Disclaimer: I do not own Chrono Trigger or any other related names or titles. They are property of Square Enix.
Author's Note: An importnat change in this chapter is that Marle says that Frog is a summoner, instead of the original response of her saying Frog Squash wasn't considered a summon. This is important later in the fic. Also, Cyrus doesn't have the Middle Age talk anymore. Only Frog had that in the game, and I decided that it came along with Magus's curse.
Clouded by the Dark Force
Chrono Eternal
Chapter 5:
The Einlanzer's Mighty Glow
"Azala...I made that hideous dinosaur have the most powerful spells. Heck, I raised that thing from the dead and gave it the powers of Wind and Rain. You, you won't fail me will you," said the voice of the mysterious wicked master.
"Not a chance, master," came a voice.
* * *
"Azala, alive? Well...not anymore, but how?" asked Marle.
Atropos replied, "The Dark Force in Johnny, most likely."
"You mean we're fighting someone...something that can raise ancient lizards from the dead. That ain't good," said Crono.
"Well, let's talk about something a little more exciting! Ayla and Kino are summoners!" exclaimed Marle.
"Kino don't want to be no summa...sumo...nar," said Kino.
"What is summoner?" asked Ayla.
"Well, legend tells us that long ago, a group of people could not use magic, but instead they could call upon powerful beasts that had unbelievable strength," explained Marle. "You might be two of those people."
"What about Frog and his Frog Squash attack, Marle? Is he a summoner too?" asked Crono.
"I suppose so. Usually, summoners can use more than one summon, but I guess some are better than others." explained Marle.
"Well, speaking of Frog lets go to the Middle Ages next. The 'Dark Force' may have something in store for him as well," suggested Crono.
"There is one single problem: The Epoch has only three seats. There are five of us," explained Atropos.
"You mean Kino and Ayla come with Crono, Marle, and Craprotos?" asked Kino.
"Sure, we'll just have to cram," said Marle.
So, Crono, Marle, Atropos, Kino, and Ayla all got into the Epoch it was quite cozy, but they would be in 600 AD quite soon.
* * *
"Oh, it feels good to be out of that time machine!" exclaimed Crono.
"All right, lets find Frog, unless he's kidnapped as well," said Marle.
"That seems to be the pattern emerging," said Atropos.
So, the heroes walked to the Cursed Woods, where Frog lived, from Truce, which was where they landed. They just couldn't stand being in the Epoch any longer. They wend behind a bush in the Cursed Woods where there was a hole and a ladder. They went down the ladder and emerged in Frogs home. Instead of finding the green knight, they found Queen Leene, all the servants, the chef, the court messenger, royal guards, and the nights of the square table.
"There don't seem to be any clues here," said a guard.
"Except that he had a very bad fly salad before he left," said the chef.
"And that he got mail from someone with very bad handwriting," said the messenger.
"Really? A letter, we best take a look at that then," suggested the Queen.
"Umm...Grandma? (Oh, that felt REALLY weird to say.)" said Marle.
"Princess Nadia? Crono? And I see you brought two cavemen and a pink dragon," said Leene.
"Oh, these are Ayla and Kino from 65,000,000 BC and this is Atropos from 2300 AD She's not a dragon, she's a very up-to-date advanced ro-" Marle stopped herself noticing that the queen had no idea what she was talking about. "Yes, this is Atropos, a pink dragon."
"Have you seen Fr...Glenn? We've been looking for him, and..." Crono started to say, making sure that he used Frog's real name. But the queen interrupted him.
"Oh really? We have too. We can't seem to find him. He was last seen in Dorino," explained the queen.
"Dorino. Computing. Dorino. A small town with 32 structures. Population: 92. Located near the bridge connecting the northeastern continent and the southeastern continent. Located also near the Denadoro Mountains," said Atropos.
"The Denadoro Mountains...where it happened," said Crono.
"But why would he be going to where he was transformed?" asked Marle.
"I don't know," said Crono.
"Your Majesty, it looks as if this could be great writing, only in a language I cannot understand," said the court messenger.
The chef added," I haven't seen anything that looks at all like this writing in even the most foreign cook books."
"Glenn was not stupid, but he certainly did not have the highest IQ. What foreign language would he know?" asked the Queen.
