Chapter III: The Guardian of Guardia
1002 AD LUCCA
"Alright everyone. We are about to travel in the Epoch once more. This trip is ONLY to see if everything is alright. We've messed with time more than we should have. If we see trouble, we leave it alone, unless, of course, it gets caused because of us, and in that case, we'll deal with it immediately." Lucca was clad in a yellow tube-top, camouflage pants, and she even had a cane, whose top was adorned with golden coin bearing the Guardia crest.
Crono and Marle stood and watched Lucca, trying to keep from laughing at the mad scientist. Lucca had been acting very strange all morning. In fact, Lucca herself thought she was acting very strange. She was nervous. She thought that something was going to happen, something they would cause, something that they would have to fix. She tried to shrug the thoughts off, but to avail.
"Alright troops, everyone aboard." Lucca pointed her cane to the Epoch's cockpit, and Crono and Marle filed in. Lucca jumped in the pilot's seat. She flipped a few switches, pushed some buttons, and the Epoch hummed to life. Lucca broke out into a nervous sweat, as she set the coordinates for the Middle Ages. The Epoch rose, and blasted out of the woodshed, demolishing the shed itself, and flying beyond the speed of sound. They flew over the world once, and once they reached their take off point, they broke the barrier of time.
602 AD GLENN
Frog was walking through Truce Canyon, overseeing the excavation team. 'Twas the order of the king that Truce Canyon be dug out, and made into a large square, where great events would be held, and where Leene's Bell (currently under construction by Banta) would ring throughout all of Guardia.
"Workers! Thou art shall rest, for I can see thee very weary after a long day's toil." He said. The workers all cheered for Frog, and put down their picks and shovels. As they left, Frog could hear someone- or something chanting. He wouldn't ever forget where he first heard it- Magus was chanting in that same exact tone when he tried to summon Lavos two years ago.
Frog drew the Masamune, and prepared for anything- except for what actually happened. A bolt of lightning came, screaming from the sky, and struck him. The sensation felt strangely familiar, and Frog's body began to glow radiantly, and he collapsed.
---
Glenn awoke to the sound of shouting. All of his joints ached, his flesh burned, and every inch of him was itchy.
"We've found someone, Your Majesty! And he wields the mystical sword!" a man shouted. Glenn forced his eyes to open and saw a crowd of people standing around him- the most prominent were the king and queen. Both looked at him in horror.
"No. Magus. The sorcerer. He changed me again. What did he..?" Glenn's thoughts were slow and sluggish, as he struggled to stand, or move any limbs- considering he had any left.
"G-Glenn?" murmured the queen. Glenn. A name he hadn't heard in ages. Not since. Glenn spit some words out.
"Your. Majesty. How gruesome has the evil wizard made me..? Have I met fate worse than death?" Glenn was amazed at his speech. He had lost the tongue that had plagued his mouth ever since he had undergone the transformation. his first transformation anyway. Did this mean.
"Glenn. Y- You've become. human again." said the queen, her voice quivering. Finally, Glenn was able to stand. He pulled off his left glove, which revealed a hand. A hand with fingers and human skin. He put that hand to his face. He felt the contours of his once long-gone chiseled features. He let that hand run upward along his face, and felt hair. He was human. Magus had made him human! Glenn stared up to the sky, blessing his former- foe.
---
The next day, Glenn was knighted. He knelt before the king who spoke the words, last cited to Cyrus on his knighting, the king touching his sword to Glenn's right shoulder, to his left shoulder, then back to his right.
"Glenn of Truce, I dub thee, Sir Glenn, Head of the Knights of the Square Table, Protector of the Throne, Guardian of Guardia. Rise, Sir Glenn." Glenn rose, and turned walking toward the castle doors. He walked on the red carpet, the Masamune in its scabbard at his side. Two men opened the doors, and Glenn walked out of the castle, into the setting sun.
---
Glenn hadn't made it to Truce when he saw a familiar. something. It was in the sky, towards the Yet-To-Be-Named Ashtear Island. Out of a portal of blue light, came a streak of yellow. It was the Epoch. Glenn waved his arms victoriously, signaling for the time machine to land near him.
602 AD LUCCA
"Who's that insane man waving his arms at us?" asked Marle. Crono gave a characteristic shrug, and Lucca stared at the man through the windshield.
"Oh my God. That's Frog. Or Frog's roguishly handsome human form." said Lucca, in complete awe. "Look! You can see the Masamune sheathed in his scabbard!"
