Chapter 7
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"Ouch! My nose!" was the first thing Petra said when they arrived in the year 1000, no surprise because she landed face-first on the plaza where Lucca's teleport device used to stand. Brian also made a rough landing, sliding with his cheek against the road, widening the scar on his face. "Holy. God!" He shouted. Magus, the only one who just stepped out of the gate, sighed and shook his head. "If you two are my partners, the earth is doomed for sure. Let's just hope the last entity is a little bit. brighter." "Oh yeah?! Well I'm sure your time-travels aren't always that great." Petra said when she pulled herself off the street, straightening her clothes. Magus felt his cheeks become red, when he first stepped into the Epoch, he almost threw up. But Lucca and Robo, who were with him, agreed not to tell anyone. "Eh, Petra, Magus." Brian tried. "WHAT!?" They both said, Brian pointed to a crowd that stared at them. They both were speachless, until they heard a voice which sounded familiar in Magus's pointy ears. "Alright people, nothing to see here, just go home and let the hero of Guardia handle this." Crono commanded, making his way trough the crowd, together with Marle and Lucca. "And look who we have here." He said when most of the people were gone. "I haven't see you in a long time, what happend to your face?" Crono said, pointing at the acid-scar. "Nothing, a little accident." Magus answered. "Oh, and who are those two, friends of yours?" "Not really, but according to some prophecy I am bound to work with them." Magus answered. "Prophecy? Tell me more, but first; hi I'm Lucca." Lucca said. And they all send their greetings. After that Petra told about the prophecy. "Wow Magus, I never taught you would be the chosen one to save the human race from destruction." Marle said. "No, you are more of a person to cause the destruction of the human race." Crono said with grin on his face, but nobody seemed to like the joke so he quickly changed the subject. "So, what are you guys doing here?" "We're in search of the entity of water." Petra answered. "And do you know where she is?" Marle asked. "Not excactly, but I know her name is Pogapo, not a very common name." "I see, but you guys first want something to drink or something?" Magus sighed, he always hated it when Marle took away the attention from the main goal; in this case to get the last entity. "No thank you I'm not thirsty." He said. "Well I am." Petra said persistant, and she walked towards Marle. "Say, do you have orange juice?" "I'm sure we'll have that, how about you, Brian?" Marle said "Some milk would be nice." He answered. "And how about you." Marle shot a deadly glare to Magus, who looked back with almost the same look. After a while Magus sighed and looked down, Marle had a victorious smile on her face. "If I have no ather choice. I like to have some wine." Magus said, and they all walked off to Guardia castle. "You live here?!" Petra said when they arrived. "Uhu!" Marle said with a wide smile. "Nice he?" And she opened the huge wooden door, when they where inside some guards walked towards them. "Princess Nadia, who are these strangers?" They asked, looking sucpiciously at Magus, who looked back with a glare which forced them to look at Marle. "These are friends, and please stop looking at Magus that way, he isn't going to do anything!" She answered, noticing the tension between Magus and the guards. "I'm really sorry your high-ness, but we still aren't used to your friends from other times." And they made a bow, and Marle guided them to the kitched, looking angry. "I don't believe this! They still think you're dangerous, after all you've done for us and the earth." She raged. "Well. he made quite a mess back in the middle-ages, they just need some time." Lucca tried to comfort her friend. "But you seemed like you enjoyed it." She said towards Magus. "I sure did, causing fear between the weak is my hobby." Magus answered. It was a down-right lie and Brian knew that. He tried since the two met to read Magus's mind, but Magus had some strong mental barriers which made it impossible to read his taughts. Maybe if he tried harder. "HEY CHEFF, SOME DRINKS PLEASE!!!!!" Marle shouted, pulling Brian back to reality. They all sat down and a waitress came to take their orders. "This is wonderfull! Getting served like this." Petra said, but Brian didn't notice that. He concentrated on