Hello, everyone! Thanks for reading my first story! ... So yeah, go ahead.

~Disclaimer~ I do not own Dark Cloud 2 or any of the characters in Dark Cloud 2.

Max was a young boy, no older than 13 wearing a workperson's clothes and carrying an overlarge wrench a small handgun, and also wearing a necklace with a red stone on it. Standing next to him was a girl named Monica. Monica was a young girl, also 13 with long hair held back in a ponytail. She had a sheathed sword on her back and was wearing a bracelet on both arms but one had a shiny blue stone.

Max and Monica were sitting on the edge of the a train cruising through the forest talking and savoring the fact that they just got rid of Flotsam the clown who tried to kill them just five minutes previously...

Flashback

Cecil yells "Max, you have to throw bombs at him to get rid of him!" Max then yells back "O.K. pass me the bombs!" Max then threw the bomb at Flotsam sitting in his vehicle, and to his mild surprise it hit flotsam spot on. Max then sent two more bombs flying trough the air toward Flotsam and Flotsam's vehicle exploded, sending him through the air at the train and lands on the freight car in front of Max. Flotsam yells at Max "You haven't won quite yet!" Then Flotsam rips off his jacket (EEEeeeewww) revealing TONS of TNT but behind Flotsam was a small redhead that yelled "No you don't!" The redhead ran up and in mid jump turned into a girl about Max's age and slashed at all the ropes connecting the TNT to Flotsam and the TNT flew away off the train and blew up. The girl ran up and slashed at flotsam sending him flying far far behind the train. The girl turned to Max and said "Hi, I'm Monica."

End Flashback

Monica had finished telling Max about how the atlamillia (the stones that they are wearing) can send people through time, being how she got here from the future, 100 years to be exact. A little after she said that his is red and hers is blue the train hit a small bump sending Max and Monica flying through the air into the forest. They both awoke shortly after laying down and noticed that they didn't have their atlamillia with them. Max took out his wrench and Monica drew her sword.

They ran down the only open path they saw and kept going for about 30 minutes until they came up upon a clearing. They hesitated for a moment and then they stepped forward. Immediately as they entered, vines flew up at the entrance to the clearing. They looked back at the vines and then the earth trembled beneath them. They stared at the center of the arena and a huge menacing- looking tree came out of the ground. Eyeballs popped out of the trunk and a mouth opened up. Max yelled in surprise, but Monica merely slashed at it. The tree noticing her slashing used a branch and smacked her away and she fell out of consciousness.

Max looked and became angry at the tree for swatting away his new friend, so he ran up and bashed away at the tree. It kept swatting him away, but he kept getting up and attacking it. Then the tree smacked him clean in the face and white lines popped in his vision. He felt himself slipping in and out of consciousness. He fell to the ground with a thud. Almost as soon as he fell he opened his eyes because he had to fight. As he got up he felt a sick feeling in his stomach and threw up all over the ground, but stayed on his feet. Then, he saw Monica run past him and got the tree right in its eye. The tree shrieked in pain and turned on the spot. Max, relieved sat on the ground and laid down, because he knew that Monica wouldnt stop attacking it until it was completely dead. He saw, as the tree was frenziedly running and shrieking it ran right into Monicas sword, which was held out in front of her. It screamed in agony and fell to the ground. It started to fade away and disappear.

Max got up and said "Thanks, I thought I was done fore back there. Dont mention it." replied Monica. " Here. She handed him some bread and water and he felt a bit better. Then they walked deeper into the forest. The trees were beginning to get thicker so light was becoming increasingly thin. Then when they were so deep in the forest they must have been in the very heart they saw a dim blue shimmer and a dim red shimmer. The atlamillia! Monica yelled.

Max ran forward to grab them when a harsh rumbling occurred. Max began to say wha- when a huge stone golem popped out of the ground. It looked around quite stupidly then it saw Max right near him and smashed at him. Max yelled AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! and franticly started to run around. Max! Monica yelled. Shoot at that green crystal! Max looked up so quick it gave him whiplash. He merely grunted as he kept searching for the green crystal. Then Max spotted it at the center of the golems stomach. He pulled his gun out and shot clean at the crystal. It chipped and the golem doubled over, apparently in pain. Max then took the wrench and smacked it right between the eyes. It grunted loudly, probably the only way it could express pain, and ran straight for Monica, who dodged it very dexterously. She then stabbed it right in the crystal, shattering it. It was just sitting there for a moment and then fell apart into many rocks and boulders.

Whew sighed Max That was weird. Yeah weird said Monica, a searching look on her face. There! she suddenly yelled. Then Max saw the two atlamillia, oddly unscathed considering the fact that hundreds of rocks just fell all over them. Hehehe Max and Monica looked around for the source of the ominous laugh. Then turned back and saw a figure, indistinguishable due to it being pitch black. Monica drew her sword and Max took out his wrench with looks of wanting to utterly kill the figure. It swooped down, touched each of the atlamillia, and disappeared.

Whoa, Max said as he put his wrench away. That was weird too. Yeah. Said Monica, re-sheathing her sword. Max walked over and grabbed the atlamillia, then walked back. Here. Said Max handing her the atlamillia. Then as she grabbed it, it merged with the atlamillia in his own hand and turned purple. They stared at it as they both held it, frozen with shock. Then a purple orb began to form around it. The orb expanded at a slowish speed until it engulfed them both. Then something registered in Maxs mind: nothing good will happen out of this. As soon as he could say something, they disappeared, seemingly into thin air.

Bleh. Not too good, not too bad right? Eh they'll gat better after chapter 2, so look forward to that.

~Disclaimer~ I do not own Dark Cloud 2 or any of the characters in Dark Cloud 2.