Duel of Time
-By Mosobot64
Yay! New style! Hope you like it!
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A Time Portal had opened. One of the Guardians of the Enemy had access to her Time.
She had to hurry, or the innocent would die by the Guardian's rampage. She kept running, as the Portal closed.
And so it stood. She could already tell, just by looking at it, that it came from 1,000 years into the future.
It was not moving. Not yet. But once it had its' master's orders, it would destroy everything in sight until they were fulfilled.
Its' large, smooth, metallic head had six eye shaped slits cut into it. Its' neck was riddled with machinery. Huge, sphere shaped plates covered its' shoulders. Its' metallic chest was bristling with missiles. And the arms were covered with pipes, running down to the "wrists" of the behemoth, where mechanical hands with large, curved, knife like claws protruded from, like a nightmare a mad scientist would create. The monstrosity was taller than a tree.
Its' six eyes flashed red, it had its' orders. Another Time Portal opened, circular, and glowing a bright white. The guardian walked into it and vanished. Without question, She ran and jumped into the Portal, moments before it closed.
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==Chapter 1-The First Encounter==
Not far from Sindain Forest was a small, quiet city called Palm Brinks.
The mayor of the city was a rather naive but kind man named Mayor Need. And the best friend of Mayor Need was an old repairman named Cedric. Cedric had an apprentice, a young boy.
And this boy's name was Maximillian.
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On a rather ordinary day, young Max left his home, a mansion his father owned due to having a fortune, to help Cedric with the daily routine of repairing clocks and vacuum cleaners and whatever other machinery people would send in to be fixed.
"Be very careful, son!" His father shouted from the mansion door. "There's supposed to be a thunderstorm soon!"
"I will, father!" Max shouted, his emerald green eyes bright with enthusiasm. "Have a good day!"
Max whirled around, his golden blonde hair a blur. When the golden necklace with the large red jewel his father had given him bounced on his chest, Max remembered he had forgotten to tell his father something.
"Thank you for the pendant, father!" Max shouted, turning to face his father once again.
"Don't mention it!" His father replied. "Goodbye!"
Max ran enthusiastically, his pendant bouncing on his chest. Small drips of rain sometimes fell on him, but Max never noticed. He had skipped breakfast this morning, but he didn't care. Max loved helping Cedric out whenever he got the chance, not just because he liked machines and discovering how they worked, but also because he loved the feeling you get when you've been a help to someone and you know it.
And Max knew that he did Cedric a big favour each time he came, and he loved knowing that.
The rain fell more heavily now. The drops were larger, and struck Max more often. It was also getting rather cool out. Max was walking now, as the rain fell ever more relentlessly.
"HEY, MAX!!" A female voice shouted in his ear. Max instinctively spun around to see who it was.
"Carla, don't do that!" Max cried out, still shocked. When he had a chance to recover, he smiled softly. "What brings you out in this weather, Carla?" Max asked innocently.
"Same as you, I guess." Carla replied, shrugging. She wore a long blue dress, and a light blue bonnet on her head. She had black hair down to her back, and soft brown eyes that looked lovingly on the world. Carla held a white umbrella over her head.
"Oh, Max! What a pretty necklace you have!" Carla said in a fascinated voice, pointing at Max's jewel.
"Oh, this?" Max replied, holding up his necklace. "My father gave it to me this morning."
"You're so lucky! My father's never given me anything like that." Carla said, still interested.
"Uhh..thanks..." Max replied, unsure of what to say.
"So, where are you going, Max?" Carla asked Max sweetly.
"Oh....Cedric's repairshop..." Max trailed off, almost completely unaware of what she just said.
"You grease monkey." Carla said playfully, stealing Max's hat before he swiped it back. "I'll take you there."
And so they walked under Carla's umbrella in the ever-heavy rain. Carla looked very beautiful in the dim light.
Max felt compelled to hold her hand. It just looked so cold and lonely. He took her hand.
And what he saw was horrifying.
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Carla's hand was much colder than Max thought. And he did not feel her heart softly beating. He knew something was wrong.
Max looked upon Carla's face. It was frozen in terror. She was dead, leaning on a pile of rubble, and a fatal wound in her stomach. Why was she dead?
Max looked around him. There were decimated piles of rubble where building used to be. He heard the scattered screams of panicking people, and he smelt the smoke, and the ashes.
Max saw the bloodied corpses of people he once knew, people he once loved...
And rising above the destruction and the chaos was the black silhouette of a monster....
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"Max? Max, are you alright?"
He was aware that everything was fine, and Carla was alive and well, and the Palm Brinks still stood.
"Yes, I'm fine. It's nothing." Max replied to what he realized was Carla's concern.
