Alright, I'm updating again!
Readers: About damn time!
Sorry, sorry... I started summer school this week. XP No fun at all...
Alright, reviewers!
The Jellybean Man: Oh, I'm glad you're okay with it. Sure, I'll make Chrono cry... (Evil grin...)
Dragondolphin1990: Mine did that, too. But my dad finally fixed it after, like, two months. I hope yours starts working again soon! 00
NovMists: Oh that's good... I was afraid I'd screwed Ayla's speech up BIG time. Apparently, I'm not getting a desk until late July/early August... TT I liked that line, too. It was fun to write! -
Eddo: Yes, you helped a bit! The pillow makes it easier on my knees. Not great, but I can last at least fifteen minutes longer now. I don't lay on my stomach because I have back problems... I have LOTS of problems, for that matter. '
Lady Vella: Okay, time to go ahead with chapter... what chapter are we on now?
Marlee: I believe it is five.
Lucca: You were kidnapped, Marlee, go away.
Marlee: Oh, fine. BE that way...
Chrono: -sniff- You're a horrible person, Lady Vella... you told The Jellybean Man that you'd make me cry...
Lady Vella: THEN CRY!
Chrono: -bursts into tears and runs off- YOU ALL SUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
Lady Vella: Mwehehe... that's SO much fun... Again, I do not own Chrono Trigger, though if I did, the world would be happier. For me, at least. Enjoy!
Chapter Five: Let's All Blame Chrono...
"MARLEE!" Chrono yelled.
Lucca grabbed his arm, and yanked him inside the cave. "Shut up, you moron, do you want the rest of them to show up and kill us all from a painful death of being beaten to death with pointy sticks?"
Ayla nodded. "That better way to die than getting Kilwala stuck in throat."
Chrono shuddered. "So, what do you suppose we do, Lucca?"
Lucca thought for a moment. "Well, I assume that they're going to try and eat her."
"Wow, what a fun way to die," Chrono said sarcastically.
"And," Lucca continued as though Chrono hadn't spoken at all, "they're going to be taking her to the reptite hideout, obviously. So let's continue onward toward it!" She struck a Superman-ish pose.
Kino, Ayla, and Chrono stared at her.
"I seriously doubt your leading capabilities," Chrono said after a second. "Let's just hurry."
The four reached the reptites' cave, crouched behind some nearby bushes, and surveyed the area. Six large, overweight reptites were guarding the entrance.
Chrono gulped. "I don't much favor the look of those sticks...They're awfully sharp, aren't they?"
Lucca rolled her eyes. "Some hero you are, Chrono."
"I try."
Ayla looked at the reptites. "Reptites look weak. Ayla kill easy."
She started to get up, but Lucca grabbed her arm. "Nuh-uh. Stay here. I bet our magic could take them out from here."
"Ayla no have mag-ick," Ayla said grumpily. "Lucca and Chrono only make fire and bright light. No Ayla or Kino."
"Well, it would be best not to call attention to ourselves," Lucca said. "If we jumped in there, guns blazing-"
Suddenly, a large, heavy object hit her in the back of the head. She slumped, unconscious. Before the other three could move, they, too, were knocked out from the reptites' large, blunt weapons.
Slowly, eventually, Chrono opened his eyes. It was dark... was it night already? How long had he been out? He looked down...
"AAAAAAHHHHH!"
He and his other companions, including Marlee, were tied together very tightly, dangling off the edge of a very steep cliff, while the rope tying them together was tied to a very thin tree.
They were very dead.
"Wha's up?" Lucca moaned groggily. "Mah hea' huts..."
She looked down, and woke up, very quickly. Her reaction was almost exactly what Chrono's had been, except for the fact that she woke the other three up in the process, and her scream was much more shrill.
"Oh, joy..." Marlee muttered. "How fun... Oh, hello, everyone. You came to save me?"
"That was the general plan, yes," Lucca moaned.
"But you failed," Marlee commented.
"Obviously."
Ayla, who was tied back to back with Chrono, to the left of Marlee, and at a painful angle with Lucca, merely stared at the ground for a moment, then said "This Chrono's fault."
"That's what I've been trying to tell him from the very beginning," Lucca groaned as she tried to get Ayla's elbow out of her spine.
