Ayla ran up and discovered a throne on the very top of the tower...the back facing her.
She walked slowly around to the side as Crono and Marle ran up the stairs and made it just in time to see Azala looming over Ayla, like the grim reaper ready to scoop up its prey.
"AYLA! LOOK OUT!" Marle screamed as Ayla looked up and rolled out of the way before Azala was able to attack her.
Ayla slid and stood, looking to marle she smiled.
"Thank you Marle! Ayla owe you!"
Marle giggled, just glad that she wasn't mad at her anymore...
Azala snarled and looked to the three of them.
"You filthy hairless apes...I'll have you know that my powers have grown considerably since the last time we fought..."
Marle sneered.
"Yeah, and you've grown considerably uglier..."
Azala chuckled at the child's attempt to insult him.
"Oh yes, you were certainly the smart one, I remember now..."
Azala took out a well-crafted Reptite spear...
"This spear was made especially for me, from the great lady of the earth known as Sherkal...she was powerful, but also very naive..."
Crono gripped the hilt of his Rainbow Sword tightly, ready to dive in and slice Azala in two...
Azala spun the spear around and held it tightly in his left hand as he charged, stopping short he threw out his left hand, and the spear, creating a wave of sharp rocks directly in front of the spear that he aimed at Crono.
Crono rolled to the left and charged, jumping into the air attempting a Spincut on Azala and as he came down, Azala held up the point of his spear, attempting to impale Crono's head.
~$hit!~ Crono thought as he spun in mid slash, his sword knocking away the tip of Azala's spear as he landed sloppily...falling over he rolled a few times before standing up.
Marle came into play now, firing a few rounds of her crossbow towards Azala...who simply laughed, making a gesture with his hand to bring up a wall of rock, which her arrows bounced off of effortlessly.
~darn....~ she thought.
~If only Glenn were here...he has the water magic...~
Suddenly from behind Azala came a punishing kick...it was Ayla.
Azala flew forward and slid against the ground roughly...finally getting up and turning throwing out his free hand to fire a small rock dagger at Ayla.
Ayla couldn't move fast enough and the dagger hit her in the shoulder, tearing through sinew and bone it went clear through and stuck out the other side.
Ayla let out a monstrous roar as Azala smiled with satisfaction.
Crono and Marle both snarled fiercely, Marle turning and running towards Ayla to try and help get the rock dagger out while Crono leapt into action, slicing at Azala's chest.
Azala brought up his spear to block the slash and spun, bringing the head of the spear towards Crono's side.
Crono leapt back slightly and moved his free hand in a fluid motion as a lightning bolt came down and struck Azala, dizzying him for a second as Crono charged and headbutted him. Sending Azala reeling backwards...Azala recovered quickly and moved forward, lunging with his spear.
Crono stepped to the side slightly, but it caused a small cut in his side, he winced slightly and moved inside of the window that Azala had just opened to get a firm grip of the spear with his free hand and give Azala a hard kick to the stomach at the same time, causing Azala to double over as Crono leapt up, kneeing him in the chin as Azala lost his grip of the spear. Crono threw it out the window located nearby.
Azala snarled and got up slowly.
"Filthy ape...you'll regret that..."
Crono smiled.
"I doubt it..."
Meanwhile Marle finally yanked the rock out of Ayla's shoulder as she howled in pain.
"shhh..." Marle said soothingly.
"Just relax...I'll heal you."
Marle murmured gently...a soft aura coming over Ayla as the massive wound closed slowly...it left a scar however.
Ayla took a deep breath.
"Thank you Marle. Ayla sorry..."
Marle smiled gently and hugged her.
"It's ok...let's just finish this and meet up with the others as soon as we can!"
Ayla smiled and nodded, getting up quickly.
Marle got ready too...all of them running to stand near Crono.
Azala looked over the three hairless apes with a scowl.
"darn you...I won't let you leave here alive!!" Azala screamed and threw his hands down, suddenly two swords made of rock came into his hands...the blades were razor sharp as he sliced at Crono's chest twice, once with each blade.
Crono brought up his blade and blocked the first slash, pushing off of the force into a sideroll as Ayla leapt back into the action, planting a triple kick to the side of Azala's head. Azala flew straight into the rugged rock wall with a sickening crack.
"Crono! Marle! We finish special now!"
Crono and Marle looked at each other and nodded.
"Final kick time!" Crono yelled as both he and Marle charged their energies and Ayla leapt into the air...preparing for her triple kick.
The two energies flew from Crono and Marle and engulfed Ayla as she came down, pummeling Azala with her powerful kicks charged with the powers of lightning and ice...the first kick shattered his rib cage, the second breaking his left leg and the third crushing his windpipe as she backflipped off of the final kick, breathing deeply.
"That's it..." Crono said softly, staring at Azala's lifeless corpse.
"...we killed him..."
Ayla panted and stood slowly...
"Azala...no more fights...anymore..." she said breathlessly.
"Yeah..." Marle agreed.
Crono looked around and suddenly realized something.
"We totally forgot about the others!" he exclaimed.
Ayla and Marle jumped and turned to him.
"We need to get to the gate as soon as we can! Lucca and the others will need our help to take on the next caller..."
Ayla piped up.
"We go to Mystic Mountain now!" Ayla replied.
Ayla went to the window and whistled...suddenly three Dactyls came to the windows and each hopped on one flying straight for the Mystic Mountain.
*
Lucca, Magus, Glenn and Robo made it to the 56th floor and stepped out slowly...looking down the hall in both directions...
"Nobody's here it seems..." Glenn said quietly.
Suddenly from down the hall they heard a tremendous explosion and ran towards the source of the disturbance.
*
The three heroes Ayla, Crono and Marle all leapt off of the Dactyl at the "leaping" point.
The gate opened slowly as the three warped to the end of time...
*
There was a sudden flash at the end of time as Gaspar was once again sleeping on the job.
"Gaspar! Gaspar!" Crono yelled...Gaspar snorted and woke up.
"What is it?" Gaspar asked impatiently.
"We need to get to the others! Where did they go?"
Gaspar blinked a couple times.
"Oh..that's right...you weren't here..."
Gaspar closed his eyes again.
"Just use the bucket, and look for the fight...I'm sure Wendell has started something by now..."
Crono looked to the bucket and smiled.
"Thanks Gaspar!"
The three ran to the bucket and made their way to 1995 AD.
*
Lucca peered into the room where the explosion came from and was amazed at what she saw.
There, standing before her was a tall man, with lightning teeming all over his body, he was in a room surrounded by very fragile forensic evidence from long past crimes...and yet none of it was scathed...the figure turned to see Lucca...and became angry.
"What are you doing here?!" The man asked viciously.
Just then magus stepped foward, and Wendell immediately recognized him.
"Janus? Prince Janus?" Wendell knelt before Magus.
