“Wait, what was that over on the ground?”

As Porkpatch, Holly, the Scarlet King, and the Scarlet King’s army were heading to battle against Anafabula, Porkpatch had spotted something, and pointed it out.

Holly picked it up, before gasping.
“I-it's the hourglass!”

They had found it! The Reversed Hourglass! But what could it do? Holly held it gently in her arms. A pile of a white sand filled the top side of the hourglass, and no matter what Holly did to it, the sand refused to enter the other side, staying in its own pile within the top.

“Maybe this will be the key to defeating Anafabula!” Porkpatch pointed out.

[Her name does mean ‘Against chronological order’, after all. And to defeat something that is out of order, you have to put it in order.] Her father noted.

Taking to heart their words, she gently placed the hourglass in her coat pocket. Thank god they were so big.

“L-lets keep going…” She voiced, attempting to hide her grief.

And so, they continued to march towards the battle, ready for the fight of a lifetime.

But Holly wasn't ready. In fact, she was ready to break into sobs at any moment now. It hurt, it hurt it hurt, and she just wanted it to end.

Why wouldn't it stop? Was Holly doomed to suffer? Was she doomed to watch her sister, her brother, and her friends die? Was that her fate?

Then, she heard a cry, and the she heard then fighting begin. Here we go.