Duel of Time
-By Mosobot64
Second chapter, yay! Hope you like it!
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==Chapter 2- The Enemy of Time ==
"We must be in the future!" Max cried out in amazement.
Building rose up to the sky, higher than the tallest building in Palm Brinks. They were all made of stone, but in Palm Brinks, most of them would only have been made from wood. There was no cobblestones in the road, just smooth, grey stone pavement.
"This isn't the future, Max." The girl said. "This is Modern Times."
"How do you know my name?" Max asked, startled. "Are you from the future?"
"I've known you for a long time." The girl replied. "And as you know it, yes, I am from the future. But knowledgeable Time Magus know this Time as the Modern Age."
"I'm not KNOWLEDGEABLE?!?" Max cried indignantly. "And what's a Time Magus?"
"I'm not saying you're dumb, Max, all I'm saying is that you haven't yet learned what a Time Magus needs to know." The girl said, and then continued, "A Time Magus is someone who knows the true workings of Time, and who can travel to most Ages using their Atlamillas, the jewels you, me and other people have!"
"My jewel is an Atlamilla?" Max asked rhetorically, holding up his pendant. "You can travel in Time with these?"
"Yes, Max! Oh, I have so much to tell you, but first you must meet the other Time Magus!" Monica said excitedly, getting ready to sprint.
"What is your name?" Max asked loudly, just as the girl was about to sprint.
"If you must know, my name is Monica." She replied impatiently.
"Well, you're very pretty, Monica." Max said, blushing.
There was a long, awkward silence, during which Max and Monica looked deeply into each other's eyes. Monica soon broke this silence.
"Max, we had best be going." She said simply, and began to walk away. Max followed her....
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Monica had soon taken Max to a castle. Max couldn't believe it. It looked ancient. It was made entirely of stone blocks, and rose even higher than the other skyscrapers he had seen.
"Come, Max. Here, you'll find the other Time Magus." Monica told Max casually, beginning to walk through the huge, wooden doors of the castle. Max paused to look at the castle once more, and then quickly followed.
The floors were wooden and covered with red carpet. Monica turned several times, and each time she would wait impatiently for Max to catch up.
She soon stopped at one of the many oak doors.
"Here you are, Max. The first door to your destiny."
Max opened the door, and walked inside, as Monica followed.....
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The room was small, and white. On one side of the room, a small fire burned inside a fireplace. There were five wooden chairs set up in a circle. There were three people taking up some of the chairs.
One of them looked like a machine. Its' head had a golden framed Orange Atlamilla built into it, and its' eyes were cut into the head, with an eerie red glow peering out. Its' mouth was replaced by a semi-circular black screen, lighted slightly by a blue line running through the middle. It had machine guns on its' shoulders, and some sort of cannon replacing one of it's mechanical arms.
++So, this is the Colonial Time Magus? ++ The machine droned, its' blue lit line pulsing. ++He looks like a mere boy. ++
"Now see here-" Max began, but was interrupted when Monica covered his mouth.
"He didn't get his Atlamilla until recently, Porrion." Monica said, uncovering Max's mouth.
"Nice job with the insult. Very subtle." Max piped up, and continued. "I got my Atlamilla just this morning, from my father."
"I'm with him." Monica shrugged.
++Very well then. Next time I will keep that in mind before I make another one of my "subtle insults". ++ The robot said sarcastically. ++My name is Porrion. What is yours? ++
"Maximillian." Max replied, smiling and holding out his hand. The robot took it.
++Fine to meet you, Maximilian. ++ Porrion said, shaking Max's hand vigorously, leaving his fingers crushed.
The two other people were rather small, with fairly large ears, and both looking almost the same, except one wore blue clothing, and the other wore red. Both wore Yellow Atlamillas around their necks.
"So, when should we start?" The red clad person asked.
"Honestly, Perry, you have to be more patient." The blue clad twin snapped at him.
"Jerry, I was only asking a question, you don't have to be rude!"
"Which signifies your impatience. Like back home in our cart, you would keep askin' 'Are we there yet?' every ten seconds. It broke my meditating!"
"Uh, you guys, is there really any point in arguing?" Max asked them, just as their argument was beginning to get ugly.
"Good point." The man in blue replied. "Name's Jerry. The guy in red is my irrational brother Perry."
"IRRATIONAL!?! Now you're the one bein' rude!" Perry snapped indignatly. Max shook his head. Those two were hopeless....
