Chapter 2: The Merging of Worlds
1001 A.D.
"Lucca wait up!" Marle shouted. Lucca didn't even slow down, "Lucca, Lucca, come back!" Marle shouted and finally caught up with the scientist. "What's wrong?" Marle asked. "What's wrong? I'll tell you what's wrong!!!" Lucca shrieked, tears where streaming down her face. "I don't care if I never see him again!!!" Lucca said. "Why, what's wrong with Joshe? He's one of the knights." Marle asked. "He's a jerk, that's what's wrong with him. Even Magus was nicer than him!! He said, that women shouldn't even be allowed to leave their house unless to get groceries, they are only for cooking, cleaning, and breeding. He said a free spirited girl was no good, and women had no place in the scientific community!" Lucca sobbed. "Wow... I see what you mean. Let's go have a little talk with Joshe shall we?" Marle asked. "I... I'd like that." Lucca said, her tears drying up. Suddenly the sky turned red, blood red. "Wha? What's going on?" Lucca asked no one in particular. "I... I don't know. You... You don't think?" Marle asked. "Lavos? No, we killed him." Lucca said. Suddenly everything went black, and then there was a flash of light.
Everything went back to normal, "What just happened?" Lucca asked. "I'm not sure..." Marle said, "Hey wait, where'd that town come from?" Marle pointed in the direction that used to be a forest just west of Gaurdia, but it was now a town. "Good question." Lucca said. "Wanna go check it out?" Marle asked. "Sure." Lucca replied, they both headed for the town. "Hey!!! What are you girls doing?" Crono asked. "What? Oh, hi Crono." Marle said. "Where you just planning to leave me with that dull guy who thinks that women are men's personal slaves?" Crono asked. "Sorry Crono, we got sidetracked." Marle said pointing to the town. "Where did that come from?" Crono asked. "We don't know, we where just going to go check it out." Lucca said. "Well... Let's go!" Crono said. The three headed for the town.
Outside the town was a strange machine, it looked like a boat with a large balloon tied to the top. "Wow... An airship." Lucca said, adjusting her glasses. "Whatever, let's go." Crono said, the two girls nodded and they went into the town. The town was rather large, several houses and shops adorned the brick paved streets, there was a large mansion in the back, and some sort of other building. However, the weirdest thing was a shop with a sign in front with a picture of a bird on it. "What's that?" asked Lucca, "Don't know, let's go see." Crono said.
The three entered the small building; the man at the desk looked up and smiled, "Welcome to Jidoor! Would you like to rent a chocobo, only 80 GP!" the man said. "A what?" Crono asked. "What, have you been locked in a cave you're whole life boy? A chocobo, you hop on their backs and ride em." the man said. "Like a horse?" Marle asked. "A what?" the man asked. "What do these Chocobos look like?" Lucca asked. "Well, see for yourself. C'mere Chobi!" the man called and suddenly a giant yellow head popped up behind Lucca and went, "Wark!" Lucca almost hit the roof, "This giant chicken is a chocobo?" Lucca asked. "Yeah. Where you been girl, ain't you never even heard of em?" the man asked. Lucca shook her head, "Come to think of it, I've lived in this area my entire life, and I've never seen this town before." Lucca said. "You from Kohilingen?" the man asked. "No, I'm from Truce." Lucca said. "Truce, ain't never heard of It." the man said. "It's in the kingdom of Gaurdia, just east of here." Lucca said. "Ain't ever heard of Gaurdia either." the man said, scratching his head. "Wait... What happened in the past year?" Marle asked. "Well, let's see. Those young folks stopped Kefka and saved the world..." the man said. "Huh? Kefka, I read about him once, he was supposedly a god from another world." Marle said. "So you're saying that our world and his somehow... combined?" Lucca asked. "It is possible, if two people from separate worlds do an identical spell at the same time, thus combining the worlds. " an old man wearing a cape said, he had a mow hawk, and he had a girl about five years younger than Marle and Lucca at his side.