"I don't know except perhaps the language of toads!" exclaimed the messenger and the room was filled with laughter, except from our five heroes and the Queen.
"If that isn't the rudest thing I've ever heard," said the Queen.
"That is completely disrespectful," said Marle.
"But he might have a point wasn't there a frog Mystic? It seems like Lucca told me something about that. She did a lot of researching after our first adventure," explained Crono.
"Yeah, I think I remember that too!" exclaimed Marle.
"Atropos, can you translate this?" asked Crono, handing Atropos the letter.
"Affirmative, Crono. Ribbit. Croak. Rib. Croack. Rib. Ribbit. Ribbit. Croak. Bring the badge and the sword to the mountain forest. Signed, Your Majesty," said Atropos.
"Bring the badge and the sword to the mountain forest...what does it mean?" asked Crono, though knowing nobody had the answer.
"Signed, Your Majesty?" said Marle, also confused.
"Well, it certainly was not from me or my husband; we don't speak frog," said Leene.
"Are there any other royal people in this time that you know of?" asked Marle.
"Besides you, no," answered Queen Leene.
"The Mystic. I remember something about that Mystic," said Crono.
"What Mystic?" asked Ayla.
"Is Tysmic like sumoonger?" asked Kino.
"Mystic, not Tysmic, and summoner, not sumoonger, stupid Kino," said Ayla.
"AND ATROPOS NOT CRAPROTOS!" screamed Atropos.
Everybody stared at Atropos. If robots can blush, Atropos certainly did.
After a minute of silence, Crono shouted, "HE WAS A KING! That's it, the frog Mystic was the Frog King!"
"Okay, so that's figured out, but what about the message: Bring the badge and the sword." said Marle.
"Messenger, you undoubtedly delivered this letter. Do you remember getting one like this?" asked Leene.
"Well, come to think of it, I did get a letter from a large green fellow under the mountains. You know, in the area that's kind of like a forest," said the messenger.
"Why couldn't you have said that earlier!?" exclaimed the Queen.
"And the sword is undoubtedly the Masamune," said Marle.
"But the badge...what does that mean?" asked Crono.
"Is it mandatory to be known, Crono? The location of the so called 'mountain forest' is now known amongst us," questioned Atropos.
"Atropos is right; we know where Frog and the Frog King are. Let's go!" exclaimed Crono.
"Atropos, you drive the Epoch," said Marle as she tossed Atropos the Gate Key that was necessary for driving the Epoch. "Crono and I will travel this way. Dragon Portal Activate!"
The two dragons appeared and Crono and Marle mounted them.
"I'll get on my horse and show you the way," said the messenger, and he got on his horse.
They traveled past Fiona's Villa, through Dorino, until they reached the base of the mountain. There was an area to the east of the mountains that was quite forest-like.
* * *
"Do you have the Badge of Courage?" asked the Frog King
"I haveth the Hero Medal; unfortunately, you, thy Frog King, shalleth never be in possession of it," came Frog's reply.
"And the sword." said the so-called King.
"Thy sword is here, with me and Cyrus," said Frog. "You shalleth never own it either."
"We'll see about that," said the Frog King.
Suddenly three frogs (who had the exact shape as the Frog we know) popped out from behind the king: one red, one yellow, and one blue.
"These, Glenn, are the Poison Frog Knights," said the Frog King.
"Red Ribbit!" shouted the red frog.
"Yellow Croak!" shouted the yellow one.
"And the leader of the Poison Frog Knights, BLUE BELLOW!" shouted the blue frog.
"Thou none of thou haveth the power of thy Masamune!" exclaimed Frog.
Frog ran towards the Poison Frog Knights ready to fight, when all of a sudden.
"Supersonic Ribiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" Red Ribbit ribbited.
"Supersonic Croooooooooooooooooooooooooooak!" Yellow Croak croaked.
"Supersonic Belooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!" Blue Bellow bellowed.
"AGH!!!!!!" shouted Frog. All three of them let out an attack that sounded worse than Lucca's singing.
"Poison Bubble!"
The largest frog, Blue Bellow, had put Frog in a bubble full of toxic gas. There was no way Frog could survive, unless Crono, Marle, Atropos, Ayla, and Kino got there fast enough...which they did.
"FROG!" screamed Marle!
