LAYNES P.O.V.

When the "Time" came, I didn't escpet, or think it would be so weird.

The days went past fast, I started to eat more, but me and Kaleb made sure to go to the park and work out on the play ground every day.

Derek came with us for two days, but on the third day, he just sat on the slide and acted like he was sleeping.

What was always woreing me was Emily,

Emily never came around, we never saw her at school, for all I knew, she probably ran away to the bahama's.

But I just cant see Emily running away from her old life, and parents, it didn't seem to fit her.

But I always told my self, we will see her again, if I have to fly and search the world around twice, we will meet again.

Me and Kaleb never talked about the packages Infinity gave us, ever since my twelfth birthday, and the clown incident, I never really cared for presents, unless it was a book or money.

So my package just layed under my bed, collecting dust.

The twins would meet us at the park every other day, but mostly to play workout music, or make equipment out of fire work bens.

One time Omega said to me and Kaleb while doing chin ups on the monkey bars "yo, why yo do so much of dat, if you can just go to parties and have fun"

Me and Kaleb just looked at each other on our thirtieth chin up, then said back to him "were waiting"

"For what?" Omicron asked,

We didn't know what, but we felt something inside, something one day was going to smack us right in the face and say "remember me!" We were just preparing, but what exactly for?

It was to easy, I would always say when ridding my bike back home, the test were to easy, and the twins themselves said "were getting you stronger" and when I first heard that, it gave me a slight chill down my spin, like a snake was part of me and rattled as a sign of "get away from them!" Or, something like that.

But back to when the "Time" had come.

It started out when me and Kaleb both had the same, exact, dream.

I was walking to a store, or I think I was walking to a store, because me and Jane were in front of one called Town N Country.

We walked inside the door, which opened automaticly, and when I did, Infinity was there.

But he was a cashier, in a appruan, counting money by the twenty's.

He looked up at me, he still wore that same coat with the sleeves cut off, his tattoo of a sideways eight, started to glow deep black.

But me and Jane just walked past like he was rotten macoronie and cheese.

Jane turned around when we came up to the cold drinks, but she wasn't Jane, it was Pyra.

"Hey cuteie" she winked at me, then starting to chew something in her mouth, probably gum.

I take a step back, and my words come out in a stumble of jambled scribble "p-p-Pyra! W-ha-ha-hat are you-"

But I never finished because I saw Berry, he was hiden behind one of the shelves.

He then dissapiered, and I jherked me head where he had just been "did you see that?"

"See what?" I was expecting to hear Pyra's voice, but it was Berry.

I turned around, Berry held a sword in his hands, but not Hepaystus sword: Ignis, no, this sword looked like an accent sword from the gladiater times.

And before I knew it, he sliced it against my chest, I went down on both knees, I tried to call on my ring, but it just seemed to be dead on my finger, it Sidney even glow.

Pyra screamed, but Berry to her by the shoulders, and sliced her head off, the head rolled in front of me,

I wanted to cry, yell, fight back, but it was as if I was being held down to my will,

I looked over at Infinity, he wasn't a cashier any more, he was sitting on a green, metal bench, legs crossed, and he held a tiny cup in his left hand, his right hand, caring for a tiny tea cup.

When he noticed me watcheing, he smiled and lifted his tea cup in the air, like he was saying, 'bunzi!' Or 'cheers'

Berry rolled me over on my back "mortal!" He teller, then spat a big clop of spit on my left eye.

my chest felt like it was on fire, and the dream ended where Berry's body seemed to glow, and the glint of his blade reflected in my right eye, the sword came crashing down, the blade aiming for my face, my skull.

I wish the dream could have ended funnier, like Berry takes out the sword from my face in a series of loud, squirting cracks of blood.

And I'm like "I'm Deadpool" and I some how have two guns in my hands, shooting slugs into his chest yelling "bahahahaha! Take that Berry! Now help me count how many bullets I have left to kill you!"

But my dream wasn't like that, it just ended where Berry was alive and powerfully, Infinity watching me from afar, siping his tea, and Pyra dieing from being beheaded.

