Hello guys, the next chapter is up and ready. Does Belthasar have a
solution to the problem? Who is the new mysterious character? Does Frog
snore when he sleeps? All these questions and more will be answered.
Enjoy!
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Chapter 10
"Check mate", spoke the old Guru sitting across the table from the shapechanger as they engaged each other in another game of chess.
"Damnit damnit damnit", cried Spekkio as he hung his head in defeat.
"Grrrr, old man I'll get you yet", threatened Spekkio as he tightened the grip on the poor pawn that he was holding.
"Not today my old friend", chuckled Gaspar as he collected his pieces and deposited them back in the chess set box.
The clap of thunder signaled the return of the adventures and Gaspar prepared to meet them and find out their progress. Only one person emerged much to his interest and that lone person was none other than Marle. She seemed emotionally and physically exhausted.
"Here child come sit and rest", offered Gaspar to Marle as he got out of his chair and positioned it for her to sit.
Taking the seat and rubbing the front lobes of here head she asked, "Have anything to keep me awake"
"Well it's not magic but it's just as good, good old coffee", offered Gaspar to Marle.
"I'll take anything", she replied.
Quickly casting a small fire spell he was quickly able to brew a pot of coffee for Marle, and for himself since he knew it would be a long night.
"So tell me, what happened in the future", asked Gaspar finally after Marle and finished off her first cup and went for seconds.
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"And that's why I came back", said Marle as she finished her story off to Gaspar, who had been listening intently.
The coffee had run out long ago, the two tipped over cups on the table were testament to that. It seemed though the coffee had done its job as the two were still wide awake. Gaspar sat across from where Marle sat, puffing on his pipe and occasionally nodding to agree with her.
"So the future is still in ruins eh", commented Gaspar after Marle had finished her story.
"And you think he's after the Masamune", he asked again to make sure he got everything straight.
"Ya, on the video he was wielding it when he...", said Marle.
"Destroyed the future", said Gaspar as he finished off her sentence. Marle looked down at her hands as though shamed by what Gaspar just said.
"Now there, you couldn't have known this any sooner", said Gaspar to try and comfort her.
"I know, but it doesn't feel any better knowing I couldn't have done anything about it", admitted Marle as she brought he head back up to face Gaspar.
"So are you going to warn Frog then", asked Gaspar to Marle.
"Ya, I'm not going to let Frog become a victim of this too. It may be hard on him he is a good friend to Crono, a good friend to us all", answered Marle.
"Very well then, if you are going make sure to pick up Magus and Lucca after you are done. I feel we should gather all our findings into one collective pool and perhaps a solution will arise from it", said Gaspar.
"Ok I will", said Marle as she jumped back in the Epoch and vanished again in another clap of thunder.
"Man it's sure gotten bad", commented Spekkio who had been sitting at the foot of the lamp pole throughout the story.
"Indeed it has", responded Gaspar.
"So do you think they can stop him", asked Spekkio interested in what the old guru thought.
"Perhaps, but I fear the price may be too high", responded Gaspar.
"Your not telling me something aren't you old man", said Spekkio back.
"I keep many things from you old friend", said Gaspar as he blew out another puff from his pipe, "Many things that you'd rather not know".
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Caca-doodle-dooo, crowed the Rooster from outside the Inn.
Quickly springing off his bed Magus formed his scythe in his hands and stood prepared to face whatever made that ear shattering sound. Unfortunately all that there was to face was the bright rays of the sun as they hit his face. Putting up his arm to protect his eyes from the suns blinding rays he left go of his weapon and it dematerialized back into the astral plane.
'Foolish beasts, I think cooked roaster would be a good way to start off breakfast", thought Magus to himself as he picked up his pack off the ground.
Deciding he'd rather just settle for an apple, he took another out of his bag and began to munch on it as he left the Inn. Dropping the keys off at the front desk he walked through the now empty bar and listened to his footsteps echo through the open space.
'Quiet, just the way I like it, smiled Magus as he enjoyed the lack of any noise except resonating from his boots as they hit the hard wooden floor.
Outside the sun had just crept slightly up the horizon, an indication that it was barely 6 am. The painful sound of another rooster crowing stung Magus's ears and he quickly made his way to the stables before he did something he would regret to them. Quickly paying for the horses stay he jump on the black horse and rode off at full speed to Porre.