"Let me see!" yelled Marle, diving forward so she could see.
"Hey! Quit shoving! You're squeezing me against the controls, you ditz!" strained Lucca. Lucca was held against the Epoch's control stick, and the Epoch plunged towards the ground. Marle immediately sat back in her seat, as Lucca fumbled with the controls, sweat forming on her face, making her glasses slip. Luckily, Lucca stabilized the Epoch, and set it down gently on the ground.
---
As the four were inside the castle, there was much talking, laughing, celebrating, and visiting in general. Glenn talked of how he became human, Crono and Marle (though mostly Marle) talked of their recent marriage, and when it came to be Lucca's turn, she only said she'd been "as busy as a bee". She didn't have anything interesting to input- she fixed the Epoch. That was about it. it really made her hate herself.
Finally, Lucca came to the point of their trip.
"Glenn, we want you to return with us, to our time." Said Lucca, knowing he'd be ecstatic to see their time once more. Of course she was wrong.
"Lucca. I cannot leave. This is my home. I was knighted today! I am the protector of all Guardia. if word spread that I had left. who knows what chaos would erupt in your time." Said Glenn, being as honest- and unknowingly pretentious- as he could.
"But." Lucca trailed off, knowing she probably couldn't convince Glenn to go. This was his home, and he was fiercely loyal to the king and queen.
"But, won't you be protecting Guardia in our time as well?" asked Crono, in an out of character remark. Glenn froze. He had no response.
"Does something happen in your time, that you might need my help?" asked Glenn.
"Lucca seems to think so." said Marle, as everyone's eyes turned to Lucca herself. Lucca's eyes shifted side to side, and she remained silent. ".right Lucca?"
"Well. It was just a feeling. An overcoming one, yes, but still. I think something is going to happen that will affect Guardia- no, the whole world, and if we aren't prepared to stop it." Lucca looked to one side, not knowing what to say next.
"Well, Lucca, if you. If you think that something may happen in the future. Guardia is my country now and forever. I shall protect her until my final days!" said Glenn. Lucca smiled, proud that her pathetic premonitions were able to sway the most noble knight in all history.
---
Much to the king and queen's dismay, Glenn said goodbye and promised to return to them safely if he survived the oncoming battle. The four pondered how to get all four of them back to the present, and Lucca decided they'd take two trips. Lucca took Crono and Glenn the first trip, then returned for Marle. When they were all in Lucca's house, her mind drifted.
"So this is where Glenn went off to." he came with us, that's why we couldn't find him in any history books." Lucca thought. Marle and Crono invited Glenn to stay at the castle, and Glenn accepted the offer. That left Lucca alone. again. But it left her alone with her thoughts. "Hmmm. I might need Robo and Belthasar to help us. Besides. I want to check on Robo anyway." She decided to do that the next morning- she was exhausted and thought that convincing Robo might take some tinkering with his programming if necessary, and Belthasar. If he wouldn't come, he wouldn't come.
2300 AD BELTHASAR
Belthasar packed a few random things he thought he might need, and gathered Robo, and his Nu.
"Are you two ready to leave?" he asked in his feeble voice.
"Yes, Master Belthasar. I am very eager to see everyone again." replied Robo. Belthasar nodded, looking around. He felt quite content with everything here. Chronopolis had been established, Mother Brain was being reprogrammed, and Belthasar had contributed everything he could to this age. Upon looking through the history logs, he knew he had to warn everyone. "How ironic. The Guru of Reason doing something so irrational." He shrugged off those thoughts. If he was going to do this, he was going to do it.
Belthasar, Robo, and the Nu got inside the NeoEpoch's cockpit, and Belthasar flipped only a few switches. He set the coordinates for Princess Nadia's era and he was simply there.
1002 AD BELTHASAR
Or he thought. He looked at his surroundings. He seemed to be in the basement of some sort. The basement was cluttered with so much junk, he had to clear some out of his way to get to a set of stone steps.
"Wait here." He ordered Robo and the Nu. He walked up the stairs, and saw himself in a large library. Four men, somewhere in their thirties or forties, had stopped speaking.
"Aye, old man, who do ye think ye be walking in on our plans? Be ye a spy from Porre?!" the man with the strange accent growled.
"Where am I?" asked Belthasar looking around once more.
"You are in my manor." Replied a large man wearing a large black overcoat. "Welcome to Viper Manor, old man."