"Name's Strago Magus. Pleased to make your acquaintance." the old man said. "Lucca Ashtear." Lucca said, shaking Strago's hand. "Nadia Gaurdia, but just call me Marle." Marle said shaking Strago's hand, "Oh and this is Crono." Marle said, gesturing towards the spiky haired boy. "Oh, I almost forgot, this is my grand daughter, Relm Arrowny." Strago said, gesturing towards the little girl next to him. "Grandpa, you talk about me like I'm still a little kid. I'm thirteen, I'm a teenager!!" Relm protested. "Oh, sorry Relm, you still seem like a child to someone as old as me." Strago said, smiling at his granddaughter. "So you say that there's a spell that can combine worlds?" Lucca asked. "Yes... Yes, there is... It is the only spell that could work since there's no magic." Strago said. "No magic? Sure there is, watch." Lucca said, and pointed her finger up, a small flame appeared on it, and Lucca blew it out. "Maybe there's magic in you're world. However, in Relm and I's world, magic comes from creatures called Espers, but the Espers disappeared as soon as Kefka was destroyed. Never to be seen again, the only magic that still exists is in dances and lore's like mine." Strago said. "We know someone who could give you some magic, but probably only one element." Marle said. "What do you speak about?" Strago asked. "At the end of time, there's a being named Spekkio the Master of War, he can give you magic, but he only has three elements, Fire, Ice/Water, Lightning, then there's darkness, which is a combination of all three." Lucca said. "Interesting, how would I be able to meet this Spekkio?" Strago asked, rubbing his chin. "He's at the end of time." Marle said. "How would I get there?" Strago asked. "Unfortunately I can't help you there, but maybe I can fix our time machine and take you there." Lucca said. "That would be splendid." Strago replied. "Okay, in three days go east to a town called Truce, from there go south to a small island, my house is there." Lucca said. "Right." Strago said, making a mental note. Lucca, Crono, and Marle walked out to explore the town more.
Marle, Lucca, and Crono walked into a building that the man outside told them was the Auction House. As Lucca began to walk in, a large man in a black, brown striped trench coat ran into Lucca. Lucca fell to the ground, "Oh! Excuse me, terribly sorry." the man said. The man offered a hand to Lucca and helped her up. As Lucca stood up, she noticed that this man was very pale, his hair was white despite the fact that he was probably only in his twenties, he had many scars covering his face, Lucca realized that this man was an albino when she saw the red tint in his eyes. "Setzer Gabbiani, world's greatest gambler and owner of the world's only airship." Setzer said. "Uh... Lucca Ashtear, world's greatest scientist." Lucca replied, shaking Setzer's hand. "I wouldn't worry about the auction house; the next auction isn't until tomorrow." Setzer said, smiling. "Uh... Okay, thank you." Lucca said, smiling. "You have a lovely smile, why do you try to reflect your beauty away with that helmet?" Setzer asked. Lucca's face turned a shade of red that resembled that of a sunrise. Lucca glanced back to see Marle and Crono rolling on the ground laughing. "Oh, I'm sorry if I embarrassed you." Setzer said, "Oh... Oh no, everything's fine. I just don't hear compliments like that often." Lucca replied. "So, I take it that you are from the other world." Setzer said. "Yes, how did you know about that?" Lucca asked. "I was in my airship when the worlds fused; you guys need a ride anywhere? It's the fastest airship ever." Setzer said. "Umm... Sure..." Lucca said.