"All right, guys, let's get back on track." Monica said loudly, just in time to stop the hopeless twins from arguing again. Everyone paid close attention.
"We have an enemy on our hands." Monica began. "He is trying to enter our time. But we don't know how, or what Age he's in, or what his motives are. But he's coming, and somehow, we have to stop him."
"Who is he?" Max asked. "What is his name?"
"We don't know, Max. He is so far into the future that we cannot go into his Time. No one can. So, he cannot reach us, not yet at the very least. But, he can send powerful monsters from different periods of Time called Guardians here to do his dirty work."
"D-did he send a Guardian...t-to kill me?" Max asked fearfully.
"Yes, Max, he did. We have chosen to call that Guardian Ragnarok."
Max fell onto his hands and knees, and his body shook uncontrollably, as cold sweat poured down his face.
"I....I...I thought I was going to die!" Max cried in fear. "Thank God you saved me, Monica, before it was too late...."
"There is no God." Monica began simply but gravely. "And I wasn't responsible for saving you, either. You did that, but obviously you didn't know it. Ragnarok was already rusted and collapsed onto the ground by the time I even came to my senses."
"I-it was me?" Max stammered, slowly getting up again. "I did that?"
"You did, but not intentionally. But something told me right then that you would be able to do that at will soon. And so I brought you here.
"Like I said before, we do not know the enemy's name is, but we have decided to call him Magus Zero." Monica finished.
"So this Magus Zero....I have to stop him from getting into our Time, right?" Max asked uncertainly.
"Yes, Max." Monica replied.
"So, I know what I must do." Max said in a still uncertain voice. "But I don't know how to do it."
++I can help you there, Maximillian. ++ Porrion said, walking to his side.
"And I will help you to the end!" Monia piped in. "If I can protect you, I will, no matter what the cost!"
++Jerry and Perry, you must stay here. We still need people to defend the flow of Time. ++ Porrion told the twins.
"Aye, I understand. You go, we'll guard it." Jerry told Porrion.
"Let's go!" Monica cried, leading Max and Porrion out of the castle and out of the city.
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Hey, wow, it's the second chapter! Woot! Please review!
-By Mosobot64
Second chapter, yay! Hope you like it!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
==Chapter 2- The Enemy of Time ==
"We must be in the future!" Max cried out in amazement.
Building rose up to the sky, higher than the tallest building in Palm Brinks. They were all made of stone, but in Palm Brinks, most of them would only have been made from wood. There was no cobblestones in the road, just smooth, grey stone pavement.
"This isn't the future, Max." The girl said. "This is Modern Times."
"How do you know my name?" Max asked, startled. "Are you from the future?"
"I've known you for a long time." The girl replied. "And as you know it, yes, I am from the future. But knowledgeable Time Magus know this Time as the Modern Age."
"I'm not KNOWLEDGEABLE?!?" Max cried indignantly. "And what's a Time Magus?"
"I'm not saying you're dumb, Max, all I'm saying is that you haven't yet learned what a Time Magus needs to know." The girl said, and then continued, "A Time Magus is someone who knows the true workings of Time, and who can travel to most Ages using their Atlamillas, the jewels you, me and other people have!"
"My jewel is an Atlamilla?" Max asked rhetorically, holding up his pendant. "You can travel in Time with these?"
"Yes, Max! Oh, I have so much to tell you, but first you must meet the other Time Magus!" Monica said excitedly, getting ready to sprint.
"What is your name?" Max asked loudly, just as the girl was about to sprint.
"If you must know, my name is Monica." She replied impatiently.
"Well, you're very pretty, Monica." Max said, blushing.
There was a long, awkward silence, during which Max and Monica looked deeply into each other's eyes. Monica soon broke this silence.
"Max, we had best be going." She said simply, and began to walk away. Max followed her....
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Monica had soon taken Max to a castle. Max couldn't believe it. It looked ancient. It was made entirely of stone blocks, and rose even higher than the other skyscrapers he had seen.
"Come, Max. Here, you'll find the other Time Magus." Monica told Max casually, beginning to walk through the huge, wooden doors of the castle. Max paused to look at the castle once more, and then quickly followed.
The floors were wooden and covered with red carpet. Monica turned several times, and each time she would wait impatiently for Max to catch up.
She soon stopped at one of the many oak doors.
