Heroes of the Past and Present

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Chapter 19 (Dangers of Future Technology)

Trina stretched and pulled her blankets up to her chin, sighing in contentment as she began to stir awake. She hadn't realized she fell asleep, but it had been one of the more peaceful sleeps she'd had in years. The bed was warm and inviting, the blankets were soft and light on her body, it felt as though she were sleeping on a cloud. As she opened her eyes, she saw her cell phone sitting on the end table beside her.

Slowly she sat up, moving her hand to her forehead. How long had she been out? She was alert and ready to move, but her body was still sluggish from the nap. Knowing the phone's clock worked, she grabbed at it and glanced to the time in the corner. "Okay, nearly two hours…" A yawn drifted from her lips and her body started to fall back onto the bed. "I don't want to get up. I'll close my eyes, open them and be back home…"

Growing up in her teenage years, she always said she wanted to be born in an earlier time, a predated era, but now she was just homesick for her proper time. Jade's parting words filled her mind and beckoned her to further consider Tori's friends as legitimately attempting to better themselves. Maybe Jade was genuine, which came to her as the greatest shock, but she wasn't convinced the others would or could change their ways.

Jade, at least, acknowledged she wasn't perfect. Trina would challenge the others to even remotely consider it a possibility that they weren't perfect in every way, thereby making them a bunch of shallow egomaniacs without a prayer.

She grabbed the pillow and brought it over her face, dropping her phone beside her. "I don't want to be here. I want to be in my own room…" Too much to ask for, perhaps? According to the dream she had while napping, it was.

In the dream, she awoke as her ancestor, trapped in a case of some sort and unable to move anything but her eyes. She could see everything around her, and tried to scream in hopes of getting someone's attention. Instead, all she could see was a candlelit room, with smaller candles surrounding her like some strange shrine, and a man gazing at her with a disturbing expression on his face. She felt vulnerable, and hated every second of it.

The images remained in her mind like a collage, a slideshow playing over and over again, reminding her why she wanted to go home.

Her phone's ringtone blared into her ear, startling her and causing her to fly from the bed screaming. She spun around and stared down at the glowing object with wide eyes. "How in the hell?" She now recalled that before she'd taken her nap, she hadn't even touched her phone, it had been on the desk. Jade mentioned the others wanting to try something with their phones. Had they managed to enchant them, or whatever it was they were planning?

She hesitated for a split second before grabbing the phone and striking the answer button. To her surprise, it was Tori. "Trina, did I wake you? I'm sorry, we wanted to test something."

"Wake? No. Scare the living shit out of me? Yes. What the hell did you do to my phone? How in the hell is it working?"

"Magic! Come out of the room and I'll tell you all about it." Her eyes flew skyward. Never before did she think 'magic' would be a serious or believable answer to anything. Not to mention, how many times had she told Tori not to touch her stuff? "Come on!"

"Fine, fine…" She cut off the call and stared at the cell, still in utter shock and disbelief. She left the room and made her way downstairs where the rest of Tori's friends, as well as Sinjin, were waiting for her. She showed them her phone and narrowed her eyes. "Okay, what's the big idea?" Their phones were piled together, with the servants of the mansion staring at them. Sandal, the dwarf boy, seemed insanely proud.

"Trina!" Tori jumped over excitedly and hugged her. Her sister continued to laugh as she stepped back and held out her own phone. "Okay so we were trying to figure out how to possibly make our phones work when Sandal had a way to help us enchant the batteries in the phone. Now, obviously we can only contact each other in this time line, and any phone that we have enchanted…and only for five to ten minutes at length each time. It'll stay enchanted for as long as we want, but now we have a way to contact one another!"

It was amazing, she could find use for it. Though, she didn't need her phone for much, it was still important to her that she have a swifter way of contacting Sinjin or Tori. "I can see the use…but I guess we better not let anyone out there catch us using them. Could spell trouble."

"Probably…" With how it seemed Templars were dealing with Mages, it would be far too risky to let it slip up. Not to mention what would happen if someone tried to reach the other person in the middle of Hightown!

"I think if anyone needs to contact someone, it's best everyone have their phone on vibrate and go somewhere private to respond. Phones aren't very normal here, in case you haven't noticed."

"That's a very good point." She also felt it would be good to let the ancestors in on this, though they probably wouldn't know what to do with it. "It took us an hour and a half to figure out how to get these things working, so let's make sure we take care of them."

Trina pushed her phone into her pocket. It was far too risky to have it around, but it would surely help in cases of emergency. A familiar chime played in her ears, and all eyes moved to Cat, who was giggling over a playlist on her phone. Thinking fast, Jade swiped it away. "Okay, Cat, you don't get the phone."

The redhead gasped and reached for the phone, whining when Jade refused to hand it over. "What? Why!"

"I don't think you can be responsible enough not to use it."

"She's right Cat," Trina folded her arms over as the girl pouted at her. "It's too dangers, and you have a tendency to act without thinking. What's going to happen if you're in the middle of a group of people in this timeline, not just the Templars, and you decide to start playing out something like Free Bird on your phone?"