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Rocking back and forth in the old wooden chair that rested some few odd feat from where his bed was, he observed his new traveling companion as he drifted through dreamland. Never once had he let the option of sleep enter his mind, never once did he let his thoughts drift. Sleep was weakness and if he slept he invited it in. Also the other him to could more easily take control over the body something that would be a very inconvenient. Even though he hadn't slept his green companion had, and quite loudly too. Several times he was tempted to blast him to bits since he snored so loud, it wasn't even snoring just some really loud sound that was a cross between snoring and a frog croaking. A small ray of sun pierced through the drapes and landed upon Frog, causing the amphibian to awaken. Crono didn't know how that small ray had awakened the late sleeper, the crows of the roosters and the bustling activity outside had failed to even stir Frog.
"AWWWWWWW", yawned Frog as he stretched his arms and began clearing the sleep from his eyes.
"How wast thou sleep lad", asked Frog sleepily as he noticed Crono sitting in the chair across the room.
"Short", replied Crono plainly.
"That be a pity", said Frog as he got up out of bed finally.
"You know that it is past noon by now Frog", Chrono Informed Frog with a tad of impatience in his voice.
"Late to bed, late to rise", replied Frog.
Last night after defeating the evil group of mystic raiders he journeyed to the Inn to find it about 4 am in the morning. Being so late Frog had to jump through the window that they had in their room to even get in. Luckily it had been left open and as soon as he returned he went straight to sleep.
Re-fastening his belt that held the Masamune, he removed it from its sheath and tossed it from hand to hand a few times before putting it back in its home.
"Ready", asked Crono as he finally got up from the chair.
"Aye lad, let us leave", agreed Frog.
Leaving the room they climbed down the stairs and deposited the room key back at the front desk. Outside the town was in its daily routines since it was past noon and a small kid ran up to Frog.
"Umm mister my dad needs to see you", spoke the young lad.
Frog recognized the tot from the mayor's house and concluded it must be his kid. Realizing that he forgot to report to the mayor the happenings, he regretfully turned around to inform Crono.
"I need to conclude my business with the mayor, I shall return momentarily", said Frog to Crono as he left with the kid to the mayor's house.
"Very well", muttered Chrono as he took a position leaning against a small building as he failed to notice the purple cloaked figure sitting in a bench watching him from across the town square.
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"Hmm, so he claims that the Chrono Trigger did this", asked Belthasar after Lucca had explained their problem to him.
"It is true that it could happen", concluded Belthasar.
"I created the Trigger so people would have something to believe in. Everyone needs to believe in miracles, miracles that could never happen. I wanted to give them a chance to make a miracle happen, something that if they put enough effort and heart into would work. Though I never considered that it would merge the desires together instead of choosing the stronger desire and creating its effects", explained Belthasar to Lucca.
"I can't believe I didn't consider such a situation", he continued.
"It's not your fault", said Lucca.
"But I feel a certain fault lies on me none the less", said Belthasar.
"Well is there any way to fix this", Lucca finally asked.
"Perhaps, but the magic I used to create the Trigger was very powerful. If the Trigger did indeed cause this it will be very hard to change its effects", said Belthasar as he rubbed his blue chin.
"I can't believe that everything we did ended up in vain", said Lucca aloud.
"We were supposed to save the future, not just change who destroyed it", she continued.
"Now we have to kill our best friend to save it. Hehe how ironic is that", sadistically chuckled Lucca.
"The savoir is now the destroyer", she continued some more.
"Do not blame yourself, you tried to do the right thing", said Belthasar trying to comfort Lucca.
"And look at what it got us", codly said Lucca.
"The future still ends in destruction, our best friend has become corrupted by some powerful magical force, Robo is dead, and who knows how Gaurdia is fairing", she finished.
"All we need is a way to cancel the Trigger's effects and all those problems will go away", said Belthasar hoping to lift Lucca out of her depressed mood.
"But how?", asked Lucca.
"Perhaps we can defeat it by entering Chrono's mind. It seems from what you've told me that the old Chrono is still in there but is being suppressed by the evil in him", stated Belthasar.