"Here you are, Max. The first door to your destiny."
Max opened the door, and walked inside, as Monica followed.....
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The room was small, and white. On one side of the room, a small fire burned inside a fireplace. There were five wooden chairs set up in a circle. There were three people taking up some of the chairs.
One of them looked like a machine. Its' head had a golden framed Orange Atlamilla built into it, and its' eyes were cut into the head, with an eerie red glow peering out. Its' mouth was replaced by a semi-circular black screen, lighted slightly by a blue line running through the middle. It had machine guns on its' shoulders, and some sort of cannon replacing one of it's mechanical arms.
++So, this is the Colonial Time Magus? ++ The machine droned, its' blue lit line pulsing. ++He looks like a mere boy. ++
"Now see here-" Max began, but was interrupted when Monica covered his mouth.
"He didn't get his Atlamilla until recently, Porrion." Monica said, uncovering Max's mouth.
"Nice job with the insult. Very subtle." Max piped up, and continued. "I got my Atlamilla just this morning, from my father."
"I'm with him." Monica shrugged.
++Very well then. Next time I will keep that in mind before I make another one of my "subtle insults". ++ The robot said sarcastically. ++My name is Porrion. What is yours? ++
"Maximillian." Max replied, smiling and holding out his hand. The robot took it.
++Fine to meet you, Maximilian. ++ Porrion said, shaking Max's hand vigorously, leaving his fingers crushed.
The two other people were rather small, with fairly large ears, and both looking almost the same, except one wore blue clothing, and the other wore red. Both wore Yellow Atlamillas around their necks.
"So, when should we start?" The red clad person asked.
"Honestly, Perry, you have to be more patient." The blue clad twin snapped at him.
"Jerry, I was only asking a question, you don't have to be rude!"
"Which signifies your impatience. Like back home in our cart, you would keep askin' 'Are we there yet?' every ten seconds. It broke my meditating!"
"Uh, you guys, is there really any point in arguing?" Max asked them, just as their argument was beginning to get ugly.
"Good point." The man in blue replied. "Name's Jerry. The guy in red is my irrational brother Perry."
"IRRATIONAL!?! Now you're the one bein' rude!" Perry snapped indignatly. Max shook his head. Those two were hopeless....
"All right, guys, let's get back on track." Monica said loudly, just in time to stop the hopeless twins from arguing again. Everyone paid close attention.
"We have an enemy on our hands." Monica began. "He is trying to enter our time. But we don't know how, or what Age he's in, or what his motives are. But he's coming, and somehow, we have to stop him."
"Who is he?" Max asked. "What is his name?"
"We don't know, Max. He is so far into the future that we cannot go into his Time. No one can. So, he cannot reach us, not yet at the very least. But, he can send powerful monsters from different periods of Time called Guardians here to do his dirty work."
"D-did he send a Guardian...t-to kill me?" Max asked fearfully.
"Yes, Max, he did. We have chosen to call that Guardian Ragnarok."
Max fell onto his hands and knees, and his body shook uncontrollably, as cold sweat poured down his face.
"I....I...I thought I was going to die!" Max cried in fear. "Thank God you saved me, Monica, before it was too late...."
"There is no God." Monica began simply but gravely. "And I wasn't responsible for saving you, either. You did that, but obviously you didn't know it. Ragnarok was already rusted and collapsed onto the ground by the time I even came to my senses."
"I-it was me?" Max stammered, slowly getting up again. "I did that?"
"You did, but not intentionally. But something told me right then that you would be able to do that at will soon. And so I brought you here.
"Like I said before, we do not know the enemy's name is, but we have decided to call him Magus Zero." Monica finished.
"So this Magus Zero....I have to stop him from getting into our Time, right?" Max asked uncertainly.
"Yes, Max." Monica replied.
"So, I know what I must do." Max said in a still uncertain voice. "But I don't know how to do it."
++I can help you there, Maximillian. ++ Porrion said, walking to his side.
"And I will help you to the end!" Monia piped in. "If I can protect you, I will, no matter what the cost!"
++Jerry and Perry, you must stay here. We still need people to defend the flow of Time. ++ Porrion told the twins.
"Aye, I understand. You go, we'll guard it." Jerry told Porrion.
"Let's go!" Monica cried, leading Max and Porrion out of the castle and out of the city.
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Hey, wow, it's the second chapter! Woot! Please review!