A Twist in Time

Chapter 1: So begins the Twisted Tale of the Twins of Time...
On the date of January 6, 2012, two young twin boys, Garman and Chast, were bored. They had just come home from a snowball fight at the park. They lived on Tortuga in Haiti, ever since their Mother moved the whole family because she worked for the Red Cross foundation and had volunteered to help the locals after the huge earthquake. It was odd to have snowfall, because Haiti is usually very hot and humid, and barely ever recieved snow. Garman was brushing off the snow when Chast pulled a snowball out of his pocket. Garman suddenly started to back away, but then Chast brushed away some of the snow, which then revealed a red ruby, old, yet in beautiful condition. "What is that?" asked a suspicious yet curious Garman, eyeing the ruby. "I don't know, I found it lying in the snow." said Chast, also curious like his twin. At this same time, two things were happening at entirely different places and one at an entirely different time. A young man named Bill was looking around for a certain item. In fact, it was the same item Chast held in his hand as we speak. "This is what I get for traveling time in a rush. Now I may never see anyone else I know from the 1700s ever again." Bill said, concerned about his Ruby. He had already dug around and made many crater-like holes in the snow, all from digging around. That's when Bill noticed footprints. They looked about the size of a teen's, and there were tracks side by side and what seemed like many small lumps of what used to be snowballs by a scatter in the tracks. The tracks were soon straight and he had figured out that they both lead to one area. As he followed the tracks and Garman and Chast were still examining the ruby, a fight was taking place in the year 1744. Lord Maxamillion was practicing sword-to-sword combat, angry about almost being forced to resign due to the amount of hatred he was recieving from other lords. He then became so angry that when he was dueling, he accidentally stabbed the man. He was escorted away to be attended to, and another man replaced him, sweating. "Do you reckon you should take a break, sir?" said the man that replaced the injured trainer, very scared, trembling and covered in sweat. "That's the sixth man you've taken out today, Lord Maxamillion." "No, not until I'm completely deprived of my rage." "Please, my lord." "Ugh, fine." Said Maxamillion in a very annoyed tone. At that moment, it was a rush. Chast and Garman were both holding the ruby when one of them said,"This looks so beautiful. It must be worth so much. I wish I could see where this came from." Garman took it and put it in his pocket. They decided to make lunch. When they were eating, Garman choked on his food. He made a bit of weird sounds and sputtered out bits of words. "Ca- he- arr- gah!- deh- jur- he-he-help!" Chast has already noticed he was choking and was already punching him in the stomach. They both let out a sigh of relief. Then Garman's pocket began to glow. Garman pulled out the ruby, and Garman noticed the glowing on and off was getting quicker. And quicker, and quicker. At this point, Chast put his hand on the ruby to feel it. It felt like it was vibrating. And then the world twisted, turned, flipped and flopped, and even flattened and lengthened until it was straight again.

Chast and Garman were standing in the middle of a shack. An old shack of dark grayish colors. They were still both holding onto the ruby, and were both wearing their snow clothes. Chast let go at the same time Garman did, and they screamed in unison. They looked at each other, and then at themselves. They were still the same, exactly as they were, except their snow boots were both burnt on the bottom. They only had seconds to look at their snow boots before hearing rustling in the house. They both turned around to find a rat, foam eminating from its mouth continuously, assuring to them it had rabies. They quickly ran for the door as the rat chased after them, and they ended up on sand when they ran out of the shack. "Sand?" Chast said questioningly, as he looked down. It had just been Winter, and now it was the middle of Summer.

They both looked around, but each immediately started sweating. It was so hot, and they were dressed for the snow. Garman tore off his coat, burnt boots, gloves, and hat, then rolled up his sleeves. Chast seemed to copy him as he went along, except when he was done, he hid their snow clothes behind a bush. They walked, and looked around, trying to figure out where they were, but then they say the sign. The sign said,"Welcome to Tortuga" in chipped paint and was very hard to read. They spent about ten minutes trying to figure out what it said, but they soon understood the sign, and were very confused. "If this is Tortuga, why isn' it snowing?" said Chast aloud. "Yeah, and why did we go from being wet and soggy to dry and hot within a matter of seconds?" Garman said. And then, it hit them. Garman had said he wanted to know where the ruby came from. He must've somehow made it teleport them to its rightful home, where it was created and found. But where was that? An alternate universe? The past? The future? Or were they put into some kind of simulation. They then saw a man walking by them. He looked odd. He was skinny and wearing rags. He had a large white beard and a cap atop his head. "Excuse me, sir, what is the year?" Asked Chast. "Blimey! Where've ya been, lad? The year's 1744!"

They were both horrified at the thought of living in the 1700s. No cars. No computers. No cheeseburgers. But the worst of all, no iPods. That's when they noticed. They had traveled back in time. The world's two most dumbest teens had gone back to the 1700s, all because of a crystal. And then, it hit them again. They needed that crystal, it could be their only way back home. They ran to the shack to find the rat gone, but a man investigating the ruby. They took it from him and ran. They ran all the way to a bar called, "The King's Arm." Its sounded interesting.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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