Let's see...to review. The group have finally entered the building and which thanks to Joshua had found an undergroud lair that leads to the villian, Chrono. In this chapter, Chrono has some speaking lines...as the villian.

There's a lot of similarities to Tales of Symphonia. (And a lot of lines)

Don't own Chrono Crusade

Chrono Crusade: The Two Worlds

Act One, Scene Six: Past Redemption

As the group headed into the great underground hall, they found an appalling sight. Bodies...bodies that rested on wooden pikes. They were all carefully arranged in a circular pattern. The bodies of innocent human beings made the outer circle but at the inner circle there were bodies of both the sinners and the pursers. At the circle's center was the demon that killed a hundred million of his own kind...Chrono.

All stared at this sight. Even Elizabeth who was always headstrong was speechless. All she could say was "Oh...my...G..." before she was interrupted.

"So nice of you to join me," a sinister Chrono said. "You too will make lively additions to my sacrifice.

"Sacrifice?" Fiore asked. "What sacrifice?"

"Don't think I killed all of these creatures for nothing," Chrono replied. "I love the suffering of the innocent and the slaughter of those who oppose me. If it wasn't for my...former comrades defecting at the last minute, they would have shared in my just reward."

"Just reward?" Elizabeth was practically shouting. "You call this just? The slaughtering of human beings, your own comrades, your own kind; you call that just!"

"I'm sure Aion would agree and so would have my comrades. With revolution comes sacrifice, If you cannot except that, then you deserve to die with the others. Just like all of you, my friends," Chrono said this as he ended his speech his an evil laugh.

"I...I don't do that...not anymore," Aion said this bluntly. "Long ago, I share in this so-called freedom dream. I shared in this dream until someone showed me the consequences of my actions."

"And look where it had gotten you," Chrono snapped back. "Your lack of power, your development of alliances of these weak, undeserving humans. It's pitiful of what you have done...It's pitiful that you would sink so low..."

"And where the hell did your actions led you," a silent Joshua finally spoke. "The slaughters...the suffering you called upon everyone and everything. And you say your actions are just!"

"Human...do not tell me what's right and wrong," Chrono stood up. "I finally have the power to make my dream come true. Aion...it's still not too late to join me. You were a sinner once, become one again. With my power, we shall become all powerful. We shall have the power to take back what is rightfully ours."

"Funny you should say that," Aion replied. "Pandemonium said the same thing and looked where she had gotten us. The banishment of us beings. I won't be your pawn anymore...I shall atone for my sins..."

A silent standoff between the forces took place. Finally Chrono spoke.

"So be it, I gave you your last chance. You will die...as long with the others inferior beings who dare oppose me!"

As he said this, Chrono gave an horrific scream. The bodies the surrounded them glowed with an eerie blue then floated up towards the ceiling's center. The bodies then turned into dust and the ground shook with tremendous force. The blue auras swirled around and around and created some sort of blue vortex. As this happened, two swords floated to the top of the ceiling and placed themselves on opposite sides of the vortex and the vortex itself became a shinning white gate.

"Do you see this," Chrono said as all these things happened. "This is the long desired result I've been waiting for. The apostles were thought to be the only ones to call upon the astral line but thanks to extensive research and years of patience, I have finally found a loophole to this. This vortex is my path to the beginning of time and once I go through, I will become unstoppable. Infinite wisdom and power will soon be mine."

"And how can do you accomplish this?" Joshua shouted back.

"With the power of the swords," Chrono replied. "Once the swords were used during the battles between us devils and the angels of God on the day of the final battle; the day us devils and demons were banished into the fiery abyss. Pandemonium was defeated by the power of the three swords. One is called the "apostle sword", it held the key of defeating her. The other called the "victorious sword", it had the power to seal her. The third sword is called the "saint sword," it had the power to slay her. However the saint sword was powerless unless held by a righteous person and of pure of heart and could read the sacred text engraved in that sword. When they simultaneously stabbed her, they abstracted some of her power, leaving her weakened, including the power of time and space. Although the saint sword has no use to me, the other two will suffice."

"Damn you...," Aion shouted as the shaking and noised increased quite a bit. "You don't know the consequences of your actions. You'll be ending all life as we know it."

"It's better to become non-existent than to be a slave to fate," Chrono replied. "Besides, I'll be the almighty one when this is all over!"

"You won't get away with this," Joshua said as he opened the latches on his watch. "You'll pay for everything you have done. Ready partner?"

"Ready..." Aion replied.

"Let's go..." Elizabeth said as she was cocking her gun. "Everyone's counting on us."

"I am ready..." Fiore said as she pull out her halberd.

"Here that Chrono," Joshua said as readied his own sword. "We're coming for you! Everyone, follow my orders!"

Chrono gave a light chuckle then prepared his own sword.

"Those who oppose me shall parish!"

What was I thinking? Making Chrono the villian and to top it all off, use Tales of Symphonia's central villian as the base. But hey, a devil beats at puny 12 year old kid, right...right? Anyway, please R&R