Trapped in the Consequence of Time

Inside info - Amber

Scorpius thundered past me and ran up the stairs looking depressed as hell as I emerged from the sitting room Coral and Rye were still sitting down on one of the settees watching Aquila, who had the misfortune to be standing next to the wall when it exploded and had a nasty gnash on her forehead, on the other. I stared suspiciously after him for a few seconds wondering if I should go and see what's wrong when Orion poked his head out of the door to the training room looking worried but broke out into a relived grin.

"Amber! We need your help/medical assistance/basic first aid skills whatever." I glanced up the stairs again before following him into the training room, considering that it had just housed a battle which involved a wall falling down it looked spotless and, if possible even cleaner than usual.

All this was swept from my mind however when I caught sight of everybody on the floor I was ready to kick Orion, I would not be needing basic first aid skills for this. Lilly was nursing her right angle while sitting at an unconscious James' head; Rose was covered in tiny scratches and was bleeding heavily from her left arm while holding Al into a sitting position with her right and Al! Oh my gods, Al was completely white and holding his side which was red with blood, I could see the streaks on the floor amongst dust, whoever had cleaned up the rest of the room had forgotten about the floor, even with Rose pointing her wand at him and muttering healing spells he was getting worse.

I marched over and knelt by Al, who grinned at me, and next to Rose, who completely ignored me engrossed in her spell.

"When you've finished that can you go and Lilly and James and help yourself while you're at it." I told her gently and she nodded before twirling her wand and letting red sparks fly out of it. She got up and ran over to where Lilly was me and Al followed her with our eyes. "Right what the Hades happened to you?" I demanded Al as I checked to see what Rose had done.

"An arrow fell on me." I stared at him in surprise and he laughed.

"Right... Okay." I put my hand on his wound and closed my eyes. "Don't move." I concentrated and my hand grew warmer as magic passed through it into Al melding the skin and the bone and the mussels back together.

"Wow." Al said when I opened my eyes and grinned at him. "Even we can't do stuff that quickly."

"But wizards can do a wide variety of things demigods can't or can do just more focused, don't sell yourself short Al." Al stared up behind me while I span around reaching for my sword, out of the corner of my eye I saw Lilly and Hugo scramble for their wands as Rose lowered hers in shook; Orion looked a little annoyed while Alexis had his sword drawn and was staring at the middle of the room surprised; Willow stared around confused about as confused as everybody else was surprised because standing in the middle of the room smiling at us was Percy Jackson.

"You-? You're-? Uh." Rose looked completely bewildered for a second before apparently remembering something because she calmed down slightly.

"Thanks Rose." Percy laughed. "Yeah I'm here, don't tell anybody Jason's working overtime to make sure nobody knows I was here oh and Welcome to the Dark Days."

"Thanks?" Said Willow frowning at him. "We've met before." She declared.

"Probably." Percy agreed. "I just haven't met you yet. What happened?"

"I dunno I was five I just remember seeing you and mom and dad talking I don't even know you are.

"Percy Jackson." Willow's jaw dropped. "Oh Katniss mentioned me." Percy looked absolutely delighted.

"No I... me and Coral listened in and you... You're the guy who she got all her info from about the watch and to keep it safe and about the verse thing from Shack sphere?" Willow finished uncertainly.