Colt was sullen the rest of the day. He still could not believe his father had spent the money, did he not think Colt cared about the creatures too?
He'd taken care of them throughout his childhood, but now it was beginning to feel like Scamander senior did not care about his own child.
Dinner was silent. The roast beef improved Colt mood a bit, they always had it when he came from school. Still father and son did not speak to each other, Tina felt as though she had been placed between two wild erumpents, getting ready to charge at any moment.
Colt went to bed after saying good night to his mother and not a word to his father. He sunk into the pillow, hoping that when he woke up the sourness of the previous day had worn off.
halfway through his slumber, Colt suddenly woke up and remembered that he had to meet Malcolm. He turned to his owl shaped alarm clock to see that it read 10:25.
He quickly threw on his yellow vest and tiptoed out of his bedroom, not wanting to wake his parents. Outside he unhooked his bike and made his way to Malcolm's house, Aaron riding in the basket.
They arrived at Malcolm's house to find it still empty. Maybe Malcolm forgot again. Colt thought. Aaron looked indignant, whenever he and his master were at home he liked to look through his collection of shiny things. Pennies nickels quarters rings and more gloriously shiny objects.
Colt looked at his watch, it was now past 11:15. He looked down at Aaron to see that the little Niffler was asleep. He was also beginning to lose his will to stay awake, his bed started coming back to him he picked up Abe and began to make his way back, when a light suddenly flashed behind him.
Alert, Colt looked to see a large gold machine, smoking right in front of Malcolm's house.
An African American man stumbled out of the machine. Colt recognized him at once as Professor Malcolm Greene. Malcolm was wearing his usual blue shirt and red bow tie, with yellow pants and brown leather shoes.
Mal whipped his head around to see his astonished young friend with his equally astonished Niffler. "Colt, s"Good! You got my message",he ran over to pull the stunned wizard over to his machine.
"Uh Malcolm?" Colt rediscovered his speech. "What is that?"he pointed at the gold machine.
The machine was large and round with a swivel on the floor for a c shaped rotor. Behind he could see a what looked to be a chair, rooted very firmly in the middle by nuts and bolts.
As Colt looked more closely at the machine he began to see that it looked like a giant pocket watch.
" Malcolm? Do you mind explaining why there's a giant watch in front of your house?" Colt asked.
"Ah yes!" Malcolm excitedly ran around to Colt to show what he had built.
"I'm sure you've heard of time turners right Colt?" Malcolm inquired.
"Uh yeah. But is this supposed to be one?"
Malcolm grinned from ear to ear. "Yes," he grabbed the boy around the shoulders.
"The reason it's so big is because I thought time turners they can travel through time by decades but what about centuries? So I made an even larger time turner to channel more magic into it. Once the magic is built up it can travel back centuries!" Malcolm's eyes widened till he resembled an owl.
Colt thought for a minute before he responded.
"Okay... He chuckled a bit still not sure if he understood Malcolm.
"You're saying you've built a giant time turner, that's the most powerful there is. More powerful than any other time turner?"
Malcolm lit up. "Yes!" He yelled.
"Colt think about what this could mean, we could meet Merlin, witness the founding of Ilvermorny, of Hogwarts!"
"So many important dates in history! And this machine is the key. It's history" ,Malcolm actually began tearing up. "After years of study finally, it's here."
"So Colt" ,he said turning his attention back to the young wizard.
"What do you say you want to make history?" He waited for an answer. Colt thought for a moment he'd always believed in Mal, but he never thought this could happen.
As he was thinking Aaron noticed one of the gears the seat shining he slipped away from Colt. "Yes Malcolm." Colt responded. "I'm with you. Malcolm smiled, he wanted to share with someone he couldn't think anyone better than Colt.
"Good," he said. "Now I've only used it once to travel an hour into the future. So let's give it another test run we travel centuries. Roaring twenties here we come!"
As soon Malcolm finished his sentence the machine turned on Colt and Malcolm turned to see Aaron had plucked a gear from the below the seat and accidentally activated the machine. The rotor began to spin as it it began to increase in velocity.
"Aaron!" Colt cried. He ran toward the Niffler with Malcolm following behind.
They narrowly avoided the rotor, Colt grabbed Aaron and he and Malcolm turned to get back from the machine. But it was too late. In a flash of light the machine disappeared.
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