Sorry this update is a tad on the slow side. We had a family trip and I
was at Zion for a few days, great place btw. Well here's the next chapter
and the end is near, maybe even a chapter or two away.
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Chapter 12
It's good to have things just drop out of the sky and land in your lap
Magus chuckled at this thought and how true it had been in this situation. No sooner had he been ejected from the warp portal into 1000 A.D. had Lucca and a wingless 'Wings of Time' fallen directly in front of him.
She had asked a lot of questions, the first one being 'Where is Crono'. Magus had just remained mute and then ignored the next five minutes of babble that came from her mouth. He thought he picked up a few words such as 'A solution', 'In his sleep', and something about the future.
However he needed the Epoch she had and knew she would be less than willing to let him just take it without an explanation. So he did the only thing he could think of, he knocked her out cold with the butt of his scythe. Plus she didn't need to she him ripping through the machine with his scythe either, it would have given her a heart attack. Tearing off the Epoch's protective armor with a few swings of his deadly weapon, he reached the circuitry or the organs of the machine. A slight bluish glow emitted from the insides of it, the true heart of the Epoch. Reaching in between the wires and circuit boards, his hands closed around the source of the light and then ripped it out.
The lights of the Epoch slowly dimmed down and hum that the vehicle emitted stopped. The object he held was in the shape of circle made up of many small flat faces. It was also no larger than his hand and bore the same color of the pendant that he had.
I can't just leave the girl here
Magus thought as he glanced down at Lucca as she lay sprawled across the ground.
The least I can do is take her home --------------------------
The loud banging and clanging of metal hitting metal filled basement and upper floors of Melchoir's house. Frog and Marle sat at the large dinning table Melchoir kept upstairs, neither meeting the others glare.
They had come an hour ago to request Melchoir make the Rainbow katana that Crono had used into a sword that Frog was more accustomed to using. Melchoir was glad to help but did question why they had asked such a strange favor. He never got the answer but Melchoir had never been one to pry so he went to his work and left the two upstairs.
"Mine suspicion of thee was unwarranted", spoke up Frog at last for the second time he had been in Marle's presence.
"It's not your fault", she replied back.
"I lowered mine guard and allowed an enemy in", he stated again.
"Don't worry, I don't blame you", said Marle.
"I doth wish to know what hath transpired in my absence", stated Frog bringing his head to finally look at Marle.
"Well I suppose we have time, Melchoir said he would be awhile", sighed Marle as she realized that there was no way she was getting out of it.
Unknown to the two of them, Melchoir had already finished the blade. Not one to ease-drop, his curiosity had gotten the better of him and he rested on the steps of his staircase and kept an ear or two opened as he polished the newly crafted blade. ----------------------------------------------
He slashed at the air with his newly acquired weapon, making not a sound. It was light enough to wield in one hand yet it was meant for two. Bounding back and forth under the canopy of the forest he fought off hordes of imaginary enemies. Despite his new personality he had picked up Crono's excellent sword fighting ability along with the knowledge that Crono had gained from his other fights. Ending his training session with his last sword swing that chopped a nearby tree in two, he sat and rested for a moment as his body regained some energy.
This is a fine weapon indeed
Too bad it had been kept by that idiot of a knight
His thoughts were interrupted by the voice of another, the stranger that he had 'spoken' to before.
I have the Epoch and the Pendant, spoke the raspy voice.
How did you- never mind it is not important. I only need the two pieces that you have now, responded Crono.
Good, you remember your part of the bargain correct, asked the raspy voice.
Yes, yes just tell me where you are, replied Crono.
I will come to you soon, do not come looking for me, the other voice commanded.
It better be soon, or our deal is off and I'll just pry them from your dead finger after I find you and kill you, threatened Crono.
It will be soon, do not worry, reassured the other as it left his mind as soon as it had come.
He must truly be a fool to make a deal with you, said the young voice in Crono's head.
Yes, that or desperate, agreed the older voice.
Tell me boy, who do you think he had to kill to get the Epoch, asked the older voice hoping to anger the younger.
..............
Silence, just as I thought. You know as well as I do that he must have done something to your friends to get it. There is no one left to stop me, no one left that even knows, stated the older.
There will always be one, replied the younger as he left the conversation. -------------------
Magus severed his mind link he had made with Crono as he approached Lucca's house. He had been here many times during his adventure with Crono and the group, and he had always found it full of gizmos and explosives. He also seemed to recall that Lucca had said something about how she was going to acquire the house and her parent's were going to move in closer to the village.
Reaching the front door, or the remains or it, he found it spread across the ground in many pieces. Poking his head inside he found the insides to be a broken as the front door and not a single piece of furniture remained intact.
Strange, what happened here.
Setting Lucca down by the front door he stepped inside to investigate. Following the trail of destruction down to the basement he made his way down the stairs that remained in one piece.
