1 Again, a copy-write warning; the Chrono trigger characters don't belong
to me, but my own characters do.
Now let us continue the story.
2 Chapter 2;
3 Maya's new brother
Maya stood in front of the door of her new foster family. It was the third this month.
"I guess you're a record holder with that." Her pet spider said.
"Shut up Genki, I'm not in the mood right now." She flatly answered.
"Okay, but they won't know you're here if you stand here like a statue."
"Maybe that's better."
"What do you mean?"
"I hate those foster families, I want to be with my sister Aya."
"But the judge decided she was not capable of raising you."
"Whatever." And she rang the doorbell. The woman who opened looked quite old, and Maya immediately taught of Cinderella's stepmother.
"Ah, you must be Maya, come in dear." She said with a voice which fitted her appearance. She walked into the room which was stuffed with antique. On a desk sat a little boy about 6 years old, still in his school uniform.
"Welcome in my house." The old lady started. "My name is Christina, and this is your new brother Till, Till put down those books and say hello to your new sister." The boy got out of the chair, walked to Maya and made a polite bow. "Greetings." He said. Maya couldn't help noticing that the boy had beautiful bleu eyes.
"Hi, my name is Maya."
"You don't say hi, you say hello." Christina snapped to her. "And I certainly hope that you get rid of those clothes immediately."
"But I like these clothes." Maya said, hoping to irritate the woman.
"But I don't, and my will is law in this house."
"But…"
"No buts young lady, you're going straight to your room, I've put some nice clothes on your bed."
Maya decided to do so, when she was in her room, there were standing two beds, on one of them lay a dress so she suggested it was hers. While she put it on she raged at Genki.
"Great, I just got in the house and I have to change my clothes already."
"Relax, it's just a first impression." Genki answered. When she was ready she went to the living room were the woman already had prepared diner.
"Much better, now you only have to dispose of that… thing on your shoulder." And she pointed in disgust towards Genki.
"What? me?"
"Yes, you."
"No way!" Maya said. "Part from my sister, he's the only one gives a damn about me."
"Watch your language young lady, no diner for you. Go to your room to make your homework."
"I don't have homework."
"Why is that?"
"I got kicked out of school for two weeks because I broke the nose of the principal's son. Who was, as a matter of fact, bullying two fourth- graders." She heard Till snigger.
"Good god, it's no miracle you're replaced that many times, but don't worry I will convert you into a nice young lady."
"Convert me?! But I like who I am!"
"But I don't."
"Selfish b****!!!" Maya shouted, then she ran into her new room buried her head into her pillow and started to cry, it wasn't fair. She just wanted to be with her sister. But that wasn't allowed. It was like this ever since her parents died in a fire ten years ago. Ten years and dozens of foster families later she changed into a real troublemaker. She was interrupted in her thinking when she heard a soft knock on he door.
"What!" She shouted. Till came in slowly.
"Oh, it's you, sorry."
"Never mind." The boy said with a soft, friendly voice. "I agree with you about Christina."
"But she's your mother."
"Not really, I'm adopted just like you."
"Oh, do you miss your parents?"
"I never knew them, they died when I was a baby, I was raised by my grandfather Armando."
"Was he a nice guy."
"Really nice, we lived together on a farm in the country. I always helped him by watching over the chickens. But he died, and now I'm here. Do you have family who's still alive?"
"Yep, my older sister Aya, but she's kind of sleazy so the judge said that she couldn't raise me."
"Sad."
"I know, that's why I'm stuck here with that ***** Christina."
"But she's right about your language." Till said with a huge grin, and they both rolled over with laughter. After that there was a long silence.
"Why don't we just run away?" Maya said, breaking the silence.
"Run away?! Just like that?"
"Yeah, I do it all the time, just wait until they sleep and just walk out off the door."
"Is it that easy?"
"Yes, we can do it tonight."
"Tonight?"
"Yep, but you have to put away those clothes you're wearing now."
"Oh, alright, my old clothes have to lay here somewhere." And Till started to search in the drawers next to his bed. Maya reached for her old clothes.
"Much better." Maya said when they were ready. She had a bright white T- shirt with cut-of jeans. Till was wearing a multi-colored T-shirt with white jeans and sneakers underneath it.
"Now let's go."
