that out?" Evan demanded in disbelief.

Jessica sighed in exasperation. "All right. It's obvious that we're tired, stressed, and I don't even want to think about how long it's been since we ate."

"I'm not sure you could figure it out anyway, what with the messy time travel situation and the fact that we don't even remember anything before the Tower Of Terror," Evan pointed out.

Jessica nodded. "Exactly, but just because we're exhausted, hungry, and stressed out-"

"Traumatized," Evan corrected.

"That, too. Doesn't mean we can lose our heads. We're still being hunted by that creepy guy-"

"I've been calling him The Hunter."

"That works. We can't afford to fight each other when we should be figuring out how to escape him and get back to our own time," she continued.

Evan nodded. "I know, but… Jess, we don't even know where to start. We don't know where we are or how we got here. All we know is that everyone is calling us Jessabella and Edmund and the kids in the portrait look like us and someone is after us. I don't know about you, but I don't even know where to start," Evan murmured as he leaned against the wall and sunk to the floor, not meeting Jessica's eyes.

Jessica exhaled loudly through her nose, and she sat beside her brother, placing a hand on his scrawny shoulder.

"We'll figure it out, Edmund. We have to."

Evan blinked and looked up. "You think so?"

Jessica nodded, but she knew that she was lying to herself and her brother because the truth is: she didn't know. She didn't know what to do or where to go or who to ask for help. It was just her and her twelve year old brother in the Middle Ages. They were on their own, and that terrified her more than she would ever admit out loud.

"Whatever happens, Edmund, I'm right here," Jessica promised, wrapping an arm around her little brother.

Evan offered her a feeble smile. "Thanks, Bella."

"Anytime," Jessica told him before she suddenly paused, something teetering on the edge of her mind. "Bella…"

"What?" Evan inquired in confusion at the seemingly random word.

"You called me Bella."

Evan looked her in her eyes, green meeting green, bewilderment, shock, and maybe a little fear swirling together in his expression. "And you called me Edmund."

Everyone was calling them Jessabella and Edmund and now they were calling each other that. None of it made any sense. Nothing made sense anymore. Even their memories were scattered and jumbled. If they couldn't rely on their own memories… what could they rely on?

They were both thinking it, but neither wanted to say it. Saying it out loud made it real, and this… all of this… was too crazy to be real. A part of Jessica still believed this was some weird dream, and she'd wake up on the bus with their tour group any second now.

Of course, something stronger than her logic and her denial told her that no, this wasn't a dream. This was all too real. It was frighteningly real.

Jessica opened her mouth to speak, but before she could get a word out, the ground began to tremble, and a few tumbling pebbles became heavy clumps of dirt and solid rock as the two of them barely managed to stumble to their feet, holding onto each other to avoid falling from the force of the shaking.

"What's happening?" Evan yelled over the thunderous booming of shifting and falling earth.

"I don't know, but I think it's going to bring the ceiling down!" Jessica shouted, dodging a piece of debris that surely would've knocked her out had it hit her head.

"What do we do?" Evan screamed.

Do the only thing we can do, Jessica thought.

"RUN!" she replied, and she ushered her brother along, holding onto his jacket as she held him as close as she could without tripping over him. The debris continued to fall, hitting her back a couple of times, and she used her own body to protect Evan from the debris, which ranged from pebbles the size of a finger tip to boulder sized pieces of earth.

"There! Up ahead!" Jessica called, pointing to a spot of light in the ceiling, and the two of them stopped beneath it. It appeared that the quaking had shaken a piece of dirt loose, leaving a good sized hole behind.

"I'll give you a boost," Jessica informed her brother in a tone that left no room for argument, and Jessica knelt, locking her fingers into a makeshift foothold. Her brother placed his sneaker on her palms, and with as much strength as she could muster, she pushed her brother upward, allowing him to scramble out of the hole.

Jessica, much taller than her brother, kicked the wall of the tunnel until she was able to make a foothold for herself, and she nudged her sneakers into kinks in the dirt wall until she could finally reach the hole.

Jessica grabbed a hold of the grass on the surface, but just before she could pull herself up, the foothold she'd made for herself crumbled, and she found herself falling. She wanted to scream, knowing that if she fell into the tunnel, there was no way she would get back out before it collapsed on her, but her terror had stolen her breath. She made one last desperate grab for something to hold onto…

Someone grabbed her wrist.

Jessica smiled in relief, and she glanced up, blinking the dirt from her eyes.

"Thanks, Ev…" she trailed off, her smile disappearing just as quickly as it had come.

It wasn't Evan.

Standing above her, smiling sinisterly down at her terrified expression, was the The Hunter.

Theme Songs:

Overall Theme Song For The Story: Pompeii by Bastille

Jessica: Gone, Gone, Gone by Phillip Phillips

Evan: Can You Hold Me? by Britt Nicole and NF

Lucinda: Without You, Boyce Avenue Version

You'll find out more about Lucinda in chapters 16, 17, and 18, and many of your questions will be answered.

Thank you for reading. Please leave a review. I know it was kind of choppy; sorry about that.