"Get up you fool...we came here to ask a favor..."
Wendell nodded and stood slowly...just then another explosion was heard down the hall, followed immediately by a stampeding of feet.
*
Crono, Ayla and Marle found themselves in a hallway in the middle of a mysterious building. They immediately began running to go find the others.
"Lucca? Robo? Glenn? Magus?" Crono called as he ran.
"We're right here Crono!" Lucca called as she waved him towards the room.
At last, the seven warriors were reunited.
"What is it you wish Prince Janus?" Wendell asked humbly.
"We want you to grant us your powers..." Magus said slowly.
Wendell was obviously phased by the request.
"What do you need my powers for m'lord? Do you not have enough on your own?"
Magus gritted his teeth.
"Of course I do! It's just that these others are with me and they need these powers to take on Matzu..."
Immediately Wendell backed up.
"You...you're going after Matzu?" he asked quietly.
"Yes...now give us your powers so we can take care of him and move on.." Magus asked impatiently
Wendell's face grew hard and frustrated.
"You simply don't 'take care' of Matzu...and I won't let you use my powers to defeat him...he's a close friend of mine and I won't give up my powers without a fight!"
Lightning filled the room suddenly as Wendell removed his labcoat...revealing a massive knight's sword.
"Janus...you have changed...you are foolish to attempt to destroy Matzu! I shall spare you the horror of dying at his hand by destroying you here...and now!"
Magus turned to the others.
"The mission must continue...we can't afford to let this fail...I will stay behind...who else will help me take care of wendell and who will go back and move on to the next Caller?"
Glenn spoke up first.
"You may need my water magic and techniques..."
Magus snarled.
"Very well...one more person...the others will take the epoch to the next Caller."
Lucca stepped forward.
"I suppose I should stay with you two to make sure you don't kill each other..."
Magus looked to Lucca with a scowl.
"What...you think I"m lying?" Lucca asked putting her hands on her hips impatiently.
Magus turned away from her.
"I guess you have a point..." Magus agreed grumpily.
Lucca smiled.
"I'm glad you see it my way..."
Lucca turned to Crono, Ayla, Robo and Marle.
"You guys take the epoch, it's located a few blocks from here...take it to 1980...Quentor will be in that time frame...it's up to you to find him...you may want to drop by Gaspar first to see if he can give you any information on where Quentor might be..."
Crono smiled and nodded.
"That would be a good idea."
Crono motioned to his comrades as they ran to his side.
Ayla smiled.
"Ayla can't wait...Ayla love fire!" she said with a menacing grin, her eagerness to fight this new foe almost matched by her insane expression.
Crono chuckled...then stopped noticing Wendell standing ready with his blade.
"We better get going, Wendell looks ready to fight right now..."
Lucca turned, looking rather solemnly at Crono.
"Remember, it's important that the plan follows through..."
Crono nodded.
"Come on guys...let's go!" Crono turned and ran down towards the stairs, Marle, Ayla and Robo following closely behind.
Lucca smiled as she watched them leave and turned back to the matter at hand...Wendell.
*
Crono ran down the stairs as fast as he could...the stampeding sound of the three other pairs of feet, most noticably robo's, as they finally approached the front door.
Crono snarled and leapt towards the door, busting through it, glass shattering and spreading along the ground like roaches retreating from the light.
Robo, Marle and Ayla followed him quickly, as he turned and sprinted towards the Epoch.
~Time...time is of the essence...why is it that I'm always fighting against something I can't see?~
*
Wendell growled lightly.
"How do I even know you're the real Janus? Surely Janus knew better than to try and take on Matzu the Guru..."
Magus snickered.
"You're right, I'm not Janus anymore....my name is Magus. I lost my name the same day I lost my sister..."
Wendell gasped.
"I had no idea...her ladyship Schala as well?"
Magus nodded solemnly...his eyes growing soft but for only a moment before lifting up his head, his face set into stone, his battle face on.
"Do you still wish to fight us? Or will you grant us your powers?" Magus asked impatiently...holding out his hand he began murmuring gently gathering dark energies into his hand.
"I shall grant you my powers...but you must earn them first..."
Wendell smiled and held out his sword, the blade teeming and crackling with electricity and energy as he smiled.
Magus unsheathed his Scythe, Lucca removing her Wonder Shot and Glenn unsheathing his Masamune...the scene was set as the second Caller had been revealed and threatened...and was ready to fight for the powers that they wanted so desperately.
*
Crono leapt into the Pilot's seat.
"Ayla take seat next to Crono!" Ayla yelled in glee as she jumped up, suddenly being grabbed by the seat of her pants and yanked down.
"Oh no you don't, he's my husband...I'll sit next to Crono!" Marle climbed up slowly...suddenly feeling a violent push she went in, head over heels landing roughly with her legs over Crono's.
Crono blushed and gently pushed Marle's legs off of him.
Crono yelled out to Ayla.
"Just sit in Robo's lap for the ride over!"
Ayla grumbled.
"Ayla don't want to sit in Robo's lap...Ayla want Crono!"
Ayla pouted and turned around, stomping like a child.
~I don't have time to deal with this crap...~ Crono thought as he stood for a minute and yelled as loud as he could.
"DAMMIT AYLA! GET YOUR PREHISTORIC @SS IN THIS SHIP NOW OR WE'RE LEAVING WITHOUT YOU! UNDERSTAND?!"
Ayla turned with a jump and ran on all fours towards the Epoch, leaping up she landed in Robo's lap and Crono shut the top grumpily...flipping a few switches they were gone in a flash and a thunderclap.
Wendell looked to Lucca and gave her a quick look-over.
"Who is this one that accompanies you Jan...I mean Magus?"
Magus looked to Lucca.
"It's a human...her name is Lucca...why does it matter?"
Wendell stopped for a moment.
"This one...her aura seems to give off a strange presence...it seems...so familiar..."
Lucca was somewhat thrown off by Wendell's curiousity and snarled slightly.
"What is it you're after? We don't have time to be playing these games..." Lucca didn't mean to be so rude...but she had better things to do than play the flirting game with a master of lightning...then again...Crono was a master of lightning now wasn't he?
Wendell's face twisted into an angry scowl.
"You certainly are an impatient, unfriendly bunch...you need to be taught some manners..."
Wendell charged and stopped short, leaning forward with his leading leg he lunged at Magus' stomach.
Magus leapt back a little bit, but lightning jumped off of Wendell's blade and surrounded Magus in an excruciating net of voltage that shocked him to the core of his being.
Magus winced and was thrown back after the shock had finished...slamming into the nearby wall, he fell onto one knee, putting one gloved hand on the ground...
Wendell looked to him and shook his head.
"It's a shame...you aren't very skilled as far as magic..."
Magus snarled.
