Authors Note: Okay things are ugly in this chapter and even uglier in the next. So take a deep breath and prepare for the worst before you read. This is why I've been so hesitant to update, but now ill update every weekend until the end because a little this story is almost over. In fact the ending is done! Now this chapter is sad and there is some violence. I hope you all keep reading though! There is some foreshadowing just like in the last one, but about the ending. Some wired connections to the game too.

Disclaimer: I don't own Chrono Cross or Final Fantasy so what more do you want?

Chapter 16 From the Sea, Returned to the Sea

First Cloud came busting through the door.

"What's going on Kid?" He questioned. Orlha and Glenn came right after.

"No wait!" Orlha yelled after Cloud catching her breath.

"Cloud you can't just-" Glenn shouted. They all halted to a stop when they saw the sight before them. Neither Kid nor Serge acknowledged the other three's presence.

"Serge..." Kid began. His eyes went to her tear dried face.

"I love you Kid. Just know that." He said in a calm voice as his arms extended out and he very slowly leaned back.

Time began to slow down as Serge felt his body begin it's descend. He watched Kid start her desperate dash towards him. She was yelling something, but there was no noise anymore. All Serge could do was feel and see. He watched as Glenn went running out the balcony door. He watched Cloud's eyes get wide and he watched Orlha dash forward. Then his eyes went back to Kid's terrified face. She still looked beautiful.

He was falling further. His feet lost there contact with the balcony railing as his back fell onto nothing. He saw Kid's head come over the balcony and look at him her hand out towards him. It was too late they could not reach one another now. She looked as if about to climb over the edge herself when a hand stopped her. Orlha's hand.

Instead Kid just gazed at Serge and her mouth began to lip something at him. Serge could not hear anything he just stared at her as she slowly began to get further and further away. He once reached his hand up at her. As if he had changed his mind and expected to get lifted back up. When he realized he could not, time came back.

Serge was falling head first now and fast. He no longer saw Kid. His body began to glide straight down his eyes shut until it collided with cold stabbing water. Serge's body was carried deep below the dark water's surface f rom the gravity of his fall. It flipped around in the underwater currents. he tried to swim desperately. His arms stroking but it didn't seem to do anything in these waves. His head finally reached the surface.

Serge could only get one deserved breath before the waves crashed over his head. He felt his body fly back and forth as air left him and water started to fill his lungs. Serge felt himself dying, but he did not want that now. He wanted to live. Kid had confirmed it for him.

Serge was not weak, he still had fight in him. He kicked as hard as he could, he hit the surface again, but it was hard to breath he had already swallowed a lot of water. Serge began to struggle with the waves, they were throwing him like a rag doll, toying with him. Finally his body hurled up and over his right arm caught on a jagged rock. Waves proved stronger then flesh for his skin tore leaving a terrible wound in his arm.

Blood flowed about in the water and the salt stung at his torn ligaments. He could no longer use his arm. So he fastened it to his chest and tried his best to use his legs. Serge's body was failing him, his arm made him very weak and he was tiring. He could not breath good and it made him more tiered. All he wanted to was just let go of everything and sleep. Let the water drown him and die leaving all the pain his arm had behind, but then there was another want. The desire to see Kid again. Which would win? Serge thought for sure the waves that continued to laugh at him like a cruel child.

Finally the muscles in his leg went stiff and would not work, they went numb. This allowed for the waves to toss his body anywhere they desired. First he went under, water filling into him again. Serge thought for sure that was where he would die from drowning.

It was fate after all wasn't it? He had already died from drowning in this world. Why not again thirteen years later? Fate was dead at Serge's own hands, but yet their still seem to be some kind of unnatural force that wanted what came from the sea to return to the sea.

Then by some miracle the wave's current brought Serge's head back up. What he didn't know was this was not a good thing. For he was brought up just enough for another swell to take him against the rocks. Serge's head collided with the sharp rock and blood spilled at his temple.

Glenn came ripping down the hall, dropping his shoulder plate of armor and long cape on the way. Cloud went following after.

"Glenn! What are you going to do!" Cloud called in question.