I had woke up and emeideitly called Kaleb in the middle of the night, I had to use the home phone since my last two phone's were messed up, one from melting when I first used my powers, and my second, well lets just say I kind of forgotten about it, then it just ended up broke.

"What happend?" Kaleb asked, his voice sounded wide awake and alert.

"It ended where I was slices with Berry's sword" I tried to keep my voice down as low as possible.

"Dude, that exact same thing happened to me, exept Astrapes turned into Pyra, and it was my body"

Once I hung up after the conversation was over, I went into my room, but couldn't sleep, but something deep inside wanted to open up.

Wait a second, open up?

The package! Infinity said not to open it until the time is right,

I scuddled under my bed, then took the wrapped package in my hand, and then slowly, and quietly.

I started to open the package.

I tore at flat end of the package, I saw a hilt, then I tore the whole paper off, and it was a sword laying inside a box.

But it wasn't just any sword, it was Ignis, the sword that Berry used to kill Pyra.

But the sword didn't have blood stains, I held it by the hilt, but suddenly felt like it was going to give me nightmares wide awake.

I dropped the sword, it bounced off the ground, and instead of bouncing to the floor in clinks.

It rebounded and the hilt slammed into my palm and I clucthed it hard, like I was strangeling it.

"No way" I wisper to myself, then I hear the soft crinking of foot steps on old, sinking wood boards.

Great, I curse under my breath, I had socks on, so my bare feet couldn't stick.to the board, and since my floor was wood, I slid on my socks next to the door, still hefting Ignis.

I was going to see if my mom was awake, so I went down on my chest and looked threw the crack on the bottom, but all I seen was a pair of shoes and the person opened the door, smashing my face.

"Awww!" I yell, Kaleb came running in, slaking his palm against my mouth, the door closed.

"Shut up!" He whispered, and kind of yelled at the same time, but there was a hint of laughter as well.

I bit his palm, and he jerks his hand away, "bro, your nasty"

I was going to say something back, but his other hand held something that made me catch my breath.

He had a sword in his hand, it was diffrent from mine, it was black, which was uper nice, and the blade was skinny at the bottom but thickend out towards the top.

"You gotta sword to?" I ask,

Kaleb nods, I would have expected him to have a wicked smile on his face, but he looked worried.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, its just, i-im, I don't know"  he stutters with his words, then his eyes lay upon my sword, Ignis "dude, this is bad"

"What's bad?" I ask, but then he lifts up his sword, but it seemed out of his control

I sheilded his blade with Ignis "dude!" I groan from the pressure of his blade "what are you doing!"

"Im-im not doing that" Kaleb takes both of his his hands, grabs his hilt, and yanks the sword away from mine.

Kaleb pulled so hard he fell on his back, but the floor crunched under his back.

I got up, and looked around the scenery, we weren't in my bedroom any more, I felt like dorthy when she said "were not in Kansas"

We were surounded by tall grass, but it was actually rotten wheat.

I helped Kaleb up, he luaghed, "I don't think were in Kansas any more" mimicking dorthy.

"That's what I was thinking" I chuckled a little bit.

"Great minds think alike," He said.

"Doesn't that take two great minds?"

Kaleb smiled, "Ah, shut up ugly"

The sun was on the horizon, and it shinned against the wheat like grass, kind of reninding me of a picture you would see at an art museum.

The wheat came up to my knee caps, it must of been young weat, because it wasn't as tall as I think it would of been if it were here for several weeks.

But farther where stalking trees that like giants but about a yard away.

When I looked at Kaleb, he was dressed in a dress, well, not a dress, more like a robe. It was light brown, and a red scarf was wrapped around his waist.

"Looking good my man" I luagh, Kaleb looks at me, then smiles.

"not to bad yourself Cinderella" he chuckles,

I look down, I had the same robe on, but a green scarf.

"Are we wearing under wear?" He asks,

"I'm not checking" I lift my hands up, as if I was surrindering.

"Please no" he laughed, and soon, I chimed in. "Do you think this has to do with our swords? Is it a new power?!"

He shrugs his shoulders. "Maybe, if it is, that's so dope dude!"

"I know!" I just hope this wasn't another test, we finished them. So i doubt that it was.