"What did you do to him!?" exclaimed Crono.
"We're just letting him die a slow, painful death...heh," said the Frog King.
"If Frog die, can we eat?" asked Kino.
Ayla hit Kino on the head and said, "Stupid Kino! Frog friend! Kino no eat friend!"
"You will die too!" exclaimed Blue Bellow.
"Supersonic Ribiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"
"Supersonic Croooooooooooooooooooooooooak!"
"Supersonic Bellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!"
Surprisingly, the five were not harmed.
"What's wrong?!" shouted Yellow Croak.
"Yeah, you should be in severe pain!" exclaimed Red Ribbit.
"That wasn't even close to sounding as bad as Lucca's singing!" said Crono.
"Amen to that!" Marle agreed.
All right, sorry, I was wrong. Their attacks didn't sound as bad as Lucca's singing.
"Kino singing not good either. And he just to stupid to be hurt," said Ayla.
"My radar indicates that you gave out a sound that had an ultra-ultra-ultra-high frequency. My ear unit is not advanced enough to pick up a vibration of that level," explained Atropos.
"Well, then, you'll just have to witness the power of their weapons," said the Frog King.
"The Red Katana!" shouted Red Ribbit.
"The Yellow Katana!" shouted Yellow Croak.
"And the Masamune!" shouted Blue Bellow.
"He's using Frog's weapon!" shouted Marle.
"Yes," said the blue frog, "Masa and Mune! AWAKEN!"
Instantly, two yellow human-like creatures in white robes appeared. The sword was no longer in Blue Bellow's hand.
"Masa and Mune, give us the powers of Wind!" Blue Bellow commanded.
"Yes, sire," said Masa and Mune, as if the really did not want to obey him.
Suddenly, the Poison Frog Knights, Masa, and Mune had disappeared.
"What's going on?" asked Marle.
"They're...they're in the wind." said Crono as if he didn't believe it.
"CRONO look out!" shouted Kino and tossed him an Aeon Blade.
Without thinking, Crono grabbed the sword, turned around and, and slashed. Then he saw Yellow Croak's body lying on the ground next to his head. Crono had been extremely lucky.
Suddenly he shouted, "Kino, think fast!" and tossed him back the Aeon Blade.
Kino did exactly what Crono did, though he was not as lucky. The Aeon Blade hit the Masamune, instead of Blue Bellow's neck.
Crono still awestruck about how lucky he had been reached down and took Yellow Croak's Yellow Katana. He whirled it around a bit. It was extremely light, though felt very powerful.
"Forget this," Crono said and tossed his Bolt Sword he bought in 2300 AD behind him. "This is much better than that Bolt Sword. Heck, it seems better than that old Red Katana I bought from Melchior!"
Then Red Ribbit popped up out of nowhere. "You're gonna regret what you just said!" he shouted and then he tried to slash him with the Red Katana. Once again, luckily, Crono was not hit.
Suddenly there was a huge sword fight between Red Ribbit and Crono.
Ching!
Ching!
Cling!
Clang!
Crono knew he could keep it up much longer but then Marle shouted, "Crono get on!"
She was flying on Icy, and Sparky was right next to her. Crono jumped on Sparky and flew to the very top of the forest.
"Crono, they can jump high and I mean high! Quick, give Sparky all the energy you've got!" shouted Marle.
Crono grabbed Sparky's neck and gave him all the energy he had for one super Luminaire. Sparky's mouth was forming a green ball of light, where as Icy's was forming a big ball of glowing blue ice.
Meanwhile, Red Ribbit was looking for a place to jump straight up and slash Crono. There! He had found it. He jumped up with his sword ready to slice and dice Crono but then.
"Luminaire!"
"Ice 2!
Both from either side!!! Needless to say, Red Ribbit was squashed instantly. However, Crono, Marle, and the dragons had used all their energy and fell threw the trees onto the ground.
Blue Bellow, however, did much better than his brothers. The Masamune slashed threw the stone that made the Aeon Blade. Blue Bellow kicked Kino upside the head, making him knocked out.
"Cat Attack!"
"Atropos Punch!"
Ayla leaped at Blue Bellow and Atropos tried to punch him with her hand, which shot out of her body, though the chain connected it. Hey grabbed her hand whirled her up to where her body collided with Ayla's. They were both knocked out. In fact, they were all knocked out, except for Blue Bellow and the King.
