DISCLAIMER: I do not own Crono Thrigger or
the characters, just the plot in this
story.
The
Death of Kings
Part I
Chapter I
BY
D A R T H V A D E
R
"....And tell him....he'd better stay alive!" the Cook uttered just
as he sped back down to the kitchen. Crono smirked.
"C'mon, Crono, let's bring this stuff to the bridge!" said
Marle.
"That would be advisable. Organic nourishment is essential to
sustain the life of other organic lifeforms," said Robo.
Marle looked at R66-Y. "We're gonna have to work on your people
skills," she said, and laughed a care-free laugh.
Lucca stood there with the hunk of meat in her hands. "This's the
biggest beef jerky I've ever seen in my life," she contemplated.
"That is only logical. It is designed to feed an entire batallion of
troops," Robo reasoned.
"Let's go!" said Marle.
Crono led the group through Guardia Forest, and the four young warriors
raced toward Zenan Bridge.
"Sir Crono, is that food for us?" the Knight Captain asked
anxiously. Crono nodded. "Then we're saved! Thank you, Sir Crono!"
Crono passed the beef jerky to the Captain. He tore off a chunk, and
passed the rest along to his other troops. The salty taste of the meat seemed
to revitalize the troops instantly.
"Take an offensive formation!" said the Captain. Everyone got
up and went into position. The Captain handpicked the four weakest soldiers out
of the bunch and pulled them out to guard their end of the bridge.
"Attack!!" he ordered.
The Knights of the Square Table rushed unto the bridge and toward Magus's
troops. Their batallion, from this distance, seemed to be commanded by a giant
pickle.
"Sir Crono," said the Knight Captain, "Would you do us the
honor of helping fend off the Magus's troops?" Crono looked at his three
compadres. They all nodded. He looked back to the Captain and nodded too.
"Thank you so much!" said the Captain. "Here, take this. You'll
probably need it." He took off his helmet, made of solid gold, and gave it
to Crono. "I'll be fine. I can use one of the extra steel helmets we have
in storage," he added, responding to some worried glances from Marle and
Lucca.
Crono thanked the Knight and donned the helmet. He led his friends toward
the Guardia knights, who were getting slaughtered by a bunch of skeletons. As
they approached, the giant pickle advanced as well.
Crono and Company arrived just as the last of the knights was killed. The
pickle got there a second later. "I'm Ozzie, Magus's second-in-command.
Either get killed by my troops, or SCAT!" he warned. Crono stood his
ground. An evil smile extended across Ozzie's face. "Then Skeletons,
attack!!"
Not only did the skeletons surviving from the previous battle attack, but
the corpses of some of the Knights of the Square Table got up and started
advancing as well.
"Ewwww, that's gross!!" said Marle, and she fired her crossbow
at the attackers. Some arrows got lodged in the zombies' chests, but it didn't
hinder them.
"Looks like we need some more fire power!" said Lucca. She
fired off blasts from her gun and blew the heads off two zombies. Their
remaining bodies fell hard onto the wooden floor. "Bingo!!" she
shouted victoriously.
Robo stood still for a moment. Lucca could tell he was making some
advanced calculations for a battle plan or something.
"I have configured the most efficient plan for attack," he
finally said.
"Then do it!!" said Marle.
"Then you may want to get down," said Robo. Crono, Lucca, and
Marle all dropped to the floor. Robo nodded in satisfaction and lifted his
arms. Parts of his metallic outer body plating shifted around, revealing
nozzles of some sort. He spun around. Purplish lasers fired from the nozzles
and the Undead were being emersed in some kind of radiation.
After a moment, Robo stopped spinning and his body plating reverted to
its original positioning. The zombies were coming in faster now.
Ozzie burst out laughing. "You idiot," he said, "These
things are all undead. Whatever that was you just did was shadow magic! Undead
things get stronger when they're hit with shadow magic!"
Robo's three friends got back up and they all resumed fighting
vigorously. Before long, all the zombies and skeletons were laying in pieces on
the wood, despite Ozzie's constant mocking laughter.
"Whew," said the pickle once the hysteria finally left his
system, "These wimps're stronger than I thought."
The four of them chased Ozzie all the way to the other side of the
bridge, massacreing skeletons and the like on the way.
"This's the end of the line, Buster!!" said Lucca.
"There is no way out," said Robo.
That smirk swept Ozzie's face again. He lifted his arms and suddenly
yelled, "Zombor!! Attack!!"
The bones lying all over the floor around them came up off the ground and
started reassembling themselves into one big monstrosity.
"Have fun!" said Ozzie, and he ran away like a rabbit.
"What the heck is THAT thing?!" Marle shouted.
"It's a big skeleton monster-thingy," said Lucca. "We'd
better do something about it before it kills us," she added.
The monster pranced about the area where the grass of the land met the
wood of the bridge, occasionally shooting out some kind of attack here and
there. These attacks weren't particularly damaging, and the group attacked
Zombor like they did any normal monster.
Then, when they least expected it, when the legs of the monster were on
the verge of destruction, Zombor shouted, "Doom, doom, doom, doom..."
over and over again, and energy began collecting in the creature's midsection.
A giant laser blast finally slammed out of it and engulfed the four heroes,
vaporizing them before they had a chance to blink.