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Clouded by the Dark Force
By Chrono Eternal
Chapter 8:
A Collection of Memories
Marle and Lucca drifted through the black hole, forgetting memory by memory. They, like Crono, wound up around Palzaron, home of the Palzaros.
The Liujatrons, Palzaros, and human beings are all quite the same. Liujatrons have blue skin and blond hair, but everything else is exactly the same as humans, other than their eyes, which are always orange. Palzaros had pink skin and can have blue, red, or black hair. Besides this, they did not have noses and their ears are pointed.
The Liujatrons and Palzaros were, as said before, in a war that had no beginning. The Liujatron's king had gone out to fight and never to return, well, until now that is. And the Palzaros, who were winning the war, had been praying to the Fire Goddess and the Ice Angels for good luck and fighting spirit.
Anyways, Marle and Lucca, now passed out, were drifting out of the black hole towards Palzaron.
"Sipreensik, oomakashlemi blarshtin hoges apprinz," said a Palzaron.
His Empress then said, "Glin gacht tsi."
"Oui, Sipreensik," the scout replied.
Then he and another male Palzaro went out to fetch the two unidentified females. They put them in their spacecraft and headed back towards their home planet.
* * *
"Ugh...where am I?" Lucca asked as she awakened on a fluffy bed. The girl with blond hair next to her was still asleep.
"Abeesh, tima, prek, la," said the Palzaro doctor.
Then the Empress said, "Fah gi, ewar?"
"Excuse me...what...who am I...what's going on?"
Then the scout had rescued them, got out a necklace and placed it around Lucca's neck. He got one for himself as well. Then he said, "Hello, Fire Goddess, can you understand me?" His lips were not matching what he was saying.
"Yes, I, understand...Fire Goddess? Is that...is that who I am?" she asked.
The Empress, who now had a necklace on too, said, "Yes, we were praying to you and the Ice Angels. You two came down here to help us win the war against the Liujatrons." She saw that the Fire Goddess was still confused. "We are the Palzaros..."
"Yes...I guess...I guess I remember...yes, I remember I was looking for someone, you! Yes, you are..." Lucca or the so-called Fire Goddess asked.
"I am Empress Vala. I'm sure you'll want to meet my husband, Emperor Vacintar. And my daughter, Princess Vila," explained Empress Vala.
"Yes...yes...I'm sure I will..." said Lucca, still confused.
Then Marle awakened. "Where am I? Who am I?"
Then, Empress Vala placed the necklace (which was, incase you haven't figured out already, a universal translator) around Marle's neck and said, "Hello, great Ice Angel. You must be exhausted from your trip. These are your chambers; we'll leave you alone for now."
For a woman without a nose, Empress Vala was very pretty. She had tremendously long red hair, and her eyes were a beautiful shade of green.
"So," said Lucca, "you are an Ice Angel?"
Marle replied, "Yes, I guess so...I'm not even sure what that is..."
"I have no clue what a Fire Goddess is either," Lucca said.
"What do you have there? That bag?" Marle asked.
Lucca took her purple bag of her shoulder and opened it. Inside she found some tools, a little make up, and a rather thick, yet small, book. "Hmm...I wonder what this is..." said Lucca.
"Why don't you open it?" Marle asked.
"All right...here it goes..."
Lucca opened the book and began reading.
* * *
Gemini 26, 992
Dear Diary,
Hello, my name is Lucca. Today is my birthday. I turned ten. I have a mommy who likes to cook and a daddy who loves science. I hate science though. It's too hard to understand.
Is this how you're supposed to write in a diary? Like it's a person? Well, whether it is or isn't, I'm going to write like this anyway.
Besides you, for my birthday I got a really cool jump rope from my mom and a science kit from my daddy. I don't understand why he likes science so much!
Uh-oh! It's after my bedtime! Bye Diary!
Yours truly, Lucca
* * *
"Oh, how sweet, a cute little girl's diary!" Marle exclaimed.
"It seemed so real...it seems like I remember opening her jump rope and science kit..." Lucca said.