Magus, who sat on the opposite position, he didn't seem to pay attention to him, this was his chance. Concentrate. "SIR!!!" A waitress shouted, startling Brian. "Eh. what?" He asked. "I asked you three time; would you like something to drink?" "I have some milk please." The waitress nodded. Where was he. o jeah, He putted his attention back to Magus, who looked right at him with his cold, unforgiving eyes. "Are you trying to read my mind?" He asked with a voice that matched his eyes. "Well... Uhm, I. eh." Brian stammered, Magus grabbed the collar of his robe and pulled him over the table, forcing him to look in his eyes. "Don't do it again. Unless you want me to chop you into small pieces." Magus said slowly, and then he let Brian go. "What's wrong with you Magus? Brian didn't do anything wrong." Lucca said, noticing the little struggle. "That sneaky weasel tried to read my mind." Was Magus's answer, Brian didn't say anything. "And that's why you almost bite his head off?!" "Yes, and he better stay out of my way, or he won't survive it." "Magus, you'll never change." She said, and after they drank their drinks, they were ready to go. "Can I first go to see my mom? Or else she will be worried." They agreed, when they arrived Crono opened the door. (Duh) "Mom I'm going on a." he started to blush and to stammer. "Crono it is very rude to stop in the middle of a." Brian said walking in as well, he too started to blush and stammer. "A..and I can't blame you for it." "What is going on here?!" Lucca said, and she made her way trough the two dumbfounded man, and what she saw explained it all; in the living room sat, with a cup of thee, one of the most beautifull women in the world, she was tall, but also slim and delicate, her sea-bleu skin was flawless and her navy- bleu hair covered her back, except two strings, which hung before her ears, who were long, pointy and stood upright. She wore a black dress with a split which reached her thighs. She didn't wear shoes and on her wrist and ankles shone golden rings. "I see." Lucca said with a grin. "What's wrong?" Marle said. "You just degraded to second place." Magus said, watching over the crowd, letting out a small chuckle. "Oh, I see you're home hunny." Crono's mom said, coming out of the kitchen. "This woman asked for you, is she a friend?" "Eh. not yet." Crono said, and everybody noticed that Marle was getting really pissed. "Oh, well it could be, you have such unusual friends: that toad, and then that barely-dressed lady, the robot and of course that shy hippie." "A hippie!?" Magus exclaimed. "Yes, al men with long hair are hippies, right?" "Not really," The guest said, with a soft, kind voice. "Our kind sees long hair as a sign of power." "But wha. I mean, who are you.?" Marle asked. "Oh, excuse me, my name is Pogapo." The creature said. Everybody sent their greetings back and forth. "Ah, in that case, we need you." Petra said. "I know, you need me to protect the child of an angel." Pogapo answered. "Wha. how do you know?" "My mother told me the legend when I was young, it is also the reason why I'm here. I heard that the great hero Crono lived here, I wanted to ask him for help." "That's me." Crono said, raising his chest to look impressive (But looks like an idiot). "I'm the legendary hero who saved past, present and future." "Idiot, if it wasn't for us, you would be pushing up daisies right now." Magus said. "That's right." Marle and Lucca added and Crono's chest shrinks back to normal (maybe smaller). "Well, it seems like we're all together now, what do we need to do now, Petra?" Brian asked. "Uhm. first. let's get back to the end of time and. think of a plan." She answered. "In other words, you've got no idea what to do now." Magus said. "You can say that, yes." Petra said blushing, Magus sighed. "Great, so now we are together, we have no plan." "But if we just stand here, we're not getting any further either. Let's do what Petra says and go to the end of time, and get some friends to help us." Lucca said,and they walked of, when they arrived at the fair, there was nobody there. "Where is everybody?" Crono wondered. "It's always busy here." "I got the feeling I know." Brian said, he, Petra and Magus seemed nervous. "W..what's wrong?" Marle asked. "Molochs." Magus whispered. "Molochs? What on earth is that?" Lucca said. " You'll see." "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!" Marle shouted, everybody got their weapons (Pogapo had something