Chrono Trigger

Sealed Darkness

Chapter IV

Loss of Control

Copyrights Notice


Chrono Trigger and its characters belong to Square Enix. I DO NOT claim them as my own. This is just a story I wrote merely for fun. Please don't sue.

Authors Note

I know its been awhile since I added a chapter to this story. Sorry about that. For awhile, I didn't feel like writing much. It took me awhile to finish this chapter too. Its finally done though. I hope you enjoy it. This one will get into the story a bit more, and its longer then the other chapters I think. Well, enjoy reading it, and please feel free to review this story and tell me what you think. I love hearing feedback about my stories. It helps me to improve my writing and gets me off my butt to write more. Enjoy!

"Say, where is Jikan?" Marle's father questioned as he took his seat at the kitchen table.

"Asleep in her room still." Marle answered.

"Still? Its past noon!" Marle's father exclaimed shocked.

:Why do you sound so surprised, Daddy? Its not like it's the first time she's slept in so late." Marle replied.

Marle's father let out a sigh.

"I...I know, but...Didn't you two speak to her about this?"

"Yes. The other day."

"Then why is she still asleep?"

"Just because we spoke to her about it, doesn't mean she'll listen. You know how many times you told me not to do something and I ignored you, Daddy?"

"I know all too well, Nadia...But still..."

Just then the chef came with a large tray filled with four plates of food and four drinks. She placed them on the table.

"Here you go." She said.

"Thank you." Marle said looking to her.

"Your welcome."

The check quickly turned away and dashed back into the kitchen. Then, they all began to eat their lunches.

"Jikan was probably up late reading again." Crono said.

"Knowing her, your probably right." Marle responded.

"She sure loves to read. I bet she would read all day if she could..." Marle's father said.

"I bet she would too." Crono replied.

"She's just like Lucca. No wonder they get along so well." Marle remarked.

"Perhaps you should try speaking to her again about staying up all night and sleeping in so late." Marle's father suggested. "She shouldn't be doing that."

"I know. We'll talk to her about it again." Marle replied.

Suddenly loud footsteps were heard.

"There she is now." Crono said.

The loud footsteps came down the stairs, into the kitchen, and ended at the table Crono, Marle, and Marle's father were seated at. They all looked to the source of the noise. Before them stood a hugging and puffing Jikan.

"Sorry, I got up so late." She said.

"Jikan, what have we told you about getting up so late?" Marle scolded.

"I know, I'm sorry."

"Just sit down and eat your lunch."

"Okay."

Jikan took a seat next to Marle's father and began to eat.

Jikan let out a heavy sigh as she entered her bedroom.

"I'm exhausted..." She mumbled whipping sweat off her forehead with her right arm.

She had just come in from her daily training with her father. Everyday she practiced her fighting and magic skills with him.

She shut her bedroom door behind her, placed her wooden sword next to her bed, and sat down at her desk. Then, she began to read from her book. As she read the red jewel on her headband suddenly lit up. At the same time her eyes changed from blue to red, her face became expressionless, she stopped what she had been doing, and stood up. Then, she left her bedroom, went down the stairs, through te throne room, out the castle doors, entered Guardia Forest, and silently began to walk through the forest. As she did so in her mind Jikan was greatly confused.

"W...What's happening...? Why am I moving? Why is my body moving by itself? I didn't tell it to..." Jikan thought to herself as she continued to walk.

Suddenly out of nowhere a monster appeared.

"Ahh! A monster!"

The monster quickly got into a fighting stance. It looked ready to attack.

"I have to fight it."

Jikan forgetting about the loss of control of her body tried to move to cast a spell on the monster. Her attempt failed. She couldn't move her body, cast a spell, or do any form of attack..

"Oh no! I can't move my body! I can't attack!"

Not very far from Jikan's location the Dark Goddess Kurayami and her servent Sabu stood together in a control room. They both were stating a large monitor. On it was a monster which looked ready to attack.

"What a pitiful monster." Kurayami looked to Sabu. "Sabu, can the girl do any attacks?"

"I'll check, madam. One moment." Sabu relpied as she began to press numerous buttons on the control panel.

Suddenly the monster on the screen vanished and in its place a text appeared. Sabu glanced at it and then pressed another button. The text disappeared and was replaced with new text. Sabu stared at it, reading the new text.

"Hmm...Yes, she can perform some attacks. More then I would of expected. She can do some magic, sword, and plain physical combat."

"Hmmm...I see..." Kurayami stared at the screen, reading the text on it as well. "Well then, let's text these attacks of hers out." She paused a moment to read some of the text again. "First let's try some magic...Hmm...Let's see...Alright...Let's try her lightning spell." She said as she pressed a button.

"What am I going to do?" Jikan wondered.

Suddenly the monster leapt toward her for an attack.

"Ahh!"

As it came toward her Jikan thrust her hands forward and then a bolt of lightning struck the monster killing it in the nick of time.

"Huh? W...What happened? How'd I do that? I didn't do it...I didn't tell my body to do that..."

"Hmmm...Not bad. It seems she can at least fight a bit. Of course that was a weak monster...But still...Not bad. Looks like I found a pretty decent body to control." Kurayami said after she and Sabu saw the result of Jikan's lightning spell on the monster.

"Yes...It appears so, madam." Sabu said nodding in agreement.

"Hmm...Well, time to get going again. Time to retrieve one of the thirteen artifacts."

