Chapter 1: Over Dinner
I'm the eighth Hargreaves sibling. On the day my brother 5 attempts to time travel, I go with him. A stupid mistake sends us both into the Apocalypse. Trapped.
I'm sitting eating lunch at my father's ridiculous dining room table. Suddenly my brother number 5, stabs a knife into the table. Father looks up. "Number Five?" "I have a question". My other seven siblings and I knew this wasn't out of ordinary for Five to do, so we went on eating our lunch as though nothing was happening. Father responds looking a bit on edge, "knowledge is an admirable goal, but you know the rules. No talking during mealtime". I looked at 5, but he seems seriously dissatisfied with Fathers answer. "I want to time travel". Without hesitation Father responds "No". Like the rest of my siblings I wanted him to drop it. No one wants to be punished on a day that didn't seem to be as hectic as normal. "But I'm ready, ive been practicing my special jumps, like you said" "A special jump is trivial when compared with the unknows of time travel". Five doesn't give up and after a while of bickering over the table Father states, "Now I forbid you to talk about this anymore".
Five storms out of the dining room without being excused. Me and my sister, number 7 take a worried glance at each other wondering which one of us will have to deal with 5's horrid behavior. But on a whim, I jump from my chair and run in hopes of catching 5 before its too late. As I run through the beautifully marbled floors, dodge columns left and right and take a longing stare at mother I hear father in the distance, "You two haven't been excused." I hear but don't care and run until I'm outside. I begin sprinting as fast as I can to catch up with 5, but then I remembered I can fly. So, I then use my levitation powers to catch up with him. "What are you doing idiot" He ignores me. I didn't want to lose him again, so I grab his arm tightly but before he notices we both appear in the same spot but before felt different. It was winter last time I blinked but now it appeared that the sun was out, there were trees with leaves and people in shorts rather than their winter coats. He still doesn't notice and jumps again, now we are in the same spot but winter again. "Five! Stop this". He finally looks at his arm and sees me gripping it for dear life. "Luna, what are you doing here?" "I chased you when you left, I needed to stop you before things got too out of hand, can we please go back to the academy, father is waiting on us." He scoffs back at me. "No way! I'm not even halfway where I want to go. Ill show him who's ready for time travel". My brother is extremely stubborn and whenever he gets into this mood, I'm constantly the one trying to bring him back to reality. I hear him muttering under his breath nasty words towards dad, and while we may all think them, saying them seems much more extreme. I try to protest about his obscure ideas but before I can 5 grabs my hand and jumps again.
This time its different. There's fire and ash everywhere. Everything that once was there had been burned to the ground and denigrated. I turn my head slowly towards 5. "You are a jerk! Take us back now before i make sure you never time travel again!". As I'm turning to face him, I see him digging in piles of the rubbish that had been destroyed. There's tears flowing down 5's cheeks. We see our family, dead lying in the broken pieces of what use to be the umbrella academy. "You can't be serious right now! Take me back now!". He grabs my hand and tries to jump back in time to where we were, but his powers weren't working. "Come on come on" He tries again, to no avail. "Idiot" I say.