~Nobody puts me down like that...I don't care who the hell he is...nobody tells me whether I am or am not skilled in something...~
Magus' eyes flashed a blood red as he stood quickly, turning he reached under his cape and threw a dagger at Wendell as Lucca fired a blast of her Wonder Shot and Frog muttering slightly...thinking he'd try out his own earth skills that were unlocked.
Suddenly a jagged rock came hurdling towards Wendell at an amazing speed and surely it seemed like wendell was on the way to perdition as the sharp edge came towards him like a messenger from death and the shot coming towards him faster than the speed of sound...but luckily lightning is faster than sound as Wendell fired a blast of lightning towards both the flying rock and gunshot nulling them both in mid air before bringing his attentiong to the dagger that was heading straight for his face, quickly he brought up his hand and barely was able to catch the dagger before it slammed into his forehead...moving his hand and tossing the dagger aside he noticed Magus coming towards him at an amazing speed, head first as he was smashed in the face by Magus' brutal headbutt and sent reeling backwards.
Crono piloted the Epoch silently, Ayla and Robo in the back seat.
"You guys ok back there?" Crono asked quietly...Marle placing her hand gently on Crono's knee.
Ayla grumbled.
"Ayla uncomfortable...Me want to sit with Crono!"
Crono growled.
"Ayla, please...you're behaving like a child...we'll be at the End of Time soon enough..."
Marle looked to Crono.
"End of Time? I thought we were going to fight Quentor...?"
Crono closed his eyes and nodded.
"Yes, I know I said that but I think we need to go and see Gaspar and see what other information he might have for us...like the other Callers destinations."
Marle and the others nodded knowingly, except for Ayla, who was still sulking in the back seat.
*
Wendell took a few sloppy steps back, looking to Magus with a rekindled hatred...and yet he still cared for him deeply, not wanting to send Magus in to die against Matzu.
"Please Janus...you can't do this...Matzu is far too strong...even if you gathered all of the Callers powers, Matzu could still defeat you..."
Magus snarled and charged again...swinging his scythe at Wendell's head.
Wendell leapt back and came forward with a powerful upward swing, knocking Magus' scythe away as Magus went into a backroll, growling as he unsheathed another dagger.
"Nobody tells me what i can or can't do...understand?"
Wendell bared his teeth in anger.
"Foolish boy! You would run into death so easily! Not even caring about rescuing your sister!"
Magus stopped cold.
"You....what did you say?" Magus asked silently.
Wendell shook his head.
"You are so busy chasing this Guru around that you forgot your pledge to find your sister? Surely you are a fool..."
Magus now leapt to Wendell with such ferocity, such raw power that Wendell felt a chill shoot down his spine like a cold bolt of lightning.
"Tell me where Schala is! Or so help me I will make your death legend..."
Wendell gulped lightly.
"I...do not know where she is...but I think that Anshal, the caller of space might..."
Magus turned to the others.
"We must find this Anshal!"
Glenn stepped forward quickly.
"Magus! Have you forgotten our mission? We are to..."
Magus turned and screamed to Glenn in a rage that had never been shown before.
"I HAVE FORGOTTEN MY OWN MISSION! MY OWN SISTER!"
Glenn shrunk back, then realizing what exactly was at stake, leapt back at Magus with an equal verbal assault.
"I'm sorry Magus...but the fate of the Universe is more important than your sister! And if Matzu wins, then you'll never be able to find your sister again...ever!"
Magus was stung by the reality of the statement and held quiet for a moment.
Wendell saw Magus turning and ran to the back of the room, slamming a button on the panel as suddenly the walls opened on either side and 12 Magus look-alikes came out in large tubes.
Lucca gasped.
"Oh my god...he's been using this place to breed an army of Magus'!"
Wendell chuckled.
"That's right, after arriving here I was quite distraught, I had no friends, no family, nobody to talk to...so I used my great intelligence and powers to help expand this forensics lab, where I used a sample of DNA to help make copies of Magus..."
Magus stopped for a moment and turned to Wendell.
"How did you get my DNA?"
Wendell pointed at Magus' right arm.
"Look there..."
Magus looked and saw a small scar on his right arm.
"When you were young, I scratched you with the tip of my blade on accident...little did I know that my sword's properties kept that small piece of flesh secure during those years...one day while entering my office it detected another strain of blood on me somewhere...and after searching for hours I discovered the small piece of flesh on the tip of my blade...which I then used to produce these wonderful clones."
Magus, Lucca and Glenn all stood, completely in shock.
The twelve Magus clones all stood in a line in front of Wendell.
"Well Magus, this is for your own good..."
Wendell waved his arm and sent the clones in a flurry of blades and magic.
*
Crono, Marle, Ayla and Robo got off at the End of Time...where they saw a horrifying sight.
A tall man, wearing a black robe, his hood was pulled down and he turned to stare at them.
Instinctively they knew...
It had to be Matzu.
Crono growled for a moment...
"Matzu..."
Matzu smiled...his purple hair hanging messily around his shoulders as his platinum eyes scanned the four newcomers to their conversation.
"Well hello...Gaspar...are these the ones?"
Gaspar mumbled something.
"Magnificent...truly I can see why you chose them...so unique and colorful..." Matzu smiled.
Ayla snarled.
"This bad man that makes Ayla leave Kino? Ayla take care of man now!"
Ayla leapt at Matzu in a rage, a very bad idea.
Matzu held out his hand, expecting to freeze Ayla in a time shield, but forgetting they had the time gurus blessing, Ayla continued onward, unhindered and slammed Matzu across the face, sending him spinning to the ground with a grunt.
Ayla smiled.
"Man easy to beat...we run around for this?"
Matzu growled and stood quickly...turning to Ayla who was going in for another hit, Matzu sidestepped and brought both of his fists down, hard, on the back of Ayla's neck.
Her eyes bulged out with pain as she was sent to the ground with a sickening crack as Crono's and the others winced, feeling her pain almost.
"Gaspar...you make sure these kids stay out of my way...I will be back to talk more about past the end of time, so do not worry..."
Gaspar snarled slightly as Matzu dissappeared back into his realm.
Then he turned to Crono and the others, who were gathered around Ayla.
"Bring her to Spekkio...he can heal her..." Gaspar said quietly.
*
Magus brought up his scythe, blocking about three of the clones' slashes as he unsheathed a dagger with his free hand, tossing it at one of the clones heading towards Lucca.
The clone was struck in the spine and fell to the floor, writhing around before it stopped, but just for a moment as it pulled out the dagger and the wound closed up immediately after removing the blade.
"****!" Glenn exclaimed.
"Perfect...." Magus thought with a snarl.
Wendell chuckled.
"Poor fools...you'll have a hard time destroying these ones...their regenerative capabilities are more than 100X that of normal humans."
Lucca held up her gun for a moment... her eyes twinkling with revelation.
"Hey magus..." she said confidently.
"What is it Lucca?" He asked, somewhat annoyed.