The only thing to remain unbroken was a small table that sat in the very corner of the room. Examining it further he found a stack of notes that Lucca had written, well some of it notes while other parts were more like a journal. The notes told of the many theories on time travel she had, the morale dilemmas about actually changing the present and her inkling about some mysterious other force that she thought would one day take revenge on them for all the other pasts, presents, and futures they had destroyed.
Junk, all of it
Magus tossed the notes away and they scattered across the room carried by a faint breeze that had made its way into the basement. The sound of a gun being loaded alerted Magus to the other presence in the room.
"So your up", he nonchalantly said.
"No thanks to you", muttered Lucca back as she rubbed the back of her head.
"I could have just left you there, perhaps the local guard would have found you", said Magus.
"Or perhaps you could have not knocked me cold", retorted Lucca.
Fed up with beating around the bush Magus spoke up, "What do you want"
"I want to know why you knocked me out", responded Lucca.
"Very well, I suppose you can't really hurt anything now", said Magus.
Pulling out the jewel that he had removed from the Epoch earlier, he held it in his palm and spoke, "Behold, the heart of the Epoch"
"What.", said Lucca more than alittle confused.
"The spirit that makes the Epoch alive, the essences that makes it more than just another machine is here in this gem", he explained to her.
"But, why are you showing this too me", Lucca asked still puzzled.
"Well it would have been very hard to cut it out of the Epoch with you still conscious", he stated as he put the gem back in his pouch.
"You what!", replied Lucca as she tightened her grip on the gun.
"See, this is what would have happened", said Magus as he pointed to Lucca with her gun pointed at Magus.
"Ok, before I shot you for destroying it why did you take it out in the first place", asked Lucca very seriously.
"To help Crono", responded Magus which earned him a cocked eyebrow from Lucca.
"Go on", she commanded.
"The Masamune, Marle's pendant, the Epoch, and The Chrono Trigger were all built with dream spirits in them. They are not from this reality they are just tied here through the physical forms that they inhabit. Only dream spirits can hurt other dream spirits. We cannot stop him without harming Crono physically, but they might be able to stop him. They would be able to fight him on their own plane, the astral plane", explained Magus.
"The astral plane", asked Lucca.
"Yes, there are many different realities beyond our own. Each linked together by something, someone, or someplace. Some co-exist with ours, some exist outside of ours. The astral plane is space between all the other realities that exist, you could say that it is the lake that all the other realities float in", explained Magus.
"I think I get it. Is that where the dream spirits are from", asked Lucca.
Magus simply nodded his head to her last question.
Lucca lowered her weapon and put it back in the holster that she called its home.
"Well its better than my plan", she finally said. ------------------------------------
It's good to have things just drop out of the sky and land in your lap
Magus chuckled at this thought and how true it had been in this situation. No sooner had he been ejected from the warp portal into 1000 A.D. had Lucca and a wingless 'Wings of Time' fallen directly in front of him.
She had asked a lot of questions, the first one being 'Where is Crono'. Magus had just remained mute and then ignored the next five minutes of babble that came from her mouth. He thought he picked up a few words such as 'A solution', 'In his sleep', and something about the future.
However he needed the Epoch she had and knew she would be less than willing to let him just take it without an explanation. So he did the only thing he could think of, he knocked her out cold with the butt of his scythe. Plus she didn't need to she him ripping through the machine with his scythe either, it would have given her a heart attack. Tearing off the Epoch's protective armor with a few swings of his deadly weapon, he reached the circuitry or the organs of the machine. A slight bluish glow emitted from the insides of it, the true heart of the Epoch. Reaching in between the wires and circuit boards, his hands closed around the source of the light and then ripped it out.
The lights of the Epoch slowly dimmed down and hum that the vehicle emitted stopped. The object he held was in the shape of circle made up of many small flat faces. It was also no larger than his hand and bore the same color of the pendant that he had.
I can't just leave the girl here
Magus thought as he glanced down at Lucca as she lay sprawled across the ground.
The least I can do is take her home --------------------------
The loud banging and clanging of metal hitting metal filled basement and upper floors of Melchoir's house. Frog and Marle sat at the large dinning table Melchoir kept upstairs, neither meeting the others glare.
They had come an hour ago to request Melchoir make the Rainbow katana that Crono had used into a sword that Frog was more accustomed to using. Melchoir was glad to help but did question why they had asked such a strange favor. He never got the answer but Melchoir had never been one to pry so he went to his work and left the two upstairs.
"Mine suspicion of thee was unwarranted", spoke up Frog at last for the second time he had been in Marle's presence.
"It's not your fault", she replied back.
"I lowered mine guard and allowed an enemy in", he stated again.
"Don't worry, I don't blame you", said Marle.
"I doth wish to know what hath transpired in my absence", stated Frog bringing his head to finally look at Marle.
"Well I suppose we have time, Melchoir said he would be awhile", sighed Marle as she realized that there was no way she was getting out of it.