"I'm going after that crazy idiot that's what!" Glenn shouted in desperation.

"No wait! We have to get help you can't swim out there!" Cloud called back.

"No time Cloud!" Glenn shouted back as he came to the elevator just as it was on it's way down with a flock off people aborad. Without a second of hesitation Glenn jumped down onto the descending elevator. Then when it neared the ground he leaped the rest of the way down. He sprinted down the main hall to the doorway at full speed easily knocking down anyone that got in his way.

Kid's body half hung over the railing of the balcony as Serge's small form disappeared into the waters below. Kid would have jumped down herself if it had not been for Orlha hanging onto Kid's arm, but now it didn't matter. Kid's tense body relaxed as she let out a sigh her eyes did not dare search, for fear of false hope. No, they remained to the spot where Serge had hit the waves. She felt Orlha's firm grip up on her loosen and slowly disappear.

Kid did not move she kept her eyes in that spot and hung her head over the rail. It became very quiet all that could be heard were the crashing waves Her blue eyes took on a tired form, but she could not cry anymore. Now after all that time of trying so hard to hold in tears in front of Serge, she could not even feel them when he was gone. The wind slowly lifted her blond strands and she shivered. She could not cry now after watching Serge fall to what she was sure was his death. That scared her, but other than a slight chill she could feel nothing but numbness, but once again it did not matter. Kid was frozen, frozen in heart, body and mind.

Orlha stood up straight behind her with a hung head. Her eyes only gazed at the back of Kid's head. She noticed Kid get the chills and her vision suddenly became blurred a bit by the scene. She could feel hot tears gather in her eyes and one spilled.

QUIT CRYING! Serge is not dead! He survived the fall once before!

Then why did Orlha have an awful feeling of dread. She glanced at Kid once more. It was because Kid was acting so hopeless. Kid seemed so sure that Serge was gone by the way she acted and it made Orlha feel like he really was. If Kid didn't have faith, then there probably wasn't any.

"I'm going to go help Glenn! You stay Kid. Serge will be fine!" Orlha finally stated, both of them noticing how weak her voice sounded from loss of hope. Kid did not respond. Orlha turned, but then Kid found her voice,

"Don't let Glenn jump in those waves after him, he'll die."

At that Orlha's eyes went wide with fear. Kid was right, he would go after Serge and those waves could not be swam. She now ran.

Cloud was in hot pursuit of Glenn until he got off the elevator. Cloud decided to head to the stage. He ran up onto the stage, his chest heaving and his eyes wide.

"Cloud?" The Viper questioned him as he paused, he had been in the middle of a speech. Cloud took the microphone.

"Please, listen a man has fallen from the balcony into the bluffs. The waters are rough right now and we need to hurry!" Cloud urged. Everyone just stared at Cloud, still trying to register what he had just said. The Viper stole the microphone from Cloud's grasp.
"What are you waiting for! Go, Move!" His voice thundered through out the manner. Suddenly many in the crowd began to a scurry around.

Orlha wasted no time she ran throwing off her sandals as she did so she could move twice as fast. As she approached the elevator she didn't slow down. She leaped without even looking. Much to her good fortune the elevator was only a few feet below. Her knees absorbed the shock. She jumped down again and did a roll as not to break her legs. Many stood back and stared at her as she stood up and sped off in much the same fashion as Glenn had minutes before.

Kid now alone began feeling very dizzy. She let herself fall to her knees as she held her hand still on the railing. Trying to steady the turning world around her. She finally gave up and just laid her head back against the wall and held her knees up against her she felt how cold it suddenly had gotten. Then she closed her eyes. It was so cold she just wanted to curl up and go to sleep so she started to, but not before letting her hot tears warm her eyes.

Cloud spotted a golden haired women making her way across the room at a very fast pace. It took him a minute to figure just exactly who that face belong to. Then it hit him, Orlha! He jumped off the stage, but lost sight of her in the scamper of the crowd. It didn't matter though, Cloud knew where she was going and he had a feeling in his gut as to why she was running.