"Uh, I don't want to be the pessimist, but were can we go?" Genki said. "They would expect us to be by your sister."
"We can go to Mari and Kari." Maya answered. "They will be glad to have us in the house."
"Sure." Genki said acidly, getting a smack from Maya. They packed some other stuff like money, food and clothes, waited for Christina to sleep and they walked out of the door. When they where outside Maya gave a loud cheer.
"Yaaaaaaaahoooooooo!!!!!!!! Free at last!"
"Right, where do you two friends live?" Till said, who still taught running away wasn't such a great idea.
"Oh, just a couple of blocks away. Follow me." And they started their little journey. On the corner there was a fruit-stall.
"You want an apple or something?" Maya asked Till.
"I'd like a banana." Genki said.
"Who asked you?"
"Sorry, it was just a question."
"I want a pear please." Till softly said, interrupting the tiny discussion.
"Okay, that's one pear for you, an apple for me and a banana for… hello! What the hell is that?!" Maya said when she saw some gigantic bugs coming towards the stall, causing great panic among the people.
"I'm trough with eating rats and stray cats, I want some human meat." One of the bugs said.
"And as you can see there are plenty of humans here." Another one said with an evil grin.
Maya and Till hid behind the stall. "W…what do they want from us?" Till asked, Maya could see the fear in his eyes.
"They see us as a midnight snack." She whispered, hoping her voice didn't shake. "But if we keep real silent, they won't notice us." She put her arms around the shivering boy.
The bugs grabbed a running woman.
"This one looks tasty." The biggest one said, and took a bite out of the shoulder of the lady, the woman screamed while she looked in horror to her own ragged flesh between the bug's jaw. She then fainted.
"Why do you always get the best part?" One of the other bugs said with a complaining tone.
"Because I'm the boss, stupid." The bigger one said after swallowing the flesh, and started to lick the blood of his teeth and fingers. The other one shot him a look but didn't say anything else, instead he broke the woman's neck.
"They…they killed that woman, they're going to kill us also!" Till shouted.
"Don't speak so loud, they'll hear us."
"I want to go home." Till said, he put his head in his hands and started to cry softly. Suddenly some of the crates from the fruit-stall seemed to explode, making fruit and vegetables splatter all over the street.
"How on earth could that happen?" One of the bugs said.
"I'm wondering the same thing." Genki said.
"I… I'm so sorry, this always happens when I'm panicking." Till said.
"You can do things like this? Why didn't you tell us?" Maya asked.
"I taught you would be afraid of me."
"Never mind that right now, let's get outta here."
"Too late." One of the bugs said, looking at the two kids and the spider and he dragged them towards the leader.
"I found some other snacks, can I have the girl? She looks tasty."
"Sure, I still have this one." The leader answered while he continued eating from the woman. The other one raised Maya into the air with his long arms.
"And now, you die." He said calmly.
"Not yet." Maya said, and kicked the bug in the face when he let go she took Till by his arm and started to run.
"Nice move." Till said while they were running.
"My sister taught me a thing or two about martial arts." Maya answered, and they kept running, but the bugs kept closing in.
"They're fast." Genki said.
"Did you figure that out all by yourself? We better hide somewhere, how about in this building." Maya answered, they stood before a massive building that looked like it was separated from the rest. It looked very old and the statues on the roof frightened even Maya.
"Are you sure about this?" Genki asked.
"Damn sure, or do you want me to leave you by those freaks of nature?" Maya said.
"No thanks, ladies first."
They entered the building, first there was a big hallway with many doors that led to different rooms. When they entered one of those rooms they saw it was crammed with bookshelves.
"Wow, look at this place, I never saw so many books in my entire life." Maya said in fascination. Because she was amazed by the view she didn't watch where she was going and she banged onto someone, or something, because the thing she crashed in moved, but felt metallic.
"Excuse me miss, I'm not used to visitors so late at night." A voice said, when she looked up she saw a humanoid robot, she heard of them, but never saw one with her own eyes.
"That's okay, we were hiding for some giant bugs."
"Giant bugs?" The robot asked, more interested than surprised. "How do they look?"
"Well, they're white, have huge needle-like teeth and they smell."
"Hmmm," The robot said in deep taught. "It seems like the prophecy has come true."