"How weird! Is there any more?" Marle asked.
"Yeah," Lucca said. She began to flip through some pages and began to read again.
* * *
Capricorn 2, 982
Dear Diary,
I'm sorry I haven't written to you since Libra. I've been really busy. I've had to go on nature hikes with my daddy. I used to hate them, but something happened today that was really cool.
See, my mommy, she accidentally got her foot stuck in my daddy's big science machine. It was really scary, but I never paid attention to what Daddy told me about his machines, so I didn't know how to do anything.
But then a big girl with purple hair and a helmet came in. She hit like five million bazillion buttons on daddy's machine. She saved Mommy's life!
Science actually saved my mommy's life! Now I'm going to pay close attention to my daddy and be a scientist. I might become a marine-biologist or a doctor. Whatever I do, I want to take care of other people; just like that nice lady with purple hair did for my mommy.
Yours truly, Lucca
* * *
"That's amazing! Just out of the blue! This girl has quite an inventive imagination!" Marle exclaimed.
"Yeah...it just seems so real though, like it actually happened. I think I'll read some more." Lucca flipped through some more pages and read again.
* * *
Virgo 7, 983
Dear Diary,
Today was one of the best days of my life! I finally have a friend! A real friend! His name is Crono. He has spiky red hair. He's real cute! He doesn't talk much though. Not at all really. Mommy said he's dumb, but I don't think that's a very nice thing to say about somebody.
He tried out my jump rope and he's really good at it! I let him borrow it.
Not only that happened today, but I made my first real experiment! It's a little robot turtle who moves and everything. Daddy gets allergies if he goes anywhere near an animal, so I'm not allowed to have one. Crono has a kitty that I like to play with though!
I'm so happy!
Love always, Lucca
* * *
"What a nerd..." Marle said.
"She's not a nerd!" Lucca exclaimed. She thought to herself, "It seems so real..."
"Let me see the book!" Marle exclaimed. She flipped through a couple of pages..."Singing robots...blah...blah...blah...ooo! This looks interesting!" And she began to read.
* * *
Aries 1, 1000
Dear Diary,
Today is the first day of the Millennial Fair! It's a two week festival celebrating the new millenium! Father and I finished the Tele-Pod last night. We were testing it out today, and it seemed to work fine.
It was at the presentation, though, that something weird happened.
Crono was with the girl with blonde, showing her around the fair. Crono stepped onto the left side of the Tele-Porter and it worked fine. But then something completely strange happened. His blond friend, who looked very familiar, tried it out. Except her pendant started glowing when she stopped on it. She ripped it off as fast as she could, but then a vortex opened up and swallowed her.
Crono put on the necklace and went after her. But right now I'm working on a key that will let me go through the vortex, which I'm calling a Gate, as well.
Well, I've got to get back to work.
Yours truly, Lucca
* * *
"Maybe it's something about actually reading it, but it does seem real," said Marle.
"I told you!" Lucca replied.
Then Marle read some more pages. It was Lucca's turn again. She began reading one of the most interesting entries of them all.
* * *
Aries 12, 1000
Dear Diary,
Today was quite interesting. After we picked up Robo, who had finished restoring a forest for 400 years, we all gathered around a fire and began talking about the Entity. The Entity gave me a great gift tonight.
Tonight I traveled through a red Gate which took me back to 982. It was Capricorn 2, the day my mother lost her legs. But, she didn't lose them. When she got her leg stuck in Father's machine, I went and stopped it.
I looked in my diary, and now it says that there was a girl that came and saved Mother. I had originally enterred my angsiety because I couldn't do anything to save her. I feel proud today, and I believe I can do anything...even beat Lavos.
Besides that, Robo knew I had saved my mother...and he gave me the Green Dream item. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to know that I saved her...this time-traveling thing is so confusing. Anyway, goodnight!
Love always, Lucca
* * *
"That's amazing..." Lucca said. "The girl that saved her mother was herself..."
"Now, Fire Goddess, you didn't really believe that mumbo-jumbo do you?" Marle asked.
