Dark Cloud 2 Fanfic
Chapter 4: Distortions----By The Several
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Max and Monica make their way even deeper, into the darkest reaches of the great Zelmite mines. In its deepest part, they met a dark, foreboding force, who calls himself the Dark Genie.
This is the one, Monica whispers to herself. This is the jerk whose going to get Max killed. Anger flared in her eyes. Time to do some serious kick-arse business!
With Max, she defeated the dark giant. As it disappears, the view of the Zelmite ore came to view.
"Yes, we found it!" exclaimed Max with a jump for joy.
"Phew!" Monica said with a burst of air from her mouth, similar to a sigh. "Finally! Now that's over with. My job's done!"
Max paused for a minute. "Your job's done? What do you mean?"
Monica caught her mouth. She stopped for a second and realized what she had said. She blurted it out. Her purpose for coming back. Max was a smart cookie, and it shouldn't take too much for him to figure it out.
"I…I was going to die here, wasn't I?" Max said in a small meek voice, almost frightened.
There was silence for a minute. "That was it, wasn't it? Why you came back… I was going to die here." Monica didn't say a word. "I thought you came to visit me…"
"Look, Max…" Monica tried to explain the best she could. "Time traveling isn't allowed anymore, and this was kinda a desperate attempt, so…"
"Say no more." Max stopped her right then and there. There was nothing else to say. "I forgot to thank you…so, thanks."
"Think nothing of it," Monicareplies, kind of akwardly."We're friends, right?"
There was complete silence for a minute. "So, are you going to leave now? Back to your own time?"
Monica sighed. "Sorry, Max. But there are rules, and—"
"Can't you stay? Just for a few days, or even just a few hours?" Max tried to convince her.
In the end, she decided that a few hours shouldn't be much of a problem. So for several hours, they visited all the places they went through on their adventure. The Butterfly Forest, the Balance Valleys, the Venniccio Ocean, the Heim Rada cliffs. It made Max forget his problems, at least for a while.
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After visiting all the places, Max took her to the Rainbow Butterfly Woods again. This was the place where they both first met and introduced each other. Max…wanted to tell her his feelings before she goes. This, at least would put him at peace.
Max led her to an isolated part of the forest. Okay, this is it. You better tell her, or else, none of this would have mattered. None if it! Max thinks aloud.
"Max, what is it?" Monica asks, although she was afraid of knowing the answer.
"Monica," Max replies in a soft, calm voice. "We've been through together a lot, you and I. I never thought about all of these things…until now. Until you came along."
Monica kept silent, and swallowed.
"I thought I could handle it after you went away, and I did. But you came back, and now I'm not so sure I can."
"Max, what are you trying to tell me?" Monica swallowed again. Maybe she wasn't ready to hear the answer to that question yet. Maybe, she doesn't want it.
Max inhales. "Monica, I--"
In that instant, a great distortion separates them. The boy on one end, and the girl on another. "No, I was so close!" Max screamed as he was consumed inside the dark distortion's emptiness.
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"No, this isn't what's supposed to happen!" Monica shouts to no one in the emptiness she was in. "This isn't a normal distortion. Max? Can you hear me?" Monica shouts at the top of her lungs, screaming for Max's name. No response.
"What's going on?" Monica asks herself. Max knows nothing about time distortions. This could be her chance to repay him of her debt – if only she wasn't in the same trouble.
To be continued. Final Chapter….