Prologue
Hey,
just so you know my name's Glenn.
Ten years ago, my life was
changed. It was the
day I faced Lavos, the destroyer of the planet
in another dimension. Here's my tale...
Chapter
1
Beginning of a Legacy
It was another ordinary day at
school.
I was at my locker, getting my stuff for first period when
my only friend, Caitlin, walked up. She had just got a boyfriend. I
asked," How was your date?"
" Don't ask..."
she replied.
" Did you two have anything in common?" I
asked.
"Yeah, an uncle. What a twist, huh? I didn't know
either."
"Ouch."
" Are you ready for the
quiz today?"
"Quiz? Oh no..."
" Please tell
me you at least have notes."
I gave her that 'I don't' look.
She got a folded piece of paper out and handed it to me. ,"
Here, take this, it's my notes. Copy them down and don't get them
lost, OK?"
"OK." Don't get me wrong, but I don't
like Caitlin in, well, that way. The one I really liked was Karen
Miller. It was two days before the prom...
Two days before I
fought Kainjin...
Two days before I came face to face with
FATE...
Chapter 2
Detention
I had just finished
copying the notes. I was in third period. Caitlin was in this class,
so I decided to pass the notes to her. The girl who set behind
Caitlin, Rebecca, was, well, you get the picture. Being the most
unpopular kid in the school didn't help to get the notes back to
Caitlin. I leaned over and said
" Yo, could you give these
back to Caitlin For me?"
Big mistake. She took them and
said," What? These?" and just ripped them up.
"
What did you do that for!?" Caitlin saw it, and looked at
Rebecca in disgust. When our teacher, Ms. Trent, walked into the room
Caitlin made an attempt to explain. ," Uh, Ms. Trent, Rebecca
ripped my notes up."
Ms. Trent looked up and said,"
Rebecca, is this true?"
" No ma'am."
"Did
anyone see this?"
I raised my hand and said," I did!"
Rebecca's boyfriend, Justin, always hated me and, just in spite
of me, said," He's just saying that to protect his friend!"
Ms. Trent looked at me and said," Glenn, I know Justin
wouldn't lie to me for fear of getting kicked off the football team.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you both detention."
"But..." It was useless.
Chapter 3
The Dark
Messenger
Caitlin and I were in detention talking on a short
5-minute break when I was called to the office. While I was walking
to the office I thought about what Caitlin said about some 'Song of
Marabule'. When I walked into the office the woman at the desk told
me to go into the room on my right. Inside was a young woman, around
20, sitting in a chair. ," Your name is Glenn, right?" I
nodded. Her voice sounded so familiar. I asked,"Why am I
here?"
She looked at me and said," I am Scala Zeal,
messenger of FATE. I've come to warn you, The Chrono Trigger, of the
dark messenger, Kainjin."
I looked at her in confusion and
said," What!?
Chrono Trigger? FATE? Kainjin?"
"
Yes. I can see why you're confused. The truth is that you are the
most powerful being on the planet.
You will see that when you
fight Kainjin."
"I couldn't fight my way out of a wet
paper bag!"
" You'll see once people you love are in
danger."
"I must go now." With that she left. I was
so confused.
FATE? Chrono Trigger? Kainjin? I was as confused as
scared...
Chapter 4
Battle With Kainjin
It was the
day of the prom. I was sitting in the corner dateless, worrying about
what Scala said. Meanwhile,
outside a strange man was approaching
the building.
The guard stopped him and said," Hey! Students
only!"
The man stared at him and said,"Get outta my
way."
He backhanded the guard so hard it sent him flying.
"
Pathetic humans." He walked into the school and yelled,"
Where is the Trigger!?"
Of all people, Karen Miller walked up
and said,"Who do you think you are, coming in here and
disturbing our prom, huh!?" He walked up to her and said
"
Girl, have you any idea who you're talking to?
I am Kainjin, The
Dark Messenger!"
He put his hand up to her face and began to
kill her with one quick energy blast. Before I knew what I was doing,
I ran at Kainjin, jumped, and kicked him so he went flying. He got up
and glared at me.
"Hmmm, Such strength.You're the Chrono
Trigger, aren't you?"
"I couldn't care less what I am.
All I know is that I won't let you hurt anyone," I said, ready
to fight.
He began to walk toward me. I heard some people scream
and run off. Karen backed away as Kainjin walked toward me. When he
reached me, he and I glared at each other for what seemed like an
eternity.
Then he hit me in the stomach. I had never felt such
pain in my life. I was surprised I was still alive.