"What are you talking about? Which prophecy?" Till asked.
"Follow me, I'll explain everything."
And so they did, the robot led them even farther into the maze of bookshelves. They stopped at a desk, behind the desk there sat a middle- aged woman with coat and skirt, her hair in a tight knot.
"A, Prometheus, who are those late-night guests?" The woman asked.
"Petra, these are kids who say that they've been chased by molochs."
"Molochs, so that's what they call those creatures." Maya said, she saw that the woman looked shocked.
"That means, the prophecy has come true!" Petra said.
"Yes indeed." Prometheus said.
"What on earth is going on here!?" Maya shouted confused.
"Allow me to explain." Petra said. "Thousands of years ago, an ancient prophecy told us about the coming of the child of an angel. The perfect human being with extra-ordinary powers. Together with that, a creature from the deepest regions of hell would come to destroy it. It would have molochs as his minions, and it wouldn't stop terrorizing the earth until the angel's child was destroyed."
"Aha, I… think I understand." Genki interrupted.
"LET ME CONTINUE!!!!" Petra shouted. "But to protect the angel's child four entities were born. One in each age, embodying the four types of magic."
"Okay you loose me here." Maya said, "What do you mean with entities? And what do you mean in each age."
"It's easy, there are four ages where magic was used; 1200 B.C. Also known as the dark ages, 600 A.D. Also known as the middle-ages, 1000 A.D. Also known as the age where the hero Crono was born. And of-course this year, 2300.
"So in each year an entity was born, but how can they be brought together? They can't travel in time can they?" Till asked.
"Oh sure they can, have you ever heard about Lavos?"
"Of course, he was that monster from out of space that came to destroy the planet if it wasn't for Crono and his gang." Maya said.
"Did you know that 'gang' had people from every age?"
"No I didn't, cool!"
"As a matter of fact, Prometheus over here was one of them."
"Wow!!!"
"Yes indeed, but they called me robo."
"What are we waiting for, let's find those entities and the angel's child!" Maya exclaimed.
"Say what! Maya, why should we, it's dangerous and your sister wouldn't allow it." Genki said.
"Come on, where is your sense of adventure, by the way, who is this angel's child?"
"We don't know nothing about this angel's child, but if we find the entities, we will find the angel's child." Petra answered.
"Right, so where can we find those entities?"
"Oh, I've studied the legend and I know almost everything about it."
"Why are you so interested in the legend miss Petra?" Robo asked
"Because I'm one of the entities."
"You are WHAT!?!?!?" Everybody, including Robo exclaimed.
"Oh dear, I forgot to tell you, I know the names of the entities, and my name stood under the age 2300. I'm the entity of fire."
"How do you know that for sure?" Robo asked.
"Watch this." And Petra raised her hand, and suddenly a wall of fire erupted behind them, burning Genki, who sat on Maya's back.
"Cool!" Maya said, while dusting of the charcoal that covered Genki.
"No that's hot." He said.
"And because I'm one of the entities, I feel responsible to warn the other two."
"Two? But if my calculations are right, there should be three other entities." Robo stated
"I know, but the entity from the dark ages died during the ocean palace disaster."
"Sad." Till said.
"I know, but now we have to go find the remaining two. Robo, you said there was a time-gate nearby, can you open it?"
"I think so, let's go miss Petra."
"And stop calling me miss!!! Petra will do."
"Can we come with you?" Maya asked.
"Of course, I'm going to need al the help I can get. Now let's go, Robo, you lead us."
And they were off. When they found the portal in some dark alley, Till hesitated.
"Are you sure this is a good idea Maya?" He asked.
"Of course it is, my normal live sucks, I want some adventure."
"This portal leads to Guardia castle, the year 1000 A.D." Robo stated.
"Fine, the entity who lives there is called Pogapo, and her type is water."
Robo took out an odd looking rod.
"This is called a gate-key, it is used to open time-gates." He said, and the gate grew in size.
"Now let us go." And he jumped into the bleu.
"Wait for us!" Maya shouted, she dragged Till towards the gate and they both jumped in.
"Kids these days…" Petra said before she stepped into the gate, which instantly closed behind her.
I just love Cliff-hangers (Gya-haha!)
I hope you enjoyed it reading as much as I did writing. And for all of you who wondered what happened to Aya, just keep sending in those reviews.