that looked like two metal fans) and turned around. "Who, what, where?!" Crono shouted, and a terrified Marle pointed at a tree which was moving suspiciously. After a while an owl flew out, and everybody relaxed. "Don't scare us like that!" Lucca exclaimed. "Sorry." Marle said. "We should've known, Molochs can't climb into trees for some reason. They can crawl up walls, but not trees." Petra told. They walked on. "Where did you stall Epoch, Lucca?" Magus asked. "In a building next to Gato, wait a minute, I'll get it. What do you think? I'll use the Epoch together with Marle and Crono, and you use the gate with the others." She answered. "That's a good idea." And they all divided into two groups and walked towards their goals. "What in the world is Epoch?" Petra asked Magus. "That's a time-machine we used, I hope it still works." He answered. After a while they reached the plaza with the time-gate again. When they arrived Petra suddenly stopped. "What's wrong?" Brian asked. "Nothing, I taught I heard something." She grinned. "I'm to old to put on my stereo-set everytime I hear a n- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" A moloch jumped out of the bushes and on top of Petra. "We where looking for you guys." The creature said, more Molochs came out. "You've wasted your time." Magus said while he prepared a lightning2 attack. "Cause you're toast." "Hey, get this. this thing of me first!" Petra shouted. Magus was about to strike, but Pogapo pushed his hand down. "Let me handle this." She said, and walked towards the Moloch who was crushing Petra. "Will you please get of her?" She asked nicely, Magus and Brian slapped their foreheads and Petra started to look even more desperate. "You really think you can negociate with us?" The Moloch asked, and started to laugh, the others joined him. Slash A small sound, Pogapo had one of her arms outstretched and one of her fans in her hands, the Moloch standing on Petra layed on the ground, screaming in pain, holding his claw on a gash in his chest. Everybody else looked surprised. "Well it was worth a try." Pogapo said calmly, taking a fighting position. What happened then, nobody knew excactly, all the three persons saw were bleu flashes of the beautiful lady, and it seemed that the bugs didn't see any more. "She's good." Petra said, she crawled between the two man who couldn't say nothing at all. The fight continued and stopped as suddenly as it started. The remaining bugs ran in every direction. "We'll leave you alone for now, but that doesn't count for your other friends." One of them shouted. "Let's go and help them." Petra said, while getting up. "No we don't." Magus said, stopping her. "Why not?" She answered, quite surprised. "They can take them on by theirselves, we have other business to attend to." Magus walked to the portal. "But they are your friends!" Magus stopped and looked at her with his familiar cold eyes, making her shiver. "Listen Petra, there not my friends, the only reason I ever helped them is to get my revenge on Lavos, and you must be glad I accepted my fate as the entity of shadow." He said with a voice which matched his eyes. "But don't you care at all?!" "I care as much for them as they for me. And that isn't much." "But they do care for you, they really do. except for Frog, maybe." Brian interfered. "And why should I believe a sneaky weasle like you?" Magus answered. "Stop this nonsense, right now." Pogapo interfered calmly, trying to stop the little fight. "You're right, let's stop this nonsense." Magus answered to everybody's surprise. He turned around and walked into the portal, there was a flash of light and he dissapeared. "What's wrong with him?" Petra said, breaking an uneasy silence. "I don't know exactly." Brian started. "But my guess is that he thinks that nobody cares for him." "How come?" Pogapo asked. "I think that he lost his trust in humanity a long time ago." "Should we go and help the others?" Petra asked, about then, a red flash apeared from the bushes on the west-side of the fair. "Few, that was a close one." They heared Lucca say. "Why didn't the others come and help?" Crono asked. "I guess they are already at the end of time, we better get going to." And they heard a machine getting started. "Great, let's go to." Petra said and they walked towards the gate and entered it.
And that's another chapter done. What to excpect from the next chapter? Well, Crono gets Magus really pissed. But it's almost my birthday so it can take a while.