"Ice Angel...sometimes you just have to believe...it seems so real to me, just like that one entry did to you..." said Lucca.
"Alright, let me read!" she exclaimed. She flipped through some pages and then said, "Ah, she's beat Lavos, that one guy she's been talking about."
* * *
Aries 15, 1000
Dear Diary,
We defeated Lavos on Aries 13! I guess 13 isn't unlucky after all. After destroying the Black Omen, we found Lavos who took on forms of all the creatures we fought before. Including Magus! Then we entered and found his body. After taking a beating, he was defeated, but then showed us his Core and two Bits. They were the strongest ever, but still Crono, Marle, and I defeated him!
Then yesterday, Crono was still charged of kidnapping the princess, Marle. But I brought back Kino, King Guardia from 600 AD, and Doan. King Guardia from our time and Marle discovered that they were all related. King Guardia XXXIII was informed the Crono had been saving the world and was taken of trial.
That night, Father put up Nadia's Bell in honor of Marle. Unfortunately, we had to close the Gates after everyone left. Magus went to the Dark Ages to search for Schala, Ayla and Kino went back to the Prehistoric Times to rule, and Frog and King Guardia went back to the Middle Ages. I couldn't stand Robo leaving. I was so afraid that he wouldn't exist in the Future. But now I have faith that he will.
The funniest thing that happened though was when Crono's mom and Crono's cats went into the Gate. We still had the Epoch though, so we went and found her at the End of Time!
Oh yeah, before we closed the Gates, we took a picture with something Doan had. I think it's called a camera or something. Anyway, Crono got a copy that he keeps in his room, but I will carry mine in my bag wherever I go!
Love always, Lucca
* * *
"Wow, a happy ending," Lucca said. She reached into her bag to put the diary up but then she felt a sheet of paper at the bottom. She pulled it out. It was a picture of Crono, Marle, Robo, Frog, Ayla, a shadow of Magus in the very back, and herself. And what then happened was something that would possibly allow them to even the odds and save the world.
Lucca remembered.
Clouded by the Dark Force
By Chrono Eternal
Chapter 8:
A Collection of Memories
Marle and Lucca drifted through the black hole, forgetting memory by memory. They, like Crono, wound up around Palzaron, home of the Palzaros.
The Liujatrons, Palzaros, and human beings are all quite the same. Liujatrons have blue skin and blond hair, but everything else is exactly the same as humans, other than their eyes, which are always orange. Palzaros had pink skin and can have blue, red, or black hair. Besides this, they did not have noses and their ears are pointed.
The Liujatrons and Palzaros were, as said before, in a war that had no beginning. The Liujatron's king had gone out to fight and never to return, well, until now that is. And the Palzaros, who were winning the war, had been praying to the Fire Goddess and the Ice Angels for good luck and fighting spirit.
Anyways, Marle and Lucca, now passed out, were drifting out of the black hole towards Palzaron.
"Sipreensik, oomakashlemi blarshtin hoges apprinz," said a Palzaron.
His Empress then said, "Glin gacht tsi."
"Oui, Sipreensik," the scout replied.
Then he and another male Palzaro went out to fetch the two unidentified females. They put them in their spacecraft and headed back towards their home planet.
* * *
"Ugh...where am I?" Lucca asked as she awakened on a fluffy bed. The girl with blond hair next to her was still asleep.
"Abeesh, tima, prek, la," said the Palzaro doctor.
Then the Empress said, "Fah gi, ewar?"
"Excuse me...what...who am I...what's going on?"
Then the scout had rescued them, got out a necklace and placed it around Lucca's neck. He got one for himself as well. Then he said, "Hello, Fire Goddess, can you understand me?" His lips were not matching what he was saying.
"Yes, I, understand...Fire Goddess? Is that...is that who I am?" she asked.
The Empress, who now had a necklace on too, said, "Yes, we were praying to you and the Ice Angels. You two came down here to help us win the war against the Liujatrons." She saw that the Fire Goddess was still confused. "We are the Palzaros..."
