Chrono Cross Waves of Time

Part 7

The ocean looked completely different than it did before. The boat that they travelled on to get to Mount Pyre wasn't there anymore either. The sky was brighter for sunrise was coming up and facing their direction. The flames were sprouting out from Mount Pyre, greeting them with a threat of what was waiting for them inside. Schala spoke to break the silence of rewinding back through time.

"Lina is gone after all.. But this can't be, can it? It felt like... Nevermind. Let's go Serge, remember what Lina said before we travelled back in time? Come with me through Mount Pyre and to Fort Dragonia."

Serge didn't want to believe it. Lina didn't make it through time with them? Why wasn't she able to access through the past of time? Where would she be now? Serge just hoped that she would be alright for the time being, until they would see her again. Maybe she wasn't really needed to tag along with them...but Serge had to put aside all these thoughts and trail behind Schala to focus more on the important things and their mission to save the World, all of existence, and time itself.

They entered Mount Pyre, but this wasn't Serge's first time here. He's been here quite a lot of times. He knew the directions and paths to take to exit this Volcanic Mountain on the other side, which would then take them to Fort Dragonia.

Serge was hoping that there wouldn't be as many monsters here, because if Schala couldn't fight then....Then again, he was wrong, for before he knew it, a flying monstrous flame bird dove at them, but Schala used some water magic to put out the fiery wings which weakened the enemy completely and then it fell to the ground.

Schala turned back to Serge to reassure that he was alright, and she was giving him a smile the whole time. So Schala can fight after all, but that was a smaller and weaker enemy. If they happened to come to an even greater one, then they might just need more than the two of them to fight it.

Again....Serge shouldn't worry too much. He still had a lot of his amazing powers, even though he had lost a lot of them after the Time Devourer was defeated a long while ago. Then with the lack of using these powers, they started to fade away for they found there to be no purpose remaining in Serge. He was still strong and powerful though, and Schala was hopefully powerful too with her magic.

"Hurry up Serge! There's no time to stand around and think about strategies or anything. According to the map in my head, we only have about 15 minutes to get out of this Mountain on the other side and to locate ourselves in front of Fort Dragonia, and then again, we'll have to travel in time, towards the future. You know how to get through Mount Pyre, right?"

Serge nodded and apologized for being hesistant. Then he walked in front of Schala and lead her through quickly. Yet somehow, these paths seemed to be altered slightly. Some things he saw now, he never remembered seeing before. Then again, they were in the past now, and he probably saw them in the future, or the further back past? Serge didn't even know what time period they were at. Schala had sent them through time a few times already, that he never really kept track, or even knew which period she was sending them too. He was curious and just had to ask, while keeping the same study and fast pace.

"Schala? I'm just wondering, but what year are we in anyways?"

"We are in the year 1678 AD, and I believe that this Volcano Mountain just erupted from the ocean not too long before our current time. It could've possibly been today even. I'm also sure that Fort Dragonia wasn't even built just yet. That place might've been built about 200 years after this time. Don't worry about all of that, just trust me...and trust the map in my mind, and we will reach Kid and Janus, and restore peace back to everything."

Serge felt there was false hope maybe. He didn't understand really why they had to travel through all these times, just to get to some place. What if the map was setting them up for a trap? After all, wasn't Schala merged with Lavos when the map was formed? Lavos wanted to destroy time. At least Serge thought so.

All they could do now was follow it, and hope that everything would work out perfectly. It all depended on their timing and location, according to that map. They were almost out of Mount Pyre now. At least Serge remembered the area being something that looked like the exit knew of before when he was in this place.

As they were walking quicker to it, something forcefully stopped them. Of course there had to be a Master of Mount Pyre. It was a Flaming huge Beast. Nothing like what they've seen before. It was thrashing its arms around threateningly and throwing back its head with a loud growl. Then it lunged towards Schala and Serge....

To Be Continued...