Unknown to the two of them, Melchoir had already finished the blade. Not one to ease-drop, his curiosity had gotten the better of him and he rested on the steps of his staircase and kept an ear or two opened as he polished the newly crafted blade. ----------------------------------------------
He slashed at the air with his newly acquired weapon, making not a sound. It was light enough to wield in one hand yet it was meant for two. Bounding back and forth under the canopy of the forest he fought off hordes of imaginary enemies. Despite his new personality he had picked up Crono's excellent sword fighting ability along with the knowledge that Crono had gained from his other fights. Ending his training session with his last sword swing that chopped a nearby tree in two, he sat and rested for a moment as his body regained some energy.
This is a fine weapon indeed
Too bad it had been kept by that idiot of a knight
His thoughts were interrupted by the voice of another, the stranger that he had 'spoken' to before.
I have the Epoch and the Pendant, spoke the raspy voice.
How did you- never mind it is not important. I only need the two pieces that you have now, responded Crono.
Good, you remember your part of the bargain correct, asked the raspy voice.
Yes, yes just tell me where you are, replied Crono.
I will come to you soon, do not come looking for me, the other voice commanded.
It better be soon, or our deal is off and I'll just pry them from your dead finger after I find you and kill you, threatened Crono.
It will be soon, do not worry, reassured the other as it left his mind as soon as it had come.
He must truly be a fool to make a deal with you, said the young voice in Crono's head.
Yes, that or desperate, agreed the older voice.
Tell me boy, who do you think he had to kill to get the Epoch, asked the older voice hoping to anger the younger.
..............
Silence, just as I thought. You know as well as I do that he must have done something to your friends to get it. There is no one left to stop me, no one left that even knows, stated the older.
There will always be one, replied the younger as he left the conversation. -------------------
Magus severed his mind link he had made with Crono as he approached Lucca's house. He had been here many times during his adventure with Crono and the group, and he had always found it full of gizmos and explosives. He also seemed to recall that Lucca had said something about how she was going to acquire the house and her parent's were going to move in closer to the village.
Reaching the front door, or the remains or it, he found it spread across the ground in many pieces. Poking his head inside he found the insides to be a broken as the front door and not a single piece of furniture remained intact.
Strange, what happened here.
Setting Lucca down by the front door he stepped inside to investigate. Following the trail of destruction down to the basement he made his way down the stairs that remained in one piece.
The only thing to remain unbroken was a small table that sat in the very corner of the room. Examining it further he found a stack of notes that Lucca had written, well some of it notes while other parts were more like a journal. The notes told of the many theories on time travel she had, the morale dilemmas about actually changing the present and her inkling about some mysterious other force that she thought would one day take revenge on them for all the other pasts, presents, and futures they had destroyed.
Junk, all of it
Magus tossed the notes away and they scattered across the room carried by a faint breeze that had made its way into the basement. The sound of a gun being loaded alerted Magus to the other presence in the room.
"So your up", he nonchalantly said.
"No thanks to you", muttered Lucca back as she rubbed the back of her head.
"I could have just left you there, perhaps the local guard would have found you", said Magus.
"Or perhaps you could have not knocked me cold", retorted Lucca.
Fed up with beating around the bush Magus spoke up, "What do you want"
"I want to know why you knocked me out", responded Lucca.
"Very well, I suppose you can't really hurt anything now", said Magus.
Pulling out the jewel that he had removed from the Epoch earlier, he held it in his palm and spoke, "Behold, the heart of the Epoch"
"What.", said Lucca more than alittle confused.
"The spirit that makes the Epoch alive, the essences that makes it more than just another machine is here in this gem", he explained to her.
"But, why are you showing this too me", Lucca asked still puzzled.
"Well it would have been very hard to cut it out of the Epoch with you still conscious", he stated as he put the gem back in his pouch.
"You what!", replied Lucca as she tightened her grip on the gun.
"See, this is what would have happened", said Magus as he pointed to Lucca with her gun pointed at Magus.
"Ok, before I shot you for destroying it why did you take it out in the first place", asked Lucca very seriously.
"To help Crono", responded Magus which earned him a cocked eyebrow from Lucca.
"Go on", she commanded.
"The Masamune, Marle's pendant, the Epoch, and The Chrono Trigger were all built with dream spirits in them. They are not from this reality they are just tied here through the physical forms that they inhabit. Only dream spirits can hurt other dream spirits. We cannot stop him without harming Crono physically, but they might be able to stop him. They would be able to fight him on their own plane, the astral plane", explained Magus.
"The astral plane", asked Lucca.
"Yes, there are many different realities beyond our own. Each linked together by something, someone, or someplace. Some co-exist with ours, some exist outside of ours. The astral plane is space between all the other realities that exist, you could say that it is the lake that all the other realities float in", explained Magus.
"I think I get it. Is that where the dream spirits are from", asked Lucca.
Magus simply nodded his head to her last question.
Lucca lowered her weapon and put it back in the holster that she called its home.
"Well its better than my plan", she finally said. ------------------------------------