• They were running through the forest with the sound of fighting behind them. The tall woman in a blue cloak looked behind and yelled "Run you fools lest they catch you!"
    "Im running as fast as i can!" yelled back a young girl in a ninja outfit.
    The last in the group, a young boy in a red cloak, stoped and looked back through the trees.
    "Come, run he stayed behing for you to escape!" yelled the woman
    "NO!, I HAVE TO GO BACK!!!"
    Before the woman could say more the boy ran through the thicket to come to a large clearing where a warrior in leather armor was fighting back dozen monsters in sinister mail.
    No! I must help him! But how! I need time! Time! TIME!!
    "TIME!!!!" he screemed.
    Claping his hands together; the sound was like thunder and a flury of wind surounded him.The earth beneath his feet disintigrated and all the beasts looked to him. His eyes, burning with energy, glowed puple as he continued to stand in the tempest. Slowly a giant clock, looking ethereal, formed above his head. The beast standing in awe did nothing but stare at the sight.
    Chains started to come out of the ground in the wind and wraped around the clock, stoping the hands.
    The first monster to break the hold saw what it was it was looking at and ran for its life in the opposite direction. But before it got two steps a chain shot out of the middle of the giant clock and wraped around a smaller clock that apeared above the beasts head.
    All the monsters looked at their comrad to see that it was frozen in time. All started running at once when a barge of chains shot out like a canon at the beasts, freezing each in time. the tempest continued to blow when to two women ran out of the trees to see what was happening.
    "It can't be. The Clock Of LIFE!!!" the elder shouted.
    The chains contunied to shoot out stoping each of the monsters. A clock then appeared above the head of the boy and was ticking slowly, patiently. A light then came down fron the Clock of Life and enveloped the boy. His clock sped up, slowly at first but faster and fatser.
    Sudenly dozens of imaged of the boy ran out to clasp each of the monsters clocks. Then each of the images, simutaniously, boked the clocks sending every one of the traped beasts on the ground, all of their times at an end.
    And yet the tempest continued. The boy looking like he was in pain. Then a door, apearing in the middle of the gian clock opened to show a man, looking older than any ever seen. The boy had his arms spread wide, and his hair growing longer and longer.
    The old man then said "Well it looks like my time is up as well." He held out his hand and said to the boy "You are now my succeser i grant you the power to wok in my sted." Above his out streched hand came a scyth, one with clocks decorating it everywhere, and floated down to the boy. Sudenly everything stoped. the boy fell to the ground, the scyth clenched in his hand. His hair down to his anckles with white streaks striping it.
    Just before he passed out a tought, not for the first time it crossed his mind came How did i get myself into this.