"I'm not to sure...." Carla replied in an unsure voice.
"Look, Carla, I'm fine!" Max snapped back. He didn't want anyone to think he was crazy.
"Max, I meant no offense, it's just that you let go of my hand all of a sudden, and then you went all pale and spaced out."
"It's just that your hand was-" But he never got a chance to finish his sentence.
The wind began to howl, and lightning streaked the sky as thunder boomed. A huge disk of glowing white light appeared from nowhere, right in front of them.
"Max! What is it?" Carla yelled to him fearfully over the screaming wind.
Max couldn't reply. He had that same question. He was afraid, for he could not explain this happening.
Two massive, metallic claws sprung from the disk. They looked as though they could chop a man's head right off his shoulders.
Two large, clawed feet emerged. The cobblestones crumbled under their weight. A square torso appeared, full of what looked to be missiles. Finally, a round oval, like a head, appeared from atop the torso, with six slits cut into it, glowing red like sinister eyes. It was taller than the building it stood next to.
"Carla, RUN!" Max cried out in fear. He stumbled backward onto the cobblestones. The monster was shaped just like the one he had seen in his vision, everyone was going to die....
Carla ran. It was all she could do. Run and hope Max survived.
~You life is mine, Time Magus....~ A hollow, metallic voice boomed from inside the monstrosity. Max didn't understand. Time Magus?
The portal as he understood it closed, the monstrosity raised its' claws, and Max buried his face in his hands and cried, ready to die, ready to embrace his last, horrible memories....
His thoughts were interrupted when Max heard the sound of rusted hinges creaking, and the clash of steel on stone as something collapsed. He took his hands from his face....
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The monstrosity lay on the broken cobblestones, rusted. But how?
Max then noticed a beautiful girl, with shining pink hair, and violet eyes, and a lavender shirt, wearing black pants and brown gloves. She had two armbands, one gold and one silver, and in the silver one was set a stone just like his, only blue. Where did she come from?
"Time Magus, come with me," The girl said simply.
Max followed the girl as she opened another portal somehow, and beckoned him through. Max stepped into the portal....
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MUA HA HA!!!! A CLIFFHANGER!!!!
-Max: Great...-_-
Max, quit being sarcastic.
-Max: You're just the same half-crazed author you always were..
Shut up. (Stuffs a sock in his face)
Please Read and Review!!!
-By Mosobot64
Yay! New style! Hope you like it!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
A Time Portal had opened. One of the Guardians of the Enemy had access to her Time.
She had to hurry, or the innocent would die by the Guardian's rampage. She kept running, as the Portal closed.
And so it stood. She could already tell, just by looking at it, that it came from 1,000 years into the future.
It was not moving. Not yet. But once it had its' master's orders, it would destroy everything in sight until they were fulfilled.
Its' large, smooth, metallic head had six eye shaped slits cut into it. Its' neck was riddled with machinery. Huge, sphere shaped plates covered its' shoulders. Its' metallic chest was bristling with missiles. And the arms were covered with pipes, running down to the "wrists" of the behemoth, where mechanical hands with large, curved, knife like claws protruded from, like a nightmare a mad scientist would create. The monstrosity was taller than a tree.
Its' six eyes flashed red, it had its' orders. Another Time Portal opened, circular, and glowing a bright white. The guardian walked into it and vanished. Without question, She ran and jumped into the Portal, moments before it closed.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
==Chapter 1-The First Encounter==
Not far from Sindain Forest was a small, quiet city called Palm Brinks.
The mayor of the city was a rather naive but kind man named Mayor Need. And the best friend of Mayor Need was an old repairman named Cedric. Cedric had an apprentice, a young boy.
And this boy's name was Maximillian.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
On a rather ordinary day, young Max left his home, a mansion his father owned due to having a fortune, to help Cedric with the daily routine of repairing clocks and vacuum cleaners and whatever other machinery people would send in to be fixed.
"Be very careful, son!" His father shouted from the mansion door. "There's supposed to be a thunderstorm soon!"
"I will, father!" Max shouted, his emerald green eyes bright with enthusiasm. "Have a good day!"
Max whirled around, his golden blonde hair a blur. When the golden necklace with the large red jewel his father had given him bounced on his chest, Max remembered he had forgotten to tell his father something.
"Thank you for the pendant, father!" Max shouted, turning to face his father once again.
"Don't mention it!" His father replied. "Goodbye!"
Max ran enthusiastically, his pendant bouncing on his chest. Small drips of rain sometimes fell on him, but Max never noticed. He had skipped breakfast this morning, but he didn't care. Max loved helping Cedric out whenever he got the chance, not just because he liked machines and discovering how they worked, but also because he loved the feeling you get when you've been a help to someone and you know it.
