Disclaimer: After all the Chrono Cross disclaimers I have written, you think you would learn that I don't own it!

Author's Note: Sorry for the delay…don't really have an excuse, just been busy and sick. So hope everyone is still sticking with me, if not, I'm gonna cry. Anyway, review if you have any ideas, cuz I haven't beaten the game yet.

You Can't Be The One

Chapter 4: Never Two Same People

"Yer world?" I asked, but suddenly started feeling weak. I sat down on the sand and stared at the ocean. "Serge…" I muttered, trying to keep myself up.

Serge rushed over to me and helped me up. "Are you alright?" he asked, but I couldn't stand up.

The little puppy behind Serge looked up at Serge, "Sergipoo, ith she okay?"

I tried to stand back up again, but still couldn't, and Serge picked me up and carried me away from the beach. "Poshul, go ahead to Arni and see if people know me in this world. I'm not sure which one we're in…"

Poshul nodded and bounded ahead, and I watched for a moment, before I started getting sharp pains. "Serge…help me…" I whispered, and Serge knew I must be in pain to be calling him Serge and not mate.

X

I woke up in a room almost exactly like the one back in Tokyo, the one in Serge's hut with the big window and comfy bed. I looked around and saw Serge staring out the window. Finally he turned to me.

"Thank God you're okay. How do you feel?"

I would've told him- if I would've been able to speak, but I could barely breathe.

He saw how I was gasping for breath, and knew he had to do something. He couldn't understand why I was this way. Suddenly, we heard a knock on his door.

Serge ran downstairs to answer it and I heard the voice of Korcha, that guy who'd been asking me out in my class. I strained my ears to hear- yup, it was definitely Korcha. How the hell could that be? How could Korcha be in this world?

I pulled myself off the bed and wobbled downstairs, pain screaming through me. "Mate?" I called hoarsely, and Serge and Korcha both turned to look at me at the top of the stairs. Serge rushed over to me and helped me down.

"Man Serge, so cha were hiding her. I thought cha agreed that she was going to be my wife…" Korcha said, and I could feel myself practically throw up.

Serge was still holding me bridal style and he walked past Korcha and out the door. It was dark outside; it must've been three a.m. "Listen Korcha, we'll clear this up later. Kid is very sick right now. We have to get her back to Gulldove."

We walked out to the pier- well correction-they walked to the pier, I was carried there. I saw a small row boat by the docks and I was lifted into it. Serge stepped in after me and laid my head in his lap as I lay on the bottom of the boat. Korcha stepped in and began to row, and I had no clue what was going to happen.

X

I had obviously been asleep, because I awoke in a hard bed in what appeared to be an old hospital. I sat up and heard a voice. "What tha hell?"

I guess you could say I'd gotten pretty good at eavesdropping, because I sure was doing it a lot.

"What cha mean that ya were sent to another world and found a Kid there?" I recognized the voice to be Korcha's. This whole thing was crazy; how could there be a Korcha here as well? Why was I so sick? Why did Korcha call me his wife?

I knew it was Serge that replied, because his voice was the softest and most easy-going of them all. "I was trying to find something to heal Kid's illness, but I was transferred to another world. While there, I met her, that Kid in there, and accidentally brought her back with me."

"I don't know what happened man. I was in there watching her sleep and listening to her breathing patterns when she just suddenly disappeared. I'm not kidding; seriously, she just disappeared right in front of my eyes," spoke the voice of a man I didn't recognize.

Serge walked back into the room I was in and saw me awake. "Hello Kid, how are you feeling?"

I smiled, "Hey mate, ya think a little thing like that could take me down? Maybe ya cuz yer a wimp."

He smiled too then looked down at me, in all that pain. "Listen Kid, I figured it all out. It's my fault you're this way. You see, that girl I was telling you about, the Kid in this world, fell ill. When I brought you here, you took her role, because they're can't be two exact people in the same world… Do you understand?"

I would have said yes or nodded, but it became impossible for me to move or speak. I opened my mouth, nothing came out. Breathing also became hard. I used my power to move my hand and grab Serge's.

"Don't worry Kid; I'm going to go find the Komodo Dragon that you'll need. If I get a special scale from one of them, it'll heal you."

X

This is probably one of the shortest chapters I've ever written. Anyway, Serge is going on a quest to heal Kid, but what happens along the way? Will he get back in time? (Sorry this chappie was so confusing. It'll clear up later!)

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