"Ouch! My nose!" was the first thing Petra said when they arrived in the year 1000, no surprise because she landed face-first on the plaza where Lucca's teleport device used to stand. Brian also made a rough landing, sliding with his cheek against the road, widening the scar on his face. "Holy. God!" He shouted. Magus, the only one who just stepped out of the gate, sighed and shook his head. "If you two are my partners, the earth is doomed for sure. Let's just hope the last entity is a little bit. brighter." "Oh yeah?! Well I'm sure your time-travels aren't always that great." Petra said when she pulled herself off the street, straightening her clothes. Magus felt his cheeks become red, when he first stepped into the Epoch, he almost threw up. But Lucca and Robo, who were with him, agreed not to tell anyone. "Eh, Petra, Magus." Brian tried. "WHAT!?" They both said, Brian pointed to a crowd that stared at them. They both were speachless, until they heard a voice which sounded familiar in Magus's pointy ears. "Alright people, nothing to see here, just go home and let the hero of Guardia handle this." Crono commanded, making his way trough the crowd, together with Marle and Lucca. "And look who we have here." He said when most of the people were gone. "I haven't see you in a long time, what happend to your face?" Crono said, pointing at the acid-scar. "Nothing, a little accident." Magus answered. "Oh, and who are those two, friends of yours?" "Not really, but according to some prophecy I am bound to work with them." Magus answered. "Prophecy? Tell me more, but first; hi I'm Lucca." Lucca said. And they all send their greetings. After that Petra told about the prophecy. "Wow Magus, I never taught you would be the chosen one to save the human race from destruction." Marle said. "No, you are more of a person to cause the destruction of the human race." Crono said with grin on his face, but nobody seemed to like the joke so he quickly changed the subject. "So, what are you guys doing here?" "We're in search of the entity of water." Petra answered. "And do you know where she is?" Marle asked. "Not excactly, but I know her name is Pogapo, not a very common name." "I see, but you guys first want something to drink or something?" Magus sighed, he always hated it when Marle took away the attention from the main goal; in this case to get the last entity. "No thank you I'm not thirsty." He said. "Well I am." Petra said persistant, and she walked towards Marle. "Say, do you have orange juice?" "I'm sure we'll have that, how about you, Brian?" Marle said "Some milk would be nice." He answered. "And how about you." Marle shot a deadly glare to Magus, who looked back with almost the same look. After a while Magus sighed and looked down, Marle had a victorious smile on her face. "If I have no ather choice. I like to have some wine." Magus said, and they all walked off to Guardia castle. "You live here?!" Petra said when they arrived. "Uhu!" Marle said with a wide smile. "Nice he?" And she opened the huge wooden door, when they where inside some guards walked towards them. "Princess Nadia, who are these strangers?" They asked, looking sucpiciously at Magus, who looked back with a glare which forced them to look at Marle. "These are friends, and please stop looking at Magus that way, he isn't going to do anything!" She answered, noticing the tension between Magus and the guards. "I'm really sorry your high-ness, but we still aren't used to your friends from other times." And they made a bow, and Marle guided them to the kitched, looking angry. "I don't believe this! They still think you're dangerous, after all you've done for us and the earth." She raged. "Well. he made quite a mess back in the middle-ages, they just need some time." Lucca tried to comfort her friend. "But you seemed like you enjoyed it." She said towards Magus. "I sure did, causing fear between the weak is my hobby." Magus answered. It was a down-right lie and Brian knew that. He tried since the two met to read Magus's mind, but Magus had some strong mental barriers which made it impossible to read his taughts. Maybe if he tried harder. "HEY CHEFF, SOME DRINKS PLEASE!!!!!" Marle shouted, pulling Brian back to reality. They all sat down and a waitress came to take their orders. "This is wonderfull! Getting served like this." Petra said, but Brian didn't notice that. He concentrated on Magus, who sat on the opposite