* * *
Crono awakened and saw that he, Marle, Ayla, Frog, Atropos, and Kino were in the poison bubbles. He felt pain all over his body. Then he saw that even Sparky and Icy were captured inside the bubbles. He still had his sword, but he got the notion that if he tried to break the bubble, he would be in even more pain. He saw that he was not experiencing the most pain, though, for Frog, who had been in his bubble the longest looked as if we were going to die at any second.
Frog felt how he looked. No, he was what he looked like. He had only half a minute left of his life. And he yelled, though it came out less than a whisper, "Ancient ancestors, please come to thy help, bring us thou one who can save us all from this! Cy..rus."
Suddenly, Ayla and Kino's eyes started glowing a bright red color. Then they did several odd movements, and chanted in a voice that was not at all like their usual not quite advanced way of speaking, "Come to us, oh great one. Warrior of Light, Cyrus, we summon you!" Then they passed out once again.
But then, a huge ball of fire burst through the trees and landed in the middle of all the poison bubbles (which were in a circle). After the ball had hit the earth, the fire went out. Cyrus, the knight, Frog's best friend who was killed by the at one time evil Magus.
He pulled out his sword, and threw it like a boomerang, so it popped all the bubbles, releasing those inside of them and came right back to Cyrus.
"Who are you?" said Blue Bellow.
"I," said Cyrus, "am the one who will defeat you and your Frog King."
"Cyrus! You have returned! I wouldn't be so happy, though, because my little friend, Blue Bellow, has your old weapon, the Masamune! Mwa! Ha!" the Frog King laughed.
"Oh, yes, and I have a rival of the Masamune - the Einlanzer!" exclaimed Cyrus.
Blue Bellow replied, "Yes, but does your weapon the...uh...Einlanzer control the power of Wind?"
Cyrus replied, "No, the Einlanzer has the power of Light!"
"Masa! Mune! Awaken!" shouted Blue Bellow.
The sword had mystically changed into Masa and Mune once again.
"We're sorry, Cyrus," the muttered. "Fatal Tornado!"
The two became a tornado and attacked Cyrus who was once their owner. They landed on either side of Blue Bellow. Surprisingly, Cyrus was still standing.
"What?! No one can survive the Fatal Tornado!" shouted the blue frog.
Then, from behind Cyrus appeared two creatures that looked much like Masa and Mune only they're skin was white and their robes were green.
"Ein!" shouted Masa.
"Lanzer!" shouted Mune.
"Masa," said Ein, quite amused.
"Mune," said Lanzer, the same why his brother had.
"You frogs," said Cyrus, "will never survive this. Now, Ein and Lanzer!"
"Right, Cyrus," Ein and Lanzer said. "Photon Shine!"
Ein and Lanzer ran in a circle and in the middle formed a light so pure that instantly destroyed the Frog King and Blue Bellow.
Masa and Mune were quite happy. "Hurray! Hurray!" they shouted. "Cyrus, will you be our master once again?"
"No, good sword. I control the Einlanzer, though I do believe you belong with Glenn," said Cyrus.
Everyone was well awake by now. Ein and Lanzer formed their sword and flew into Cyrus's hand. Masa and Mune did the same and flew into Frog's.
Frog ran up to Cyrus and hugged him. "I thank thou very much," Frog said. "Will you stayeth here, as we fight the sinister force that was controlling thou art Frog King?"
"But Frog, how did you know about the Dark Force?" asked Marle.
Cyrus answered for him, "We have fought the Frog King before, and he could never be that honorably strong. And, Glenn, I will stay by your side until thy King of Summons returns me to the Land of Summons or until I am summoned again."
"And now everyone knows what we have to do," said Crono.
"C'mon Crono he's so gloomy," said Marle.
"Very mean!" said Ayla.
"Kino not understand."
"Nay! Not with Cyrus!" exclaimed Frog while pinning the Hero Medal to his shirt.
Crono said, "We have to!"
* * *
"I knew I hired to many green creatures to help me! First Azala and then the Frog King. And I gave one supreme power and the other powerful henchmen! But YOU! You will not fail me! Go now! They'll be expecting you," came the voice of the Dark Force.
