Magus, Glenn and Robo all fell out of the gate and landed on one knee.
They all took a minute to look around and get re-set to their surroundings.
"Ok...Ayla probably went ahead and met Crono and Lucca and Marle at the entrance...I say we head there." Glenn said firmly.
Magus laughed.
"Are you really so slow that you didn't even notice those?" Magus said pointing to the ground with a light chuckle.
Glenn was shocked to see dozens of footprints...all looking reptile-like.
"The reptites..." Glenn thought aloud.
"Bingo." Magus said cruelly. "Are you always so quick to notice things?" He mocked.
"Maybe not all the time, but I am always quick with my blade, and if you wish we can see who's faster." Glenn said with a threatening tone.
"That's enough from the both of you..." Robo said decisively.
Magus and Glenn each looked to Robo.
"Obviously Ayla, or all of them are in trouble and we have to do something. Fighting like babies won't solve anything."
Robo turned and faced the direction where the prints were heading...and began to walk.
Glenn and magus followed robo for a while...passing Ayla's village and going to the coast...a bridge laid out in front of them.
Glenn and Magus each saw what was ahead and they thought
~This can't be a good thing...~ as they stared up at the pitch black castle, almost exactly like the one that was destroyed near the volcano.
Suddenly crossing the bridge to the castle towards the heroes were over a dozen elite reptite warriors...
"Looks like we're gonna have some fun out here after all..." Glenn said with a smirk as he unsheathed his Masamune.
Magus laughed taking out his Doom Sickle and Robo charged his gears and readied his fists.
"Let's go!" Glenn shouted with excitement.
*
"Something's not right..." Crono said as he turned to the mountain trail.
They had been waiting about an hour...and the longest it should have taken was 30 minutes...this was time they could not waste.
"You're right...they have been gone for a while...we should go up after them." Marle said softly.
Crono looked to Lucca.
She nodded in agreement.
"Alright then..." He said decisively, unsheathing Rainbow.
"...Let's go." Marle finished as she took out Valkyrie, smiling at Crono.
Lucca loaded her Wonder Shot and they took off running down the mountain trail.
*
Azala leapt towards Ayla talons first, attempting to shred through her body, she rolled to the left, pushing up into the air she triple kicked a nearby reptite into a tree, cracking his neck and turned. Jumping up and flipping over Azala she landed and sweep-kicked two more reptites and as they fell back she grabbed them by the chest and threw them into a rock wall. One of them got caught on a sharp rock protruding from the wall and hung there.
Ayla turned and barked fiercely
"AYLA WILL NOT LOSE!!"
And to that, the remaining reptites turned and ran back to the castle...except for Azala.
"I see you haven't gotten any weaker..." He said, somewhat impressed.
"Then again...you haven't gotten any stronger either! I on the other hand..."
Azala began reciting incantaions...Ayla knew what this meant.
~Magic?! But how?!~ She thought.
Just then Azala threw out his hand, the ground beneath Ayla shaking for a moment and just then she flipped out of the way, dodging a razor sharp earth spike by inches...she landed and slid. Standing she breathed deeply.
"That's right...thanks to her I will soon have all the power I'll need to control you filthy apes!" Azala cried.
~Her?~ Ayla thought.
~Sherkal!!~
Crono, Marle and Lucca came across the reptite footprints...and discovered three other distinct footprints.
"They went that way!" Crono announced as they ran after the trail...passing Ayla's village they saw something that struck them all with shock.
Azala's castle...rebuilt.
"I thought he was dead!" Lucca exclaimed.
"We dont have time to worry about that now...look!" Marle pointed to three figures fighting in the distance.
It was Magus, Robo and Glenn all fighting off Reptites.
"Let's get moving!" Crono ordered as he ran ahead.
Marle ran along behind Crono noticing Lucca staying behind.
"You guys go on ahead, I can pick them off from here..." She said through her sightscope.
Marle nodded and smiled, then ran after Crono again.
*
Magus turned and saw Crono and Marle coming, with Lucca in the back.
