Disclaimer: Chrono Trigger doesn't belong to me. If it did,
Flea would be a main character. I'm not making any money of this.
Don't sue, please?
Author's notes: This is Yaoi! Male/male relationships that is.
Also contains some graphis violence and sexual acts. Hints at non-con
sex as well. This isn't betaed. Oh yeah, Magus might seem a bit
OOC. I was trying to portray his inner despair over loosing
Schala.
Magus looked up from his book to see Lucca shiver. He smiled slightly, knowing very well that being stuck in a cold room in the basement of Guardia Castle was the last thing the scientist wanted, especially with him as a companion. The King has ushered them down there, to make a wedding gift for Crono and Marle. Lucca had come up with an idea for a gift but she wasn't sure how to do it.
Not that Magus cared. He had only accepted so that he could have a look at the Castle Library. After all, what did Crono and Marle mean to him? Nothing, really. All that mattered to him was Schala. Hopefully, one of these books would contain clues as to how he could re-open the Gates and rescue her. He closed his eyes, taking a brief break. Too much reading could be bad for him.
His eyes snapped open again quite soon, though, as Lucca kicked her invention, hurting her foot in the process. "Stupid piece of junk!" She spat, glaring at the heap of metal. Magus snickered. "What did that pile of shrapnel do to you?" he asked, something he knew was a snide tone obvious in his voice. Lucca turned her glare at him, but Magus wasn't affected. He had received those kinds of glares from Flea all the time.
Magus shook his head and wondered why he had been thinking so much about the past lately. He started to seem pathetic, even to himself. With another shake of his head, he turned his head back to the book he had been reading.
It was an old book. In fact, if Magus' mind wasn't deluding him, it seemed to be from Zeal. The style of the cover was one often used in Zeal, and it was an odd dept to it. It wasn't uncommon for scribes in Zeal to put protection spells on their books. That did explain how it could have survived for so long.
Magus smiled faintly at the memory. Today seemed to be a day of remembering. He turned the page slowly, feeling oddly dizzy. Suddenly noticing how little light there was in the room, he called upon a small ball of magical light. He started reading, not knowing what to expect.
Suddenly, he noticed something that could be what he was looking for. Shivering in anticipation, he started reading the next paragraph.
"To control the flow of time," was the headline. Magus read on, wondering if he had found what he had been looking for such a long time. "To accomplish this, you must find a member of the Banished Ones, one who is gifted with magic, and you must bind this Banished One to you by the ritual described below. Use then the Banished One's energy to fuel your strength and cast the spell below this text."
Magus read through the text again. And again. "So close" He whispered. "So very close" He threw the book into the opposing wall with all his strength. "And then I can't do it!" he growled. A small sound next to him reminded him that Lucca was still in the room. She was looking rather pale by now. Magus ignored her and stormed out, still furious with everything.
As he entered his house, a small hut he had bought on a remote island, he picked up the closest thing he could find, a chair, and threw it into a wall. It shattered with a satisfying crash. More furniture followed the chair, flying in every direction and shattering on the walls. Finally, there was no more furniture left in the house.
Magus dropped to his knees in the middle of the mess that had been his interior once, and buried his face in his hands. "Schala," he whispered, " Why did you have to leave me all alone?" He looked up against the ceiling. "I'm so lonely without you. I don't know what to do." Tears started running down his face, and he longed so badly for his sister. "I'm afraid, Schala. I don't want to feel like this anymore. I need you to here with me! I need you"
""
Outside, the sky opened and rain started to pour down.
~ TBC