"Yes, sire."
Author's Note: An importnat change in this chapter is that Marle says that Frog is a summoner, instead of the original response of her saying Frog Squash wasn't considered a summon. This is important later in the fic. Also, Cyrus doesn't have the Middle Age talk anymore. Only Frog had that in the game, and I decided that it came along with Magus's curse.
Clouded by the Dark Force
Chrono Eternal
Chapter 5:
The Einlanzer's Mighty Glow
"Azala...I made that hideous dinosaur have the most powerful spells. Heck, I raised that thing from the dead and gave it the powers of Wind and Rain. You, you won't fail me will you," said the voice of the mysterious wicked master.
"Not a chance, master," came a voice.
* * *
"Azala, alive? Well...not anymore, but how?" asked Marle.
Atropos replied, "The Dark Force in Johnny, most likely."
"You mean we're fighting someone...something that can raise ancient lizards from the dead. That ain't good," said Crono.
"Well, let's talk about something a little more exciting! Ayla and Kino are summoners!" exclaimed Marle.
"Kino don't want to be no summa...sumo...nar," said Kino.
"What is summoner?" asked Ayla.
"Well, legend tells us that long ago, a group of people could not use magic, but instead they could call upon powerful beasts that had unbelievable strength," explained Marle. "You might be two of those people."
"What about Frog and his Frog Squash attack, Marle? Is he a summoner too?" asked Crono.
"I suppose so. Usually, summoners can use more than one summon, but I guess some are better than others." explained Marle.
"Well, speaking of Frog lets go to the Middle Ages next. The 'Dark Force' may have something in store for him as well," suggested Crono.
"There is one single problem: The Epoch has only three seats. There are five of us," explained Atropos.
"You mean Kino and Ayla come with Crono, Marle, and Craprotos?" asked Kino.
"Sure, we'll just have to cram," said Marle.
So, Crono, Marle, Atropos, Kino, and Ayla all got into the Epoch it was quite cozy, but they would be in 600 AD quite soon.
* * *
"Oh, it feels good to be out of that time machine!" exclaimed Crono.
"All right, lets find Frog, unless he's kidnapped as well," said Marle.
"That seems to be the pattern emerging," said Atropos.
So, the heroes walked to the Cursed Woods, where Frog lived, from Truce, which was where they landed. They just couldn't stand being in the Epoch any longer. They wend behind a bush in the Cursed Woods where there was a hole and a ladder. They went down the ladder and emerged in Frogs home. Instead of finding the green knight, they found Queen Leene, all the servants, the chef, the court messenger, royal guards, and the nights of the square table.
"There don't seem to be any clues here," said a guard.
"Except that he had a very bad fly salad before he left," said the chef.
"And that he got mail from someone with very bad handwriting," said the messenger.
"Really? A letter, we best take a look at that then," suggested the Queen.
"Umm...Grandma? (Oh, that felt REALLY weird to say.)" said Marle.
"Princess Nadia? Crono? And I see you brought two cavemen and a pink dragon," said Leene.
"Oh, these are Ayla and Kino from 65,000,000 BC and this is Atropos from 2300 AD She's not a dragon, she's a very up-to-date advanced ro-" Marle stopped herself noticing that the queen had no idea what she was talking about. "Yes, this is Atropos, a pink dragon."
"Have you seen Fr...Glenn? We've been looking for him, and..." Crono started to say, making sure that he used Frog's real name. But the queen interrupted him.
"Oh really? We have too. We can't seem to find him. He was last seen in Dorino," explained the queen.
"Dorino. Computing. Dorino. A small town with 32 structures. Population: 92. Located near the bridge connecting the northeastern continent and the southeastern continent. Located also near the Denadoro Mountains," said Atropos.
"The Denadoro Mountains...where it happened," said Crono.
"But why would he be going to where he was transformed?" asked Marle.
"I don't know," said Crono.
"Your Majesty, it looks as if this could be great writing, only in a language I cannot understand," said the court messenger.
The chef added," I haven't seen anything that looks at all like this writing in even the most foreign cook books."
"Glenn was not stupid, but he certainly did not have the highest IQ. What foreign language would he know?" asked the Queen.