Now let us continue the story.
2 Chapter 2;
3 Maya's new brother
Maya stood in front of the door of her new foster family. It was the third this month.
"I guess you're a record holder with that." Her pet spider said.
"Shut up Genki, I'm not in the mood right now." She flatly answered.
"Okay, but they won't know you're here if you stand here like a statue."
"Maybe that's better."
"What do you mean?"
"I hate those foster families, I want to be with my sister Aya."
"But the judge decided she was not capable of raising you."
"Whatever." And she rang the doorbell. The woman who opened looked quite old, and Maya immediately taught of Cinderella's stepmother.
"Ah, you must be Maya, come in dear." She said with a voice which fitted her appearance. She walked into the room which was stuffed with antique. On a desk sat a little boy about 6 years old, still in his school uniform.
"Welcome in my house." The old lady started. "My name is Christina, and this is your new brother Till, Till put down those books and say hello to your new sister." The boy got out of the chair, walked to Maya and made a polite bow. "Greetings." He said. Maya couldn't help noticing that the boy had beautiful bleu eyes.
"Hi, my name is Maya."
"You don't say hi, you say hello." Christina snapped to her. "And I certainly hope that you get rid of those clothes immediately."
"But I like these clothes." Maya said, hoping to irritate the woman.
"But I don't, and my will is law in this house."
"But…"
"No buts young lady, you're going straight to your room, I've put some nice clothes on your bed."
Maya decided to do so, when she was in her room, there were standing two beds, on one of them lay a dress so she suggested it was hers. While she put it on she raged at Genki.
"Great, I just got in the house and I have to change my clothes already."
"Relax, it's just a first impression." Genki answered. When she was ready she went to the living room were the woman already had prepared diner.
"Much better, now you only have to dispose of that… thing on your shoulder." And she pointed in disgust towards Genki.
"What? me?"
"Yes, you."
"No way!" Maya said. "Part from my sister, he's the only one gives a damn about me."
"Watch your language young lady, no diner for you. Go to your room to make your homework."
"I don't have homework."
"Why is that?"
"I got kicked out of school for two weeks because I broke the nose of the principal's son. Who was, as a matter of fact, bullying two fourth- graders." She heard Till snigger.
"Good god, it's no miracle you're replaced that many times, but don't worry I will convert you into a nice young lady."
"Convert me?! But I like who I am!"
"But I don't."
"Selfish b****!!!" Maya shouted, then she ran into her new room buried her head into her pillow and started to cry, it wasn't fair. She just wanted to be with her sister. But that wasn't allowed. It was like this ever since her parents died in a fire ten years ago. Ten years and dozens of foster families later she changed into a real troublemaker. She was interrupted in her thinking when she heard a soft knock on he door.
"What!" She shouted. Till came in slowly.
"Oh, it's you, sorry."
"Never mind." The boy said with a soft, friendly voice. "I agree with you about Christina."
"But she's your mother."
"Not really, I'm adopted just like you."
"Oh, do you miss your parents?"
"I never knew them, they died when I was a baby, I was raised by my grandfather Armando."
"Was he a nice guy."
"Really nice, we lived together on a farm in the country. I always helped him by watching over the chickens. But he died, and now I'm here. Do you have family who's still alive?"
"Yep, my older sister Aya, but she's kind of sleazy so the judge said that she couldn't raise me."
"Sad."
"I know, that's why I'm stuck here with that ***** Christina."
"But she's right about your language." Till said with a huge grin, and they both rolled over with laughter. After that there was a long silence.
"Why don't we just run away?" Maya said, breaking the silence.
"Run away?! Just like that?"
"Yeah, I do it all the time, just wait until they sleep and just walk out off the door."
"Is it that easy?"
"Yes, we can do it tonight."
"Tonight?"
"Yep, but you have to put away those clothes you're wearing now."
"Oh, alright, my old clothes have to lay here somewhere." And Till started to search in the drawers next to his bed. Maya reached for her old clothes.
"Much better." Maya said when they were ready. She had a bright white T- shirt with cut-of jeans. Till was wearing a multi-colored T-shirt with white jeans and sneakers underneath it.
"Now let's go."
"Uh, I don't want to be the pessimist, but were can we go?" Genki said. "They would expect us to be by your sister."