Lucca smiled and signaled to the clones.
"Get them nice and close together...."
Magus looked to Lucca.
"Why?"
Lucca gave him a look, a look like it was true that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
"Just do as I say..."
Magus shrugged.
"Fine..."
Ayla was carried into Spekkio's room slowly...Spekkio having been taking care of Kid the whole time while Lucca was away, he seemed to do a pretty good job manipulating ice and water to keep Kid busy...but as Ayla came in Spekkio knew what had to be done and left Kid to play with a few toys he made for her.
"What happened?" Spekkio asked quietly.
Gaspar looked to spekkio.
"I know as well as you that you sensed Matzu here...no need to fake stupidity..."
Spekkio sighed.
"Very well...I can take care of this problem, but before you go off fighting matzu any more make sure that you're ready..."
The others nodded.
Spekkio held his hands out over Ayla and began murmuring silently.
Suddenly an aura surrounded Ayla and began to stir her from her unconscious state.
"Uhh...uuuhhh.." Ayla grunted as she moved around slightly, finally waking up fully.
She opened her eyes and looked around...and began to scream.
*
Magus spun, slashed and casted...getting the clones in a group as tight as he could.
"NOW MOVE!" Lucca yelled as Magus rolled out of the way.
~My Chronos special, number 13...~ Lucca smiled as she locked and loaded the shell, and fired it at the group.
Suddenly there was a thunderclap and a flash, and then it was over.
Magus looked from the clones to Lucca.
"What exactly did that do genius?" Magus asked with a grimace.
Lucca smiled.
"Look..."
All of the clones were moving incredibly slow...their runs were like slow motion walks and each action took a painfully long time to fulfill.
"It's my chronos special number 13...it slows down the targets speed by 100,000 percent!"
Magus smiled, looked to Glenn and signaled.
"Let's kill these [marathon]s..." Magus said with a grin as they both leapt forward, and suddenly in a flurry of blades and cloth the clones were easily decimated by the skills of both Glenn and Magus as they leapt back from the bloody mess of bone and sinew and landed next to Lucca again, they stared down wendell who just had watched his elite guard die before his eyes.
"I...I..." Wendell fell to his knees in shock.
Magus and Glenn walked up to Wendell slowly, their blades ready.
"Come on now Wendell, we've humiliated you enough...grant us your powers and we can be on our way..."
Wendell shook his head, his eyes blurred with tears...truly his pride was cut to the bone.
"Very well...you shall have what you came for..."
Wendell stood slowly.
*
"Who are you people?!" Ayla screamed.
Crono, Robo and Marle were all shocked at Ayla's reaction.
"Ummm...Ayla...we're your friends...Matzu just gave you a real bad hit on the back of the head so we had Spekkio heal you..." Crono pointed at Spekkio as he finished the sentence.
Ayla looked around at all of them in wonder.
"You've...got to be joking...my name isn't Ayla...it's Rebecca. And I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't...." Ayla screamed again, finally seeing Spekkio.
"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!"
Spekkio scoffed.
"That? 'That' is the master of war thank you very much, and I just healed you...so a thank you might be in order."
Ayla...or Rebecca...gave Spekkio a look that would have killed him if he were not the Master of War.
"Thank you..." Rebecca looked around.
"So where exactly am I?"
Gaspar spoke up then.
"Ahem...well young lady, you are at the End of Time...where all the times meet together in a central point."
Rebecca stared for a moment, and blinked a few times.
"The...end of time?" Suddenly she started laughing.
Gaspar scoffed and walked out to the main room while the others looked to Rebecca.
"You don't believe him? Come with me..." Marle took Rebecca's hand and dragged her to the stairs leading to the epoch.
"Take a good look! Nothing around...nothing!"
Rebecca was finally hit with the full force of the situation and suddenly became hostile.
She spun and threw out her hand at Marle...Marle ducked and then realized that a wave of earth was forming beneath her.
~Crap!~ she thought as she leapt out of the way and the wave of earth stopped suddenly after Rebecca realized what she was doing.
"What...what have you done to me?!" Rebecca asked in horror.
"Ayla...settle down....that's your power and your power alone. You are an earth aligned warrior...I am lightning...Marle is Ice and Robo is shadow...we are working together on a very important mission and..."
"SHUT UP!" Rebecca screamed, cutting Crono off.
"I've had enough of your lies! I want to go back home...now!"
Gaspar looked to Rebecca and made an awkward face.
"And where exactly is your "home"...Rebecca?
Rebecca got ready to answer, but for some reason, nothing came out.
"I...I...don't know..." Rebecca answered quietly.
Gaspar nodded.
"Yes...well I suggest you stick around with these guys until we figure out how to get your memory back or find you a better place to stay..."
Rebecca looked to her fellow 3 heroes.
"So...what exactly..." Ayla looked down and shrieked momentarily.
"Why didn't anyone tell me I was walking around in my underwear?!"
Crono looked to Marle and shrugged.
Gaspar cleared his throat from behing all of them.
"I can get you something a little more, suitable for your new persona..."
Gaspar walked into the back room where the light pillars were and headed into a new pillar that appeared recently to 1998...and headed in, coming out a few moments later with a couple big bags full of clothes.
"Take these and get changed in the back, but don't touch the pillars of light!"
Rebecca shrunk back and walked into the other room to get changed.
Suddenly, Rebecca, along with the other three...began to feel a warm feeling as Gaspar smiled.
"They have defeated Wendell..."
Wendell sighed.
"There...it is done."
Magus smiled...he felt the new magic running through him, the power of lightning that he could not get on his own.
"This is amazing...I feel strong enough to take on Matzu right now!" Matzu laughed like a child beholding a new toy on christmas day...but it stopped quickly as Wendell's scolding tone pierced through Magus' visions of happiness.
"FOOL! Even with all of our powers, matzu could still defeat you...have you not learned? Matzu is unbeatable!"
Magus snarled and turned back to Wendell.
"I will prove you wrong old man...so help me! My friends and I..."
Magus turned to see Lucca and Glenn looking at him in surprise...having acknowledged them as 'friends'.
Magus realized his mistake of caring and quickly covered it up.
"...I...will take care of Matzu myself, and then you will see who is indeed more powerful..." Magus stood and turned, walking towards Lucca and Glenn.
Wendell growled loud enough for all of them to hear as Lucca thought of something.
"Well...now what? We can't just leave Wendell here...who knows what kind of damage he can still do?"
Magus turned to wendell.
"I don't think we have to worry anymore...he knows that he has failed, and now, like Sherkal, he will dissappear into this world...having no one to remember him."
Wendell dropped his head...
~Indeed he is right...I can not live with this shame...~
Lucca saw the thoughts behind his countenance and nodded slowly.
"I guess you're right, we should get back to the end of time...I'm sure Gaspar has some new information on the other three callers..."