"I don't know except perhaps the language of toads!" exclaimed the messenger and the room was filled with laughter, except from our five heroes and the Queen.
"If that isn't the rudest thing I've ever heard," said the Queen.
"That is completely disrespectful," said Marle.
"But he might have a point wasn't there a frog Mystic? It seems like Lucca told me something about that. She did a lot of researching after our first adventure," explained Crono.
"Yeah, I think I remember that too!" exclaimed Marle.
"Atropos, can you translate this?" asked Crono, handing Atropos the letter.
"Affirmative, Crono. Ribbit. Croak. Rib. Croack. Rib. Ribbit. Ribbit. Croak. Bring the badge and the sword to the mountain forest. Signed, Your Majesty," said Atropos.
"Bring the badge and the sword to the mountain forest...what does it mean?" asked Crono, though knowing nobody had the answer.
"Signed, Your Majesty?" said Marle, also confused.
"Well, it certainly was not from me or my husband; we don't speak frog," said Leene.
"Are there any other royal people in this time that you know of?" asked Marle.
"Besides you, no," answered Queen Leene.
"The Mystic. I remember something about that Mystic," said Crono.
"What Mystic?" asked Ayla.
"Is Tysmic like sumoonger?" asked Kino.
"Mystic, not Tysmic, and summoner, not sumoonger, stupid Kino," said Ayla.
"AND ATROPOS NOT CRAPROTOS!" screamed Atropos.
Everybody stared at Atropos. If robots can blush, Atropos certainly did.
After a minute of silence, Crono shouted, "HE WAS A KING! That's it, the frog Mystic was the Frog King!"
"Okay, so that's figured out, but what about the message: Bring the badge and the sword." said Marle.
"Messenger, you undoubtedly delivered this letter. Do you remember getting one like this?" asked Leene.
"Well, come to think of it, I did get a letter from a large green fellow under the mountains. You know, in the area that's kind of like a forest," said the messenger.
"Why couldn't you have said that earlier!?" exclaimed the Queen.
"And the sword is undoubtedly the Masamune," said Marle.
"But the badge...what does that mean?" asked Crono.
"Is it mandatory to be known, Crono? The location of the so called 'mountain forest' is now known amongst us," questioned Atropos.
"Atropos is right; we know where Frog and the Frog King are. Let's go!" exclaimed Crono.
"Atropos, you drive the Epoch," said Marle as she tossed Atropos the Gate Key that was necessary for driving the Epoch. "Crono and I will travel this way. Dragon Portal Activate!"
The two dragons appeared and Crono and Marle mounted them.
"I'll get on my horse and show you the way," said the messenger, and he got on his horse.
They traveled past Fiona's Villa, through Dorino, until they reached the base of the mountain. There was an area to the east of the mountains that was quite forest-like.
* * *
"Do you have the Badge of Courage?" asked the Frog King
"I haveth the Hero Medal; unfortunately, you, thy Frog King, shalleth never be in possession of it," came Frog's reply.
"And the sword." said the so-called King.
"Thy sword is here, with me and Cyrus," said Frog. "You shalleth never own it either."
"We'll see about that," said the Frog King.
Suddenly three frogs (who had the exact shape as the Frog we know) popped out from behind the king: one red, one yellow, and one blue.
"These, Glenn, are the Poison Frog Knights," said the Frog King.
"Red Ribbit!" shouted the red frog.
"Yellow Croak!" shouted the yellow one.
"And the leader of the Poison Frog Knights, BLUE BELLOW!" shouted the blue frog.
"Thou none of thou haveth the power of thy Masamune!" exclaimed Frog.
Frog ran towards the Poison Frog Knights ready to fight, when all of a sudden.
"Supersonic Ribiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" Red Ribbit ribbited.
"Supersonic Croooooooooooooooooooooooooooak!" Yellow Croak croaked.
"Supersonic Belooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!" Blue Bellow bellowed.
"AGH!!!!!!" shouted Frog. All three of them let out an attack that sounded worse than Lucca's singing.
"Poison Bubble!"
The largest frog, Blue Bellow, had put Frog in a bubble full of toxic gas. There was no way Frog could survive, unless Crono, Marle, Atropos, Ayla, and Kino got there fast enough...which they did.
"FROG!" screamed Marle!
"What did you do to him!?" exclaimed Crono.
