Dark Cloud 2 Fanfic
Chapter 4: Meanie----By The Several
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Monica woke up at the sight of the bright morning light. She stretches, then noticed that the man she could not remember wasn't there anymore. She changed and then went outside. She saw Claire outside the house, out for her morning walk.
She ran up to her, saying, "Claire, have you seen Max?"
Claire nodded and then said, "I saw him walk outside of town today." She then points towards the town's open gate. Beingat a higher ground of Palm Brinks, they could overlook the town. From there, she saw Max who was nearing the gate towards the exit.
"Maybe I can still catch him—" she said as she was about to go to the direction of the gate, when Claire stopped her.
Claire shook her head. "Max said that he didn't want you to follow him."
Monica looked at his position again with her sad eyes, as he vanished from site, into the outside vicinity of the town.
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Max wandered around the forest outside town using the desire device as a guide. The device was telling him that the largest source of the desire he was looking for was near his current position.
He wandered around the forest, as the signal from the device got stronger and stronger. He stopped, and looked at the source he was looking for. Surprised, he found out that the source… was actually from a small Gemron. The winged creature was unable to fly and was about the size of a shoebox.
He took out his wrench and pointed it at the monster. He mutters, "I'm sorry, but I need to get Monica's memories back." He takes the swing…
"Stop!" Thedesperate cry he heard came from a nearby direction, halting his attack. Corrine jumped out from behind the little Gemron and took it into her arms. "Please don't kill this little Gemron! Please!" He looked at the face of the little girl, and saw the same sadness in her eyes as he did when he looked into the mirror.
"Corrine…" Max says to her as he tries to calm her down. "I'm sorry, but what I'm trying to do is really important…"
"So important that you need to kill this little Gemron?" Corrine asked him, asthe questiontook him by surprise. "Max, what's happening to you? You used to be against all this violence… but now…" Corrine paused, as more tears rolled down her face. "…all I see is a big violent meanie!" she shouted at him, running away with the Gemron.
Shock took him as he dropped his wrench. She was right… I was never like this before… Suddenly, it all made sense to him. "It wasn't the Gemron who the desire device was pointing to, it was Corrine... I was able to even try to hit the Gemron because it was a monster… Could I have done the same to Corrine?" he pondered.
He leaned towards a tree, his hands pounding on the trunk. His eyes watered, and the tears rolled down his eyes. The game the Dark Element was playing with him was too much for him. It was too cruel.
"Dark Element…. What have you done to me?"
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Author: Whoa! It's getting a little too melodramatic there, don't you think? Even just from this chapter, you can see how truly evil the Dark Element is. Maybe I overdid it a little, but whatever.
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