"Yes...I guess...I guess I remember...yes, I remember I was looking for someone, you! Yes, you are..." Lucca or the so-called Fire Goddess asked.
"I am Empress Vala. I'm sure you'll want to meet my husband, Emperor Vacintar. And my daughter, Princess Vila," explained Empress Vala.
"Yes...yes...I'm sure I will..." said Lucca, still confused.
Then Marle awakened. "Where am I? Who am I?"
Then, Empress Vala placed the necklace (which was, incase you haven't figured out already, a universal translator) around Marle's neck and said, "Hello, great Ice Angel. You must be exhausted from your trip. These are your chambers; we'll leave you alone for now."
For a woman without a nose, Empress Vala was very pretty. She had tremendously long red hair, and her eyes were a beautiful shade of green.
"So," said Lucca, "you are an Ice Angel?"
Marle replied, "Yes, I guess so...I'm not even sure what that is..."
"I have no clue what a Fire Goddess is either," Lucca said.
"What do you have there? That bag?" Marle asked.
Lucca took her purple bag of her shoulder and opened it. Inside she found some tools, a little make up, and a rather thick, yet small, book. "Hmm...I wonder what this is..." said Lucca.
"Why don't you open it?" Marle asked.
"All right...here it goes..."
Lucca opened the book and began reading.
* * *
Gemini 26, 992
Dear Diary,
Hello, my name is Lucca. Today is my birthday. I turned ten. I have a mommy who likes to cook and a daddy who loves science. I hate science though. It's too hard to understand.
Is this how you're supposed to write in a diary? Like it's a person? Well, whether it is or isn't, I'm going to write like this anyway.
Besides you, for my birthday I got a really cool jump rope from my mom and a science kit from my daddy. I don't understand why he likes science so much!
Uh-oh! It's after my bedtime! Bye Diary!
Yours truly, Lucca
* * *
"Oh, how sweet, a cute little girl's diary!" Marle exclaimed.
"It seemed so real...it seems like I remember opening her jump rope and science kit..." Lucca said.
"How weird! Is there any more?" Marle asked.
"Yeah," Lucca said. She began to flip through some pages and began to read again.
* * *
Capricorn 2, 982
Dear Diary,
I'm sorry I haven't written to you since Libra. I've been really busy. I've had to go on nature hikes with my daddy. I used to hate them, but something happened today that was really cool.
See, my mommy, she accidentally got her foot stuck in my daddy's big science machine. It was really scary, but I never paid attention to what Daddy told me about his machines, so I didn't know how to do anything.
But then a big girl with purple hair and a helmet came in. She hit like five million bazillion buttons on daddy's machine. She saved Mommy's life!
Science actually saved my mommy's life! Now I'm going to pay close attention to my daddy and be a scientist. I might become a marine-biologist or a doctor. Whatever I do, I want to take care of other people; just like that nice lady with purple hair did for my mommy.
Yours truly, Lucca
* * *
"That's amazing! Just out of the blue! This girl has quite an inventive imagination!" Marle exclaimed.
"Yeah...it just seems so real though, like it actually happened. I think I'll read some more." Lucca flipped through some more pages and read again.
* * *
Virgo 7, 983
Dear Diary,
Today was one of the best days of my life! I finally have a friend! A real friend! His name is Crono. He has spiky red hair. He's real cute! He doesn't talk much though. Not at all really. Mommy said he's dumb, but I don't think that's a very nice thing to say about somebody.
He tried out my jump rope and he's really good at it! I let him borrow it.
Not only that happened today, but I made my first real experiment! It's a little robot turtle who moves and everything. Daddy gets allergies if he goes anywhere near an animal, so I'm not allowed to have one. Crono has a kitty that I like to play with though!
I'm so happy!
Love always, Lucca
* * *
"What a nerd..." Marle said.
"She's not a nerd!" Lucca exclaimed. She thought to herself, "It seems so real..."
"Let me see the book!" Marle exclaimed. She flipped through a couple of pages..."Singing robots...blah...blah...blah...ooo! This looks interesting!" And she began to read.