"We can go to Mari and Kari." Maya answered. "They will be glad to have us in the house."
"Sure." Genki said acidly, getting a smack from Maya. They packed some other stuff like money, food and clothes, waited for Christina to sleep and they walked out of the door. When they where outside Maya gave a loud cheer.
"Yaaaaaaaahoooooooo!!!!!!!! Free at last!"
"Right, where do you two friends live?" Till said, who still taught running away wasn't such a great idea.
"Oh, just a couple of blocks away. Follow me." And they started their little journey. On the corner there was a fruit-stall.
"You want an apple or something?" Maya asked Till.
"I'd like a banana." Genki said.
"Who asked you?"
"Sorry, it was just a question."
"I want a pear please." Till softly said, interrupting the tiny discussion.
"Okay, that's one pear for you, an apple for me and a banana for… hello! What the hell is that?!" Maya said when she saw some gigantic bugs coming towards the stall, causing great panic among the people.
"I'm trough with eating rats and stray cats, I want some human meat." One of the bugs said.
"And as you can see there are plenty of humans here." Another one said with an evil grin.
Maya and Till hid behind the stall. "W…what do they want from us?" Till asked, Maya could see the fear in his eyes.
"They see us as a midnight snack." She whispered, hoping her voice didn't shake. "But if we keep real silent, they won't notice us." She put her arms around the shivering boy.
The bugs grabbed a running woman.
"This one looks tasty." The biggest one said, and took a bite out of the shoulder of the lady, the woman screamed while she looked in horror to her own ragged flesh between the bug's jaw. She then fainted.
"Why do you always get the best part?" One of the other bugs said with a complaining tone.
"Because I'm the boss, stupid." The bigger one said after swallowing the flesh, and started to lick the blood of his teeth and fingers. The other one shot him a look but didn't say anything else, instead he broke the woman's neck.
"They…they killed that woman, they're going to kill us also!" Till shouted.
"Don't speak so loud, they'll hear us."
"I want to go home." Till said, he put his head in his hands and started to cry softly. Suddenly some of the crates from the fruit-stall seemed to explode, making fruit and vegetables splatter all over the street.
"How on earth could that happen?" One of the bugs said.
"I'm wondering the same thing." Genki said.
"I… I'm so sorry, this always happens when I'm panicking." Till said.
"You can do things like this? Why didn't you tell us?" Maya asked.
"I taught you would be afraid of me."
"Never mind that right now, let's get outta here."
"Too late." One of the bugs said, looking at the two kids and the spider and he dragged them towards the leader.
"I found some other snacks, can I have the girl? She looks tasty."
"Sure, I still have this one." The leader answered while he continued eating from the woman. The other one raised Maya into the air with his long arms.
"And now, you die." He said calmly.
"Not yet." Maya said, and kicked the bug in the face when he let go she took Till by his arm and started to run.
"Nice move." Till said while they were running.
"My sister taught me a thing or two about martial arts." Maya answered, and they kept running, but the bugs kept closing in.
"They're fast." Genki said.
"Did you figure that out all by yourself? We better hide somewhere, how about in this building." Maya answered, they stood before a massive building that looked like it was separated from the rest. It looked very old and the statues on the roof frightened even Maya.
"Are you sure about this?" Genki asked.
"Damn sure, or do you want me to leave you by those freaks of nature?" Maya said.
"No thanks, ladies first."
They entered the building, first there was a big hallway with many doors that led to different rooms. When they entered one of those rooms they saw it was crammed with bookshelves.
"Wow, look at this place, I never saw so many books in my entire life." Maya said in fascination. Because she was amazed by the view she didn't watch where she was going and she banged onto someone, or something, because the thing she crashed in moved, but felt metallic.
"Excuse me miss, I'm not used to visitors so late at night." A voice said, when she looked up she saw a humanoid robot, she heard of them, but never saw one with her own eyes.
"That's okay, we were hiding for some giant bugs."
"Giant bugs?" The robot asked, more interested than surprised. "How do they look?"
"Well, they're white, have huge needle-like teeth and they smell."
"Hmmm," The robot said in deep taught. "It seems like the prophecy has come true."
"What are you talking about? Which prophecy?" Till asked.