"We're just letting him die a slow, painful death...heh," said the Frog King.
"If Frog die, can we eat?" asked Kino.
Ayla hit Kino on the head and said, "Stupid Kino! Frog friend! Kino no eat friend!"
"You will die too!" exclaimed Blue Bellow.
"Supersonic Ribiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"
"Supersonic Croooooooooooooooooooooooooak!"
"Supersonic Bellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!"
Surprisingly, the five were not harmed.
"What's wrong?!" shouted Yellow Croak.
"Yeah, you should be in severe pain!" exclaimed Red Ribbit.
"That wasn't even close to sounding as bad as Lucca's singing!" said Crono.
"Amen to that!" Marle agreed.
All right, sorry, I was wrong. Their attacks didn't sound as bad as Lucca's singing.
"Kino singing not good either. And he just to stupid to be hurt," said Ayla.
"My radar indicates that you gave out a sound that had an ultra-ultra-ultra-high frequency. My ear unit is not advanced enough to pick up a vibration of that level," explained Atropos.
"Well, then, you'll just have to witness the power of their weapons," said the Frog King.
"The Red Katana!" shouted Red Ribbit.
"The Yellow Katana!" shouted Yellow Croak.
"And the Masamune!" shouted Blue Bellow.
"He's using Frog's weapon!" shouted Marle.
"Yes," said the blue frog, "Masa and Mune! AWAKEN!"
Instantly, two yellow human-like creatures in white robes appeared. The sword was no longer in Blue Bellow's hand.
"Masa and Mune, give us the powers of Wind!" Blue Bellow commanded.
"Yes, sire," said Masa and Mune, as if the really did not want to obey him.
Suddenly, the Poison Frog Knights, Masa, and Mune had disappeared.
"What's going on?" asked Marle.
"They're...they're in the wind." said Crono as if he didn't believe it.
"CRONO look out!" shouted Kino and tossed him an Aeon Blade.
Without thinking, Crono grabbed the sword, turned around and, and slashed. Then he saw Yellow Croak's body lying on the ground next to his head. Crono had been extremely lucky.
Suddenly he shouted, "Kino, think fast!" and tossed him back the Aeon Blade.
Kino did exactly what Crono did, though he was not as lucky. The Aeon Blade hit the Masamune, instead of Blue Bellow's neck.
Crono still awestruck about how lucky he had been reached down and took Yellow Croak's Yellow Katana. He whirled it around a bit. It was extremely light, though felt very powerful.
"Forget this," Crono said and tossed his Bolt Sword he bought in 2300 AD behind him. "This is much better than that Bolt Sword. Heck, it seems better than that old Red Katana I bought from Melchior!"
Then Red Ribbit popped up out of nowhere. "You're gonna regret what you just said!" he shouted and then he tried to slash him with the Red Katana. Once again, luckily, Crono was not hit.
Suddenly there was a huge sword fight between Red Ribbit and Crono.
Ching!
Ching!
Cling!
Clang!
Crono knew he could keep it up much longer but then Marle shouted, "Crono get on!"
She was flying on Icy, and Sparky was right next to her. Crono jumped on Sparky and flew to the very top of the forest.
"Crono, they can jump high and I mean high! Quick, give Sparky all the energy you've got!" shouted Marle.
Crono grabbed Sparky's neck and gave him all the energy he had for one super Luminaire. Sparky's mouth was forming a green ball of light, where as Icy's was forming a big ball of glowing blue ice.
Meanwhile, Red Ribbit was looking for a place to jump straight up and slash Crono. There! He had found it. He jumped up with his sword ready to slice and dice Crono but then.
"Luminaire!"
"Ice 2!
Both from either side!!! Needless to say, Red Ribbit was squashed instantly. However, Crono, Marle, and the dragons had used all their energy and fell threw the trees onto the ground.
Blue Bellow, however, did much better than his brothers. The Masamune slashed threw the stone that made the Aeon Blade. Blue Bellow kicked Kino upside the head, making him knocked out.
"Cat Attack!"
"Atropos Punch!"
Ayla leaped at Blue Bellow and Atropos tried to punch him with her hand, which shot out of her body, though the chain connected it. Hey grabbed her hand whirled her up to where her body collided with Ayla's. They were both knocked out. In fact, they were all knocked out, except for Blue Bellow and the King.
