Crono awoke with a start. He stared around the darken room, only to see Nadia sleeping peacefully next to him. The moonlight pounded down on his face like a ghostly light. He sighed and sat down at the edge of the bed. He jerked when he felt Nadia's arms wrap around his chest, and rested her head on his back.

"Did you have that dream again…?" she asked sheepishly. He shoved her hands away and walked downstairs without saying a word.

He walked down to the Kitchen, and searched through the larders. He walked over to the tables carrying an armful of food. He was halfway through a small chicken when Nadia came in. His eyes looked down at the floor the moment he saw her.

"Crono, please tell me what's wrong…. We've hadn't made love in over four years, you wont even look at me anymore. Am I really so ugly you cannot bare yourself to look at me…?" she asked a bit forcefully. Crono could tell she was on the verge of crying.

"No Nadia, is isn't that…" he started. She sat down across from him and stared at him.

"Then what, please tell me?" she said hopefully. Crono sighed.

"It's a bunch of things…Lavos for one" Nadia quickly covered a laugh.

"It's been twenty years…. I do not know what happen, somehow we were saved when he casted Luminare, but the future changed. We all saw it afterwards. Lavos never destroyed the world, and that's all we were aiming for really. I don't care if he is still alive or not" she said. Crono slammed his fist on the table, causing her to jump.

"YOU…DON'T…CARE?! He CAN come back! Hell even I came back, I'm supposed to be dead!!! Remember?!" he shouted.

"How can I forget?! We all nearly died trying to save you, because we cared about you! Don't you care about that!?!" she retorted.

"AGGGG!!!!" screamed Crono.

"IF I could die, and make sure that Lavos NEVER came here, I'd DO IT! I don't give a damn about your feelings towards me, IF I get the chance again, I'd kill myself to make sure he never comes back!" he shouted. Nadia stared at him.

"…How…. can you say that?" she whimpered. Crono sighed.

"Look, I'm sorry Nadia, but…I still think about killing myself" he said. Nadia gasped.

"…Because Lavos is missing?!? Your thinking of killing yourself over that?!" she said angrily. Crono shook his head.

"No…remember five years ago when we had that big argument over the townspeople being trained for Lavos?" he asked. Nadia nodded. Crono had left the castle and didn't come home until the next day with a hangover.

"…Well I got drunk with Lucca…and" as soon as he started to talk tears began to roll down his face. "..I…I…." he stammered. "I sle….slept…" he tried to say it, but the words wouldn't come out. But it was enough for Nadia.

"you…..slept….with….Lucca?" she said quietly. She wrapped her arms around herself and stared at Crono. Crono stared at the floor,

"I'm so sorry Nadia, I don't know what came over me…Excuse and I'm so ashamed, I couldn't even look at you for the past five years" he said.

"Get out" Nadia said. Crono looked up at her.

"What…?"

"Get….out" she repeated. Crono stared at her for a moment, not moving an inch.

"GET OUT NOW!!!" she screamed. Crono ran out of the room, leaving Nadia to cry.



12000 BC:

Magus watched as he saw Crono fly out to some other time with the epoch. He sighed as he tried to piece together what had happen. All he remembered was being paralyzed with fear as the amount of power Lavos had released, before they had disappeared.

"How were we saved, I doubt he could had been killed from his own attack…" he muttered. He stared around the snowy world from the sky. He didn't even know where to begin. He knew Schala was here, they had searched around here for weeks, without a sign of her. He refused to believe she was killed though.

"…where are you Schala…?" he asked to no one.

"Indeed, where is the slut?". Magus looked behind him, to see a Lavos, in human form.

"…."

"Speechless? I must say, you certainly had changed Magus….you said had your mouth open for more then a second!" Lavos sneered.

"Lavos…." Muttered Magus. Lavos laughed.

"I wished I knew where he was, I'd kill him myself" Lavos, or whatever he was said.

"What!? Your Lavos!" Magus said. The being laughed.

"Please, I could never be that weak. On the contrary, he saved you and your friends from being killed by me" he said. Magus stared at him in shock.

"Then…who are you?!" he shouted. The being laughed,

"Your worst nightmare, though I suppose you all had feared Lavos in the past…I guess you can call me by it…for now. It is as the old saying goes." Lavos said. Magus looked at him strangely, he held his hand behind his back, which was glowing with black energy.

"What old saying…?" he ask calmly, looking at Lavos in the eyes. Lavos laughed.

"Please, that would make your life even more fucked up then it already is, but please, tell me when your done power up that little dark bomb of yours, I'm growing inpatient" Lavos said. Magus looked at him, and stopped his spell.

"How did you know that?" he said in shock.

"You cannot fool a god, but since your so slow, allow me to show you a real Dark Bomb" before Magus could react, Lavos sent out a shadow ball, that pelted Magus in the chest, within seconds it exploded and covered Magus in a veil of shadow, sending bolts of pain in his entire body.

YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Screamed Magus. All the while Lavos stared, a faint smile on his lips while he black eyes glisten with sheer joy of Magus's pain…



Hows for a second chapter? Bad I know….But here comes the announcer!

Will Marle forgive Crono!?

Will Crono forgive himself!?

Will Magus survive?!

Who is this new being, and what is he talking about!?!

Where are all the cats?!

All this and more will be answered in the third chapter. On a side note, if you MUST know the story that can be summarized in a paragraph. E-mail me at lileswilliam@hotmail.com and I'll tell you. It will have spoilers…