Dark Cloud 2 Fanfic
Chapter 2: The Memory Game----By The Several
Author: Hey, everybody! You know, I'm just curious to know how many people playing DC2 are boys and girls. If you're reading this and are reviewing, can you please say your gender and age so I have an estimate at least? Thanks.
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"M-Monica?" Max chokingly replied to her shocking question.
Monica jumps away from him and readies her sword. "How'd you know my name? Are you one of Griffon's henchmen? Just who the heck are you?"
Claire from a distance saw what was happening, and came running to their position to find out what was going on.
"Monica? What are you doing?" says Claire as she looks at Monica's aggressive stance towards Max. She then looks at Max, who was senselessly looking at the ground, his hands shaking. She couldn't tell whether he was crying or angry, or both.
Monica notices Claire and greets, "Claire! Who is this guy? Do you know him?"
Claire was confused at what was going on. She then looks at Max, who ran away, tears falling from his face and into the ground, which were soon followed by droplets of water. It was going to rain.
Max ran outside of Palm Brinks as the rain poured harder and harder from the sky as though even nature was against him. He stops at a hill nearby the town. He cries continuously, and realized what the Dark Element had done. It had made Monica forget him. He tried to dry out his tears, his sadness replaced with anger. He clenched his fist, and shouted at the sky at it roared thunder at him.
"DAAARK ELEMENT!"
After shouting from the top of his lungs his enemy's name who he had learned to hate so badly, he covered the right half of his face with his right arm shakingly with anger. You're mine, Dark Element! though Max as though it were the only thoughts that filled his mind. Come over here… I'm waiting...
Suddenly, a familiar dark void opens up near his position. He notices it and readies his wrench. So you've come…
Indeed, it came. The Dark Element. It looked as dark, powerful, annoying, and as cruel as it always was. It cackled bravely in front of the angry boy, knowing it wouldn't hurt him.
Surprisingly, he didn't. He put the wrench down, his arms still shaking, and says as calmly as he could even at the circumstances, "I know what you've done to her, dark being. How do I get her back?"
The sinister demon chuckled. "Well, well… It seems you've figured it out. Yes, it was my doing why your friend forgot you. And you know that if you destroy me, you'll never know how to get her memories back. But do you know why I would do such a meaningless thing?"
"Because you like playing with people's lives, that's why!" Max shouted angrily at the Dark Element as he raised his fist at him. "I know this is one of your games, giant! What do I need to do to get Monica's memories back?"
"Keh, keh, keh... Simple," explained the Dark Element as he hands a strange device to Max. Max catches it and examines the small spherical object. "Everyone in the world has a selfish dream or wish that they could never let go. That device can detect those desires. Now, one person you know has a great and powerful selfish desire. If you make that person forget or stop wishing about that desire, your friend's memories will go back."
"What do I have to do to make them forget that desire?" asked Max as he put the device in his pocket.
"That's up to you," the Dark Element chuckled. "You can talk to them, beat them up, or even kill them if you want. But I doubt you'll be able to convince them otherwise." The Dark Element turned around and summons another dark void from underneath himself. "But," the Dark Element said as he departed, "I wonder if your friend would really want to remember her friend who doesn't even care about her feelings?" The Dark Element disappeared as his sinister laughter echoed strongly in Max's mind.
Max took out the small spherical device from his pocket and clenched it tightly with his fist. "I WILL get your memories back, Monica…" Max promised to himself. "But... I just wonder how far I'll go to do so…""
He looked at the sky as it cleared up. He runs on the damp ground towards the town in search of that person he needs to right away. The Dark Element's game had begun.
To be continued….