* * *
Crono awakened and saw that he, Marle, Ayla, Frog, Atropos, and Kino were in the poison bubbles. He felt pain all over his body. Then he saw that even Sparky and Icy were captured inside the bubbles. He still had his sword, but he got the notion that if he tried to break the bubble, he would be in even more pain. He saw that he was not experiencing the most pain, though, for Frog, who had been in his bubble the longest looked as if we were going to die at any second.
Frog felt how he looked. No, he was what he looked like. He had only half a minute left of his life. And he yelled, though it came out less than a whisper, "Ancient ancestors, please come to thy help, bring us thou one who can save us all from this! Cy..rus."
Suddenly, Ayla and Kino's eyes started glowing a bright red color. Then they did several odd movements, and chanted in a voice that was not at all like their usual not quite advanced way of speaking, "Come to us, oh great one. Warrior of Light, Cyrus, we summon you!" Then they passed out once again.
But then, a huge ball of fire burst through the trees and landed in the middle of all the poison bubbles (which were in a circle). After the ball had hit the earth, the fire went out. Cyrus, the knight, Frog's best friend who was killed by the at one time evil Magus.
He pulled out his sword, and threw it like a boomerang, so it popped all the bubbles, releasing those inside of them and came right back to Cyrus.
"Who are you?" said Blue Bellow.
"I," said Cyrus, "am the one who will defeat you and your Frog King."
"Cyrus! You have returned! I wouldn't be so happy, though, because my little friend, Blue Bellow, has your old weapon, the Masamune! Mwa! Ha!" the Frog King laughed.
"Oh, yes, and I have a rival of the Masamune - the Einlanzer!" exclaimed Cyrus.
Blue Bellow replied, "Yes, but does your weapon the...uh...Einlanzer control the power of Wind?"
Cyrus replied, "No, the Einlanzer has the power of Light!"
"Masa! Mune! Awaken!" shouted Blue Bellow.
The sword had mystically changed into Masa and Mune once again.
"We're sorry, Cyrus," the muttered. "Fatal Tornado!"
The two became a tornado and attacked Cyrus who was once their owner. They landed on either side of Blue Bellow. Surprisingly, Cyrus was still standing.
"What?! No one can survive the Fatal Tornado!" shouted the blue frog.
Then, from behind Cyrus appeared two creatures that looked much like Masa and Mune only they're skin was white and their robes were green.
"Ein!" shouted Masa.
"Lanzer!" shouted Mune.
"Masa," said Ein, quite amused.
"Mune," said Lanzer, the same why his brother had.
"You frogs," said Cyrus, "will never survive this. Now, Ein and Lanzer!"
"Right, Cyrus," Ein and Lanzer said. "Photon Shine!"
Ein and Lanzer ran in a circle and in the middle formed a light so pure that instantly destroyed the Frog King and Blue Bellow.
Masa and Mune were quite happy. "Hurray! Hurray!" they shouted. "Cyrus, will you be our master once again?"
"No, good sword. I control the Einlanzer, though I do believe you belong with Glenn," said Cyrus.
Everyone was well awake by now. Ein and Lanzer formed their sword and flew into Cyrus's hand. Masa and Mune did the same and flew into Frog's.
Frog ran up to Cyrus and hugged him. "I thank thou very much," Frog said. "Will you stayeth here, as we fight the sinister force that was controlling thou art Frog King?"
"But Frog, how did you know about the Dark Force?" asked Marle.
Cyrus answered for him, "We have fought the Frog King before, and he could never be that honorably strong. And, Glenn, I will stay by your side until thy King of Summons returns me to the Land of Summons or until I am summoned again."
"And now everyone knows what we have to do," said Crono.
"C'mon Crono he's so gloomy," said Marle.
"Very mean!" said Ayla.
"Kino not understand."
"Nay! Not with Cyrus!" exclaimed Frog while pinning the Hero Medal to his shirt.
Crono said, "We have to!"
* * *
"I knew I hired to many green creatures to help me! First Azala and then the Frog King. And I gave one supreme power and the other powerful henchmen! But YOU! You will not fail me! Go now! They'll be expecting you," came the voice of the Dark Force.
"Yes, sire."