The four walked out to the airship, Setzer opened a small hatch on the side. "This airship is modeled after my original, it got blown up by Kefka, I put my old girlfriend Darryl's ship back in her tomb." Setzer said, Setzer gestured towards the door. "Ladies." Setzer said, sweeping his arm towards the door, Lucca and Marle walked in, and then Setzer and Crono followed. The interior of the airship looked like a casino, craps tables and roulette wheels everywhere; there was a lounge, and an engine room. Setzer walked up to the deck, Crono followed to point him towards Truce. Lucca looked around the room, an old man walked up, "Would you like me to remove those garments?" (I always wondered about the guy in the airship, an old guy that just showed up from nowhere, asking to undress you. Creepy. -M.D.) "What? You old pervert, get away from me!" Lucca screamed. "I was simply asking if you wished to be unequipped." the man said. "No thanks, I can do that myself." Lucca said. There was a feeling of descending then a voice came from above deck, "We're here!" Setzer shouted from above deck. "Thank you Setzer!!" Lucca said, running out the hatch towards her house.
"I think you like him!" Marle said. "What are you talking about, he is way too old for me, and he looks like Magus." Lucca said. Marle smiled. "No... You aren't insinuating that... No... No way in... No... I would never... No... You are one sick girl Marle." Lucca replied. "I don't know, you are kind of tongue tied around both of them." Crono said. "I AM NOT!!!! I don't like Setzer, and I sure as hell don't like Magus!" Lucca screamed. "If you seriously didn't have a crush on either, you wouldn't deny it so much." Marle said. Lucca turned her nose up and walked into her house.
"What happened?" Terra asked, opening her eyes. "It appears that we art near Doma Castle." Cyan said. "Impossible, we where just right outside of Mobiliz, besides there's no forest west of Doma." Edgar said. "Well if that's not Doma, I don't know what is. It looks like Doma to me." Locke said. "Hey, where's Sabin?" Terra asked. "And where's Celes?" Locke asked. "The best course of action wouldst be to enter the forest." Cyan said, Edgar, Terra, and Locke nodded and headed for the forest.
"Oh... My head... What happened?" Celes asked no one. Celes looked around; she was in a small house, in a bed. "What is going on here?" Celes asked herself. A loud groan came from under the covers next to her, Celes lifted the covers, and there was Sabin. "What's going on?" Sabin asked. "I don't know, but you need to shave." Celes said. "That is the least of my worries right now." Sabin said. "True, your number one concern at this point would be to move your hand from its current place, or risk a serious head trauma." Celes said. Sabin moved his hand, "Hey, it's not like I put you here or me for that matter." Sabin said. "I would still like to know where we are." Celes said. "Medina Village, the year is 1001 A.D." a voice said, an old man stepped forward, he was short and fat, he had a moustache and was wearing dark glasses on his face, he was wearing black and orange striped clothes and an odd looking hat. "The names Melchior, I found you and your husband on the beach just south of my house." Melchior said. "Umm... Actually, we aren't even dating, she has a boyfriend and I'm very single." Sabin said. "I have never heard of Medina before." Celes said. "It's the village of the mystics." Melchior replied. "What are mystics?" Sabin and Celes asked at the same time. "You two must have hit your heads harder than I thought. Mystical creatures that attacked the humans in Gaurdia four hundred years ago." Melchior said. "What's Gaurdia?" Celes asked. "Who are you?" Melchior asked. "I am Celes Chere, former general of the empire in Vector, and one of the few who defeated General Kefka." Celes said. "Sabin Figaro, brother of King Edgar Figaro of Figaro Castle, I trained under the martial arts master Duncan and defeated Kefka." Sabin said. "Kefka? Figaro? Vector? Never heard of em." Melchior said. "Though now that you mention it, a large tower popped up just northwest of here, some weird robed guys walking around it. Don't say much." Melchior said. "I think I figured this out, our worlds where merged. That would explain everything." Celes said. "Whatever, let's go find everyone else." Sabin said, "Right, thank you for everything Melchior!" Celes said, she headed for the door. "Wait!" Melchior said, Celes stopped and turned around, "Yes?" Celes asked. "I reforged your sword; it should be twice as strong now. Amazing metal that it's made from. I've never seen it before in my life." Melchior said and handed Celes the Illumina, Celes could feel a surge of power go up her arm, it was a feeling of sheer ecstasy. "Wow, this thing is powerful. Thanks, Melchior, see you later." Celes said and waved as she walked out the door.
