Chapter 86 The Fountain of Time

Maria quickly parked her plane in the school parking lot, which was completely deserted otherwise.

“Come on, let's hurry,” Maria said. The 3 quickly got out of the plane, running towards the door.

Maria tugged on the handle.

Locked.

“This is just great! The world is eaten because we can't get through a locked door!” Conrad groaned.

Elsewhere in the city, there was a terrible scream, and a crunch.

Then complete silence.

The pod shared a very special look for a second, then started pounding on the doors.

“PLEASE!”

“LET US IN!”

“HURRY!”

Someone appeared on the other side of the door.

“DANTE!” all 3 yelled.

Dante hurried over, wrenching the door open.

“What are you doing here?!” he cried.

“We were about to ask you the same thing,” Conrad said.

“I SLEEP here! Why is that so hard to understand?!” Dante cried.

“MOVE!” Maria cried, slamming him into the door and shoving him to the ground. She sprinted past him, followed by Conrad and Logan.

“WAIT!” Dante cried, picking himself off of the ground. “I PROTECT THESE HALLS! WHERE ARE YOU GOING AND WHY?!?!”

Maria burst into the girl's bathroom. The pod hurried up to the boiling pot of tea, and removed it from the Fountain of Time.

“Great! We're here! So... how do we travel?” Logan asked.

“Not sure,” Maria mumbled.

“WHAT?!” Conrad cried.

“When Katie was trying to travel,” Maria said, inspecting the fountain,” she was talking to it. Like telling it to do something.”

“Oh hay fountain let's travel!” Logan said.

Nothing ever happened.

“Try again,” Conrad said.

“NO!” Maria shouted. “Just get closer and say random time-related things.”

“Temporal,” Logan said.

“Future please,” Maria said.

“Past,” Conrad whispered.

“Take us back!” Maria slapped it.

“Take us back 10 minutes!” Logan ordered.

“Take us back to the beginning of the school year,” Maria said.

“Take us back to the beginning of the school year PLEASE,” Conrad corrected her.

The fountain booted up.

“Whoa!” all 3 cried.

Lights shot in all directions. The 3 stumbled back in shock.

A roaring sound began. The base of the sink was replaced by a pool of colors. The center sizzled and cracked.

“Get ready!” Conrad cried. The pod took each other's hands. The room rumbled. Conrad found himself wondering if it was from the Fountain... or Clovervicky.

The boiling pot of tea fell over and smashed on the floor. Maria screamed.

“JUMP!” she yelled over the noise.

Dante burst into the room, having been running after them the entire time.

“WAIT! MY FAMILY HAS BEEN TAKING CARE OF THIS PLACE SINCE BEFORE TIME! I CAN'T LET YOU DO THIS!”

The fountain flickered twice, as though changing course. More lights shot out of it.

“FREAKIN'!” Maria screamed at Dante.

The 4 collapsed, being drawn into the Fountain. Shattered fragments of the pot flew everywhere. All they could do was hope that

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