"Its about time you got here!" He snarled as he spun, slashing a reptite across the chest and then kicking him back into another reptite...casting black hole to engulf them both.
"It looks like your handling yourself quite well!" Crono said as he jumped into the air, bringing his Rainbow sword down onto a reptite's head, splitting them in half. Then jumping back he spun around slicing 4 more reptite's stomachs open.
"Even so, its always better to have more!" Glenn said breathlessly as he flipped backwards...holding out his hand as he cast Lightning 2, 5 of the reptites being shocked he charged faster than the wind, bringing his blade around too fast to see...and sheathed it. Instantaneously the 5 reptites fell to pieces.
Suddenly everyone fell quiet as they felt the earth shake for a moment...and then again...and again.
"She comes...she who calls the earth her home..." one of the reptites stammered as they all ran.
The six heroes stood their ground as a petite figure stepped out of the shadows of the castle...slowly crossing the bridge towards them...
Crono's eyes widened.
"I...think that's....Sherkal."
The woman stepped out from under the shadows and continued to walk slowly towards them, she was wrapped in a brown cloak that ran down her body all the way to her feet and dragged behind her.
Crono,Marle,Lucca,Magus,Robo and Glenn all stared as the figure of myth in their minds grew nearer.
"Is it really her?" Glenn asked in wonder.
"I guess we'll just have to wait and find out..." Crono said with a tinge of fear.
Finally the woman got about twenty feet away from the heroes and stopped.
"What brings you here strangers?!" She demanded...bringing her hands up to unsnap her cloak she tossed it aside revealing a beautiful robe of silver and gold...and on her left shoulder was a small insignia.
"Sherkal...Master of the Earth...Generation V" Magus read from the distance.
Sherkal smiled.
"Good boy...you seem to know your stuff. Now where is it you all come from?"
Where they all came from...that would be interesting.
"Well...I come from 1000 AD...as do my two friends here Marle and Lucca." He said as he pointed them out respectively.
"I'm from 600 AD." Glenn said.
"I come from 2300 AD." Robo announced.
Magus snarled.
"I came from 12000 BC...from Zeal." He said menacingly.
Sherkal's eyes widened as she realized who these people were.
"You...are Gaspar's chosen?" Sherkal asked in amazement.
"Yes we are..." Crono confirmed.
Sherkal smiled.
"Good, than this might prove to be somewhat entertaining!" She exclaimed as she threw her hands out and the earth around and under her shot up rocketing her up into the sky.
"I have a much better view of your heads from up here! So that way its easier to crush them!" She exclaimed as she held out her hand a wave of razor sharp rocks came from above towards the heroes.
Suddenly Ayla came flying out of nowhere and triple kicked the rocks into the ground nearby...she then landed on one knee.
"AYLA!" Crono shouted.
Ayla had been badly injured, she was bleeding from her left arm and scarred badly.
"Crono...must destroy Earth woman. She grant Azala magic!" Ayla revealed.
Everyone gasped and looked up to Sherkal.
"That's right! I gave that filthy lizard magic...in exchange for having his men build me this wonderful castle!"
"You couldn't have!" Marle exclaimed.
"If you keep granting magic to people the flow of time will be ruined!
Sherkal laughed and jumped down from her pedestal of earth, and at the same time unsheathing her Sais, landing on one knee she looked up.
"I shall grant magic to whomever, whenever I please. I won't be taking orders from a sniveling girl!" She growled as she charged Marle, spinning around attempting to slash her face with the sai.
Crono jumped towards marle and brought up his sword to block the slash, pushing with all his might set Sherkal off balance as she turned clumsily and threw out her hand attempting to stab Crono in the head.
He quickly rolled to the side as everyone spread out to get some room.
"I see why you were all chosen...I assume he's granted you magic as well...?"
They all nodded silently.
Sherkal smirked.
"I see...so I guess I'll need to pull out all the stops!" She threw out her arms as the earth came up and consumed her...rocks building and building on top of her forming a huge rock like beast.
"You won't beat me! I won't let you!" She declared.
Crono looked up at the rock beast and sighed.
