X day, X month, X year

Serge, if this ever gets to you, maybe it will shed some light on your experience. You are probably wondering at what happened. The past reports were written by a scientist by the name of Siegfried der Drachen. This man is dead. Killed by FATE for nosing around too much. Actually, all the scientist were killed. They were becoming too suspicious. He used a device that traps the psychic imprint of that person. The "ghost" that was created would retain all of the memories of his past and would be able to perform all the functions that they did when they were alive. However, they were perpetually trapped in the past. This was a bug that FATE ignored. That is what those shades were that you saw. That is also why they were talking about past discoveries.

This is a compilation of various reports that discuss the rest of the information that you need. The section on the Time Devourer I did myself. Hope it helps.

Signed,

Gaspar, the Sage of Time.

PS: I've finally gotten out! The Bend of Time was moved to an alternate dimension with the destruction of Lavos. If only I could visit Chrono . . .

Frozen Flame

There is a record of an ancient stone that was used to forge immensely powerful weapons. Lucca used a piece of Dreamstone to double the power of her laser gun. Unfortunately, the gun burned out on the tenth use, so it wasn't of much help in their quest. The burn out was due to the vast amounts of energy exuded by the Dreamstone. The stone itself is a relic of an earlier era. About 65,000,000 years earlier to be exact. This stone is a chunk of the shell of Lavos who was in orbit over the Earth for about a hundred years before it fell. While it orbited the earth, some of his shell would be shed, and these pieces would fall through the atmosphere. It would then start to break apart and when it broke through the atmosphere it would look like it was raining fire. When this event first happened, the apes were terrified. After awhile, though, they got used to its annual occurrence and based a festival around it. The power in these rocks helped speed the apes evolution even without the appearance of the Frozen Flame, which is a really big chunk of Dreamstone. The annual fall of the Dreamstone created a increase in the mystical energies of the planet, giving birth to magic. These stones also endowed some other stones with some of their power. These stones became known as Elements.

After Lavos fell, a large piece of his shell broke off. This became the Frozen Flame. A large group of apes went over to investigate. The powers of the Flame started to make them evolve rapidly. The evolved apes went back to their villages and got the other apes to go to the Flame. These apes went to other villages proclaiming the wonder of this stone. One hundred years later, the Flame disappeared from knowledge, but not before carving a legend for itself. The next known record of it was in 2300 A.D. when Belthasar located it's unique gravitational signature, and built the El Nido Triangle around it. He then extracted it and put it in the computer program/babysitter to give it an everlasting source of power. Around this program he dubbed FATE, he built the time/space anomaly research facility called Chronopolis. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Lavos

Geologic Stratum Report: Lavos.

A creature that feeds off the energy of the planet it burrows in. It crashed into our world in 65,000,000 B.C. and started burrowing immediately. It was then lost from memory until 600 A.D. when Magus, the Lord of the demi-humans, summoned him back to fight him. Magus lost and Lavos went right back into the earth. This resurrection of Lavos went unknown to the common folk, as they believed that the Hero defeated Magus. It's next appearance was at 1999 A.D. when Lavos erupted and destroyed the face of the world. No one knows where Lavos got to after that, but some believe that it once again burrowed into the earth to store up more energy. Once it got enough energy, some believe that it would again erupt to destroy the face of the earth. This cycle would continue, until the planet was destroyed. It would then go on to the next planet and repeat.

This is the time line of the Destroyed Earth. I will now describe the time line of the Saved Earth.

First, I must start in 600 A.D. when a group of time-traveling teenagers went back in time to defeat Magus, assuming it was he who made the destroyed future that they saw in 2300 A.D. They defeated Magus, but Lavos had already risen. Lavos did not kill Magus and the others but instead did the equivalent of "stretching from a nap." He resumed burrowing after. In his wake, however, he left a time portal which threw the teens to 65,000,000 B.C. and Magus to 12,000 B.C. In 12,000 B.C. Magus used his knowledge of future events to create an identity for himself as a Prophet. This brought him close to the Queen, and he began to steer her towards resurrecting Lavos. I suppose it must have been unnerving for him to see himself as Janus.

After witnessing Lavos' fall, using the left behind portal to travel to the Kingdom of Zeal, fail in trying to foil Magus' plans, succeed in using the Epoch to travel to Zeal, rescue the Sage of Life, and, again, attempt to foil the Queen's plan to resurrect Lavos. The Queen summons Lavos with the help of a machine that taps into Lavos' power, Schala bearing a knife forged from Dreamstone, and the Sages. Magus' plan is unveiled when he explains he was trying to summon Lavos to defeat him, and thus get revenge for destroying his family and transporting him to 600 A.D. Magus fails to defeat it, as does Chrono and the others. Queen Zeal creates a floating platform called the Black Omen out of the Ocean Palace. Chrono goes to the Black Omen and fights Zeal. He defeats her, but the destruction of her and the release of Lavos' power creates a dimensional doorway to Lavos. He defeats Lavos, and creates a new future for the earth. In this future, Belthasar didn't die and program his memories into a Nu. He is still alive and builds the Time/space Anomaly Research Center: Chronopolis.

Serge

The boy who came in contact with the Frozen Flame, thus sealing it away from FATE. He is called the Arbiter of Time. The boy who has the potential to save the world and destroy the Time Devourer, or fuse with the Devourer and become the Assassin of Time. This boy is a direct descendant of the people of Zeal. His parents weren't of Zeal lineage, but through reincarnation, he has the soul of both Chrono and Magus. His soul of Chrono is the link to the Frozen Flame. Chrono was the original Chrono Trigger. He was around Dreamstone, and Lavos, so much, he absorbed a lot of power from them. Ergo, he had the ability to control the Frozen Flame. Magus' soul contains the power of his race, and his hatred for Lavos. Lavos may be, in all respects, dead, but he lives on in the Time Devourer. Thus, Serge is compelled and directed to destroy the Time Devourer.

The Arbiter, when he touched the Flame, gained it's power. He also gained a link to it. The Arbiter feels pulled to the Flame, and commanded to join with it. The Arbiter is the most powerful being in the universe. This fact is what makes him the Arbiter. The man is not the Arbiter from birth. Instead, he becomes the Arbiter when the Flame finds out how powerful he is, and accepts him as such. The Flame is just a ruse by the Time Devourer to find beings of immense power to absorb. That may not be it's original purpose, by that is it's goal. The Arbiter is the only one who can save or destroy the universe.

A/N: Yay! I'm finally finished! This was a fun fic to write. Hope it helps in your journey to defeat the Devourer of Time. Oh by the way, there wasn't a Time Devourer section because I accidently explained everything in Kid's, and Serges sections. If I have missed anything, please talk to me.

RR:

Mishia: I got a lot of my info from the Ultimania Translation FAQ from gamefaqs.com. Check it out. It helps a lot. Most of my other info is from actually playing the game. Even more of my info dimension and time/space continuum theories that I look at. It's a hobby. Can't understand the math, but everything else makes sense.

Is that all? What do people think I am? Chopped liver? Remember: Authors love to be petted. In other words, R/R please.