Pieces of Time

It was a sunday. I was with my little brother walking through the show grounds. We had to push our way through the crowd just to reach the only ride my brother had wanted to go on. The carousel. He had really wanted to ride a certain one. It was a blue dragon. We waited in line. The moment it was our turn, my little brother rushed for it. I got onto the one next to him. It was a red phoenix. The ride started. Everything was normal. The normal music. The normal bobbing up and down. It got faster and faster. The world began to blur. The carousel slowed down. As we got off, I looked around. There was no longer a crowd of people dressed in jeans, bordies, singlets and tees. Instead it was a crowd of people dressed in rags and robes. I picked my brother and walked over to the closest person.
"Excuse me, can you tell me where we are?" I asked. The man stared in confusement.
"Non Capisco" he finally said.
"Excuse me?" the man takes a step back and calls out something. Guards come rushing towards us. I raise my free hand up. Holding swords at our backs, we are taken to a large mansion. Inside, we are thrown in to a cell. My brother runs towards the bars and starts to shake them.
"Jonathan!" I hiss. My brother stops and runs back over to me, sitting in my lap. I lean agains the dirty wall and think. Mansions, rags and robes, guards with swords in the streets. It seemed like old Rome. I looked down at my brother and sighed. Without the carousel, we were trapped in time. And judging by the date on the newspaper the guard was reading, the black plague would hit soon. Jonathan tugs at my sleeves.
"Yes?" I ask.
"That dragons name, what was it?" he whispered. I closed my eyes and tried to remember.
"Time. His name was time" I whispered back "Why?"
"I'm curious. Look through the window" I did as he asked. Outside was a blue dot moving swiftly in the sky, followed by a red glow.
"I wonder what they are"
"They are the pieces of time. The phoenix you rode was named Pieces" he smiled.
"So we are trapped in time for all eternity unless we can find Pieces and Time. And we have to do that before the plague hits"
"Yep" I cursed. Leaning against the wall, I closed my eyes and began thinking of an escape plan.