1001 A.D.
"Lucca wait up!" Marle shouted. Lucca didn't even slow down, "Lucca, Lucca, come back!" Marle shouted and finally caught up with the scientist. "What's wrong?" Marle asked. "What's wrong? I'll tell you what's wrong!!!" Lucca shrieked, tears where streaming down her face. "I don't care if I never see him again!!!" Lucca said. "Why, what's wrong with Joshe? He's one of the knights." Marle asked. "He's a jerk, that's what's wrong with him. Even Magus was nicer than him!! He said, that women shouldn't even be allowed to leave their house unless to get groceries, they are only for cooking, cleaning, and breeding. He said a free spirited girl was no good, and women had no place in the scientific community!" Lucca sobbed. "Wow... I see what you mean. Let's go have a little talk with Joshe shall we?" Marle asked. "I... I'd like that." Lucca said, her tears drying up. Suddenly the sky turned red, blood red. "Wha? What's going on?" Lucca asked no one in particular. "I... I don't know. You... You don't think?" Marle asked. "Lavos? No, we killed him." Lucca said. Suddenly everything went black, and then there was a flash of light.
Everything went back to normal, "What just happened?" Lucca asked. "I'm not sure..." Marle said, "Hey wait, where'd that town come from?" Marle pointed in the direction that used to be a forest just west of Gaurdia, but it was now a town. "Good question." Lucca said. "Wanna go check it out?" Marle asked. "Sure." Lucca replied, they both headed for the town. "Hey!!! What are you girls doing?" Crono asked. "What? Oh, hi Crono." Marle said. "Where you just planning to leave me with that dull guy who thinks that women are men's personal slaves?" Crono asked. "Sorry Crono, we got sidetracked." Marle said pointing to the town. "Where did that come from?" Crono asked. "We don't know, we where just going to go check it out." Lucca said. "Well... Let's go!" Crono said. The three headed for the town.
Outside the town was a strange machine, it looked like a boat with a large balloon tied to the top. "Wow... An airship." Lucca said, adjusting her glasses. "Whatever, let's go." Crono said, the two girls nodded and they went into the town. The town was rather large, several houses and shops adorned the brick paved streets, there was a large mansion in the back, and some sort of other building. However, the weirdest thing was a shop with a sign in front with a picture of a bird on it. "What's that?" asked Lucca, "Don't know, let's go see." Crono said.
The three entered the small building; the man at the desk looked up and smiled, "Welcome to Jidoor! Would you like to rent a chocobo, only 80 GP!" the man said. "A what?" Crono asked. "What, have you been locked in a cave you're whole life boy? A chocobo, you hop on their backs and ride em." the man said. "Like a horse?" Marle asked. "A what?" the man asked. "What do these Chocobos look like?" Lucca asked. "Well, see for yourself. C'mere Chobi!" the man called and suddenly a giant yellow head popped up behind Lucca and went, "Wark!" Lucca almost hit the roof, "This giant chicken is a chocobo?" Lucca asked. "Yeah. Where you been girl, ain't you never even heard of em?" the man asked. Lucca shook her head, "Come to think of it, I've lived in this area my entire life, and I've never seen this town before." Lucca said. "You from Kohilingen?" the man asked. "No, I'm from Truce." Lucca said. "Truce, ain't never heard of It." the man said. "It's in the kingdom of Gaurdia, just east of here." Lucca said. "Ain't ever heard of Gaurdia either." the man said, scratching his head. "Wait... What happened in the past year?" Marle asked. "Well, let's see. Those young folks stopped Kefka and saved the world..." the man said. "Huh? Kefka, I read about him once, he was supposedly a god from another world." Marle said. "So you're saying that our world and his somehow... combined?" Lucca asked. "It is possible, if two people from separate worlds do an identical spell at the same time, thus combining the worlds. " an old man wearing a cape said, he had a mow hawk, and he had a girl about five years younger than Marle and Lucca at his side.