1002 AD LUCCA
"Alright everyone. We are about to travel in the Epoch once more. This trip is ONLY to see if everything is alright. We've messed with time more than we should have. If we see trouble, we leave it alone, unless, of course, it gets caused because of us, and in that case, we'll deal with it immediately." Lucca was clad in a yellow tube-top, camouflage pants, and she even had a cane, whose top was adorned with golden coin bearing the Guardia crest.
Crono and Marle stood and watched Lucca, trying to keep from laughing at the mad scientist. Lucca had been acting very strange all morning. In fact, Lucca herself thought she was acting very strange. She was nervous. She thought that something was going to happen, something they would cause, something that they would have to fix. She tried to shrug the thoughts off, but to avail.
"Alright troops, everyone aboard." Lucca pointed her cane to the Epoch's cockpit, and Crono and Marle filed in. Lucca jumped in the pilot's seat. She flipped a few switches, pushed some buttons, and the Epoch hummed to life. Lucca broke out into a nervous sweat, as she set the coordinates for the Middle Ages. The Epoch rose, and blasted out of the woodshed, demolishing the shed itself, and flying beyond the speed of sound. They flew over the world once, and once they reached their take off point, they broke the barrier of time.
602 AD GLENN
Frog was walking through Truce Canyon, overseeing the excavation team. 'Twas the order of the king that Truce Canyon be dug out, and made into a large square, where great events would be held, and where Leene's Bell (currently under construction by Banta) would ring throughout all of Guardia.
"Workers! Thou art shall rest, for I can see thee very weary after a long day's toil." He said. The workers all cheered for Frog, and put down their picks and shovels. As they left, Frog could hear someone- or something chanting. He wouldn't ever forget where he first heard it- Magus was chanting in that same exact tone when he tried to summon Lavos two years ago.
Frog drew the Masamune, and prepared for anything- except for what actually happened. A bolt of lightning came, screaming from the sky, and struck him. The sensation felt strangely familiar, and Frog's body began to glow radiantly, and he collapsed.
---
Glenn awoke to the sound of shouting. All of his joints ached, his flesh burned, and every inch of him was itchy.
"We've found someone, Your Majesty! And he wields the mystical sword!" a man shouted. Glenn forced his eyes to open and saw a crowd of people standing around him- the most prominent were the king and queen. Both looked at him in horror.
"No. Magus. The sorcerer. He changed me again. What did he..?" Glenn's thoughts were slow and sluggish, as he struggled to stand, or move any limbs- considering he had any left.
"G-Glenn?" murmured the queen. Glenn. A name he hadn't heard in ages. Not since. Glenn spit some words out.
"Your. Majesty. How gruesome has the evil wizard made me..? Have I met fate worse than death?" Glenn was amazed at his speech. He had lost the tongue that had plagued his mouth ever since he had undergone the transformation. his first transformation anyway. Did this mean.
"Glenn. Y- You've become. human again." said the queen, her voice quivering. Finally, Glenn was able to stand. He pulled off his left glove, which revealed a hand. A hand with fingers and human skin. He put that hand to his face. He felt the contours of his once long-gone chiseled features. He let that hand run upward along his face, and felt hair. He was human. Magus had made him human! Glenn stared up to the sky, blessing his former- foe.
---
The next day, Glenn was knighted. He knelt before the king who spoke the words, last cited to Cyrus on his knighting, the king touching his sword to Glenn's right shoulder, to his left shoulder, then back to his right.
"Glenn of Truce, I dub thee, Sir Glenn, Head of the Knights of the Square Table, Protector of the Throne, Guardian of Guardia. Rise, Sir Glenn." Glenn rose, and turned walking toward the castle doors. He walked on the red carpet, the Masamune in its scabbard at his side. Two men opened the doors, and Glenn walked out of the castle, into the setting sun.
---
Glenn hadn't made it to Truce when he saw a familiar. something. It was in the sky, towards the Yet-To-Be-Named Ashtear Island. Out of a portal of blue light, came a streak of yellow. It was the Epoch. Glenn waved his arms victoriously, signaling for the time machine to land near him.
602 AD LUCCA
"Who's that insane man waving his arms at us?" asked Marle. Crono gave a characteristic shrug, and Lucca stared at the man through the windshield.
"Oh my God. That's Frog. Or Frog's roguishly handsome human form." said Lucca, in complete awe. "Look! You can see the Masamune sheathed in his scabbard!"