position, he didn't seem to pay attention to him, this was his chance. Concentrate. "SIR!!!" A waitress shouted, startling Brian. "Eh. what?" He asked. "I asked you three time; would you like something to drink?" "I have some milk please." The waitress nodded. Where was he. o jeah, He putted his attention back to Magus, who looked right at him with his cold, unforgiving eyes. "Are you trying to read my mind?" He asked with a voice that matched his eyes. "Well... Uhm, I. eh." Brian stammered, Magus grabbed the collar of his robe and pulled him over the table, forcing him to look in his eyes. "Don't do it again. Unless you want me to chop you into small pieces." Magus said slowly, and then he let Brian go. "What's wrong with you Magus? Brian didn't do anything wrong." Lucca said, noticing the little struggle. "That sneaky weasel tried to read my mind." Was Magus's answer, Brian didn't say anything. "And that's why you almost bite his head off?!" "Yes, and he better stay out of my way, or he won't survive it." "Magus, you'll never change." She said, and after they drank their drinks, they were ready to go. "Can I first go to see my mom? Or else she will be worried." They agreed, when they arrived Crono opened the door. (Duh) "Mom I'm going on a." he started to blush and to stammer. "Crono it is very rude to stop in the middle of a." Brian said walking in as well, he too started to blush and stammer. "A..and I can't blame you for it." "What is going on here?!" Lucca said, and she made her way trough the two dumbfounded man, and what she saw explained it all; in the living room sat, with a cup of thee, one of the most beautifull women in the world, she was tall, but also slim and delicate, her sea-bleu skin was flawless and her navy- bleu hair covered her back, except two strings, which hung before her ears, who were long, pointy and stood upright. She wore a black dress with a split which reached her thighs. She didn't wear shoes and on her wrist and ankles shone golden rings. "I see." Lucca said with a grin. "What's wrong?" Marle said. "You just degraded to second place." Magus said, watching over the crowd, letting out a small chuckle. "Oh, I see you're home hunny." Crono's mom said, coming out of the kitchen. "This woman asked for you, is she a friend?" "Eh. not yet." Crono said, and everybody noticed that Marle was getting really pissed. "Oh, well it could be, you have such unusual friends: that toad, and then that barely-dressed lady, the robot and of course that shy hippie." "A hippie!?" Magus exclaimed. "Yes, al men with long hair are hippies, right?" "Not really," The guest said, with a soft, kind voice. "Our kind sees long hair as a sign of power." "But wha. I mean, who are you.?" Marle asked. "Oh, excuse me, my name is Pogapo." The creature said. Everybody sent their greetings back and forth. "Ah, in that case, we need you." Petra said. "I know, you need me to protect the child of an angel." Pogapo answered. "Wha. how do you know?" "My mother told me the legend when I was young, it is also the reason why I'm here. I heard that the great hero Crono lived here, I wanted to ask him for help." "That's me." Crono said, raising his chest to look impressive (But looks like an idiot). "I'm the legendary hero who saved past, present and future." "Idiot, if it wasn't for us, you would be pushing up daisies right now." Magus said. "That's right." Marle and Lucca added and Crono's chest shrinks back to normal (maybe smaller). "Well, it seems like we're all together now, what do we need to do now, Petra?" Brian asked. "Uhm. first. let's get back to the end of time and. think of a plan." She answered. "In other words, you've got no idea what to do now." Magus said. "You can say that, yes." Petra said blushing, Magus sighed. "Great, so now we are together, we have no plan." "But if we just stand here, we're not getting any further either. Let's do what Petra says and go to the end of time, and get some friends to help us." Lucca said,and they walked of, when they arrived at the fair, there was nobody there. "Where is everybody?" Crono wondered. "It's always busy here." "I got the feeling I know." Brian said, he, Petra and Magus seemed nervous. "W..what's wrong?" Marle asked. "Molochs." Magus whispered. "Molochs? What on earth is that?" Lucca said. " You'll see." "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!" Marle shouted, everybody got their weapons (Pogapo had something that looked like two metal