"Follow me, I'll explain everything."
And so they did, the robot led them even farther into the maze of bookshelves. They stopped at a desk, behind the desk there sat a middle- aged woman with coat and skirt, her hair in a tight knot.
"A, Prometheus, who are those late-night guests?" The woman asked.
"Petra, these are kids who say that they've been chased by molochs."
"Molochs, so that's what they call those creatures." Maya said, she saw that the woman looked shocked.
"That means, the prophecy has come true!" Petra said.
"Yes indeed." Prometheus said.
"What on earth is going on here!?" Maya shouted confused.
"Allow me to explain." Petra said. "Thousands of years ago, an ancient prophecy told us about the coming of the child of an angel. The perfect human being with extra-ordinary powers. Together with that, a creature from the deepest regions of hell would come to destroy it. It would have molochs as his minions, and it wouldn't stop terrorizing the earth until the angel's child was destroyed."
"Aha, I… think I understand." Genki interrupted.
"LET ME CONTINUE!!!!" Petra shouted. "But to protect the angel's child four entities were born. One in each age, embodying the four types of magic."
"Okay you loose me here." Maya said, "What do you mean with entities? And what do you mean in each age."
"It's easy, there are four ages where magic was used; 1200 B.C. Also known as the dark ages, 600 A.D. Also known as the middle-ages, 1000 A.D. Also known as the age where the hero Crono was born. And of-course this year, 2300.
"So in each year an entity was born, but how can they be brought together? They can't travel in time can they?" Till asked.
"Oh sure they can, have you ever heard about Lavos?"
"Of course, he was that monster from out of space that came to destroy the planet if it wasn't for Crono and his gang." Maya said.
"Did you know that 'gang' had people from every age?"
"No I didn't, cool!"
"As a matter of fact, Prometheus over here was one of them."
"Wow!!!"
"Yes indeed, but they called me robo."
"What are we waiting for, let's find those entities and the angel's child!" Maya exclaimed.
"Say what! Maya, why should we, it's dangerous and your sister wouldn't allow it." Genki said.
"Come on, where is your sense of adventure, by the way, who is this angel's child?"
"We don't know nothing about this angel's child, but if we find the entities, we will find the angel's child." Petra answered.
"Right, so where can we find those entities?"
"Oh, I've studied the legend and I know almost everything about it."
"Why are you so interested in the legend miss Petra?" Robo asked
"Because I'm one of the entities."
"You are WHAT!?!?!?" Everybody, including Robo exclaimed.
"Oh dear, I forgot to tell you, I know the names of the entities, and my name stood under the age 2300. I'm the entity of fire."
"How do you know that for sure?" Robo asked.
"Watch this." And Petra raised her hand, and suddenly a wall of fire erupted behind them, burning Genki, who sat on Maya's back.
"Cool!" Maya said, while dusting of the charcoal that covered Genki.
"No that's hot." He said.
"And because I'm one of the entities, I feel responsible to warn the other two."
"Two? But if my calculations are right, there should be three other entities." Robo stated
"I know, but the entity from the dark ages died during the ocean palace disaster."
"Sad." Till said.
"I know, but now we have to go find the remaining two. Robo, you said there was a time-gate nearby, can you open it?"
"I think so, let's go miss Petra."
"And stop calling me miss!!! Petra will do."
"Can we come with you?" Maya asked.
"Of course, I'm going to need al the help I can get. Now let's go, Robo, you lead us."
And they were off. When they found the portal in some dark alley, Till hesitated.
"Are you sure this is a good idea Maya?" He asked.
"Of course it is, my normal live sucks, I want some adventure."
"This portal leads to Guardia castle, the year 1000 A.D." Robo stated.
"Fine, the entity who lives there is called Pogapo, and her type is water."
Robo took out an odd looking rod.
"This is called a gate-key, it is used to open time-gates." He said, and the gate grew in size.
"Now let us go." And he jumped into the bleu.
"Wait for us!" Maya shouted, she dragged Till towards the gate and they both jumped in.
"Kids these days…" Petra said before she stepped into the gate, which instantly closed behind her.
I just love Cliff-hangers (Gya-haha!)
I hope you enjoyed it reading as much as I did writing. And for all of you who wondered what happened to Aya, just keep sending in those reviews.