edit: 19-02-'18, fixed punctuation, fixed a few mistakes, changed the wording of a few lines, the usual really.

So, a bit of background, which literally wrote itself, and was never intended to be a thing, but hey, it works, even though it's quite short, it was a bit more than 2 hours of nonstop writing, it was not like I could go anywhere anyway, as my dog was using me as his pillow, so hey, two hours well spent, for a change, always better than Netflix. On which I have spent far to much time over the last week.

On to the reviews then,

DeathCrawler: Well, if everything goes according to plan(which I kind of doubt somehow, wonder why...), next chapter is going to be when you are going to find the answer to this.

Aaron Leach: Thank you very much, it's good to hear my doubts being beaten to a pulp.

EroSlackerMicha, I don't have anything against Ron beside him being not the most loyal, nothing against any of the Weasleys in general to be honest, they are indeed quite anti slytherin, and Ron's views of Hufflepuff's also not exactly unbiased, but I won't say any more about this subject.

And the DA invading Arcadia, I will be honest, I'm looking forward to writing it, but this came into my mind today, so this was more important somehow. as said before, this will probably be in next chapter, won't promise anything though.

And last but not least, Felab: thank you, and I have my reasons for Ron's presence at the meeting last chapter, not sure when we are going to get to the point where I will even be able to fit something in, the coming 24 hours are going to be packed.

okay, enough rambling...

But I hope you enjoy this chapter, same as always, see something, don't understand something or the like, say it, ask it.

The Ancient convene

In a Dark and echoing room a large group of people were standing around a small hologram of Arcadia Bay, small cracks arraying large parts of the coastal town, and small distortions were appearing all over the town.

"So what is the status?" a figure in dark robes said walking towards the assembled group of people.

"Nothing is changing as far as I can tell." A lady dressed in white with a very large clockwork piece around her neck said. "Are there any sudden deaths in the town?"

"None at all for the last 2 months now, and there is only one person who is supposed to be dead in the town, which Lady earth, is not a reason to destroy an entire town." The figure in black spoke up, looking the lady in the green dress in her bright green lit eyes.

"Well, she is overstaying her welcome by a lot at this point, three days after she was supposed to be killed, and she's still walking around doing god knows what, aren't you supposed to dispose of her?"

"I am not, this decision has been taken away from me, my master will not look at me fondly if I send the wild hunt out, just to catch one girl."

"Then go yourself! It isn't that hard!" Lady earth yelled.

"We made a promise not to interfere too much in the goings on on earth!" a woman in a purple dress, lightning crackling around her, said clearly, overpowering the woman standing before her.

"All of this because of Lady time! It is her fault in the first place, we should let her deal with this." A small man wearing a dark brown suit said in a monotone.

"How is this my fault!?" Lady time yelled at the smaller man, "Lady magic gifted thousands of those puny people with magic, and you didn't care about that, but I gift one girl with confidence issues the power to rewrite her timeline, and you start blaming me?"

"Yes, because there is a very large difference between the two!" Lady magic said, "magic can not alter reality."

"Yes it can!" a blond man with glasses yelled back at her, "They can teleport from one place to the other in seconds, they have found the sands of time, which I should add, were hidden impressively well, and harnessed them to create their own version of time travel!"

"That was not my fault! If they could find them, then lady time hadn't hidden them well enough in the first place, now had she!" Lady magic yelled back.

"Yeah, sure, and what about the deathbeam, which has killed an uncountable amount of people before their time?" the black clad man said from his seated position.

"Oh, shut up you, you only care about one person on that entire planet, your little master." One of the other man yelled from a corner.

At those words the entirety of the hall fell in silence.

"Well… ehm… he… ehm… he is a likable guy, his heart is in the right place…"

"He is making you soft." One of the man said mockingly from the sidelines. "Before you met him you would have send out the hunt immediately after you found out she hadn't died on time."

"So what, I am getting a bit softer, her friends care about her, she lost her closest companion already, and found an old compatriot that day. I actually had intended to get her 2 days ago, but, you saw how that attempt turned out, and now she is completely out of my hands."

"Wait, what do you mean, she is out of your hands?" one of the older man asked.

"Just as I said it, she's out of my hands, my master is in far to close a proximity to her for me to be able to act to try and take her again."

"Just do it! It really isn't that hard, that master of yours can't control you! The master part just means he is unable to die right?" one of the lesser known ancients said from the sidelines.

"Well…" Death began before he was interrupted.

"Oh no you didn't, those artifacts, did not make him a god!" Lady magic said, very much louder than necessary.

"Ït didn't make him a god perse… it however made him quite a bit more capable, and he may or may not be able to get in here if he finds a reason to want to…"

"You fucking idiot, did you even think before you gave those artifacts to the brothers over a thousand years ago?"

"Yes, I thought about it, and as two of the three were deathtraps, I was quite confident that people wouldn't go out of the way to find them, and I didn't expect them to be as powerful as they are combined, well, I never even thought of the possibility of them someday being combined, it was actually more of a surprise, that a rumor, actually came true."

"Enough about this, were there any other topics?" The lord of the seas asked.

"Well, on a related note, a small elite group of British wizards and witches is preparing to intervene in the Arcadia debacle, your master is really screwing us over here death." Lady magic said looking at death with a frown to rival a certain transfiguration teacher.

"Again, it was not my fault that my master found it prudent to call for backup, even though he very much is able to handle this situation alone."

This pronouncement, was again met by silence.

"You know that you have put all of us in a very difficult situation here right?" a grey cloaked figure said.

"Lady time, lady magic, lord Death, please deal with this situation before tonight when the clocks ring 12, or we will interfere, and this will mean the end of Arcadia Bay, do you hear me?" The lord of the seas pronounced before leaving the room, followed by most of his companions.

"Why is this our problem?" Lady time asked death and magic.

"Because our chosen have decided to interfere, so it is our duty to rectify the damage." Lady magic said looking to the hologram of the town in question.

"How are we supposed to fix all of this before tonight?" Death asked.

"We can not." Magic answered. "Our chosen will have to fix this themselves, or…"

"or…?" Death asked the woman in purple in front of him.

"Or they will have to weather the storm." Lady time finished. "We can not ask any of these things from our chosen though."

"Of course we can not, this is even for them far to large a burden to bear." Lady magic looked dejected.

"We will give them a choice, the live of Chloe Price, versus the lives of the entire town, they will make the right call." Lord death said looking at the location his master was talking with a small girl who had been saved from his hands by a small innocent girl, with the powers gifted to her by lady time.

"And how are we supposed to do this? We have no way of contacting them." Lady magic said looking at death like he was crazy.

"I have a way of contacting my master, but… well… this is not what I was planning, your little lady has been stuck in a reality loop already right, that was to convince her she should use her powers a bit less."

"Well… you're kind of right, but it was not exactly a timeloop, it was a butterfly effect thing, to show her how much can change when you change a large event, like the death of her best friends father."

"How many alternate universes are we at now?" Lady magic asked.

"I actually lost count, she used her powers far to much for small things, but since yesterday that has changed as she has seen what it can do." Lady time answered once more.

"So the plan is to put them in a time or reality loop of sorts?" lady magic said. The other two people left in the room nodded their heads.

"Well, let's get to planning then shall we?" Lord Death said to his two accomplices, Before lady magic summoned up a large table with a few chairs around it where each sat down.

"So how are we going to do this?" Lady magic asked looking between the two faces expectantly.