~I knew this wasn't going to be easy...~
They all took a minute to look around and get re-set to their surroundings.
"Ok...Ayla probably went ahead and met Crono and Lucca and Marle at the entrance...I say we head there." Glenn said firmly.
Magus laughed.
"Are you really so slow that you didn't even notice those?" Magus said pointing to the ground with a light chuckle.
Glenn was shocked to see dozens of footprints...all looking reptile-like.
"The reptites..." Glenn thought aloud.
"Bingo." Magus said cruelly. "Are you always so quick to notice things?" He mocked.
"Maybe not all the time, but I am always quick with my blade, and if you wish we can see who's faster." Glenn said with a threatening tone.
"That's enough from the both of you..." Robo said decisively.
Magus and Glenn each looked to Robo.
"Obviously Ayla, or all of them are in trouble and we have to do something. Fighting like babies won't solve anything."
Robo turned and faced the direction where the prints were heading...and began to walk.
Glenn and magus followed robo for a while...passing Ayla's village and going to the coast...a bridge laid out in front of them.
Glenn and Magus each saw what was ahead and they thought
~This can't be a good thing...~ as they stared up at the pitch black castle, almost exactly like the one that was destroyed near the volcano.
Suddenly crossing the bridge to the castle towards the heroes were over a dozen elite reptite warriors...
"Looks like we're gonna have some fun out here after all..." Glenn said with a smirk as he unsheathed his Masamune.
Magus laughed taking out his Doom Sickle and Robo charged his gears and readied his fists.
"Let's go!" Glenn shouted with excitement.
*
"Something's not right..." Crono said as he turned to the mountain trail.
They had been waiting about an hour...and the longest it should have taken was 30 minutes...this was time they could not waste.
"You're right...they have been gone for a while...we should go up after them." Marle said softly.
Crono looked to Lucca.
She nodded in agreement.
"Alright then..." He said decisively, unsheathing Rainbow.
"...Let's go." Marle finished as she took out Valkyrie, smiling at Crono.
Lucca loaded her Wonder Shot and they took off running down the mountain trail.
*
Azala leapt towards Ayla talons first, attempting to shred through her body, she rolled to the left, pushing up into the air she triple kicked a nearby reptite into a tree, cracking his neck and turned. Jumping up and flipping over Azala she landed and sweep-kicked two more reptites and as they fell back she grabbed them by the chest and threw them into a rock wall. One of them got caught on a sharp rock protruding from the wall and hung there.
Ayla turned and barked fiercely
"AYLA WILL NOT LOSE!!"
And to that, the remaining reptites turned and ran back to the castle...except for Azala.
"I see you haven't gotten any weaker..." He said, somewhat impressed.
"Then again...you haven't gotten any stronger either! I on the other hand..."
Azala began reciting incantaions...Ayla knew what this meant.
~Magic?! But how?!~ She thought.
Just then Azala threw out his hand, the ground beneath Ayla shaking for a moment and just then she flipped out of the way, dodging a razor sharp earth spike by inches...she landed and slid. Standing she breathed deeply.
"That's right...thanks to her I will soon have all the power I'll need to control you filthy apes!" Azala cried.
~Her?~ Ayla thought.
~Sherkal!!~
Crono, Marle and Lucca came across the reptite footprints...and discovered three other distinct footprints.
"They went that way!" Crono announced as they ran after the trail...passing Ayla's village they saw something that struck them all with shock.
Azala's castle...rebuilt.
"I thought he was dead!" Lucca exclaimed.
"We dont have time to worry about that now...look!" Marle pointed to three figures fighting in the distance.
It was Magus, Robo and Glenn all fighting off Reptites.
"Let's get moving!" Crono ordered as he ran ahead.
Marle ran along behind Crono noticing Lucca staying behind.
"You guys go on ahead, I can pick them off from here..." She said through her sightscope.
Marle nodded and smiled, then ran after Crono again.
*
Magus turned and saw Crono and Marle coming, with Lucca in the back.
"Its about time you got here!" He snarled as he spun, slashing a reptite across the chest and then kicking him back into another reptite...casting black hole to engulf them both.
