The Entity of Earth is a good, honest, hardworking fellow. He always completes his goals and raises the standards. Why, just a few weeks ago he helped change history by allowing a young princess Nadia – known to some as Marle – to "accidentally" travel backwards in time via a teleporter. The poor Entity's contemporaries mocked and chided his mistake, only to be awed later at how that same princess and the two friends who came to save her would embark on a quest to save the world itself.
There are many other proofs of the Entity's profound charity, wisdom and cleverness. In the incident where Prometheus, also known to his friends as Robo, was betrayed and devastatingly attacked by his old friends, it was through the Entity's benevolence that Robo survived. Then again after Robo had finished replanting the forest, the Entity opened a time gat that allowed Lucca to change her mother's dismal fate. And of course, who can forget his greatest act: that frightful day on Death Peak in 2300 AD, when Marle, Lucca, and Glenn braved all the impossibilities to resurrect their friend and leader Chrono. Through the Entity's power a time gate was opened to the exact time and place Chrono sacrificed himself, allowing the band of adventurers a chance to have him back.
Yes, the Entity is a grand, splendid, ever-thoughtful fellow.
However, though those qualities do make an excellent Entity, one should be careful of whom the Entity spares his mercy and aide to. Not to mention how he aides the said person. Entities aren't perfect. They are known to make mistakes. Very big mistakes. Those actions had a good meaning, but that didn't change the fact that they're mistake. And if there were any a mistake our dear Entity made, it was with a certain wizard.
Woe to the wizard.
It all started when the Entity did a check up on a fellowship of seven heroes bound to save the world by destroying the demon-creature Lavos. Sure, the Entity could have done it himself but the others…um…beat him to it. Yeah.
Anyways, back to the topic.
The Entity had a filing cabinet he kept with him in his office in the Void. Inside the cabinet were little manila folders the contained all the information he needed about the band of time travelers. With everything from age to blood type to favorite pasta, the Entity felt powerful with this information at his fingertips. But then again he is the Entity, and power comes with the job.
After doing a quick check-up on the first six manila folders (Glenn had just calmed Cyrus' spirit and Marle rescued her father a few days ago) he came to the last one. Carefully the Entity picked it up and opened it. This folder belonged to Magus, previously known as Prince Janus, and had always intrigued the Entity. He had never had the time to read the thick, dark pages of his bio and had only seen the page on the top where his stats were.
He wondered…
The Entity took a quick side glance at the clock hanging magically in the void, as well as the calendar on his desk that showed his appointments for the day. Both guaranteed him that he could read without interruption, but he had second thoughts about the folder. He knew that Magus was a dark character indeed, mostly from Glenn's bio on the day Magus killed Cyrus.
When that fateful day happened, it took the Entity totally by surprise that Cyrus suddenly appeared in the Void so early in his life. The Entity always wondered about the back story that caused Magus to do such a thing like murder. Well, here was his chance right in front of him in a manila folder on his desk. With that last thought, the Entity poked his head through the door, ordered his angel-secretary to cancel all calls, rushed to his desks, and began reading.
And was utterly heartbroken.
Magus' tale was – in short – downright angsty. It was full of misery and woe, starting with his mother being possessed by Lavos, his dear sister and cat ripped from him, being thrown into 600 AD to fall into the hands of the Mystics, to be forced to the dark arts, and…oh it was just too much for our poor Entity! Even before he was finished he was sobbing quietly at his desk over the poor mage. The pain! The suffering! Oh why hadn't this individual been noticed by him before? He could have stopped this all from happening!
As soon as he thought that he immediately ceased his weeping. I owe this to him, the Entity thought. I owe this to Magus for not being there before. But how could he compensate the mage for all his years of torment? The Entity counted his options.
First, he could go back in time and stop the whole Ocean Palace disaster from happening. But, as the Entity realized, that would also cause all the other critical events leading to Lavos' destruction to never happen.
Second, he could change the destination of the time gate that led him into the Mystic Ozzie's clutches. But that where could he send Magus? He couldn't just leave him in the Ocean Palace when it was being destroyed.
And third, well…there wasn't a third.
The Entity slumped back in his chair. He was flat out of ideas. If only there was a way to give Magus his innocence back. His childhood back…
That's it!
"I'll give him his childhood back!" the Entity shouted to no one in particular. Running back out the door, he rushed towards his secretary.
"Darcy," he addressed the angel, "I need Spekio."
Minutes later, Spekio entered the Entity's office in the form of a red nu. Cautiously, he crept towards the desk, where the Entity was busy working out his fool-proof plan.
"Um…" Spekio stammered. "Mr. Entity, sir?"
The Entity's head quickly shot up, causing Spekio to lose his balance and stumble over.
"Oh, Spekio!" he greeted all too cheerfully. "Good to see you were able to come! But whatever are you doing on the floor?"
"Huh? Oh, sorry about that, sir," Spekio meekly answered as he picked himself off the floor. Normally Spekio would have sounded a lot more confident, but this was his first time before the Entity. And Spekio knew that when he was called before any of his superiors, let alone the Entity himself, it must be for something really bad.
"Never mind about the formalities, Spekio, for we need to cut to the chase," the Entity said. He then motioned to one of the chairs lying before his desk. "Have a seat now; we have a lot to discuss."
Shaking a little, Spekio sat his wide nu body on the chair. The Entity was acting way to nice for this to something about my behavior, Spekio thought. Let's just imagine a worst-case scenario to prepare myself…
However, since Spekio's mental scenario involved an angry Entity, a blender, Chrono's hair, and a hippie Guru of Time, things didn't really work out for Spekio's confidence.
"Let me start," interrupted the Entity from Spekio's mental drama, "with a question. Do you know of a certain Janus of Zeal, also known as Magus?"
"Yes sir," Spekio answered. What this had to do with him, he didn't know.
"Good, good…" said the Entity, a wry smile on his face. He then muttered under his breath, "All goes according to plan."
"What?"
"Oh, never mind. It's just that I have a favor to ask of you."
A favor! Oh goody, goody, gumdrops! Spekio thought. This may not be so bad after all!
"Whatever you need, sir Entity, and the Master of War will provide!" Spekio offered happily.
Leaning back in his chair, the Entity replied, "Good. I'll need that attitude when I send you on this mission."
Whoa, a mission! Spekio was really moving up in the world. No more guarding the End of Time for him!
"I'm in!"