Chapter 1

Danny POV

The second I grew up to be a kid life became tough. I didn't have anyone to rely on, I could only trust myself and nobody told me what happened to my parents. They told me what they told everyone in the foster home. "Your parents either died or they didn't want you".

I opened my eyes to the world and shivered. Life was so unfair. I hadn't done anything to deserve any of this. I basically live in my bedroom here at the orphanage because I get bullied all the time. I go out occasionally but there is never anything to do and though I went to school I got bullied there as well. I had no friends and life seemed pointless and full of misery. Ignoring the lack of interest of facing the day I pulled myself out of bed and got ready for school, pulling my uniform in a lagging fashion. I was slowly giving up on the hope that there was some use of me being here.

I walked out the door of the prison and travelled the opposite direction of the school. I really couldn't be bothered with school today, the worst the orphanage ever do is shout at me and even then I don't really care. I'd rather be sitting in the park and trying to relax so I decided to take a shortcut through town to look through the windows as I passed but I stopped at a little convenience store for a bag of crisps, walking in through the door and seeing three other kids around the same age as me. I had a weird feeling, I don't know what it was but it was strong and rising from within me. All of a sudden my head was screaming for me to get out of there but my legs wouldn't move at all, in fact nothing was moving in the room, it was like time had stopped.

Dougie POV

I picked the aspirin off the shelves and reached into my pocket to grab some money but managed to drop it all and coins rolled onto the floor. I rolled my eyes and started picking them up but when I was finished and stood again everything was completely still and the air was silent which sent shivers down my back but there was feeling in me that this was meant to happen. I tried to turn towards the shopkeeper who was looking at me sympathetically but I couldn't move! I started to panic but in a flash, time had restarted if it had even paused in the first place and everyone gasped like they had been holding their breath and the other blonde in the room rested his whole body onto his knees like he'd been exhausted by something. Though I thought I had imagined everything, the room started to shake and a shadow started growing out the wall which then grew under the shopkeeper who then yelled out in pain before disintegrating and being replaced by a shadowed figure which wailed out loudly and grew four arms out of its body, pointing at me and the other three people in the room. I stood frozen to the spot like I had been just seconds ago but this time it was by fear. I couldn't control anything around me. The arms were reaching out to each one of us, the shadows on the ground growing just like it had towards the shopkeeper. Just as the arm was about to touch me I yelped out in fear and put my arms in front of me and a huge spiral of fire came out of me and burnt the arm to a crisp which fell to the ground and disappeared back into the shadows. I took the opportunity of being able to move and ran out the shop.

Harry POV

I stood watching what was going on in the room, everything was happening so fast. The shopkeeper was just killed and now a crazy shadow creature was reaching out towards us, trying to do what it did to its other victim just seconds ago. I sprung right into action, instinctively going straight to punch it but stopping mid-air after remembering what happens to people that come into contact but the air had other plans which carried on in the shape my fist and knocked the arm back and away from me. I looked at everyone else in the room. I had to help them, it'd be selfish to just leave them to die but as I watched what was going on in the room I realised we all could do something beyond normal. Weird things were happening now. The second that the last kid had came into the shop, was it that we were together? The other brunette transformed his arms into diamonds which he fired waves of large and small crystals at the arm before running out the shop, I ran out to follow him.

Tom POV

It was me who stopped time! I know it was, or at least I think it was because with every growing second that time had been paused I could feel myself getting more and more tired but I don't know what had triggered it. There was nothing different to what I had been doing every day, I'd always came to this store. I didn't have any time to think about it because as soon as time had restarted hell had broke loose and an arm reached towards me. I gasped in fear but as I stepped backwards my body felt like it was preparing for something. I didn't know what was going on but I did as my body felt I should do. I stretched out my arms towards the arm as much as I was screaming to get away from it but the air around it rippled quickly away from it and the arm paused momentarily before being crushed in the blink of an eye. And in that blink of an eye I was standing outside next to the other kid that had been inside the shop with me and seconds later two brunettes burst out the shop. I grabbed the small blondes hand and ran after them, we needed to stay together. I don't know what the reasoning behind it was but something inside me was telling me to. A final meaning to my pointless life, there was something about these other three people that I'm missing but I needed to be careful, curiosity killed the cat…