Glenn followed Magus and Lucca out the door silently.
She walked slowly around to the side as Crono and Marle ran up the stairs and made it just in time to see Azala looming over Ayla, like the grim reaper ready to scoop up its prey.
"AYLA! LOOK OUT!" Marle screamed as Ayla looked up and rolled out of the way before Azala was able to attack her.
Ayla slid and stood, looking to marle she smiled.
"Thank you Marle! Ayla owe you!"
Marle giggled, just glad that she wasn't mad at her anymore...
Azala snarled and looked to the three of them.
"You filthy hairless apes...I'll have you know that my powers have grown considerably since the last time we fought..."
Marle sneered.
"Yeah, and you've grown considerably uglier..."
Azala chuckled at the child's attempt to insult him.
"Oh yes, you were certainly the smart one, I remember now..."
Azala took out a well-crafted Reptite spear...
"This spear was made especially for me, from the great lady of the earth known as Sherkal...she was powerful, but also very naive..."
Crono gripped the hilt of his Rainbow Sword tightly, ready to dive in and slice Azala in two...
Azala spun the spear around and held it tightly in his left hand as he charged, stopping short he threw out his left hand, and the spear, creating a wave of sharp rocks directly in front of the spear that he aimed at Crono.
Crono rolled to the left and charged, jumping into the air attempting a Spincut on Azala and as he came down, Azala held up the point of his spear, attempting to impale Crono's head.
~$hit!~ Crono thought as he spun in mid slash, his sword knocking away the tip of Azala's spear as he landed sloppily...falling over he rolled a few times before standing up.
Marle came into play now, firing a few rounds of her crossbow towards Azala...who simply laughed, making a gesture with his hand to bring up a wall of rock, which her arrows bounced off of effortlessly.
~darn....~ she thought.
~If only Glenn were here...he has the water magic...~
Suddenly from behind Azala came a punishing kick...it was Ayla.
Azala flew forward and slid against the ground roughly...finally getting up and turning throwing out his free hand to fire a small rock dagger at Ayla.
Ayla couldn't move fast enough and the dagger hit her in the shoulder, tearing through sinew and bone it went clear through and stuck out the other side.
Ayla let out a monstrous roar as Azala smiled with satisfaction.
Crono and Marle both snarled fiercely, Marle turning and running towards Ayla to try and help get the rock dagger out while Crono leapt into action, slicing at Azala's chest.
Azala brought up his spear to block the slash and spun, bringing the head of the spear towards Crono's side.
Crono leapt back slightly and moved his free hand in a fluid motion as a lightning bolt came down and struck Azala, dizzying him for a second as Crono charged and headbutted him. Sending Azala reeling backwards...Azala recovered quickly and moved forward, lunging with his spear.
Crono stepped to the side slightly, but it caused a small cut in his side, he winced slightly and moved inside of the window that Azala had just opened to get a firm grip of the spear with his free hand and give Azala a hard kick to the stomach at the same time, causing Azala to double over as Crono leapt up, kneeing him in the chin as Azala lost his grip of the spear. Crono threw it out the window located nearby.
Azala snarled and got up slowly.
"Filthy ape...you'll regret that..."
Crono smiled.
"I doubt it..."
Meanwhile Marle finally yanked the rock out of Ayla's shoulder as she howled in pain.
"shhh..." Marle said soothingly.
"Just relax...I'll heal you."
Marle murmured gently...a soft aura coming over Ayla as the massive wound closed slowly...it left a scar however.
Ayla took a deep breath.
"Thank you Marle. Ayla sorry..."
Marle smiled gently and hugged her.
"It's ok...let's just finish this and meet up with the others as soon as we can!"
Ayla smiled and nodded, getting up quickly.
Marle got ready too...all of them running to stand near Crono.
Azala looked over the three hairless apes with a scowl.
"darn you...I won't let you leave here alive!!" Azala screamed and threw his hands down, suddenly two swords made of rock came into his hands...the blades were razor sharp as he sliced at Crono's chest twice, once with each blade.
Crono brought up his blade and blocked the first slash, pushing off of the force into a sideroll as Ayla leapt back into the action, planting a triple kick to the side of Azala's head. Azala flew straight into the rugged rock wall with a sickening crack.
"Crono! Marle! We finish special now!"
Crono and Marle looked at each other and nodded.
"Final kick time!" Crono yelled as both he and Marle charged their energies and Ayla leapt into the air...preparing for her triple kick.
The two energies flew from Crono and Marle and engulfed Ayla as she came down, pummeling Azala with her powerful kicks charged with the powers of lightning and ice...the first kick shattered his rib cage, the second breaking his left leg and the third crushing his windpipe as she backflipped off of the final kick, breathing deeply.
"That's it..." Crono said softly, staring at Azala's lifeless corpse.
"...we killed him..."
Ayla panted and stood slowly...
"Azala...no more fights...anymore..." she said breathlessly.
"Yeah..." Marle agreed.
Crono looked around and suddenly realized something.
"We totally forgot about the others!" he exclaimed.
Ayla and Marle jumped and turned to him.
"We need to get to the gate as soon as we can! Lucca and the others will need our help to take on the next caller..."
Ayla piped up.
"We go to Mystic Mountain now!" Ayla replied.
Ayla went to the window and whistled...suddenly three Dactyls came to the windows and each hopped on one flying straight for the Mystic Mountain.
*
Lucca, Magus, Glenn and Robo made it to the 56th floor and stepped out slowly...looking down the hall in both directions...
"Nobody's here it seems..." Glenn said quietly.
Suddenly from down the hall they heard a tremendous explosion and ran towards the source of the disturbance.
*
The three heroes Ayla, Crono and Marle all leapt off of the Dactyl at the "leaping" point.
The gate opened slowly as the three warped to the end of time...
*
There was a sudden flash at the end of time as Gaspar was once again sleeping on the job.
"Gaspar! Gaspar!" Crono yelled...Gaspar snorted and woke up.
"What is it?" Gaspar asked impatiently.
"We need to get to the others! Where did they go?"
Gaspar blinked a couple times.
"Oh..that's right...you weren't here..."
Gaspar closed his eyes again.
"Just use the bucket, and look for the fight...I'm sure Wendell has started something by now..."
Crono looked to the bucket and smiled.
"Thanks Gaspar!"
The three ran to the bucket and made their way to 1995 AD.
*
Lucca peered into the room where the explosion came from and was amazed at what she saw.
There, standing before her was a tall man, with lightning teeming all over his body, he was in a room surrounded by very fragile forensic evidence from long past crimes...and yet none of it was scathed...the figure turned to see Lucca...and became angry.
"What are you doing here?!" The man asked viciously.
Just then magus stepped foward, and Wendell immediately recognized him.
"Janus? Prince Janus?" Wendell knelt before Magus.
"Get up you fool...we came here to ask a favor..."
