Trapped in the Consequence of Time

The Beginning of the End

The beginning of the end 3rd person

The thirteen friends sat in a circle on the ground a few streets away from the square; Alexis had suggested breaking into one of the empty houses but had gotten no answer. They all looked a little worse for wear but were grinning as they lounged around in a rough circle, Aquila sat leaning against a wall smiling at Orion while Amber force fed him some ambrosia; Alexis sulked next to them pointed out all the things wrong with Orion; Rye sat next to him throwing alternating worried looks at Alexis and Willow on his other side; Coral sat next to Willow helping her sort out her arrows and having a deep conversation with Lilly and Hugo who were talking turns to levitate Coral's trident; Al and Rose came next having a silent argument and giving James random encouragement's whenever he got a vague look in his eye or started staring at Willow, which was often, and tapping Aquila next to him for no apparent reason.

The golden bracelet lay on the ground in front of them flickering through random images and scorching the ground; the seven heroes of the great prophecy were on the acropolis six of them in a lose defensive circle surrounded by giants while Leo Valdez stood on his burning ship; two identical red heads were hugging each other as people ran all around them, they separated and sprinted off in opposite directions unaware that they had just seen each other for the last time; Harry Potter sat at his desk in the ministry staring at a picture of his three sons and daughter, Teddy Lupin wasn't really his but he regarded him as such, he sighed and picked up a watch off the desk and walked over to his fireplace vanishing in green flames; the thirteen stood around a stone table on the top of a hillside the world around them shown on two levels one showed forest stretching in one direction and a small village next to the sea about a mile away, a little further along from that was a castle ablaze with lights and prepared for war, on the other level was a barren wasteland dotted with random flames, a huge shape stood where the forest once lay about two miles away, flashes of light hit the shape and it waved them off fighting whoever was suicidal enough to fight it.

None of the people around it noticed the images; they were too busy basking in the joy that the hard part was over.

"Right." Rose said calling everybody to attention; even the bracelet stopped playing images and emitting heat. "We need to get time right again because we've saved it momentarily but it could change back again at any moment."

"Yeah." Orion agreed straightening up and ignoring the pain in his back. "That bracelet is the sourcey thing so we need to destroy it."

"Permanently." Lilly spoke up. "It could be like a horcrux and impossible to destroy unless there's no antidote to the thing destroying it."

"What?" Coral asked.

"We need to stab it with a basilisk fang or the sword of Gryffindor." James summed up. Coral stared at him.

"Is there a simpler way?" Rye asked. "I think only you understand what you're talking about."

"Stab it with something that nobody can heal." Al explained. "That means that anything we do with our wands won't work and anything you three do probably won't either because we could heal it instantly with our wands." He nodded at Willow, Rye and Coral. "So that leaves you lot." They all stared at the demigods.

"We could stab it with an imperial gold weapon or celestial bronze." Alexis suggested. "I mean they can kill gods."

"Worth a shot." Orion shrugged and pulled out his sword.

"Wait." Rose half shouted at him. "What'll happen then?"

"Either we'll go home or have to wait a bit." Willow assessed. "Isn't that what the watch is supposed to do? Take us home."