"Yes, madam."

Jikan looked around at her surroundings. However, she couldn't move her head, so she could only see what was straight ahead of her, which was the body of the monster she had just killed, and tress and brushes.

"What's going on?"

Suddenly her body began to move again.

"Its happening again! What's going on?"

Having no choice in the matter Jikan walked through Guardia Forest, crossed Zenon Bridge, and entered the Denadoro Mountains. She climbed up the mountains fighting and defeating every monster that crossed her path. Near the top of the mountains she walked into some shallow water. She walked through it to the edge of what appeared to be a cliff. Jikan looked down over the edge. Below was the rushing water of a waterfall.

"A waterfall?"

She began to step toward the edge.

"What? No! Stop! I don't want to go over the edge!"

Jikan desperately tried to gain control of her body, but all her effort was in vain. Her body would not listen. It stepped over the edge and fall down the waterfall.

"AHH!"

Jikan tried to scream, but no noise emerged from her mouth. All thoughts of hers vanished from her mind, and were replaced with fear. She fell down the waterfall at great speed, unable to make a single sound or move her body. She plunged into the water below and sunk in it a moment or two, and then swam up and pushed her head up through the water. She gasped for air, breathing heavily.

"...I'm alive?"

Before she could even catch her breath her body turned around and began to swim toward the waterfall it had just fallen from.

"Huh? What are you doing? Why are you going back there? No! I don't want to! Stop!"

Again Jikan tried to stop her body, but it was still no use. It ignored her, and continued forward. As she neared the waterfall Jikan took a deep breath, shut her eyes and then swam forward into the waterfall.

"Ugh...!"

The pressure was intense. It felt like she was drowning. The water kept pouring down on her, her body slowly moving forward. Then, suddenly it all disappeared. The pressure ceased and the water stopped pouring down on her. Jikan released her breath and opened her eyes.

"Huh? I'm alive still? Where am I?"

Jikan now was in a damp cave. It was empty expect for the water she was floating in, lit torches on the walls, an statue way in the back of the cave, and a rock which stood in front of the statue with an gold object on it.

"A cave?"

Jikan's body began to move again. It swam deeper into the cave, crawled out of the water, and walked to the other end of the cave. It stopped in front of the rock with the gold object on it. The object appeared to be a golden plate.

"A plate?"

She picked it up and began to head toward the cave entrance. Suddenly a loud roar was heard behind her.

"Huh? What was that?"

She turned around and then saw what had made the loud noise. Behind the rock the gold plate had been on, where the statue had just been, there stood a hideous monster. It was green and covered with scales. It looked fish like. It roared again and stepped toward Jikan.

"Another monster?"

The monster let out another roar as it got into a fighting position. Then, it launched forward to attack Jikan.

"Ack!"

As it came toward her Jikan thrust her hands forward and cast a lightning spell on it. It hit the monster appearing to do a good amount of damage. However, it was still alive. It opened its mouth, which began to blow. Then out of it a blue water beam shot out and hit Jikan.

"Ahh!"

After taking that attack Jikan leapt at the monster punching and kicking at it. These attacks seemed to have little effect on it. While she was close to the monster it lifted one of its arms and clawed her knocking her to the ground. Then, it opened its mouth to power another waters beam attack. After powering it up, it shot the beam at her.

"AHH!"

After taking both attacked Jikan hugging and puffing and low on energy slowly got to her feet.

"Ugh...This monster's strong...It seems to be water based though...Maybe a fire spell would work..." She tried again to move her body, but it was still no use. "Darn it...I can't move...I have no control over my body...What am I going to do?"

The monster opened its mouth again and began to power up another water beam attack.

"Oh no...I don't know if I can take another hit..."

Suddenly Jikan's body thrust her hands forward to cast another spell. Her body completed casting the spell and a red flame hit the monster. This attack seemed to do the trick. The monster fell to the floor lifeless.

"...I did it...Thank goodness...I thought I was a goner..."

Jikan slowly turned around and exited the cave and the Denadoro Mountains. Then, she headed eat to an empty clearing. She stopped in front of a large rock with a black circle on it. She placed her hands on it and pushed it forward revealing a staircase below it. She walked down the stairs stopping at the bottoms. The stairs had led her into an underground cave. In it toward the back was a stone double door, in front of that a large stone alter, and lit torches lined the walls.

"Where am I now?"

Jikan stepped forward toward the large stone alter. She stopped in front of it. Then she took the gold plate in her hands and placed it on the alter and turned around and exited the cave confused as ever.

"Hmph...That was a bit difficult..." Kurayami said as she and Sabu watched Jikan exit the underground cave.

"Yes..." Sabu nodded. "She almost didn't make it..."

Kurayami nodded.

"Yes...Luckily that monster was weak. I didn't think there would be anything guarding the artifact...I should of known..." Kurayami sighed. "There's probably things guarding the other twelve artifacts...Who knows how strong they are...If only she were stronger..." She looked to Sabu. "Is there anyway we could make her stronger?"

Sabu looked to Kurayami.

"Well...Not physically really...But we might to be able to strength her attacks through the controller."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Then do it. Do it while she's asleep tonight."

"Yes madam."

Meanwhile far away from Jikan, Kurayami, and Subu in an deserted cave over the top of an stone door a red light popped on. Leaving twelve other unlit lights above the door.