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It had been 3 long years since the fall of Lavos.
Guardia and Porre were making peace, after a 10 month long conflict.
Crono and Princess Nadia had become married. Crono was now King, and busy to his eyeballs with peace talks and negotiations. Crono's mother is still searching for Crono's father, whom ran out on her years ago. No luck yet. That will change soon.
Lucca had opened up an orphanage, and already had 3 children in her care, funding recieved from Guardia's treasury.
Frog - oh, excuse me, Glenn - had reverted to human. It had taken a quest to locate a means of curing him, but in the end, it had succeeded. He returned to Guardia Castle, to continue as a knight of Guardia.
Ayla and Kino married. And Kino had hammered Ayla like a professional construction project. Ayla had just given birth to a fourth child, and it wouldn't be long before they went to work on yet another. Some even suspected that Kino had been tapping it before Lavos even came.
Robo returned to the 2300s, but no less than ½ a year had passed before he showed up on Lucca's doorstep, means of time travel unexplained. He was currently assisting Lucca in running the orphanage.
Melchior still sells weapons. Gaspar still mans his post at the End of Time. Balthasar is putting together a project known simply as 'Project Kid' with the military organizations of the 2300s.
But this story isn't about these people.
This story centers on Janus Zeal, later the Magus of the Mystics, of 600 A.D...and later still, the Prophet of 12,000 B.C.
For three years he's been looking for his sister, Schala Zeal, scouring the planet. She is not there. He doesn't know this. Yet. But a side-dalliance of his trips thru time is about to cause him - and the timeline - serious problems.
Janus came upon a cave, in the 12,000's B.C., shaking the snow and cold off his cape. He snarled, wiping snow from the top of his head. He'd come to the cave following rumors. Rumors of a 'Hole thru time'. He had 2 years prior mastered a form of magic to let him forcibly open the gates once more, for himself alone. But this particular one was not a great boon to Janus.
It was a Red Gate.
Lucca had been thru one of these. Research into them showed them to have unstable apertures. It was unknown what time a red gate would take you to. It was unknown if both sides of the gate would even remain functional for any decent time.
So, naturally, the Zealian warlock threw his caution to the wind, opened the gate, and stepped thru, not taking a look back. 12,000 BC did not contain his sister. Where-ever this gate went, he would search there now.
Unfortunatly for Janus, this particular gate opened almost 100 feet above Gina Turigga's house, circa 982 A.D., just past Midnight. Janus had just enough time to wince, as he crashed thru the roof, landing in the upstairs guest bedroom's bed. The door burst open, Miss Turigga bringing a lantern in. Upon seeing the wounded man in her home, she approached, frowning, looking at the hole in the roof, sighing, before replying lowly, "Well...at least you dropped in on a nice clear night, Mister."
END OF CHAPTER 1