Then he
grabbed my hair as I fell, and began beating the tar out of me. He
hit me so hard I went flying, not just trough the air, but trough the
wall, too.
I was outside now, because I had just been knocked
trough a wall that leads outside. I used my last bit off strength to
look at Kainjin, only to see Karen throw a rock at him. It hit him in
the face.
He glared at her and screamed," You insolent
brat!"
He turned to hit her with an enormous energy
blast.
Again, my reflexes took over, and I got up and jumped in
front of the blast to take the blow.
At that moment, I blacked
out.
Chapter 5
The Chosen Three
I was in a strange
place, surrounded by all types of machines. In the background I could
make out an image of a small girl, around ten years old.
She
looked at me, but I still couldn't see her face.
"Who are
you? What is this place?" I asked her.
"Glenn, Karen,
Magus," she said blankly," Trigger, Crosser, and Breaker.
Come to Chronopolis, all will be explained there. Bring her, the
Crosser, Karen."
"What!? What do Karen and I have to do
with some guy called Magus? And, huh?" I saw two more images
walk up. One had a halo over his head. At that moment, I woke up. I
was sitting in hospital bed.
"Hey, are you all right?" I
looked to the side and saw Karen sitting in a chair."You're so
stupid! What did you think you were doing?" she said coldly.
"I
couldn't watch you die, it's against my nature," I told her,"
By the way, do you know anything about a city called Chronopolis?"
"I
do. It's a city where no one has ever returned, except two people.
Their names were Serge and Kid.
It's on an island in the Dead
Sea."
"When I get out of the hospital I'm going
there.
You're coming with me."
"What?! You're not
serious...you'll die."
"No I won't. Remember what
happened at the prom?"
"Oh. I guess there's no stopping
you. I'll get things ready," she said nervously.
Chapter
6
Chronopolis, City of FATE
It was two weeks later. Karen
and I were on her family boat out at sea. We could see the city in
the horizon. She looked at me and said," What do you think is
out there?"
"A girl, a man, and a dead guy," I told
her.
"Where did you get that idea?"
I didn't answer
her. We arrived a couple of hours later. Scala was waiting for us at
the dock of the city.
"I knew you'd be here, Glenn," she
said,"FATE has been expecting you. You too, Karen." She
took us though the city and into a strange building.
"Welcome
to Chronopolis, City of FATE!" she told us, energetically,"
This is where everything in the world is decided. Every word, motion,
and action is decided here by FATE." I was irritated now.
"Hey!
We didn't come here a tour! Take us to where we need to go, NOW!"
I screamed at her.
"Yes Scala, why don't you bring them to
me?" a familiar voice asked. It took a couple of minutes for me
to realize it was the young girl from my dream.
"Scala, I'll
take it from here," said a young man who came out of nowhere,
the one who had the halo over his head," Hi, my name's Crono, I
was the first Chrono Trigger."
Chapter 7
What it
means to be a Chrono Trigger
Crono led us though the large
building."Hey, do you guys remember the huge volcanic eruption
that happened five years ago?" he asked us.
"Yeah,"
I told him," That was a big one, wasn't it?"
"It
was no volcanic eruption," he told us,"It was the
apocalypse. I, along with Lucca Ashtear, Princess Nadia (a.k.a.
Marle), Frog, Ayla, Robo, and Magus, stopped it."
"Who
were they?" Karen asked him.
"They were people who came
from different time periods," he told us,"They each had a
reason to fight. But, twenty years later it came back and combined
with the Dragon God, Omni. They became one and became the 'Devourer
of Time' or 'TimeDevourer'."
"What was 'it'?" I
asked.
"Lavos, a being of pure evil, it fed off the energy of
Earth until it was strong enough to destroy the planet,"he told
us,"Glenn, do you know what it means to be a Chrono Trigger?"
"I don't even know what a Chrono Trigger is."
"You'll
find out soon..."
Chapter 8
Powers Awakened
Crono led us to the center of the building. Inside the center
room was the girl from my dream, Scala, and a blue haired man who
looked very pale. "Welcome, Chrono Trigger," the girl
said,"You are wondering why you're here, aren't you? Well, allow
me to explain. We'll start with the year 65,000,000 B.C. One day in
that year, a strange meteor hit Earth. The people of that time called
it 'Lavos' or 'Big Fire'. Lavos, as we now call it, was a being from
a planet far away. Lavos buried himself into the Earth and absorbed
the energy of the planet. I knew I could not let that beast destroy
the planet when it was powerful enough, so I choose a very special
being of Earth to stop it. That being was called the 'Chrono
Trigger'. The Chrono Trigger I choose that time was non other than
Crono. He and his fellow adventurers stopped Lavos in 1999
A.D."