Wendell nodded and stood slowly...just then another explosion was heard down the hall, followed immediately by a stampeding of feet.
*
Crono, Ayla and Marle found themselves in a hallway in the middle of a mysterious building. They immediately began running to go find the others.
"Lucca? Robo? Glenn? Magus?" Crono called as he ran.
"We're right here Crono!" Lucca called as she waved him towards the room.
At last, the seven warriors were reunited.
"What is it you wish Prince Janus?" Wendell asked humbly.
"We want you to grant us your powers..." Magus said slowly.
Wendell was obviously phased by the request.
"What do you need my powers for m'lord? Do you not have enough on your own?"
Magus gritted his teeth.
"Of course I do! It's just that these others are with me and they need these powers to take on Matzu..."
Immediately Wendell backed up.
"You...you're going after Matzu?" he asked quietly.
"Yes...now give us your powers so we can take care of him and move on.." Magus asked impatiently
Wendell's face grew hard and frustrated.
"You simply don't 'take care' of Matzu...and I won't let you use my powers to defeat him...he's a close friend of mine and I won't give up my powers without a fight!"
Lightning filled the room suddenly as Wendell removed his labcoat...revealing a massive knight's sword.
"Janus...you have changed...you are foolish to attempt to destroy Matzu! I shall spare you the horror of dying at his hand by destroying you here...and now!"
Magus turned to the others.
"The mission must continue...we can't afford to let this fail...I will stay behind...who else will help me take care of wendell and who will go back and move on to the next Caller?"
Glenn spoke up first.
"You may need my water magic and techniques..."
Magus snarled.
"Very well...one more person...the others will take the epoch to the next Caller."
Lucca stepped forward.
"I suppose I should stay with you two to make sure you don't kill each other..."
Magus looked to Lucca with a scowl.
"What...you think I"m lying?" Lucca asked putting her hands on her hips impatiently.
Magus turned away from her.
"I guess you have a point..." Magus agreed grumpily.
Lucca smiled.
"I'm glad you see it my way..."
Lucca turned to Crono, Ayla, Robo and Marle.
"You guys take the epoch, it's located a few blocks from here...take it to 1980...Quentor will be in that time frame...it's up to you to find him...you may want to drop by Gaspar first to see if he can give you any information on where Quentor might be..."
Crono smiled and nodded.
"That would be a good idea."
Crono motioned to his comrades as they ran to his side.
Ayla smiled.
"Ayla can't wait...Ayla love fire!" she said with a menacing grin, her eagerness to fight this new foe almost matched by her insane expression.
Crono chuckled...then stopped noticing Wendell standing ready with his blade.
"We better get going, Wendell looks ready to fight right now..."
Lucca turned, looking rather solemnly at Crono.
"Remember, it's important that the plan follows through..."
Crono nodded.
"Come on guys...let's go!" Crono turned and ran down towards the stairs, Marle, Ayla and Robo following closely behind.
Lucca smiled as she watched them leave and turned back to the matter at hand...Wendell.
*
Crono ran down the stairs as fast as he could...the stampeding sound of the three other pairs of feet, most noticably robo's, as they finally approached the front door.
Crono snarled and leapt towards the door, busting through it, glass shattering and spreading along the ground like roaches retreating from the light.
Robo, Marle and Ayla followed him quickly, as he turned and sprinted towards the Epoch.
~Time...time is of the essence...why is it that I'm always fighting against something I can't see?~
*
Wendell growled lightly.
"How do I even know you're the real Janus? Surely Janus knew better than to try and take on Matzu the Guru..."
Magus snickered.
"You're right, I'm not Janus anymore....my name is Magus. I lost my name the same day I lost my sister..."
Wendell gasped.
"I had no idea...her ladyship Schala as well?"
Magus nodded solemnly...his eyes growing soft but for only a moment before lifting up his head, his face set into stone, his battle face on.
"Do you still wish to fight us? Or will you grant us your powers?" Magus asked impatiently...holding out his hand he began murmuring gently gathering dark energies into his hand.
"I shall grant you my powers...but you must earn them first..."
Wendell smiled and held out his sword, the blade teeming and crackling with electricity and energy as he smiled.
Magus unsheathed his Scythe, Lucca removing her Wonder Shot and Glenn unsheathing his Masamune...the scene was set as the second Caller had been revealed and threatened...and was ready to fight for the powers that they wanted so desperately.
*
Crono leapt into the Pilot's seat.
"Ayla take seat next to Crono!" Ayla yelled in glee as she jumped up, suddenly being grabbed by the seat of her pants and yanked down.
"Oh no you don't, he's my husband...I'll sit next to Crono!" Marle climbed up slowly...suddenly feeling a violent push she went in, head over heels landing roughly with her legs over Crono's.
Crono blushed and gently pushed Marle's legs off of him.
Crono yelled out to Ayla.
"Just sit in Robo's lap for the ride over!"
Ayla grumbled.
"Ayla don't want to sit in Robo's lap...Ayla want Crono!"
Ayla pouted and turned around, stomping like a child.
~I don't have time to deal with this crap...~ Crono thought as he stood for a minute and yelled as loud as he could.
"DAMMIT AYLA! GET YOUR PREHISTORIC @SS IN THIS SHIP NOW OR WE'RE LEAVING WITHOUT YOU! UNDERSTAND?!"
Ayla turned with a jump and ran on all fours towards the Epoch, leaping up she landed in Robo's lap and Crono shut the top grumpily...flipping a few switches they were gone in a flash and a thunderclap.
Wendell looked to Lucca and gave her a quick look-over.
"Who is this one that accompanies you Jan...I mean Magus?"
Magus looked to Lucca.
"It's a human...her name is Lucca...why does it matter?"
Wendell stopped for a moment.
"This one...her aura seems to give off a strange presence...it seems...so familiar..."
Lucca was somewhat thrown off by Wendell's curiousity and snarled slightly.
"What is it you're after? We don't have time to be playing these games..." Lucca didn't mean to be so rude...but she had better things to do than play the flirting game with a master of lightning...then again...Crono was a master of lightning now wasn't he?
Wendell's face twisted into an angry scowl.
"You certainly are an impatient, unfriendly bunch...you need to be taught some manners..."
Wendell charged and stopped short, leaning forward with his leading leg he lunged at Magus' stomach.
Magus leapt back a little bit, but lightning jumped off of Wendell's blade and surrounded Magus in an excruciating net of voltage that shocked him to the core of his being.
Magus winced and was thrown back after the shock had finished...slamming into the nearby wall, he fell onto one knee, putting one gloved hand on the ground...
Wendell looked to him and shook his head.
"It's a shame...you aren't very skilled as far as magic..."
Magus snarled.
