Disclaimer I do not own Chrono Cross. I wish that I owned it, but, sigh I don't. This it just a very short one-shot I wrote awhile back and I found it in one of my notebooks and decided to post it. All dialogue is taken word-for-word from Chrono Cross.
Wake Up From This Nightmare
There it was, all that I had ever known. Burning. Right in front of my very eyes. Even from the top of the hill I felt the burning heatof the fire. The smell of suffocating smoke reached my nose.
"My "home"…it's burning!" I cried to my savior, a teenage boy. "All my friends…Lucca…they're all inside!"
I didn't want to accept it. I would not accept the fact that they were gone. Even though far down I knew my foster family and friends were gone, I kept expecting to be woken up from this nightmare by Lucca or Marle. Then I would tell Lucca about it and maybe even cry. This was not happening.
"You…are you going to go away? Are you going to leave me? I'm going to be left all on my own again, aren't I?"
For those few years I had been so happy. Everyone at my "home" had loved and cared about me. Lucca even hung the picture I drew of her in the hallway, saying it was the most flattering she had ever seen. Sis…I wished that she would be here with me instead of the boy who was sure to leave me, just like all the others.
"Everybody I have ever loved has gone far, far away…" I said mournfully. Lucca had once told me about a place called "heaven" where people were forever happy. She said that that was where my parents had gone to. I hoped to find them someday in this "heaven".
For the first time the boy spoke, "I won't leave you." A brief moment of reassurance flashed through my mind. Someone had actually promised to stay with me.
"Really? You mean that?" I couldn't control my emotions anymore. As I threw my arms around him, my cheek brushed his. "Your cheek…it's wet?" Why was he crying?
"Thank you…thank you for saving me…" I said, still wondering why he was weeping. "Will I…will I ever see you again?"
My question went unanswered. I stared up at the tear-stained face. Something was happening to his face. It was becoming…transparent. I gazed in disbelief until his body had disappeared entirely.
No…he had left me too! Looking around I called to the night, "What? Where'd you go…?" I turned my face upward and began to cry. There went the one person who promised he'd be with me forever.
"No! Come back!" I pleaded. Slowly, still sobbing, I sat down and whispered, "Don't leave me…"
Despite my callings, the boy was gone. "Please no! Don't leave me all alone!" Still my heartbroken cries went unanswered, and it dawned on me: I would always be alone.
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