A Death Trap.

This takes place between Cleo's recent posts, before we looked at the plans, and after she went back and got the ghost power from maddie.

We'd gone back to the library to see if we could dig anything else up now we knew what we were looking for, but something was horribly wrong.
Our friends had gone for a drink in the hotel bar before we left, just orange juce, coke, that sort of thing, and had a chat about how we were doing, I had been making calls home to see how everyone was getting on, so I didn't go, Cleo had had business with linda, so they'd missed it, but everyone else was there, and having a good time just chatting and relaxing, which they all deserved, I can't remember the last time I did that!

So we all went to the library, and were looking through books, when nearly everyone started groaning, Me, Linda and Cleo were the only ones not clutching our chests in agony. Damian closed his eyes, concentrating, and I could see he was using his healing power, because he suddenly smiled, and stopped retching. Healthbar staggered to a window, where sunlight shone brightly on her face, and she smiled with relief as she healed! There was nothing we could do for the others. They all died, violently and suddenly, and we could only look on in horror.

Cleo and Healthbar tried to resurrect and heal them, but nothing happened. 'So Sorry' said a smug, raspy voice, as Death appeared from behind a bookshelf 'Your power over life is blocked, as are all of your powers, Tavara. All the ones I know about and can find anyway.' Me and Damian tried too, I discovered behind my back so Death couldn't see, that I could still make Vortexes, Death didn't know I had that power, but everything else was blocked. Damian couldn't do anything either. We were all stuck in place, as Death strode around, and stopped infront of Linda. 'I've had quite enough of you' He said 'No hanging around this time, that's when you people escape. He slashed a finger at her, and she screamed and collapsed to the floor, bleeding, and died too. I was in tears by this time, I couldn't believe some of my friends were dead, I gave them powers, I brought them into this, it was my fault. Healthbar was being more practical, frowning and eyes rolling, as if feeling for something inside her. Death went off to grab a book, and Healthbar turned to me 'He only blocked my Life and Death part of my power, he doesn't know they come from the Sun and Moon, I still have Solar and Lunar energy. If I'm right about part of it, I can do something.'
She looked at Cleo 'Can you still use Augmentation? He wasn't there when you got it, that was from John's lackey, and he probably hasn't been told. I can't do this alone.' Cleo raised a hand, and after concentrating hard, made red energy surge across it. 'Yep. Why?'

'Gimme' Said Healthbar 'And everyone grab hold of me.' We all did, Cleo gave her a power boost, and Healthbar closed her eyes, and muttered 'Sun, Moon, Sun, Moon Sun Moon SunMoon SunMoon SunMoonSunMoonSunMoonSunMoonSunMoonSunMoon!' And outside, the sunbeams slowlywithdrew, changing angle, and withdrawing. 'Our powers are weakened, I can't do as much as I should be able to, there not moving much, and Cleo's Augmentation isn't full, but we should get a few hours.' The light faded completly, replaced by darkness, and Healthbar started sweating, and had to stop. We fell away from each other, the four of us landing on the floor. 'What happened?' Damian asked, getting up. 'That felt like time travel!' 'I think it was.' I said, helping Cleo to her feet. Healthbar got up, and looked at the window. 'Right, a few hours back, I think it's about six in the morning, so we've gone four hours back. And now we're stuck inside a closed Library. Damn.'
'No problem' I said, grabbing her hand, as Damian did the same to Cleo 'Now we're away from Death, all our powers work again.' And we pulled the girls through the wall into the street outside. 'By the way, kudos on the time travel. That was Awesome. You're awesome.' She smiled appreciatively. We ran to the hotel, and hid ourselves in the bar, Damian making us all invisible.

Half an hour later, Death walked into the bar, and hid below it. Cleo went for him then, but we had to hold him back. 'If he never even tries to kill them, then we have no reason to come bcak and stop him!'
An hour after that, a man came in, dressed as a Bar tender, and stood behind the counter, while having a conversation with the man below him. We closed in a bit, and heard some of the conversation.

'Why like this, Sir?'
'Not my usual method, of course, but they're never in small enough groups, and it's hard even for me when there are lots of people.'
'Ah. You're a genius Sir'
'I know that you fool, now shut up'

Our friends came in, including Healthbar and Damian or a few hours ago. Past Healthbar tilted her head slightly, frowning, then shrugged and sat down.'
'Oh" said our Healthbar, nodding wisely 'I thought I detected a strong lifeforce like mine, but I was confused. I'm Detecting me!' 'SHhhhh!'

Playwrite and Past Damian went up to get drinks, and from our position we could see Death sweating, trying to hide his thoughts from Playwrite. The barman went to do the drinks, and our friend returned to their seats. The barmen went through a door at the back to get some ice. and Death snuck in with him. 'Damian, freeze time, and bring us in with you.' I said, and he did.

We went back to the kitchen to see Death had opened a bottle that had liquid pouring from it. I made a Vortex, and sucked up the bottle, destroying it, and we replaced the bottle with one of water. I waved my hand over it, and filled it with some liquid of my own. 'What's that?' Cleo asked, staring at me. 'Sap from an Amazonian tree' I said. 'It makes the drinker feel ill and fall asleep for a few minutes, but they're fine when they wake up. Earth/Nature manipulation lets me make it. Something has to happen to our friends, or we won't try and save them.'

We went back to the library and restarted time.It soon opened, and we hid on the other side of the large room as our past selves came in. We saw Death follow, and hide between us and them. We watched events unfold, and as soon as our past selves vanished we moved in. Death had seen us vanish and Screamed, returning to where we'd been with the book he'd wanted to show us. 'NOOO! You stupid...stupid...Harry Potters! With your many tricks and vanishing acts and always, always getting away!'
'Expelliarmus' I said, behind him. He spun round, and Cleo leapt on him, Threats flying from her. Healthbar went and resurrected Linda, and me and Damian went to look at our other friends, who were starting to wake up, groggy but fine. There was a scream and a small explosion, and Cleo flew past us, landing on a bookshelf, as Death ran out of the door. We couldn't find him, so we went back to look at the plans. That's about it. I just thought I should write it up before Healthbar described her power, because it might have ruined it.