~Nobody puts me down like that...I don't care who the hell he is...nobody tells me whether I am or am not skilled in something...~
Magus' eyes flashed a blood red as he stood quickly, turning he reached under his cape and threw a dagger at Wendell as Lucca fired a blast of her Wonder Shot and Frog muttering slightly...thinking he'd try out his own earth skills that were unlocked.
Suddenly a jagged rock came hurdling towards Wendell at an amazing speed and surely it seemed like wendell was on the way to perdition as the sharp edge came towards him like a messenger from death and the shot coming towards him faster than the speed of sound...but luckily lightning is faster than sound as Wendell fired a blast of lightning towards both the flying rock and gunshot nulling them both in mid air before bringing his attentiong to the dagger that was heading straight for his face, quickly he brought up his hand and barely was able to catch the dagger before it slammed into his forehead...moving his hand and tossing the dagger aside he noticed Magus coming towards him at an amazing speed, head first as he was smashed in the face by Magus' brutal headbutt and sent reeling backwards.
Crono piloted the Epoch silently, Ayla and Robo in the back seat.
"You guys ok back there?" Crono asked quietly...Marle placing her hand gently on Crono's knee.
Ayla grumbled.
"Ayla uncomfortable...Me want to sit with Crono!"
Crono growled.
"Ayla, please...you're behaving like a child...we'll be at the End of Time soon enough..."
Marle looked to Crono.
"End of Time? I thought we were going to fight Quentor...?"
Crono closed his eyes and nodded.
"Yes, I know I said that but I think we need to go and see Gaspar and see what other information he might have for us...like the other Callers destinations."
Marle and the others nodded knowingly, except for Ayla, who was still sulking in the back seat.
*
Wendell took a few sloppy steps back, looking to Magus with a rekindled hatred...and yet he still cared for him deeply, not wanting to send Magus in to die against Matzu.
"Please Janus...you can't do this...Matzu is far too strong...even if you gathered all of the Callers powers, Matzu could still defeat you..."
Magus snarled and charged again...swinging his scythe at Wendell's head.
Wendell leapt back and came forward with a powerful upward swing, knocking Magus' scythe away as Magus went into a backroll, growling as he unsheathed another dagger.
"Nobody tells me what i can or can't do...understand?"
Wendell bared his teeth in anger.
"Foolish boy! You would run into death so easily! Not even caring about rescuing your sister!"
Magus stopped cold.
"You....what did you say?" Magus asked silently.
Wendell shook his head.
"You are so busy chasing this Guru around that you forgot your pledge to find your sister? Surely you are a fool..."
Magus now leapt to Wendell with such ferocity, such raw power that Wendell felt a chill shoot down his spine like a cold bolt of lightning.
"Tell me where Schala is! Or so help me I will make your death legend..."
Wendell gulped lightly.
"I...do not know where she is...but I think that Anshal, the caller of space might..."
Magus turned to the others.
"We must find this Anshal!"
Glenn stepped forward quickly.
"Magus! Have you forgotten our mission? We are to..."
Magus turned and screamed to Glenn in a rage that had never been shown before.
"I HAVE FORGOTTEN MY OWN MISSION! MY OWN SISTER!"
Glenn shrunk back, then realizing what exactly was at stake, leapt back at Magus with an equal verbal assault.
"I'm sorry Magus...but the fate of the Universe is more important than your sister! And if Matzu wins, then you'll never be able to find your sister again...ever!"
Magus was stung by the reality of the statement and held quiet for a moment.
Wendell saw Magus turning and ran to the back of the room, slamming a button on the panel as suddenly the walls opened on either side and 12 Magus look-alikes came out in large tubes.
Lucca gasped.
"Oh my god...he's been using this place to breed an army of Magus'!"
Wendell chuckled.
"That's right, after arriving here I was quite distraught, I had no friends, no family, nobody to talk to...so I used my great intelligence and powers to help expand this forensics lab, where I used a sample of DNA to help make copies of Magus..."
Magus stopped for a moment and turned to Wendell.
"How did you get my DNA?"
Wendell pointed at Magus' right arm.
"Look there..."
Magus looked and saw a small scar on his right arm.
"When you were young, I scratched you with the tip of my blade on accident...little did I know that my sword's properties kept that small piece of flesh secure during those years...one day while entering my office it detected another strain of blood on me somewhere...and after searching for hours I discovered the small piece of flesh on the tip of my blade...which I then used to produce these wonderful clones."
Magus, Lucca and Glenn all stood, completely in shock.
The twelve Magus clones all stood in a line in front of Wendell.
"Well Magus, this is for your own good..."
Wendell waved his arm and sent the clones in a flurry of blades and magic.
*
Crono, Marle, Ayla and Robo got off at the End of Time...where they saw a horrifying sight.
A tall man, wearing a black robe, his hood was pulled down and he turned to stare at them.
Instinctively they knew...
It had to be Matzu.
Crono growled for a moment...
"Matzu..."
Matzu smiled...his purple hair hanging messily around his shoulders as his platinum eyes scanned the four newcomers to their conversation.
"Well hello...Gaspar...are these the ones?"
Gaspar mumbled something.
"Magnificent...truly I can see why you chose them...so unique and colorful..." Matzu smiled.
Ayla snarled.
"This bad man that makes Ayla leave Kino? Ayla take care of man now!"
Ayla leapt at Matzu in a rage, a very bad idea.
Matzu held out his hand, expecting to freeze Ayla in a time shield, but forgetting they had the time gurus blessing, Ayla continued onward, unhindered and slammed Matzu across the face, sending him spinning to the ground with a grunt.
Ayla smiled.
"Man easy to beat...we run around for this?"
Matzu growled and stood quickly...turning to Ayla who was going in for another hit, Matzu sidestepped and brought both of his fists down, hard, on the back of Ayla's neck.
Her eyes bulged out with pain as she was sent to the ground with a sickening crack as Crono's and the others winced, feeling her pain almost.
"Gaspar...you make sure these kids stay out of my way...I will be back to talk more about past the end of time, so do not worry..."
Gaspar snarled slightly as Matzu dissappeared back into his realm.
Then he turned to Crono and the others, who were gathered around Ayla.
"Bring her to Spekkio...he can heal her..." Gaspar said quietly.
*
Magus brought up his scythe, blocking about three of the clones' slashes as he unsheathed a dagger with his free hand, tossing it at one of the clones heading towards Lucca.
The clone was struck in the spine and fell to the floor, writhing around before it stopped, but just for a moment as it pulled out the dagger and the wound closed up immediately after removing the blade.
"****!" Glenn exclaimed.
"Perfect...." Magus thought with a snarl.
Wendell chuckled.
"Poor fools...you'll have a hard time destroying these ones...their regenerative capabilities are more than 100X that of normal humans."
Lucca held up her gun for a moment... her eyes twinkling with revelation.
"Hey magus..." she said confidently.
"What is it Lucca?" He asked, somewhat annoyed.
Lucca smiled and signaled to the clones.