And Max knew that he did Cedric a big favour each time he came, and he loved knowing that.
The rain fell more heavily now. The drops were larger, and struck Max more often. It was also getting rather cool out. Max was walking now, as the rain fell ever more relentlessly.
"HEY, MAX!!" A female voice shouted in his ear. Max instinctively spun around to see who it was.
"Carla, don't do that!" Max cried out, still shocked. When he had a chance to recover, he smiled softly. "What brings you out in this weather, Carla?" Max asked innocently.
"Same as you, I guess." Carla replied, shrugging. She wore a long blue dress, and a light blue bonnet on her head. She had black hair down to her back, and soft brown eyes that looked lovingly on the world. Carla held a white umbrella over her head.
"Oh, Max! What a pretty necklace you have!" Carla said in a fascinated voice, pointing at Max's jewel.
"Oh, this?" Max replied, holding up his necklace. "My father gave it to me this morning."
"You're so lucky! My father's never given me anything like that." Carla said, still interested.
"Uhh..thanks..." Max replied, unsure of what to say.
"So, where are you going, Max?" Carla asked Max sweetly.
"Oh....Cedric's repairshop..." Max trailed off, almost completely unaware of what she just said.
"You grease monkey." Carla said playfully, stealing Max's hat before he swiped it back. "I'll take you there."
And so they walked under Carla's umbrella in the ever-heavy rain. Carla looked very beautiful in the dim light.
Max felt compelled to hold her hand. It just looked so cold and lonely. He took her hand.
And what he saw was horrifying.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Carla's hand was much colder than Max thought. And he did not feel her heart softly beating. He knew something was wrong.
Max looked upon Carla's face. It was frozen in terror. She was dead, leaning on a pile of rubble, and a fatal wound in her stomach. Why was she dead?
Max looked around him. There were decimated piles of rubble where building used to be. He heard the scattered screams of panicking people, and he smelt the smoke, and the ashes.
Max saw the bloodied corpses of people he once knew, people he once loved...
And rising above the destruction and the chaos was the black silhouette of a monster....
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Max? Max, are you alright?"
He was aware that everything was fine, and Carla was alive and well, and the Palm Brinks still stood.
"Yes, I'm fine. It's nothing." Max replied to what he realized was Carla's concern.
"I'm not to sure...." Carla replied in an unsure voice.
"Look, Carla, I'm fine!" Max snapped back. He didn't want anyone to think he was crazy.
"Max, I meant no offense, it's just that you let go of my hand all of a sudden, and then you went all pale and spaced out."
"It's just that your hand was-" But he never got a chance to finish his sentence.
The wind began to howl, and lightning streaked the sky as thunder boomed. A huge disk of glowing white light appeared from nowhere, right in front of them.
"Max! What is it?" Carla yelled to him fearfully over the screaming wind.
Max couldn't reply. He had that same question. He was afraid, for he could not explain this happening.
Two massive, metallic claws sprung from the disk. They looked as though they could chop a man's head right off his shoulders.
Two large, clawed feet emerged. The cobblestones crumbled under their weight. A square torso appeared, full of what looked to be missiles. Finally, a round oval, like a head, appeared from atop the torso, with six slits cut into it, glowing red like sinister eyes. It was taller than the building it stood next to.
"Carla, RUN!" Max cried out in fear. He stumbled backward onto the cobblestones. The monster was shaped just like the one he had seen in his vision, everyone was going to die....
Carla ran. It was all she could do. Run and hope Max survived.
~You life is mine, Time Magus....~ A hollow, metallic voice boomed from inside the monstrosity. Max didn't understand. Time Magus?
The portal as he understood it closed, the monstrosity raised its' claws, and Max buried his face in his hands and cried, ready to die, ready to embrace his last, horrible memories....
His thoughts were interrupted when Max heard the sound of rusted hinges creaking, and the clash of steel on stone as something collapsed. He took his hands from his face....
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The monstrosity lay on the broken cobblestones, rusted. But how?
Max then noticed a beautiful girl, with shining pink hair, and violet eyes, and a lavender shirt, wearing black pants and brown gloves. She had two armbands, one gold and one silver, and in the silver one was set a stone just like his, only blue. Where did she come from?
"Time Magus, come with me," The girl said simply.
Max followed the girl as she opened another portal somehow, and beckoned him through. Max stepped into the portal....
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
MUA HA HA!!!! A CLIFFHANGER!!!!
-Max: Great...-_-
Max, quit being sarcastic.
-Max: You're just the same half-crazed author you always were..
Shut up. (Stuffs a sock in his face)
Please Read and Review!!!