"It looks like your handling yourself quite well!" Crono said as he jumped into the air, bringing his Rainbow sword down onto a reptite's head, splitting them in half. Then jumping back he spun around slicing 4 more reptite's stomachs open.
"Even so, its always better to have more!" Glenn said breathlessly as he flipped backwards...holding out his hand as he cast Lightning 2, 5 of the reptites being shocked he charged faster than the wind, bringing his blade around too fast to see...and sheathed it. Instantaneously the 5 reptites fell to pieces.
Suddenly everyone fell quiet as they felt the earth shake for a moment...and then again...and again.
"She comes...she who calls the earth her home..." one of the reptites stammered as they all ran.
The six heroes stood their ground as a petite figure stepped out of the shadows of the castle...slowly crossing the bridge towards them...
Crono's eyes widened.
"I...think that's....Sherkal."
The woman stepped out from under the shadows and continued to walk slowly towards them, she was wrapped in a brown cloak that ran down her body all the way to her feet and dragged behind her.
Crono,Marle,Lucca,Magus,Robo and Glenn all stared as the figure of myth in their minds grew nearer.
"Is it really her?" Glenn asked in wonder.
"I guess we'll just have to wait and find out..." Crono said with a tinge of fear.
Finally the woman got about twenty feet away from the heroes and stopped.
"What brings you here strangers?!" She demanded...bringing her hands up to unsnap her cloak she tossed it aside revealing a beautiful robe of silver and gold...and on her left shoulder was a small insignia.
"Sherkal...Master of the Earth...Generation V" Magus read from the distance.
Sherkal smiled.
"Good boy...you seem to know your stuff. Now where is it you all come from?"
Where they all came from...that would be interesting.
"Well...I come from 1000 AD...as do my two friends here Marle and Lucca." He said as he pointed them out respectively.
"I'm from 600 AD." Glenn said.
"I come from 2300 AD." Robo announced.
Magus snarled.
"I came from 12000 BC...from Zeal." He said menacingly.
Sherkal's eyes widened as she realized who these people were.
"You...are Gaspar's chosen?" Sherkal asked in amazement.
"Yes we are..." Crono confirmed.
Sherkal smiled.
"Good, than this might prove to be somewhat entertaining!" She exclaimed as she threw her hands out and the earth around and under her shot up rocketing her up into the sky.
"I have a much better view of your heads from up here! So that way its easier to crush them!" She exclaimed as she held out her hand a wave of razor sharp rocks came from above towards the heroes.
Suddenly Ayla came flying out of nowhere and triple kicked the rocks into the ground nearby...she then landed on one knee.
"AYLA!" Crono shouted.
Ayla had been badly injured, she was bleeding from her left arm and scarred badly.
"Crono...must destroy Earth woman. She grant Azala magic!" Ayla revealed.
Everyone gasped and looked up to Sherkal.
"That's right! I gave that filthy lizard magic...in exchange for having his men build me this wonderful castle!"
"You couldn't have!" Marle exclaimed.
"If you keep granting magic to people the flow of time will be ruined!
Sherkal laughed and jumped down from her pedestal of earth, and at the same time unsheathing her Sais, landing on one knee she looked up.
"I shall grant magic to whomever, whenever I please. I won't be taking orders from a sniveling girl!" She growled as she charged Marle, spinning around attempting to slash her face with the sai.
Crono jumped towards marle and brought up his sword to block the slash, pushing with all his might set Sherkal off balance as she turned clumsily and threw out her hand attempting to stab Crono in the head.
He quickly rolled to the side as everyone spread out to get some room.
"I see why you were all chosen...I assume he's granted you magic as well...?"
They all nodded silently.
Sherkal smirked.
"I see...so I guess I'll need to pull out all the stops!" She threw out her arms as the earth came up and consumed her...rocks building and building on top of her forming a huge rock like beast.
"You won't beat me! I won't let you!" She declared.
Crono looked up at the rock beast and sighed.
~I knew this wasn't going to be easy...~