Twisted Destiny:
Chapter 1:
1000AD: A ruined world


DISCLAIMER: of course the cast featured here does NOT belong to me!!!!!!!
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?????? AD
The world around Janus was reduced to purple mist. Nothing seemed to exist but the mist. Nothing.
Nothing but him, and a weak light that guided him.
And then, there, the light widened. Janus increased the speed of his flight. He would manage it, he would meet Schala.
He met the light, and it expanded to a platform of white, pure white. In the middle, was her. Still dressed in the blue dress she prefered, the dress harmonizing perfectly with her beautiful, blue hair. Her face showed a smile, but her eyes were closed.
"Schala..."Janus said with delight, hurried towards her like a child, not like the man he had been, and finally embraced his elder sister "Schala..finally.." he said....but something...felt wrong.....Schala was....but then Schala's arms embraced him too.

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around 603AD
"What art thou saying?" Frog asked. He had been sitting in the Knight's room of the Guardia Castle. He, Frog, the knight of the Queen. He had been eating, when the messenger had arrived.
"Yes, its true! The mystics ..." the messenger barely managed to say while holding his side "The mystics attacked Dorino. They have been driven back by now, but at the cost of half of the town!!!!!"
If Frogs eyes weren't large already, they would grow to their size now "WHAT SAYTH THOU?" the knight asked surprised "THIS CANNOT BE!"
"Even more, their tactics are strange. Instead of their usual way of attacking, they...they..just went ahead and burned the houses..they weren't there to conquer or raid but to destroy!"
Frog just shook his head.
How?????Crono, Magus and he himself had liberated the mystics..now how did this happen...what was going on?
But Frog wouldn't be the person he was if he would let this news stun him. He motioned the messenger to rest and immediately called his knights.

"Tis situation seemth to be severe. We don't know if the mystics who did that were a small group. Still, half of you will stay guard at Mystic Mountain. The other half will form a mobile force, ready to move to emergency."
Without knowing who he was fighting, Frog could do very little.
he could just take immediate meansures of defense, and, of course, he could inform the king.
That was what he would do now. So far, there was nothing else to do. He would need information.
He almoust wished that Crono and his other friends would have staid.

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around 1003 AD
"What..is this?" Marle said and made a step towards the ruin that...that had been her home. She had lived there, she remembered that. But why..why was it a ruin now? That made absolutely no sense!
Crono gulped and laid his hand on her shoulder "Marle..." he started.
"this is definately our time!" Lucca yelled out of the Epoch "No mistake."
She jumped out of the time travelling device "Marle...Crono...we should see what is going on.."
Marle just shook her head in disbeliev. The strong walls of the castle had seemed as if they could last a millenia. But now...

The three slowly marched towards Guardia. While the castle had obviously been destroyed a long time ago, the town still seemed to be there...but in what state? Before, it had been a big, prosperous town. A strong town, with big houses and proud people. But even from the distance the three could see that -this- city was nothing compared towards the glory of the city they had left before their last travel. The town seemed to duck under the shadow of the castle. The houses were small and shabby, and ~dirty~.
And, more importantly, there were no people to be seen. At home, there had been many people at day. Visitors from Porre, townspeople going shopping...
The town had been alive.
But now...

As if to underline the athmosphere, it began to rain. Soon, big drops clashed on the unprotected three youngsters, who hurried to get some shelter. Before they would get totally soaked, they made it to the house that could be an inn or something like that. It even had the sign, although time had bleached the color of the letters.
Quickly, they pushed the door open, and entered.

The room wasn't too strange, it seemed at first. It was the usual tavern room, just being a little small. The odditiy was that it was seperated into two sections. While having the same number of tables, the size differed a lot. As did the guests. In the big side, were...henchs, and other mystics. A Naga-ette was currently slurping some blue drink, while one of the snakes made an effort to rip its food into its mouth. even a small, green imp was present, sitting on a specially crafted chair.
The other guests were humans. They were clustered in the small part of the room. Their clothes were shabby, like the houses. Somehow they resembled the people from the eradicated 2300 AD. They had the same, desperate look on their face. The same hopelessness.
The keeper of the Inn, or Tavern, oddly enough, was a human. He, too, had this desperate look. It was obvious who ruled whom.
While Crono, Marle and Lucca examined the room, the mystics had noticed them.