"But the problem is getting into his mind, it requires one to have a weak will for someone else to enter their mind with magic. Will is something that the other seams to have in spades", continued Belthasar.
"Hmmm, perhaps when he is sleeping. During sleep your mind is the most easily influenced because you are not fully aware of what is happening", stated Belthasar.
"So you're saying we just have to get him to sleep and then "Fight" the evil inside his head", regurgitated Lucca to Belthasar.
"Sounds easy enough", she commented gaining some of her cocky demeanor back.
"I fear it may be harder than it sounds", responded Belthasar.
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Kids ran around in the town square making a racket that could wake the dead. This did nothing to help Crono's mood as he waited for Frog to return. Patience was not one of his strong points, he could be patient but he hated unnecessary interruptions like this. Reluctantly he decided to talk to the other that rested in Crono's head, he wanted to talk to anyone right about now.
'If I didn't need that frog so much I would have killed him by now', complained the older voice inside Crono's head.
'I said to leave Frog alone. It's bad enough you are using him, just take the damn Masamune and leave him be', pleaded the younger voice in his head.
'But that wouldn't be fun or challenging. Plus I kill two birds with one stone', replied the older voice.
Just then a new voice entered into the conversation the two were having inside Crono's head. The voice was rough like sand paper but loud and commanding at the same time.
'Hello Trigger' it said to join the conversation.
'How dare you enter my head without permission', said the older voice angrily.
'What would you do if I told you I could get you what you wanted', asked the new voice.
'I would call you a fool, and a rather stupid fool at that', he replied to the question.
'Whoever you are stop what you are doing, he is evil. Don't make any deals with him', pleaded the younger voice.
'Quiet boy', commanded the older as he shut the younger voice out of the conversation.
'Now tell me more', asked the older voice.
'I know what you are looking for', stated the raspy voice.
'Is that so, then what am I looking for', asked the older voice.
'You search for the dream relics forged by the three gurus. The Masamune, the Epoch, and the pendant', stated the raspy voice.
'Well if you know what I want then you must also know what I am going to do with them', responded the older voice.
'I stopped caring about the world and the world stopped caring about me a long time ago. I only want one thing in return', stated the raspy voice.
'And that is?', inquired the older.
'I want you to replace a lost timestream'
Chapter 10
"Check mate", spoke the old Guru sitting across the table from the shapechanger as they engaged each other in another game of chess.
"Damnit damnit damnit", cried Spekkio as he hung his head in defeat.
"Grrrr, old man I'll get you yet", threatened Spekkio as he tightened the grip on the poor pawn that he was holding.
"Not today my old friend", chuckled Gaspar as he collected his pieces and deposited them back in the chess set box.
The clap of thunder signaled the return of the adventures and Gaspar prepared to meet them and find out their progress. Only one person emerged much to his interest and that lone person was none other than Marle. She seemed emotionally and physically exhausted.
"Here child come sit and rest", offered Gaspar to Marle as he got out of his chair and positioned it for her to sit.
Taking the seat and rubbing the front lobes of here head she asked, "Have anything to keep me awake"
"Well it's not magic but it's just as good, good old coffee", offered Gaspar to Marle.
"I'll take anything", she replied.
Quickly casting a small fire spell he was quickly able to brew a pot of coffee for Marle, and for himself since he knew it would be a long night.
"So tell me, what happened in the future", asked Gaspar finally after Marle and finished off her first cup and went for seconds.
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"And that's why I came back", said Marle as she finished her story off to Gaspar, who had been listening intently.
The coffee had run out long ago, the two tipped over cups on the table were testament to that. It seemed though the coffee had done its job as the two were still wide awake. Gaspar sat across from where Marle sat, puffing on his pipe and occasionally nodding to agree with her.
"So the future is still in ruins eh", commented Gaspar after Marle had finished her story.
"And you think he's after the Masamune", he asked again to make sure he got everything straight.
"Ya, on the video he was wielding it when he...", said Marle.
"Destroyed the future", said Gaspar as he finished off her sentence. Marle looked down at her hands as though shamed by what Gaspar just said.
"Now there, you couldn't have known this any sooner", said Gaspar to try and comfort her.
"I know, but it doesn't feel any better knowing I couldn't have done anything about it", admitted Marle as she brought he head back up to face Gaspar.