"Name's Strago Magus. Pleased to make your acquaintance." the old man said. "Lucca Ashtear." Lucca said, shaking Strago's hand. "Nadia Gaurdia, but just call me Marle." Marle said shaking Strago's hand, "Oh and this is Crono." Marle said, gesturing towards the spiky haired boy. "Oh, I almost forgot, this is my grand daughter, Relm Arrowny." Strago said, gesturing towards the little girl next to him. "Grandpa, you talk about me like I'm still a little kid. I'm thirteen, I'm a teenager!!" Relm protested. "Oh, sorry Relm, you still seem like a child to someone as old as me." Strago said, smiling at his granddaughter. "So you say that there's a spell that can combine worlds?" Lucca asked. "Yes... Yes, there is... It is the only spell that could work since there's no magic." Strago said. "No magic? Sure there is, watch." Lucca said, and pointed her finger up, a small flame appeared on it, and Lucca blew it out. "Maybe there's magic in you're world. However, in Relm and I's world, magic comes from creatures called Espers, but the Espers disappeared as soon as Kefka was destroyed. Never to be seen again, the only magic that still exists is in dances and lore's like mine." Strago said. "We know someone who could give you some magic, but probably only one element." Marle said. "What do you speak about?" Strago asked. "At the end of time, there's a being named Spekkio the Master of War, he can give you magic, but he only has three elements, Fire, Ice/Water, Lightning, then there's darkness, which is a combination of all three." Lucca said. "Interesting, how would I be able to meet this Spekkio?" Strago asked, rubbing his chin. "He's at the end of time." Marle said. "How would I get there?" Strago asked. "Unfortunately I can't help you there, but maybe I can fix our time machine and take you there." Lucca said. "That would be splendid." Strago replied. "Okay, in three days go east to a town called Truce, from there go south to a small island, my house is there." Lucca said. "Right." Strago said, making a mental note. Lucca, Crono, and Marle walked out to explore the town more.
Marle, Lucca, and Crono walked into a building that the man outside told them was the Auction House. As Lucca began to walk in, a large man in a black, brown striped trench coat ran into Lucca. Lucca fell to the ground, "Oh! Excuse me, terribly sorry." the man said. The man offered a hand to Lucca and helped her up. As Lucca stood up, she noticed that this man was very pale, his hair was white despite the fact that he was probably only in his twenties, he had many scars covering his face, Lucca realized that this man was an albino when she saw the red tint in his eyes. "Setzer Gabbiani, world's greatest gambler and owner of the world's only airship." Setzer said. "Uh... Lucca Ashtear, world's greatest scientist." Lucca replied, shaking Setzer's hand. "I wouldn't worry about the auction house; the next auction isn't until tomorrow." Setzer said, smiling. "Uh... Okay, thank you." Lucca said, smiling. "You have a lovely smile, why do you try to reflect your beauty away with that helmet?" Setzer asked. Lucca's face turned a shade of red that resembled that of a sunrise. Lucca glanced back to see Marle and Crono rolling on the ground laughing. "Oh, I'm sorry if I embarrassed you." Setzer said, "Oh... Oh no, everything's fine. I just don't hear compliments like that often." Lucca replied. "So, I take it that you are from the other world." Setzer said. "Yes, how did you know about that?" Lucca asked. "I was in my airship when the worlds fused; you guys need a ride anywhere? It's the fastest airship ever." Setzer said. "Umm... Sure..." Lucca said.
The four walked out to the airship, Setzer opened a small hatch on the side. "This airship is modeled after my original, it got blown up by Kefka, I put my old girlfriend Darryl's ship back in her tomb." Setzer said, Setzer gestured towards the door. "Ladies." Setzer said, sweeping his arm towards the door, Lucca and Marle walked in, and then Setzer and Crono followed. The interior of the airship looked like a casino, craps tables and roulette wheels everywhere; there was a lounge, and an engine room. Setzer walked up to the deck, Crono followed to point him towards Truce. Lucca looked around the room, an old man walked up, "Would you like me to remove those garments?" (I always wondered about the guy in the airship, an old guy that just showed up from nowhere, asking to undress you. Creepy. -M.D.) "What? You old pervert, get away from me!" Lucca screamed. "I was simply asking if you wished to be unequipped." the man said. "No thanks, I can do that myself." Lucca said. There was a feeling of descending then a voice came from above deck, "We're here!" Setzer shouted from above deck. "Thank you Setzer!!" Lucca said, running out the hatch towards her house.
