Love on the edge of forever
Christopher Good
Author's Note: These next few updates are just corrects to spelling and grammar and things like that. I also altered Cain's name. For those of you who haven't played FFIVj, its still Kain. In addition, the ulterior motive of this is to get the story back on the first page. The reviews have been rather low and I want to hear more of what you think.
"Where do you think that gate
led too?"
"There is no way of actually knowing that. The only thing we can do is to go through each separate time period and search." Crono stated connecting the restraining harness.
"That is going to be difficult. Due to the fact that the gate was so weak it could have sent your mother anywhere, we will have to do a search of every single year from the beginning of time!" Lucca stated completing the preflight checks.
"If that's what it takes that's what it takes. Set temporal control for coordinate zero, era the beginning of time, time frame, year 5,000,000,000,000 BC, month January, Day 1, punch it!" Crono ordered as Lucca entered in the final coordinate and turned the time key. The epoch speed increased and the jump was initiated. They appeared in a completely molten sub-world.
"We can't fly lower, but we might just a have a detection device... ah! Here it is." Lucca stated ending her search of the Epoch's command console. Instantly a three dimensional rendering of the planet appeared before them. "Lucca does it again." Marle said gleefully. "I don't see anything." Crono said saddened.
"Let me change the detection
parameter to look for organic material."
"Let's go, we have a lot of searching to do." Crono said sitting back down.
"Yeah, it's not like we have all the time in the world...." Lucca said jokingly.
"Funny Lucca, very funny, just
punch it."
Chapter 1
Casualties of War
"Be careful, from what Baltesar was telling me when we first met was that if we went back to a time period stretching from two years before our time to up to sixty years after we must avoid all contact with ourselves or it could irreparably damage the time stream. Especially if we do something to prevent our developments into the warriors necessary to defeat Lavos." Lucca warned as she opened the protective bubble that served as the cockpit for the Epoch.
Crono jumped down off the vehicle. He looked around. "I remember this place...." Crono said jokingly.
Lucca was not so whimsical.
"Something's not right. I don't know what it is but I know something's
terribly wrong here."
"Crono, how.... why?" Marle said dumbfounded.
"Marle... I love you!"
Crono stated. Marle looked at him for what seemed like forever.
"What... what did I do to deserve that?" Crono asked dumbfounded.
"NO! This is not the way I had seen it at all!" The voice rang out from every direction stopping Marle before she could answer.
"Winds of the mountain of death I bid you dissipate!" With this voice's command the wind ebbed and Crono and Marle fell to the ground.
They got up and saw a familiar figure before them. "Schala!" Crono yelled.
"No, I'm afraid she no longer exists. I am Tempest! I am the mistress of time. I hold powers that Lavos could have only dreamed about." Schala stated.
"What was the meaning of
this?!"
"It is very simple princess, I want you destroyed so that I may have Crono for myself." Schala yelled releasing the winds again. The wind was more focused this time. It placed a noose around both Crono and Marle.
"If you didn't allow it to look like an accident, I guess I will just have to take the direct approach!" Schala growled.
"Gateway, open!" She
screamed as a familiar blue gate open beside her.
"Now you will be lost in time forever. I and Crono will live happily ever aft... ahh!"
Schala was cut short by a solar energy blast hitting her from the side.
"Sorry... small breeze was it, but I can't let you hurt my friends." Lucca said turning her gun too automatic. In spite of this pelting it did not loosen Schala's hold over Crono and Marle.
"My name is Tempest you
annoying insect! Be gone!"
"Humm..? How do I improve on
this work? Oh yes I know." Schala cocked her head and the frozen statue of
Lucca flew across the valley. It crashed into the mountain cliff, shattering.
"Humm... yes I think that will work. I call it, Shattered Hero. Hum ha ha
ha ha ha!" Schala cackled.
"Lu..cca.... no."
"Oh yes, I was having so much fun with the other one I forgot about you two. Now it is time for you to disappear into the void miss princess." Schala lifted her hand and with it Marle went.
"Now that that is done..." Schala began but was unable to finish. Crono with katana still in hand cut through the column of wind that served as his captor. The line broke and he fell to his knees gasping for air.
"Oh yes. I forgot about your sword, the Rainbow, made from the only thing that can nullify my powers. I should go back and destroy the cursed prismshell, but there will be time for that later." Schala said shrugging her shoulders.
She blasted him with a focus whirlwind "I don't want to have to hurt my precious, don't force me to." Schala said calmly.
"You have already done far more to me then physical pain ever could hope to do. I am sorry Schala, you have been destroyed. I must now destroy this imposter in your form, this Tempest. Defend yourself you creature of absolute darkness, for you will not leave this field." Crono said getting to his feet.
He charged at her again. She simply did her vanishing act again but this time made more of a point. "We could have been so good together, but if that's the way you feel so beit!" Tempest scream as she summoned her full wind power into one focused blast. The blast struck Crono like an asteroid hitting a planet. He was thrown back into the mountain cliff. He was hurt and he knew it. His battle was over, there was no way he could have the strength to get back up let alone fight.