"Huh?" Said one "What is that? Humans?"
"Sssssssssssssems sssssssso" a snake-like mystic answered "Letssssss have ffffffffun!"
The leader of the mystic, a HUGE hench, stood up, while the others continued eating. He snarled at Crono "ey yu 'uman! Yu never been here before. Yu must be reeeally dumb to come here"
"YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH" the nagaette shouted and burst out laughing and continued "lets have fun on them, atleast some fun we may have!"
Suddendly the imp raised his arm "but the orders..."
"Shuddup" most of the other mystics yelled at him "We don't care!"

"Thats it!" Crono shouted "you bastards, you wasted this kingdom, die for that!"
It was a rash, but supported assumption, considering the status of the mystics.

Crono drew his sword, Marle her bow and Lucca her gun, while the huge hench threw the table out of the way. Meanwhile, the humans just continued eating. Noone looked at the battle. Noone of them took care. Noone dared to get attention drawn on him.

"Hehehehe" the nagaette laughed, and pointed her clawed hand at Crono, hearths shot out but...they had no effect. The laugh of the Nagaette suddendly stopped.
"ICE!" Marle yelled and raised her hand, then gestured towards the mystics. Out of the air several spears of ice crystallized, and impaled several mystics. Before they could even think about that, Lucca yelled "FIRE!". A circle of fire framed the Snake, the Imp and the nagaette, and reduced them to a pile of ash. Before the survivor, the huge hench, could do anything, crono had leaped at him and slashed.
The hench froze in his tracks...stumbled...and felt over. Crono jumped back before the body hit the ground.

"mystics!" Lucca yelled in surprise "What are they doing in guardia????"

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around 1000AD as well
"DORK!IDIOT!" Flea yelled as she was thrown through the gate, followed by Ozzie and Slash.
"NEXT time I go through first definately." she yelled "aand"
"Shuuuuuuuutup!" Ozzie interrupted "Do you think we have time for that?"
Slash quickly nodded, wanting to distract Flea from her anger. She was more sexy when she was not angry, he thought.
"So WHAT?" flea yelled, but she was already calming down. It had just been an outburst, nothing more. "But you are right" Flea admitted "we really need to know where we are"
"This is obviously a forest" Slash tried to say helpfully, but he immediately was stared down by Ozzie and Flea alike "Oh yeah, as if I hadn't realized, baldie" Flea said and pointed at him "But look, there are maaaany forests."
Ozzie nodded "But this somehow resembles the forest near our village. If you two would care to look into that direction " he pointed into a direction "you will see why"
Indeed.
There was the pyramid structure. The strange thing that many mystics had wondered about. Flea had studied months to get a way to open it.
But still...
"Ahm, Ozzie, Slash" Flea started "Don't you think that it DOES differ? Our forest did not have a way to the pyramid, the forest was thick...."

Slowly, and due Ozzies Diplomacy without bickering, the three managed to walk towards Medina.
They, too, realized how different their Medina was.
For example, the old medina did NOT have a huge statue of a strange, headless hedgehog in its middle.
Flea stopped right in her tracks and shook her head "ALLRIGHT. I do NOT know how long we were with that moron gaspar, but obviously we are NEEDED by our people. Look at the horrible style this thing is build! Horribly distateful! besides, who should that be? I never saw a mystic like that. DI~STA~STE~FUL!"
Slash nodded "Although it certainly has its asthetic advantages..."
"Thats not the point" Ozzie interrupted again, before the two could fight again "If you imagine how much stone they would have needed to do that, how much work. Plus, the houses are different, plus, the way through the forest. We really were absent for a while."
Slash nodded heavily "YES! I think its time to kick some heads and show them who's the real boss here"
"Shall I seduce him then?" Flea offered with a giggle.
The answer she got was plain and simple. "NO!"

Slowly, and carefully paying attention to details, the three moved through the village.

"This is really sad" Ozzie whispered "how run-down they are. I really want to have a talk with their leader."
Several henchs moved by, each carriing a heavy bag. They didn't look too happy. IN fact, they looked as if they had given up long ago, and now just continued working. Of course, Ozzie had opressed his people too. But his people had kept their pride. This mystics did not. They were not the mystics Ozzie knew.
"Prepare yourself" Slash suddendly whispered and pointed at a building bigger than usual. Two small statues of that huge hedgehog-thing framed the door. "I think this is their leaders home"
"What did they do with my house?" Ozzie thought "what has happened?"