"I think you like him!" Marle said. "What are you talking about, he is way too old for me, and he looks like Magus." Lucca said. Marle smiled. "No... You aren't insinuating that... No... No way in... No... I would never... No... You are one sick girl Marle." Lucca replied. "I don't know, you are kind of tongue tied around both of them." Crono said. "I AM NOT!!!! I don't like Setzer, and I sure as hell don't like Magus!" Lucca screamed. "If you seriously didn't have a crush on either, you wouldn't deny it so much." Marle said. Lucca turned her nose up and walked into her house.
"What happened?" Terra asked, opening her eyes. "It appears that we art near Doma Castle." Cyan said. "Impossible, we where just right outside of Mobiliz, besides there's no forest west of Doma." Edgar said. "Well if that's not Doma, I don't know what is. It looks like Doma to me." Locke said. "Hey, where's Sabin?" Terra asked. "And where's Celes?" Locke asked. "The best course of action wouldst be to enter the forest." Cyan said, Edgar, Terra, and Locke nodded and headed for the forest.
"Oh... My head... What happened?" Celes asked no one. Celes looked around; she was in a small house, in a bed. "What is going on here?" Celes asked herself. A loud groan came from under the covers next to her, Celes lifted the covers, and there was Sabin. "What's going on?" Sabin asked. "I don't know, but you need to shave." Celes said. "That is the least of my worries right now." Sabin said. "True, your number one concern at this point would be to move your hand from its current place, or risk a serious head trauma." Celes said. Sabin moved his hand, "Hey, it's not like I put you here or me for that matter." Sabin said. "I would still like to know where we are." Celes said. "Medina Village, the year is 1001 A.D." a voice said, an old man stepped forward, he was short and fat, he had a moustache and was wearing dark glasses on his face, he was wearing black and orange striped clothes and an odd looking hat. "The names Melchior, I found you and your husband on the beach just south of my house." Melchior said. "Umm... Actually, we aren't even dating, she has a boyfriend and I'm very single." Sabin said. "I have never heard of Medina before." Celes said. "It's the village of the mystics." Melchior replied. "What are mystics?" Sabin and Celes asked at the same time. "You two must have hit your heads harder than I thought. Mystical creatures that attacked the humans in Gaurdia four hundred years ago." Melchior said. "What's Gaurdia?" Celes asked. "Who are you?" Melchior asked. "I am Celes Chere, former general of the empire in Vector, and one of the few who defeated General Kefka." Celes said. "Sabin Figaro, brother of King Edgar Figaro of Figaro Castle, I trained under the martial arts master Duncan and defeated Kefka." Sabin said. "Kefka? Figaro? Vector? Never heard of em." Melchior said. "Though now that you mention it, a large tower popped up just northwest of here, some weird robed guys walking around it. Don't say much." Melchior said. "I think I figured this out, our worlds where merged. That would explain everything." Celes said. "Whatever, let's go find everyone else." Sabin said, "Right, thank you for everything Melchior!" Celes said, she headed for the door. "Wait!" Melchior said, Celes stopped and turned around, "Yes?" Celes asked. "I reforged your sword; it should be twice as strong now. Amazing metal that it's made from. I've never seen it before in my life." Melchior said and handed Celes the Illumina, Celes could feel a surge of power go up her arm, it was a feeling of sheer ecstasy. "Wow, this thing is powerful. Thanks, Melchior, see you later." Celes said and waved as she walked out the door.