"So are you going to warn Frog then", asked Gaspar to Marle.
"Ya, I'm not going to let Frog become a victim of this too. It may be hard on him he is a good friend to Crono, a good friend to us all", answered Marle.
"Very well then, if you are going make sure to pick up Magus and Lucca after you are done. I feel we should gather all our findings into one collective pool and perhaps a solution will arise from it", said Gaspar.
"Ok I will", said Marle as she jumped back in the Epoch and vanished again in another clap of thunder.
"Man it's sure gotten bad", commented Spekkio who had been sitting at the foot of the lamp pole throughout the story.
"Indeed it has", responded Gaspar.
"So do you think they can stop him", asked Spekkio interested in what the old guru thought.
"Perhaps, but I fear the price may be too high", responded Gaspar.
"Your not telling me something aren't you old man", said Spekkio back.
"I keep many things from you old friend", said Gaspar as he blew out another puff from his pipe, "Many things that you'd rather not know".
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Caca-doodle-dooo, crowed the Rooster from outside the Inn.
Quickly springing off his bed Magus formed his scythe in his hands and stood prepared to face whatever made that ear shattering sound. Unfortunately all that there was to face was the bright rays of the sun as they hit his face. Putting up his arm to protect his eyes from the suns blinding rays he left go of his weapon and it dematerialized back into the astral plane.
'Foolish beasts, I think cooked roaster would be a good way to start off breakfast", thought Magus to himself as he picked up his pack off the ground.
Deciding he'd rather just settle for an apple, he took another out of his bag and began to munch on it as he left the Inn. Dropping the keys off at the front desk he walked through the now empty bar and listened to his footsteps echo through the open space.
'Quiet, just the way I like it, smiled Magus as he enjoyed the lack of any noise except resonating from his boots as they hit the hard wooden floor.
Outside the sun had just crept slightly up the horizon, an indication that it was barely 6 am. The painful sound of another rooster crowing stung Magus's ears and he quickly made his way to the stables before he did something he would regret to them. Quickly paying for the horses stay he jump on the black horse and rode off at full speed to Porre.
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Rocking back and forth in the old wooden chair that rested some few odd feat from where his bed was, he observed his new traveling companion as he drifted through dreamland. Never once had he let the option of sleep enter his mind, never once did he let his thoughts drift. Sleep was weakness and if he slept he invited it in. Also the other him to could more easily take control over the body something that would be a very inconvenient. Even though he hadn't slept his green companion had, and quite loudly too. Several times he was tempted to blast him to bits since he snored so loud, it wasn't even snoring just some really loud sound that was a cross between snoring and a frog croaking. A small ray of sun pierced through the drapes and landed upon Frog, causing the amphibian to awaken. Crono didn't know how that small ray had awakened the late sleeper, the crows of the roosters and the bustling activity outside had failed to even stir Frog.
"AWWWWWWW", yawned Frog as he stretched his arms and began clearing the sleep from his eyes.
"How wast thou sleep lad", asked Frog sleepily as he noticed Crono sitting in the chair across the room.
"Short", replied Crono plainly.
"That be a pity", said Frog as he got up out of bed finally.
"You know that it is past noon by now Frog", Chrono Informed Frog with a tad of impatience in his voice.
"Late to bed, late to rise", replied Frog.
Last night after defeating the evil group of mystic raiders he journeyed to the Inn to find it about 4 am in the morning. Being so late Frog had to jump through the window that they had in their room to even get in. Luckily it had been left open and as soon as he returned he went straight to sleep.
Re-fastening his belt that held the Masamune, he removed it from its sheath and tossed it from hand to hand a few times before putting it back in its home.
"Ready", asked Crono as he finally got up from the chair.
"Aye lad, let us leave", agreed Frog.
Leaving the room they climbed down the stairs and deposited the room key back at the front desk. Outside the town was in its daily routines since it was past noon and a small kid ran up to Frog.
"Umm mister my dad needs to see you", spoke the young lad.
Frog recognized the tot from the mayor's house and concluded it must be his kid. Realizing that he forgot to report to the mayor the happenings, he regretfully turned around to inform Crono.
"I need to conclude my business with the mayor, I shall return momentarily", said Frog to Crono as he left with the kid to the mayor's house.