"Let me see!" yelled Marle, diving forward so she could see.
"Hey! Quit shoving! You're squeezing me against the controls, you ditz!" strained Lucca. Lucca was held against the Epoch's control stick, and the Epoch plunged towards the ground. Marle immediately sat back in her seat, as Lucca fumbled with the controls, sweat forming on her face, making her glasses slip. Luckily, Lucca stabilized the Epoch, and set it down gently on the ground.
---
As the four were inside the castle, there was much talking, laughing, celebrating, and visiting in general. Glenn talked of how he became human, Crono and Marle (though mostly Marle) talked of their recent marriage, and when it came to be Lucca's turn, she only said she'd been "as busy as a bee". She didn't have anything interesting to input- she fixed the Epoch. That was about it. it really made her hate herself.
Finally, Lucca came to the point of their trip.
"Glenn, we want you to return with us, to our time." Said Lucca, knowing he'd be ecstatic to see their time once more. Of course she was wrong.
"Lucca. I cannot leave. This is my home. I was knighted today! I am the protector of all Guardia. if word spread that I had left. who knows what chaos would erupt in your time." Said Glenn, being as honest- and unknowingly pretentious- as he could.
"But." Lucca trailed off, knowing she probably couldn't convince Glenn to go. This was his home, and he was fiercely loyal to the king and queen.
"But, won't you be protecting Guardia in our time as well?" asked Crono, in an out of character remark. Glenn froze. He had no response.
"Does something happen in your time, that you might need my help?" asked Glenn.
"Lucca seems to think so." said Marle, as everyone's eyes turned to Lucca herself. Lucca's eyes shifted side to side, and she remained silent. ".right Lucca?"
"Well. It was just a feeling. An overcoming one, yes, but still. I think something is going to happen that will affect Guardia- no, the whole world, and if we aren't prepared to stop it." Lucca looked to one side, not knowing what to say next.
"Well, Lucca, if you. If you think that something may happen in the future. Guardia is my country now and forever. I shall protect her until my final days!" said Glenn. Lucca smiled, proud that her pathetic premonitions were able to sway the most noble knight in all history.
---
Much to the king and queen's dismay, Glenn said goodbye and promised to return to them safely if he survived the oncoming battle. The four pondered how to get all four of them back to the present, and Lucca decided they'd take two trips. Lucca took Crono and Glenn the first trip, then returned for Marle. When they were all in Lucca's house, her mind drifted.
"So this is where Glenn went off to." he came with us, that's why we couldn't find him in any history books." Lucca thought. Marle and Crono invited Glenn to stay at the castle, and Glenn accepted the offer. That left Lucca alone. again. But it left her alone with her thoughts. "Hmmm. I might need Robo and Belthasar to help us. Besides. I want to check on Robo anyway." She decided to do that the next morning- she was exhausted and thought that convincing Robo might take some tinkering with his programming if necessary, and Belthasar. If he wouldn't come, he wouldn't come.
2300 AD BELTHASAR
Belthasar packed a few random things he thought he might need, and gathered Robo, and his Nu.
"Are you two ready to leave?" he asked in his feeble voice.
"Yes, Master Belthasar. I am very eager to see everyone again." replied Robo. Belthasar nodded, looking around. He felt quite content with everything here. Chronopolis had been established, Mother Brain was being reprogrammed, and Belthasar had contributed everything he could to this age. Upon looking through the history logs, he knew he had to warn everyone. "How ironic. The Guru of Reason doing something so irrational." He shrugged off those thoughts. If he was going to do this, he was going to do it.
Belthasar, Robo, and the Nu got inside the NeoEpoch's cockpit, and Belthasar flipped only a few switches. He set the coordinates for Princess Nadia's era and he was simply there.
1002 AD BELTHASAR
Or he thought. He looked at his surroundings. He seemed to be in the basement of some sort. The basement was cluttered with so much junk, he had to clear some out of his way to get to a set of stone steps.
"Wait here." He ordered Robo and the Nu. He walked up the stairs, and saw himself in a large library. Four men, somewhere in their thirties or forties, had stopped speaking.
"Aye, old man, who do ye think ye be walking in on our plans? Be ye a spy from Porre?!" the man with the strange accent growled.
"Where am I?" asked Belthasar looking around once more.
"You are in my manor." Replied a large man wearing a large black overcoat. "Welcome to Viper Manor, old man."
