It was late when the party was over, and I finally managed to get Will, Elaine, Jennifer, Lance, and Lily Fay on their own. "Who's that gorgeous guy that's with you, Nancy? You could have introduced him to me," Jennifer joked playfully.

"Yeah." Lily Fay said from her position on Lance's lap. They've sort of got together during this barbecue, Lily Fay as she liked Lance long ago, and Lance as in he had no other dates at the moment. "Are you gonna spill about what you're up to in that room?"

"Guys, this is serious." Everyone except Will laughed. He was looking at me seriously with an unreadable expression. "That guy is evil. He's Sir Agravain, younger brother of Sir Gawain; who joined with Sir Mordred to expose Lancelot's and Guinevere's love to King Arthur; and he was eventually killed by Lancelot."

"Please, Nancy, are you serious? That hyper-vain guy could be just a coincidence. Don't lose your head about such things," Lance scoffed.

"It's not. He used 'in Merlin's name' and called me 'Lady Lake'. I think that is highly suspicious. He's a partner in a law firm." I said.

"So let me get this straight. You want us to believe that Sir Agravain, Mordred-fanatic, just came into the twenty-first century in the guise of a solicitor to try and steal your patent of this…time-machine and bring back Mordred? Um, I thought they relied on magic?" Lily Fay asked.

Somehow I got suspicious as I wondered. Sure, Lily Fay had helped us ever since college, but suppose she only stuck with us as she saw that Marco's team is losing, so she changed loyalties? And what if now there's a way back for her, and she's telling us the true story to throw us off-track?

"It might be right, Lily Fay. We can't just doubt her." Will spoke up in my defence. "I believe her." He gave me a small smile. "It's late anyway. I'll drive you home, Nancy. Lily Fay and Lance have somewhere to be. Right?"

Five weeks later…

The machine is done. It made headlines all over the world. The United States has made the first ever time machine. It can only transport four people at a time. The world signed a protocol that said that no countries will ever use it to win petty wars and stuff like that. Jennifer and me became famous overnight. Presidents of major countries are invited to a screening of the dinosaurs five million years ago.

"You going to the champagne party after the speech tonight?" Jennifer asked. She was dressed in an elegant evening dress. I was dressed in a flowing blue gown, like water. I'm Lady of the Lake, after all. "You look good. It matches your eyes."

Yeah, my eyes are as blue as the sea…in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm. "Sure, but I don't have a date. Do you think I can crash on you and Joe…" Joe was Jennifer's newest stud. He looks like Jared Padalecki.

"Lady Lake, will you give me the honor of being your partner in tonight's party?" A voice asked. I forced myself not to hyperventilate. What's he doing here! He's just a lawyer, we're inviting intercontinental presidents and VIPs!

I turned around, and there was Agravain, smiling as handsomely as ever. Other ladies nearby turned around and looked enviously at me. I knew I'm not

ugly. I'm average. Above average even, on good days. But Agravain was drool-worthy. "Um…OK." Well, why did I agree to that? He's evil! But oh…those eyes…

Vaguely, I remembered being lead onto the stage shakily. I managed to shake myself out of those eyes and mumbled a few words about thank yous to the leaders of the United States and how hard the process to build the machine was. Then I was led to the machine.

"And now Ms. Lake of the Project Time-Shuttle Experiment will let you in on the sneak peak preview, or should I say after-view, of the Industrial Revolution. Ms. Lake, please." I was again pulled by Agravain to the machine. Mesmerized by his eyes, I reached out shakily for it, but was then shoved away by Agravain.

I was stunned back to reality. What the hell am I doing here, lying on the floor during a speech by the Government? What the hell is Agravain doing now For he was flunging himself onto the machine. His hands quickly twisted the dial. Way back to the 500s. While he was doing so, he dialed past a person. A person with a black void around him. That was the mark of famous people. And he was saying, "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvilis rightwise king born of all England."

And Agravain had reached out and pulled Jennifer, who acts as the mechanic, Lance, her chaperone, Elaine, my guest-of-honour, and Lily Fay, her chaperone, into the machine, while shouting, "Who turns this dial of this levers and metal machine is rightfully king born of the world!"