"That doesn't tell me who you are," I told
her.
She glared at me and said," I am the one who governs
all, knows all, and controls all."
"You mean you're,"
I said, not being able to finish.
"You are correct. I am
FATE."
"No way...You're FATE?" Karen asked
her.
"Allow me to continue the story," she said,"
When Crono returned to his home in 1000 A.D. an evil demi-human
called Lynx killed Crono, Lucca, and princess Nadia at a reunion by
burning down the house they were in. I knew that with Crono dead I
could not protect Earth, so I choose a second Chrono Trigger.
However, it was not my choice. A piece of myself that was called the
Frozen Flame came in contact with a young boy named Serge and made
him the second Chrono Trigger. And in 1020 A.D. Lavos fused with the
dragon god, Omni, and became TimeDevourer. Glenn, come here."
I
walked over nervously. She put her hand on my head, at that moment in
my head I saw Crono fighting a monster and destroying it. Then I saw
a young man fighting a similar being and beating it. Then, I realized
who I was.
"Do you know who you are, Glenn?" FATE asked
me.
"Yes, I am the Chrono Trigger!"
Chapter
9
Crono vs. Magus: The Rematch
Everyone had looked at me
and nodded when I said that I was the Chrono Trigger, except
Magus.
He glared at me the whole time, with anger in his eyes.
When he came out of the corner he had stayed in, everyone looked at
him curiously.
"Hmph, you really are pathetic," he
said," You get beat up by some wimp like Kainjin and you call
yourself the Chrono Trigger?"
"Magus, what are you
saying?" FATE asked him.
"I'm saying this guy isn't a
real man," he told us.
"Look, I was confused then,"
I told him," I didn't know I was that powerful."
"Hmmm,
I'll tell you what, if you prove you're a real man to me, I'll help,"
he said acting as if he wanted to fight.
"OK, what do you
want me to do?" I asked.
"Fight me and win, then I'll
acknowledge your power and right to be a Chrono Trigger"
"WHAT!?
You want Glenn to fight you?" Karen said.
"Yeah, take it
or leave it. It's your choice"
"I'll fight you," I
said accepting his challenge.
"If you're going to fight, I
will let you fight as long as you use the fighting arena," FATE
told us.
"Of course," he said with a glare in his
eye.
We went to a room that I hadn't been to before; it looked
like a control room looking down into a square room covered in
tiles.
"What setting would you like?" FATE asked us.
"A
destroyed city," Magus told her.
She looked at me and said,"
Is this OK with you, Glenn?"
"Sure, it's fine."
We
went into the room with the tiles. Right before my eyes, it changed
into a destroyed city.
"You ready kid?" Magus
asked.
"You bet."
He came flying at me at a speed I
couldn't comprehend. Then he hit me in the face and I hit the
building right behind me. I got up to see him coming at me again.
This time I ducked and hit him in the stomach. I jumped up and kicked
him in the face. He was angry now.
"You're tougher that I
thought," he said angrily.
He came at me faster this time. I
couldn't counterattack and I got hit. I was inside a building now. Up
in the control room, Crono was getting impatient.
"What does
Magus think he's doing!?" he said angrily," That's it! I'm
going in!"
He entered the room that we were fighting
in.
"Magus! You've gone far enough. We can't stop Kainjin if
you kill Glenn!"
"You think I care?"
"That's
it, I'll fight you right here and now."
"You don't know
how long I've been waiting those words."
"No weapons,"
Crono said as he threw his Rainbow Katana on the ground.
"You
bet." Magus said putting his weapon on the ground.
Then Crono
ran up to Magus and hit him in the stomach. Magus got up and hit
Crono with his elbow in the stomach. Before I knew what happened,
fists were flying between the two. More senseless fighting, I
thought, just more senseless fighting. I couldn't stand it anymore. I
snapped.
Chapter 10
The Ultimate Being
A glowing
light surrounded me. It was my energy. I had lost control over
myself. FATE gasped in astonishment.
"It's impossible...He's
stronger than me!" FATE said.
"How can someone be
stronger than FATE? It doesn't make sense," Karen asked as
puzzled as FATE was.
"What the heck?! What's he doing?!"
Magus yelled.
I continued to scream. I no longer had control over
myself.
"His power! It's higher than FATE's! FATE, what's
going on!?" Crono asked.
"STOP FIGHTING!!!!!" I
screamed. I launched an energy wave at Crono and Magus. Crono avoided
it while Magus tried to block it with his bare hands. He didn't have
much luck. Magus was thrown against the wall.
