Title:

Chapter 1: The New Battle

Chrono was relaxing in a lawn chair in the backyard of His and Marle's new home that had a wonderful view of Lenne square that glisined in the sunlight every morning and today was no exception. The sun was bright the sky was blue and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
Chrono was about to fall asleep for a nap when Lucca came barging through the yard door and stopped to catch her breath before she said anything to the confused yet amused Chrono.When Lucca finally caught her breath she was estaticly going on about a parade to commerate
the one year annaversary of the destruction of Lavos. Chrono sat up and look at Lucca as if to hear it again and sat there confused,Lucca saw the way Chrono was and explained that the parade was for Chrono,Marle, and Herself, Chrono sat up and had a flashback to that
fateful battle....[flashback: Lavos had been manipulating the planet for it's own pourpose's, Chrono, Magus,and Frog, had fought this far and all decided that they wished to keep meaning in there lives. Laovs' core had created himself a pair of bits that never really
did much except revive the core. After what seemed like an eternity and many many elixers Chrono took His Shiva edge ran up to Lavos' core stabed it into the gut of lavos and as the blood gushed out of it's stomach He draged His sword up through the neck and head of
Lavos, the body of Lavos exploded in blood and hit the ground and Chrono landed across the room and put his sword away.Magus crouched and concentrated his shadow magaic against one of the lavos bits and made it implode,Frog took the Masamune and leap slashed the other bit spliting
it in two.Chrono turned around and Frog said "alas it tis over" :end of flashback] Chrono then stood up looked at Lucca and started to walk away "where are you going?" Lucca jolted in as She grabed her friend by the shoulder.Chrono just turned His head and said "to clear my
head, I'll see you and Marle at the parade in an hour or two." Lucca didn't know what to do and could only watch her friend walk out of His yard and to someplace that She couldn't figure out. Dumbfounded She went to find Marle and walked up to the back door of Chrono's house.
Lucca knocked on the door and after a large crash and a couple of bangs and bumps Marle appeared at the door and looking inncent and asked Lucca what was up. Lucca explained about the parade and then Marle got all excited untill Lucca asked her if she knew what was wrong with
Chrono. Marle stoped jumping around and said " I can't figure Him out, He just has been sulking about for the last few days I wonder if it has something to do with Lavos but he won't open up to me." Lucca now worried about Chrono even more decided to ask Marle if it was a good
idea to follow him to where ever he was going. The girls decided that it would be a better idea to leave him be, and to pass the time they did what all girls do they went to town and shopped.

Chrono had left his house to try and clear his head, lately he has been sensing that a dark force stronger then Lavos was emerging from somewhere but he couldn't find where or what it is. He decided to take a walk through the forest where the catherdral used to be and was clearing
out some of the weak monsters to relive his stress. All of a sudden a gigantic rock snake emerged, and lunged at Chrono knocking to the ground. He knew a rock snake was immune to sword attacks but he was weary of useing a magic attack because he only had lightning magic and knew that
that kind of magic couldn't effect a rock snake as well. The snake wasteing no time lunged at Chrono again this time chrushing him against the ground. As quick as he could Chrono got up and looked around for a way to defeat this snake,he saw a very large tree across the clearing so he
ran to it drew his sword and cycloned through the tree. As he landed on the ground the snake jumped to attack and as it did this the tree crushed it and it shattered into many pieces. The now trimuphant red-haired boy decided thathe has done enough for the day and headed back to truce.

Lucca and Marle where in the middle of truce village store hopping looking for new clothes for them, Chrono, and Ryuoge(Lucca had found a baby while she was in the forest and took it in)he was just over a year old. Marle was walking out of one of the stores when a black roly tried to
attack her,Marle had to many shopping bags to react but Lucca saw this pulled out her Wonder shot and blew the rolly away. Marle looked at Lucca with a thinkful look on her face "am i glad you were paying attention, but why was that thing in town?" Lucca could only come up with a baffeled
look on her face. Marle shruged and noted that Chrono would be here in a couple of minutes so they went back to marle's home and droped off their new clothes and when they got back to Truce Chrono was waiting for them. Marle ran up to him and gave him a hug and a kiss, " where did you go?"
Marle wondered. Chrono said he went to clear his mind. Lucca abruptly interuped "we are the focous of this parade we have to get to the front of it soon so they can start." Marle and Chrono laughed and Chrono carried Marle to the float that they were to be riding. The parade was to go
around Leene square then to travel through Truce vilage then back once more through Leene square. The parade was going great till it left Lenne square, as it left the sky went to black clouds and a large purple bolt hit the ground a little distance away. Chrono knew that this was an act of the dark force he had been
feeling lately and made everyone take cover and knowing that Chrono never jokes everyone took cover in some of the buildings of Truce village. After about 2 minutes of a pure purple bolt the coulor faded and the clouds dissapeared, Chrono, Lucca, and Marle knew that a new battle may begin.