"Well, sorry everyone. I always hoped I'd live to a ripe old age and become Supreme Dictator of Guardia or something," Chrono said. "I guess fate was laughing bitterly at us since the beginning of this fiasco. And by 'beginning', I'm referring to the day Marlee was sucked into the timegate at the fair. Wait... that makes this all Lucca's fault for making that damned Telepod in the first place!"
"Oh, right, that makes perfect sense," Lucca spat, aiming to kick his shin, but kicking Kino instead. "Oh, sorry, Kino."
"Ow," Kino moaned.
"Anyway, Chrono, we saved the world, didn't we? So why are you complaining!" Lucca demanded.
"I'm complaining because we were going to be dead by 1999 AD, anyway," Chrono snapped back. "So why'd we even agree to this kamikaze mission in the first place? 'We can save the future' you said. 'It'll be hard but worth it' you said. Tell me. IS THIS WORTH IT? Let me answer for you. No, this is not. I don't want to end up dead more than sixty-five million years before I was even born, got it?"
Before Lucca could respond, Marlee inturrupted. "Well, I say we should analyze the situation and see if we can think up a way to get free!"
"Okay," Chrono said. "Here we are, dangling five hundred feet above a ground littered with very sharp rocks. And soon, the rope supporting us will snap, sending us hurtling the five hundred feet to the rocky ground, and die."
"Not necessarily," Lucca said. "There's definitely an insignificant yet non-zero chance that we'll merely break all our bones in the fall."
"Gee, thanks," Chrono muttered.
"Of course, we'd die over the course of several days while in hellish agony instead," Lucca continued.
"I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd shut up," Chrono said.
"Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on-" Lucca began solemnly.
"NO, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP!" Chrono yelled.
"Are Chrono and Lucca done yelling yet?" Ayla asked.
"Yes, I believe so," Marlee said.
"Good. Ayla have knife. Ayla cut bottom part of rope, and all hold on. Then all climb up rope to tree!" Ayla said.
"I always wanted to die young..." Chrono mused. "Why not?"
So Ayla elbowed Lucca painfully to get the knife out of her waistband, and cut Marlee's arm by accident while getting the knife out.
It was a very tense couple of minutes.
Finally-
"Hold onto rope," Ayla commanded.
All did so, and the rope lurched as she cut the final thread.
"Rope weak," Kino said, already climbing quickly to the tree and pulling Chrono, Ayla, and Marlee up. "Hurry, Lucca!"
"Oh..." Lucca whimpered. "Maybe now's a bad time... I failed P.E. class."
"How the hell'd you manage that?" Chrono demanded.
"I was really bad at sports and fitness..." Lucca moaned.
The rope snapped, and Lucca fell...
(A/N- I could leave it there... nah, I'll keep writing to avoid flames. -)
"Marlee, you're the white magic user!" Chorno yelled. "Use protect or something!"
Marlee waved her hands frantically, but only succeeded in making Lucca fall quicker.
"Crap, that was Haste..." Marlee moaned. "PROTECT, DAMMIT!"
A large bubble formed under Lucca mere feet before hitting the ground.
"OH GOD THAT HURT!" rang through the area.
Five minutes later, Marlee found herself being throttled by a dirty, tired, and apparently upset Lucca.
"I'll-show-you-PROTECT!" Lucca yelled, as Marlee's head shook violently from side to side. "YOU NEARLY KILLED ME, YOU TWIT!"
"So...rry..." Marlee choked.
Lucca had to take an alternate route back to the top of the cliff... fortunately, her Haste was still working, so it made it easier.
And now, Marlee was suffering her wrath as Chrono, Ayla, and Kino watched helplessly.
After two minutes of throttling, Lucca declared herself satisfied, and they headed back to the reptites' lair. This time, all of them went in like the U.S. went into the Gulf War... guns, swords, crossbows, and fists blazing.
The reptites were soon all gone. Every last one of them.
Lucca, still disgruntled, led the group back through the maze, and back to Epoch, where they said good-bye to Ayla and Kino, and headed toward their next destination.
The future. The only time period that would be severely affected by Lavos' demise.
To be continued...
Well, that was fun.
The little thing Lucca did (the wierd speech) was one of Shakespeare's Hamlet soliloquies. I thought it be funny to add it in.
Next chapter will be fun for me... I get to be REALLY creative! Oh, yes, I can't remember the name of the dome that Belthasar lived in in the game...you know, where you get Epoch? If you can tell me, I'll dedicate the next chapter to you! And that'd be pretty cool, I think. And I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I thought it was a bit short, myself... so I apologize for that.
Review, please!