Trapped in the Consequence of Time

Shifts in Time - Lilly's POV

I do not own Harry Potter, Percy Jackson or the Hunger Games, they all belong to somebody else. Now lets get this party started.

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Scorpius and Coral arrived an hour after the rest of us got back, even Orion who was stuck in a meeting got back before them, Rye had taken to pacing the room and twanging his bow string while I sat with my head on Hugo’s shoulder while he tapped nervously with his wand on his knee. Amber had gone up to bed to get some sleep and Orion had vanished somewhere occasionally reappearing with snacks which we ate less of the longer we waited. Eventually there was a knock at the door, which Orion magically appeared to open, and a relived cry as Scorpius dragged a shell shocked Coral into the room and collapsed on the sofa Rye had abandoned.

“Coral.” Rye pulled her into a hug and she seemed to relax slightly. “What happened?” Coral shook her head.

“Guy knew about us.” She mumbled as Rye lead her over to the sofa and sat her next to Scor, Hugo got up to help Scorpius and I grabbed his arm, Scorpius smiled at me before closing his eyes and taking deep calming breaths.

“He talked about the watch and this action group that Scorpius’s grandfather started and then when I told him to stop he looked at me and he started to bleed out of his eye and he told me to tell people that the end will come and nothing can save us and that there’s a witch that cursed James…” She trailed off glancing at Scorpius who opened his eyes and looked at Coral’s petrified face.

“He said that the witch will look for the watch, that’s probably what she wanted James for, but the watch doesn’t want to be found by her-“

“It’ll go in self-defence mode and destroy everything.” Orion interrupted.

“How do you know that?” I asked.

“Dad.” I resisted the urge to smile.

“Anyway he said that I would save myself and be the only person alive or something while everybody else died and Coral…” Scorpius trailed off this time glancing at Coral.

“He said I would die painfully at the hands on an, what did he say, indomitable god? And then he melted.” Coral finished and we stared at her.

“Melted?” Asked Rye hesitantly.

“He dissolved into his own blood.” Scorpius replied and I gagged, no wonder they looked shell shocked, Coral was obvious but when Scorpius leaned into the light I could see it in his eyes he also ha d bruise starting to form on his right cheek that I was really curious about but didn’t want to ask. We sat in silence for a few minutes before Orion got up and vanished again, he returned a few minutes later with Amber who looked grim.

“We should get to Command.” Orion said finally. “We need to have a backup plan and be somewhere where we can improvise.” We all nodded and left the house I was barely aware of what I was doing let alone Scorpius and Coral, Rye didn’t leave Coral’s side and Amber walked next to them they were walking slowly while Orion strode confidently ahead leaving me and Hugo awkwardly in between.

“Let’s go talk to Orion about the watch thing.” I muttered to Hugo and he nodded speeding up as he did so, so I had to jog to catch up with him.

“Orion.” Hugo said quietly when we reached him. “What does indomitable mean?”

“Unbeatable.” Orion replied slowing down slightly so that I could walk with them.

“And how many gods are unbeatable?” I asked and was surprised to see him smile.

“Not that many, I wouldn’t want anybody to be killed by a beatable god let alone and unbeatable one.”

“Why do you-” Hugo was cut off by a large rumble of thunder that took me a moment to realise was coming from the ground not the sky.

“Earthquake!” I yelled.

“Not possible!” Orion yelled back. “It’s a shift in time.” I glanced around and realised he was right a few of the buildings around us were collapsing while others were popping up. I glanced behind me to see that the others had huddled together to protect themselves from falling debris, when I turned around again people were walking out of houses and up the street like nothing was happening.

“Why are they not being affected?” I demanded grabbing Hugo’s hand as I did so.

“The watch.” Orion replied and I nodded mutely.

“Yeah but when’s it going to…” Hugo started when the ground stopped shaking and half the debris vanished. “Stop.” He whispered. A dozen people walked around the corner laughing, a couple of people gave us odd looks while a few nodded at Orion.

“We need to find out what’s happening.” I told the boys and marched forward until I reached the corner and turned before stopping dead. I was standing in a main square that was filled with people protesting, while huge banners hung front he street lamps. Hugo and Orion jogged around the corner after me and opened and closed his mouth a few time.

“This isn’t right.” He said finally as Scorpius, Coral, Rye and Amber joined us. “I walked through here half an hour ago and it was empty.”

“Times changing remember they probably think they’ve been here all day.” I snapped at him, starting to panic. Would James and Al be okay in the Capitol, the fighting could have started again and they would be completely unprepared for it?

“Thanatomyriad.” Coral whispered. “That’s what Sayer said the group Scorpius’s grandfather created was called Thanatomyriad that’s this group.” I glanced up and saw that she was right; the banners all had the name Thanatomyriad stamped on them.

“Who’s Sayer?” Rye asked.

“The guy we ran into.” Scorpius told him. “Has anything else changed?” even as he asked a scream rang through the air and a man ran out of the crowd.

“Get underground! Emergency evacuation! Everybody get underground!” There was a moment of confusion as everybody looked to see who was yelling at them but in seconds the man was held in the gaze of everybody in the square. “Attack! Get underground!” He yelled again and this time people listened, Hugo grabbed the back of my jumper and pulled me against the wall as everybody streamed past us down the street that lead to the lifts to District Thirteens command centre where Orion had been earlier.

“What’s going on?” I yelled at Orion because I regarded him as the expert on this kind of thing.

“I don’t know.” He yelled back looking irritated that I expected him to know everything. Which I didn’t, I only expected him to know the crazy stuff.

“The deal.” Coral yelled at me. “If times changed again them the deal might have happened and the Capitol’s sending their bombs.” I glanced over at her and saw she was holding Rye’s hand so tightly she had probably cut of the blood supply. She was holding onto hope and who was I to deny it to her? But I didn’t think for one second that it was the deal, something was off and it was bugging me, something familiar that I really didn’t like. The first things on the list that fulfil those criteria are Potions homework and detention for not doing my Potions homework but for some reason I didn’t think that was it.

“Do you have it too?” Hugo asked quietly in my ear, the last of the protesters where leaving so there wasn’t quiet as much of a din but he still had to talk loudly for me to hear him. I nodded and glanced over at Scorpius who was staring around as if trying to locate something; I put my hand into my pocket and made a fist over the hand of my wand as I slowly turned.

The man who had made everybody clear the square was slowly transforming into somebody else as the effects of their Polyjuice potion wore off, and they drew their wand. Orion gave a gasp of surprise as the woman muttered a curse, I only registered a few things; her long blond hair; how she held her wand in an uncomfortable grip of somebody who doesn’t use their wand often and that she was who I was getting the familiar feeling from, the tinge of magic: dark magic, before a jet of green light shot from her wand aiming straight at me.