fans) and turned around. "Who, what, where?!" Crono shouted, and a terrified Marle pointed at a tree which was moving suspiciously. After a while an owl flew out, and everybody relaxed. "Don't scare us like that!" Lucca exclaimed. "Sorry." Marle said. "We should've known, Molochs can't climb into trees for some reason. They can crawl up walls, but not trees." Petra told. They walked on. "Where did you stall Epoch, Lucca?" Magus asked. "In a building next to Gato, wait a minute, I'll get it. What do you think? I'll use the Epoch together with Marle and Crono, and you use the gate with the others." She answered. "That's a good idea." And they all divided into two groups and walked towards their goals. "What in the world is Epoch?" Petra asked Magus. "That's a time-machine we used, I hope it still works." He answered. After a while they reached the plaza with the time-gate again. When they arrived Petra suddenly stopped. "What's wrong?" Brian asked. "Nothing, I taught I heard something." She grinned. "I'm to old to put on my stereo-set everytime I hear a n- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" A moloch jumped out of the bushes and on top of Petra. "We where looking for you guys." The creature said, more Molochs came out. "You've wasted your time." Magus said while he prepared a lightning2 attack. "Cause you're toast." "Hey, get this. this thing of me first!" Petra shouted. Magus was about to strike, but Pogapo pushed his hand down. "Let me handle this." She said, and walked towards the Moloch who was crushing Petra. "Will you please get of her?" She asked nicely, Magus and Brian slapped their foreheads and Petra started to look even more desperate. "You really think you can negociate with us?" The Moloch asked, and started to laugh, the others joined him. Slash A small sound, Pogapo had one of her arms outstretched and one of her fans in her hands, the Moloch standing on Petra layed on the ground, screaming in pain, holding his claw on a gash in his chest. Everybody else looked surprised. "Well it was worth a try." Pogapo said calmly, taking a fighting position. What happened then, nobody knew excactly, all the three persons saw were bleu flashes of the beautiful lady, and it seemed that the bugs didn't see any more. "She's good." Petra said, she crawled between the two man who couldn't say nothing at all. The fight continued and stopped as suddenly as it started. The remaining bugs ran in every direction. "We'll leave you alone for now, but that doesn't count for your other friends." One of them shouted. "Let's go and help them." Petra said, while getting up. "No we don't." Magus said, stopping her. "Why not?" She answered, quite surprised. "They can take them on by theirselves, we have other business to attend to." Magus walked to the portal. "But they are your friends!" Magus stopped and looked at her with his familiar cold eyes, making her shiver. "Listen Petra, there not my friends, the only reason I ever helped them is to get my revenge on Lavos, and you must be glad I accepted my fate as the entity of shadow." He said with a voice which matched his eyes. "But don't you care at all?!" "I care as much for them as they for me. And that isn't much." "But they do care for you, they really do. except for Frog, maybe." Brian interfered. "And why should I believe a sneaky weasle like you?" Magus answered. "Stop this nonsense, right now." Pogapo interfered calmly, trying to stop the little fight. "You're right, let's stop this nonsense." Magus answered to everybody's surprise. He turned around and walked into the portal, there was a flash of light and he dissapeared. "What's wrong with him?" Petra said, breaking an uneasy silence. "I don't know exactly." Brian started. "But my guess is that he thinks that nobody cares for him." "How come?" Pogapo asked. "I think that he lost his trust in humanity a long time ago." "Should we go and help the others?" Petra asked, about then, a red flash apeared from the bushes on the west-side of the fair. "Few, that was a close one." They heared Lucca say. "Why didn't the others come and help?" Crono asked. "I guess they are already at the end of time, we better get going to." And they heard a machine getting started. "Great, let's go to." Petra said and they walked towards the gate and entered it.
And that's another chapter done. What to excpect from the next chapter? Well, Crono gets Magus really pissed. But it's almost my birthday so it can take a while.