"I could…I don't know, make them dance with me?" Cat had an innocent look in her eyes. Robbie shook his head and Trina took the phone from Jade. "Aw but Trina…"

"These are for emergency use only, Cat. No calling each other unless absolutely necessary, and under no circumstances should you play music on your phone." Cat's shoulders fell. Tori rubbed her chin and tugged back her lips.

"Only the calling and the text messaging should work, but I guess it let's you play music you might have already downloaded on the phone. That can be a problem for someone who really wants to listen to it."

"It's okay if they take my phone away," Cat grabbed her phone and squealed happily. "I have another phone back home! A backup." Trina raised an eyebrow and began moving for the front door, the others followed her. She had to show Cat that it wasn't the phone she was concerned about. She grabbed Cat's phone away, causing the girl to squeal out once more. When she opened the door, she saw the merchant, Hubert, that the ancestors told her about, passing them by.

Hubert was a jackass that owned a mine he roped Sarah into helping him with. He didn't care a bit for the workers there, and didn't even say his respects when a giant dragon destroyed the mine and killed all the workers. He deserved to go into jail.

"Okay then, Cat. Since you apparently have a backup…" The others paled when she walked up behind the man, without him realizing it. She placed the phone in the brown bag at his waist, and returned to her house after making sure nobody saw anything. The others covered their mouth and watched as Trina pulled her own phone out, dialed Cat's number, and smirked.

"No! My phone!"

"I'm not worried about the phone, Cat, and neither should you be. What's about to happen…is what I would rather not happen to any of you. As much as I may not like you, I don't want shit to go down." Cat's phone blasted out in Hubert's sack, causing him to freeze and scream. A look of terror spread across his face and several people surrounded him, three of which were Templars.

The others watched in silence as the people threw him onto the ground and searched his pack, pulling out the ringing phone. Trina closed her eyes and turned away in time to see one of the Templars crush the phone on the ground and order Hubert taken away for investigation.

"He is a criminal, dealing in acts of terror against people all the way up to essentially destroying a mine. Aveline said she has received numerous reports of him, and now he will be investigated. First and foremost, however…" She pointed outside and all eyes fell onto Hubert's descending figure. "That will happen to anyone whose phone goes off in the middle of a crowded place in this city. So avoid it."

With that, everyone removed their phones and put them on silent, ensuring that it would not make any noise whatsoever. Though Cat still seemed to mourn the loss of her phone, staring with wide eyes and pouting her lower lip. "My phone…"

"You have another back home, you said. Deal with it. I'm pretty sure all of you have just about everything you could ever want, including a fine assortment of phone. You don't need to worry, especially since you don't need a phone in this time."

"And you don't have multiple phones?" Andre questioned, raising an eyebrow. Sinjin shot him a glare and Trina shook her head.

"I only have one phone, only need one, and that's it. Besides, I'm not some spoiled brat who has a dad buy her every little thing under the sun."

"You realize you don't know us, right?"

"Andre, enough!" Jade barked, surprising Trina yet again. Andre flinched as Jade's fiery glare fell onto him. "I think she got a pretty good idea with how she's been treated, don't you think? It's the other way around, in case you've forgotten. We don't know anything about her…"

"Yeah…" He rubbed the back of his neck and bowed his head. "I'm sorry, I don't know why I said that, I just…I wasn't thinking…"

Tori crossed her arms and looked down upon the seemingly-shrinking man. Trina's eyebrow arched up and a sudden peace descended upon her where normally she would become angered. Was it because someone else was doing the fighting back for her? "Andre. You guys say you want to get to know my sister, to be friends with her, and yet you still want to pick at her? Come on, get with it. I already told you if to start respecting her."

Trina lifted a hand and stepped in front of Andre, "Tori, Jade, it's fine." She met his gaze, still searching herself for some sort of anger that she could unleash onto him, but there was nothing. Instead, she could only speak calmly. "I'll give you that one, I'm sorry Andre. You're right, I shouldn't presume and judge you to be someone when I may not know the real you. The truth of the matter is, I don't know who you are. I don't know who any of you are, all I have are the impressions of you that you've given to me…and that is someone who has treated me so harshly over however many years it's been. So you'll have to excuse me if I may have a dislike for you…I have a good reason. So I'm sorry if I rub you the wrong way, it is something I am dealing with. Give me time, and maybe I'll change my mind about you and your friends. Got it?"

"Y-Yeah…Sorry…"

"Good."

As the tension in the air subsided, the ancestors came into the estate. It was Aveline, Merrill, and Varric that showed up this time around. "Did you guys know Hubert just got dragged away after a 'strange object' let out a loud sound just minutes ago?" Aveline asked, staring at the group with a sly, knowing look. Trina chuckled nervously as the rest of the group glared at her, they knew they were in trouble now. "I received a description matching what looked similar to those strange talking devices you all have that you call phones."

"She got rid of my phone!" Cat cried out, "It wasn't fair."

"Okay…future devices, not sure how you got them working here, but you may as well explain…after that, we have some serious work to do."

Of course, this was going to be one hell of a long explanation.

The have enchanted the phones, but can only make short calls to one another or send a text, which may take a while to be received. Not the most helpful, but still it'll help them reach one another faster.