Disclaimer: Nope...I don't own Chrono Cross. Wish I did. No, scratch that, I wish I owned Serge. *Eyes flutter* Serge...

Found Ya Mate

Serge made his way down to Opassa Beach. He felt that this was an important place for him to be. The blue-haired boy took his boots off and buried his feet in the warm sand.

A girl with bright smile and blonde hair flitted through his mind. Serge blinked. What in the world? He walked over to the middle of the beach and looked down. There in the tiny grains of sand was a brown pouch.

He didn't pick it up, just simply stared at it. He'd seen it before, he knew that but where? He saw it at...no that wasn't right. How about...no! Serge fell to his knees and gripped his head, fighting to remember.

"Hey Masa?"

"Yes, Mune?"

"Seems like master is having a hard time. Should we help him out?"

Serge looked around, startled. Where were the voices coming from?

"Well...I don't know..." Serge looked down at his swallow that was laying in the sand. It was vibrating.

"'Ey, master..." The swallow shot up in the air and floated in front of Serge's face. He scrambled back away from it. What was happening? Serge rubbed his eyes to make sure he was seeing correctly. Surprisingly, he was...

"W-what do you want? Who-what are you?" Serge asked. The two voices chuckled.

"We are the Masamune. Glad to be of service. It seems like you've forgotten us too..."

"M-masamune...?" Serge repeated, dumbly..He really thought he was going crazy. He was talking to a SWALLOW! That wasn't something he did everyday...

"Yup!" The swallow tipped forward as if it were bowing. "Anyway, do you remember Kid?"

Serge looked down and tried to remember. He saw the brown pouch still sitting there innocently. He picked it up and looked back up at the Masamune. "Does she have something to do with this thing?"

"Yessiry!" Masa said cheerfully. "Well? Do you remember her?"

Serge shook his head.

"Would you like to remember?" Mune asked.

Serge glanced down at the pouch and saw the girl with blonde hair run through his mind again. "If I did, would it take away the pain I'm feeling right now?" He questioned quietly.

"Possibly...it might not work, though..."

Serge sighed. There was actually nothing for him to do here. If it didn't work, then everything would be like it was now. If it did work, he could have a purpose...something to look forward to... Serge smiled weakly and nodded.

*~~~*~~~*

The small boat lurched from side to side. Kid stirred when a wave crashed down on her.

"Huh...?" Kid shot up in a sitting position and looked around. She was in the middle of a storm. "Dammit!" Kid stood up and looked at the mast. It was cracked right down the middle.

Kid was so devastated, she stomped on the bottom of the boat Bad move because when she lifted her foot, a fountain of water shot up in the air. "Shit!" There was nothing for her to do left except use the rudder.

Another a wave slammed on top of Kid. She smashed into the broken mast and the wood sunk deeply into her side. Kid sucked in her breath in pain and yanked it out. Her vision started to get blurry and blood flowed freely from her injury. Kid staggered to the rudder and steered it away the churning waters.

Water from the hole Kid put into the boat was filling the bottom of the boat up and slowly dragging it down into the depths of the sea. The blonde had nothing else to plug up the hole and she was in trouble. Yet another wave collided into the side of her boat and this time tipped it over. Kid took a deep breath and grabbed her dagger out from the slit.

She went under and swam back underneath the flipped boat. At least she had some shelter from the storm. Though, because blood was steadily seeping into the salty water, her strength was leaving her. Kid fought to keep her head above the water, then she heard a large rumbling noise.

Outside her shelter, a wave was rapidly swelling to about fifty feet high in the air. It began to fall over itself and plummeted at top speed in Kid's direction. Within thirty seconds, it fell on top of Kid's overturned boat.

The wood exploded into a million pieces and floated in all different directions. On a semi-large piece of debris, Kid clung to it for dear life. She knew the she wasn't going to last much longer. Kid slowly closed her eyes and an image of Serge replaced what was left of her chance reaching him.

"Serge..." She whispered and one tear rolled down her cheek as she slid off her makeshift raft and into the water.

*~~~*~~~*

"Master, this will hurt." Masa warned Serge, who was now standing up and facing his weapon.

"I'll chance it," Serge said shrugging.

"Okay..." The swallow began to glow a brilliant red and shot out at Serge and engulfed him completely. Serge screamed as memories flooded back in his mind like water would rush through a broken dam.

"I am Fate!"

"I'll kick your arse so hard, you'll kiss the moons!"

"Now go get my Komodo scales!"

"I can take you there..."

"You're just gonna let her die?"

"Hate to break it to you, but Lynx is your father, Wazuki."

"T'ink of moi, Serge!"

"The Dragon's Tear?"

"You're not Serge! Get outta here!"

"She was sorta like my sister..."

"Ahoy, mateys! Make yourselves at home!"

"Vait! I vould like to come join you."

"Marcy?"

"Dario..."

"Serge?"

"Kid!!!!"

Serge collapsed in the sand, tears streaming silently down his face, pain still throbbing in his veins. So that was Kid...everybody...How could he have forgotten? "Kid..."

A girl with red hair peeked out from behind a tree, crying also. "So that's why you turned me down, Serge." She said loud enough for him to hear.

Serge looked up at her and went to stand. "Leena I..." She ran up to him and kissed him fiercely on the mouth. She pulled away, leaving Serge stunned, and slapped him.

"I love you...and you leave me for some other girl? How could you? How–"

Serge shut her up with an icy glare. "You love me? Yea right, always pushing me around, not taking any notice of what I want to do. You just think of yourself, so no you don't love me. I don't love you. We don't love each other."

Leena opened her mouth to say something but only a choked sob came out. She gave Serge a last meaningful look and ran off. Serge turned and picked up the Masamune and put the pouch around his neck.

"Let's go to the other world."