"Good bye sweet prince. I shall miss you." Tempest stated as she drew on her ice crystal power. Just as she was about to discharge it a lance flew in front of her and stuck into the ground between her and Crono. "Who dares?!" Tempest screamed as a figure appeared above her.
"Stand down witch!" The figure yelled down.
"Be right there." The figure said casually. He jumped off the cliff. Crono thought to himself, he's done for. But no, the man dressed in plate armor covered in the scales of a strange,... what looked to be lizard, landed like a cat, no damage at all.
"Very good trick, Mr. Dragon, you jump but can you fly?" Tempest said levitating.
"No, but who needs flight to win a battle? Oh, and by the way, it is Dragoon, get it right." The dragoon said drawing his lance from its resting point.
"I will worry about the boy later, I'd rather handle a man." Tempest said her eyes still glowing like diamonds.
"Do what you will." The dragoon said getting into a fighting stance. Tempest didn't respond with words, she fired a beam of ice at him. He jumped, towering over everything including the valley. He launched his lance at his assailant. It struck and ran through her mid-section. She fell to the ground gasping for air.
The dragoon landed, "Surrender, you are defeated."
Tempest got to her feet. She looked at the lance and pulled it through her and out; she froze it and shattered it, she then healed herself. "I don't think so, I am the mistress of time how do you think it would look if I lost to someone like you!" Tempest said blasting the dragoon with a wind blade.
He jumped, narrowly escaping it. "Can't we talk about this?" He said warily.
Crono had watch the events unfold. He felt both sadness and rage over the destruction of Lucca and the loss of Marle. He knew that his savior now needed saving himself, but he was too damaged to help. All he could do was hope for a miracle. Just then he saw something shimmering in the ground. He drug himself over to it and found Marle's pendent.
"Tempest said the only thing that can nullify her powers was prism power." He thought to himself. He hadn't held the pendent since he had received the rainbow.
"Maybe… just maybe?" He thought grabbing for the pendent. The katana immediately reacted. Crono felt a power that was beyond his imagination flow through him.
An image of Melchior appeared
before him, "Crono I was hoping for the day when you would unlock the
Rainbow's true power. Lucca is gone, sadly there is nothing I can do for her,
but Marle and your mother are alive. You must use the power that you have
unlocked to find them. The man who is fighting Tempest is from another
space-time, his name is Cain. He will be a powerful ally; you both need each
other in the battles you face ahead.
He felt stronger, he still was injured but he felt he had the power to compensate. He stood up and the rainbow was gone. In its place was a sword; the type of weapon that frog used. He looked himself over. He was cover in a hard armor that was the same color and design of the prism shell. His attention returned to the battle just in time to see Cain jump out of the way of a wind blade that instead tore through the Epoch. It exploded throwing the nearby Cain into the mountainside. He fell to his hands and knees.
Crono knew he had to do something. "Hey Tempest, how about you pick on someone your own size." Crono said spinning his newly found sword like he was an expert swordsman.
Tempest turned around and gawked at Crono's armor. "Ooo, pretty colors." Tempest said jokingly.
"Funny, laugh at this!" Crono said firing a beam of pure prism energy from his gauntlet. Tempest dodged knowing its composition.
"Where did you pick that up?" Tempest said summoning her powers.
"Go about two doors down and take a left, you can't miss it." Cain chimed in.
"Who asked you!" Tempest said blasting a freeze bolt at him.
"Cro..no?" Schala whispered.
Crono lightened for a moment then went stone again. "Nice try Tempest." Crono said continuing his advance.
"Crono please, I am sorry for what she did to you. You are right to advance. I cannot maintain control for very long. You must destroy me before she has a chance to take over again. I beg of you, destroy me, while you still can!" Schala said in tears.
"When Lavos attacked, I was not killed, I was merely absorbed into the mammoth machine. When you, Robo, and Marle destroyed it on the Black Omen, I was released, but with no memory. When you defeated Lavos, somehow all the power he had in him, all the darkness, was transferred through that infernal machine and into me. I regained my memories, but they were suppressed by the hatred and evil. Thus, Tempest was created. She is the combination of my powers and Lavos's. The only catch is that my natural light nullifies her dark powers. You call this power prism. I.... ahh!" Schala stopped short and screamed in pain. "I am losing control, do it now!" Schala said as her color began to fade.
"I am sorry for what I must do." Crono said raising his sword.
"Too late." Tempest said blasting him with a wind blade. It wasn't as strong as it was before, but it was still enough to send pain through his injuries. He winced but pulled himself together and blasted Tempest again.
She fell to the ground. "This isn't over Crono. You will be mine!" Tempest said opening a gate and disappeared.
"Your right, this isn't over. I will avenge Lucca and bring back Schala and Marle." Crono said clasping his fist.
"You're going to need help with that." Cain said brushing himself off.
"You just got whipped, do you honestly think you have the power to fight Tempest." Crono said sheathing his newly forged sword.
"Strength isn't everything you know. You can't fight this battle alone and besides these gates are my only way home." Cain stated looking annoyed at the rainbow-clad hero.
"Umm, if you remember I am the one who saved your life." Cain said running up next to him.
"That's why you're still here." Crono said as a gate formed in front of them.