Maybe it was time to make things right again. Things between her and him had ended in a mess. Now that he was going to be with Kid Cloud didn't want to continue being known as, Kid's best friend's, hated exboyfriend. What a title that was! With that in mind Cloud made his way to the entrance at a sprint through the mobs of panicking people.

Finally as Cloud neared the doors he caught sight of the blond's golden head as she was making her leave out the doors. He ran out the Manor doors after her. Cloud's long legs were enabling him to catch up to Orlha as she passed the old well, and rounded the corner.

It was dark out, but Orlha was not giving her eyes time to adjust as she made it to the courtyard. She sped past the currently unoccupied guard tower. She ran to the door that led to the bluffs, it was already broken open and on the ground. Orlha knew Glenn had come through here she found it suddenly hard to breath. Yet she kept on, as she leaped over the railing to a cliff. She stopped there. Glenn stood at the edge of the cliff with his back towards her. She called to him,

"Glenn!" He turned to look at her.

"Orlha?" Surprise in his voice. Orlha stayed where she was.

"Glenn don't you dare jump down there!" She warned as if trying to sound fierce, but her voice came out shaky. Glenn turned back to the cliff and looked down at the raging waters. "You won't make it." Orlha added.

"I have to try Orlha, try to save Serge. The hero, our friend." Orlha immediately ran over to him and claimed his right arm. Glenn began to pull it loose.

Damn him for being so much stronger than me!

Orlha thought as her planted feet began to drag. Glenn was getting away from her and she had to do something fast. She reached up with her other arm and latched it around Glenn's chest. Orlha now had him in a bear hug. This she found was not working that much better, Glenn was just pulling her slowly along.

"Glenn just wait for the Viper's search team!" Orlha demanded between sealed teeth.

"No time!" Glenn answered.

"ARH!" Orlha let out a frustrated prolonged scream.

Orlha felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to see the big icy eyes of Cloud.

"Move aside." Cloud told her. She let go of Glenn. Glenn tried to get away, but Cloud was to fast for him. Cloud grabbed Glenn's arm jerked him back and wrapped his arm around Glenn's neck. Glenn tried to hit him and struggle away, but Cloud held Glenn's arm behind his back like a cop would to a prisoner.

"Cloud! Let go of me!"

"So you can do something stupid... I don't think so. You know Glenn, I always thought you had more sense than this, usually so clam and collected." Came Cloud's voice.

"Cloud, he's my best friend. Someone has to go down there before it's to late!" Glenn yelled frustrated as he continued his struggle. Cloud jerked Glenn and shouted,

"Listen! Listen to me!" His voice rough and hostile. "What makes you think you stand a fairer chance in those waters!"

"That's not it, Cloud!" Glenn spat annoyed.

"Shut up Glenn! Your fiancee is crying for you! Get a grip!" Glenn shook his head and looked down. Serge had become his best friend and it was hard to hold back more grief in his life. He usually was calm and collected, but not when things were this personal.

"Glenn some one has to be strong for Kid and Orlha. Not me, Glenn, I was not Serge's friend. It has to be you." Glenn's head hung. Cloud was right and he knew it. Cloud let go of Glenn and slowly backed away next to Orlha. Glenn stood still staring. There was a long moment of silence. Orlha wiped a tear.

"Is he okay...?" She questioned in a whisper only Cloud heard. Glenn turned to face them finally.

"I'm sorry for scaring you Orlha." Glenn apologized with a small laugh and a weak smile. Cloud nodded in response to Orlha's question. Orlha brought her arms around Glenn and held him tight. She trembled and cried. Cloud feeling not at ease and out of place during their moment turned around with a swish of his cape.

"I'm going to get Kid." He simply stated as he made his leave and disappeared into darkness.

Glenn glanced down at Orlha she looked at him her eyes red.

"Glenn they better find Serge, they better!" Her voice sobbed out.

Coming Next: Something is wrong with Kid she seems to be ill and her past is catching up with her. Cloud is worried sick. As for Serge will they find him, will he make it?

Please review I'm gonna update weekly until the end, I know the story has taken a turn for the worst, but please keep reading.