Schala stood at the base of the stairs that led to her mother's throne. Queen Zeal sat with her a pale crossed leg exposed. She wore a long silken dress of emerald and her eyes gleamed with intensity.

"Daugther. Darling. I have freed more of your time so you may work more on the creature Lavos. I have not seen enough headway made so I have been forced to do this… Try hard for your mother… and Janus?" Her eyes steeled over as she looked at her youngest offspring. "You must make sure to leave your sister alone. She has work to do." He nodded his head and glanced to his sister who was overly tense. It bothered him that he never got to spend time with her any more. Not since mother had found Lavos.

"If you'll excuse me then…" Janus left Schala standing before mother and wandered the halls aimlessly until he wound up at the door of Gaspar.

"Come in boy. Don't just stand there…" Gaspar's voice rang through the solid oak door. How did he hear me? He opened the door and eyes the room. He's only been in it a few times and it always looked different to him… it wasn't until he saw an odd egg on the table that shivers ran down his back and legs though. "Don't touch it boy." Creepy old man

"I didn't touch it." He was one of five people that could get away with talking to him like Gaspar did. Those were his mother, sister and the other two Guru's, Balthezar and Melchior.

"But you were going to… Magic is always more appealing to boys that do not master magic." The old man all but jumped out at him from behind a towering bookcase. "Balthezar tells me you have been neglecting your studies in magic…" The old wrinkled face grinned. "That is because he is a boring old windbag… I will teach you magic… You will need it."

"I don't see the point… Schala knows enough about magic and then some… I'll just get her help when I need it." The man tried to hit him with a book, but Janus dodged and smacked into the table cradling the odd egg.

"Your sister will not always be there to protect you boy. Be a man and fend for yourself… and don't touch the egg!"

"Stop yelling at me you old woman! You are always bickering!" Gaspar laughed with his head tilted back until the coughed. "I won't touch the egg!"

"Boys are terrible liars…" He grinned and shoved the very same book he'd tried to hit the prince with into his hands. "Take this… You will want to learn magic after you read this… everyone does." Janus stare at the book which was a simple maroon leather bound book. On it's cover was six color circles in Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Black and White.

"I wasn't lying... and I won't read it." Gaspar had tossed Janus out faster than he would have thought and found himself standing outside the door with the book in his hands anyways. Janus opened the book into a random page and read the spell set into writing there.

"You should read it, prince." Janus spun around and almost died of a heart attack.

"Who are you to tell me what to do? I am the Prince of Zeal and I do not take to demands!" The cloaked figure stood compeltely still and said nothing for a moment.

"I am sure you do not. But a time may come when simply being the Prince of Zeal will to little to aid you..." The man pointed a finger at the book and it's pages turned while flapping when they stopped at a page near the middle. "This spell I think would help you well. It is a spell of defence, but it can also cause harm... " The blue cloak shifted and in the man's hand was a small iron figurine. A flash of black light and warm air passed Janus' face as he watched the figurine suddenly vanish into a small black spiraling vortex before dissapearing.

"That was so cool..." Beneath the cloak the man smiled. "But who are you really? I've never seen you before."

"You may call me the Prophet. I am here on your mother's demand... to tell her the price her actions will have on the future... I am here to change history from being destroyed." Janus cringed and closed the book.

"I will call you no such thing... and if history is to change, let it change. if the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If fate is to be destoryed... I must simply laugh..." Janus turned and walked away without saying goodbye to the mysterious man.

"... and how do you know if you are changing the future?" The blue cloak coiled around his feet as he came face to face with Schala, Princess of Zeal.

"It already has... perhaps in a small way... but already it has..." Schala grinned and the man bowed out and left her to her own devices. She heard him mutter "I am coming, Lavos..." under his breathe and her smile faded at seeing her brother grown. She could not tell him that she knew who he was... it could affect the Chrono Trigger and this the Chrono Break... for now she could only watch as time moved onward with her at the cruix of it all.

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Again Rigan sat with her computer in her hands. Next to her was her brother Karsh who was equaly glued to the laptop before them both.

"You want to play God Eater later?" Karsh answered with a nod and Rigan continued with her computer despite an ache that was forming in the small of her back.

In Rigan's purse were two game devices. An older model silver DS and a hacked PSP 3000. The program used to hack the PSP was called 'Prometheus' and had been her gateway to the Japanese game industry when they refused to bring games to the American side of the had also been one of many coinsidences that had marked her and her siblings as the Chrono Break. Placed into a digital slumber were the remains of two intigral events that Schala had seen and ensured its passage into the future beyond the events of Serge and the Chorno Cross. The first of the two pieces that could help spell the inevitable demise of Lavos was the Computer FATE which had been intergrated into the World Wide Web as a Spyware program. The other had been removed from FATE and become the foundation for the program of the same name, which was a PSP hacking program.

Her brother laptop suddenly began to emit music from a game they had grown up playing. The game was called Chrono Cross and had been a favorite of them both. Another event to place them as parts of the Chrono Break.

Though still unaware that they are part of a global planetary and time bent event, Rigan flicked her PSP on, green light flashing and then holding a solid green saying the battery was fully charged.

"Time to kill the Prathvi Mata..."

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Back in Zeal and within the confines of his room sat the General Dalton. He stopped mid step and paused with his head tilted slighty upward.

"Not again..." He paced his room in seach of the odd music that would randomly infest this particular room. It had been happening more more with every passing week and now it was happening every day. "I just want to nap in peace... can't you at least play something better?" The music in his room suddenly changed as if on comman. "... Better..."

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Lucca sat with her hands in her lap while numbers scrolled over her computer screen. Her purple hair and glasses being no more a sign of indiviudality than having five fingers per hand. She grunted as once again her screen went black. The words she least wanted to see flashed over her screen.

:SYSTEM REBOOT REQUIRED

:SYSTEM FAIL

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:CHANGES TO FATE CANNOT BE SAVED. PROGRAM IN USE.

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"Dammit..." Lucca stood and left the computer for another and navigated the computer from the backdoor. "You always were a finicky machine..."

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Another genuis sat at computer with her hands at work. She paused long enough to listen to the voice of her mentor instruct her on the purpose of FATE... when the lights blew out all together while trying to save the new changes to the Prometheus Circut.

"Oh no..." Luccia ran over and heavy clicking noise insued as she tried to bring FATE back up and running. "Come on... Come one!" Suddenly the lights flashed back on and the screen from before changed.

:CHANGES SAVED

:WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTINUE?

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