IM SO SORRY TO MY READERS (WHO HAVE PROBABLY FORGOTTEN THIS STORY) IM SORRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY... *SOB*


"Isra! Come here!" A voice shouted through the thick bamboo forest.

"Mother?" Isra crashed through the thicket with Lee following behind. "Mother, was that you?" Isra and Lee squeezed past the bamboo with ease and reached a garden.

"Isra, my cute panda! There you are, aru~!" A gentle faced woman with a black ponytail smiled kindly and spread out her arms. "Come here~!"

"Mothe-?"

"Mother!" A small girl with buns in her hair came sprinting down the pebbled pathway. "I found a butterfly!" She opened up her cupped hands and a white winged butterfly flew out.

The woman bent down to the child's height and examined it.

"How beautiful, aru~…"

"Mother?" Isra walked forward hesitantly on the garden path. The woman and the little girl took no notice and kept complimenting the butterfly.

"I think we time traveled, right?" Lee assumed. "That's what Courtney was talking about."

"Why does magic have to be so confusing!" Isra sighed. "Wait, is that me?" She pointed to the little girl "Can they even see me?

Lee looked back at the garden and bamboo thicket.

"I don't think so because we made, like, no tracks even as we ran over here…"

"My sunflower! Wang… Isra…" A tall man walked into the garden and placed a hand on the woman's, Wang's, shoulder. He offered her a few sunflowers. "I'm back."

"Ivan!" "Papa!" Wang smiled and hugged Ivan as younger Isra grabbed his leg.

"Papa! Father! Did you get me anything? Didja?" Younger Isra begged.

"Yes, I did." Ivan reached into his pocket and pulled out a heart shaped necklace.

"Oh! It's so pretty!" Younger Isra stared at it.

"It's supposed to be enchanted…" Ivan started. "I got it on a… trip to Europe." Ivan smiled and handed it to Younger Isra.

Present Isra touched her neck where the heart necklace lay.

"It once belonged to the Queen of the Seas," Ivan continued, "who was deeply in love with a pirate. She had three other necklaces but I managed to find the most beautiful. Did I say it had a protection spell on it? Always wear it Isra." Younger Isra giggled and slipped it over her head.

Present Isra gasped and was suddenly swept into a whirl wind along with Lee as they left the past behind.


[Eileen and Mr. Puffin, Time Passengers, 3rd Class]

Eileen and Mr. Puffin floated along her kingdom's sailing vessel as it gliding smoothly across the cold, frigid waters.

Courtney had explained to them that they needed to see what had happened to her kingdom's crew during the exploration that they never came back from.

Her brother, the King of their small kingdom, Lukas, was in search of a treasure that could allow them to pay back a war debt to a much larger, stronger nation.

'Alice's Treasure,' Eileen thought to herself. While she was on the French ship, she learned that other, scarier people were after it, too, but for much more horrible reasons. The French, British, Spanish, Prussians, Russians, along with themselves were all after the largest treasure out there.

Eileen calmly drifted down on to boat, aware that none of the crew could see or hear her, even if she did recognize a few scholars and crew members aboard the ship.

"We've got to stop or we might run ashore!" Eileen recognized Mathias, a friend of her brother's, shout.

The boat soon slowed to a stop and Eileen felt her stomach flip over as nervousness from how close she was to solving how the ship disappeared and being over whelmed with familiar faces.

The crew lowered a few smaller boats down into the water and Eileen followed them down and out onto an island.

"I hope this is it," Tino, another crewmember Eileen remembered from the castle said to Berwald, one of Lukas' old personal guards. "We've been searching too long…"

They landed without another word other than low whispering.

After about two hours of searching, Mathias announced that he had found something deep in the forest. Everyone, including Eileen and Mr. Puffin, followed him into a hidden cave.

The cavern opened up and a dab of skylight shone through the top and dappled the sides. As the crew members wondered inside, birds flew up into the open air. The center of the cave was marked with an above-ground circle and a few mysterious symbols.

A figure appeared suddenly in front of them, who Eileen recognized as Courtney. She didn't really look any different, with her cold stare and her black glasses, but she was wearing a blue dress this time, with some frills and everything. Something was strung around her neck, like jewelry, but on closer inspection, she was wearing a pocket watch as if it were a necklace.

"Why are you here?" she narrowed her eyes at the group. "What do you want?"

Mathias was first to speak.

"Do you know where we could find Alice's treasure?" he said in confidence.

Courtney gave him a level look but didn't move.

"You're not the one I need," she finally said. "Your cause is fair, but unfortunately for you… not good enough."

Mathias opened his mouth to speak, but closed it when he realized he had no idea how to respond.

"… and unfortunately for you…" Courtney started again. "Chloe doesn't care how pure the motives are. She uses the curses in order and your 12th. Sorry."

The cave was filled with a blinding red, eerie light and a few screams and gasps echoed in and out of the cavern. Once it faded away, Eileen found Mr. Puffin, Courtney, and herself, standing alone in the emptied cave.

Eileen felt her face pale. Mathias and the rest were gone in a flash and that was simply all there was to it. No perishing death, no survivors, no chances. Just gone.

Courtney looked straight at Eileen and her brown eyes flashed blue for a second.

"So I need to find you. The others will be more difficult…" She mumbled to herself. Then, she became harder to see and Eileen couldn't tell if she were the one fading away or if Courtney was slowly disappearing.


I'M SO SORRY THAT THIS STORY IS SO CONFUSING WITH ALL IT'S WEIRD TIME SHENANIGANS AND STUFF AND I'M SORRY I DIDN'T UPDATE AND I'M SORRY IF YOU DON'T LIKE OC'S...