"Get them nice and close together...."
Magus looked to Lucca.
"Why?"
Lucca gave him a look, a look like it was true that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
"Just do as I say..."
Magus shrugged.
"Fine..."
Ayla was carried into Spekkio's room slowly...Spekkio having been taking care of Kid the whole time while Lucca was away, he seemed to do a pretty good job manipulating ice and water to keep Kid busy...but as Ayla came in Spekkio knew what had to be done and left Kid to play with a few toys he made for her.
"What happened?" Spekkio asked quietly.
Gaspar looked to spekkio.
"I know as well as you that you sensed Matzu here...no need to fake stupidity..."
Spekkio sighed.
"Very well...I can take care of this problem, but before you go off fighting matzu any more make sure that you're ready..."
The others nodded.
Spekkio held his hands out over Ayla and began murmuring silently.
Suddenly an aura surrounded Ayla and began to stir her from her unconscious state.
"Uhh...uuuhhh.." Ayla grunted as she moved around slightly, finally waking up fully.
She opened her eyes and looked around...and began to scream.
*
Magus spun, slashed and casted...getting the clones in a group as tight as he could.
"NOW MOVE!" Lucca yelled as Magus rolled out of the way.
~My Chronos special, number 13...~ Lucca smiled as she locked and loaded the shell, and fired it at the group.
Suddenly there was a thunderclap and a flash, and then it was over.
Magus looked from the clones to Lucca.
"What exactly did that do genius?" Magus asked with a grimace.
Lucca smiled.
"Look..."
All of the clones were moving incredibly slow...their runs were like slow motion walks and each action took a painfully long time to fulfill.
"It's my chronos special number 13...it slows down the targets speed by 100,000 percent!"
Magus smiled, looked to Glenn and signaled.
"Let's kill these [marathon]s..." Magus said with a grin as they both leapt forward, and suddenly in a flurry of blades and cloth the clones were easily decimated by the skills of both Glenn and Magus as they leapt back from the bloody mess of bone and sinew and landed next to Lucca again, they stared down wendell who just had watched his elite guard die before his eyes.
"I...I..." Wendell fell to his knees in shock.
Magus and Glenn walked up to Wendell slowly, their blades ready.
"Come on now Wendell, we've humiliated you enough...grant us your powers and we can be on our way..."
Wendell shook his head, his eyes blurred with tears...truly his pride was cut to the bone.
"Very well...you shall have what you came for..."
Wendell stood slowly.
*
"Who are you people?!" Ayla screamed.
Crono, Robo and Marle were all shocked at Ayla's reaction.
"Ummm...Ayla...we're your friends...Matzu just gave you a real bad hit on the back of the head so we had Spekkio heal you..." Crono pointed at Spekkio as he finished the sentence.
Ayla looked around at all of them in wonder.
"You've...got to be joking...my name isn't Ayla...it's Rebecca. And I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't...." Ayla screamed again, finally seeing Spekkio.
"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!"
Spekkio scoffed.
"That? 'That' is the master of war thank you very much, and I just healed you...so a thank you might be in order."
Ayla...or Rebecca...gave Spekkio a look that would have killed him if he were not the Master of War.
"Thank you..." Rebecca looked around.
"So where exactly am I?"
Gaspar spoke up then.
"Ahem...well young lady, you are at the End of Time...where all the times meet together in a central point."
Rebecca stared for a moment, and blinked a few times.
"The...end of time?" Suddenly she started laughing.
Gaspar scoffed and walked out to the main room while the others looked to Rebecca.
"You don't believe him? Come with me..." Marle took Rebecca's hand and dragged her to the stairs leading to the epoch.
"Take a good look! Nothing around...nothing!"
Rebecca was finally hit with the full force of the situation and suddenly became hostile.
She spun and threw out her hand at Marle...Marle ducked and then realized that a wave of earth was forming beneath her.
~Crap!~ she thought as she leapt out of the way and the wave of earth stopped suddenly after Rebecca realized what she was doing.
"What...what have you done to me?!" Rebecca asked in horror.
"Ayla...settle down....that's your power and your power alone. You are an earth aligned warrior...I am lightning...Marle is Ice and Robo is shadow...we are working together on a very important mission and..."
"SHUT UP!" Rebecca screamed, cutting Crono off.
"I've had enough of your lies! I want to go back home...now!"
Gaspar looked to Rebecca and made an awkward face.
"And where exactly is your "home"...Rebecca?
Rebecca got ready to answer, but for some reason, nothing came out.
"I...I...don't know..." Rebecca answered quietly.
Gaspar nodded.
"Yes...well I suggest you stick around with these guys until we figure out how to get your memory back or find you a better place to stay..."
Rebecca looked to her fellow 3 heroes.
"So...what exactly..." Ayla looked down and shrieked momentarily.
"Why didn't anyone tell me I was walking around in my underwear?!"
Crono looked to Marle and shrugged.
Gaspar cleared his throat from behing all of them.
"I can get you something a little more, suitable for your new persona..."
Gaspar walked into the back room where the light pillars were and headed into a new pillar that appeared recently to 1998...and headed in, coming out a few moments later with a couple big bags full of clothes.
"Take these and get changed in the back, but don't touch the pillars of light!"
Rebecca shrunk back and walked into the other room to get changed.
Suddenly, Rebecca, along with the other three...began to feel a warm feeling as Gaspar smiled.
"They have defeated Wendell..."
Wendell sighed.
"There...it is done."
Magus smiled...he felt the new magic running through him, the power of lightning that he could not get on his own.
"This is amazing...I feel strong enough to take on Matzu right now!" Matzu laughed like a child beholding a new toy on christmas day...but it stopped quickly as Wendell's scolding tone pierced through Magus' visions of happiness.
"FOOL! Even with all of our powers, matzu could still defeat you...have you not learned? Matzu is unbeatable!"
Magus snarled and turned back to Wendell.
"I will prove you wrong old man...so help me! My friends and I..."
Magus turned to see Lucca and Glenn looking at him in surprise...having acknowledged them as 'friends'.
Magus realized his mistake of caring and quickly covered it up.
"...I...will take care of Matzu myself, and then you will see who is indeed more powerful..." Magus stood and turned, walking towards Lucca and Glenn.
Wendell growled loud enough for all of them to hear as Lucca thought of something.
"Well...now what? We can't just leave Wendell here...who knows what kind of damage he can still do?"
Magus turned to wendell.
"I don't think we have to worry anymore...he knows that he has failed, and now, like Sherkal, he will dissappear into this world...having no one to remember him."
Wendell dropped his head...
~Indeed he is right...I can not live with this shame...~
Lucca saw the thoughts behind his countenance and nodded slowly.
"I guess you're right, we should get back to the end of time...I'm sure Gaspar has some new information on the other three callers..."
Glenn followed Magus and Lucca out the door silently.