We sat around the table in his house, Calibri staring at me intently. I then pulled out the tea cup. "You have the teacup, too? It's good for storing magic, but it would never be able to bring it back. Enough to power one leph stone every few years, maybe." He then started to get up, but I pulled out the diary. He sat back down, looking very surprised.

"You have the diary, too?" he puzzled, "It had enough magic to create a dome around it where magic works, but anything completely magical outside of it, would instantly disintegrate back into the air. Yet, the odds of finding three artifacts at nearly the same time, are... you know what, no matter, probably just a coincidence." He went to get up again, when I pulled out the crystal. His eyes got very wide behind his skull.

"You have the Red Sun Stone? The odds of that alone are incredibly small, and the odds of finding all four in the same few days are... virtually zero. Well, the Red Sun Stone is the most powerful, just barely more so than the Midnight stone. It's so powerful, in fact, that it starts radiating magical energy when not under many layers of earth and rock, which it had been before. Yet, only during the day. During the night it's dormant for some reason, leaving the Midnight stone to do its job. So, do you have any more artifacts hidden in your smock, there?"

I shook my head, no, in reply and asked, "If all of the other artifacts have special abilities, what does the sword do?"

"Well, the sword is a very powerful artifact. It greatly improves reaction time, and fighting skills. All magical attacks you do why near it will basically hit its target matter what." I thought back to how I just wrecked everyone when attacking. Everything made so much sense now, and you know, I was feeling kinda confident now, about fighting Tarran. Maybe I could win this time, with the artifacts, and Thalia, both by my side. I hoped, at least, and that's all you need to start.

"So, how many artifacts are there, anyway?" Thalia suddenly chimed in.

"Well, nine now, I think. You can never really keep things straight when you get this old. Um.. The book, the cup, the locket, the blanket, the sword, the smock, the dagger, the Red Sun Stone and the Midnight Stone. But if you have four artifacts, you can't let anyone get them, and I mean can not. If someone knew how to use these properly, it could spell disaster for everyone. This is also why I haven't touched a single artifact. They do weird things to your mind once you touch them. It's almost like a trance, if you know how to use them, of course. They make you power hungry straight to insanity."

He seemed to almost be talking out of personal experience; that was the moment I really feared what he could have, and what I can go through.

"Do you know where the other four are?" Calibri wondered.

"Well, maybe, but I'm not sure," I again, thought back to the first timeline where Tarran had artifacts of his own. I just wasn't able to remember which he had, or how many, my anger was just clouding me too much.

"That's not really a problem, come." He stood up and walked to one of his few cabinets, "And bring the crystal with you, too" As he opened the cupboard, I saw tons of crystals in there, some big, some small, and some of them where leph stones, too, yet none of them glowed. Taking out a relatively massive one, he hunked it down on one of the countertops and said, "Here we are! Touch the stone up to it, Alexander." I walked up and touched the Red Sun Stone up to the inert crystle he had in front of him.

Suddenly, the crystal began to glow, revealing names. There were ten names scattered about the crystle, and half of them said "Alexander Ravos" and the other half... they said "Tarran Kathu."

"Wait what?" Calibri sudden screamed, "There are only two names one here, only two people are linked to all the artifacts?!"

"Why is that so bad?" I asked, very confused.

"Well, if all nine artifacts were linked to one person, that person would have absolutely magical power, and virtually no control over their actions. It would spell doom for the world."

We paused for a bit until I finally, I noticed something on the crystal. "Why are some of the names brighter than others?" I queried. I saw that some of the names were brighter, more vibrant, and even bigger than others.

"Well, the crystal is actually showing billions, even trillions of names on here, for it's actually displaying the bonds to everything with magic, and basically everything has some amount of magic imbued in it, though small as it may be. The more magic in the object, the bigger and brighter it appears here on screen. You know, I read once that if all the magic in every object and all the magic in the air, all came together into one artifact, it would be as bright as the sun seen from the tallest mountain on the clearest day."

This was all really cool to learn, and yet so confusing. It was getting hard to follow everything I had learned over the past few days. It was hard to believe that it was less than a week ago that I discovered magic, and yet I was right in the heart of well... everything.

Suddenly, Thalia spoke, "Hey, what's that cool, white stone in the back do?" I looked behind me and into the still open cabinet, full of crystals, and could see a beautiful hazy, pearl white, stone, about a square foot in area. Calibri pulled it out and set it on the table.

"It's said to show your deepest desires, but I could never get enough magic to make it work." I then picked up the red stone, and placed it right next to the white stone. Calibri touched it, and suddenly a picture of a beautiful, almost human woman showed on the screen, smiling. Suddenly, the hand stot back from the stone, as if it was flaming hot, but I knew that wasn't it. As quick as it had appeared, the woman disappeared.

"Some say it's a blessing, and some say it is a curse to see what you know you can't have." He then said. Thalia then stepped up to the stone, and it was probably for the best. I already knew my deepest desire, and I just would have wasted time.

As Thalia put her hand up to the stone, another image appeared. It was of a prison box, like the one we had been in before, in a dark sunlit room, with stone walls on all the sides. I was very confused. Just then, a human stepped into the picture, holding a worn, old captive which he then threw into the cage. As the man stepped back, I saw it was a woman, not only that but Thalia's mother.

"Oh my goodness!" Thalia practically screamed, "Is this real? Is this really happening to my mother?!"

Calibri sighed and put his hand to Thalia's shoulder. "Everything on this stone either has happened or... is happening right now." Tali suddenly pulled back her hand, not able to bare it any longer.

"We have to do something about this!"

"But what? What could we possibly do?" I asked, quietly thinking.

"I don't know?! Just try to fight him like this, see what happens! We can't just stand here and watch, though!"

I looked at Calibri, and he, himself, shook his head. "You know, I don't really have that much to teach you. I'm real good at hunting, but not really fighting. If you have a chance to save someone you love now, then take it."

"Just, are you sure?" I asked, I protested, "What if we do lose, what if we do die?"

"Then it'll be fine, major changes don't start happening to a person before the third, maybe second death. Just, the one main piece of advice I have is to fight hard, strong, fast, and dirty. If you can stab in the chest, stab in the chest, not the legs. Gentleman's rules are for gentlemen."

They didn't know Thalia had already died once, what would happen if she died again? I sighed. There was no way out of this, no way I couldn't let her take the risk. I loved her, I just didn't know which way I could show it.

Then, before I knew it, I had gathered up all the artifacts and started walking out the door. As we were about to close his door, Calibri stopped us. "Wait, one more thing, Alexander. Time travel is a messy thing, so don't try to confirm your universe to exactly what you want. Time wants to happen and will always find a way to compromise, whether that being you made one food print in the mud someplace different so the one you made last time doesn't exist, or that you saved someone who was supposed to die, so someone else, be him a good person or a bad person, had to die."

I nodded, and with that, I left Calibri's house, forever, for the first time