"Incredible,
he is a true Chrono Trigger," Crono said to himself. Crono came
at me at an incredible speed, and grabbed my arms and held them down.
"Calm down!" he said," You aren't helping by
trying to kill Magus!"
I realized what I was doing, and I
stopped. My energy was no longer higher than FATE's.
"He's
awakened a long lost power," FATE said to Karen.
"Didn't
you know about it?" she asked.
"No, I never knew there
was a being more powerful than me. Listen; go tell him what happened.
The four of you will be leaving soon."
"The four of
us?"
"Yes, you, Glenn, Crono, and Magus."
"OK,
I'll be right back!"
She left and came to me, and explained
what had happened. I got prepared, and within days we were ready to
find Kainjin. But there was one other who wanted to go with us, and
Magus wasn't too happy about it.
Chapter
11
Uncle Magus!
"Bye! Bring back a dead Kainjin!"
FATE called to us as we turned on the Epoch, a vehicle that FATE let
us use to return to the Mainland. Then I heard a girls voice call
out," Uncle Magus! You aren't going anywhere without me!"
I
saw a blond girl run us to the Epoch.
I looked a Magus as he
said," Oh no," to himself.
The girl finally got to the
Epoch and said," And just where the bloody h do you think
you're going?"
Scala looked at the girl,"Kid! Watch your
mouth!" she scolded.
"Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. I know
you to well, mom,"the girl replied.
I leaned over to Magus
and asked,"Who's that?"
"That's Kid, Scala's
daughter-clone. She was supposed to be a complete copy of my sister,
but something went wrong and...well, just look at her! Blond hair,
strange accent, and that personality, I don't know where she came
from! But since she is nothing like Scala, she calls herself the
daughter."
"So, that's your niece?"
"Basically."
"Oh yeah! Some frog wanted me to give this to...what was his
name? Oh yeah! Give it to Glenn," Kid said," Which one of
ya's Glenn?"
"I am," I said
"Here, catch!"
she said as she threw a sword to me.
Crono looked at the blade
with amazement and said,"That's the legendary blade, The
Masamune!"
I looked at him and said," Masamune?"
That day I heard the Legend of the Masamune.
Chapter 12
Legend
of the Masamune
"Don't you know what the Masamune is?
The Masamune, it's a blade of legends," Crono told me.
"Tell
me about the Masamune," I said.
"Well, it use to be the
Mastermune, what happened, Masa?"
I heard a voice in my head,
it said,"You sure you want to know? Well, Doreen, my sister,
wanted to be on her own, so she separated from Mune and I."
"Wait
a second, Masa and Mune? Who are they?" I asked.
"I am
Masa, a spirit of the Masamune."
"And I am Mune, the
second spirit of the Masamune."
"Do you, the wielder of
the Masamune, wish to hear the legend?" Masa asked me.
"Yes!"
I
heard Mune's voice," The year, 1200 B.C., Masa and I were
living in the kingdom of Zeal."
Wait Zeal? I thought, then it
hit me. Scala Zeal, the princess of Zeal! I glanced at Scala.
"Go
on," Crono said.
"The queen, Zeal herself, tried to
awaken Lavos."
"It ended in ruin! Crono was killed,
Scala was absorbed, and Zeal was destroyed."
"Wait, how
could Crono have been killed? Wasn't he killed in a fire?" I
asked.
"I was later revived by the time egg," Crono
said.
"Masa and I became the Masamune, and tried to stop
Lavos, but we couldn't contain his power."
"But we
weakened him! We absorbed some of his power! But, in the year 700,
that power overcame us. The Masamune be came the Sword of
Evil."
"Anyone who touched the blade you are holding in
your hand went insane. One victim was Dario of the Termina Dragoons,
he tried to kill his best friend, but the friend won in the duel, he
was also a Dragoon. Karsh was his name."
"Dario was
later found on an island near the Isle of the Ded, the Isle of the
Ded was where the duel between friends took place"
"His
fiancé, Lady Riddle, found him on the small island, she along
with Glenn and Serge, beat Dario again."
"Who was
Glenn?" I asked.
"Another Dragoon, also Dario's
brother."
"After the battle, we realized what happened
and removed the evil."
"Our sister came and became the
third spirit of the Masamune."
"Only it wasn't the
Masamune anymore! We became the Mastermune!"
"We fought
Lavos once more, and we thought we destroyed him. FATE, tell them
what Kainjin's plans are."
We all looked at FATE. What she
told us wasn't easy to accept, especially for Crono and Magus.