* * *
Aries 1, 1000
Dear Diary,
Today is the first day of the Millennial Fair! It's a two week festival celebrating the new millenium! Father and I finished the Tele-Pod last night. We were testing it out today, and it seemed to work fine.
It was at the presentation, though, that something weird happened.
Crono was with the girl with blonde, showing her around the fair. Crono stepped onto the left side of the Tele-Porter and it worked fine. But then something completely strange happened. His blond friend, who looked very familiar, tried it out. Except her pendant started glowing when she stopped on it. She ripped it off as fast as she could, but then a vortex opened up and swallowed her.
Crono put on the necklace and went after her. But right now I'm working on a key that will let me go through the vortex, which I'm calling a Gate, as well.
Well, I've got to get back to work.
Yours truly, Lucca
* * *
"Maybe it's something about actually reading it, but it does seem real," said Marle.
"I told you!" Lucca replied.
Then Marle read some more pages. It was Lucca's turn again. She began reading one of the most interesting entries of them all.
* * *
Aries 12, 1000
Dear Diary,
Today was quite interesting. After we picked up Robo, who had finished restoring a forest for 400 years, we all gathered around a fire and began talking about the Entity. The Entity gave me a great gift tonight.
Tonight I traveled through a red Gate which took me back to 982. It was Capricorn 2, the day my mother lost her legs. But, she didn't lose them. When she got her leg stuck in Father's machine, I went and stopped it.
I looked in my diary, and now it says that there was a girl that came and saved Mother. I had originally enterred my angsiety because I couldn't do anything to save her. I feel proud today, and I believe I can do anything...even beat Lavos.
Besides that, Robo knew I had saved my mother...and he gave me the Green Dream item. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to know that I saved her...this time-traveling thing is so confusing. Anyway, goodnight!
Love always, Lucca
* * *
"That's amazing..." Lucca said. "The girl that saved her mother was herself..."
"Now, Fire Goddess, you didn't really believe that mumbo-jumbo do you?" Marle asked.
"Ice Angel...sometimes you just have to believe...it seems so real to me, just like that one entry did to you..." said Lucca.
"Alright, let me read!" she exclaimed. She flipped through some pages and then said, "Ah, she's beat Lavos, that one guy she's been talking about."
* * *
Aries 15, 1000
Dear Diary,
We defeated Lavos on Aries 13! I guess 13 isn't unlucky after all. After destroying the Black Omen, we found Lavos who took on forms of all the creatures we fought before. Including Magus! Then we entered and found his body. After taking a beating, he was defeated, but then showed us his Core and two Bits. They were the strongest ever, but still Crono, Marle, and I defeated him!
Then yesterday, Crono was still charged of kidnapping the princess, Marle. But I brought back Kino, King Guardia from 600 AD, and Doan. King Guardia from our time and Marle discovered that they were all related. King Guardia XXXIII was informed the Crono had been saving the world and was taken of trial.
That night, Father put up Nadia's Bell in honor of Marle. Unfortunately, we had to close the Gates after everyone left. Magus went to the Dark Ages to search for Schala, Ayla and Kino went back to the Prehistoric Times to rule, and Frog and King Guardia went back to the Middle Ages. I couldn't stand Robo leaving. I was so afraid that he wouldn't exist in the Future. But now I have faith that he will.
The funniest thing that happened though was when Crono's mom and Crono's cats went into the Gate. We still had the Epoch though, so we went and found her at the End of Time!
Oh yeah, before we closed the Gates, we took a picture with something Doan had. I think it's called a camera or something. Anyway, Crono got a copy that he keeps in his room, but I will carry mine in my bag wherever I go!
Love always, Lucca
* * *
"Wow, a happy ending," Lucca said. She reached into her bag to put the diary up but then she felt a sheet of paper at the bottom. She pulled it out. It was a picture of Crono, Marle, Robo, Frog, Ayla, a shadow of Magus in the very back, and herself. And what then happened was something that would possibly allow them to even the odds and save the world.
Lucca remembered.