"Very well", muttered Chrono as he took a position leaning against a small building as he failed to notice the purple cloaked figure sitting in a bench watching him from across the town square.
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"Hmm, so he claims that the Chrono Trigger did this", asked Belthasar after Lucca had explained their problem to him.
"It is true that it could happen", concluded Belthasar.
"I created the Trigger so people would have something to believe in. Everyone needs to believe in miracles, miracles that could never happen. I wanted to give them a chance to make a miracle happen, something that if they put enough effort and heart into would work. Though I never considered that it would merge the desires together instead of choosing the stronger desire and creating its effects", explained Belthasar to Lucca.
"I can't believe I didn't consider such a situation", he continued.
"It's not your fault", said Lucca.
"But I feel a certain fault lies on me none the less", said Belthasar.
"Well is there any way to fix this", Lucca finally asked.
"Perhaps, but the magic I used to create the Trigger was very powerful. If the Trigger did indeed cause this it will be very hard to change its effects", said Belthasar as he rubbed his blue chin.
"I can't believe that everything we did ended up in vain", said Lucca aloud.
"We were supposed to save the future, not just change who destroyed it", she continued.
"Now we have to kill our best friend to save it. Hehe how ironic is that", sadistically chuckled Lucca.
"The savoir is now the destroyer", she continued some more.
"Do not blame yourself, you tried to do the right thing", said Belthasar trying to comfort Lucca.
"And look at what it got us", codly said Lucca.
"The future still ends in destruction, our best friend has become corrupted by some powerful magical force, Robo is dead, and who knows how Gaurdia is fairing", she finished.
"All we need is a way to cancel the Trigger's effects and all those problems will go away", said Belthasar hoping to lift Lucca out of her depressed mood.
"But how?", asked Lucca.
"Perhaps we can defeat it by entering Chrono's mind. It seems from what you've told me that the old Chrono is still in there but is being suppressed by the evil in him", stated Belthasar.
"But the problem is getting into his mind, it requires one to have a weak will for someone else to enter their mind with magic. Will is something that the other seams to have in spades", continued Belthasar.
"Hmmm, perhaps when he is sleeping. During sleep your mind is the most easily influenced because you are not fully aware of what is happening", stated Belthasar.
"So you're saying we just have to get him to sleep and then "Fight" the evil inside his head", regurgitated Lucca to Belthasar.
"Sounds easy enough", she commented gaining some of her cocky demeanor back.
"I fear it may be harder than it sounds", responded Belthasar.
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Kids ran around in the town square making a racket that could wake the dead. This did nothing to help Crono's mood as he waited for Frog to return. Patience was not one of his strong points, he could be patient but he hated unnecessary interruptions like this. Reluctantly he decided to talk to the other that rested in Crono's head, he wanted to talk to anyone right about now.
'If I didn't need that frog so much I would have killed him by now', complained the older voice inside Crono's head.
'I said to leave Frog alone. It's bad enough you are using him, just take the damn Masamune and leave him be', pleaded the younger voice in his head.
'But that wouldn't be fun or challenging. Plus I kill two birds with one stone', replied the older voice.
Just then a new voice entered into the conversation the two were having inside Crono's head. The voice was rough like sand paper but loud and commanding at the same time.
'Hello Trigger' it said to join the conversation.
'How dare you enter my head without permission', said the older voice angrily.
'What would you do if I told you I could get you what you wanted', asked the new voice.
'I would call you a fool, and a rather stupid fool at that', he replied to the question.
'Whoever you are stop what you are doing, he is evil. Don't make any deals with him', pleaded the younger voice.
'Quiet boy', commanded the older as he shut the younger voice out of the conversation.
'Now tell me more', asked the older voice.
'I know what you are looking for', stated the raspy voice.
'Is that so, then what am I looking for', asked the older voice.
'You search for the dream relics forged by the three gurus. The Masamune, the Epoch, and the pendant', stated the raspy voice.
'Well if you know what I want then you must also know what I am going to do with them', responded the older voice.
'I stopped caring about the world and the world stopped caring about me a long time ago. I only want one thing in return', stated the raspy voice.
'And that is?', inquired the older.
'I want you to replace a lost timestream'