Our swords, I now noticed, were in sheaths on our backs, from the feel, it was leather.

I un-sheathed Ignis, then Kaleb un-sheathed his sword.

I look under the hand gaurd just to make sure of something, and sure enough, it was there, the Hepaustus hammer.

"You wanna try something crazy?" Kaleb asked,

I look at him, with a questioned look on my face, "what? What are you going to do?"

But Kaleb didn't answer, instead, he runs past me, as fast as lightning, but that reminds me, our rings.

I looked down at mine, it was still on my finger, but something seemed diffrent.

But I ran after Kaleb, not really wording about what I was thinking, mostly about my dream I had.

We ran threw the wheat like it was water, exept, faster,

We came up to the nearest tree, and before I stop to take a breath, Kaleb throws his sword at the trunk accuretly.

It goes strewth threw about three inches deep, the sword staid Its place,

I look at him, then at the sword "uh, what were you doi-"

But the sword, it started to shake, then with a loud, SLINK! noise, the sword sliced out of the tree trunk, and the handle smacked right back into Kaleb's palm!

I look at him in dissbelief, "dude!" I yell "that's sick!"

"Thanks, oh yeah! Where do you think we are any way?" Kaleb sheaths his sword, and looks around the scenery.

I do to and sheath my sword on my back, I had heard of Greece having veiled like this, Greece poped in my head first because almost every thing we had been through, had to do with Greek and Greece.

Finally I say "probably Greece, but I wonder, I would think this part of it would be filled with people and houses!"

Kaleb seemed to freeze "I hope that doesn't mean-"

Kaleb stopped, and gulped in air, he started to step back,

"What?" I ask franketly "what is it? You hope it doesn't mean what?"

Then I hear them, a big, huge, war cry!

Oh no!

Before I can un-sheath my sword, I already turned around, and two guys dressed in armorial were tuning at us from 100 feet away, both were dressed in old armor, like what the Roman shoulders use to wear,

Wait! Old armorial? Then that means!

We were in the past!

I shook my hand to call on Pyra (my ring) but it wouldn't respond!

I could see Kaleb was having trouble with his ring to, he kept shaking his hand,

I un-sheath Ignis finally and run at the closest guy, he was hefting a spear, he tried makeing me a shiskabob, but I easily dogded it by stepping to my left, swinging my sword down on the spear, knocking it from his hand,

Kaleb went after the farthest guy behind mine, he took up a big sword fight.

My guy took out a dager from the back of his suit, he tried banning me in the ribs, but I blocked it with the edge of my elbow, hitting the back of his hand, then I slashed Ignis across the guys chest, but my sword sent the man tumbeling on his back, since my sword just bounced off his armoar.

But I wasn't in a hurry to kill someone from the past, instead I helped Kaleb, his guy yelled more than mine, but he had skill, he almost sliced Kaleb in half a few times, I took care of that, I threw my sword, I tripped over my guy's foot, but he tripped me on purpose, but my sword went threw Kaleb's attackers right leg.

But that was a mastake, when I hit the floor, and the knife sliced the guys leg, his sword sliced Kaleb on his right arm deep!

Kaleb screamed, and fell to the floor on his side

I would have yelled out, but my guy decided to lay on top of me, I kicked out, I tried hitting him with my elbows.

The guy with the sliced leg tried to take my sword, but the hilt flew into my hands, then I sliced the mans shoulder on top of me!

"Aaaawwwww!" He fell to the side, I staggered up, Kaleb had fallen to his side, I went to bring my sword down on the one who stabbed Kaleb, but then...

I felt cold, something hot dug into my skin, I felt, pain, missury.

Then i felt something slid farther into my body, I couldn't speak, I couldn't move, I just staked in one spot, Ignis in my hands still held up in the air.

Then, I fell to the floor, on my face, I gasped, I spat out blood!

I was diying, I was going to DIE

the last thing I saw, and felt, was Kalebs attacker lift his sword abouve Kalebs, then felt my attacker take out his spear from my back, I heard screams in the back ground when my vision went black, I couldn't tell if it was mine or Kalebs, or both.

But those were the last things I heard.

END OF BOOK 3